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df*--*, v-»> i'F*? ̂ ̂ "5s?*"i ', >?$• f<. . NMHI £ •• A covr neaT Santa Boca, cnl., -which TWU loose in the barnyard, came across * sack of barley the other day, and, not being able to eat it all, picked up the bog and carried it across the lot to Its mother. The owner saw the act, and removed the sack to « distent part of the yard and hid it It was Dot long, however, before the little horse fonnd it where it was covered with several •empty neks and carried it back to its mother, who was allowed to finish the ^nin. . • 1 , A HUGE cotton-mouth snake bit Miss jlosa Penton of Crittenden County, Arkansas, in the forefinger of the left .llimd, driving in its poisonous fangs so deeply that it could not withdraw them, but hnng suspended and*writhing until •be pulled them out and flung the intake away. Then she seized an ax near by, laid her wounded tyuid 6n a Mock of wood, and chopped the bitten Anger off at a single blow. Bhe ran v &to the house, swallowed half a tumbler Of whisky, and then fainted. She re­ covered in about two weeks. . QUEEN VICTORIA has created » new iu&val and military order for "reward­ ing individual instances of meritorious f&d distinguished services at war." It is to be'called the "Distinguished Serv­ ice Order," and to .consist of the sov­ ereign and such members as she shall Appoint. Actual holders of commis­ sions are alone eligible, and the nom­ inations are expressly confined to per­ sons mentioned by name by the Admiral « Commander-in-Chief in dispatches "for meritorious or distinguished serv­ ice in the field or before the enemy." The appointments are to be by warrant, Tender the sign-manual, and counter­ signed by a Secretary of State. > • THE other night, says a Carson-, He*., paper, a Chinese cook employed by Dr. ' Southworth was taken sick, and gravely announced: "Guess I die 'bout 2 o'clock to-morrow morning." South- worth gave him a hot whisky, which lie drank with great relish, but still in­ sisted that he would die before morn- . .fag. . "If yon think you are going to : die, knock'on the wall," said South- wojth. The Chinaman said he would, and went to bed. About 3 o'clock next morning Southworth heard a knock ,r ing up Stairs, and going up found the Chinaman in his death-bed agonies. V: The doctor, qnite alarmed, built a fire : and make another hot whisky, the Ghinaman calling out at intervals that be was going to die sure. Finally "Southworth got a big drink of whisky • into him, and he remarked with a grunt ; of satisfaction. "Guess you go to bed iow, I no die." A COMBAT between a cowand 'gander is described by a newspaper of AlbftHy, Ga. The cow made a violeat attack on the gander, when, with much deliberation and coolness, the bird, as . the cow rushed on him, caught a strong 'bold with his beak on the liair and hide between the horns and flapped his ,WU}gs furiously. The astonished cow " was glad to shake her antagonist off. - But, after retreating a few feet and '.'>"$Doking upon the proud neck and in­ significant form .of the haughty bird, - °-ahe concluded to try him another round, Ibid again dashed at the gander, who %as a little more deliberate if possible : in taking his hold, and, with swift and , . strong wings, he showered his blows f On the eyes of the foe. The cow had evidently miscalculated the prowess of * fcer diminutive enemy, and, after con­ siderable effort, shook the pugnacious $ird off and beat a retreat. is six inches long, having degree marks on its circumference. With it is a tin tube an toe* and a quarter in diameter. Tosa*»*b**e«l the tin tube in filled with water heated to a temperature of 180 degrees, and the glass tube is filled kwith the article to be inspected. If it is genuine butter the result will show the butter to melt to a liquid oil, and in the Iwttom of the tube a whitish • curd cheese will be deposited to the amount of about three-tenths as indi­ cated by the scale marked on the tube, and the remainder of the contents will be pure oiL In the case of a test of butterine the result is quite different. The same process is gone through with, but the per cent, of deposit or curd will be very small, and tiny flakes ad­ here to the sides of the tube, and the greater portion of the tube's contents will be oil, qnite different in appear­ ance, as the butter oil is transparent and the butterine oil translucent. Armed with a little detective of this sort, the special examiner will have but little difficulty in discovering the' vio­ la ter a of the new law.--Burlington Gazette. • ' • •' COL. H. P. HALL, manager of the Publishers' Mutual Benefit Association of St Paul, stepped into the offioe of a well-known manufacturer of printing presses in Chicago, savs the Daily Neivs, and said he would like to look at BOme polyglot presses. "Polyglot presses?" said the manufacturer; "what are they?" "Why, polyglot printing presses." "Well, what is a polyglot printing press?" again queried the man­ ufacturer. "You manufacture presses, don't you?" said Col. Hall, looking a little wildly about him. "Certainly, but I never heard of a polyglot press." "You didn't? Why, bless you," said the St. Paulite, "I've been running one for two years or more. You see, I'm the manager of a publishing institution that prints all sorts and kinds of news­ papers. There's the Skafferen, a Swedish paper, and the Wanderer* a German paper, and the Irish Chronicle, and the French Canadian and ne­ groes' organ, the Appeal, not to speak of half a dozen others that I am print­ ing, besides almost a hundred and fifty English papers, so you see I will have to have a press that will handle one kind of a language about