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( VOL. XXI. BOLIVAR, TENNESSEE, FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1886. NO. 41. JMII i r in! HI! TOPICS OF THE DAT. Flows from Everywhere. rEKSONAL AND POLITICAL. Hon. Mr. Chapleac, Dominion Secre tary of State, referring to the fishery ques tion, said it inixht involve Canada in seri ous complications, but he had faith in Pres ident Cleveland and the American Con gress, and he had no doubt the question Would short!' lie brought to a practical and equitable solution. O.N the afternoon of the 21th Sirs. Cleve land, assisted by Mrs. Orojrsr, held an in formal recep' ion at the White House. BIichal Davitt expresses creat confi dence in the success of Gladstone in the corning election. 1 Senator Mounii.i., of Vermont, is etill ,in a critical condition from illness at 'Washington. IlKFta Kri.tp is preparing to establish a foundry at "i!:o)aief, Russia, for the man ufacture of cannon. On the 21th Dr. H. B. Warren, of Vin ceimes, Ind., wus convicted at Syracuse, H. V., of bigamy. ' On the 24th ex-President Arthur decant ed from Kevv York for Ken- London, Conn., Via the New York Central railroad, and arrived at his destination without having been specially fatigued. ! The Jfonitrnr and other orpans of the Vatican, despite the papal precepts, vig orously support Mr. Gladstone's scheme for frrntinjj autonomy to Ireland, and eulogize the Uriti-ih Premier, i Ont the 21th the Count de Paris left Trance for Knglnnd, where he will assume the title of Marquis of llarcourt mid re main incognito. ? A dinseu in Imnor of the President and Mrs. Clevelun 1 was given by Secretary and Mrs. Wlii; ney on the evening of the ii4t.li. Kx-Mayoji Jacob, of Louisville, Ky., who is now minister to Colombia, is said to desire to be transferred to the Persian mission vacated by Minister Winston's resignation. He is now in Washington, f On the 24th the President was so much occupied in considering a large batch of private pension bill that he denied shim to all callers, and even postponed the reg ular Cabinet meeting. On the 21th Itev. Charles Reilly, D. D., treasurer of the Irish National League of America, remitted !HiO,0)0 to Messrs. Justin McCarthy and Joseph (!. Bigurr, treasur ers of the parliamentary fund. This makes in all some .J.2.",000 sent by Dr. Reilly since the Boston convention. I On the 2:!d Mrs. Rose MarkihoiTer, of Brooklyn, N. Y., gave birth to a baby boy which had whiskers half an inch long on each Bide of its face. It died throe hours after being born. Its death wus due to natural causes. ' Mary, the sixteen-year-old daughter of Robert White, a rich Shrewsbury (N.J.) Quaker, is missing from home. Charles Billings, a young man of Eatoniown, is 'also missing. As the couplo were fond of each other, contrary to the wishes of the 'girl's parents, it is thought that they have eloped. I Miss llnsrt Et iZABKTir Clkveland is to fcdit Literary Life, of Chicago. I Pkenidknt Cleveland loft Washing ton on the 2."ith for a yachting trip to Fort ress Monroe and the capes, i 11. II. Lawtox, of Columbus, Kas., died at Cincinnati on the 25th with indications 'f suicide. f Quekn Victoria returned to Windsor Castle from Balmoral on the 2"ih.nnd sent her message to the House of Commons dissolving that body. Tiik manifesto of the Comto de Paris has 'created great excitement in France anil newspapers containing it were sold in large numbers. Presiik.t Clf.veland ha.l, up to the 2oth, vetoed seventy-four bills within thirty-six of the whole number by all the Presidents since the Government began. I The remains of the late Benjamin Moran, ex-United States Minister resident at Lisbon, were interred at the village of Pan field, Essex, England, on the 2."Hh. i Formal notice of Bi-hop Tuttle's accept ance has been given the clergy and laity 'of the Episcopal diocese of Missouri. The Emperor of Germany has bestowed jjobl medals on Messrs. Tlcrkemer ami Mullers in recognition of the merit of pic tures hung by them at the Boston exposi tion. Dr. Oliver Wkxoki.t, Holmes on the 2Ttb, received from the University of Edin burgh the degree of LL. D. The title was conferred in the presence of a most dis tinguished company. j TnE Sultan of Turkey has chosen the Choicest productions of Turkish industry ns wedding presents for President Cleve land, and has dispatched them on a spe cial steamer in care of the first dragoman of the American Legation in preference to a Turkish ollh-ial, in deference to Ameri can constitutional scruples. Ex-President Arthur is said to show ptgns of benefit fiom his removal to New London, Conn. He is quite cheerful anl looks forward with inn -It pleasure to pro jected fishing excursions. The President ha approved the bill re imbursing Edwin Stevens, United States Consul at Ningpo, China, for extraordi nary expenses incurred during the Fran-co-Chinese war. Treasurer Jordan was at the Capitol CD the "."th to hand to Mr. Randall a state ment of the increased appropriation that would be required to cover the cost of lrintinir the proposed new silver certifi cates. He said that it would take about 587,000 more than provided in the bill as reported by the committee. Mr. Randall will have this addition made to the bill. 1 ONthe2Cth Hon. David Da vis died at his homo in I'doomington, 111., in his seventy first year. Arrangements were made for his funeral to t ike place on the 2!'th. De ceased left an estate estimated at between a millii n and a quarter Mid a million and half dollars, hicli w ill be inherited by his wife and two children. The President and Mrs. Cleveland have been invite I to attend the fall carnival in Kt. Louis, the preparations for which are on a scale eelipsing all for mer occasions. On the 2tit U General Filz-Jolm Porter sent a tele rain to Senator Newell, of New Jersey, thnuKiug hiai br his efforts in se curing the pas ae of the bill restoring him to the ariov. Ox the 2ti:h Bev. Henry Ward Beerher and wiieariive ! in I.iv i ..l by the steam ship l.uuiia. He vi;l deliver tifty-Rve lectures durin;; I i stay abroad, and will to compelled to ,bi line hundreds, of invita tions to extend his pi ii i amine, f In deference to the wish es of tlie Czar of Russia, the name of Prince Alexander of Bulgaria hits been strieken from the Ger man army lis:. ' Presidkn r t'l h vki.and seems iruliue l to take his o n t i i: in dealing with the bills sent to him by Congress, and has intimated that he id not. un to the Capi tol and approve b as fast as they are passed by t n; n -. without scrutiny, simply to exp. diie t..e matter of adjourn ment. Skcki tarv Mwmn.'s health is said to re improving. Tiik King of l'oi:i-.il t ill visit England in Aug' vj. Cahii'sai. Manmm. has pronounced in Xuvor , -1 uouiO la.o ior Ireland. Mr. Gladstone has called on John Bright to retract or produce proof of his recent charges that Gladstone formerly opposed home rule. The President, in his recent trip to sea, has set a new precedent, no President having ever left United -States territory before during his term of office. Senator Beck admits that his bill for bidding Senators to act as railroad attor neys, will be defeated. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES. A party of three women and three chil dren, while returning to Newcastle, Pa., on the morning of the 22d, from a dance in the country, were thrown from their ve hicle. Mrs. Henry Carbaugh had her right arm broken and her infant son was instantly killed. Anna Condon, eighteen years old, was fouud dead in bed at her home in New York on the 22 1. A half-ounce bottle of lauilanum was empty on the table, indi cating the route she had taken. On the 2:d, during a quarrel at Latrobe, Pa., Frank Keenan shot and killed Mac Dixon. On the 221 the weigh-house, tipple, tressle-work and office of the Loyal Ilanna Coal Campany, at Latrobe, Pa., were de stroyed by fire. Loss, $30,000; partly in sured. Wm. Kei.aher, alias "Reddy," who killed Oflicer Convey at Detroit, Minn., on the 2.1d while resisting arrest, was taken from jail at night by a large crowd of dis guised men, escorted to a neighboring srrove and hanged to the limb of a tree. His body was then riddled with bullets. ONthe2!th John Protzmnn, one of the Milwaukee Anarchists, was convicted, and another was acquitted. Pkoria was visited by a .f.'WO,HjO fire on the 2."th, caused by the ignition of a gaso line tank and its consequent explosion. Four laborers were killed by a railway accident on the Chicago, Burlington & Qtiiney, near Creston, la., on the 2nth. Frank Wentano, an inmate of the State House of Correction at Ionia, Mich., was seriously shot by a guard on the 25th while ende ivoring to escape. Rev. John E. O'sullivan, a Catholic pri st of S3 rncu.se, N. Y., has been sen tenced ti eleven years' imprisonment for a criminal assault on a domestic. Twenty-four men were killed and six teen entombed alive on the 2."th by an ex plosion in the collery at Rochamp, in the department of the Saone, France. Robert Dillaud and James Emmette, both colored, were hanged at Greenville, Mis;., on th:i 2."th, for murder, in the pres ence of legal witnesses. Gkrok R. Davis was hanged at Seale, Ala., on the 2"ith for the murder of Wm. McClermend, alias Archie Reeves, last sprin On the 2i.th Alexander Miller and his wife were killed by the cars at Lafayette, Ind. William Gallagher was found dead in the Mahoning river at Youngstown, ") on the 2(ith, wiMi indications of foul play. On the Tth August Veiser, a German machinist, committed suicide at New York. On the 27th Robert Hill and wife of Chil lisquaque, Pa., were run over and killed by the cars. On the 27th an unknown, well-dressed man committed suicide by drowning at Blackwell's Island, N. Y. MISCELLAXEOVS. On the 22d numerous persons were sum marily convicted at Sligo, Ireland, of par ticipating in the recent riots there. Oth ers were committed for trial at the As sizes. The steamer Elbe, with the excursion party of American grocers, arrived at Bremen on the 2-M. A very hospitable re ception was given to them. Five hundred kilos of territory have been purchased in Vitu-Zanzibar by the Ger man Colonial Association. On the 22d the new scientific building, costing fjoO.OtH), presented to Smith Col lege, Northampton, Mass., by Alfred Theodore Lilly, was dedicated. Prof. J. P. Leslie, of Philadelphia, delivered an address on "The Utility of Physical Science in Education." Prussia proposes to found an indepen dent Prussian Bishopric at Jerusalem. A syndicate of Parisian financiers have advnncod 2.1.000,00.) francs to the Panama Canal Company as security for the hy pothecation of the recent call. On tho-'.Td the St. Louis & San Francis co Railroad Company filed a bond with the Secretary of the Interior in the amount of $,"OO,O0O as an indemnity to the Indians for any loss that the latter may sustain by tho building of the road through the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations. The International Hahnemann Associa tion began its sixth annual meeting at Saratoga on the 21th. A special commission of eleven' mem bers has been appointel by the French Chamber of Deputies to inquire into the proposed Panama canal "lottery loan." In the Maine canvass the Knights of Labor propose to address open letters to tho candidates for the office of Governor and to all candidates for the Legislature, demanding a decided "yes" or "no" to their queries without any "glittering gen eralizations." Ov the uight of the 24th at a mass-meeting of tho power-loom ingrain carpet weavers of Philadelphia, at which fully 1,2 K) were present, it was decided to go on a strike at once against the proposed re duction of half a cent per yard in their wages. The Niutn Infantry eight companies of which have been for several years sta tioned at Fort Russell, Wy. T., has been ordered to Arizona, where General Miles is concentrating a force to crush the In dians. Fort Russell will be garrisoned by the Seventeenth infantry, from Dakota. By order of the Postmaster-General twenty-seven railway mail clerks have been discharged for insubordination in conspiring to obstruct Uie regulation of the service. Washington City is hard at work try ing to get the National exhibition of 1S02 located there. The business failures during tue seven days ended the 2."ith for the United States were i'.iS and for Canada. 27, as compared with for the preceding like period.- An eleven-year-old girl who was bitten bv a dog in April last and treated by Pas teur, died a few days ago in France. Five hundred thousand gold bars have been ordered for shipment from New York to Hamburg. Tl!H Ciitarmakers' Union of Fottsville, Pa., on the 2."ih presented a scale of prices to the employers involving an uverage ad vance of one dollar per thousand, and stated that unless acceded to a general strike would ensue on the The em ployers declared a lockout, applying to every factory in this city. The collections of internal revenue dur ing the first eleven months of the fiscal year ending .1 une :;. S-sii, amount to 1'7, H4..s5, boing an increase of !j:i,4'2,s:S over the receipts for the corresponding period of the previous year. An American citizen has obtained a concession to er-ct a theater in Panama and HifaM to complete it within one year. It is to accomodate seven hundred pers ns. The government exempts the theater from ai! taxation for tire period of The total Imports of dry goods at the port of New York daring the past week were valued at (1,745,869, and the amount fhrown on the market at $1,629,908. The dissatisfied car-drivers and car conductors of New York and Brooklyn have been directed by General Master Workman Powderly to formulate their grievances in writing for consideration by the general executive board. Meantime a tie-up is not probable. For the week ended the 26th the total imports of merchandise at the port of New York were valued at $0,509,925: of dry goods at (1,745,809. The French Chamber of Deputies on the 26th rejected a proposition to abolish the use of titles of nobility by a vote of 224 to 216. The