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' V. 't: , \J" •* T?-_. |®fa 3Pt|tnrg ftytitdtatoi J. VAN SLYEE, McHENRT, ILLINOIS. THE NEWS CONDENSED. Plymouth chureli. GEN. JOSEPH R. HAWLEY has bean re-elected President of the Centennial Board of Oommis- 8ioners....A Philadelphia correspondent tele­ graphs that hotel and lodging-house keepers are lowering their prices, and th ere is plenty of room for all who come. In many instances isereons who expected to rent their rooms for high figures and go to the seaside on the pro­ ceeds and themselves thus far -without a single lodger. THE foreign Commissioners have become disgusted at the slowness of. the Centennial Commission in appointing the foreign jurors. They held an indignation meettng the other day in the British Government building, on the Centennial grounds, and talked very strongly about the shabby way in which their jurors have been treated. WIIIUAWT HENRY HITRLRKBT has purchased the interest of Man ton Marble in the New York WorM The Sunday liquor law is being strictly enforced by the New York police, and there is great indignation among the saloon­ keepers in consequence. THE expected universal hegira to the Centen­ nial has not. yet takon place, the attendance of p€ 12,000,000, and are contracting for steel and iron rails to build 120 miles of the Texas Pacific railroad west of Port Worth, Texas. The road is to be oompleted thus far in August. It ia they will push the road west as Califc g£: JAY GOULD is said to be losing his grip in Wall street... .Five fishing vessels and forty- seven lives have been lost in the Glouoestar fisheries this year. THK WX8Ti 6m, CEOOK'S campaign against the Sioux opens in anything but a way to inspire hopes of a glorious ending of the campaign. The first night out from Cheyenne, when still about 200 miles from the savages, sixty-five of his men deserted, taking their arms, horses, and j&ccouterments Er-Gov. Willis A. Gorman, of Minnesota, is dead. StiPEEVISOR MEYER and Revenue AgentColony, assisted by two Deputy Marshals, seized fow illicit stills, in Cape Girardeau county, Mo., last week. They met an armed mob and were compelled to desist from a further prosecution of their work. There are from seventy-five to a hundred more stills in operation in that sec­ tion of the country, and Col. Meyer has aeked Commissioner Pratt for a force to «nable him to break them up. PORTIONS of Colorado and Wyoming were visited by a driving snow-storm on the 24th of May--The trial of Ex-Supervisor of Internal Bevenue, D. W. Mann, was brought to a close at Chicago last week, and resulted in his ac­ quittal. SOUTH. A1BLEQBUC from New Orleans says: "The latest dispatches report everything quiet at Bayou bar*. uaurei urn, and Woodville. Re­ ports of the trouble were exaggerated. One white man and two negroes killed and several negroes wounded cow the casualties as far as known." Ex-Gov. Bullock, of Georgia, has been taken back to Atlanta under a requisition from the Governor, after an absence of five years. ANOOTSB daring stage robbery is repotted from Texas. One stage and two hacks fall of passengers were stopped by highwaymen on the open prairie, eighteen miles west of Dallas. Before finishing their work another hack foil of passengers came up. On being ordered to # stop the driver put the whip to his horses and •scaped. Several shots were fired by the rob- ljere. and one of them followed the hack some distance. The fire was returned by the passen- Krs, but no one was hurt. As soon as the rob-rs secured, the booty,. which, it ia reported, amounted to $7,000, they shot their own horses, mounted the best ones belonging to the stage, and rode toward the Indian Nation. Geh. AUGUR telegraphs from New Orleans to . t Secretary of War Taft, under date of May 19: "The troops under my command are all ready to promptly carry out your Instructions to me v to protect Federal and State officials in the performance of their duties, and to suppress and prevent as far as possible law violence. The commandant at Bayou Sara report® to me that the disturbances are practically over. The difficulties at present are principally in Mis­ sissippi," A BXCHXOKD (Va.) dispatch says: " A fire­ damp explosion occurred on Saturday at the «ld Mid-Lothian ooal-pit, in Chesterfield coun­ ty, by which eight men were killed and two badly injured. Five of the lulled were white and two colored." THE New Orleans Jtyayunesays: "There were twenty-nine negroes killed in Wilkinson 4B0Tir>t.y- Miw«.; dtyring the recent disturbance <2i&re."... .A lire at Galvcaton, TOXPJ}s last ileatryjett C23d.CC9 vrcarEh of £tt"opdK'ty. Or halt a dozen distillers who have been on trial at New Orleans for defrauding the rev­ enue, two have been found guilty and the ©there acquitted....The Methodist General Conference has selected ex-Senator Revels, lat© colored Senator from Mississippi, to edit the Southwestern Christian Advocate, at New Orleans. OBKE&L. ltes forty-sixth general assembly of the Cum­ berland Preabvfctjiifesi Ohuinh of the United States oonvened at Bowling Green, Ky., on the 18th of May; and on the same day the Old School Presbyterian general assembly met in New York city Hon, 8. 