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MINERAL POINT, - - - WI3.
FRIDAY, APRIL 2.1,1870.
POINTERS.
Georgia convicts are now worked
under a twenty-year lease
(Six women voltd ai the recent ichoo
election at Pendleton, Oregon.
Cincinnati stove manufacturers say
they have all the orders they can fill.
Tin: total amount of lumber cut hint
season in net down at 4,334,21(5,220 feet.
Fivk UollarH a day hits been made at
drift-mining for gold at Fort Hoskatch
ewan, Rrilish Norlhweßtern territory.
A guide in Maine, who ought to know,
CHlimatcH that the trout caughthy tour
ist* in that Htate cost them |3 a pound.
Heads have become quite plenty in
the lower Connecticut; and Home have
been Been an far north an Rocky Mill,
ten mileH below Hartford.
It ia reported that a New Orleans
man, the holder of ticket No. (517, in the
Havana lottery, drew one million dol
lar* in the radio. 11 ih name is not
given.
Great political importance in attrib
uted by Russian diplomatists to the ap
proaching visit to Ht. Petersburg of Mo
ral (Fur Eddin, the heir-apparent to the
Persian throne.
Lout) Ameuiih Ueaihxerk, an English
rear-admiral, came to a moat piunlul
death the other day. Ho fell into the
lire and whh fatally burned before bin
position was disoovered.
Tim English government will, it in
staled, sanction a grant of nix months’
pay to all rank* serving in South Afri
ca on the close of operations, to com
pensate for the losses sustained in ac
tive service.
A RECENT report submitted to the
house of lords shows that in England
the amount of drunkenness varies in
almost exact proportion to the varia
tions of climate, the vice being most
prevalent in the north.
The Russian government.has ordered
several men-of-war to ho built at Hluliin,
a fact of the weightiest significance to
English shipbuilders, who have so long
enjoved a monopoly, of this profitable
husineMs,
The hard times in Germany have
a strong impulse to emigration. Home
families are Buttling in southern Russia,
and in all parts of the country large
parties are reported Ic he forming for
removal to the United Hi ales,
A Japanese lady of a southern prov
ince has lately made a woman's rights
demonstration by protesting against the
payment of taxes unlesshewas allowed
to vote. Her letter on the subject has
been referred by the local authorities
to the central government,.
In Han Francisco there are 10,027
voters of Irish nativity and 3,(111 voters
of German nativity, and the two to
gether are about equal to all the native
American voters. Gf the latter 4,41(5
are from New York, 2,7)01 from Mass
achusetts and 1,220 from Pennsylvania.
A Connecticut convict being given
the customary check for $5 on his dis
charge from slate prison, found it ncccs
sary of course to lie identified to re
ceive its payment, and thinking the
man ho had robbed knew him best,
called upon him and accomplished his
purpose.
Dr. P. Gary Kit, of Angelica, Alle
ghany county, New York, owns a small
road stallion so peculiarly marked that
when he buckles a surcingle around
him there is not a hair hack of it that is
not snow white, and not a square inch
in front of it that is not a beautiful iron
gray.
The riec-lhdds on the Cape Fear
river, near Wilmington, which have
lain idle amt grown up with weeds since
the war, have hei n reclaimed and
planted this season by several energetic
parties, who expect to raise at least two
hundred thousand bushels ol rice in the
next live years.
The negro emigration movement
from Louisiana and Mississippi begun
March 5, when 280 negroes boarded
the steamer Relic of Memphis, hound
for Ht. lauds. Since that time 2,7t>0
emigrants have left these two states for
Kansas. Ul these only 400 paid their
own way, the other 2,300 being helped
along hy colored citizens of Si. Louis
and various charitable associations,
Twki.ve paper-making establishments
in England have become bankrupt
since the beginning of last December.
Scarcely any American paper factories
nave been reported insolvent within
Unit period. Much paper for writing,
for books, and for newspapers has of
late been exported from lids country to
South America, and there is iv growing
demand from Germany for coarse
American paper.
