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WW • r ' " mmm *&>*$«; "if? ;$r?» .c " r^-'A- ' **twi r#&'. %'siaki:-;i*»! cIRrorii ^laittclralfi' J. TAN BLYKE, EDITOS AND PUBLISHES. [cHENKY, ILLINOIS IBS -P^LST" WEEK, - 'H#! domestic NEWS* (keAMfc -V- A shocking calamity is reported from GlaNHMint, RE A fire broke out in the Tre- mont House, the leading hotel of the town, wad spread so rapidly that fire ioroatee, two bmrd- «n and three employee, were overtaken by the Hamas and burned to death. The Belmont Oil Works, at Philadel­ phia, have been destroyed by fire. Frank Cal- aad John Gtreavefl, workmen, were ">> -; buroad--the former fatally, the latter seriously. , Loee eetimated at froan 075.000 to #100,000. There were forty financial failures in r *: New York during March, with total liabilities : of 1480,448> aai ameta amounting to fflll,- - Serious riote owmrred during the «*\ <progress of tbe election at Flattuah, L. L, and ?S~ \-i: half of the Brooklyn police were summoned to the scene of conflict. The increase of immigration to New York from foreign ports during the first quar­ ter of 1879 is nearly 80 per cent over that of the corresponding period laet year. The extensive rendering establish­ ment of Swift & White, on Barron island, New York harbor, burned last week. LOOT, #150,- 000: no insurance, - The Atlantic coast has been visited by a severe gale, and many diaartwa to ririfr- pag are reported. The WmL Manager Haverly has secured that best of Irish oomediana, Dion Boncicault, for bis Chicago house the preeent week, whero he appears as Con in his own play of "The Shaugfaraun." Out of the four hundred and odd dramas written or adapted by the indefati­ gable Boncicault, this is one of the very best; and if anyone can depict the good-hearted, happy-go-lucky Irish gossoon in a more rol­ licking manner than he we have never heard of the person. He is supported by his own oom- pany. During the progress of a fire in the v ̂ ' Fairehild block, at Madison, Wis., and while a ' 4' f' large number of people were gathered around the flames, an explosion of gas occurred with >- terrific effect Some men were blown complete­ ly out of the rooms, while others were thrown to the floor. There was for a few seconds a ̂t frightful scare. All who were able rushed , < , , down-stairs for the streets; others had to be carried out. At least thirty were injured. The block was injured to the extent of f20,000. Southern Dakota has been ravaged toy terribly destructive prairie fixes. Harrow­ ing tales are told of the destruction of life and property, and of the sufferings of homeless settlers. V Chicago elevators, as per official re- turns, contain 7,409,430 bushels of wheat, 2,916,841 bushels of eon, 601,254 bushels of cats, 261,109 bushels of rye, and 694,586 bushels of barley, mailing a grand total of 11,791,181 husheis, against 2,796,092 bushels at this period last year. ' Gen. Danie ̂Cameron, an old Chicago Journalist, and a prominent local Democratic politician, died in that city, last week,, of con- ,v.v# sumptioa He sorved through the late war, , $4 and was made a Brigadier General for bravo and faithful servioe. Oca. Oanwnron was a native of Scotland. There were packed in the "West, last Winter, the enormous number of 7,480,000hogs, or nearly 1,000,000 more than the previous sea- Hie Ohuago Tribune prints copious «rop reports from various point* in the North­ west They represent in the main a most flat­ tering prospect for winter and spring wheat Dry weather has to some extent delayed the sowing of spring grain, but there is plenty of time yet, and, whs* |rith the large increase in acreage over last year, the look ahead is most enoouraging. Thy Mouth. ' fion. H. T. Biddle, a member of the last Congress from Tennessee, recently com­ mitted suicide at Lebanon, Tenn., while labor­ ing under a temporary fit of insanity, oaosed fey protracted illness. Buford, the assassin of Judge Elliott, bas been placed in the jail at Louisville, Ky. Sixteen houses in Lebanon, Ky., bare b«**i destroyed by fire. Loss, #50,000. The negroes of Louisiana are leaving for the North in large numbers. At Stephenville, Texas, a telegram from Galveston informs us, "Messrs. Boss, Keith, and Bobin»on, attempting to serve a writ to .arrest on® Halladay, were shot and killed. Three others were wounded. Another fight followed, resulting in the death of two others." The trial of Thomas Buford for the murder of Judge Elliott will begin at Frank­ fort, Ky., April 28,™GOT. McGreary has or­ dered an election far May 12 to select a suo- • to Judge Elliott A. small craft, bound from Gape Hat- ~ i for Newborn, N. C., ospeiaed in a gale, and five persons were drowned. Political. The Greenback-Labor party of TEhode fsbmd held its State Convention at Providence last