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laiufealer and PeWMiwr. ILLINOIS. ' r CONDENSED. TUB £AiTi TH* war ship Niagara, which was sold nt , in Boston last week for $12,300, ||n laying the first Atlantic cable, and illbne the earliest Japanese embassy ta* the United States An octogena- Ot fftroville. N. Y., named Geo. W. Tripp. twing* informed that his wife would tOOfe die from cancer, hanged hiuiself to a bout is his barn, leaving a note stating that ootid not bear the thought of being left •lone>. IT is now shown (hat tbe only foundation for the report that shots were fired at the train in which President Cleveland was re­ turning from Gettysburg to Washington was the fact that a man on the cars dis­ charged a pistol which he disliked to carry , 'loaded.... A Wilkesbarre dispatch says "the frightful epidemic at Plymouth. Pa., is ex­ plained ana the medical t heory that typhoid- fever originated from a poison swal­ lowed with the food or drink iB Unstained. Plymouth has a popu­ lation of 8,000. Fully 1,000 people were jwostarted, and there were seventy deaths. The disease is just reaching its climax. There are half a dozen deaths daily.".... jjTbfc Sea View, Atlantic, and Ocean Houses ' At Hu.iipton Beach. N. H-, with several cot­ tages, were burned, the loss reaching $100.- #CK).., .It is now thought that more than twenty people have perished in the recent Brooklyn disaster. Russian nent &&riwm where steps bad cite the wild Intention, now or e«- ginnis, ex- Deiegtts u tans, replied tothe Gowvor^ speech of welcome. Gen. Black. Commtadooerot Pen - 6ions, was then ext speaker. Gen. Sosecrans. as Chairman of til* Congressional Com- •miitee on Invitations, On behalf of the 1 irst Corps, wan charged with the duty of welcoming the national legislator*. At Mount Hope, Md., on the return trip of the Presidential party from Gettysburg an enthusiastic resident fired his pistol two or three times into the air. It waR probably intended as a salute for want of hotter ar­ tillery. The story was started and sent through the train that the man had shot at the President. •m .. . m TL:-% POTTR men were killed in a battle with | rattle-thieves in the Red River District, Indian Territory The corpse sent in a trunk from Chicago to Pitts­ burgh has been fully identified as that c. *>f Pietro Coroeo, a railroad laborer. Frnn- • cesco Coroso, of Chicago, states that his 'brother left his house. No. 75 Tilden ave­ nue, at 9 o'clock on the evening of May 1, tith over $200 in his possession. Within FO and a half hours his corpse was de-vered at the railroad station. Nine Ital- , ians were arrested in Chicago for connee- -! lion with the mystery, and one of them •' confessed that he purchased the money- " v * Order found on the corpse. I,- Two DETECTIVES ran across three well- I ' " known criminals near the corner of Har- • tison and Market streets, Chicago, in the j|r^";iifteniooB. When their arrest was attemped " . the roughs showed fight The police were * teinforoed by the arrival of another officer, "-•nd then commenced a remarkable run- ji"' Hing duel, pursuers and pursued in . ' couples exchanging shots as the chase pro- gresseddown alleys, over fences, through Street-cars, and around corners. The police '%ere finally victorious, capturing the young Ihngs at the revolver's point. Nearly a |i|& i^pcore of shots were tired, but no one was t,u Seriously hurt. The fusillade in broad day- ^ / light in the crowded streets attracted a p. tnultitade of excited citizens, who mani- £. ' • ' fes ted a desire to lynch the prisoners At the mining camp known as Conito City, New Mexico, Martin Nelson killed ' Dr. William H. Flynn, Mr. S. Ma- berry, his wife and two sons, Peter .Kelson, and Herman Beck. The citizens ; '• [ then shot Nelson dead in the street.... Hlggins 4 Gilbert, Chicago brokers, sued x. James MeCrea, of Cleveland, for $30,000 doe on speculative transactions. McCrea Set tip the plea that it was a gambling Jbansaction, and also entered a counter suit . for $19,897 paid to Higgins & Gilbert on mevious deals. United States Judge Bax­ ter dbarged in ftivor of McCrea and the gave him a verdict Mr. Walter P. fry Johnson, a wealthy former of Moweaqua, UL, was thrown under a revolving corn- cntter and fatally wounded by the macbin- «y- • THE "burglar-proof" residence of Mr. Charles Bay, at Milwankee, was entered by ;)| solitary masked robbber, who first cut the telegraph, telephone, and burglar-alarm •im. The cracksman visited the servants' foom and persuaded them to call Mrs. Ray, Ming a revolver to point his arguments. When Mrs. Bay appeared he compelled her lo summon her husband, and the latter, nn- fler penalty of death, was enforced to deliv­ er up money and jewelry valued at a large amount the women meanwhile being kept Standing in a row, and warned that they Would be shot if they made a disturbance. The robber made Mr. Bay escort him #o the front door, and escaped.. 5tn Indianapolis, the wife of Congressman ; fSynom -was aroused by a burglar demand­ ing money. After g.ving him $5 and ex­ changing words, she screamed for aid and ;ian into the street. She was refused ad­ mission to ft# nearest house, but received Shelter at the second place The mercury several degrees below freezing-point in hois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, and kota, on the 8th inst. Ice formed in By places from half an inch to one and -half inches thick, and snow and cold prevailed at many points. Small i and garden vegetables were hurt in rfMrt plans. A LITTLE BOCK (Ark. ) dispatch says that •interest in the celebrated Mose Harris 4amage suit in the United States Court continues Ana bate d, and squads of witness- w ^ for thejrefense arrive on tbe daily trains from Hot Springs. The plaintiff. 