Bloomington Progress, Volume 20, Number 1, Bloomington, Monroe County, 3 March 1886 — Page 1

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TBI JESTER SUMS UP.

ntfaar sad trie doulUiU ward will lie to mafce agon;

. business is a

Uyra nave a chestnut to preserve Just boil it down In ink; ToaVfind the tansy attppani aMfeesoBsr dealing

A snatoasihahadV ahorse Is shod, sprowling hen is shooed; A deed Is done, a don Is did, aad nothing Is a

i to a flow, a Boston girl a fia :

AecrwiasoiaUoo 'stale, the homed hat

answer bath's a damp one, bus the atom's a damper still; To wOl never grind with water that in running upthohll; Tiie handkerchief too hem haw, bawiyoumaaa to give to him; The head that makes a Joke is thiek why then ?" tiie joke js slim; The higliastszt can't paint tta wind, but you can draw yonrbi eat h ain't ttoaJotaweabntths shook that kiUsin

The man who bravely tells the truth about tk apple tree wmitoahoakaM&ahhe.oansmlsaa. 3a August, when the day is hot, yoara apt to find tt scold;, Bstixrauas that toot friends take off an worth their weight in cold; Mill III II i n lulu conductor's punch, year head will never swim; When with the porter you've a brush, no quarter show to him. Aad any more ol this you wast, Jnst real tt off yourself; There's tons of raw material upon the dnsty shelf; At jingtotrtai it lightly, in gas meter, as yon

SsUesdU lot de deedle. deedle lol de deecledsaw

i STELLA MADE A "HIT."

vs oeobos c. jssaca. If 't had been caught in sneh s situation try anybody but John Benton I should nave been terribly annoyed. There I was, sitting on the floor of the nursery, -with hair tumbled, my face red and sticky with candy, and a great rent across the front breadth of my overskirt, where it had been MDght by a nail a few minutes before daring a fierce blind-mar 's-buff scrimmage. My little sifter A lice. was having a birthday party and of r9e I had to assist in entertaining the'gueste."' There were just twelve, seven bftjis sSaTOvefrnV Supper was over everybody was too excited to sit long at the table) and. we1 all retired to the nursery at the top of the house, where there were no restrictions as to anise, and where the eten boys exercised their snooting franchise to the utmost, assisted in a more subdued, way by., the live girls, the. youngest a wee little thing of four years, who had insisted on sharing her stick of candy with me. When John Benton tapped at the door 1 said "Come in," carelessly, supposing it was servant. "I beg your pardon, Hiss Lafonr. They aid I should find yon here But perhaps X hate made Bome mistake?" "Kot at all, Mr. Benton,'' said I, as I scrambled tomy feet. "We are pleased to see yon. Bit down on on the piano-stool. rsairs hare been taken rao the ether

We have been playing blind-man's-

"I I received this invitation, " went on lb. Benton, taking an envelope from his pocket and reading from the gilt-edged aid within: "Miss Lamar requests the pleasure of year company on Tuesday, See. 99, at 5 o'clock." Z looked reproachfully at my 7-year-old sister Alice. She had sent one of her printed invitations, in which the printer had neglected to insert the name "Alice,'' to John Benton, and the great booby had taken it for granted that I was the Mais

Lai oar. Si he had come, without even.

sending an acceptance to herald his approach, in f nil dress, with a great expanse n white shirt-bosom, white necktie, and yes, T am sure of it his hah crimped. A zdes contrast to. my torn dress and dtamevelled hair! 'Well,-1 am glad you have come, though 1 suppose this is net exactly the kind of gathering you expected to find, is it?" I did not care much what I said to John Benton. Ever since I had met him at the ytlranB balT three months ago, when he assisted on dancing with me three tunes in jase' course of the evening, and trod on my Isms each time, my brothers all declared that he was in love with me, bat was too bashful to tell me. I often met him, and thonIamsurelam not an ewe-inspir-fag petsrttagev I ensjd not heh seeing that aMwaljinvBr at ease in my presence. No Oat hejras backward where men were coneetneC My brother Witt took me to the Oil TiTrhango one morning, and the. first thing I saw was John Benton, with his hat on the back of his head, grasping a brass nOing with one hand and shaking the other, holding some papers in the face of savage-looking man, and shouting at him at the top of bis voice in the most defiant manner. Will said the savage-looking man was a hear, and that Mr. Benton was a MB. Then Mr. Benton caught sight of ana, and came and stuttered and stayed with me for ten minutes. Will told me

tat in that ten mi antes the

dropped nearly a cent, and Mr.

Benton lost a thousand dollars. But it was evident Mr. Benton was not

ahmkmg about the market as he walked ver to the piano-stool in his dress-coat

ana wnuu nee-roe, auii isai were, wim one inf ft most sheepish siniles I ever saw on yoang man's face. "Now, Lou, yon must sft down on the floor again, so that we can play forfeits,' said my tyrannical sister Aliee. "And you, too, Kr, Benton. Come on." John Benton Unshed and looked at me. "We shall have to obey, I am afraid, Mr. Benton," I said. "But you can tit on the piano-stool, if won prefer it." "Oh, but I don't, Miss Latour. Allow me to assist you to to sit down."

And he actually tried Jo make a courtly proceeding of depositing me on the floor.

if it could be anything bat adscnlons, bowever it was effected.

Then he sat down himself, with little

Stella, the 4-year-old mite, between us,

and the game of forfeits went oh. Most

of the penalties were in the shape of kisses, and I felt nervous until my turn came. Alioa held the forfeits over the head of a

parlfciular friend of hers, a girl of her own

age, aad it was the duty of the latter to say

what should be required of the owner of the article. There was my handkerchief! I

sat ashamed to say . that my heart beat

quickly when AHoe repeated the familiar

nursery jargon: "Heavy, heavy, what

tangs over," etc., and tt fairly Jumped

Iwhen Alice, with a mischievous glance at (Mr. Benton and myself, stooped and whispered to her friend. Then she went on with the qnestaom: "What shall be done

with the ownerT

. Cler-cut and distinct came the answer:

She shall Wte Mr,

"Oh, it's Lou it's Lou!" shouted Alice, and amid the tempest of laughter, Mr. Benton sat looking straight before him with a crimson face, while he fumbled at his i white necktie until the bow was under his : left ear. There was a silenee, as everybody except Mr. Benton looked at me to see the operation performed, when a small, baby voice at my side said: Til- tiss him for you, Lou." So Stella climbed up to Mr. Benton's neck, with one of her hands on his white shirt-bosom, and, as she said to herself, "tinged him right on the mouf , and it tittled my nose!" I did not want to play at forfeits any longer it was too dangerous; so I proposed that we should all sing. "Ess, I tan sing," said Stella. "I know lets of songs." She did not feel at all abashed over the fact that she had left a dark, sticky impression of her fingers on Mr. Benton's starched shirt-bosom, and as for him, he seemed to feel flattered at her evident preference for him. 1 sat down at the piano and played accompaniments for school songs, while the children stood around me and bawled the words into my ears with the excruciating flat intonation peculiar to the young, untrained voices. Mr. Benton was sitting near the window, with little Stella on his knee, apparently enjoying the noise, and with his eyes fixed on me in a blank stare of admiration that I could not help seeing whenever my face was half turned in his direction. "Now let me sing a Bong all by myself," said Stella.

