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Ei k V THE TRIBUNE. RANDALL & BODEEN, Publshtr*. MORRIS, MINN. CRASH! 8adden and Complete Collapse of a Pri vate Banking Establishment at Victor, S. T. The Failure Brought About by the Rochester Embezzlement aud Suspension—Ruined. Depositors. Failure of a Montreal Boot ami Shoe Firm for tlOO.OOO—Uru.-» fraud Charted. ROCHESTER, N. Y., Dec. 3*i— Close on ihe heel of the disastrous failure of the City bauk, of this eity, comes the news of tho suspo.ision of the banking house of William C. Moore, at Victor, which took place Wednesday morniug. An early dep sitor, who made his appearance at the usual hour of opening, found the bank closed. The bad news quickly Bpread through tlu- village, and soon the usual quiet gave WHY to tur moil of excitement Investigation sh wed that William C. Moore had made an assign ment conveying his interest in a farm of 114 acres, upon which there was a mortgage of •6,OCX), the bank building and whaiever of value remained in the vaults, which is esti mated at about 910,000, to Joseph Upton, brother of CL E. Upton, of (he City bank, this oitv. The value of the bank building is estimated at SlX'.tW on which there is a mortage of $7,lV0 held by the New York Life Insurance company. So far as could be ascertained, these items com prised the total assets of the suspended banking-house, which may be summ uuod as follows: Cash and bills re vivablc, Si Interest in farm, St'O'OO interest in banking buildings, $5,000 total, $-1.'00. The anion k of deposits can not of course, lie uetiiiit.dy ascertained, but so far as learned there are about twelve hundred persons with bal in on deposit The following are a few of the sufferers and the amount of their balances, in round figures: V. Conover, Clark A AJdrieh, Robert J. Marteu, school col lector, $7,0110 M. A. Wilbur, John S. James. $1,5H Peer & Houston, S1,.Va Mrs. C. F. Dickenson, $1,W0. The remaini'i? de positors had but small amounts in the bauk, but in many cases the little was their all. Moore is a brother-in-law of Charles E. Up ton, and his failure was caused by the fact that he had loaned Upton $15,000 from the funds deposited in his ink. The total de posits were alout $100/00, and the available assets are estimated at SIO.iKO. The excite ment is great, but a general feeling of sym pathy is expressed for Mr Moore even by those who have lost by his failure. Business toen doubt if the bank will pay 10 cents on the dollar. The excitement over the emltezzlement of $330,000 of the City bank's funds by its presi dent, C. E. Upton, still runs high. Neither Upton nor Cashier Barnard will make a state ment. It proves that the city of liochester has tost about $ -K V by the suspension of the bank. At a meeting "of the depositors last evening, a committee of seren was appointed to examine into the affairs of the )a K, with a view of bringing those criminally l'a'-le to jus tice. A committee of live was appointed to go to Albany and secure the appointment of a re ceiver in favor of the depositors. MONTREAL, Dec. —1'errv A Cassills, one of the largest and most reputable firms here, boot and shoe manufacturers, suspended yes terday with alleged liabilities of about $So,0 .0 to til*1,IKK). Their downfall has arisen out of gross fraud of the senior partner in giving notes, without the knowledge of Cassils, to Beath & Co., leather men, without value of any kind but a personal loan of a comparatively small amount The fraud has been going on for over a year, and it is said the notes have beeu discounted not only in Molson's, which has most of them, but at the Merchants' and Union banks here, as well as in New York, Boston and Chicago. Ca-sils repudiates his liability on the paper, as l'erfy was prohibited by the articles of partnership from signing any security for the firm. The' affair has created a great sensation here, and will be taken into the crimiaal court. Cassils belongs to a family of millionaires in this ei y, and his credit stands as high as ever, the sus pension being merely to find out the extent of the surreptitious dealings that have been in progress. THE FlfiE AT JAMAICA. Details of the Terrible Conflagration —Hundred* of People Homeless. NEW YOKE, Dec. 22.—Additional details are at hand concerning the recent great fire at Kingston, Jamaica. It appears that had there been the simplest means at hand when the conflagration began to put out fire, it coidd not have spread further than a few yards. For some time after the alarm was giveu only a few bundles of shingles were in flames. The fire brigade arrived on the scene ten minutes after the alarm, but there was some difficulty in attaching tho hose to the hydrant. Mean while the names ascended and caught a tall building to the north of the savings bank. The water was now pretty well brought into play, but sparks from this high house blew wildly about, and in a few minutes eight distinct buildings in various #-ts of the town were fblaze and sending sparks to other buildings, by which means the destroying element sur rounded several districts, literally defying the efforts of the firemen. The people are home less, hundreds of them sleeping in the open air at Central park and the race-course, where the governor is endeavoriug to get tents be longing to the military erected for their cov ering. Fichtuc Fire Under Difficulties. NKW YORK, Dec. 22.—A five- story building in Fourteenth street, opposite the Academy of Music, took fire last night, and when the en gines came it was sweeping through the three tipper floors. It was not an opera night, and the Academy was closed. Foreman Thomas Meagher attempted to enter the building. The window-glass, cracking in the heat, fell in a shower on him and his men, and they were severely cut When ambulances came for them they refused to quit work. A ladder tore away the telegraph wires, which fell across the lines of the electric light circuit and dangled on the hose lines. A fireman undertook to lift one of the lines but let go. He had received a shock from the current of the electric light wires. Others who brushed against the wires were also staggered. An employe of the electric light company cut away the wires with insulated shears. The fire was not extinguished until it done $100,000 damage. Destruction of Mall. N*w YOBK, Dec. 22.—A postal car on the New York Central road caught fire from the stove while near Schenectady early yesterday morning and was totally destroyed. The con tents consisted of twenty-two sacks of foreign mail which arrived to-day and the general mail from the New York poHtoffice. There were no registered letters upon the train, which is called the San Francisco special mail. After the Pacific Rail roads, WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—Tho amendment to the postal bill adopted by the house will com pel the Pacific Bailroad companies to add to their sinking fond. It is, in effect, that these roa&s shall receive hereafter for carrying the mails of the United States only one-half of the amount heretofore allowed. The United States has heretofore allowed these roads, full rates that is, the same allowed other roads, and credited the money value of the service to the sinking fund required by what is known as the Thurman funding act. The amount due from these companies after the passage of the Thurman act on June 30,1881. was $90,000,000. The amount on the 30th of June last was 9103,000,000. It increased #4,000,000 in one yeap. If the government to day were to take possession of this property, if it had a right to take it under its lion, they would have to tako it subject to the prior liens of the first mortgage, amounting to $02,000, 000. The result would be that those roads to-day would cost the government $1(15,000 000. In view of this, the theory of to-day's amendment is to compel the railroads to pay Into the sinking fund some cash, rather tf.y^ to depend for its maintenance wholly upon GREASED RUIN. The City Bank of Rochester, N. Y., Compelled to Close Its Doors. The Funds Used by Its Truly Good President in Heavy Oil Speculations. Something Like $330,000 Missing, and the Returns Not All in l'et. Great Indignation of the Losers by the Failure. ROCHESTER, N. Y., Dec. 21.—The City bankf rated as the third strongest in Rochester, closed its doors yesterday morniug. The de ficiency is said to approximate $500,000 Great excitement prevails throughout the city because of the iuterest of poor people in the suspended institution. No iuvestigatiou has taken place as to the oause of the failure, but it is freely claimed that Charles E. Upton, president of the bank, has lost heavily iu oil and stock speculations. Investigation shows that Upton used $350, 000 of the bank's money with which to carry on his oil .