Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 27, Number 22, Jasper, Dubois County, 20 March 1885 — Page 6

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WEEKLY COURIEK. a. x&ajstic, i?uuitier.

TXWAXA. TOPICS OF THE DAY. i" , News from Cvrywhir. WttQKMMIOXAI. ntOCKKDlXM. Tmk Beaate rewsiutxl lu session all of the night UwN aad the eeafereaee eom nM4sea weee kea buy en the appropri Hen bUls. The substitute river mhI harbor MM, was considered the morning of the 4th, but as there seemed to b IKU ehanee of a samtaetory solution a motion waa linallv made mi earrted to lay the bill on the tetde. The Mil to plaoe General (irant oh the retired Hat hmU to restore lilia to his termer Task witk full ay was pasted. A resolution of thanks to Mr. Kdmends, tke PrseMtent of the .Senate, pro tW. wm unanimously adopted, and ta gentleman made appropriate remark. AM of the regular appropriation bllla were dtepoaed of. Mr. Hendricks was sworn la aa Vkx-free Went aad the Senate of the Forty, eighth (Xmgre wss declared adjourned staedle. The extra seerton was called, Mr. Hendrieka la Ike chair, the new Senate rematala la session but a short while The House also held an all-niht session, aad manage to adjust all Ultf jrences with the Sonets on the appropriation WIU. Ia the early Morning session Mr. Kaadall moved a suspension oftha rulaa forthe pnesaaeof the Grant retirement bill. The contested election eatot Frederick vs. Wilson (Iowa) waa peadtag, and an agreement was tateied .lato by which MepubTtcaaa allowed the lat tec to ooiaeto a vote ltthe Democrats would support tke Grant bill. Mr.. tYederlelc Unmoor at) m awarded the seat, and the Grant nHl was parsed amkl deafening beers. Jtesolutlona of thanks to SpcaktirCarllste were unanimously adopted. and the Speaker wade an ekxiuent closing address before declaring the idjournment. FXMOXAX. AMD POLITIC AX The position of Commissioner ot Pensions has been tendered to Geaeral Joka C. Bleek, ot Daavule, 111., aad ke kas aePRMflMNrr Clxvxlanb's second official aet was to pat kia signature to the commission pacing Geaeral Graat oa tke retiroil liet. Count Herbert Bismarck visited tke Priaee of Wales oa tke etk, aad conveyed a communication to tke effeet that Geraaaay waa desirous ot maintaining cordial relations witk England. Ox tke 3th Senator Van Wyck iatrodneed areeoluiktaT to lad oat all about the 'Baik-kHM" land grant ia Louisiana. Senator Teller, wko issued tke papers while la President Arthur's Cabinet, will rise to explain. Charles Fkaxcis Adams, Jr., la a letter to Seaator Hoar, denies teat ke is the ii.ere figure-head for Jay Gould la tke management oi the Union Paoilc Road. The deeutaeat k a lengthy oae, aad was called forth by Mr. Hoar's bill relation te the eompaay. T. 8, Arthur, tke well-known aatbor of temperance aad otker literature, died ia PkUadelpkia, Pa., oa tke tk. Ox tke aigkt of tke 3th during aa oprMe performance by tke Emma Abbott Company at LiUle Rook, Ark., some of k soeaery took ftre. Miss Abbott; wko waa eaaetiag a dying scene, witk great proscBoe of miad, spraag Hp from her rec am bant position, aad witk a blanket saotkered tke tames, tkaa averting what far taa momeat promised to be a terrible paaie. Tax members of President Cleveland's CaktetallaaJifedoatke7tk. U j. vtarATUH i row uaaorat iroiseley aUtes that kia ayeaigkt is aaafroeted aad at his heaHk k perfaet , aoRiTART SNBioorr's Irst oalcial act a tke Ttk waa to eoaatrsiga tke eommisoa of General Graac Thjc Governor of Mississippi kas ap poiasea ueeerai je. u. n aitaail saoceaaor to Mr. Lamar aa Ualted Statea Seaator. Gkxbral Graxt takes some nourish aaeat, bat kia digestive orgaaa are so weak that maek of the streatk derived is lost Mk readitioa U oriUcal. JugTlx McCarthy announces the sever ance of kk eoaaeetioa witk Untied Iretmd, aeeaase of tke attacks made upon tke rriaoe of Wales by O'Brien, editor of tke Prwibcxt Clkvklaxb kas notified h' private aeeretary tkat ke does not propose to see persoaa wke eall Ia regard to appointments, as be k desirous tkat all applkatloaa of tkat okaraetor akall be aetodapea by tke kead of tke depart meat to wkkk tkey beloag. Srmabikr-Gexrral Silas B. SACKBrr, eakr laepeetor-Geaeral, 17. 