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\ V'.'. ' ;r' * ** J§f§c«fg ftafleata t. VAN l<m»f ««d Publisher. ^cttENRY, ILLINOIS. WEEKLY lEWS REVIEW. „ „V. THE BAST. THE Attempt to bring about a oom- promtim between the iron manufacturers of lNttift>urgh and vicinity and a committee of |gbo Amalgamated Association resulted in Bu'lurr., the manufacturers rejecting a prop- «*ttiion to adjust differences and end the * ifcrike by paring piiddlers $3.75 per ton, an advance *ot 25 cents. The manufacturers ad- ,i«re to #5.50, the rate prevailing when the #a-ike began. » M. J. H. HICKNKY, of Baltimore, . «*•%? • * * purchase^ the buildings and wharves lying between the historic rock at Plymouth, - Mass., and the water, for the purpose of d^- , molishiug them, and thus permit the ocean lb flow up to the rock.... .llie 2-weeks-old • <liild of Anton Pel at*, of Pittsburgh, was • ibtmd dead in bed, and a big black eat sitting Von its breast The verdict was that the child's , death was caused by its breath having .. been sucked away by the cat ' "BWiirht S. Latbrop. assistant cashier in the "VKffico of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, llns absconded with $:20,0(X)... .The British rlfiemea were victorious in the international : ; ttat<th at Oreedmoor, sooring a grand total 1,975 points, against 1,805 by the Amer- 'icana THK extensive boot and shoe factory ,«£ J. Richardson A Co., at Elmyra, N. Y., •fialued at $250,000, was wiped out by fire, throwing 300 men out of employment Four fremen were seriously injured by falling : ^Waiis. j!, f DIKING a game of base ball at Bord- .^(tetown, N. J., a riot broke out among the Kgltayers and their friends, fence-rails and bate being used freely, and several persona jBeverely injured... .A dispatch from Phila­ delphia savB that Dr. Longstreth, the Mel­ ville family physician, and Dr. Bartleson grave a certificate of insanity in the case of Mrs. Melville, wife of Chief Engineer Mel­ ville, and she was placed in the Norristown Insane Asylum Her children accompanied her to the asylum and then returned home. Chief Engineer Melville telegraphed to his rifcter in New York, who will hereafter take . «are of his home and his children. Mel­ ville's friends deny that he deserted his fam­ ily, and assert that his wife hafibeen de- JWtaged several years. THK corpse ofc^an unknown lad has Iwen having a variety of adventures in the : Pennsylvania towns. The boy was killed by •Jtrain at Johnstown last month, and was "^Identified by a citizen of Bristol as his furnish the Indian police only with revolv­ ers. No more of our red wards will get breech-loading rifles. , POLITICAL. ' " ' A DISPATCH from Augusta, Me.,«ays: The Kennebec Journal publishes full official returns from all the State except from six small plantations, the vote, uf wlliC ̂ will change the result but little: ....138,175 72.554 63,758 , 1 , 2 9 3 ......... ' 305 ......... 8,75)3 e republican, candidates for Congress ctcd u» pluralities a little in excess of that for (Governor. The Republicans carry fourteen of the sixteen counties Of the Senators twentv-eight arc Republicans and three Fusion Of the members of the House 10S are Republicans and forty-one FwioniSts. In two districts the elections are not vet determined Official returns of the Suite election in Arkansas show the fol- change Total vote... Robie Plalsted.. ,V~ Chase Vinton «• Eustis Robie's plurality. The eh PARTY CONVENTIONS. Synopsis of the Doings of a Few of Them. 1%*t Juration* of Wnc^Ow- iidates, Etc. COLORADO KEPUBIJCANS. In Hie State Convention of the Republicans of Colorado, held at Denver, Hon. Ernest L Campbell, of Leadville, was nominated for Governor on the second ballot v„, William H. Meyer was nominated for lieu­ tenant Governor on tl* first ballot .Tames B. Belford was nominated for Con­ gress on the second ballot Melvin Edwards, of Summit, was nomi­ nated for Secretary of State; Fred Wolsen, of Huerfano, for State Treasurer; John Abbott, lowin"- vote on Governor: Berry, Democrat, j of Larimie, for Auditor; D. F. Urmy, of Pu- 87 675^ Slack, Republican, 4U,:{52; Garland, j eblo, for Attorney General; J. R Chaffee, Greenbacker, 10,142. The total vote was t Chairman of the State Central Committee. ari^ fian/^£ Son Soon followed by the return of the wanderer from Bristol. Reading of the occurrence, an JBssdousfather in Sharon, named Seaburn, had the remains disinterred, became thorough­ ly (satisfied that they were those of his 'remaining feon, and buried them at Sharon, Aug. • 90." The reappearance of Eddie -Sea­ born, caused the wildest excitement among > tiioso familiar with the circumstances of the double mistake. The real name of the wan-, , dering corpse has not yet been ascertained. J V-. - After a conference of five hours between' '•the puddJers and iron manufacturers of >ntt»bnTgh, last year's scale of wages was tafffned. , THK WESt. ' v - x . * « THE mill and stock of the Mitchell & . ' ̂ tbwland Lumber Company, at Toledo, • valued at $325,000, was destroyed bv fire.... J*e Missouri car and foundry works, at "St Diouis, were burned, causing a loss of #150,- , ^'<00; covered by insurance. .JAMES RISTENGBROCK, alias Tracy, •onvicted of kflling Officer Huebner in the %early part of February t paid the penalty of "his crime at Chicago, on Friday, Sept 15. v The condemned man was firm to the last, and died as be predicted he would, sustained what he o! aimed to be a consciousness of infaocence. Clasping a black crucifix to his } breast, he was launched into eternity with ttjA wmo e\f t.Vin ftnrtnr n*v>n his lira fipath was instantaneous. AtStetropoh's. 111., on toe same day, Samuel Redding, colored, was ' v||nged.^ ... • o XM» THK. Ppetmaster at Socorro, SN. M., kas been displaced and arrested because he is short I2,:W0 In his accounts. About •11,(*XJ was realized at Detroit from the sale* of animate belonging to Coup's circus. The hippopotamus brought a leopard tllfVawl fifty-six monkeys went off at • tii Fhuxk JAMBB, the notorious outlai .iras rece^y the traveling companion of Michigan merchant, to whom he stated thati M project to rob the bank at Blissfield, Mich., sad been abandoned, and his mission now "..was to 'get even" with the Fords for tha , *iurder of his brother Jesse. So says the : ^Chicago Inter Ocean.. f.At Depver and at many other places a brilliant comet was ft••• 'Keen in dttse proximity to the sun at noon, v, 'STlic extraordinary phenomenon H«« excited - f.Sauch interest among astronomers. . MAYOB HABRISON, ,t>f Chicago, re- *%nAed home the other day, after a six weeks' j-Mbmncc in Europe, and was accorded a big J»ubl!c reception. His arrival was signalized j|.T the l>oouiirij of cannon and the firing of Tiockets, and lie was escorted to his home by - «long procession. • 'A COKDUCTOB on t^eKorthampton * «4K>od disobeyed orders and brought about a follifdon of freight trains at Greenfield, Mass. The offender escaped injury, but the conduc­ tor, fireman and brakeman of the other train • Were killed. ^ , i i.