as well as an­ other. Until the present time I have done well enough with the press I have, but the circulation of these papers has become so great that I must have a faster press." But what you want is a double-cylinder--" "Now hold on," interrupted Col. HalL "I've always heard that you Chicago fellows try to sell something else when you ain't got what a man wants, but 111 let you know I'm going to have a polyglot press if I have to go clear to Boston to get it." And the manager of the Publishers' Mutual Benefit Association slammed the door behind him and has not been seen since. :'V.4ri months since, Chong ypung Chinaman who 1"^ SOME four -^ing Back,. fused to lead the ranging in the Baptist . mission school, at Portland, Oregon, Went east The other day Sid Back received a letter from him dated Howard City, Mich. He say»: "For the last two or three months I always think of going back to Portland, for my business ' ere never succeeded well. But now is _S change came to me in traveling from place to place." He then goes on to ' state that he and two other Chinamen Itve made a contract with Messrs. Bannaford and give entertainments, •"which is to play and sing." He con- . finues: "We traveling those cities which have no Chinese to live in. injoy this joy very much. Some of the f jteoples very kind to me." The troupe With which he is traveling is "Hans­ ford's Chinese Students with Curio Art Exhibition, of Chicago; indorsed by pulpit and press." W Coi» CHARLES CHAIULE-LONO, the African traveler, who visited the Uganda tribes in 1874 on a diplomatic mission, out in a letter to the New York Herald, in which he fastens the re­ sponsibility for the recent horrible X mortality among missionaries in Africa Ipon the explorer Stanley. He de­ scribes Central Africa as "no paradise, ' lint a plague spot, and the negro, the product of this pestilential region, a juiserablo wretch, often devoid of all ^tradition or belief in a deity which en- \ thusiastio travelers have heretofore J.̂ endowed him with," and charges that > Stanley is "imposing upon the Christian World id order to gratify his ambition." 'this is a pretty serious charge, but, if ! p.|t be true, would it not be a good way T;' |o check Stanley's ambition by shutting ^i.off the consignments of missionaries and :-*eoalli&g such as have not yet suc- tlv^nmbed to pestilence? The very ̂general acceptance of the second pro- " bation doctrine would seem to indicate Jhat it is perfectly safe to leave these wretches in ignorance of sermons and ^pew-rents. ••••• J"| THE instrument 'to'be used to de- i^ermine whether butter is butter or fioieomtrgarine is oleomargarine is a ilk "glass tube half an inch in diameter and GERMAN JOKES. METEOROLOGICAL ITEM. He--Do you know that you remind me very mych of the weathiafj1. She--In what respect? . " - "You are so changeable." "Is that so? Do you know that I don't see the least resemblance between you and the weather." " "You don't say so." "You are certainly not like the weather. You know the weather is bright occasionally--you never are." A PECULIAR MAN. "I am just disgusted with that young law yer who called last night." "What has he been doing now?" "He tried to kiss me and 1 told him to behave himself or I would call for as­ sistance." "And he kissed you nevertheless?" "No, he didn't even make another at­ tempt--the miserable donkey. He is one of the strangest men ever l saw." CIVIL SERVICE REFORM. "Did you pass the civil service exami­ nation?" "I don't know vet,' but I got the right answers to some of the questions." "Which ones were those ?" "I answered all right when they asked me what my name was and what State I was born in." • SUM Off CAKCXLLATIOK. Tailor--Can you pay me the five thalers you owe me? Student--No, not to-day. Tailor--But I must have the money to pay my landlord. I owe him five thalers. "That's all right. You owe him five thalers and I owe you five thalers. That just makes us even all around." MEDICAL ITEM. 1st Doctor--I had a very interesting case the other day. The diagnosis was all right, but the course of the disease was decidedly abnormal. 2d Doctor-^What course did it take? 1st Doctor--The patient recovered WHY HE HATED WOMEN. "I can't agree with you that Sherman was a woman-hater, li he hated women he would not have got married to one." "That's why he hates women. He was a great admirer of the fair sex until he got married." Qoeen of the tyilll Wai She. When Mrs. Stowe was in England, Queen Victoria sent her word that a certain day she would bepleased to see the author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Mrs. Stowe replied that she had an en­ gagement for that day. But the Queen would see her, and sent a lady-in-wait­ ing--a personal friend of Mrs. Stowe-- to make the necessary arrangement for an observation. There was to be a pageant of some kind that day in which the Queen would take part, passing the hotel where Mrs. Stowe was residing, and the royal messenger had agreed to place her hand on the author's left shoulder to distinguish her from those with her on the balcony as the proces­ sion passed. So Queen Victoria and the distinguished American gazed at each other a few moments in silent recogni­ tion, but Mrs. Stowe was not pleased that she was outwitted No Tariff en "Name something we export," said a teacher in a public school in Baltimore the other day. ' "Beef," yelled one of the boys. "Yes, we export beef. Now, name something which we import." "Pauper labor," shouted the same lad, and he went to the head of the class without being told.