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icnrgf latudralcr J. VAN SLYKE, Edlter U id Publisher. IfcHENRY, ILLINOIS. F JTHK NEWS CONDENSED. ̂ THE EAST. r'Srf:V-* ^**|r JERSEY doctors are put to their i %itf<' end over the case of a boy, Thomas ;V- jNmith, who is suffering from hydrophobia, .>•?.- *t>ut who was never bitten by a mad dog. ' /\ The boy's sister Nellie was bitten, and it so tvoiried him that he took the malady out of ^ ' sympathy. It takes four men to hold him / •/; • during his ravings.... A New York Treas- ^ • " "toy agent discovered that the Government ' . lied recently been defrauded out of about i- - #70.000 in duties 011 Germau cloths on ac- ,' Ifcounfc of undervaluations... .The stove foundry of Rogers A Co., of Buffalo, em- f vf>loyiiig five hundred men, shut down on r account of the labor troubles throughout #h< country... By the burning of a railroad -'fcoarding-house near the famous Kinzua i liadnct, in Pennsylvania, six Italian labor- ,«rs lost their lives... .Gen. Grant's tomb ;t ' Was hid from sight by piles of Eastern ; ' flowers, sent by many friends. The Grant fcnonument fund now amounts to $120.- "•48 .75... .A Kansas idea has planted itself / : <]b Massachusetts. Arbor Day has been in- luguroted in the Bay State. - ' THE celebrated horse Gen. Butler is dead. < He was 30 years of age, and was in his day One of the most famous trotters in the y':- Country. He took part in many notable con- » .tests against such flyers as Ladv Thome <aind George M. Patchen, and at Chicago, ' „ . . 'fiept. 22, 1866, was the contending horse i*gainst the Western crack. Cooley, When William McKeever, his driver, was Murdered in the gathering shadows of the t . feack-stretch by some one who had pools on 'f t$ie other horse, and who shoved - a board 'Out over the fence as McKeever passed, Crushing his skull.... On warrants issued l>y Recorder Smyth, the police of New §•# ; j'ork arrested thirty men for boycotting a ' <j!othing-house... .The rolling-mill of Oli­ ver Brothers A Phillips, in Pittsburgh, -•-^hut down because of a demand for in- - creased pay. f ,, An astronomer at Phelps, N. Y., has dis- * Covered a new comet.. . .Three shares of . Afew York Tribune stock were sold at New £ ' York to J. B. Beach, who bid therefor , $6,600 per share. It is stated that he made l^-lie purchase in behalf of Whitelaw Reid. » "W A PETITION for a pardon for James D. (; -Fish, of Marine Bank notoriety, is being v- * A tirculated at New York, and ha6 received the signatures of prominent persons A : jneeting of citizens at Albany, N. Y., pro­ tested against the utterances of Jefferson Davis at Mongomery. The gathering sang •John Brown's Body." f'k \ ' THE WESt, W." AN ineendiaiy'fire at Manistee, Mich.. $ •' -destroyed the Union school and its library, C(. the loss being $45,000 Forty-five boys, employed as helpers by the Great Western was paid. She was picked up at sea and towed into Bermuda in April, 1885, having floated about the ocean for six months. Brotherton and the mate were arrested in Baltimore, together with F. L. Clayton, one of the vessel-owners. Clayton was acquitted. The mate turned State's evidence and confessed that the Captain induced him to bore holes to scut­ tle the vessel. The penalty is ton years in prison and $10,000 fine. HENRY FRYER, an aged gatekeeper in Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, lost his life by catching his foot in the crotch of a tree and hanging head downward. His body was warm when discovered. SEVERAL hundred feet of the levee amile below Austin, Miss., has been swept away, increasing the inundation in Tunica and Coahoma Counties. A general breakup in the Arkansas levees is reported, and gaps ranging from 100 feet to half a mile in ex­ tent. It is believed that every acre of land between Helena, Ark., and Laconia subject to the floods will be inundated. THE corner-stone of the monument to be erected in honor of Alabama's Confederate soldiers was laid at Montgomery, Ala., on the 29th nit. The central figure of the occasion was Jeff Davie, who delivered the oration. The unhappy old man took occa­ sion, as is his custom whenever such op- Eortunities present themselves, .to'reaffirm is old doctrines of State rights and se­ cession. Said he: "That the South did not anticipate, much less desire, war is shown by the absence of prepara­ tion for it, as well as by the efforts made to securing a peaceful separation. The suc­ cessful party always hold the defeated re­ sponsible for the war, but when passion shall have subsided and reaon shall have resumed her dominion, it must be decided that the General Government had no con­ stitutional power to coerce a State, and that a State had the >right to repel invasion. It was a national and constitutional light."" WISHIAfiTOJS. Sg,:; S*-' .Glass Company at St. Louis, struck for i/ •• higher wages, throwing out of work seventy- f live men dependent in performing their •ifluties upon the services of the boys.... i i The Atchison Road has raised the price of limited first-class tickets from the Missouri tV v.~4iiver to San Francisco to $50, and to Los • Angeles to $40. The Atchison, in carrying y~ freight to California, has to pay to the - Southern Pacific full contract rates for the . tise of the track from Mohave to San Fran- • t'.isco... .A freight train was ditched east of '•> Wyan(l°tte, Kan., by spikes being pulled , frat of the ties and fish-plates taken off the tails. Fireman Ben Horton and Brakeman ^George Carlysle were instantly killed, and r ' Engineer J. H. Fowler seriously injured. S? f i®tfr. H. M. Hoxie, of the Missouri Pacific, has offered $2,500 reward for the arrest of the parties who caused the wreck. AN unparalleled crime is reported from Seward County, Kansas. The wife of a ^ farmer named Jacob Freimuth was as­ saulted and murdered by Fritz Rupin, a half-witted German, who had been tor i sometime enjoying the hospitality of the Freimuths, being homeless and without friends. During the absence of Mr. Frei­ muth Rupin assaulted Lis benefactor's wife, then bound her hand and foot, and cut her throat from ear to ear. He then se- cured an old, rusty hoe, and while the woman was yet writhing in the death-strug­ gle he disemboweled her with the blunt iu- Btrument. Mrs. Freimuth was enceinte and' * when discovered the unborn babe lay a few feet from the body of the mother, cut in two. When Mr. Freimuth returned and discovered the mutilated body of his wife : • , he became a raving maniac. A neighbor in that sparsely settled region who hap­ pened to be passing by found him wild . with frenzy, but dared not approach for fear of his personal safetv. He rode rapidly to a settlement some eight miles dis­ tant and told the terrible tale. A party was at once organized, and they returned to the scene of the outrage and found Freimuth weltering in his own