'Harris, pings snit for $100,000 against the Com­ mittee of Fourteen, who, it is alleged, in­ stigated his compulsory removal from Hot > ; Springs. It jp conceded that he will re- _^#five actual damages by the ruling of the •&M, and the defense is reduced to evi- >-^#ence in mitigation. The case is causing a ' * genuine sensation." r, *. THE cattlemen of Western Texas have 'Commenced to make heavy shipments by tail. One lot of 27,000 head was purchased *f Abilene for transfer to grass in Wyom- tag. Some buyers will make an attempt to gross Kansas, in violation of the quarantine . ?' fight has opened again on Publio Printer Rounds," says a Washington dis­ patch. "Applications are coming in daily and numerous indorsements are piling up for those already made. Apparently John Schley, of Indiana, and B. P. Yonkston. of St. Louis, are the leading candidates. The friends of Mr. Rounds do not believe that he will be disturbed for some months to come. When a change is made it is likely that the place will go to a Buffalo man. The President is said to have reserved the office of Public Printer for one of his towns­ people. Buffalo has not asked or received any office as yet." THE President has appointed the follow* ing named Presidential Postmasters : Cbas. H. Chapman, at Hartford, Conn.; Win. P. McMaster, at Woodstock, Vt.; Com ad F. Suderly, at iSauaerties, N. y.; Horace C. Critten­ den. at fiasco Falls, N. Y.: Marshall P. Rvder. at Plainvilie, Conn.; Lemuel B. Tredway, at Port Henry. N. Y.; Wm. Oroesbeck. at Inde­ pendence, Mo.: Putnam S. Fulkerson. at Lex­ ington, Mo.; Chas. A. Foster, at Belle- vue, Idaho; Willard P. Carr, at Sioux Falls, Dakota: F. J. Stokes, at Macon, Miss.; Abrara L. Mace, at VV alton, N. Y.; Mrs. M. E. Ferguson at lUchwood, Ohio: Chas. J. Kress at Lewiston, Idaho; H. S. Herbert at Roll a. Mo.; Newton J. Trice at Neosho. .Mo.; Ol­ iver Wells at MarshtieM, Mo.; William G. Lewis at Statesville, N. C.: Frank A. Mitchell at Me- nomonee, Mich.: Benjamin F. Huzer at Charles­ ton, S. C.; Jacob 1^. Bake at Bed Oak, Iowa; Patrick Cain at Fort Dodjte, Iowa; George A. Clark at Bloomsburg, Pa.; William M. Hunne- well at Exeter, N. H. \ Some of the Democrats from Central Illinois, says a Washington telegram, claim to kuow that Paul Selby, Postmaster at at Springfield, will certainly be removed. THE removal of Mr. Nimmo from the head of the Bnreau of Statistics, says tho Chicago Inter Ocean's Washington corre­ spondent gives great satisfaction to free- tiaders, who regard this act of Secretary Manning as the first step on the part of the administration to put itself in line with the revenue reform feeling which, it is claimed, materially contributed to the election of Mr. Cleveland. This conviction is reached by the assumption that many of Mr. Nim- mo's foreign and domestic commerce re­ ports were so biased or distorted in favor of the theory of protection as to become distinctively partisan, and as such they were used by Mr. Blaine and his friends during the recent election as cam­ paign documents to promote their political interests and to prejudioe those of the Democracy... .Blauch K. Bruce has tendered his resignation as Begister of the Treasury. Nelson S. Acres has been ap­ pointed Internal Bevenue Collector for the District of Kansas. S. E. Chamberlain, recently removed as a special assent of the Treasury, has been appointed a special inspector of customs. THE Illinois Legislature has passed into the control of the Bepublicans, J. W. Weaver having been elected Representative from the Thirty-fourth District by a ma­ jority of 306. to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Shaw. The district is naturally democratic by 2,000 majority, and the result created the greatest surprise. , A Republican scheme, secretly arranged, worked successfully. No Republican voters appeared at the pol's until 4 o'clock p. m. of the diy of election, and then surprised * the Democrats by their numbers. The Democrats, think­ ing they had a sure thing with their 2,000 Democratic majority in the district, were simply caught napping by such shrewd and wily schemers as Daniel Shepard, "Long" Jones and Jake Wheeler, the political lieu­ tenants of Gen. John A. Logan. When the late Representative Logan's seat was to be filled in a Republican district no effort was made by the Democrats to capture the election, although probablv every politician in the State had an idea of the possibility of such a coup d'etat It remained for the Republicans to take ad­ vantage of a similar opportunity in a Demo­ cratic district and it seems that they laid their p ans careful iy and secretly and ac­ complished the, to them, highly important, and, to the Democrats, disastrous result from St , Russia wc^'lMii.fftte prindplfc Of arbi­ tration in ths jtsnding difficulties. The Czarina wife «ottv^ siding in peace nego­ tiations. On nsithar tide is there any ces­ sation of preparation for active warfare. The First Army Corps of India, under the Duke of Contiaught, made ready to begin its march toward Pishin. The London newspapers confirm the re­ port that a secret treaty has boen made be­ tween England and Turkey, according to the terms of which England will be allowed to send men-of-war through the Dardan­ elles in case of war. THE King of Denmark has made known his willingness to act as arbitrator between Russia and England should his services be desired. It is reported from Simla that Sir Peter Lumsden resigned his boundary commissionership because of inability to agree with the