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The Jitney of the Heaven. There was never a time when the heavens werestudied by so many amateur astronomers as at present. Ib every civilized country many excellent telescopes are owned and used, often tc very good purpose, by persons who arc not practical astronomers, bat whfl wish to see for themselves the marvelof the sky, and who occasion all stum, ble upon something that is new even tc professional star-gazers. Yet, notwithstanding' this activity in the c.nltivataer. of astronomical studies, it is prohatily safe to assert that hardly one person ir a hundred knows the chief stars bj name, or ean even recognise the principal constellations, much less distinguish, the planets from the fixed stars And, of course, they know nothing ol the intellectual pleasure that accompanies a knowledge of the stars. Modern astronomy is so rapidly and wonderfully Unking the earth and sun to
gether, with nil the orbs of space, in
the bonds of close physical relationship, that a person of education and
general intelligence ean offer 90 valid -excuse for not knowing where to look
for Sinus or Aldeboran, or toe Orion nebula, or the planet Jupiter. As Aus
tralia and New Zealand and the island
of the sea are made a part of the civilized world -through the expanding influence of commerce and cultiva-
tion, so the son and planet
around ua . are in a certain sei
faffing Wider the dominion of the
restless and resistless mind of man.
We have come to possess vested intel
lectual interests in Mars and Saturn, and in the sun. and all his multitude ol
fellows, which nobody ean afford to ignore. Perhaps one reason why the av
erage educated man or woman knowt so little of the starry heavens is because it is popularly supposed that only the
most powerful telescopes and costly in
struments of the Observatory are capa
ble of dealing with them. llo greater
mistaken could be made. It does not
require an optical instrument of any
kind, nor much labor, as compared
with that expended in the acquirement
of some polished accomplishments regarded-as indispensable, to give one an
acquaintance with the stars and planets
which will be not only pieasuraoie, but
useful. And with the aid of an operaglass most interesting, gratifying, and in some instances scientifically valuable observations may be made in the heavens. I have more than once heard
persons who know nothing- about the
stars, and probably cared less, utter
exclamations of surprise and delight when persuaded to look at certain parts .of the sky with a good glass, and thereafter manifest an interest in astronomy df which they would formerly have believed themselves incapable. Populdr Seienee Monthly.
NEWS CONDENSED. 1 Conei.se Record of the Week. EASTERN.
Continuous rams in portions ot
Maine and New Hampshire have roaulted m
disastrous floods.
Miss,-Alice Cobb committed suicide
at Portland, Me., and h)f t a note stating tuat her father was the cause of it, and that hor spirit would haunt him as Ions as ho livod. . - ... -wr -r
white drunk, at jnic not viae, j. a.,
Charles Morrow shot Uia wife and then sent a bullet through his head, surviving his victim
a few hours.
Nine railway employes were injured
and 32J, K0 worth of property destroyed by
the explosion of a locomotive boiler m a rounanottsestNew Haven, Conn.
Peter Smith was hanged in the yard
of the Tombs Prison, New York, for murdering Watchman John H&nnon on the night of April 7, 1S8S. ",
WESTERN. The Vfflard House at Brainerd,
Minn., was destroyed by nre the guests nar
rowly escaping with their Uvea. loss, tt-k(XX.
A terrific wind-storm swept the upper Michigan peninsula on the 4th inst, completely prostrating telegraph and telephone uut rtrano meat damage. At Ish-
peming, Houghton, Nogauuee, Escanaba, and all through from Fort Hammond to Akron
River, and from Norway to oauu ok.
Maria, telegraphic communication was entirely destroyed. Many buildings were un-mnM-rhimoevs demolished, and railroad
1 in hadlv interrupted by fallen trees.
in thn woods were terribly frightened.
At Norway, John Column was killed by a tail
ing tree. At Quianeaeo the .Masonic mu firemen's building were demolished. At Iron Wmmtainsreat damage was done to houses.
The earthquake in Arizona and New Mexieo was more severe and widespread
than first reports indicated. The shocks w,.ra iiarticularlv violent in Southern Arizona.
At- Tv.n Ttnnonn. and other places, build
ings were cracked and glass broken, and at Sogales many structures were wrecked, but no loss of life is reported. Volcanoes have broken out in the Winchester, Whetstone, and San Jose Mountains. Guaymas, Mexico, was also shaken, tte highest cliff of Chlvato Mountain falling, and a portion of Cape Haro, at the entrance of tioavmH Say, fell into the Gelt Three mills, a chair factory, an elevator, and a hotel at Elk Itiver, Minnesota, were destroyed by fire. Loss, SS5.000. W. C. De Pauw, the wealthy glass manufacturer of New Albany, lad., died last week it the Palmer House, in Chicago. He was stricken with apoplexy while waiting for a train in the Louisville, New Albany ft Chicago Dopofc Mr. De Pauw was born in Salem, Washington County, Indiana, in 1831. When quite young he entered into the banking business under the free-hanking law of Indiana in 1851 In 1861 he removed to New Albany, and during the war he was one of tho largest army contractors in the country. He was the owner of file immense plats-glass mxna!&tory at New Albany in which y,OCK,000 is invested. He was a man of unbounded chanty, an J his donations to the Methodist Church during the last thirty years will aggregate 91,000,000. His will provides for a donation to the De Panw University, at Greencastie, of 1,500,-
000, he having endowed mat institution with
SSOO,0OO several years ago.
SOTJTKERN. Fire at Louisville, Ky., destroyed
Brown, Johnson ft Ca'a warehouse, etrater Bros.' elevator, sixteen loaded L. AN. freight ears, a two-atoiy dwelling, a cottage, and two
The total loss is about szdu.wu
Birmingham (Ala.) dispatch: "Men
working on the Good Water extension of the
Georgia Central fiailroad brings news of a frightful accident on that road in the Coosa
Tunnel One white man and seventeen negroes were at work in the tunnel when the blast prematurely exploded with terrific force.