blood. He had killed himself with a shotgun. A grave was dug, and the remains of the unfortu­ nate people were buried. The posse then scoured the country for the murderer, and found him in a small ravine several miles away from the scene of his crime, near the Cimarron River. A fractions horse was secured and saddled. One end of a long lariat was fastened around his neck and the other extremity was attached to the pommel of the saddle. The horse was then started, and amid the shouting of the men and crack of revolvers and rifles the frightened animal tore madly away. After a run of nearly five miles the beast fell ex­ hausted and the lifeless body of the mur­ derer was loosened as soon as the men came up. His head was almost severed from his body. The body was left lying on the prai­ rie, uncovered. THE remains of George E. Graham, who was lynched at Springfield, Mo., were ; buried in the potter's field there. The body was taken to the place of interment in a delivery wagon. It is stated that be­ fore leaving his cell with the lynchers, Graham took a huge chew of tobacco that had been saturated with morphine, with the result that he was only in a semi-conscious condition when hanged.... William E. Withers, a non-union switch­ man in the employ of the St. Louis Bridge and Tunnel Company, at St. Louis, was assaulted while going to his room. In self- . defense, as he claims, he shot and killed one of hiB assailants. He was with diffi­ culty rescued from the mob and taken to the station... .Percy Perkins. John Klingel, Charles O'Connell, and Policeman Cassenbrodt, were bitten bv a mad dog at Pullman, 111., and have gone to Paris for treatment by Pasteur... .The Union Pacific tRoad is about to expend $400,000 in the construction of a union de­ pot at Omaha, and in enlarging its head­ quarters building... .Indians are reported to have attacked a ranch twenty miles south­ west of Pantano, A. T.. and killed eight persons. THE packing establishment of Plankin- ton A Co., at Milwaukee, employing 300 men, shut down because of the dissatisfac­ tion existing among laborers in general. No demand had been made upon the firm. A hurricane prevailed for twenty-four hours in Nebraska, the wind being so heavy that trains were retarded. The effect on young stock, it is feared, will be disastrous. ... .The bank of Marietta, Ohio, has failed :* witb liabilities of over $100,000. THE Senate -Committee on Public Lands agreed to report favorably on the House bill to forfeit the land grant of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company. THE House Committee on Labor has agreed to report the Crain educational bill as a substitute for the Willis-Blair bill. The Cram bill appropriates $7,500,000 a year for ten years from the receipts of the sales of public lands for popular educa­ tion within the States on the basis of illit­ eracy. PROF. BELL and Gardner G. Hubbard testified in the Pail-Electric inquiry at Washington. It was brought out by their examination that the New York World ar­ ticle was prepared by Gen. Sypher for Prof. Bell, by Bell sent to Hubbard, and by Hubbard sent to President Forbes of the Bell Company. Prof. Bell furnished the committee with this note from Gen. Sypher to Bell, which covered the article: DEAR SIR--I band you herewith an authentic statement of facts compiled by my associate. Mr. E. N. Hill, which may interest you. The scheme to destroy your patents was tolerably well matt red. and it remains to be seen whether this reform administration will lend itself to ita consummation. E. N. Hill is the Lawyer Hill who fignred in the Warder-Stealey investigation. He is a Washington lobbyist. SECRETARY WHITNEY has written to the officers in charge of the new naval cruisers, calling attention to the delay in completing the Atlanta, and asking that she be put in condition for sea as soon as possible. THE Treasury Department has decided that Chinese seamen may be allowed to land on our shores without a certificate, for the purpose of shipping on a return voyage as soon as possible. The decision was brought out by the refusal of the Collector at Norfolk to allow Ah Say, a Chinaman rescued from the ill-fated American ship Frank A. Thayer, and shipped by the United States Consul at Barbadoes, to land. Figures in the office of the Com­ missioner of Internal Revenue, says a Washington dispatch, show that the col­ lections thus far during this fiscal year amount to $3,100,000 more than last year, while the expenses of collection have "been considerably reduced. Had it not been for labor agitations the increase, it is thought, would have been much larger. GEN. SYPHER, an ex-Congressman from New Orleans, testified in the Pan-Electiic investigation, and confirmed Prof. Bell's statement that the New York World news­ paper article was composed by E. N. Hill, a lawyer-lobbyist lately from Arkansas. Whitelaw Reid. of the New York Tribune, testified that the first article concerning Attorney General Garland's connection with the Pan-Electric Company had been pre­ pared by Major Clark, one of the Tribune's Washington correspondents. The Tribune had not paid anything for the matter. T. C. Crawford, the Washington corre­ spondent of the New York World, testified that he obtained the facts on which he based his letter, printed in the World and headed "Loud Call for Mr. Goode," from a United States Senator. He declined to tell the Senator's name without his con­ sent. He had obtained the original history of the case from E. N. Hill. POLITICAL* THE protectionists in Congress claim that the defeat of the Morrison tariff bill is as­ sured. .. .The Republicans of Oregon have nominated Thomas R. Cornelius for Gov­ ernor. .. . The Republican State convention of Kansas will be held at Topeka, July 7. CtEH ERAXm and annihilate her forces. H« also stated that the Turkish fleet was preparing to de­ fend itself against Greek cruisers and tor­ pedoes. France, it was reported, had writ­ ten to Greece with advice to disarm, and at •its suggestion the.ultimatum of the powers had been modified.... The Paris interna­ tional exhibition is to have an iron tower 934 feet high, to cost $1,000,000. It will be surmounted by an eiectric light powerful enough to be seen '200 miles away.... Or­ angemen and Catholics indulged in a row at Glasgow, the former breaking out the windows of a church... It is stated posi­ tively that an agreement has been effected between Prussia and the Roman Catholic Church... .The Prussian Government has ordered an inquiry into the complaints of farmers that land is overtaxed. EMPEROR WILLIAM has sent the Pope a costly gold cross, mounted with jew­ els, as a souvenir of German gratitude for the friendly offices rendered by his Holiness in arbitrating the dispute between Germany and ttp&iif over the Caroline Islands. , THE Treasury Department has -decided that Chinese