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sheikhs is distrusted at Cairo. It is said he is a dupe of the sheikhs who take bribes and delude him with false news. THK AMERICAN HOG. I'ranee Likely to Appoint Officers to Inspect Imports. Paris, March 5. —A majority of the parliamentary committee, who have been examining the question of tho importation of American salt meats, are in favor of the government’s proposal to appoint officers to inspect imports on their arrival in France. M. Paul Bert is in favor of a convention with America for the regular inspection of pork in America by officers empowered to issue certificates, which shall then be vised by the French consul of the port from which the pork is shipped. Wien the pork arrives in France, it -would only he -necessary then to see whether the French consul had properly vised the certificates or had indorsed an objection upon them. EUROPE'S PROPOSED DEMAND. The Nations Making Preparations for a Demand on the United States. Balttookb, March s.—The Sun will to-morrow publish the following special from Rome, dated to-day: “The German. Austrian, Spanish, French, and other embassadors are receiving instructions to confer with the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs regarding European co-operation, with a view to demanding that the Washington government initiate logisla lion against avowed dynamite emissaries. The same embassadors approve a reviving of stringent passports for all voyagers from America. Others say the government at Washington is best able to adjust a remedy without European interposition.” FOREIGN MISCELLANY. An Attack Ijxm Rarninli by the French Expected Dally. Paris, March 5. Haiphong dispatches state the attack on Bacninh is expected daily. There have been several heavy skirmishes lately. The Chinese legation at Berlin has engaged a crew of officers and men from the German merchant service and taken to Canton the new' Chinese corvette Nathir. built at Kiel. Bismarck is uot inclined to interfere with tho arrangement, as France and China are not at war. and the corvette is not manned from the German government service. A Modest Rajah. London, March s.—’The captain of the steamer Nisero has arrived in London and will have an audience with Granville. Foreign Secretary, tomorrow. The Rajah of Tepora asks £62,000 ransom for the crew, banishment of a rival rajah and a declaration that Tenom is free from the Dutch. The steamer Nisero was wrecked on the west coast of Acheeh Sumatra Nov. 12. The vessel was looted by the’subjects of the Rajah of Tenom, and the crew of twenty-five men. among whom is an American, were taken captive. The English and Dutch have already made efforts to succor the .captives. Diseased Cattle. London, March s.—Cattle traders hold a meeting in London this morning and resolved to ask the government to reject the bill adopted by the House of Lords amending the law regarding contagious diseases of animals in such a way as to place great restrictions upon the importation of foreign cattle, or abandon the cattle, disease act altogether. Right Honorable William E. Forster said that tho sole motive for the law' was the exaggerated fears of farmers who were afraid the live cattle trade would be destroyed and who desired to stop the importation of dead meat. Honors to the Dead Explorer. London. March s. —Tho British Admiral at Queenstown has promised a deputation from Cork the use of a steam launch to carry the remains of Jerome J. Collins from Queenstown to fork The Admiral w ill allow any officials wishing to act as an escort to do so. The flag on hoard the guard-ship will be lowered when the steamer City of Chicago, conveying the body from New York, arrives off Roche’s Point. Prussia and the Church. Berlin, March s.—The lower house of the Prussian Landtag rejected by a vote of 20‘) to 152 Mr. Wendthorst’s motion to repeal the law abolishing the salaries of Catholic priests. Tho government opposed the motion, but would not participate in the debate for fear of exciting party passion. The government desired a peaceable settlement of this question as much as the party or tlie Center. but differed as to tho proper means of securing it. Russia and Germany. St. Peters Brno, March s.—Tho Moscow Gazette points out the importance of the removal from Paris to Berlin of Prince Orloff, the Russian embassador. It says Orloff possesses tlie special confidence of the Czar and Emperor William; that Europe requires guarantees of security, and that one of tho best of these is tlie •ntente between Germany and Russia. The Anglo-Portugnese Treaty. London, March s.—Waddington, tlie French embassador, has been summoned to Paris to confer with Premier Ferry in regard to the proposed Anglo Portuguese treaty for regulating trade and navigation on the Congo, and also in regard to Sir Evelyn Baring’s scheme for financial reform in Egypt. An Explanation Wanted. Constantinople, March s.— Tho British em bassador has asked tho Porte for satisfaction for the manner in which officials of Smyrna have boon treating foreign coasting vessels. They have prevented steamers from embarking passengers. and have removed the union jack from English vessels. _ Enormous Defalcation. London. March s.—Two members of tho firm of Parker Bros., solicitors, in Bedford row, Lon don. have absconded, haring misappropriated their clients’ money. Liabilities between one and two million pounds. They had borrowed £500.000 for various speculations. An Explanation Wanted from Spain. London, March s.