Mr. Bentot looked inquiringly at me and

I said:

"Yes, Stella. Let us hear you stag all by

yourself."

So she commenced, deliberately: "Little

bir-r-die, on the tree! (a long breath) on the tree! (another long breath) on the tree!" Then she stopped, and, with a haughty disregard of the desires or opinions of her audience that would have been worthy of a petted prima donna, turned

carelessly around on Mr. Benton's knee and looked out of the window, while we awaited her pleasure.

Oh, loot loot at the big birdie on the

tree out of the window, "she said, suddenly, pointing downward toward where I knew a

tail poplar grew close to toe noose.

Mr. Benton was apparently startled by

this evidence of Stella's keen vision, for I saw him jump as his eyes followed the

direction of her finger. He controlled himself at once, however, as he replied quickly:

"I guess that is the shadow of a cloud in

the moonlight, and not a birdie, Stella."

"No," she persisted; "I saw a birdie on

the tree."

He pot her down and she ran over tome. As I took her on my lap I heard the door

close, and saw that John Benton had dis

appeared.

'That is rather unceremonious. I won

der whether he is coming back," I thought.

Well, I do not care whether he does or

not," asT made up my mind that the festivities could proceed without him.

I sat Stella on the end of the piano and

played a lively polka for the children, with

Stella's assistance, she dramming on two

or three of the keys in the bass at intervals, with a very weird, if not harmonious, effect.

"I want some more tandy," announced Stella, imperiously. "I shall have to go down stairs for it, Stella. It is all in the dining-room," I

said.

"Well, do down 'tairs. IT1 be dood." Of course I had to go. I left Stella in Alice's charge and ran swiftly down the

stairs. The nursery was on the third floor. I do not know what induced me to open the dcor of my parents' bedroom as I passed it. I did so, however. It was quite dark,

save for one jianow bar of moonlight forc

ing its way through the poplar just outside

the window. I glanced carelessly into the gloom, with

my hand on the handle of the door, and

was about to continue my journey to the dining-room when I felt a draught from

the open window and saw something white

gleaming in the moonlight for an instant

and then disappear. "What is that?" I thought, as an indescribable feeling of terror passed over me

and left me shivering. "It looked like a

hand." There wan not a sound to be heard in the

room save the rustling of the curtains as the light wintry breeze blew them from the window, but' I was certain someone was there.

What was that? d Surely a man climbing in through the window! Yes, I was not mistaken. My eyes had become accustomed to the darkness by this time, and I could see the out

lines of his figure clearly defined against

the window.

In that terrible instant all I had ever

heard or read about burglars and their desperate actions when brought to bay, passed through my mind. I remembered half a dozen stories, more or less improbable, wherein a young girl had successfully outwitted expert midnight thieves, and captared them alone and nnaided. The man, with Ins round head covered by some kind of closely-fitting cap, was cautiously creeping through the window, and I saw the poplar shake, as if just relieved of a burden. He had evidently climbed the tree to reach the room, and I remembered hearing my brother Will say only the day before that it was a favorite plan of thieves in robbing a house to get up to the second story by means of a porch or tree, while the family were gathered in the lower rooms in the early evening. I could not move! There was no light in the hall outside the room, and I could not be seen by the intruder as I stood with my hand on the door-handle, watching him, and listening in a dreamy way to the noise of the children in the nursery overhead. He was inside the room by this time, and I noticed that his footsteps were noiseless, as if he had no shoes on, as he moved across the bar of moonlight toward the bureau where my mother always kept her jewelry. I saw a round patch of bright yellow light fall on the keyhole of the top drawer, and then heard a metallic rattling. The thief was picking the lock! If I could only scream, or call Will! The drawer opened; the man was fumbling at its contents, when crash! The yellow patch of light disappeared, and, with a fearful word, I saw the man fall, another man holding Urn! Then a pistol shot rang through the room, and echoed up and down the stairs, and the room was flooded in light. Somebody had touched the eleotrio button downstairs and lighted the gas. For a few seconds my eyes were so dazzled that I could not see anything. Then I saw two men rolling on the floor in a desperate straggle, while the pistol lay just

oat of tkw reach. The

with his closely-fitting plush cap, was scowling at me, as he tried to release himself, and I thought I could see murder

written on his thin lips and short, turn?dup nose bo plainly that I should have

been in favor cf hanging him on the spot.

But who was the other m:in, holding the

thief with a grip of iron, as each tugged and writhed in the attempt to subdue the other? Snrely that was the bow of a white necktie at the back of his neck! That was

a dress-coat, with the tails spread out like

the wings of an eagle, or I was much mis taken!

In the battle, just as Will and my father

reached the room and rushed past me, the

combatants rolled over, and a very red face, which, however, was anything but

sheepish now, was turned toward me. The face of

John Benton! Will had the thief by the arm in a min

ute, while John Benton lay panting on the

floor.

Then it was thnt I saw a great red. stain

on the white shirt-bosom.

It was blood! Somehow, I forgot all about the thief,

Will, my father everything, as I threw myself down by the side of John Benton and pressed my handkerchief over the red stain.

"John, John! What is it? Where are

you hurt? Oh, father, he is killed!" I screamed. "What shall I do?"

I will never believe.again that John Ben

ton was ever bashful, for he just put one of his hands to the back of my head, and pulled my facedown to his, and whispered:

"Do just what you are doing now, and as

yon have commenced to call me John, do it all the rest of your life, and let me call you Lou."

