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THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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A cyclone swept Largo. Dak., Monday. The workmen lost the St. Paul street car strike.

There is much suffering among the miners in Pennsylvania. The prohibitory ordinance At London, ,' Ontario, has been repealed.

A mail slage was robbed by masked highwaymen, near Eureka Springs, Ark. Six men were drowned by the capsizing of a boat near S. Johns, N. B., Sunday.

It is reported that fifteen companies have been organized to build big cotton mills in the South.

A mad dog in Kanawha conntv, W, Va., bit seventeen dogs, a cow and a horse before it was killed.

David G. Crolv, a well known New York newspaper man, the husband of ''Jennie June," is dead.

Five convicts, one of them a woman, have been sentenced at Fort Smith, Ark., to be hanged July 17. ,j)

Lysander Bandal? committed sulci (teat Bangor. Me... by stra.ngnla.tion. He left a note stating "rum did iu"

Advices by steamer recount the building of railways in Japan, and establishment of elfectric and other plants.

Four tons of nowder exploded at Waverly, Dear Halifax, N. S., wrecking the mills and the employers' houses.

The guns of the United States cruiser Chicago have been tried, and the trial was in every way successful and satisfactory.

An Iowa farmer named Barker was swindled out of $2,000 by three confidence men who purported be larnl buyers.

Brjiscoe B. Bouldin, a deputy collector .of internal revenue in Virginia, was shot and fatally wounded by a "moonshiner."

At Cocoes, N. Y.} Mrs. Dunn was murdered by her husband. Dnnn was arrested. Ihe motive for the crime is unknown-

Miss EH a Drummond, the fifteen-year-old daughter of a Vernon county, Missouri, farmer doped with her father's farm hand.

Whitelaw Reid, Minister to France, and Samuel R. Thayer, Minister to the Netherlands, sailed for Europe Saturday morning.

A fourteen-year-old boy was soriousiy injured at Springfield, O, by the explosion oE a railroad torpedo which he hrew into a bo afire.

The wall of the Mountain City Theater, recently burned at Altoona, Pa., wag blown down. John W. Keller, aged seventeen, was instantly killed,

A number of passenger conductors on the "Nickel Plate," west division, were summarily discharged .Monday. They run between Chicago am BeJiovue, 0.

The new military post near Atlanta, Ga., will be known as Fort McPberson. in honor of General James B. McPherson, who was killed near the site in 1864.

What is known as the Australian election saw, with some modifications to suit the locality, has bean adopted by both Houses of the Miss ouri

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ture. Five hundred societies of Christian Endeavor are represented in the Illinois fc^ate Convention in session at Springfield. There are 1,000 delegates in attendance.

Secretary Proctor and suite are in Chicago on a tour of inspection of western military posts. This is Adjutant General Drum's last tour, as he will shortly be retired.

A daughter of Bishop Hugh Millei Thompson, of the Episcopal Church, eloped from her home at Jackson, Mies., with E. W. Heaves, of Chicago, They were married at Cairo, 111.

A Coroner's Jury at San Francisco has exonerated from blame Ed. CufFe, who, while sparring, last Friday night, with Tom Avery, a local pugilist, accidentally strucK a blow that caused the latterVdeatli,

N. W. Doty stack a red fkg out of the fourth story window of a block in Chicago Centennial day and the mob which gathered came near lynching him. A rope was procured and an attempt made to string him up.

Twelve men belonging to a gang of desperadoes, who have been robbing and committing murderous assaults on farmers in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, were captured by a Sheriff and a posse of forty men and jailed.

At Albany, Ga., William Gilmer, a popular young man, shot and killed his wife and then blew his own brains out, The tragedy is said ti have originated in Mrs. (Kilmer's mother's interference with the young couple,

At Greenville, Miss., Weston, a negro, shot and killed Hugh Cunningham, a night-watchman. Later in the day, Lena Collier, colored, expressed sympathy for Weston in a saloon, when John Kelly, the bartender, shot him to death.

The schooner Shiloh sailed from Gloucester, Mass., on a fishing trip to George's Banks, on March 115, since which time nothing has been heard from her. Her owners Thursday had given her up for lost. She carried a crew of fourteen men.

The Johns Hopkins Hospital at Baltimore, which has been in course of construction ten years and cost of $2,000,000, provided by the will of the late Johns Hopkins, also founder of Johns Hopkins University, was formally opened Tuesday morning.