--Wall Street New*. ILLINOIS STATE NEWS. - The four sons of J. E. Gregory, of Moaweqna are married to four sisters. --William Kilpstrick, a cupM'w, was killed at Danville by a scaffold giving why. --Seven women hold the position of County Superintendent ot Schools in Illi­ nois. --A white crow is to be seen in a large flock of lldok mates which haunt (he woods near Hume. --T. P. Shonts, of Kankakee, has been appointed General Manager of the Indiana, Illinois and Iowa Road. --The hoisting-works of the West End coal-shaft, at Springfield, were burned, in. volving a loss of $10,000. --An immense gray eagle, measuring eight feet between the tips of its wings, was killed at Campion a few days ago. --The schools at Pittsfield have been closed because of scarlet fever. Then are twelve cases, and two victims-have died. --Henry Sehwnrte, who is suspected of complicity in the Bock Island train rob­ bery, is held in $2,000 by a Chieago justice for bigamy. --The damage caused by the fire in the Stats House at Springfield will prob­ ably not exceed $8,000. The origin of the fire is still a mystery. --At Somonauk is still standing a genu­ ine Holland wind-mill, put np years ago. It was brought to this Slate from Holland piece by piece. It is 130 feet high. --A wild freight train on the Burlington Boad collided with a passenger train near Moline. . Engineer Heady received such injuries that his recovery is doubtful. .--The colored attendants of the Lincoln schools struck one day last week and went home because one of their number had been severely punished by the white leather. --Centralia wants a city court. The coun­ cil has'refused to call a special election, and an attempt will be made to bring the matter before the peoplfe at the spring election. ' --Among., the deaths reported an W. McL. AVadaworth, an old resident of Dixon, and Edgar M. Bouton, for nearly fifty years a prominent agriculturist of Jo Daviess County. --By the escape of coal-gas from a par-' lor stove, Mrs. McClure and her son and daughter, aged respectively 19 and 22, were suffocated while asleep in their rooms at Maple wood, a suburb of Chicago. --In the case of the victims of the Savoy railroad disaster, the Illinois Central Com­ pany paid $5,000 to each of the families of Albeit Dunlap and John Todd, of Cham­ paign, and John McDonald, of Urbana. --Senator Logan's fortune now consists of his Washington borne, a three-story house in Chicago, a farm somewhere in the interior of Illinois, Li* salary as Senator, and a wife who loves him passionately.-- iVeic York Graphic. --A quiet but intense content is progress­ ing at Springfield among the clergymen of the city for tLe positions of chaplains to the House and Senate. The stipend is $3 per day, Sundays included, and many of the ministers, it is said, desire the appoint­ ments. --Leonard P. Warren, an oleomargarine peddler at East St. Louis, was put in jail at Springfield, by the United States Marshal, on a fine of $50. He has since fallen a victim to small-pox, and his quarters have been changed to the jttsU house. - --A runaway team of torses, attached to a loaded wagon, ran over a baby carriage and its infant occupant on a street in Ke- wanee. The carriage was torn to pieces, but the child escaped uninjured. The driver of the team was thrown from the Wagon and killed. --John O'Callaghan, a book agent, is said to have swindled Decatur citizens by securing signatures to alleged receipts for the books sold, but which wore in reality notes for $36, O'Callaghan sold the notes, worth $504, to a bank for half their face value, and left Decatur. The victims threaten to re'.use payment, but the bank will press the matter. --The Chicago anarchists have adopted a new line of defense in case they get a new trial. They will claim that no bomb was thrown at all; that it was only a woman who ran through the crowd with an um­ brella in one hand and a market-basket in the other. The only weak point in this de­ fense is that the carnage was to6 slight.-- Burdette. --The report of State's Attorney Grin- nell of the doings of the Criminal Court of Chicago and Cook County for the year ending Nov. 30, 188G, shows that during the year l,f4S cases were disposed of, that 890 prisoners were acquitted, declared in­ sane, released on their own recognizance, or had their crises nolle prosequied or stricken off, while 673 persons wen pun­ ished. "It is getting to be no uncommon thing to hear of corn about here making eighty bushels per acre," says the Tolono Herald. "In every case, however, each yields are the results of five or six workings during the growing season. It seems that if two or three extra plowings raise the product from forty to eighty bushels per sen, that less land, better worked, would prove more pro­ fitable to the farmer." --O. B. Jenne, a retired merchant of Elgin, who, accompanied by his wife and biother-in-law, F. L. McClure, proprietor of the Elgin Canning Works, was traveling for his health, spiang through a car win­ dow as the train was going at a speed of thirty miles an hour in the Indian Territo­ ry, receiving internal injuiies from which he died at El Paso. Texas. His body was embalmed and shipped to Elgin. He had been suffering from melancholia. --A brutal murder was brought to light by the discovery of the remains of Mr. George Bowers, says a telegram from 01- ney. Mr. Bowers lived three miles north­ east of Newton, Jasper County, and had just returned from Indiana, where he sold a farm fte $2,400. On Monday afternoon, at 3 o'clock, he reiehed this city, and soon departed for Newton. Arriving there, he was compelled to make the journey of three miles on foot. After crossing the railroad bridge it is thought he was waylaid, killed, and robbed of $2,400, and his body thrown under a passing freight train, which man­ gled it almost Leyond recognition. Should the murderers be discovered they will d o u b t l e s s b e l y n o t t s d . ^ ^ TfcE WAR DEPARTMENT. Annual Report of the Bon. William C. SaitcoU, Secretary of War. The annoal report of the Feeretary of War Shews that tbees|6ndlte*w.et th* dep*art««. at for the fiaoal year «nd«i Jr.ua 30, 1890, ware (36,990,903, divided aa follows: Salaries ami con­ tingent expenses, $i,9'Jd,4(9; military establish­ ment, Including transportation, $'4,WJ,)00; imb- lio works, W,\:9i.30!