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• V the Iiisli Na- nal League. Iraland't iVrengs Set Forth in KifeMtlritC. K4H»raM Piimishw U -{ £?% . 8 -tgPk IwllWuW, After The Pennsylvania Legislature has • law prohtWtllMr IN netfaiuumoe of of lo* Most ILLINOIS of any play h«££#ti$ tomiSSS?1 efforts ta ******* Glowing Words SCOIBINSEO. 4s - f I -- S **r- wniwuiiiiivp w ivu (rUO 0«v. tiie Massachusetts Board of ttialMt Laaacy and Charities has assumed WrtWl Of the Tewksbury Almshouse, ^*p- * ̂ an^rtSttf^ntorests of Pennsyl­ vania have agreed to work three day* daring ,.,.1 each of the first two weeks of May, and to «h^ma£^ of^he monttf?!!n?ehwBdS more pauper Irish emigrants were landed P" • ttom the sceamer Catalonia at Boston, bav- usteted thither by the British Albert H. Beals and A. P. Frickett, i Boston spice firm, engaged passage on a Sound steamer and occupied the same state­ room. Frickett arom in the middle of the Bight, and the noise he made In opening a window caused Beals to think an intruder Was present, and he shot his partner dead. ... .An explosion occurred at the Keystone Coiliexy, near Ashland, Pa, by which several 8iners was killed and many others severely tared. The disaster was canned by the oollapee of a pillar, which preciptated an immense fall of coal and liberated a great volume of gas, , ; The Western Union Company has teen granted permission to buy their wires lit New York City, paying 1 ceat per lineal Coot for each street opened, and giving the Mi(ty the use of two vires. Seven structures, including the Union Hotel, were consumed by Sre at New Mil- ford, Pa, causing a loss of §4",000 The St Albans (Vt) Iron aud Steel Works Is bank- nipt At a fifteen-minute conference of the bbn manufacturers and the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers held in Pittsburgh action was taken which will lead to the gravest complications in the iron trade. Mr. John Jarrett, on behalf of the Amalgamated Association, said that the workingmen, after thoroughly reviewing the situation, had reached the decision that ti»e state of trade did not justify any lower scale of wages than is now- paid. Neither did they believe that the new Tariff law would have such an effect upon the iron trade as to render it im­ possible for manufacturers to pay the same wages as now prevail, and for ihe-e reasons tiiey perempto rily refused to accent any re­ duction in wages for the year beginning June L On motion of a manufacturer, the con­ ference immediately adjourned sine die At a private meeting. hoki later, the manufact­ urers determined to insist on a general re­ duction, and a strike is considered inevita- Ue unless the manufacturers rooede from their position. Com­ modate Shuradt Superintendent of the Nav­ al Obaervatory. Chairman Cooper, of the Pennsyl- TlpnnlJ i K»«i Issued a call for the meeting of the Repub­ lican State Committee in Harrfeburg, July 11... .Tne Iowa Republican State Con­ vention will be held at Des Moines, June 27 next WASHINGTON. A statement prepared in the office of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue shows that the aggregate receipts for March, 188a, were #1,4^,121 greater than fear March, 1882. The increase was distributed as follows: On spirits, #1,798,975; on beer, #4&12&. There was a decrease as follows: On tobacco, •218,751; ob banks and bankers, #501,187; and miscellaneous, 176,091 It has been de­ cided by tbe Treasury Department that cus­ toms officers on the Rio Grande may arrest smugglers as well as seize smuggled gooda The Government, it is estimated, loses #500,000 ii--iHr by smuggling on the Southern border. while it m hardly prob­ able that any international complication will arise oat of the fact, yet the notiflca- tton to our Government by the Mexican Minister that Gen. Crook cannot pursue the hostile Apaches into Mexico without the consent of the Mexican Senate opens the door tor possible differences between the two nations. Following Is the regular monthly Debt statement, Issued on the 1st of May: TbrseaadeBe-balf per cents....... $ 4C.9M.10t Four and one-half par oents......... 980,000.000 Four per cents 797371.650 Three per cents. aoo^ea.soo Refunding certificates.......... Ssw.eeo Navy penMou fond 14,000,000 ... Wt«%5,000rebels andde- with dteht loaa te his dmi ^«££toVsIsalfce|*3a' killed. iacittdlXKr Ms lieutMMHt i The itBrnSS bill was defeated in the A DUBUN dispatch says the Grand Jury returned tame bills for murder against Peter Tynan, alias "Number One," John Walsh and P. J. Sheridan, and a bill as ac­ cessory to murder after the fact against Fitz- barria. Walsh and Sheridan are in Ameri­ ca, and lynan is supposed to be here. The dispatch adds: "Now that true bills for murder have been feund, it is oonrfdemd no longer Ofea to the United States ta refuse to extradite Sheridan, Walsh and Tynan. It is believed Tynan will torn informer." The Grand Jury also found trae bills against Lawrence Hanlon, James and Joseph Hul- lett, and Daniel Delaney, on the o FieML ftey also found a true "Mil for "piracy to murder against the two Mnlletta, Lawrenoe Hanlon, Edward McCaffrey, Ed­ ward O'Brien, George Smith, Peter Doyle, William Moroney and Daniel Debuter; and against Edward O'Brien and Edward McCaf­ frey for participating in the murder «f Cav­ endish and Burke. of thei teat tbslr ordsr; tei equitable ties it lias' asylums of applied tbe I has dtsehai through infancy tit-' • Total iijtwwtr-beertnjr dsbt....".il,S48,47^,o<x) Maimed debt ». ».001.085 Legal-tender notes. SM,740,C51 Certificates of deposit lo,lu5.oo:> Gold and silver certificates..;....... 163,104,951 Fractional currency.. „. 7,0>J8,u73 Total without interest. 1505.958,275 The Scott Liquor law, just adopted in Ohio, has been decided unconstitutional hf Justice May, of Steubenviile. A saloonist selling without the written consent of the landlord was arfested. The defense was that the law wax unconstitutional, be?nu9c it impaired existing contracts. The Justice- gave the opinion that the law was unconsti­ tutional because the tax was unequal and It also impaired existing contracts. Hie iailer at Tuscan, Arizona, was mur­ dered by two inmates of the prison, who had toy some means obtained pistols and a key that let them out of their cells into the cor­ ridor. John Walsh, the murderer of Thomas Galvin, was taken from the tail at Lorisburir, New Mexico, and lynched by the Vigi'ance Comrnntee. The supposed Indians who have been steal­ ing stock from the Crows near Bozeman. Montana, have been proven to be Deadwood "rustlers." At Jackson, Ohio, Anderson Lackey, a well-known old farmer, was mur­ dered while sick in bed by two robber*. The rare occurrence is reported from jfctltLake of a Mormon's wife entering com­ plaint of polygamy upainst him. In this in- Stance the woman had been beaten by her husband, and redress had been denied, her * : S? a Momum Jwtice John Bowen died ess&s 4sy st Yranxwato.-a. Wis. In early times he trapped with Davy Crockett anil Other pioneers, and penetrated the Black ps%'?