8. Burdett, the Commissioner of the United States general land office at Washing­ ton, has resigned, owing to ill health... .The Bchooner Thomas C. Sweet was recently cap- eiaed by a squall in Lake Erie, and six of her crew drowned....The steamer Pat Cliburne exploded one of her boilers on the Ohio river, Bear Shawneetown, III., a few nights since, live or six persons were killed, and Beveral others injured. THE general conference of the Church at Baltimore, last week, authorized the %ppointmen« of a committee of three ministers andl two laymen, to meet a similar committee authorized by the Church South, and adjust all difficulties in the way of a formal fraternity be­ tween the two churches . .Thessd news comes from Canada that, in addition to the ordinary expense of a summer's pleasure tour in the wilds of that country, a fishing tax of $1 a day will henceforward be levied upon everv ^citizen of the United States going thither "get the finny Kanuck on his hook. AifOTHEB installment of Chinese immigrants, numbering 900, arrived at San Francisco by steamer last week. Miss JULIA MATTHEWS, the well-known opera-bouffe singer, died at St. Louis last week. Her remains were embalmed and sent England. A WASHoroTOH telegram says: "Gov. Kel­ logg has been snubbed by the President. Gen. Grant is reported to have told him that if he were at his post in New Orleans dis­ charging his duties, instead of asking for troops, ne would be able to i reserve the peace; that he had abundant means and au­ thority to put down disorders without getting "the United States into complications with State affairs. The President added with vehemence that be was tired of being annoyed with Louis­ iana affairs, and he hoped Kellogg would at­ tend to his duties as an executive officer." IT is stated that Tom Boot* and hie fxiends, •failing to get Congressional aid, have pot op fast as possible, lest the California Faoiflo get all the land-grant. Contracts for all the work are to be let immediately The Writing Paper invention, in session at Springfield, last week, representing seven-eighths of the products of the whole country, voted to ien all the mills on half time till Jan. 1, 1877, in ordeyj® prevent m-or-prndnflt|rp hrty|y u p p r i M f c ; H I H I I I I I I H I I I I I POSTMASTER GENERAL JEWELL denies that he intends resigning... .Speaker Kerr is regaining his health. A PIAST for oompalling the Pacifie railroad oompaniea to commenoe providing for the pay­ ment of their debts to the Goverment has been matured by the House Judiciary Committee. It - _ TT-- .•-- n--:/> , AAA VUQ V4H90 VA DUO U U1UU X AUUU, that $750,000 shall be set apart annually for ten years, and $1,000,000 annually thereafter, until the sinking fund thus created shall wipe out the bonds advanced to the company by the Government. It is proposed to apply an equal ratio of annual payment to the total debt to the other companies. Atty. Gen. Pierrepont decides that Gen. Schenck is still Minister to England. ... .The President has stated to a friend that on the expiration of his Presidential term he in­ tends to make the tour of the world John Sherman, Jr., son of Senator Shoruian, of Ohio, has been appointed United States Mar­ shal for New Mexico. THE President, last week, sent to the Senate the following noiaiaafcions: Edwards Pierre­ pont, of New York, to be Minister to England. Alphonso Taft, of Ohio, to be Attorney-gen­ eral. J, Donald Cameron, of Pennsylvania, to be Secretary of War. The Senate, in exec­ utive session, confirmed the nominations. SECRETARY ROBESON has addressed a commu­ nication to the House Committee on Naval Af­ fairs, demanding a hearing for himself atd any naval officers againBt whom any damaging testimony has been taken in the recent investi­ gations of the Navy department. He also asks that the hearing be had in open session of the committee. \ THE House Committee on Commerce, to whom was referred a resolution touching the immigration of Chinese into this country, has authorized Congressman Piper, of California, to report a joint resolution recommending that the President cause to be negotiated a new treaty between the United States and China, providing that the Government of each country shall have the right to prohibit the immigration of citizens of the other into its territory, ex­ cept for commercial pursuits. C. P. HUNTINGTON, Vice-president of the Central Pacific Railroad Company, has written a letter to the Chairman of the House Com­ mittee on the Judiciary, in which he says the company recognized as fully as the committee the desirability, both to the Government and the company, of an equitable and final settle­ ment of all matters and questions of whatever kind between them, and this, he thinks, can 'be effected by an amicable arbitration, with good results to both parties. If it should be determined by the committee to insist upon the cash payments named by one of the com­ mittee, the company would prefer the contract as it is, leaving the question at issue to be set­ tled in future on equitable terms. The con­ traction in values, he says, has largely exceeded the calculations of the company, and the amount received from sales of lands has not been as lan^A MI was expected. The road