Twelve out of the eighteen men wero inatanuy
killed. The white man escape 1 death."
Ia a shooting affray at Jackson, Miss. ,
Colonel Jones & Hamilton, lessee of the peni
tentiary, killed B. D. Gambrel, and was himself mortally wounded.
The yearly drive of Texas cattle into
the Indian Territory aggregates 4:,f 50 head.
By the accidental discharge of agon
st Wilmington, N. C , four negro boys were killed, and a fifth badly wounded.
POUTICAX
John G. Carlisle presided over the
Kentucky Democratic Convention at Louisvine. The platform, jointly evolved by
himself and Editor Watterson, protests
confidence in the "integrity and consci
entious devotion to duty of President
Cleveland," but gives his civil-service policy a
slap; is non-committal on the silver question,
I "sumptuary" legislation, and de
mands an "hnmediate reduction of the war tariff.'' Gen. Buekner was nominated for
Governor.
The President has approved the
amendments to the rules for the regulation
and improvement of the executivii civil service proposed by the Civil-Service Commis
sion. The principal change ia in rule C,
clause 2, which, as amended, gives the Comnuasion power to make regulations under
which examinations for promotion in any classified department, postoffiee, or customs office must be made. And in any classified department, customs office, or postoffiee in
which promotions are made under such ex
aminations, the Commission may, in special
cases, if the exigencies of the Service require such action, provide non-competitivo examinations for promotion. In their letter transmitting the new rules the commissioners say that all the evils resulting from the promotion
system in vogne when the civil-servico law was enacted- continue to exist, except in the
New York customs d'striot
the enfon emont of Section 4 would be disastrous to the commorce and industries, of the points named. The Louisville and Nashville,
the Nashvillo, Chattanooga and St. ixuis, ana
tho Chesapeake, Ohio and 8 .uth western Railroads were granted two weeks' time to file ar
guments and statistical information iu sup
port of their petition for tho permanent suspension of Section 4. ltoprosontaiivos of tho river intorosts wero also given loavo to presont
their case in writing.
United Stateu Consuls in Canada
report that tho interstate commerce law is operating disastrously to the export and import trade in that country, and that our trade
interests in that quarter are tnreatonoa wim
serious consequences.
WASHINGTON. Secretary Lamar said to a Washington roportor that he was fully in accord with the President in tho Oniirord Miller matter, and that there was no difference of opinion between them. He further said iu roply to a question that ho would try to carry out President Cleveland's suggestions if possible. . Treasurer Jordan has returned to Washington and resumed his labors. Ho reports the health cf ox-Socretary Manning greatly improved, and that he will return from England June 1. The following is a recapitulation of the public debt statement issued on tho 2d inst by tho United States Treasurer: rjiTEHKST-.'lEAIUSO BEST. Bonds at 4fe poreeut S IIS'SSS'? Bonds at 4 per cent 7TCI$ Bonds at .1 per cent a Refunding certificates at i par cent. "Pj Navy pension fund at 8 per cent. . . . M,U0( ,J0 Pacific liailroad bauds at 0 per cent. M.02.i,au
Principal $1,091,678,712 mteresT.......... a,T60.65ti Total SM03.459,8 PEllT ON WHICH INl-KllEST HAS CEASED SIN CIS HATUaiTZ.
Principal....... ,S10,7
Interest
193.30J
TotaL i,504,015 DEBT BEABINO SO IMTEBEST. Old demand and legal-tender notes SM6,738,18!S Certificates ot deposit. S,330,UJJ Gold certificates M.-m.lS' Silver certificates 137,71J,0 Fractional ourrency (less 58,375,934 .,, estimated as lost or destroyed)... 0,918,472
Principal i5M,211,573 n-O-r-AL DKBT.
Principal ,.fl,e.V-ilJ,UJU
interest.
Totnl l,7(M.m.957
T.nau A-oi, itnms &-ivil&blfi far reduc
tion of the debt aM.UB.ioa
Less reserve held lor redemption or
lUnltea states notes
Total f 361,118,439
Total debt lens available cash
cuslng the plaintiff of beiug a Fenian and a
former ally of the Invincibles, the jury
awarded 500 damages.
As a precaution against spies, Gen
eral Bonlanger has ordered that tradesmen shall bo excluded from French forts, excep:
when accompanied by Fronoh soldiers.
The French temperament is curious
ly illustrated by the hubbub that has been raised over tho production of Wagner's opera, of "Lohengrin" in Paris. The Paris papors
very sensibly condemn tho popular opposition to th opera, and say it is absurd to confound art with patriotism. It is announced that tho Government will suppress tho performance of "Lohengrin" if it continues to be attended by anti-German demonstrations. It is rumored that the Paris Exposition, announced for next year, will be postponed until ISO), in ordor to dissociate it from revolutionary memories. The anti-German feeling is running high at Paris. Threatening demonstrations toko place daily, and the situation appears to be critical. The performances of Wag net 'a operas at tho Edon Theater have been suspended. The London Standard, Conservative, condemns the course of the Government as to tho Tlmr and its attacks on Mr. Dillon.
GREAT TRADE REVIVAL i J" t0 m
The Early Spring Business in Chicago Without a Parallel.
Similar Reports from Every Section ef the Great Mississippi Basin.
items
Net cash in the Treasury.
.11,340,056,498
3J,ie,U3S
Debt leas cash in Treasury May 1,
1887 ai.iua.ifu.wv
Debt less cash hi Treasury April
1, 1887 l,318,-.223,osa Decrease of debt during the month 13,053,008
CASH IN THE TREASURY AVAXLABIiK FOR BEPUCr
TION OF PUBLIC DEBT.
