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I*. m ST. over the remains in *»w York, were attended pfeWaUciMMCOf in! to _ , lanthroplat Onl*«w carriage followed the hearse bemr- ingtt* oofcpaeto the cemetery--A I«rm mob at boys awl girl* gathered before this Salvation Artny hall atSyracuse, pelted the officers at Che entrance with mad, and in­ dulged in inappropriate tunes. TM New England M. E. Conference, flafeSMion at Boston, resolved against, the in- .MMta «t the caste system in tfee t̂onfch, resulting in the establishment of churches for the negro population A junior mem- bar of the firm M Wilttston Knight 4 Co., of New York, the largest dealers in buckles and buttons in the United States, loads off with #100,000 of the concern's funds, causing its suspension... .Geo. Palen A Co. .Wholesale dealers in hides and leather. New York, have made an assignment Their liabilities are about $100,000. A FIVE-STORY brick building at the corner of Church and State streets, Roches­ ter, N. Y., fell, in consequence of some alter- ationfi which had been undertaken to admit ef the opening of a new street. One of the workmen was killed outright and a half doren others injured, soiue of them, it is supposed, mortally-- Two men were killed by a powder explosion in one of the buildings of the American* Powder Company, at Acton, Man A pre­ mature blast on the West Shore railway, near Rochester, N. Y, killed one man and fatal.y injured many others.... The lumbermen of Maine have organized a protective association and advanced the price of bailding lumber |1 per 1,000 feet. ... .The Lyman cotton-mill at Providence, It I, was destroyed by fire, involving a loss Of *75,(100. DAVID ¥. BROCE, the New York type-founder, is defendant' in a suit for breach of promise of marriage, in which $So,000 damages are claimed The complain­ ant is Miss Ernestina Closs. who claims, that three yean ago, when she was but 16 years of age, Bruce ruined her under promise of marriage, and deserted her. Br ' yean old, claims that the girl i f&in. marriage, and deserted her. Bruce, who is 70 yean old, claims that the girl is a Dad char­ acter, who is attempting to blackmail him.... Peter Cooper's 'will bequeaths #100,000 to Cooper Unions ana #20,000 for special purposes, and gives the residue-- about #1,880,000--to his son and daughter The buildings, storehouses, engines and 60,000 tons of ice belonging to the Knicker­ bocker Company, at Booth Bay, Me., were • fire, together with the wharves. LOOtt '&!• * a1?**:,' ^r<\. " 1 & tew's;,. E EST. THE house of the Gannon family, in the South cove, Boston, was mobbed by about a thousand persons, anxious to show their disapproval of the prosecution of Bishop Williams and Father Fleming for de­ priving little lizzie Gannon of her paper mages. Windows were broken and some other damage done, and the police were called upon to clear the streets.... John Wain, arrested in France at the instance of the British Government for complicity in the Phoenix Park murders, but released, has arrived at New York Most of the small-por caees in New York tnW year have been of the type commonly known as black small-pox, and the mortality has been ISO pes cent '-MM' - TO® w*g*. • * A KKCKOT dispatch from Hennosillo, tB Old Mexico, ŝ ys: "Ninety-three people have been killed in the State since the Apache outbreak, of which twenty-seven trace Americana It is believed many killed have not yet been reported. At Palmo ranch ten were failed last Tuesday. Two women were hungup by the hands and ripped open; a child taken from one was found mangled at its mother's feet. The bodies of the men were horribly mangled." A Tucson (Ari- «ma (dispatch says: "Four hundred troops have been sent to protect the Apaches at San Carlo*. The Tombstone Banger took the uelii, iteiuK mttiiHUBU aiiakmg ibe iiiie." | The Bunac Court of Illinois having re­ fused MBOHdeis in the case of John F. Buirill, tfia defaulting Secretary of the ¥ssif<hi (liawl I <n1|j a he has been consigned to the penitentiary toseive out his sentence. A ion of Spotted Tail, wno had been attending the Indian school at Carlisle, Pa., died on a railway train in Indiana, while on tile wMrlnme to the Pine Ridge agency The Continental (HI Works of Denver, CoL, were Costumed br file- Loss estimated at #12SLQQt>.„. .Pederick s lumber-mill at Fair- chila, ma., was totally destroyed by fire. Lot* flfi,odoi AFTER a trial extending over three months, which has caused more excite- ' went and ill-feeling than anything ever before known in Lafayette, ind, Mrs. Helen M Gougar has been awarded a ver­ dict for #5.000 damages from Capt H. F. M&ndler, Chief .of Police of Lafavette. Mrs. Gougar is a prominent prohibition and woman-suffrage advocate, and publishes a temperance pap»-r, which during the cam­ paign pf last fail took strong ground la Caver of the election as State Senator , of Mr. W. D. Wallace, who is also a pro­ hibitionist tod woman- suffragist Shortly after the election Mandler made the state­ ment to MASS* McGinley that ha.and anath- erpergm had seen Hra. Gougar qpd\WaIlace enter fee lav^pfflce of the latterfit o'clock one Might and Vemaln there untihaft^r mid­ night The stwy became public and Mra Go%ar brotight suit for dander, asking $ l o, - 000 damages. During the tri&l 200 witnesses were examined and the testimony was of the most contradictory character. Two MINERS who were attacked by Apaches in the Swishelm mountains, forty miles from Tombstone, Arizona, killed two of the savages and wounded several others. One of the miners received a severe flesh wound... .A~ battle took place between the graduating and Junior classes of the State Normal Sctiool at Normal, I1L, in which two students received severe injuries from blows jrithdabs Sitting Bull' is about to em­ brace the Catholic faith. His admission to that communion will be made the occasion Of impressive ceremonies--The explosion of a Boiler in the factory of Hitcheock A Bradley at Ashtabula, Ohio, wrecked toe building and killed the night watchman, James Grubhorn. Loss, #50,000. TUB SOUTH. PRESI&KMT AKTHUB LANDED * ten- :iw w«r»drow ̂«pd th» boat and cygo opened May 1 WAsaDNOTOM. IT TEA TA*N decided by Attorney jigiia Willi injjto Hwl the law makfav re- tfeMngpf»nj||he ĵ|̂ eoatpulanry on offi- esMT'iipiS'sMMlK"vetfM^d years • • fevpeals tun law wboh linuted ̂ e number on the retired listto40a In aooordmnce with this decision thirteen additional offloers have Just been retired, and a pertnanent increase of the list will follow. THE Department of State has b$en strenuously endeavoring to obtain a hearing for the seven Americans arrested at Panama in January, on suspicion of robbing tne P--is JMttroad Company of $50,000, in­ tended for the payment or the officers and craw of the United States steamer Lacka­ wanna. Many obstacles have been en­ countered, but the Consul at Panama reports that the men will soon be heard in court and represented by competent counsel THE Secretary of the Interior has de­ cided to offer the Otoe Indian lands in Kan­ sas and Nebraska for sale May L The ap- raiscirs have valued the land at from #4 to 10 an acre Comptroller Knox has au­ thorized the establishment of the following national banks: The Vineland National Bank, - New Jersey, capital, #80,000; the Third National Bank, of Sedalia, Ma, capi­ tal, #100,000; and the Merchants' National Bank, of Amsterdam, N. Y., capital, #100,- ooa THE Treasury Department has de­ cided to accept the proposal of the Hawaiian Government tor the coinage of silver for the insular kingdom at the San Francisco mint THE position of the United States Government rflative to the Irish conspira­ tors against Great Britain has been ex- Elained to Minister West. This Government olds itself ready to surrender for extradi­ tion any person who may have been guilty of crimes in England, according to the terms of existing treaties; but proof will be required of the identity and guilt of persons whose extradition in ay be asked The re­ fusal to surrender P. J. Sheridan was based upon the insufficiency of the evidence that he had been engaged in the Phoenix Park conspiracy,'as was charged by the British authorities The Hon. Benjamin Butter- worth has been appointed special counsel in the place of Crowley, resigned, to try the South Carolina election-fraud casea IN the star-route conspiracy trial at Washington, the defense concluded their direct testimony on the 12th iiist, and the prosecution began the examination of wit­ nesses in rebuttal. The end of the trial will probably be reached by the end of the year. POLITICAL A BOSTON newspaper has been col­ lecting opinions from all sections of the country as to the availability of B. F. Butler as a Presidential candidate. The result is not altogether favorable to the Governor, though Senator Brown, of Georgia, says he would vcfye for him if he were nominated, and a Southern correspondent expresses the belief that he woula divide the colored vote. THE Michigan Senate has passed a measure in which It is specified that if a newspaper prints, in good faith and without malice, stories wMch are subsequently dis­ covered to be unfounded, the publication may not be deemed libelous if a thrice-re­ peated retraction is inserted, with a full ex­ planation of the circumstancea A MEMORIAL has been sent to the President by the Chairman and Board of Directors of the Central Committee on Na­ tional Labor Legislation, petitioning for an extra session of Congress, to be called as early as practicable, for the purpose of con­ sidering- the relations between labor and capital The Pennsylvania House of Rep­ resentatives has pawed a Dill prohibiting the letting of convict labor by contract. SENATOR SHERMAN denies that he is a candidate for Governor of Ohio. He says iluHj hus utiuie has beeuiwed without author* ity, and that he would not accept a nomination A bill prohibiting the manu­ facture and sale of infernal machines and devices to destroy life or injure property has been introduced into the Pennsylvania Senate.,. .A bill introduced into the Pennsylvania House makes it illegal to impersonate any being, recognized as a divinity in the New or Old Testament, in any show or theatrical performance. THE Georgia Democratic Convention, after balloting four days for a Gubernatorial nominee to succed Mr. Stephens, without making a choice, rosorted to a conference committee for a solution of the issue. A report was made in favor of McDaniel, and he was unanimously nominated The Prohibitionists of Ken­ tucky, who were to have held a convention this month, in conjunction with the Green- backers, for the nomination of a State ticket, have abandoned the project, owing to the opposition of the clergy and others to a third-party movement GENERAL. THE steamer Netting Bill, from New York April 1. had a terrible experience, a cyclone arising- when she was two days out, throwing the ship on her beam .ends, in which condition she remained three dam, and committing havoo with the rigging deck-works. The steamer stoppea at Hali­ fax for repairs. JAY GOULD has announced that he will pay out of his own funds the dividends on #15,000,000 worth of stock of the Western Union, amounting to #1,400,000, the payment of which was recently enjoined by a New York court. ' THE beautiful domestic drama pf "Hazel Kirke.' which has been played over 2,500 times by the Madison Square Company makes its appearance at McVicker's Thea­ ter, Chic ago, this week There have been some changes in the company since last season, but none for the worse. Mr. Coul- dock is still the Dunstan Kirke, but Miss Bijou Heron, daughter of the late Matilda Heron, has supplanted Miss EfHe Blister aa HazeL THE National Department of Agricult­ ure at Washington reports that the condi­ tion of the winter grain crop April 1 in all the States was: In Michigan ana the other a drive In anommear- itary esoota.... *,^35rtJXtfoli o?