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y A \ Y rg f? laratlcaltt I. VAN S&.YKE, HRer «M PoMlshsr MoHENRY, ILLINOIS. NUGGETS OF GOLD. BVOBTAHT HAPPKKINOS IN BVKBT OVAITCK OF THK GLIOB*.! " < ^ n.' m- *k» taleit Iat«nirrnr« Receired by from Pintenl Lands and at Homo--The Ore«m of the News Gathered from All Hi • of the World. HONORED BY OFFICB. IWWwit Harrison Makes Severallvportsnt Appointments. ' (• THE President hM madethe following appointment!?: Cfcwlen Swayne, of Florida, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District mt Florida; William I>. Ijee, of New Mexico, to to Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Tsrrftory of New Mexico ; John W. Whit- Cher, of Nevada, to be United States Attorney for the District of Nevada ; John Murphy, of Dakota, to be Attorney for the Territory of Da­ kota; Richard L. Walker, of Kansas, to be United States Marshal forth® District of Kansas ; Jacob Yoes, of Arkone&s, to be United States Marshal for the Western District of Arkansas; ! JaraeR W. Be.v&ge, of Omaha, Neb., to be a Government Director of the Union Pacific Ra.il- md; Amor Smith. Jr., of Ohio, to be Surveyor «f Casta.!) B for the port of Cincinnati; David W. McClimg, of Ohio, to be Collector of Internal Revenue for the First'District of Ohio ; John H. Milla. of Montana, to be Collector of Internal Mevenue tor the District of Montana; John It Lynch, of Mississippi, to be Fourth Auditor of toe Treasury; L. W. Habercorn, of the District of Columbia, to be Fifth Auditor of the Treas­ ury ; Charles Roeser, Jr.. of Wisconsin, Topog­ rapher of the Post-office Department, vice David Enrighl. removed. In the geological survey : Wm. H, Hall, of California, and Edward S. Nettleton, Of Colorado, Supervising Engineers, and Arthur D. Foote of Idaho, Lyman Bridges of California, Mid Alexander BrodiV of Arizona, Engineers for Irrigation Survey ; Willard D. Johnson, of Dis­ trict of Columbia, topographer, and William B. Teste, of Maryland, photographer. Richard T. Worthiugton, of Ohio, Law Clerk of the Patent Office, and Max ffeorgi. of Minnesota, First As­ sistant Examiner or the same office, have re­ signed. Henry A. Phillips, of New York, has been appointed, a Chief of Division in the Pen- j lion Office, and Charles F. Gillan, of Ohio, a j TM&r cj Division in the Pension QiBoe, has re- | signed. a j WEEKLY REVIEW OF TRADE, j On* Piospects Improving--Trade In Many Lines Dullforthe Stasoa. B. 6. Dtrar A Co.'8 weekly review of trade says: Business reports a-e ratherjless enoouraging, , t» spite of the most satisfactory crop prospects" at the West and.the oneoura^einent thereby given to all branches of trade. At Omaha great improvement in crop prospects and activity in building are reported, -with money plentiful at 1 lower rates. At St. Paul there is no change in the favorable prospect. But at Kansas City i trade and collections are only fairly satis- I factory; at Milwaukee collections are "not im- ; proved; at Detroit trade aud collections are • "abont fair" and money easy with moderate demand; ri al at Cleveland, trade is a little larger than at ihis time last year and money in active demand, ltains in the Northwest and oontim.eil improvement in crop prospects have been more pow iit in the grain market than the increase in exports, aud the price has fallen. The movement in groceries seems to be mnch larger than a year ago. Wool is dull. The ex- poits of principal products for April show an , increase of 21 per,cent, over last vear. For two ! weeks of May the'exportB from J»ew York have • last year. The business failures number 352, 1 as compared with a total of 227 r he week pre- j vkras. and 186 for the corresponding week of ^Jaavyaar. £ POISONED ICE-CREAM. M Hnndrtd 8ick and Probably Thtrty-foar Win Die. AT South Glastonbury, Conn., orer 100 p»T*ous who bad eaten ice-cream at a ebtmk festival are ill. The symptoms am those that attend poisoning. In many instances whole families are sick. The trouble was traced to the vanilla ice­ cream sold at the festival. The physi­ cians express bnt slight hopes for tbe re- ootery <rf thirty-four of the victims. In other cases, where tbe victims partook sparingly of the cream and the effects of t&e poisoning are less severe, the physi­ cians are hopeful of lecovery. Of the •lanT victsms those most affected are: Kiss Cora Bates. Clifford Chapman, P. B. Oammon aad famiiy of eight persons, Howard J.Hale and family of four jiersons, Mrs. Hairy Killer and family of three persons. Miss Eva McLe»m. Mrs. Clara Otis, Miss Minnie Phillips, George Pratt and family of five persons, H. h, Wstog and family of four persons. In these cases no hopes of recoveiy are entertained. Dr. Henrj Bance, the Town Coroner, has obtained a sample of the vsaiila cream, find will analyze it to de­ termine the cause of the poisoning, No one who partook of any other flavor ex­ cept vanilla at the festival suffers, and Coroner Bonce is of the opinion that' the poison was in the vanilla extract. •*-£r,V AROUND THE DIAMOND. " HMe-BaWsU Competing tor the League Chain* , " * p i o n s b l p . THB official standing of the ball clubs *»t are in the race for the championship ©f the associations named is given below: Rational. W. L tfl c Amaricau. W. L. ft Boston 13 5 .722 St. Louis.-. .23 6 .786 Wttlftda 12 # .(jOOlK ns s Cifcy.15 10 .600 Mew York...11 8 .578 Brooklyn..,' 13 10 .569 Cleveland...11 11 .500 Baltimore. .12 12 .500 Chicago 10 10 .5J0; Athletic....11 11 .500 laftianap.... 9 11 .450 Cincinnati..13 14 .461 WWsbnrgh.. 8 .18 .SSOlCoIuinbua.. 8 IS JStl Wash'gl'n .. 4*12 .250|Louisville.. 