THE WEEK'S WORK.
A Record of Important Events.
Domestic and Foreign.
WASHINGTON.
Secretary Sherman announced April
18th that he had no more bonds for
sale.
The president, on April 1 8th, nomi
nated Frederick W. Miner, United
States attorney for the northern district
of Texas; Wilson M. Stanley (111.), In
dian agent for the Los Finos Agency,
Cal.
The 98lh call fur the redemption of
bonds was) issued April 18th, lor SIOO,-
000,000, 10-40’b of 04. Principal mid
accrued interest will he paid on and
after July 18th, when interest will
erase.
SAYS a dispatch of April I'.Hh; Chief
Moses having agreed, the president has
set aside a very large reservation in
Washington Territory for Moses and
his people, with such Indians as may
affiliate and the Secretary of the Inte
rior may send.
A TEI.KGHAM of April I<s says
the senate committee on privileges
and elections to-day commenced hear
ing arguments in the Hpofl'ord-Kcllogg
case on the question whether or not
the action of the senate Hitherto has
made the controversy res tuljiuikuta.
On April 17lh the attorney-general
ullirmed the decision of the assistant
attorney-general for the post-odice
department, that regular publications
designed primarily for advertising pur
poses cannot ho sent through the mails
at the rales charged legitimate news
papers.
A Washington dispatch of April 17lh
says Mr. Rainey, republican ex-con
gressman from Hoiiib Carolina, who
lias been an applicant for the third
auditorship of the treasury, was tend
ered the position ol assistant, apppoinl
incut clerk of the treasury hy Hecrelary
Hherman, and rejected it with great
indignation.
ON the 21st insl Congressman lov
ing, of Ohio, introduced a hill
which provides for taxing in
comes of over $4,000 2,i per cent.;
over SIO,OOO, f> per cent., and over $20,-
000, 10 per cent. Mr. Ewing alsn intro
duced a hill to provide for the reissue
of paper fractional currency and to
make all fractional currency inter
changeable with silver dollars or silver
certificates at any of the sub-treasuries,
and making fractional currency legal
lender for twenty dollars in any one
payment.
Tllic regular subscriptions In tin' I
per emit. lon ll mi April 17lli amounted
$2,11)0,500, Resides Huh iimouul a syn
didate,composed nf niiKitcdii banks and
hunk ini' limm,of Now York ami Itoslon,
made, a subscription of $150,00(1,-
000 of 4 par cant. bonds and $40,000,
000 of fund ini' ccrtilicatcH, making Ibis
llio largest single subscription over
made to a government funding loan in
ibis or any oilier country. The heaviest
subscribers are; First National bank,
Fisk A, Haleb, Metropolitan National
bank, and .1. A. AW, Heligman. Tim
subscription is made tbronyli the First
National liank for itself and its associ
ates,
A Oisi'ATOii from Washington of the
21hI iiiHl. says Mint since Hherinan be
came secretary be him Mold $510,000,-
000 of 4 per eenlH, and with the pro
eeedn redeemed (be 0 per cents, Hum
saving 2 per cent, or one-third, of the
mlerwsl previously paid by the country
on that amount. When the present
transaction is completed he will have
sold, in round mimhei'H, $200,000,000 of
1 per cents additional, for refunding 5
per cents, saving 1 per cent, besides the
premium on that amount, besides,
this, he has sold sso 000,000 Its to re
deem Its. All these transactions togeth
er make an immense saving in (bo na
tional interest account
In congratulating Secretary Shot-1
man upon ins financial policy the Lon
don Vims.soflhe 21st says: The con
version of six per cent, bonds of 'SI is
likely to depend more than the present
operation, on the maintenance ol the
credit of the United Stales abroad. Re
viving trade in the United Stales will
by then probably render it
impossible to obtain money
then at -I per cent. Now that conver
sion has been carried as far as it can be
for two years, Mr. Sherman should
direct the attention of congress and the
nation to the policy id' reducing the
principal of debt, which lias for some
time been neglected.