-peculations. The bank hold $500, 000 of deposits and $800,000 in paper. Upton was treasurer of the Western New York Epis copal diocese, and had its funds in his bank. The small savings banks of the city had large deposits with Upton. All over tiie city the excitement is intense and increasing. J. B. Perkins, attorney of the b.uik and one of the directors, makes the following state ment: "A month ago I considered the bauk sound. The cause df the failure was specu lation with the funds of the bank by President C. E. Upton, in oil lately, who has speculated to the amount of hun dreds of thousands of barrels—AN,000 barrels, he said, for himself, and a great deal more for other parties not connected with the bank. Two or three weeks ago there was a heavy fall in prices. He took money from the bank to carry this. Immediately alter that the directors were informed that the checks of the City bank had leeu thrown out by the American*Exchange bank, of New York. We commenced investigating, aud found every thing in confusion. We wished Uptou to make a statement, aud he finally said he owed abont $&\000 and had property of the value of abont $15,000, which he agreed to secure to the bank His statemtHit was indefinite as to the amount of the debt, aud there was appar ent equivocation. p. Boss and myself went to New York and saw the officers of ihe Amer ican Exchange bank. They gave us such in formation as they could, and advised us to try and carry Upton through and get in what money we could. We came back and got in what money we could. We tried to furnish ourselves with ready money Sunday. At a meeting of the directors Mr." Upton agreed to execute var ious conveyances on Monday at 10 o'clock, but did not do it Tuesday moruing tlie directors agreed to subscribe SloO.lMi to go on with the business, and let Mr. Upton "step out, we thinking that amount would strengthen or keep the bank good. We met again at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and it was then stated in the board that Mr. Upton's liabilities to the bank in his own name and those of the other parties represented $333,000. Upton then executed a mortgage on some property, which perhaps may aggregate iu value between $50, 000 and $100,(KO. We understand from the statement made us that the deposits amount in round numbers to $100,000, and that the bank holds about $800,000 of paper, which, outside of Upton's account we considered would have been collectible at face value if the bank had not been compelled to close its doors." Upton is about 50 years of aga His repu tation has always bem good Among other positions of trust he holds the office Lt-ciiierot the Protestant Episcopal dioceso of New York. He has represented that all his property was in his own name. To-day a deed was filed purporting to be dated April 20,1882, in which ne conveyed to his wife property valued at $30,000. The indig nation among the stockholders and depositors is great Upon refuses to De interviewed, and Cashier Barnard,though in the city, can not be fouud Nd one seems to hnow anything about the books of the bank. It is impossible to ascertaiu the names of the heavy creditors. Among the heaviest yet learned are the East-Side Savings bank, *l-t, 000: Monroe County Savings bank. $50,000, and Monroe county treasurer about $22,000. It is probable that Upton will be arrested in a few days. Uptou is a fast liver, and was a member of the Bochester club, the Rochester Driviug Park association, the Rochester Gentlemen's Driving club one of the backers of the Roch ester Base-Ball club in 1878 and 1879, and held the stakes in the famous Chautauqua rowing fizzle wherein Court ney's boat was sawed and the coutest had to be repeated in Washington to decide who owned tne $6,000 prize. Another bit of Upton's history not generally known will be of interest in connection with the failure. Last winter he was one of the several Rochester bankers to form and enter a syndicate to bull Hannibal & St. Joe railroad stock and realize handsomely by heavy speculation. LUMBEBMEN IN SESSIOIT. Fifty Millions of Capital Repre sented. Br. Louis, Dec. 21.—A party of seventy-one gentlemen, representing the lumber interest of western Michigan, arrived here yesterday morning. They represent over $50,000,000 capital, invested in the lumber business. The object of the trip is to open up more intimate trade relations with St Louis, Indianapolis, and Kansas City. While in this city the dele gation will confer with Manager John 0. Gault, of the Wabash railroad, as to freight rates. The firms represent 210,0 0,000 feet of lumber piled and waiting for next spring's business, of which 150,000,000 are at Mus- TRENOB W. PAKE DEAD. The Distinguished Vermonter Pass ing Away on a steamer. NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—Trenor W. Park, the well-known Vermonter. died on a steamer bound for AspinwsU 1* wss born in Wood ford, Bennington oounty, Vt, Dec. 8,1833, where he received a liberal education, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1846 prac ticed law in Vermont until 1852, when he re moved to San Francisco, remaining there un til 1863. Returning to Vermont in 1804, ha served four years in the legislature of that state. He was president of the Panama Rail road company, and of the First National bank of North Bennington, Vt He was also a di rector in several banks and railroads in New York. Mr. Park was noted for his generosity, as many a person living in his native state can testify. BANDITS TAKE A TOWS. A Party of Mexican Outlaws Capture a City and Its Officials. MATAMOBAS, Mex., Deo. 21.—A band of for ty brigands made a erudden attack upon tho town of Ahuacatlan, Pueblo, yesterday, and by the display of fire-arms, overawed the inhab itants, who fled terror-stricken to their homes. Finally they seized and bound the mayor, jus tice and aldermen, and carried them away as captives, intending to hold them for a large ransom. A Late Arrival. Nxw YOBK, Dec. 18.—Johann Most, the Lon don socialistic editor, arrived last night, too late for the publio reception which had been arranged innis honor. The Panama Canal. PABIS, Dea 18.—At a meeting of the French Geographical society, yesterday, De Lesseps promised to have the Panama canal ready for use in 1888. Rice, of "Evangeline." BOSTON, Dea 18.—Edward E. Bice, a Boston ftieatrical manager, has filed a petition in taok» fuptcy, recognizing claims of $40,006. V A GEEAT IDTD. Sle Picked Up Hew York Tea Thousand Dollars Among liar base by Scavenger. NEW YORK, Deo. 21.—According to all re ports Johu Cummings, late of Commissioner Ooleman's street cleaning department, has ac quired a Christmas present that brings to miud the stories of DumaB or the improbable tales of Eeastern fio tion. Mr. Cummings was uutil Sat urday last employed at the foot of Seventy ninth street, North river, as a trimmer. Cum mings' duty was to trim the wheelbarrow loads before they left the scows, that noon of the refuse would crumble off. On Saturday last he was engaged as usual in his duties, there being about thirty-five other laborers on the dump. Suddenly, it ia said, while trimming off a load, ho saw a crisp looking paper in the rubbish, anil he careless ly struck it with his shovel. Several times he d,id this, but he finally stooped down and picked up tho paper. Its peculiar softness and color led him to examine it more closely, aud he read upon it, so it is alleged, a promise of the United States government to pay the sum of #10,000. lie said that he would do no more work, as he had found $10,otM, and meant to uit the business. He then stuck his shovel in heap of refuse and left. He was very shj about talking, but admitted that he had founa the bond and said that it was one that anybodj would buy in tho open market, not being reg istered. 'Pliore are reasons lor believing,how ever, that the bond fouud by Mr. Cumminga was not for the large sum of #10,000. All gov ernment securities of that value are of the reg istered issuea A Practical Joke Causes a Has to .Murder His Brother. SANDERS viLi.E, Ga., Dec. 21.