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PAW TAW, MICHIGAN.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
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The Cast.
A Frenchman named La Fage haa been ar
ret ted at Susoook, N. H.. on aiupiciou of being
tbe murderer of Muwt Joeie Longmaid.
Btrauiw, Lehman & Co., heavy dry goodtt
dealers of New York, have failed. Liabilities
600,000.
John H. Oontoit, the millionaire confection
er, who died recently in New York, bequeathed
to hia eole heir and child, Chariot 11. Contoit,
the nice little fortune of f3, 000, 000.
While a number of colored men wore re
turning from a picnic near Brooklyn, a few
days ago, thev were attacked by a party of
white men. One negro was killed and one
mortally wounded. Seven of those engaged in
the assault were arretited.
Several commercial HUHpeumouu have oc
curred iu New York during the pant week.
Another horrible murder is reported from
New England. An old man of 70, named Ku
fus Streeter, watt found dead in a ditch near
liarre, Vt. , hia head beaten to a jelly, his ab
domen ripped open, and the lody otherwise
mutilated. The crime wot) evidently commit
ted for the purpose of robbery.
A shocking domestic tragedy was enacted last
week at Hackettetown, N. J. Jas. Ricker shot
and killed hia two houh, aged 6 and 10, and shot
at his wife, but miaaed her. He then shot him
aelf in the head. The wound ia not serious.
Domestic trouble led to the crime.
Thomas M. Judd, member of the Massachu
eette Legialature from Berkahire county, has
been arrested for forging a note for 41,000, on
which he secured the money.
Thero was a large reunion of Union and
Confederate soldiers at Elizabeth, N. J., laid
week. Speeches were made by Genu. Kil
patrick, Pemberton and Pryor.
The first building in the country erected ex
clusively for the order of the Sovereigns of
Industry, was dedicated lant week at Spring
tield, Mass.
The West.
Judge Boreman, of the Third District ( uni t
of Utah, has taken the Mormon bull right by
the barns. In hie charge to the (hand Jury at
Salt Lake City, the other day, he admonished
them to indict a number of individuals impli
cated in swindling the Territory out of land
and for illegal voting. He particularly urged
them to indict every leader, proclaimer or in
stigator of jiolyganiy, which he denounced as a
walking ulcer and degrading crime, tit only for
the darkest days of anterior civilization. He
said it had existed only by the generosity of
the government, but that the government was
now in earnest, and the Mormons would n
be made to realize it.
There was a bloody row at a mining camp 120
miles fiom Denver, Col., last week, 50 or 100
miners, with guns and pistols, playing a lively
part. The notorious Maj. iridium, lately re
leased from the penitentiary, shot and wounded
a miner, at which the friends of the latter be
came so incensed that they started out to lynch
Ciraham. whom they completely riddled with
bullets. A number of Graham's friemls were
then ordered to leave the country on pain of
being treated in a similar way.
John Bulliner and Allen Baker, two of the
Williamson county (111. ) Ku-Klux have been
found guilty of murder in the second degree,
and sentenced to twenty-tive years each in the
penitentiary.
At the county fair grounds near Greeustield,
O., one day last week, the seats arouSW the
race track fell, precipitating fully 1,000 people
to the ground severely injuring a large num
ber of men, women and children.
A letter has been received in St. Paul from
a well-informed gentleman at Bismarck, pre
dicting a red-hot Indian war next year, unless
Congress takes heroic measures to suppress it,
before fairly inaugurated. He says frontiers
men insist that the Black Hills will be occupied
without a treaty, or that the Indians will bo
stirred up to such an extent that trouble and a
treaty must follow. Except a few timid ones,
the people on the frontier do not fear the re
sult in that case, believing that it will require
more troops to be thrown into the country, giv
ing them employment and adding to the popu
lation Gf the border.
San Francisco and other portions of ( 'ali
fornia, have just experienced another sharp
earthquake shoek.
The grand jury of Wuinebago county, 111.,
baa indicted the two St. Louin editora, Foster
and Edwards, who some time ago fought a duel
near I toe k ford. The seconds and surgeons,
and Postgate, the Inttr-0irm reporter, were
alao indicted. The same grand jury also
found indictments against Patrick Flynn, ex
Sheriff of the county, and Franc B. Wilkie, one
of the editors of the Chicago Tim., for con
spiracy and subornation of perjury in obtain
ing affidavit to damage the character of Miss
Early, the young lady who some time ago
recovered a vediet for 425,000 damages for
libel against Htoroy, of the Time.
John T. Huna, Cashier of the Firnt National
Bank of Tiffin, Ohio, having involved the in
stitution by embezzlement, ended his life the
other day by shooting himself through the
heart with a pistol.
The village of Park Ilidge. a suburb of Chi
cago, has narrowly escaped having a second
Charley Boss affair. Willie Broughton, aged
10. sou of a prominent citizen, was enticed into
a secluded spot by a couple of strangers, bound
and gagged, and thrown into a carriage iu
waiting. The men then drove rapidly away.