policy ruling in London. MB. JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL unveiled a bust of Samuel Taylor Coleridge in West­ minster Abbey Must week. He delivered a glowing eulogy upon the genius and achievements of the poet... .Mrs. Weldon, the vocalist, was awarded in a London court damages of $60,000 against Gounod, the composer, for libel and breach of con­ tract. .. .TheRussians have occupied Penj- deh with a small military force, Schuyler, «f luiat- IfttfMMttM or the Boundary. A Xap Stowing the Beat of the Threat­ ened War and the Oontlgu oos 1 Country. ? "5 Mr. Eugene Schuyler, late United States Minister to Turkey--than whom no man in America, probably, is better posted in European polities--contributes to the Chi­ cago Timt« a vaftjlsb.e and interesting paper upon the Angio»Stassinn dispute, the main portion of which we reproduce below. It will Well repay perusal: At a moment when peace and war seem trembling in the balance it is natural to inquire J*£ causes of difficulty from tm present dmnite over line of a frontier. The advance of Russia in Asia his been marked brmanyphssM; First, the coaqraeet of Blfcerla by the CoMMCks in the sixteenth century and the gradual extension of Banian oolonlcatfon to the coast of tbe Paciffo. whole Asiatic tribes be­ ing made nominally lUustan subjects without any particular intention on their part of fulfill­ ing duties, but simply for the purpose of rc- oelving the presents customary on such occa­ sions. This continued through the whole of the ^Seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Then, beginning about thirty year* ago, a continued |g>nshinjr forward of the Russian outpoHts on the southern frontier of Siberia Into the steppes, the ""blngatfop. whether nominal or real, of various tribes of Kirghls and Kalmucks, until these cul­ minated in theconq oest of '1'ooridstan and Tash- kend by Gen. Tohernayeff, speedily followed fov the occupation of Samarcand. After this Bok- » close ally; Khiva was subdued inl873; Khokand was annexed short'y after- ward; and Kuldja has already been occupied in consequenoe oi the Mnmnlman*' movement against the Chinese. All this was done without much system and without orders from the Gov­ ernment at St. Petersburg. It was never possi­ ble to draw back the boundaries, but every fresh latin?, of pushing as near India as neeelb'ei On to that time, although » plan fog. £?coinuee£ of India had beat pnsanted to the Bmn^Sr Pan! at thet̂ nmfof the^entnTv, «SdSSe h*d been at Intervals much wild talk among officers of the ara>y of tbe possibility of ituch a move it had never l»en seriously considered; Imt if, w»s then felt that it was neoessarv to be in a position not only to annoy England In ease of war. which then seemed so possible, but ulti­ mately. whenever it became nee;a*ary to make another movement on Constantinople or to open the Bosphorns to the free oassage of Russian vessels, so to threaten Jndiarad divertthe attention of England that It wouldnotbSanln possible for her to ruin the Russian nlans. The_ belief in the possibility of interfering with Envllshrole In India bad grown greatly in ten years. large measure to the action of tho English themselves. Every Russian movement had bsen so closelv scrutinized in England, so many questions bad been put to the Russian Government as to their Intentions. whether present or future, that the evident alarm manifested by the British Government f16 ̂ w ,n fchelr weak hold on India. The British Embassy at St. Petersburg gave Me under the _ tortonsent to drawing an through Uu steppes beyond whioiMt pass 10 iong ai no ever, mushed such a point In lm, that tbe Bin. the sate of peaoe, agreed to consider ** beyond the sphere their mfln- eno®- Two questions, however, immediately arose: First, as to whether the EngHsh oonld con- ; trol the ArRhanSx^sutticlantly to be reeponsiUe for anv attacks Ukey might make upon Russian ? S *®°o.ndly, what were the boun- î®8. Afrtanlstaa. It was agreed. In th* 5 should he ooneidered a* * ^2. Af*ham#taa whiob had. been In rt&tortx** Mohiunmed or Shere AJL_Kor the sake of eonvenHenoe, how- ; ever, the Russians consented to reoognixe as Af- i f han ontala provlness which had not been In the effective possession of these two sovereigns, in crder that the boundary line wrfpht be drawn UD the river Oxns or Amoo-Darya. This 11ns ; terminated on the river at a ptaoe H*til Hodia , Salab, and was to go from tluin weî mnlto the Persian frontier, the ezaetltae not being I Bpecinea. Matters remained for nearly'ten yeais in that ! 6£X£ltAL. WAS1UNOTOIV. THE Ordnance Board of the United State* army has recommended the con- wti action of a monster war balloon for the ?use of the Government, and Gen. RusRell Thayer, of Philadelphia, the inventor, has , received instructions to begin work. The board recommends that a balloon of seven tons ascending force be constructed and that tv. - trials be made with it. It will be the largest * ; balloon ever constructed in this coun- J?' wil1 have a diameter of sixty feet. The dirigible" war balloon," as it is called, p*; 1 is a cigar-shaped machine, pointed at both 'i r en<is, and, unlike ordinary balloons, sails M*" through the air longitudinally. The mo- tive P?wer compressed air. Ions of f • . dynamite percussion bombs may be carried into the clouds, and dropped while the bal- ||L' loon sails over a camp, or fortification, or gV fleet of ships. jj|./ WITH the veterans of the Army of the 1 Potomac, President Cleveland, Vice Presi- *£,1 dent Hendricks, Secretaries Endicott and pf Whitney, Postmaster General Vilas, and others visited the battlefield of Gettys- ">nr? on the 4th