Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1885 — Page 2

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NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. Abe Buzzard, the Pennsylvania outlaw, surrendered to the prison keeper at Lancaster, first extorting a promise from the jailer and bis brother that they would not claim the reward offered for his arrest. Ex-Gov. Hale of New Hampshire, •who has been carrying on extensive manufacturing enterprises in New Hampshire and Vermont, and is also largely interested in real estate in Boston, has failed for a large amount. The Juniata Building and Loan Association of Everett, Fa., has failed for $65,000. Benjamin Helpkin, a New York sa-loon-keeper, shot his wife in the heaJ and then blew out his brains. Kev. Henry Ward Beecher is preaching a series of sermons to his Plymouth Church congregation upon the subject of evolution. In his last Sunday's sermon he took the ground that the developments of science have rendered the theory of plenary and verbal inspiration of the Scriptures untenable, but that in another sense—the sense that it is a history of the human race, and that eve'-y part of it was lived—the Bible is a divinely inspired book. The preacher advised theologians to abandon the effort to harmonize such biblical legends as the story of the creation of the world in six days with the facts of science. The theory of literal inspiration, he claimed, led surely to infidelity. After the doctors had visited Gen. Grant, Sunday afternoon, they said that, as compared with a week before, thore was no appreciable increase of the swelling on the throat and no apparent increase of the cancerous trouble In the throat.

The factory of Becker lie & Co., Danbury, Conn., was burned, entailing a loss of $200,000. T. Dorrance, for eighteen years a teller in the Providence National Bank, was arrested in that city, after confessing tho embezzlemnt of SOO,OOO. William Henry, ex-business manager of the New York Herald, proposes to start a paper in opposition to the Herald and World, and claims to have $600,000 of the ueoessary $1,000,000 raised for the enterprise. At New Bedford, Mass., a confirmed inebriate named Charles Foss killed a merchant named Philip D. Slocum and then took his own life. Foss had requested his victim to send him to Hudson’s Bay, and was enraged by the delay to do so.

WESTERN.

Judge Chipman, of Detroit, has granted a divorce to the wife of Mark Hopkins, the St. Clair millionaire, on the ground of cruelty. Within six months the County Agent at Chicago has expended SIO,OOO in conveying insane persons to their homes in other States, on evidenco that they had been deliberately shipped to the Garden City. Two persons, named McKinley—father and son—were killed by lightning at Mendota, Mo. The Secretary of the Kansas Board of Agriculture reports that at least 40 per cent, of the winter wheat has been abandoned and the ground seeded to spring wheat. Ho estimates the product of winter wheat at 12,000,000 bushels.

Burglars were caught at work on a safe in an office at Sedalia, Mo., by two policemen. One of the latter was shot in the face, and the officer, returning tho fire, shot a burglar through the heart. The other robber then decamped.

The annual election of the Chicago and Northwestern - Railway resulted in no changes of importance. Chauncey M. Depew voted on $7,000,030 of stock owned by William H. Vanderbilt. The directors declared dividends of 1% per cent, on the common stock and 2 per cent on the preferred.

Reports to the Illinois Agricultural Department state that the condition of the wheat crop in general is worse than it was a inontk ago. The reports mention the appearance of the army worm in the meadows In a few localities, but In small numbers. “Crops of all kinds are in better condition in Southern Dakota than at the same time last year,” says a Yankton dispatch. In Ohio, according to a Columbus dispatch, “thousands of acres of wheat have been plowed up, the crop not being worth harvesting, and in many places the estimated yield of that yot standing is placed as low as a half-bushei to the acre. The Hessian fly is doing great damage to the crop.” Some of the men in Chicago, reports the Tribune, who have been watching tho situation from the start, now say they do not believe the wheat crop of the United States will aggregate anything like as much as 350,000,000 bushels this year, and some of them think the total may even fall below 300,000,000 bushels.

The Postmaster at Lewiston, Idaho, has absconded, after having stolen some $50,000 by means of fraudulent monayordors.