«» THE Society of the Army of the Cum- %erl«nd, imder the Presidency of Lieut Gen. . iTiil Sheridan, and vrith a large attendance ' ;"Sf ®x-soldiers of rank and distinction, held vlr f°urte«J1th annual meeting in Milwaukee. unnua' oration was delivered by Gen. Grosvenor, of Ohio, followed by *f«ft dloquent and interesting address by Gen. D. Cox on "The Youth and Early "Manhood of James A. Garfield.".... A most determined attempt at suicide, Which may result in suooess, Waa made by Henry Weiner, a grooer at Carondelet, Mo. He stabl>ed himself thirty times just below the heart, severed the main artery in each •rnl; made twelve slashes behind the right «!tr cut a gash of an inch on the crown of •'» head, and wounded himwelf in the wrist. When the physicians had sufficiently revived .Jim, he drank the coutentsLjOi k •• W.* ^ THK80«TH.w I- , THE priwrners in the jail at Louisville . fecently manufactured two skeleton-keys , j^rom sheet lead and made a rope from • • (J>lankets. The Other morning, as the ttirn- ' key came in to extinguish the gas, three men t ' ' - threw him into a cell and bound and gagged u •_ him. A revolver was placed at his temple M ' Irat one man saved Ms life. Seven jail-birds - • • tiieciti nlockedtiie back door, battered down w i t l i f t w t 1 c k t i x u b & r A n d t b ^ i r _ The 147,1«9, the largest ever polled. . GENERAL. THE flight of French Canadiaas to.; the United States is a subject which has re- 4 ceived due consideration at Ottawa, and the j Governor General has expressed a willingness to assist in colonizing them in the JJorthweet. The military barracks at La Prairie, Can., which originally cost $*>00,000, were fired during a storm, and totally consumed. EXGINEKR MELVILLE has caused A great sensation at Philadelphia by deserting his wife and children upon the moment of his arrival. The wife's story of his gruff greeting and brutal departure is a pathetic one. Lieut. Dattenhower's attention having been called to notices in the press contain­ ing innuendoes of charges by him against Engineer Melville, he has issued a carti stat­ ing he has made no accusations against any one, and that his relations with the Engineer have always been of a friendly character. MAJ. PHIPPS, who forged Comptrol­ ler's certificates in Philadelphia to the amount of $ ,50,000, was arrested at Hamil­ ton, Ontario, where he and his wife were staying at a secoud-olass hotel under the name of Thompson. A RoctiESTEB (N. T.) dispatch says:' •Dr. Lewis Swift, the director of Warner Ob­ servatory, is receiving messages from all parts of America claiming the discovery of Hie large naked-eye comet now visible near the sun. The doctor says it is the same comet recently discovered in South America moving west, "and is not the comet of 1812, nor is it identical with any known comet" THE breadstuffs exported for tfcj committod in ,deelawition ^ ln eight months ended Aug. 31 were valued as measure of practice, is becoming Resolutions were adopted of regret at the death of Garfield and indorsing the course of President Arthur; thanks for the calling of Henry M. Teller to the Secretaryship of the Interior; denouncing the demonetization of silver and recommending the apportionment of funds arising from the sale of public lands to Ute sinking of artesian wells in Colorado. DELAWABB OBKENBACKER& A convention of the Greenbackers of Dela: ware convened at Newcastle and nominated Milo L Blanchard for Governor, and Alfred H. Weld for Congress. A former convention had named a ticket with John C. Jackson fot Governor, but he declined. The platform adopted, in addition to the usual planks, adds one demanding, the abolitioa of the whipping-post MASSACHUSETTS BEPUBMCAKS. The Republican State Convention of Massa­ chusetts, which convened at Worcester, was presided over by Senator Hoar. The follow­ ing ticket was nominated: Governor,Robert R Bishop; Lieutenant Governor,Oliver Ames; Secretary of State, Henry B Pearee; Treas­ urer And Receiver, Gen. Daniel A. Gleason; Auditor, Charles R Ladd; Attorney General, Edgar J. Sheridan. The platform condemns fraud in elections, expresses admiration for the action of the Republicans in Con­ gress in the contested-election cases, asks for a revision of the tariff and a reduction of taxation, and indorses the administration of President Arthur as "wise, honest and patri­ otic. " The following is the civil-service re­ form plank of the platform: "The work of reforming the civil service, which was com­ menced by the Republican party, and in favor of which it alone "stand* 9110,015,703, against 9157,505,305 for the same period last year. PEOF. BOSS, of Dudley Observatory, Albany, believes the comet we now see near the sun is the return of the great comet dis­ covered by Dr. Gould in South America on the 5th of February, 1880 The end of the Christiancy scandal has been reached at last, the plaintiff having been granted a divorce from his wife on the ground of desertion. - FOREIGJT. " IK Hie international rowing contest'at London the Hillsdale crew took the lead of the Thames Club. Half a mile from the starting point a serious foul occurred, but the Hillsdales got three lengths ahead, when Capt. Terwilliger's slide broke, which disa­ bled the Americans, the British beating by fourteen seconds. THE reoeipts of the Russian Govern­ ment increased 19,500,000 roubles during the first half of this year, while the expendi­ tures were diminished 23,500,000 roubles.... Girard V. Wellesley, chaplain to Queen Vic­ toria, is dead. OXE ,. THOUSAND ejectment decrees have been posted at Swineford, County Mayo for the special benefit of tenants on Lord Dillon's egtate... .The Portuguese Govern­ ment has contracted for laving a telegraph, cable between Lisbon and the United States, wliicli shall touch at the Azores... .The Czar left St Petersburg Sept 20 for Moscow, where, as alleged, his coronation will sopn take place. Great military precautions were taken for his safety. * THE Emperor and Empress of Rus­ sia, upon their arrival at Moscow, were re­ ceived with great enthusiasm. They were deeply impressed with the popular manifes­ tations of loyalty....A Catholic clergyman of Breslau has been fined 300 marks for li­ beling Bismarck....Stanley, the African ex­ plorer, has arrived at Lisbon. ADDITIONAL NEWS. AT the annual meeting of stockhold­ ers of the Northern Pacific road, held in New York, the gross earnings for the year ending June :!i) were reported at $5,430,305, and the operating expenses, rents and taxes at #3,- ; 5t2,S4 ). The average number of miles ope­ rated was 7W7; the track laid for the year was 1J85 miles, and '!7:i miles to be constructed after January next will complete the road. The land department received $1,700,338 dur­ ing the year. Henry Villard was re-elected President and Samuel Wilkeson Secretary. The National Distillers' and, • Liquor Dealers' Convention, in session at Cin­ cinnati, resolved that, while sobrie­ ty, good order and respect for the customs of others are uhwritten laws of the land, and would be obeyed by them, yet a judicious license system "would* benefit the Government and afford them protection, and they were opposed to prohibition as detri­ mental to the rights