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PHUXIPSBTJKG, - - - KANSAS,
The law allowing newspapers which
weigh four ounces or any number whose
combined weight does not exceed that
weight to be carried through the mails
for one cent, is now in force.
A "Washington dispatch says : "Secre
tary Frelinghuysen has instructed the
American Envoy at Madrid to ascertain
if Spain will part with Cuba, and given
him authority to offer $100,000,000 for
it, and to state that no other nation will
be permitted to make the purchase."
Doubtful. ' '
Immediately after the death 6f the
Regent of Siam in March, 1843, his re
mains were inclosed in a vast urn of
costly material, several yards in height,
which was placed in a large room open
ing upon the courtyard of his palace,
which stands on a creek flowing into the
river that traverses the Capital. Bands
of native priests, relieving each other in
turn, kept repeating prayers night and
day in the death-chamber, around which
were displayed all the orders and deco
rations worn by the dead man in his
lifetime. Twelve months after his death
the urn and its contents were carried in
state to a kind of temple erected for the
purpose, where the cremation was per
formed in the.presence. of thousands of
spectators, including the King himself
and his entire Court.
Under the heading of "The Depart
ing Bang," the St. Louis Globe has a
humorous article, from which- we take
the following:
Since the memory of middle-aged man
the favorite style of deforming the femi
nine countenance has been by means of
the bang. Exactly how the the bang
came into use, or how the name origi
nated, can no longer, with any degree
of certainty, be told; though, since
"Webster defines the word as mean
ing "to beat, to thump, to knock
about,.' it has been supposed by some
that the women who were so treated
by their husbands, commonly wore their
hair disordered in front in token of their
misery; while others have conjectured
that it was cut on by the aforesaid hus
band as a measure of convenience in or
der to secure a better hold for the proper
administration of family discipline;
while others again have conjectured that
the women who first wore their hair thus
were cheered and encouraged in- the
fashion by the tongues and finally by the
fists of their associates, and thus the
term "banged," first applied to the
women themselves, came to be anoro
priately used as indicating their style of
decoration.
The Delta metal, the new invention
which seems destined to make a vigor
ous competition with steel in certain
nses, has been laid before the Polytechnic
Society at Berlin by.M. Veltmeier. It is
composed of the usual ingredients of
brass with an admixture of iron, is of
oxcellent color, polishes easily, and re
sists oxydation far more effectively than
steel or iron. Its strength when wrought
or rolled (not, however, when cast) is
greater than that of steel; it can be
hammered and soldered, but not welded,
melts at 050 Cent., but at 700-SOO Cent.,
becomes very malleable, and admits of
being cast. The price is somewhat
higher than that of a superior quality of
brass. It may, above all, be used to ad
vantage in the manufacture of articles
that are exposed to oxydation, and re
quire great strength. Among others, it
is at present being chiefly used in the
construction of the small steamboats in
tended for river navigation in the in
terior of Africa.
Last Sunday afternoon Mrs. Halford,
of Hebron, Nebraska, saw her three-year-old
boy tugging for dear life at
something in the back yard. Going to
ward him, his mother was horrified to
find that the little one had both hands
tightly grasped about the tail of a venom
ous rattlesnake, just above the rattles,
whose furious rattling gave notice of the
reptile's anger. While the child was
pulling, the snake was unable to get in
position for striking with his fangs. In an
instant the frightened mother compre
hended the deadly danger of her child,
and with a frantic scream that caused the
little one to drop his deadly plaything,
she caught him up and sprang away.
"When released, the snake instantly
coiled himself to strike, but too late.
The boy fought and yelled so as to get
back to the snake again that his mother
was compelled to give him a severe
spanking.
The famous Regent diamond originally
weighed 400 carats; but the cutting of it
as a brilliant, which took two years' la
bor and cost $15,000, reduced its size to
173 carats. Thi3 diamond, which is also
called the Pitt, was stolen from Golconda
and sold to the grandfather of the Earl
of Chatham, when Governor of Fort St.
George, in the East Indies, for $100,000.
The French King purchased it for $400,
OoO, Mr. Pitt reserving the, fragments
taken off in the cutting; but its. value is
now estimated at double the price paid
for it. This jewel was pawned by Na
poleon, made a political bait by Talley
rand to seduce Prussia, and was stolen
by robbers, who only returned it because
of the impossibility of disposing of it
without detection. A certain convict in
the French galleys for some time en
joyed a high pre-eminence among his
fellows as the man who had stolen the
Regent.