Three unknown men entered McGovern's Hotel at Lake City, Mich., late Sunday night, and offered a $10 bill in payment for cigars. McGovern opened the safe for change, when the men ^sprang upon and overpowered him. They took 1,330 from the safe and escaped,

Ex-Governor John C. Brown, of Nashville, Tenn.. has accepted an invitation to represent the South in the reunion of Union and Confederate soldiers of Scotch-Irish blood at the Congress to be held in Columbia May 8 to 11, Corporal Tanner will represent the North.

The Hon. John Sherman, tbe Hon. John C. New, Consul General at London, tbe Hon. W. W. Thomas, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Sweden aud Norway, and Lincoln Valentine, Consul for Honduras. sailed for Europe on the City of New York.

The Windsor Theater, at Chicago, located on the west side of the river, caught fire shortly after midnight, Tues

day, and in less than twenty minutes was completely destroyed. Three firemen were injured by a falling wall, one of them seriously. Loss, $4U,000: covered by insurance,

A dispatch from St. Paul, Minn., says the agent and party sent out by the Minneapolis Historical Society to discover the source of the Mississippi River, returned, Friday. They report having discovered two lakes 110 feet above Itasca, and seven miles distant to which they traced. tjie head of the river.

At the request Governor Robert L. Taylor, of Tennescile, Mr. George W. Childshas consented to loan to the Scotch-Irish Congress the harp oi Thomas Moore, now to be seen at the Philadelphia Ledger office. The instrument will be on exhibition at Columbia, Tenn.. where the Congress will assemble May 8,

dispatch from San Antonio says it is reported there that during a fight at Guanajuato, Mex., arising from the imprisonment of Jesuit priests, who had been delivering seditious sermons, and attempt by the populace to rescue them, two hundred of the people were killed by soldiers and policemen. The priests are still in jaii. The report is officially denied.

Meetings of the stockholders of ihe North Chicago Rolling Mill Company and the Union Slee! Company were held at Chicago Thursday for the purpose of consolidating their interests with the Joint Steel Company. When this combination is affected, and the new concern is to be known ac the Illinois Steel Company, and it will be the largest, of its kind ia in the world, having a capital stock of 000,000.

In Braxton County, W. V., P. B. Harr and family tried, to cross a swollen mountain stream. The frail craft capsized a ad all the family were thrown out. The wife and one child immediately sank. Harr, who was an expert swimmer, seized another and made desperate efforts to escape. He caught on ihe canoe, but was swept down stream and perished before help could reach him. The bodies have been recovered.

Jacob D. Shaubs, a wealthy farmer of near Somerset, Pa., was found dead hanging to a tree near hi3 residence, tew yards off was the body of his wife, shot through the body. Two sons of the dead man have been arrested. It is alleged thai the

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suicide tirat, and then David, his son, attempted to kill his step-mother, who is only twenty-five years of age, to prevent her inheriting the estate the two boys hoping by this means to secure the estate themselves,

A dif-patch from Lima,Ohio, say .- The west bound passenger train on the Chicago & Atlantic Road, consisting of ten coaches of emigrants, had a miraculous escape from being wrecked a mile east of this city, Friday. A crossing over a culvert burned, and had fallen in. The engineer did not discover it untii b« was within one hundred feet of it. When he saw the fparJis he promptly applied the brases and stoppiu his train with tbe cow catcher immediately over the ditch, which was about twenty-five feet deep and twenty feet wide.

Vesuvius has broken out with trreat violence. Streams of lava are Sowing down the Pompeii side.

It is stated that tbe French election will be postponed until next year, to avoid a contest with the Bouiangists.

The Samoan Commissioners were presented to Emperor William at Potsdam Thursday. The Emperor conversed in a friendly manner with all the commissioners, who were delighted with their reception.

The Tipperary Court has affirmed the sentences of four months each imprisonment of Mr. John O'Connor, memoer of Parliament for South Tipperarj/, and Mr. Thomas Condon, member of Parliament for East Tipperary three months on Mr, Charles Tanner, member of Parliament for the middle division of Cork, and two months on Mr. Manning for violations of the crimes act.

THESAMOANCONFERENCE

Belief That th« English Commissioners Axe Leaning Toward Gwmany,

The proceedings of the Samoan conference in Berlin, scanty as they have thus far been, are followed with great interest in England, and nearly all the London papers contain daily comment on the matters now being deliberated at the German capital. The Radical press is peisistent in its accusations that Lord Salisbury has leanings toward Germany's interests in the conference, and intimaies that the German and English commissioners seem to work together iz, tke conference, and are jointly opposed to the American commissioners. This, the Radical papers assert, is a grave blunder, to sacrifice American to German interests, and point, out how much more England has and ought to have in common with the United States than with Germany.