|iillB region in 1830. ;*£, , The President of the Louisville, New !. I Albany and Chicago Railway Company has Issued an order directing the cessation ot all Unnecessary work on Sunday. The order s ^ *"v-|fcates that efforts will be made to abrogate , ', *»ai! contracts that involve the neces^iiv ;'.'vV'jif Sunday trains, and tbat in future no ' ' Excursion trains will be run on Sundays, ; • < even to camp-meeting grounds, and a; promises all possible consideration to Such of the employes as have conscien- • • Mous scruples against Sunday work. In Kansa«, says a recent St. Louis telegram, condition of the winter wheat crop is •och that the production will probablv be SB per cent, short even if the season be most frvorable. A large part of last year's wheal area will be devoted this season to corn, the Wheat germs having been killed during the . Winter--Henry Forham was hanged by the /•: Sheriff at Helena, Mont., for murder The » riepatta of the Northwestern Amateur Row- kg Association will be held at Mnakegon. Mch., July 21 and 22. VHK SOUTH. » The three Smith brothers, with fe > *" Jlafley and Yocum on one side, met the threy • ,$ain brothers in a drinking-house at Mc- •>vKnney, Ky., whenaqurrel arose between the parties, during which forty shots were • Exchanged. William Cain was shot through < tte head, and Peter and James Cain were Jierlously wounded Robert Smith was shot to the mouth. Paymaster Mason, of the United " 'States army, was robbed of his valise, con- • • taining #20,000 destined for paying the * i : troops on the Rio Grande frontier, as he was tiding from Fort Worth to Big Springe, on TO railroad The Grand Harrodsburg, Ky., returned an in- . dictment of murder against Phil B. Thomp- 'i;^-ion, Jr., for killing Walter H. Davis April 2Z 1 - • A difficulty occurred between ^0*1 'I"®*011 Cain, a prominent farmer living near little Spr.ng, Franklin county, Miss., and * - t Amos Bailev, colored, when the negro struck ti ^wifMn over tjhe head, inflicting a wound from Which he died Fifty armed men took i r Bailey from the Sheriffs posse and hanged him.,. .At the State Sunday School Conven- '•» Won at Augusta, Ga., it was announced that „ - JlontEagle, Tenn., had been chosen tor the i; Southern Chautauqua Edward Lily, a »egro near Favetteville, N. C., was bitten by r. , * mad dog and became so frightened that he died before reaching home. to Ex-State Treasurer Polk, of Ten- lessee, was rearrested at Nashville upon an u:,_, Order of the court based upon suspicion that i." j he was about to leave the citv, and because " . his sureties wera of doubtful worth. Mr. Folk was most hospitably entertained by < ^.'5,beSheriff ---In the United States Circul; Court at New Orleans Judge Billing^ ren- ' f dered a decision in favor of Mr . Mvra Clark n'-Cainee against the City of New Orleans for .. ' the sum of $1.'.>:J5,6«7. Mra Gaines has k ' her cases persistently for a genera- # ; and is naturally greatly elated over 'v „ Tbe defendants will appeal |',r ^ • to the United States Supreme Court r' POLITICAL. # i Gek. Green B. Raum, for the past teg.,. six years and nine months Commissioner of Avenue, last week tendered his g-1 , that office to the President, f ;. explBtoiug that private interests required ! r. President expressed sur- mk,a* the Commissioner's decision and f t-, accepted the resignation with protestations * of esteem for the retiring official |p§f The senior Senator from Colorado, a* Dr. Hill, has written a letter to Secretary wlth wilom he ba® not been on » i friendly terms for some time. In this letter tte fiseratary is accused of discourtesy to the Senator in removing officials appointed un on the latter's recommendation. The Yel­ lowstone Park lease is passed in review in a wanner that is calculated to impugn either the wisdom or the integrity of the Secretary Md his distribution of the patronage of the Interior Department is criticised untavora- Secbetary Teller, through a friend, denies the charges brought by Senator Hill M[*in£t his administration of the Interior Department, and especially as regards the -Si' .. Total debt (principal) Total interest Total cash in treasury Debt, less cash in treasury.. Decrease during April Decrease of debt since June >0, MSI Current liabilities-- Interest due and unpaid f Debt on which interest has ceased.. Interest thereon Gold and silver certificates U. Sl notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit. Cash balance available May 1,1883... Cash in treasury Available assets-- Bonds issued to Pacific rail way com­ panies, interest payable in lawful money-- Principal outstanding Interest accrued, not yet raid. Interest paid by United States Interest repaid by companies-- By transportation service By cash payments, 5 per cent. net. earnings. Balance of interest paid by United States ... .$1,883,628,<<61 .... 9,711,225 .... 319, IS'.1.401 .... 1,574,079.8-55 S,8-'1,4T2 114,834,575 8,205,615 8,i:oi,(t,s5 . 86:>,722 102,104,931 10,15,000 1'5,2H.,026 S1»,159,10J (4,623,5t3 1.2*»l\470 67,283,388 16^(1^,033 808,198 40.112.155 The increase in the capital of the national banks during the last six months has been $8,077,500, and the decrease in circulation $:i,oW,7\»l. The increase in iawful money deposited for the purpose of retiring c rculation was $1,002,401... .The President has appointed William 8. Woods, at present a Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court, to be United States District Judge of the Seventh district The President has decided to name the three Bteel cruisers to be built for the navy, the Chicago, the Bos­ ton and the At anta.* GENKRAL. Mr. S. W. Tallmadge, Secretary of the Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce, has received official reports concerning the con­ dition and prospects of both winter and spring wheat in every whe .t-growingSt ate in the Union. From these reports he has made a table of the probable crcp in each State. This table is not a matter of Here speculation, but is based on the reports of the Agricultural Departments, Secreta­ ries of Agricultural Societies, Commissioners of Agriculture,and other cAMals whose busi­ ness it is t» obtain first taefnformation de­ sired, espwcialiy in regard te winter wh^at. Concerning spring wheat, the estimates are ba?ed on the reported acreage and on the supposition that there will be a good season. Of course, should the season not prove good, the yield will fall below the estimates i eached. The f olio wing are the figures: Bushels.! Bushels. Maine 500,0<:0 Kentucky 9,000,000 New Hamps'e 100,000 Ohio 26,000,000 Vermont 400,(kkj Michigan 24,000,000 Massachus'tts 40,000 Indiana 30,000,000 Connecticut... 60,00.) Illinois 35,000,000 New York 12,000,(« 0 Wisconsin 18,000,000 New Jersey... 2,000,000 Minnesota.... 32,000,0<K) Pennsylvania. 20,000,CO • Iowa... Delaware... Virfdnia N. Carolina... S. Carolina... < Jeoricia. Alabama J'exas Arkansas Tennessee 1,500,'xo Missouri.... 8,00*1,000 Kansas 5,500,000 Nebraska... 2,000,000 California.. 3,500,000 Oregon 2,000,000 Colorado ... 5,000,000; Territories. 2,000,000 8,000,0001 Total. ... 