5 90 .900 tendent. At the outbreak of the civil war he was appointed Assistant Engineer and Chief of tbe Construction Corps of the Army of the Potomac and was subse­ quently made Chi6f Engineer and Super­ intendent ci the Military ltailways of the United States. In 1866 he was chosen Second Vice President of the Northern Pacific Railway Company, remaining there until Jan." 1, 1888. Since that time he has been doing nothing, for a compli­ cation of ailments'prevented hi£ working. It is believed he was ilisane at the time of the act. EARLY one morning a handsomely dressed beautiful young woman was found lying on the sidewalk in front of Captain Isaac Bunn's residence in Rahway, N. J. Breath was just barely In the woman when discovered, and a few minutes later she died. There was nothing found upon the body that wonld lead to its identification. The authorities believe that another foul crime has been perpetrated. THE race for tbe Brooklyn handicap, one and one-fourth miles, was won by Exile, a 6 to 1 choice, in 2:07J, Prince Royal being second, and Terra Cotta third. The time is within half a second of the record. TCRNER HALL, at Bridgeport, Conn., was destroyed by fire. The loss is placed at $30,000. Eli Cook, a colored man, has been arrested on the charge of firing the building. RICHARD BOECKH, a young German, has been araested at Albany, N. Y., for challenging Henry Villard, the well-known financier, to fight a duel. AT the convention of the Pattern­ makers' League of North America at Pittsburg, Pa., resolutions were adopted indorsing the eight-hour day, and piece­ work was abolished. IT is repo rted that star-fish are making heavy depredations on the oyster beds in Long Island Sound. COLONEL FREDERICK GEKKER, In­ ternal Revenue Collector at Philadelphia, is dead. ALLEN THORNDYKE RICE, recently appointed Minister to Russia, di?3 tbe Fifth Avenue Hotel, in New York, ftt>m a throat affection, which had not been believed serious till a few hours before his death. IN a wreck on the Pittsburgh, Virginia and Charleston Railroad near Ormsby, a suburb of Fittsburgh, Pa., eight workmen were injured. John Wertz, John Feeter, and William Reardon were so seriously hurt that they may die. mmsi msm * I' I- <. IRGINIA DEVASTATED. SALE OF THE WABASH. TOUtC* IHKD AND HAtt numi THX CROPS. J- and the United States each to one, the other three to b^elect^ dents of Apia. This decision the British Commissioners, i "the Phelps compromise." Mf, although not. a member of the^ wp*I mittee, was asked to attend its 1 *" ing. CAPTAIN E. L. ZALINSKI, the dynamite gun, military att American legation at St. Pete: sailed for his post of duty. ADVICES from Nihilist sou sia have been received of a more able conspiracy than any yet dii Its ramificaiions are widespread Russian secret service is folio up in all directions, and arrests made among all classes at St. P Kronstadt and Moscow. The ters of the conspiracy is St. P but all European Russia is invo! FRESH AND NEWS Tm New York "Legislature jour red. ATTORNEY GENERAL MIAER ceived a report from United States Mar­ shall Jones of Kansas in regard to the conduct of himself and deputies upon the opening of Oklahoma to settlement. He says: I believe that a few of my deputies have at­ tempted to file on land in the Territory, bnt I know many of them have not, and while I in­ structed them not to do so, when they saw themselves surrounded by from ?00 to 700 per­ sons at Guthrie and at least half that number at Oklahoma, waiting for the hour of 12 to come, I do not wonder that §ome of them, deputies who were serving without pay and only there in the interests of good order, took the feyer and attempted to get a home. As to myself, I rfever attempted to homestead a foot of land either in Oklahoma or any other Territory or State. Marshal Jones says the country is ab­ solutely quiet in Oklahoma and that there has not been a single person killed by violence in that Territory since April 22. It is understood that the Attorney General is not satisfied with the report, and that he will call for a supplemental report, giVr _ „ ing the name of each officer who filed a j *#9 (struck by lightning and badly iry. claim and a description of the land se- jured. • A Million Dollars Will Hardly Cover the leu to Farm and Other Property-- The Storm Touches Some Points to North Carolina. [Norfolk (Va.) dispatch.] One of the most severe hailstorms thai' ever struck this section has just passed over Norfolk, Portsmouth, and vicinity. Ice particles of extraordinary size came down with tbe hail, and several inches of hail lay in drifts before the deluge of rain that followed carried it away. The shade trees of the streets and the flower and vegetable gardens were badly wrecked. In the country the truck farms were badly torn up, strawOenies, peas, cabbage, and other crops being beaten to the ground. The vineyards and orchards suffered se­ verely, vines and trees baing cut terribly and the fruit destroyed. Many of the truckers express themselves as ruined for the season. A swath of five or six miles broad was cut through Norfolk and Nan- semond Counties by the storm. The truck­ ers all around the Hodges Ferry section and between the Western Branch River and Portsmouth lost everything. The loss will probably reach a million dollars, and it is too late now to ettempt to reoover. The hailstorm and rainfall i swept over Southampton County in the j vicinity of Newsom's Depot, and the j growing crops and orchards were badly damaged by large pieces of ice and the | great quantity of it. The drifts of hail were twenty-four inches deep in some j places, and twelve hours after the storm ! the drifts were over six inches in depth. | The barn of W. S. Francis was blown | down by the wind and demolished and ; three horses killed. Other farmers suf- ! fered in damage to their buildings. The ! storm struck the great bridge section of j Norfolk County, the hailstones in some ' cases being as large as pullet eggs. The i potatoes and vegetable gardens were dara^" • aged. Three men at work in a field be­ yond Deep Creek during the same storm Western. W. Bt. Paul M Omaha 12 Gioux City.. 9 Dssiver 8 Minneapolis 8 ft. Joseph... 6 DM Monies. 5 __ . 4 16 , ' ' ?c' Inter-St. W. .823 (iuincy 11 .7051 Da venport. .11 •5G2 Evans villa .. 9 .533'Peoria 0 •444i8pringfteld.. 