seamen do not fall within the prohibitoiy provisions df the restriction act, and therefore may be allowed to land temporarily in the ordinary pursuit of their calling, for the purpose of shipping on a xetun* Yjqf$ge a8 soon as possible. / ' ' ADDITIONAL NEWS. the telephone investigation at Wash­ ington, Speaker Carlisle testified that he was notified of his election as a director in the Rogers Telephone Company, and that $100,000 in stock had been placed to his credit for such services as he might render. He replied that while, he remained in Congress he would not be interested in any enterprise requiring legislative action. Represent itive Samuel J. Randall testified that he haft no distinct recollection of hav­ ing received either a letter or stock from Dr. Rogers. Representative Abram S. Hewitt .testified that he had been solicited to embark in the Pan-Electric Company and had been offered a tenth interest, but had declined. L. & E. EMANUEL'S furniture establish­ ment at San Francisco, A. L. Bancroft & Co.'s stationery and publishing house and adjoining smaller buildings were destroyed by fire. The loss is placed at $750,000, with about $230,000 insurance. One man is known to have been killed by falling walls, and several others are re­ ported as either killed or wounded.... Key­ stone, Iowa, was visited by a tire which de­ stroyed the Postoffice and ten other build­ ings. The chief portion of the business district of the town was consumed. A part of the mail matter in the Postoffice was burned. Louis SOMEKFIELD (white) and Rich­ ard J. Lee (colored) were executed at Washington, D. C.; J. M. Armstrong was hanged at Perryville, Ark.; George Car­ roll paid the extreme penalty at Searcy, Ark.; and James Walker (colored) was strung up at St. Augustine, Fla. All had been convicted of murder. Giuseppe Scoma, a murderer, sentenced to be exe­ cuted June 4. hanged himself in the prison at Hudson, N. Y., using a cord which he had worn as a belt to support his trousers. THE Grand Jury at New York returned a presentment condemning boycotting as a "cursed exotic," and urging the press, the bench, the bar, and the Legislature "to aid in exterminating the hydra-headed mon­ ster." The Executive Board of the Empire Protective Association---Joseph R. O'Don- nell, Andrew J. Best, James R. Graham, James F. Downing and John Hughes-- were indicted, and eace gave bail in the sum of $1,000.... A fire at Natick, Mass., de­ stroyed the Summer Street Hotel and three boot and shoe factories, the loss being $50,000. THE business failures occurring through­ out the country during the week numbered for the United States 189, and for Canada 18, or a total of 207, as compared with u total of 194 the previous week. MR. DION BOI CICAULT has scored a great success in his new play, "The Jilt," which is sow occupying the boards of Mc- Vicker's Theater, Chicago. It is a most charming comedy, happy in situations, pure in sentiment, and simple in plot. Myles O'Hara, the character played by Mr. Bouci- canlt, is a sort of Irish Bohemian, but still a gentleman, a devotee of the turf and a writer on sporting topics. Mr. Boucicault is unctuous in his humor as he always is, suggestive without ever being too expressive. THK posto.tlce appropriation bill occupiod the attention of the Senate on the 30th ult., and Mr. Hale, of Maine, linished his speech in support of the subsidy amendment. Mr. Brown, of Georgia, also spoke in favor of it. The bill to make Omaha a port of entry was vetoed by the President for the reason that at that place the Government does not have the necessary offi­ cers for the ai>praiseinent of merchan­ dise and the collection of duties. The President sent the folio-wing nominations of Postmasters to the Senate: At Brooklyn, N. Y„ Joseph C. Hendrix; at Baltimore, Md., Frank Brown, viae I. Parker Vesey, re­ signed; at Shippensburg, Pa., J. A. C. McCuuo; at Washington, Kansas, James 8. Vedder. In the House of Representatives the .'ummittee on Indian Affairs reported favor­ ably a bill giving the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railroad the right of way through the Indian Territory. The House re.ieeted an amendment to the river and harbor bill oilered by .Mi-. Warner (Ohio), providing that the appropriation for the improvement of the Mississippi Kiver shall be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War instead of the Mississippi River Commission, and providing for a Collarjssional committee to investigate the work of the Mississippi River Commission. The Hodse refused, by a vote uf 33 to 129, to strike out the levee clause. COMMODORE RUSSELL, commanding the Mare Island Navy Yard at San Francisco, Cal., will probably be ordered to command the South Atlantic squadron to succeed Rear Admiral English, retired. Commo­ dore Belknap, at present Superintendent of the Naval Observatory, will be ordered to succeed Commodore Russell in command of the Mare Island Navy Yard. GERONIMO'S band has attacked several ranches near Imuris, Mexico. It completely destroyed all the buildings at Casita, a small way-station near Imuris, on the Sonora Rail­ road, killing fifteen persons, all Mexicans. A company of soldiers were sent after the Indians. Two soldiers were killed. The Indians were moviug in the direction of the Sierra Madre Mountains. THE steamer Honduras was wrecked on the bar of Lempa River, near Libertad, San Salvador. The crew and passengers were saved. The vessel was valued at $70,0(IC and owned by the Pacific Mail Company, She was engaged in the coffee trade. Twelve thousand hags of coffee were los*. and the baggage of the passengers. ARCHBISHOP TABOHEBEAU'S manda- ment, issued at Montreal, forbidding Cath­ olics to join , the Knights of Labor, hae caused the most intense excitement among the working classes. THE SOUTH. AT Baltimore, Md., Capt. Alfred Brotherton was found guilty of conspiracy on the hi§h seas to scuttle the brig O. B. Still man. The vessel left Charleston in September, 1884, and was shortly after- lapoctod loct, asd tfce insurance FOREICfflL IT is officially announced at Paris that Greece, yielding to the advice of France to refrain from war, will ai once disarm. The statement is confirmed by London advices The Greek Chamber of Deputies has been convoked. The combined fleet of the Pow­ ers which had assembled to coerce Greece has departed. THE Turkish Ambassador informed the war authorities that his Government would refuse any further dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire without fighting for the integrity of her territory, and that the Turk­ ish army was iu excellent shape, and pre­ pared at any moment to sweep over GreeM THE MABKETS. NEW YOKK. BEEVES Hoos WHEAT--No. 1 White No. 2 Bed CORN--No. 2 OATS--Western.. R PORK--Mesa •. CHICAGO. BEEVES--Choice to Prime Steers Good Shipping. Common Hoos--Shipping Grades KIXJUR--Extra Spring WHEAT--No. 2 Spring Cons--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 BUTTEH--Choice Creamery Fine Dairy CHEESE--Full Cream, new Skimmed Flats Eoos--Fresh POTATOES--Choice, per bu FORK--Mess MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--Cub... cobn--No, 2 OATS--No. 2 RYE--No. 1 PORK--New Mess TOLEDO. WHEAT--No. 2 /„ COBN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 *....... BT. LOUIB. 