of the majority ... .The United Presbyterian Synod announces its in­ tention to raise 95011,0U) in honor of its quar­ ter centennial The bursting of a ferry- " boat's boiler near Lachine, Canada, caused the death of four persons and the burning of many others by escaping steam. THE members of the mining-stock firm of James G. Sands A Co., of New York, disappeared ten days ago. Sands was Sec­ retary ef several mining companies, and is said to have gone to Mexico. Two ladies well known in society have lost $310,000 each by the collapse, and several promi­ nent lawyers are out about 910,000 eaoh John G. Bigelow, of Washington, filed in the Circuit Court at Buffalo a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in th« ca&o of Sergt Mason, more generally reoognized as of paramount importance and essential to the security and Sermanouce of our institutiona While in-iscriminate, censure of our civil-service servants is flagrantly unjust, the evils in­ separable from the present system are con­ fessedly grave. Merit, not patronage, must be the basis of official tenure. As initiatory to a complete remedy, we earnestly demand such legislation concerning subordinate offices as shall embrace the following pro­ visions: 1. Appointments shall be made only upon open, impartial, practical tests of the fitness of applicants, id vine: due preference to persons dis­ abled in the military or nr.val service of the country. 2. No removals shall be made without cause, •r for partisan reasons, or for the failure tv per­ form imrtisan service. 3. Superior qualifications and real merit, dem­ onstrated by the actnal performance of duty, shall constitute the best title to continuance and promotion in the service. 4. We unhesitatingly disapprove of any political assessments or demands for contribu­ tions. under the express or implied threat of re­ moval from office as the penalty for non-com­ pliance, or under any other pretext whatever. The salary of the office-holder is his compensa­ tion for services, not a fund subject to draft for party uses. And we go further. Free govern­ ment can be maintained only when the convic­ tions and choice of tbe voter find expression in his ballot, uncontrolled by fear or purchase. NEW TOBS BEPUBXJCAVS. The State Convention of the Mew Toxic T»~ 1.1J 1 1-3 _ J FPV.LL i-- xvcpurmuoiin mw wmi Ob ouawgi.-- ificuiau ballot for Governor gave Charles J. Folger 233, Alonzo B. Cornell 180, James W. Wads- worth 60, John H. Starin 19, and John C. ' Robinson 6, with 249 necessary to a choice. On the second ballot, after innumerable changes had been announced, Folger was nominated by 257 votes, Cornell receiving 2and Wadsworth IS. The result was greeted with tumultuous cheers. Warner Miller, United States Senator, said the friends of Gov. Cornell had labored incessantly to secure his nomination, and moved that the nomination of Judge Folger be made unani­ mous. This was done. The ticket was completed as follows: Lieutenant Governor, B. Piatt Carpenter; Chief Justice Court of Appeals, Judge An­ drews;. Congressman-avLarge, A. B. Hep­ burn. The platform declares in favor of "honest money, pure elections, the regulation of traffic in intoxicating liquors, the protection of home industry, and the necessity of restricting the power and influence of corporations;" declares that "monopolies oppressing the people or un­ fairly discriminating against local interests are wrong in principle and should not be tolerated; that stringent legislation should be enacted to secure purity and honesty in the primary elections, and" that, all possible safeguards should be thrown about these sources of political action of the people: that, while there are varying opinions on the sale of liquors, we subiw riljeto the principle that the propositions on that subject, like anoth­ er propositions for change-in the fundamen­ tal law. ought to be submitted to popular vote; that the civil service should lie placed upon a proper basis by adequate legislation, so as to give facilities for the execution of the law now upon the statute book, with a competitive teat for admis­ sion to the service so arranged as to secure the necessary qualification t for the position, together with a fixed term for the incumbent, removal from office dur­ ing the farm of hta appointment to be only for cause." The national and Htate adminis- trations are indorsed, and President Arthur is lauded for his veto of the River and Har­ bor bilL . ( COXJFECTICTJT R8PUBUCANS. Marshall Jewell presided over- the Con­ necticut Republican State Convention at I New Haven, and the following ticket was jurisdiction to try the accused, and that the ' - - - 6 detail of the battery as a guard at the jail plaoed in the field: Governor^ Gen. William H. Bulkely; Lieutenant Governor, John D. Candee; Secretary of State, S. T. Stanton; Treasurer, Julius Converse; Comptroller, Frank D. Short. The platform de­ clares adherence to the principles of the party; refers to the record of the He publicans in the past; promises support to President Arthur and praises his course; favor* the submission to the people, at a special election to be held for the purpose, of an amendment to the constitution rela­ tive to the prohibition and sale of intoxi­ cating liquors, and of enforcing the people's THB seats of a circus exhibiting at Mount Airy, N. C., fell, carrying down 1,500 people, of whom fifty were seriously Injured. '" CAPT. PAYNE, of Oklahoma notoriety," v -kag been taken to Fort Smith, Ark., where Mm will be tried in the Federal Court While j -jPasaing through Henrietta, Tex.. Payne sued a writ of habeas corpus for himself and JtoUowerB in the District Court, but Lieut. fcf^P°r refused to recognize it, whereupon a of Taylor • himselt This was also resisted, the civil of- ;bs(ng permitted to enter the car. 1 'Henriettof created quite a commotion in, A FIBE in the Boston warehouse, in ^Lafayette street, New Orleans, destroyed * iMttat structure and damaged many others, causing a total loss of 1100,000; fully in- _-8ure& was in violation of an act of Congress. Judge Coxe allowed the petition to be filed, bat made the papers returnable at Utica. Two HILL tribes marched to Scutari and frustrated a plot got up by the Albanian League to massacre and rob the richest Christians, and among them the English Consul--..A meeting at London, under the auspices of the Democratic Federation, adopted a motion calling upon the Govern­ ment to frame measures to prevent the im­ portation of Chinese workmen...... , , .. •> , * i-,- Four towns were entirely destroyed by the i asks for the regulation of the expend! , floods In the TyroL The bodies of twenty- 1 I'?re? b>" J®*""!7 appropriations; and, after j six persons have been recovered... .The last! tlmn?Tipr r1® State oncers, declares that the of the Irish suspects has been released from i influences of the great corpora- K»m«lnham jail WJHM* shoiiid be jealously watched, and the Ik WASHINGTON. MrateB and lierdell, the convicted Ijg: ritar-route conspirators, were granted a new trial, Judge Wylle setting aside the verdict * ' because of its incoherence and the miscon- '-"induct of the jury. Merrick, for the Govern­ ment, acquiesced in the motion for the new taial, olafadng the recent verdict simply Vjr; trifled with justice, SECRBTABT TKT.I.KB will hereafter •r THE body of Augustus Green, wealthy Englishman, was found near his" residence in Chesterfield county, Va., and guarding the remains was his dog, which was in a starving condition. It is believed Green diwd^uddenl^wh^Sna^^lirit^i- ? Foreign Immigration. A New York telegram says: Superintendent Jackson, of Castle Garden, reports that during the first six months of the present jrear 278.