Usnpudab ot April 21st, the secre
tary ol the treasury issued (he O'.hb
call for the redemption of bonds, to
day. The call is for $28,5(10,1100 of
10 4H bonds of 1804. Principal and in
terest will be paid at the treasury on
and after the 2lsl of July next, and in
luresl will cease that day. The follow
ing is a description of the bonds: Regis
lered bonds, SSO, No. lot to No. 1,.">75,
both inclusive; SIOO, No. 11,101 to
No. 11,7112, both inclusive; SSOO, No.
7.101 to No. 7,402. both inclusive; SI,OOO
No. 20.J1t1l to 110, tils, both inclusive;
$5,000, No. 10,5101 to No. 10,Soil, both
inclusive; SIO,OOO, No. 21,701 to No.
27,570, both inclusive. The bonds out
standing and represented by the above
numbers consume the residue of those
10-40's issued under the act of March
8, isol,
SUICIDES.
Mauv Hkss, living on Prospect
avenue, Milwaukee, committed su.cide
by taking poison April 10th. Her
lover, one Andrew Smith, had deserted
her for another woman, lienee the sui
cide.
At Wheeling. W. Va , on the 17th
inst., Mrs. Fh/a Fulton, widow of Hen
ry Fulton, at one time a prominent ei
car manufacturer, suicided by cutting
her throat from ear to ear with a razor.
Mrs. Fulton was found in the cellar of
her residence this morning with her
head nearly severed from her body,
rim cause, fuuily dissensions.
CRIME.
H k. r KtAti rVitAKKKR was banged April
17tb at Chambersbnrg, Pa., lor the
murder of his wife in February, 1878.
Jamks Hcsukuson, a farmer living
near Oshkosh, Wig., was arrested on the
I
17th for forging pension papers. He
I confessed his guilt.
An Eagle Pass, Texas, telegram
of April 17th says a Mexican named
Muenos, last night, cut his wife’s throat,
causing her death, and a daughter, at
tempting to interfere, was also injured.
A neighbor tried to arrest Muenos and
was hewn with an axe, dying shortly
The murderer escaped to Mexico.
An Oakville. Texas, special of April
IfHh savs: On Weedy Creek, a Mexican
entered the house of a citizen, and in
his absence brutally outraged bis hand
some young wife, and on leaving fatally
shot her in the breast. She lived to re
late the facts and give a description of
the fiend to iier husband, who, with
friend >, pursued, captured and shot the
Mexican dead in his tracks.
An Omaha special of April 17th says
the jury in the Oliver murder case at
Hustings returned a verdict at noon of
murder in the second degree against
Oliver and Fisher, and the judge sen
tenced the prisoners to imprisonment
for life at bard labor. The attorneys
for the defense gave notice of a motion
for anew trial. The verdict creates
general surprise, as a verdict in the first
degree was expected.
A l)rm.'qi;E dispatch of April IGlli
says: The mangled remains of a man
have been found in a hog yard near
Spring Grove, .Minn. They are sup
posed to be those of a Norwegian far
mer who mysteriously disappeared
about. New Year’s. It is supposed he
was murdered for bis money, and the
Ikhly thrown to the hogs. Theio is
great excitement in the neighborhood.
Hays a Baltimore dispatch of
April 17: When Hie train which
left Washington with .lames Carroll,
the negro accused of outraging
Mrs. Thomas, at Licksville, Md.,
reached Washington Junction to-day,
15 or 20 masked men hoarded it and
after a desperate struggle succeeded in
overpowering the policemen. The pris
oner was dragged from the train, a rope
thrown over his head and ho was
pulled across a t'udd to the nearest tree
and hanged.