municipality of Berlin has voted 2,000,000 marks for the exhibition to be held there in 18S8. On the 26th the strike of the Lake Shore switchmen at Chicago assumed a serious phase, the efforts of the company to move trains being met by hostile measures on the part of the strikers, which in turn brought them into collision with the po lice, with the result of several men being wounded by pistol shots. The Dominion Government has for warded (5,000 to the Vancouver fire victims. From a compilation of reports from over five thousand special correspondents the American Rural Home finds the present condition of the corn crop good. The spring wheat crop, while more, or less damaged, shows fair prospects, and the harvest for winter wheat is progressing favorably with fair results. The French Radical press demands as a reply to the recent manifesto of the Comte de Paris the immediate expulsion of all the Orleanist princes and the sequestra tion of their property. The striking granite cutters at Wash ington decided on the 26th to accept the bosses' offer and go to work at nine hours a day and forty cents an hour. A favorable report has been made on the Cairo bridge by the House commerce committee at Washington, but a low bridge is forbidden. Seventy-seven Parnellite candidates for Parliament in Ireland will have no op position. On the 27th a descent was made on th Starr gang at Webber's Falls, I. T., and three were captured, includiug the noto rious Belle Starr. CONGRESSIONAL, PROCEEDINGS. In the Senate on the 22d the only impor tant matter considered was the bill repeal ing the Pre-emption and -Timber-Culture acts. No action was taken save to discuss the measure In the House nine veto messages on private pen sion bills were received from the President. Mr. Morrison called up the proposed change of rules concerning the consideration ol pension bills, ami a debate euaued, lasting through the entire beaaioo. In the Senate on the 23d a bill was passe I for payment of expenses of steamboat in spectors by the government. The vote bj ihlch the bill prohibiting Congressmen act ing as counsel for land errant railroail vas passed, was reconsidered. The bilj repeal nz the Pre-emption anUjTimber-Cult. ure laws was debated until adjourn ment in the House the day was spent in filibustering to prevent consideration of Mr. Morrison's proposed change of rules relat ing to pension legislation. In the Senate on the 24th the bill for a nen district Jude In Alabama passed; also th bill repeadng trie Pre-emption and Timber- J Culture laws, after which the Fitz-John Por- : ter bill was taken up, and the Senate ad- journed, Mr. Ixitran havtngthe floor In tin House Mr. Long, lor correction ot th 1 Ilecord, made a lengthy speech defending Charles Francis Adams from charges marl by Mr. Iietdey. The morning hour was dis pensed with, and the sundry Civil Appro priutlons bill was taken up in committee o: the whole, and its consideration consumet 1 the rest of the day's session. i In the Senate on the 25th the entire 3aj was taken up with debate on the Fitz Johi . Porter bill. Mr. Logan leading off with an energetic speech In opposition, and beln!j followed by a number of othei Senators in the same line. Alter tb rejection of several amendments the bi!. j was passed In the House several vett messages on private pension bills were re ferred to committees, after which the Sundry , Civil Appropriations bill was taken up it ! committee of the whole and debated during j the entire session. Thk Senate was not In session on the 26th. j In the House a conference report was sub mlued on the bill requiring; land-grunt rail roads to pay the cost of selecting and con veying their lands. As aareed t by the conference and adopted bj the House, the provisions of th bill apply to all land-grant roads The House, In committee of the whole, Mr Keii'-nui (Tex.) in tne chair, resumed consid erution of the Sundry Civil Appropriation! bill, and after completing the consideration of half the bill the committee lose and tin House adjourned. CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. The grand jury of Warren county, Miss., returned fifteen indictments on the 26th, making eighty-five iu all, principally for gambling. Fifteen shoe firms at Stoneham, Mas., are discharging men daily, work being very dull, but those selected as victims are generally Knights o? Labor who were prominent in the late strike. Reason Stamper and Mrs. llattie Din kins were married on the night of the 26th at Ashland, Ky. While the couple were being congratulated a woman named Frances Files rushed in p.ud attempted to shoot the groom. Loiisiana members are watching and waiting for an opportunity to got th yel low fever bill up in the house. There seems to be no prospi ct of any serious opposi tion now, ami they hope to get action on it at nu early day. The executive committee of the Empire Protective Association is consileiing the question of soon ordering a tie-up on every street car line in Now York, Brooklyn; Jersey City, Staten Island and Ws Ches ter county. There ore 1S,K)0 men in the organization. Indians ettm ked a mule train loaded with freigl t near Becon, Mexico, on the 24th instant, and killed two men and cap tured thirty ninles. A very general belief prevails in New York that the sentence of the Oyer and Terminer Court, in the case of Alderman Jaehne. will not be sustained, which means that Jaehne will go '"scot free" and resume bis c.:t in the Hoard of Aldermen. The Di.b'iu Methodist Conference by a vote of l'i7 to 22 has rrsolved not to inter fere iu polities. TliK total imports of merchandise at the port of New York during the week ending on the 2 ';h were valued at (6,509,925, and of dry gooi!s nt $l,745,85;i, and the amount thrown on tha market at (1,629 ,So8. Advices from Chili show that fifty-one persons have been killed ia the election riots. Jim Edwards, cob-red, who was at Bir mingham, Ala., 011 the 2?! h, for attempt ing to pass counterfeit silver half dollars, gays there is a nest of counterfeiters in the mountains if li unt county. The storehouse, of John Phelps & Co., at Koseiu.ko, Miss., was strm-k by lightning 9U the 2Sth, and set on fire. The building nd entire contents were completely de stroyed. Two brothers, Adam and Alphonse Reed, fought a duel at Opelousas, La., on the !stb. Adam was twice wounded in the lace and lowels, it is thought fatally. Tiik issue of standard silver dollars V0111 the mint during the week ending une 2'Jth was i55,uH. SOUTHERN GLEANINGS. In Algiers, La., a few days ago, Charles Edwards killed Hattie Refuge by cutting her throat with a razor. Hon. Winfield Buckner, of Paris, Ky., candidate for the office of Superior Court Judge, has become a raving maniac, and has been taken to the asylum. Dr. A. K. Taylor, one of the most prom inent physicians of Hot Springs, Ark., and a very influential citizen, died a few days since. He leaves many friends and rela tives to mourn hi3 death. A Kentucky farmer says he gathered about twenty of the cut-worms