At the neighboring town oft Jefferson they
stopjed to get a drink, leaving the boy uuder
the seat out of sight. While they were drink
ing he managed to slip the cords from his w rists
and make his escape, and reached home safely.
The affair created the wildest excitement in the
village.
Prof. Walter P. Jenney, chief geologist of
the Black Hills exploring expedition, returned
to Cheyenne last week, having sjtent five
months in the Hills. The Professor reports
gold fields extending forty raihs im;th from
Harney's Peak, and twenty miles wide, that
contain gold in quantities that will pay from
H to 45 per day to the man. There are bars
on tiumlw-rs of streams that will pay much
more than that Prof. Jenney corroborates
Gen. Custer's reort of the Hills, and says that
they will Kupiort thousandth of miners, when
the iMinme.U pen them to 1 1 lenient .
The valley are all adapted to agriculture, and
the hills and canons to stock-raising. The
rainfall is plentiful, and timber abundant.
Judgt (foreman, of Halt Lake, baa decided
that Brigbam Young mwt imnndiately pay
over to Ann Eliza, hia 3lvorced wife, the
alimony due her, now aSaouuting to some
1 10, 000.
The boiler attache to a steam threshing
machine exploded upon the farm of Mr. Her
ringtoti, near Nilea. Mich., oue day last week,
instant In killing Mr. Hathaway, the owner, and
a man named linden. Two other person
were dangeroualy wounded. Two horses were
blown to atoms, and a barn completely riddled.
Two brothers named Courtwright. who were
implicated in the murder of the Sheriff of
Portage county, Wis., were taken from the jail
at Stevens Point by a party of about forty
masked men and hanged, a few nighta ago.
Both of the victims were old men. aged re
spectively 50 and Co years.
Mrs. Bapp. of St. Paul, Minn., for the mur
der of Ulrica Lick, haa been sentenced to
the Penitentiary for life, twelve days of each
year to be passed in aolitary confinement.
Her husband had already received a similar
aeuteuce, and her brother will be hung for
part ici put ion in the aame crime.
It ia reported that Gen. Crook, the groat
Indian fighter, is preparing for an active win
ter campaign against the fractious savages of
the Upper Missouri.
The South.
Three colored men were attacked in the
streets of New Orleans by unknown white as
sassins, a few nighta ago, oue killed outright,
another mortally wounded, and the third
slightly injured. The art air caused great ex
citement. Citizens assembled on the streets
to denounce the great wrong, and in the after
noon an immense mass meetiug waa held at
the Court House, when the stores were closed,
that all might participate. Beaolutions were
adopted disclaiming all responsibility for the
deed, and loudly calling for the prosecution
and punishment of the assassins.
John Gair and his sister-in-law, Catherine
Matthews, both colored, were hung by a mob
in East Feliciana pariah, La., last week. They
nn ere at the time under arrest for murder and
had confessed the crime.
Beporta of the condition of the Southern
cotton crops are very discouraging. Bain
and rust are playing havoc with the great
ttaple.
The epizootic prevails among the horses In
many parts of the South, though in a mild
form.
Washington.
A Washington dispatch says: Although this
government has repeatedly and emphatically
expressed its desire to the Spanish government
for the termination of the insurrection in Cuba,
and tendered its gtod offices to produce an ac
commodation between the contending parties,
it has never gone to the extent of the late
transatlantic story, by diplomatically threaten
iug to acknowledge the rights of the Cubans in
case hostilities be not closed before the 1st of
January next."
The 1 resident returned to Washington on
the morning of the 15th iust., aud the tirst
regular Cabinet session for several weeks was
held at uoon of that day.
A singular episode happened at. the White
House one day last week. An insane colored
man visited the Executive Mansion and stated
that he had been discharged from the Maryland
Penitentiary, where he was unjustly incarcer
ated. He claimed that President Grunt was his
father, and asserted this claim by reason of
signs which were given him while in prison.
He was arrested aud on his person nnhs
found a five-barreled revolver, loaded in every
barrel.
The President has made the following ap
pointments : Charles M. Lynch. Collector of
Internal Beveuue. Nineteenth District of Penn
sylvania : George B. Chamberlain. Supervisor
of Internal Bevenue Thomas J. Mitchell,
Illinois, Agent for Indians of Milk Biver Agen
cy, Montana ; James S. Hastings, Michigan.
Agent for Iudians of Bed Cloud Agency, Da
kota, vice John J. Saville, resigned ; Col. Ben.
B. Bonner, Marshall of the United States for
the Eastern Dietrict of Missouri.
Workmen on the Nevada and Northern tele
graph extension have been driven off 1 y In
dians of the Umatilla tribe, who thrcatem d to
kill them if they continued.