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WHEAT--No. 2 Bed COBN--Yellow " " .E8!£ .39 .30 .32 <<TT .87'I .31 <$ .30 <g> 9.75 M .40 <& .38 FFL 9.75 & 4.53 ® 5.50 TO 5.00 4.50 ® .86 & .40 .37 & 5.50 & 4.50 & 5.0J & .88'-i & (9 .31 <<i, 6.00 5.25 C«i 4.50 & 4.75 & 5.00 m .91 <3 .44 .38 .92 »."2i 3.75 4.50 3.50 3.25 .85 .38 4.00 4.00 3.00 .30 5.50 4.75 4.00 4.25 4.00 .90 .44 5.00 An Insane Woman in New Jemy Pobon and Batoterr , Her Children. m -'fy file Tells Her Husband that G«d Cos* maitded Her to Kill Her Fear Victims. »jf' r*5f." « V £ " « a - Uleyport {N. J.) special.} Mrs. Fannie Smith, the wife gt a farmer living abont seven miles south of this plaoe, became insane this morning, took a dose of poison, and crushed in the heads of four of her children with an ax. The youngest child died immediately and the others are not expected to live till morning. Mrs. Smith also is veory low and will probably die. The family consists of J. Monroe Smith, the father, about 55 years old; the mother, who is 43 years of age; and their six chil­ dren--19, 18,13,11, 7 and 4 years old re­ spectively. Their home is one of the prettiest in Monmouth County. It is a little one-story and attic frame hbuse, set far back from the road to Port Monmouth, in a large field surrounded by trees just now beginning to show their leaves. Back of it a noisy little brook tum­ bles down a little dell, and on all sides are sharp-gabled glass hot-houses and barns. The farm is considered one of the best and most valuable in the locality. Some itwelve years sgo Mrs. Smith lost one of her children immediately after its birth. This preyed dn her mind and she became partially insane. Her husband wa3 forced to send her to an asylum for treatment, and after a year under the care of physicians she was returned to her hosne completely cured. The poor woman was overjoyed to be among her children again and cheerfully did all the house­ work, frequently begging her husband, in case anything weut wrong, not to send her back to the asylum. Everything went on as usual in the little home until about six months ago, when Mrs. Smith began to complain again, saying that she suffered continually from a violent pain in the head. The physicians advised change of scene, and her husband sent her to live with her brother at Elizabeth. After remaining there a few months she returned home, feel­ ing much better, and announced that all the symptoms of her disease had disap­ peared, and that she was in hopes that she would never cause her husband any more trouble. Last night the family retired rather earlier than usual, so Mrs. Smith arose about 5 o'clock this morning and roused her husband at the same hour. Their breakfast had been pre­ pared by a colored woman who had been in the family's service for years. After eat­ ing, Mrs. Smith left her husband in the kitchen and went out to the hen-house. Mr. Smith followed her, in a few moments, to a hot-house, which was about 100 yards away from the house. In the hen-house Mrs. Smith took out of her pocket a pack­ age of rat poison which she bought and concealed over three years ago. She swal­ lowed a large dose of the poison, and threw the box away. On her way back to the house she picked up a large ax, which she concealed beneath her dress. Entering the house she went first to the bed-chamber of the four-year-old daughter, Edna, who was quietly sleeping. She took the ax from under her dress and brought it down with terrible effect on the child's head. She did this three times, until she saw that the little curly head was split open. Then she left, and entered the bedroom of her son Rufus, thirteen yeare old. She Btruck him three or four blows on the head with the back of her ax, which laid the side of his head open. Next she turned her attention to her eleven-year-old daughter Bessie, whom she found on her knees praying. The child seemed to know that her turn had come, as she had witnessed the attack on the others. She lifted up her hands imploringly and begged her mother in a faltering voice to spare her, but this had no effect, on the frenzied woman, for she let the ax come down on the poor child's head with as much force as at first, and a moment later her third victim was lying on the floor with her skull fractured. A moment later she had struck Alida, another of her children. The sound of the child's voice had reached the ears of Bettie Beldo, the aged colored housekeeper, who ran to the child's assistance up-stairs. Mrs. Smith had just completed her bloody work, but she was still in a frenzy of excitement. She turned on the old woman and raised her ax with the intent of adding another victim to the list. Bettie turned and ran down stairs, pursued by the woman, who now began to show her insanity by howling at the top of her voice. Finding that she could not over­ take the colored woman Mrs. Smith threw the blood-stained ax after her, but it struck the wall, and the colored woman ran out of the house screaming with terror. The insane woman picked up her fearful weapon again, and retraced her steps up the stairs to the room where her eighteen- year-old daughter was. This girl had seen some of the tragedy, picked up the baby, two years old, and fled to the apartment for safety. She had not time to lock the door when her mother, with the ax raised above her head, was upon her. Then a fearful struggle began. The girl/ knew that her mother meant death, and all her energies were roused to keep the door fast till as­ sistance would come. She threw her body against the door, while Mrs. Smith struggled to break it in. Finally the brave girl suc­ ceeded in turning the key. Then she laid down the baby, and hurried away to tell her father of what had occurred, while the mother was trying to batter down the door with the ax. The girl met her father and Bettie Beldo hastening from the hot-house to the scene of the tragedy. The husband ran up the stairs. The insane woman turned with rage, and raised her weapon, but at sight of him she cowered and let it fall nervously to the floor. Then she fell down herself, and groveled at his feet. Tears sprang in­ to the man's eyes, and trickled down his cheeks as he cried: "Fannie, what made you kill my chil­ dren?" Without any apparent sorrow for heY ter­ rible work she answered calmly: "Why, Monroe, I was told by God to do so, and I obeyed His comniands.n Then getting upon her knees and looking up into her