week, and nominated candidates for Btate 'officers, headed by Samuel Hill for Governor. The Democrats of New York talk •trongly of running Horatio Seymour for ^Governor. . Dr. L. P. Blackburn, of yellow-fever fame, will be the Democratic candidate for Governor of Kentucky. Judge Taft, Attorney General under Grant, will, in all probability, be the Republi­ can candidate for Governor of Ohio. is stated in a Washington dispatch , 4bat Gen. Garfield and other Republicans have received from President Hayes the most posi live assurance that the Army bill will be vetoed if it passes with the rider now pending hi the ' Untie. At the municipal election in Chicago, last week, the entire Democratic ticket, headed by ex-Congressman Carter H. Harrison, for Mayor, was elected by about 5,000 majority. The Socialists polled about 12,000 votes, and elected three members of the City Council. In the now Council there will be aeventeen Democrats, 15 Republicans and 4 Socialists. In Milwau­ kee, Madison, Janesville and Beloit, Wis., the Bepublicaps carried the day, while the Demo- carats were successful at Fond du Lac and La Grosse. The Democrats and Nationals of Cleveland have formed a coalition and nomi­ nated WsJdemar Otis for Mayor. ; • The ©lection in Wisconsin for Ohief Justice of the 8upreme Court resulted in the choice of Judge Cole (Republican), present in- cumbent, by about 10,000 majority. Rhodelsland has re-elected her present State offioers, all Republicans. The vote was light Tan Zandt, Republican, for Governor, received 9,609; Sega?, Democrat, 5,367; Hill, Greenback and scattering, 877; majority, 3,865. The General Assembly comprises in the Senate 28 Republicans, SDem- ocrats, 2 no choice, and in the House 52 Re­ publicans ; 15 Democrats, and 4 no choioe. During March the United States mints ooined #5,577,086. The tots,! number of standard silver dollars coined up hi I 28.774.95a _ Wtuhington. Gapt. Edward O'Meagher Oondon, the Fenian, has been appointed to a clerkship in the Treasury Department In the Oliver-Cameron suit at Wash­ ington, the jury rendered a verdiot for the de­ fendant The imblio debt statement for April 1 is as follows: #1,006,OTi,*D0 7,678,160 Six per cent.bonds.......#589,424,'780 Fire per cent, bonds..... 703,266,(80 Four and a half per oent. bonds 150,000,000 Four per cent, bonds..... 440,400,000 Kavy pension fund....... 140,000,000 Total coin bonds Matured debt Legal tendem #846,748,941 Certificates of deposit.... 37,680,000 Fractional currency...... 15,995,601 . Gold and silver certificates 18,631,980 Refunding certificates.... 68,070 Total without interest. # 409,038,903 Total debt .#1,4*2,798,41& Total interest i5,0M.260 Cash in treasury....... 480,787,468 Debt less cash tn treasury... #9,027,100.865 Increase during March 893,734 Decrease since June 80,1878 8,686,675 CURBENT LIABILITIES. Interest due and unpaid .....f' -5,328,020 Debt on which interest has ceased....7,679,160 Interest thereon * 825,770 Oold and silver certificates -48,631,280 United States notes held for redemp­ tion of certificates of deposit 17,680,000 United States notes held for redemp­ tion of fractional currency 78,455,991 Called bonds not matured for which 4 per cent, bonds have been issued... 908,447,700 Cash balance available April 1,1919.. 144,243,680 Total .̂ AVAXUBU ABSKTS. Cash in treasury 490,787,458 490.787,458 Bonds issued to the Pacific Railroad Companies, interest payable in law­ ful money: Principal outstanding..# 64,688,519 Interest accrued and not yet paid..... 909,859 Interest paid bj the United States.... 41,773,745 Interest repaid by transportation of mails, etc. 10,706,062 Balance of interest paid by the United States 81.068.69S The President nominated David T. Oorbin, of South Carolinn, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Utah; Thomas S. Wadsworth, of Illinois, Receiver of Public Moneys at La Mesilla, New Mexico; Oscar Hatfield, of New York, to be United States Consul at Batavia; and John Harris, of Pennsylvania, to be United States Consul at "Venice. Miscellaneous. Recent deaths : Ex-Congressman William 8. Abert, of Baltimore, Md.; ex-Con­ gressman James K. Gibson, of Abingdon, Va.; ex-Mayor W. H. O. Johnsto ̂of Cincinnati, Ohio. The report of the Board of Officers who have been investigating the esse of Gen. Fitz-John Porter has been given to the public. It not only vindicates Porter, but implies in its language a condemnation of the men who de­ graded him. It is declared that Porter exer­ cised, on the 27th of August, 1862, the "very ordinary discretion of a corps commander," and did his "plain duty;" while on the 29th of Au­ gust, says the report, " Gen. Porter's duty was too plain and simple to admit of discussion, and the board is unable to find anything in it sub­ ject to criticism, much