—ln the Commons, on Mon day, Mr Cameron will ask the Under Foreign Secretary whether Spain has been asked to explain the action of the Spanish revenue officers at Gibraltar against the American ship Marienno Nottlebom. A Sensation Exploded. London. March s.— Nellis, the Irish informer, who surrendered to tho Greenock police and pro ff-ssed to give the of the murderers of the Earl of Leitrim, is believed to boa lunatic. Parnell's Bill Defeated. London. March s.—Tlie House of Commons l as rejected Parnell’s bill amending tlie Irish innd act, by a vote of 525 to 72. Cable Notes. Tim Porte will appoint a Christian governor of • ‘rote. Arrests of Anarchists by the Swiss police still ontinue. Mr. Spurgeon, the Baptist preacher, has fallen heir to & large fortune left him by Joseph Pool, >f Leicester. The Pope has formally protested against the conversion, by the Italian government, of tho real property of tho Propaganda into Italian rentes. Princess Mario Anna returned to Berlin ves terday, and rejoined her husband. The latter met her at the railway station. Later in the day she was received by the Emperor and Empress. Everv mark of respect for the memory of the deceased American minister was shown by the Nubian authorities. An offer of a military e

curt to attend the remains to their temporary rusting place in the church was made, but the relatives of Mr. Hunt declined the honor. Prince Napoleon has recalled his sou. Prince Victor, from Roumania to Paris, having been warned that the government will not permit a French soldier to enter tue military service of a foreign government. An Irish migration company, with a capital of £250.000, has been formed. Parnell is chair man, and Sir Baldwyn Leighton. Jacob Bright and Edmund Dwyer Gray, members of Parliament are among the directors. A deputation represen tat ing large numbers of influential classes in Ireland presented a petition yesterday to tho English Chancellor of the Exchequer asking a prolongation of tlie period during which government loans may be repaid. OBITUARY. Death of 3fon. Kenneth Raynor, Solicitor of the United States Treasury. Washington, March s.—Hon. Kenneth* Raynor, Solicitor of the Treasury, died at the Na tional Hotel this afternoon. Mr. Rayner was bora in Bertie county, North Carolina, iu 1808. Ho received an academical education, and though he studied law. did not practice. He entered public life in 1853 as a member of the Legislature, and the same year was a member of the State constitutional convention. He served again in the Legislature in 1836 and 1838, and was a representative in Congress from 1839 to 1845, and a presidential elector in 1848. In 1846 lie entered tho Legislature for the third time. He was tlie author of a work entitled the “Life and Services of Andrew Johnson,” published in 1806. He v as appointed .Solicitor of the Treasury by President Hayes. Mr. Raynor had been a prominent member of tho old Whig party in tlie South, and Mr. Hayes made the appointment in the hope of inducing other old Whigs to act with the Republican party. Mr. Raynor lias recently been prominently before the country by reason of his opposition to the granting of a license ns master of a steamboat to Mrs. Mary Miller, and tlie cause of this opposi tion is said to have been the result of a circumstance that happened several years ago. He was boarding in Washington at the time, and occupied rooms in a house kept by two old maids, who asked him to vacate them. He declined to do so, and they resorted to heroic measures. Before the old man rose in the morning they locked his door so that he could not get out, and refused to release him until he agreed to vacate permanently. Without any breakfast lie remained in a state of siege, and only escaped by climbing out of the window upon a porch which communicated with tho next house, through which he reached the street. It is said this incident caused him to over after entertain a strong aversion for women. Judge Amos Morrill. Austin, March s.—Hon. Amos Morrill, exjudge of the United States court of the Eastern district of Texas, died, this morning, of heart disease. Edward D. Payne. Dayton, March s.—Ed ward D. Payne, brother of Senator-elect H. B. Payne, died to-day of paralysis. Henry A. Jones. Cincinnati. March s.—Captain Henry A. Jones, the well-known stoamboatman. died today. LABOR TROUBLES. Strike of Car-Guilders Against a Reduction in Wages. Chicago, March 5.—A number of men employed in the freight-car construction shops of the Pullman Car Company, at Pullman, have quit work. The workmen declare that their wages have been reduced from $1.50 to $1.30 a day. The strikers place their numbers at two hundred, while the officials of the company say not to exceed fifty have stopped. Glass "Works Resuming Operations. Pittsburg. March s.—Tlie fires wore lighted at the two green-glass bottle factories of McCclly & Cos., to-day, and the men notified to prepare’ for resumption in a few days at last year's wages. The strikers are jubilant over this second break in the manufacturers' lines this week, and regard it as au evidence tliat the lock-out is about over. Other Labor Notes. Pittsburg, March 5. —The coal miners’ officials have issued a call fora regular semi-annual convention, to be held ou the 11th instant. Tlio convention will consider the question of wages. Saturday half holidays, and the organization of the Kanawha river mine Tho strike ot the Third pool miners has failed. Tlie men have accepted a reduction of one-quarter of a cent a husliel, and will resume work at once. Columbus, 0., March s.