was built in times of higher prices, and, although economically constructed, cost a very large sum, and he raised the question whether the nation, it being the principal beneficiary, should not share in the shrinkage, the saving to the Government, every year being more than the annual interest it pfcys on the bonds of the edmpany. EDWABD F. BEALB, formerly of California, now of Washington, has been appointed by the President to succeed Mr. Orth as Minister to Austria....The Postoffica department is now prepared to fill requisitions for the new Cen­ tennial stamp envelopes. The issue of these envelopes will be discontinued at the close of the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia, but those outstanding at the time will continue valid. They are good for postage at any post- office in the country. FOUTIOAX. THE Kansas Democratic convention, in ses­ sion at Topeka last week, adopted a resolution demanding the repeal of the specie-resump­ tion act and instructing the delegates to St. Louis to vote for Hendricks... .The Kentucky Republican convention was held at Louisville last week. The delegates to Cincinnati were instructed to support Bristow... .The Delaware delegation to the'Cincinnati convention is said to be solid for Blaine The National Inde­ pendent Ekecutive Committee has organized by electing Moses A. Field, of Detroit, Chairman, and Thomas J. Durant, of Washington Secre­ tary. SENATOR BOOTH says he does not intend to pay any attention to his nomination for Vice- president by the Independents. THE President has appointed Merritt C. Page Umted fits'. .A Attorney -Tor M> ILIULOH and Charles E. Mayer United States Attorney for the northern sm« middle uisMots of Alabama. A WASHINGTON dispatch says the Cabinet changes and the nomination of Judge Pierre­ pont as Minister to England were the oocasion of great surprise in all quarters. So carefully had the intentions of the President in this re­ gard been concealed that, with the excep­ tion of Mr. Fish and the gentlemen person­ ally interested, the other members of the Cabinet were not aware of the arrangement until the nominations had been sent to the Senate. TEE New Jersey Democratic State conven­ tion met at Trenton last week. A hard-money platform was adopted, and ex-Gov. Joel Parker, of that State, indorsed as a suitable candidate for the Presidency The State committee of colored men of New York have declared for Senator Conkling for President President Grant is said to have suggested the names of Congressman McCrary, of Iowa, and Senator Alcorn, of Mississippi, as his favorite candi­ dates for the Vice-presidency. REPUBLICAN conventions were held on the 24th of May in Illinois, Missouri, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Nebraska, Kansas, and Da­ kota Territory. The Illinois convention, in addition to the appointment of delegates to the National convention, also put in the field a ticket for State officers headed by Shelby M. Cullom for Governor, and Andrew Shuman, editor of the Chicago Journal, for Lieutenant- governor. The delegates to Cincinnati re­ ceived no instructions, but are understood to be largely for Blaine. The Missouri conven- ion elected a delegation said to consist as follows : Blaine, 13 ; Morton, 9 ; Bristow, 5; Hayes, 2; and Conkling, 1. The Minnesota delegation consists largely of Blaine men, but the convention refused to instruct, or direct the delegates to vote as a unit. Nebraska in­ structed her delegates to vote for Blaine. New Hampshire expressed no Presidential preference, and the delegates were left unin- structed. The sentiment of the Kansas con­ vention was strongly for Blaine, but the dele­ gates were left untrammeled. Dakota Terri­ tory also sent an unpledged delegation to Cin­ cinnati. .. .The Michigan Democracy, in con­ vention at Lansing last week, adopted a hard- i money platform, and selected a delegation to ht. Louis understood to be largely in favor of 1 iilden. IT is stated from Washington that an infor­ mal conference between some of the members of the Cabinet was held recently, to consider the propriety of any of them attending the Cin­ cinnati convention, as one or two are anxious to ao. Ibe sentiment was decidedly adverse to folding such Intimate relations Wltli tae President being in (Cincinnati during S5Jr5?l'.'vB convention, and a mutuai understanding wu had that all should remain '5 away, to prevent any criticism upon the ad­ ministration of trying to influence the nomina­ tion. WILLIAM p. F&YE has been nominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Second , district of Main*. * * WOBMtmt. * • A MBPATCH from Constantinople Bays: ••The dedication of the new English church has been indefinitely postponed, at the request of the British Ambassador, who had censa iiroU thC Minister of Police on the possible coneeq,i,>n- ces of the ceremony. Sottas and Mussulman roughs are buying revolvers, daggers, and oth ai* weapons, andthe Christians have resorted to Similar precautions... .The French Chamber of Deputies has defeated, by an overwhelming majority, the bill granting amnesty to the Com­ munist prisoners, exiles, and refugee* It is reported that England does not agree to the propositions