MEWS 3ul:fiary.
LUSCEUjAlfEOUS.
Honker Hill Day was celebrated at Bos
ton. Business was generally suspended.
Athens. Pa., was visited by the most de
structive fixe In the history of the town.
Under the law against gambling a Cleve
land " bucket-shop" was closed by the po
lice.
The seventeenth annual convention of
the railway Master Mechanics has been in
session at ixng .tsrancn.
P. T. Barnum Droves to be the person
who last year quietly gave $50,000 to Tuft's
college for a museum of Natural history.
Reports received by the Illinois Depart
ment of Agriculture are more encouraging
for crops than those of a month ago.
Gidiere. Day & Co.. cotton factors, New
Orleans, suspended, and extension asked.
Liabilities. $280,000; assets, $380,000, esti
mated.
Owing to a continuous run on the Man
ufacturers' Bank, of Milwaukee. Wis., ever
since the New York trouble, it has closed
its doors.
Cincinnati is threatened with a strike by
six thousand shoemakers, fifteen hundred
stove-molders, and five thousand cigar-
makers.
The trotting horse, Burns, valued at $70
000, owned by S. A. McLean, of East Sagin
aw, dropped dead on the race-track while
being exercised.
It is currently believed that Sidney Dil
lon will resign as President of the Union
Pacific, and that Charles Francis Adams
will succeed him.
The State Bank of West Virginia, with
liabilities of $119,000, closed its doors re
cently. The State is a creditor to the
amount of $8,000.
H. J. Ramsdell, of Washington, will write
Blaine's "lila" for the campaign. Stephen
B. Elkins will be his financial manager
during the campaign.
The American Institute of Homoeopathy
met in annual session at Deer Park,
Md., with a large attendance, including del
egates from England.
Donnell, Lawson & Simpson have re
ceived replies from over one-half in amount
of their creditors, accepting their proposi
tion, and "confidently expect to resume"
shortly.
The directors of the Rock Island road re
port for the year ending with March gross
earnings of $lo,o5o,514. and a net income ot
$5,237,512. The capital stock is $41,950,800,
and the bonded debt $17,500,000.
Thos. P. Searles, almost an octogenarian
living alone on a farm near Hastings, Mich
igan, who was believed to have considera
ble money secreted about his house, was
murdered by unknown persons.
Senator Harrison, of Indiana, was yester
day given the degree of LL. D. by Hanover
College. Kev. William xawcett, of Chicago,
received from the Upper Iowa University
the degree of Doctor ot Divinity.
A Muncie (Ind.) man, who went to Call
fornia during the gold fever of 49' returned
to find that his wife had married twice
during his absence, supposing him dead.
He found her, though an imaginary widow,
and all is well.
The Missouri Pacific road ha3 put on a
through sleeping-car between Dallas and
Chicago, skipping St. Louis altogether.
Commercial travelers from the latter city
are advising their principals of this discrim
ination against them.
The strike of the coal miners in the Mo
nongahela Valley has spread to nearly ev
ery pit. Four pools and about five thOu
sand miners are now idle. The operators
say that they are unable to pay three cents
and a halt per bushel.
J. H. McKenney, Clerk of the Supreme
Court of the United States, was stripped of
$bi,uuu by the collapse of Middleton's bank
at Washington. Envelopes in which he
had left securities in their safe, were cut
open and the contents abstracted.
The heavy rains of the past week in Cali
fornia have inflicted great damage to crops.
Although June rains are not unusual in
this State, never during any year since 1850
have they been so heavy as this- year. The
bignal bervice .Bureau reports the great
est fall in June for the last thirty-
tour years, one men and two-hundredths.
and at Sacramento, which is a better indica
tive point for the whole State, the highest
rainfall for the same month, during the
same period, was one inch and ten-hun
dredths.
The Supreme Court of Ohio has rendered
a decision on the bcott liquor law which
declares the second section ot the law, per
taining to first lien on the premises, uncon
stitutional, and leaves the rest of the law
valid and operative a3 heretofore. The
question of the constitutionality of the
whole law is held as not raised in the cases.
and Court stops with the record. The liquor
dealers will, tnerelore, be required to pay
the June collection of tax under the law.
leaving the matter open for further test be
fore the semi-annual payment in Deceru
ber.
CONGRESSIONAL.
In the Senate on June 13th the House bill
providing for the payment of the "Fourth
of July" claims passed.