A Sr. Lucs dispatch of Apri/ 21st
stales that quite a sensation was pro
duced there over the arrest of Charles
Green, a soii-m-Uw of Col. Nat Clair
horne, a prominent criminal lawyer of
that city. Not long ago Green came to
St. Louis with a flourish ot trumpets
from New Orleans and made society
heave, lit- lot to the altar the heaiiti
ful daughter of Col, < '(airborne. The
ullair was one of great moment in so
ciety. Green turns out to be a fraud of
the first water, and is locked up for for
gery, i( is believed, although the police
are reticent, anti will allow nobody to
see Green or talk to him,
A vi eer and important murder trial
was commenced in Lebannon, I'a,, on
the 21st inst. Charles Drews, Charles
Stie.hler.Leo/iclimaii, Henry T. Woise,
Josiah Hainmel, and Israel Brandi
were arranged for the murder of Joseph
Uaher, in the backwoods country, about
fifteen miles from Lebannon, hud De
cember. The alleged murder took
place to obtain about SIO,OOO insurance,
it is supposed, on tlio old man’s life.
Drews ami Siichler are accused of hav
ing committed the murder by drowning
the victim in a small creek. The remain
ing lour held the oolieles, nod are ac
cused of having hired the two to do Ihe
murder, promising to pay them several
hundred dollars for doing the job. All
the defendants plead not guilty. The
following insurance companies are re
presented: Home Mutual,of Lebanon;
New Era, of Philadelphia; Mutual, of
Reading; Hartford, of Hartford, Conn.;
and Keystone, of Allentown.
CASUALTIES.
A heavy and destructive hail storm
prevailed in New Orleans April Kith.
A Yin'.Nii mail named Herman Arnst
bauer, was killed on Ihe railroad track
near Watertown, Wis., April 16th.
An explosion in the Wellingtgn coal
mine, Victoria, April T.'th, killed II
men and injured many others.
Trank Melville, a well known bare
back circus rider, fell from his horse
during a performance in Philadelphia
April T.hh, and siillered a serious in
jury.
A Pkokia, 111., telegram of April 17th
says William Morris, an old mid popu
lar conductor on the Peoria, Pekin and
Jacksonville railroad was run over and
killed hi Cliandlerville yesterday after
noon by a train of cars.
\n accident occurred April PJth on i
the Kansas City branch of the Hanni
bal and St. Jo road, which resulted in
(lie death of one man and (be injury ol
others. Font teen cars broke through a
bridge and burned after they fell.
Says a. Charlestons. (’., dispatch ol
Anril IS, the distress in Waterhoro on
account of Wednesday's tornado is so j
wide spread that the city authorities for
warded sltH> worth of provisions, and
#lin cash for the relief of snHems.
Al.imxm n, Neb., telegram of April |
IS says Doctor St. Louis, who was ,
to hang today at Wahoo for!
poisoning his wife, shot himself, but i
not fatally, and Governor Vance has
respited Him until the Kith of May.
A I’m vki.kston, S. C., telegram |
of April I7tb says last evening
a violent rain storm occurred i
here which continued throughout the
night. Accounts from the interior
show that the storm began with a ter
rific tornado which swept through the
lowcr part of the state, causing great
destruction to life and property. In the
village of Walterhoro, more than 100,
dwellings and all the churches were
swept away. Three-fourths of the in
habitant* are homeless. Fifteen per
sons were killed and many wounded at
Oakley, a station ol the N. K. railroad.
All negro houses were levelled, and one
negro killed, besides many bnrt. Simi
lar casualties are reported from various
points m the track of the tornado.
Among the killed at Waltcrboro, are 1
Mrs, Dr. S. M. Uivers, her daughter and
Mr. Philemon Sanders.
CABLEGRAMS.
Tin-; American horse Parole won the I
handicap at the New Market races it ,
England, April 17th.
Bays a London cablegram of April
loth, many striking miners areemigrat
ingfrom England to the United States
j and the colonics.
By an explosion of fire damp in the
Agrauhaeo coal pit near Rons, Belgium,
April 17th, 240 miners lost their lives.
A Berlin cablegram of April 18 says
Count SchouvalJtf, deferring to the
czar’s wish, has withdrawn his request
to retire to private life, and will prob
ably remain Russian ambassador at
London.