A Berlin dispatch says that an official denial is published of the report, printed in the Berliner Tagefolatt, of Tuesday, that, at Monday's sitting of the Samoan conference, Mr, Kasson, one of the American commissioners, had asked whether a secret treaty existed between England and Germany for a partition of the Tonga and Samoan islands, and that Prince Bismarck and Sir Edward Malet, the British embassador, had categoricailv denied the existence of such a treaty.

The delegates to the conference, Thursday, attended tke ceremony of blessing tbe colors of the Guards of Potsdam The commissioners weie presented to Emperor William. The Emperor conversed in a friendly manner with all the commissioners, who were delighted with their reception.

Mr. Kasson, one of the American commissioners to the Samoan conference, had along interview with Prince Henry, brother of the Emperor, while at Potsdam, Thusrday.

The Berlin correspondent of the News says: 'Perhaps Tamasese will be appoint ed Vice King of Somoa, but Germany will decline to allow Mataafaany official position."

It is shited that Germany will consent that Malietoa be reinstated king of Samoa provided the U. S. Government purchases the German plantations or guarantees payment by Satnoans who purchase them. Germany will further waive her demands for the punishment of Mattaafa, if the relatives of the German's who were slain are amply compensated. Germany will not claim political preponderance.

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OTHERDAYSLIVED OVER

REMINISCENCES OP THE JOY AND SORROW OP THE PAST.

The Home—The Fireside and the Church—A Vivid Picture of the Different Phases or the Fleeting

Human Life.

Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at the Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday. Subject: "Other Days Lived Over." Text, Deut., viii.. 2. He said:

I want to bind in one sheaf all your past advantages, and I want ta bind in another sheaf al! your past adversities. It is a precious harvest, and I must be cautioned how I swing the scythe.

Among the greatest advantages of your past life was an early home and its surroundings. The bad men of the day, for the most part, dip their heated passions out of the boiling spring of an unhappy home. We are not surprised to find that Byron's heart was a concentration of sin, when we hear his mother was abandoned, and that she made sport of his infirmity, and often called him "the lame brat." He who has vicious parents has to fight every inch of his way if he would maintain his integrity, and at last reach the home of the good in heaven.

Perhaps your early home was in the city. It may have been in the days when Canal street, New York, was far up town, and the site of this presentchurch was an excursion into the country. That old house in the city may have been demolished or changed into Btores, and it seemed like sacrilege to you, for there wa.3 more meaning in that plain house, in that small house, than there is in a granite mansion or a turreted cathedral. Looking back this morning you see it as though it were yesterday—the sitting room, where the loved ones sat by the plain lamplight, the mother at the evening stand, the brothers and sisters, perhaps long ago gathered into the skie3, then plotting mischief on the floor or under the table, your father with a firm voice commanding a silence that lasted half a minute.

Oh, those were good days! If you had your foot hurt, your mother always had a soothing salve to heal it. If you were wronged in the street, your father was always ready to protect you. The year was one round of frolic and mirth. Your greatest trouble was like an April shower, more sunshine than shower. The heart had not been ransacked by troubles, nor had sickness broken it, and no lamb had a warmer sheepfold than the home in which your childhood nestled.

Perhaps you were brought up in the country. You stand now to-day in memory under the old tree. You clubbed it for fruit that was not quite ripe because you couldn't wait any longex. You hear ihe brook rumbling along over the pebbles. You step again into the furiow where your father in his shirt fleeves shouted to the la'-y oxen. You frighten rhe swallows from the rafters of the barn, and take just one egg, and silence your conscience by saying they won't miss it. You take a drink again out of the very bucket that the old well fetched up. You go for the cows at night, and find them wagging their heads through the bars. Of times in the dusty and busy streets you wish you were home again on that cool grass, or in the rag carpeted hall of the farmhouse, through which there was the breath of new mown hay or the blossom of buckwheat.