22,000,000 23,000,000 23,000,000 16,000,000 26,010,000 13,000,000 2,000,000 20,000,000 ADDITIONAL NEWS. Tta Freeman's Journal, of Dublin, declares that the British Government was informed from the first of all the tests con­ nected with the dynamite plot concocted at New York, the facts being so minutely re­ vealed a* to shfcw that the spy was in the governing council of the conspirators.... The Irish Nationalist party in London is or­ ganising a fnnd for the relief of the families ot Irishmen who have been arrested for po­ litical offenses or who have been obliged to fiv the country....It is reported that the Orleanist Prince, Due de Aumale. is serously ill in Sicily.... Prince Bismarck is again ill, Buffering great­ ly from neuralgia His physicians have or­ dered strict quiet and an avoidance of all physical exertion Bradlaugh having writ­ ten to the Speaker of the House of Commons asking that he be permitted to take the oath, Xorthcotc moved that he be prevented from so doing. Bradlaugh explained bis position from the bar of the House, after whinh Northcote'8 motion was adopted, Gladstone voting with V A others in the neg­ ative Bradlaugh then quietly took his seat, and the matier was dropped. W. A. Braggs & Co.'s fertilizer fac­ tory, Kelly & White's box factory and several smaller stores in Richmond, Va, were de" Btroyed by fire. Loss probably $25,000; partly insured Cattle thieves on the Mexican border have been causing great trouble of late, and the Governor of Texas has ordered the rangers to act promptly against the bands of thieves.... D. F. Wa'ker was executed at Trenton. Ga, and John Lee (colored^ at Gainesville, Fla A row followed the former hanging the Sheriffs brother being shot and others badly injured. Governor Helson, a negro, suffered the extreme penalty at Lewisviile, Ark., makinga religious harangue on the scaffold, and asserting that he would meet his victim in heaven. Tbe New York Legislature has ad­ journed sine die. The Senate referred to the Finance Committee a message from the Gov­ ernor calling attention to the neglect of the Senate to'confirm his nomination for Emi­ gration Commissioner. Before adjourning, the Assembly passed the bill forbidding the giving of free passes on railroads to any one except employes and officials of the roads. Db. .T. H. Ball, in a drunken fight at Ball's Mills, Ma, with Tennessee Jones, fatally stabbed the latter Thieves tore out the corner-stone of the colored Metho­ dist Church at TerTe Haute, Ind., and stole coins, scrip and other contents....The stores in Darlington, Wis., occupied by Hooper, Driver Bros., and Partington & Co., and the Darlington Republican office were destioyed by fire. Loss, 975,000; insured for 155,(0«L JOSHUA s ?Hfe-Enrd?Tflr! aged 77 years, was sentenced to be' hanged on June 22 at Oswego, N. Y....Fifty mem­ bers qf the Pennsylvania Legislature who Berved in the Union army of the war of the Rebellion vMted the scene of the battle? before Petersburg, Vir­ ginia They were welcomed to the city of Petersburg by 8 ana tor Mahone.... The large-1 sale of quinine ever made in thi< cjuniry took place at the auction- room-i of Burdette <V Dennis, New York, the total amount being :K?,4!3 ounces... .Several tenement houses in the suburbs of Phila­ delphia Pa, were damaged by fire to the extent of $^0,000. The directors of the Vanderbilt rail­ roads--the New York Central, Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, and Michigan Cen­ tral--have j list elected officera The position 400 600 000 West Virginia 4,000,000 i Last yr's total 500/*»,000 A terrible catastrophe is reported from Victoria, British Columbia The steamer Grappler. which plied between Pu- get Sound and Alaska, was" discovered to be on fire when about four miles from land. She had nearly 100 Chinese passengers on board, and these became uncontrollable. Threat j to shoot tnose who would not obey orders proved useless, and when the ship was finally beached, the tenitied Celestials rushed blindly into the water, although by availing themselves of the facilities at band all might have been saved Over sixty perished by fire or drowning While the miners were ascending the Vale mine at New Glasgow, N. 8., the rope broke, and the cars were hurled down the shaft, killing four men and two boys and injuring many others, some fatally. The Mexican Government has ^contracted with a French firm for improving Vera Cruz harbor at a cost of 110,047,000. The work is to be fin­ ished in twelve year*. rOREICUt. Eight officers, including a Colonel, have been arrested at St. Petersburg on sus­ picion of being connected with the Nihilists. Sixteen officers were also arrested at Smo­ lensk. It is stated a widespread military conspiracy has been discovered Documents were found at Smolensk showing the coronation of the Czar would be un­ disturbed, but something very serious would happen immediately after O'Donnell, in the English House of Com­ mons, charged Clifford Doyd, an Irish police official, with altering affidavits, and had laid on the table evidence to support his ac­ cusations. The Government refused to an­ swer the question whether they would retain him in office....The importation of American pork into Greece has been forbid­ den by the Government of that country Mb. Pabnell has expressed to an American newspaper correspondent his perfect satisfaction with the work of tbe Irish convention at Philadelphia He be­ lieves that the desire of the people of Ire­ land for self-government is unconquerable, and that in opposing it Great Britain is committing a heinous political crime Mr. j Parneil further states his belief that nothing can be hoped for at tbe hands of Parliament.... A riot between Greeks and Arabs at Port Said is reported. British troops and sailors protected the Greek church, while the Greek Consul took refuge on board a gun­ boat A general massacre of Europeans is said to bave been averted by the landing of the British forces. Earl Spencer, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, wit­ nessed the embarkation of a' large number of Irish emigrants at Belmullet, and by expressions of kindly interest created a favorable impression upon those who re­ mained, as well as upon the emigrants It is stated the British Government will make a request on the United States Government for the extradition of about a dozen Irish conspirators. The importers of pork products afe Hamburg have written to the New York Chamber of Commerce on the question of American pork prohibition, and Bay that rule has been brought about by injudicious pub­ lications in newspapers and pamphlets, as­ serting that product has been manufactured from diseased hogs. To effect a repeal of the order, they say the American Government should institute an inves­ tigation. it should insist that no tainted product be exported, and that tne strictest examination should be made at the point of shipment....The Dublin iury in the case of litzhams, the cab-driver ac- Tbe Irish-American neonle. stsenblM taoon- ventton at ftttlsdelphta, submit to the iatelll- 1 of their lellow-men that entla to preserve the lives to defend their liberty; to pro­ perty; to maintain peace and each portion of