A mob of seventy-five masked men entered the jail at Eldora, lowa, and took therefrom two brothers named Rainsbarger, and literally riddled them with bullets. The victims were brothers of the two Hainsbargera now in Marshall County (Iowa) Jail for murder, and had been arrested for an alleged attack on Dr. Underwood, a prominent witness for the prosecution. Attachments were served upon Cortinas’ Wild West combination at Galesburg, 111. The cowboys, Mexicans, and Indians

■connected with the show seized the herd of ponies belonging to the concern and started for the West. No attempt was made to stop j them.

Rhyner & Co., the insolvent bankers of Highland, 111., have liabilities or over SBIO,OOO, with assets of $339,092, of which $111,823 are doubtful or desperate. At Gudsell’s Station, near Evansville, Ind., John Butcher quarreled with James H. Munnis in regard to tffe right of way for a loaded team, and fatally stabbed him. Butcher, when pursued by officers, emptied two. revolvers, reserving the last cartridge to blow out his own brains. In a fight between twenty-four cattlemen and a band of Apache Indians at the mouth of Doubtful Canon, N. M., two of the latter were killed. Chicago notes: The police are waging a war of extermination against the gamblers. Mayor Harrison, accompanied by his family, has gone to the Hot Springs. The real-estate transfers for the week aggregated $1,020,059. The east-bound freight shipments for tho week were 43,083 tons. The death rate for May was largely in excess ■of what it was a year ago. The total deaths were 1,130. Tho United States Grand Jury has returned indictments against witnesses in the Mackin-Gallagher case, who are charged with perjury. Sunday racing has been inaugurated at the Chicago Driving Park, und the pulpit has declared war against the desecration. Over 10,000 people attended the opening game of the National League base-ball season between the Chicago and St. Louis Clubs.

It is claimed that the census of Fargo, Dakota, now partly completed, will show a population of 10,501.

SOUTHERN.

Supposing that she was a witch, negroes in Etowah County, Alabama, dragged an aged colored woman from her house, and after tying her to a stake, beat her brutally and burned down her dwelling. Eleven of her assailants have teen arrested.

Three lynchings have occurred in the State of Maryland within the last six months. The third was that of Townsend Cook, a negro, who brutally assaulted Mrs. Carrie Knott, of Mount Airy. Cook was taken out of tho Westminster Jail and hanged to a treo by an armed mob, his body being riddled with bullets.

Secretary Whitney has received a detailed statement of tho present indebtedness of the World’s Fair at New Orleans. The total amount of claims against the exposition is $397,318, of which $335,000 is provided for by the appropriation—leaving a balance on the wrong side of tho account of $62,318.

In a battle between State Bangers and Mexican feebooters, on the frontier of Texas, three of the Hangers, including the officer in command, were killed.

J. H. Aufdemorte, redemption clerk in tho Sub-Treasury at New Orleans, who is charged with a deficit of $25,343, has disappeared. It is feared that the thel't may be fully $50,000, but the Government is protected by the bond of the Assistant Treasurer.

James McDaniel, a Texas stager robber, who broke jail at San Antonio, has been sentenced to ninety-nine years’ imprisonment in the Chester (Ill.) Penitentiary.

WASHINGTON.

The report of the commission which has been investigating the workings of tho Internal Revenue Bureau has been completed and virtually approved by Secretary Manning. A reduction of 30 per cent, in the total annual cost of the collection of internal revenue is recommended.

Secretary Lamar has decided that lands purchased by the United States and transferred to the Interior Department are to be regarded as part of the public domain.

President Cleveland and his financial advisors are said to have at last hit upon a satisfactory solution of the silver problem. The main features of the plan, which is to be submitted to Congress, are: To suspend the coinage of silver dollars, and to issue silver certificates representing bullion on deposit, these certificates to be redeemable at the option of tho Government in silver bullion, and to be made receivable for all dues to or from the Government and between banks. It is also suggested that the $1 and $2 greenbacks and $5 bank-notes shall be withdrawn, and that small notes shall be substituted based on the silver dollars already coined. The Secretary of the Treasury last week received a protest against the continued coinage of the silver dollar signed by almost every banking institution and business-man in South Carolina.

Investigation has disclosed numerous pension frauds In New Jersey, and Commissioner Black has been -put in possession of tho facts.

POLITICAL.