less deserving of censure or condemnation." During the month of March, the mini si Philadelphia, Pa,s coined #1,123,200 in gold, #900,370 in silver, and #7,816 in base metal, or a total of 1, <45,520 pieses, of the value Of #2.031.8801 FOREIGN INTBLLIGBX CS. The joint occupation of Boumelia has been consented t© by all the great powers except France, which lias not yet acted upon the proposition. Germany declines to furnish a foroe for the purpose, but Austria, England, Italy and Russia will have oontingents. The courts having Anally determined' that Pasaanante must die for Me attempt to Shoot the King of Italy, the King himself has oommuted the eentenee to imprisonment for life. Priaee Waldemar, the third son of the Crown Prince of Germany, has just died of (ujiuuivria The upper branch of the French Parliament is opposed to the removal of the seat of government from Versailles te Paris. A dispatch from Afghanistan states that 2,000 Afghans attacked a small detaohment of the British troops in Pishin valley, and wen defeated, with a loss of sixty killed. <' The arrest of Nihilists continues in Russia. Forty-five suspected persons were seized subsequent to the recent attempt to as­ sassinate the Chief of Police. Several of them were of high rank. The Russian Gen. Melikoff telegraphs that he lias completed the buraingof the plague- infected houses in Wetlianka. A number of French soldiers were caught in a severe snow-storm in Algeria, and nineteen perished. Othets are undergeing hos­ pital treatment A squadron of British cavalry were swept away»by the current while crossing the Oabul river near Jellalabad. A Lieutenant and forty men were drowned. Alexandre De Lavaissie De Lavergne, French novelist and dramatic author, is dead A dispatch from Lahore, India, says the British, under Capi Gough, defeated 5,000 Afghans, killing 400. The British loss was three officers and three men killed, and thirty- two wounded. « London telegram: The Italian Gov­ ernment recently reoeired an anonymons letter giving a warning thai an attempt would be made to assassinate Queen Victoria between the frontier and Turin. It nm believed the sole object of the writer was to embarrass the Government, but every precaution was taken to insure the Queen's safety. Bolivia and Chili are making exten­ sive preparations for war, and hostilities can­ not be long delayed. Peru will also probably be involved in the quarrel. •*-••• V,. . ' vW • : Isaao Fletcher, member of the British Parlianpmt, eoaunittsd suicide the other day by shoottag himself. . , ."IILi;"' 1 L-! ! I • > * COKGWmSS. The amendment to the Appropriation Ull fbir- blddloc the use of troops at the polls gave rise to a warn partisan debate In the House on the 99th ult. Mr. Stephens argued that public sentiment, North Mid South, was against the employment of troops at the polls. There was no need of such a thing. The country had got along without itfor three-quart­ ers of a century. There would be no harm done, therefore, by a ixpeal of the law. Mr. Gar­ field argued against the policy of the Demo­ cratic party in Congress, declaring it to be utterly revolutionary and tending to the subversion of the Government. 41 We pick up the gage of battle which you have thrown down, and will appeal to our common sovereign--the people--to say whether you shall break down the principle of free con­ sent Jn legislation at the price of starving the Government to death. We are ready to pass tbeee bills f«T tlw ;mpj)ori or tho OoYorament i « any when you will offer them in the ordinary way, and, if you offer these % other measures ss separate measures, we will meet you in the spirit of fair and fraternal debate. But you •hall not compel ns; you'shall not coerce ns, even to save this Government, until the question has gone to the sovereign to determine whether they wiU consent to break down any of its voluntary powers, and on that ground we plant ourselves." lCr. McMshon said it came with ill grace from any Republican to say that tha provision was improper because it WWB put upon an appropria­ tion bill. The Republicans themselves had passed many measures In the same way. lth,m never been considered revolutionary, but, on the contrary, as a protection against arbitrary power to attach legis­ lation on appropriation Mils. The Democrats wanted the jury-box purified, the use of troops at the polls prohibited, and the repeat of that most Infamous of all measures which putlt in the powet of Marshals and their deputies to corrupt the bal­ lot-box and intimidate votes*. Very little business was done by Congress on the 31st ult. The House was not in session, and the Senate held a very brief session. Mr. Grover introduced a bill, extending the time for the construction of the Northern Pacific railroad; Mr. Johnston