the people an efficient voice in the legislature; and MpmatKb the general welfare by wise, just and hnmatte laws. We solemnly declare, and dt« uaqoeatftaed history and the universal knowledge aMM 1 Tig men in testimony thereof-- 1. That thK&Mlish Qui has existed In Inland, unto preserve the Imp of the gov­ erned, but to As troy them. EotHs communi­ ty massacred by tbe sword; to Bed women it has deliberately gtorch; into helptsSjtowns it deadly bombs SWE shells; ,„»d crypts, where ace and .jnght shelter, it has sent its bloody bitohsn; the sacred persons of vener­ able priests it ba* stretched upon the rack or snspended him the gibbet; paling babes have been impalsd ei points of its bayonets, because, ia ibdr own words, its emissaries liked that kind ot coverw&ent; its gold has been folded in the hand of theAssassin. and has rewarded the in­ famy of the p*rlured traitor ;its treacherous false­ hood has lured patriots to unsuspected death, as if the. swoM, cannon, torch, scaffold, dagger and tbe exjdpsttre were not enough; it enjoys the unique infamyof being the only Government known to ancient or modern times which has emplayed for the destruction of those from whom ft claimed allegiance, forcibly robbing the uish people of the fruits of their own tail, seoduoed by their, own labor; it has burled, note hundred, not a thousand, but more than a mfllion of the Irish race unshroud- ed, unooffined, la graves of hnneer; it has mer­ cilessly compelled other millions in compulsory poverty to seek in alien lands the bread they were entitled ta in their own. There is no form of cruelty known to the lowest savnge which it has not practiced on the Irish people in the name of the highest civilization; there is no device Of fiendish ingenuity it has not adopted to reduce their number. AV ith n two y>ars it has massa^ cred children, and woman's' bodv has been the victim of Its licensed ruffians. Thsre is no spe­ cies of destructive attack, however insidious or violent, aucieat or modern, rude cr scientific, whether direoted asrainst life or roatt-r, iu any portion of the globe, for which its barbarities in Ireland have not furnished au example. There is no form ct retaliation to which despair or madne-s may rasort, lor which Enslieh cruelty In Ireland is not exclusively responsible. 2. We declare that the'Enalish Government in Ireland has not defended the libsrty of the people, but has annihilated it. The statutes en­ acted sines the invasion amount to a series of ccereion laws framed to deprive cit>ens of all vestiges of personal fr e lom, and reduce them to outlawry, in order to confiscate their property and compel them to flee to foreign lands. Since the beginning of the present century, when the Irish Parliament was abolished, the laws for Ireland have been made in England, and durins that period the habeas corpus act aud the right of trial by jury have been suspended. More than fifty times hordes of soldiers have been loosed up­ on a people forbidden to bear arms, and a state of war, wiih all its attendant horrors, with occasionally those of retaliation, has been main­ tained. To-day the representatives ot th3 peo­ ple are in prison guiltless of crime, iraedom of speech has been abolisiied, the freedom of the press abolished, and the right of a peacoable public meeting is annulled. No man's house is secure, night or day, from armed marauders, who may insnlt and harass his family. Without a warrant a citizen may be thrown into prison, and without counsel iie may be put on a mock trial before a prejudiced Judj?e and packed jury. On the h int; averment; of purchased wretches, his liberty may be sauii/iced, or his life taken, in the name of law. 3. Instead of protecting the propertv of the people, the Enrfish Government ia Ireland has been conspicuous for its injury and ruin. Out of 20,000,000 acres of producing land, 6,000,000 have been allowed to lie In waste, and the owner­ ship ot the remainder has been generally ac­ quired by force or fraud, and been retained in the hands of ravenous monopolists, who have annually drained the country of its money in the form of rents, no portion of which goes (jack to the Irish people. In addition to this, an ini- quitous system of taxation imposes on the people a gigantic burden for the sus;enauce of a foreign army, for an oppressive constabulary, for salaries to supernumerary officials, for pensions to English favorites, for blood-money tor in- formers, and for a yulgar court, whose extrava­ gance is equaled only by the shame of its pretensions. Tb§ naturally-created capital of the country ta lent to England on one pretext or SNflKK* and brings no exchange except aHMfsff* English manufacture, which the Irish people, under self-government, produce for themselves, or purchase in America. Irish manufactures that have been deliberately destroyed by England in the last ccntury are still dormant. Her immense water-power turns no wheels; her canals are all but impassable; her livers are obstructed; hrr userul clay and valuable minerals are untouched; in hsr beauti­ ful harbors ore few ships, except those or her enemy. English law for the protection of prop­ erty in Ireland has been a lance to make Ireland bleed at every pore for the benefit of the heart­ less landlords and English manufacturers. 4. The English Government iu Ireland has not maintained peace and order, but has, for 700 ye:irs, broken lie:- peace and destroyed her order. 5. The English Government in Ireland does not allow that portion of the empire an equita­ ble and efficient voice in the legislature. In England, one-twelfth of the j opulation votes for members of Parliament, while in Ireland not cne-twenty-fifth of the population votes for members of Par'. a nent. In England registra­ tion laws are favorable to voters; in Ireland they are inimical to voters. In England all clashes of the populace are fairly represented; in of Chairman of the board was created in j Ireland the poor law is employed to s-cure to landlords and place-hunters a preponderance in the national delegation. In England the each instance, the incumbent to have gener­al supervisory control. Cornelius Vander­ bilt was chosen Chairman of the boards of the New Yr rk Central and Michigan Central, and W Hiam K. Vanderbilt of the Lake Shore, the latter retaining the Presidency of the Nickel-Plate, William H. Vander­ bilt retiring fr^m the Presidency of the sev­ eral companies. Jamej H. Rutter was made President of the New York Central, John Newell cf the Lake Shore, and H. B. Ledyard of the Michigan Central. The sen­ ior Vanderbilt thus relieves himself of the active management of the three railrcad companies talthough still a member of the directories), tbe task devolving upon bis two sons. Business failures for the week end­ ing the 4th inst. numbered 1M2, a decrease of fifty-four from the preceding week, but thirty-six more than in the corresponding week of 1882. • Union City, Ind., forty-seven miles from Dayton, was visited by a great confla­ gration the other night, destroying the principal portion of the town. The loss ie estimated at the heavy sum of #2fi0,00& THE MARKET. ..UN 0 7.40 MBW YOWL Bccrafe. Hoos...w... " mo 0 8.90 Fixhjb--Superfine. S.80 0 4.10 Whbat--No. 1 White LU @ LM No. a Red 1.23 C4LM Corn--No. 2 & m Oats--No. 3 .48 & .90 Fobs--Mess 19.75 @20.00 T.ipn cm'cAdb." Bzxvxs--Good to Fancy Steers.. Cows and Heifers _ Medium to Fair Boos. Ffjoun--Fancy White Winter Ex. Good to Choice Spr'ft Ex. Wheat--No. 2 Spring _ No. 2 Red Winter Cobw--No. 2 Oats-No. 2 IlVE--No 3 liARLEY--No. 2 Butteb--Choice Creamery Eggs--Ftesh Pork--Mess.. ; Laud MILWAUKEE. Wheat--No. 2.................... COF.N--No. 2 Oats--No. 2 Bye--No. 2 Barley--No. 2 Pork--Mess 19.50 •113*3 .13 4.15 >.75 i.75 (.40 t.BO 4.75 1.11 1.13 ,.56 .41 .60 .80 .25 .15 19.25 & 6.70 & 9.00 & C.10 @ 7.7# & S.75 & 5.00 (4 1.13 <9 1.14 & .50 .43 .61 .83 .28 .16 @19.50 .ll'i® .1154 G 1.13 § Xll M .40 .88 .70 1.18 .63 .42 .67 19.50 .11 1.11 . .55 .45 .64 It*. 