8. A., died nt Week la ton, IX C., en the Ttk., El Makm has osawred aa immediate vdvaaee a pea KorM. Qrxbral Lew Wallacr, United States Minister to Turkey, has resigned. Sa-aWrMtea KUMxix k reported serl-eaa-ViH from the eaTeeta of ker reeeat fall from a earrke. Tmx FM MM GkMtt advoeates tke fermatka ef Ike "Gordea Free sHato" ia keaeref tke memory of General U onion, tee aew State to embraee tke Nik eoaatry. Ex-kCwxtt Trxasvrkr L. D. Hxkd, at Wiknlagtoa, O., k said to be short &,m la kk aoeoaate. , The President agata held opea house oa tke tk, aad received a krge number of vieitors. Gbxkral Grant's ooaditioa was slightly I w preyed on tke Jamm Crawford, 8aierintedeat of tke Carsea City Mlat, died oa tke 9tk. Gbxkral Gkorse B. McClkllax will deliver tke Deeoratioa Day oration at AaChas. S. Kairohild, of New York, was nominatetl Assistant Seeretary of tke Treasury oa tke Ma, Mrmmcrm of tke dipkmatte oorps at Waekiagtoa officially ealled oh Seeretarr Bayard ea tke Mk. The retiring Attoraey-OeHeral prwated Mr. Gariaad, kk siweeesor, to tke Maareme Court ea tke (Kk. THEMetkedktekarekM of Ckleago ap,pe4atod Sunday, tee letk, a day of peoiVl grayer fer Oeaeral Ckaat,

rMWiMXT Barrmm kaa keaed a decree prsxjlehig n Makat ef Ceatrai Ameriea apreme

MMlitary mwawaad. U-sxkkaj. WtHfcm.xr katd a Kaeral re view ef ke Xk expeditioaary force at Kortl on tke atk aad eatapUmeatotl tke troops for tketr keroUm aad ferUtade. It look as tlioagk Paddy Kyaa bad pHag'a basiaeaa oa band, Barke aad Salli vaa betk kaviag aeeepted bk challenge aad covered kk foafeit. Mr. Kayakd kas offered tke position ef Aasktaat tieeretary of State to Mr. John Cadwallader, of Pkitadelpkia. lx tke Senate Oa tke Mk Mr. Vaa Wyok made grave ekarges against tke actioa of tke'Iaterior Department under tke Arthur administration ia reference to the "Back bone" lead graat of Ioaiaiaaa. Mr. Teller defended tke department aad kia aotioa aa tke Seeretary, accusing Mr. Vaa Wyck of seeking glorv aad aotoriety as tke al leged friead of tke eop!e. The court -martial for tka trial of Medi eal Director aad ex-Burgeon-General l'nillijw Wales, kas adjourned until April lttk. Coloxil xtjjox H. Davm, leeated at Chicago, wko k aext ia rank to Geaeral Sackett, will sacceed tke latter, aad upon assuming tke daties of senior Inspector Geaeral of tke army will take tke raak of Brigadier-General. First Assistant Postmaster-General Crosby resigned oa tke vtn, and tke resignation was accepted. CKIMttt AXU CASVALTIBS. The French transport, Toaqaia, former ly City of Paris, oame ia collision witk an' other transport off Malaga oa tke 4tk and sank, carrying dowa twenty-four of tke erew. Tke remainder. ux the Ma Ar. A. U. r. Uoersea was kaaged at Philadelphia, Pa., fer poisoning his wife nve years ago. He protested kls laaoceace to tke last. At Marquette, Mick., oa tke etk, a Dep atySheriff was fatally skot wkile attempt lag tke arrest of a hard character. Ox tke &tk aa attempt was made to as aassiaate Prof. A, J. Eaek, Superintendent of German ia tke public sokools of Cleve lead, O. Ox tke 0tk an explosion of gas ia Barke well's aew law building at Pitt burgh, Pa., badly shattered tke interior of tke strnc tare aad injured several of the occupants. A Hollander named Klaus Kekma was arrested at Graad Rapids, Mick., oa tke mk, oa a requisition from tke Netherlands, whence ke came about a year ago after forging kis father's name to a check for 2,500 guilders. Ax attempt was made oa tke 3th, by prisoner, to shoot tke Presiding judge of tke Police Tribunal ef Lansaaae, Switzerland. Tke judge escaped injury, bat the clerk aad usher were badly wounded while try ing to disarm tke prisoner. Ix tke Philadelphia jail during tke