0 •40i) 1 Burlington, i 7 -.33® .2101 *£ .eer .611 .500 .400 45'- *- V V T H E # C R O P 8 . Statement of Their Condition In the Northwest. . JTHE Northwest has passed through pi most trving and critical period for the ' lttt thirty days with all spring aud winter 1 •Own crops, and, while the damage occa- ; sioued by the drouth has not become fts yet widespread or disastrous, at the same time its effects are more Or le«B plainly seen upon our 0*ts and grass crops. The winter wheat prospects, while they point to a good •verage crop, are by no means as favora- i •le for a bountiful crop as they were thirty j •ays ago. So far as spring wheat is con- ! •erned, everything is still a matter of un- i •Certainty and doubt. The country's great 1 wop, corn, starts off under the most favorable and brilliant prospects. EASTERN OCCURRENCES. AN English syndicate, through John P. Grant of New York, has consummated the purchase of five large Detroit breweries. They are those of Jacob Manns, Chris En- tv.88' ~ ^ ^ Michenfelder, and two ^Others. The consideration was $700,000. GEN. ADHA ANDERSON, of New York, , lifted suicide at the Lafayette Ho- el, Philadelphia, by shooting himself, 'en. Anderson had been stopping at the . Jtel a few days and had registered sim- ply . A. Anderson, New York." No es- Pep*1 notice was taken of him, as his behavior was no different from that of the •ther guests. He was a quiet old Pntleman. The night watchman of « hotel was on the fourth floor it before midnight when he heard pistol shot, the report coming r v from the toilet-room on that floor. Run- o gling there he found Anderson on the floor . jmconscious and dying, with a bullet-hole ? >ln his right temple. Gen. Anderson was , • '.,#»© of the best-known railroad men in ,;e this connti'v. He was born July 25, 1827 Itnd entered the railway service as a chain -pan on the New York, New Haven t j&artford Railroad twenty years later. « £inoe that time he has been connected Wfith nearly every road in the coun- : in various capacities, but chiefly chief engineer and superin- WESTERN HAPPENINGS. THE Iowa Supreme Couit has rendered ah opinion in the celebrated Billings case, appealed from Bremer County, in which Myron E. Billings, a prominent attorney of Wavetly, was accused of the murder of Willis S. Kingsley, County Attorney of Bremer County. The defendant w^g, indioted for minder in the tirst degree. Upon the trial of the indictment the de­ fendant was convicted of murder in the second degree, and from a judgment on the verdict he appealed. The decision of the Supreme Court reverses the lower court's decision, and Billings is granted a new trial. EDWARD HARTBHORN and Amos Tnrlb^ were killed and font other men hurt by the explosion of a boiler at the saw-mill of Seward Davis, near Payne, Ohio. . L. CORNWALL, a jeweler at Sedalia,' Col., was robbed 'of $35,000 worth "of jewelry by a clerk named Strauss,^rho, in his employer's" absence, packed - up the-goods aud left town. _ 1 P WM. SMITH, a Detroit wholesale gro- eer, and Peter Hartswell, a "portrait {winter, have been enemies for a long time, and each has threatened the other, notwithstanding Hartswell was Smith's son-in-law. They met on the street the other day, and pistols were drawn by bpth and five shots were fired on each side, and both men were fatally wounded. AT Plattsmouth Neb., while making an exeavation, workmen undermined the walls of an old church, which collapsed, killing one man, fatally injuring another, and slightly injuring two others. FAVORABLE crop reports continue to arrive from the Northwest, and from pres­ ent indications a good yield is assured. Every portion of the Northwest has been visited within the last week or ten dajB by heavy rains, and the long drought has been effectually broken. Gentle rains have prevailed generally throughout cen­ tral Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin. The weather has been much cooler since, which is very factorable for growing crops. Altogether the outlook is most encourag­ ing. FOUR car-loads of St. Louis beer, which had been side-tracked at Burlington, Iowa, were seized by the Sherifllon a war­ rant Bworn out by W. E. Blake, President of the Temperance Alliance. OH July 1 the State Treasurer will pay the last dollar of the Iowa State debt. ALBERT S. COOX, of Berkeley, Cal., has been appointed to the chair of English ill Tale University, recently vacated by Prof. Northrup. SPECIALS from various points in Min nesota report cold rains all over the northern and central portions of the State. The chinch bugs, wherever they were getting active, seem to have been chilled to death or drowned. A plaster of mud has been formed over the ground re> cently plowed to kill the grasshoppers in Otter Tail County, and the pests are sealed up, and will probably die without showing a head above ground. Farmers and loggers are jubilant,. The farmers claim there is enough water in the ground to last for six weeks or two months. The crops everywhere are in fine shape, and promise a grand harvest if there is no bad luck from summer frosts. cured by him, together with on account of the attending circumstuncflS. THE fuu«ral of Letdo de Tejadft, ex- President Of MeiiOo, was made the occasion of a great military pageant. A proclamation issued by students, prais­ ing the dece ased and censuring the govern­ ment, was suppressed by the police. REAR ADMIRAL EDWARD DONALDSON, U. S. N., aged 78, died at his home in Baltimore. His physicians said that old age and liver complaint were the causes. THE jute bagging trust has declined to enter into a contract with the Farmers' Alliance not to raise the price of bag­ ging, and only cotton bagging will be used. THE fine steel stoamer Alaskan, be- lodging to the Oregon Railway and Navi­ gation Company, went 1o pieces in a heavy gale off Cape Blanco, on the Ore­ gon coast, aud only twelve of her men out of forty-eight on board have been heard from. Most of the sailors wher the vessel broke ""in two had to be brought up by the captain and officers at the point of a pistol and forced to get out the lifeboats and lifecrnft. Five were drowned during the launching of the boats. Finally the .remainder were stowed away in the boats, which just cleared the fillip when she went down. Captain Howes,t Quartermaster Brown, Pilot Woods, and six sailors were in one boat, which was picked up by a tug. They sav that there are small ohances of the other boats reaching land, a 4 the sea was very be ivy and their boat couldn't have lived much longer when the tug sighted them. GEORGE BANCROFT, the historian, is in his eighty-nintV year. He is so feeble that he is allowed to see no one but a physician and a very few intimate friends. His doctor says he has takeu a slight cold, but will soon recover and be well enough to move to New York for a change of air and scene.