A Berlin dispatch under date of
April 22d says simultaneously
with Soloviolfs attempt on the c/.ar’s
life three policemen were shot in K'as
-1 san. Among the assassins were an edu
; cated girl aged 17 years and a noble-
I man.
A dispatch of the 21st from Bombay
says according to intelligence received
there from Mandalay, the king declared
to his counsellors that fear bad hereto
fore made him yield to the British de
mand till henceforth he wanted neither
listen to nor speak of proposals for the
accommodation of England.
A Pesth dispatch of April
18 says some hundred square
miles of holds are again sub
merged. The towns of Belgerend,
Tan usd, and Gynlavarasorj arc
threatened. The water at Szegden has
' risen eight inches. The people are
again quitting their houses.
Says a 81. Petersburg cable
gram of April 18, Solouzieff,
who fired at the czar, is the son of a
groom in the household of the Grand
Duchess Catherine, After leaving the
Bt. Petersburg university, he became a
teacher. He first fell under the notice
of the authorities during the inquiries
into socialistic intrigues. He disap
peared, and was not heard of until the
attempt on the czar's life.
An Athens cablegram of April
18 says the Turks are fortifying
the coast of Epirus, and Turkish
war vessels are cruising in the
neighborhood, in consequence of the
apprehension of the landing of a hand
of Italians at Albans, with the object
of securing the Albanian autonomy.
A cable dispatch from St. Peters
burg of the 22d hist, states that Gen.
Goiirko, the newly appointed governor
general of St. Petersburg, ordered all
gun makers to send lists of their slock
to the city commandant, and sell only
to those presenting special authoriza
tion, under the penally of confiscation
of slock and prohibition of trade, Pri
vate persons possessing arms can only
retain them hv special permission.
Porters must he, kepi, at the doors of all
houses day and night to prevent the
posting of placards and scattering ex
plosives in tlie streets.
A si’ECiAi, cablegram of April 20th
says; England’s foreign trade is in as
unsatisfactory a state as her home com
merce and manufacture interests. The
Anglo-Indian banks are in a most tin
satisfactory condition. England’s trade
with China, which has been decreasing
steadily year by year is now said by
merchants to he as good as altogether
dropped, owing to the lack of profits on
the business and the unsatisfactory
stale of England's relations with China.
In fact, it scorns probable that Eng
land's trade with China will have to be
abandoned, for it is admitted that
American opposition and enterprise
has entirely killed English rivalry in
that part of the world.
The London Daily Nutts of the 21st
sajs: We cannot attempt to forecast the
result of the duel between nihilism and
militaryism, to whicl*i the Czar’s procla
mation seems to be the challenge. It
is an attempt to meet disturbers with
something like their own weapons, and
to put down lawlessness by the suspon
sion of law. The mere confession that
such an attempt is necessary must seem
a very curious step for the government
which for some years has aimed at be
ing considered a civilized government.
For the lime during which this ukase
lasts, and for Ihe wide and important
district to which it is applied, Russia
ceases to he what she has recently been,
and relapses into a condition of practi
cal barbarism. At once and without
even the form of anything that can
be called a trial any man’s life or his
fortune may be taken from him. In
these six great cities and their depend
encies all iiiconvonieneies of such slate
ef things must be borne by millions in
order (hat a small but. determined band
of evil doers may be suppressed. Ter
tians this evil stale of things would not
U> too much to bear it it were likely to
relievo the country of a malignant po
litical disease from which it appears to
be sall’ering but if such a relief were to
result from such measures it would he
lor the first time in history. The mil
itary tribunals of the six governments
may punish swiftly and savagely but
thej will neither prevent nor cure.
FIRES.
A niiK m Joliet, April tilth, destroyed
the Sloan building valued at $2,500.
A kihk in the old Fulton Market New
York city, \pril llltli, caused a 10-s ot
S2S,UK).- Also on the same day Tucker A
1 Cook's cotton mill at Conway, Mass.,
burned; loss S4S,(KM.