Gold held for sold certificates actu
ally ontstandinc RM.434,485
Silver held for silver certificates ac
tually outstandina 137.740.43U
U. S, notes held for certificates of
denosit actually outstanding g,3?0,0UU
Cash held for matured debt and in
terest unpaid l&asLuW
Cash held lor bonds called not ma
tured and balance of interest w.a-to.aou
Fraction &1 currency
Total available 11204,118,459 ItSSEBVE FOND.
Held for redmpi!on of U. S. notes,
acts January a,, -ioij, ana iiuiy 13,1882.... S 100,000,030 Unavailable for red action of debt :
Fractional silver ooln....826,al,07fl Minor coin 117.582
Total
Certificates bald as cash.
Not cash balaneii on band ,
Total cash in Treasury as shown by
tne Treasurer r cnor i weonnt.. 4oj,iu,3
27,02658 34,02,743 31,880,038
REGULATING THE RAILROADS
The Interstate Commerce Commis
sion met at Memphis on the 4th inst, and were occupied all day hearing testimony on behalf
of the Louisville and Nashville- and Nashvillo
and Chattanooga Railroads, and points trav
ersed by those roads. The evidence elicited was not of a character to raise the conviction
in the minds of those who followed it closely that a good ease had been made out in favor of the suspension of tho long and short haul clause, The Commissioners
cross-examined witnesses closely, and in nearly every ease drew from mem admissions that weakoned the force of their testimony. One Nashvillo witness disclosed the fact that the Louisville and washvole Bead allowed Nashville flour mills a rate that enabled them to buy wheat at Detroit, take it to Nashville, eon vert it into flour, and deliver it at points of consumption as
cheaply as if it had been made into flour at Detroit in the first plaoe without paying tribute to Nashville mills. The Interstate Commerce Commission concluded its two days' labors at Memphis, after hearing evidence from merchants of Himpiris, Louisville, Lexiiiuton, Little
1 Sock, and Newport, Ark., to the effect that
AiLROAD INTELLIGENCE. J. F. Goddard has been promoted to
the management of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Jo Railroad and all its branches, vice
U W. Smith, resigned.
Jay Gould is said to have purchased
100 acres of land at St Lotus, on which the machine shops of the Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain and Southern Railroads are to be erected.
A number of new railroad enter
prises, to bo carried out by American capital,
are projected in Mexico.
The annual report of the Michigan
Central Railroad gives the following statement of tho year's business: Gross earnings grom traffic $12,235,8-27.73 Operating expenses and taxes H,loi.;79.12 Net earnings.: 3,891,148.81 Interest and rentals 2,570,1W1.52 Besiduo 1,314,164.09
Canadian Eoutnern'a snare ol net income a 407,334.70
Not revenue from traffic 906,269.19 Income from investments 45,190.50
Total net revenue 'Jauiu.wy Dividend, 2 per cent, paid Feb. 19, 1897 374,764.08
Balance to income account 677,255.81
MISCELLANEOUS. The cholera epidemic in Chili is re
ported to bo abating, and it is predicted that it will entirely disappear within a fortnight Tho victims in Santiago de Chili alone number nearly 3:900. The health of Lima and
Callao is excellent but poverty is increasing throughont Peru, and suicides are becoming
alarmingly frequent
A dispatch from Nanaimo, in British
Columbia, says that "a terrible explosion of gas took place in No. 1 shaft of the Vancouver
Coal Company's mine, in which there were upward of one hundred and fifty miners at the time. The first intimation those on the surface had of tho explosion was a terrible
shock, folio-wed by an outburst of thick, black
smoke through the air-shaft This was quick
ly followed by a second shock, stronger than the first, carrying pieoos of wood, miners' lamps, etc., hundreds of feet into the air.
In a few minutes flames commenced
to issuo through the air-shaft with a loud, roaring noise, setting fire to the fan house.
which was quickly consumed. Tho first rescuing parties, after getting ont fifteen men
and a number of bodies, were themselves
overcome .by after-damp and had to bo rescued
by others. Tho probability is that all tho im prisoned miners, who number about one hun dred and twenty, will perish of suffocation."
There is said to be a good deal of anxiety at Montreal lost the President issuo a
proclamation of non-intercourso with Canada.
A prominent lumber merchant is quoted as
saying that such action would bankrupt Can
ada in six months. "foreign.-
William O'Brien, the pugnacious editor of United Ireland, has started from Qoeonstown for Canada, whoro he proposes to make things interesting for Lord Lansdowno. M. Schnaebels is to retire on a pen
sion. - It is officially stated that Germany has no intention of declaring a state of siege in Alsace-Lorraine The Pope will shortly send out an encyclical letter on tho land question in which, it is said, he will-unreservedly denounce the theories of Henry George. Tidings of Seoretary Manning's continued improvement in health come from Bournemouth, England. Mr. Parnell has selected William O'Brien as the Homo Rule oandidato for Northeast Cork. In the suit tried in London in which St John Breno'n asked 25,000 damages of William Bidgoway, publisher, for libol in ac
LATER NEWS ITEM. A special from Columbus, Ohio, says: The Paulding County war has terminated, and once more peace nnd quiet is to reign in that couutv. The surrender is uncon
ditional, and is to be lasting. The presence of troops has undoubtedly persuaded ihe denizens of that section that masked knights and dynamite fiends would not be tolerated in Obio, and that when Gov. JVoroker moves on mobs he means business from the beginning to the end, and no compromise while tho masks nre being worn. Major Fleck, of Antwerp, and Hon. W. H. Snook, Prosecuting Attorney of Paulding County, had an interview with Gov.'Foraker in regard to the reservoir troubles. After u full consultation with them, the Governor concluded to withdraw the troops, they giving him satisfactory assurance that if"he did so the property of the State would not be again molested, their lending citizens having mndo up their minds to prevent nil further lawlessness. When the General Assembly again convenes Ihoy will renew their appeal for relief from the nui-innce they claim the canal to be in its present condition. Gov. Fotaker proposes to visit the sceno of the trouble before that time and moke an investigation of the situation with a view to determine what, if anything, tho Legislature, in bis opinion, should do. He does not know just when he will go, but will make tho visit some time during the summer or fall. St. PfiTEitsm'BO cablegram: The Czarina has donated 100,000 roubles to Gen. Grosser, prefect of St. Petersburg, in recognition of his services in frustrating the recent plot on the Czar's life. The Czar has granted him a pension of 6,000 roubles as a reward for his services in arresting.the Nihilists. It is reported that the Czar has decided that the sentence of death pronounced against tho Nihilists convicted of complicity in the recent attempt to assassinate him, stall be commuted to imprisonment at bard labor for life in the cases of all but two of the condemned. The evidence adduced at the trial of these men indicated Ihe existence of four widely ramifying Nihilist organizations, having head centers ot St. Petersburg, Kief, Vilna, and in Siberia. Jefferson Davis has written a review of Gen. Wolsley's "Life of Gen. Lee." Mr. Davis takes exception to many of the English General's statements, and while not finding iault with the superlative nniniong of Gen. Lee's military ability ox-
pressed in the book he shows very plainly ! that ho considers (ion. Wolsley's criticism
of the Southern leader as unjust and on-
warrantable.