which have been devastating the crops in his section and put them in a cigar-box half filled with dirt, covered the same with a pane of glass, nnd set it in the sun. The result in less than two weeks was a brood of grasshoppers. A car-load of Alabama manufactured cotton goods was recently shipped to Portland, Ore. Wash Barnes, a convict from Harris County, Tex., esr-nped from the plantation of Messrs. Rogers & Hill a few nights ago and was fouud asle?p tire next day near the Mavasota bridge, by some of the guards. Upon being aske 1 to surrender he made another break for liberty and was shot and killed. The Governor of Louisiana has signed the Sunday law. It goes into effect Jan uary 1 next. A tramn recently arrested at Dallas, Tex., turned out to be a murderer for whose capture there was a standing re vird of $1,0(10 offered. The grand jury, rec ently in s- ssion af Vicksl.urg, Miss., returned seventy in dictments, covering all classes of offenses, largely against poker-players. The life sentence parsed on Cliff Cook for murder has been affirmed by the Court of Appeals at Austin, Tex. From five thousand to eight thousand green turtles are shipped yearly from Florida nu 1 adjacent inlands to New York, where they sell at an averege of fifteen cents per pound. On a telegram from the Navy Depart ment, the revenue cutter Forward recently left Mobile for Mississippi Sound, to inter cept a scho -n jr loaded with men and arm? for filibustering i 1 Cuba. Miss Maude Jetton was bitten a few months ago in Calloway County, Ken tucky, by a neighbor's dog. A few days since she developed all the symptoms of hydrophobia and died iu great agony. Tlti-re are now in Swaim and other ex treme western counties of North Carolina 1,SSI Cherokee Indians. They hold 73,000 acres of land ly deed of trust. They are urged to go to Indian Territory, and are considering the matter. The truckmen of Norfolk County, Vir ginia, are enjoying a very successful cab ba:;e season. One man alone set out 1,500, 000 plants on his four farms, and he ex pects to gather over 1,253,000 head. The boilers of the International cotton press at New Orleans exploded a few daj-s ago, blowing out the Peters street side of the building and ki ling two employes. Hon. Thos. Seay, Democratic nominee for governor of Alabama, is less than forty years old, sei ved as a private during the war, finished his education after peace was restored, and is one of the most suc cessful planters in the State. A New Orleans citizen a few weeks ago put a double-yelked egg un ler a setting hen. The other day a little head came through each end of the egg, and when the shell was removed two chicks were found. They were slightly united, but were easily separated. A public meeting of citizens residing on swamp lands in the Ouachita and Red river valleys, Louisiana, is to be held al Troyville on the 21 of July to devise means for closing the Atchafalaya river and protecting the plantations from over flow. Mr. J. J. Grissom of Sparta, Tenn., re ports that lightning struck the house of a neighbor a few days ago, completely tear ing off one corner of tho structure nnd uncovering a bed where the children were sleeping. The children were unharmed and some members of the family did not even awaken. A Richmond paper notes that the skin of "Old Sorrel," Stonewall Jackson's war horse, has not yet bien returned from the North, where it was s?nt to be stuffed. The taxidermist has sent word, however, that he will make fhe old charger look .as though he was alive. Reports received from every section of Tennessee say that very great damage has been done the wheat crop by the unusual ly heavy rains, streams overflowing their banks and causing considerable loss. The Cumberland river rose seventeen feet at at Burksville, Ky., a few days ago, and was advancing one foot per hour. A great waterspout burst on the line of the Chattnnooga railroad a few days ago, and swept away all but five shocks of wheat in a twenty-acre lot. Robert Brown, a miner employed at Bevier mines, went to Central City, Ky., a few days ago, and before leaving be came intoxicated. On bis way home he sat down on the Chesapeake, Ohio & South western railroad track, a short distance from the town limits, and went to sleep. A coal train which passed along about ten o'clock ran ov. r him, crushing him into a shapeless mass. His dog, which accom panied him, was also killed. Brown leaves a wife and two children in destitute sircunistances. From planters of Madison, East Carroll Richland and Tensas Parishes, La., as well as from the delta counties in Mississippi, we get gloomy reports of tho prospects for a good outcome to the cotton crop. No plowing has been done during the past few weeks, and the grass is not only outgrowing the cotton, but many of the fields are standing full of water. Imme diately go the banks of the Yazoo river, in the sandy land, the prospect is some what brighter, though by no means good. Early corn will pull through, but other crops can not reach the acreage. Watermelon harvest has begun. The judicial convention recently held by the Kentucky Democracy at Lebanon was a turbulent one. Fist fights were frequent on the floor, and oaths were directed atthe chairman. The commissioner of the Louis ville Chancery Court knocked down a lead ing lawyer, an 1 was himself floored with a cane in the hands of another prominent attorney. Heavy rains have prevailed recently throughout West Tennessee which have seriously interfered with wheat harvest ing. Crops generally are looking well, especi: lly cotton, throughout that section of the country. A Georgia citizen, aged twenty-eight recently bought his first pair of shoes. During the recent stay of the American Opera Company in Louisville, Ky , Wm. Candidus, the eminent tenor, visited a colored asylum and selected a toy to take with him to Europe and educate. The twiy was to 1 sent to him during his stay in the East. An investigation of the by laws of the institution, however, showed that its wards could not be sent out of the State, and the boy will not get hia Eu ropean trip. Colonel S. I. M. Major, for many years a prominent legislator and newspaper mac, lied at his home at Frankfort, Ky., fc. fsw day ago. ABOUT PENSIONS. The President Review s Some Queer Pen sion Cases, and Disapproves Them. Washing ton, June 25. The President was so much occupied yesterday in con sidering a largo batch of private pension bills that he denied himself to all calls and even postponed the regular Cabinet meet ing, informing the secretaries that he would prefer to dispose of the pension bills while his mind was on them rather than to take up the business of the Cabinet, unless some of the departments had important matters to submit requiring immediate action. As there was nothing requiring immediate at tention the meeting ad journed. As the re sult of the work done by the President dur ing the day, no less than twenty-nine more veto messages relating exclusively to private pension bills were sent to Congress. The