There was a sudden disturbance! The thief had broken away from Will! The poplar tree shook violently, and Will said, as he put his head out of the window: "Well, let the rascal go. It will save a good deal of trouble. Ah! There is his pal, who was on guard. They are both running as if the whole detective foroe were at their heels." Then, turning to John: "How are you hurt, Mr. Benton? Ton don't look lis if it was very serious." "It is not serious," said John, sitting np. "That fejlow cut Ms hand in some way while opening the drawer and he rubbed the blood all over my shirt; that's all." I bit my lip and gave John a look that should have frozen him. It did not have the proper effect, however, for he followed me up stairs to the nursery, where the racket of play had rendered the children oblivions of the disturbance below. As he took Stella on his knee he said: "Do you know, Stella, yon made a tremendous hit with yonr soug? You must sing 'Birdie on a Tree' for us again. Will you?" "Ess, I will sing it for you, but yon. mnst tiss Lou for me new. She has diven me lots and lots of tandy, and she is awfnl dood." "Yes, I think so," said John. "And Til tiss' her for you. " And he actually did it. Moreover, he says now that it is his privilege, and I suppose, under the circumstances, he is right. now TO CUT 1.TI.IE&. The usual practice of cutting flowers of lilies for in-door decoration is to select blooms that are fully developed, and it is surprising cultivators should not long since have discovered tliat the expanded blooms are the least desirable

of all. This remark applies with more

or less force to all the lilies in general

cultivation, but would now specially refer to the varieties of lilium apeuiosum which are still contributing to the attraction of the herbaceous orders. As these lilies bloom thus late in the season there is, of course, considerable risk of the flowers being somewhat disfigured by the rains and winds to which they

are necessarily exposed. It is also extremely difficult to out the flowers,

carry them to the house, and arrange them without shaking the pollen over

the segments or petals, and in some degree spoiling their appearance. Especially is it desirable to avoid dis

tributing the pollen over the white

flowers, for it is impossible to re

move it, any attempt in that direction

invariably making matters worse.

Straining the flowers with pollen may of course be avoided by the removal of

the anthers before the flowers are out.

but I have a strong objection to the blooms being mutilated. But by the course I shall suggest, the flowers may be laid upon the table in the most perfect condition and

without the slightest strain. The sug

gestion I have to make is that the flow

ers be out before they are expanded,

and be arranged where they are to re

main, that there may be no necessity for handling them after they are open. If

they have simply to be cut and taken in-doors those of which the segments are beginning to part at the points should be selected. But if they have

to be sent a long distance, by parcels,

post, or rail, buds should be selected

that have attained their full sim, but

without showing any signs of opening,

They should be cut from the main stem with as great a length of stalk as possible, and be at once put in water, or have a little damp moss wrapped around the base of the stalk, according whether theyaseto be used immediatoly for decorative purposes or are to be sent

any distance. It may be useful to state

that those out as the segments are beginning to unfold will expand in the course of the day following, whilst the full-grown buds Will not attain full development until the second day. When they have to be sent any distance, cut

ting lilies in the bud state is mani

fest advantage, for a large number

can be packed in a small box and dis

patched with the full assurance of their reaching their destination with perfect

safety. Gardeners' Magazine,

an energetic colored preaoner m Cobb County, Georgia, makes each member of his congregation responsible for

a definite amount of his salary, and when they have no money to give him

he makes them work on his farm until

they pay off their debt.

W Mew lorjt some of the young wo

men of means and leisure are taking

lessons in fencing- an art which Mol

iere said consisted in "touching and

not being touched.''

THE NEWS. Intelligence by Wire from All the World. FOREIGN. A revolt of rJno hundred convicts in tho central prison at Thouar.-, France, was suppressed by a roijimont of regulsre. Lord Randolph Churchill is making capital for himself among the Scotch and the Loyalists of the North of Ireland The Chief of the London pdiee force, OoL Sir Edmund Henderson, has resigned because of comments upon his inefficiency during the riot?. The torpedoes placed in the harbor of 8alonica have beeu surreptitiously removed. The Orcek Minister of War and Marino tliroaten to resign uiuohs war is ueolaKd against, Turkey, and the people are reported as anxious for hostilkifis. At a meeting of representatives ot British i3ianibers of Commerce in London, the Dublin Chamber of Commerce offered and the Glasgow Chamber seconded a resolution against Weakening the union bstweon England and Ireland because of "the disastrous nature of nho results which would onsuo to the comraoroial and trading iutercsts of Great Britain." In a letter published in Paris, Prince Jerome Napoleon declares that die expulsion irf the French Princes would tend toward the destruction of the republic. He re.ramcnds 1hat the people elect tho chief magistrate. The Kov. H igh Stowell Browne, a noted English Baptist divine, is dead. The Commercial Bank of South Australia, at Adelaide, hail uusponded payment There is a rumor at Munich that King Ludirig has decided to marry an American widow named I.ramor-Klett, who is reputed to be worth 100IC0a,0t0.

PERSONAL. Commodore Kittson, of St. Paul, announces his withdrawal from the trotting field, on account of ill health. He will open a breeding farm and sell Johnston, Little Brown Jug, und others. W. S Meserrey died at Salem, Mass. He was a member of the first party to cross the plains to California, and subsequently became Governor of Now Mexico, whore he acquired a largo fortune. Tho rumor is again revived (hat Archbishop Feehan is to receive a Cardinal's hat Samuel J. TUden has contributed $700 toward the fund for a monument to Vice President Hendricks. F. A Smith, once a well-known resident of St Louis, hits for several months been detained in Ludlow Street Jail, New York, on a process for debt for lack of 110 to pay court costs. He lost a fortune in tho steamboat business. Gen. John & Oavender, one of the original Free-State leaders in Missouri, who rose to the rank of Brigadier General iu the Union armies of the Southwest, died last week in St Louis. ' Tho brothers Hormanco have arrived at New Orleans from Livingston, Montana, in a (tan oo in which they embarked last J uly. They report having ha J some unpleasant adventures with Indians and blizzards. Thomas A Edison, the electrician, was married at Akron, Ohio, to Miss Mina Miller. Henry N. Walker, a well-known citizen of IJetroit, who was the first President of tho Western Associated Press, died last week, aged novcuty-three.

FINANCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL. The plant of Brown, BonneU k Co., at Voungstown, Ohio, was last week ordered to lie soi l by Judge Baxter, sitting at Cleveland. The claims of the creditors are in excess of in,ooo,x. The Knights of Labor at Milwaukee caused Ii strike in five large shoe factories to secure tm advance of 8 per cent in wag(. Lewis Vannuss & Co., general merchants at Mendon, Mich., have been closed by the Sheriff. The liabilities are about i 5,000, The output of the Minneapolis dour mills last week was (ri,C00 barrels, against 78,000 for the preceding w eek, and 73,000 lor the corresponding time ii 1S85. Tho national convention of coal mine operators and miners at Columbus, Ohio, agreed apon a scalo of prices for the iifferent sections, and also made provisions for a board of arbitration to fettle disputes of a national character. An immcnm mass meeting was held at Indianapolis in the interest of labor reform by tho trade and labor unions. Gov. Porter, W. P. Smith, Statistician of the Knights of Labor, and others addressed the meeting. Itesoluticms were passed demanding tlia- eijilit hours be considered a day's labor; denouncing the employment of children under 14 in factories and mines; favoring a direct issue of money to the people by tho Government; also, the prompt weekly payment of wages in money, us against the 'Iruck and store" syistem, and oallnig for the security of mines and fac"ioriea by proper ventilation and safeguards.

gOIJTICIAL. T. R. Hndd, Democrat has be:n elected in the Fifth Wisconsin District to succeed the late Joseph Bankin in Congress. The House Committee on Banking ar;d Currency has : orty-eight bills relating to finance before it Three sub-commtttces have been appointed to examine the various propositions and altera pt the formation of a general measure to cove; the whole subject The Maryland State Senat.i baa passed a bill reducing, the fee for marriage licenses from 4.50tol Washington special: "Among the invited guests at a banquet given in Philadelphia about ten days ago were ex-Speakor Randall mid llepresentativo Ilinghain, of Pennsylvania. Some remarks tliat the latter made concerning (icu. Hancock were taken exception to by Mr. Randall, who, "it is all egtd, grossly inputted Mr. Hingham, and went so far iih t make apeno: al attao . upon hiin, conpled '.villi the derlara-ion: 'I owe you a tlirashiut;, nnd I'll giv.' it to you now.' It was only by the intercession of u utual I'i ioikIb that a row was ii verted. Tho nut'.er has lieen the subjeot of 1'oumd-ralilo coir ment for several days, tint all ihiw who witaei wd tho affai refute to talk lpoii the mhjocl, wlnto at the ram' time admitting that th facts are miiiHtantially oorecl." Tho Honse ( omniittep on lint s, at Washington, rd li report favorably Mr. Hanbaclc'H reso nt o.i provi ling for an investigation of the l'jii-lil !c:r c 'JVlophoiie Kcandat GrENEEAL In County Clttrk Dalton's contempt case at 3olumlms, Ohio, Judge Wylie (lucid .d against :Dalton, and ordo o l that ho In: remanded to rhe custody of tho Hei-geant-at arras of the jlouse. Tito Democratic member. of the Investigating Committee at Cincinnati permitted he disputed election records to b pltctugr&phijd, and this, it is believed, will i eliew. Dalton, ho is at liberty under bonds of $5,CO0. A mob at Oregon City, Oregon, herded forty-two Chinamen employed in the woolenmills, hurried them tn the wharf, and paid their fares to Portland with money taken from their pockets. St. Louis dis;Mtehes et-ita that the Chinese community there is "excited over the arrival from Hong Kong, via Kan 1'iancnco, of a copy of ail imperial pio.-luinatloii stitiug 'baton and before the fifteenth day of the fifth moon of the present year (Ah 10) a il tho subjects of ihoTai Ifzuig Empire (Oi.iu.i) who are now residing Id the United States oi America arc requested to

return; and that upon application to the Consuls free transportation will lie provided from any part of tho United States to any part of the Chinese Empire, except the citizens of the province of Quong Tung, who, on account of their superior numbers, are required to pay half-faro. By tho somewhat disguised language of this proclamation it is strongly intimated that an early retaliation is contemplate;! by tho Chinese Government upon tho Amercan export trade and American residents in China for tho continued outrages inflicted upon her citizens hero. This, if successfully carried out, will shut off an annual exportation of come $80,000,000 from the American shores. There are in China at least 0,000 Americans who would be exposed to imperial persecution. The Chinese iu this country aggregate 80,000. The impression prevails hero that the major number of them will take advantage of the proclamation." It is not true that the Chinese Consul General has advised Chinamen to quit America and return home. The report originated from arrangements being made with steamship companies to carry back poor, sick, and unemployed Chinese at half rates.

Tho Circuit Court at Columbus, Ohio, af

firmed the judgment in the Dalton contempt case, and the matter was at once referred to the Supreme Court of the State for final settlement

The tecond and concluding volume of

Blaine's "Twenty Years in Congress" has been published. It embraces the period between Johnson's installation as President and Gar

field's election. Tho earlier chapters are oc

cupied mainly with the reconstruction problem, tho contest between the President and

Congress, and the impeachment trial. Grant's eight years' administration is ihecussed in a generous and catholic spirit, and the closing chapters deal with current questions of political discussion. D During the week ended Feb. 30, 808,990 standard silver dollars were issued from the mints. Tho House Committee on Public Lands has agreed to report favorably the bill forfeiting the land-grant of the Ontonagon and State Line Railroad Company in Michigan. OAilJTIESr The Armory Rink was burned at Buffalo, N. Y. ,Loss, $30,000; insurance, ,35,000. The damage in Boston and vicinity by the recent flood is estimated at 1 ,000,000. The police boats supplied food and fuel to families driven from their houses. Trcmont street was entirely under water from tho car stables at Lenox street to a point above Cabot street Considerable damage was done in the vicinity of Baltimore and Washington by a rise in the Potomac and Susquehanna llivers. AUover the country high water is reported. A fire which originated on a cotton steamer at Wilmington, N. C, swept along Water street for three blocks, causing losses estimated at 1,500,000. The First Methodist Church and two freight depots were amor, g