-. ST. SAUVEUR, a suburb of Quebec, was almost wiped out by a blaze which started in a frame building. Over 500 buildings burned, leaving nearly 1,200 families without homes. The loss is $600,000, with but Bmall insurance. One life was lost by an explosion. GENERAL CLINTON B. FISK has written a letter denying his intention of return­ ing to the Republican partv, and saying that t^e statements regarding his desertion of the Prohibitionists are false. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. THE Superintendent of the Census has made an estimate of tbe population of the country in ll?90, in which be s*ys: It is probable that the eleventh census will Show a j>opulation in this country not far short <rf 65,(XX),000, an increase of nearly 15,000,000 •toce 1880. The growth has been largely in the western and Southwestern btatcs, and in the population of our large cities. Since the war broke out the population of the United States has more than doubled. The most cheering thing in connection with this tremendous growth of population is the fact that to a large extent manufactures, agriculture, and mining and the general development of the country have kept abreast of population. AMONG the new Federal officials who have recently qualified and assumed the duties of their positions are United States Treasurer Huston, First Comptrol­ ler of the Treasury A. C. Matthews, Pub­ lic Printer Frank Palmer, and Civil Service Commissioner Theodore Roose­ velt. ACROSS THB OCEAN. THE CHOSEN FEW. President Harrison Makes Known His Choice for Various Offices. THE President has made the following appointments: John F. Plummer of New York City, George E. Leighton of St. Louis. Jesse Spalding of Chi­ cago, and Rufus B. Bullock of Atlanta, Oa., to be Government Directors of the Union Pa­ cific Railway Company; Alvin Saundere of Nebraska, to be a member of the Board of . Regis­ tration and Election in the Territory of Utah; William D. Lyon of New York, to be a member of the Board of Indian Commissioners ; Ben­ nett S. Gillespie of Nebraska, to be Registrar of the Land Office at O'Neill, Neb.; Samuel C. Wright of Nevada, to be Superintendent of -the Mint of the United States at Carsou City, Nev. Clark E. Carr, of Illinois, to be Minister Resident and Consul General of the United States to Denmark; Solomon Hirsch, of Ore­ gon, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Turkeys Henry W. Severance, of California, to be Consul (general of the United States at Honolulu ; John .Jarrett, of Pennsylvania, to be Consul of the United States at Birmingham; Thomas H. Shernwm, of the District ol Columbia, to IM Consul of the United States at Liverpool. MARKET REPORTS. % CHICAGO CATTMC--Prime. Good Common ....».-s}........ HOGS-- Shipping Grades. SHEEP WHEAT--No. 2 Spring COBN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 RYE--No. 2 BUTTEB--Choice Creamery CHF.F.SE--Full Cream, flats Eoos--Fresh POTATOES--Louisiana, V brl.... PORK--MESS MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--Cash COBN--No. 8 .....T,;. OATS-NO. 2 White RYE--No. 1 BARLEY--No. 2^ PORK--Mess DETROIT. CATTLE HOGS % SHEEP WHEAT--No. 2 Red CORN--No. 2 Yellow OATS--No. 2 White J TOLEDO. WHBAT--No. 2 Bed CORN-Cash OAW--No. 2 White NEW YOBK. CATTLB Hoos KHEHP WHEAT--No. 2£ted CORN--No. 2.......:.., OATS--White PORK--New Mess BT. LOUIS. CATTLB. Hoos WHEAT--No. 2... CORN--NO. 2 OATS R**--No. 2. The leverest cyclone ever known tWi3 passed over Danville, doing great damage to roofing, fences, shade, and fruit trees. Three tobacco factories were unroofed, the bridge over the Dan River damaged, a house in course of construction and the oolored Baptist Church blown down, the roof of the storage warehouse partly blown off, and Lee's tobacco warehouse dam­ aged. The shed over the brick mill was blown down and fell on N. A. Fitzgerald, the proprietor, seriously injuring him. The oyclone was accompanied by rain and slight hail, lasting fifteen minutes. A dispatch from Lumberton, N. C., says six inches of hail fell there. A gale preceded the storm, unroofing many small houses and utterly obliterating the crops< • 4.25 M 3.50 <3 4.50 .8*^(9 42 15 .07* ® .13 m 4.00 @11.50 .78?$ .96K KM .47 .51 <011.75 & 4.26 4.90 ® 5.00 (9 .95 * fl* .24 4.00 (9 4.75 5.00 & 5.50 a so m 5.00 .84 <9 .88 ,44>a(® .45* .35 & .40 @13.29 WANT SWITZERLAND. Rasste 'Itnd Germany Covet the Little Re­ public. [London cable.] Considerable discussion has been aroused in the various European capitals lately by the belligerent tone assumed by the Russian and German press toward Switzerland on account of the liberty al­ lowed by that ancient confederation to the Socialist and Nihilist refugees within its borders. Doubtless the diatribes al­ most daily hurled against the Swiss Gov­ ernment are intended chiefly to intimi­ date the Swiss into taking steps toward the expulsion of the hordes of plotters against royalty and society who have betaken themselves to Switzer­ land to escape long terms of imprisonment or to save their necks, but there is stil^ less doubt that both the Czar and the Kaisef have more than once cast covetous eyes upon the territory com- {raising the little republic, and wonld glad-y, if they dared, add its acres to their al­ ready enormous domains. In this view the current of discussion runs toward a careful calculation of the chances of an attack upon Switzerland by one or even both of the po«ers named. England would certainly not permit such a move without a formidable protest, and^France's interests under her present form of gov­ ernment lie in the direction of preserving the integrity of the only really success­ ful European government by the people, to say nothing of the other considerations which would influence her action in a matter in which Germany was deeply concerned. Even Austria and Italy, subservient as they are to Germany, would hardly coun­ tenance an invasion of Switzerland, and many Europeans bereve that the United States, though in no way interested in the internal affairs of Europe, would, from sentimental motives, interpose her veto on an act which would cause the overthrow of the Swiss confederation and the annexa­ tion of itB territory. Then, too, the peo­ ple of Switzerland are to be considered in such a contingency, and not lightly. The peacefully inclined Swiss Government