President Cleveland has appointed Charles H. Robinson, Collector of Customs at Wilmington, N. C.; John C. Blxby, Collector of Customs at New Haven, Conn.; John H. Farley, Collector of Internal ReVenuo for the Eighteenth District of Ohio; T. C. Bronson, Collector of Internal Revenue for the Eighth district of Kentucky. William 11. Welsh, of Maryland, wa3 appointed Deputy Third Auditor of the Treasury. William H. Cullingworth was commissioned postmaster at Richmond, Va. Colonel F. D. Stephenson, of Illinois, has been discharged from a position in the pension bureau at Washington. The President has appointed the following postmasters:

Colorado—David F. Rakes, Ouray, vice Albert Moore, resigned. Illinois—Joseph F. Henderson, Aledo, vice John McKinney, commission expired. Indiana—David J. Eastburn, Fowler, vice George W. Mellis, resigned. lowa—John Letzel, Clear Lake, vice A. D. Eldridge, resigned. Kansas—Justinian Mayberry, Burlingame, vice George W. Doty, commission expired; John

R Brant, Osage Mission. vice J. S. Curtis, resigned. Kentucky—C. N. Lespress, MaysvUle, vice M. C. Hutchins, resigned. Michigan—Martin V. Meredith at East Saginaw, vice William G. Gage, suspended because he bad been found guilty of fraudulently appropriating to his own use partof his allowance fer office rent by means of false vouchers, and of subletting a portion of the premises without accounting for the rent received for the same. Nebraska-John Kittle at vice C. E. Van Pelt, commission expired. Pennsylvania—A. H. Simpson at North Clarendon, vice H. E Norris, resigned; Alex. Wertz at Meciianicsburg, vice Miss Catherine Singer, commission expired. South Carolina—W. H. Gibbons, Columbia, vice C. M. Wilder, commission expired. Texas—C. A. Glides, Brackettsville, vice W. Lambert, (Commission expired. The Republican State Central Committee of lowa has decided to hold tho next State convention, Aug. 26 and 27, at Des Moines. President Cleveland appointed Gen. W. S. Bosecrans, of California, to be Register of the Tieasury, vice Bruce, resigned. Herbert F. Beecher, a son of the famous Brooklyn preaeher, has been appointed Collector of Customs at Port Townsend, Washington Territory. Archibald Skiliman was appointed Collector of Internal Bevenue for the District of Nevada; Baker P. Lee, Collector of Customs for the District of Yorktown, Va.; Andrew Borders, Postmaster at Sparta, Ill.; Willie E. Touvelle, at Celina, Ohio; Samuel M. Smead, at Fond du Lae, Wis.; Willis H. Bates, at Denton, Texas; and James E. Hackley, at Vincennes, Ind.

MISCELLANEOUS. The number of failures during the week in this country and Canada was 223, as against 206 during the week previous. The week, as reported to Bradslreet’s Journal, “shows an increased depression in general trade. The volume of merchandise is not large. The demand for fall goods is below the anticipations, and in transportation circles freight rates are lower than ever. The banks at Eastern and Western centers continue to accumulate funds. Interest rates at the interior are lower than over before, and in still other ways there are evidences of accumulating idle commercial machinery. The industrial situation is complicated by Iho strike or lockout of 60,000 employes of WesternJron mil's, It is doubtful whether the stoppage will be long-con-tinued, although the Amalgamated Association declare they will all remain out to help the sheet-rollers. The dry-goods market is noticeably dull, and jobbers do not express any reasonable hope lor improvement during the month.”

Foster Chase and Bobert Williams, colored, were hanged for murder in the parish prison in New Orleans, in the presence of fifteen persons, the new law forbidding a large number of persons at an execution. Joseph Clark, colored, was hanged at Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn., for the murder of Peter Wooten, colored, near that place, March, 1884. Sanford Sisco was hanged at Hackensack, N. J., for the murder of Abram Gurner. A mob forced an entrance into the jail at Hearne, Texas, took out Henry Lumpkin, a negro, charged with murder, and hanged him to a gateway.