sorrowful husband's face, she said: "I know I did wrong, but it was the only thing to be done to save them from hell." Mr. Smith could say nothing. He was completely prostrated by the blow he re­ ceived from his wife's actions. When spoken to by a reporter he begged to be left alone with his misery. He would re­ peatedly ask how his children were, and the doctors would give him very little en­ couragement. The neighbors vainly tried to arouse him, but he would not pay any attention to them. The oldest daughter, who so nobly fought for her life, was found at a neighbor's house, whither she was taken after the affray. When asked when she first had any idea of her mother's work she said she heard her little sister scream. She ran in to her, and when she saw the ax in her mother's hand and one of her sister's dead she ran for the other room where the baby was, starting to go down-stairs. She was met by her mother, who chased her to the door. By main effort she closed the door, and in this way escaped. Little Edna never breathed after the ax Btruck her. The other three children are in a very low condition, and the four doctors who are in attendance fear that they will be dead before morning. At this writing, 10 p. m., they fear that both the mother and children will die during the night. The poison that Mrs. Smith took appears to have just taken effect upon her and she is sinking rapidly. William E. Gladstone, and Some Points in His Remarkable Career. William Ewart Gladstone was born at Liverpool Dec. 29,1809, and is therefore in the 77th year of his age. His father was a wealthy merchant, and acquired a large (fortune in the West India trade. Mr. Glad­ stone was educated at Eton and Oxford, and entered Parliament in 1832 as a mem­ ber for Newark, which borough he con­ tinued to'represent until 1846. During this period he was a constant contributor to the Quarterly Review, chiefly on literary and ecclesiastical subjects. In 1834 he was made Junior Lord of the Treasury, and in 1835 Under Secretary for Colonial Affairs. In 1841 he was sworn in a member of the Privy Council and appointed Vice Presi­ dent of the Board of Trade and Master of the Mint. In 1843 he was made Pteaideutof the Board of Trade. &| I345 he, entered the Cabinet as Secretary of the Colonies, under the Premiership of Sir Robert Peel. In 1852 he became Chancel­ lor of the Exchequer under the Earl of Aberdeen, and retained the office for a short period under the Premiership of Lord Pal- nierston. In 1858 Mr. Gladstone declined a position in the Cabinet, but accepted an appointment as Lord High Commissiolfer Extraordinary to the Ionian Islands. On Lord Palmerston's return to power, in 1858, Mr. Gladstone again became Chancellor of the Exchequer. After the death of Lord Palmerston, iu 1805, he became the leader of his party in the House of Commons. In 1868 Mr. Disraeli's Minis­ try resigned, and Mr. Gladstone succeeded him as Premier. He continued at the head of the Cabinet until 1874, when the Lib­ erals being defeated in the Parliament­ ary elections, Mr. Gladstone and his col­ leagues resigned, and Mr. Disraeli again took the helm. In 1879 Mr. Disraeli again retired, and was a second time succeeded by Mr. .Gladstone, who, with the exception of a very brief interval, has been Premier ever since. IN HONOR OF JEFF DAVIS. Crowds Flock Into Montgomery to See and • Hear the President of the Confederacy. Wednesday, the '28th of April, says a dispatch from Montgomery, will ever be memorable in the history of Alabama, in that, while calling out ringing oratorical pleas for the erection of a monument to {he Confederate dead, the occasion has served for a grand demonstration in commemora­ tion of the secession of Alabama, the estab­ lishment of the Confederacy, and the in­ auguration of Jefferson Davis as its Presi­ dent. Every locality was represented, and many adjacent towns and villages poured their eutire population into the streets. The entire city was gayly decorated, and the City Hall had United States flags flut­ tering out of every window. Pictures of Confederate Generals were fastened to the outside walls, while the names of Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Albert Sydney Johnston, Robert E. Rodes, and many other Confederate Generals appeared on streamers. The Capitol was beautifully decorated. From the topmost point on the high dome, towering far above everything in the city, floated the stars and stripes. The entire front was covered with stream­ ers and devices, while along the front col­ umns were suspended immense Federal flags which reached down almost to the heads of the speakers. More Federal flags floated in Montgomery than at auy time since 1860. The private houses aud business houses all had a liberal sup­ ply of decorations and devices and words of welcome to Mr. Davis. The ex-Presi­ dent of the Confederacy was driven in a carriage drawn by four milk-white horses to the State Capitol, which was followed by an immense procession. Arriving at the State House, Mayor Reese introduced the guest to the vast audience iu these words: "My countrymen, it is with pro­ found emotions that I present to you the foremost type of Southern manhood, the Hon. Jefferson Davis, ex-President of the Confederate States of America." Mr. Davis, leauing on his cane, with, the Federal flag over him and Confederate veterans before him, spoke in a clear, ringing voice, showing tne deep intensity of his feelings, but without a tremor or pause, except when interrupted by the shouts of his hearers. He said: 'My friends, it would be vain if I should at­ tempt to express to you the deep gratification which I feel at this demonstration. Hut I know that it is not personal, aud therefore I feel more deeply gratified, because it is a sentiment far dearer to nie than myself. You have passed through the terrible ordeal of war which Ala­ bama did not seek. When Blie felt her wrongs too grievous for further toleration she sought the peaceful solution. That being denied her thunders of war came ringing over the land. Then her peoplo rose in their majesty; gray-haired soers aud beard- lees boys eagerly rusned to the front. It was that war which Christianity alone approved-- I a holy war for defense Well do I remember i seeing your gentle boys, so small--to use a : farmer's phrase--that thoy might have been | called seed-corn, moving on with eager step and | fearless brow to tho carnival of death ; and I ! have also looked upon them when their knap­ sacks and muskets seemed heavier than the boys, and my eyes, partaking of a mother's weakness, filled with tears. Those days have passed. Many of them have found nameless graves ; but they are not dead. They live in memory and their spirits stand out, the grand reserve of that column which is marching on with unfaltering steps toward the i:oal of constitutional liberty. [Applause.] It were in vain if I .should attempt, as 1 have al­ ready said, to express my gratitude to you. I am standing now very nearly on the spot where I stood when I took the oath of ofljce iu 18(51. Your demonstration now exceeds that which welcomed me then. This shows that the spirit of Southern liberty is not dead. [Long and continued applause.! Then you were full of joyous hojies. You had every prospect of achieving all you desired ; and now you are wrapp -d in the mantle of regret--and yet that regret only manifests more profoundly, itnd does not obliterate, the expression of your sentiments. 