The Chair aiVDointed as ennffireps nn tha
part of the Senate on the Consular and
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jLipiuxuakiu ojiii, Aiiiisuu, xiaie ana xeCK
ana on the Pension Bill, Logan, Dawes anc
Call.
Unanimous consent was obtained to s
bill to require payment in cash to the State
ot Georgia $35,555, appropriated for that
btate by an act ot Congress passed March
3d, to refund to Georgia citizens moneys ex-
pended lor the common delense in 1777.
After a Ions discussion Ingalls moved to
recommit the bill to the CommitteA nn
Claims. It was then discovered that there
was no quorum present, and the Senate ad
journed until Monday.
In the House on June 13th. the Senate
amendments to the Consular, Diplomatic
uu x euiuu appropriation cuus. were non-
concurred in.
The conference report on the PosiofSce
Appropriation bill was submitted. It said
the item on which no agreement had been
reached, were, first, increasing the annrO'
priation for the pay of letter carriers; sec
ond, increasing by $1,000,000 the appropria
tion for mail transportation on railroad
routes ; third, striking out the clause regu
lating the compensation to land grant
roads; fourth, appropriating $185,000 for
special mail facilities ; and fifth, increas
ing by $300,000 the appropriation for rail
way postofiice clerks. t
The conference report was adopted as far
as the items are concerned upon which an
agreement had been arrived at.
It was moved that the House recede from
its disagreement to the amendment increas
ing from $3,600,000 to $4,000,000 the appro
priation for the pay of letter carriers.
After debate, as a compromise, it was
suggested that the appropriation be fixed
at $3,800,000, but a motion to that efiect
was lost by a vote of 37 to 137. Horr's
motion to recede was carried by a vote of
115 to 53. The Senate-amendment was con
curred in.
The next point in dispute was the Senate
amendment increasing from $11,700,000 to
$12,750,000 the appropriation for mail trans
portion on railroads. This was considered
in connection with the amendment striking
out the clause reducing five per cent, the
compensation to railroads for mail trans
portation, ana providing that land grant
roads and subsidy roads shall receive only
filty per cent, ot the compensation allowed
other roads. ' .
"fr TTnrr moved that the TTnnsp TprAde
from its disagreement to these amendments.
Liost yeas m, nays iui.
Tho, TTnnqft thftn. nn motion of TTnlman
insisted on its disagreement to the amend
ments.
The House then took a recess until even
ing, when they passed seventy-six pension
bills and adjourned.
The treaty which has been under consid
eration in the Senate Committee on Eor
eign Relations, providing for an interna
tional copyright and patent system, and
which already has oeen ratmea and pro
mulgated by twenty-four governments, was
reported adversely by the committee to the
Senate, and alter a Dnei discussion rejected.
The House Public Lands Committee have
agreed to report favorably on the bill re
quiring the general government to pay the
Btate of California for school purposes five
per cent, of the net proceeds of all public
lands sold within her boundaries since the
State's admission. The amount of the pro
posed payment is estimated at $l,UU0,000.
In the House on June 14th, they
resumed the consideration of the amend
ments in dispute between the two houses
on the Postofiice Appropriation bill, the
pending amendment being, that incorpora
ted by the Senate, appropriating $185,000 for
special mail facilities on trunk lines.
The House after a long debate receded
from its disagreement, and agreed to in
creasing the appropriation to $250,000.
The House insisted on its disagreement to
the amendment, increasing lrom $4,000,000
to $4,300,000 the appropriation for railway
postal clerks. '
The Committee on Public Buildings sub
mitted a report in which the charges of cor
ruption, or collusion, on the part of the
Secretary of the Treasury in the selection
of a site for a public building at Brooklyn,
to be unfounded.
The next bill called up for consideration
was one requiring the Pacific railroad com
panies to pay the cost of conveying, survey
ing and selecting lands granted to and
earned by those companies. In the event
of a failure of any company to pay this
cost within ninety days alter the passage of
this act, the Secretary of the Interior shall
inform its President or Treasurer of the
amount of land to which it is entitled to
patent and the amount of cost of surveying,
etc., and if the company shall not pay such
cost within sixty days after the receipt ot
the notice, the Attorney General shall in
stitute suits agamst the company m de
fault. Pending the consideration of the
bill the Mouse adjourned.