%; immigrants landed at this port. .The avowed destinations of these new­ comers in the Went were as follows: Arizona, 10; Arkansas, 410; Colorado, 1,252; California, 2,355; Dakota, 2,107; Indiana, 8,542; Illinois, 83,834; Idaho, 8; Iowa, 11,546; Kentucky, T77 ; Kansas, 2,20a ; Michigan, 12,000; Missouri, 5,000;• Minnesota, 14,2*7; Montana, 158; New Mexico, 31; Manitoba, 2>W; Nebraska, 4,458; Nevada, 124; Ohio, 14,#UftS; Oregon, 159; Utah, 798; Wisconsin, 15,232; Washington Territory, 38; Wyoming, 1-KV, Indian Territory,-'2. "fhe greater por­ tion of these immigrants proceeded directly to the West, and comparatively few went either to the South or to N- w England. Al­ though the avowed destination of nearly 100,000 was New York State, only a small proportionjrfufc ' antitilnri in Ttouiity. ;'T ̂ power, should be assumption of undue promptly checked. MASSACHUSETTS DEMOCRATS. - The Democratic State Convention of Mnir Mchusetts convened at Boston and nomi" nated Gen. B. F. Butler for Governor by acclamation. The remainder of the ticket Is as follows: Lieutenant Governor, Samuel W. Bowerman; Secretary of State, I). N. Skllling; Treasurer and Receiver General VVilliam A. Hodges; Auditor, John P. Sweeney; Attorney General, George T. Very. The platform declares in favor of the nation's supremacy within constitu­ tional limits, without touching upon state's integrity; demands equal the rights, protwtiOn, privileges and burdens for all citizens, regardless of sex or race; a free ballot and a fair count; honest and economical expenditure of public moneys; radical reform of the civil service, based upon Pendleton's bill and Willis' anti-assess­ ment measure; declares apainst sumptuary laws which infringe upon "the sacred rights of public liberty," and pledges the pnrty to support all reasonable legislation tending to lessen hours of labor and to Increase protect the wages of laborers. Following is the tariff plank: "We demand thorough and immediate re­ form of the tariff. . We <iall upon'" Congress to reform the fMifet wnr taxes, that hun­ dreds of millio«M)iji|ky not be, as now, need- l^ssly cxtr^tea -fwto the earnings of oar people to lie In the treasury as a temptation to wicked and reckless appropriations for extravagant public buildings and useless and wasteful river and harbor bills; that no taxes should be levied upon the necessaries of life <>v upon raw material which is not . found or produced in our country", that the tariff shall be BO judiciously adjusted that American commerce shall lie - fbM 'Ted, and. above all, American labor elevated and amply rewarded. We affirm that all these- resu!t,s can be fully realized under a tariff limited in amount to t he sum Necessary and adequate for revenue." • MEB^OUBI REPUBLICANS. , < The Republican State Convention Of Ifls- Bouri, called in opposition to the decision of the St lie Central Committee, convened at Jefferson City and chose Judge Chester H. Ivrum, of Sc. Louis, as presiding officer. David \Vngner, of St. Louis, was nominated for Supreme Judge and Col. R. H. Hunt, of Kansas City, for Railroad Commissioner. The following platform was adopted: _ The Republican party in Missouri, in conven­ tion assembled, do hereby declare their political faith as follows: 1. Wc reaffirm our allcciancc to the funda­ mental principles heretofore announced and successfully put in practice by the Republican party of the nation, to-wit: Equal civil and political rights for every adult citizen, without distinction of race, color or religion: the main­ tenance of the national Union as the indispensa­ ble condition of national and individual free­ dom an-; prosjKTitv; the faithful dischartrc of every pecuniary obligation ef the nation; a stable and uniform currency, based not on promises, but on convertibility on demand with the recog­ nized standard of values of the world; duties for revenue to be imposed so as to give all needed and reasonable protection to American industry without favoring monopolies; faith in the prog­ ress of civilization, and, as a necessary mean* tows:rd and result of such proaress, the continued improvement, reformation and readjustment of our political and civil institutions. 2. Wc add the tribute of an unfeigned sorrow to the universal testimony of mingled grief and respect liorne by the civilized world to the ex­ alted personal worth and statesmanlike quali­ ties of President Garlield, whose illustrious career was cut short by an assassin's hand. To President, Arthur we tender assurances -of onr henrty support- in all efforts to conduct the ad­ ministration of public affairs for public Rood, and express onr gratification at the broad and national views set forth in his special. message of April 17, 1(W2, recommending the improve­ ment of the navigation of the Mississippitiver. 3. It is a cardinal principle of onr political faith as a nation that all power is derived from the people. From this it necessarily follows that the powers and duties of the committees of party organizations have no greater scope than that implied and understood in their appointment, the time limit oi their authority being the man- fufcment of a Suite or local canvass in obedience to express instructions, if any, from the party appointing thein, and calling the party together in council or convention upon the eve of an elec­ tion. 4. We affirm that the undivided liberty of the citizens should be subject to Governmental con­ trol only so far as demanded by the general welfare; that it is the duty of the State to MO legislate as to do the greatest good to the greatest number of its inhabitants. Recognizing these principles, and recognizing that the intemperate use of intoxicating liquors jeopardizes the safe­ ty, health and morality of any people ajnong whom they are tolerated, we betieve and declare that it is the duty of the State to restrain the use of intoxicating liquor and reduce its harmful effect to a minimum. To this end we demand a vigor­ ous enforcement of the existing license laws and the immediate enactment and faithful exe­ cution of such further statutes as shall enable the people of the several localities and subdi­ visions of the State to determine for themselves whether dram-shops shall exist among them or not; also, a large increase of the cost of licenses, so that the liquor traffic shall bear its Just proportion of taxation and be conduct­ ed by responsible persons; also ( hat per­ sons encaged in said traffic shall be made, civilly liable at law in damages for injuries to