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& * ?*.? Vis5/?^w • .* ' ,i: 1 » ' * % *V* *4>i*& * * *,?*•*•- ' *T T-1*1 ' # >v , $cff(tttg flaindcalct I. VAN SLTKE, Editor Mtf PuMI«»wr. MCHENRY, ILLINOIS. THE NEWS CONDENSED. »y o< " / - • ' FORTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Ik the House of Representatives, at it8 session OB the 19th, Mr. Morrison, of Illinois, from the Committee on R tiles, reported a resolution for the creation of the following select committees: On the election of President and Vice President Of the United States, on reform in the civil ser­ vice, on ship building and ship owning inter­ est*, on alcoholic liquor traffic, and on ventila­ tion and acoustics of the House. The resolution was adopted. Representative Lovcring pre­ sented a petition by Col. David 1*. Hussey, Third Massachusetts Cavalry, and sixty Others, survivors of the storming column known as the "Forlorn Hope," organized for assault upon Port Hudson, L& , June 15, 1863, praying Congress to grant thorn medals, as promised in the general order of Gen. Banks. The Senate was not in sessim THE feature of the Senate proceedings on the Hst of December was the carefully prepared attack of Senator Beck up an the finanoial policy of the administration. Mr. Bock believes that the word "coiuH used in section :fc'>91 of the Revised Statutes means silver as well as gold coin, and he therefore introduced a resolution Instructing the Finance Committee to inquire whether tile coin paid for customs duties under the section hss been set apart for the payment of the interest on United States bonds and to the payment of one per centum of the entire debt of tho United States made in each year as a sinking fund, and if this had not liear- tofore been done to rcnort a bill for tlio enforce­ ment of the law. The Kentucky Senator sj>oke for an hour upon this resolution, and in the course of his remarks charged that the Secretary of the Treasury haul deliber­ ately violated this provision; that ho was administering tho Treasury in tho special in­ terest of national banks, and that he was, also, in the same interest discriminating against sil-. ver. The Senator declared, with great earnest­ ness of manner, that ho would enforce fine and imprisonment upon any ofiicer who would thus violate the law. Beck was so vehement in manner and so blunt in language that ui>on tho conclu­ sion of his remarks the Senators on both sides were too much surprised tomako any response. Mr. Morrill said that the speech practically Charged the Secretary of thi Treasury with be­ ing a. thief, and the President of the United States with being in collusion with him; and that, as no Democratic Senator soemed ready to defend the administration against the terrible arraignment, he moved that the Senate proceed to the consideration of executive business, wfcjrh nir,?:aLi wao adopted. In the Hmiso of Representatives, under a c:«ll of the Htate*, a perfect flood of bills rained upon tbo Speaker's desk. More than 1,00) were introduced, anil the call was suspended when Maine was reached. Inclosed in the list are tho following: For the relief of Fitz John Porter, to suspend the coin­ age of the silver dollar, to pay Government em­ ployes wages witheld in violation of the eight- hour law, to limit the disposal of the public lands, to establish a postal telegraph, for tho unrestricted coinage of tho silver dollar, for the construction of the Hennepin Canal, to establish a Sub-Treasury at Louisville, to enable tho people of Dakota to form a con­ stitution. and to create tho Territory of Okla­ homa. Ten measures affecting railway land grants were also introduced. Both houses ad- lourned until Jan. 5. Tho President sent the following new nominations of Postmasters to the Senate on the 21st: At F-airmount, W. Va , Newton S. Barnes; .Jackson, Tenn.,lt. H. Dashicl; Peoria, 111., John Warner; Mt. Pleasant, Mich., Fred A. S;ebbins ; Evansville, Wis., James V. N. Sonn; Nevada, Mo., Wm. It. Crockett.; Oxford, Pa., Samuel II. Smith : Weatherford, Tex.. X. B, Johnson; Wauseon, Ohio, George Hauniealer; Canton, Ohio, William Archival; • Delaware, Ohio, David A. Starke; Ottawa, 111., William Osman ; Batavia. 111., Willis S. Grimes; Amboy, QL, George E. Young; Mason City, 111., William A. Mehau; 'Maywood. 111.. Samuel S. Kemp; Mount Carroll, 111., William P. Baird; Mount Morris, 111;, Henry Sharer; Elllng- tiam, III., Charles Kellv; Macomb, HI., rhomas Philpot; Hvde Park, 111., Edwin S. Hawley; Vandal ia. 111.. Sidney B. Stout; Shel- oyville, Kv., Joseph N. Bell; Howell, Mich., Isaac W, Bush; Niles, Mica., William J. Ed- wards; Stanton, Mich., Putrick II. McGarry; Denison, Iowa, O. B. Keith ; Oskaloosa, Iowa, William T. Smith ; Hampton. Iowa, Oscar B. H amnion; Little Bock, Ark., Thomas W. New- THE EAST. ' ,n~ r Is a contest at New York for $200 a side, Frank Barrett opened 2,500 oysters and John Gillen 2,300 in two hours and eighteen minutes... .A court in New York has rendered a decision that Miss Ellen King can not recover from innocent purchasers the value of bonds stolen frofti her resi­ dence. .. .Strikers assailed the miners who were going to work in the Old Eagle Mine, near Monongahela City, Pa., firing guns and revolvers in a reckless manner. The surprised miners fled for their lives, and as they rushed down the hill-side some of them sustained painful injuries. The strikers also attacked the dwellings occu­ pied by the "scabs," demolishing the win­ dows in twenty-five of them, but the in- jmates escaped unhurt. THE WEST. SOMAN NOSE, once the chief medicine man of the Cheyennes, who last spring killed a white woman in Indian Territory, has been surrendered to the civil authorities at Leavenworth, by order of Attorney Gen­ eral Garland, to be tried in the Federal Courts for murder The Korell family of five persons are seriously ill at Cleveland of trichiniasis, the result of having eaten freely of uncooked ham. A physician be­ lieves that he can save their lives. THE SOUTH. The Queen and Crescent Railway sys­ tem has recorded in various parishes of Louisiana, a mortgage on its roadbed and tare for $1,323,000, in favor of a New York trust company Milton Young, of Lex­ ington, Ky., sold twenty-three thorough­ bred horses for $50,200, every prominent stable in the country having a representa­ tive present. Bakrupt, for which $8,000 was refused last year, brought $0,700. Troubadour went at $7,050. ON a charge of, disorderly conduct in which Chief of Police Connelly was a par­ ticipant, Col. E. C. Bluffy, assistant city editor of the Constitution, was fined at At­ lanta. Ga., $10 and costs, Connelly "being let off upon paying costs. The editor had challenged the policeman to fight a duel, but the latter declined. Executive of the League in this country. ... .Fire destroyed the largest rope-walk in the world, owned by the Colonial Cordage Company, at St. Johns, N. F. The loss is $140,000; uninsured. : • t \ t FOBEIOK. leaders of the Salvation Awfty at London presented to the Home Secretary a petition a mile and a half long, hearing 200,000 signatures and weighing 560 pounds. This formidable document asks the release from prison of Editor 'Stead of the Pall Mall Gazette and Mrs. Rebecca Jar- rett, who are in jail for ab­ ducting Eliza Armstrong... .The Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland, at a meeting held in Dublin, issued a manifesto addressed to the Orangemen of Great Britain, protesting against complying with the demands of the Pamellites.... The four children bitten by a mad-dog at New­ ark, N. J., recently, have arrived in Paris, and are under treatment by M. Pasteur, the hydrophobia specialist. " , A MAGISTRATE in London examined John and Sarah Magee, who attempted to obtain £1,000 from the Prince of Wale? by revealing the names of four men who in­ tended to murder him. A draft of the let­ ters having been found in the man's pocket- book, he was committed for trial, but the chafge against the woman was withdrawn. WA8ULHOTO.Y SteVlhtoATj members of the Cabinet have hit upon a happy scheme to avoid the trouble imposed upon them by persistent autograph fiends. Tfrev have had stamps prepared having on their faces the name of their respective departments and a fac­ simile of their signatures. All autograph books are turned over to the private secre­ taries, who apply the stamp to the page se­ lected, and after blotting the impression it has the appearance of having been written by the Cabinet officers. No thought of a stomp enters the autograph hunter's mind, aftd he leaves with his book in his pocket, happy in the belief that he has added the signature of one more great man to his list. THOMAS O. OSBORN, Minister ot the Argentine Republic, has furnished the De- EJtment of State with a detailed history of e struggle in that country between churc h and state for the control of the normal schools. A procession of one thousand leading ladies of Buenos Ayres marched to the Senate Chamber with a petition favor­ ing religious instruction in the schools, and -ffiWted their point by one vote. OENEBAL. V THE iron market is reported materially Stronger, and orders for material are plen­ tiful. Prices have been raised, and a fur­ ther advance is anticipated after the holi­ days The following is the visible supply of grain, as compiled by the New York Produce Exchange: Wheat. 