introduced a bill to authorise the Na­ tion* 1 Board of Health to Investigate and report on the infections and contagious diseases of animals; and Mr. Wlndom offered a bill to repeal so much of the bill making appropriations for sundry civil ex­ penses of the Government for the year ending June 80,1880, as authorizes the Secretary of War to re­ lease the Moline Water-Works, Rock Island, 111. After a brief discussion, the Senate, on the 1st inst̂ , passed the bill appropriating $200,000 to construct r refrigerating ship, to be used in disin- Csoting yellow-fever ships. In the House, Mr. Atkins reported the Legislative Appropriation hill, containing clauses repealing and amending sections of the Revised Statutes relating to draw­ ing jurors, the jurors' test-oath, Deputy Marshal* and Supervisors of Election. The debate on the Army bill was resumed, and several fiery speeches were made. Various bills were introduced in the Senate on the 2d ult., among them one, by Mr. Harris, pro­ viding for a treaty with Mexico. Mr. Hoar's reso­ lution condemning as unconstitutional and revolu­ tionary the Democratic programme of legislation was laid on the table--yeas, 86; nays£20. Mr. Saulsbury, of the Committee on Privileges and Elections, made a report against the admis­ sion of Mr. Bell as a Senator from New Hampshire on the appointment of the Governor. It will come wp for consideration to-morrow. Mr. Hoar presented the views of the minority of the committee in favor of admitting Bell, signed by himself, Cameron (Wis.) and Ingalls. The House continued the discussion of the Army bill. Speeches were delivered by Messrs. Williams (Wis.), Townshend, Calkins, Herbert, T'hister, White (Pa.j and Bnckncr. The Senate, in executive session, confirmed Andrew D. White as Minister to Berlin, and Dr. Cornelius A. Logan, scousin of Senator Logan, as Minister to Central America The Greenback mem­ bers of the House held a caucus, at which it was decided that they would move to strike out the po­ litical amendments" from the Appropriation bills; this motion failing, they would decline to vote, and leave the Democrats and Republicans to fight it out between themselves. 1 Th® Senate transacted no business on the 3d Inst. The New Hampshire Senator-ship case was discussed briefly, there was a short executive ses­ sion, and an adjournment to the 7th. In the House, the discussion of the amendment to the Army bill forbidding the use of troops at the polls was continued. Mr. Knott, of Kentucky, led oft, on the Democratic side, and spoke of the great and historical Importance of the principle in­ volved. He characterized it as the great funda­ mental principle of republican liberty, that the bal­ lot-box should be protected from the slightest ap­ proach to military power, and that the voter Khali be left absolutely free in exercising at the polls the highest prerogative of the citizen. He quoted the English statute of George II. for the removal of troops from the places where an election is to be held, and cited Blackstone, " That it is essen­ tial that elections shall be absolutely free, and that, therefore, all undue influences are Illegal and are prohibited." He was fol­ lowed, on the Republican side, by Mr. Houck, who argued that it was absolutely necessary for the protection of the lives and political rights of the colored and white Republicans of the South that the authority of the military to preserve the peace at'the polls should be maintained. This speech, being by a Southern man, attracted much attention, and was frequently applauded on the Republican side, and jeered on the Democratic aide. Mr. Robeson (Republican) followed. He confined himself to the questions of lew involved in the discussion, and said it is proposed here to restrain the civil officers of the United States from keeping the peace at any elec­ tion in any State. By what means'? By civil means, not by military means, for the right of the civil officer, the Marshal of the district, if you please, to summon a posse comitatus to a right to summon the ordinary military companies that may be within the body of his bailiwick. The right to summon armed troops, if they be within the body of his bciliwick. is a civil, not a military right, and is in the interest of the inviolability and strength of civil law. Sir. Blackburn (Democrat) spoke next. He said he was but a poor student of his country's history who was aot able to satisfy him­ self that from the foundation of the constitution down to the present time it had ever been held (and that by the highest authorities in the land) that it was In the power of the House to control the employment of the army by withholding supplies. In the very nature of things the proposed repeal eouiS aot be revolutionary. The sesstMii dia not give the right to