The report of the Commission appointed to
investigate the affairs of the Bed Cloud Agency
has been made public. It sustains Prof.
Marsh's charges of incompetency against
Agent Saville, but exonerates him from impu
tations of dishonesty. The Commissioners
report that they find uo evidence to sustain the
charges against the late Secretary Delano and
Indian Commissioner Smith. They recom
mend that Agent Saville be removed : that
J. W. L. Slavens. J. H. Martin, and D. J, Mc
Cann be excluded from future contracts with
the government that E. B. Tbrelkeld be ex
cluded from all future employment as Inspector ;
that bids for flour, clothing, and wagon trans
portation be received at some suitable point
in the West that the office of Superintendent
of Indian agencies be abolished, and the
duties connected therewith be transferred
to inspectors that the feasibUity of dispensing
with railroad freight contractors from New York
to the West be considered ; tuat army officers
be detailed to inspect Indian supplies ; that the
system of keeping accounts be improved that
Indian agencies he graded with reference to
salaries of agents that Bed Cloud aud Spotted
Tail Agencies le removed nearer the Missouri
river : that a commission of army officers ho ap
pomtedto consider the propriety of organizing
an Indian soldiery for police and similar duties:
that a Territorial government be established
over the Indian Territory; that suitable persons
be appointed to prosecute for all BTQBgsesaiSSfl
Indians, to defend their rights as far as they
may become subject of adjudication bc! re the
courts, and that future legislation be shaped
with a view to bringing the Indians under the
same laws which govern all other inhabitants
of the republic.
Ex-Senator Chandler, of Michigan, has ac
cepted the appointment of Secretary of the In
terior, made vacant by tho resignation Of Del
ano, aud entered upou the duties of tho office.
It is stated that the recent reduction of
54-100 of a cent er pound in the drawback ou
refined sugars exported, has completely Mopped
the exH)rtatiou of retiued sugars from the
United States.
General.
A section of one of the. big trees of Cali
fornia arrived at St. Louis the other day, en
route to Philadelphia. It is 16 feet long, with
a diameter of 20 feet. It was taken from a
tree 276 feet high, with a diameter at the base
of 26 feet, and, as indicated by yearly rings, is
2.220 years old. The section is hollowed out,
leaving a cylinder about two feet thick, includ
ing the bark, which will le converted into a
circular house elegantly fitted up.
The steamer Pandora has arrived safely in En
gland after a year s cruise in the Arctic regions.
Trie adventurous mariners revisited the mourn
ful neighborhood where tbe gallant Franklin
and his companions are buried, and found the
monuments of the last explorers uninqiaired.
They found the storehouse built for the lenetH
of sailors, or castaways of ice-bound vessels,
broken into. On entering the building tho
Msitoi-s found the clotluug aud provisions left
thereto he iu a state of terriblo coufusion.
I.vei tlmig of a movable nature was scattered
about in the most singular manner. At first
this seemed to be an act of a human being, but
ou further investigation the Pandora eople were
satisfied that the destruction of the stores had
been accomplished hy point bears, at traces of
these animals were visible iu every direction,
both inside and outide the buildiug.
The Pacific coast has had a marine tidal wave,
the water of the ocean rising from one to three
hundred feet alove the ordinary high-water
murk. Oue of the incidents of this commo
tiou of uature waa an earthquake shock on the
coast. It ia believed there haa been some great
upheaval in some locality yet to be heard
from.
Two notorious aliortiouiats, a Dr. Davis and
hia wife, have been sentenced to death at To
ronto. anada .
Political.
Senator Edmuuds, of Vermont, has been
tendered the office of United States Judge for
the Second Judicial District, but declines ou
account of the insufficiency of the salary.
The name of John Quincy Adams, Jr., has
been placed upon the Democratic ticket for
Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts, in
place of Gen. Bartlett, who declined.
Ohio, at the recent election, decided against
taxing dogs.
Attorney-General Pierrepout stated at a Cab
inet meeting, the other day, that he whs in re
ceipt of information, which he deems authen
tic, to the effect that both parties iu Mississippi
have agreed to terms which will prevent fur
ther troubles in that State, and a peaceable
election is confidently anticipated.
Foreign.
A Berlin dispatch states that under the pres
sure of the great powers, Turkey is diminish
ing her concentration of troops on the Servian
frontier, and Servia is demobilizing her forces.
The British foreign office haa received a tele
gram from Minister Wade, stating that he has
obtained from the Chinese government the
guarantees which he considered necessary.
It is -tated that Bussia is preparing an expe
j dition against Bokara, out of revenge for the
assistance rendered by the latter to the Kho
kaml insurgents.
The coast of England has been visited by an
other destructive storm, attended by consider
able loss of life and property.
A frightful accident recently occurred in an
iron mill near Loudon, fifteen workmen being
fatally burned by an overflow of molten metal.
