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flaindcalrc I. VAN SLYKE, E«tor and PvMMiw ILLINOIS. McHENRY, CALENDAR FOR 1886. NEWS CONDENSED. ... .feWE • MAliCdM ntTLRIZER, who went to the ?irar from a Jersey town twenty-two years 4§go, and has since been mourned as among fiie dead, returned to his parents on Christ­ inas night. He owns large beds of nitrates In Pern Cape Cod was visited by a se­ vere gale which caused much damage and Several casualties on shore and at sea.... About one hundred cigar-makers started from New York to take the place of Chi­ nese in San Francisco A fire at George­ town, Mass., destroyed the most of the vil- ttge and killed two persons. The loss was 80,000... .Buffalo's first cremation took place Dec. 27. CONNECTICUT has been shaken np by a Jfcild sort of earthquake In the libel suit jbr $2,1,000 of Henry V. Bemis, of the Chicago Horseman against the proprietors «f the Turf, Field and Farm at New York the demurrer of the latter that the facts did Hot constitute cause for action was sustained by the court. THE WEST. ; &F Chicago4,000 people witnessed a six- Krand contest with small gloves between Jack Burke, the "Irish Lad." and Mike Cleary, of San Francisco. Burke forced the fighting throughout, and knocked Cleary out in the third round with a terrific fight- hander that landed just under the •ar. ST. PATTI, (Minn.) dispatch: "The Weather is so mild that overcoats have lieen cast aside, and lawn tennis is being Slayed in; (he open air. One citizen ex-_ ibited a bunch of pansies that blossomed Hi his front yard, and another appe ired in the street clad in a linen duster and straw hat. and carrying a fan." THE Toledo, Cincinnati and St. Louis JBLoad was last week sold under foreclosure. St. Louis division went at $901,000, Toledo section at $600,000, the /ndicate being the purchasers, tire system is to be reorganized as a ird-gauge road. ...The Ohio Central 1, which was recently sold under fore- _osiire, has taken the title of the Kanawha and Ohio. All the offices of the road liave been removed to Charleston, \V. Va. ... .Brigham Hampton, the Mormon con- Sirator, who had planned to entrap "Gen­es" into the commission of unchaste acts, was sentenced at Salt Lake City to one year in the county jail... .The District At­ torney at Omaha has been instructed by the Attorney General to commence civil and criminal proceedings against ten per­ sons who have inclosed 80,000 acres of public lands, having first given due notice io the offenders. THE SOUTH. A IDISTEESSING accident occurred at Saunders' Ferry, on the Kentucky River, twenty-four miles south of Lexington. James Saunders, the ferryman, attempted to cross the river in his boat with his wife and two children, and, his light being ex­ tinguished by an accident, he attempted to make a landing in the dark, but missed the nsual landing-place and overturned the 1>oat. The woman and both children were drowned, and Saunders, after a vain effort to assist them, swam ashore. FotJB colored laborers were killed at Mobile by a boiler explosion in the oil- mills. Two young men lost their lives by a similar accident at New Providence, Pa., Where forty-seven animals were roasted alive... .An attempt was made to wreck the Southern Pacific bridge across the Rio Grande, several miles north of El Paso, Tex. The plan was to blow a passenger train from the structure and, rob the wounded and dead travelers. -Senator James E. Bailey died at Clarks- Yille, Tenn., from tumor of the stomach. He was born near Clarksville, sixtv-three fears ago. In 1853 he was elected to the Tennessee Legislature, and at the begin- Jung of the war was appointed a member of the State Military Bureau. He afterward served as Colonel of the Forty-ninth Ten­ nessee Infantry. After the war he re- •umed the practice of law. He was elected tJnitea States Senator in 1877, and his term expired four years later. He was for a long time the leader of the State-Credit Democracy. THE casket containing the body of a child, who had been, temporarily interred Over twelve years ago, was taken up at Yorkville, S. C.. for final burial. After the «asket had been removed from tne grave a loud explosion occurred, shattering the glass lid and driving the fragments in all directions, a piece of the glass seriously wounding the father of the child. The cause Of the explosion is a mystery, but the re­ mains were found to be in an excellent state ©f preservation.. , .The census of Charles­ ton, S. C., shows a total population of over <60,000, against ahout 49,000 In 1880, an in­ crease of over 20 per cent. The white population is about 27,500, and the colored over 32,50Q. The colored surplus consists mainly of children Two colored men, Who had set fire to cotton, were taken from Jail at Crawford, Miss., by a mob and flanged. WASHINGTON. ComnssiONEit SPARKS has issued regu­ lations modifying his recent radical orders »s to claims for public lands. He com­ plains that criticisms of his conduct ema­ nate from parties too deeply interested in |da decisions to l)e fair. Mr. Sparks, in an "Interview, is credited with saying: If the President Is uot satisfied with my man­ agement ot the land office, then I am much mis­ taken. I have not Boen him for some time, as tie has been busy about other things, but I know he is pleased with the way the office is being run. The statement that my decisions Jt*v« been overruled as rapidly as X made them Is manufactured out of whole cloth. The Sec­ retary of the Interior has never overruled a dacialon made by me, although he has some- tfmni suggested changes. Complaints against WO* and Hie management of the land office come from people who are interested in land Snads and Job*. The complaint* in the West from editors who are interested and from law] rem who have to get along a gnat maav tram there. Urn stories are, I believe, the work of people whose interests hp