the President to send armed forces into any State, even to suppress domestic violence. Other speeches were made by Messrs. Gibson, Turner, Barber, Hawk and Reagan. The debate on the Army Appropriation bill Was continued in the House on the 4th. The first to speak was Mr. Singleton (Democrat), of Missis* sippi, who stated the question to be, whether the , JHouse had the courage and determination to repeal pernicious laws, or would falter and fall in its duty to the country. On the face of the dis­ graceful law which it was now proposed to repeal, the boasted freedom of America wss a mockery and a lie. Mr. Weaver (Greenbacker), of Iowa, spoke next. He deprecated the keeping open of sectional animosities, and said the National Greenback party wanted no soldiers at the polls. Nor did they want the prcsenca of any armed men when elections were being held; neither did the Greenback party want the test oath for jurors; noi did the National Greenback party want any Mar­ shals at elections unless the nistory of elections, after the experiment should have been tried, would prove that the country could not get on without them. But he had not the least doubt of the constitutional power of the Government to pro­ tect citizens at the polls. It was only a question of policy and necessity as to the Supervisors; that feature ought to be retained in the law with a modification, and they should be chosen, not from the two parties, but from the parties having Con­ gressional tickets in the fleid. That would give the Greenback party a chance. Mr. De La Matyr (Greenbacker), of Indiana, ex­ pressed his intention to vote for the bill as it stood. He thought the House had better show some desire to relieve the people instead of giving themselves wholly to wrangle over the firing upon Sumter, the returning to slavery of Burns, the fiasco of John Brown, and the general crimina­ tions and recriminations. Mr. /ones (Green- backer), of Texas, opposed the placing of political legislation on an appropriation bill. Mr. Wright (Greenbacker), of Pennsylvania, con­ demned the reopening of the dead issues ot the war, and predicted defeat (in lfeJAIt for the party that raised them. Mr. Hawley (Republican), of Connecticut, followed, denouncing the purpose of the majority which would leave the Government to be carried on by the voluntary service of its officers or by voluntary subscriptions such as flowed into the treasury in 1860. It was threatened by gentlemen of that majority that if the President should veto the bill they would appiy the thumb­ screws to the minority in order to obtain a two- thirds majority, and, failing in that, the appropri­ ation should fail. To that programme the minor­ ity would invariably vote nay to the end of the chapter. It was not now a question of the merit of the statutes, but of methods, and the Demo­ cratic method was dangerous, reprehensible, and *o be opposed. Mr. Tucker (Democrat), of Virginia, spoke at length upon tho legal questions involved, aad thea, in auarion to state­ ments from gentlemen oa tha other sMe that they would nevw yield, said he woeldMl them that, in the conflict between power end liberty, if power would not yield liberty wasjusty firm. Mr. Gar­ field, of Ohio, the the Repub­ licans. He expreesed his willingness to help the Democrats wipe from the statute-book the law authorising the use of the army at the polls. A bill for that purpose should be introduced in the regular manner. Mr. New offered an amendment providing that nothing in the section shall be construed as abridg­ ing or affecting the duty or power of the President under the constitution to tend troops on applica­ tion of the Legislature or Executive of a State. Mr. Baker, of Indiana, offered an amendment to the amendment, making it unlawful for any one to have on his person fire-arms, bowie-knives, dubs or bludgeons in the vicinity of a plaoe where en election is being held. THE ELECTION INQUIRY. PROGRESS OV THE WALLACE BKNATX COMMIT- TBE'S raVKSTIOATlON. A Mr. Baker testified that no parson in the Treasury Department receiving lens than (1,900 per year was asked to subscribe to the Repub­ lican campaign fund. 11 B. Squiers testified that he wae an assistant messenger in the War Department He did not subscribe any­ thing. Soon after receiving the circular his salary was reduced to 960 per month. His sal­ ary was reduced at the beginning of the fiscal year by action ©f Congress at the same time thai other croployoa were cu* down, John a. Thompson was called by the Repub­ lican members of the committee, and detailed his connection with the Democratic Congres­ sional Committee in 1878. No money was col­ lected from employes of the House of Repre­ sentatives. Witness devoted most of his time during the summer of 1878 to conducting the oampaign, but came to Washington on the 1st of every month to see to the disburse­ ment of members' salaries. Did not neglect his official duties. Duncan S. Walker, Secre­ tary of the Democratic Congressional Commit­ tee in 1878. testified that the headquarters of the committee for a portion of the campaign were in the room of the House Committee on Agriculture. The amount collected by tho committee was |4,(M)5, The number of docu­ ments sent out was 1,0319?