which resulted from the Berlin conference. SIR SAMUEL BUCKLEY, a member of the Brit­ ish Parliament, and a large Manchester manu­ facturer, has failed for $2,500,000 A cable dispatch says the refusal of the British Gov­ ernment to adhere to the memorandum of the Berlin conference, is felt as a serious disap- Eointment.... Matamoras has been evacuated y the Mexican revolutionists, and the Govern­ ment forces are in possession of the city.... The Chancellor's medal at Cambridge Univer­ sity, England, has been awarded to an under­ graduate named Dale, for a poem on '1 Th® Cen­ tenary of Americas Independence.".... A Vienna dispatch says the mental condition of the Sultan causes great apprehension. He is subject to delusions, fearing that he will be buned alive or poisoned... .A dispatch from Madrid Bays 30,000 troops, including three crack cavalry regiments, are under orders to sail for Cuba Sept. 1. ENOIAND has communicated to foreign rep­ resentatives at London the text of her reply declining to agree to the conclusions of the Berlin conference. The point to which Eng­ land principally objects is the decision of the powers that in case their friendly intervention should not prove pacific the six powers united­ ly would have to consider other land more ef­ fective measures. England thinks this con­ tains the principle of armed intervention, and is a menace to the liberty and independence of Turkey. DISRAELI has notified the British Parliament that the Fenian convicts need not hope for pardon at present It is rumored that the Sultan of Turkey contemplates an early abdi­ cation.... Russia has sent a large iron-clad fleet to Turkish waters. FOUR of the Greek sailors who some time ago murdered the captain, mate and second officer of the ship Lennie, ha\e been executed at London. SPAIN is reported to be negotiating in the English money market for a large loan, at eight per cent, interest, to be guaranteed by the customs revenue of Cuba. The proceeds are to be expended in the island, in an attempt to stamp out the protracted insurrection Many of the English cotton mills have com­ menced running on short time. It is stated that prices are lower than for the past thirty years, with two brief exceptions, and that the prospects are sorely discouraging Re­ ports have reached New York of a recent fight between the Spanish and rebels in Cuba, in which the former are said to h&ve lost ten or fifteen hundred men. After considerable debate * compromise was dd, whereby the sum of $88,000 *» appropriated for the civil eaUhltohmnnt of the, various yards, and the Secretary of the Navy is directed to ap­ point a oommlMloii, consisting of the ^Ixrec highert officers of the navy, wliows duty it shall be to report to the next session of Congress what navy yards can be dispensed with an abandoned. The com­ mittee then *•<>«<» and reported the bill, which waa pawed....The Indian Appropriation bill was than taken np. WEDNESDAY, May 24.--Senate.--The Senate passed the House resolution directing steps to be taken for the release of Richard O'M. Condon, and then went into a court of impeachment, with closed doors. Before reaching a decision upon the pend­ ing question of jurisdiction, the doors were re­ opened and the Senate adjourned. House. --Speaker Kerr was in the chair, seemingly improved in health Harris (Va,), Chairman of the Committee on Elections, reported a resolution in the South Carolina contested election case de­ claring the sitting metnber, Joseph H. Kainey, to have been duly elected, Ordered printed and re­ committed The House' then proceeded to con­ sider the Louisiana contested ease of Spencer vs. Morey, but no decision was reached....vviison (Iowa) offered a resolution directing the Committee on Commerce to inquire into the alleged combina­ tion of leading rsilroada in the United States for the purpose of controlling the traffic. Adopted. THE "INDEPENDENTS.* FORTY-FOURTH CONURESS. THURSDAY, May 18.--Senate. --Consideration of the articles of impeachment was resumed with closed doors, but, without arriving at a decision upon the question of jurisdiction, the doors were reopened--Morton submitted a resolution, which was adopted, instructing the committee now inves­ tigating the last election in Mississippi to inquire into the recent alleged killing of people at Bsyou Tunica, in that State House bill authorizing the appointment of receivers of national banks and for other purposes was passed. Home.--George M. Adams, Olerk of the Houae, asked for an investigation Into the charges made against him through the columns of a certain Chicago newspaper. The matter was referred to a special committee.... A resolution was adopted in­ structing the Appropriations Committee to inquire into the expediency of making s change in the present system of public printing Randall re­ ported to the House the Indian Appropriation bill. It appropriates $1,005,771, and provides for the transfer of the Indian bureau to the War depart­ ment. FRIDAY, May 19.--Senate.--1The question of jurisdiction in the Belknap case was again debated in secret session, without arriving at a decision.... Very little legislative business, and that of an un­ important character, was transacted. House.