the buildings burned. While attempting to cross the Susquehanna in a row-boat, four young men were drowned at Harrisbnrg. Thomas Pollard's four-story liquor store on Liberty street, Pittsburg, was burned: lo. on building and stock, 5(10,000. Firms doina business in adjoining buildings sustained $30,000 damage by water. The total insurance is $32,000. The loss by tho flro at Wilmington, N C, is now estimated at $500,000, and the insurance at $400,000. In a drug store at Cleveland, Dr. J. II. Oleason, a prominent physician, drank carbolic acid by mistake and died iu ten minutes. While gunpowder was being weighed in a store at Winchester, Ky., a ms.n struck a match to light a cigar. An explosion followed which made splinters of the structure, and severely wounded eight persons, two of whom are not expected to recover. A train ran off the track near Mount Morris, N. J., one car being burned. Eighteen persons were more or less injured. A train on the Reading Itoad jumped a switch near Tamaqua, injuring twenty persons more or less severely. Fire in the Parliament Buildings at Ottawa, Ont, destroyed valuable marine and patent records. The financial loss is heavy. Fire in St Paul damaged the dry-goods store of Hannhoimer Bros, to the extent of $150,000. A large cartridge exploded in a coal mine at North Industry, Ohio, killing William SoleuOaler and fatally injuring Peter Miller, his father-in-law. The steamer Tonsas, loaded with cotton and cotton-seed, was burned on the Black River in Louisiana, The loss is estimated at $05,000. A dispatch from Ottawa states that the recent danuueiation of the Knights of Labor by the Catholic bishops of Canada was at the request of tho Grand Trunk and Canadian Pacific Railway Companies. OBIMES AND CRIMINALS. Mrs. Peter Higgins and George Higgins have confessed to the murder of the woman's husband, whose body was recently found in a manure heap near Central Lake, Mioh. The victim was an uncle of George Higgins. A colored lunatic near liivannab, Ga., strangled two boys in a chureli-yard and left their bodies to bo devoured by buzzards. Philip Hastings, son of a woalthy farmer of Silver City, Iowa, was found dead in a chair, with a bullet-hole in his head. The community is divided in opinion as to whether it is a case of suicide or murder. Albert Mitchell, a colored messenger in the offices of the Missouri Paeifto Road at St

Louis, has confessed having abstracted $1,000

from a package prepared for transmission to Crockett Texas. A negro man named Burne, who had committed an assault upon a respectable white gill, was forcibly taken by a mob from the Martinaburg (W. Vs.) jail and escorted to a grove skirting tlio town, where the mob formed them selves in a circle. What followed is thus do scribed by a telegram from Martinsburg:

Tlio negro was mounted on a horse and led to

zuo corner oi tno ring, wnere a ns,icor ifiis piueea about his nock. The leader tlier. advanced, and in a voice loud enough to be distinctly beard by nil, said : "Joseph Hums, are yon guilty of this crime ?" "I am," was the low-voiced rejCy. "Do yon deserve this punishment?" was the next question." "I do," said Burns, "and I af.lt for your prayers." This was answered from tho circle by a volley of flereo cries and shouts of "Burn him t" "Cut u m to pieces I" could be lioutd on all Bides, mill led with the crack of revolvers. In h few uii m itta, however, the mob grew more quiot, &ud then a man approached the center of the circle of desperate men, handed tils hat to u companion, and offered up a fervent prayer for the do :ued man. Burns sitting juietlv on tho horse with his chin resting on his breast. The prayer concluded, tho rope wits thrown ever the branch of u 'roe n few s eps away, and the end tu.keu baok to one side of the Jireie, whore fifty men soon Lad hold. The ioader then spoke a word iu u low tone, and tho prisoner shot upward and was in iiudug bac'itvurd and forward in the moonlight, while tlio iiir rang with yells aad cheers from the mob. A revolve r cracked, and then, while the despairing irrotoh was endeavoring to grasp the rope whUh was choking out hit life, a volley of revolver idiots rang out on the air and Burns was deal, pierced by fifty bolls.

David Shnlty, tlio iuBane farmer who shot

his mother, his sister-in-law, and her daugh

ter, near Shirley, lit, perished in tho burning

barn which he had net on tire. Mi's. Sholty is dangerously wounded, while the others are but nlightly hurt It is stated that Bholty lived in the hay in the barn over since 'J liauksgt ving. The Postofilce at Flore svi lie, Texas, was robbed of $1,000 in oasb and $K00 in stamps. There are no new developments in the Windsor (111.) outrage. Miss Aldridge's ooiadition is improving, utd sue will rt cover. A committee of u tizeuol Henrietta, Toxae, forced the jail doors aad attempted to hang A

A Steagall, charged with incest and the murder of a babe. Tho Shoriff cut down the wretch in time to prolong his existence. John G. Dyde, junior partner in tbo grocery house of Eckcrsdorf i Co., at Montreal, was committed for trial for forging one hundred notes discounted at tho Bank of British North America. The head of tha concern has lied to Boston. A colored man called at the residence of Mrs. Koifer, in Fourth street, Cleveland, and asked for a trunk which had been left there by a visitor. When the lady pointed out the baggage to the negro he applied chloroform to her nostrils and stole $300 from nor dressing-case. Sai uiol Urigham, until recently cashier at Wiudham (Conn. ) National Bank, has been held in $15,000 for embezzlement and misapplying the bank'B funds. Burglars robbed tho house of Town Treasurer Kugler, of Manitowoc Rapids, Wis., of $2,000. Tho City Treasurer of Paris, III, is $8,000 short in his accounts, and the City Clerk of Pckin, III. has disappeared, together with $300 of the public money. In Milwaukee, Abbott Lawrence, Assistant Cashier of the National Exchange Bank, was shot in tho street by George A Wardner, formerly employed in the same institution as a book-keeper, whose mental faculties had become impaired; HEBE AND THEBE. A special from Connelsville, Pa., says: The socialistic Hungarians caused more trouble in the coke regions. A crowd assembled at Bradford, and marched to Summit, forcing every coke drawer from work along the route. Thev were nearly all urmtnl. and tired numerous shots. The coke drawers fled through fear of violence. The strikers demand an advance of 10 cents per oven instead of the 10 per cent, recently granted. The Toledo Pout, an evening daily, established in 1883, together with all the rights and appurtenances, has been purchased by the Toledo Bee Company. Dlt. Edward H. Coates shot and killed Dr. A. B. Keith at St Louis. Both ate dentists. Professional jealousy and domestic trouble caused the tragedy. The Eagle Knitting Company, of Elkhart, Iud., which employs about 500 women, have been asked by the Knights of Labor to increase the employes' wages 25 per cent. They have agreed to meet their committee and endeavor to settle by arbitration. The western linseed oil crushers, in

session at Chicago, have decided to form a pool known as the Consolida ted Linseed

Oil Company. Capital stock, ?200,000.