>; miscellaneous, $4.40G,u27. A surplus of 91,908,016 remained vnexi» nded. The appropriations for the year euding Juno *), 1867, are 146,027,559, and the estimates for the year ending Juno 30,1888, are $18,268,813. The army at the date of the last consolidated return consisted of 2,103 officers and 33.916 en­ listed men. There are ten regiments of cavalry, five of artillery, and twenty-five of infantry. Of Indian scout* there are 505, and 9,003 enlisted men are on detached service with recruiting parties, etc. Tue report gives in detail the change* an'l op­ erations of the ditfrrt-nt divis oca. The Imiiaus aro generally quiet, aithc.ugh the presence of tr.K'ps is necessary to prsfct-i ve paace and to prevent, est eeialiv into* Oklahoma country, the seizure of the (and by settlers and ts inva- A RIVER HORfiOI. I GEN. B. F. BUTLER. Destruction by Fir* of tho Fa* j Mississippi Steamer J. M. Whit*, At sion and occupancy by herders ot cattle. The Secretary says: "There seems but little hop# of improving this coadttion*of things, in viuw of the avidity n ith which this fertile country is coveted by the settlers and the cattle men, and the duty resting upon the Government to keep its agreements with the IndlaUH, for whoso ben­ efit it has been set apart. Congrese alone can give tlie needed remedy, and in the interest of good government it Is e*l»estlT hoped l>y all who have executive duties to i>erform in this Territory that speedy action will b > taken." A large portion of the-report is given up to a graphic accouut of the operations against Oi-ronimo' acd his band and their tlnai incar­ ceration in Florida, the-leading features of which have been given at the time of their oc­ currence. The Secretary recommends that tho retired list be increased so as to include all officers permanently incapacitated for active eervioe. He also concurs in the opinion of the Lieuten­ ant General that tho army bo increased 5,000 men. It is suggested that Congrtss enact a law providing for examinations for promotions Bimiiar to those held in the navy. At the West Point Military Academy there are 3 >9 cadets ana fifty-eight officers. The Superintendent favors the competitive system in the selection of candidates for the academy. In discussing the report ot the Engineer Bu­ reau Secretary Kndicott again calls attention to the utterly defenseless condition of our sea- coast and lake frontier. He urges that appro­ priations should bo made and work begun at once to fortify th* principal seaboard cities against attacks by water. The report says: "We have a aincle problem to solve in defend­ ing our cities; how best to resist and silence the aruiored ships and the steel guns and mortara of modern construction. It can only be ac­ complished by guns ot equal force to those which any enemy can bring against us, and by torpedoes or submarine minea laid in the navigable channels, both SO guarded and protected that they can do efficient service when required. We have no gun now which can stop the progress of or do any material injury to a well-armored ship. The manufacture of a gun ia a work of time, and of a long time, and cannot be extemporized when wanted. Torpedoes may be more quickly created, but still time and money are needed for their construction. It has been said by a well-informed writer on the subject that it is a matter of doubt it we have on hand enough ca­ bles nnd cases to control with torpedoes the channels past Sandy Hook alone." During the year the Springfield Armory man­ ufactured :w,.r)_>7 rides, carbines, and lhot-guns, bes:des repairing arms and manufacturing swords and miscellaneous articles. The i^ec- rctiry expresses a hope that Congress, during its i resent session, will place the army on an equal footing with the navy in the matter of the manufacture of guns, and ur :OR that the bill, which has already passed the Senate, to establish a cun foundry at the Fr.uikfort Arse­ nal. bo taken up and passed by the House. Ih conclusion, the report recommends th« ap­ pointment of an Assistant Secretary of War, and that the salaries of the principal officers in the Secretary's office be inoreased. WM. T. PRICE. The Xdita Congressman from Out BIghih Wisconsin District. Congressman William Thompson Prioe, who died recently at his home at Black River Falls, Wis., was born in Pennsyl­ vania, June 17,1824, and was bred a lum­ berman. In 1851 he emigrated to Wiscon­ sin and engaged in the same business. He wss elected to ^th% Legisla­ ture the same year. He was elected to the State Senate in 1857, 1870, 1878 and 1880, and was Judge of Jackson Oountyinl854 and 1855, and afterward Un­ der Sheriff and Collector of Internal Bevenue. Since 18S2 he has been the Representative of his district in Congress. Several interesting stories aie told illus­ trative of the grit of the ex-Congressman. About thirty years ago Price shipped some pork from the North to La Crosse on the old War Eagle, which Captain Harris was running in a way to suit himself. The boat pulled up at La Crosse, and Price was anxious to unload his pork. In those days steamboat and dockmen were invariably ready for a tight. The Captain said