In the Senate on June 16th, a resolution
was offered directing the Committee on Ju
diciary to inquire whether the Union or
Central Pacific Railroad Companies, have
become responsible for or guaranteed inter
est on any bond3 other than those author
ized by Congress or outstanding at the date
of the passage oi the act making appropria
tions for Legislative, Executive and Judi
cial expenses of the Government for the
year ending June 20, 1874, and if so, to
what extent and under actual or alleged
authority; also, whether any new stock has
been issued by either ot the said companies.
It went over under the rules.
Plumb, from the Committee on Appro
priations, reported the Army Appropriation
bill as agreed upon by the Committee, it
appropriates $295,000 more than the House
bill.
Ingalls rose to a question of Privilege.
He read from the debate of last Friday on
the bill relating to the claim of the State of
Georgia for money spent lor the common
defense in 1777. He objected to certain
words, which, he said, had been inserted in
in the handwriting of the Senator of that
State (Brown) in the official representatives'
manuscript of the debate, and which, In
galls claimed, had not been spoken of in
the Senate. He said he was always willing
to submit to the fortunes of debate, wheth
er of victory or of defeat, but wasn't secure
against the Parthian arrows of flying loes,
who see fit to discharge them from some am
bush in a printing house. After some rather
sensational remarks on both sides the con
sideration of the matter went over until
to-morrow.
Senator Plumb called up the report of
the Conierence (Jommittee upon the Post
Office Appropriation bill, and upon his
motion the Senate concurred in the House
amendment appropriating $1S0,000 "for
necessary and special facilities on the
Trunk lines." The House increased the
amendment to $250,000, in which the
benate concurred,
Plumb moved that the Senate insist on
its remaining amendments (three in num.
ber), one increasing the appropriation tor
transportation on railroad routes from
$11,700,000 to $12,750,000; another sti iking
out the House provision relating to the re
adjustment of the compensation to rail
roads, and the third adding $300,000 to the
appropriation of $4,000,000 for railway post-
omce clerks.
The Senate then, after considering the
Utah Bill for a short time, adiourned.
In the House on June 16th the following
bills were introduced: Granting 160 acres
of the public domain to every honorably
discharged soldier or sailor of the late war,
To prevent and punish prosecution under
the United States of fraudulent claims
against foreign Governments. Calling for
executive information relative to fencing
in public lands. For the erection of a Un
ion and Confederate soldiers' home at Den
ver.
The House then went into Committee of
the Whole on the Deficiency Appropriation
bill. After considering thirty-five pages of
tne Din they adjourned.
In the Senate on June 17th after the reading
ot the Journal, .Brown of Georgia, arose to
a question of Privilege, and replied to the
remarks of Ingalls, made yescerday, and
also to tne charge ot ialsuying the records,
After Brown had finished, Ingalls replied.
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turn uieu uie matter was iaiu asiae.
The Committee on Finance made a verbal
report on the resolutions of inquiry into
the condition of the New York City Banks.
to. the efiect that the information desired
could be obtained from the Comptroller of
the currency, and therefore the resolution
was recommended to be laid aside. Pend
iDg the consideration of the Utah Bill, the
t i i i
senate aajourneu.
In the House on June 17th, the confer
ence report on the Fitx John Porter bill was
presented, the effect of which is to strike
out of the bill the words "together with all
rights, titles and privileges" and to insert
the words, "provided that said Fiiz John
Porter shall receive no pay, compensation
or allowance whatever prior to his appoint
ment under this act," instead of the follow
ing words in the bill: "But this act shall
not be construed as authorizing pay, com
pensation or allowance prior to his appoint
ment under it." The conference report was
agreed to, 153 to 61.
The Committee on Public Lands report
ed the bill to restora all lands held in the
indemnity limits for railroad and wagon
road purposes.
The House then went into nnrnTiftoa nf
the Whole on the Deficiency Bill. An
amendment was made that an additional
section be added forbidding political as
sessments. A noint of ordPT VAircr tot car?
on the amendment the Chairman0 decided
it to he well taken. The bill being com
pleted the Committee then rose and re-
soivea useii deck into tne Mouse.
The Committee on "Ways and Means re
ported the hill to carry into effect the Con
vention bfctween the United States of
America and the United States of Mexico,
signed the 20th day of January, 18S3," with
a favorable report. Bill ordered printed and
placed on the calendar.
The TTonSA fhpn T-rnna&Aar ccii'h a v
sideration of the bill reported from the
Committee on Pacifiic Baiirpad3, to amend
several Panifio Rail Toarl acts. Tf.
the companies to file within ninety days
f-r 4-1 f XT J. I ' ,1
iiuru. uub pasae ui me act, or w limn sut
ty days after the completion of the surveys),
a list of the selections of land made bv
them, and to deposit the cost of surveying,
seiecung ana conveying tne same.