--Morrison offered a resolution for an adjournment on the 12th of June, but it was not acted on... The committee which has been investigating the affairs of the Freedman's made a report, in which the management of that institution is arraigned in severe terms. It recom­ mends the indictment and punishment of Henrv 3J. Cooke, Lewis Ciephane, Hallet Kilbourn, and J. O. Evans -- The Naval Appropriation bill was under consideration....The bill confirming to Missouri all the lands therein selected as swamp and over­ flowed lands was passed An effort was made to have inserted in the Record a personal allusion of Singleton to Garfield on Wednesday in the debate, which had been stricken out at the instance of Lamar. A motion of itandaii to lay the matter ou the tablet was carried. EAroxiLV-i, May MoxLou, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, sub­ mitted a report in the csso of Spencer (Ala,), exon­ erating him from the charge of bribery in securing his election to the Senate. The report was ordered printed....The Senate then went into secret ses­ sion ou the question of jurisdiction in the impeach­ ment matter, and Boutweli spoke in opposition. National Convention at Indianapolis-- Peter Cooper nominated tor Presi­ dent. The National convention of the Inde­ pendent party, recently held at Indian­ apolis, nominated Peter Cooper, of New York, for President, and Newton Booth, of) California, for Vice-president. The following platform was adopted : The la^epsnd^nt party is called iuto exist­ ence by the necessities of the people, whose .nduetries are prostrated, whose labor is de­ prived of its just rew&rd by a ruinous policy, which the Republican and Democratic parties refuse to change; and in view of the failure of these parties to furnish relief to the de­ pressed industries of the country, thereby dis­ appointing the jast hopes and expectations of a suffering people, we declare our principles, and invite s!I independent and patriotic men to join our ranks iu this movement for financial reform and industrial emancipation. 1. We demand the immediate and uncondi­ tional repeal of the Specie Resumption act of Jan. ,14, 1875, and the rescue of our indus­ tries from the ruin and disaster resulting from its enforcement, and we call upon all patriotic men to organize in every Congressional distric of the country with the view of electing Repre­ sentatives to Congress who will carry out the wishes of the people in this regard, and stop the present suicidal and destructive policy of contraotien. 2. We believe that a United States note, is­ sued directly by the Government, convertible on demand into United States obligations bear­ ing a less rate of interest, not exceeding one cent a day on each $100, at d re-exchangeable for United Statea notes at par, will afford the best circulating medium ever devised. Such United States notes should be a full legal- tender for all purposes, except for the payment of such obligations as are by existing contracts expressly made payable in coin, and we hold that it is the duty of the Government to pro­ vide such a circulation for the nation to whom it belongs. 3. It is the paramount duty of the Govern­ ment, in all its legislation, to keep in view the full development of all legitimate business- agricultural, mining, manufacturing and com­ mercial. 4. We most earneetly protest against any fur­ ther issue of ^old-bonds for sale in foreign markets, by which we would be made, for a long period, hewers of wood and drawers of water to foreigners, especially as the American people would gladly and promptly take at par all the bond? which the Government may need to Bell, provided they are made payable at the option of the holder, and bearing interest at 3 65-100 per cent, per annum, or even a lower rate. 5. We farther protest against the sale of Government bonds for the purpose of purchas­ ing silver to be used as a substitute for our more convenient and less fluctuating fractional currency, which, although well calculated to enrich, the owners of silver mines, yet, in its operation, will still further oppress, in taxation, an already overburdened people. A subsequent resolution against'rail­ road subsidies was adopted. Without arriving at a decision, the doors were re- opened and the Senate adjourned. Home.--Cate (Wis.) rose to a personal explana­ tion. He claimed that he had been elected fairly and honectly, and when he discovered his Beat was to be contested, he had prepared a case and was ready to defeat the contestant. Before the case had been decided, however, the contestant diedr and he denied the right of the Legislature to inter­ fere in the matter, and he also denied the charges which had been made against him The Speaker appointed Payne, Forney, Marsh, Wait and Harri­ son a committee to investigate the official conduct of the Clerk of the House .. The House then went into Committee of the Whole on the Naval appro­ priation bill A motion to reduce the appropriation from 16,260,000 to $5,750,000 was adopted,... A reso­ lution was adopted requiring all persons having business before the committees of the House to Me with the Clerk the names of their authorized repre­ sentatives or attorneys. MONDAY, May 22.