—lnformation furnished by a coal operator, last night, that the strike of minors at Sunday Creek had concluded was incorrect. Every mine in the valley is uow idle and complete supply has been stopped from that quarter. McDevitt Returns to Corning. New Lexington. 0., March s.—Father O’Boylan. arrested last night, appeared this morning and waived examination. He gave SBOO bail A. J. McDevitt and father returned to Corning this morning, heavily armed. They were warmly greeted by friends. Eight of his abductors are in jail. Twelve other warrants have been sworn out. and part of them arrested. The rest will be taken to-morrow. Those arrested to-day waived examination until the grand jury meets on Monday. Besides these twenty-six. McDevitt says other arrests will follow. Four arrests were also made at Corning for the lynching of Richard Hickey, two weeks ago, on the charge of murder in the first degree. K>st-Round Freight Pool. St. Louis, March 5. —At a meeting to-day of the St. Louis committee of the east bound freight pool, the charges which had lieen forwarded to Commissioner Fink against the Indianapolis He St. Louis and Ohio & Mississippi, accusing those roads with cutting rates on grain, were discussed The Indianapolis & St. Louis, in explanation of its course, stated the order abrogating contracts made prior to the meeting of the trunklino presidents in New York was not received , hero until last Saturday, since when it has 1 rigidly maintained rates. This explanation was accepted as satisfactory. The O. AM. case remains undecided. This meeting also provided for the establishment here of a railroad mail exchange, like that in operation in Chicago. General Grant. New York, March 5.~ General Grant basso far recovered from his recent accident as to bo able to start for Fortress Monroe this week. Tho General and Mrs. Grant will leave New York by special car on Thursday evening, and will be joined at Washington by their old friends. General E. F. Beale and wife and daughter. The party will remain at the Hygem Hotel at Old Point Comfort for a week, and probably longer, if the change of climate proves of any advantage to General Grant. A New Party. Pittsburg, March s.—Tlie United States Brewers’Association has just issued a circular to all firms members of the association, requesting them to make out a list of all voters in their employ: also those who have neglected to take j out naturalization papers. The object of this j action is to learn the exact political strength of the beer manufacturers in this country, which, it is thought, will eventually merge inti* a strong political faction entirely distinct from all others. Tlie Cattle Disease in Kansas. Topeka, March s.—" Governor Glick has re . coived a telegram from George B. Bering I Commissioner of Agriculture, saying he had ordered Dr. Trombrow. of Sterling. HI., to in vestigate the cattle disease at Neosho Falls, this State, immediately. The Governor, acrnmpv nied by Win. Sims and Dr. Unicorn, of Fort Leaveuworth, left for Woodson county, to night.

TIIE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1884.

STATE NEWS AND 6OSSIP. Fifty Thousand Dollars To Be Raised for Fort Wayne SI. E. College. A '1 organ County Man Held for tlie Murder of His Step-Ban—Tlie f.itjuor Question in Parke County—Gleanings. isniAXA. Fort Wayne District Methodist Episcopal Conference Abolished. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. Fort Wayne, March s.— The Fort Wayne district conference of the M. E. Church closed a three days’ session at Churubuseo, Whitley county, to-day. The district conference has been abolished, as, according to tho provisions of the Discipline, Rev. Y. B. Meridith, presiding elder, retires. Tlie conference indorsed a building endowment fund of $50,000 for tho Fort Wayne M. E. CMloge and pledged themselves to raise said sum this year. A lyceum of ministers will probably Hike the place of the conference, and they will meet for mutual intercourse, etc. La Porto County Republicans. .Special to the Indianapolis Journal. LaPorte, March, s.—The Republican county convention assembled in nail’s Opera-house today. Considering the day, the attendance was large and was enthusiastic. A preference was indicated for lion. William 11. Calkins, for Governor, and Judge M. P. Hammond for Supreme Judge. Tho following delegates to tho district and State conventions were chosen by townships: District convention: A. B. Austin. John Whitmor, H. P. Edwards, C. B. Simmons, A. R. Colborn, L. B. Ashton. J. E. Shultz, Lew. Morrill. L. Crane,P. King. E. G. Lundquist, I. N. Whitehead and G. M. Dakin. State convention, April 17: Dr. W. B. Wilson, H. L. Loomis, Dr. M. G. Sherman, A. S. Vail, Gen. N. Gleason, and MaJ. W. B. Biddle. State convention June 19: E. S. Cadwell, D. Prowl, E. Baers, H. R. Edwards, D. P. Closser, Riley Small, Dr. M. G. Sherman, Maj. H. 11. Woods. U. Culbert, J. H. Manning, L. C. Rose, E. G. Lundquist, G. M. Dakin, N. Gleason, and A S. Hail * Remarkable Case of Old Age. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Connersvillk, March 4. —A case of remarkable longevity has just come to light in this county. About a month ago Mrs. Hannah McFeeley died at tlie county Poor Asylum, where she has been almost from time immemorial. Yesterday au old family Bible was found in her room, containing a record of the birth and marriage of all her brothers and sisters, and father and mother. It shows that she was born in 1760, thus making her 124 years of old. She lias a sister Nelly, now residing somewhere in Ohio, who has frequently visited her of late, and whose ago. as shown by the record, is 104 years. The last time she visited here she looked % ory aged, though she was quite active. From the record there seems to be uo question about the authenticity of her age as above stated. The deceased’s maiden name was Hannah Allen. Saloous in Parke Count}'. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Montezuma, March *s. —Penn township, in Parke comity, is much excited over a snkxm in prospective for Annapolis. The citizens generally are of the highest type of character, the Hon. B. C. Hobbs and Hon. Tlios. Nelson being representative men of the majority. A saloon sought to be established there last year sold indiscriminately to young and old, and cost tho people considerable time and money to get rid of it. A remonstrance, with six hundred names, was presented to the court at Rockville, on Monday, the 3d, and Thursday, March 6. was set for consideration of the case. Nearly all the saloons now running in Parke county have been forced upon us by tlie courts of other counties, against the will of three-fourths of Parke’s people. _ Arrest of an. Alleged Horae-Tliief. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Delphi,'March s.—On last Saturday James Owen, a stranger, took a horse and buggy which was standing at the rack around the square, and drove south. Ho was met by ono Thompson, who recognized tho property as belonging to a neighbor, and asked Owen where he was going with that horse and buggy. Owen made no reply, but drove on. On Sunday morning a Mr. Mitchell, of this city, missed his horse and buggy, and the above circumstance led the officers to believe that Owen was tho thief. Last evening Owen came in on an Air line train, and was ira mediately arrested on suspicion. He confessed, and said that the horse and buggy would be found at his mother’s, near Broad Ripple. He was bound ovor to court. James Robinson Hekl for Murder. Special to the Indianapolis Journal Martinsville, March s.—Yesterday the coroner returned a verdict in the case of James Robinson, arrested for beating bis step son to death. The verdict was that the boy came to his death by violence at tho linnds of James Robinson. There is some fear expressed that tho prisoner will be lynched unless a prompt and speedy trial bo given tlie accused, with justice according to the enormity of the crime. The verdict of tho coroner released Mrs. Robinson from custody. _ Attempted Suicide. Bneclal to the Indianapolis Journal. Martinsville, March s.—Yesterday Miss Flora Hines, daughter of Mr. D. L Hines, while at the residence of Mr. W. Y. Brown, of this city, attempted to commit suicide by tying a string around her neck, aiming to choke herself to death. Attendants at the house of Mr. Brown hearing a struggle, rushed to hor .i-oua, and, with the aid summoned, saved her life. Miss Hines’s health for some time has been poor, and this is supposed to have impaired hor mind. Sudden Death. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. Wabash, March s.—Tlie wife of Dr. A. J. Smith, a prominent physician in this city, died very suddenly, last evening, of heart disease. Mrs. Smith was one of the most highly respected ladies in this community, and hor demiso is universally deplored. Millinery Store Hurued. Special to tlio Indianapolis Journal. Anderson. March s.—The millinery store of Mrs. A. B. Wentworth was destroyed by fire, this morning, involving a loss of $2,500. Insured for $1, 500. _ Minor Note*. Fire destroyed the residence of Henry Speyer, at Marmont, valued at $1,500; fully covered by insurance in the Watertown, of New \ ork. Peter Comity, while carelessly lingering a loaded revolver, at Summitsville, shot himself in the stomach, inflicting a dangerous wound. New Albany Loader of Tuesday: On Saturday last Marion Sliults. of Kansas, met Mrs. Margaret McAfee, of this city, for the first tune. It

I was a clear case of love at first sight. They received marriage license to-day, and will be married to-night. Tlie second college conference of the College Young Men’s Christian Association of Indiana, will bo held at Wabash College, C'rawfordsville, on April 4. Wovel Broidler, of Fairmount, who has been running a saw mill at Dundee, was taken with a fit, and fell ou the circular saw, killing him almost instantly. ILLINOIS. A McLean County Lush Receives Damages for Breach of Promise. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Bloomington, March s.—ln the McLean Circuit Court, to-day, Miss Rebecca Bender, a pretty and interesting young lady, of Cookeville, McLean county, was given a verdict of $2,500 in the case of breach of promise brought by hor against her former lover. John W. Cook, of Cooksville. Both are prominent, young and respectably connected. The Chicago & Atlantic Railroad. Special to the Indianapolis Journal, Bloomington, March s.—lt is reported to-day that the Chicago & Atlantic proposed lino from Bloomington, 111., to Rochester, Ind., is to lie built at once, and that it is to bo used as a Western outlet for tlie Erie, tapping tlie Chicago & Alton at this point. Brief Mention. In an affray at Stonington, John Lawler cut a man named Blodgett ten times with a razor. Blodgett cannot recover. The postoffice at Wellsville, which • was also used as a dwelling and store, burned on Monday. But a portion of the goods in the store was saved. Seventeen Macon county farmers left for points in Kansas and Nebraska on Tuesday. The rush to tlie West continues, with no per I ceptible decrease. G. W. Richardson, a well-to-do farmer, of Genoa, cut his throat, and is now lying at the point of death at his home. Domestic trouble is assigned as the cause. Mrs. Bethany Porter died on Tuesday from | tho effects of severe burns. Tlio old lady, who was about eighty years of age, had for several years past been mentally disordered, and being left alone a few minutes, came in contact with the stove, the result being that, her dress took tire and she was fatally burned. Laura Morton, a thirteen vear-old school girl, of Rockford, was sleighriding with her mates and teacher, and, noticing that she did not seem so joyous as tho others, the teacher spoke to her. Receiving no response, and observing that the girl acted strangely, they took her home, where they found that her entire right side was paralyzed and tongue as well. Her mind also was affected, and she remembered nothing that occurred. Veterans* Excursion. Washington. March s.