The first question taken was on the
amendment olfered by Payson to the one
offered by Hanback. Hanback's was that
all lands embraced in the notice to be given
by the becretary oi the interior to the rail
road company (to take its charter) shall be
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auujeui, wj ouue, x erntonai ana municipal
taxation alter sixty days from date ot no
tice. Pay son's was that the Hen of the
United States for the cost and expense of
surveying shall not be anected by the sale
of the lands. Payson's amendmeut was
adopted and then Hanback's (as so amend
ed) was also adopted.
A vote was then taken on Payson's sub
stitute for the bill and amendment. It pro
vides that if the railroad company shall not
within sixty dajs from the receipt of a no
tice to pay the costs of surveying the land,
then their right to such' land shall cease,
and the lands shall be restored to the pub
lic domain for settlement under the home
stead law. The substitute was agreed to,
and the bill in that shape passed. The
Mouse then adjourned.
At a Democratic caucus of members of
the House on the 17th, a resolution was
passed urging the Mouse to press as fast as
possible to a conclusion the appropriation
bills, and that they be taken up in prefer
ence to all other measures. A motion to
urge the passage in the House of the bill to
repeal the tax on tobacco was lost, as was
also a motion making the order ot business
after the passage ot the appropriation bills,
the consideration or bills irom the torn
mittees on Public Lands and Invalid Pen
In the Senate on June 18th, a message
from the Mouse was laid before them an
nouncing the concurrence of the House in
the report of the Conference committe on
the Fitz John Porter bill. The bill is now
passed by both bodies and awaits the signa
ture of the President.
The consideration of the Utah bill was
resumed. A motion was made to strike out
the clause abolishing woman suffrage. It
was lost. The bill then passed, 33 ayes to
15 nays. Those voting in the negative
were: Bayard, Brown, Coke, George,
Mampton, Jones, Kenna, Lamar. Maxey,
Morgan, Pendleton, Ransom, Vance, Vest
and Walker 15. Adjourned.
The bill as passed by the Senate
provides that a lawful husband or wite mav
be compelled to testify in a prosecution for
bigamy, polygamy or unlawful cohabita
tion; that such prosecutions may be com
menced within five years after the comm s
sion of the offense, a marriage license and
record, similar to that in the States, is
provided, and the violation 13 punishable
by a fane of not more than $1,000 or impris
onment for not more than two years, or
both; women shall not be entitled to vote
in Utah; the measures of the Territorial
Legislature for numbering, or identifying
ballots are annulled ; all laws of the Terri
tory of Utah conferring the right of
inheritance on illegitimate children
are annulled; prosecutions for adul
tery may be commenced in the
same manner as for other crimes ; the law
incorporating the corporations known as
"The Church of Jesus Christ, of the Latter
Day Saints;" and the "General Assembly
of the State of Deseret" are annulled and
the corporations are to be controlled -by
United States trustees appointed by the
President ; The General Assembly of Utah
shall not have power to change the laws re
specting the corporations without the ap
proval of Congress ; the laws relating to
the Perpetual Emigration Fund Company
are annulled ; no "laws shall be enacted,
having the object of bringing persons into
the Territory, tor any purpose whatevtr,
and suit is to be brought to dissolve the
company, and the funds, above liabilities,
are to be used by the United States for the
benefit of the common schools of the Ter
ritory; the existing election districts are
abolished and the Governor and U. S. Dis
trict Judge are ordered to redistrict the
Territory. The office of Territorial Super
intendent of District schools is declared ya
rant and the Supreme Court vested with
the power of appointing such officer. The
penalty of the crime of adultry is not ex
ceeding three years' imprisonment.
In the House on June 18 th, further confer
ence was ordered on the Postoffice bill and
Townsend, Holman and Horr appointed on
the part of the House.
The Pacific bill extending the provision
of Thurman's act to the Kansas Pacifie,
Sioux City & Pacific and the Central Branch
Union Pacific. And allowing investment
of the sinking funds of all the companies in
their own first mortgage bonds and securi
ties, their application to the extinguish
ment of interest on subsidy bonds, one
half the annual compensation for Govern
ment services to be carried as a sink
ing fund and also the annual payment in
to the sinking fund of the following sums :
The Central Pacific Company and the
Union Pacfio Company, $2,000,000 each; the
Kansas Pacfic Company, $500,000; Central
Branch ot the Union Pacific, $150,000; Sioux
City & Pacific, $150,000, or as much of such
sums as will make the total annual pay
ment to the sinking fund equal to 35 per
cent, of the net earnings of the respective
companies, was then taken up. Pending its
further consideration the House adjourned.
