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¥~ THE OLD WORLD. ™~ THE head of the banking-house of Rothschild & Co., of London, Baron Lionel Nathan De Rothschild, died on the 3d. « - A PARris dispatch of the 3d announces a murderous outbreak in Algeria. A BerLIN dispateh of the 3d says a barricade had been lately erected in the streets of St. Pétersburg, neat Peterhof Palace; but the authorities had managed to destroy it before any considerable number of insurgents could occupy it. e A STEAMER left Malta, by way of the Buez Canal, on the 3d, for Behring’s Straits, in quest of the steamer Vega, containing the Swedish Arctic Exploring Expedition. - OFFICIAL reports from Cashmere, published on the 4th, say it was impossible to exaggerate the distress caused by the famine there. Thousands had already lost their lives for lack of food. : ; SPECIAL dispatches from Cape Town, receivied on the 4th, report thg collapse of Lord Chelmsford’s transport and commissariat service. : o THE Porte objects to the new Roumelian thséry because it is exclusively Christian. 2 Y

- THE project for holding ah international regatta on Liake Geneya, £vitzerland, has been abandoned for this year. . . | TROUBLE has arisen between Germany and Egypt over the treatment by the | tatter of her creditors, many of whom are of the former nationality. "It is feared that seriQus consequences may ensue. A BerLIN dispatch of the sth announces the arrival of Dr. Andrew D. White, the new United States Minister. . e 7 THE Prime- Minister of the King of Burmah telegraphed to the London press on the sth that the }'epgrts of disorder at Mandalay were altogether false. No fresh levies of troops bad been made, and the Ministry were endeavoring to strengthen a- good under‘standing with friendly powers, and' cultivate peaceful relations with others. b THE Australian and European Bank of Melbourne suspended on the 6th. The liabilities to depositors are placed at $2§500,.000, and its outstanding notes at. $150.000.l A FErrARr (Italy) dispatch of the Bth says several thousands of people had ‘been rendered homeless by the overflow of | the River Po. {0 Tue workmen in the Swedish lumber ports have struck for higher wages. It was estimated on the 6th that 10,000 men were idle. : . A LONDON telegram of’the 7th says divers had recovered the bodies of three men from the cabin of the steamer Pemersnia, sunk by collision oft Folkestone on the 25th 'of November, 1878. ’ Gl "ALEX SOLOUVIEFF, who recently attempted the assassination of the Czar, was on the 7th tried, found guilty and sentenced to be hung, and was hung the next day. - BorLivia has authorized privateers sailing under” her flag to seize Chilian/merchandise, even in neutral ships and not contraband of war. d : ; 1 THE London holders of Louisiana State bonds sent by dable, on the 9th, a strong protest to the Governor against any attempt of the State Coustitutional Canvention, now sitting in New Orleans, to arbitrarily reduce ‘the State debt as arranged under the act of January, 1874. - i Ax eminent Londen veterinary sur.geon has written a letteridenouncing the im- | portation of American pigs, because they° are usually affected with trichinosis. , . ,A St. PETERSBURG dispatch of the 9th says a number of _se'cret gunpowder factories, operated by %’ilrilists, had been discovered at Towie, in Si cria. | s . Forry thousand camels belonging to the British transp’brt service died during the Afghan war. : o THE ' French Chamber of Deputies has authorized the Government to prosecute Paul de Cassagnac for words used during debate. i ' THE Orange Free State Assembly has adopted resolutions ekprqssihg hopes for “the restoration of the independence of Trans--yaal. 3 g