You may have in your windows now beautiful plants and flowers brought across the seas, but not one of them stirs in your soul so much charm and memory as the old ivy and yellow sunflower that stood sentinel along the garden wall, and the forget-me-nots play hide-and-seek mid the long grass. The'father, who used to come in, sunburnt from the fields, and sit down on the door-sill and wipe the sweat from his brow may have gone to his everlasting rest. The mother, who used to sit at the door a little bent over, cap and spectacles on, her face mellowing with the vicissitudes of many years, may have put down her gray head in the pillow in the valley, but forget that hoeae you never will. Have yon thanked God for it? Have you rehearsed all these blessed reminiscence? Oh, thank God for a Christian father thank God for a Christian mother thank God for an early Christian alter at which you were taught to kneel thank God for an early Christian home* I bring to mind another passage in the history of your life. They day came when you set up your own household. The days passed along in quiet blessedness. You twain sat at the table morning and night and talked over your plans for the future. The most insignificant affair in your life became the subject of mutual consultation and advisement. You were so happy you felt you could never be any happier. One day a dark cloud hovered over your dwelling and it got darker and darker, bnt out of that cloud the shinning messengers of God descended to incarnate an immortal spirit. Two little feet started on an eternal journey, and you were there to lead them—a gem to flash in heaven's coronet, and you to polish it eternal ages of light and darkness watching the starting out of a newly created creature.

You rejoiced and you trembled at the responsibility that in your possession an immortal treasure was placed. You prayed and rejoiced, ana wept and wondered you were earnest in supplication that you might lead it through life into the kingdom of God. There was a tremor in your earnestness. There was a double interest about that home. There was an additional interest, why you should stay there and be faithful, and when in a few months your house was filled with the music of the child's laughtery you were struck through with the fact that you had a stupendous mission.

Have you kept that vow? Have you neglected any of these duties? Is your home as much to you as it used to be? Have those anticipations been gratified? God help you to-day in your solemn reminiscence, and let His mercy fall upon your soul if your kindness has been ill-requited. God have mercy on tne parent on the wrinkles of whose face is written the story of a child's sin. God have mercy on the mother who, in addition to her other pangs, has the pangs of a child's iniquity. Ob, there are many, many sad sounds in this sad world, but the saddest sound that in ever heard is the breaking of a mother's heart. Are there any here who remember that in that home they were unfaithful? Are theile those who wandered off from that eirly home, ant' left the

mother to di3 with a broken heart? Oh I stir that reminiscence to-day. I find another point in "your life history. You found one day you were in the wrong road you couldn't sleep at night there was just one word that seemed to sob through your banking house, or through your office, or through your shop, or your bedroom, and that word was "Eternity." Yon Baid, "I am not ready for it. O God, have mercy!" The Lord heard. Peace came to your heart. In the breath of the hill ana the waterfall's dash you heard the voice of God's love the clouds and the trees hailed you with gladness you came into the House of God.

You remember how your hand trembled as you took up the cup of the Communion, You remember the old minister who consecrated it, and you remember the church officials who carried it through the aisle you remember tbe old people who at the close of the service took your hand in]theirs in congratulating sympathy, as much as to say: "Welcome home, you lost prodigal:'' and though those hands are all withered away, that Communion Sabbath is resurrected this morning it is resurrected with all its prayers, and songs, and tears, and sermons, and transfiguration. Have you kept those vows? Have you been a backslider? God help you. This day kneel at the foot of mercy and start again for heaven.

Start to-day as you started then, I rouse your soul by that reminiscence. Bat "I must not spend any more of my time in going over the advantages of your life. I must put them all in one great sheaf, and I wrap them up in your memory with one loud harvest song, such as the reapers sing. Praise the Lord, ye blood bought immortals of earth! Praise the Lord, ye crowned spirits of heaven!

But some of vou have not always had a smooth life. Some of you are now in the shadow. Others had their troubles years ago you area mere wreck of what you once were. I must gather up the sorrows of your past life. But how shall I do it? You say that is impossible, as you have had so many troubles ana adversities. Then I will just take two, the first trouble and ihe last trouble. As when you are walking along the street, and there has been music in the distance, you unconsciously find yourselves keeping step to the music, so when you started life your very life was a musical time-beat. The air was full of joy and hilarity with the bright, clear oar you made the boat skip you went on, and life grew brighter until after awhile suddenly a voice from heaven raid, 'Halt!" and quick as the sunshine ynn halted you grew pale, you confront? your first sorrow. You had no idea

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the flush on your child's cheek w»~ rj unhealthy flush. You said it can11 be any thing serious. Death in slippered feet walked round about the cradle. You did not hear the tread but after a while the truth flashed on yow. Yon walked the floor. Oh, it you could, with your strong, stout hand, have wrenched that child from the destroyer. You went to your room and you said, "God. save my child! God, save my child." The world seemed going out in darkness. You said, "I can't bear it." You felt as if you could not put the long lashes over the bright eyes, never to see them again sparkle. Oh, if you could have taken that little one in your arms and with it leaped the grave, how gladly you would have done it! Oh, if you coul-a-let your property go, your houses go, your land and your storehouse go, how gladly you would have allowed them to depart if you could only have kept tkat one treasure!