—A terrible and peculiar tragedy occurred here night befor# last Dave Wilbur attempted to play a prac tical joko on his brother by frightening him. Tho latter was seized with a paroxysm of foar, i aud grasping a gnu shot dead the joking brother. For several hours the people ware greatly excited. Returned to His Old Pri«oti Home. NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—Lewie Thompson, a mulatto, aged 81, who was the first prisoner I ever sent to Sing Sing, was sent to the pernten tiary again yesterday for six months, by Judge Welch, of the city hall police court, Brooklyn, for stealing a door mat. He has spent over forty years of his life iu prisons. I CONGRESS. Hie House Will Take a Holiday Re cess from Dec. till Jan. & SENATE. WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—In the senate yoster I lay Mr. Sherman endeavored to bring up the bill relating to distilled spirits. Mr. Plumb I bjeeted aud cousidoration of the Iudiau ap propri.ition bill was resumed. At 2 o'clock the civil service bill came up as unfinished business, but was laid aside iu I y. der to complete the Indian appropriation bill Mr. Beck offered an amendment to the [ndiau bill directing the removal of the Crow S igeucy to some poiut east of the Big Horn i river,"in the vicinity of Fort Custer agreed i to. The Indian bill passed, and by unanimous i consent, Mr. Sherman succeeded in getting i np rhe bill extending the time for the with i diuwal of distilled spirits from bonded ware I hou es. Mr lugalls moved to amend the bill, adding a provision that from and after three years 1 from the e.itry of any distilled spirits now in warehouse. 5 per cent, interest shall be col lected upon such Spirits, to be computed down to the time of withdrawal agreed to. Mr. Mcpherson o^ 'ied a resolution, which i was re 'oire to the committee on finance, de- 1 Another of the directors of the bank is H. C. Boberts. He was at the Continental hotel yes terday aftempon. He said that the failure was altogether unexpected. He could con ceive of no cause for it, excepting there might have been a run on the institution. President Upton had bought tilX,000 barrels of oil at 80 oeut which he might have sold at $11.11, giv ing him a profit of about 180,000, but he chose to hold on for $1.20 per barrel, while the latest quotations are about 61 cents. This, Mr. Roberts said, would still make President Upton's margin good but he thought the depositors, knowing the extent of President Upton's operations and the decline which has taken place in the oil market, be came alarmed and made the rum on tho bank. From other sources it is learned that Mr. Up ton had a large quantity "put" on him at $1.30. Mr. Roberts, however, says that he is positive that Mr. Upton did not have accommodations from his own bank tc a larger sum than $25, 000 or $30,000. The City bank has a capital of $200,000, and is a state batik, without any cir culation. Its liabilities to its depositors will amount to about $l,0y0,0o0, all of which, Mr. Roberts thinks, will be paid in full claring it to be the sense of the senate that in I case of the reduction or abolition of the tax on tobacco at this session, there should be allowed a corresponding rebate of the tax paid on stock on hand at the time the law goes into effect, i provided such stock is stamped and iu un broken packages. The house resolution for a holiday recess i was referred. I Mr. Edmunds called for the regular order— i the civil-sei vice bilL Mr. Sherman moved to postpone the regu lar order, so as to proceed with ihe pending bill. Mr. Pendletou inquired what the effect upon 1 the civil-service bill would be if Mr. Sherman's motion to postpone should prevail. Mr. Ingalls—The effect will be send it to the calendar. Mr. Hale—The effect will be to substitute the whisky bill for yours. Mr. Pendleton appealed to Mr. Sherman to withdraw his motion, but Mr. Sherman de clined, saying the pending bill had been uu fairly treated, and he would iusist on his mo- i tion to the end. On a vote, tho motion was lost—yeas 16, navs 30. {"hen, with the civil-servioe bill before it, the spuate adjourned. HOUSE. In the house a number of bills were intro duced and referred. Among them was one limiting the number of liquor saloons iu the district of Columbia to 200. Mr. Mills of Texas offered a resolution inquiring of the postmaster general if letter carriers had beeu prohibited from wearing overcoats if so on what authority. Mr. Biuterworth of Ohio reported the army appropriation bill aud will ask its considera tion immediately after the postofiice bill is dis posed of. The speaker laid before the house a num ber of requests for leaves of absence. Debate ensued aud objections were raised on all sides. Several were granted, however, whereupon Mr. Browne of Indiana said he had voted against a holiday adjournment in good faith, but was now satisfied that what was trans acted in the house yesterday was low comedy, and anv attempt to meet during the holidays would "be a farce. Finally, after a warm de bate, tho house, by a vote of 127 yeas to ltl nays, adopted a resolution for a holiday recess from Dec 22 till Jan 2. Mr. Williams of Wisconsin, reported a reso lution reciting tho fact of the establishment of a judicial system at Tunis, and authorizing the president to proclaim that the right of the United Stfi'es to claim extra-territorial jurisdiction within the territory of Tunis had ceased. Passed. Shortly-after 2 o'clock the house went into committee of the whole on the postofiice ap propriation bilL Pending action the committee rose. The speaker announced as escort at tho burial of Representative Orth, of" Indiana, Messrs. Calkins, Peirce, Steele, Watson, Davis of Illinois, Urner and Reese. Adjourned. legerdemain at .the Oamblinff Table. Chambers' Journal. Even the sharpest of sharpers may meet more than his match. Robert Hou din hap pening to saunter into a continental casiuo where a Greek was reaping a rare harvest at •carte, looked on quietly until a seat became vacant and then dropped into it The Greek, dealing dexterously, turned a king from the bottom of the pack. When the deal came to Houdin he observed: "When I turn kings from the bottom of the pack I always do it •with one hand instead of two it is quite as easy and much more elegant See! here comes is majesty of diamondsand up came the card The cheat stared at the conjurer for a moment, and then rushed from the place wit'.put waiting to possess himself of his hat, coat or stakes. Another of the gambling fraternity, after winning ten games at ecarte in succession, tried his fortune against a new opponent, ana still his luck held. He had made four points, and dealing, turned up a king and won. "My luck is wonderful," said he. "Yes," said his adversary, "and all the more wonderful Biuee I have the four kings of the pack in my pocket!" and the professor of legerdemain laid them ou the table. "I remember," said a gentleman who had traveled in Russia, "being at a ball given by the empress to the emperor, on his birthday. I was playing at ecarte when the emperor,who iwas wandering about, came behind' me to watch tho game. My adversary and I were both at four, and it was my deal. 'Now,' said the emperor, 'let us see whether you can turn up the King?' I dealt, and then held up the turu-up card, observing, 'Your orders, sir. have been obeyed' A dozen times afterward the emperor asked me how I managed it and he never would believe that it was a mere hazard, aud that I had taken the chance of the card being a king." Cast-Iron Bottles. Boston Journal of Chemistry. A German patent has just been taken out for the manufacture of bottles, etc., from cast-iron, containing twelve per cent of sili co n, a compound which is said to resist the action of the strongest acids. It is also recom mended for the iron plates of zino and iron galvanic batteries. (Setting Used to It. NEW YOBK, Dec. 21.—Lewis Thompson, a Mulatto, 81 years of age, the first man ever committed to Sing Sing prison, has been sent back for six months for stealing a door-mat Over forty years of his life have been passed behind grated windows. A Heavy Failure. YtKNHA, Deo. 21.—Joseph Reiohardt, a feather merchant of Vienna, has failed for A WAR-CLOUD. German Excited by the Massing of Rus sian Troops on the tf alitian Frontier* BKBUX, Dea 20.—The only toplo engaging atteutiou here is the relations between Ger many and llussia. Bussian exchauge was never lower on the Berlin bourse, siuce the battle of Plevna, than now. One hundred ruble notes, of the nominal value of 320 marks, were quoted on Monday at 195 marks offered. The panic seems maiuly due to an article in The VossiBohe Zeitung concerning the echeloning of the Russian army ou the Galiciau frontier. This is re garded in well informed circles, both in Ber lin aud Vienna, as absurd, but its effect ou business shows that uueasiuess has boen raised in the minds of the public by what is known as Bismarck's newspaper campaign. This consists of various articles recently pub lished, Living stress ou the purely dual defen sive nature of the Austro-Geruian alliance. EXCESSIVE GOODNESS. The Hurricane of Virtue and moral ity in Washington. NEW YOBK, Dec. 20.