58,701,- 963 bushels; corn, 7,338,256 bushels. MB. PABNELL, being unable to attend the -liteh National League Convention an­ nounced to be held in Chicago, and also believing that it would be better to defer the gathering until after the meeting of the British Parliament, the Chicago Conventioc has been postponed to a datero be here after determined by Mr. Pafne^J andythe ADDITIONAL SEWS. DTTBING the Christmas festivities aj County Hospital the gigantic Chq tree, which had been placed in the afiiphi- tH eater. where seme 600 people had gath­ ered, took lire, and during a three-minute panic which ensued over fifty persons, among them patients. County Commis­ sioners, and hospital attendants.were badly Scorched and bruised. There are but two small exits to ths place, and one of these was so doss to the tree as to be practically barred. No lives were lost, though many were seriously injured ... Henry Blocher, an aged German residing alone in a hut near Wabash. Indiana, escapes tax on $75,000 by loaning on mortgages at 6 per cent, per annum for thirty-three years, when the notes are to be returned to the makers without further consideration, the principal lit that time being a matter of no consequence. The old man espends 5200 per year on himself. ... Silas E. Cheek, a real estate and loan agent of Clinton. Mo., is a de­ faulter for about $100,000, and has also issued forged mortgages. His books showed that he had loaned $171,000 for Eastern citizens; a paper in his desk bore the confession, "I am a thief, scoundrel, knave and liar." Cheek is in Canada..... The post office at Mount Forest, 111., was entered late at night by three burglars, who bound and gagged Postmaster Cronin and his clerk, secured plunder amounting to $1,500, cut the telegraph wires, and escaped by means of a stolen horse and wagon. The thieves were followed to Brighton Park, where one of them was arrested.... The Hendricks Monument Association of Indianapolis adopted a resolution to ask no appropriation from Congress, but to de­ pend alone upon voluntary subscriptions by an appreciative people. ^ WILLIAM SHEEHAN, who was convicted of having murdered his mother, his brother Thomas, and his sister Mary at Castletown- roche, near Cork, Ireland, has made a fall confession of his crime. He exculpates his brother-in-law, David Browne, who is under arrest ... . A portion of the victorious army of Bulgaria, on its return from the front, received an enthusiastic wel­ come from the citizens of Sophia. An English war correspondent states that so great is the lack of discipline among the Servian forces that the life of King Milan is constantly threatened.... The London Times suggests as a solution of the Irish question the exclusion of the Parnellites from Parliament and the proclamation of, martial law in Ireland.' With tfiese con­ ditions the whole affair, it thinks, could be settled in three months. THE Judge of the Superior Court at Atlanta, Ga., to whom appeal was ftade for an injunction in the election case involving the prohibition issue in the city named, de­ clined to interfere. Prohibition was imme­ diately declared,.,,parried by a majority of 228. The case will be appealed and other litigation over the election is in progress. . DB. EBERHARD, who was appointed post- mast ?r at Ripon, Wis., failed to qualify within the specified tim:?. Wheh he at­ tempted to take possession the other day he was refus?d admission by Postmaster IJpham. The Marshal at Milwaukee was informed of the situation of affairs. FIRE in One Hundred and Sixty,sixth street. New York, destroyed a dwelling oc­ cupied by Patrick Driscoll and his family. Driscoll, his wife, and one son escaped in a badly burned condition, but two youths, 17 and 14 respectively, and a girl aged 7,' perished in the flames. ALTHOUGH over three hundred persons were, during the small-pox epidemic in Montreal, employed by the health depart­ ment, not one of the number contracted the disease. MR. W. J. FLORENCE appeared last week at McVicker's Theater, Chicago, in the character of Jules Obenreizer in the play of "No Thoroughfare," and delighted his' ad­ mirers by as fine a bit of acting as was ever seen upon any stage. The present week he will appear in a variety of plays, including "Our Governor," the "Mighty Dollar," and as Captain Cuttlo in "Dombey & Son." THEMARKBTS. NEW YOIiK. BEEVES. HOGS WHEAT--No. 1 White No. 2 Ked....' CORN--No. 2 OATS--White POHK--Mesa CHICAGO. BEEVES --Choice to Prime Steers. ^Mod Shipping Tximmon Hoos FIKJUB--Extra Spring Choice Winter t WHEAT--No. 2 Spring. CORK--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 KYR--NO. 2 BARLKY-- NO. 2 BUTTER--Choice Creamery Fine Dairy CPEESE--Pull Cream, new....... Skimmed Flats EGOS--Fresh POTATOES--Choice, per bu 1'ORK--Mess. MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No. 2 CORN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 KYE--No. 1 PORK--New Mesa TOLEDO!"" WHEAT--No. 2. . . . . . CORN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 8T, LOUIS. W HEAT--No. 2 Red CORN--Mixed OATS--Mixed.. PORK--New Mens OINCENNATL WHEAT--No. 2 Red CORN--No. 2. OATS--No. 2 PORK--Mess .....7.7° LIVE Hoos DETROIT. " BEEP CATTLE HOGS SHEEP. IJ' WHEAT--No. 1 White.. ! CORN--No. 2. ; OATS--No. 2 *. . ...... INDIANAPOLIS. WHEAT--No. 2 lied CORN--New OATS--No. 2 ' V* ^ „ EAST LibKRTY. CATTLE--Best... _ Fair " "Common.... Hoos . y SHEEP "*/' „ BUFFALO." ' WHEAT--No. L Hard. CORN--Yellow Clvtlx. , 15.00 m 7.25 3.75 (<$ 4.25 .94 'A .9. .92;v n .03^ .49 v'(i .50 .37 & .42 9.75 I® 10.25 A YEAR'S HIST0EY. A Chronology of the Important Event*, - Political and Otherwise, of „ • 1885. .The Calendar Tear One of Compara­ tive Peace Throughout the Cir- rait of the Glebe. •tebiSywur IS85 has added few political >vents of a startling nature to the annals of the " ."orld's history. It has heen a year of peace, ' hough there have heen constant rumors of wars • a Europe--wars which, had they broken otit, •fould evidently have assumed gigantic propor- ' ions and resulted in vast destruction of life and i property. This very fact has no douht caused • he crowned heads of the old world to pursue a • tautious policy and hesitate long before letting • dip the dogs of war. Tho only serious disturb­ ance of the peace of the world is on 1 <ho extreme eastern confines of Europe, •aid that promises to be settled without i nvolving any of the great powers in a conflict of 'inns. Franco and China have been lighting rach other at long range, inflicting very slight •iair.age. England had a brush with Burmu.li, Thicli was "short, sharp, and decisive," the Burmese King throwing up the sponge and in- illorioualy surrendering to tho red coats without ilring a gun. Canada's war with the half- ' >reeds and Indians in the Northwest, and the •:hango of administration at Washington by the i 'etiring of a Republican and the inauguration of 'i Democratic President, constitute th© chief i tvents near home. Below will be found tlio • record: - JANUARY. The,, Slattery family formod a 'syndicate at Uhenandoah, Pa., to prosecute claims for prop­ erty worth &»00,000,000 in England, Scotland, and Iiidia. St. Louis, Mo., was reported swarming i irith beggars ; 