vo iwon ».freot«ui hy my methods in running the land office, and I know that one ot the articles printed in a Western Journal waa written upon the office paper of a big firm here. THE Secretary of the Treasury has is­ sued a call for $10,000,000 of 3 per cent, bonds, the principal and aocrued interest of which will be paid Feb. 1, 1886 Touch­ ing the proposed monument to Vioe Presi­ dent Hendricks, the following correspond­ ence has passed between the President and Senator Voorhees: Cleveland to Voorheca--I understand that a movement is on foot to erect a monument to the memory of the late Vice President, and that it is to be a tribute to his worth and services on the part of his friends and associates. This project is so appropriate that it seems to me it must meet with genera] approval. My relations with Mr. Hendricks, both personal and official, were such that it would be a source of much satisfaction to me to see this good work proper­ ly begun, and at the proper time I hope I may be allowed to aid in the undertaking. I'oorhees to Cleveland--I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your highly esteemed favor. On behalf of the immediate personal friends of the late Vice President and of the great bodv of the people of Indiana, who feel authorized to tender you their very grateful and sincere thanks for your kind and timely interest in a movement so honorable to his memory and so well earned by his public service and by his private virtues, permit me to assure you that no net on your part, in the midst of your incessant labors for the public good, will be longer cher­ ished or more highly prized by the people of his State than your sympathy in their efforts to crect a monument to his faine. THE estimates of the statistician of the i Department of Agriculture for the principal cereal crops of the year are as follows, in round millions: Corn, 1,936; wheat, 357; oats, 629. The area of corn is 73,000,000 acres; of wheat, 34,000,000; of oats, '23,- 000,000. The value of corn averages nearly 33 cents per bushel, and makes an aggre­ gate of $635,000,000--$5,000,000 less than the value of the last crop. The decrease in the product of wheat is 30 per cent., and only 17 per cent, in valuation, which is $275,000,000. The reduction in wheat is mostly in the valley of the Ohio, and in California. The States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and Kansas last year produced 170,000,000 bushels; this year 80,000,000, a reduction of 90,000,000 bush­ els. The production of all cereals is 53 bushels to each inhabitant, and the aggre­ gate volume is larger than in any former year. POLITICAL. PUBLIC PRINTEB ROUNDS denies the rumor that the President has requested his resignation... .John Bigelow, recently ap­ pointed Assistant United States Treasurer at New York, resigned One of the cur­ rent rumors in connection with the t^nnre- of-office act, says a Washington telegram, is that Justice Miller, of the United States Supreme Court, has expressed the opinion that under the ten- ure-of-office act as it stands the President has no power to remove an official without the consent of the Senate (Sec. 1768), and that in case the Senate refuses to confirm nominations made to succeed suspended officials the latter are restored to office until their successors are confirmed. Justice Miller says that a sus­ pended official whose succession is not confirmed can be held responsible for the conduct of his office from the date on which the nomination of his successor is rejected, and that any court will so decide. THE Kentucky Legislature began its ses­ sions on the 30th ult., at Frankfort. Charles Offntt, of Bourbon County, was elected Speaker of the House. GENERAL. GEORGE V. BROWN, recently appointed Appraiser at the port of New York, is charged bv S. D. Phelps, a representative commercial man of that city, with incom­ petency and dishonesty. THE Western Union Telegraph Com­ pany is reported to be anxious to have the Government purchase its plant for postal telegraph purposes, as comprehended by Senator Cullom's bill. It is stated that should the Government buy up the tele­ graph company's property for the purpose named the latter could build new lines with improved appliances at much less cost and become a suc­ cessful competitor with the former.... Paddy Ryan, the pugilist, will, it is said, make a match with Sullivan for from $5,000 to $20,000 and the championship of the world. Ryan has found a backer in Tom Kearns, of Troy, N. Y The Peru­ vian troops under arms have reached Lima, and have been disbanded by the Council of Ministers, and sent at government expense to their homes. Peace prevails. A cable dispatch reports that California wheat sold in England at 30 shillings and 6 pence per quarter of eight bushels. If this sale were of wheat of standard quality it is the lowest known for at least 105 years past, and perhaps for even a longer period. A little more than a year ago standard wheat was reported sold at 31 shillings, which was the minimum price up to that date in the whole time during which the British averages appear to have been made up. AN Italian residing in Victoria, British Columbia, undertook to transport seven .Chinamen to the shore of Washington Ter­ ritory. Seeing an American revenue cutter in the distance, he dispatched his passen­ gers one by one, heaved their corpses over­ board, and met the Yankee tars without the twitch of a muscle.... The Orange- Catholic riots have been renewed at Con­ ception Bay, Newfoundland. An Orange mob attacked and fatally wounded two men.... The volcano in the State of Coli- ma, Mexico, is in a state of eruption, caus­ ing great excitement throughout the region. LIEUTENANT JONES, of the Fourth United States Artillery, stationed at Fort Adams, Newport, R. I., fatally shot him­ self. He had overstayed a leave of ab­ sence" about a week, and decided upon