—The Sun says The hurricane of virtue and morality still rage^ with uuabated violence at the capital The finance committee of the seuate, instead of its usual crab-like method of conducting busi ness, is working all day long, eveu during the sessions of the senate. Senator Sliermau has experienced a thorough change of heart, aud is prayerfully considering how to make cap ital for John Sherman out of the present bliz zard cf faith and good works. Ou all sides, in both the senate and the house, you hear of nothing but reform, economy and good gov ernment He who mentions the Christmas re cess is considered a reprobate. This alarming state of affairs at the capital naturally causes deep anxiety. Wnen one sees senators and representatives tearing down Pennsylvania avenue to the capitol, rushing breathless to their committee rooms, going to work with ferocious industry, th~ir heads buried iu piles of papers, tho committee clerks aroused from their sweet do-nothing, and made to understand that evon a government employe must lay aside all of his dignity and importance and absolutely go to werk in these perilous times when eveu the pages, whose duty it is to rush wildly back and forth on the floors of the senate aud house, carrying dinner iuvitatious to aud from members aud playing hop-scotch in tho corri dors iu the intervals of business, are seen to forego their amusement, it is plaiu that here in Washington we have a corner in virtue and industry. Every blessed lit le page is as sol emn as a little undertaker and if one winks his eye, oris caught standing on one leg, an irate door-keeper seizes him and shakes him into propriety of behavior. TELEGEAPHY. A Formidable Rival of the Western Union---Kapid Growth of the Haiti* more and Ohio Lines. BALTIMORE, Dec. 20.—The Baltimore & Ohio railroad Compauy has moved into their new offioes in the Central building here, and the new telegraph line to New York has been opened. It has seven wires, and runs through Wilmington, DeL, Philadelphia, and thence by an air line to New York. The Baltimore & Ohio railroad tel egraph system now extends from New Yoi» to Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Louisville, Co lumbus, Pittaburg, Washington, etc. Connec tions are also being formed with co-operative oompanies by which.ltichinoi.d and Norfolk,be side^ loading points in New England aud the interior of New York aud Pennsylvania will be baought within its operations. "It is thought the uew Atlantic cable will be in working order by July or August next. The sixth story of the new budding has been set apart for the mechanical purposes of the telegraph department, aud is already arranged with a capacity for seventy six operators, twenty of whom are «ow at work. It has a switch-board of superior work manship, made at the Mount Clare shops, for 250 wires, and a battery-room presenting the large number of 2,000 calls. It is also supplied with drop-hoxes and tables, through which messages are received from and sent to the various apartments of the building with won derful facility. It is said that this compauy will form an alliance with the United I'resa association in the recaption and transmission of news. QUAKING EARTH. Concord, Manchester, and Other New Hampshire Towns Shaken by Earthquakes. CoNtJoKD, Dec. 30,—At 5:34 o'clock yester day evening one of the severest earthquake shocks ever felt here occurred. The shock was like a heavy explosion, and shook the buildings, from which the people rushed to the streets. In one building the concussion was sufficient to extinguish the gas. Iuside the building the shock was like that of some object falling, seeming to be above rather than below It evidently traveled east aud west, and was felt in Pittsfield some four minutes later thap here. It was also felt at Great Falls and Manchester and others places. The shock lasted about eight or ten sec onds. DOVEB, N. H., Deo 30.—About 5:15 yester day two slight but very perceptible shocks of earthquake were felt The disturbance lasted ten seconds, occasioning alarm among the people. The shocks were accompanied by a rumbling noise, aud were felt in Kollingford. Bochester aud other towns. People rushed out of their houses much bewildered. dominations. WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—The president has nominated James Hunter, Missouri, to be sur veyor of customs at St Joseph Green 0. •Chandler, United States attorney for the nor thern district of Mississippi tafl. Hiibern, United States attorney for the district of Cali fornia llobert C. Campbell, of Loui.xi ma, to be United States consul at Moutorey Henry Jessup, of New York, to be consul geueral at Teheran, Persia. Successors to Messrs. Orth and Up •legrajr to l»e Chosen Soon. INDIANA.POI.IS, Ind., Dea 20.—Gov. Porter has appointed Tuesday, Jan. 9, as tiie date for a special election for a successor to Mr. Orth The Morey ursery. NEW YOKE, Dec. 20.—Au effort is being made to secure the pardou of James O'Brien, the self-confessed perjurer, in the matter of the Morey letter forgery. Gov. Cornell will leave the matter to his successor. Pensions for Veterans. WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—The house pension committee has agreed to report a bill giving #8 to soldiers engaged for thirty days in the Mexican, Blackhawk or Florida wars, or to their widows. Death of Henry James, Sr. BOSTON, Dec. 20.—Henry James, Sr., the philosopher and metaphysician, an asso ciate of Greeley, Emerson and Thorean on this side of the Atlantic, and of Carlyle, Mill and Tenuyson on the other, died yesterday. Tlie Biggest Trees iu the World. Boston Journal of Chemistry. Victoria, Australia, now claims the glory of holding the biggest of all the living "big trees" in the world, so far as height is coucerned. In the Dandonong district at Fernshaw has recently been discovered a specimen of Eu calyptus amygdaliua, or almoud-leaf gum, which, accurately measured, reached" the enormous height of !3S0 feet beforo throwing out a single branch, and 430 feet to the top, and having a girth of 00 feet at some distance above the ground. Some idea of what an elevaiion of 4-0 feet represents may bo gained from tho fact that this guin-treo, if growiru, by tho side of the Buukor Hill mouumei?' would stand almost twice as high as *li^. loftv obelisk, which is 2.'0 feet in height One of the Thirteen. MORRISTOWN, N. J., Dec. 15.—Maria Appley, •ne of the thirteen girls who represented the states in Washington's funeral procession in New York, died yesterday, aged 104 year% in the full possession of her faculties. Heavy Land Purchase. LITELB ROCK, Dea 15.—A tract of 100,000 •ores of cotton lands in Arkansas has been purchased by Benjamin Newgass. of liver pool, and other British capitalists, to bs worked on the syndicate plan, HURLED TO DEATH. Wreck of Two Passenger Trains bj Col lision on an Ohio Road Near Dayton. A Number of People Killed or In jured—An Elephant Shaken Up —Cause of the Crash. CtaciNNATl, Dea 1ft—The east-bound pas senger express train on the Pittsburg, Cincin nati k St Louis railroad, leaving hore at 8 o'clock, collided with the limited express, due here at 8, but which was three hours late, i The Kreuz Zeitung says that as all kinds of symptoms aud rumors"wero reported from liussia of a tendency opposed to tho amicable sentiments of thej czar and De Uiors, u was deemed expedient to throw out tho reminder that the present policy of Germauy had suffi ciently pro tided for all emergencies. The press continues to heatedly discuss the relations of llussia with tho German powers, but the excitement is begiuuing to abata There is nothing to show that the sentiments of the czar toward Germauy aud Austria are hostile. about 10 o'clock yesterday morning near King's Station, thirty miles from the city. A telegram to the postal department here i says: W. H. Wharton, a postal clsrk on the east-bound train, was instantly killed, aud Mo- Mahon, on the same train, injured. Postal clerks Hanover, Hollingshoad, and Goebel, on 1 the west-bound train, wore also iujured. Further information from the railroad acci dent says but two persons were killed—Postal olerk Whartou and engineer Peters. None of the passengers was hurt Tho elephant be longing to the Kiralfy Brothers, ou the eaBt bound train, was killed. The postal clerks who were hust are not seriously injured. DetailB are extremely meagre, but tho fol lowing is known: The accident happened on a high curve betweou Foster and Mew Leba non. Engineer l'oke Peters, of the east-bound train, had his head separated from tho body. Postal Clerk W. H. Wharton, living iu Ur bana, was also instantly killed. Postal Clerks W. H. Hanover, M. Hollingshoad (substitute), Harry Madis and Adam Goebel were seriously injured No satisfactory reason for tho acci dent can be given. All the men are silent. Kiralfv's "Around the World" combination was on tlie east-bound train. As far as known, the members of the company wholly escaped. Later information adds J. C. MacNown, postal cler't, to the list of injured. His in juries are slight The cause of tne accident was the mistake of Engineer Peters of the accommodation train for the limited express. The east-bonud train received orders at Love land not to pass Foster's till the west bound had reached that point, where i the double track to Cincinnati begins. I Shortly before the east bound train reached Foster's it met the accommoda tion from Foster's, which was mistaken for the express, so the east-bound train eutered tho •ingle track at Foster's, supposing it clear. A mile and a half further on, at a sharp curve, the trains crashed, one at the rate of forty five, the other forty miles an hour. The two engines were mashed together and the postal I cars piled upon them. No other cars were thrown from the track. Kiralfy Brothers's oar, with the elephant, scenery, and baggage, was next to the postal car of the e ist-bound train. The elephant was reported kil id, but CINCINNATI, Dec. 19.