20,000 people out of employment. ' Twenty-three of the younger priests and stu­ dents of the Moscow Theological Seminary were flogged by the Archbishop or tho diocese for ex­ hibiting symptoms of rebellion, tiov. Cleve­ land sent his resignation to the New York As­ sembly on the Ctii, being succeeded by Lieut. ' iov. Hill. Immense coal deposits, said to bo <,he richest in the world, discovered in the vicin- I ty of Pekin, China. Gen. Grant, in a letter to '.'yruH W. Field, declined to accept the money i raised to extricate him from his financial em­ barrassment. President-elect Cleveland was i jotifled by nearly 100 parents that as many ba­ bies were named after him, and he sent a pho- 'locrapli to cnt-h one. Discovery of an emerald -<;yry jion.iul iit ISOVHCH, H'aunre of the banldng imuse of John J. Cisco's ijons, New York pliabilities, 82,5;K),000. Funeral of Hon. Schuyler Colfax, at South Bend, Ind. The mercury "at Monut Washington, N. H., sank 'iO 50 degrees below zero on Jan. 22, and a hurri- i;alae for half a day was at the rate of 100 miles •in hour. A detachment of British troops, 11,500 strong, fought tho hosts of El Mehdi at the '(Veils of Abu Klea, in the deserts of the Sou­ dan. and after a fierce battle the rebels were driven from the field with heavy loss. London 'I tart led by three explosions of dynamite in the • Parliament House and at the Tower; the lobby •>f the British House of Commons blown to nieces, and tho Speaker's chair destroyed ; sen- •itor Bayard introduced u resolution in the 'United State a Senate expressing the indigna­ tion and sorrow of this country at the event. The Liberty Bell taken from Independence tfiall, Philadelphia, under escort of 3u0 policu- i lien, und started for the New Orleans Exposition. •Texas stockmen estimate their loss on account •jf the cold weather will exceed ?1,000,UX>. Kuh- >iia and Germany conclude a treaty providing i or extradition ot assassins or ub.li.ctors of royal l^ersonages. and persons yuiltv of illegal inanu- l ueiure of exjilesives. Continued excitement in luonacn over the dynamite explosions ; miinei"- •)us arrests made, vigilance committees pro­ posed, and A system ot espionage over persons •if Irish extraction suggested. The Llue.ty Moil • iccoided a hearty reception at New Orleans, sa- i utes beiiu' fired and shipping decorate 1; at •tieauvoir, Miss.. Jefferson Davis met the train bearing the famous relic, and made a short speech to those in attendance. Solomon Batt •ind Elias Grossfelut, educated Hebrews, re­ nounce Judaism, and unite with the M. K. "hurch at Cincinnati. Ex-Gov. Moses, of '•outh Carolina, released from prison at "Detroit, and rearrested on the charge of swind­ ling Col. T. W. Higginson and other Bostonians. Amount of gold ootained from United States i nines in 1884 ascertained to have been S il.OtKl,- 'hJO. Kansas and Missouri Legislatures adopt iresolutions petitioning Congress to open Okla­ homa to settlement. News received of a hard- bought battle between Gen. Stewart's command •ind the Arab rebels, in which five of El Mehdi's Hnirs were killed; Stewart was badly wounded • Mid disabled for the remainder of the campaign. lUrs. Thankful Tanner, of Cleveland, brings suit •tgainst Mrs. James A. Garfield for $25,000 for in­ juries sustained by being run over by the lat- •ier's carriage. Thaddeus Louis Poniatowski, a grandson of King Stanislaus of Poland, found • jvorking as a cattle tender near Baltimore. The i Minnesota Senate passes a bill making it a ' lelony to attempt to increase or diminish the •iuarket price of cereals. After a dead-lock last­ ing twenty-two days, the lower house of the ' Illinois Legislature organized by the election of !(Clijah M. Haines as Speaker. A paity of OKla- iaoma boomers numbering 150 peisons dispersed i?y United States troops; lour of lha leaders 1 sound over in »1,000 eacn ; they threaten to make • mother raid on the coveted territory March 4. FKIiKLAKY. Mrs. Laura De F. Gordon, of California, ad- liitted to the bar of the United States Supreme 'Court at Washington--the second woman ac­ corded tliat»privilege. O'Donovan Rossa shot in .'New York by ail English woman calling herself k'seult Dudley ; great rejoicing in England over • ihe news. Queen Victoria offered to contribute ilroin her private purse to any reward the Gov­ ernment decided to offer for arrest of persons ijuilty of dynamite outrages. During a severe (vindstorm the Colorado Central train from Denver to Georgetown was blown from the •track ; eighteen passsngers more or less injured. Intense excitement in England caused by re- ;eipt of dispatches from General Wolsfely an­ nouncing the capture of Khurtoum by El Mehdi. The Union Pacific Hoad reports its groBs earn­ ings for 1H84 at Jf2.),7'Jl,000. Reported dissensions In the Mormon Church, causing its gradual dis­ integration--the young Mormons trying to break tway from ecclesiastical rule. Authentic re­ ports were received in London that at the time of the fall of Khartoum the city was on the verge Of a famine, and on entering the enemy massu- cred about 18.0,A) people ; General Gordon was Huong th» latter, and his head was cut off and carried in triumph to the Mehdi, who received It with eager satisfaction. Michael Davitt com­ pelled to leave a hotel at Konie because English guests refused to sit at table with him. Ex-Congressman D. J. Morrell, President Cambria Iron Company at Johns­ town, Pa., sent to a lunatic nsvlum. The Texiis House passrd a bill forbidding the C: rr\ing of aeiullv wea| ons. Ti e labcr crisis gum -•-Tiiffr A New York telegram of Feb. 28, based on relia­ ble authority, slated that Gen. Grant was a very Bick man, and that the fact should ao longer be concealed from the country that he would not be lonn among the living. MARCH. President Cleveland took the oath at office on March 4, in tbe presence of an assembly estima­ ted at 150,100; about 25,000 people in organized bodies escorted him from the Capitol to tho White House, to the music of 100 bands, and 10,- 000 flevc tees of Terpsichore iln need at the inaug­ uration ball; Bixteen regiments of Pennsylvania nMlitia, headed by cx-Gov. Hartranft, bore off the honors of the parade. Almost the last net of Congress was tho passage of a bill putting the name of lT. S. Grant on the retired list, with the rank of General; President Cleveland's first of­ ficial act was the commissioning of his Cabinet; his second w as the Diguing of the commission of U. S. Grant as a General on the retired list. The Chinese Gover nment ordered home all its subjects studying in French schools. Andrew' Carnegie, tho Scotch millionaire of Pitts­ burgh, was,, blackballed when nominated for membership in the lit form Club of London. President Cleveland issued a proclamation for­ bidding tho invasion of trespassers upon Okla­ homa, ami ordering all unauthorized possessors of land to withdraw. The Supremo Court of Iowa decided unanimously that the prohibitory law is constitutional in every particular. The Delaware Itiver was frozen over at Easton, Pa. On March 22 the signal-service observer on Mount Washington, N. H., re|Ktrtod a gale of 100 to 140 miles an hour and a temperature of 48 de­ grees below zero. On the 2('>th, Queen Victoria called out 53,000 reserves of the regular amfv and 140,(XX) militia for permanent service. Maj. Crozier, of the Dominion frontier mounted police, with a force of 100, encountered several hundred rebels commanded by Louis liiel at Duck Lake, Manitoba, and after a hard fight Crozier was de­ feated, with 12 killed and 11 wounded. The anni­ versary of Ponce de Leon's landing nt St. Augus­ tine, Fla., in 1512, w as celebrated with elaborate ceremonies at that place March 28. <• Al'RIL. Mahlon Van Horn, of Newport, R. I., who was chosen as a member of tho General Assembly of that State at the election on April 1, was the first colored mail ever elected to that body. On the 8th, the Prince and Princess of Wales and their eldest son, I'rinco Albert Victor, arrived in Dublin, being tho first members of the royal familv to visit Ireland for many years; they received a cordial welcome, particularly the Princess, who was arrayed in green velvet. Information was received at the Rus­ sian War Office, that Penjdeli, in the dis­ puted Afghan territory, was occupied