suicide rather than submit to a court-mar­ tial. FOREIGN. SIB AMBROSE SHEA, a native and a Catholic, has been'appointed Governor of Newfoundland The Rev. Marcus Ger- vais Beresford. Protestant Archbishop of Armagh, Ireland, is dead. He was born in 1801.... The Pope is suffering from a kid­ ney complaint, and has been ordered by his i physicians to take a complete rest I The Emperor William is in the best of health and spirits. He spent Christmas Day with the Crown Prince, who gave a family dinner... .Miss Helen Gladstone, daughter of the ex-Premier, and head of Girton College, Cambridge, is engaged to be married to Prof. Stewart, M. P., Pro­ fessor of Mechanics at Cambridge.... The London Daily News says editorially that an Irish Parliament, strictly limited to legislation on purely Irish questions, would be the beginning of pacification, and is the essential condition of it... .The Standard saVs: "Gladstone has done more for home rule in a week than Parnell and his agents have done through years of toil." It sug­ gests that the Irish National movement can be more properly called the Irish- American movement. IN joint convention of the two houses of the French National Assembly, M. Grevy was re-elected President of the Republic by 135 majority... . A circular was recently sent to all the Liberal members of the new British Parliament, asking them to state their opinions on the Irish home-rule ques­ tion. The majority of 'those who expressed a definite opinion are opposed to giving an Irish Parliament the control of the tariff . and of the police.... The Balkan Confer­ ence will reopen at Constantinople Jan. 17. The Italian Embassador will make a mo­ tion in favor of the Bulgarian union, and will be supported by the Russian Embassa­ dor. The Czar is about to reinstate Prince Alexander of Bulgaria lo his former rank in the Russian army. THE creditors of the eocentric and ex­ travagant King of Bavaria are trying to levy on the goods and property of the r4yal household... .M. Grevy has received the congratulations of all the European Powers on his election to the Presidency of the French Republic Pasteur, of Paris, has eradicated all symptoms of hydropho­ bia from the Newark children sent across the Atlantic by charitable people, and he has inoculated Messrs. Kauffman and' Sattler, also from New Jersey... .Mr. Wil­ liam E. Gladstone celebrated his 76th birth­ day at Hawaraen on the 29th ult. At dawn he walked to the village church, despite falling sleet and snow, and attended special services. He received many congratulatory telegrams and letters The W hig peers of England, headed by the Duke of Argyll and Lord Hartington, announce their de­ termination to make a hot fight against Gladstone's home rule measures for Ire­ land. The chief point on which Gladstone and his late colleagues differ is whether there shall be two chambers of Parliament or one local Legislature. THE Spanish Government does not de­ sire to grant England's request to be al­ lowed to establish a coaling-station in the Caroline Islands Lieut. Gen. Stephen­ son, coQimander of the British forces in Egypt, attacked and routed a large force of Arabs near the village of Koseh. The lasted three hours. ADDITIONAL NEWS. THERE was the customary annual pil­ grimage to Gambetta's tomb on New Year's Day .. .The English Government will op­ pose the revival of the channel tunnel bill. ... .Mr. Gladstone received 1,000 letters and telegrams of congratulation on his birthday.. . .The Pope has sold $100,000 of personal presents aud donated the proceeds to the College of the Propaganda... .T. D. Sullivan, Dublin's new Lord Mayor, was installed with great ceremony „ on New Year's Day....A number of Lib­ eral members of Parliament have, it is said, requested Mr. Parnell to formulate the demand of the Home Rule party, With a view to negotiations for a coalition. Mr. Parnell stated pretty plainly during the recent campaign what he and his colleagues wanted, and in a recent letter admonished the Nationalists that their cue was to play a "waiting game," and make no move until events so shaped themselves as to call for definite action. He will doubtless adhere to this programme, and refuse to enter into any negotiations with either Salisbury or Gladstone for the present, leaving himself free to go to the party which, when the proper time arrives, makes the highest bid for his support. A "wait­ ing game" is still the wisdom of the situa­ tion for Mr. Parnell. IT is stated that the Vanderbilt securities in the vaults of the Lincon National Bank, New York, count up $305,000,000.. .The Bedell House, a summer resort on Grand Island, in Njigara River, was burned; loss, $30,000... .The Lancaster (Mass.) National Bank is closed, and its President, W. H. McNeil, is a fugitive. It is alleged that he embezzled $100,000... .The great strike of river colliers at Pittsburgh is practically at an end. Two thousand men are at work at the reduced rate of 2i cents per bushel... .Pittsburg advices are to the ef­ fect that the long strike of the river coal miners is practically over, many men hav­ ing returned to work at the 2J-cent rate.... Boston reports the expenditure of $8,000,- 000 for new buildings during the past twelve months. Omaha claims to nave put up fourteen hundred structures at a cost of $3,720,000 The Penn­ sylvania Schuylkill Valley Railway Company has increased its bonded debt to $10,000,000, and approved the lease to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.... The New York Central Directors met and declared a dividend of 1 per cent. The Lake Shore Directors decided to pass the dividend. The statement for the year 1885, partly estimated, shows: gross earnings, $14,088,457; operating expenses, $9,247,- 081; net earnings, $4,841,376; all charges, $3,893,000--leaving a surplus of $948,576, or nearly 2 per cent, of the capital stock. MUCH opposition is reported