—A collision occurred ,. yesterday morning a few minutes alter 9 o'clock on the little Miami railroad, near King's Station, thirty miles northeast of Cin cinnati The fast express known as No. 4 left here at 8 o'clock, expectiug to pass the west bound express on the double track between herb and Foster's Crossing. The instruc Hons to the engineer were, in the event he did not meet No. 5 on tho double track, which ends at Foster's Crossing, to wait there tw .nty minutes. No. 5 should have been here before No. 4 left, but she was two and a half hours behind time. The orders to the engm eer of No. 4, Those name was Peters, seem to have beeu misunderstood. Instead of waiting at Foster's for the down express for twenty inin utes, and lhen three minutes more, accord- ing to tho rule of the road, to allow for varia tion of watches, he inquired for orders at Fos ter's, and, Ending there were none, pulled out i upon the single track and started towards King's Station at the rate of thirty miles an hour. When within less than two miles of King's Station, and while rounding -Smoky Curve," tho down express was seen coining under full hea.iwav a few hundred feet distant The firemen both" jumped from the engines and escaped without serious injury. Engineer Peters, upon whom the blame of the coilisiou falls, stuck to his engine and Was instantly killed. The up-train, No. 4, had one postal car with a crew of four men, and No. 5. v.as drawing two postal-cars with a combined crew of ten. Of these three cars there is nothing left but some kindling-wood. \V. H. Wharton, who was iu the up-car, was killed. A timber struck him on the ''pad split ting it completely in two. H. H. Hanover and Adam Gookel, postal clerks in the same car, received severe injuries. Hanover was bruised on the head and body, and badly ecaided. Goekel was scalded aud had one leg crushed, i He was a "sub," aud was out on his first trip. A SAD STOEY. Betnrn of Little Annie Jackson with Tired Face and a Pitiful Tale. Deserted by Her Medical A.lmirar She Makes a Solitary Trip to St Louis. A Cruel Story of Masculine Depravity and Oirliih Affection. 1 J. C. McLIahon, Mr. Hollingsliead, Harry Madison, aU postal clerks, were slightly injured. W. W. Kicker, William Lowe, J. W. Lingo and C. G. Kendell, postal clerks, escaped without a scratch. None of the passengers were hurt The engines were both new, and are both total wrecks. The baggage and express cars were tele scoped and piled on top of one another, but, singularly enough, none of the coaches left the track or were telescoped. The force of the collision was expended on the engiuea and postal, baggage, and express cars. The news that such was the case relieved much anxiety here, many well-known people in Cincinnati being among the passengers. Among them was Sir, Edmund H. Pendleton, president of the May Festival association, and a brother of Senator Pendleton. The Kiralfy Brothers ele phant was in the baggage-ear, and was re ported to have beeu killed, butsu 'h was not the case. Tho car assuming a position after the accident that made him uncomfortable, he begau to burst out one end of it, and toon had the whole end of tho car .out, wheu he walked ont of the wreck, and after goiug upou the track, turned round to look at the ruins out of which he had emerged. The dead body of the postal clerk, Wharton, was sent to Columbus, and thence to his home in Urbaua, this state. The dead engineer and all the injured wsre brought to this city. Carriages were in wait ing at the depot, and they were all taken at once to their homes and niedical attendance secured. It is not thought that any of the clerks mentioned as hurt will die of iheir in iuries, but it is too early to s.iy positive ly. .The remains of Engineer return were taken from the depot to his home in Columbus ou an accomiiiodotion train. He was a single man. As soou as ho received news of tho ac cident tho train-dispatcher and Train-Master Skinner proceeded lrom Xeuia to the scene of tho wreck. They place the responsibility for the accident all upon the dead engineer, Peters. Parnell on Kmierratlon. CORK, Dea 19.—Parnell opened here yester day a branch Irish National league. He ex plained the purpose of the league was not to Berve the iuterosts of any one class, but that its efforts will be devoted to national objects and the advancement of the Irish people Tf every class. Parnell, in his speech, said he would always oppose any attempt of tho governmeut to land emigrants in a a hapless and penniless conditio!i ou the shores of America. If, ho said, Englaud desires to promote the emigration of Irishmen, let them be placed on land in America, provided with houses and means to raise a crop the first year of their residence. He advocated relief for the thickly-settled districts by purchasing for tho people vast tracts of grazing land in Ire'and whi.ih were peopled before the pania Thore is no reason, ne said, why they should not be peopled again. Virnoll estimated that £.'i,000.0"0 a farsef rent would be wiped out by the nrrears-of-rent act He believed that since the commence ment of the agitation £!!,0»)0,00() reduction v.' rent had beeu obtained for the people. Thb land courts would, under the present system, take twenty-flvo years to settle tho rents. Such a settlement could never go to the root of the question, which could only be settlod by the establishment of peasant proprtoiurv The claims of labor required immediate attention, which must he brought about by agitati n and organization. He attended to urge every body to induce the tenants to bo'-row money from the board of works to improve their holdings and afford emplovmont to la borers during the winter. Such borrowing would also have tho effect of proving that the tenants ought not to have to pay the land lords iticreasod rent for any part of the im provements offected by the tenants. Mail Itobbery. TEHBK HAUTK, Ind., Dea 15.— Along the track of the Vaudalia road in tbis city, early yesterday morning, wore found two mail pouches containing matter destined from New York for Colorado. The letters had been cut opou and put back in the baga Confederate Bonds, BAMXMORE, Deo. 15.—On orders fron London banking house, Baltimore brokers are buying Con fedora te coupon bonds of the face valuo of $1,0011,000, for which they pay $8.50 to #9.7a per $1,000. A .Railroad President's Trouble. NEW YOBK, Dea 18.—George J. Bios, formerly president of the Utica, Ithaca Jt Elmira road, was arraigned in the Tombs police court, charged by Anton Corbin with embezzlement, forgery and robbery. The specificatious are that he failed to cancel 19,(!80 shares of old stock when the new cer tificates were issued, but used nearly half the amount as collateral at the Third National, bauk, and now refuses to make any SX- CmcAao, Dea 1& The mystery snrronnding the disappearance of Annie Loftns Jackson was cleared up las* night, when the wanderer returned and told a story which proves beyond doubt that she was lured from her home by George 0. Budding ton, the medical student Together the couple went to a hotel, and the young medical stu dent, in spite of his denials, will now be con fronted with the victim of his wiles. Late Saturday evening the young girl re turned to her home. She appeared dazed, anu seemed afraid that some one intended to do her bodily harm. All efforts to calm her were useless, and a short time later, wheu her mother, who had been summoned from the Harrison Street station rushed into the room, the girl indulged in an outburst of grief that no one present witnessed with dry eyes. "Annie, my darling," sobbed the mothertand sank into a swoon. Annie, terrified beyond expression, threw herself passionately upon the tloor by her mother's side, and thus the father and hus band found them as he entered the room a moment later. A neighbor who had been dis patched for medical aid soon returned with Dr. Taylor, who succeeded in restoring Mrs. Jack son to consciousness. All save the members of the family withdrew, and for an hour the child remained cl.isped iu her mother's arms. This ia the story she tells: "When I left my sister last Monday 1 went down to the college to see George Budding ton. He had professed to think a great deal of me, and had invited me to come and see him. I went to his boarding-house when I found he was not at the college, and he agreed to meet me later in the day, and so I kept an appointment with him at 5 o'clock. I know I did wrong. When we left the college to gether we walked down Cottage Grove avenue to I wenty-secoi street, I think it was, where George went into a telegraph office and sent a dispatcli." "To whom?" "To Mrs. and Miss Hughes, so he said, and in the dispatch he informed them that he would not be home uutil to-morrow. That is what he told me. Then he took a car and went down the street, and ho took me to a he tel, the Clarence house. He registered as McDay, aud respresented that 1 was his sis ter." 1 thiB is a mistake. The car was so little in jured that it was sent to its destination None of the Kiralfy troupe were hurt, aul no pas •sngera injured. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. It iB now apparent that the dispatch which was sent to Buddmgtou was written by lum self. He dated it at No. 29 East Sixi euth street, aud sigued "jlcDay." His purpose was, evidently, to leave the impresiou on the mimls of the landlady and her daughter that he was detained oa professional business. The I continued: "He got two rooms, and he came right into my room and said he was going to stay there all night I toid him he shouldn't do auy such thing. Fe said he would, that he hud made arrangements to stay aU night and he should certainly do so. I told him he had no business to talk that wav to me, and he said he would stay there alf night Then he went to the door, locked it, and put the key iu his pocket, and I begau to be afraid He took hold of me, and I fought and screamed. Then he s aid he would order some suppor for me, and he went away. I think it was about 8 o'clock. The suppers were sent np, but he did not come back, and after I had waited a long time I sent him a dispatch to his poarding-honse, asking him to come for me immediately, as I wanted to go home. He took tlii? dispatch I sent him and wrote on the back of it that he could not come that he was kept away on a case of conrinement I was afraid to go home alone, audI staid there all night. 1 thought he would come the next day, but he didn't, and the next day they be gau to have suspicions of me at the* hotel, and wheu tliev asked about me I told them that I was waiting for my brother. Ha didu't come and they took an interest in me and asked me where 1 lived. 1 told them I lived iu SL Louie. That was a wrong story. Then they were all very kind to me, aud they raioed enough money to take me to St Louis. I didn't dare to back out, for I thought they would kuow I had told them a story. 0, I for got 40 tell you thit Wednesday 1 gut a dispatch from Buddington saying he 'would come aud take me away. When 1 got to St. Louis I didn't know anybody, audI wandered around and finally went to a good lady's house. Her name is -Mis. Strauss. Why, she talked to me real kind, just like a mother but I had told her a story to commence with, and I had to keep it up. Then I weut out aud met two real kind gentlemen. One of tliem was named Galviu and the other's name was Beck. They sent me to a police station aud got the officers to look out for ma. The officers didn't be lieve the story I told them. I said my father and mother lived in Canada, and that I had a brother in Chicago who was a medical student They said they would find out wheftier I was telling them a story or not,and they had me write a letter to my brother in this city, and I did so." "What did you say in the letters?" "Well, 1 called him 'dear George,' and said the police in St Louis didn't believe ma I told him 1 had to show the letter I wrote to the police before sending, and in it I asked him to seud me a pass so 1 could get homo." The letter to which Annie alluded reached Buddington last night. Below is a copy of it: '•ST. LOUIS, Thursday, Dea 15.—DEAB GEORGE I arrived in St Louis Thursday moruing, and could not find mother or father, but hear they had gone to Montreal or Qixebea I would uot write to you. but the police do not believe me,-l suppose, aud of course 1 do not blame them, for it do s »eem strange. How is all the girls. Do you expect to come home Christmas? If you do 1 wish you would stop in St. Louis and call on a Miss Carrie Miller and a Mr. Gattery. answer Emiedieilv, and please make no delay. Ever your affectionate sister, ALVIUA JACKSON. "P. S.— Please write to 8x!01 Chestnut street, and remember me to the boys at the college, and girls too." "The folks in St Louis were very kind to me." Annie continued, "and one of them Mr. Gattery, took me to ae train and seut me to Chicago." "tin the train," the Ided, "they took a good deal of interest both the conduc tor and the trainmen. go* to Chi a.'o this morning about half-pa .1 o'clock, *.• i lieu I was afraid to go home. 1 had some money and "Where did you get the money?" "Well, when George left me at that hotel Monday night I found, after he had gone away, a dollar bill which he had left under my hat Then tiie people, when they sent me "to St Louis, gave me $2 in money. Yes, I didn'^ like to go home, for 1 know I did very wrong. I thought 1 would go up on the tram, Uit when I got to Thirty-ninth street 1 couldn't bear to go to the house, so I kept right on the train and went through to Fnllman. Th e I found a young man I kuow, and he had re-.d that I was missing and offered to take me nome, but I told him I would go home. I got oS the train at Thirty-fifth street and met a girl I know, and she eanie home with me." Annio's recital was many times interrupted by tears, aud she betrayed' frequent symptoms of hysteria She is au impulsive child. o!d for her years, and iu mauner and speech evinces great spirit and determination. Her descrip tion of the struggle iu the Clarence hou»t leads to tho conclusion that Buddington did not accomplish his vile purpose. She savs she fougbt him as hard an ahe could. lie didn't seem to mind that, bat when she began to scream he changed his mind and talked about supper. A reporter called upon Buddington in his oell at the armory and acquainted him with the fact that Miss Jackson had finally shown up, and at the same time detailed to him in Irief the story which sho had to tell concern ing herself, and especially that portion of her story in which the proprietor of the Clarenoe house is interested. Buddington is a thor oughly frightoned young man, and moreover has been rather severely treated since he haB been in custody. He refused to say any thing concerning the case, aud referred the reporter to his attorney. But his curiosity rather got the best of his determination not to be interviewed. He was extremely anxious to k iow .til that Miss Jackson had lo say coin'" ti(j him as well as herself, and the repor vhliged him with as many particulars as pes* Thereupon Buddington asserted that tiie uti.g lady was a notorious liar, and that no -MO knew it better than her father, but he did uoi speciiimlly deny tho Clarence house Story, lie was also anxious to know what Mr. Jackson ibought of the case now, and whethor e intended to prosecute, and it appeared from .atic thai thr young man thought that he had ss good r-..*sin to lie afraid of tho father as he h.iu to i "raid of the penalty imposed by law A.« die interview was about to close, BndfK n asserted hie innocence of the cbarp- abduction in the strongest possible term- icemed to feel confident that he wouin .)« out all right as soon as he was givfi, aring. A. Will Contest. tttw Loins, Dec. 18.