persons resulting therefrom, and for thp effect­ ive punishment by imprisonment of all persons violating said laws, so that a strict and adequate control of said traffic may be maintained wher­ ever it is permitted, and we further believe that a rigid and impartial enforcement of laws, such as are above proposed, would furnish a more complete and practical remedy for the evils of Intemperance than any attempt to enforce gen­ eral prohibitory laws against adverse local senti­ ment. 5. We denounce as destructive, not only to the welfare and permanence of the party, but also to free republican iawtutions, the vicious and corrupt system of *nB®ss" rule, by means of which flf-Kii/Tiintr meii harp nnnrrhf to pervert and abuse, for "their personal profit, the party organization, whose only legitimate end is the combined action of free men in support of defi­ nite political principles sincerely held, and, since bosslsm," > the ulcer of American politics, has notoriously grown out of abuses of political patronage, commonly known as the spoils sys­ tem, we hereby emphasize and renew the de­ mand tiiat the civil service. State and national, be so reformed by law that the appointments to subordinate civil offices shall in no case be be­ stowed In payment for party service, but shall be open to every citizen for the solo condition of merit and ascertained fitness therefor, and that removal from office shall not be at caprice or for the benefit of would-be autocrats, but solely for good and sufficient and public cause. 6. We believe that the safety and perpetuity of republican government depends upon the intelligence and education of the citizens, and that it is tlic duty of the State to afford the aunrlcst facilities for the education of the masses at public expense, and we demand that the pub­ lic-school system of this State l>e made so com­ prehensive as to afford in all parts good school facilities for at least eight months' school in every year. We arraign the Democratic party for their shameful neglect to provide suitable legislation for the public schools of the State, by reason of which the revenue necessary for their support has become depleted and the law left in such a confused condition as to greatly hamper tbe working of any system. 7. We also arraign the Democratic party ot this State for a notorious disregard of tne insti­ tutions and statutory provisions of the State against the consolidation of railroad corpora­ tions operating and controlling parallel and comjieting lines, in open violation of unmistak­ able and plain constitutional enactments. We have seen in our State parallel and therefore competing lines practically consolidated, to the injury of the people and in defiance of their expressed will, without any attempt upon the part of the Democratic executive officers of the State to prevent or undo the wrong or bring the transgressors to justice. NEBBASEA REPUBLICANS. The Ei-publicans of Nebraskametin State Convention at Omaha and placed In the field the following ticket: Governor, James W. Dawes, Crete; Lieutenant Governor, A. W. Agee, Hamilton county; Secretary (if State, E. P. n, Lancaster; State Auditor, John VVuilic'^«; Superintendent of Public Instruc­ tion, W. W- Jones; Commissioner of Public Lands and Buildings, Glen Kendall; State Treasurer. Lorain Clark; Attorney General, l aac Powers, Jr.; Regent of the State University, C. H. Gere. The convention indorsed the nomination of A. J. Weaver in the First and E. K. Valentine in the Third Congressional districts by the regular Republican Conventions,and adopted the following platform: Ilenolved, That the Republicans of Nebraska, in convention assembled, stand by the funda­ mental principles of the Republican party as enunciated in an unbroken line of national and State platforms, the chief of which are free labor, free speech, the right of evory quali­ fied citizen to vote once in every election under the restriction of just and equitable election laws, free, non-sectarian schools, a sound currency on a specie basis under national control, the raising of national revenues by tax­ ation of luxuries and articles of consumption not essential to the comfort and well-being of the people and from a tariff on imports, so ad­ justed as to protect the investment of capital in home industries, and legislative control of cor­ porations. Resolved, That we uphold and maintain the enforcement, by well-considered legislation, of the change in our great organic law that pro­ hibits unjust discrimination and extortion by railroad corporations. We look to the honesty and courage of the people ln their political ca­ pacity to repel the encroachments of corporat <? power upon the rights and principles of citizens on the one hand, and on the other to deal justly and fairly with all property interests under whatever name and form, without unjust din- crimination or extortion in the matter of levy­ ing taxes or regulating prices of commodities or charge for services. lie solved. That the policy of the State Board of Lands and Buildings favoring the leasing for terms of years of our school, university and Ag­ ricultural College lands at a fair rental, in pref­ erence to selling the same under the option given by law, meets with our approval as the best possible method of preserving t.lio heritage of our children, and providing regular and In­ creasing revenues for educational purposes. £ . - A WATERY GRAVE. Fonndering of tbe Propeller Asia in Georgian Bay. ' At Least One Hundred Lives Lost--Tbe gferamMe for the Boats. * - The steamer Asia was lost in a storm on i Georgian bay, on Thursday, Sept 14, and of .100 persons on board only two are known to have survived. A dispatch - from Colling- Kvood, Ontario, says: D. A. Tinkis and Chris­ ty Ann Morrison, supposed to be the only survivors of the wreck of the steamer Asia, have arrived here. Tinkis reports that he boarded the Asia near Owen sound, in com­ pany with J. H. Tinkis and H. B. Gallagher of Manitou. The steamer was crowded. All the staterooms were full, and many passen­ gers were iving on sofas and the cabin floor. About 11 Thursday morning a stx#m struck her. "My uncle, J. H. Tinkir jumped up and said the boat was dooi/ied. Disnes ana chairs were flying in every direction. We left the cabin and found difficulty in getting on deck, the boat rolling so heavily. I got a life-preserver and put it on. The boat fell into the trough of the sea, and would not; obey the helm. She rolled heavily for about twenty minutes, when she was Struck by a heavy sea aud foundered, and went down with the engines working about half- past 11. The Asia was making for French river, and had men, horses and lumbermen's supplies for the shanties. I saw three boats loaded. I was-in the first boat About eight were with me, At last more got in, till the boat was overloaded and turned over twice. Tlie people clung to my life-preserver, which got displaced, and I threw it off. I then left the boat and swam to the Captain's boat, which was near by, and asked John Mc- Dougall, the purser, to help me in. He said it was but little use, but gave me