by Rus­ sian troops on the 2d inst. The New York Pres­ bytery decided to retire Rev. Dr. B tire hard, of "Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion" fame, on a pension of $500. A snow-storm was general throughout Illinois and Wisconsin on the 14th, the snow drifting badly in many places; snow fell also in Michigan and Northern Indiana. Orson P. Arnold, a leading Mormon of Salt Lake Citv, pleaded guilty to unlawful cohabitation and was fined 83(H); he promised to obey the laws and abandon polygamy. The twentieth anni­ versary of the death of Abraham Lincoln (April 15) was marked, by memorial services at the Capitol at Springfield, III. Veterans of the Texan army of IKJii met at Sherman April 21, and et'lfbratrd the f'.o-iy-iiinth anniversary of the battle of San Jacinto, by which Texas es­ tablished her independence. The Ohio Legisla­ ture passed an act requiring all executions in that State to take place within tho walls of the penitentiary. Margaret Coleman died at Bonus, 111., having fasted forty-five days, for five days preceding her death refraining from partaking of water. The 321st anniversary of the birthday of Shakspeare (April 23) was celebrated with much ceremony at Stratford-on-Avon. MAY. The resignation of U. 8." Tre-isurer A. U. Wy- liittn made it necessary to count all cash and,se­ curities in the public vaults at Washington, a task of great magnitude; on the 1st inst., 100 clerks began the work, and consumed about three weeks in accomplishing it. James R. Os­ good & Co.. well-known Boston publishers, failed : liabilities, between.$15.),000 and S-200,00 ). Capt. Lord, of the steamer Critic, which arrived at New York on the 14th, reported en­ countering miles of solid ice, with, nu­ merous bergs 200 to 8J() feet high. Prof Odium leaped from the Brooklyn bridge, 135 feet to the river beneath, and was killed. In tho Illinois Legislature, on the l!)th inst., Gen. John A. Logan was elected United States Sena­ tor on the 120th ballot, thus ending a memora­ ble contest of four months' duration. Tbe Brit­ ish evacuation of tlio Soudan commenced on tho 21st day of Moy. The bill to restore the death penalty failed in the Michigan Senate. Propel­ ler lines running from Chicago to Buffalo offered to carry wheat at one cent a bushel, the lowest price ever known, On tho 24th inst., Queen Vic­ toria's sixty-sixth birthday was celebrated in an elaborate manner ; but nine of tho fifty-five sov­ ereigns who have preceded her on tlie British throne have attained an equal age. B v direction of Gen. Terry, Gabriel Dumont, Boil's lieuten­ ant, WHS released at Fort A.ssinaboiue, Montana. The Brazilian Government adopted a pro­ gramme for the abolition of slavery. A dis­ pute!] from New Nexico stated tliat' no Indian raid for the last ten years equaled the present outbreak for cruelty";" 75 whites were known to have been murdered ; women were outraged and their bodies pinned to tho earth by wedges driven through them into the ground : men were terribly mutilated, and one little girl was hung up alive by aeieHhook stuck in the back of her head. Louis Reaume, a French-Canadian, be­ came a raving maniac on a Wubasli train' from the West for Chicago, and on reaching that city killed Off cer B irrett. and badly wounded Lieut. Laugblin, who were v a'.ting at the depot lo re­ ceive him: the matiiaj received three sho.s in the hack. - JUNK. James McCann, of the HeraM, defeat?d Ira, Somers, of the 1 Vorl l. in a type-st tt!ng contest at New York; the former piled up U,342 ems of solid minii n in three hours, tho latter ti,OII2. Snow fe'l at sevtrul places in Maine June 10, An Erg i h Insurance compmy sent ii 8 ruc- t ons to a ft. Louis a?ent to inv«stim.e tie Maxwell-Preller murder i.t the Soutiur.i Hotd in March, the conip iny fctating t..e r b. li >f that the holy found in the trunk was a medical "subject;" that Preller, before leaving Engl md, had his life l:eavily insured : that his reli.th eo were anxious to get the lucuey ; ai.d ihut 1 rjller sjfvas still alive. JULY. The anniversary of the f"ll of the Bastil ? (July 14» was c dobrated at Paris as a general holiday. Ti.e N a ,'ara Falls 1 a"k WHS formally dedicated to the pub!ij oil the 1 t:i duly-, w t'a appopriat j < eriinom* s. John Roach, the sliip- builc er, li.ad i 111 asKi^nment, w.th p.-tfurred claims i mo mt n • to H22,000. Princess i:e itr^ce, youug< sc da ithter of Queen Victoria, was mor- rifd July 2)1, 10 l'rinte Henry of Batt.n- l urg. Appalling news f.-om Spa n; mor­ tality from the {lreudfvl scourge of ehol- «ri averog.'d 1,000 daily in the kingdom. Sixty Russian criminals, while en route to Si­ beria, made a break for liberty; twenty-three were killed by the soldiers, aiad thirty of tho survivors made good their escape. In the Brit­ ish House of Commons a petition a mile and a half long, and containing 500,000 signatures, was presented, urging the passage of a law for the protection of young girls. A monument to tho memory of Rebecca Nurse, who was hanged at Salein for witchcraft, July 19, 1(>82, was dedicat­ ed at Danvers, Mass. The famous mare, Maud H., wiped out all previous records by trotting a mile at Cleveland, Ohio, in 2 :08%. AUGUST. 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'Ihe worst bh.'.yarl known in many- years prevailed on the tth and <jth throu hout the r 'tuoii bet.veeu t'ie ht. I awren e and the M .ssour'. The charge of high treast n and felony was biouvht aga list J. G. Cunningham and Har.-y Burton, alleged dynamiturils. in the l ow Str. e: Police Court, I o..don. Definite informa­ tion received of the th ath cf Gen. Gordon and t..e indiscriminate tl .ugiiter of the non-com- batan said Christians at Khiruwm. The Vat­ ican r fusid to recognize Mid ael Pa iti, who desired to jr sent an a diet s just.fying trie «a ise < f tbe lrisn Na ionalists. A cotton mill estal listed at * all Ri\er, Mtss , transf, r.ed its m ciii erv to Mexico, to minufacture print gi o;is with native b.bor. Never bef, r - in mari­ time liitto y were so ma iv steam ihip* at:d sail­ ing vessels to long ovi rdue ut New York ; o.tr litu U u :d f >r that foit not >-po'.<tn or lieaid lro:n that should have arri\ed weens previous. Fears were exireused thhtl^n^ Isl nd Kornd woull phia, was released from an insane asylum in that city, where sho had been incarcerated for twenty-seven years as "extravagant" and "ec­ centric ;" sho was in full possession of her facul­ ties, and. it is claimed, had never been other­ wise. Within twelve hours three brothers named Truby met violent deaths at or near Mar­ tin's Valley, Pa; one fell into a cattle guard aiid broke his neck, another was drowned in a quar­ ry-pit, and the third was suffocated in' a graiu- bili. The Oklahoma "boomers"iproke up camp and dispersed. The steamship Etruria made the run from Queenstown to New York in six days five hours and thirty-one minutes; this is the fastest time on record. 8KPTEMBEH. A colored woman named Ellen Johnson, 112 years old, who was sold as a slave to New Or­ leans parties fifty years ago, arrived at her daughter's home in Louisville; the daughter was tK) years of age, and h< r roof sheltered rei>- resentatives of five generations. The first race, between the yachts Puritan and Geuesta, for the cup won in' 1851 by the America, which was Ishpeiuing (Mich.) district on the 20th ; trains ! were blockaded. Lannie McAffee made a run ; of (>,004 points in a three-ball game of bil­ liards at Yankton, Dakota. Jacob Kanffman. n musician of Denver, became dement jd, diverted himself of his clothing o.i a prairie, and crawled back and forth through a barbed-wire fence un­ til death came to his release; his flesh WH#' found banging in shreds. Mrs. General Grant wrote a letter to Mayor Groee of New York, say­ ing that Riverside Park hail b^en selected as lilo General's burying placa by his familv, because of the agreement that Rbe should ultimately bo interred beside li lii. and that, no change was contemplated. A craav Corsican named Mattel attempted to assassinate M. De Freycineti' French Minister of Foreign Affairs, in the str acta of Paris, but failed. NOVEMBKR. The purchase of tho steamer Dolphin from the assignee of John Roach, was consummated by Secretary Whitney. The Andre monument, which Cyrus W. Field had erected on