inst. The President's ' > carriage, containing the President and • Vice President, Gov. Pattison, and f cx-Gov. Curtin, led the way through the village to the cemetery, three- quarters of a mile away, where the cere- ' Monies of the day took place. The dis- " tingUished guests, having assembled upon the eland, with the main body of the visit- «H in front and below, were formally wel- . eoned bj Gov. JPattison. Maj. Martin Ma- ' ,r * * >" NEWS from the seat of the Riel rebellion is very meager. Gen. Middleton's forces appear to be making slow progress, i.s far as reports indicate. Tbe limited means of transportation seem to be the chief ob­ stacle in the way. THE Society of tbe Army of the Potomac met at Baltimore. Gen. John C. Robin­ son, leaning on crutches, nominated Gen. Grant for re-election as President, and with the wildest enthusiam his proposition was carried. A motion to invite R. E. Lee Camp of tbe ex-Confederates to the floor created a scene, strenuous objections being made, and personal encounters being threat­ ened. When quiet was restored the Confederates were received, however, and warmly welcomed. The reception at night was a brilliant affair, and a telegram from Gen. Grant was read, returning his thanks, and accepting "the honor, though without the hope of performing the duties of the office. The oration was delivered by Gen. Calvin C. Pratt, of New York, and an orig­ inal poem was read by Maj. DeWitt C. Spntgue. Addresses were made by Gov. Lloyd, of Maryland; Gens. Slocuin, Hart- ranft, and Horace Porter, and C. A. Boha- nan, an ex-Confederate. The next meet­ ing will be held at San Francisco.... An officer from St Louis will be sent after Maxwell, the Southern Hotel trunk-mur­ derer, and Secretary Bayard and the British Minister at Washington are urged to take measures to prevent the release of Maxwell on a technicality... .The revised version of the Old Testament will be published in New York in a few days The Indians at Qu'Appelle have left their reservation and a general uprising is feared. CAPT. KANE, of the United States steamer Galena, lying at Colon, handed over to the Colombian commander two rebel leaders who had assisted Prestan in burning the city. They were court-mar­ tialed, and a few hours later were publicly hanged at the precise spot where they fired the town The opinion prevails at Win­ nipeg that Otter was compelled to retire alter his recent engagement with Pound- maker's Indians, who are considered to h ive achieved a victory. Reports from the West show that the Indians are murdering and capturing the whites and subjecting the women to horrible indignities At the annual meeting of Michigan Centrai stockholders, Ashley Pond was chosen a director in place of Anson Stager. The decrease in net earnings was reported as $1.568,183....Prof. Rasmus B. Andersou, Minister to Denmark, and A. M. Keiley, Minister to Austria, sailed for Europe last week. ADDITIONAL NEWS. < fit Chicago, soon after noon of Friday^ the 8th inst, flames broke out in the yard of the Chicago Lumber Company, along the river in the vicinity of West Thirty- fifth and'Iron streets. Nearly every engine in the city hurried to the*scene, and six hours were required to bring the conflagra­ tion tinder control. Four squares were burned over, the sufferers being the Chica­ go Lumber Company, Bigelow Brothers, Adams, Hastings & Co., auJ Hinck­ ley <1" Co. The losses aggregate 000, ou which there is insurance to the amount of $l!£),500, widely distributed. A. P. SWIXEFOBD, of Marquette, Mich., has' been appointed Governor of Alaska. Mr. Swineford is an ex-Mayor of Mar­ quette, is editor of the Marquette Mining Journal, has served as a member of the Leg slature of his State, and was a candi­ date for Lieutenant Governor two years ago. He was appointed State Inspector of Mines and Mining by Gov. Begole, of Michigan.... A divorce on tho ground of repeated aots of brutality has been ob­ tained by the wife of Dr. Meire, of Colo­ rado, recently appointed Consul nt Naga­ saki. As his selection was due to his wife's relatives in Maryland, Secret iry Bayard has determined to cancel the commission. THE Secretary of the Navy has received the following telegram from Admiral Jouett at Colon; "The force which came in the Acapulco has sailed for New York. The Iroquois' crew has been relieved. Every­ thing is quiet here." THE Coroner's jury at Lemont, 111., signed a paper expressing the opinion that Sheriff Hanchett, of Chicago,-was hasty in sending troops to the place without the as­ sistance of the town authorities to disperse the people: and that, as the crowd had mainly gathered from curiosity, the mili­ tary officers should h»|e used more dis­ cretion before firing. THERE were 197 failures in the United States during the weefc, against 167 in the preceding week, and 182, 149, and 118 in the corresponding weeks of 1884, 1883, and 1882, respeftively. About 86 per cent, were those of small traders whose capital was less than $5,000..,. .Bradntreet'H Journal, in its weekly commercial summary, says: ' "The movement of general merchandise during the past week has been less than during the preceding seven divs, as re­ ported by special telegmms. * In the West the activity of farming op?ratiqns has contributed to depress business with the country merchants. This is par­ ticularly the case in the Northwest, where special efforts have been made to increase the acrejge of spring wheat. The general business situation throughout the country is not satisfactory. At the East there are no more favorable reports. The distribution from New York and Boston has bqpn of moderate pioportions in leading