kaagtag of Dr. Goer son oae ooademaed murderer died from fright aad another was takea witk violent convulsions. On the 8th a horrible accident occurred oa tke Illinois Central Head eight miles irom ureaaaa, auss. lnree men were killed aad a number of passengers injured. At karwln, Austrian Silesia, a terribl mine explosioa was reported. Oae hua dred aad forty -seven men were ia tke miae, aad It is not kaowa wketaer nay were saved. Ox tke Stk Wm. Cor bin and John Gaines, of Boone County, Kentucky, foagkt about the killing of a dog, aad b3tb were killed. Ix a hotel Ire at Bradford, Fa., ea tke ttk, two persoaa lest tketr Uvea. Tke build iac was Ignited by a lamp explosion. Ox tke 3th tke Pest-oSee aad Custom koase at Bismarck, Dak., burned. A KKIGX of terror exists at Xegauaee, Miek., oa account of tke deatk ef Deputy Sheriff Kohl, wko waa skot by Patsy Hen an. Tke hard characters of both sexes must go. A meeting of tke Salvation Armv at Chicago waa broken up by roughs on tke Stk, tkere being a hand-to-hand fight la which tke eh outers got tke worst of it, Ix a stable destroyed by f re at Provl deaoe, K. L, oa tke Stk, tkirty horses perished. Ox tke 8tk tke East Montgomery Avenue Methodist Church, Philadelphia, Pa., was damaged by are to tke extent of $13,09. , Ox the Stk a frightful railroad aceideet happened oa tke Newport bridge at Cin cinnati, causing ae instant deafen of oae was awl dangerously wounding another. Three of tke Laftla & Kaad powder milk exploded aear Aewburgk, Is. ., ea tke mk, killing two mea. The harness shop of Havdoa k Bird, prkoa eoatraeters, buraed at Auburn, Y., ea the tk, causing a loss of d,e09. Michael McExtree, a young man of twenty-four, jumped ia tke river at New York oa the tk, witk suicidal iateaU lie c)i a aged kk mind aad waa rescued. While oa tke roof of the Gibson House at Ctaeiaaatt, O., oa tke Mk, Jeeepk Boklman caught kold ef aa electric-light wire aad was instantly killed by tke shock. Bteubexvillk, O., was visited by a conflagration oa the9tk,which destroyed maay bueiaees houses, the United States Hotel, aad caused loss of life besides. MlgCKIXANMOUS. Ax epidemic of measles prevails at Montreal, Can., and the public sokools will probably have to be closed. The British House of Commons post poned until after the Easter holidays Mr. Read's motion to censure tke Goverameat for tke eoadftfoa of the navy. the troop's of General llatck's com mand have been stationed to meet the Oklahoma boomers, who ex posted to advattos oa "the promised land' ea the 11th. HussiA has decided to send M.000 sol diers into Central Asia from Baku, Tke artillery kaa also beea augmented. A protest has been seat by German merchants in the Seat to their Goverameat against the Free eh Government's declaring rice a contraband ef war. The forth Qtrmm tfau deelares that tke difficulty between Bagland aad Russia k not acute enough to require the later Yeatfett if a third power,

A la Mae awinhar ef tfeeialieta have beea

expelled from Praao. A mokhthk aapiive kaliaoa will make frequeat aeeeaaioa) at tke World' Kxpoeltton at Xew Orleans. The railroad empa4n throughout the eoaatry aaaoaave lower ratoa to the New Or leans Exposition. Twt Loadea .Vw eitos tkeomtditioa ot affairsbetweeaKaglaad aadKaesia aa stilt eriueal, tke ehoioe ef peaee or war beiag The British Royal arseaal at Woolwlek w laraiag out, x,w eartrMgea per week. Ox the 9th aa immense eoagregatioa as aembted at tke Kew York Avenue Presby teriaa Church, Washington, expeeting to see tee i resiaeat there, but Mr. Cleveland remaiaed ijuletly at the White Hcnse all day. Orderr have beea seat to the British special Commissioner oa the Afghan fron tier questioa. to direct the Afghans to evacuate Peajdeh oa tke withdrawn! of tke Kaeaiaa forces from Akrobat, THEetrikesoa the Gould railway lines ia Texas situ continue. For a long dk tance there k no moving of freixht. aad everything ia the way of business oa the lines is crippled to a large