*£e oittafe tsdlefl Archbishop of Cologne....A Lear, the engagement will be renewed. IN.the trial of Brady, at Dublin, the informer Carey was subjected to, a strict cross examination, and confessed that ha was one of the pritne movers in the murder of Under BsoivUiiy Burke He declared that he acted under compulsion directly preceding the killing, but was not under such compulsion when he pointed out Mr. Burke to the assassins, and urged them to remember that the man in gray was Burke. He confessed that he was the flat to suggest that daggers should be used by the murder­ ers, ana had proposed the weapons should be retained as national relioa. A sensation was created by his acknowledgment that he had been promised a pardon for himself and brother if he testified freely and his evidence was corroborated --The men recently arrested in London for unlawfully having nitro-glycerine in their possession were given a preliminary hearing at the Bow Street Police Court on the 13th ihst The Prosecuting Counsel Intimated that the prisoners might be indicted for conspiracy to murder, and that they might also be proceeded against un­ der the Treason Felony act. They were remanded for a Week The Haytien revo­ lutionists at Miragotuie were engaged by Government forces March 81, ana came off victorious after a severe fight The revolu­ tionists' loss was slight... .An explosion of gas during a performance in the theater at Bevel, near Toulouse, France, caused a panio in which many persons were killed. £eund bass at Kissimee, Fla., very shortly northern territory the wheat was still cov- •if after casting his line Happy angler--happy «sh, to be caught by a real live President, the first one that ever angle*1 for bass in Florida watera. The telegraph also informs an anxious world that Mr Phillips, the Pres­ ident's private secretary, made an alli- gator happy by shooting it with his little gun. putting out both of its eyes.... An incendiary fire was started in Thomp­ son's livery stable at Westminster, Md, which consumed eighteen buildings and caused a loss of #100,01)0. Twenty-five horses in the stable were cremated . An attempt was also made to burn the Mlntour Hotel A negro man and woman have been arrested as the- firebugs. A construction train on the Mis­ souri . Pacific railroad was wrecked near Beaker, Texas, and five men were killed.... Twenty prisoners in tfie Tarrant county in Texas, overpowered the guard ana escaped. When the alarm had been given, about twenty-live citizens started in pursuit with shot-guns and bloodhounds, ana before evening seventeen of the fugitives had been enptured , L AT a meeting of the State Democratic >• .Executive Committee of South Carolina, at Charleston, a resolution was unanimously . adopted to employ the best legal talent in theState to defend the prisoners charged . with fraud and intimidation at the last elec­ tion. Leroy Youmans and Ex-Gov. A. Mc- ' Orath were chosen as the chief counsel. » » About fifty persons have been indicted j, , . President Arthur received' a visit from a party of Seminole Indians at Kissimee, ' ' " Tla. The occasion was made memorable to Chief Tigertail by the present of a cigar from title President and of a pocket-knife | from Secretary Chandler. A papooee was . ... enriched to the amount of 25 cents from the private exchequer of the President The ! . v - Knoxville branch connecting the Louisville H\. and Nashville With the East Tennessee line is completed, making a direct run from Vflle to Knoxville of 900 miles. THE statement eomes from ered with snow. "In the Ohio valley the win ter protection had been partial for a term locally varying from three to ten weeks, alter which the loss from freezing was quite general. The average depreciation is greater in the upper part of the Ohio valley and in Kansas than elsewhere. East of the Allegha- nies the condition is good in the northern belt, declining slightly in the lower latitudes. It iB not up to the average in any part of the South. The average for the crop is eighty, while last April it was 104, and in 1881, eighty-five. A careful examination of the roots in many cases showed that they were healthy, while the plants were brown. There is good reason for believing the real condition of wheat is, therefore, l«fw unpromising than it seems. FOR the purpose of completing a rail­ road from Baltimore to Wilmington and Philadelphia, so as to secure a direct line from Baltimore to the last-named city, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company has issued #12,000,000 worth of bonds and exe­ cuted a mortgage of the Philadelphia branch of the road to cover the same The bonds were all taken in London, have fifty years to run, and will pay m per cent interest VOREION. ADDITIONAL NEWS. OVEB 300 enthusiastic Democrats gathered at the Palmer House, in Chicago, to partake of the second annual banquet given by the Iroquois Club and to listen to the Hood of oratory which followed the feed. The principal speakers were Senator Bayard, of Delaware; Col. William F. Vilas, of Wisconsin; James O. Brodhead, of Mis­ souri; William Henry Hurlbert, of New York; Lymaft Trumbull, of Illinois; W. C. Bieckinridge. of Kentucky; E. P. Wheeler, President of the New York Free-trade Club, and May< r Harrison. Several of the more prominent invited guests were not present... The Scott Liquor Tax bill, taxing all dealers in liquors $200 and those dealing only in wine and beer $100, has passed the Ohio House of Representatives, and will likely pass the Senate. I repeals the old laws, but makes payment of the tax a first lien on the j remises... .A prohibitory amendment to the constitution was rejected by the Connecticut House, not having the necessary two thirds vote The Connecticut Senate rejected a bill requiring railroads to provide free passes to members of the Legislature. ... .'1 he Michigan House of Representatives rejected a proposed prohibitory amendment A TRACT of 280 acres of land one mile south of Lawrence, Kaa, has been purchased by the Government a^ the site for an indus­ trial school for Indian?1. It is designed to erect buildings capable of accomodating oO'J pur ils... .The large packing-house of bowl­ er Brotheis. at Kan :asCity, Mo., employing several hundred men, have determined to keep in their employ no men who use in­ toxicating drink or visit gambling houses.... At Earlville, Delaware county,Iowa, Charle3 Smith, a farmer, dashed his wife's brains out with an ax, iuthed to the barn and slaught­ ered his two boys, aged It and 14 yer>rs. and then ran to a grove near by and CUD his threat from ear to ear. Domestic troubles and heavy losses in hogs during the winter are supposed to have unsettled his mind Ellis and Krauss, of Evansville, Incl, millers and dealers in grain, have fai!ed, with liabilities amounting to #<i5,- 000 and assets of #40,000 There are now confined in the Chicago jail no less than twenty-three persons who are awaiting trial for or have been convicted of homicide. A XilLI) hss been istrodso?