In the Senate on June 19th a bill was
passed prohibiting the the importation of
dust tea into the United States.
Senator Ingalls submitted a modification
to his arrears of pensions provision, provid
ing that so far as arrearages are concerned,
there shall be no discrimination between
the rates allowed to private soldiers and of
ficers. Pending the consideration of the
Pension bill the Senate adjaurned.
In the House on June 19th, the Pacific
Railroad bill was passed with an amend
ment making the aggregate yearly contrib
utions of the Central Pacific Railroad Com
pany 55 instead of 35 per cent, of the net
earnings, and that of the Kansas Pacific 45
per cent.
The bill prohibiting the importation of
foreigners and aliens under contract to per
form labor was called up and passed.
Pending the consideration of the contest
election case of Campbell vs. Lowery the
House adjourned.
CRIMES AirD CASUALTIES.
The People's Baling Bank of New Castle,
Pa,, has failed.
Hiram Weir shot and killed S. McDonald
for stoning his residence.
Georce Dawson sfnKhod flwAn NiriTinTa in
the' abdomen, and killed him at Louisville,
iy.
Howard Bntlpr wjh shot. Tiv his wiffl at
New Albanv. Ind. Domestic, trouble is as
cribed as the cause.
A Negro boy. who shot and killed a lad
named Osborn, at Lynchburg, Va., was
uaugeu dj citizens.
After SufTerinor for rn.inv vpars from a
wound received in battle, General "William
McCandless died in PhiladelDhia. in his fif
tieth year.
M. L. Ayers, residing in Walworth coun
ty, "Wis., who was recently chosen an elect
or at large by the Democratic State Conven
tion, has lately died.
Peter C. Small, a noted horse thief who
escaped from jail at Easton, Pa., writes a lo
cal paper that he has a desire to steal Gen.
Grant's Arabian horses. There is a reward
for Small's arrest.
beat his wife with a ' chair and shot her
twice, inflicting wounds . which will prob
ably prove fatal. He then shot himself
through .the heart. Jealously was the
cause.
"Wm. Sloom, a worthless Negro, while
drunk at Bardstown, Ky., cut out the bow
els of Ceo. Hughes, a hotel clerk, for order
ing him away from the premises. Hughes
will die, and it is thought the Negro will
be lynched.
One hundred and fifty Irish and English
miners employed at H. C. Trick & aCo.'s
Coke "Works, at McConnellsville, Pa., threw
down their picks and refused to work be
cause the firm had engaged seven Hun
garian miners.
An attachment has been granted against
the property of John C. Eno, the abscond
ing President of the Second National bank
of New York Citv. m a smt brouerht bv the
bank to recover $3,185,000, which is alleged
ino misappropriated.
ThTee deputy sheriffs at Salt Lake, armed
with "Winchester rifles, executed Fred Hoyt
who had been tried three times for murder.
He sat upon his coffin, blindfolded, and
the officers fired from a point ten paces dis
tant.
"While under the influence of opium, at
.Baltimore, and semi-unconscious, Mrs. C
N. Porter was seized by two men, carried
into a saloon and outraged. Bhewas then
taken to the street, where she was found
insensible by the police, and only re
suscitated alter arduous operations by phy
sicians.
An excursion given by the Presbyterian
church of Camden, Pa., resulted rather dis
astrously. The train which was carrying
the excursion party colfided with the reg
ular express train, and six persons were
killed and many injured.
The body of Mrs. Thomas S. Kelton was
found in her residence at Princetown with
two wounds in the back of her head. The
supposition is that she had been killed with
an axe. The woman's husband had left
her ten days before, after a quarrel. No ar
rests.
"A boy recklessly threw a light into a
supposed-to-be empty powder magazine at
Akron, Ohio, causing an explosion of what
powder was lelt, by which .Ferry Beck, aged
15, was instantly killed, nothing being
round but his scarred trunk and skull
Several other lads passing near were hurt,
but none seriously.
An Indian fight has been reported in
Northern Texas. D. W. Staples and W. "W.