But one day* there arose trom the heavens a chill blast that swept over the bedroon, and instantly all the, light went out, and there was darkness— thick, murky, impenetrable, shuddering darkness. But God didn't leave you there, Mercy spoke. As you took up the oup, and was about to put it to your lips, God said, "Let it pass," and forthwith, as by the hand of angels, another cup was put into your hands it was the cup of God's consolation. And as you have sometimes lifted the head of a wounded soldeir,and poured wine mtohis lips, so God put his left arm under your head,and with his right hand He poured into your lips the wine of His comfort and His consolation,and you looked at the empty cradle and looked and looked at your broken heart, and you looked at the Lord's chastisement, and you said "Even so, Father, for so it seemeth good in thy sight."

Ah, it was your first trouble. How did you get over it? God comforted you. You have been a better man ever since. Yon have been a better woman ever since. In the jar of the closing gate of the sepulcher you heard the clanging of the opening gate of heaven, and you felt an irresistible drawing heavenward. You have been purer of mind ever since that night when the little one for the last time put its arms around your neck and said "Good night, papa good night mamma. Meet me in heaven."

But I must come on down to your latest sorrow. What was it? Perhaps it was your own sickness. The child's tread on the stair, or the tick of the watch on the stand disturbed you. Through the long weary days you counted the figures in the carpet or the flowers on the wall paper. Oh, the weariness, the exhaustion! Oh, the burning pangs! Would God it were morning, would God it were night, were your frequent cry. But you are better, perhaps even well. Have you thanked that God to-day that you can come out in the fresh air that you are in this place to hear God's name, and to sing God's praise, and implore God's help, and to ask God's forgiveness? Bless the Lord who healeth all our diseases and redeemeth our lives from destruction.

Perhaps your last sorrow was a financial embarrassment. I congratulate some of you on your lucrative profession or occupation, or ornate appeal, on a commodious residence—everything you put your hands to seems to turn to gold. But there are others of you like the ship on which Paul sailed, where two seas met, and you are broken by the violence of the waves. By an unadvised indorsement or by a conjuction of unforeseen events, or by fire, or storm, or a senseless panic, you have been flung headlong, and where yoa owe dispensed great charities now you have hard work to make the two ends meet.

Have you forgotten to thank God for your days of prosperity, and that through your trials some of yon have made investments which will continue after the last bank of this world has exploded, and the silver and the gold are molten in the fires of the molten world? Have you, amid your losses and discouragements, forgot that there wil bread on your table this morning, and

that there shall be a shelter for your head from the storm, and there is air for your lungs, ana blood for your heart, and light for your eyes, and a glad and glorious religion for your soul?

Perhaps your last trouble was a bereavement. That heart which in childhood was your refuge, the parental heart, and which has been a source of the quickest sympathy ever since, has suddenly become siient forever, and now, sometimes, whenever in sudden annoyance and without deliberation, you say, "I will go and tell mother," the thought flashes on you, "I have no mother oi the father, with voice lees tender, but as stanch and earnest and loving as ever, watchful of all your ways, exultant over your success without saying much, although the old people do talk it over by themselves, his trembling hand on that staff which you now keep as a family relic, his memory embalmed in grateful hearts, is taken away forever.

Of, there was your companion in 'life, sharer of your joys and sorrows, taken, leaving the heart an old ruin, where the chill winds blow over a wide wilderness of desolation, the sands of the desert driving across the place which once bloomed like the garden of God. And Abraham mourns for Sarah at ,he cave of Machpelah. Going along your path in life, suddenly, right before you was an open grave. People looked down and they saw it was only a few feet deep and a lew feet wide, but to you it was a cavern down which went all your hopes and all your expectations.