*! in the Canadian Parliament by Premier McDonald, conferrin > the elective franchise upon far- uiers1 and mechanics' sons whose fathers ate qualified voters, end upon women who pay a yearly rental of #20 or are assessed S100 income The consolidation of the six largest grape-sugar manufacturers in this country is an accomplished fact The combined cat ital is #15,0t0,(X 0 The business failures of the country for the week endirg April 18 numbered ISO as against 197 tor the preceding week. They were distributed as follows: New England States, 14; Western, 51; middle, 2(i; South­ ern, 41; Pccilic States and Teiritories, 10; Kew York City, 12; and Canada, 32. AT McDcrmott, Chicot county, Ark., six colored children went to a picnic in the woods', and gath^iin? weeds for salad, coakcd them, and mistakenly put in strych­ nine for seasoning. All partook and at' last accounts tine; diedand thoie was little hope for the others N, W. Monioe aiul mother, of Halifax county, Va., were fatally ]>o K ned by an unknown person John and Embert August, another Ge: man, and a negro, name unknown, were drowned by the capsizing of a tkiff at Vicksbuxg. M 8;-. A VALUABLE silver vein has bqen dis­ covered in Cocke county. East Tenaesree. The ore contains from $35 ta f-iV of silver j er ton, which is a* rich ai the majority of great mines in the West A company has been formed to develop the mine Robert Masfe.', who murdeied Edwin P. Ciari in ihe C hickasaw Nation on Dec. 4, 1«>1, was executed at Fort Smith, Ark. At Carrolton, Miss., James E. Robinson paid the extreme penalty of the law for killing William Y. Adair m a drunken row. At Winston, N. C., a negro was hanged by a mob for criminal assault in a young girl Baih Walker, who was to have been executed at Columbia S. C., died in jail. ' THE MARKET. NEW YORK. Buvm # s.00 <9 7.80 Hoos 7.75 <9 8.28 FiXrtJB--Snperflue 8.28 & 3.88 WHEAT--No. l White Lio @ i.il No. 2 Bed............... 1.16 W 1.30 CORN--No. 2 M & .67 OATS--No. 2 61 & .63 POKE--Mesa ; 19.00 @19.60 Laud .ufc CHICAGO. BKEVKB--Good to Fancy Steers. 6.90 & 7.00 Cow* and Heifers 8.40 @4.76 Medium to Fair 6.85 @6.1$ HOOS. 6.60 @ 8 00 Fnoua-^-Fftney White Winter Ex. 6.00 @ 6.26 Good to Choice Spr'g Ex. 4.76 @ 6.'JO WHEAT--No. 2 Spnntr 1.00 1.08 No. 2 Red Winter. 1.04 @ 1.05 COBN--No. 2 48 & 62-. OATS--No. 2 jit & .42 RYE--No 2 ^5 @ .66 BABUEY--No. 2 .74 & .76 BUTTEB--Choice Creamery .27 & .so EGOS--Fresh l# @ .16 Pom--Mesa. 17.76 @18.00 LABD Wi& .11)4 MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No. 2 1.02 48 1.0a CORN--No. 2 41 <9 .62 OATS--No. 2 Al & .42 RYE--No. 2 .64 <31 .66 BAELET--No. 2.., 82 $ .88 POBK--Meat 18.00 @18.25 .UK® .11)6 It has jawiWd wirtsgnrBjd for over tmr topic of discnuMion. Hie eMe auray points of general intereafc is Professor of Surgery in Mlch- , which responsible position ten years On the 11th of Sep- Scripps published in ue 1 sensational article ofrarg- ing *• Professor in the University* with improper intimacy with Mrs. Emily Wardle, of Tilsonburg, Ont., while •herwps under his professional care. The Itatements contained in the article pointed unmistakably to Prof. MacLean. Those state­ ments were corfdensed mainly from articles previously printed in Canadian papers, and were of the sensational variety known as "red hot." Prof. MacLean, in company with bis friend the late Dr. D. O. Farrand, inter- viewedSditor Scripps soon after the Article appeared in the News. In that interview it was mreed on the part of Mr. Scripps to publish a statement which the professor should dictate in the way of a denial of the accusation. The Maclean statement was published, and in the same iteue appeared an editorial paragraph directing attention to it That day's publications were regarded by the professor and his friends as an augra- VMion, rather than a cure, of the alleged libel, and thereupon a suit was commenced, laying damage* at #50,00°. As a matter of course the declaration alleged that Mr. Scripps acted maliciously in publishing the scanctalouB chafare. The defendant in his bill of particulars set forth that he would prove that MacLean and Mrs. Wardle committed the crime at the Leonard House, in Ann Arbor, on June 26 and 28. The plaintiff on trial of the case accounted for all of his doings on these special days, and thus established a com­ plete alibf so far as the dates elected by the defendant in his bill of particulars are con­ cerned The defense in brief claimed: 1. The alleged libelous article was truet 2. It was not maliciously published, but m the public interest 3. Whatever damages the plaintiff might have suffered were done away by agreement between the parties--in other words there was accord and satisfaction. A significent and governing factor in the case is what is known as the C. D. Brenton letter. It is a letter addressed to "C. D. Brenton, Til-onburg, Ont," and signed "John E. Welleorn." It was written at Kingston, Ont, July 24, 1882, and its language is erotic and libidinous to the last degree It was alleged by the defense that "John EL Welloorn was Prof. MacLean, and that, "C. D. Brenton" was Mm Wardle. That erotic letter was placed in the Wardle box (Mm Wardle having received other letters so addressed) and her husband obtained pos­ session of it and read it Its shooking con­ tents, and the discovery of his wife's sup­ posed infidelity, so wrought upon War die's mind that he became a madman, and is now in the asylum for the insane at London, Ont The Brenton-Wellcorn letter and the let­ ters known to have been written by