The International Typographical Union held its amuw4. session in New York. Martin M. H. Witter, of St. Louis, was reelected President. A resolution wa§ adopted that in case Public Printer Rounds is removed, President Cleveland be requested to appoint a man who sympathizes with organized labor. The next meeting of the union will be held at Pittsburgh. Capt. Steele, with seventy mounted scouts, had a skirmish with Big Bear’s Indians, in which three of the loyalists were wounded and a number of Indians killed. Big Bear says he will not surrender, and expresses an intention of driving Gen. Middleton and his soldiers out of the country. Mrs. J. Wonclx was burned to death, with her four children, at Barrie, Ont. Her husband narrowly escaped. Exchanges at the principal cities of the United States last week showed a decrease as compared with the corresponding week of 1884 of 15.5 per cent. The decrease in New York was 24.5 per cent. In Chicago there was an increaso of 15.9 per cent.

FOREIGN.

A cyclone at Aden, Arabia, caused damage estimated at ±150,000. Sir Julius Benedict, the famous musician and composer of operas, has just died In London. He was eighty-one years old. Mr. Gladstone announced in Parliament that England and Russia had come to an agreement. This settles the boundary business, and all that remains now Is for the commission to meet with the engineers and surveyors and set up the boundary posts. As to the responsibility for the “Penjdeh incident,” Mr. Gladstone intimated it would be let out to arbitration. It is persistently reported that Victor Hugo before he died begged that a priest might bo sent for, but that his relatives flatly declined.

Sir Peter Lumsden, recently in charge of the British section of the Afghan Boundary Commission, has arrived in London. General Wolseley is preparing a report on charges against General Sir Cerald Graham and General McNeil for neglect of duty and incompetoncy in the Soudan campaign. If tho report is unfavorable there will be an inquiry by a military commission. The Princess of Wales is reported to be endeavoring to secure a meeting between the Prince of Wales and the Czar of Russia with the view of establishing a permanent peace between England and Russia. The German press, apropos of the dispute over the right of the Duke of Cumberland to succeed to the government of the Grand Duchy of Brunswick, is advocating the passage of a law excluding all foreign princes from succeeding to tfie throne in any of the German States, o

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

A planet of the twelfth magnitude has been discovered by Dr. Palisa, at Vienna. An explosion of gas in the coalbunkers of the British ironclad Inflexible, off Portsmouth, England, severely Injured fifteen of the crew, three of them fatally. Henry Labouchere has given notice in the House of Commons of his intention to oppose the proposed Parliamentary grant of a $30,600 annuity as a marriage dowry for Princess Beatrice. An article in the Pall Mall Gazette, supposed to be Inspired by M. Lessar of the Russian section of the Afghan-Boundary Commission, admits that the settlement of the matters in dispute between England and Russia is still unsigned, and attributes the present delay tc the quibbling and hairsplitting of Earl GranvHle. The town of Suffolk, Va., was almost swept out of existence by fire. The total loss is estimated at $300,000. A portion of the lunatic asylum at Williamsburg, Va., was burned, causing a loss of about $130,030. One female patient was burned to death, and another wandered away and was drowned in a creek.

In the case at Baltimore of Henry Janes, the millionaire, to restrain Robert Garrett, President of the Baltimore and Ohio Road, from erecting a portico in front of his (Garrett’s house), the lawyer for Janes occupied five days in thp delivery of his opening argument. In closing, ono of the counsel for the prosecutor expects to consume a full week, while Garrett’s lawyer will take up nine or ten days.

Many horses in Gloucester County, New Jersey, are dying of a mysterious dis- ( ease. The judgments against Mrs. Delia Farnell have been paid by New York friends, and her estate at Bordentown, N. J., will not be sold as advertised. Two more indictments were found by the Grand Jury in New York City against Ferdinand Ward and James D. Fish, charging them with grand larceny in the first degree. Locusts have appeared in immense numbers in the vicinity of Alton, 111. Fritz Reuter, editor of a German paper at Streator, 111., was drowned while swimming. Helen M. G ougar, of woman’s rights celebrity, attacked Third Auditor of the Treasury Williams in tho streets at Lafayette, Ind., str.king him in tho face with her parasol. Williams retaliated with his cane. Tho assault was provoked by certain articles which appeared in Williams’ paper reflecting on Mrs. Cougar’s character.