from the Cherokees of Indian Territory to the bills introduced in Congress to allot the land in severalty to the Indians and open up the country to settlement... .Omaha spent $3,792,120 in building last year, the banks did a business of $115,000,000, the product of the factories amounted to $25,000,000, and the wholesale trade to $29,C>80,000.... Fire at Detroit destroyed D. M. Ferry & Co.'s mammoth seed house, White's Grand Theater, and the Wesson Block, and badly scorehed other structures, creating a total loss of about $1,500,000. One fireman was instantly killed by falling walls, and another was seriously injured. Feiry & Co. carried insurance amounting to $460,000... .A gentleman recently froqi California, in discussing the rase to the Pacific coast between the Burlington, Northwestern, and Santa Fe Roads, states that the former his secured afr option on the California aud Nevada Road, with a terminus on the Bay of San Francisco and rights of way through the interior counties. It is not improbable that the Northwestern will lease the Central Pacific, with which it expects to connect at Ogden within six months, as it is pushing westward at the rate of a mile per dry. The Southern Pacific Company is said to have offered the Santa Fe managers an oppor­ tunity to use its tracks on very advantageous terms. GOVERNOR HILL, of New York, was in­ augurated for the second time on New Year's Day, the ceremony being of an im­ posing character. .. At a Tammany primary election in New York one faction burst the doors, after twenty-seven votes had found their way into the box, and the inspectors left by way of a window. Tffl MARKBT8. NEW YORK. BEXVES. Hoos WHEAT--No. 1 White. No. 2 Red. ... CORN--No. 2 OATS--White 1'oBK--Mess CHICAGO. I'KKVB^--Choice to Prime Stem. Good Shipping Common floas 1'I.ODH--Extra Spring ... Choice Wuiter . . . . . . . . . WHKAT--NO. 2 Spring JOHN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 KYJJ--No. 2 J.'..* HARLEY--NO. 2 liUTTKR--Choice Creamery Fine Dairy CHEKSE--Full Cream, new....... Skimmed Flats froos--Fresh POTATOKS--Choice, per bu I'OHK--Mess...: _ „ MILWAUKEE.' WHEAT--No. 2 ConN--No. 2 OATS--NO. 2.... KYE--No. 1 ; PORK--New Mesa " TOLEDO. WHEAT--No. 2 .. . CORN--No. 2* "* *" OATS--No.«*2. " CORN--Mixed OATS--Mixed POUK-- New Men* CINCINNATI. WHEAT--No. 2Red.... COHN--N6. 2. OATS--No. 2 -V.V.V.V.V.V POHK--Mess LIVE HOGS. ... "DETROIT." BEF.P CATTLS HOGS \ SHEEP WHEAT--No. 1 White CORN--No. 2. ......... OATS--No. 2 11 INDIANAPOLIS WHEAT--No. 2 Red CORN--New OATS--No. 2 EAST LIBERTY. CATTLE--Best , Fair Common s...... Hoos SHEEP. T _ BUFFALO. " WHEAT--No. 1 Hard CORN--Yellow CATTLE. 94.00 8.50 .94 .91 .48 .87 9.75 5.25 4.25 8.25 8.50 4.75 4.60 .84 .36 .27 .58 .62 .30 .18 .10 .06 .19 .55 0.00 .83 .86 .27 .58 9.50 .91 .37 .29 .92 .33 .25 9.73 .92 .85 .29 9.75 3.75 4.50 3.25 2.50 .90 .35 .31 .90 .33 .27 6.51 4.75 4.00 j4.00 2.75 1.00 .40 6.00 <9 6.80 ® 4.50 & 9U @ .92 & .49 & .43 @10.25 @ 5.75 © 5.00 m 4.oi <& 4.25 («; 5.5J (<t 5.0:> .85 & .3t>hi @ .28 & .59 & .64 .33 @ .23 <9 .11 <$ .07 C<5 .20 @ .60 <<S 9.50 <3 .81 .36 Ui (fl 28 & .53 . <310 00 f 3 .92 19 .!9 # .81 .93 & .33 .26 (£10.25 & .93 .37 (<? .31 ($10.25 & 4.25 & 5.2. & 3.75 (§) 37.5 .91 <9 .86 .i8 ® .91 & .34 & .28 ® 0.00 (!? 5.25 m 4.50 @ 4.50 & 4.00 & 1.02 @ .42 PROBLEM. Proposed mMtloi of a Government . • tor iOUti>A». and AUotnpit <tf ; ( $an*8 In SercraUyf" Washington special. Special attention having been drawn to the Indian problem by the treatment of the subject in Secretary Lamar's annual report, it has become a topic of frequent conversa­ tion among national legislators, and indi­ cations are that Congress will adopt new and earnest measures for settlement of the question. Vr. Holman, of Indiana, will soon submit to Congress a report of the observations of the commission of which he is Chairman, and he says that he will recommend that the reservation system be abandoned, with a few exceptions where it is impracticable now, and that a commis­ sion be appointed by the Present to ap­ portion the lands in severalty among tne members of tribes that are sufficiently ad­ vanced in civilization to justify the belief that the plan would be successful. Senator Dawes, who has always affected a special guardianship of the welfare of the Indian race, has come to the conclusion that the only way to solve the problem is to ab­ sorb the Indians into the body politic, and that the first step is to deal with them as individuals, not aB tribes. Senator Van Wyck has taken hold of the question as he finds it in the Indian Terri­ tory, and proposes that the National Gov­ ernment shall assume direct authority, thereby organizing the Territory with a full corps of civil officers, but he does not pro- f)ose to interfere with the tribal courts and ocal Indian authorities. Mr. Townshend, of Illinois, has also made a move in the same direction, bnt would accomplish the object by different means. He says he regards the Indian problem as one of the most important c|ues- tions pressing for intelligent Congressional action. All the previous plans adopted by the Government have failed to produce the desired results, but it has been demon­ strated that if proper methods are adopted the Indians can be civilized and made self- supporting. He says if they are taught how to labor and the value of property they will not desire to go on the war-path, and may in time be­ come useful members in society. The first step should be to make them citizens. There are many million acres of land set apart to the Indians for which they can never have use. The proper course to pursue, he Bays, is to break up their tribal relation, put them under the protection of the law, and make them amenable to its penalties, allot to each of them a sufficient quantity of land to enable them by industri­ ous habits to maintain themselves as indi­ vidual members of