he'd be damned if he was goin# to hold his steamboat at La Crosse all day to unload a barrel of pork. Price declared that he would. Captain Harris signified his oppo- sit on by lending out with his right. Price pitched in and gave the Captain a sound drubbing. When this was brought to a clos'i Captain Harris said Pr:"o 3 was a pretty good man anyway, and he would hold the steamer there as long as Price wanted it. The river uien never tackled Price again. Mr. Price had sent his son to college, and the young chap had a fine education and soft white hands. Price said to him one winter: "Boy, I'm going to Washington, and I want you to take charge ot a lumber camp this winter." Mrs. Price remonstrated, and argnedthat Pi ice, Jr., hsd now a fine educat on, and was just fitted nicely to go into society, and it would be a pity to send him up into the woods. "By , he'll go up into the woods," Price, Sr., replied, determinedly, "and if he makes anything I'll give h m a quarter of all he makes; if he dou't make anything I'll kick him out o' doors." So the young fellow started for the woods, and Price charged that camp np to profit and loss, depending upon his other foreman to make it up. When ine aeason was over and Price returned, all his fore­ men repoited with a better than average successful logging. The son reported, and his figures showed that his camp had made fifteen per cent, more then any other. Mr. Price said: "Here, boy, you've done pretty well; I give you the whole thiug. You can now take that camp for yourself, and see what you can make of it," turning over to his son the entire outfit, including about eighty teams. The old gentleman especial delight in telling the story. "The boy has money of his own now, he •frjd, "and he can go into society «my- wheri,* M ' . TJ * ^ He Mode Tracks.; *?•'.- ̂ - "No. I don't like Arizona," said a man at he fireplace. MI was a candy maker, and hey said I was • stuck up, and I made raeks." "Ah! I also made tracks in the West," in­ terrupted a second. "Indeed!" "Yes, I was section boss when they bnilt the Union Pacific." "I've done something at maltijn,y<il<%s, too," remarked number three, "flow was that/" *. "I aaxajiome missionary." >„ •'4 --* A Sufficient Cause. •Why &m't baby grow fnsf^ Tove?" asked a young father of the partner of his joys. "It seems to me she isn't nearly so big as Smith's baby, and that is two months younger." "Doctor says Birdie is a fine, healthy child, end what more do you want?" "That may be, but she is small. Do you give her enough to eat?" "That's it, Harry; we feed her on con­ densed milk. Of oouise she'd be small!" Views Least Sixty lives Lost--Terrible Scenes on the Ill-Fated „ ftfiw Orleans ipectaL] The steamer J. M. White, on her down trip from Vicksbnrg, caught fire at 10:30 o'clock on Tuesday night while at St. Maurice Landing, in Pointe Coupee Perish, four miles above Bavon Sara, and was en­ tirely destroyed in a few minutes. The fire originated near the boilers, and spread with suoh mpidity that the flames enveloped the boat before warning of their danger could be given the passengers and crew. One of the mates was the nrst to see the fire from the river bank, and by the time he reached the cabin the smoke was so dense that he could only awaken the occupants of a few of the staterooms iu front and esoape with the rest of the officers to a place of safety. All the books and papers in the clerk's office were destroyed. Capt. Muse was sick in his room at the time, and was notified just in time to save his lite. All the passengers in the forward cabin were saved, with one exception. Those in the ladieB' cabin were shut off from retreat by the flames, and were burned in their rooms or were forced to jump into the river, where only three were rescued. Washington Floyd, Captain of the Will S. Hays of Louisville, was aroused in time to save himself, but rushed back into the ladies' cabin to save the occupants, and was himself destroyed. The following is a partial list of the lost: Mr. Spafford, Superintendent of the Natchez and Yidalia Railroad, wife, and child. Captain Wash Flovd of the Will S. Hays. Miss Agnes McCaleb of West Feliciana. Two women, names not known. Two white men from the West. There were twenty-oue colored, includ­ ing sovcrul of the boat hands, and two ne­ gro preachers, who were also killed. While the passengers aud crew were es­ caping from the boat, the steampipe blew up and was hurled three hundred yards in the air. The force of the explosion caused over twenty bales of burning cotton to be hurled high in the air, where they revolved several times and then fell into the river. Immediately after the explosion, shrieks were heard coming from the stern of the vessel. For an instant two colored women were seen standing on the gallery just back of the whcelhouse, and the next instant they were hiddeh from view by the smoke and flames. The first part of the boat to give way was the wheel- house. It fell into the water and, a draft beiug created, the flames swept through the center of the boat. Those who escaped were taken away from the t cone by the steamboat Stella Wild, which plies between Bayou Sara and Natchez. As the Wild was backing out, three kegs of gunpowder that were in the hold exploded, and cotton and burn­ ing timbers were hurled in all directions. This virtually put the fire out. and what was once a palatial tteamer was now a blackened wreck. When the Wild reached the river a loUd <ry for help came from the middle of the Btream. A boat was lowered and was ouickly pulled iu the direction of the cry. Through the darkness the crew saw the figure of a man grasping a bale of cotton, but before they could