A Constantinople dispatch says tho follow ing
news is ollicial: "Aiorceor 2, ll()0 insurgents
has been defeated by the Turks. One hundred
and sixty were killed. The rest took refuge iu
Montenegro. Seventeen villages, hitherto
Strongly insurgent, have submitted to Turkish
authority. "
Uussia has commanded the Polish proprietors
in the Provinces of Milua. Oroduo, Koona
Minsk, and Vitepsk to sell their farms to Rus
sian tenantry, the government fixing the price.
This completes the impoverishment of the
Polish nobility.
A serious revolt against Spanish rule in Porto
Rico is threatened.
The well-known English poet and lecturer.
Gerald Massey. has become insane. Spiritual
ism did it.
Don Carlos has dismissed from his services
Gens. Dorregaray, Mendiri. Velasco, and Mo-
grovejo.
It is asserted that in consequence of the
Pope's intercession, the Emperor of Germany
has remitted one year of Cardinal Ledochowski's
terra of imprisonment, for resisting the Prus
sian ecclesiastical laws, and that a full pardon
will probably follow.
Twenty-one persons were recently lost by
the wreck of a French schooner on the coast
of France.
M. Thiers, in a recent speech at a banquet
given in his honor, said that the French re
public must be maintained. He did not think
the Badicals as black as thev are painted, and
believed that if thev gained power, thev would
.. . . ' .
pursue a airrerent course rrom wbat their op
ixuients supjMjse. The European policy of the
future, he said, would be peace and non-intervention.
An edict has been published in the othcial
journal of the Chinese, the Pekin (tazt ltu, de
clanng the right of foreigners to travel in the
interior of China, and requiring officials to take
cognizance of the treaties.
Scalped.
Yesterday afternoon, at Remington
Station, on the Cincinnati and Marietta
railway, Carrie Dawson, employed in a
paper-mill, while standing near a revolv
ing shaft, was caught by her hair and
the scalp torn from her head, stripping
the skin from the back of her neck to the
febrows. Considerable time elapsed
before medical aid reached her, and it
was not deemed advisable to attempt to
restore the lifeless scalp to its former
place
To day Dr. a. j. Howe, of this
city, commenced the restoration of the
akin to the wounded girl's head by tak
ing small pieces of the scalp from the
lo ad of In r sister, who gave herself five
lv for her injured Riater's relief, while
another lady offered skin from her own
shoulder to apply what was needed f. r
the forehead. Supplies mitlieient to
start a growth of membrane were taken
from each of these ladies, and while Miss
DawHon's condition is dangerous, her
physician entertains considerable hope
of her recovery and of the success of hia
effort to covec her head with QSW skin.
Cincinnu: ( 'omntrrciaf.
I'oeN Remain.
Edgar A. Poe's leading idea concerned
the relation of the soul and bod after
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Nones am ft " I. I
tioiiy nat a peculiar me oi uk own. in
one of his poems he writes about liking
and feeling his home in the grave. His
own cotl'm ut Westminister, neat Balti
more, hie. recently been ehanfjad The
sknll was lyiiitf in the position in which
the bead lay when buried. The gUSTe
clothes and all except the bones had
crumbled to dust, leaving the skeleton
white and bare. The brain was in an al-
inost perfect s ate of preservation. The
cerebral mass, as seen through the buc.e
, of the skull, evidenced no signs of dis
integration or decay, though, of course
it is somewhat diminished in nm The
skull was intact, and the general nkele
ton was in as good condition as an ana-
I tomical preparation in doctor's office.
FINANCE AND TRADE.
Weekly Kevirw ot the Chicago Mrhet.
FINANCIAL.
Money continues abundant, and borrowers
are readily accommodated on the street at 8
per cent., while the banks continue to obtain
10 pei cent. The demand for favor is not at
all urgent. Government bonds remain steady
and uit e firm.
MBsasmva,
There has been considerable interest Miown
iu wheat and corn, but for the other grains a
comparatively quiet feeling pievmied. the
amount of business transacted being consider
ably below the average. For spring w he.it (ha
demand from thtt opening until the close has
heeu quite active, and a stead v improvement
in values was noticed, the closing quotations
sin inn iug an advance of from 4c to 4Vc per hu.
Ieing mainly ou the short futures, the de
mand from speculators who had not covered
their maturing contracts being quite active.
At the same time there waa a good shipping
and export demand, aud Fastern advices were
of a favorable tenor. Corn opeued turn and
higher, but closed lower 'under increased re
ceipts, while oats sympathized with the changes
iu corn, live was tirni and a tnrlo higher, but
barlev was weak aud lower under increased
lcc. ipts. The movement was principally on
speculative account.
The following table shows tho prices current
at the opening aud at the close of the past
week :
Opening.
Cloning.
No. a p'K beat, caiib
No. 2 seller October
No. '2 HeUorNcivoinbcr
No. '2 corn, oasta
No. 3 corn, October..