Prof.. MacLean were used in court by the defense to strengthen their theory that one hand wrote both, and that theory was also sup­ ported by tne te timony of chirographic ex­ perts, who swore unreservedly that such was, in their opinion, the fact The arguments by counsel consumed two days. Judge Chipraan charged the jury. They retired at 10:55 a m., and at 0 p. m. rendered a verdict in favor of the plaintiff, MacLean, for #2J,0C0. It has been a fiercely- contested ca*e, and it s ems to have oc­ cupied almost the undivided attention of the people of Detroit OLD BUT SUSAN DCHEL, an aged colored woman, died recently at Brooklyn aged 100. ELIHHA DURDEN, of Walton county, Ga, is said to be 10U years old. He picked a bale of cotton in his centennial year. Mas. ELLEN BIRMINGHAM, who died at Louis­ ville, Ky., recently, is 6aid to have been 107 years, 2 months and 14 days old Orthoss in Talbot county, Ga, parsed 90 years of age there are the Iiev. Zashariah Stearns, aged «4 years; Mr. Isaac Lucas, aged 02; Mr. John Green, aged Utii The lat­ ter is t.he only male pensioner of the war of 1812 in the oounty. TnEBB.M|ff liiQij living in Georgia at the age of Hwirorii wliose rather was 101 years old when ne was bora, and who lived to ac­ company him to the polls to cast his first vote. The son now splits rails, builds fence, digs goobers and bids fair to live as long as his father. THE Mobile Register says an Indian woman 120 years of age lives near Fitzpatrlck, in Bullock county, Ga She was on Gen. An­ drew Jackson's staff as a cook when he cut a road through tl.e country to Florida, and has some 1 ot; and kettles in which she used to cook the Genera.'s frugal food BBOOKFIELD, Macon county. Mo. ,is the home of Robert Gibson, who is spry at the alleged age of 116 years. He recollects dimly the Revolutionary war and the Presidency of Gen. Washington. Mr. Gibson's oldest boy is now a lad of 81, and his "baby," with whom he is now living, is 44. He has been twice married, and has thirteen children living and three dead His direct descendants, now reaching to the fifth generation, num­ ber nearl > 400. JACK HUEY, a colored man who lives near Charlotte, N. C., claims to be 112 years old. He was brought from Africa about eighty years ago, and when landed in an American port" was a full-grown and Well-matured man. The change in climate was so great in his transition from a torrid sun to the cold blasts of an American winter that his body became very badly frost bitten, and his toes dropped off. Jack hat never had a toe with;n the memory of any living ac­ quaintance MB. WILLIAM VERNON HABCOUBT in­ troduced in the British House of Commons a bill to amend C&e law in regard to explo­ sives, and it passed through the committee of the whole without opposition, was report­ ed to the House and passed, being sent im­ mediately to the House of Lords, where it was adopted The bill imposes severe pen­ alties for causing or attempting to cause ex­ plosions imperiling life or property, and for the unlawful making or keeping of explo­ sives accessories being held to account equally with principals. The bill also en­ larges the power of the ST. LOUIS. WHEAT--No. 2 Bed COBN--Mixed.... OATS--No. 2 RYE , PORK--Mess T.iprt w „ CINCiNN ATL WHEAXU-NO. 2 Red. COBN.?S» OATS RYE. ' PORK-Mesa I LABD J**. TOE&DO. WHEAT-NO. aBed....7..T*»..... CORK OATS--N<KS DETROIT. FLOUR WHEAT--NO. l White CORN--NO. 2 OATS--Mixed ,POBK--Mess INDIAN APOLI& WHEAT--No. 2 Bed 1.07 & 1.08 % t .*.. 6.75 @7.00 1.06 @ 1.06 .45 @ .46 .41 @ .42 .63 & .64 18.00 @18.26 J0*@ .11 1.07 @ 1.06 .62 @ .66 .45 & .46 .61 & .62 18.25 @18.60 .mm .11 1.07 <68 44 <| 0 1.06 0 .54 ODD HAPPENINGS* A STOVE made in 1828 in York, Pa, was re­ cently sold for #1,000. JOSEPH THOMPSON, of Simmons' Gap. Ga, has had nine wives and fifty-three ctuldren. A SILVER dime was found in the yelk of an erg recently broken at the l'lankinton House, Milwaukee. "JUST for fun" a scoundrel at Richmond, Va, gave a boy a pint of whisky to drink. The boy died, ana hi* murderer has been entenced to twelve years' imprisonment WHELK seining in the river at Shipping- port, Ky., a fisherman brought up a rubber overcoat containing a pocketbook, in which were a #50 greenback and a #20 gold piece. CHARLES CLEWKUU, of Catawissa, Pa, upon cleaning up the old granary on the premises lately occupied by his deceased father, found #700 in old gold and silver coin in a barrel of screenings. AN eight-day clock that had been given to the wife of Douglas Ottinger, of Erie, Pa, as a wedding present by her husband, stoppedatthe very moment she died, and cannot be started again. A WELL-TO-DO farmer, living near Beading, Pa, created a sensation by bringing his three young and handsome daughters into court as the plaintiffs in three separate ac­ tions for breach of promise of marriage. THE firet night on which Samuel Scott of Wartourg, Tenn., went into a bed to rleephe died He weighed 350 pounds, and, by a physician's advice, used to sleep by kneeling upon the floor, with his head resting upon a chair. A MAV in Warren county, Ky., climbed a tree to shake dowp an opossum that his dogs had treed The limb proved rotten, and Smith came down so rapidly that the dogs did not di.-cover their error unM lhey had nearly killed h.m. ':T" - YANKEE NOTIONS. .46 4.26 @4.89 1.06 @ 1.08 •62 @ .64 .44 @ .46 1&60 @18.76 1.07 AT the dinner table of a New Bedford gentleman, five persons lately sat down, whose united weight was 1,060 pounda Maa SALLY TURNER, an elderiy lady resid­ ing in Athens, Me .has become so habituated po the use of opiates that she takes eight bot- Ues of morphine a week, or over one each GABBY REED believed that a person cross­ ing before him brought bad luck, and for kens before his death at Waterbury, Conn., his dodging behind horses and men was a IT is said "200 years ago fct dlans Indulged in Turkish baths." Yes, it must have been all of 200 years ago. To judgefrom toe one wesaw last it might n# •trfttfrh T ifcottbai"' 1. kind el iA nton rtlraetfv* (Mwf'ipte-- haps none mor« profitable than txrook trout. There aMiH this Stele, honv ever, very few ponds where *he ai'fcto>- cratic fish may be reared, so that I &asd 2-7 horo nothing farther is regard to it. . 