Tm: Milwaukee & St. Paul railway
ronii nny’s large freight house at Janes
.vile, Wis., was destroyed by lire April
I irth. Among the articles lost were
| 2iH) barrels of Hour, 30 bales of cotton,
1 a large quantity af cotton batts, and
; general freight.
>a\s a dispatch of April 10th:
A Ire at Eureka, Ncv., last Highland
ties morning, burned half the town, in
eliding the heaviest business houses,
hslels, newspaper ottlces, telegraph of
-1 ll.'es, telegraph olllces, masonic huild
tg and a gnuit numher of dwellings,
fhree hundred families arc destitute,
Slid 2,000 people arc without slultcr. A
s'lii 1‘ committee has been organized.
The loss js roughlv estimated at $1,000,-
,XK>.
Os the night of April 20th a lire broke
out m me Si. Louis street car shops. |
Before anything could be done
to stop the (lames the building
was ail enveloped. Eleven cat's
were destroyed, some en
tirely new. The toss on the care was
SIO,OOO, The building, partially new,
was totally destroyed, a loss of $12,000;
insured in St. Louis companies princi
pally fir S2O,OtX). Up stairs the car
nouse was occupied by ten families of
conductors, who lost everything, some
of thorn barely escaping with their lives.
Several did so by jumping from the
windows. Otic child jumped from the
window. Eight were saved by a fire
man.
GENERAL NOTES.
On the 16th hist., the railroads re
duced the rate on lumber to $3O per
car, between Chicago and the Missouri
river.
The great storm of April 16th swept
over the whole eastern coast of the
United States, from the gulf to New En
gland.
A WEi.t, known cracksman going by
the name of Smith, was fatally shot
while making off with booty April 17th,
by a Chicago policeman.
The Portland, Oregon, board of trade
on April 17 unanimously adopted a
memorial addressed to President Hayes,
condemning Chinese immigration.
A convention of representative color j
ed men was held in New Orleans April i
17 to consider the exodus question.
Two hundred and sixty delegates were j
present.
Prof. Cyrus Thomas, state entomolo
gist of Illinois, says a telegram of April
17th, will not accept the position of en
tomologist of the United States, as for
merly stated.
The state constitutional convention
of Louisiana met in New Orleans on
the 21st inst., arid after an address from
Gov. Nicholls, appointed regular com
mittees and adjourned.
A St. Louis telegram of April 18th
says the most active colored men in that
city have organized an Immigration
Aid Association, fur the pur|)ose of help
ing the southern negroes emigrate to
the western States,
A telegram of April 17th says the
night-liying moth, of which the army
worm is the larvie, is distributing its
eggs in vast numbers in southern Illi
nois. The state entomologist warns the
farmers (• be on the lookout for this
destructive pest.
A St. Louis dispatch ot Ihe 21st says
the scarlet fever is reported to he rag
ing seriously. The first case came from
Kirkwood suburb a few days ago. Now
it is spreading to an alarming extent,
though the city medical department
is trying to keep the fact suppressed.
A New York dispatch of April
16 says a loan of si',ooo,ooo
was secured to-day on six per
cent, bonds of the Northern I’acitic
railway, for extending the road 200
miles, from Bismarck to the Yellow
stone.
Charles ton, South Carolina, advices
of the 21st inst., stale that the Grand
Jury found the following true bills:
Geo. E. i’ritchell, W. R. Coxey, and W.
A. Lowndes, for falsely certifying the
result of election, M. J. Heidi, A. M.
Moreland, and W. A. Fishburn fur re
fusing to receive votesof persons entitled
to vole.
A Tort Jarvis. N. V., telegram
of April 1 Sell says: Five inches
of snow id! here; one foot at
Monticello, and six to ten inches along
the Jefferson branch of the Erie. At
Scranton, snow, hail and wind pros
trated two miles of telegraph poles.
The Monltree county hank, of Sulli
van, HI., was put in the hands of an as
signee, April 16th. It is feared deposi
tors will receive no more than live
cents on the dollar, although the bank
bad been held in the i igbesl repute un
til the day of assignment.