The price of oil was fixed at -11 cents per

gallon. A special dispatch from Elpaso, Texas,

says that General Crook met Geronimo at

the Sana ranch. The chief asked per

mission to return to the reservation uncon

ditionally. General Crook refused, de

manding an unconditional surrender.

Geronimo declined to give himself up and

after the consultation left for his camp,

Chief Nana and another are still held as

hostages. No attempt will be made to follow him and it is not known what he

will do.

A decided sensation was caused hy Charley Maurice, a cowboy tough, at Logansport, Indiana. He saddled his horse,

filled his hide with whisky, and started out to take in the town. He rode into three saloons, and ordered drinks at the muzzle of a revolver. He attempted to ride up to the general delivery window of the post-

office, but was beaded on by tne ponce,

who jerked him from his horse and threw him in jail. 1 his is the second time he

has tifitired in this frontier oustaess.

Both branches of the Virginia Legisla

ture have passed a local option law.

A speoiaIi from Piedmont, Mo., says:

Moses Ferry, from Saginaw City, Mich!

gan, head sawyer for the Pennsylvania

Lumber Company, was killed at their mills

in this city. He was accidentally thrown

before one of the large circular saws.

TlIE Department Commander of the

Grand Armv of the Keimblic, oi reuusyi

vaniu, has appointed a committee to make

a thorouth investigation or tne cnarges re

ceutly published in the Record against the

soldier s orphan scnoet oi tnot mate.

London cablegram: The chambers of commerce adopted, by a unanimous vote,

a resolution declaring for the tome rule to

Ireland and Great Britain. This is the

resolution offered by the Dublin chamber

of commerce and seconded by the izlasgow

chamber.

A Lowtills, Erie County, Pa., special

says that Charles Howard, a prominent young man, was arrested on the charge of

embezzlement. He is alleged to be 8,000

short in his grocery management at Bear

Lake.

Mu. EDMUNDS introduced in the (Senate on the 25th mot, a bill providing for the inspection of meats for Importation of adulterated food and drink. The bill gives tho President power to retaliate whenever our pro lucts are discriminated against in foreign countries. The bill providing for the allotment of lands In severalty to the Indians, was passed. Mr. George concluded his n,nmrlij nn tht education bill and was followed

by Messrs. Dolpb, Piatt, Logan, Iklmunds and

Hoar, who spoke orieny. in tnu nousu, nir. whnnlur. from f lu. committee on military affairs.

reported the military accademy appropriation bill Referred to committee of tho whole. The estimates for 1867 are $412,075. The committee recommend an appropriation of 4207,805. Blount, from the committee on postoffloes and postroads, reported the postofnee appropriation bilt Referred to committee of the who'..o. After the morning hour the House resolved itself into a

ctmmitteor tnownoio. Air. i.rtar, ui imaifiB, in the chair, on pensioa appropriations bill.

THE MARKETS.

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CONGRESS. What la Being Done by tlia National Legislature. Tar. Blair educational bill was discussed again In the Senate on Fb. 19. Senator Evarts supported the bill. Senator Ingalls opnosed the bill as a Bonttern measure. He saw no reason why the common schools should be turned over to the Federal Government, and he criticised the South for callimi on the General Government for aid. Benutor Hoar dented that the bill was a Southern measure. He himself drafted the first of those education b'lls ten or fifteen years ago. The measum was a Northern idea, supported by Northern sentiment. Only three Southern rotas Tore given to the first bill of the kind. Senators Wilson iMd.) and Harris onposed the bill on constitutional grounds. They objected to interference on tho partof the Oeneru! Government with tho schools of a St'bte. Senator Morrill, from the Committee on Finance, reported favorably Senator Butler's bill authorizing tho Seorotnry of tho Treasury to deliver, upon sat sfictory proof of ownership, to the claimants theroirf, the silverware. Jewelry, and other property deposited in the Treasury by the Becre'sary of War in June, I860, as property captured by tht United States army during the late w:ir, and providing that all auoh property remaining in the Treasury for two years after the passage of the act shall be sold at public auction, and tho proceeds of the scio covered Into the Treasury. Tho Sennte paused bills toremove the political disabilities )f Alexander P. Stewart of Mississippi, Thomas I.. Rosser of Virginia, and E. O. Butler of Minsoun. A resolution was introduced directing the Secretary of War to report the facts of tho murder by Mexican troops of Cant Emmet Crawford, of the United Status army. In the House of Bopresevsattvec, Mr. Boott, of Pennsylvania, delivered a long sjieech on the silver question. He defended the course of tho President and Secretary Manning in the management of the nation's fins,nci's, and regretted that his party colleagues 1 al nor. left it t J the Kcpublican side of the House to attack the a lministration. He declared the charge that these officers were under thi influence of capitalists to bo unfounded. They had violated no law and had conformed to tlio very lett sr of the statutes. They hail, indeed, recommended the suspension of the wdver coinage, but who could sav that this ud rice might not prove to bo wise and conducive to the public eoodtv Mr. Kelley. of Pennsvlvijuit,, renewed his request to havo printed It the Becrrd a reviow of the testimony in the Fits John Porter case, prepared by Judge Advocate Holt, M r. Bragg, of Wisconsin, who had previdusly objected, said that, as tho battle was over, he wai in favor of a general amnesty, and wonli! make so objection. The request was graniSed. The bill appropriating $300,(00 for a monument to be created in Washington to the memory of Gen. (iniut passed tho Senate Feb. 23, In ti e de'jate procedinK the vote. Senator Plumb opposed the bill, laying that no At monument to the memory of Lincoln had been erected, and that a monument would be idlo us a testimonial of tbo nation's love and regard for Gen. Grant. Senator Blair laid that the Lincoln monument in Washington was not worth $25 as a wort: of art, and Senator Hoar replied that the Committee on "he Library would consider the matter cf an appropriate monument to the memory of Lincoln. Senator Morgan, of Alabama, introduced a preamble and resolution concerning cfce recent report from tho Judiciary Committee condemning tho Attorney General for refusing to send to the Senate copies of papers. The resolutions direct the Committee on Privileges and Elections to report whether the offense charged against the Attorney General is impeachable, sndwhother the Senate car take jurisdiction of the alleged offense and condemn tho Attornev General In advance of a trial by a reso lution of tho Senate, there being no impeachment in the mode required by the Constitution. The committee Is furtaer instructed to inquire and report whether the Senate has the tnwer to nnnish the Attornev General fO. ton-