might possibly submit to a mild degree of coercion applied by the stronger pow­ ers for the purpose of compelling the ex­ pulsion of plotting socialists and anarch­ ists, nihilists and the like rather than be drawn into armed conflict with its neigh­ bors; but the memory of countless victo­ ries by Helvetians in years long gone by, ending in the recognition of Swiss inde­ pendence the world over, is still fresh in the national mind. Tbe hardy Swiss mountaineer is just as brave and uncon­ querable to-day as he wns hundreds of years ago, and with the assistance which would surely be forthcoming at the outset of any attempt to subdue Switzerland that country could successfully resist any foe. » Sparks from the Wires. LORD LONSDALE has reached New Tork. He has with him 300 specimens of birds. WALTER KELLER, 9 years old, fell in­ to a vat of vinegar at Dayton, Ohio, and was drowned. „ PROF. E. H. PLATT and J<ohn Allen, two New-Yorkers, have started on a horse­ back ride from New York to San Fran­ cisco. THE Governor of New Jersey has signed an act for the parole and conditional re­ lease of prisoners confined .in the Now Jersey State's piison. SENATOR HALE, of the Senate commit­ tee on trade relations with Canada, had his right le? badly injured in a train col­ lision near San Jose, Cal. THE famous trotting horse Joe Hooker killed himself at Parkersborg, W. Va., by running away and cutting "his head nearly off against a barbed-wire fence. FIVE tramps attacked James Burns at Altoona, Pa., aud after robbing aud stripping him left him for dead. Two of the gang were captured. Burns may die. Gov. BIGGS, of Delaware, has ap- B>inted John T. Saulsbury, editor of the elavarian, at Dover, Secretary of State, vice hiB cousin, John P. Saulsbury, de­ ceased. A CONSPIRACY has been discovered among the military officers stationed in St. Petersburg. A large number of con­ spirators have been arrested. In tteir possession were found papers which proved that they intended^ to make! an attempt to assassinate the Czar. A num­ ber of bombs were also found. T^E sub-committee of the Samoan conference at Berlin has decided that the Municipal Council of Apia shall com­ prise six members--Germany, England INDIANAPOLIS. Catti.* Hoos SHEEP ....'.. LAMBS „ CINCINNATI. Hoos--Butchers' WHEAT--No. 2 Red C6RN--NO. 2 OATS--No. 2 Mixed KTE--No. 2 X..... PORK--MEM .1 KANSAS CITY. CATTLE--Good * 77..... .Medium Butchers' HOOS--Choice '. 13.00 8.75 400 .77 .31 .23 .99 8.00 4.50 8.00 .6.00 SYST*MT AUCTIONS* OVV TOB •15,650,000. The Parchultii Committee Secures the Knttre System East of the MissUsippi- Xhe Qoad to Be Rcertsnitsd-Lowsi to* ter*st on Its Indebtedness Secured. [Chicago dispatch.} The Wabash Hail way east of the Missis­ sippi River has been sold at foreclosure salo at Chicago for $15,550,000. This is probably the most important railway foreclosure sale Which ever took placo in this country. It was expected f hat there would be a hitch in the sale on account of the fact that on Tour of the nine divisions an upset price, equal to the amount of the first and second mort­ gage bonds, was fixed by the decree of the sale. No trouble was experienced, however, and the road was sold to the purchasing committee of the Wabash bondholders, composed of James F. Joy, O. D. Ashley, General Thomaa H. Hubbard, and Edgar T. Welles. The sale was conducted by Major Blutacd Wilson, of Springfield. III., and A. J. Ricks, of Indianapolis, the special masters ap­ pointed by Judges Gresham and Jackson. After Mr. Ricks read the notice of sale Major Bluford Wilson announced that the sale would first take place by divisions, on four of which tho court had fixed an upset or minimum price equal to the amount of the first and second mortgages. The sale would be without appraisement or redemp­ tion, according to the decision of the Su­ preme Court of the United States, which held that there was no redemption in fore­ closure sales of railroad property as the -franchise of the railroad company was also sold. Major Wilson also announced that the torminai properties would go with the adjacent divisions, and that each division sold would carry with it its proportion oi the rolling stock and equipments in the exact proportion that its mileage bore to the total mileage of the whole 900 miles of mileage of the Wabash Railway east of the Mississippi. ! The first division put up for sale was the j Toledo and Illinois Railroad, known as the i Ohio Division, running from Toledo to the ! Indiana State line, a distance of seventy- , live miles. On division the upset price was $2,840,595.6H. tTToF?? wgre no bidders, i and tho division was passed. „ XlX'J'HQi'. glYjeipsuJuiown «S tlijs Lake Erie, WuOhSli ftna bt. Louis Railroad, was next called. This division runs through Indiana a distance of 16G miles, and the up­ set price was $3,481,919.89. Here the John­ son and Poppers dissenting committee showed its hand and bid 13,650,000.00. The division was declared sold to S. Fisher Johnson on behalf of this comniittee. The third division put up for sale was the Great Western Railroad Company of 1859, running a distance of 180 miles from the Indiana State line to the Illinois River at Meredosia and Naples. The upset price was $8,481,919.89, and it was also knocked down to B. Fisher Johnson on behalf of the John- i son and Popper committee for $3,650,000. The neixt division put up for sale was tho Decatur and East St. Louis Railroad, run­ ning from Decatur to Eust St. Louis, a dis­ tance of 108 miles. The upset price was $3,816,128.31. The Johnson and Popper com­ mittee also got this line on its sole bid of $4,000,000. The remaining divisions had no upset price fixed by the decree of sale. The first put up for sale was the Quincy and Toledo Railroad, extending from Clayton, 111., to a point opposite Meredosia, on the Illinois River, a distance of thirty-four miles. Hero Mr. James F. Joy, representing the pur- chasins; committee of the Wabash bond­ holders, came to the front and bought tho property for $500,000. The mortgage debt was $664,000. The Illinois and Southern Towa Railroad, extending from Clayton to Carthage, 111., a distanoe of twenty-nine miles, was sold to James F. Joy for the Wabash Purchasing Committee tor $300,000. The moi tgage debt was $398,000. The Hannibal and Naples Railroad, ex­ tending from Hannibal to Naples, II!.. a distance of fifty miles, was also knocked down to Mr. James F. Joy for his purchas­ ing commiitee for $500,000. The mortgage debt was $599,00J. The next property sold was the branch of six miles extending from Clayton to Camp Point. Mr. James F. Joy and his commit­ tee got it for $50,000. The branch road of six mUss from Car­ thage, III., to Elvaston. Ill,, was sold to Mr. James F. Joy and his purchasing commit­ tee for $50,000. All but the Ohio division had been sold, and the failure to sell it would have neces­ sitated an adjournment to Judge Gresham's court-room for a modification of a decree a%to the upset price fixed. Major Wilson, however, said tnat he would expose this division for sale again. This time Mr. James F. Joy bid $2,840,595.68. the upset price, and the road was knocked down to nim and his purchasing committee. The aggregate bid for all the nine divis­ ions now amounted to $15,540,595. Major Wilson here announced that under the terms of the decree of sale the masters would now put up the whole nine divisions, including, under their direction, the Han­ nibal and Naples Road, for sale. In case the bid now made exceeded the aggregate of the bids for the various divisions tho whole Wabash Road east of the Mississippi Riyer would be knocked down to the high­ est bidder. Mr. James F. Joy, for the purchasing committee of Wabash bondholders, bin $15,550,000, which was $9,405 more than the aggregate of the sale by divisions, and the road was knocked down to the purchasing committee. The amount of deposit required was $900,000, or $100,0tft) on each of the nine divisions. The deposit is in bonds, but the Court will call upon the purchasers to pay In any cash required to pay off the $4,000,000 of dissenting bondholders and any neces­ sary expenses. By this sale every obstacle to the consolidation of tho Wabash road east and west of the Mississippi River has been removed. By July 1 it is expected that the divisions in the various States of Michi­ gan, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois will have been organized, and the great trunk line from Detroit and Toledo to Kansas City will have been formed by consolidation of the various divisions. The name of the con­ solidation will be tbe Wabash Railroad Company, and it is expected that Mr. O. D. Ashley will be its President. First and second mortgage bonds cover­ ing the whole line will be issued. The first mortgage will provide for new bonds to the first and second bondholders of the old road and for the payment of the $4,000,000 to the first mortgage bondholders who re­ fused to come into the reorganization scheme. The second mortgage will also cover the whole consolidated line, and will provide for an issue of debenture bonds to cover about $27,000,000 of bonds secured by the mortgage of June, 1880. on which $10,000,000 of bonds were issued, as well as for the collateral trust mortgage of $10,000,000, and also for some debenture bonds which will be paid over to stockhold­ ers. Five years ago, on May 28. the whole of the Wabash system,'east and wfcst of the Mississippi River, went into the hands of Humphreys and Tutt as receivers. It owei} seven or eight million dollars of floating in­ debtedness. and could not pay the interest on its general mortgage of 1880 or on its collateral trust mortgage. The lines west of the Mississippi have since been reorgan­ ized, and are now under the control of the purchasing committee, and since the re­ ceivership as to them terminated by the sale of March, 1886, they are said to have done remarkably well, and to be now earn­ ing their fixed charges and a surplus. With the amalgamation of the lines east and west of the Mississippi, the former of which were acquired by the pur­ chasing committee at this sale, the reorganized system will find itself re­ lieved of its non-paying branohes, the in­ terest on its entire funded debt reduced from 5 to 7 per cent. Also, its former fixed charge for interest on its old general mort­ gage and collateral trust bonds rendered dependent only on the revenues of the road, if earned. With this state of facts existing, under able management it Is hoped that within a reasonable time the Wabash will have re­ sumed not only payment of its fixed charges. & 4.50 # 4.50 @ .77)6 t & .40 & 4.50 9 4.75 & 4.09 & 7.75 MRS. L. A. WARD, the Beekmanito, has been expelled from the First Cum- Il0UA0Ut„m berland Presbyterian Church of Kansas j bpt"a!so aVaVr'rate o^int^resVupon'itTnew & 5.00 & .tea 4.00 .89 .35 . ..27 & .27H A7M& .48)4 12.00 @12.50 & 4.00 & 8.50 City for believing that Schweinfurth is Christ. Two MORE breweries at Newark, N. J., have been absorbed by the English syn­ dicate. An ofl'er of $6,000,000 was made j for the Ballantine Brewing Company's interests, but was refused. IN the F10,000 slander suit of G. H. Curtiss, of Philadelphia, against Land­ lord F. T. Hefling, formerly of the Grand Hotel of JauesviUe, Wis., a verdict was returned for the plaintiff of six cents, damages. * MARGARET KENDRTCK, a negro woman, living near Hopkins ville, Ky., has given birth to twins. One is white and the other colored. The black one is a perfect African and the whits on* is a purs Cso* oasian. debenture bonds. The entire property, both east and west of the Mississippi, U now in splendid physical condition, and as present Indications go. everything, according to the opinions of expert railroad m^n, points to an era of prosperity unparalleled In company's provious history. Wild with fcirlet "Did you attend Mr. Brown's funeral yesterday, Mrs. Bruce?" "Yes, and it was the saddest one I ever saw. Mrs. Brown was frantic. She would have leaped into the grave if they hadn't caught her." "Shell be married inside of six 'months. I never koew it to flail with a woman like that." Anecdotes Abort Power* j The man who is to suooeed does not waste time in lamenting his lack of op portunity or in boasting what he would io if he had a chance. When Hiram Powers, who afterwards became a noted sculptor, was a young man, he travelled ks a collector for a clock manufacturer •it Cincinnati. "Winter made the roads impassable and the employer told Hi­ ram to go into the factory and do there what he could. The historian of Wood­ stock, Vt., where Hiram was born, tells how the young man went, and stayed. He made clocks after the old pat­ terns, ard clocks after styles designed by himself. A showman ordered an organ which should play tunes when turned by a crank. The foreman un­ dertook the job, but failed. Hiram then tried and succeeded. A rival showman ordered an organ to be run by clockwork, and to be decora­ ted with automaton figures. Hiram made it. The figures represented six girls and six boys, he made of war; the faces and hands he copied from living children.