society, and dispose of the remainder of the land to afthial settlers, and appropriate the proceeds of the sales for their education and support. Mr. Townshend's plan is essentially dif­ ferent from that of Senator Van Wyck. His bill to organize the Territory of Okla­ homa provides for the consolidation of the Indian Territory under a territorial govern­ ment, the establishing of a court, and the allotment of lands in severalty among the Indians. It authorizes the appointment of a Governor and Secretary by the Presi­ dent, the Governor to be ex-officio Super­ intendent of Indian Affairs in the Territory. A Legislature, to consist of a Senate of eleven members and a House of Representa­ tives of twenty-nine members, is to be chosen at the first election to be held in the Territory by all male persons over 21 years of age, lawfully domiciled in the Territory. At subsequent elections the right of suffrage is vested in all such male persons who have resided in the ter­ ritory for six months. A court is estab­ lished, to be presided over by one judge. An attorney and marshal are authorized to be appointed by the President. The juris­ diction, criminal and civil, will be of a character similar to that of the Western District of Arkansas. All are competent as jurors who are bona fide male residents of the Territory a£d over 21 years of age, and who understand the English language well enough to comprehend the proceedings. All laws of the United States applicable and not in conflict with Indian treaties are to be in force in the Territory. A delegate to Congress is authorized as in other Territories. It also provides that patents shall issue to all tribes on any reservation of the United States for all lands which have been set apart to them respectively, to be held in trust for them by the United States for the period of twenty-five years. But the Presi­ dent is authorized at any time before the end of that period to allot such lances in severalty to the Indians located on the re­ spective reservations in the following quan­ tities: To each head of a family, 160 acres; to each single person over 18 years of age, 80 acres; to each orphan child un­ der 18 years of age, 80 acres; to each other person under 18 years of age, 40 acres. When the lands are mainly useful for grazing purposes double the quantities named are to be given to each. It provides that patents shall issue to each allottee for the lands allotted to him, but the title is to be held in trust by the United Statefc for the period of tweuty- flve years thereafter, when it shall become absolute in fee simple. All conveyances of lands allotted in severalty, made before the end of the period of twenty-five years, are to be void. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to purchase from the Indian tribes all the lands not allotted to them in severalty, subject, however, to the ratifica­ tion of Congress. The purchase money for the same is to be held in trust by the United States for the period of twenty-five years, and interest at the rate of 5 per cent, is to be paid in the meantime for the education and self-support of the Indians. MEN OF (Eon. ohn Bigelow, the Man Declines a Fat Office. Who KNOCKED IN THE HEAD. Hon. John Bigelow, who has Just de­ clined the office of Assistant United States Treasurer, was born at Maiden, Ulster County, N. Y., in 1817, and was graduated from Union College in 1835: He studied law in New York City with Robert Sedg­ wick, and was admitted to the bar in 1839. While chiefly devoting his time to the prac­ tice of his profession during the ensuing ten years. he found time for much literary work, which attracted the attention of prominent Democrats of the Silas Wright Seven Chinamen Brutally Sfurdered by III Italian- Boatman on Fuca Bay, Seattle' (Wath. Ter.) dispatch. A horrible story was put in circulatioa here to-day, and was to this effect: An Italian boatman left Victoria one day last summer with seven Chinamen for the American side of the Straits of Fuca. When almost across he saw the United States cutter Oliver Wolcott coming toward him with the evident intention of examin­ ing his craft. He became alarmed, and to avoid the penalties attaching to the offense ol smuggling Chinese into the United States re­ solved to make way with the evidence of his guilt. He called the Chinamen out of the cabin one by one, and as they came struck them on the head Tfrith a club, and pitched them overboard./ In this way he got rid of the whole dumber, and when boarded from the cutter no evidence what­ ever of a criminating nature Vas found. An investigation will be made with a view to ascertaining the truth or falsity of the story. A recently convicted-smuggler now in the United States Penitentiary tells this story. LIVELY HANDSHAKING. Prenhlcnt Cleveland I>ixpoii«a of Four Hun­ dred Culler* In Kxactly SUtccn Minutes. mushiivU.n ilitpatch. Four hundred and forty-eight persons Waited patiently in the east room of the White House to-day to pay their respects to the President. The crowd was almost twice as large as at any preceding re­ ception of this kind. The President appeared just before three o'clock and entered upon his task with such expedition that the entire room was cleared in sixteen minntes. Several persons tried to engage the President's attention with private matters, but they were told to call again to-morrow. One individual shook hands in an agitated manner with one of the ushers, and passed the President without noticing him. He was reminded of his mistake by the laughter of the crowd, and endeavored to retnrn and shake the Presi­ dent's hand, but was borne away by the rapidly moving line of people behind him. I and William L. Marcy school, with whom he soon became intimate. Mr. Bigelow's first official appointment was that of In­ spector of Sing Sing prison, conferred upon him by Gov. Wright m 1844, and which he