reach him the I ale turned over, and wht n it was ligh ed the man was gone. Of the people rescued from the steamer a part wt re landed at Bayou Sara. The rest were taken to Baton Rouge by the Stella Wild. These were brought to this city over the Mississippi Valley Road. Chief Engineer McGreevy says: "There were four kegs of powder in the magazine, nnd the moment the fire reached them the flames shot up about one hundred feet high. The 6igbt was the most heart­ rending one ever witnessed by a human being. The shrieking of women and chil­ dren for help was awful. I saw the su­ perintendent of the Yidalia route railroad standing outside the ladies' eabin, throw­ ing his two little daughters into tho water. He stood there and burned to death with his wife. There were in the cabin nine lady passengers and about eight men. At New Texas twenty deck hands were taken on board. All are supposed to be lost." The J. M. White was built in 1878, at cost of $225,000, and was regarded by many as the fittest and fastest boat ever run ou the Mississippi River. The boat was owned by Capt. John W. Tobin. She carried cargo consisting of 2,100 bales of cotton and 6,000 sacks of seed. She was valued at $100,000; the cargo at $90,000. The insurance ou tho boat is $29,000; the cargo is doubtless fully covered by insurance. [New York speoial.1 Gen. B. F. Butler had a long talk about politics with a correspondent who visited him at his home in Lowell, Mass., during the course of which he said: UI am inclined to believe that the George movement is the beginning of the organi­ sation of labor as a political body. Of its extent I practically know nothing. It may be ephemeral, like the Know-Nothing party, but I hope not. Labor should or­ ganize itself for its own protection. Capital is already organized. It employs some 3,000 men, thoroughly armed, equipped, and drilled, called the Pinker- ton force of detectives, which is thrown upon any point where labor is discontented or st ows signs of trying by organization to better its condition. It is Bent with the greatest celerity, for it is passed over many railroads without paying fare. Whenever it uses its weapons upon laboring man, it becomes a murderous mob This incites the laboring man to turbulence and violence, and there is uo more dangerous element in this country than this same organized, movable mob. Its shooting" from the cars upon a body of citizens--men, women, and children--as w as done at Chicago recently, without substantial cause, Bhows its utter recklessness as to law and human life. 'It is a disgrace to both the State and the United States governments that such a body of men is suffered to exist The mili­ tia of the State and the regular army of the United States ought to be sufficient to en­ force the law in any case, and have always been shown to be pow erful for that pur- jK)se when properly handled. At some time Pinkerton's mob will bring on a riot in which it will be found powerless, and from which such horrible and terrible re­ sults from loss of life and destruction of property will ensue as to open the eyes of everybody to the enormous mischief of the organization. "The labor question will bo the great disturber of future politics. I mean the question of how firmly and completely labor is organized and takes part in its own behalf in future elections. If it is organ­ ized and the laboring men vote together to any considerable extent they hold the elec­ tion in the hollow of their hands and I look to them to destroy this Southern monopoly of the Presidency by taking from it that without which it is impotent for evil--New York City and New York State." JOHN E. OWENS. •Iratati of the Famous ComedlM, Whose Death Was Recently Announced. John E. Owens was born in Liverpool, England, of Welch parentage, in 1823, but was brought to the United States when only three years of age, by his parents, who first settled in Baltimore, Md., but after a residence of ten years in that city, removed to Philadelphia,where Mr. Owens, pere, established himself in business. He made his first appearance under the man­ agement of the late Wm. E. Burton, at the National Theater, Philadelphia, where Charlotte Cushman wss then start- ling the public with her manifestations of a powerful genius. On the 20th of August, il84t>, Mr. Owens reappeared in Philadel­ phia at the . Museum, in Masonic Hall, as Jack Humphries, iu "Turn­ ing the Tables," for the benefit of D. P. Bowers. In 1849 he became joint manager of the Baltimore Museum Vith Haun, and in the succeeding year as­ sumed sole control of the establishment. In 1852,at the earnest solicitation of John Brougham, Mr. Owens consented to inau­ gurate with his performances Brougham's Lyceum, New York, then newly built, and met with a cordial reception. On the 26th of June, 1852, he for the third or fourth time sailed for Europe, and, declining 9 flattering engagement at the AdelpLi The­ ater, made an extended tour of the conti- taent. In 1854 he again entered into the management of the Charles Street Theater, Baltimore. In 1859 he conducted the Ya- rieties Theater, New Orleans. In 1863 he filled a most successful engagement at Wallack's .Theater, New York. In 1805 he visited England, playing "Solon Shingle." Returning to America be made this part peculiarly his own, playing it in all the lu-ge cities. As a comedian he ranks with the highest, and is as great in his parts ap Jefferson snd Clarke nre in theirs. A NOTED CATTLE KING. Ki-flof. John L. Routt, of Hon. John L. Routt, of Colorado, who presided over the National Convention of Cattle Men at St. Louis, in November, is one of the most prominent of the Western cattle barons. He