his hand. f When I got ln there were eighteen in the boat. By time there was a larger number in and clinging to the boat 1 had left I know nothing of the third boat Our boat rolled over, and I missed McDougall. The people were hanging on to the spars and other parts of the wreckage. Our boat was full of water, and the sea was constantly breaking over us. One of the first to die on the boat was the cabin-boy. He was dying-, and being supported by one of the men, when a wave washed him overboard The next to go was a boat hand who tumped out I could see him paddling round in the water for nearly a hundred yarda Our number was now reduced t*o seven, five of whom died before reaching the beach. Capt Savage, who was the last to die, expired in my arms about midnight Thursday. John Little, of Sault Ste Marie, the mate of the McDonald, and two others, names unknown, also died The boat finally stranded near Point au Barrie about daylight Friday, with Miss Mor­ rison and myself only sorvivng. I pat the bodies out on the beach and pried the boat off with an oar, but did not bail it out Miss Morrison and I went down the beach in a boat to Derrick, about two miles distant, and laid on the beach all night About 8 o'clock Saturday morning an Indian came along, and I engaged him to bring us to Parry sound. He would not bring the bodies." There were probably about 100 persons on board the Asia. "YES," said tlie gilded youth of his friend. "Jack has a passion for pro­ posing to girls. "Why, I've known of' his proposing to six girls in a week, not one of whom he'd marry for a farm." "Doesn't he run a terrible risk of being accepted by somebody he doesn't want ? "Not a bit. Jte isn't wi Boiitcm PoH, * . - - ' i THE WAR IN E6YPT. ------ Gen. Wolseley telegraphed from Cairo to the British War Office on Sept 15, as follows: "Gen. Lowe has occupied Cairo. Arab! Pasha and Toulba Pasha have surrendered uncondi­ tionally. Ten thousand troops at Cairo have laididown their arms. The war is over. Send no more men from England. Midshipman De- cliair is safe. I have been received here with open amis by all classes. The soldiers are glad to return to their homea Arabi Pasfia and Toulba Pasha are both confined in our guard-rooms. I will now change mv base from Ismailia to Alexandria." A dispatch from Alexandria oh Sept. 16 says: "After the engagement at Tel-el-Kebir Arabi Pasha fled to Cairo aud told the Council that the troops had deserted him, upon which the mission was sent to the Khedive with two letters from Arabi Pasha, one expressing his devo­ tion, and the other warning him not to al­ low the English to enter Cairo, as the same results might follow as happened,at Alexan­ dria. The Khedive refused to receive the letters. Arabi Pasha was taken before the Khedive." He presented a loathsome picture of groveling servility. He swore he had not been aware he was fighting against the Khedive. The Khedive remained standing while Arr 1 Pasha was in his presence. When Arabi had con­ cluded, the Khedive ordered his removal." It has been ascertained that Arabi was in bed at the time of the attack on Tel-el-Kebir, and, panic-stricken at the sudden and unex­ pected attack, fled in dismay. All the Egyptian leaders will be tried at Cairo for their rebellion. Canned provisions for 20,- 000 men for a month were captured at Tel-el- Kebir. Lord Dufferin informed the Porte thai British military operations in Egypt have ceased, and as England is alxrat to withdraw a portion of her troops the Sultan might de­ cide whether it was accessary fee sign tb€ military convention. Twenty prominent rebels captured at Cairo will be tried by court-martial. A number of prominent Egyptians are still at large. Alexandria dis- Eatches of Sept. 18 announce that the British ad occupied Kafrrel-Dwar and Damietta, and that uie commander at Aboukir had sig­ nified his readiness to surrender. The official journal at St Petersburg says Great Britain will not be allowed to settle the Egyptian question alone. The London Time* insists tnat the rebel army muRt be replaced by gen­ darmes to maintain civil order. Whon the garrison at Aboukir marched out t* surrender, dn Sept 18, an entire regiment decamped to join Abdfella Pasha at Damietta, who refuses to surrender. The rest of the garrison, numbering 5,000 ©r 6,000, proceeded to Kafr^el-Dwar, were disarmed, the men dismissed to their/homes and the officers detained. Arabi/ becautte of dread of pci: >ning, had his victuals cooked by members of his family while at Kafr-el- Dwar. Tantal^ had been occupied by the British, and service on all t he railroads had been resumed. Natives with torn and bloody clothing had been paraded in the streets of Cair® by Arabi's orders as repre­ senting brutal treatment by the English. Gen. Wolsclev claims to have good reason for the belief that the resistance at Damietta was inspired by tlie Sultan, who has quite recently beta m communication with Arabi Pasha One of the participants in the June x&assaore was hanged at Alexandria. Abdellal Pasba, who commanded at Dami­ etta, surrendered to the British on the lttth of September. With the surrender of Abdel­ lal ceased the last remnant of organized re­ sistance to the authority of the Khedive, and that functionary at once proceeded to Cairo, th<> capital city, under escort of In­ dian cavalry. The' entire population of Zagazig is again at work in the fields, the telegraph censorship has been abolished, and trains have been restored between Cairo and Kafir-el Dwar. The civil government of Bgypt is the next grave question to be con­ sidered, and the establishment of a gen­ darmerie officered by Englishmen is already seriously discussed. A Turkish newspaper advises'that the property of the rebels lie confiscated and distributed amon^r the sult'erors from incendiarism and pi'Hage. Efforts are being made to secure the services of a prominent English lawyer to defend Ant hi. If capital sentences are passed on the Egyptian loaders, they must not be carried * out without the consent of the British Government is first obtained. An Alexandria dispatch states that Arabi Pasha was ill in prison, and had for a com­ panion Uahmoud Fehmy, his Chief Engineer. Disturbances and outrages prevailed in the interior, and the houses and factories of Europeans were being robbed and burned Wholesale arrests of Arabi's supporters were 5 being made. Arabi insisted that all his acts wore instigated by the Khedive and the Sultan. An Alexandria dispatch, of Sept 22, states that Gandeel, who was Prefect of Police at Alexandria at the time of the massacre ln June, has been captured by the British and placed in irons. One thousand Bedouins had' occupied the Intrenchments at Kafr el-Dwar which the British abandoned. Arabi, while to power, despoiled the national treasury ot (300,000, £18,000 of which luwbeen recov­ ered. The AmbassHdors advised the Porte to act in accord with the British policy-fn Egypt Arabi and all of his supporters, the dispatches stated, would be tiled by court- martial • s BRAVE MEN BUTCHEREfc. frightful Atrocities Perpetrated In .the Peruvian War. • Chilian tiarrisea