the Hud­ son River at Tappan, N. Y., M as blown up bv dynamiters. Ferdinand Ward was put at work shoveling ashes from under tho engine boilers at Sing Sing Prison. Subscriptions to the Grant monument fund in Now York were received from Paris, Amsterdam and Hamburg. Roach s great ship-yard at Chester, Pa., resumed work on theuth, under the management of the United States Naval Department. The "Throe Amer­ icas' " Exposition of Art and Industry opened i at New Orleans on the 10th, to continue through the winter. On his Palo Alto ranch, near Menlo Park, Cal.. Senator Stanford proposed to estab­ lish a great university, which he is to endow- to the extent of $20,0 *),000. The managers of a charity fitir at Reading, Pa., created a sensation by refusing to let Hebrew women participate. Lewis ltiel tho loader of the rebellion in the Northwest Territory, was hanged at ltegitm, tho capital, on the 17ch : in his last moments he dis­ played a decent fortitude which had nothing of bravado about it. Earthquakes were reported in the Pacific Ocean along the California coast, similar to those which preceded the great up­ heaval in the island of Java several years ago. A jury at Sparta, Ga., sustained the will of Da­ vid Dickson, leaving M>M),(XX) to his colored mis­ tress and child, and disinheriting his lieirs. L. B. Jones was fined ono cent and imprisoned one hour at Richmond, Va., for sending a challenge to fight a duel. Thomas A. Doyle was for the seventeenth time elected Mayor of Providence, R. I.; the Republicans throw him overboard, but tho Democrats made him their caudidate, and carried him through. Gen. Ja\j<tnoviteh, com­ manding a division of the Servian army, was dismissed for disobedience, and suicided with a revolver. DKCEMBEB. Lima, Peru, was surrendered to Gen. Caceres,* who appointed Eusebio Sanchez provisional Governor. In the far East, King Theebaw, of Bunnah, surrendered to Gen. I'randergast, tho British Empire thus gaining control of about 180,000 square miles of territory at very small cost. A physician who attended Vice President Hendricks for many years stated that death was caused by a clot of blood reaching the brain. Subscriptions to the Grant monument fund at New York, up to the 3d inst., amount to about $105,000. A storm on Lake Michigan on tho 4th caused the lake at Chicago to rise eight feet above the ordinary line. A. ,T. O-assatt, of Aje Pennsylvania lioad, purchased the English racer Tristan ; Americans are said to be •rapidly ac­ quiring the best horses in Great Britain. The ceremony of christening the steel cruiser Chi­ cago (launched at Chester, Pa.) was performed by Mis.s Edith Cleburne, of Philadelphia, who broke a bottle of wine over the botfr, and liberated a canary, an Irish linnet and an oriole. Rei<orts were abroad in London that the Rev. Mr. Spurgeon had permanently broken down from heart disease. A shower of young smelts, each half an inch in length, fell at Cumberland, Maine, for a radius of a mile. Mr. Thomas P. O'Connor, Mr. Paruell's political lieutenant, de­ clared in au| interview that what is sought for Ireland is a gSvernment similar in character to that of Canada. The funeral of Herr Strassman, President of the municipal council of Berlin, a leading Hebrew, was made the occasion to re­ buke Jew-baiters ; the Emperor sent handsome wreaths of flowers to the funeral, an I the car Was followed by thirty thousand parsons. Tho funeral of Louis Riel took place at St. Boniface, Manitoba, on the 12th, with seven hundred half- breeds in attendance, eight of whom bore the remains on tlieir shoulders for six miles. Ben­ jamin Louth, Sr., of Pittsburgh, the inventor ol a pri>cess for turning old steel rails into nail plate, sold his right to a syndicate for 9300 per day for the next sixteen years. For a purse of SI.'lOO, at Ne w York, Joseph McCann defeated! W. C. Barnes in a type-setting contest; in four hours McCann sot 8.0(52ems. B iriies'string measuring 7,!)>1; the type was soli.l minion. De Lesseps, the famous civil engineer and canal builder, over < i ;hty years of age, was presented by his young wife with another daughter. Rumors of political combinations in Great Britain pointing to the. concession of home rule to the Irish. The bill giving Mrs. Gen. Grant a pension of ?5,0J0 a year passed both houses of Congress. ' Tlie Trials of a Schoolmistress. Teacher (in mental arithmetic)--"If there were three peaches on the table, Johnny, and your little sister should eat one of them, how many wa,uld be left?" Johnny--"How many little sisters would be left?" Teacher--"Now, listen, Johnny. If there were three peaches on the, table and your little sister should eat one, how many would be left ?" Johnny--"We ain't had a peach in the house this year, let alone three." Teacher--"We are only supposing the peaches to be on the table, J ohnny." Johnny--"Then they wouldn't be real peaches ?" Teacher--"No." Johnny--"Would they be preserved peaches ?" "Teacher--"Certainly not." Johnny--"Pickled peaches ?" Teacher--"No, no. There wouldn't be any peaches at all, as I told you, Johnny; we only suppose the peacfies to be there." Johnriy--"Then there wouldn't be any peaches, of course?" Teacher--"Now, Johnny, put that knife in your pocket, or I will take it away, and pay. attention to what I am saying. We imagine three peaches to be on the table." Johnny--"Yes." Teacher--"And your little sister eats 6ne of them and then goes away." Johnny--"Yes, but she wouldn't go away until she had finishod the three. You don't know my litter sister." Teacher--"But suppose your mothei was there, and wouldn't let her eat but one." Johnny--"Mother's out of town, and won't be back till next week." Teacher (sternly)--"Now, Johnny, I will put the question once "more, and if you do not answer it correctly I shall keep you after school. If three peaches were on the table and your little sister were to eat one of them, how many would ba left?" Johnny (straightening up)--"There wouldn't be any peaches left. I'd grab the other two." Teacher (touching tbe bell)--"The scholars are now dismissed, Johnny White will remain where he is."--New York Sun. be sealed up by ic •. M ss Eva Meck.'v d«u"h- I "?iU'd °"the Mth over what is known as - - - ... m ,rlin.) in t the inside course of the New York \ acht Club, ter of the bontnza kirg, m iriied in Paris to tbo Italian Prince of Gaiatro, Ferdinnn 1 Jul en Coloima. Secretary Chandler irsu d an cr ler prohib.t ng naval officers fiom mi murializing l^tntr'KH. IheHcuso of Represeiitath e-i. by a io:o < f 158 to 103 'the necessa y tw. -thiids not being obt >inedi, d< fent d a bill plac ng General Grant on tho retired ii-st. Intense cold Wt;ath3r, with s-.iow drilti, a linos t fusperded rail­ road t-affic throughout the West; in the Dub quo sec ton tlis embargo was tlie I worst rt po» ted in eh hta* n years-. Tho Susque­ hanna River was frozen to the bottom at Lancas­ ter, Pa. The Nebraska Legislature passed a bill prohibing tho sale of tohacco to minors. Final decision rendered at Washington grant­ ing money-order fees to postmasters as per­ quisites ; the decision adds millions to cost of maintaining the mail service. Feb. 18 tho first formal ballot for Senator from Illinois was reached by the joint assembly of the Legisla­ ture ; John A. Logan received 101 votes, W. li. Morrison 04, with 7 scattering--102 being neces­ sary to a choice--two absentees. Lake Mich­ igan,'opposite Milwaukee, was frozen from shore to shore, the ice ranging from nine inclios to three feet in thickness. The British Parliament assembled on the mil. The Niagara River was covered by an ice bridge nine miles long and ex­ tending two miles into Lake Ontario. Tho lo*er house of the Michigan Legislature killed a bill requiring the securing of licenses to marry. New York and Chicago merchants drilled their employes in street-fighting tactics, anticipating socialist outbreaks. The Washing- ten Monument was dedicated on the 2l8t. A tramp secured a place on tho Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Road by saving the special train of Vice President Waito from being wrecked on a broken rail. Wood-choppers at Galion, Ohio, beheaded a corpse while at work on a hollow tree ; 8800, a pair of revolvers, and some burgbirs' tools were discovered. A huge meteor, throwing off smoke and tlames, and hissing loudly, passed over Vic­ toria, B. C , and w as seen to plunge into the Sea of Haro, throwing up A cloud of sjrray. Judge Advocate General SWaim was court-martialed at Washington for conduct prejudicial to mili­ tary discipline, and suspended from rank for twelve years, with the forfeiture of hall Ida pay. a length of thirty-eight miles, was won by the former in ti :U1 :Ho; the English cutter was beaten a little more than a mile : in the second race of the series, over a fiity-mile course, the Puritan won by 1 minute 38 seconds ; the Geuesta led for three-fourths of tho distance, and at one time iVas 2 minutes 0 seconds ahead. Jumbo, the enormous elephant, w as ri n down and killed by a t, ain of cars at 5St. Th< niai. Out., while boarding a car. The seventeenth annual reunion of the Society of the Army of t.ie Cum­ berland was held at Grand Rapids, Mich., Gen. Sheridan presiding. A hailstorm, tome of the ston- h being tan inches in circumference, de­ vastated the country soi th of Granite Falls, Minn., on the K.th ; drift.