lines. Neither dry goods nor hard­ ware have had any stimnlns in the demand from the interior. The wool market has witnes ed some little renewed activity, but prices have not improved. There is no cha::gc and 110 signs of an improvement in iron, in anthracite coal, or petroleum. The industrial outlook is for a continance of the average of labor disturbances for some time to com«. On June 10 the prospect is th^ an extended strike in the iron tin 1 steel dis­ tricts may take place. Grocery staples move unsatisfactorily. Coffee is lower and weak. Dairy products are in buyers' favor and dull." THE Rev. J. H. Dally, formerly pastor of Trinity Church, in Jersey City, who left the ministry confessing that he had been improperly intimate with a servant, com­ mitted suicide by throwing himself into the Mississippi while en route by steamer from New Orleans to St. Louis .* .Editor M. C. Harris, who was expelled from Hot Springs iu 1884 by a citizens' committee, has been awarded $1,250 damages in the Federal Court at Little Rock. THE MARKETS. («! .70 .61 <9 .21 M .16 m *10 <?/ ,OS «R lioo •*.75 NEW YORK. BEKV8S...... 15.35 HOUR 4.B0 WHEAT--TW. 1 WHITE.'... T.M NO. 2RED..... 1.01 COBS--NO. 2 .57 OATS--White .; POKK--NEW MESS 12.60 LARD 07 CHICAGO. BEEVES--CHOICE TO PRIME STEERS. 8.50 GOOD SHIPPING 3.23 MEDIUM 4.75 Hoos 4 <j5 FIJOUB- Fancy Red Winter Ex.. ASO Prime to Choice bprtnf. 4.00 W HEAT--No. 2 Spring COISN--No. 2. ..." .48 "('« OAT.-:--No. 2. RYE-No. 2 » BAKIJCV--No. 2 .' UUTTKB--F'holce Creamery Fine Dairy CHEESE-T-FUII Cream Skimmed Flat KiiiiS--Freeh ^ . POTATOE-;--CHOICE, PER BU PORK- -Mess •&: LABD TOLEDO. WHEAT--NO. % BED .04 COBN--NO. 1 .51 OATS--NO. 2 37 MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--NO. A .SS CORN--NO. 2., .47 OATS--NO. 2 ; M UYE--NO. 2 .72 HA RLE R--N O. J, .............. 60 POUK--Mean t.,.. 41.00 ST. LOUIS. •WHEAT--NO. 2RED 1.05 COKS--MIXED .47 OATH--MIXED SG RYE 66 HAY--PRAIRIE 10.50 POHK--MENS......... 11.25 CINCINNATL WHEAT--NO. 2 RED , |.07 CORN : .53 OATS--MIXED ,'GG RYE--NO. 2 FALL...... .70 POBK--MESS 11.80 DETROIT. I11.OUR 6.50 WHEAT--NO. 1 WHITE.. 1.03 CORN--MIXED .53 OATS--NO. 2 WHITE 42 POBK--NEW MESS..., 12.50 @ 6.3> 5,00 @ 1.03'£ <$ 1.02 ($ .59 (a .50 ® 11.75 @ .«7& (3) 6.00 ® 5.75 <<? 5.25 (rt/ 4.T5 5.00 m 4-60 .35 .72 .65 .23 •1!» .11 .(Hi .11 48 C41U25 @ 7.00 & Mlj <flj .5tt .88!* .48 FOBEK«n. iF the foreign dispatches are true there is a disposition on the part of the British Government to place the burden of re­ sponsibility for the strained relations be­ tween the two nations on 8ir Peter Lums­ den, who is charged with having been greatly controlled by the war party in India. The Queen and Princess Beatrice re­ turned to London from the continent The approaching marriage of the Princess has been ordered to be solemnized without dis- play. SIB EDWABD THOBNTOH telegraphed & .73 3® .61 <311.25 @106 <9 .47H & .36^ «T< .67 311.50 C?11.7« (<t 1.08 & .5* « .40 (A .72 012.00 M 6.00 m i.<wH # .C4 & .43 g 13.00 ® 1.05>2 .50 & .38 @ 7.00 IT 6.00 «T, 5.00 0 R.00 5.CO INDIAN APOL1S. WHEAT- No. 2 Hed. .• 1.C4 CORN- MIXED 40 OATS--NO. 2 . .87 EAST LIBERTY. CATTLE-- BEST F,.25 FAIR E.25 COMMON 4.25 HOGS 4.50 SHEEP 4.S0 CHICAGO WOOL MARKET. (Reported by KHK^MAN UAI.I. & Co.. Chicago, 111.) Priren of t'nwanhcd Wool (old cliii) from Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, and Iowa for the pant week are tmchau^'i <1 as lollowH: Fine. llo'/iU-; Fine Medium Medium, 'Hot: I/iw Medium, . Coarn , iK'i 20<\ Delaine l ine, ; Medium, 21c. Combing -Medium, "ti\ Low Medium, ZlH 23c: C-narH", ; liraid. lTwiac. Total nsceiptH far pant week, 280,895 Tbn: ami ainre January 1- 4,5Hi,6H4 ll,«. Trade in much rentrlotort bv depleted The aupply of Medium Unwawhed Wool in very low. Arolianwl IaMsitni & *har>ov % zaritzih x' uricY •jiazaM* Astrdklia jir.AT- SE-i '"'off?#: Vlaflaa^ikSl! er'iend iS6«Stov»k ' •'Kj« DaipitScijs \ V ^ -antioch ooVw1v, Shira Bunporep >• . r i V 1(11 Tcima ^Ladina VJieoca SuaJctn tute Mills ooioo : 300 W) 900 00^ 900 800 3/cXallf 4 Chicago condition. The Knclish protested, it Is true, against the snbinsation of Khiva, althouith Russian troops contlned themselves to the liu'ht Ijantc of the Oxns in their permanent occupa­ tion. They protested, also, against the occupa­ tion of Merv tn 1831. Some even went so far as to adviae sendlnit money and ammunition to the Turcomans In order to enable them to op­ pose the Ras*ia*s. The occupation ot Merv •nil the neighboring provinces Mhtnght the Russians for the firnt time close to the Afghan frontier and to Herat, always considered the key td India. The English had at la->t given up their fears that Russia might ad­ vance thrsnch Kashgar or the mountain pasaes of th* Himalayas, and owing to their own defeats and bad fortnoe had become convinced tbat It would lie diffliult for the Russians to at­ tack India bsthftmr of Cabul; bat Herat once oceapted, the rwad wrtdld toe easier, all micoeSs- fnl invasions of India having come from the Afghan frontier. TheiRnssians, in reply to En­ gland's questions, bad already proposed a oom- niixMion for the purpose of settling the bound­ aries ot Afghantntan. which the English had re- tu»> d, fearing lest by a?ctpt4ug this they would impliedly agiee to Russian occupation np to the very line. After Mery was taken the Rus­ sians renewed their proposition, and this time it. was acceijie.