2. Ponds of Game Fish.--In any clear pond or lake in this State "gamey" or carnivorous fishes can be reared. < Of these our native fishes are the best, the white bass, the black bass, the croppie, the yellow perch, the rock bass and other species of snnfish and the different sorts of small catfish. The latter are not very high game. The writer has, however, a liking for them as pond fishes, for they are good food, hardy and prolific, and withal morally certain not to waste the fisherman's time, as they take the hook with unfail­ ing accuracy, and take it for "keeps." Such a fish-pond is especially a-boy's pond, and the catfish is pre-eminently a boy's 'fish. To stock such a pond there is nothing special to do but free it, if possible, from gars, dogfish and Eickerel, and then to put in as many ve fish as practicable of the species desired, with minnows and suckers for food. Catfish will thrive in almost any pond which does not dry up in the sum­ mer, but the bass and sunfish are more particular. 8.' Carp Ponds.--For most ponds which may be made in this State, no fish is so well suited as the European carp. It bears the same relation to the native fishes that a hog does to our wild animals or the hen to our native game birds. It is not so handsome or so delicate as the best of the native fishes. There is no excitement in its capture, but it furnishes food for a hungry world. The carp much resembles the buffalo fish in size and form; it has the same thick head, large scales and tooth­ less mouth. Its flesh is, however, mu,ch finer in quality, although by no means equal to that of white fish or brook trout. The carp will thrive in almost any water. It feeds on vegetable sub­ stances, frog spittle, water weeds, bread crumbs, bran, almost anything that a chicken or pig will eat. It will take the hook sometimes, if imbedded in a bread crumb, but so will a hen under similar circumstances. Its growth is very tapid under favorable conditions, and it is very profitable. It is said to devour its own spawn when feed is scarce, but, unlike omnivorous fishes, it rarely eatj; its own young. The ideal oarp pond is clear, warm, weedy, deep in the middle, shallow along the edges And free from other fish. A pond which can be drained at will is convenient where fish are raised for the markets, as the large fish can be selected and the smaller ones left. If tho fish are caught with a seine many small ones will be injured. • , Some Resemblance. : Men not only take after animals, but animals frequently take after men. They take after each otherphysically. We do not mean that they chase each other, although they also do that. The idea we are trying to convey is, they le- semble each other, not only in their out­ ward appearance, but also in their hab­ its. From these marked resemblances between individuals of the human spe­ cies and other individuals among the beasts of the fields arise the familiar expressions, "As sly. as a fox," MAs stu­ pid as an ass," "As greedy as a hog," "As bold as a lion," etc. Not only are these traits common tp men and animals, but there is a resem­ blance between certain insects and cer­ tain men or classes of men. The ta­ rantula in its habits, deadly manners and unostentatious cussednesB is not unlike the TexaB desperado. The in­ dustrious ant, as we see it providing for the future rainy day, reminds one of the hard-working German who is qui­ etly laying up riches. Then there is an insect vulgarly called the devil's horse, that holds up its fore legs and bends its knees in an attitude of prayer. It cocks its head on one side and looks as knowing as one of those roaring fanatics who roam over the country, preaching of sulphur and abusing the press. There is another insect called the tick. Its peculiar trait is catching on and holding on. It is almost unneces­ sary to say that their traits are suggest­ ive of the politician. 'The tick usually inhabits the rural district and lives on the public.) If a person should lie down, under a shady tree in the summer time, half a dozen famished ticks fasten 00 him and refuse to let go under any circum­ stances. Unless they are removed at once by some strong power, they bury their heads into the quivering flesh cl the victim, and continue in office from term to term. If they are ultimat ly wrenched from the;r positions, they im­ mediately catch hold and hatig on some fresh place. It has sometimes hap­ pened that a tick is detachocl by force from the body politic, in which case he usually c rries enough off in his mouth to last him for some time. Y/hen the tick first comes into office, he is in very Eoor condition, but as his victim groans e also grows, until he becoir. as so very much expanded that one might infer that he would drop off, but he never does. The leech, to his credit be it said, drops off when he has gorged him­ self, but the tick never gorges himself. Nobody has ever known of a profession­ al politician having enough. He is per­ fectly willing to die in harness. When an ox or a cow acquires too many ticks, the poor animal gets weak, thin and exhausted. So when the officeholders are unusually hard to fill up, the tax payers become weak and the treasury exhausted.