^ "Why, those heaths must have been brought from Europe; no one in Amer­ ica could make them," said a French­ man, on seeing them. "They were made by a boy working in this town," replied a bystander. Subsequently Hiram became the wax figure maker, mechanician and inventor for a museum. He made a very accu­ rate figure of tlie proprietor, and an­ swered a critic who disparaged the fig­ ure by a practical joke. He informed the critic that he had modelled in wax the figure of a popular comedian, and wished to submit the work to his judg­ ment before exhibiting it. The flat­ tered critic accompanied Hiram to the museum loft, where, the figure was posed. • o "This is very like," said the critic, after surveying the figure. "Does you credit, PowefS} but I'm sorry to say you've failed in tlie eyebrows--not dr„wn down enough," - "Look again,"jsaid Powers. The critic h'<ld the lighted candle under the tip of the figure's nose* iTo his horror the fig­ ure exclaimed, "Take care! don't burn my nose !M The candle was dropped, tie critic ran down Btairs. He never after­ wards criticised Power's wax figures. When Hiram was twenty-five, a bust in marble, Canova's "Washington," was exhibited in Cincinnati. He went to see it, gazed on it in silence for a long time, and then exclaimed, "Thatis what I shall do!" That is what he did do when, by the generosity of friends he was enabled to reside in Italy.--Youth's Companion. What Kisses Have Done. That a kiss has been of importance-in history we all know, and that women's kisses have made and unmade King­ doms. The most famous of kisses al­ ways seem to me that one, Or that many, given by the Dutchess of Gordon when she recruited an entire regiment, the Gordon Highlanders, better known as the Ninety-second, by having each m an take the "Queen's shilling" frOm be­ tween her teeth, so that he had, ii he wanted, a good opportunity to kiss her. It is almost unnecessary to say that the gallant laddies who fought so well at Waterloo did not resist the charm of a lovely woman's mouth. However, re­ member the kiss in vogue and just re­ member this, too: You will And, my dear boy, that the dsarly- Wirized kiss, ^ • ch with rapture yo« snatched from the half-willing miss. Is sweoter by far than the legalised kissel You gave the same girl when yea've made har s Mrs. This is slangy, but it's the sad, sad truth. Do you know how to kiss ? If you are a man you give a semi-scornful and semi-condescending smile at this ques­ tion and make no apswer. If you are a woman you laugh a merry laugh and wonder what kind of kiss you are ex­ pected to be acquainted with. Why, the latest, of course. And it is?--For your sweetheart to stoop over you and kiss you just back of your shell-like ear. If you are wise that is where you put a lit­ tle perfume, aud the chances are that he will kiss you not once but twice there and tell you that kissing you is like putting one's lips to the heart of a great red rose. This is natural in him, but it shows that he does not realize the difference between a kiss made perfect by art and that which is flower-like by nature. What do I mean^? That the next thing to kissing a flower is kissing a baby. You take that in your arms, you look in its clear eyes--eyes that have never been saddened by looking on anything but the pleasure of life-- you put your lips to its rosebud of a mouth aud then you kiss it, and then you know that you have inhaled the perfume of a flower --the flower ef the flock.--New York Graphic. Early Training. To deplore the lack of so-called early advantages when they have not been enjoyed, and to conclude that if a per­ son has distinguished himself, not hav­ ing had scholastic training, he would have risen to much greater eminence had he been so trained, is a common conclusion. However," whether or not this qonclusion is correct is a question which the apostles of the "new educa­ tion," which includes industrial train­ ing, would be likely to ^answer in the negative. In speaking of this to the Bev. Robert Collyer, bays a writer in the Pittsburg Dispatch, I asked him if he did not think that his splendidly sustained strength, both mental and physical, which, uuder the weight of his 63 years, shows no sign of abate­ ment, was not due to the fact that his vitality had not been impaired by the confinement and routine of school life? He said that he had thought that it was so, and that as the years wont on he was better satisfied that his life had been what it wai in the earlier as well as the later days. In this connection he told me of preaching in Detroit very soon after he left the forge, when he was "full of force and burliness to his very finger-tips. He said: "I laid it down to them with a great deal of force, and when I had done one of my hearers, who had lost both health and vitality in striving for college honors, came up to me and said, 'Out uoon college anyway; if you had been through college you never could have moved us all as you did.' There must be some plan evolved," continued Dr. Colly er, "by which the mind can be stored without loss either of force or vigor. I think we are working up to that in the schools now. My training was mostly industrial, with very little educational. They are reviving that now, but they will get it just right after a time." Wonders of the Camera. The peculiar rhythmical effects which accompany discharges of powder and of nitroglycerine compounds have been elaborately investigated by the aid of photography. It has also been sc that careful photographs, taken and timber just at the point of <•_ jiu » under a breaking load, would oondroa to our knowledge of the complicated subject of elasticity. Tlie lightning flash can be investi­ gated. Dr. Koenig, m a recent coxa- nmirfoatkra to the Physical Society of Berlin, states that he has photographed a cannon-ball which was moving at a rate of 1,200 feet per second. The ball was projected in front of a white screen and occupied one-fortieth of a second in its passage. Marey has photographed the motions of limping people, and W thus given surgeons the materials for a study of lameness. It is said, more­ over. that photography often reveals in­ cipient eruptive diseases which are not visible to the eye, Photographs taken by flash-powders of the human eye, ' showing it dilated in the dark, give the occulist a new method of studying the enlarged pupil.