messages were all short and terse and the conclusions reached in some of them as to the demerits of the cases make rich and rarereadine. Of one of the cases, that of James U. Darling, whose disability is de scribed in the records as a general stiffness of joints, the President says that it appears that he enlisted iu November, 1861, and was reported as having deserted March 5, 1863. An examination in 1882 found this "victim of war disability" with the ap pearance of a hale, hearty old man weighing 186 pounds. "It Is evident to me," be concludes, "that this man ought not to be pensioned." Com menting on another case, a bill for the relief of William Bishop, who was enrolled as a substitute March 25, 1865, admitted to the hospital with measles May 5, returned to duty May 8 and mustered out May 11, 1605, the President In vetointr the bill says: "This is the military record of this soldier, who remained in tho army one month and seventeen days, having entered it as a sub stitute at a time when high bounties were paid. Fifteen years after this brilliant ser vice and this terrific encounter with the measles, on June 28, 1880, the claimant discovered that his attack of measles had some relation to his army enrollment and this disease had settled in his eyes, also af fecting his spinal column." Of another case in a bill for relief of Jnlia Connelly, the widow of Thomas Connelly, a soldier mustered into service October 26, 1861, nnd reported as deserter November 14, 1861, the President says: 'fle never did a day's ser vice go far as his name appears on the records. He visited his family about December 15. and was found drowned in a canal ahout six miles from his home. Those who prosecute claims for pensions have grown very bold when cases of this descrip tion are presented for consideration." A bill eranting a pension to Andrew J. Wil son, who it appears was drafted into service in February, 1865, and was discharged in September of the same year on account of chronic nephritis and deafness, and who In his application for pension alleged rheuma tism, resulting from exposure, and inflam mation of the muscles of back, with pain in the kidneys, diarrhea and rupture, the Pres ident dismisses with this remark: "What ever else may be said of this claim or his achiveements during his short military career it must be conceded that he contract ed a great deal of disability. There is 110 doubt iu my mind that whatever ailments he may lay claim to, his title to the same was complete before he entered the army." m THE EXILED COUNT. The Comte de Paris Threatens to Return to France at the Decisive Moment. Paris, June 25. The Comte dePari9, on his departure from France, issued the fol- I lowing manifesto: j I am constrained to leave my country. I ' protest in the name of justice against the i violence done me. I am passionately at j taohed to mv country whose misfortunes , have renderea her stiil dearer to tue. I lived i there without iul rinuiii'j: its laws. For tear- intr me thi'iice u inouieiit wits chosen just as I 1 returned happy In having formed afresh j tie between France and a friendly nation. In ! proscribing me venireance is taken in my per ! son on the voters who October 4 con demned the faults of the republic Jwhfcn sought to Intimidate those daily detaching themselves from the present renrime. In me Is persecuted the monarchical principles whose transmission is a trust by him who bad so nobly preser ved it. It is desired to separate from h'rance the head of the glori ous family which guided her course for nine centuries in the work of national unity, and which is associated with the people alike in good and evil fortune, and founded her prosperity and grandeur. The hope is cherished that France has torgotten the happy, peaceful reiRn of my grandfather, and tho more recent time when my brothers and uncles foujrht loyally under her ting:, in the ranks of her valiant array. These calculations will prove fallacious. Taught by experience France will not be misled as to either the cause or the other evils she suffers. She will recognize that the traditional monarchy by its modern princi ples end institutions can alone furnish a remedy. This national monarchy, of which I am a representative, can alone reduce the importance of men of disorder who threaten the peace of the country; can alone secure political and religious liberty; restore public fortune: give our Dem ocratic society a strong government open to all, superior to parties and with the ability which will be in the eyes of Kurope a pledge of everlasting peace. My duty is to labor without respite in this work of salvation, and with the aid of God and tho co-operation of all those who share my faith in the future I will accomplish it. The republic is afraid. In striking me t marks me out. I have con fidence in France, and at the decisive hour I shall be ready. Huge Shipments of Wheat From India The Present Depression. St. Louis, June 24. Ex-Governor E. O. Stanard receiver! to-day from Bruce & Wil son, Importers, of Glasgow, Scotland, a letter on the grain trade situation in the United Kingdom, of which tho following are the most important extracts: "During the past week the depression has rather increased than otherwise in the grain trade, and there are some very weak points in the situation. In the first place, the arrivals of bread stuffs have been very heavy and in excess of requirements. Shipments from America have been very liberal and to tho amazement of all engaged in trade India dispatched last week 413,000 quarters of wheat. The ability of our Eastern colony to ship such an enormous quantity at cur rent values will tend to revolutionize the trade, and former experience is quite value less in the altered circumstances of the trade. It may occur that these shipment may not be repeated. Doubtless large par cels of Indian wheat were sold, April or May shipments, and the necessity of fulfilling those contracts before their term expired may account for such heavy figures bein reoched. . Murderer Arretted. Evansvii i f, Ind., June 24. Lee Griffin, who murdered bis brother Virgil at Zion, Ky., night !efore last, was arrested at Gen tryville, Ind., this morning by the sheriff of Spencer County. Oflieers have been bard upon his track the past two days. He went from the scene of his crime direct to Owensboro and bought a ticket to Dallas, Tex. From there he went to Rock port and took the Air Line train for St. Louis, or the Evansviile & St. Ixmis road, The sheriff came in on the next train and captured him. Grilliu showed fight, out was finally disarmed and taken back to Rock port to awa;t the arrival ot the Hen derson County officials. A Girl Hurslar. San Antonio, Tex., June 24. Cora NeLson, a petite and handsome member of the St. Ixuiia demi-monde, last winter came j to this city, and shoitly after her arrival petty burglaries were reported. One winter's sight a bhady looking couple were arrested In the aet of forcing an entrance into a house, and on being taken to the