—Tho excursion to the battlefield of Bull Run, arranged last autumn by Major J. H. Stine, proved such a great success that a similar one has been projected to the fields of Fredericksburg, Chancellors'rille and the Wilderness, to take place from this city, on Thursday, the 15th of May next. As yet. of Course, no programme has been prepared, but it is the intention to have the positions occupied by both armies properly marked on the several fields, and doubtless many of the confederate as well as Union generals who participated in the battles will accompany the party. Those veterans who desire to take advantage of the opportunity should at once notify Major Stine. 325 0 street 8. E., Washington, to that, effect. The price of tickets has not yet been fixed, but the expense will be comparatively small, as it is the intention of the projectors to make this visit solely in tlie interest of history, and not for the sake of a frolic. Independent Republicans. New York, March s.—The committee appointed by the conference of Independent Republicans* has issued a circular stating that the committee had decided upon the selection ot a huger committee, for the following purposes: First, that the members of this committee in tlio various States may take steps, by calling meetings and otherwise, to arouse the Republican voters to throw off boss rule and send representative men to tho national convention. Second, to establish communication between Republicans throughout tlie country, in order that they may unite upon the best men to be put forward as candidates at the national convention. Western Export Association. Ohio ago. March s.—lt is learned a private meeting of the executive committee of the Western Export Association, controlling all distilleries in the West, was held here, to-day, at which it is understood, a decision was reached to reduce the production of whisky 10 per cent. below the present basis after May 1. The committee, which had returned from Cincinnati, reported the distillera's there had suffered to the extent of $45,000, and it was decided to levy a tax of live cents per bushel ou the capacity of other members for the purpose of making losses good. Killed by ;m Explosion. Stayner. Out., March s.—The boiler in W. Reynolds & Co.’s flour mill exploded this afternoon, wrecking tho boiler-house and badly shattering the mill. John Reynolds, one of the proprietors, was killed. William Panton, fireman, was terribly scalded and cannot recover. Joseph Knox, a miller, was badly injured. Dam age ti property, SIO,OOO. Hard Glove Fight. London, Ont , March 5.—A hard glovo fight, between Jack Stewart, of London, and Morrine Thompson, of Cleveland, took place to-night in the Opera-house. Six rounds were fought A large posse of police was present. The men, being under bonds of SBOO each, were cautious. A large crowd witnessed the exhibition. A Room lor Randall. Pnr.sBURO, March s.—Tlio Democratic legislative district convention, held to-day, to elect delegates to the State convention, adopted resolutions favoring a tariff for revenue, but not fostering monopolies: favoring the abolishing of the revenue system, and indorsing Mr. Randall as a candidate for the presidency. Man ii far taring in the South. Baltimore, March s.—The Manufacturers’ Record publishes a statement showing that during January and February capital invested in Southern manufacturing and mining enterprises increased $28,200,000. Kentucky shows the largest aggregate, $6,851,000; Alabama second, $5,210,000. Wreck on the Iron Mountain. Newport, Ark., March s.—This morning, a mile south of White river, the railroad worktrain on the Iron Mountain railroad was wrecked, killing Jonn Sirum aud Thomas White, and injuring Paul Weisonfurth. Peter Harrison and Win. Durham. Tho wounded were taken to St Louis. Tiller In a New Role. St. Lons, March 6.—Suit for divorce has been instituted by Frederick W. Fiddeko against Ills wife. Nancy L. Fiddeko. Mrs. Fiddoke is the landlady of the house where Tiller, the Pu cific Express robber, boarded. Tlie petition al leges adultery between Tillor and Mrs. Fiddeko. $60,000 Defalcation. Norwalk, 0., March C. —M. O. Vanfleet, the county treasurer of Huron county, absconded last Saturday, and has not been heard from since. His cash account is short from $50,000 to $60,006. His bondsmen are good for the amount taken. It is thought lie is in Canada. Rids Invited. New Orleans, March s.— Director-general Burke invites bids from all quarters for the galvanized window caps, wrought iron and east iron work; also, for 3.000 kegs of nails for the main buiidiug of the World's Exposition. Prohibition in Canada. Ottawa. Mnreh 5. —In the Commons, to-day, Mr. Foster moved a resolution declaring it expedient to prohibit tho importation, sale or manufacture of intoxicating liquor*.