--Prof. John Trow­ bridge, in Scribner's. -- v, 't, Kovefs Tliat Mean Something. . ,vt So complete and searching has beett the survey of social life by the novelists that the society of to-day, with all its gradations and differences, could be re­ produced from the pages of fiction. From the days of Fielding to those of Charles Reade, English life has never missed faithful record at the hands of those who have comprehended it be­ cause they have pierced it with their sympathetic insight. Every great po­ litical movement like Chartism, every striking political incident like the Gor­ don riots, every form of discontent and agitation among the lower classes, has had fit and often lasting record. While George Eliot has set forth the tremen­ dous force of inheritance and environ­ ment, the vigorous and often coarse brush of Dickens has painted, on a great canvas, the homely life of the common . people; and the inimitable art of Thack­ eray, equally akin to irony and tears, has made us permanent possessors of the social habit and character of the last century. The virile genius of Bjornson, in the latest work of his hand, "Flags in the City and the Harbor," deals with some of the most obscure problem of social and family life; Turgnenief has made Russian character under the pressure p£ absolutism com­ prehensible to us; Tolsloy commands the attention of a new constituency of readers, deeply moved by the marvellous fidelity with which he reproduces phases of experience, hidden processes of char­ acter, at once remote and familiar; while of Zola it must be confessed, whatever we think of his themes and his art, that he at least assumes to lay bare the very heart of certain social conditions in France. Fiction is unquestionably the most attractive and influential form through which men of literary genius express themselves to-day; and no fact of social significance, no human relation­ ship, no class limitation, capacity, or condition, will es^a^e the instinctive search for life which possesses the gen­ eration. That which the student of social questions seeks as matter of science the novelist seeks as matte*-6t art.--H. W. Mabie, in Scribner's. "Police" a New Word in 1768. ~ ' The word police has made many bold attempts to get a footing. I have seen it more than once strongly recommended' in the papers, but as neither the word, nor the thing itself are (is) much under­ stood in London, I fancy it will require a considerable time to bring it into fashion; perhaps from an aversion to the French, from whom this word is borrowed; and something, under the name of police, being already estab­ lished in Scotland,English prejudice will not soon be reconciled to it. Not long ago at a bagnio in Covent Garden, on my complaining of some imposition, J was told by a fair North Briion that it was the regular estab­ lished police of the house. This, I own, is the only time I have heard it used in polite company; nor do I believe it has yet made any considerable progress, ex­ cept in the newspapers, beyond the pur­ lieus of Covent Garden. Economy, pa­ triotism, adequateness, privilege, and a few other such like words, have lately had their run, but now we hear no more of them. I should not wonder, how­ ever, if in a months time they should all come about again in rotation, at the polite end of the town.--British Maga­ zine, 1763. .Difficult Sight Seeing in Pekhu A traveler who ^recently returned from Pekin asserts that there is plenty to smell in that city, but very little to see. Most of the show places such as the Temple of Haven and, the Marble Bridge have one by one been closed to outside barbarian, who cannot even bribe their way. The houses are all very low and mean, the streets are wholly unpaved and are always very muddy and dusty, and as there are no sewers or cesspools the filthiness of the town is indescribable. He adds that the public buildings are small, and in a decayed and tumble-down condition, and the nearest one can get to the Em­ peror's palace is to climb to the top of some building outside the sacred in- closure and surreptitiously peep over the wall through an opera glass. Even, then- he does not see much. Yet He Was Not a Ball Player. "Why are they making such a great fuss about George Washington, pa?" "My son, I Wish you were more fa­ miliar with the history of your country. George Washington was a great and good man--first in peace, first in war. and first in the hearts of 'his country­ men." "Is that all, pa? I thought he must have been first in the pitching record." --Chicago Herald. Flatterers Always Win. She (anent a proposal)--I don't knew what to say, John, to the question von asked me. You are not the most perfect man in the world) you know. He--But you are the most perfect woman. She--I guess you may get the ring, Jack. TALLEYRAND, on his return to Paris from the London Embassy, was asked what might be the position in society of a certain Edward Elliee, and replied: "I will tell you. When you liave given a great dinner, you ordinarily give a rechauffe tlie day--and it is to tho second dinner that you invite M. Ellioe." SMILEY BARKER--Ah, here comes Miss Coupon, the heiress. I waited on her once. Friend (incredulously--You! Where? Sm'ley Basker--At the White Mountain House. PROBABLY the most wide-awake class of men in this oountry are the young- fathers - who have been blessed with twins. WHAT is the difference between a fog and a fallen star ? One's mist on earth and the other is missed in Heaven. IT is when the young idea first begins to shoot that a litti# ieatiung i» * dan-- • -..V ' ^ M. , * :