-f. The English, however, pro po«ed t hat the boundary coinminsiou should con- si-t of one Kn^llshman. oae ltnsslan, an l on? Afghan. This hussiaobjected to on the ground that, according to taeir own airanprement with Kngland, and especially by the treaty made be­ tween the Aimer of Afghani-tin and England »' ter the late war, thi Afghans wore put under English pr otic ion; that while the English Com­ missioner could ask the Afghaux for advice an l counsel, .hist au the Russians could the Turco­ mans, the r subjects, tt:e boundary must lie drawn by the two nation -' alone Alter some discussion this was agreed to. Kir Peter Lums­ den, an hn-'llsh officer well known in In din, wa« appointed the Russian Commissioner, as­ sisted by Mr. Condie Kt-eptien a voung diplo­ matist who had won hi« srur-<, first by a'.-<iuir- ins ttiorougbly the English language, then by his suceosiitul management of the Consulate at Philippopoiis. and, Hnalty, by his leadership of several surveying and exploring parties' on the Persian frontier. They were accompanied by a large staff and an escort The Russians appointed as their Ccmmissioner Gen. Zelsvoi; but liefore the time appointed for the meeting the Russian Commissioner was taken ill at Tiriis. It was necessary, the Russians thought, for some agreement to be come to as to the region through which the boundary line should be drawn, ani as to the principles which should govern the delineation. This it was better to arrange at home, and for that purpose Capt. Lessar, a Fn nch engineer officer In the Russian Service, who had explored the whole region up lo the very gates of Herat, and had recently l>een attached as diplomatic agent to the Governor Oeneral commanding the trans- Caspian region, was sent to London for tbe purpose of hastening a decision by the English Oovcrnment. There were various de­ lays, caused more by the English than by the Russians, and. meanwhile, beiore the arrival of Lessar at London, or even the departure of Sir Peter Lumsden for the frontier, the Afghans, Incited by the English in India, had advanced and taken the small town of Penideh, over i which they had had no actnal rule for verv i many yeais, and which, therefore, did not fall | within the conditions of the arrangement of 1H72. As a protest against this, the Russians j advanced their outposts far beyond where the English thought the frontier line should be drawn. Such was, in brief, the state of affairs when the present controversy became still more embittered by the advance of Gen. Komarotf. That Russia should wish India for Its own sake seems too absurd to bo worth consider*-* tion, when we remember that the size of India is e(|iial to three-quarters of that of Russia In Europe, that Its ponulation amounts to 25:t,o<K),- <too, that its debt, which would have to be as­ sumed by Russia, in case of annexation. Is over Jxfio.uou.'to", about one-third of that of Hussia itself. Although its commerce amounts to a large sum--$2iii>,eo0,000 of imports, $417,o<)(i,ooo of exports--yet ae most of this is with England it would probably continue in the same route; it could not at once be changed and to into the hands of Russia by the annihilation of Kritlsh ]>ower in India, nor, indeed, could Russian factories supply the need ot the Indian mar­ ket. It is not the possession of India which the Russians desire, nor do they wish to mike any actual attack upon English rule in India. They do wlsli, however, to be in a position to threaten India, whether by force of arms or by intmuts, in case England should again object to anv aim of Russian policy in the we*t. One of ibo-e Hims must certainly be considered the ofening of fr »e communica:ion from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean. In this stage of civ­ ilisation the world at large could sympathize w.tli tlie free d< velopmi nt of anv nation so long 9s it interferes with the rights of no other state, rather than with the policy of restriction. The opening of the lJosphoros and th-j Dardanelles should be merely a question between Russia and Turkey, in which foreign powers should have no actual interest except to desirs the freedom ot the seas and of the straits. But whether or not the Russians desire the coiuiuest of India, or sitni Iv to gain a position irom which to annoy the English, it is the obvi­ ous dutv or' the Briiish Government to decide upon a f.ontier which the Russians can not be allowed to overstep. Mn. h as thev might pro­ test and question, it is obviously Impossible for th>; English to insist upon a frontier line drawn through the st< pi>e, which they have no possi­ bility ot defending, and it is for their interest, as they wish no further barren possessions, to restrict themselves to wh it they really hold and to draw the frontier as near India as is safe, by which thev can be nearer their own base of operations and tho Russians as far m pos­ sible from theirs. It would seem that the English made a mistake in 1872 in insisting on the Oxus as the boundary between Afghanis­ tan and the Russian protected or tributary states. The tribes and petty countries on the left bank o'f the Oxns, although at various tiroes they had been subject to Afghanistan, had Ireouently been entirely independent, and were i of th'? sain - Turkish race as the tribes living on ' the right bank. It was therefore always to be possible for Russia, In the event of war. when all things are allowable, to carry on intrigues with such people. After my return from On- asked my opinion on tills xubleot by lending statesmen, and always held (hut the mountain barriers, where there were pauses enwtly de­ fensible, were far Imttcr for English purpose* than tha river. I remember psrileulai'ly insist­ ing on this in several conversations with the Prinoe of Wales, whom I found particularly well Informed on the whole subject. quests in Foorkistin, and the Oxus passed iu April, 188d. The following