j.o!ice sta tion they proved to be John Got! and the woman. She was dressed in roa'e atiire which fitted her very well and made a bold and very attractive boy. Sh had all the Dick Tnrpinisiu knocked out of her by her six mont!,! of residence lu tho ounty jail- JOHN BRIGHT SPEAKS. He is Opposed to If andinsr Over the Control of Ireland to t he Parnell Party. London, June 25. Mr. John Bright has issued the following manifesto to the elec-" tors of Central Birmingham: Gentlemen; Thanking' jou for having elected me in November last I am now most unexpectedly forced to address you again. Since November a single question has occu pied the attentlou of the House of . Commons and the country." It relates to the ftiturs government of Ireland and consists of two bills which were thrust upon Parliament and the country by the Government; one of those bills was rejected; the other was withdrawn. Wo are not told by Mr Gladstone or his colleagues how much or how little of those unfortunate proposals will reappear in the next Parliament- We are asked to pledge ourselves to a principle which may be inno cent or most dangerous, as may be explained in future bills. I can not give such a pledge. The oxperience of the pust three months has not increased my confidence in the wis dom of the administration or in its pol cy respecting the future governmentot" Ireland. We have before us a principle which Mr. Gladstone and his supporters do not explain. I will not pledge myself to what I do not un derstand and can not prove. In 172 I wrote a letter to an Irish gentle man, from which I extract, these short sen tences: "To have two legislative assemblies In the Uuitod Kingdom would work intolera ble mischief. No sensible man can wish for two such assemblies who does not wish that the kingdom shall become two or more na tions, entirely separate from each other." I still adhere to this opinion if possible, more firmly than before. I do not oppose the views of the Govern ment on account of England more than on account of Ireland. No Irish Parliament can be so powerful or just as the united Imperii 1 Parliament at Westminster. I can not en trust the peace and interestsof Ireland north or south to the Irish Parliamentary parly to whom tho Government now proposes to make a general surrender. My six years' exper. enee of them and their language in the House of Commons and their deeds in Ire land makes it impossible for me to hand over to them the Industry, prosperity and rights of 5,000,000 of the Queen's subjects, our countrymen in Ireland, leastways 2,000,000, are as loyal as the people of Birmingham. 1 will be no party to a measure thrusting them from the generosity and justice of the un;ted Imperial Parliament. 1 have written so that nobody may be igno rant of my views. My vote in the recent di vision has given great grief, but my judg ment and conscious made the other course impossible. For fortv years I have been a friend of Ireland. Long before any Par nellite now in Parliament or any member of the present Government opened his bps to expose and condemn the w rongs of Ireland I spoke for her people in the House of Com mons and in public pial forms, it is because I am fltdl a friend of Ireland that I refuse to give her upto those to whom the recently de feated bill would have subjected her. IT you will re-elect mo I shall to the ut most of my capacity seek only what I con ceive to be for the permanent and true wel fare of our country .Sincerely and grate fully thanking: you for your past kindness, I remain, John Bright. o DISCHARGED CLERKS. The Postmaster General Dismisses a Batch of Railway Postal Clerks for Conspiracy and Insubordination. Washington, June 25. The following; special notice has been Issued by the gen eral superintendent of the railway mail ser vice: "By order of the Postmaster Gen eral the clerks named below have been re moved from the service for insubordination in conspiring to obstruct the regulation of the mail service by the department, and to injure its efficiency." They have se cretly attempted to form an associa tion with a view to dictate action to the department, and many of them have also been guilty of deception toward their fellow clerks by representing the purposes of such association to be merely benevolent and thus entangling them. At the same time the Postmaster General directs me to express his gratification that so few com paratively could be found to engage in such a scheme, and his acknowledgment to those who have kept the department informed: Murdock llollingshead, Pittsburgh and Cin cinnati railway post-office; G. W. Thorn ton, transfer cleik at Cincinnati, O. ; A. G. Kroetzsch, Cincinnati and St. Louis railway post-ofiie.;; W. W. Kicker, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati railway post- j railway post-oftice; C. li. Scott, Chicago and Cincinnati railway post-office; Charles C. Brown, Portsmouth ami Cincinnati rail way post-office; J. L. Chamberlin, Clevo lanp and Cincinnati railway post-ofTice; V. O. MeKinney, Chicago and Cincinnati rail way post-office; G. M. Dedrick, Cleveland and Indianapolis railway post-oflice; T. Miller. Pittsburgh and St. Louis railway post-oflice; E. B. Fosdick, Pittsburgh and St. Louis railway post-ollice; R. T. Jen ulngs, Indianapolis and St. Louis railway post-office; M. M. Wing, Toledo and Allegan railway post-office; Owen K Sullivan, Toledo and St. Louis railway post-office; B. F. Morrison, Toledo and St, Louis railway post-oflice; K. M. Stewart, Toledo and St. Louis; J. K. Darr, Lud ins ton and Toledo; J. G. Russell, Chicago and Centralia; J. M. Burrlcker, Chicago and W. L. R. railway post-ollice; C. Rich, Chicago and Quincy; C. li. Kirkland, Chicago and Minnesota; J. W. Raudail, Logan and Keo kuk; J. A. Humphreys, Pittsburgh and St. Louis; Ii. T. Robb. Indianapolis and Peo ria; J. F. Allen', New York and Chicago, and S. A. Myers, Pittsburgh and St. Louis. The Postmaster General says the discharged men threatened a strike or the combined resignation of many clerks, so as to menace the department with embarrassment. m CATHOLIC LIQUOR DEALERS. Excommunication For Selling Liquor 00 Sunday Alarm in the Trade. Chicago, June 24. Among the decies of the Catholic Council at Baltimore, which were recently approved by the Vatican, was one prohibiting tho sale of liquor on Sundays by Catholic saloon-keepers under penalty of ex-communication from the church. So far this decree has been en forced only in the archdiocese of Phila delphia, where Archbishop Ryan an nounced from his place in the cathedral last Sunday that all Catholics In the territory under his jurisdic tion must stop selling intoxicants on the Sabbath or leave the church. This enforce ment of the decree has created considerable alarm among the large number of saloonists in Chicago and Cook County who belong to that denomination, but Archbishop Feehan has so far given no indications of his inten tion to enforce the decree. Private advices from Baltimore, however, indicate that within a few weeks it will be