No. 3 corn, seller gov,
No. a oats, cash
No. a oata, a. o t.
No. a oata, a. N. .
No. a rye, oaah
No. 2 r , seller Oct. .
No. 'I rje, at Dei Nov .
No. a barley, caab
No. 2 barley, a. Oct...
No. 2 barley,. Nov.
No. :t barlev, cah
fMJHff (041
ijm in 1.1 I
tftl.07 1.10 ,a U0
4 .& .5:. t
( .(IS .V VA ,5V
(It .54 , ,&3'u( .MV,
(4 .34 .3.1
-a M ia .3a
( .!tt (4 .32',
.72 (4 .72',. (4 .73
.72 4 .7 j , .7:1
(4 .19) t .71
.W .112
i J 4 .m
(4 MH MM
M ( M M
raosut i .
Butter quotable e49t83c for extras. VMh2m
for firsts, 17 (n lNc for seconds, and M'faKk
for thirda. Light sales of prime old medium
1 leans for Nsw York were made at tfl.HO, aud
$LM was paid for new iu bai;s. Western re
main dull at ?1.2"'(i 1.75. according to quality.
Broom corn dull and prices weak. Several
good lots of new were sold at lira 7c. Beeswax
was quiet at 2itiu 98c There w as a
fair local and shipping demand for
cheese. (Quotable at Wv for inferior.
Hid 10 : fa for common to good, and UW12o
, for prime. Choice sweet cider waa in fair de
I ma nd and steady at Tfi.SOfi 7.00 per brl, and
18.008.75 in sajia. Gmibarrisf la light ds
uimiii nv ti.wi -..w ci oil ii'i oiu TTincon
i sin. and 10.5o 11.50 for choice large onltl
mniKi at t.ti"s..si per nil lor good wiscou-
vated ; ono-bn laixes sold at r l.M j ; m.
There was no demand for dried peas, and sales
were slow at 1.80(91.60 for choice grsttt, and
'.15c per bfl for yellow dried. Eggs closed at
21c In carriers and about 20c in loose packap-es.
Prime live geese feathers were in fair de
mand and steady at 5860o; tho other kinds
ruled dull. Game was in better supply and
easier. Prairie chickens sold at jH.OO per
dos; mallard ducks at 82.7598.00 small at
81,80178 and enipo and plover at. 1.00,
liie nop market remains very dull, but prices
were without change: nuotahle at H,iH,
iiuott
1
er brl for poor to good and 11(9 L3c for prune.
Honev was iu fair reouest when m the comb at
2A(a 24c, but strained nvu- dull at !)( PJc per;
N. There was a fair demand for hide: audaalen j
were made ut fjkfa fnr preen Halted, tic fori
damaged, and toe for OSlf. PotstOSl were in
better demand and prices were a shade firmer;
ouotahle at 300t40c per bu for pfHchhlow. i
Sweet potatoes, however, remain dull and slow
nt uuIa vnllnw Tllitiom ) OOCfi 'J!A ,wr l.rl uul
.IcrHcvH 1.00(r:i.25. There was a fair demand
for salt, and a fair business was reported at
l.W) for Onondaga and Saginaw fine, and 1. ()
for ordinary coarse. Wool was in fair demand
and steady at 8840fl for washed, and 28(ec32c
for unwashed.
sekiis ami moawmasi
ThaiS was a fair demand for prime timothv.
and prices, under light offerings, were sternly
at i'2.20f'2.26. There was a good deal of com
mon offered, however, and this was slow at 1
1.H5oj 2.10. There was a fair demand for
tdghwUMS and the market closed steady at a
slight decline. The market closed at rl.ll1,.
I'KOVISIONS.
Iu this market tneie was a slight increase in
the amount of business transacted, but prices '
were rather irregular. The stocks were larger
than was generally anticipated, but this had a '
tendency to increase the offerings. Mess pork
was about 4()( 45c lower, but was rather steady I
toward the close. Lard waa quiet but rlrm.
COO PIK AUK, I.CMIIKR AND WOOD.
Quotations for cooperage range at $1.10( i
1.15 for pork barrels and L80q140 for lard
tierces j 1.902.10 for whisky barrels, and 45
or 55c for Hour barrels. Lumber, owing to j
light offerings, waa quiet but tirni. Values
were nominally tirm at 8.25 for joist and
scantling, aud $H.M(a 14.00 for stnm and i
boards. Shincles. 2.1(lt2.f0. Lath steadv 1
I at J.M j dosing tirni
continues moderate,
tor wood the demand
and prices were Hteadv
and unchanged.
Telegraphic Market Reports.