tempt of its rightful authority, whether the Attorney General has really violated any law in his refusal to furnish certain papers, and whether the Senate has the right under the Constitution to withhold its consent to the removal of persons by the President who are unfit for offl.ee, or can bind its members by any declaration of the duty of the Senate. A favorable report was made on a bill to confirm the entries made under the public land laws. Bills were introduced to facilitate the administration of the la .vs in Alaska, appropriating 3100,000 for a quarantine station at San Francisco, and a like sua. for a -public building at Fort Dodge. Tho House of Kepresentatives passed a bilf to forfeit tho unearned land grant of the Atlantlo and Pact He Rnad. Mr. Morrison reported a resolution direction that the surplus in the Treasurv be paid out on the public debt The resolution was accompanied by a report declaring that 8179,689,8i2 was held by the Treasury on Jan. 31, 18S6. in excess of all other liulilities than the redemption of said Cnlted States notes ; that this sum is largely iu excess of the sum required for the purpose for which it Is held, and that a considerable part cf it should be applied to the payment of the interest-bearing debu of the United States now payable. Mr. Hewitt submitted a minority report, Tho Invalil Pensions Committee reported the bill (ranting pensions to all invalid soldiers or their widows cr children who are dependent on their dally labor for a living. A bill appropriating $250,000 for the relief of settlers In Nebraska and Kansas who have been deprived of their lands by a prior grant to the Northern Kansas Railroad, and a bill oik wing one or more officers of 'the army to accept temporary service under the Core an Government, with compensation theirefor passed tho Senate Feb. 34. Tho Senate also passed the bill permitting national banks to change' by a vote of two-thirds of their shareholders, .nd with the consent of .the Comptroller of the Currency, their names, capital stock, and location, provided the location shal l net bu chanced to another State nor to a place more than thirty miles distant from the original looition. Tho bill gave risa to considembl.) debate, during which Senator Beek (Ky.) insisted that the control of the matter should bo given to the Secretary of the Treasure, instsod of tho Comptroller of the Currenti r . So charged past Comptrollers with having i night to drive out of business every bank that was not anstionnl bank. They hid always doii'3 the work of tho national banks, and when they resigned they went Into those banks. One of them bad no sooner left the Government service than he became President of a national bank, and another be.;sm& Vice ProHidentof a national bank. Tho Honse passed the h ilf-gallon tax bill without a division. Mr. Butt irworth (Ohio) offered a sub ititu :o in the shape of a bill amending the Carlisle bill by requiring the minimum capacity of tho packages into which spirits may bo drawn to uo thirty gallons instead of ten, but tho substitute waa rejected. Tho House passed also the bill t? quiet the title of settlers on tho Des Moines River lands in Iowa, and tho bill annexing a portion of Idaho to the Territory of Washington. The Committee on Public Lands reported favor vbly the bill forfeiting certain grants to the Southern Paeifto Railroad Company. Mr. Murphy, of owa, called up the Hennepin Canal bill and mad a speech in its support. ty means of the proposed canal, fie said, the wheat of six Westsrn States could be transported t o the seaboard at a saving of six cents a bushel. If the canal were built tho people of the Northwest would save enough In one vear to build tbo canal two or three times over. The United States had formidable competitors in he ".ilverpool market, and If the rates of transportation were not reduced it would eoaa find Itself without that market.

PR0(JBESSJN CHINA.

A Highly Interesting Report from tke Hoi. Charles Ben by, United States Minister.

Introducing the Railroad in the Flowery E!wgdoiri&aam Oara in a Palace.

Washington telegram.' Mr. Chirks Denby, United States Minister to Chii.a, has sent some inteiesting dispatches to Mr. Bayard which deal witli two questions of vital import to the development and safety of ' t empire. first is the construction of railroads, which Li Hung Chang is urging with all the. vigor of his intellect. The other is the Imfldfcg of a navy replace the useless junks which at present fly the imperial flag, and to organize as; weoi of coast defenses adeouotw to protect the harbors and shone of the country: Mr. Denby says: I have tie lienor to state, as a matter of la. terest to a greet many iiersons in the Dnitid States and as a partof the current history of China, the position of tbat .empire as to Out constrnctioa of railrasds: The inos ; proraincsit msa in China to-day U Li Hung Chang, who is Grand Secretary of tiis empire, Vu eroy of the proviuce, and one of the heads of the Admiralty Bna-d. E l residence is at TlenTsin, but he 1st iy spent some weeks atPekln. So has for some years baen in favor of buildlm: railroads. He has bad a hard fight in China to have his views approved. Xae opposition comes chiefly from tne censors and the Board of B ivenne. The censors reires nt that numbers cf men would be thrown out of employment, graves would be desecrated, and Internal troubles would ensue. The Boam of Bevenue claims that it railroads am built tba whole rove mo nerviee of China would have to be changed. I , seems likely in effect that the Lekln tax, which Is one of the chief sources of revenue to Cn na, would have to be abandoned or materially modified. This i a ooasuinraafaon that the foreigners most ardently desire. W Bung Char g, through all the changes of men and measures, has maintained his newer, aad there seem s every reason to believe was he will succeed in his plan of constract'n? railroads. I send to tho department the dying uierairfal of Tso Tsui ig Tang, which contains anablepreaentatioa of the argument In favor of constructingrailroai Isle China. By way of parenthesis I may say bat a dying official always leaves a posthuraots memorial to the Government. It also happen often that after he is dead soon distingntsl ed honorary office is conferred on nimby lmierinl decree. This memorial to Tso Tsung Taiig preceded by a very few days taw visit of LI ; lung Chang to the capital, and funlshedhin a fine opportunity to press his railroad views It was considered', certwMrwM reason, that the boat mode of inviting the attention of the members of the Government to Hie merit! of railroads would be to exhibit a, working ntodel of an American roadway ant rolling stotik. , . Last September a working model of an Amer- , lean railroad train, consisting of locomotive aad tender, mail and baggage cars, passenger ears, Pullman -mrlor ana sleeping ears, difff rent kinds of freight cars, together with 103 feet main trac e and sidings, switches, torn-table, etc in fact, a compl' to representation of an American aih'oad in miniature was exhibited to Li Hum; Chang. It was, by order of Li Huag Chang, tak en no Pekin and exhibited by Win to Prince Cham, the Emperor's father, and two days later it we taken to tike initwrlel palace and exhibi Sed to the Emp-ror aad the Empress dowager. Their majesties were ranch nMrested, and spent some time tn a minute exam, nation of the model. It was the first eoaipleto represents Hon they bad ever seen of a railroad. . After examination they agreed to allow Ii Hung Cha igto prepare for the intmducUOn of steam-can ,

I'ORMED A COMPACT.