--Senate.--W. H. Barnum, Senator-clect from Connecticut, took the oath of office....Sherman presented the petition of E. M. Olapp, the Congressional printer, to the effect that he is an officer of the Senate, that great injustice has been done him by the Committee on Printing in the House of Representatives, and that no op­ portunity was given him for an explanation of the charges before that committee. Referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections.... The ques­ tion of jurisdiction in the impeachment matter was again debated in secret session, bat no decision reached. House.--k further extension of the Speaker's leave of absence was voted....The Committee on Rules reported that to retain Fitzhugh as Doorkeeper would bring the House into ridicule and con­ tempt, and advised that the office be abolished and its duties transferred to the Hergeant-at-arnis- A resolution to that effect was adopted Tuckitr offered a resolution directing the President to in­ form the House whether he has received any official information in regard to violence and danger mf!i- acing American citizens in the Ottoman Empii <•. and whether any steps have been taken for the pro­ tection of such American citizens residing in this Ottoman Empire. Adopted The resolution of­ fered by Page declaring that the power to elect the President has never been delegated to the House of Representative* was tabled by a strict party vote. TUESDAY, May 28.--Senate.--Conkling, from the Committee on Foreign Relations, reported With amendments, the House joint resolution sug­ gesting the Intercession of the United totes to secure the release of R. O'M. Condon, who is now confined in an English prison. Laid over... • After reports on a number of bills of an unimportant character, consideration of the articles of impeach­ ment was resumed with closed doors. No decision was reached. House.--The House Went into committee of the Whole on the Naval Appropriation bill; the question on the discontinuance of certain navy yards. ' L Death of Dr. Hall. Dr. William W. Hall̂ the well-known editor of Hall's American Journal of Health and Medicine, had an apoplec­ tic stroke while walking in Park avenue on Wednesday evening. He was taken to Cornelius Vanderbilt's house, and there he soon died. Dr. Hall was born in Paris, Ky., Oct. 15, 1810. Graduat­ ing from college at an early age he en­ tered upon the study of theology, and after his ordination he preached for ten years in Lawrenceburg, Ind., one of his co-laborers being Henry Ward Beecher, who ministered there in 1837 and 1838. While serving in his ministerial capacity Dr. Hall devoted his spare hours to the study of medicine, with the view of fit­ ting himself thoroughly for the duties of a missionary in foreign lands; but after taking his degree he abandoned the pulpit and entered upon a lucrative practice in New Orleans and in Cincin­ nati, giving to each place one-half his time for a number of years. He also practiced for a time in Texas, and on a trip from Galveston to New York he was shipwrecked on the Florida reefs. He was picked up starving ten days after­ ward. Dr . Hall settled in New York about 1853, and entered upon the practice of medicine, meeting with immediate suc­ cess At about that time he began the publication of his Journal of Healthy one of the first efforts er.er made to popularize the subject of hygiene, the first to attain to a high rank among household journals devoted to the sub­ ject, and the most successful of its «!««« in the world. Dr. Hall never weighed over 125 unds. His head was large and well poi for ormed, and gave fair outward evidence of the activity and strength of his in­ tellect. For many years it was his cus­ tom to rise at 5 in the morning and work almost incessantly Tin til 10 at night, in this, if in nothing ei . violating an im­ portant rule of • health that he never ceased to impress upon others. It was this constant labor that undoubtedly brought about his death.--New York Sun. Queer Names. - The following are given in a re­ cently-published work on English sur­ names, as specimens of the old Puritans in England, about the year 1658. They are taken from a jury list in Sussei county, and cannot fail to cause a smile in our days : Faint-not Hewitt, Seek- wisdom Wood, Redeemed Compton, Accepted Trevor, God-reward Smart, Make-peace Heaton, Be-courteous Cole, Repentance Airs, Rieturn Spelman, Kill- sin Pimple, Fly-debate Roberts, Be- faiihful Sinner, Hope-for Rending, Weep-not Billings, Elected Mitchell, Fight- the- good-fight- of faith White, Stand-fast-on-high Stringer, Search-tlie Scriptures Morton, The Peace-of-God Knight. - HERE is a model verdict of a coroner's jury : " Wo do believe, after due in­ quiries, and according to our best knowl­ edge, that we do not know how, when and where said infant came to h^dVftth.' THE INDIAN COUNTRY. Ezeittnc Hew« from the Af«n«i«i, the Black Hills, and Intermediate Points-- Failure of Gen. Crook to Secure Ogallslg Scouts--Murders in the Blaek nm« and Near Red Cloud Agtnejr-Depsrtore of Gen. Terry's Command. Telegrams from Cheyenne convey the following interesting news : Gen. Crook's visit to Red Cloud Agency to secure the