has long been interested Basiaess of the Unffei nrer's Office DaHlf \ 'S»g,f-| Year ' *••• sear* From the stisoal report of Treasurer II appears that tbeaskj Government daring the mr, were 1310,03.73?, and tike' 1M The axces* dr penditnre was 903,9 r. ,5flS. The MM the last fiscal year over those **t,«M,817. The reoeipts a Postoffice Department, MS abov* statement, amounted an increase at R t̂MN of the intedfiw year; itures increase* tram t5^MS,91t I G*«,585 in 188R, or *3fi6,Wl. Bonds <«i States emoantiac to$44,331r and apitUed to the siS&c I bonds of the United SCatee 1 ill were paid by the e»is*atit treasi terest amounting to Wis registered bonds of the United f" ' the bonds issued (o the various companies. Coupons team 3,6*1 of the District of Colombia smoi 441 and registered interest MS were p&id. Of bonds held in trust for _ (61,012,400 were withdrawn, of $ss.923,&J0 was held to sue ore < 34,117,100 was held ns public moneys. The bonded those withdrawn on account amounted to •20,751,900, and on teewoit < posits to £6,170,000, a total ~ aOO. The total movement of bonds national banks was >-!7,r<67,:*Ot. Worn and mutilated United Etatee amounting to $6 f.oot.ooo were rtiwnwdc the year. The issue of silver oeiti£ea*sai| $4,900,000, and $2s.5i«,97i were redeemed, certificates amounting to $10,184,809 wsk»: : deemed. , • A',. The unavailable tunda of the Treasury ~ 90.1886, were $29,521,307, a decrsaae ox ] from last year. The balance In the * the close of the year ended Sept. 9% 291 $100,053,775, an increase over that ot $16,815,636. The available balance IMS ~ 141, agiainst $58,922191 last year, 1 913,990,919. The Treasurer snsfpiats large sums held by mints aa offices be placed in the actual ec the Treasury, and the duties of offioen bo confined to the coinage of the bullion plaoed la On the subject of altenug the Treasury, system, as rendered n« financial changes in the country, thi says: "With the extinction of S per which must take place daring theensnfj year, the only bonds available for the of the sinking fund will be and 1 bonds. Theae are now selling at a price averages very little more than 2 per annum to the purchaser upon the co«t, may fairly be assumed that the rate of cent. IS the maximum rate to be earned the life of these bonds. At the present the collection of the revenue of " say 98.70 iter 9100. the loss oa the ing fund, say 945,000,000 per 97(15,000 annually, assnmlng < »unt oit ei and cattle breeding, and fcttNsver been prominent among the members of the uuion, outside of the political field in which he moves and may be said to have his being. His political record is that of one of the growing Western statesmen, nnd his abilities in fulfilling the positions thrust upon him in that station of Bis aro said to be unsurpassed. A MEMORY OF 1876. 4V«W Orleans Story About the Celebrated ' Returning Board. 1 [New Orleans diap Tha City Item publishes an interview with a gentleman of this city, whose name it declines to give, but who is understood to be an offioial of the Jefferson Gas Com­ pany aod a man of wealth, relative to the story recently published of the attempt made to purchase the celebrated Return­ ing Board in 1876, and induce it not to count the vote of the State for Hayes and Wheeler. While she board was in sesoinp counting the vote three prominent polln- cians came down to New Orleans from Now York City, and, after remaining at the St. Charles Hotel for several days, celled on this gentleman and presented him letters from fr.ends in the North. They said thai there was no doubt but Louisiana had been carried for Tilden and Hendricks, but would be counted otherwise unless the returning board could be influenced. Knowing Anderson and Casanave person­ ally, he had been chosen to make the nego­ tiations. Gen. Anderson waB visited by him and offered $300,000 to return the 8tate for Tilden. He seemed highly of­ fended, and said, most emphatically, that it wss out of the ques­ tion. Casanave was then visited and offered a smaller sum, but large fortune to htm. Every inducement ie held out, but he still remained firm. After the vote of the State was announced fttr Hayes and Wheeler this gentleman was again selected to approach the electors and find whether any one of them would change bis vote. Anderson, who was an elector, refused, but another member of the Elec­ toral College agreed to vote for Tilden and Hendricks," naming bis price at $50,000, which was promised him. When, however, he found out that Anderson had been ap- Sroached on this subject, and had refused te offer, and that as he would be the only elector voting for Tilden, he became frightened and backed down. If Gen. An­ derson had yielded there would have been little trouble, this gentleman says, in ar­ ranging with the other members of the board, except Wells, but they feared to act without Anderson. best rate whieh the "Without discussing the eonseqomft derangement of our existing ftaaaelel the purchases for the sinking fond maintained at their present figures found to be Impractteahle to saske these chases at such times end ia soehi relieve the money.market in times _ distress. As these derangements happen • most invariably at the ttmeef thsmoviag the crops of the country, this statimsstl equivalent to saying that every terest in the country must pay buyers, through the lower range ot prices obtain at such times, because at the fit our arrangements for collecting and our revennes are so defective as to artificial and violent remedy In order to piae< aetive circulation the moneys withdrawn frefe the business of the country. Th* total amount of United standing is 9346,6^1,01ft. The antount ot 1 certificates