extent. The situation is becoming decidedly mixed. A ktrikk of 8,&00 miners ia Eaglaad is tareateaed. Russia is rapidly concentrating troops ia central Asia. 1HE rear Krd of General Buller'a troops have arrived at Kerti, after a se vere aad harrassiBg march. The Governor of Dakota has vetoed the capital removal bill, which defeats the scheme. nEvKHAu Italian men-of-war and tor pedo boats have arrived at Port Said. The naval brigade ia the Soudan will be greatly augmented before the autumn operattoas. The kearinc; of tke case of Cunningham aad Barton, tke dynamiters, waa resumed at London oa tke 9th. The visible supply ef wheat oa theStk wasS,&8T',7 baskets; core, 8,447,912 buskels; oats, 2AU,m bushels. Germans u-uled dowa tke British flag at victoria, aa fcagllsh miseion adjoining tne Cameroon territory aad hoisted German flag. Explanations are ha order. .The indications for a good spring trade among the Pittsburgh iron manufacturers are said to be more favorable. The annual report of the Chicago, Mil wauK.ee oc oc raui noaa snows groes earalngs of ,4 70,53.18 for 18tl. The coal Iminera' strike inaugurated ia the Pittsburgh (Pa.) district romie to be the most stubborn ot its kind ever com menced ia Pennsylvania. Seven-eighths of the i:,w0 miners are already out. The Lord Chamberlaia has prohiMted the representation ia London ot Sardou's Theodora, in which Sarah Bernhardt played tke leading part. Suck news dispatches as succeed ia es caping the rigid censorship established at SU Petersburg indicate that the war feel' ing is dominant among the Czar's most trusted advisers and that nothing gained by Russia ia Afghanistan will be relia quisked, even though to hold it uieaas war. LATE NEWS ITEMS. The President k cuttiag dowa tke clerial force at tke Wkite House. The aew Cabinet met for tke first time a tke Wtk aad eoasidered federal appointments. Mart Axdbrsox atoses ker London en gagement April th. James Jacks ox skot aad killed kk wife at SculIeviUe. Choctaw Nation, oa tke letk. X.DMUND Yatxb, editor London World, wm released from prison by order of tke floae secretary. the river aad railroad coal mines ia tke Pittsburgh district are aearlv all idle. tkough the outlook for aa amicable eading m propitious. Austria ami Hungarv will also raise tke duties oa forelra xraln. AEWBEKX, N. C. waa vibUed oa tke 19th by a conflagration tkat caused a loss of $100,000. Rev. Dr. Walsh, President of Mayaootk College, has :-iea elotd Archbish op of Dublin, to succeed Cardinal McCabe. Germany apologise for tearing dowa the British flag at Victoria. It was mistake. The new German tariff oa agricultural products was paesed aad will take effect immediately. The Illinois Legislature adopted a reso lution on tke mh expressing sympathy tor the w abash strikers. A MTHO-OLYCitRiXE factory exploded aear Bradford, Pa., oa the Wtk, killing one of the proprietors aad aa employe. nrroRTS to the Department of Agrieulture show that 1-2 per coat, of the last corn crop remains in the heads of farm ers. iTkseidthatEIMahdl left Khartoum because he feared assassination at the haBds of his discontented followers. Macmillan'r Ma(iaxixe nt London publiskes n Muniher of letters of General Gor don wntUn to a friend of tkat city, i- our liuiHlrcd men are out ot employ ment by tke shutting dowa of one-third of tke machinery at a Lawrence (Mass.) cotton mill. Ox the 30th iastaat the Peoria Board ot Trade will vote upon a resolution to sus pend any member who deals ia options, directly or indirectly. The strikers at Kansas City quit inter fering with the movement of Wabash trains, the eompaay bsinr under the protectloa of the Federal Court. Earl Granville declares that the most friendly relation exist between England ami Germany la regard to colonial questions. The Governor ef Texas issued a prooiamatioa ea the MHh bearing en the rail road strike la that Btate, aad declaring tkat all parties must be prelected, but tke lea ifcUet t, eu.wned.