services of Ogallala scouts for field duty in the coming campaign against Sitting Bull has been unsucessfni. He returned to-day to Fort Laramie, accompanied by Col. Stanton and Lieut. Burke. The Indians were at first apparently willing to act as scouts and guides, but finally refused. On the way from the agency to Fort Laramie Gen. Crook narrowly escaped ambuscade. A short time after he left the agency, about fifteen miles out, Charles Clark, mail carrier on the Gilmore, Salisbury and Patrick road to Camp Robeson, was killed by the same party that laid in wait for Gen. Crook. Clark's remains were taken to thjlt agency, and the Indians succeeded in running eff four horses of the mail team. A telegram was received here to-day from Cote Watt Patrick, announcing the murder of Jim Sanders, May 9, on Sand creek, by Indians. Sanders was one of Prof. Jenney's mining corps that pros­ pected the Black Hills last season. De­ ceased leaves a family, who live in Chey­ enne. Three other miners were also killed at the same time. Gen. Crook left Fort Laramie ihia afternoon for Fort Fetterman, where the troops rendezvous a week from to-mor­ row, A part of the expedition at Fort Russell leaves to-morrow morning for the north. Dispatches from Fort Fetterman fur­ nish the following items: ® A gentleman from Salt Lake arrived this morning from Custer City with ex­ cellent specimens of quartz. He came with a large party. They saw Indians, but were so watchful and well guarded that they lost no lives or stock. This party also report the northern country and creeks as being rich in minerals, and a good country for the poor man. Some provisions had got into Custer just before the party left, so the imme­ diate wants of the town are satisfied. Gen. Crook, Lieut. Bourke, Aid-de- Carnp Col. Stanton, Paymaster, and Major Ludington9 Inspecting Officer, re­ turned from the agencies to-day. The mail wagon that left here on tne 15th for the agencies was attacked on the 16th ten miles from Red Cloud agency. Clark, the driver, was .killed. The mail and wagon were left. Clark's body was taken into Red Cloud. This attack was evidently intended for Gen. Crook's party. They had passed out of the canon when the attack was made about fifteen minutes, when they met the mail wagon and spoke to the driver, who was killed a few minutes later. The Indians could only have been prevented from attacking the larger party by the escort and number of the party, or by the smallness of their own party. Eighty lodges in all hav< Cloud on the war path. Two lodges left a few days ago, right in the face of the agent and in spite of his remonstrances. Two of the princi­ pal chiefs, No Water and Little Big Man, went with these guerrillas. All of the horses and mules belonging to the Government that were in charge of the agent have been run off. Gen. Crook had several talks with the Indiana at Red Cloud and Spotted Tail agencies, but met with no success in engaging1 any as scouts. They positively refused. No teams can pass from thi« post to the agencies without being guarded by troops. Matters look very bad. Gen. Crook leaves for Fetterman in the morn­ ing. The expedition will leave there about the 25th. Five companies of the Third and two of the Second Cavalry leave Fort Russell to-morrow. One company of the Second Cavalry and three companies of the Ninth Infantry leave here for Fetterman Saturday. A. gentleman has just arrived from the hills. Custer City is being abandoned, the miners either going to Deadwood or re­ turning home. The Indians are increas­ ing in numbers, and attack every train on the road. There is a succession of rifle-pits and fortifications all the way from here to the hills. Henry Lenze, from Iowa, was killed on Indian _ creek, May 9. He was three timcn buried r.ntl twice esliurii-ad, and each time horribly mutilated, scalped, and dismembered. Eleven men have thus far been killed near Tndinn creek and Red canon. have left Red A Story that Ought to life Forever. A story oomes to us from the Western district on the details of which a Bret Harte or a Col. John Hay would found a poem. The other day a gang of laborers was employed stacking blocks of stone on a permanent way of the Great West­ ern railroad, between Keynsliam and Bristol. In fact, the operation of stone- stacking was carried on within a few yards of the Brislington tunnel. It was at the time of day when the most won­ derful express train in the world, called " The Flying Dutchman" was expected, and, by some unlucky accident, a large block of stone rolled down the embank­ ment and lodged on the railway line. At this instant the roar of the " Flying Dutchman" was heard in the tunnel. There was not a moment to be lost, so swiftly down the bank sped one of the brave navies to remove the stone and save hundreds of innocent lives or perish, in the attempt. He had a wife and family at home, but he never thought of them. His life was in his hand, but he never thought of that. Down the steep embankment sped the brave fellow, nerved by the combined strength of Sisyphus and Atlas, to move the stone and save his fellow-creatures. On sped the Flying Dutchman ! "Qnick, for yonr life, Jim," shouted the companions on the bank. Alas, it was just too late ; the stone was rolled out of the way, but the hero was cut to pieoes by the fangs of the murderous train. This is as grand and noble a story [as ever was told. It is finer than the tale of " Jim Bludso," the moral of whose story is told with such impetuous vigor and truth by the author of "Little Breeches ' He know'd his duty, a dead sure thing, And went for it thar and then; And Christ ain't a going to be too hard On a man that died for men! If ever there was a brave fellow who laid down his life for the sake of his fel­ low-creatures it was this hero of the Brislington -tunnel. His wife and chil­ dren ought to be looked after, and have no doubt come under the consideration of the citizens of Bristol. But tha stctnr tught to live forever.