1 felt last night as I approached the Exchange Hotel, from the gallery of which your peerless orator, William I.. Yancey, intro­ duced me to the citizens of Montgomery, and commendod me in language which only his elo­ quence could yield, aud which far exceeded my merit--I felt, I sav again, that I was coining to my home- coming to a land whtre liberty dies not, and serious sentiments will live forever. I Applause. | I have been promised, my friends, that I should not be called upon to make a speech ; and therefore 1 will only extend to you my heartfelt thanks. God bless you, one and all, old men and boys, and the ladies above all oth­ ers, who never faltered in our direst need. [Loud and long-continued applause .) When he retired shouts were so long and loud that Mr. Davis had to go to the front ugain. He bowed bis acknowledg­ ments and thanks. THE first letter written by the poet Long­ fellow is copied iu the new biographv. The letter is dated Portland, January, 1$14, tho writer having almost reached his 14th birth­ day. It is as follows: "Dear Papa: Ann wauts a little Bible like little Betsy's. Will you please buy her one if you can find any in Boston? I have been to school all week and only got seven marks. I shall have a billet on Monday. I wish you to buy me a drum." Graham, the Wife-Murderer of Spring. ? qsU, *>., Hudely Awake . by Lyncher* lie Culprit Taken to a Scrub Oik and Worked Off Without Much Oeremonv, The clatter of horses' hoofs upon tne streets leading to the Court House, a short time batore daylight, says a Springfield (Mo.) dispatch, told the few who were at that hoar awaiting develop­ ments that another chapter was to be enacted in the Graham tragedy. It was no false alarm, as the one hundred and fiftv horsemen, with masks over their faces, with shotguns, rifles, and revolvers poised, and riding at full gallop, told. The accuracy of the movements of the men showed that they were thoroughly drilled and knew what was to be done. The entrances to the streets leading to the jail were quickly guarded, and every pedestrian who mode his appearance was halted and made to throw up his hands. A spring-wagon was part of the outfit of the lynching party. The wagon was baited in front of the jail door, and a lew men heavily armed, and carrying in their hands rope and sledge­ hammers, knocked at the front door. The Sher­ iff was asleep and answered their call. Upon opening the door he was seized by the men, who demanded the keys to Graham's cell. He attempted to equivocate, but a revolver thrust between his eyes told him resistance was folly, and he told them where to get the keys. They then went to the cell and opened the floor. Graham was in his bunk and was com­ manded to get up. He was at first infuriated and replied with oaths. "You can hang me, but by G--d you can't scare me," he exclaimed. He was silenced by the muzzle of a rifle thrust in his face. He dressed himself, and when tho lope was placed around his neck, broke down and wept bitterly. The leader of the party in- lormed him of theii^purpose, and demanded a true statement of the killing of Harah Graham. He recovered his composure, and with some­ thing of his old audaeity replied that when he got out he would give them a "straight talk." He was led out of the jail at the end ot the rope, placed in the wagon, and the grim proces­ sion moved in a northerly direction. About two miles north of the city the cavalcade halted by a small scrub oak tree. Graham was asked if he had anything further to say with regard to the killing of his wife. He reasserted his state­ ment that neither Mrs. Molloy nor Cora I.ee was implicated in the murder. A cloth was tied over his face, his hands were bound behind him, as the rope was thrown over a limb of the stunted tree. A dozen strong arms in a twinkling dan­ gled the body of the wiite-murderer in mid-air. He was literally strangled to death, and when the lynchers departed and the spectators on the outskirts ventured to the spot a pitiable sight met their gaze. Pinned to his back was a note explanatory of tJie act. It was well composed, and writted in a legible hand. The closing pora- graps are as follows : "We heartily welcome all strangers to citizen­ ship who are pure of purpose and act in good faith, but we give this as a warning to ex-con­ victs and murderers who may hereafter invade our country to impose on our credulity. We also give warning that any person or persons, of any rank or station, who dare to discover the actors in this tragedy, will be surely and speed­ ily dispatched to hell, where all things are re­ vealed to the curious. In justice to the mem­ ory of Sarah Graham, a loving wife and dear mother, whose life was sacrificed at the altar of Lecate, we subscribe ourselves, "CITIZENS OF GREENE COUNTY. "N. B.--To Sheriff Donnell: 'Keep your mouth shut. If you recognize any of us you will die the death of a dog." Grahain and His Crime. Graham, who was evidently a moral monstros­ ity, was accused of the murder of his wife, and the subsequent disposal of her body by throwing it into a well on the farm of Mrs. Emma Mol­ loy, the noted temperance evangelist. Graham had lived at Fort Wayne, Ind., where he mar­ ried the woman he killed. For Bome of his in­ fractions of the statutes he was twice sentenced to the penitentiary at Michigan City. While there Mrs. Molloy became interested in the man, and when his last term expired made an effort to reform him. She gave him employ­ ment, and while thus engaged he be­ came acquainted with Cora Lee. Mrs. Molloy's adopted daughter. He proposed marriage, as­ suring the two women that his first wife had se­ cured a divorce while he was in prison. This she had done, but they were afterward remar­ ried. Mrs. Molloy and Cora Lee were satisfied that Graham was free of matrimonial entangle­ ments, and Cora was permitted to marry Gra­ ham. The first wife, who had been deserted in Fort Wayne, soon learned of Graham's last mar­ riage, and a prosecution followed in Springfield for bigamy. Grahain, to free himself of this trouble, induced bis first wife to leave Fort Wayne and meet him in St. Louis, whence he was to take her to Springfield and endeavor to reach some solution of the trouble. After leaving St. Louis Mrs. Graham was never again seen alive by anyone who knew her. Graham killed her to free himself of the prosecution for bigamy. Her relatives agitated the matter after her disappearance until the Springfield authorities made search and found her body iu the abandoued well on the Molloy farm. Graham and Cora Lee were at once arrested for the crime, and Mrs. Molloy was taken into custody as she stepped from the train at Springfield on her return from a pro­ fessional tour in Illinois. The preliminary ex­ amination resulted in the holding of Graham as principal and the two women as accessories. Graham made, several statements that impli­ cated the two women, but his love of notoriety evidently iudueed him to write tho letters pub­ lished, and but little credence is giveu them, as the fcian was entirely unreliable and never told the truth if he could in any way avoid it. FIENDS WRECK A TKA.IN. A Loaded Missouri Pacific Freight Train Precipitated Into the Kiver Near Wyan­ dotte, Kan.