WASHINGTON NEWS,

A Oraeefet Aet The Caere Aaetaet ea eeat Meaea Tke MHMerr Career of the Mew Cemmtsatangr mf feiulum. -The In aearaUe Crowd. Washinutox. I). C, March i. When the com miae ion waa made oat fer tke nppolatmHt of General Grant on the re tired U, Secretary Lincoln retelaed it at the War DeiMtrtment, Udaklng it proper that the new Secretary should be giwa rr opportunity to oouatersigH it alter lte slgaature by the Presldest, but the President sent fer It la order tkat there might be no ueiay la making the appointment. Secretary Lincoln took the oommkelon to the Executive Man sion in pureou and banded it to the Presi dent, reinarklns; that lie had not yet acted upon It because he thought that Judge Sudicott would be pleased to attend to It as one of bis nrst oftclal duties. "That wa very thoughtiul of you, Mr. Lincoln," observed the Presldeat. I have no doubt it would be a pleasure to Judge Eadkott: still, I will sign it my self that there may be no delay, and then Judge Endlcott can countersign it." President Cleveland thcreupoa affixed his signature. The commission, after official record was iuadt, was returned to the War DcpartHtent. Yesterday morning It w?r0lJfJeL0lib.e cr? o Endlcott was to couaterslgn it. . .0.v,( nuv vi vtMM The exactjeharge against General Hazea which has resulted la the ordering of a court-martial, in "conduct to the prejudice of good order and military dieclpuue tue violation of the sixty-second ar tkle oi war." The first specification re cites aa extract from llazen's last annual report, In which the omckl action of the Secretary of War is impugned. Hazea de clarlsg that "oa the return of the escort ship bringing the Greely relief party to ou Johns, September 18th. 18S8. were was still time to send ef fectlve relief." The second sneclftca tion declares that the Secrctarv of War, tmviag decided la September that such a relief expedition to the Arctic re gloas was not practicable, General Hazea seat to the hecretary of War a com mualcatloa declaring that "the tragic termination oi the international Pour ex pedltloa was due to the decision not to dispatch a steam sealer to effect lis rescue on the 15th of September, 1888," which he (Hazen) says he did all In hi.. power to have done. The other speclfica tlons are In substance eleboiatioas ot the two Indicated. The following is the war record of the Commissioner of Ponsioas, Geaeral John u. uiacK, oi Danville, III.: He entered the Ualted Statea service as a Colonel of the Thirty-seventh Volunteer Infantry. 'mis regiment was organized at Chicago. in., September i8t, isi, to serve three years. On the expiration of its term of service the original members (except vet eransi were mustered out, ami the organi zation, composed of veterans and recruits. retained la sen-ice until May 13th. 185, when It was mustered out la accordance with orders from the War Department. The olttclal list of battles la which this regiment bore an honorable part Is as follows: "Pea llldge," "Siege oi Vlcksburg," "Prairie Grove," "Blake ley" and "Chalk Bluff." Mr. Black was promoted to Brevet Brigadier-General March 13th, 18a. He resigned August ISth, 1865: was wounded In both arms, and now draws a pension (by special act oi Congress) ot 100 per mouth. Washington, D. C, March 9. The records of the Baltimore L Potomac Rail road show that during the Inauguration week the road moved Into Washington 401 trains, averaging fourteen can to the, train and forty-one persons to the car, from points North, Kast and West. DurIdg the same period there arrived 181 trains from the South, averaging seven cars to the train and flfty-two passengers to the car. Pour hundred and twentytwo Pullman cars were handled at Washington by this rorfd during Inauguration week. Superintendent Barker says this was thirteen more cars than the whole number of roads centering at Chicago run lato