Hartzell started from Dallas for Washing
ton Territory on horseback, and when near
the northern boundary of the Panhandle
country were attacked by seven hostile
Indians, and alter making a heroic re
sistance both were mortally wounded. Five
of the seven Indiands were killed.
The United States Grand Jury has hand
in indictment against J. D. Fish, of the
Marine Bank, of New York, J. C. Eno, of
tne Second .National, also oi JSew York,
charging them with misappropriating Na
tional bank funds; also an indictment
against Ferdinand Ward charging him with
aiding and abetting the officers of the Na
tionol Bank in illegally applying the funds.
An express train on the Cincinnati,
"Washington and Baltimore railroad was
wrecked near Loyeland, Ohio, the engineer
and fireman being seriously burned and
bruised. It was found that the spikes had
been drawn from sixteen ties, and that one
rail was taken up. A Negro named "William
Scott, who was supected of the crime, nar
rowly escaped lynching.
The First Comptroller of the Treasury, in
settling the accounts of C. Morgan, de
ceased, formerly a disbursing clerk in the
Department of State, and chief of the Bu
reau of Accounts, has discovered a deficit of
$112,000. His bondsmen have been called
on to make good the amount. Morgan was
a disbursing clerk in the State Department
for many years, and was held in high es
teem. He died about two months ago.
The failure of the banking firm of Mid
dleton & Co., of Washington, D. C, is said
not only to be the most disgraceful but also
the most disastrous one on record. Prop
erty left for safe keeping, good margins on
stock, the charity fund, .all of the deposits,
and, in fact, everything has been swept
away and used by this firm until it is
doubtful if it pays a cent or even a mill on
the dollar. It has been shown that they
have been given funds to make a purchase,
but simply passed them to their own credit
and spent the same.
POLITICAL AND PERSONAL.
The Democrats of Michigan have elected
delegates favorable to the nomination of
Cleveland.
The Democrats of Louisiana have elected
delegates to the National convention unin
at rue ted.
The Democrats of the Fourth District of
Maine have nominated G. T. Lynch for
Congress.
The Democrats of the Nineteenth Ohio
District have nominated Horace Alvord for
Congress.
The Democrats ot Colorado elected dele
gates uninstructed, but Cleveland is said to
be their choice.
Bishop Simpson breathed his last at Phil
adelphia, recently, at the close of his seventy-third
year.
Florida Nondescripts held a State con
vention and nominated a bolter from the
Democratic party for Governor.
The Louisiana State Democratic ponyen
tion adopted resolutions still urging the
nomination of Mr. Tilden for President.
The Prohibitionists oi Ohio have placed
in nomination a full State ticket, as has
also a convention of that party in Illinois.
Hon. W. H. English is authority for the
statement that Hon. Thos. A. Hendricks is
willing to become the Democratic candidate
for Governor of Indiana.
2X. G. Norton, of Winona, elected at Chi
cago a member of the National Eepublican
Committee for Minnesota, has sent his res
ignation to the State Central Committee.
Primary elections by the Democrats of
Chicago favored Mayor Carter Harrison as
candidate for Governor of Illinois, and a
delegate at large to the National Convention.
The Republicans of Vermont have placed
in nomination a State ticket as follows:
Pingree, for Governor, by acclamation; E, ,
J. Ormbie, for Lieutenant Governor; W. H.
Dubois, for btate Treasurer; Geo. T. Childs.
Presidential Elector,
The Democratio State Convention of
Delaware met at Dover and'declared in fa
vor of the nomination of Thos. F. Bayard
by the National Convention of that party.
They elected delegates to the -National Uon
vention, instructing them for Bayard.
The New York Democratic Convention
did not instruct its representatives at Chi
cago, but they are believed to stand 46 for
Cleveland, 14 for Flower, and 7 for Bayard.
The delegate-at-large' are Daniel Manning,
Edward Cooper, Lester B. Faulkner, and
John C. Jacobs." Among the district dele
gates are August Belniont, John Kelly, and
Abram s. Hewitt.
FOREIGN
The Crown Princess Victoria is the hap
py mother of a son.
A seciet lithograph press was discovered
in Moscow in full operation.
The editor of the United Ireland was
fined 500 for contempt in a Dublin court.
Alarm is felt at Calle, Seville, Spain, over
the explosion of a bomb in a house in that
place. ' .
The condition of Cuba was discussed ia
the Spanish Senate.
There is great excitement among Orange
men at Belfast and Earl Spencer has started
for that point.