NEWS IN BRIEF. Lyman & Curtis, New York, dealers in toys, have assigned. Preferences, $3,000. The lowa Republican convention has been called to meet at Dos Moines on April 30. A run on tho Banco Industrial, at Havana, yesterday, was met by tho payment of all demands. The Oshawa Cabinet Company, Toronto, has assigned. Nominal assets, $90,000; liabilities, about $52,000. A bill has passed the Rhode Island House forbidding the location of dram shops within 400 feet of school houses. L. K. Travis, a lawyer and prominent citizen, and collector of the Thayer estate, of Wcstboro. Mass., is missing. A young woman is also missing Premier Boudoir, of Dover.N. H..will be sentenced to-morrow for the murder of Grant, notwithstanding his son’s declaration that lie is the guilty person. At Huron, ()..on Tuesday night, a man named McMillon. suffering from the effects of‘hard drinking, murdered a boy named Thompson, and then killed himself. Bishop Clarkson, of Omaha, at a late hour last night was reported somewhat better than on Tuesday, though he is still quite low. His recovery is extremely doubtful. The Canadian Pacific railway loan bill passed the third reading in tho Ontario Senate, yesterday. Shortly afterward Ritchie, deputy govern or general, entered tho Senate, and in the name of the Queen, assented to the passage of the bill. A snow plow, on the St. Paul road, struck a sled containing a farmer named Dick, his son, aged nineteen, a married daughter and two small children, at Sibley. la. The son wtis instantly killed, the father fatally injured, and the others slightly injured. Thomas R. Reeve, proprietor of tho Novelty Iron Works, Cleveland, which have been idle most of the time lately, has assigned. Liabilities, $50,000; assets twice that amount. The assignment was precipitated by a lack of ready money to meet obligations. Tho Massachusetts Prohibition central committee has decided the State convention shall l>e held on May 7. It was resolved that experience shows that high license as a temperance meas ure is utterly without merit, and demanding that its advocates recite one instance to show to the contrary. Tlie Yale Glee Club have had manufactured a valuable tankard, to be presented to Colonel John Mason Brown, of tho Yale class of ’56, of Louisville, Ky., in remembrance of his services in effecting a settlement with the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad Company in the suit arising from the accident of Jan. 5, near Louisville, by which several members of the glee club were seriously injured. James Boyd and a man named Brown attempted an assault, in the Grand Hotel at Harrisburg, upon John Moore, of tho Sunday Telegram, for an article in that paper. Thomas McGingan, the clerk, protested against any disturbance. and later, McGingan himself was as sailed, and Brown was so badly beaten os to require the attention of a physician, while Boyd was considerably damaged. Arthur Dudley Vinton, law partner of Secretary Belmont, was arraigned in tlie New York police court yesterday ou tin* charge of perjury, preferred by Erastus S. Ransom, former law partner of President Arthur. The arrest grew out of longstanding litigation between the parties ever a check for SIOO given by Vinton to the complainant in payment for a loan, and which was refused when presented for payment. Adversising Agent H. P. Hubbard, of New Haven, Conn., and George P. Rowell & Cos., of New York, entered into a contract, in 1879. bv which Rowell was to publish certain advertisements. to follow market reports. Defendant failed to fill his contract The advertisements wore inserted in the prescribed papers, but not in tlie location agreed on. The Connecticut Supreme Court has given u decision in favor of Hubbard for $2,200 damages and costs. A CHRISTIAN WARRIOR. The Religions Faith Which Loads Chinese Gordon On To Victory. Extract* from Recent Biography. On the frontier of Darfour lie hoped to make friends of the rebel tribes between Fogia and Faschar, and to march ou tho latter city with a body guard of subdued and converted enemies. Such superb self-confidence is habitual to him. It is an outcome of that profound religiousness which is an integral part of his character and his life. The Cross’ true soldier, a mystic and a leader of men. he fights and conquers much as Columbus voyaged and as Cromwell ruled. “Praying for the people ahead of me whom I am about to visit,” he says, “gives me much strength: and it is wonderful how something seems already to have passed between us when I meet a chief (for whom I have prayed) for the first tinvs On Ibis I base my hopes of a triumphant march to Fascfcer. I have really no troops with me, but J have the Sliekiuah, and Ido like trusting to Him and not to men. Remember, unless He gave me the confidence and encouraged mo to trust Him, I couUl not have it; and so 1 consider that 1 have tho earnest of success in this confidence.’ ” Another phase of his work is thus described: “Ilis movements at this juncture were so rapid aud so many tliat it is impossible to give more than a mere sketch of them. They wore confined for the most part to the immediate neighborhood of Cairo and Fufar; to clearing the road at one point: to dispatching expeditions against hostile tribes at another; to searching for grain, of which there was a great scarcity; to capturing spies, and to vainly essaying to control thw Bashi Bazooka, whom he had learned to hate as cordially as he loved the oppressed blacks, for whom he would have given his life.” After he had done his tremendous work, with innumerable victories to be thankful for and wearied with the fearful strain, lie went to Berber, and on his way down the Nile wroto to a friend: “I feci a great contentment. A star, when it makes its highest point, is said to have culminated; uml I feel 1 have culminated—i. e., I wish for no higher or other post than tho one I have; and I know 1 cannot be removed unless it is God’s will, so I rest on a rock, aud can be content Many would wish a culminating point with less wear and tear. But that very wear and tear makes mo cling more to the place: and 1 thank God. He lias made me succeed, not in any very glorious way, but in a substantial and lasting manner. I entirely take that prophecy of Isaiah as my own, aud work to it as far as I can.*” Os his great and successful struggle fo’* the suppression of the slave trade and of the complete destruction of the power of Sebehr in tho power of his son Suleiman, it is impossible to speak here, nor of his later career, which is familiar to most newspaper readers. There is only space to quote Gordon’s own words, in illustration of his character, which is tlie secret and cause of his success, aud is tho noblest development of this century. Here are some of the maxims of this “man of destiny,” as follows: “It is a delightful tiling to be a fatalist, not’as that word is generally omployed, but to accept that, when things happen and not before, God has for some wise reason so ordained them to happen —all things, not ouly the great things, but all the circumstances of life; that is what is meant to me by the words ‘you are dead.’ in St. Paul to Colossians.” Again: “We have nothing further to do when the scroll of events is unrolled than to accept them as being for the best. Before it is unrolled it is another matter, and you could not say 1 sat still and let things happen with this belief. All I can say is, that amidst troubles and worries uo one can have peace till he thus stays upon his God; it gives a man a superhuman strength.” And elsewhere: “If we would take all things as ordained and for the best, wo should indeed be conquerors of the world. Nothing lias ever happened to man so bad as he has anticipated it to be. If wo would be quiet under our troubles they would not be so painful to bear. I cannot separate the existence of a God from His preordination and direction of all things good and evil; the latter He permits, but still controls.” And for a glimpse of his outlook on life as it is: “There would be no one so unwelcome to come and reside in the world as Christ while the world is in the state it now is. He would be dead against, aay, nearly all of our pursuits, and be altogether outre.” This is “Chinese” Gordon. A Fountain of Youth. Avoiding all foods rich in earth salts (old beef and mutton) and taking daily two or three tumblers full of distilled water wit’ about ten or

fifteen drops of diluted phosphoric acid in each glassful is recommended as a means of greatly retarding the advance of old ago. F.arly Spring Work. “Tlie early bird catches the worm:’’ as a general rule the early farmer makes the money. The one who has his oats first sown, his potatoes first planted, his ground first ready for the corn, his garden vegetables first in properly prepared ground; in short, who is the earliest in his work in its season, is the farmer who raises the largest crops and makes the most money; and with good reason. He drives his work instead of being driven by it. and has time for doing it well. His products being early, sell for a bettor price. Early vegetables, early poultry, early lambs and calves, always command the highest figures. His corn, wheat, oats, potatoes, vegetables, etc., have the entire season for growing and maturing. But this early work requires earlier planning and preparation. At the far South, garden and field operations begin this month. Further North a good deal may be done even now. Let us enumerate, by way of reminder, some of the many things to he done or thought about before the time comes for action: Corn-stubble may be speedily broken down while yet frozen by dragging over the field a long pole with a horse hitched to each end. The manure may be hauled to the field over the ground while yet frozen, and no ruts will be made by the wagon wheels. Plows and harrows may be repaired at home, and taken to the shop to be sharpened. Harness may be cleaned and oiled; fields laid off into “lands” for plowing: washouts bo filled: seed-corn shelled and seed oats well cleaned in tho barn while it is yet stormy outside. Drags, rollers, cultivators and seeders may be looked after and got ready for use. Such little