At the Twenty-fourth annual meeting
of the Third Army Corps, held in New
York, it was decided to invite tho members
of Ihe Army of the Potomac and the Army
of tho Union of Virginia, tiiu Urana Army
of the Republic, nnd the Army of New Virginia and kinc .red societies, to partici
pate in the griuid union, to be held at
ijeUVSburB on mo mi, ana, ana oru oi
Jnlv. 1888. A committee was appointed to
carry out the necessary arrangements. At
includes Gen. D. F. Kyckles, Gen. Carr,
Gen. Shnrpe, Gen. Robinson, Gen. Graham, Col, M. C. Michael, and Col. Clark,
Cojj. W. H. Bolton, ex-Superintendent of the second-class! matter in ihe postoffiee
at Chicago, convicted of the embezzle
ment of $25,C00, has been sentenced by
Judge Biodgett to four years imprison
ment.
A special from Youngstown, Ohio,
says: A terrible accident occurred in the
rolling mill of the Hubbard Iron Compnuy,
atHubbards. Engineer Griffith Phillips,
aged 2U years, in passing around an ere crusher, oiling the bearings, was caught in the coc wheels and dragged into the
crasher. He was mangled out of all sem
blance of humanity, his flesh adhering to
the cogs. Mr. Phillips leaves a wife and
three children.
The ore pool formed by the different railroads centering in Pittsburgh, to control
the shipment of ore from the lake ports.
has been dissolved. All the railways will have as much of this class of freight as
they can handle. -
The Florida Legislature coniinues to ballot for United States Senator from day
to day. without result.
THE MARKETS.
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NEW VOUK. CATTLS 8 5.00 0 5.75 Hons 5.50 8 0.00
Wheat No. 1 White 95b9 .06J4
No. -j Keel. 'J is -ua Cobn Tv'o. a 18 ; .50 Oats White 38 & 43 Pokk New Moss 16.50 tS17.25 CHICAGO. Cattie Choice to 1'riuio Steers 5.00 & 6.33 Gooi Shipping. 4.50 'j 4.75 Common 4i00 ( 450 Hogs Shippina Grades 5.00 ($ 5 50 FY oca Winter Wheat 4.25 & 4 50
Wheat No. 2 Sprina 8 '..9 .8154
Corn No. - .38 Oats No. 2 20 nS .27 Butter Choice Creamery. .,21 9 .23 Fine Dairy 13 .21
Cbkesh Full Creaui, Cheddar.. .13?4! .14y Full Cream, new wt! .14l4 r.cfis Fresh 102 .11J&
Potatoks cnoioo, per du 72 & .va Pork Mess 23.25 j23.7S MILWAUKEE.
Whkat Cash 7 t Const No. a 37 Vi Oats No. 2 White 2aw6
ItTK No. 1 5 l'oiuc-Mcss 15.25 TOLEDO. WmuT Lake Suorc 84 Cons. No. 2 10 Oats 28
UKTltOlT. IlEKF CATTI.1S 4.25 trS 5.00
H-MJS 4.00 . 5.00 Khkep. 4.50 5.75
WitKAT No. 2 Bed W( Cons No. a 10 V? Oats -White 32;s ST. LOUIS. Whkat No. 2 82 & CollN Mixed 35 Uath-Mixed 27 (
VolXR Now Mess 15.75 s 10.2 CINCINNATI.