—Tho murder of Mra chjnpral Dorris by her grandson, in this city, .a the recent death of her husbaud from brief, are uow followed by a contest oi the gen end's will. Mra Wisker, the mother of the disinherited murderer, appeared iu court yes terday and asked that the ^leed of sale to her sister of ie magniliceut suburban home be set Mide, as 1} yrm Qbt%)M4 ty undue iaflu- mm I A Short Chapter on Pantaloon*. Cincinnati Enquirer. A few years ago man oenaured the opposite •ev for appearing in trailing costumes that, like the gowns condemned by Chaucer's par son, "trailed in the mire on horse, and eke on foot, as well of man as of woman." What shall the "paragon of animals" do now to atone for his inconsistency in bringing into use long pautaloous, that, in the course of a day's wanderings up and down sidewalks and across muddy streets, accumulate as much filth as did any of the trailing dresses! The man has now no recourse unless he be so lost to all re gard for appearances as to roll the objection able articles up at tiie bottom. The most sensible pantaloons, after all, were the knee-breeches, witii stockings and high top-boots, and, for pleasant weathar, the pumps of our forefathers. No getting up after a nights tramp in the mud and finding them coated with filth for half the length of the leg, inside and out. There would be less profanity in this world if a fashion could be nit upon that would combine cleanliness with style. A voung man of the present age made up after the strict fashion-plate pane 'ii. looks, as to his extremities, like a sand-hill crane with clothes on. No provision is made for men with contracted calves and expan sive pedal termini. Take an individ ual whom nature has blesed with good understanding: place on him a pair of these scant ardcles, with a »:r i giit cut at the bottom, and the amou it of ma i that appear- turned up o»i the grou iu is enough make oi.o tremble for the pros- va i.j.i of in sect life. AgaiII, select the same man, aud place upon him a pair of trousers tiiat eo itain a little more cloth, and that v.: a liber.d spring at the bottom (o co.i -e.ii a pord u o! the feet, and the objection disappeir-t Jus as ludicrous are the extmples presetted by seeking the other extreme Here is a 111a going down Fourtn street, lie is so fat thai he is almost as broa 1 as he is i ig. a I to complete his resemblance to a tr..d .« lar lie has inserted his legs in a lir o: w:i*t from their outline, might be a j'.ii,ed uieai-bags. How a (lonfc (era e »l*. *»:i Tered. During the late war, says a writer HI The Atlanta Constitution, there was a great sca.'e in Athens, ia over tiie appr.ia -n of Sher man's raiders. A day or two la.er the raidere reached Athens, they e im.j as prisoners, gal laut Col. W. C. P. Brj %iu -i lg3 a. id .lis Ke i- tuckiaus having captured t.iem just before they swooped down ou the devo-ed town. That was a gr jat day in Athens, at-l as Col. Breckinridge rode in at the he id of his vic torious regiment, with the prisoners in hie train, he filled my ideal of a conquering hero I was then a youngster in Athens and remem ber that the ladies gave Brecki iridge and his officers a grand dinuer at which there wag feasting and speaking—the gallant colonel being specially modest and backward. I met Col. Iireckiuridge the other day and recalled the iucident. "Yes," he replied, laughing "that I think was the most terrible experience of my life." I remarked that it seemed to be pleasaut "You can't remember how nervous I was— how I sat down iu the most unexpected way whenever anyone approached me, and how I positively deciiued to walk around the room with a lady that w-anred to present me to other ladies. I remember well how beautiful and enthusiastic she was. Her name was Sukey Dougherty, and she was the daughter of one of your most distinguished men. She insisted on my going with her to be introduced to Her friends. I declined, and when I was about to be surrounded by ladies \*&o joined in the request, I deliber ately sat down and left thein standing. Then the crowd demanded a speech. I detailed one of my captains to make one. They then called for me, and I having in the meantime sidled round to the back part of the house, stood with my back plump agaiust the wall and re sponded. '"What was the matter?" "Well, you see, I had been in the saddle con stantly for several weeks. I had only one pair of breeches, and no tailor in the regiment Au army saddle is very wearing. And—to be brief, I had the most obvious reasons for pre senting only my front to the fair company that gaye us that day the best dinner of the war." I How Thurlow Weed Made S400.00& Milwaukee Wisconsin. The bulk of Thurlow Weed's wealth was ae quired iu a singular manner—at least for an editor. He is reported to have made at least i $400,000 in one speculative deal in whisky, This soft impeachment he never denied, and it was most astonishing that any editor could make so much money on whisky with a com paritively small capital in nis hands. The transaction has been thus explained: During the war the first tax levied on whisky was 60 cents per gallon. That was considered to be I too low. Secretary Chase, in his financial re port of lfki-J, recommended this tax i should be raised to $2 per gallon, i Now Secretary Seward was a mein ber of Lincoln's cabinet, and of course, knew in advance what financial recommenda tious would be made. He informed his most intimate friend, Thurlow Weed, that such a tax wouid be proposed. Of course this was a i violation of cabinet secrets but Seward eon cealed nothing from Weed, who was shrewd enough to grasp the whole situation. He took a few trusted frieuds into liis confidence and bought ull the whisky he could reach iu the city of New York. As soon as Secretary Chase's report was published, whisky rose S'l per gallon. Weed sold out at this advance, aud raked in a handsome profit This pecu liar episode in the life of a distinguished editor has never been controverted. Weed was not blamed, but Seward was considered very cen surable for betraying the state secrets of President Lincoln's' cabinet A Cure for Diphtheria. Chicago Tribune. An English physician recently prescribed a teaspoonful of sulphur in a wineglass of water to be used as a gargle. A correspond ent applied flour of sulphur on a flat stick to his own children, who were desperately sick, with immediate relief, and now the editor of The Philadelphia Record says: "A gentleman residing in the northern part of the city, whose two little daughters were dying last Thursday of diphtheria, saw in The Becord of that day a communication com mending the use of sulphur in cases of diph theria. As a last resort he made a trial of it, using washed flour of sulphur, and applying it directly to the membraueous growths in the throats of the chddreu by means of a common I day pipe. The effoct was almost magical, i Withiu two hours there was complete relief, and in two days the children, who had been given up by their physician, had recovered." It is stated that diphtheria is caused by I animalcules just below the roots of the tongue, and the theory of the application of sul phur is that it destroys them. It ia a remedy easily tried, and need not interfere with the treatment of any physician. Before Pockets—WliatV Cincinnati Saturday Night It is said that when yon touch a man's pocket you touch his soul, but how was it before pockets were invented? Was his soul untouched up to that period? The ancients knew nothing of pockets, for they are a com paratively modern invention. The condition of a little* six-year-old ancient with no pocket in which to stow away his top, fish-nooks, i'ack-kuife,matches, jewBharp, bean-blower, cellar door ey, loose cigar stumps, jumping jack, marbles, ink-stopper, button-hook, i india rubber gum, slate pencil, kite string, i drumsticks, etc., must have been quite deplor I able. Before pockets came into fashion purses were suspended from a girdle. Thieves secured them by cutting them away, hence the term cutpurse, which is much older than the pickpocket Roj&s: There is no place so high that aa i laden with gold cannot reach it TEE 00Y0TEVHLE BAB. Passages of pleading in a Frontier 1 aw* ult. Laura Wells Morse in Iippincott's Magazine. We found a lawsuit in progress in one of tlie lower rooms as we descended. Most of the male population of Coyoteville was present the jailer, even, was there with his prisoners, all except the cattle-stealers: their offence was too grave to be favored with any such clemency. A goodly number of country-peo ple also were on-lookers. Costless and hatless were most of the spectators, who, in the absence of chairs, Bat huddled together on the floor, or in wagons drawn up before the win dows outsida Several women of rustic ap pearance, who had been summoned as wit nesses, occupied places on a dry-goods box. The room itself was large and dingy. The rough, smoky walls were garnished with cob webs, and elaborate devices in ink and tobacco juice ornamented the floor. A pine table, sm mounted by a cupboard filled with shelves and pigeon-holes, stood in one corner, and a insty stove, with but one length of pipe fur nished a resting-place for tiie brawny person of the counsellor for the defendant in the suit The plaintiff, an angular, thin-faced man, with a countenance expressive of cunning and hypocrisy, had perched himself upon ths table his lawyer sat at his elbow. Thejus tta»«aHUiMttM«i4y.flMr his spectacles sad expression of wisdom sad dignity befitted hi* position aad the occasion. An empty soap-box stood on end at his right for the acommodation of witnesses. The de fendant a scared-faced Norwegian, occupied a reserved seat in the orchestra, so to speak that is to say, be squatted on the floor in front of the squire, The suit was brought to recover $3 for the keep