held until the office became elective by the revised Constitution of 1847. In 1850 Mr. Bigelow became part owner of and editorial writer on the Evening Post. In 1861 he was appointed Consul at Paris, and on the death of the Hon. William L. Dayton in 1865 he was appointed Minister to France, occupying the post until 1867, when he resigned and returned to this coun­ try. While acting as Consul he discovered and was able to frustrate a plot devised by the French Imperial Government to fur­ nish the Southern Confederacy with four ironclad cruisers. Mr. Bigelow returned to Europe in 1870, and resided in Berlin for about three years. He returned to this country and to his literary work in 1873, and two years later, at the request of Gov­ ernor Tilden, became a member of the commission to investigate the management of the canals of State. In the fall of the same year he was elected Secretary of State. Since his retirement from that office he has held no official position. Among Mr. Bigelow s literary workB are "Jamaica in 1850, Or the Effect of Sixteen Years of Freedom on a Slave Country," and "Wit and Wisdom of the Haytians," written after visits to the West Indias in 1850 and 1854 respectively. While in France he wrote a work entitled "Les Etats Unis d'Amerique en 1863," designed to correct prevailing French notions re­ garding this country. It served its purpose well. He discovered while in that country the original manuscript of the autobi­ ography of Dr. Franklin and the finest por­ trait of Franklin known to be in existence-- a pastel by Duplessis. In 1874 Mr. Bige­ low published a life of Franklin compiled entirely from his writings. It was in three volumes, and is the standard biography of Franklin. His latest work, "The Writings and Speeches of Samuel J. Tilden," was Eublished about a month ago by Harper & Mothers. IRON AND STEEL. Review of the Trade of the Past Year. Philadelphia telegram. A review of the trade of 1885 has just been prepared by James M. Swank, Gen­ eral Manager of the American Iron and Steel Association. The beginning of the year was marked, he says, by a continua- tion of the depression of 1884. There was a steady sagging of prices from January to July, except for steel rails, quotations for whiqjjt improved a trifle in May. In July and August all prices stiffened, and in September a slight advance was estab­ lished, steel rails taking the lead and con­ tinuing to advance until December. Quota­ tions for four leading staples for each month in the year will show that prices at the close of the year were much more favorable than at the close of the first half of the year. A comparison of price shows that pig iron was $18 in January, $17.75 in July, and $18.25 in December. Steel rails were $27 in January, $26 in April, and $34.50 in December. Bar iron was $40.32 in Jan­ uary, $38.08 in July, and $39.20 in Decem­ ber. Cut nails were $2.10 in January, $2.15 in August, and $2.65 in December. These quotations are monthly averages for No. 1 anthracite foundry pig iron and best refined bar iron per gross ton at Philadel­ phia, for cut nails per keg at Philadelphia, and for steel rails per gross ton at Penn­ sylvania mills. Steel rails, however, show the greatest advance in price during the last half of 1885. In April, sales were made at Penn­ sylvania mills at $26 and $26.50, and a few sales are said to have been made at the astonishingly low price of $25.50. The European iron trade exhibited no symptoms of a revival in 1885, but on the contrary, the backward movement which has from the first more than kept even pace with our own depression, continued until the close of the year. Taking the iron-making countries of Europe as a whole, the iron trade situation in that grand division is much worse to-day than it was six months ago. ' ALL SORTSB MARY ANDERSON is accused of having learned to drink beer while abroad. PATTI is said to have lost $15,000 by not being able to keep her engagement in'Hol­ land. THE second colored man ever appointed on the Boston police force, Henry K. Jenk­ ins, has just been put on duty. W. D. HENDERSON has assumed the managing editorship of the San Francisco Examiner, vice Clarence E. Greathouse, resigned. BABON ROTHSCHILD, of Paris, has sub­ scribed $25,000 toward a fund for purchas­ ing six genuine "Old Masters" for present­ ation to the gallery of the Louvre. A LAWSUIT in New York which cost over $500 was all about a safety pin the nww had lost. She was discharged and refused pay for full time, but the court has decided m her favor. Miss FANNY DAVENPORT, the actress, has sent a check for $150 to the fund being raised for the widows aud orphans of the dead miners in the Nanticoke mine at Wilkesbarre, Pa. HARRY BROWN, a colored- man 95 years Old, still living at Texas. N. Y., was "once the slave of Governor DeWitt Clinton, and obtained his freedom under the State man­ umission act, July 4, 1827. IN St. Giles* House, the anoestral home of the Earl of Shaftesbury, there is a monument to which the late owner could hardly point without emotion. This is a large bust of the Earl, "Pre­ sented to Emily, wife of the seventh Earl of Shaftesbury, by the operatives of the manufacturing"districts of the north of England, aa a token of their esteem and regard for the persevering and successful eflbi ts of her noble hus­ band in promoting by legislative enactment a limitation of the hours of labor of children, females and young persons employed in mills and factories. Aug. 6, 1859." On this occassion 7,000 persons are said to have kissed tb« Earl's hands. THOUGHTS FROM THACKERAY. WHICH of us know* whither fate leads tu? WHO more worthy of respect than a brave man in misfortune? IN my castle, I am king. Let all my household back before me I ONLY command persons, and yon may be pretty sure that a good number wiil ebey. IT is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to love