But cheer up in tbe name of the Lord Jesus Christ, the comforter. He is not going to forsake you. Did the Lord take that child out of your arms? Why, he is going to shelter it better than you could. He is going to array it in a white robe, and with palm branches it will be all leady to greet you at your coming home. Blessed the broken heart that Jesus heals. Blessed the importunate cry that Jesus compassionates. Blessed the weeping eye from which the soft hand of Jesus wipes away the tear.

But these reminiscences reach only to this morning. There will yet be one more point of tremendous reminiscence, and that is the hist heur of life, when we have to look over all our past existence. What a moment that will be! I place Napoleon's dying reminiscence on St, Helena beside Mrs. Judson's dying reminiscence in the harbor of St. Helena, the same island, twenty years after. Napoleon's dying reminiscence was one of delirium: "Head of the army." Mrs. Judson's dying reminiscence, as she came home "from her missionary toil and her life of self-sacrifice for God, dying in the cabin of the ship in the harbor of St. Helena, was: "I always did love the Lord Jesus Christ," And then, the historian says, she fell into a sound sleep for an hour, and woke amid the songs of angels.

I place the dying reminiscence of Augustus Csesar against the dying reminiscence of the Apostle Paul, The dy* ing reminiscence of Augustus Cxe3ar was, addressing his attendants: "Have played my part well on the stage of life?" and they answered in the affirmative, and he said: "Why, then, don't you applaud me?" The dying reminiscence of Paul the Apostle was: "I have fought a good fight, I have kept the faith henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give me in that day, and not to me only, but to all them that love His appearing." Augustus Ctesar died amid pomp and great surroundings. Paul uttered his dying reminiscence looking up through the wall of a dungeon, God grant, that our last hour may be the closing of a useful life and the opening of a glorious eternity.

THE WORLD'S EXPOSJTJO^ Oyn'mvci liyprfsiilent Carnul itli In [ircss. Ivf Ceremonies.

President Carnoi. formally opened the Paris exposition Monday afternoon. The president was accompanied to the exposition grounds by the president of the senate and chamber of deputies. The party was escorted by a, squadron of cavalry. They left the Ely see at 1:30 o'clock and an artillery salute announced their arrival under the central dome of tbe main exposition building. President Carnot ascended the dias that, had been erected under the dome. He was surrounded by the members of the cabinet and members of the senate and chamber of deputies.

M. Tirard, the prime minister, made an address, welcoming the President. He declared that the exhibition exceeded all expectations, and proved that the Frencn people still preserved all tbe qualities for which they had been noted. Despite the acutenese of the economic crisis, they had been able to collect a splendid ariay of exhibits. Althoi.^t) every government did not officially take part in the work, most of them generously seconded the efforts of prmite Individuals. In the conclusion of lus aiuri-ss, JVL Tirard extended a greeting to the strangers now in Paris, and said that republican France would show itself hospitable and generous, treating them not as rivals inspiring jealousy, but as fellow workers laboring for the happiness of humanity.

President. Carnot, in his address, referred to the nndaunt.able energy of France jn arising from severest trials to fresh industrial triumphs. He afterward inspected the various departments of the exhibition.

OIL FfeVER ATTERRE HAUTE.

A New Well ol' an ICstIiuhmmI Capacity of Out? XhoiiKaml ltsn-rels I'«i' lay.

Tremendous excitement was created at Terre Haute Monday night by striking oil at a depth of 1,000 feet. When oil was reached, a jet spurted up sixty feet into the air, and a heavy flow, six inches in diameter, began. The pressure was so great it could not be cut off. and in a short time the ground for a square around the well was flooded several inches. The drillers say it is the biggest well they ever struck. The estimated flow is one thousand barrels per day. Fears are entertained that the flooded ground will catch fire from the sparks of passing locomotives.

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WASHINGTON NOTELv The seal brown horses, which generally pulled President Cleveland when ht* went out riding, and the ex-Pr^su^nt's carriages and stable outfit were e:Mi auction, Monday, Secretary Bl unedrov* up just before the sale, and, After examining the carriages, spoke to ex-Pa:pre-sent alive Swett in regard to the Victoria and then drove off. He did not, however, secure the Victoria, as Mr. Swett's. bid was net high enough. The seai browns were first put no for sale and the bidding was started kt $i00 for each horse. After tbe u-tial amount of persuasive talk and. numerous exhibitions of the points of the animals as they were driven around harnessed to a brougham thev wtfUt finally sold for $141 apiece. The horses were purchased for VIr. Cleveland jjx PoughKeep?ie, and it. is said thar he paid between six and seven hundred dohar* for them. The landau, said to have• cost. $1,400, was sold for i}'6o0 the Victoria, which cost, ilr, Cleveland 61,000, .for $48f, and the brougham for S4io, The silver mounted harness with the. nonogram "G. C." on it, went for A miscellaneous let of si able paraphernalia was knocked down to various persons for an aggregate of |I!4.3T». Altogether was realised from the aaie. A number of the purchases wem made by livtry stable uien, and they said the thincfs sold ucueraiiy went cheap. The oulv part of Mr. Cleveland's stable wliiie .VJevident which was not sold were the horses and c/irriaye used by Mrs Cleveland, which she took vyr..h her to New York.