NEW YOltK.
hu o (4 ;)
Hook Drraaed 10 (4 11
Cottok 14 (4 k;
10
14
I lo
i aj
7a
45
as
I LOCK -Superfine Western
Wiikat No. 1 Chicago
Cons
Oatb
Rt
(4 6 40
i m
J 74
(4 50
m
.aJ2 1.0
4 14
Pork New Mean ft 40
Lard Steam 13
ST. LOUIS,
Wheat No. 2 Ked 1 SJ
Cork No. a .Ml
Oatb No. 2 :rj
Rye No. 2 72
Pork Mora 2:1 25
4 1 r.a
a 67
(4 N
(4 74
23 60
Lard
i:t., 14'.
Hoob 7 50
Cattlb 5 90
mLWAUxn,
Wheat No. 1 l n
(HI
(4 6 10
t 1 jj
9 1 12
(4 67
.17
(4 75
(4 1 II
(4 1 BJ
4 I i
7
(S wv
mm M
(4 u
1 17
1 24
a A1
a 37
(4 1 37
( 1 2fi
a 1 21
1 2;
No. 2 1 10
j Coaw No. 2
5fi
Oath No. 1
Rvr
Uaulkt No. 'J l
TJ
10
CINCINNATI.
c0";.t, :::::v'y;.:: h"
Oath 40
KT S3
Poaa Mean 22 26
Lard 13
TOLEDO.
Whiat Extra. . 1 H
Ambrr 1 2:1
Corm 69
Oat BJ
Dl ! BOl 1 .
Whkat Extra 1 B)
No. 1 Wl.lto 1 aft
No. a White 1 19
Amber 1 34
Corn -4
Oata ;w ,4
42
TiARI.KT No. :j. .
. 1 lit
.34 (r
.. 1 I.'
Pom Mi aa.,
21 B
u 1 gf
i 1 M
(A. ,
4"
CLE ELAND.
Whkat No. I Bi I,
No. I Bad,
Cork
Oat
An ffectioniite Family.
The Princess Domenicn Cisrelli was
"
lefts wi.lo-.v, with two
with two sons, and the
elder died, time :
eu. Almost crazy with sorrow.
the Princess was ready to tight the men
who brought the coffin, ami prot.
they should not carry away the boy. Iu
an interval of calm tlie younger brother,
left alone with the body and the coffin,
resolved to cheat the men and help his
mother to keep Domenioa. He hid tin
corpse in a closet and got in the coffin
himself. He was carried to the church
j without discovery; but at the church.
nearly suffocated, lie groaned, and tho
1 coffin was opened, but he died iu a little
while. Now the mother is dead. All
( this in Paris only the other day.
"The only way to look at a lady's
I faults," exclaimed a HUergallant, " is to
i shut your eye.
LAND PIRACY,
The I'oi-terrtfld 8rl Kalil upon the Palmer
House Property in Chicago
Tin- Washington correspondent of the
Chicago Trihum suys :
Tho 1 ' irtt rfit hl scrip, which a Mr.
Middhton, of Washington, D. C, en
deavored to locate upon the Palmer
Kouss property in Chicago, belongs to
the last inane of scrip which waa aviiilii
hie bsfotS the tSSM of the still more vil
lainous Vult'titine scrip. On account of
ita scarcity, the Porta rfield scrip was
Bought up by speculators, and haa been
, hoarded by them for such uaca aa that to
: which Mr. Middleton 1ms mat attempt
j ed to apply it in Chicago.
Charles Portertield waa a Captain of
the Virginia Line in the Revolutionary
War, aud aa audi was entitled to (,1W
acres of land on account of hia superior
services. The 8taie of Virginia passed
legislation which barred Portertield from
taking advantage of this right; and the
I United Stub, fa 18f2, panned a general
act uuder which lie was also barrel.
Both of theae acts hud 1m.-ii overlooked
! hy Portertield, and, shortly after diacov
i Snag the tact, he died. He hail been a
gallant soldier, and his heira aSOSSSafnl
ly applied to Congress for relief. Thev
i were very poor, and their auceatora' gal
lantry, with some ingenioua lobbying on
, the part Of the rehttivea of the family,
succeeded ill securing the passage for
them, in 18(10, of the special act of Oon
greaa under which thia Portertield scrip,
I or, more ' properly, thia Revolutionary
bounty land warrant, was issued. The
i family was so needy that the entire
I amount of the scrip was spasdUj sold
j by them for SI per acre. Alanit 3,000
i acres of it fell into the hands of various
, parties, was held by them for sometime,
; and sold at a large advance, or located.
A little more than one half of the scrip
is already located, the lands covered by
i it being, for the most part, in the popu
lated States, where, through some care
lessneas of clerks in the old days, some
neglect f registry. Home error iu the
record of the plat, worthy people had
left their estates open to the Spptoaobsi
of the laml-sharkH.
The authority to commit land piracy,
which this character of scrip represent
ed, was confined to this issue for a con
siderable number of years. This was
the only scrip which could be used for
the purpose of robbing psoplsof their
land, until the later and recent issue of
the more infamous Valentine scrip.