--London Bra* • The War la the East. . tone of the press and the people ^onn^es bordering on the struggle between Turkey and her provinces is be­ coming anrioun and disturbed. Busi- H®?8 Austria is almost at a standstill. Vienna journals call upon the Gov- e. iiment and upon Russia to put an end ^2? ̂or a great war will blaze iorcn. lne Sclavonic .race is becoming everywhere aroused and excited at the wrongs suffered by their compatriots at ttie hands of the Musselmans. The 7™ ? * HunW ̂ pomiBg supplies and assistance into aid those of Turkey. Millions of gulden in value have been .iias ana distributed. The Sclavs of Russia are full of indig- nation at the oppression and sufferings of their fellow-believers in Bosnia The Government can hardly restrain the ardor of the ̂ people; and in private, great quantities or provisions and sup­ plies are forwarded to the insurgents. The Sclavs in Montenegro---the Black Mountaineers--not content with shelter­ ing thousands of refugees, are ail in arms and ready to throw their weight however small, into the balance of the struggle. Never having been conquered by all the power of the Ottoman Em­ pire, thoy do not dread a contest with it in iti present crippled condition; yet the whole population of the little principal­ ity is only some 120,000. The position of Servia gives great anxiety. Her army is almost in readi­ ness for a campaign. Peabody rifles and modern arms of precision are being introduced; loans have been placed, and the whole country, with its more than a million of inhabitants, seems about to throw itself into this struggle. The German press is full of rumors that Russia has thrown off disguise, and will now support the demands of the insur­ gents. There are certainly many indi­ cations of this. For her to lose, aa Austria has done, her prestige as leader of the Southern Sclavs would be a fear­ ful blunder ; and all motives impel her to assist the rebellion against Turkey. The recent massacre at Salonica is the first symptom of what has long been, expected--a fanatical outbreak of the Mussulmans of thfc Ottoman Empire against the Christians, and the procla­ mation of a " Holy war." It was under this cry that the Turks in former ages swept over Asia and parts of Europe. The appeal will be uttered again, and for a time we do not doubt that the Turkish Empire will display consider able force and overwhelm the insurgents- against its authority. But it will be the last dying flames in old burnt-out em-. bers. Fanaticism will only hasten the dismemberment of the Empire. The Christian powers, under such a "Holy war," must interfere, and the fire of fanaticism in Russia will bum even more intensely in return. Mohamme­ danism has no vitality by which Turkey can be saved.--New York limes. Aristocratic Clerks. It Is remarked of the female clerks in Washington departments that they might set up an aristocracy of their own. if they chose. Widows or daughters of army and navy officers of the highest rank, daughters and granddaughters of former members of the Cabinet, Sena­ tors, Supreme court Justices and Presi­ dents are to be found among them. The granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson has a cleikship. The daughter of Andrew Jackson Donald (the adopted son of An­ drew Jackson) was born in the White House and educated in Berlin, and ia now a clerk in the Postoffice department. The daughter of Chief Justice Taney is, or was a clerk in some Government bu­ reau, and so was the daughter of Robert J. Walker, formerly Secretary of the Treasury. These are but a few uwtan<w where names might be cited. If You are Engaged to a Drinking Man Break It Off.' We tender our thanks to the Vermont judge who the other day, in pronounc­ ing upon a divorce suit, laid "down the opinion that when a woman marries a man of known intemperate habits, She takes her happiness, prosperity, and welfare in her own hands, and has no claim for riddance of him thereafter. Wo have giSsit pity for the wife who is joined to an intemperate husband, but- we tremble for the safe of the woman who marries an intemperate man. If these words resell the eye of any woman, under engagement of marriage to such a man, we most solemnly appeal to her to Eause before she imperil her well-being: y accepting any such risk.--Congrega­ tionalism THE MARKETS. NEW YOBK. Hoas-- Live COTTON.... 7 00 < 10* T SO nji. 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