promulgated from every Catholic pulpit In the couuUy. . Custer Anniversary. Ft. Custer, M. T.. June 24. The cere monies attending the tenth anniversary of the massacre on the Little Biir Horn began here yesterday with a rec'tation by Captain Godfrey, one of the: survivors of that ill fated expedition, describing tue events of that fatal June day as far as known. Chief (Jan! and visiotis from Forts Keogh and Gates arrived to day. A carnp will be made on the battle field to-morrow and the day following esejy foot of the historic spot will Ire visited -on horseback. Gaul and the Indians who were present at the massacre will show exactly how Genera! Custer and his brave troops met their fate. .J114I ili:m- Homicide. Des Moi.vks. la.. June t!4. A Firr.iL'Ut special says that Tom Golden, of that place escaped from the Mount Pleasant insane asylum a few das ago. fie had previously wittten his wife that he owned eighty ai res' iu Hades and intended w fid 11 with her faintly, who live near F.rrgut. Hi- wife's father. Mr. Dewell, was advised by telegraph of his es aim and engaged Wm. Mat tin to iruard th house. Yesterday Golden madft an attack on Martin with a knife. Martin tried in vain to elude the madman and s a J.t-,1 resort shot and killed Golden. The coroner held an inquest and the verdict justified Martin's action and released hi m. BROTHERLY KINDNESS I neet them oft upon Broadway, Two strong and stalwart men. Each In bis walk betraying well The city's denizen: Linked arm in arm they move aloaff Like those of kindred mind. Bound by the tie of brotherhood; And one of them is blind. The other's gaze is swift and keen; And, glancing far and wide, Whate'er he sees he quick imparts To the brother at his side. Who lif tens with an eager ear, And questions as he goes. While on his face the lovely light Of cheerful pat ence glows. The favored one the simple scene Upon the way will mark. And paint them vivid ly for him To whom the world is dark. And beggars not himself at all, But doubles his delight. By shirring thus his benefits With one deprived of b ghU In wisdom both together grow; But he. with curtained gae, A calmer judgment, riper thought. And firmer will betrays: So each upon tho other leans. And kind assistance lends. Brothers by every tie of blood. And loving, life-long friends. Their heads are gray, and they have walked This way for years and years, Linked arm in arm; nnd strangers oft Have gazed on them with tears; And they have shown throughout their lives. As sometimes mortals can. The meaning of true brotherhood. The angelic side of man. Jutsepliinc Pollard, in N. T. .Ledger. TRAIN DISPATCHING. Labors That Make STounjr Look Prematurely Old. Men Thirty-two?" "Yes, that is my age, although most persons say forty-five, as my general appearance is of that age instead of what you guessed. Come up in the office and I'll tell you the causo of this partial transformation." The speaker was a train dispatcher on the great railroad system controlled by the Pennsylvania Company, and an opportunity was offered the reporter to note the growth of the telegrapher until he occupies the position of dis patcher and has the lives of hundreds of people under his control, while the trains are running fifty miles an hour. After getting comfortably seated in an office while oft' duty the dispatcher be gan his story by saying: "About twelve years ago this spring I had charge of the dispatching of a team of horses and a plough, and was busy breaking up lif teen acres for corn. This was on my father's farm, on the prairies of Indiana. I had a good com mon school education, and knew just enough of electricity to want more light on the subject. When the sum mer's work was done I made applica tion at the telegraph-office in the town, about five miles from here, for lessons in telegraphy. Tho operator was a young lady, and after she had "sized me up" from head to foot, she con sented to take m" as a student. I, however, did not take my first lesson from her, as a messenger boy and a companion had observed my general hay-seed appearance. "As I was going out of the door one of the boys said: 'Say, Jake, yon dropped a half-dollar in the water bucket when you got that drink.' "I went back and looked, and, sure enough, there was a coin. I did not drop it there, but I resolved to have it all the same. Just as 1 was about to reach for it the boy said: " 'I'll bet you a dime you can't pick it out with one hand.' "I could not take that from a boy, so we put up our money, and be insisted on holding my other hand while I got the coin. The moment I touched the water I thought I had been struck by light ning, for I shook like a leaf and saw innumerable stars. The little rascal had a wire running into the bucket with the other in his hand, so when I touched the water I completed the Circuit and got the full benefit of it. "The next morning found me at work learning the Morse alphabet, and in six months I was placed m charge of a little office at night. Like every be ginner I got very sleepy on long even ings, and afraid of sleeping at my post and Jetting a train go by, I did as al most every other operator has done in his life, rigged some kind of appliance to wake me up in time. After repeated experiments 1 perfected a system that worked beautifully for sev eral weeks, but finally brought disas ter. I got some stout twine, and to one end attached a tin can. This I took some distance up the track and placed it on a rail. The other end of the cord I looped about my finger when I lay down to sleep. When a train came along the can would be knocked to one side, of coarse pulling the string and I was up in an instant. One night I fixed my apparatus and went to sleep. Suddenly I was awakened, thrown on the floor and knocked about the room. A train went thundering by. You see that one joint of my middle finger is missing, and perhaps can imagine the can-e. I nst' ad of the engine knocking off the can, it got caught on the cow catcher, and the cord was strong enough to pull me off the table. "After several years' experience at almost all the important offices on the line, and having learned all the sidings and grades on the road, together with the other knowledge an operator must have, I was promoted to the dis rjateher's office. Here the time is divided into eight-hour shifts, the eldest man taking the hours from eleven p. m. to seven a. m., and the others arranging to suit themselve. The duty of the dispatcher ia to hanale all trains, instructing them by orders where to pass and whereto meet trains coming in an opposite direction. On a double track road this is easily man aged, but on a single line the de patcher most think 01 nothing but his trains. No train must be on the main line without orders. When an order is cent it is copied verbatim in an order book on th dispatcher's table, and also by the receiving operator out the road. lie reads the order to the en- fineer and conductor, gives them a uplicate, and they sign for it, and their acceptance and