-) of hail three feet in depth were foun'l. Thirty thousand Poles were expelled from Posen, Prussirf, and in retaliation the Russian (rovi-rmnent begi.n tho expulsion of Gernuins fr< m Poland. The Govein_>r General of Eastern Roumalia was deposed by the popu­ lace of the capital city, Pliilippopolis, who pro­ claimed a union with Bulgaria end ostiblishod a provisional government. At Pittsburgh, tho Coroner held »n inquest on a piece of bone ono in 'h long, all that was leit of tbo body of John Ostcrnieir, a lad of 14; tho unfortunate boy was engaged feeding rock to a crusher, lell in, and Was ground to atoms. The famous trot­ ter, Goidsnnth Maid, ended her career on a stock farm near Trenton, N. J., at the ago of 29 years ; sho had trotted in 132 races, winning S)2, her earnings being nearly 8240, 00. On tho 23d inst., three inches of snow fell in the Derby Line (Vt.) section. OCTOHKH. Tlie work of demolishing Flood Bock, in New York harbor, was successfully accomplished on the 2l)th inst.; nine acres of solid rock were tun­ neled ; nearly 300,00) pounds of dynamite were consumed in th" explosion, and the shock was felt over the en.Mrj area of M:uih ttlan Island. Everett J. Waring, an intelligent mulatto, waft admitted to the bar in Baltimore, tho first col­ ored man ever authorized to practice law in Maryland. Te deums were sung' in Madrid, Spain, on the 15th inst., as a token of thanksgiv­ ing for the disappearance of the cholera; the dread scourge caused over 100,000 dee.ths during ltB prevalence. Nearly a foot of snow fell In tho The Wealth of the Rothschilds* The combined capital of the great firm of the Rothschilds is estimated by persons pretending to know (although nobody but themselves can really know anything about it , at no less a sunA than $1,000,000,(Kit), fully one-half of' which has been gained within twenty- five years. Their opportunities for making money, which are almost un­ limited, are perpetually improved. Their credit being of the highest, tliey might continue their immense banking business iufinitely with little or no capital. It is hardly more than a hun­ dred years since the founder of the family and its fortunes, Mayer Anselm, of very poor Jewish parentage, was a humble clerk in a Hanover counting- house. He afterward established him­ self as a banker in Frankfort. The, discreet investment of $5,000,000 of silver, deposited with him in 180() by the Elector William, on the invasion of his territory by the French, was the source of the enormous wealth of the firm. It was deposited without inter­ est, but Kothschild paid interest regu­ larly, and returned the capital to the Elector's son seventeen years later; ! The Rothschilds have never been so ! rich as now, bt t they have nothing like j the power they once had, probably be- i cause! the capital of the world has so J rapidly increased. It used to be ^aid j that kings could not go to war without their c onsent. Those days,, have for­ ever passed.--Aeto York Commercial Advertiser. NECROLOGY OF 1885. Death's Busy Work in the Ttmntrm 0f ~ tin Distinguished People of " the World. * "" Statesmen, Martial Heroes, Kings, Prinoea, and Millionaires • swer His Summons." ,V The reaper Death has cut a wide swath through the ranks of tho distinguished people of the world during 1885. FollowinH is a partial list of eminent jAjrsons who have fallen before his relentless scythe. It includes men renowned in statesmanship, war, science, literature, med­ icine, law, trade, and the fine arts. The year will be specially notable in history as one in which many illustrious Americans ended their busy and useful careers. It is doubtful if ever before a single twelvemonth witnessed the entombing of four citizens of the Republic whose names were so conspicuously interwoven with tho his­ tory of their country as Grant, Colfax, McClel- lan, and Hendricks - JANUARY. Abner Cobtirn, ex-Governor of Maine, died at Skowhegan, aged 8-2; his last illness was con­ tracted at tiie session of the Electoral College. Other notable persons who left "this btisyj breathing world" during January were : Russeii Hancock, son of Maj. (ion. Hancock, at his plan­ tation near Clarksville, Miss. Col. .lolin M. Frye, father of U. S. Senator Frye, of .Maine. H. H. Chalmers, Associate Judge of the Supreme Court of Mississippi. Rev. Dr. Noah Hunt Solienek. of Brooklyn. Ex-Lieut. Gov. James M. Bingham, of Wisconsin. Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines, the famous litigant, at New Orleans, aged HO. Capt. Isaiah Rynders, who figured prominently in New York politics for fifty years, in his 73d year. Thomas Earrell, of St. Paul, Minn., aged 111 years. Rear Admiral Powell, at •Washington. Hon. Schuyler Colfax, in a pas­ senger depot at Stillwater, Minn.; heart disease. Prof. Benjamin Silliman, of Yale College. Ed- mond About, French journalist and novelist. Mrs. Julia A. Roberts, a sister of Gen. Phil Kearney ; well-known worker among the poor; found dead in bed at Washington. At Newburg, N. Y., Charles Downing, noted horticulturist, aged 8'2. Hon. Flamen Ball, at G lend ale, O.; formerly a law partner of Hon. Salmon P. Chase. In battle with EJ Mahdi's forces, Lieut. Col. Fred Burnaby, who mado the famous "Ride to Khiva." Georgo lvunkle, one of the pioneers of negro minstrelsy. Roswell Grant,' uncle of Gen. U. K Grant, at St. Albans, W. Va.; aged 85. In exile near St. Andrews, Can., Thomas Craig Fields, of Tweed ring notoriety. Wm. Leonard, a native of Ire­ land, aged 100, died nt. Portland, Ore., leaving a widgw uged 'Jt>. •(' Hiram Dixon, Brighton, N. T., one of the founder* of the Adams Kxpress Oo aged 76. At his homo n*ar Independence, Ma. at the age of 111, Christopher Mann, a oompanion of Daniel Boone. and the oldest man In Missouri At Youngstown, O., Mary Clemens, 103 years <i months; her father and mother lived to the age of 1()6 and 110, respectively. James G. Winter- smith, of Louisville, Ky., Doorkeeper of the National House of Representatives. Rev. Iran- »U8 H. Prime, for forty-eight years editor of th» New York Observer. Judgo T. Lyle Dickey, of the Illinois Supreme Court. On the 83d of July, lien. U. S. Grant, winner of many battles and captor of many foes, encountered the King of' Terrors, and became a captive to the universal enemy at Mount MacCJregor, N. Y., his deathbed being surrounded by all hffi family; his end was peaceful and without evident pain. Judge John W. Okev, of the Ohio Supreme Court. Sir Aloses Monteflore, the famous Jewish philan­ thropist of England, who celebrated the 100th anniversary of his birth in October, 1884, died » /u° .'m on fle '28th. Hon. C. B. Stewart, ono of the signers of Texas' declaration of independ- ence, was interred at Montgomery, Tex., at the agei of 91. Henry A. Pierce, ex-Minister to Hon* • i^Lu\r.ed at 8411 Francisco, at which place he arrived in 1828. ' 1 AUGUST. Judge James Garland, who served in the war of 1812, and had been in the Masonic fraternity seventy-three years, died at Lvncnburg Va. aged <).