()0. The docu­ ments were nearly all folded in tho room of the House Committee on Post- Roads and Printing. Large numbers of documents were sent out by the committee under the frank of members of Congress, but nothing not a privilege. Postage was paid on ail the documents not frankable. Witness read a statement showing that the expenses of the folding-room for 1878 were only $20,598, as Kainst larger sums ranging up to as high as 09,000 the last ten years. Harry Cobant, •Captain of the Watch in the Treasury Depart­ ment, testified that he had charge of furnish­ ing Pennsylvania voters in that department with free transportation to their homes, and tax receipts where they had failed to pay theit taxes, both of which were furnished by Russell, acting for the State Central Republican Commit̂ tee. George C. Gorlmm was recalled, and fur­ nished the statements heretofore called for, from which it appears that 762 circulars were sent to employes in the departments, 435 oi which were not responded to, twenty-five were returned, and 272 resulted in subscription; amounting to $3,247. He had found cases where the circulars were sent to persons re­ ceiving salaries of less than #1,000, and he wished to cornet his previous slitMn--fr or that point SOMNAMBULISM BXTItAORDIXABY. A son of Abram Matthushek, a Ger­ man living west and south of Sanilac, met with a singular accident a few nights since. It seems that he and a brother were sleeping ia a room which is heated by a dram on the pipe from the stove below, and as there was a hot fire below the boys' room was very warm. The boys retired early, and about 9 o'clock the family was startled by a loud noise as though a heavy body had fallen on the floor in the room above. The father at once proceeded to the room from which the noise came, and was surprised to find one of the boys lying on the floor in an insensible condition. Medical aid was at once summoned. In a few hours the boy came to, when he settled in t̂ e minds of those present the cause which led to the accident. He said he was dreaming of being in bathing, and that he climbed upon a post to dive, and that he struck his head on the bottom; and it is evi­ dent he got up in his sleep and took a " header" from the bed-post. Luckily for him, no serious results came from his forcing of the season, and he will be very likely to lie still and let some one else do the diving off the bed-posts hereafter.--Sanilac Reporter. TOX RATIONAL LAW LIBRARY* The Law Library at Washington is the best in the country, and one of the best in the world. It contains copies of all the famous trials--that of the Tichborne claimant being the longest, and the Beecher trial ranking second. Aaron Burr's has considerable space among noted cases, and McGarrahan a shelf all to himself. The Newgate col­ lection is interesting, and the record of French causes celebre in its style quite characteristic of that nation; they have pat their trials in the form of romances, illustrating them freely, and mailing 0f court records very pathetic tales. In a small room opening from the library are kept the 150 volumes bound in green Russia leather and presented to our Government by the Emperor Nicholas. To the energy of a woman is Russia in­ debted for this compilation of the laws of all the provinces of that powerful empire. Catherine II. of Russia sent emissaries into the different provinces of her country, with authority to in form themselves of the laws peculiar to each section, and, when each had ac­ complished his work, the laws were bound in their present shape. DUNN & Co.*are Philadelphia dry- goods merchants. They became con­ vinced that somebody was stealing either goods or money from them, for their profits were every year less by about $5,000 than the business should have yielded. They instructed their ohief bookkeeper, Algeo, to hunt for the thief, and he made what appeared to be a thorough, but ineffectual, inves­ tigation. Then a junior partner went to work on his own account, and soon fixed the guilt on Algeo, who confesses having stolen $30,000 within six years. TB* Connecticut Legislature has vot­ ed against the adoption of tin liquor- tax bell-punch. THE wife of Joseph Hummell, a Cin­ cinnati newspaper vender, has fallen heir to $2,000,000. Joseph has gone to Germany to get the money. SALT put into the Wisconsin