25 Cattuk--Best. FSir. ..The Dublin jury Hoos... Laud . OT.'Louiii Wheat-No. 3Red.... Coen--Mixed Oats--Ma 2 Rye Pork--Mess. """ * Lard. «, .. CINCINNATI. Wheat--Not 2 Red. Corn Oats Ryk... Pork--Mess ** Lard. ••••» « ' TOLEDa Wheat--Na 3 Red Cobk. . . * Oats--No. 3 DETROIT. FbOUB Wheat--Na l White ... Corn--No. 2 Oats--Mixed 1'ork--Mess 1W< Whi*t--No. mo Cobk--No. 2 jb Oats--Mixed " m EAST iiBKRTT. 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In England th"; laws creatine civil disability on ac­ count of reUpion have Ion',- been dead; in Ire­ land the laws made under Edward IIL, Queen Elizabeth, Earl of Stratford, Clwrles III., Queen Anne and their successors avest.ll vital to tor­ ment a people tor whose oppression no statute is found too hoary by the venal and truculent Judpep. Every measure of legislation proposed by an English member receives courteous oon- side:ation; any measure, however just, neces- ssry or humane, proposed by patriotic Irish members is certain of contemp,nous rejection by a combined majority of both ;:r.;;it Enclish par­ ties. Thus the educational avutcm of Ireland is notoriously inadequate; thus it is that evictions unknown in England, and de.-larod by Gladstone to be almost equivalent to a death sentence, are Of daily occurrence in Ireland, and j;ave nearly doubled in live years, in spits oi the boasted benefits of Glad stone's land laws; t'.iat although, Rcccrdincr to Govcrnmf nt ivvi.ruf, crimin."l< are twenty-seven in 10,000 o* English population, and only sixteen in 10,000 of Iri.iii population, in spite of the, exasperation to which "they are sub­ jected, yet England enjoys constitutional liberty, and Ireland is under worse than martini 1 iav. Intrepid aud persistant att-emijts tv patriot Irish deputations to obtain in English Par:ia- ment just and humane laws for Ireland always have been, and, it is our belief, must continue to be a failure. Now, therefore, in view of these facts, be it liexolved. By th<» Irish-American people in convention assembled, that the English Gov­ ernment in Ireland, originating in iwuvpntion, perpetuated by lore, itavinj? itilf d to discl.arKe sny of the duties of the Government, and never having acquired the consent of the covemed, has no moral right whatever to exint iu Ireland, snd that it is the duty oi the Iiish race through­ out the world to sustain the Irish people ia the employment of all legitimate means to substi­ tute for it a national self-government. Itesolvea, That we plet'veour unqualified and constant support, moral and li.e al, to our ouutrymea in Ireland in e.iorts to recover na­ tional self-govcrnmenr, and in order the mori effectually 10 promote this object by the consoli­ dation of all ourresjurces, and the crea'ion of one responsible and authoritative body, to fpeak for Inland in An:e iea, that alt societies present in this convention, and all t; at may hereafter comply with the constitutions < f admi sl .u, Ik: organized into the Irish National Lragu : of America, for tha purpose < f supporting theUrteh National League of Ireland, of which Charles St' wart Parneil is President. f{mt>lce<l% That we heartily indorse the senti­ ment, of Hishop liutler. of Limerick, that every stroke of Forster's savage lash was for Irishmen a new proof of Parnell's worth and title to the crnfidence and gratitude of his countrymen. h'eRolvef/, That wo sympathize with the laborers of Ireland in their efforts to improve their condition, and, as wc have sustained farm­ ers in their assaults upon the landlord garrison, we now ur«e upon farmers justice and humane consideration lor laborers, in words, for the employment of which an Irish member of Par­ liament was imprisoned, we demand that farm­ ers allow laborers "a fair day's wages for a fair day's work." liexolverl. That as the manufactures of Great Britain are the chief source of her material greatness, and as th»y are already declining un der the influence of American competition, we earnestly counsel our countrymen in Ireland to buy nothing in Kn-.-laud which they can produoa la Ireland, or procure from America or France, and we pledee ourselves to promote Irish manu­ factures by encouraging thmr Import into Ameri­ ca, and to use our utmost endeavors to secure plain statements of fact, and a discrimination in the patronage, and to persuade the American tradesmen from keeping English goods on sale. He»olve,d, That a:i English Ministry, osten­ tatiously "liberal," has earned the contempt and detestation of the fair-minded men throughout the world bylimprivoning more than 1,000 citi­ zens of Ireland without accusation or trial, in theUnlwclStates. Tbe people of Ireland are, by tbe la* if God and the nation, entitled to live by their labor in taunrl iwHass «/\i1 ta ahiindwiltlV able to nourish them, bu; since the b ntal Gov­ ernment compels large numbers to emigrate, it is the doty of their couutryme* to warn them against the snares of poverty in large cities, an 1 assist them in the agricultural regions. Beaoltted, That the policy of the English Gov­ ernment, in first reducing tne Irish peasantry to abject poverty, and then sending them penni­ less to the United Staten.dependent upon Amer­ ican charity, is unnatural, inhuman, and sn outrage upon the American Government and people, we respectfully direct the attention of the United states Government to this iniquity, and protest against Its oonttntianoe. and instruct the officials who shall be ohosen by this con­ vention to present our protest to the President ot the United States, and respectfully, but firmly, to orgs upon the President that it is the duty of the Government of the United States to decline to support the paupers whose pauperism began under, and Is the fault of English mis- government, and to demand ot England tha' she send no more of her paupers Se these shores to become a burden nncn the American people Re solved. That this convention welcomes the sturdy and undsunted patriot and prudent cus­ todian, Patrick Egan, who, to protect the Land League funds from the robb?r hands of the En­ glish Government, voluntarily abandoned his Siivate business and accepted a lone exile 1 foreign lands, the Integrity of whose guardianship haa been