>. Cholera in Spain carried eff the Arch­ bishop of Seville. Other distinguished people gathered to their fathers during the n.O/ith were: Richard Monokton Milnes iLord Hough- tout, poet and critic, London, aged 76. James W. Marshall, the discoverer of gold in Califor­ nia, aged 71; near Placorville, in extreme pov­ erty. At San Francisco, Mrs. Helen Hunt Jack- sou, authoress. In Salem, Mass., aged 8T>, Gen. Henry K. Oliver, tlie venerable composer of tho psalm tune -Federal Street." Lord Vane Tem­ pt st. an English nobleman who served wit:i dis­ tinction in the Union army during the rebellion. Near Vicksburg, Miss., Ami Hogau, a colored woman reported to be bJO years old. At Osceola, Mo., \\aldo P. Johnson, a prominent lawver of t^at State; member of tho U. S. Senate at the outbreakof the war, and expelled for disloyalty. Ex-Gov. Julius Converse, of Vermont. Sir Fran­ cis Hiwcks, former Premier of Canada. In Lon­ don, Admiral Konnsdv, who served in the civil war in America. The wife of ex-Gov. B. Gratz Brown, of Missouri. Ex-Gov. Reuben E. Fenton of New York. Ex-U. S. Senator Edgar S. Cowan, of Pennsylvania. • Edgar 8. Cowan, SEPTEMBER. ^ Prominent people called hence during the month were: Ex-Seaator GWin, of California, aged 80. Rev. Dr. Stephen H. Tyng, the veteran clergyman, author, and editor, of Irvington. N Y., aged 85. Judge John If. Eakin, of the Ark­ ansas Supreme Court. Major Aaron Stafford last surviving officer of the war of 1812, at his residence in Waterville, Oneida County, N. Y.,iu the 99th year of his age. Judge George W. ciln- ton, Vice Chancellor of the Now York State Board of Regents. Edward A. Rollins, cf Phila- delpliia, formerly Commissioner of Internal Rev­ enue. Col. James B. Walton, of New Orleans who commanded the Washington Battei v of Louisiana, during tb" war with Me ii.-o, asjod Ti. Sei.-aiRit Boughner, a soldier who fought at •Lundy's Lane and Fort Erie, aged 90. Hoar Ad- .•J 1EBKUAKY. 1 r*i»)iral John W. Livingston." U. S.'~N ."aged 81 Gen. James Chehiiut, whq was U. S. Senator Christian Cooper, of Columbia County, N. Y. at ' " ' tho advanced iy{e of 111 years 10 months 15 davs Emery A. Storrs, of Chicago, widely known "by bis brilliancy as an orator and his ability- as & lawyer and advocate. Col. George Ward Nich­ ols, President of the Cincinnati College of Mu­ sic ; during the war he served on Gen. Sher­ man s staff, and wrote "Sherman's March tp the Sea." Henry R. Salden, ex-Lieutmant Governor and ex-Judge of the Court of Appeals, of New York. Prof. John Campbell Shairp, eminent English scholar and writer. George Wilkes, of Now York, famous as an authority in sporting matters. Moses Marrenellah, a Christian Jew, in a poor-house ut PouglikeepKie, aged 105. and. a resident of this countrv lor seveuty years Judge Waldo Colburn, of the Massachusetts 8a<- 3 premo Court. - . OCTOBEit. 3 The Earl of Shaftesbury, noted as a devoted ' religionist and reformer, passed awav on the 1st, aged 8i; his long recora as a philanthropist earned for Lim tue name of "Tne Good Earl. ' Other notable deaths during October were : Fred Hassaurek. of Cincinnati, well known as a Gel-- nian-American writer, editor, and speaker. Ex- Goy, Talbot, of Massachusetts, at Lowell, aged 77. His eminence Cardinal John Mct'loskey, at his residence in New York, agacl 7.». Mr. H. W. Shaw (Josh Billings) of apoplexy at Monterey, Cal. Baron Strathnairn, prominent in English diplomatic and military circles, and a leading figure iu tho suppression of the Sepov rebellion in India, lit. Hon. Hugh Hmrv liose, Field Marshal of the British army, and at one time commander-in-chief in India" Capt. Alexander Haley, the only colored man who ever com­ manded an ocean trade vessel, at-Baltimore, aged 86. Chas. Leland, well-known hotel- keeper, in New York City. Caspar Butz, German poet, writer and politician, at Des Moinef, aged 00. At Pittsburgh, Hon. Malcolm Hav, ex-First Assistant Postmaster General Rev. Dr. James Fraser, Bishop of Manchester, Eng., of the Established Church of England. Mrs. Mary Aline Booth, mother of Edwin, J. Wilkes, and Junius B. Bhoth, at New York, aged 83. Dr. James R. Woodford, Bishop of Ely, Eng. Ex- Gov. Pace, of Vermont. Bridget Farley, in West Stratford, Conn., aged 104 years 2 months aud & days. Gen. George B. McClellan. one of tile prominent military leaders in the late civil war, and a candidate for President of the United States in 1804, at his home in New Jersey, of neuralgia of tho heart, aged 59. Rear Admiral. J. C. P..De Kraft, U. S. N., at his residence in Washington. At Amityville, Long Island, Geo.- F. McDonald, an actor, founder of tho Order of Elks, aged 16. The Duke of Abereorn, in Lon­ don, aged 74; he had twice served as Lord Lieu- • , tenant of Ireland, and was the head of the illuH-' trious house of Hamilton. NOVEMBER. Rev. Thomas Tenant died at Evansville, Ark., at the ago of 115 years; he had served as » Methodist minister for ninety years. Other dis­ tinguished persons who passed away during the month were: John McCullough, the tragedian, at Philadelphia, from paralysis in the muscles of the neck, aged 50. Ex-Judge Albert Cardozo, of New York. Ex-Senator Wm. Sharon, of Ne­ vada. Horace Brigham Claflin, the New York dry-goods merchant prince, aged 73. Mrs. Rhoda Howard, of Bath County, Ky., aged 116 years; she smoked tobacco during the greater portion of her life, aud never took a dose of medicine. Elizur Wright, of Boston, famous as a reformer, journalist, insurance expert, and free-thinker, aged 81. King Alfonso of Spain, at Madrid, of eensumption, aged 28. Thomas A. Hendricks, Vice President of the United States, at Indian­ apolis, of heart disease; he was born in 1819, near Zanesville, Ohio. Marshal Serrano, Spain's illustrious political and military leader, aged 75.' The Duke of Somerset (England), a Liberal in politics and an atheist in religion. DECEMBER. Ch&rlotte Wickliffe, a negress of Louisville, who passed away at the age of 117 years, claimed to have handed George Washington a cup of water at the battle of Yorktown; Bhe le^t seventy-five children and grandchildren, the oldest being nearly 100 years. Other deaths during December were: At Melbourne, Aus­ tralia, Clarence Whistler, noted wrestler. Rt. Rev. Dominick Manucy, Catholic Bishop of Mo­ bile. William H. Vanclerbilt, the most conspic­ uous figure in the railway world, died suddenly at his homo in New York City, of paralysis of the brain, aged 65 Ex-Gov. B. Gratz Brown', of Missouri, candidate for Vice President on the Horace Greeley ticket in 1872. Patrick O'Rourke, who loaned Horace Greeley SI,000 to aid in start­ ing the New York Tribune, and who had ever since had charge of the press-room in that es­ tablishment. Commodore Chas. Lowndes, U. 8. N., retired list, aged 87. At Santa Fe, N. M., Gen. Gustavus A. Smith, formerly of Decatur, 111. Prince Ferdinand, father of the King of Portugal, from facial cancer. Ex-Senator Rob­ ert Toombs, of Georgia, aged 76. A Sanders, captain of the hold on U. S. S. Swatara, fell dead on the streets of Portsmouth, Va.; he entered the service forty years ago, and was the first colored man over enlisted in U. S. uavv. Bishop F. X. Krautbauer, Of the Catholic diocese of Green Bay. Ex-Congressman J. H. Defrees, of Indiana. "Hon. Wm. Pitt Lynde, ex-Congress­ man from Wisconsin. Ex-Gov. Ryland Fletcher, of Vermont, aged 90. Stephen Barker Guion, founder of the Black Ball line of ocean steam­ ers. Ex-Gov. Hiland Hall, of Vermont. A rnjij- ried daughter of Lieut. Gen. Winfleld Scottj , paralysis, in a Baltimore hospital, aged 60. k from South Carolina at the 'outbreak of the re­ bellion, diod at Charleston. Other distinguished iiersons who passed away during February were : iaron Thomas O'Hagan, tho first Catholic to be made Lord Chancellor of Ireland under British rule. Col. John W. Phelps, nt Guilford. Vt., first officer to aim slaves in the rebellion. Dr. C. C. Graham, a famous practitioner of Louisville, Ky., aged l'X) yeaft 1 months. At Allentown, Pa., Dr. John Komig, who, in 1 *:(*;. established in that city tho first homeopathic school in America. Pinknev H. Walker, senior member Illinois Su­ preme Court. Geo.W. Bowen, who vainly claimed the immense estate of Mine. Juinel as an illegiti­ mate son ; at Providence, aged 91. Joseph Grin- nell, who secured a reduction of letter postage to 5 cents, while in Congress a generation ago; at New Bedford, aged 9tl. In battle with tha False Prophet s adherents in the Soudan, Mai. Gen. Wm. Earle, of