Forty-eight prisoners who recently escaped from Big Bear have arrived in General Strange’s camp. Among them are a number of loyal half-breeds and Indians.

The Mexican Goveijiment is reported to have is ued a decreo forfeiting the GouldGrant railway tonces-ion because of the small amount of work done on the road.

General Jackson, the newly appointed United States Minister to Mexico, has arrive! in the City of Mexico, where he was warmly received by the American colony. Two brothers named Sam and Eli Dyer, cattle thieves and murderers, were taken from jail at Bonham, Texas, by a mob, and hanged to the limb of a tree.

Counsel of the National Civil-Service League have submitted affidavits to the Postmaster General, charging a number of postmasters with soliciting political subscriptions in Federal offices in violation of ■law, and demanding their removal. The charges will be investigated.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. IJEEVE3 $6.00 @ 7.50 Hogs 4.00 @ 4.50 Wheat—No. 1 White 1.00 @ 1.02 No. 2 Red 1.00 @ 1.03 Corn—No. 2 53 @ .54 Oats—White 42 & .46 Pork—New Mess ; 11.50 @12.00 Lard 06)6@ .07 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers. 5.50 @ ,6.00 Good Shipping 6.00 @5.50 Medium 4.50 @ 6.25 •Hogs.... 4.00 @4.50 Flour—Fancy Red Winter Ex.. 5.00 @5.50 Prime to Choice Spring. 4.25 @ 4.75 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 88 @ .8816 Corn—No. 2 455£@ .4616 Oats—No. 2 33 @ .34 Rye—No. 2 65 @ .66 Barley—No. 3 47 @ .49 Butter—Choice Creamery 15 @ .16 Fine Dairy 13 @ .14 Cheese—Vull Cream 07 @ .0714 Skimmed Flat 05 @ .06 Eggs—Fresh.., ll @ .12 Potatoes—Choice, per bu 40 @ .45 Pork—Mess 10.00 @10.50 Lard 6.25 @ 6.75 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red _ _.93 @ .95 Corn—No. 2 47 @ .49 Oats-No. 2 ... .35 @ .37 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 87 @ .88 Corn—No. 2 .*. .46 @ .46(6 Oats—No. 2 31 @ .33 Rye—No. 1.... 64 & .66 Barley—No. 2 48 @> .50 Pork—Mess 10.00 @10.25 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.02 @ 1.03% Corn—Mixed 44 @ .45 Oats—Mixed 32 @ .33 Rye 64 @ .66 Hay—Timothy 14.00 @16.00 Pork—Mess 10.00 @10.60 CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Red l.oi @ 1.02J6 Corn 46 @ .48 Oats—Mixed 35 @ .36 Ry£—No. 2 Fall 72 @ .74 Pork—Mess 10.50 @ll.OO DETROIT. Flour 6.50 @ 6.00 Wheat—No. 1 White 1.00 @ 1.02 Corn—No. 2 47 @ .48 Oats—No. 2 White 37 @ .40 Pork—New Mess 11.00 @12.00 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red-. 94 @ .96 Corn-Mixed 44 @ .46 Oats—No. 2 36 @ .38 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Best 6.00 @ 6.60 Fair 5.00 @ 5.50 Common 4.M) @ 4.75 Hogs 4.00 @4.50 Sheep 4.50 @ 6.00 CHICAGO WOOL MARKET. [Reported by Sherman Hall & Co., Chicago, 11l J Prices of Unwashed Wool (old clip) from Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, and lowa for the past week are unchanged as follows: Fine, 17@21c; Fine Medium, 20@22c; Medium, 21@23c: Low Medium, 19@21c; Coarse, 17@20c. Delaine—Fine, 20<»21c; Medium, 21® 28c. Combing—Medium, 22@24c; Low Medium, 22® 28c; Coarse, 19@21c; Braid, 17@19c. Total receipts for past week, 857,117 lbs; and since January 1, 6,581,000 lbs. Trade is much restricted by depleted stocks. Tne supply of Medium Unwashed Wool is very low, and trade steady.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