certified, after a minute examination of his books, by the distin­ guished and independent patriots, John Dillon, the Rev. Eugene Sheehy and Matthew Harris. Grateful for nis invaluable services, his country­ men rejoice that they possess, on this important oocaslon, the advantage of his wise and ex­ perienced counsel, and are proud to welcome him to their hearts and their homes. . ^ Galltar Tons Up. FASHIONS IN DRJ I^pUe# For the WW4 Bm bookies are all the rage Leather fans are in high favor. Moubnino fans are edged with craj|i(ite Even mantles are made of plaid stutfi. Cashmere Is the popular early spring dress fabric. Oat colors in costumes are worn only io the houee. , . Bbldes' dresses are made with elegant simplicity this season. Gold thistles and gold burrs are the latest millinery and hair ornaments. Alicante brown and Soldat red are popu­ lar new shades of these colors. . Amber, topaz and all yellow stones are in vogue for ornamental jewelry.' Chicken down--the color of the newly- hatched--is the latest shade of yellow. Leather buckles appear among new orna­ ments for hats, bonnets and dresses Sleeves of street costumes remain tight and plain, and are larger than last season. Plaid skirts worn under plain fabric polo­ naises and overdresses are in high lfiivor. Both high and low chiti nons are worn by fashionable women, bu; they must be small Long shell or metal hair-pins take prece­ dence of all other ornaments for the coif- fura The bridal coiffure most In favor is wavy in front aud braided into a close knot in the back. . for the Gentlemeifb Jhminem Suttn.--Scotch homeipnn •worsteds and cassimeres, of neat small checks and mixed threads of colors, are used for the entire suit--coat, vest and trousers-- worn by men during business hours. The goods witi red, brown and green threads, woven together to produce quiet, dark ef­ fects, are mos5 liked. The plain, whip-cord worsteds in many different colors, olive, gray and brown shades, will be much worn by fashionable young men. The chev­ iots, melton and soft goods generally are double stitched on the cage three-eighths of an inch, but the worsteds and finer goods are bound wide with braid laid on flat, which produces a good effect. The three and four buttons cut-awav is still as popular as ever, as Is also the four-button sack coat; but fashion seems to favor a change from the high-cut style of dress to a low roll showing the shirt bosom with one stud and a neck scarf. Dress Suits.--In lull dress there Las been a tendency to cbango a little from the con­ ventional black cloth to the wale oord or tine diagonals of French manufacture. The coat is mado with a very small cord binding ont'ie edge, the size of a tt^el knitting- needle, which gives i; a fine finish. The vest is cut with four buttons, and has a ser­ pentine braid laid on about one-fourth of an inch from the edge. Vests will be made mostly \\ ith a rolling collaf, but some still rrefer them without The stylish ve-t for a change is the figured silk or cashmere in gold and black. Small chccks and fine stripes in dark colors will be chosen for trousers this season. All high-colored goods will be avoided by well-dressed men. The trousers are cut medium, that is, neither tight nor loose, and, in all cases, pantaloons intended to wear with a full dress suit aie made with the pocket in the top seam instead of on the side or in the corner, as in others, and no pistol-pocket. The frock coat will be worn to some extent, with a low roll to show the shirt-bosom, as in the case of business-coats, in fact, it may be said that the high-but­ toned style of dress will soon have seen its day. Ths trow-era have a stripe down tbe outside 1 cam on the lex, made of silk braid for young men, or of alight cord for elderly gentlemen. For the Children. Plaited bonnets are still worn by younger children. Little g r!s wear bonnets with the rolled front, lined with deeply-shirred satin, but these tire less suitable as the pun becomes stronger, and we advise all mother to select shady hats for the sake of the eyes. A great change is noticeable in hata. The most fashionable, and certainly most be- coming, is the Fisherman's poke, in Leghorn, which may bo effectively trimmed with a bunch of tips of the t ame shade as tbe straw and faced with a deep shirring of satin a shade deeper in color. Toe English walking hat has given place to the Lex ngton, a remarkably pretty share in double Dunstable straw, wliich should be t immed in black velvet, two narrow pla t­ ings around the edge and a large bow and st*el ornament conr.ning a long featner which falls over the back of the hair. The Jersey waist is more popular than ever. It is worn in bright colors, and ia equally effective with a s*irt of plain ma­ ter al or of plaid. Tor little boys, plaid tunics are much liked or a kilted skirt of dark plaid is accompanied by a short tabbed Jacket of dark green or dark blue cloth Flannel suits for boys aro now more often in invisible green tlian in the dark blue which has been popular so long. Knicker­ bocker suits of mixed materials are finished off with fine, narrow, mohair braids down the trousers, and small buttons. The coatee has side-pockets, bound in braid of the same kind. Velveteen is much less worn this season, tweeds, fine check, cheviot cloths and kersemeres being preferred. Flannel suits for little girls and misses are made of fine cheviot tlannel, and are either in garnet or dark greens; blues, either light or dark, are less fashionable, while grey flannel is only made up in combination with darker shades of the same material. Stock­ ings to match the combination dresses are selected to correspond with the self-colored material rather than with the plaid, ap^«ape worn of delicate shades. grf : ODD HAPPENINGS. A Pulaski county (S. T.) hunter got seven 'coons Out of one hollow tree. A Georgia negro lost his life by having an open knife in his pooket aa he mounted his mule. The pistol which a Cincinnati woman said was the one with which her husband threatened to shoot her proved to be a beer faucet Cornelius Frawley and B. F. Ingram, while surveying f-ome land in the neighborhood of William Warner's mill, near Sylvia, Ga, killed a rattlesnake measuring over five feet in length and having thirteen rattles. Caft. Z. M. Mitchell, of Greene, Ga, has a rooster only 5 months old welching five and a half pounds, and a pullet "from the same brood and of the same age has laid two litters of eggs, and is now sitting on them. The gigantic elephant at the Schonbrunn Imperial Menagerie, near Vienna, was pois­ oned "by command." Fifty grammes of prosaic acid were administered io him, after swallowing which he died in lets than eight minutes. more of the men charged urith parti rripatltrn in the murder of Cavendish and Burke, were arraigned for trial a* Dublin on the 2d inst They created a sensation in the court-room by pleading guilty to theoharge against them. Both Wore sentenoed to bo banged 011 the 2d of June. Before Cafirey had pleaded guilty he was Informed by M§ satteltora thai the crown gave no hopes of mitigation of the sentence of