Paris journals declare that France will not
consent to a reduction of interest on the
Egyptian debt.
An epidemic, believed to be the Buboric
plague, has broken out in the villages along
the right bank of the Tigris river near Bag
dad. Two banking houses in London have
issued 5,000,000 of the new Canadian loan,
bearing interest at the rate of 3 J per cent.
A London paper prints an article to the
effect that Gladstone told a friend that he
expeoted to be out of officewithin a few
weeks. "
The Grand Lodge oi Masons at London
adopted resolutions expressing regret at the
recent anti-Masonic encyclical letter of the
Pope.
During a balloon ascension at Quincane,
France, a soldier fired at Roosevelt, an
American Consul, taking him tor another
party.
England to Turkey: "If you refuse to ac
cept our invitation to be present at the
Egyptian Conference, we will meet without
you."
Spanish and Italian ministers have sent
agents to advise the Sultan of Morocco, to
refuse to sign the treaty prepared by
France.
Orangemen at Belfast adopted threaten
ing resolutions against the Lord Lieutenant
of Ireland should he carry out his intention
to visit that city.
Canadian authorities refused the request
from Kentucky to bring whisky into that
country, thence to New York, as ware
housed from Canada.
On the entrance of Duke Sergius into St.
Petersburg, householders were forbidden to
admit strangers to their residences, under
stern penalties.
The police of Brussels have been com
pelled to disperse turbulent crowds in the
streets, enraged by the recent defeat of the
Liberals at the polls.
Earls, Countesses, Dukes, army officers
and members of the Commons were among
the attendants at the inquiry meeting of
Moody, the evangelist, at London.
The three years Military Bill before tbe
French Chamber of Deputies causes oppo
sition through the country. Chambers of
Commerce protest against taking so many
young men from the various lines of trade.
An Arab, who claims to be the sole sur
vivor of Berber, says the rebels massacred
15,000 men in the garrison, and 2,000 of the
male population, but spared women and
children of the town.
Anecdote of Lincoln.
Christian Union.
"In 1840, when I was 16 years of age,
I attended a Log-cabin Convention at
Springfield and heard Mr. Lincoln speak.
He afterward held a joint debate with
Judge Douglas in Decatur, where I heard
him, and was introduced to him in com
pany with some other young boys. I
was greatly fascinated with the simplic
ity of his character, his droll anecdotes,
and fund of sayings, but, above and be
yond all these, I was attracted to him by
the charming manner in which he dis
cussed politics on the stump. He was
long and ungraceful in his usual move
ments, but in the midst of the debate,
and when earnestly engaged, there was
a glow on his face, a sublime air in his
manner, and a lofty tone which elevated
not only the argument, but lifted up and
encouraged every one who listened to
him. While I cannot say he was partial
to any one in his intercourse with men,
he was uniformly courteous, mild and
polite toward all. He did not seem to
seek favor by personal electioneering,
but he never turned coldly or formally
from any man. All whom he knew, he
addressed by their given name, and
those to whom, he was introduced he
met equally kindly. As I grew into
manhood, and observed his methods, I
soon learned, as everybody else did, to
look upon him as a great and thoughtful
man, capable of great actions and true
devotion to any cause he might espouse.
I instinctively followed him through the
dying days of Whiggery and into Re
publicanism, and was often encouraged
by him to go manfully forward in the
struggle of life. Once in the course of a
conversation I do not remember where
I recall distinctly his saying: 'Dick,
remember to keep close to the people;
they are always right, and will never
mislead ony one!' "
IJve Stock and Fresh Meat Importations.
From Farm and Home, London, England.
The prevalence and rapid spread of
foot and mouth disease amongst cattle in
England i3 causing a considerable
amount of interest and importance to be
attached to the weekly arrivals at Liver
pool and other ports of foreign live stock
and fresh meats from abroad. The fine
condition in which these are brought to
this country, and the present scarcity of
English meat owing to the disease, have
caused an increased demand for foreign
supplies both in Liverpool and many
other towns. Last week's arrivals at Liv
erpool of both live stock and fresh meat
from the United States and Canada were
the largest for any single week for some
months past, and it is expected that
they will be unusually large for some
time to come. The total amounted to
4,127 cattle, 2,237 sheep, 9,307 quarters
of beef and 9S3 carcasses of mutton.
A New York newspaper recently
contained this advertisement : "Wantr.il
Lunch by first-class professor of rncslc
in exenaxige xor itnuon on piano."