--Two Men Unshed tw Deatlu A most diabolical outrage was perpetrated near Wyandotte, Kansas, says a dispatch from that place. The spikes were drawn from two rails on the Missouri Pacific and a freight train was precipitated into the river, killing the fire­ man and head brakeman. The accident occurred half a mile south of the Wyandotte depot at a point where the track coines around u lofty bluff that riBes precipi­ tously from the bank of the Kaw River. The train arrived on time and passed the station Without stopping. Five minutes later it dashed round the fatal point, the rails spread, the en­ gine lurched, and with a bound rolled over on its side. Two heartrending cries were heard above the crash of the collision, then the sound of escaping steam, aud in another instant the wreck was in flames. The conductor and rear brakeman, who came upon the scene as soon as they could, met the engineer, J. H. Fowler, wading out of the Kaw Bivor, into which he had been thrown when the engine turned over. The Wyaudotte fire de­ partment quenched the flames, and when the smoke had cleared away a shocking sight was presented. The fireman, Ren T. Horton, lay on his buck, with his head toward the river. The lower part of his body was covered by the cab, while the blood gushed from his nose and mouth and formed in pools on the river bank. A few feet away, partly covered by the tender, lay the body of George Carlisle, the head bruke- nian, his face covered with blood. The lives of both wero extinct, death having been caused almost instantaneously by the escaping steam and scalding water. An examination confirmed the first impression that the wreck was the work of train wreckers. The spikes had been drawn the length of two rails on the side of the track nearest the river. The fish-plates hod also been removed, leaving the rails absolutely without protection, so that when the engineer ran upon the first pair they spread. The wreckers had apparently done their work deliberately, and with the knowledge that loss of life would result. Tho fish-plates, together with the bolts which held, them, and fifty-two drawn spikes, were lying beside the track. Three men were seen lurking in the vicinity a short time before the train passed, and are sup­ posed to be the guilty parties. Tho Missouri Pacific officials offer are ward of 82,500 for information that will lead to the arrest and conviction of the parties, and $1,000 for in­ formation that will lead to the conviction of any one of them. The Knights of Labor also talk strongly of offering a reward. r/.;- ROASTED ALIYE. Six Italian Laborers Burned to I>eatli, nnd Two Others Fearfully Injured. IBradford (Pa.) telegram.| The village of Mouut Altou, fifteen miles south of this city, was the scene this morn­ ing of the latest oil-region honor. The Erie Railroad had in its employ among other laborers thirty Italians, who lodged in a flimsy frame structure, two stories high, ten sleeping below and twenty iu the second story. The building was supported on posts four feet high. It had been pronounced unsafe, but the occupants disregarded the warning. At 1 o'clock this morn­ ing, while the inmates were sleeping, two posts gave way, causing the building to topple over and collapse like a house of cards. Some of the men wero able to es­ cape without trouble, but others found themselves pinioned by the fallen timbers, and reudered more or less helpless by broken boues. In this emergency the ruin caught lire. Twenty-four of the inmates escaped, two of them were seriously in­ jured, and the charred bodies of the other six were taken from the ashes after the fire had spent its force. They were all identified, however, by scraps of clothing, aud by rosaries and other trinkets woru about tho person, and are as follows: An­ drew Petrela, Felclen Etta, Frank Graco, Charles Graco, Sappotta Guirrera, Douiin- ico Colenco. The injured ate••JMWPK ro and Ricolo Defranco. i 4 . V Brief laauaary ef tlMi lagi «f CaacreM. BoM to permit the Covington sad naft! Road to bridge the Ohio Biver, and ton punish robbery and horse-stealing in Territory, jpaeaed the House of Bapraeeaiattvea April 21. ThU tu the only work pmrformad by the House on that day that is worth recording. The Senate did nothing, not being in session. THE postoffice appropriation bill was reportecf to the Senate on the 9Bth of April. Washington C. Whitthorne (Tenn.), the successor of Judge Jackson, was sworn, and took his seat. Senator Van Wyck (Neb.) addressed the Senate in supr port of the interstate commerce bill. Hie speech consisted mainly of an arraignment of Jay Gould and C. F. Huntington, who had, he said, according to their own testimony, moved on State Legislatures, the court* and unblushingly purchasing judges and legislators. Senator Blair (N. H.) addressed the Senate in support of his proposed constitutional amend­ ment prohibiting the manufacture or sale of al­ coholic liquors as beverages. In the coarse of his speech he said that it was less possible for the Republican party to remain permanently three-fourths for prohibition and one-fourth against it than it once was for the nation to remain permanently one-half slave and one- half free. W. T. Dowdall was nominated to the Senate for Postmaster at Peoria, Hlinoist In the House of Representatives, Mr. Springer • introduced a bill to establish a department of labor, with a commissioner and two assistants, the expense not to exceed $100,000 per annum. ? The Committee on Pacific Railroads reported to, ', the House the bill formulated by the sub-oom- uiittee providing for an extension of seventy vears of the bonded debt of the Pacific Railroads to the Government, The bill makes provision < for the payments of the indebtedness of, the Paciffc -Railroads to the Govern- ment after the following plan: To >• the present debt is added the interest thftt / would