Maj. Geo. B. L'avis, Judge Advocate, wlio lias recently acted as Judge

A crank walked into the office ot the 'secretary of war Thursday, and taking the secretary's chair opposite to Gen. Bennett, who is acting as secretary, declared that be was secretary oi war. having been appointed by *!r, Cleveland. The officials humored the man, who busied himself in giving orders ami discharging the appointment clerks until the police officers arrived and took charge of him. He was identified as a man named Baker who had taken charge of the police head quarters a few day* ago iu a similar mforma. way.

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cate of the Ly decker aud Arms CourtMartial, has been selected by Secretary Proctor as the army officer at, tbe head of the commission nvov deu for in the sundry civil appropriation bill to con tinue the publication of the records of the War of the 'Rebellion. There wsil be two others to act. with him --civilian experts who have not ye!', been selected. Tim appropriation for his purpose wiU not be available until She

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and ut- a then Colonel Laseile wili continue in charge of the publications. butMajor Davia will report to baa at on«e in order to be gj ven an insight into the methods that- have been heretofore parsued and to devise pianes for the f-,jty*ft. complied live

The entire work ia to byears and tbe «om«nisf,3o:i wx!l have their hands full. Major Davis, was recently engaged with Colonel Ban on the revision of the army regulations.

Postmaster General Wanau aker has received a telegram from Fostmaat^r Flynn at Guthrie. Oklahoroa, in which he says the daib. sale of postage stamps at his oflice amounts to about JoO, that the eleven clerk* in the office are keptbusv from 5 o'clock in the moaning tiJ jnidnignt, and that when the mad is ready for delivery ther« is usually a line of men a half a mile lone waiting for their mail. About. o,0b0 letters and 1,000 newspapers ire delivered from that office daily. There ,-irt, five banks and six newspapers iu opt ration iu the new town. Land Commie si oner t/cksiage/ Saturday received a u-port iYeni Inspecor Hobbs nf. Guthrie, wbu-h shows that (luring the first week 4oO entries and forty-two notices of contests were made.

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spend a portion of the sitnmer

in the mountains of West Virginia, on the new West Virginia Cent-rai Kail way. in whieb Secretary Blaine and other prominent men are interested,, at », place called Davis, fifty miles south o: Piedmont in the mountains, The alti tude is said to be higher than ihat of Deer Pars, Md., where arrang.uiit

nts

pass the early portion of the summer have been completed by the President. The President and the Secretary of the Interior have called upon the 0li'ted States officials in Oklahoma, charged in the report of the inspectors of the interior Department with corrupt practices in connection with public lands in that Territory, for any explanation or statement they may desire to make relative thereto. The reports ol tbe inspectors wil] not be made public at present.

There is no truth r., the report r.hat seems to have gained currency that. Secretary of State Blaine suffered a paralytic stroke Tuesday at his house in Washington. Mr, Walker Blaine states that there in not a word of truth in the story, ami says Mr, Blaine is improving.

Chiei Justice Fuller has purchased for $ 100,000 the residence of Judge A ndrew Wylie, on Fourteenth street.

The President has appointed A. L. Thomas, of Salt Lake, to be Governor of Utah.

Justice ray und .VTisd Matthews will be married Wednesday the 19th mst. Ex-Attorney General Garland ha* become a .vsident of Washington,

THE WAHR£TS.

INVHANAPOLIS, May S, IH8X BKMN. ComVV heat .No. 2 Ked No. 3 Red...

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KGGS, BUTTEN, POULTRY.

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Hay, timol hy..l2.it'0 Bran. 8.25 Clove* seed.—4.45

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Sugar cured h&m It Bacon clear sides 11 Feathers, goose 3R

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Wheat (May) ....81 I Pork. Corn i4 I LaTiOat# 23 I

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