death whlofe would be passed upon bin. When Delaney was called upon to plead be said: "lam guilty of being in the park at the time Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr. Burke were killed, but I did not commit the tau*des. Ipieaagvilty." Tbe Judge explained to film that this really amottntedto this plea of infcocenoe. Delaney then formally pleaded guilty. He •aid, -I was brought into this at first fool- ishly, not knowing what it waa. I wag forced from my work to go the park. Wo had to obey the orders of the society or take the consequences. When I got in the park I could not got away. I saw the murders committed, but I took no part in I went to the park on Kavanagh's car. He speaks the truth; so does Cany. The murders were committed by Joe Brady and Timothy Kelly, and by nobody elsei I saved Judge Lamson's life at the risk of my own. I was put on to shoot him by Mullett and Brady. The only way to eacape the task was by calling the guard's attention." Judge O'Brien, in passing sentence on Delar n«y. said he had a duty to perform. , He had at the previous trial of a prisoner, for at­ tempting to shoot Judge Lainson. pitied him because he showed some feeling fOi! his wife and family. The prisoner would see to what misery they had been brought by tHe wicked system of conspiracy. When Caffrey was placed in the dookhis face wore a smile. The consequence of pleading guilty was again fully explained to him in open court, but he persisted iii his plea On being asked whetiner he had any­ thing to say why sentence should not now be passed upon him, Caffrey replied, in a loud, clear voice: "All I have got to Bay, standing on the brink of the grave, is that I did not know what w as going to happen until twenty min­ utes Bsfore the murders were committed. I wcb bound to go to the park under pain of dealh." The Judge, in passing sentence, said thai there were 110 means of judging the truth of the prisoner's statement. He d 'd not decide that it was necessarily wholly untrue. Thirteen of the prisoners who have been contined in Kilmainham jail charged with having been connected with the Cavendish- Burke tragedy in Phoenix Park, who have never been brought to trial on that charge, says a .Dublin di:pa!ch, have been indicted and will be tried for another crime. One of their number. Joseph Hanlon, has turned informer, and produces evidence to connect them with the conspiracies f-et on foot to murder Earl Cowper, Mr. ForBter, Chief Secretary for Ireland, and other prominent officials, whose lives they jeopardized, but did not succeed in tad'ng. The Government re­ gards the evidence sufficient to convict on the charge of conspiracy, while the men can­ not be closely connected with the Phoenix Park association. SOME OF THE VETERANS. Moultonborough, N. H., boasts of a widow 90 years old who never took any doctor's medicine Eijsha Durden, of Walton codfcty, Georgia, is said to be lo2 years old. He picked a bale of cotton in his centennial year. A negro woman recently died in Washing­ ton county, Ar}c, at the age of 112 years. Strange to say. she was no^one of G. W.'s servants, but distinctly remembered having seen the hero of the hatchet aifair. Mrs. Mabtha J. Rodgers, a 60-year-old widow, of Shelby county, Ky., has pieced a diamond quilt which contains 1,686 pieces, a double sunflower quilt containing 2,000 pieces and a hexigon quilt containing 1,400 blocks. Hagerstowh, Md., claims the oldest work- inguir.iu m that State, if not in the Union. Robert Lewis, who is in the i:5th year of his age, has just completed the mason work of a cistern at a residence in that city, doing the work in a thorough manner. He is in vigorous health and bids fair to continue his labors for years to come. Macon county boasts the oldest man living in Missouri, if not, the oldest in the countiy. His name is Robert Gibson, and his age is over 116 years. He is five feet two inches in heigh;;; weighs 145 pounds He recollects dimly the Revolutionary war and the Presi­ dency of Gen. Washington. Mr. Gibson's oldest boy is 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. One of his sons haa twenty children. His direct descendants, now reaching to the hfth generation,numbei nearly 400. A few weeks since an old woman, upward of 1.0 years of age, died at a place called Eg- iinton, near Londonderry, Ireland The usual arrangements for a funeral were made. Including a wake. The coffin was closed and taken to the place of interment, where the service waa auly gone through, the coffin lowered and the" grave filled in. On return­ ing home, however, the relatives were amazed to find the corpse of the old woman lying upon the bed upon9-hich she had ex­ pired They had simply forgotten to put her in the coffin. They took her to the grave in a cart, dug up the empty coffin, placed her in it, and eventually had her securely planted. • NATURAL HISTORY^ One hundred and fcbty-seven snakes wera killed one day near Salesville, Montana. The Union Springs (N. Y.) Herald tells of a hen that laid two eggs on Sunday and three the next day. The canvas-back duck ia domesticating itself in the inland lakes of Iowa, and becom­ ing quite plenty. A pelican was killed near Batesvllle, Mis-., which measured eight feet eight inches from tip to tip of wing. In a fight between a rat and a ratt'omake at Portland, Ore., the rat was victorious. The snake was in a weak condition from want of food. As a careless New Haven horse was going up to the watering-trough he stepped on a setter-dog's tail as that animal was enjoying a f nooze. The dog Jumped up with a howl and sprang into the basin, j ust as the thirsty bort e t tuck his heated nostrils into the water, and floundered about so that the equine could not drink. The dog stopped three times, just long enough to let him try to drink, but each time siiut him off by floundering about The horse gave it up in disgust, and the dog hopped out, seemingly satisfied with his revenge. Paul du Chaillu could hardly rake up a better panther stoiy than the following from the Palatka (Fla.) Herald: fcOn Sunday last three colored men were out deer hunting near White's log camp, back of Rollston. One t f them Was at his f-tand. The dogs were heard coming in that direction. Soon there was a terr.bie commotion in the bushe \ the Found coming toward him. The darky, thinking it was a deer, stepped so as to get a fair t- hot, when suddenlv a tremendous pan- 1 ther confronted him. Hearing a noise be- ! hind he looked round and, to his surpiise j and horror, saw another in a tree, which he j fired at and killed just as it was in the act of . springing upon him. The other immediately escaped, much, as the darky says, to his de-! light The one he killed measured seven feet, and the negro e tlmates the male to bo twice ax large." j Rome Sentinel: Henry Fish, of I-ee Center, i who has lately come from Lone Rook, Wis, I says: "Andrew Harter, of Lone Rock, went out; on a rocky part of his farm one day last spring, and, while looking around, taw the head of a rattlesnake protruding from a crevice In the rock. Taxing in the general surroundings, he