Whkat No. Bod 82)40 -83)4
Cobn-No. 2 -a l .43 Oats No. 2 29 f .80 POBK-Mess 10.75 017.25 Bl'FFALO""
Wheat No. 1 Hard Cobn No. 2 Yollow Cattle
INDIANAPOLIS. BeepCattlb Hoos Sheep Wheat No. 2 Bed Cons No. 2 Oats Mixed
JSAtt'l AfliU'A'X. CATTOE-Best '.00 it! 5.23 Fair 4.60 3 6.00 Common 4.25 & 4. BO Hoos 6-60 0 W gaum' 3,73 0
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Chicago special. The early spring trade in all branches of the wholesale business of Chicago was almost without a parallel in its history. The consumption of goods was simply enormous. This was in a great measure attributed to the change to be nude in railroad freight rates by the operation of the interstate commerce law, which went into effect early in April. Now that that time has passed and dealers throughont the country are beginning to unilorsto.ud the present cost of transportation, the immense demands for goods throughout the month of March turns out not to have been so spasmodic as it was then supposed to be, but a genuine revival of business throughout the West and Northwest, as there has been during the last three weeks and is now greater activity among the wholesale firms of this city than is usual at this season of tho year. The new law acted as a check and nothing more. Ail through the country west of Chicago, even to the Paoifio coast, the new law ia a benefit in Ihn Cardan Citv. as it enables shinners
to send goods to points they could not cover before, as they were controlled by
the jobbers m the interior towns, thus
Chicago is becoming more and more the
base of supplies for the whole West and
Northwest. There was, of course, a marked falling off in the dry-goods trade during last mouth as compared with March, which was
phenomenal one; nut April more man id its own as aeainst the same time last
year, and the outloook for a late spring and
Bummer aemunu in u lory ehuibiucuji.v uuo,
A good volume of business was transacteo
all through the month by the millinery houses. There has never been so satisfactory a spring season, and it is closing
earlier than usual, a gooa oruer iraae is anticipated until the hot weather sets in. So far there ia no fault whatever to be
found with the situation. The condition
of the wholesale grocery traae is very sawsfactory, and it has been daily improving
since April i". There seems to be a boom through the country so far as trade is concerned, and the heavy volume of railroad work now in
course of cc nstruction is in a great meas
ure accour.eiole for it. lne opening ot lake navigation has also given it an impetus, and, with collections good in all branches of trade, a feeling of satisfaction
exists that has not been known tor years. Business generally is being conducted on a conservative basis, and therein lies its strength. Dealers are buying in smaller quantities and oftener, and hence they find it easier to jy for their goods. Telegraphic reports to the Chicago Tribune from leading trade centers in the West,
Northwest, and Southwest are ot one
tenor. They all speak ot an unparalleled revival of business. A dispatch from Mil
waukee says : "A stroll among .Milwaukee merchants nnd manufacturers will show the
prevalence of contentment, mingled with a due allowance of hopefulness, regarding the present inditioa of the season's pros
pects ioriu;ii'iess in me various uj-ku iio. Comparatively little complaint is made regarding the interstate commerce law, so far as the n titter of freights is concerned, and it appeun to cut little or no figure in
anecting Utile. St. Faul leports as follows: "Spring trade has generally opened up earlier than last year, owiig to the favorable season, and the volum a of business in all departments is reported to be larger than last year. The e lect of the interstate law, which it was f tared would prove a serious blow to Northwestern trade, has not been
as disastrous as expected."
Omaha: "The merchants of this city re
port a large increase in their business over any former year. Some of them say it will ran from 80 to 50 per cent, higher, especially in the grocery trade. Orders have not only grown in numbers, but are double and even triple in size. This is duo, they say, to the interstate commerce law, which has raised rates so that country store- keepere
who heretofore made their big purobasef
in Chicago now get everything fron:
Omaha. While sales are good, collections are also much better than usual for the time of year."
Denver: '-There is a striking unanimity
amon? the business men ol Denver in re.
card to their present trade, and this feel
me extends to an agreement among mew
that tbev do not look for its continuance
beyond a few weeks, or months at the outside. In comparison with-last year, thev
estimate the increase variously from 20 tc
50 per cent., the latter m special lines. Nearly every jobber is loud in condemning the present railroad tariffs as adjusted.from a railroad standpoint to suit the provisions
of the interstate commerce law. Kansas City: "Unless the present indi
cations prove misleading the year 1887 will be marked by an unprecedented development of the commercial interests of Knnsat
City. The spring trade is satisfactory, and
even more than satisfactory, as the surpris
ing boom m business fairly takes away tn breath of the most conservative business;
men. Jobbers in dry goods are to a certair.
extent feeling the effects of tho interstate commerce bill so far as it relates to long and
short hauls. They net their goods m rau-ly
good time, but are compelled to pay morei
freight than lormeriy. The increase, nowever, is not sufficient to injure the jobbing
business ox the city." St, Louis: "The volume of St. Louis
spring business averages fully an increase
ol tniny per cent, over me mree correspouu inc months of last year. Merchants are al
most unanimous iu their indorsement of the
interstate commerce law. New Orleans: "Nearly all lines of trad
been more satisfactory this spring than for several seasons nast. Tho interstate com
merce law has not unfavorably affecteel
business." Louisville: "Spring trade vx Louisville
opened out wim a steaay reoiiag ana nra demand for almost all classes of goods
Except in a few lines of specialties there has been no complaint on account of the interstate commerce law."
Cleveland: "Cleveland's trade has some bad features about it, but on the whole Hiore is very Utile drawbaok to the strous
feeling that has existed for several months past. The dry-goods houses report business as better by almost one-fifth this spring than last, and the trade of last year was tbe best ever known. They generally like the nev law, as calculated to leave them what tliey term the local trade and prevent the jompetition of New York and Chicago houses. Collections are very good. Cincinnati: "Tnterviews with prominenl merchants ii various branches of business show conflicting statements in regard to the condilicn of spring trade in several lines. The dry goods men say that trade is bettor this spring than last, but it iB not up to expect lions,. This has been tho best spring the grocery' nien have had for several years. The furuitur! hat and cap, and boot nnd tiloe dealers all report a big spring business. More complaint is heard from the fee d and grain men about the interstate law than any other class." Detroit: " Barring serious labor troubles,
Ihe prospect for a good spring and summer trade in all lines of business is much better than for eoveral previous seasons. While the interstate commerce bill is beiug roundly denounced, it does not seem to have had an." appreciable ill efleot on trade
so lar.