-- Texas Sif tings. Arrangement of Booms. Give your apartments expression, character. Rooms <vhich mean nothing are cheerless, indeed. Study light and shade, and the combination and arrange­ ment of drapery, furniture and pict­ ures. Allow nothing to look isolated, but lat everything present the air of so­ ciability. Observe a room immediately afte/ a number of people have left it, and then, as you arrange the furniture, disturb as little as possible the relative positions of the chairs, ottomans and g»jfas. Place two or three chairs in a conversational attitude in some cheery corner, an ottoman within easy distance of a sofa, a chair near your stand of stereoscopic views or engravings, and one where a good light will fall on the book which you may reach from the ta­ ble near. Make little studies of effect which shall repay the more than usual do not leave it possible which ap- . „ . , TCnp W9 Wtteatrained, md 0 harmony with "jUoiew. may b« not feel onu ~ WhatHwrtt * "city"i» •atarted" along tiw linea of new ta& roads in the Northw«at and the South­ west has, within tho list decade, been often a matter of aetonishment and amusement to Eastern people. Such phenomenal growths seem characteristic of the far West, and have no parallel in the previous history of human im­ migration. Take for example the new town of McGregor, Tex. On a certain day, a little over a year ago, it was decided aqd announced that tne new line of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe railway would cross the Texas and St. Louis railway at a certain point. This was in the afternoon. By 10 o'clock the next morning, the entire section about the proposed juncture was staked out in house-lots, streetp and projected public squares. As noon that dqy the side of lots opened; and in three hours $5,000 werth had been sold. Before \ sunset 442 lots, covering oVer 300 acres, were taken up. The next day the building of houses and moving In of the people began, and began in earnest. From far out on the prairie, upon all sides, the shanties and nouses could be seen coming on rollers! Before night twelve houses were up, and as many more had arrived. Twice this number of tents, tod, M been pitched. On the third day stores, "saloons" and a "hotel" were opened; and before night the necessity of a municipal gov­ ernment and a "lock-up" was keenly felt and promptly provided for. Thus day by day McGregor "boomed." Within a few weeks the new "city" has been spoken of as "one of the most thriving towns" of the Southwest frontier. It has given birth to a vigor­ ous newspaper, the McGregor Plain- dealer, a recent number of which gives, as an item of the town's business, the statement that 15,000 bales of cotton had been exported from that town within the last two months. Taken as an index of human activity and energy in the West, and as the pressure of the current setting in that direction, such precocious growths are absolutely startling. One cannot help wondering what vent this eager, tumult­ uous current of immigration will find, when the now rapidly filling West is full and the Pacific stops the human tide. At the nearest of the outlying.planets all are full; too ? Are the farms and house-lots thereon all sold? Is the climate of Mars and Venus likely to prove salubrious to Americans? And is it not about time to hear something about an interplanetary steamer?-- Youth's Companion. Staking a Life on a Card. The long and prosperous career ol Flotow, the composer, was temporarily clouded in 1864 by the death of. his youngest brother, which took place un­ der painfully dramatic circumstances. He was rather what is euphemistically called a "wild" fellow, and a practical joke which he perpetrated in a half- drunken freak was taken as an insult by ths ^vholo body of tb® M6ck}Anbnror deputies, of whom he himself was one. A dozen challenges ensued and young De Flotow agreed to meet any single antagonist selected by lot. This, as it happened, turned out to be a certain Count Z., one of the deputies who resented the offense most keenly. On De Flotow's asking him if he thought a stupid joke worth fighting about and receiving an emphatic answer in the affirmative, "Be it so," he said; "and, if you attach as little value to life as I do. we will fight in the American fashion--I staking my life against yours in a game of ecarte of five points; the loser to blow out his brains in twenty-four hours." The proposition was agreed to, cards were brought and the two men commenced their terrible game. The score stood at four points on each side, when Count Z. turned the king. "You have won, sir," said Da Flotow, rising; "I will pay before noon to-morrow." Next day he slept till 11. ' .After break­ fast he took A turn in the park, and was observed by his valet gazing for some minutes at the facade of the ancestral mansion; after which he hid his face in his hands for a moment, as if weeping. He then pulled out his watch! It wanted but five minutes of noon. M. De Flotow entered his study. At 12 precisely the report of n pistol shook the window-panes. He had pu et- uslly killod himself.--St. Jarne# Ga­ zette. A Conrt Clerk's Lonj Nine. Thomas W. Chinti, o" Louisiana, wa« a nativo cf Kentucky. When a yo'iig man he was employed in tho ofiice o' a court Cleik at Frankfor j. The story goas that ho was addicted to cxc;wsi\*e smoking. At length hi: liov, the Clerk, gave him peremptory or (lor J not to smoke more than three clgirs per day. "Very wel?," repliel young Chinn, "it will give me no d'scomfort to carry out your instructions." < The next morning the Clerk found him seated at his table writing, with one end of a cigar in his mo 3th and the other end resting on a shelf hard by. It was not much less thap a yard long. Looking on him for a moment with as­ tonishment, mingled with admiration, he Raid: "Get up and come along with me--you have entirely too much genius for this room." What does the -reader suppose was done with him? Why he was taken to the office of an attorney at law and the first volume of Blackstone placed in his hand--the Clerk^ag^eeing to pay all expenses until lie was isd- mitted to the bar. That Wng accom­ plished in due time, he then Removed to Louisiana and settled at Baton Rouge. Subsequentlv he became a Judge. In 1839 he was elected a Representative to Congress as a Whig, and served one term. In 1842 President Taylor ap­ pointed him Minister to the Two Sicil­ ies. He was a stout, handsome gentle­ man, and much esteemed by his associ ates in Congress. There is no telling what a cigar of extraordinary length may lead to.--^"An Old Fogy," in the Louisville Courier-Journal. A WESTERN farn^r advertises that he wants a first-class potato-masher; there are lots of mashers in Philadel­ phia, but they are all of the small- potato order.