yvnt 4m. into Russia's control. on a special mission to Egypt. . . ^ i' • The khanate of Kholand has been so completely absorbed by tho Russian mili- tary government that its name has disap­ peared from recent maps. Bokhara and Khiva are still nominally ruled by their old sovereigns, but they are merely dependen­ cies of Russia, and pay a heavy tribute for the privilege of retaining a semblance of autonomy. The Khan of Khiva is not per­ mitted to have an army, und his subjects have been stripped of their weapons. He is so far a more completely subjected prince than the Ameer of Bokhara, who is permitted to maintain an army of 20,00!) men, which he has pledged himself to place at the disposal of the Russian com­ mander. and which, according to Mr. Boulger, will prove a serviceable auxiliary corps. When Russia had conquered the khan­ ates there was still hard work for her armies south of the Oxns, where large tribes of wild Turcomans constantly menaced her enterprises, and blocked the way to Herat. Some years after Khiva fell, Skobeleff and his Cossacks scattered the Teke-Turco­ mans, the greatest slave-hunters and most lawless nomads who roamed the desert of Kara Knm. Last year tbe last stronghold of this tribe was occupied by Russian troops. It was the enr(h fort they were building in H bend of the Murghat River, at Merv, when O'Donovan visited them four years ago. Its ramparts, forty feet high and sixty feet wide at the base, were speedily knocked to pieces, and Merv now forms part of the Russian transcaspian province. Years before, Sir Henry Rawlin- son, the greatest authority on Central Asia, had told the British Government that "Hfratis at the mercy of ihe General who occupies Merv." But public opinion in England did not keep pace with the march of events in Asia, and it was not t'll the Russian forces had left tbe Merv oasis and received the submission of the Turcomans south of Sarakhs that Great Britain awoke to the belief that the czar was threatening Herat and menacing India. RUSSIA IN CENTRAL ASIA. Her Advance Aero** the Dewrt and Over the Oasis of Tnrklstan. A little east of the narrow traet now in dispute between Russia and Afghanistan is tbat extensive protuberance called by the natives The Pamir, or The Roof of the World. This wonderful plateau, furrowed by deep valleys, through which flow the head streums of great rivers, is the loftiest in the world, and stretches away for some hundreds of miles, from 10,000 to 15.000 feet above the sea. It is an elevated isthmus conneciiug those almost impassable moun­ tain systems of Asia, the Thian Shan and Altai on the north, with the Hindoo Koosh and Himalayas on the south. Here history places the cradle of the European races. Here lived our Aryan forefathers, who, leav­ ing the Pamir s opes, followed gre.it rivers westward, and finally pastured their herds iu Europe. Hither are returning uow their descendants, the Slavs and AngJo-Saxous, sooner or later to contend for the suprem­ acy of Asia upon the histor c ground from which their progenit3is are believed to have migrated. The Pamir sent its waters west to fertil­ ize the Tooikistan Desert, gave the nations a passageway through mountain barriers alonyfts streams that poured eastward into tne Tarim and southward into the Gauges and the Indus, nurtured the civilization that Genghis Khan and Tamerlane founded in Toorkistan. and made possib e the ad­ vance of Russia into Central Asii. Though Peter the Great dreamed of ex­ tending Russia's power far beyond the Caspian, it was not the greed of conquest or commerce, but the need of defending herself against barbarous neighbors across the Ural that first turned Russia toward Central Asia. Ivan III. put an end to the terrible Tartar invasions that for centuries wasted half of Russia and laid its chief cities in ashes. But his successors did not free Russia from the pest of pillagiug Kirghiz and Turcoman tribes until thsy es­ tablished the Muscovite power in the large j territory between the Ural River and the Aral Sea. They sank wells in the list Urt plateau to facilitate the operations of their army, marched against the turbulent Kir­ ghiz, and after several hard camjjaigns they Bubdued these two million nomads, who for over twenty years have paid their co Mjuer- ors without a murmur their anneal tax of 3 rubles a tent. Beyond the Kirghiz steppes that bordered Russia stretched tar eastward across the desert two belts of verdure through which flow two great rivers, the accient Oxus and the Jaxartes, now known as the Amu-Daria and the Syr-Daria. The one rising on the southern and the other on the northern slopes of the Pamir, had for ages distribute. ed over their banks alluvium born# on rapid tides from their headwaters, creating long and continuous oases in the midst of the most desolate desert of the world. Here were rich lands and populous and half-civilized nations. Here were the routes to inner Asia, caravan roads that led to China, the highways over which great camel (rains from Bokhara had for many year-i borne to Orenburg and Astrakhan their loads of cotton, silk, skins, and shagreen leather to exchange for Russian hardware, chintz, and guns. Here was § chance for vast expansion of Muscovite power and commerce. Russia's motive wap no longer self-protec ion, but the subjuga­ tion of the khanates of Toorkistan and the extension of trade. Her expedition against Khiva in 1839 was disastrous. The bitter cold of the Ust Urt plateau ruined Perowski's army. Rus­ sia. repulsed in her attempt to ac­ quire the Oxus, turned to the Syr-Daria. After she planted her foot upon that liver her forward march was slow, steady, , and persistent. Her line of forts along the j degree, leaving the university early ; he en- left bank of the river lengthened year by j tered public life as a Lord-in-\\aiting Sir Peter LumMton. Sir Peter Lumsden, whose biography is herewith presented, was born in 1829, and entering the Bengal army in 16(9 he has continued since then to see ac£ve service P V. -... , k h ' * L A !