the British 'army. Judge Evart Van Buren, of Chicago, who was bor.i at Kinderhook, N. Y., ill 18<j:i. On his plantation in Louisiana, Alexander Mouton. a son of one of fieAcocliauH driven from Nova Scotia bv the j.ritish ; was Senator and Governor of Louisiana in early days, and President of the seces­ sion convention ill lH.il. In a Kentucky lunatic asyiuni, Colonel Thomas Buford, who murdered Judgo Eliiott becaise of an ad­ verse legal decision. Dr. Leopold Danirouch, the distinguished musician. Francis A. Drexel. woll-kuown Philadelphia banker. At Wilming­ ton, 111., at tho extraordinary ago of 116 years, Mrs. Nancy Cass Wilmore, a native of North Carolina. At London, Mrs. James Russell Low­ ell, wife of the American Minister to England. Of wounds received at the battle of Abu-Kleu, Gen. Sir Herbert Stewart, the hero of that bloody field. Francis S. Drake, eminent littera­ teur of Boston. In great poverty; at Chicago, Lady Ellen Fortesque, widow of Sir William Fortesque, of England; she was known in tbe Garden City as Elleu C. Williams. Dr. Joseph H. 1). Rodgers, of Madison, Ind., who j>art;ci- pated in the Texan war for independence. An­ drew D. Potter, of Plattoville, Wis., who helped to drive the Mormons from Nauvoo, 111., in 1810 . Ex-Gov. Patton, of Alabama. Ex-Gov. Beriah Magoffin, of Kentucky. MARCH. Among those who, passed away during the month were': Reur Admiral George Henry Preble, U. S. N. George L. Davenport, born at Rock Island, 111., iu 1817, and whose father was the founder of that city. Mrs. Eliza Walker Blaine, only sister of James G. Blaine ; at Balti­ more. T. 8. Arthur, of Philadelphia, writer and publisher, aged 74. Henry Stull, 105 years, at Batavia, O.; served in tho war of 1812 at Lundy's Lano aud Chippewa. D. B. Sacket, Inspector General U. S. A. In London, Eng., Sir Curtis Miranda Lampson, native of Vermont and trus­ tee of the Peabody fund, aged 79. Gen. Jos. H. Taylor, U. 8. A., Adjutant General Department of the Platte. Sir Henry I'arkes, British Minis­ ter to China. A daughter of J. Feiiimore Cooper, aged 68, at Cooperstowu, N. Y. Near Boston, of Bright's cfisease, Joe Goss, pugilist, born in Wolverhampton, Eng., 1836. At Memphis, Tenn., Hon Jacob Thompson, who was Secretary of the Interior under President Buchanan; aged 75. Gen. Anson Stager, of Chicago, aged 60; during the war had charge of the Government military telegraph lines. Perry H. Smith, ex-Vice Presi­ dent N. W. R, 1W one of Chicago's most sub­ stantial citizens. Prince Orloff, Russian diplo­ matist. APKIL. Eminent people who bade farewell to earth during the showery month of April were : Mrs. Ezekiel T. Cox, of Zanesville, Ohio, mother of Hon. S.S. Cox, Minister to Turkey. Richard Grant White, Shakspearean scholar and literary and art critic, aged 63. Rear Admiral John Marston, U. 8. N.. at Philadelphia, aged 90. At Boston, Eimuous Hamlin, noted organ manufacturer. Rev. Henry Whitehead, who settled in Chicago when it was only a military post, and with his own hands erected the earliest Methodist Church in the Western metropolis, aged 75. G. Henry Shaw, Representative in' the Illinois Legislature from the Thirty-fourth District, making the third death during the session, and the second on the Democratic side. Admiral Sir George Rose SartoriuH, K. C. B., who received the thanks of President Tyler and Congress for his efforts to save U. 8. 8. Missouri from de­ struction by fire in. Gibraltar Bay in 1842; aged 95. Christopher Bradford, who died »t Pitts­ burgh. was one of three brothers who have res­ cued 532 persons from drowning ; the family had a life-saving station at Atlantic City. Dan Mace, of New York, famous trainer and driver of trot­ ting horses, aced 51; Bright's disease. Rev. Dr. Taylor, of New York, whose centennial birthday was celebrat ed in December, 1884, and who graduated from Dartmouth College in 1809. Rev. Leonard Witliiugton, of Newbury, Mass., tho oldest Congregational clergyman in the United States. Hon. Conrad Baker, Indian­ apolis, who defeated Thomas A. Hendricks for Governor of Indiana in 1868; for several years he had been a law partner of Mr. Hendricks. Isaac W. England, for . eventeen years the partner of Mr. Dana in the publication of the New York Sun. MAY. Amonttthe people of note who went to their reward during May were: Prince Karageorge- witz, claimant to the throne of Servia. Maj. Gen. Irvin McDowell, U. S. A., at San Francisco, aged 67. Queen Dowager Emma of the Sand­ wich Islands. Ex-Gov. Gilbert C. Walker of Virginia, aged 52. Mrs. Catherine Main, of Kalamazoo, Mich., at the advanced ago of 116 years. S >rgt. Leffeman at Youngstown, N. Y., aged 88; a veteran of Waterloo, and served fifty- four years in the United States army. Hoii. Frederick T. Frelinghuyscn, Newark, N. J., ex- S.'cretarv of State, aged 68. On tbe 22d, at Paris, in his 84th year, Victor Hugo, the great poet aud novelist; on his deathbed he declined the offer of spiritual consolation tendered by. the Arch­ bishop of Paris ; his funeral, at tho expense of the state, was such as France had not witnessed for a century, and tho day of his burial was de­ clared one of national mourning. JUNE. On the 1st day of the month Judgo Josiah Mc- lioberts was re-elected Judge of the Ninth Ju­ dicial Circuit of Illinois, and on the morning of tlio 2d was found dead in bed at his home in Jbliet. Other distinguished persons who joined "the silent majority" in the sixth month of the year were : Prince Charles Autoino of Hohen- zollern, father of the Hobenzollern whose can­ didature for the Spanish throne brought about the Franco-Prussian war. Robert Treat Payne, a distinguished citizen of Boston, and a de- scondent of one of tho signers of the Declara­ tion of Independence. Sir Julius Benedict, Ijonclon, famous musical composer. Archbishop Bourgeot, of Montreal. James Moncrietf Ar- nott, eminent Scotch surgeon, aged 92. In har­ ness on board his flagship in tho China Sea, Admiral Courbet. Princj Frederick Charles, nephew of the Emperor of Germany, who com­ manded the Prussian army which captured Metis in 1871; apoplexy ; aged 57. Orson S. Mur­ ray, of Cincinnati, an original anti-slavery agi­ tator, aged 79. Field Marshal Baron von Man- touffel. Governor of Alsace-Lorraine, aged 79. Ex-Senator James W. Nesuiitb, of Oregon, in his (Kith year. Richard T. MerricK, adistin- fuished advocate at Washington. The report of U Mehdi's death on tho 2i)th from small-x»ox, was confirmed. JULY. lion. Rueben Ellwood, M. C. Fifth Illinois District-, wais tiuwbered amonff the victims of the dread disease,-cancer. Commander Henry H. Gorringe, U. S. N., who brought tho Egyptian obelisk to New Yo«k, was stricken with spinal disease. Other prominent deaths during July: Mrs. Henry W. Sage, widely known for her con­ nection with charitable institutions of New York; killed by accident in a runaway at Ithaoa. 4 A NOVEL ' kind of railway haa been built at Falcon Cliff Castle on the Isle of Man. It consists of an up and down line of four feet gauge, running paral­ lel for about fifty yards on a gradient of about one in three. The vehicles, two tramway earn, are moved by water poured into an iron tank, upon which each car rests, and the running is con­ trolled by a stationary hand-brake, the tank is of angular shape, and rests upon four wheels with a single flange, - on the tire. The shape of the tank necessitates two of the wheels being placed lower than the other two, while the body of the car, resting on the horizontal line of the angle, admits of it preserving a perfect level, although running on so enormously steep an in­ cline. A cable peimanentlv lixed at each end to the cars, runs in the cen­ ter of the four-feet gauge, arid a round wheel six feet in diameter is stationed at the top of the grad.ent; the brake is upon this large wheel. The length of the cable is such that when one oar on one pair of rails is at tho top of the gradient the other upon the parallel pair of rails ia at the bottom. The tanks upon which the cars are ft ed are fed with water at the t >p of the incline | and emptied at the bottom, the weight of v ftter in the tilled tank sufficing to sink this car to the bottom of the gra­ dient, und by moans of the attached cable draw op the other car at the. samtfiime. ' 'ti