A Few Faots. Thera are 1.50,000,000 tons of ooal waste piled up in the anthracite regions. There are 3,100 saloons in San Francisco, which yield a yearly revenue to the city of 2O8,510. A Virginia girl who advertised in a Dakota paper for a husband received Hi) letters in reply. It; is said to be almost impossible for Europeans to learn the language of the nati ves of Oongoland. In Piuris last year there were 80,370 births nnd 72,78.) deaths. A bill to prohibit newspapers from publishing details of suicides is under consideration in the Uruguayan Congress. A cannon that was used in Indian war faro two hundred years ago is stationed in front of police headquarters in MontgoraGry-i Ala. Koads outside of Han Francisco were lined with dead birds recently. A heavy storm bad driven them against the telegraph wires. The expenses of Yale College last year exceeded the inoome by $11,531. The deficit occurred in the academical and meohaiiical departments. recent investigator into the causes of consumption says that the disease is often inherited because the heir has taken (or his personal use the decedent's old mattresses, upholstered chairs, and carpets. The army of artificial-flower makers in Paris is said to number not leas than 30,000 souls. No country equals France in this art, and expert artificers generally ijirls can always find work at good wages. It is a curious commentary on the alleged impeounioaity of the English landed gentry that they manage to support as many packs of hounds as ever, even iu those counties which an asserted -io be the most disttewwd.

XlM Coal Operators aad BEtaeV 4 Jptva States Amivi a Mat Seals. Commons (Ohio) special. The Ni tional Convention of Coal Miners and Opei atom, which concluded its business in tl is city this evening, is no doubt one of the moat important hi results obtained of any convention which has-been held in the labor interest since the spirit of arbitration has taken the place of other methods (or the settlement of difficulties. Both miters and operatives express ths . opinion t oat they have formed the groundwork for the amicable settlement of all' future troubles which may arise, and they, also hope , inasmuch as they have enlisted the more intelligent and liberal element of both claises, that the compact will get stronger rith each year. In order that toe results m ght not be temporary, the convention prov ded for another meeting at Columbus n the second Tuesday of .February, 187, when the present scale of prices wi 1 be subject to revision. The se de was amended so as to cut out Staunton, Mount Olive, and Springneldj HI., on the ground, that these sections wen not repn isenwd and were not at the Pittsburgh convention, and adopted as follows: Pittsburgh, 70 cents per ton; Hoiking Valley, cents; Indiana block, 80 cents; Indiana bituminous. No. 1, 65 cents; Indiana bituminous, No. 2, 75 cents; Wilmington, 111., 95 cents; Btreator, 80 oentn Grape Creek, 75 cents; Mount Olive, Sjji. cents; Stiunton, 56, cents; 8prirignehL62i oents; Dtfl Moines, Iowa, 90 cents; m west Virginia, Old Kanawha district, reduced -nrices to be restored to 75 cents; Beynolds-

ville, Fairmount screen coal, 71 cants. A boatd oi arbitration was elected, consisting o! two miners and two oerators from each of the five States represented in i the scale, to which shall be referred sill ' question; of a national character.

A WIZARD WEPPEP. Jtarrlags of Thomas A. Kdlsoa to BUs Kn Miller, of Akrea. OWa. Akron (Ohio) dispatch. Thomas A. Edison, the electrician, and Mina, daughter of Lewis Miller, the muttonaire manufacturer, were married at: 'Oalt Place," tie elegant home of the Millers in; the west m partof the city. Theiinptials were eontucted according to the fons df the Methodist Episcopal Church. .Mr. F. W. , Tappan, U. 8. N., of New York, acted as . best man, The bride was given wa.v by her father, and there were no biidemaid - The bride was attired in white silk, with duchess and point laoa, rtquaia neck, laced corsage, nnd wore diamond and peaii ornaments, it eluding a costly pearl netslase, the gift of tie groom. The groom was attired -in black, wearing a Prinee Albert coat and black tie, and with hands undressed. His present to the bride was a diamord and pearl necklace valued at 3.00O, while authenticafcd minor has it that he also transferred to her $1,000,000 worth of real es- . tote. An long the other presents wera many sets of tke richeet and rjost elegant silver table and ornamental want, besides . Westminister oltock With chimes, diamond brace-, lets, dianiond, ruby, and sapphire pine, a solid column of onyx, with gold :npita), and many other ran and costly jewe ls. Congratulations were received under an immense norol wishbone, eotnposed prioclpaUy of roses, after which dinner was served bj a chef from Chicago, . . TEXAS T8. MISSOURI. Ores CokiaK-MmIn, Upon taw Result of Wk eh HtOO,000 Chiuea Hands. (DsJlas (Tex.) tolgsjMe. The g-eat interstate cbeking-main between D UIoh and St. Louis for $5,000, on fifteen fifhts, ended to-day. Dallas won, St Louit taking seven fights. The betting . was very heavy and all the battles ware extremely v icioiis, beingbetween heavy-weight cooks, lit. Iouis won tho first battle of the day and ' he twelfth of the main, tieing the score. I 'alias won the thirteenth and again led, St. Jioum won the fourteenth, and the fifteenth and last battle opened with tie two cities again tied. In this cont ist, on which so much depended, St. Louis pitted a handsome red cook weighing six pounds tour ounces, Dalian, a blue bee ell weighing one onnoe heavier. Before the birds were put down $9,700 was. bet on tie result of the battle, St. XiOttit giving oc ds of $100 to W0. The Pal'as bird fore ed the fighting from the start, and in the fit ib round killed the Missourian and won the match. It is estimated that the backers of tlio latter lost upward of $S0,000 on ti e main. The last fight alone cost themnp-varcl of $8,000. The town is full of "cookers" from all pails of die conutty, and the! am over six hundred gains hints here. Senor Marlines, of the West Iadtoa, and Jot Pineo, of BarceloAa Spiin, f mous oliicken fanciers, wore am.ug the apeototois.