Xassaeret Mating a Hertrie After According to a Chilian correspondent of the Panama Star and Herald, native guerril­ las burned and pillaged the city of Tarma and other places, committed frightful atroci­ ties, and, among others, murdered a number of foreigners. The correspondent says: When the inhabitants of Tarma learned that the Chilian forces were about to leave, a large majority of the Peruvian families ap­ pealed to be allowed to accompany them in order to escape the depredations of their lawless countrymen. Only some foreign families, believing the guerrillas would respect them, decided to remain. Fully 500 woipen followed the Just five hours after the troops left se hordes of guerrillas poured in. There) were COO armed with rifles and equipped like regulars, who entered, formed ln column, followed by at least 3,000 guer­ rillas armed with sticks, cjubs, lances and other similar w eapons, who entered pell- mell, shouting vociferously. On it being known that all well-to-do and decent fami­ lies had left town the fury of the Indians knew no bounds. Residences were stripped, and those of many foreign residents shared the same fate. Many assassinations followed. Among the victims were eighteen foreigners. In the midst of the drunken or- gie Tarma was reduced to ruins. With the object of burning the properties of foreigners and Chilianized Tarmanlans oil the town was burned. The cities of Jauja and Huancayo shared the fate of Tarma. The names "of some foreigners assassinated are given. An Italian named Motto and two Germans named Strinz and Seholk are among the slain. Four Chilian soldiers and six fugitive Peruvians were frozen to death in the Cor- dilleraa At Concepcion the Chilian garrison made a noble defense against hordes of Indiana When the ammunition of the Chilians waa exhausted, the assailants secured parafflne and fired the barracks, burning some of the wounded soldiers. Capt Pinto and a few survivors of the garrison made a sally, cut down the enemy, and cleared the front and sides of the barracks, while the men inside extinguished the flames and reitioved the wounded to places of safety. In another Bally Capt Pinto was shot dead. The In­ dians again fired the building, and sallies were organized under Sub-Lieuts. Montt, Cruz and Peios. In one of the earliest of these the first-mentioned officer was mortally wounded. Subsequently Sub-Lieut. Peicz fell wounded in another sally. Hie young offi­ cer was immediately pounced upon by a horde of Indian^ who lanced him to death. At this hour five friars from the neighboring convent of Ocopa _ have appeared on the scene, and, crucifix in hand, commenced to Incite the Indians to renew the attack en the building. At 10 o'clock, of seventv-seven Chilians composing the garrison, only four, and two of tnem wounded, remained to otter resistance. The others were either dead or dying. The building is now ablaze in every direction. Four women, wives of the soldiers, were eye-witnesses of the death of their husbands. One of them, accompanied by her son of 5 years, and another by an infant who had oonie into the world at the commencement of the at­ tack--after removing the wounded from the burning building--went out into the square, hoping their lives would, be spared. They had barely stepped outside the building when they were set upon by a crowd of yelling and drunken savages and horribly butchered. The 5-year-old boy had his throat cut from ear to ear, and waa barbarously mutilated, and the body of the new-born child was found pierced with lance wounds. Sub-Lieut Crua and the surviving soldiers were also surrounded, and they fell one after an­ other, but not until they had sold their lives dearly. When the other Chilian troops ar­ rived, a few days afterward, they found in the square and the adjacent streets S'.tl of the enemy's dead. The wounded were double that number, and were carried off to the hills. The Chilian dead were collected and burled. The city was burned, and everybody Implicated in the massacre who could be found was summarily executed,. End of the Iron Strike. The long strike of the iron-workers is over, and, for the first time in the history of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, they have suffered defeat. A Pittsburgh dispatch of Sept 19, says: Three district meetings of the Amalgamated Asso­ ciation were held to-day--at Pittsburgh, Wheeling and Youngstown. At the Pitts­ burgh meeting, presided over by President Jarrett, the discussions were long and at times acrimonious, many delegates holding out for the compromise proposition agreed upon at the last meeting, lout it was evident from the first that a majority favored a square back-down and resumption at the old scale. Amid much excitement and confusion the vote was taken on the proposition to de­ clare the strike off, and it was carried by 81 to 27. The outcome of the meeting gives great satisfaction to the business commu­ nity, as there is no doubt the mill-owners will readily agree to pay the old price for puddling. Some of the mills will start this week. At the Youngstown meeting Vice President Sharon presided. Every lodge in the dis­ trict except two was represented On the first ballot the vote showed only eight dele­ gates out of sixty opposed to resuming work at the old scale, ®5.50. Later these eight re­ considered their action and made the vote unanimous to resume. At Wheeling the contest between those ln favor of holding out and those anxious to resume at the old rates was very bitter, and for a long time the result was doubtfuL After a long discussion the vote was taken, showing a majority of one in favor of break­ ing the strike. The mills at Wheeling will start as soon as possible--in a week at the farthest. President Jarrett to-night officially de­ clared the strike off. His words are: "Gen­ tlemen of the Amalgamated Association, tha strike is ended." Solid Success. v The surest road to. success ln life is that of persistent and thorough work. Speculators, who make money rapidly, generally lose it with equal rapidity. It is the patient, steady plodders who gain and keep fortunes. Mt. William H. Webb, the great ship-builder of New York, is a good example for the young men of the United States. His father had won a fortune in ship­ building, and like many loving fathers, wished an easier life for his favorite boy. Hut the young man preferred liia father's trade, ana determined to master it. He went into the ship-yard like a common workman, beginning at the foot of the ladder, aud acquired great •skill in the use of all the tools. Soon even the experienced hands did not equal him in nicety of wotk. He was still a young man when his father died, but he continued the busi­ ness and won in it a high reputation. He was the first man in the yard in the morning, and the last to leave it at night. With his own hand he drewthemodel of every vessel built therein; wrote in a boot every specification of the building, and marked on the frame the place for every stick of timber. No better ves­ sels, either for war or commerce, were built in the world than came from Webb's