The fruita of this later pk 00 of lobby
villainy will be remembered in many u
humble home throughout Ihiw general
tion. The remaining half of the Porter
Held Scrip came into the hands of the
law lirm of Chipman, Hosmet v Co., one
of the members, of which is in some way
related to the heira of Portertield. This
tirni paid ftl2 per acre for about one-half
of the scrip, and have held their pur
chase for some years. It doubtless has
somewhat deteriorated in value since the
issue of the Valentine scrip, which latter
permits its owners to commit an act of
piracy anywhere. Chipman, Hoamsr k
I, j
1 ()- I1HV
located a considerable amount
I f tll; Portertield scrip upon valuable
' lands in Ohio aud in other of the central
Western States.
The Commissioner of the Land Office
is having a great deal of trouble with
speculative lawyers with regard to scrip
of this sort. This oiaH of adventurers
resort to an infinite variety of ingenious
devices to obtain possession of certied
copies of the original tract maps and
books of the Laud Office. Many have
requested county officers in various sec
tions to make formal application to the
Commissioner of the Land Office for the
certified copy of the original tract of the
; eouuty, in order that the Assessors may
be better able to assess taxes. In the
few oaSSf where any such requests have
been applied for, the Commissioner lias
000 discovered that the information
! given out has resulted in the immediate
. commencement of speculative suits upon
the land of some unfortunate people in
: those sections. The process is, to dis
cover the original record of the original
trnct books; to compare it with the actual
location at the local offices; and, if there
j is a slip of any sort which would warrant
the procedure, pieces of the Portertield
Of Valentine scrip, which have been re
served for such uses, are immediately
made available to seize the lands. In
many cases, persons have been hired to
make entries on lands the descriptions
of which have been in this way obtained.
( 'oinniissioncr Drummond, in view of
this experience, has adopted an almost
unconditioned rule to permit no informa
tion of this sort to leave his office under
any circumstances.
Fighting an Alligator.
Monday afternoon, says the Quitman
(Oa. ) l'( jfrh r, a party of eight or ten
met at the Okapilco creek, to seine the
different lakes and " eddies" along the
run of the creek between the turnpike
and the railroad bridges. Nothing un
usual transpired on this occasion until
late in the afternoon, when, in seeing a
deep lake formed by a bend in the chan
nel of the stream, the seine became so
heavy and difficult to drag that it was
coin-hided thai it was hung to a root or
log on the bottom. Lum Derans, a lad
L6 years of age, went under for the pur
pose Of disentangling the seine. Upon
reaching the bottom, a distaneeof some
six or seven feet, he found what he sup
posed to lie a log, and embracing it
started to the surface of the water with
it. His surprise as well as that of tin
party can better be imagined than ex
pressed when, upon rising, the supposed
log was found to la an alligator. As
noon as the water's surface was reached
the infuriated monster, taking in the
situation at I glance, made a tcrritic
lunge at Devane, and striking him in the
breast, knocked him into deep water,
and, continuing the attack caught him
between his vise-like jaws around the
waist. Seeing the danger of their coin
rade the MH of the party sprang to his
relief. Fortunately for 'Devane he was
' upon the outside and the alligator was
Upon the inside of the seine, wnicn,
being strong and firmly held at each end,
somewhat Impeded the vicious reptile in
his attack. This, together with the
prompt and fearless action of the entire
party, who seized his alligator!-hip by
the tail and legs and commenced to use
their knives on him diligently, it feU that
Bred the life of Lum Devane. He was
Anally extricated from the javs of the
maddened monst'T, and . scape. I with a
few paintnl, though not dangerous
bruises and bites. The alligator n M
about l ight feet in length, aud it was
with difficulty that six 01 eifht strong
and courageous men succeed. I alter in
serting their knives iu SS?1 U adsf
; places, in bringing him Behove. Be
i Edught desperately M long l!' ' '
and in his dying PBOmSBll ' M'f u a
deafening raevaunost equal i thai 01 i
lion.
The Spirit of Scria aud sBriSBMfra.
IVrhaps the Servians .11 blind to th
better qualities of the Turks. Hut
ever we find Turkish rule ifl EnrOfM
thelc We also tllld resentments too deep,
too passonate, too unreasoning to b
I aootnadby the oraft of diplomacy. Those
animosities, whether we like : ,em or n 't,
will prove to DS political f OTOUS of flu
highest important. They would of
themselves suffice to render the position
of Turkey untenable. At present they
make it peculiarly difficult for Prince
Milan to hold his subjects LD leash. The
Servians have a rude deino.-r itic temper,
and they have already shown ! owsheap
ly they rate the sanctity of a::y lorareign
: who thwarts their will. The representa
tives of the rival dynasty :ir-- alao N ftdjL
1 to bid against lum for popular favor. Off
the other hand, he cannot be expected to
Hy in the face of positaTS demands from
Vienna, since he is largely dependant on
' the support of Austria. A fierce and
willful ruler like Kara George ought hav
dared erer) thing rather tlian allow Her
zegovina to continue under the rule of
Turkey, and he might have had good
reason to lielieve that Austria or Russia
would lend a helping hand rather than
allow him to be beaten down ; but it
! would be unreasonable to look for so bold
i a stroke from a mere lad like Prince
Milan, untried alike in oOUttoi and in
war.