unlerstanding of the order is telegraphed to the dis patcher, who answers to go ahead. Orders are often given for trains to pass at certain points when they are nearly a hundred miles apart, and they have to be there. The "Fast Line" on the Fort Wayne makes the run from this city to Alliance, a distance of eighty -sue miies without a stop. I held her four minutes one night for orders one night at a way station and remembered it for a month, for the ruperintendent and I had a consulta tion the next day, and he insisted he wa right. I'll relate an instance to Uw jou why dispatchers are prematurely ol It was during the spring, busine wsji heavy and the weather had been so bad that our difficulties were consider ably increased. A construction train had orders to occupy the main track on one of the roads centering in PitU burgh to make repairs. In arranging meeting places for seven extra sections of a stock train coming East, I entirely forgot the construction train. From a point out the line I got word of an ac commodation train, and sent word to give her a white block, which meant a clear right of way. A moment after I thought of the con struction train. It was too late to do any thing. On speeded the passenger train to destruction. I sank in a chair with my eyes riveted to the instru ments, and thought of the hundreds of people who in a few minutes would be dead or dying through my carelessness. Seconds seemed hours. Suddenly ev ery instrument stopped, a death-like silence pervaded the room, and I know the worst had come, and I fell in a swoon. There I was found by the su perintendent, lie restored me to con sciousness and placed in my hands a message received over his private wire. I was so weak I could hardly take it from his hand, and felt as a convict when his death sentence is read to him. I took it and read not what I had expected but that there had besn a land-slide between the two trains, and that nobody whs injured. The stopping of the instruments was when the mass of earth and stone had torn down the poles and wires. I had double work to do the rest of the night to get my trains side-tracked, and in good positions. The next day I started on a six months' vacation, forced upon ma by the superintendent aa a reward for my carelessness. "Considering the responsibility on a train dispatcher, it is simply wonder ful the way they handle the trains with 60 few accidents through negligence or mistake. The greatest number of ac cidents are the resuit of trainmen out on the line not understanding their or ders, and frequently from watchee stopping. In lb7H was the first Mingo disaster, on the Fan-Handle, by which thirteen persons were killed. That was caused by an engineer's watch stopping. The second Mingo wreck was in 1882, and resulted through a misunderstanding of orders- There ia a singular coincidence connected with those wrecks. Both occurred on the curve, within one hundred yard of eaoh other. The trains were of the same schedule number, the wrecks oc curred at the same time of night, and also at the same time of year. Eaoh time both engines were completely wrecked and the wires torn down, and to end up there was great excitement among the dispatchers until the real cause was known. "A curious accident occurred on the New York Central some years ago. I was then an operator at an unimpor tant station. The evening accommoda- -tion train came rolling by and the en gineer came in to mo for orders. After getting them he told me to call the superintendent, and handed me a dis patch, which read that one of hia driv ing tires was badly cracked and he was afraid be could not make the next sta tion, lie told me that he had tent three messages of the same import and successively received orders to go ahead, and that he was getting afraid. In a moment the answer came to go ahead regardless of every thing. The train did not reach the next station, for in a few momenta after it left me it was lying in the ditch a wreck. The superintendent arrived with the wreck ing train, and neglected the pas sengers and train to get the body of the engineer. When recovered he took from his vest pocket a slip of paper. Nothing was thought of it by those standing near but myself. It was the order that sent the train to destruction. The engineer was buried by the com pany and his wife provided for, and the matter was forgotten. The super intendent never spoke to me after that night. "The ehanging of sohedule gives tSw dispatcher an end lens amount of trouble, and it takes weeks before you have some confidence in yourself- In the spring, six years ago, the schedule was changed by the superintendent and chief dispatcher at Connellsville. An important train on the old sohedule was entirely forgotten. The train ar rived from Pittsburgh on the first night and the chief dispatcher, without con sulting his new schedule, which went into effect that midnight, sent out the train on the old schedule time. It was a freight, and before it got many miles up in the mountains was met by an other freight and both went over the hill, causing a very costly wreck, al though but few lives were loet. Both of the men who had prepared the sched ule lost their positions." lUabwrgh Time. 1 1 1 1 i 11 11 THE OPHIOCEPHALUS. A CfeOlIma Flh Which liulM Veritable Cnd lea for Its Uttl Oaei. The fish known to naturalists by the long name of Ophioce.pholtu, one species of which is found in the Sea of Galilee, is a singular creature. At the approach of the breeding season it seeks a f ivor ablo place to build generally in shal low water. There perhaps an old sunken root is found, or a projecting ledge of rock. To that spot bits of grass, leaves, growing sea-weed and refuse of all kinds are brought by the parents, which now proceed to weave this building material into an oval shape. The thread of grass are wonnd in and out, entangled with one another in various ways and the interstices filled with mud. During the construc tion one or more orifices are left lead ing into the nest or entirely through it; the grasses are wound around tho old root, and finally a compart neat is seen suspended and swinging in the tide a veritable cradle for the baby fishes. The eggs are deposited in the Inter ior, and attach themselves to the grass and the sides of the nest. In due time a swarm of tiny fishes fill this curious abode, and show a decided inclination to stray away. They are, hov, ever, watched and guard' d by the pare nta, which drive them !;iek when they wan der too far from home. Thi nest-building fish of the Hea ol Galilee displays, however, a still more curious method of protection for in time of danger the young are frequent ly taken into the capacious mouth of the male parent-fish, and thus guarded from harm. This habit ia common to guite a nnrabrof fishes. C. F. Holder, xn SI. Nicholas. A novelty in horticulture in Cali fornia is the successful graftiugof Ital ian chestnuts on the ordinary Msek oak. It has been practiced wiih the best results in a number of iaUuicw.ii the 2 aa Valiey.