the city during the Deraocratle and Kepublican Conventions. WESTERN "WATERWAYS. Proposed IcHBRtrtIoH In Their Inter est at the New Orlrnn Kspesltien Aa Invitation to I'Hkllc Ilicnltirlc. Washi-visto:, I). C, March 9. Aa ad dress to the jwople of the Mississippi Valley, and all mercantile and commer cial exchanges throughout the country, has been prepared by the Executive Com mittee, on the Improvement of Western Waterways, and will he mailed to-mor row. After stating that Congress ad journed without making any appropria tions forthe improvement ot the Western waterways, and that among the many causes leading to tlmt result was the fail ure on the part of the Congressmen of the Mississippi Valley to Maud and vote together, the address says: The discussion uon the nnnronrlntlona lor vt extern waterway in me river ana Harbor bill revealed an opiKHlttmt in the Wct which was tinnxpeeted. For rensons not innde clear, many Western Ooiirts-mien arrayed themselves In opiRwttioii to further work In Improving our river. Jjy their no tion and neKlect the great work has been delayeu, ami uniem vigorous measures are taken on the pan of the iteoble interested ia oheap wafer transportation, the work ot Improving our waterways will be abandoned or jHWtiHned for vears. . At a meeting of the Kxeentlva Committee held In this city last Jsnunry, It was determined by an unnntmous vote that the Hoards ot Trade and other commercial oraunUntknis of the commercial center of the Misfdlppi Valley Mates should be Invited to senddeleeate to celebrate the "fmnrovement of tlte Western Water Ways' Hay" at the World's Industrial and Cotton C'euten nlal Maposltion. The iiiHiiaaement has given the use of the Music Hall (or that putnose, and has desig nated Amlt ?tlt and n as the days for hold lug the proposed Convention. Those days m id be given to discussion as to what mens tires are neceeearj' to reinstate this work of river Improvement: Ute President ef the United matea'UHd members ef hisCablnet. members ef the United States Senate, and Jlouee of Representatives, iloverners of Htstcs. and Mayors ef elttes, are respectfully ivnit t be present and iHtrthMpate la this

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HEIRESS TO MILLIONS, nHeeeMfut Issue ef Gelunel .IneqtuH MIaieMlaMehalf wrthe Clnlm r the Wife 1 IeaeiNt Hthwh tea SltMMM,tHHf iHtVrest tone Kngllsk Kstete Vry tloert I'ur the CUent and Very tloed Pep th Culenid. Buffalo, X. V March 11. The wife oi Deacon Slduey 8, ttrown, of Ikgdad, near Gowanda, y nag been sekuow edged by tke Court of Queen's lkneh as su heiress to the Uwreiwe Townky t. Ute In KngkHd, valued at 100,000,000, about 40,000,000 of which U belkved to be her due. Before the .opening oi the present century Lord Townley owned a flue ostate lu Kuglaml, and was the parent of a wilful but comely lass named May, who, despite her father's protest, became engaged to one John Lawrence, a .man ef good family, but of uo considerable wealth. Palllug to conciliate the lady's father, Urn young people came to America and were married at Sprlngheld, Mass. During much of the latter colonial period communication was but little carried oa between the mother country and America, and the fattier and daughter never became reconciled. Lord Townley dtod, and the family lu England became extinct. For over fifty