State fish-hatching waters, at Madison, to aid the growth of the young brook-trout, has killed about half a million of them. In consequence, the supply is likely to be "short." KANSAS has a female desperado. She is 19 years of age, has been convicted of numerous felonies, as well as petty crimes, and is now under arrest for jail-breaking, aft which die is an expert. WITH the asssistance of the Chinese Consul, the city of San Francisco has taken measures to return fifteen Chi­ nese lepers to their native land, after supporting them for a year in the small­ pox hospital. CAPT. EDWARD O'MEAOEB CONDON, who, it will be remembered, was incar­ cerated in a British prison for eleven years for Fenianism, and was released last year by request of President Hayes and Minister Welsh, has been appoint­ ed clerk in the Treasury Department at Washington. , THE latest Kentucky sensation--fully as atrocious, but scarce so bloody as the Elliott murder--is the poisoning of a Mrs.; Harding by her mother-in-law. The daughter of Mrs. Sarah Allerton married the son of Mrs. W. Harding. The four went to live under the same roof, but dissensions arose between the two ancient dames involving the fre­ quent interference of officers of the law. The triumphs of the Allerton faction in the courts only served to increase the wrath of the Harding ogre, who, by way of terminating the feud and being re venged, seasoned the soup of her son's wife with strychnine. Mother-in-law Harding is in jaiL A TABLE is published showing the growth of American commerce during the last ten years. For the purpose of comparison, eighteen articles of Ameri­ can produce and merchandise are taken from among those of which there has been the largest shipment. They are as follows: Agricultural implements, live stock, bread and breadstufifs, clocks and watches, coal, manufactures of cop­ per and brass, manufactures of cotton, fancy articles, combs, soaps, etc., fruit, hemp and its manufactures, oil-cake ordnanoe and ordnance stores, petro­ leum, provisions, sugar and molasses. The total shipments of these articles in 1868 amounted to $145,969,057; in 1878 tc $422,689,818. Increase in ten years, $276,900,261. The total value of domestic produce and merchandise ex­ ported in 1878 was $680,709,268. The total value of purely-agricultural pro­ ducts during 1878 was $536,038,954. Over 80 per oent. of these commodities (except cotton) were produced in the States of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illi­ nois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa, Min­ nesota, Kansas and Mebraska. THE large and growing balance of trade in favor of America is the wonder and admiration of all Europe. A corre­ spondent of the Cincinnati Gazette writes from Germany: "Motlning, infact, that has happened during the past century, not excepting the suppression of the Bebellion, has given the United States so great a name, and has com­ pelled such profound respect for our re­ public, all over Europe, as this great in­ dustrial and commercial triumph. ' You are playing the mischief with us over here,' said to me one of the great bank­ ers of Frankfort not thirty-six hours ago. He was speaking of our balance of trade. ' You have a wonderful coun­ try,' said he. ' It is a perfect marvel. Your implements, your machinery, your inventions of all kinds, are invading us in every department of production. Just think of it: $300,000,000 balance in your favor last year; and, in my judgment, that is only a beginning. You will goto$1,000,000,000 before you THE Louisville Courier-Journal says of Thomas Buford, the murderer of Judge Elliott: " Thomas Buford is one of the most reckless and daring men in Kentucky. He does not care for anybody or anything, nor is he afraid of anything. One of his late desperate acts was to draw a double- barreled shot-gun on the Sheriff and a posse who came to levy on some of his property. When the men arrived at the gate he walked to the door and pointed the gun at the first man, and told them that he would kill the first man that entered that gate. He then invited several of them in to dinner, saying that as friends he was glad to see them, but as officers they could not come on his place. When dinner was finished he told them they must leave now; he had extended the hospitalities of his farm, and he was done with them. Not one of these men had the pluck to dis­ obey or disregard what Tom Buford said, thus showing that he was regarded as a dangerous man by Ms neighlwnk v / They did not levy on the land or offee to do so alter his threat, retired . gracefully and in order." ̂ PARIS has called herself the brain of the world. Certainly the boast cannot ( be deemed an empty one from recent 1 statements of her periodical publica­ tions. Paris devotes, in daily, weekly