The popular pastor of the People's Church, of Chicago, vJbose portrait accompanies this sketch, was born April 29, 1832, in the Allegheny Mountains, in Hampshire County, A "irginia (now West Virginia). His parents were farmers in modest circumstances. His father was of German and Welsh descent, and his mother of Scotch nnd English. The family was large, Hiram being tho fourth son. Dr. Thomas grew up in an atmosphere of freedom, which has influenced his whole Mfe. Horn and reared in the mountains, like tho Swiss and Scotch Highlanders, he has naturally inherited a bold and free -spirit. His father was of Quaker proclivi-
A TKAGIC MEMOET. First Anniversary of the H&ynwket Massacre in Chicago.
ties, and his family never owned slaves. He early became an Abolitionist, and has, like Beecher, never ceased to preach freedom, political nnd intellectual, lie commenced preaching under great
embarrassments. He joined tne jrittsourg
Conference of the Evangelical Association,
or German. Methodists, in 1851. He re
ceived for the first three years of his ministry an annual salary of $100, nnd for several subsequent years, when he had a family to support, SUM), on which latter sum
he save he lived wen ana savea monei .
In 1856 he ioined the Iowa Conference
of the M. E. Church, and has since Idled
the leading cbargos of Marshall, Fort Madison passing two years additional as
Chanlain of the State Fenitenliarv
Mt. Pleasant, and Burlington. In 186'.i he was transferred to the Kock Biver Con
ference, and stationed at Park Avenue
Church, Chicago. Alter three years no was aunointed to the First Church (Metho
dist Church Block), of the same city, where
he likewise remained three years. He was then ient to Aurora for three years, and
next fo Centenary Church, in Chicago,
where he remained till October, 1880.
His early preaching gave promise or Ms
later fame. Ho always drew large congregations, and tbe churches named always flourished under his care.
Earlv in life he roamed Miss Lmtly O.
Merrick, a brilliant and accomplished lady
of Dempseytown. Pa., whose practical good sense and cheerfulness have power
fully served him in his many aimcumcs
and discouragements. Their varied life has been on ideal one of love and dovotion, and iheir home a charming resort for their many friends. They have had seven children, only one of whom is now living, Dr. Hiram M. Thomas, of Chicago.
Dr. Thomas was always liberal in his
views and free m expressing mem. sso
church forms, whether of dogma or cere
mony, could letter him. In lost he was
tried for heresy by his conference cn ac
count oi nis peculiar views uxi uiopixntiuu, the atonement, and future punishment.
He held that there were errors in the Bible, that Christ was not punished to save
mau, and that mere was no erernai torment. These views were held by a small majority of fie examining committee to be heretical, and be was expelled, in consequence, fi im the M. E. Church. Before this, some of his friends bad organized the People's Church in the central
part or cnicago, wnere ue nao. ueeu preaching. He now identified himself
permanently with this organization, and has been ita pastor ever since.
Dr. ihomns has irequent cans to tenure throughout the country, and is one of the most apnreciated platform speakers in the West. He is popular among all classes, and iloes a vast amount of pastoral and social work, for which he is phenomenally fitted. His sermons are widely read, being generally reported by the press. MOST AGAIN BREAKS LOOSE.
Names of the Policemen Killed and Fsis manently Injured by the Deadly Bomb. rCblcago special The first anniversary of the event wbicn will be known to history as the Haymarket massacre occurred ou Wednesday last The night of May 4, 188G, six companies of police, numbering 17S men, under command of Inspector John Bonfieldand Capt. Ward, marched from the Desplsines Street Police Station up Desplaines street to a point a short distance north of Bandolph street, and there halted. A socialists' meeting wus in progress on the street, and. several fire-eating anarchists were doing their utmost to incite the people to a riot. Capt. Ward formally ordered the crowd "in the name of the people of the State of
! Illinois to quietly and peaceably disperse."
hainuel fielden, the onarobist who was then making a speech, replied, "We are peaceable," and at the same instant a dynamite bomb was thrown into the ranks of the police. Instantly upon the explosion of. the bomb, and before the police force had a chance to rally, a fusillade of revolver shots was poured into (he polioe from both sides of tho street. The police immediately rallied and returned the fire, and the mob fled with the police in hot pursuit. When the smoke of battle had cleared away the ground was found to be covered with wounded and dying policemen, stricken down by the deadly bomb. One
officer died almost immediately and sixtysix others were wounded, six of whom died within the next week or two from the effect of their wounds. There was also one civilian found killed cn the spot and about twenty others wounded, but as the wounded socialists were mostly hidden away, the total casualties resulting from the battle will never be known. At least twelve, and probably ever twenty, lives were lost, and over 100 jeople seriously injured. Following ore the names of the policemen injured, classified us fatally injured, permanently disabled, tmd seriously disabled, still unfit
for duty,
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MOODY AND MURPHY;
TBeir Mission in Chicago Brongnt t a dose-What Baa Been A, complished.
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patalli- rarcnED 7.
Mathias J. Degf.u, Michael Sheehan, George Miller, Nols Hansen, John J. Barrett, Thomas ltoddon, Timothy Flavihan.
PEBMANEMXl.Y DISABLED II.
Lawrence J. Murphy,
acioiu uarocr, Patrick McNulty, John F. McMahon, Daniel Hogan,
xrssrc von
Michael O'Brion.