--Philadelphia Item. CHICKEN cern when it is 000 is the value of ,ted that $75,000,- the egga of this <rase fb!efwrty iiatMice: a man made a contraet jpajr the bul, and it was decided. fhnfr the mistake freed him from liability. A horse was sold by a trader and paid for on the not. While the trade waa going on the horse died. The buyer brought suit for.the monc y paid, and it was decided it should be paid back, since both parties had made a of fact in supposing the hoMe to be alive when the trade was ended. If a farmer intending to sell hay sella oats by mistake instead, he may refuse to deliver the oats on that ground. It sometimes happens that a bill is paid by mistake with counterfeit bank notea. In such a case the payment is void and the receipt taken is worthless. A mistake in the quality of the thing- bargained for is no ground for breaking an agreement: If a man buys a cheap thing, with the idea that it*will serve his purpoSB as well as a more expensive* article, he cannot, because he was mis-, taken, send it back and recover the money paid. A mistake of law is no ground for refusmg to carry out a contract This rule is founded on the old maxim, "Ig­ norance of the law doth not excuse?^* And every man is supposed to knqw the law of the land he lives in. Suppose a debtor gives his note, promising to pay a sum of money with lawful interest, thinking that the legal rate is 7 per cent.. If 10 per cent, ia the legal interest, nis ignorance of the fact will not excuse him from paying the 10 per cent. When well-known- legal words nxe used in a contract, with a mistaken idea of their meaning, they are binding, in their legal sense, upon the person using them. * If land is deeded to a man and to hSa heirs, he receives the estate absolutely, although both parties intended that he should only have the estate during his own life. Some mistakes of law put an end to agreements on the ground that they axe rather mistakes of fact than of law. An executor of a will pays money to a person whom he thinks is an heir. If. the supposed heir be an impostor, the money can be recovered. If, under a complicated" will, a person buys rights which are his already, he may get baok what he paid for them. Mistakes of law in civil cases only cost money; but mistakes of the crim­ inal law have more serious effects, in the loss of respectability and reputa­ tion. Here the plea of ignorance Of the law will not be accepted. A crim­ inal must suffer the penalty of his deed, though he thought it lawful when he committed it. Formerly an outlaw might be slain by anybody; but, if a private person should now kill an outlaw, with an idea that he had a right to do so, it would bft punishable as murder.--Youth's Coil* panion. Miseries of London Life. Coleridge long ago recognized the eek- istenoe of no fewer than sixty distinctly different stenches at Cologne, and it was perhaps the multiplicity of malodorous ouiailatiiOno lit tliC City of tks Doiu tiiai incited the original Jean Marie Farina to devise the delicious perfume which bears his name. London, however, is a city which far surpasses Cologne, if not in the number, at least in the intensity and the noxiousness to health of its evil smells. We have the smoke always with us, to begin with, which, as Lon­ don continues to grow, and sea-coal is burnt in open fire-places, most stupidly constructed, must necessarily increase in volume and in poisonous attributes every year. We have still, to judge from its color, a river which is terribly polluted, and in which, below bridge, few fish can live; and where there ie pollution of water unpleasant odore must necessarily follow. The main drainage iR, no doubt, a magnificent en­ gineering work, but our house drainage is still lamentably imperfect, and our dust bins are so many hot-beds of dis­ ease, the perils of which are aggravated „ by the tardineqp of dust contractors, the- extortions of dustmen, and the appar­ ently incorrigible laziness of servants. Our greatness as a commercial and man­ ufacturing metropolis demandt^hat we should carry on within our borders such industries as the boiling and burning of bones, the making of glue, size, white lead, leather, varnish, tallow and chem­ ical manures; and it would be interest­ ing to ascertain how many millions of feet of carburetted hydrogen and car­ bonic acid gas there are liberated every year from the furnace of our gas-works and the "fermenting squares" of our breweries. There is not a railway sta­ tion in London that is not a focus of more or less pestilent smell. There is not a mews behind an aristocratic square or street that is not a hot-house of un­ healthy odors.--London Time9. Management of Sick Children. The vicissitudes necessarily incident to an outdoor and primitive mode of life are neyer the first causes of any disease, though they may sometimes be­ tray it 4 presence. Bronchitis, nowa­ days perhaps the most frevuent, of all infantile diseases, makes no exception to this rnle; 1 d raught of cold air may re­ veal the latent progress of the disorder, but its cause is long confined in.vitiat­ ed and overheated atmosphere, and its pijopcr remedy ventilation and a mild, phlegm-loosening (saccharine) diet, warm, sweet milk, sweet oat-meal por- rMge, or honey-water. Select an airy bed-room and do not be afraid to open the windows; among the children of the Imliau trilns who brave in open tents thf terrible winter of the Hudson Bay territory, bronchitis, crop and diph­ theria are wholly unknown; and what we call "taking cold" might often be more correctly described as taking hot 'y glowing stoves, even open fires, in a niglit-nurserv, greatly aggravate the pernicious effects of an impure -atoj.9g" phere. ^ ^ ^ Not Necessary to Stndyw r '• No, my son, don't think it necessary to study for the stage. Nobody doef that, nowadays. While you are wasting your time in study another man with nice-fitting pantaloons, an obdurate fa­ cial development, and an energetic ad­ vance agent with a talent for puffing will rush forward and usurp the highest place in the profession. is like a A GUILTY pool, drawing in would otherwise all to by 1%' ' ' - few Oi". V '-K" • •••• ^ ' • t' f «• !* f" t&S ' -i-< i\- - ' * - > V* - . ' ' ' ^ ' -