A Dallas, Texas, special of April
171 h says the relief fund contributed in
Dallas for the Lisbon sullercrs by the
storm is iarge, but insullieient. Over
one hundred people are homeless, be
sides losing everything in the vv.;v of
clothing furniture, etc. Subscriptions
to the mayor of Dallas will be dis
bursed.
A Gloucester, Massachusetts, dis
patch of April 18ih says: Two
tidal waves were perceptible in (ho
harbor to-day. The first, at 12:30,
raised the water two and a half feet
along the wharves, sweeping vessels at
anchor directly against the wind. Hunt
ing oil' vessels that were aground, and
stirring up mud from the bottom. The
second occurred at 1:30 o’clock, and
was similar to the first.
At a meeting of the Wabash railway
directors in New York on the -Ist inst.
Messrs. Harrison, Post, Hillings and
Bliss resigned and Jay Gould, Ilussel
Sago, Jiis. Lawler Welch, ami Jas. F.
Jay were elected to (ill vacancies. This,
it is said,t>ives Gould control of the road
and SI,OOO shares of stock are locked
up to secure him in the perpetuity of
that control.
A ViCKsr.tTio di-patch of April 2-dsays
arrangements are being made for the ac
commodation of the labor convention
of the Mississippi Valley, which meets
here on the sth of May. Col. Merrill,
I colored, of Carroll parish. La., now at
tending the colored convention at New
Orleans, has given notice that ho will
attend with a large delegation from the
river parishes of that state. The object
of the convention is to take steps to
cheek the emigration of laborers to
Kansas.
A Mii.wavkke speeial telegram of
April ISth says: The fifteenth
annual report ol the Chicago, .Milwau
kee and St. Paul railway company, for
the year ending Dec. 31, shows
gross earnings of $8,451,707; an in
crease of $836 873 over 1y77.1 y 77. Operating
expenses, including taxes, $-4 702,313;
increase, $215,880. The entire cost of
the company's property, including
equipments, bridges, elevators, cattle
yards and grounds, is reported at $53,-
772.2 (t, after deducting certain assets,
an average of $38,400 per mile for the
1.512 miles of road owned.
Ar Nashville, Tcnn., on Sunday the
20th, one hundred and urn colored per
sons, male and female, were baptized
in the river. The performance com
menced at 12 o'clock and ended late in
the afternoon. It required the services
of several ministers to perform the rites.
The wharf was literally thronged, and
it seemed that the entire colored popu
lation bad turned out to witness the
ceremony. A majority of them stood
for several hours without once moving
from their tracks, so absorbed were
they in what was going on.
A tklbukam received at military
headquarters in Chicago on the 21st
says Col. Hatch in command of the
department in New Mexico telegraphs
that Lieut. Merritt of the Nineth cav
alry reports from Ojo Oalciente that Vic
toria and his whole force of Warm
Soring Apache Indians escaped on the
lotb inst. and have gone to the San
Mateo country mountains. When Vic
toria found he would have to go to
Staunton reservation he said he would
die first. Lieut. Merritt has ordered a
company of cavalry to Ojo Oalciente to
co-operate with the cavalry now there
and endeavor to capture these Indians
before they begin to commit depreda
tions.
ileal li at lien. John A, l>i\.
A New York telegram of the 2d ad
■ inst. announces the deatli of Gen.
John A. Dix at 11:30 o'clock in
the evening of. April 21st. John
Adams Dix was born in Bosca
wen, New Hampshire, July 21, 17OS.
He entered the army in 1812, but
resigned in 1828; studied law, and was
admitted to the bar. He actively en
tered politics as a democrat in 1842;
was elected to the state assembly in
11745; made senator in congress for un
expired term of Bilas Wright in 1825;
was appointed assistant treasurer of the
United States, in this city and in 18of
was made postmaster. In Decem
ber, 1800, be was appointed President
Buchanan’s secretary in place of
Howell Cobb. He served under Lin
coln’s administration, taring decided
grounds in favor of the union ami has
always been ranked us one of the
strongest men in the republican party.