Thomas McEncry, Jacob Hanson, Charles W. Whitney, Nlch. J. Shannon, Jr.,
1'utrion uarHora. SERIOUSLY lXJUllEO AND STILL
DOTT 12. August C. Keller, Joseph Norman, John E. Doyle, Peter Butterly, John H. King, Alexander Jamieson, Arthur Connelly, Charlos H. Fink, James A. Brady, Kdward Barrett, Timothy Sullivan, Henry F. Smith. But though the bomb did all the work expected of it, the results were not what the anarchists anticipated. The police, instead of running away, rallied and charged the mob, and drove the conspirators to their holes, utterly routing them at
the first onset. Nnmerous arrests followed, and the whole conspiracy was laid bare. June 21
eight of the leading conspirators Spies, Parsons, Fischer. Engel, Lingg, Schwab, Fielden, and Neebe were placed on trial before Judge Gary, nnd the next twentyone days were consumed in securing a jury. i'he details of the trial are iresh in the minds of all. It lasted about two months, and resulted in a verdict condemning seven of the prisoners to death, and the eighth, Neebe, to fifteen years' penal servitude. Motions in supEort of a new trial have since been argued efore the State Supreme Court, and the cose is still pending. The decision of the Supreme Court is not expected until September, and the genoral impression of all who heard (he arguments at Ottawa was that the motions will be refused. That verdict was the death-blow to anarchy in this country. It is a warning that anarchy has no resting-place hero, and that Johann Most and all his criminal associates and befooled followers the moment they begin to put their theories into effect stand beneath the shadow of the gallows.
A Portrait and Biographical Sketch f the Celebrated Evangelist. Chicago special. After four months of incessant labor, Chicago's honored evangelist, Dwight I. Moody, has brought his mission to a close in this city. None but those who have -. watched the evangelistic services oloeely -can form any conception of the immense. , amount of labor he has accomplished. Day after day, and week after week, he has sacrificed comfort, and even health itself, in the effort to accomplish one great and noble objectHWO'eflaim tjae glad tidings of salvation ' to the people, and seek to win souls to Christ. On Jian. S he preached at the First Congregational Church for the first time in the campaign against sin and tlie devil, and in a few days his audiences grew so large that the church would not contain them. Equal to the emergency, he at once held services in the afternoon for the church-workers and those who could attend in th-3 day, and in the evening for those whose business occupied their attention during the day. Still his a congregations increased, and from allpazta of the city there came to him the cry, "Cesne and help us." He at once called to bis assistance Evangelist Bliss, of Boston, and the churches at once threw open their doors tor tbe work. Ministers of the various denominations united, the Chicago Evangeli
zation Society was inaugurated, and carefully considered, systematic warfare organized. After being here s month, Mr. Moody determined to call to his assistance Francis Murphy, the well-known apostle of temperance. Feb. 8 Mr. Murphy delivered his first address at Farwell Hall. From that time until the present gospel temperance has been in the ascendant. Thousands nightly flocked to hear Murphy, and hundreds daily signed tbe pledge and donned tho blue ribbon, until the gospel temperance army now numbers over :.7,ooo. Dwight X&maa Bloody. D. L. Moody was born near Northfield, Mass., Feb. 3, 1837. When the boy was . four years of age his father died, leaving ,ho care and support of a large family to
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lie Attueks the Chicago Vol Ice Force and All Representatives of the law, New Haven (Conn.) dispatch. Herr Most made one of his charnoterisHo speect.es here, Sunday night, on "Free
Speecli and Imprisonment, nnd gave sketch of his imprisonment on Blaekwell's Island. He said that he bore his imprisonment patiently because he knew that he had done and said more than his friends in Chicago had who were now under sentence of death. Ho said a bomb w thrown and seven policemen, the tools
of a corrupt government, went to hell, and seven honest men, that were never proved
to have bad anything to do with throwing a
bomb, were sentenced to be hanged by an infamous court that was the tool of the
capitalists. But he said those seven men were not vet ban "ed. nor never would be.
The cowards dare not hanglhem. Most said he hoped that he would meet Inspector Bonfield on the streets of some great or
small city after nightfall. At this suggestion there was groat applause. He said that ho was tried by a fellow named Fellows, the Assistant liBtrict Attorney of New York. Tbe only difference that theie was between the speaker and Follows was that be (Mosti advised the people to arm themselves, but Fellows was guilty of high treason. He took np arms against the United Stales nnd went iuto the Confederate army. Fellows ought to be hanged, but he was now a portion of the capitalistic machinery, and he goes before Ite courts spouting about liberty and justice and comes to the conclusion that Herr Most ought to bo banged. THE CROPS. - A Review of tho Condition of Growing Grain In the Northwest. IChieago spooial. The following is the weekly crop summary of tho Furmenf Ilevieic : The conditions, in the main, have been favornblo for the growing winter wheat during tho past weok. Kains have fallen in all of the States, though in portions of Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois the need of rain is still said to be urgent. The average of the condition in twenty Illinois counties reporting this week is Ml per iieut In Ohio the averace ranges lower, very few of tho counties reportmga full average oi condition. Tho average condition of twenty-one Kansas counties is 81 por cent., a number of tbe counties noting an improvement in co lsequence of recent rains. In M ssouri tho nv-.-rago percentage is 91. Tbe condition of spring wheat in Iowa, Minnesota aud Nebraska is reported to be good, though rains are needed. The acre, ago m Iowa promises to bo fully aa large as last year, if not somewhat larger.
The meadows in Illinois, Indiana ana
Fort Worth, Texas: "urooery men report ( . ,- , ,, , ... ,,:. wi,l.
a large inerei.se in trade from 1KW. One -illillrv (o ci0Ver-neUs in Illinois is
houo, doing a business of 4.l,mKl,t.lu) per
annuiii. repo-'ts an increase of W per vent. Dry-goods and other merchants note a uinrked increase iu trade. Tbe indications are that the inlerKtato commerce -.law will
reported.
owing to injury from freezing.
higa-
Teahs sprinkled across life's way settle the dust of Borrow.