things as wliiffletrees, chains, oil-cans and water-jugs should be gathered and stored where they can be reached at once. Spades, shovels, lioes, forks, etc., should be brightened, sharpened and repaired, if in need of it. The mow may be filled from the hay-stacks. The summer’s supply of wood should by all means be cut and stored under cover. Rails, posts or boards for repairing fences may be hauled to their places, and the wood lot cleared up. The farm should be well supplied with gates, and now is a good time to make and hang them, or have them ready for hanging. Sot the ash leach; smoko and store nwav the year’s supply of pork; strengthen water fences and gates for the spring freshet Pile and burn rubbish, and haul out the chip dirt. Repair the fences blown down by winds or torn down by stock. Look after tlie well and pump, aud clean the cistern ready for the spring rains. Remove garbage thoroughly from the cellar. Clean out the poultry-house, and have new nests made. Have the yard tidied up. Pry or blow* out stumps, and clear off new ground ready for tho plow. Take out or bury large stones. (’lean oft the garden; take tho dead canes out of currants, gooseberries, raspberries ami blackberries; trim the grape-vines; cart manure on the ground; start early vegetables in hot-beds; select seeds, and buy any needed; select potatoes for planting, and look after the asparagus and strawberry beds. Grub out orchard tress that the winter has killed; prune and pile and burn limbs removed; cover with wax any wounds made by rabbits or mice. Scrub down the orchard trees with suds from the week’s washing. Scale tho dead bark off of old trees. Manure the soil. Look after the bees. Trim osage orange hedges and burn the brush. See that you have good cocks in the poultry-yard. Provide for coming calves and pigs. In short, do spring wffrk at the earliest possible moment, and endeavor to do it a little earlier than ever before. There will be plenty of work left when spring does come. The more time, the more thorough preparation of the soil for crop?: and the more thorough its preparation tho better tlie crops. Much time may be saved by having things ready. One should not have to hunt whiffletreos, repair harness and implements, have plows sharpened, or go to borrow, in tho spring. Have everything ready. To Remove a Tight Ring. A novel method of effecting the removal of h ring which has become constricted around a swollen finger, or in any other similar situation, consists in simply enveloping the afflicted member. after tho manner of a circular bandage, in a length of flat India rubber braid, such as ladies make use of to keep their hats on tho top of their heads. This should be accurately applied—beginning, not close to tne ring, out at the tip of the finger, and leaving no intervals be 1 tween the successive turns, so as to exort its whole force gradually and gently upon the tissues underneath. When the binding is com plete the hand should be held aloft in a vertical position, and in a few minutes the swelling will be perceptibly diminished. Tlie braid is then taken off and immediately applied in the same manner, when, after another five minutes, the linger again rapidly uncovered, will be small enough for the riug to be removed with ease. I'ork and Trichina?. On Febnmrv 18. 1881, Fran.:e passed her interdiction of American pork. The United States consumes five times the pork slie exports. Deaths from trichina* have been known in Germany and France since 1830—long before importation of American pork. Two million German born and five million American-Germans eat our pork in the United States. In five years, in Philadelphia. there were 92,764 deaths; from trichina? 3. In New York, iu ten years, 170,838, with 5 from infected pork. In Boston, 43,680 deaths; from trichina? none. Baltimore, fifty-four years, 324 deaths; from trichina; none. Hot Beds. It is too soon to put seeds in hot beds, but it is not too soon to get the hot-beds in position, sash arranged, and full preparations made for receiving the manure next month. Manure for the hot beds should be saved by itself and should be as pure and unmixed as possible, especially if quick head is to be desired. Value of Long Courtship*. Lonisrille Courier-Journal. In view of the poverty and suffering that come of largo families, tho newspapers should praise, not discourage, the couple who courted for forty years before they married. Forty-year courtships would be a great help to many parts of the United States. The Great Consumption Rcirtcdy BROVSN’S EXPECTORANT Mas been tilted in hand reds of cases, and never failed to arrest and cure CONSUMPTION, if taken in time. It Cures Coughs. It Cures Asthma. It Cures Bronchitis. It Cures Hoarseness. It Cures Tightness of the Chest. It Cures lHjJtcultff of Breathing, Brown’s ExpEcyoqANT Is Specially Recommended for Wm @9 ping Comm* It will shorten the duration of the disease and alleviate the paroxysm of coughing, sons to enable the child to pass through it without leaving any serious consequences. FlilCK, r,Oe. and SI.OO. A. KIEFER, Indianapolis, Ind.