of a cow—the plaintiff claiming that he had found the animal roving at large, and had taken her up aud kept her for two weeks be fore he could find the owner. The examination of the last witness was about concluding when we looked in, and a few moment's later the plaintiffs lawyer began his speech. He made an introductory eulogy upon fiis client, laying great stress upon his being a church member, a Sunday school teacher, and a most exemplary citizen. "Look upon that benign aud open countenance, your honor and ladies and gentlemen—" Here the speaker was interrupted by peals of laughter from the spectators by an unfor tunate coincidence, he Lad called attention to the open countenance of his client just as the latter was indulging in a prodigious yawn, which he struggled in vain to abbreviate. The justice pounded upon the table with his fist, aud shouted in a thundering voice, "Order! order'. Gentlemen, we must have order!" "Why did he make that charge?" said the attorney, when the outburst subsided. "Was it from greed of gain? Did he do it because lie coveted the three dollars No, your honor no, ladies and gentlemen hedidit from duty —from that motive which is the moat just, the purest and the beet—a motive which has its birth in heaven." The speaker than digressed to rail against the heathen hordes swooping down upou the Pacific, and the insurgent tribes which every breeze wafted across the Ailantia" Then he spoke of the danger of having an unruly ani mal running at large about the country, and introduced an anecdote about a woman who was gored by a cow, which was so a dec ting that it caused many of the listeners to wipe their eyes. But the crowning effect was spoiled "by the defendant's lawyer inquiring, with seeming innocence, if the cow was hurt The attorney for the defendant was a tall and burly Irishman, with a pair of lusty lungs, a rich brogue, an astonishing disregard for every grammatical rule, and a special fond ness for long words, over which tie stumbled like an awkward boy attempting to jump the ropa "Who is there iu Coyoteville," he exclaimed, "or, in fact, iu the whoie couu ty, who doesn't know old Pennvsnatcher, the wolf encased in lamb's-skin, tlie cheat who sells bad e^gs at the grocery? Four dozen at a time, ladies and gentlemen." "It is false!" screamed the plaintiff, purple with rage. "Who dares impeach the veracity of Dennis O'Brien? Let him do it again at his perii!" cried the defendant's lawyer, striking an atti tude which displayed to advantage his magnif icent physique, and holding up a pair of fists as big and solid as sledge-hammers. His appearance was so threatening that the plain tiff in fearlul apprehension, edged toward the window, and tlie defendant, who could not comprehend what it was all about, crept under the table. The attorney for the de fendant next alluded to the attempt of the prosecution to create a prejudice agaiust the defendant on account of his nationality. He compared this part of the gentleman's speech to the sputtering of a wet skyrocket He re ferred to evidence showing that the cow had disappeared between two days, and intimated that she did not go of her own accord. He concluded by a wild flight of eloquence, in which he spoke of other lands, iron heel of "tyrannity," swelling plains,humble hearths and "happy" hearts, "borauzer" kings, rattle snakes. American eagle. He roared, he stamped he waved his arms, he clutched tha air. T. listeners were electrified, the de fendant sat cowering under the Table, and the plaintiff crawled out of the window. It Shook Hands With Him. Boston Journal. Finally, they came to the fish stalls, where upon the old gentleman—who had never left off orating upou the products which man bad brought together for his comfort or growth— picked up a lobster which lay in a barrow, and discoursed as follows: "You may dis cover here, my son, au indication of the lesson which the ways of Providence constantly teach us, not to form our opinions from external in dications. This humble and at first sight hideous crustacean, than which nothing could be mora forbidding in appearance, affords one of the most delicious articles of food that the sea produces. Its shell, also, in life green, slimy aud repulsive, becomes by boiling a res plendent scarlet, suggesting to us, as I may sav, the uses of adversity, in passing through wfiich the human snul takes on a more re splendent"—but at this juncture the Libster, evidently pleased to hear itself so handsomely spoken of, stretched out a claw and insisted on snaking hands with the sage, giving him such a grip, iudeed, that he was surprised into language as far removed as possible from his previous philosophical moralizing, and danced up and down in an agde manner most surpris ing in a man of his years. Women Barbers Xot a Success. Experience has taught a St Louis proprietor that woman as a barber is not an unqualified success. He says, "The chances are she'll get stuck on some fellow, or one will get mashed on her, and that settles the whole business. And when it gets that way he'll sit around for half a day with half a dozen empty chairs in sight rather than to let any one but'her shave him, and she, if she's spooney on him, will be the other half day getting away with a beard that you can't "see, aud waxing a mustache that's'just started A girl is all right iu her place, but her place r.in't in a barber shop, in my opinion." Ancient Music and Song. Judge C. P. Daly. The aborigines of North America, the Es quimaux. aud other savage races were found when discovered to be in possession of musi cal instruments of their own construction. The ancient Egyptians possessed no less thau seventeen different musical instruments among them being the cymbal, the drum, the tambourine, the pipe, the flute, the triangular harp, the bow-slmped harp, the lyre, and the guitar. Instruments were to be divided into three classes—instruments of concussion,wind insfruments aud string instruments. The fife was the first wind instrument in vented, aud the organ the last, and of string instruments the lyre was the first and the piano the last Speaking of the troubadours, the lecturer said said thev wert to be regarded as the first lyric poets. I'he troubadours were the originators of the ballad and the rounde lay. Their songs chiefly related to love and its varying emotions, and this was to lie account ed for by the fact that the troubadours held love to be the highest emotion which human beings were capable of experiencing and being governed by. How to Catch Bnrslar's Portraits. E. S Brcwn iu Scientific American. The burglar alarm now in use, true to its name, alarms the burglar, and he is away. Instead of ringing the alarm, let it be set to turn on momentarily the full glare of electric light, and at the same instant have it expose a plate in a camera all ready to take an instan taneous picture. The burglar of course will take to flight, but will leave his photograph behind. The same blaze of light which lias alarmed him will awaken the sleeping inm ites. who can proceed at once to the camera and secure tlie negative. In order, however, that the camera .. ould le set at the right focus the alarm useil should be au electric mat set in a certain place ou the floor, that spot being covered by the focus of the camera. Too Hasty. Philadelphia Times. Just before the opening of a sealed verdict in Judge Finletter's court yesterday, that .d been rendered by a jury who had been out all night deliberating upon a claim ou some me chanics' liens, the lawyer for the plaintiff got in in time to say that he would sutler a non suit so that he could have a new trial. When the verdict was opened, it was found to be in the plaintiff's favor for $1,053. The lawyer tried to smila Solidified Tea. Scientific American. One hundred parts of ground sugar and 10 parts starch sugar are boiled with the quantity of water required for solution, until the mass I becomes tenacious, but yet remaius transpar snt After cooling, 50 parts of tea previously mixed with 50 parts of dry sugar, are added, The plastic mass is pressed into moulds, and when solidified forms the preserved tea. Weed's Hlnrerest Mourner. Hew York Truth. i Thurlow Weed left at least one gfoeeg* mourner. Recently, one morniug Truth °a oountered a little girl, looking up at the houat the veteran politician lived and died in, crving. She was crying for Mr. Weed/fche saii'wfio used to give her apples when oh* passed an her way to school. Our TolenuMa Ottvar Wendell Holmes. 1 can say without offense to-day that wMcb called out the most angry feelings and Hie hardest language twenty-five years aeo. I mav doubt everything to-day, if 1 will only do ft ariUy. A Close Question. A Vermont debating society will tha question "Which is the most fun—to aee m^toytoth^