The position of Montenegro is pretty
I much the same as that of Servia. Its
, people have been battling with the Turks
for centuries, and they have never yet
been conquered. When Turkey claimed
dominion over them at the Congress of
, Paris, their ruler was able to tepiy that
they had always been able to defend theil
freedom. As our special oofTSspondenl
says : "the one object of their life is to
tight the Turks," and they ire soldiers
j toa man. There is not a mote warlike
race- in Lurope, and it would be difficult
to And better guerilla troops. Thamoun
tain fastnesses enable then; : c i'v such
masses of regular soldiers aa would over
run flat country of the same si.e,
and hence a war with T:;rk-" does not
fill them with any terror.
A M Distinguished Ameriea:: Lady,"
People in this country have .ct for
! gotten the notorious Josie M,c . t'n Id, a
quarrel about whoa sent Jim Fisk to Ins
1 grave and Edward Stoke, to the Peni
i tentiary. Latterly she passed out oi
notice, but now we hear of i r in Eu
rope, where she passes fl "distin
guished American lady. '' i :m Piatt,
in a letter from Pari-, thui refers to
j her :
" We met a friend from Trourille, tin
fashionable summer resort bete, who
gave us not a bad item. Tic landlord
of the hotel said to our frie:
I4I have a distinguished American
lady in my house'
444 Ah, indeed!' exclaim tu Mend ;
'and what is her name :'
4 4 4 Madame Mansfield.' wafl the enthu
siastic reply; 4 and she 1- rery distill
guished. She receives earls, dukes aud
princes.'
" Our friend put on his thinking-cap.
He turned over all the ICansnelae DC
had ever heard of. At lat he rried :
44 'Josie Mansfield !'
4 4 4 Ah ! you know her V
44 Hy reputation only.'
4 4 4 She is very extravagant ah ! very
extravagant. She changes her drees four
1 and five times in twenty-four hours,
dines in her room a la oarte and has
broiled chicken every day.' "
Resentful Firemen.
The firemen of West Troy, N. Y., bad
a paradi a few days ago, and among the
organizations in line was the Oswald
Hose Company, at whose bead was at
first put the best of the bands of music
engaged for the occasion. The march
hail not progressed far when the band
was changed to another point in the line
and its pjaOI tilled with amateur play fS,
The angered memben thereupon retired
from the procession and took their hose
cart to their lions'. The next day the
Trustees of the village formally disband
ed the company and organised ;t new one
of boys. The old members, angry and
resentful, stripjied the cart of its 0111 1:
mental wheels, silver platings and Othei
things that they had themselves bought.
, The Trustees then removed what was left
tO what they supposed was a safe plav,
and set two policemen to wa'ch it ; but
at night the tiremen stole it and took it
across the river to Troy, where they hid
it in the Osgood steamer house. The
Trustees found it and put BPoUesmsn
on guard, but it was again stolen, by j
piecemeal this time, before they could
get it back to West Troy. It ia now tup
posed to be at the bottom of the Hudson.
In the meantime incendiary tires hafS
been of nightly OOSURBAOl in Wed
Troy.
PoeN Hrain.
The singular preservation of Shelley'-.
heart when his remains were cremated i-'
matched by that of Poe's brain. A Bed
ical gentleman, present when all that
was left of the author of " The Haven "
was d BUn tarred, states that the brain
had not been destroyed. He adds that
the cerebral mass, as seen through the
base of the skull, evidenced uo sign o
disintegration or decay, though, of
course, it was somewhat diminished in f
size. We are somewhat BORy that th
sepulchral details should have been BUadN
public. They destroy an ideal. Do
what we will, since reading what tlx
pious resurrectionists disclosed, the im
age of Poo rises before us, not in phys
ical beauty and sorrow ful BODg, but ai ;i
hideous skeleton. Think o j hi ' teeth
rattling in the coffin when his skulf was
lifted into a new repository
A TlilefN ( lever Trick.
A Haltimor. swindler wen; t. .1 n.
pighted merchant, in the guise of a tele
graph messenger, and gol lum lo aign
his name in two places in what purported
to be a receipt book Real Dos
had got bin to sign his name 1 1 blank
leaf in such a way that a D te Ooutd be
written with a genuine signature and en
dorsement. The profit to th swindler
was 223, and the merchant and the bank
that paid the money are quarreling about
which ahall lose.