at all. You must not judge hastily or vul­ garly of snobs---to do so shows that JOB yourself are a snob. THE blackest of all blacks is said not to be of quite so dark a complexion as some folks describe him. WHO knows how long that dear tee­ totum--happiness--can be made to »pin without toppling over. WHEN angered, the best of ns mis­ take our own motives, as we do those of the enemy who inflames us. THE book of female logio is blotted all over with tears, and justice in their courts is forever in a passion. WHICH of ns can tell how much van­ ity lurks in our warmest regard for others, or how selfish our love is ? SHALL I growl out of my sulky man­ ger because my comrade gets the meat ? Eat it, happy dog, and be thankful. IT ^ is mighty well writing "Sans Souci" over the gate; but where is the gate through whicu -care has not slipped ? WE take such goodness for the most part as if it were our due--the Marvs who bring ointment to our feet get but little thanks. SUPPOSE there be holidays, is there not work time, too ? Suppose to-day is feast day; may not tears and repent­ ance come to-morrow ? A MAN will lay down his head, or peril his life, for his honor; but let us be shy how we ask him to give up his easo or his heart's desire. MY good people, it is not only im­ possible to please yon all, but it is ab­ surd to try. The dish which one man devours another dislikes. SOCIETY has this good, at least--that it lessens our conceit by teaching us' our insignificance, and making us ac­ quainted with our betters. To be doing good for some one else, i-i the life of most good women. They are exuberant in kindness, as it were, and must impart it to some one. FROM a mere sense of consistency a persecutor is bound to show that the fallen man is a villain--otherwise, he, the persecutor, is a wretch hioiself. Do you imagine there is a great deal of genuine right-down remorse in the world ? Don't people rather find ex­ cuses which make their minds easy ? WOMEN equitable, logical, and ut­ terly just I Mercy upon us! If they were, population would cease, the world would be a howling wilderness. Th# Toad as a Singer. The humble toad, with his dingy, Warty skin, sluggish movements and generally unattractive appearance, was for a long time doomed to calumny and persecution. Writers maligned him and boys persecuted him. Some observing poet brightened his life a little by noting the jewels in his head, his lively and beautiful eye. Later, pince pains-taking naturalists htfve studied his habits and described him as a most industrious destroyer of noxious insects, he has been given the freedom of the garden and the lawn, wherd he amply pays for the protection which liii acquaintances among men now gladly give him. It is not generally known to the pub- lio that he lias no mean .vocal powers. His song i< fully equal in melody and surpasses in power that of his cousin, tha frog, to whom his shrill but not un­ pleasant notes have been usually credited. He begins his music in spring, shortly after the "peepers" have 'sung their opening choros. It consists of a prolonged, rather monotonous, but not unmusical trill on a high key, which resembles somewhat the shorter, well-known note of the treetoad, so- called ; treefrog, or, to be more exact, hyla is tbe proper name of the latter. Tiiere is bnt. slight difference in the pitch of the song of individual toads. When about to perform he first inflates the skin or membrane beneath his chin until it is distended like a large bub­ ble, and then elevating his head sends forth his inviting cry, usually responded 4o by some near or distant follow. The sound, which is mostly heard in. the evening, penetrates to a long dis­ tance. It is heard most frequently about mating time in spring, although occasionally throughout the summer, especially before rain. The margin of a shallow pond is the most favorable . locality to find these performers. The writer recently saw dozens of them pwimming about, singing, challenging, pporting and quarreling in a little pool on a warm Mav evening, and spent a pleasant half hour in watching their clumsy frolics.-- The Lit i le Christ ian. , Retribution. A young Englishman at school at Harrow one day went to the assistance of a stout farmer on horseback, who was struggling with a gate-lock. He opened the gate and held it back for tne rider to pass. "Thank you, my boy!" said the far­ mer, who happened to be a very wealthy man. "What may your name be?" "My namo is (ireen," returned the youth, with an ill-timed burst of im­ agination. "And what is your father?" "Oh, my father's a cheese-monger," paid the smart scholar, chuckling in­ ternally at his ready 'Wit, "and he lives in London in Theobald's road--rather a small shop, with two steps down out <>f tiie street." "I'm very much obliged to yoa," said the farmer. "You're a capital young chap. I shan't forget you." "Don't!" was the scholar's final thiust. "Remember Green and a c.ieeae-monger in Theobald's road." And up the hill he went, vastly pleased with his own brilliancv. What his feelings may have been when, ten years later, a young gentle­ man by the name ot Green was adver­ tised for whose father kept a cheese­ monger's shop in Theobald's road, and who, in return lor politely opening a irate at Harrow, in the year 183--, was left a large l°gacv by the . wealthy farmer, recently deceased--what his feelings were then none of his relatives cared to inquire too closelv, but it was gesierallv observed that from that hour t, e unhappy young man never lost an opportunity of insisting on a rigid ad­ herence to the truth. For neither was his name Green, nor anvtliing approaching it. nor had his father ever, even in the remotest man­ ner. been interested in cheese. Indeed, as bis son has been heard pa­ thetically to remark, in tho smallest amouuts it invariably disagreed with him*--1ornhUl Magazine. ILLINOIS STATE