yard. Of the hundred and forty built under his own eye not one proved- a failure. Sir Titus Salt, the great English manufacturer of alpaca, used to boast, when he jvas a millionaire, that he could at a moment's notice take the place of any workman in his vast factory. He was master not only of the financial but of. the mechanical part of his business. ALLIGATORS. ' mmt stoTte* Ab«tt the __CFram theit. LouisCHobe-Deatoorai.] |fr. Will Smith, who was for a long ' period keeper at the jetties when they were in course of construction, tells SI some curious stories about alligators, ^ which were very numerous there and ^ i through the marshes. The men be- f came so accustomed to them that they would hardly turn aside to avoid tbe p largest, and on Sunday it was quite » s? common amusement to shoot them, X- sometimes half a dozen or a dozen be- tl ing secured in an afternoon. It is a p mistake to suppose that a rifle ball will §t not penetrate an alligator's hide, as. one • from a Winchester striking it in the head, the toughest part, will generally take the whole top of the skull off. Northern people visiting the jetties were anxious to see alligators, and one < immense fellow, apparently seventeen feet in length, was encouraged to stay in the river in the vicinity, and was known ' as Col. Andrews' pet. The Colonel was quite incensed at one time by the • „ fact that one of the men fired at his fa­ vorite with a revolver, and by discover­ ing on another occasion that Walker, who is said to have hooked a whale, had 1 made preparations to capture the alli­ gator by meaj/S of a rope, a huge shark hook and twelve pounds of beef. Al­ though the bait was shoved invitingly v under tbe reptile's nose as he lay on the ; bank in the sun, he was too shrewd or not hungry enough to be tempted. "The pet" remained about a year or two, and may still be there. One even- I? ing as some men were unloading a barge of rock a huge alligator arose out of the water alongside, and one of the men . pitched a fifteen-pound stone at it, " which, from a height of twelve or four­ teen feet, landed directly on its head. The head must have been smashed, hard as it was, for the saurian, after turning half a dozen somersets and going through a number of antics, sunk slowly, and seemed dead. Mr. Smith was coming down the river one Sunday in a perogue with another man, a late arrival, when they saw an enormous alligator asleep on the bauk. Smith proposed having some fun with him, and, without disturbing, his slum­ bers, pnlted up alongside, and, crowding -the boat ashore, stood up in it and be­ gan a vigorous attack on the sleepex with paddles. Contrary to their expect­ ations, the slnggard started toward them in his hurry to reach the water, and, crawling over the l>oat, upset- them in the mud knee deep and filled the' boat with filth and water. Their clothes were ruined, and they were pretty thoroughly disgusted on ascer­ taining that the alligator had lost an eye. They had attacked him from the blind side, and he had rolled over them before he found where the trouble started. There are numerous individuals in the South who make a living by killing and catching alligators, flie hide of a - large one is worth from $1 to $2; but it is very hard work to take k off, and is almost a day's task. From the flest a very strong and quite valuable oil is made, which is used for many purposes, but principally as a remedy for rheu­ matism. It has, however, a most un­ pleasant smell unless properly treated. Many fishermen have been known to eat, , portions of the meat, that of the tail being said, when cooked, to have much the appearance of veal and taste some­ thing like pork. Quite a lucrative busi­ ness is that of capturing alligators alive tnj^end away for exhibition. Col. = Williams, when Spanish Fort was made a summer resort, made a contract with a fisherman to fill the hole known as the alligator pond for him, and in the course of a couple of weeks he had it stocked with thirty or forty, r inging in length from six inches to seven or eight feet. Tlie man who caught them showed no fear in handling the huge reptiles, and for $5 offered to get into the hole and throw the largest one out over the paling by which it was surrounded. They are said to exhibit wonderful alacrity in "going forY' a colored person, and dogs are their favorite diet, while they will, as a general thing, endeavor to avoid a white man. The man who supplied the pond and his companion have been known to bring into camp in a snjall skiff an aligator sixteen feet long and furious with rage. The nmnnerpf accomplishing tliis feat was, as he explained, quite simple. Tlie old are savage and will fight for their young, and this fact is taken advantage of. Some of the young are caught out of the spot in which the old one is lying, and a stout-noosed rope is then placed where to emerge she must tnrust lier head through it. When all is ready the young are allowed to cry out, and the old lady thrusts out her head to have her neck caught in the noose. She is dragged around in the "water until prot- ty well choked, when another noose is secured on her tail, and she is firmly strapped, stomach downward, on a wide board, which she cannot break, as her powerful muscles in the tail act only in a lateral direction. Her head is then fastened to the boat, the noose about her neck is removed, and she is towed aVvay after her young have been placed in "the skiff. Young ones are bought by dealers for from $2 . to $4 a dozen, if not over a foot in length: When they sell them they get a much higher price, as they are hard to preserve alive. -- The large ones are sold differently, there being an increase in price of 50 cents to $1 {or every additional foot over a oer- - tain length. Alligators sixteen or eigh­ teen inches long are frequently found by the dozens in shallow water, and can j be handled without trouble providitig^ the old one, who is generally near, does not take the alarm. Most alligator fishers are usually turtle hunters also, and search along the shores of bay oil a and lagoons for the holes of the ani­ mals. When the hole is discovered it is explored with a long pole with a big hook set in the eqd, and if the unfort­ unate resident is at home he is prompt­ ly dragged out in spite of his struggjes- ( and quickly appears in market. The eye of a young alligator, when closely examined in a strong light, ia a queer- and rather pretty sight, having all the fire and much the appearance of an opal f?t .* Similar size. ? * ; " ' -- -- « NATIVE merchants in Mexican cities^ complain that their Yankee competitors,, who are becoming numerous, are disre­ garding the old custom of closing the- stores between 11 o'clock and 3 every day in hot weather. The lazy Mexicans- are compelled to lose either their siesta or considerable trade. '« ^ A TORONTO gentleman while pining; billiards at a friend's residence hap­ pened to touch one of the billiard balls with a lighted cigar which he held in his hand. The billiard ball immediately took fire, and was consumed in a few moments. The- ball was made of cellu­ loid. *