and monthly form, 104 papers to jurisfff prudence, 23 to geography and history| % 71 to religion, 153 to commerce, 139 tik ' recreation, 90 to literature and philolo* , gy, 18 to fine arts, 31 to instruction, $ to architecture, 4 to photography, 15 t* music, 17 to the stage, 70 to fashion, 29 to army and navy, 80 to medicine, 13# to industry, 48 to science, 88 to agrî culture, 23 to sport. With such a lis# the sprightly Parisian intellect need not stagnate, and yet it has ever beet, a city ignorant of the world beyond it* own limits. Foreign races must need* come to Paris, but Paris in turn felt n ;̂ > need of seeking a more intimate aej* quaintahce with other lands. Heno# - certain phases of a Prussian invasion. FOREIGN RAG3* Vite print below the order of the United States Government in regard t# > rags imported from countries lyinff/̂ near the seat of the great plague: Until further orders, no vessel from any port of the Black sea or Sea of Azof, conveying any rags, furs, skins, hair, feathers, boxed or baled clothing or bedding, or any similar article, lia­ ble to convey infection; nor any vessel from any port of the Mediterranean or Bed seas, having on board such articles, ooming from Southern Russia, shall enter any port of tha United States until ••such articles shall have been removed from the vessel to open lighters or to some isolated locality* and the vessel disinfected and thorough­ ly ventilated; and the suspected article* shall be disinfected, either by chemical agenta; and exposure to free circulation of air, or by burning, as shall be determined in each case bjr the Surgeon General of the Marine Hospital ̂ -- Service. The certificate of the State or munici­ pal quarantine officer of health may be accept­ ed as satisfactory evidenoe of oomplianoe with these regulations on the part of the vesseL JOHN M. WOODWORTH. Surgeon General United States Marine Hospital Service. (Approved) B. B. Him Discussing this subject, the New York Paper Trade Journal says: " Some excitement is shown about the im­ portation of foreign rags for paper-mak­ ing, and there is much talk of infection etc., in a way that might lead to unrea­ sonable apprehension if it were not met'" by a plain statement of fact. This is one of the subjects upon which tha daily papers love to get up an occa­ sional "scare," and which furnishes a. very convenient topio to fill up with. In general there is nothing to be feared from the foreign rags which come to this market. Our imports from. Great Britain, Belgium and Germany are pretty well gone over and handled before they are sent to this country- The quarantine regulations will proba- , bly be enforced more rigidly against rags coming from Mediterranean ports,, although even in their case there is no- special reason for alarm. The outcry against foreign rags will temporarily advance the price of spot goods, but> when the excitement is over the reac­ tion will come. We do not despise the precautions taken by our sanitary au­ thorities in respect to these imports. On the oontrary, we commend their efforis to carry out existing regulations, and to provide against the possibility of danger. COL.'PRICE, 80 years old and blind, is the most active temperance reformer in Indiana. He became so excited recent­ ly while making a speech that an attack of heart disease prostrated and nearly killed him. THE MARKETS. MEW YORK. .«8 7B . . 4 00 .. 11 . S 80 . 1 05 . 45 #10 75 ® * •» @ 11 It BO«.. COTTON.... PILOUS--Superfine fl 30 ® 3 70 WHEAT--NO. S 1 05 @1 J6« COEN--Weston* Mixed 45 @ 46" OATS--Mixed 31}$@ 83 RS-K--Western 58 59^ POBK--Mess. 9 40 «?10 02^ CHICAGO. Bzrou--Choice Orafied Steon 4 75 0 5 SO Cow* and Heifers. S 75 A 4 00 Medium to Fair 4 20 4 45 Hoas 00 @ 3 90 Fancy White Winter Ex.... 5 25 ® 5 60 Oood to Choice Spring Ex. 5J 75 & 4 50 WHIAT--No. 2 Spring... 8FL <2 91 No. 8 Spring. 79 A 80 COEH--No.2 84 & 35 OATB-NO.2 25 & % liSE--No. 2. 44 « ̂ BARLEY--NO. 9. qu TIG 7(1 BUTTER--Choice Creamery......... si a B Eoas--Fresh 10 M 11 PORK--Mees GLTT W ITAKD...., MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No. J an No.*.... . . . " 9 4 Com--No. 8 14 OATS--No. 2 SI RTK--NO. 43 BAULKY--No. 2. 00 „ ST. LOUIS. WHEAT--No. 9 Bed F«U 1 03 COBN--Mixed JJJJ Oatb-NO.2 *•;; 26 Rve 48 POBK--Mesa w S5 LAKD G „ CINCINNATI. WHEAT CORN OATS ' ' R*«.. POBK--MCM.. LABD TOLEDO. WHEAT--Amber Michigan. 1 08 No. 2 Bed..... 1 07 OoHW--No. S 817 OATS--No. 2 27 DETBOIT. * FLOCB--Choice 5 00 WHEAT--No. 1 White 1 08 No. 1 Amber... 1 04 COBN--No. 1 ....J 3*-, OATS--Mixed BABLEY (per cental) POBK--Mesa EAST LIBERA? . 1 05 & 1 08 87 § 88 . 29 # 98 . 65 @ BG .10 25 9IO 40 . 6«* CATTLE--Beat. 10 00 Hoa*. SHEEP. Fair ...".".".ill Oommon. .p u 5 00 . 4 65 I S 80 -- '•% . s 00 •"'/ 4. 4 10 010 SO Q 5 50 m 4 ss & 4 80 & 4 40 @ 6 00