concluded that it must be a regular den of rattlesnakes, so he built a Een about ten feet square and three feet igh about the place and awaited results. The pen was watched, and with a wire snare something like a fish snare seventy-nine snakes, varying in length from 18 inches to 4% feet, were, during the summer, landed in a barrel placed inside the inclosure. Four of the largest were placed in the barrel on Decoration Day, and in November they were still alive. As they had been placed in the barrel as soon as they left their winter quarters, they bad lived a whole year with­ out anything to eat As the snakes had not thawed out this spring when Mr. Fish left tt was not known whether they were still alive or not" Buss b«M«ftAr4tet wen mtinlr i#J|tipKtft years •go- are nqpldly ffriwbgMfavor. ' ifwiwn stained gfuffn jg feeooouac rery popular, OBpeflttUy !or faeek win­ dows wnexe the view m unpleeaast. A. scmzn of white china matting is painted with trellis and grape YUM, wtfb <rr»n 1 »*»«»«» nni^>le of fruit. A maho-swucad for an upright piano is of gray linen, with a frieze of dancing figures or a scroll design -worked with scarlet filling silk. AN Ohio farmer put $100into an old' teapot to keep from thieves, and the> very next day his wife traded it with a- tin-peddler for a cake-cutter. The dust won't settle in that house for 20 year* to come. Takk an old oloth coat and out out of it a straight pieoe one-quarter of a yard wide, work a pretty running pattern in bright colored crewelS aua finish by cutting the bottom into shreds, one ineh deep, for fringe. This will make a Very pretty corner and lambrequin. A table-covkb is made of wine-color­ ed felt, with the border and corners embroidered in Japanese thread. A unique spread is made of old-gold satin, with a border in applique at dark bine, worked with gold Japanese thread and cardinal embroidery silk. The shape is oblong and the two ends are knotted with tassels of crewel aud silk in all the colors used. A PRETTY tidy is made of pale blue Java canvas; choose that which is all wool, as it will not fade, and will wear well. Fringe it out around the edge to the depth of two inches. In the centre apply a round fan cut from cream- colored felt. Catch it to the canvas with fine stitches, and ornament in any style you please, using a good deal of scarlet embroidery silk to brighten it. In each corner apply smaller fans of a different shape. Make stitches in line upon them so that they will appear to be half or wholly spread. When a sofa has become worn re­ move the upright back and the covering from the couch; use the old material for a pattern and lay it on cretonne or wool goods, cuttiug them out care­ fully. Tack it on to the sofa and make ft curtain that will extend all the way around, finishing the top with two puffs, allowing the bottoms to hang loose. Make two pillows of the cretonne or wool, narrow and long, sew a heavy cord all the way around the side and bottom seams; fill with curled hair. Face the openings with cardinal and tie with a cardinal ribbon four inches from the top, so that they will resemble meal bags. Place one at each end of the sofa. To coveb worn furniture with cre­ tonne--Cut patterns of paper that will fit on each article. Place these patterns on the cretonne, and cut them out ex­ actly, marking every crease and fold with pins, so that they may be put on straight and not puckered. First pin on the back of the chair, then the arm pieces, and then the outside coverings, and then lace narrow gimp over the raw edges, pinning it and tacking it down with upholsterers' tacks. Pin in the seat tightly, keeping the same folds that were in the old cover, and sew it down firmly in the back and cover the front edges with gimp and nails. If you prefer, the seat can be first covered, and it can then be fastened tighter at the back. If you wish to tack it down with the material, or purchase velvet or kid buttons of the upholsterer. After placing the cover over the seat, take a mattress needle and thread it with strong twine and double it, and puf,h it up from the bottom of the chair into the place where the old bottom was; then through the button and down through the seat again; then pull it very tightly and tie it in a hard knot. Put all the buttons on in this way, and tuck the material far down at the back of the chair and nail it on in front, and cover with gimp and nails. Then nail a cambric covering over the bottom of the chair. Chair coverings can be made of strips of brightly-colored woolen plush, alternated with strips of satin, or of woolen reps of contrasting colors A Man Sings a Mouse to Death. /AO^ew England lady writes: "Quite late one evening my husband was hum­ ming 4 lively air, playfully keeping time with his feet as he sat in his easy chair, when he suddenly stopped and said: 'Do you see that mouse?' It was only about four feet away and it did not manifest any fear. I said- it is charmed with your singing. He began • again, and going nearer sat down on the floor, resting his hand on the car­ pet. The mouse first ran a little fur­ ther away, then came back and ran up his hand and arm, until he moved to prevent its going to his neck. I took it from his shoulder, but it instantly jumped to the floor and ran away in an­ other direction. Mr. P. again sat down on the floor and the mouse came rrm- ning back to him, when, finding it in­ jured beyond recovery, he put an end to its sufferings. We have never before seen a mouse in that room, though troubled with them in the pantry and .kitchen. It seemed to have been at­ tracted'by the singing to come in under the door to find help or sympathy, else why manifest such a preference for Mr. P r "The Florida Folly" for Invalids* There are signs of a reaction among physicians against the practice of order­ ing patients into the South or to the Bermudas during the winter months. A Boston physician, who deprecates the custom of sending invalids on long journeys and exposing them to radical changes in every way, advises persons whom he finds in need of a more bracing climate simply to go from Bos­ ton to the higher and hilly country further inland in Massachusetts, in­ stead of ordering them to Colorado, just as New York doctors are sending patients to the Adirondacks. Those who spend a winter in Florida are apt to find themselves much more sus­ ceptible to the effects of our Northern climate on the approach of the next winter. If they return too early from the South the results are singularly dangerous. Invalids who go South should remain until the homeward jour­ ney does not mean a trying change* THie of Prince of Wales. On the conquest of Wales by Heniy lli of England, he bestowed the prin­ cipality of Wales and Earldom of Ches­ ter on his son, afterward Edward I., as an office of trust and government. In 1843 Edward III. invested his son Ed® ward, the "Black Prince," with the principality, and from that time the eldest son of the reigning King ]MMI borne the title of Prince of Wales. ; Ix one shoo factory in Lynn, Mass., aro thirty women, all of wbom are di­ vorced wives. V mw$i&0]£wm