< • » India. He has served on the Northwestern frontier in numerous expeditions, on a political commission in Afghanistan, in Central' Indian operations in IN68» and in all the army grades upward. Lord Dnflferln. Lord Dufferin is now attracting so much attention by reason of his negotiations on the part of England with the ruler of Afghanistan that a sketch of his life, to­ gether with a picture, will be interesting to our readers. The Earl of Dufferin is an Irishman, and a great-grandson of the ac­ complished Richard Briusley Sheridan. He is Frederick Temple Hamilton Blackwood, only son of the third Baron Dufferin, in the Irish peerage, and his mother (the Dowager Countess Gifford by her second marriage) was a clever lady authoress, eldest daughter of Mr. Thomas Sheridan, and heiress to the wit, talent and genial temper of her family, which her son has inherited in his turn. Lord Dufferin was born at'Florence in 1826, succeeded to the peerage on his father's death in 1841, was educated at Christ Church College, Oxford, but took no honors or P«iq|deh an l Its Surroundings. Penjdeh, where the first Russo- Afghan battle was fought, is between sixty and seventy miles south of the old Russian boundary, and about fifty miles north of the line now claimed by tiie Russians, but disputed by the Afghans and English. It is, in fact, very near the boundary of the disputed territory, which extends from north to south about 110 miles, and from cast to west about 100 miles on its southern side, and 150 on its northern. It is not a large area, but is well watered by the Kushk and Murghah ltivers, which unite a little north of Penjdeh, and t>y the Heri Rud. which bounds the territory on its western side, defining the Persian fron­ tier. The valleys of these rivers aro fruitful, but it is neither their agricultural wealth nor the mineral resources of the moun­ tains that make the territory so desirable. If the territory in dispute is conceded to Russia, it brings her frontiers within a hundred miles of Herat, the acknowledged key to Afghanistan and the passes into In­ dia. While Penjdeh may not of itself be, as Lord Dufferin says, worth fighting about, its possession by Russia would be a sub­ ject of solicitude to England, who. con­ sidering the steady advauce of Russia southward from Khiva, must necessarily mistrust the motive of this extension of tbe Russian frontier. There could be no es­ pecial object in acquiring Penjdeh and the te ritory above described, unless there ex­ isted the ulterior purpose of acquiring Herat, thus putting the Russians in a posi­ tion fo influence the policy of the Ameer, and ultimately absorb his entire dominions. The more this question is examined as to its political bearing9 iu Afghanistan and' Northern India, the more essential it ap­ peal's for English supremacy and prestige in that quarter of tbe world to stop Russian aggression where it is, and if possible force its retreat back to Khiva at least. year. She made the river her ally in her warfare upon the khanates. Twelve years after the first Russian gun was leveled at the walls of the first town in Khokand this rich khanate, including its metropolis, Tashkend, became the Russian province of Ferghana. Then Bokhara, after a bitter struggle, lost its independence. Two of the three khanates of Toorkistan were now gained, the <8vr-Daria from its mouth to its sources was a Russian stream, and the Muscovite arms were once more tnrned to­ ward the Oxus. Gen. Kaufmann's attack upon Khiva was crowned with success. Lord .T~ Russell's first administration. He was attached in 1855 to Lord J. Russell s j mission to Vienna, and was sent by Lord Palinerston as British Commissioner to Syria ! in I860. He was Under Secretary of State for India from 1864 to 1866, and in the war office subsequently for a few months. Un­ der Mr. Gladstone's administration, which commenced in 18(58. Lord Dufferin was Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster for four years and then assumed direction of the^Government of Canada, a post which he held until 1878. He was subsequently Am­ bassador at St. Petersburg from 1879 to * Snabes In the Penjdeh Talhiy. Remittent fever has of late year* plaj«4 sad havoc among the Jamshidis of Knshk. All the neighboring valleys, including Penjdeh, are infected, and are only inhab­ itable in spring and summer by tho accli­ matized. Another drawback to this valley is the number of snakes which iufest it. In spring the country must swaim with them; at present they are to be found, when there is occasion to dig, some eighteen inches or two feet below the snrfaoe, hiber­ nating in sleepy torpor.--.London Titnetk : Rnnla'a l>ebt. The debt of Russia, as stated in the Book for 188~>, is as follows: * Foreign loans, interest from 3 to teal If1 ^ «t fcelqg j ijie .kjqjinate was ftdtled to tfa£ ipwQ con- (.1881, (fad was appointed to Constantinople I of their face, 5Vo per cent Domestic loans . Forced ionns.............. Railway deqt Total * _ , The foreign loans of Russia were issued at a ruinous discount, that of 1882 bringing but 55 per cent, oi its faoe, and previous is­ sues being taken at from 61 to 75 per oent. 0,000 ... l, :«.>,aso,oao r>7s,<)00,«00 ... 750,000,000 .. $3,6*0,00 \000 m? M-MllSfoM". >,» 5 -•