At the outset of the civil war he was
appointed major-general of the New
York national guards. In May.
IS'il, he was commissioned major-gen
eral of the United Slates volunteers and
subsequently received the same rank in
the regular armv and had ehartre ofthe
department of Maryland in ISG2, from
whence he was transferred to Fortress
Monroe.
During the riots in New York, he
was military commander of this de
partment. He was appointed minister
to Paris in 18G6. and iu 1872 was elect
ed governor of New York. He was
again nominated in 1874 and defeated
hy Tilden. This ended his political
career, ile has contributed to a num
ber of journals and published several
works. Of late he has lived in retire
ment.
How to Make a Tailless Kile.
i As the kite season is now at as height
: hoys will be interested to know that a
I man i.in R ichester has succeeded in
making a kite which dispenses with that
troublesome adjustment, a tail. It is
made after a Holland pattern, and the
Rochester Express Unis tells how to copy
it: “The shape of the kite is what the
hoys call diamond. The leross-bar,
which in tail kites of the diamond pat
tern is straight, should bo made of hick.
ory and bowed by connecting the ends
with a taut string. It should then bo
placed at right angles with the perpen
dicular slick ami fastened securely, the
bend of the bow being backward from
the intersection of the sticks. Run a
string around over the end of each
-tick and cover the frame tmn light
tissue paper. For a four-loot kite the
perpendicular stick should extend three
feet below the point of intersection with
the bow and one foot above it. Tne
bow should be one and one-half feet
long on each side of the point of inter
section, and at the same distance down
the perpendicular stick as tne arms of
the how extend on each side of the
perpendicular stick. The baud is at
tached at. only two points, the point id
intersection and at a point below, in the
four-foot kite mentioned, one and one
half feet below Hie point of intersec
tion. Tip these two strings together
and attach the captive coni, balancing
it so that the captive cord shall be ex
actly opposite the point of intersection,
or at right angles with the pi rpendicu
lar slick frame. The face of the kite is
then convex, and the Pack, of course,
concave. If at first you don’t succeed,
try again. It is fun for all sorts of hoys.
This form of kite is very eccentric, and
as game as a wily fish.”
\
(iypsies in Russia.
Even to tliis day the advent o' gypsies
is regarded as an iil omen by the Rus
sian peasants. When it is announced
in any village that a band of gypsies are
about to make their appearance, there
is a hnrlyburly among the villagers.
The men hasten to bring their horses in
from the fields where they are grazing;
the women put their poultry under
cover, and everything that can be stolen
is concealed. The gypsye women, who
are professional fortune-tellers, arc
treated with eon-iderati m on account
of the prevailing fear of their power,
though they are closely watched. Be
sides their other evil practices, the gyp
syo men arc charged with setting fire to
the houses of their i nemies, and the
gypsyc women are accused of practicing
witchcraft.
A MeMilimiee.
• bioiigo Tribune.
The engagement of Miss Eliie .Stan
ton, a daughter of the late secretary
Stanton, to Kustnm Effeudi, secretary
of the Russian legation, was announced
lust week, hut the next day it was re
ported “off.” Further inquiries de
veloped the amazing fact that the young
man had refused to go mu with the af
fair unless he could lie promised abso
lute control of Miss Stanton's property
after marriage, and her guardians would
not consent to this. Knslum Eli’endi is,
by all odds, the worst Turk ever known
in this country. He ought to be sent
home.
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Workingmen.
Before you begin your heavy spring
work after a winter of relaxation, your
system needs cleansing and strengtben
b g to prevent an attack of Ague, Bil
-1 ousnets or Spring Fever, or some oth< r
-pnng sickness that will unlit you for a
season’s work. Yen will save time,
much sickness and great expense if you
will use one bottle of Hop Bitters in
your family this monta. Don’t wail.
Seeiolhex column.
Chiu proposes to pay the cost of her
war with Bolivia by an issued $10,000,-
000 in paper money. A crisis is pend
ing in consequence among she min:--
ters.