WORK AND WORKERS. Items of Interest for Kmployera and Employed. The rush of immigration from abroad has been stimulated by great activity in railroad building and by the demand for labor in mills, factories and shops of all kinds. Mechanical labor is coming over in abundance, wu comparatively few miners are chafing their abode. The inducements to miners of Europe or Great Britain to change their homes is not so strong as to workmen in other branches. Common labor has extraordinary inducements offered. Thoie will be railroad mileage laid this year double that of last year. House building will be at least 25 per cent, greater. Shop labor of all kinds is in demand, and there is therefore an opportunity for a great influx of common labor. Even in the lumber camps in the Northwest men are paid from $1.75 to 2 per day, but they are skilled woodsmen. Mining labor is wanted in the gold and silver mines all along the Bocky Mountain range, from Northern Montana to the City of Mexico. MANtTFACTtTBEHS of mining machinery in t T.rmis. rhieauo and New York have
lately received orders for an unusually large quantity of speoial machinery, and a long list of mining companies havo re
cently announced inemseives, mi ujjoihwj all through the mineral regions from the lakes down into Mexico. One company hna been organized with a capital of
sio non.nuO. two in St. Louis with a capi-
tal of $5,000,000. one in Chicago with $5,000,000, to say nothing of the long string of smaller companies, all of which seem to bo well backed with capital and
prepared to enter upon active work. j At the spring meetings of the Western I lumber men the opinions were gene rally expressed that prices for lumber must be 1 stronger under the extraordinary Eastern aud Western demand. Stocks in all sections of the country are shown to be much lower than year ago. The deereasa in six Western lumber States is piven at J28,082,891 feet, In Minnesota there is a decrease of 100,000,000 feet. Some people in Chicago are trying to make out that cotton and woolen goods can be manufactured there as cheaply as in Fall Itiver, Providence, or Philadelphia, or any other textile center. The maohtnery, thev say, can be made there, land is cheap, and from whatever standpoint the subject is viewed it is claimed the advantages are in favor of the West Business men in the far West are not paving much attention to their former Eastern sources of supply. New oues are springing up nearer, where purchases are more conveniently made, and where exchanges can bo effected if goods prove unsatisfactory. The total number of wage-workers who went on strike doriug April wa 31,072. Iu very few cases tho striken were for more wages. Wages are generally satisfactory, but othor causes of complaint are numerous. Wauks havo been advanced in shops and mills throughout Pennsylvania and Ohio during the past week. Demauds are made at many morn, and will be favorably considered. A great deal of contraotwork is on hand. TliEKE is moro real organization now going on among tho Knights of Labor than when the great rush was on. Tho good material is getting into harmony and the poor i dropping out.
young Moody's mother, a most estimable '.ady of the Unitarian faith, to whoee infte- v onoe and superior traits many of the strong elements of Mr. Moody's character ana -vork are confessedly dne. In 186 hey . i ought employment in a Boston shoe . . i tore, and in thefollewing yearcame to Chicago, to enter a similar business sHaetion. In both of these cities his earnest impulsiveness to do good became s marked feature of his daily life. The excellent loinistrations of the churches which he at- . tended confirmed him in his conviction ot l is Life mission, and he resolved to relinc uish all business of a personal nature and , c' evote himself to the work oi evangeliring. He took an active interest in the Young Hen's Christian Association of Chicago, and established the North Market Mission S unday-school, since become famous for its success in the conversion of men to religion. In the summer of 186L. s;iys a biographer- he devoted most of his labor to "The volunteers of the war of tho rebellion, who were stationed in Chicago, and in November of that year, when the United States Christian Commission was established, p roceeded under its auspices to the camps , and battle fields of the South, wnere he worked, alleviating the sufferings and sopplying the spiritual necessities of bow friend and foe. :, .- In August, 1862, he was married to Miss Emma C. Revell, of Chicago, by reason ef wiiose sympathy of temper and religious . aidor the union bas resulted in great good, not to them alone but to the world. Sir. Moody has been blessed with two children -a son and a daughter. The duties of the Christian Commission did not prevent him from attending-to hie. Cliioago school. A chapel FurweU Hall was built to supply its growing needs, aid soon oat of the organization arose an independent church, of which Mr. Mod, became the pastor. In 1865 he was elected President of the Young Men's Christian Aitsociation, and was incessant and bide-, fadgable in his labors to further its work. Within two years thereafter, chiefly through hii influence, a building, admirably adapt, ed to its purposes, was erected at a cost of $S 00,000. In October, 1871, the terrible fire, Which devastated Chicago, destroyed Mr. Moody's home, Farwell Hall, and his church; but wiftin a month thereafter the latter was replaced by a wooden structure, called the -
Nertn side xaoernaeie, ana espwura v holding 1,500 persons. Here M. labors, ak ed bv the musical abilities of Mr. Sanke , continued through several years, untfl the summer of 1873, when he visited nglai d, accompanied by Mr. Sankey. Hince that time Mr. Moody has been untiring in his good work. He is one df the most resolute and successful of evangelists.
DESTRUCTION IN MAINE.
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Trains and Halls lelj id. Bangor (Me.) special, The flood in the Penobscot does not abate and the bridge piers are being slowly under mined. Thursday the pressure at the dan- broke the connecting-rod of the main punps in the waterworks, eomjletely disabling them. A rotary puuiBy which is kept for emergencies, is being used, but only about one-eighth ot the
city's water supply is available.
All the elevators which a
tAnn Iiava heen shut -down.
oufci at Costigan, Kinman, and Hamvracon inne to grow larger. Houses are starting from their foundations, all along the river, and thousands of dollars' worth ot household properly has been washed away, canning much suffering to families along the bnnfcs. Firmers will be weeks behind with their ci-oi -h. All tho trestle-work supporting ihe railixadat Stillwater has been torn ewaj and houses there have floated down the rivo -. Busiuess is suspended on the Bango r A- Kathadin Iron-Works Bead, wfce, there are many .washouts. The Piseetaqata Riv.ir rose twenty-five feet, making highway J impassable. The new woolen-mill dam and most of the great OeropbeB daw. at S angerville have been washed eay, ttft pending work in hundreds ot MM far V . lontitime '-';s;
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