years the estate was In the hands of the Vila InU anllmItlne ...UK M t-l aad might have remained so up to the present time but for the late war. In I860, James Jacques was a Meth odist D. D., located lu Illinois, but. when the war broke out In the following year he left bis peaceful pursuit of the ministry and enlisted as a private. Promotion soon followed for bravery, ho being the Individual who, naaided, arranged the meeting between. President Lincoln aad Jefferson Davis, by .ueans of which he hoped for a set tle uentof the difficulties. it the close of the war Colonel Jacnues weut to Springfield, Mass., to engage la. ue ministry, ana while there accidentally ran across the record of the marriage of John Lawrence and .Mary Townley. Being aware oi the estate In England awaiting claimants, Colonel Jacques set about hunting up the heirs. Ills investigation brought him to Gowanda, where he Informed Mr. Brown that his wife, who was a daughter of the late Judge Wllders, ot bpringnelu, was a direct descendant of Mary Lawrence, ami therefore one ot the heirs of the vast estate. Mr. Brown executed bonds on the es tate, raised sufficient money to prosecute the claim, and sent Colonel Jacques to Europe, whither he went after declining th tHisitlon ot Secretary ol the Treas ury niider the late President Garfield . Soon alter his arrival in England the Cou.i of Queeu's Bench decided tlmt the claims of the American heirs was valid, and since tlmt time Colonel Jacques ha-t been engaged In complying with the technicalities of the English law. Mr. Brown has received a letter from Colonel Jacques stating that he has given, two members of ttie Hous.c of Lords an Interest lu the estate, tor which they are to procure an act directing tlrti transfer of the proceeds of the estate to the Treas ury ot the United States. Colonel Jacques. Is to recover one-third of the estate for his labors: Sylvester Cowles, D.D. of Itandolph, purchased bonds ontheostate, and Is said to be very anxious tolive uutil tlte final settlement, when he expects ai&O.OOO. He Is now over eighty years old, and wants to round off a use ful career by endowing Hamilton College, from which he graduated, with $10,000 1, also pkcing 940,000 to the credit of a negro college In Tennessee. He was one'. of the original aati-stavcry agitators, and takes a deep interest in the colored race. THE GRAIN RESERVE. FlgHrrs Collated Prom the Department of AarlcHltHre Kepnrts Shaw Ing the Amount'.' mt Wheat anil Cumin Sight and .Still to. the Itanits ofthe l'reiluecrs. Washington, 1). C, March 11. The report r f consumption and distribution of cora mid wheat, from statistical returns of the Department of Agriculturefor March, shows that 37 1-2 per cent, of the last crop of corn remains In farmers' hands, against 83 per cent, on the 1st of March, 1881. The supply In fanners'' hands last March Was 512.000,000 bushels; the supply now Is about C7,000,000. The stock lu the .Middle States k ,000,000 against U2.000.000 last March. Ia the Is the same as South the proportion last year 41 fl-10 per quantity is 14,500,00018,000,000. The procent. But the bushels against portion In the West ofi 7-1 O lastoad of SO 7-10 per cent., and the quantity amounts to if 0,000,000 bushels, or 141,000,000 bushels more than the stock of last March. Two years ago the slock remaining was e87.0OO.0O0 bushels, or M -10 er cent of a crop of 1,17,00,000. The amount shlpimd Is a few millions less than last year. The exports equal, 28,000,000 bushels against US, 000.000at the same date in 1884, and the commercial receipts at Western markets are also less, the full Eastcm crop reducing: slightly the demand, notwithstanding the reduction In price. The proportion of merchantable corn Isvery large, 87 per cent., against an average of 80 for a period ot years and 60 for last year. The wheat reported In farmers' hnuds Is about X2 per cent, of the crop of lCy,000,ti00 bushels, or 80,000,000 bushels more than the stock ot last March. when the crop was less by 82,000,009 bushels. There has been a slightly freer use ot wheat for bread and a little ot the poorer quality lias been fed to stock. The stocK oi March 1st, isss, was 28 5-10 percent, ot the previous crop, or U'i,-, 000,000 bushels; and that of March 1st,, 18SSf, was M.000,000 bushels, The qua!-' ity is reported above an average in every Western State except Illinois and MissoHri, and In nearly all the Atlantic and