—Hon. S. M. Stockslager, retired Congressman, will open a law office at New Albany. —A horseshoe factory is being started at New Albany with a capacity of a horseshoe every second of the day. —A young woman living south of Erawfordsville found a $5 gold piece in the craw, of a chicken 6he had killed. —The ground is reported literally full of locusts in'the vicinity of Indian Kentucky Creek, near Madison. —A Lafayette cow died of a mysterious disease, and when she was dissected a large darning-needle was found run through her heart. —The losses by fire in Goshen for the year ending May 1 were sll,Bll, and the amount of insurance paid $10,460. The fire department cost $2,108.24. —James Carroll, a young farmer living near Washington, has been adjudged insane. The cause of his insanity is his inability to pay for a farm he recently purchased. —Charles Baur, of the Terre Haute Bi-, cycle Club, lode in from Maxwell, fifteen miles, over an ordinary country road, in one hour and twenty minutes. Ed Elder came in a minute later.

| E —Charles Rowland, alias Charles Green, pleaded guilty at Indianapolis to the charge of forging an order on Middlesex, Graybill & Co., and, was sentenced to the penitentiary for ten years. —The Mayor of Richmond has ordered the police to pull bicycle riders, and to file complaint against all merchants who violate the ordinance relating to the placing of goods on the sidewalk.

—Wm, Passmore, of Martinsville, 25 years old, manied Mrs. Hecklen, a widow of 70, she wealthy, he poor. She tired of him and took up her residence with Andrew Jackson, a distant relative. Passmore sued Jackson for damages for enticing his wife away, and was, awarded SSOO by the jury. —Mayor Bringhurst, of Logansport, announces that hereafter no $5 fees will be allowed the prosecutor unless he renders some service in return for the same. Prosecutor Fansler proposes to take the matter into the courts, as it has been the practice to allow $5 fees whether the attorney was present or not.

—An animal supposed to be a lynx is sending terror to the people of New Comer. Poultry, young pigs, and lambs have lately disappeared from coops and pens of their owners by the dozen. Its cry resembles that of a child. The only person who has seen it describes it as larger and longer than a good-sized dog. —Several months ago James H. Moore,, aged 76 years, living south of Richmond, pared a corn and placed some verdigris from a copper cent on it. The foot was poisoned,'and in a week or so more the toe was frozen. Gangrene set in, and to save the man’s life the toe was amputated. The patient grew worse, and died last week.

—The recent train robbery in Indiana shows the danger of putting firearms into tho hands of express messengers. In this case the messenger was shot with his own revolver, which was taken from him by a man who came into the car unarmed. It ought not to require such examples of the danger to put a stop to the practice. — Exchange,

—Terre Haute Express: Wm. Rezaa and Jacob Rearheilzer, the New York bootblacks, who w’ere arrested Friday night at 11 o’clock, with a whole arsenal cf firearms on their persons, were brought to headquarters this morning, and, after registering a promise to leave town without delay, were reloas.d. They are about 18 and 20 years old, respectively, and are the victims of 10-cent literature and trashy weekly papers.

Daniel Fry, a prominent farmer living five miles south of Warsaw, was instantly killed a short distance south of that place. He was walking home on the track of the Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan Railway. Being doaf he did not hear the southbound express approaching, which ran over and mangled his body in a horrible manner. The remains were taken to Claypool and from there sent home. He leaves a Wife. He was 60 years of age.

—The management for the Indiana State Fair for 1885—Sept. 28 to Oct. 3, inclusive —have issued their premium list. The pamphlet of sixty-eight pages comprises, besides the programme and list of premium-', general and specific rules governing exhibitors and judges. In addition to (he premiums by the Fair Association a number of special by firms and individuals are offered. Parties intending exhibiting at ‘the fair should secure a copy of the premium list from Mr. Alex. Heron, Secretary, Indianapolis.

—Marsh Adams, the minstrel, known the world over by his rendition of “0!d Black Joe,” died recently at his residence in Indianapolis, of a cancerous affection of the liver. He was aged 46, and he leaves a wife, whose stage name is Susie Wild. When but a lad 10 years old Adams was picked up by George Christy ut Louisville, is a ballad-singer, and from that time until Ixis death he figured in “burnt-cork" opera. In 1858-9, in company with Bill Manning, he made a tour of Australia, which netted them $30,000, and upon his return to America he joined Byman, Barney <fc Holt’B minstrels.