nominally outstanding a* the . of the fiscal year was 9115,977,67$, of Wbl amount the Treasury held t2T,tO,W, Smi 99B»116,£29 In actual circulation, a •jtoerease 913,414,721 during the year. This nw since been added to by the demands ness, so that the amount in circulation was 910? .519,817. There ia now in 961,761,448 in silver dollars. . INTERIOR DEPAriTMlftt Synopsis of the Annual - Secretary Lama*. IwBv tual report of the Secretary of terior commences with a resame of In tiie Indian Bureau. Out of aa est! dian population of SMMMQ, less than been in revolt during the year; ths School attendance is about Una greater than ever befoce, and these ; general improvement in their moral 1 trial condition. The Cheyenne mm reservation, in the Indian Territory, a striking Illustration of ma ment. Of these Indians Secretary J "There has been an lderease of o in cultivation; farms have been diaas. who have bnilt for thi miles of fencing. They have tor winter use more than 400 tons hauled over 1,000,000 pounds oi . . . the railroad to the agency, and have more ot their children in pet of the ' squaw men' oa this become legally married to their in oonfonuity to the requirements at I partment," The report says that, while the wee) vating the race is bearing fruit, there 1 radical ohanges In our Inolaa policy! BUKKIN6 IN MARYLAND. Two Baltimore Negroes Kill a Woman sad Sell Her Body to a Medloal QsUegs. | Baltimore telegram.] A negro left for dissection at the Mary­ land University the dead body of a white woman, snyiug he would call again for $15, the price paid for corpses. When the body was examined it was found that the head was crushed and that there were two wounds on the left breast. At a post­ mortem examination physicians said posi­ tively that the wounds were inflicted after death. The body was identified as that of Emily Hrown, a dissipated beggar, who for the last six months had boarded with a colored family in the western section <4 the city. John Ross and Albert Hawkins, both colored, were arrested, and they con­ fessed that they killed the woman at tha instigation of the janitor of the university, a negro named Perrv. Eoss crushed her heud with a brick, and Hawkins stabbed her throngh the heart. Perry boarded at the same house with the woman and ate breakfast with her just before her murder. can be incorporated into our political 1 systems as oitlxms. In this conwe Seeretery recommends passage of the hflli appointment of a commission to Inspect s port on Indian affairs, whieh Is SM Congress. During the year about eight 1 Indians have received title to land 1" and a number have taken np h Congress is asked to pass a genaral |aw i lating the allotment In severalty Of Indians. The Secretary also r the army appropriation act be army officers may purchase grata, other produce from Indians near I The Secretary oonsiders ft deeirablet be enacted authorising Indians topaatare < on their reservations at a reasonable eoMSi tion for the benefit of the tribe. Of the Indian Territory the Secretary "Itisoertainlyof the gmateet Is - - no less for the interest of the selves than for the people ot the States, that the vast area of eoaat have extended over it, as early as may l ttoahle, the universal laws ot thelaad, _ tion of those laws as administered by tlto oial establishment at our country, so tfcfii. lessness may be punished, and peaea ipi j order preserved through and by tha > justice, and not by the agency of tha i departments, aided by t Government" Secretary Lamar reoommoads that thai of the eommissioasr of Indian ftlMrs creased from 94.000 to 93.000 per pensesof the Indian Bureau for I were 98,190,751. The total arm of pubUo lands during the year was 91,614,1191 99,031,084 was received. Tha 4b his reeammendatlou that the mtnimmn 1 lor sales of land at private cash creased, in order to pioent the largeteactsin the hands of afswladi* He also recommends the setahHshue date site which «<«'"" fSnwlsil «n Mexican land grants be barred tmsa.] tion. The reoommendatloas now fatal last report, that the dessrt land laws ha i and that the timbtMsltes set fee pealed, are renewed. Legislation-Issl ing the timber resources of tha ae urged. Considerable space is given 1 lnwful inelosure of public lands b; The Secretary says in this eonnectt ever appliances, however, the law in the hands at tha executive will hi Invoked, if nsnesssry, to put a final _ enormous plundering of the public dosaala.* In the matter at pensions the isftM there are now 3.710 oases nponths <esseS'_ Board of Appeals and aa recommends tha t tinnaaoe of the extra appropriation Mr Board until ths arrears are brengtt ia During the year there were 9B,SMa|--" for patents and reisaaes received, were granted. The reports to the bureau of labor the reports of Industrial depresstr exaggerated. Tha report eays: various causes alleged by maw others for the existence of industrial* are to be found the irregularities exfc rates of duty under present tariff i * * • These glaring inequalities 1 eause of apprehension, lathe miaj ere, of disturbance in values, and, corresponding depressions." stoew adjustment ot rates ot duty on goods should be in accordance a cost of production, ate. * * * iu production and all tha Other 1 ductiou must be considered bsloes ah'l schedule can be arranged. Until '-tli basis is ad opted the inequatMSeshmHt „ will exist, although they may be •NCMte 1 as products are concerned.* - Cksfc AK inspector--A tavern ghost r A RINGING speeoh--"ChestnaA.* : YEUX>W FKYKB--Graed flw M|§t IN apple-pie order--A boyltSMMlM Boas a tip-topfcosin««--A 1 A XBW8BOT*8 mission--lb sstt pers. ̂ A BEAUTx of tha present--Opt ] A DBBAMof Osptlt- "• te life