accrue during the lifetime (eleven years) of the existing bonds, assuming that no further: payments are made by the companies, and the total divided into 140 eqvtnl payments, whicla are represented by a series of bonds falling due : semi-annually, the last bond maturing seventy,, ' yours after issue. The average annual pay­ ments by the companies would reach nearly $4,000,000, which, it is estimated, would amount to a sum greater than the principal of the debt before the existing bonds would mature. THE Chair laid before the Senate, on the 27th ult., a communication from the Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Ohio, transmitting a transcript of testimony taken bv a committee of that House, and the report ef, the same committee on the subject of charges / against the official integrity of certain members - of that House ill connection with the election of ; the Hon. Henry B. Payne as United States Sen­ ator. Mr. Payne at once rose in his seat in the Senate and entered a most emphatic denial of charges and invited the most exhaustive scrutiny " of all his acts and of his private correspondence, ' The whole thing, he said, was un attempt to circulate baseless gossip and scandal, every­ thing substantial in the way of charges having been discredited and disproved by the testi.- inony. He was willing to leave the matter with the Committee on Privileges and elections of the Senate, to which committee it was referred. The Senate passed bills allotting 1 finds in sever­ alty to the Indians of the Round Valley Reser^ ' vation, California; appropriating$300,000 for the extension of the White House, and authorizing the building of railroad bridges across the Stk* •< Croix River, between Prescott, Wis., and Still­ water, Minn., and across the Missouri River at or near Kansas City, Mo., at or near Council Bluffs, Iowa, on the line of railroad between either Clay or Jackson County, Missouri, and tho county "of Wyandotte, Kansas, near Atchi­ son, Kansas, at or near Saline City, Mo., near St Chatles, Mo., at or near St. Joseph, Mo., and near Chamberlain, 1). T, The Senate has confirmed the nomination of C» W. West as Governor of Utah. In the House of Representatives Mr. Breckinridge introduced a bill to reduce the nnmber of internal revenue officers and to amend the internal revenue lawo. The House Judiciary Committee reperted > adversely a bill to prohibit aliens from acquir- " ing title or owning lands within the United ' States. THK postoffice appropriation bill was dis- cussed in the Senate on the 28th ult., the bone *' of contention being the amendment appropriat- • ing 8800,000 for carrying South and Central American, Chinese, and Australian mails and authorizing tho Postmaster General to make, after due advertisement, contracts for five yearB with American Bteamships. The Hon?# of Representatives debated the river and har­ bor bill, and passed the bill providing that hereafter no alien who has not declared hiB in-, tention to become a citizen of the United States' shall be granted a license as pilot, engineer, v mate, captain, or other officer on any steaia ' vessel carrying ths flag of the United States. MB. BECK (Ky.) spoke for three hours and a half in the Senate on the 29th ult. in opposition ' to the subsidy clause of the postoffice appropri­ ation bill. Mr. Hale (Me.) addressed the Sen­ ate in favor of the subsidy amendment. The Senate passed the 4th of July claims bill, with an item of $67,000 for the heirs of Ayres P. Merrill, of Mississippi, for supplies furnished the Union army during the war. In the House the amendment of Mr. Hepburn, of Iowa, to the river and harbor bill, that the appropriation for the Missouri River shall be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War without the intervention of the Mis­ souri River Commission, was defeated. A bill wa3 reported to the House providing for the reception of trade dollars at their face value in all payments to the Govern­ ment, or for exchange at the Sub-Treasury for staudard dollars, to be transmitted to the mints as bullion. Mr. Hall (Iowa) gave notice that ho would call up the Campbell-Weaver contested election case May 4. The Committee on Public Lands reported a bill to grant the right of way through the public lands to any canal or ditch company formed for the purpose of irrigation. >! Longfellow's First Poem. He -was thirteen years old when, after hearing a story abont an Indian fight years before at Lovell's Pond, there appeared in the Portland Gazette a poem on that event. The last verse will angwer as a specimen: They died in their glory, surrounded by fame, And victory's loud trump their death did pro­ claim. They are dead, but they live in each patriot's , breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest. Other boys of thirteen have written better verses, and their "only interest lies in their being the first of his print­ ed." With a trembling and misgiving heart he had dropped them into the printing office letter-box. On the even­ ing of the publication of the paper he stood shivering in the November air, casting many a glance at the windows as they trembled with the jar of the ink-balls and the press, but afraid to venture in. His sister, who had been let into the secret, shared the impa­ tience with which next morning he watched his father slowly unfolding the damp sheet and holding it before the wood fire, and then reading the paper, but, if he saw the verses signed "Hen­ ry," saying nothing of them. At last they got hold of it. To the bov's inex­ pressible delight the poem was there, and he read and reread it with immense satisfaction. In the evening he went with his father to a neighbor's, and the talk turned upon poetry. "Did you see the piece in the paper to-day ?" asked the neighbor. "Very stiff; remarkably stiff. Moreover, it is all borrowed, every word of it." The boy woula gladly have snnk through the floor, and his pillow was wet with his tears that night. It was his first encounter witli the "criticbut it did not discourage him. From .time to time other pieces appeared in the Gazette, and he wrote a carriers' New Year's address; but "they are not worth reprinting." Al­ though he himself won a wider fame than Bryant, his early efforts were not as successful, Bryant's "Thanatopsis" being regarded as'unexcelled by few, if any, of his later poems. Thought He Was an Episcopalian. Secretary Chase was not originally a prolaneftian. He learned how to swear after he went into Lincoln's Cabinet. One day, after he had de­ livered himself rather vigorously, Lin­ coln said to him: „ "Mr. Chase, are you an Episcopa­ lian?" "Why do you ask?" was the some­ what surprised counter-question. "Oh, just out of curiosity," replied Lincoln. "Howard is an Episcopalian,, and I had noticed that you and he swore in much the same manner."--U*as/i ing* ton Hatchefc *