NEWS. --Capt. Dorr, of Quincy, was drowned! on Christmas Day, near Memphis, Tenn. --I- Folkrod, a farmer near Quiney. shot himself Saturday night and died Sunday. --William Langdon, a machinist of An-- Kwa, was killed by the cars while on hiss, way home. --During the year 1885 forty-one peisanie have been arrested in Chicago for murder- and six for manslaughter. --John Roach, the oldest man in the vi­ cinity of Atlanta,, a soldier in the War of' 1812, was buried last week. • < ;--Theodore Grove, dry goods dealer fa. Fieeport, made an assignment. Liabili­ ties, $7,000; assets, $3,000. --At Newport, R. I., occurred the mar­ riage of Frederick Perry Powers, a Chicago* journalist,'and Miss Ella X. Davis. --Rev. F. W. Fisk, President of the Chi­ cago Theological Seminary, was married to- Mrs. Dr. S. J. Hitchcock, of Lake Geneva*. Wis. --The Chicago Mail says that the post- office building at Chicago "is steadily sink*- ing, and a collapse may be expected at anjr time." .. --The United Brethren of White Heath,. Piatt County, purchased four lots at thafc place, upon which they intend erecting &- qhurch. '--The question of spending $8,000 in repairs upon the court house will be voted upon at the April elections in Champaign, v County. i --Harry Jones, of Englewood, claiming to be the son of an English lord, has been arrested for stealing a watch at a church, entertainment. - „ --Sarah A. Freeland was adjudged in­ sane by the County Court at Decatur. Her- age is 30, and she had been a teacher in thd> county schools. --A Chicago drill company has been, awarded the contract for boring an experi­ mental well in the salt basin owned by the* State of Nebraska. --Joseph C. Litzelman, a member of one- of the wealthiest families in Jasper County, is charged with having forged paper- amounting to $10,000. --Mr. Tuthill King, an octogenarian Chi­ cago millionaire, took out a license which. ' permits him to marrJP Mrs. Sarah Bell, a- widow 45 years of age. --John Oler and wife, of Neelyville, Mor-» gan County, who were married in October last, have been arrested for strangling their infant, which was born November 2G. --The Tribune is poking fun at Con# gressman Frank Lawler's new system of, spelling, but it is not much more ridiculous than that of the Tribune.--Evening Jour­ nal. " •--J. L. French, who was rjoently a re­ cruiting officer in Ch cigo. was nr.-ested in Windsor, Ontario, for forging checks. H© refuses to return and be treated as a de- #&erter» " --The deaths are reported of Benjamin*. W. Staniforth, of Elgin; Dr. Robert Plum-' mer, one of the pionears of Dundee, aad.^ ; Alanson Sinnet, who settledntR^klsland in J.856. y VK---- --Crayon pictures of afl the Mayo ? of Chicago are to be placed in the City Hall at a cost of $720, ofwhich amount i'SLH) was contributed byjbhe present occupa t of tho position. --Rev. Richard Hayward, United $ntes Chaplain at the San Francisco Navy Aid,, has been tendered and has acceptel ths^ rectorship^ of St. Mark's Episcopal C urch at Evans ton. --Judge J. D. Caton, one of the fawor.s pioneers of Illinois, patiently suffere^ the * removal of a cataract from his right eye by a Chicago surgeon, and has orders to sjtend some days in bed in a darkened room. --In a plea for winter sports from an en­ terprising citizen it is gleaned that "a good; toboggan course would set the TAUMC; peo­ ple crazy." Conservatively speWting, if that would be the effect it would be a wise* thing for Chicago not to encourage tobog­ ganing.--Inter Ocean. --A New York letter to tha Boston Globe says that Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll weighs at least thirty pounds less thun he , j formerly did, and has improved greatly in appearance by a system of diet which he discovered for himself; also that he has ^ lately been under treatment for an affection of the throat. „ --Mrs. Delia Benner, the widow of the gallant officer who sacrificed his life while < endeavoring to relieve the yellow-fever sufferers • of the Lower Mississppi River, several years ago, has been appointed Post­ master of the village of Rogers Park, in the township of Evanston, Cook County, where she has resided ever since the death of her husband. --The Adjutant General of Illinois has^ promulgated an order consolidating the Fifth, Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Infantry - Regiments of the Illinois National Guard into two twelve-company regiments, as provided by the amended State military " code. The consolidated commands are all in the Second Brigade. A reorganization of the regiments of the First Brigade if_ £, deemed probable on a similar plan. * • •'!> --The water which is now supplied the . people of Chicago, says the Daily Times,, is the color of ink, and of a little less con­ sistency than pudding. Of course, it is ex-* plained by the authorities that it is only * temporal?-, and has no reference whatever* to the value of the system; the system is' the finest in the world, but there are ex- ° ceptional cases when it fuls in its opera­ tions. Is there any citizen of Chicago who is not willing to make affadavit that, from his own knowledge, the rule of the working a of the water system is made up of failures? • Is it not within the experience of all that the exceptional-operations of the system are those in which the water is pure, and suitable for use? Nearly all last summer the offal from the remoter branches of the* river on the South Side was washed into the main branch, and thence out into the. lake and crib, owing to the overflow of the'*' Desplaiues River. This was an exceptional. performance on the part of the water­ works; all the winter, thus far, we fcavef been supplied with a slightly diluted refusj^' from distilleries, privy vaults, and the like;1™1- and this, too, is exceptional. All the year*" round we are treated to exceptional per- : . formances sn the part of this wondsrfel?»% system. 5