THE NEW WORLD. THE Maine Greenback State Convention was held on the 3d. Joseph H. Smith, of Oldtown, was unanimously nominated for Governor, and resolutions were adopted—reaffirming the platform of 1878, and expréssing pride and satisfaction at its indorsement by the people at the September election; favor-: ing the unlimited coinage of gold and silver, to be supplemented by full legal-tender paper money sufficient to carry on the business: of the country; the substitution of greenbacks for National Bank notes; etc., etc. { A JOINT caucuscof the Democratic members of both houses of Congress was held on the afternoorn of the Bd, and a programme previously agreed upon by the Caucus Comrnittees was adopted. The plan decided upon provides fop the introduction/in the Houseé of the Army Appropriation bill, | divested of the political amendments on which the President’s veto was based, but containing a proviso ‘that no money appropriated by the act shall . be paid for the ‘expense or compeasation of any part of the army to be used a 8 police force to keep peace at the polls at any election held within any State; the Legislative and - Executive Appropriation bill to be introduced without any political clauses, but the Judicial appropriations to be provided , for in a separate measure, in whizh no provision is to be, made for the compensation of Supervisors or Deputy-Marshals of Elections, and which will contain, substantially in the same §éms; - those sectionls of the vetped bill ‘which pro- + vided for amendments respecting the method of drawing juries, and for the repeal of the Juror’s Test-oath; it is. also pfl)flde«? that no portion' of the money appropriated fn}Ms act shall be used as compengation or to defray e expenses of any person employed i the statute authorizing the appointment of ~ Buperyisors ‘and “Deputy-Marshals ‘of ' Elections, and that no officer of the Government shall makeany contract or incur any liability before a sutficient sum to meet such contract or liability shall bave been appropriated by Congress. SR A ~* Tar lowa Prohibitionists have called a State Convention to meet at Des Moines on the 4th of July, to nominate a State ticket. ~ _Proressor J. A. Nass, the lowa

Greenback nominee for Superintendent of Public Instruction, has declined the nomination. AT the General @Gouncil of the Reformed Episcopal Church, in session in Chicazo on.the Bd, Rev. A. 8. Richardson, who was recently elected Bishop of the branch of the Church in Gredt Britain, was confirmed in his office by a vote of filty-two to twentyfive—those in the negative favoring a postponement for a year, : | THE next session of the General Council of! the Reformed Episcopal Church will be held in the City of New York. ~ A REMARKABLY close conjunction between the planets Mars -and SBaturn will take place on the last day of June, the distance being, at their nearest approach, only the sixtieth part of a degree. : & JaMEs ORTON WOODRUFF, the projector of ‘the ‘ Woodruff; Scientific Expedition,” which collapsed a few weeks ago, died at New York on the 4th, of brain fever.

THE Secretary of the Treasury gave notice on the 4th that the ten-dollar refunding certificates would be recefved at the Treasury Department in exchange for ‘the four per cent. Government bonds on an after the 9th inst., but that they must be furnished for exchange without expense to the United States. ;

TrE Ohio Greenback State Convention met in Columbus on the 4th, and placed in nomination the following ticket for State officers:’ Governor, General A. Saunders Piatt; Lieutenant Governor, Hugo Preyor; Auditor. Andrew Ray; Treasurer, Charles Jenkins; Supreme Judge, A. M. Jackson; At-torney-General, James: C. Crogan; Member of BeaY¥d of Public Works, George W. Platt. The platform demands the issue, by the Government, of an. ample volume of legal-tender currency; opposes the issue of intcrest-bear-ing bonds; insists upon the abolition of the National banking system; favors a protective tariff, and doing away with internal-revenue taxes, substituting for the latter a graduated income tax; demands the ealling in for payment of all bonds; ete., ete. :

THE Ohio Democratic State Convention was held at Columbus on the 4th. Samuel F. Hunt, of Cincinnati, was chosen permanent Chairman. Thomas Ewing was nominated for Governor; A. V. Rice, for Lieuten-ant-Governor; Arthony Howells, for Treasurer; Charles Reemelin, for Auditaor; W. J. Gilmore, for Judge of Supreme Court; Isaiah Pillars,' for Attorney-General, and Patrick O’Marah, ‘forr Member of Board of Public Works. The platform adopted demands free and fair elections, and to that end denounces all interference with elections by the military power; declares that the Election laws of Congress interfere with State elections, under pretense of regulating the manner of Congressional ~ elections, and that the same are unconstitutional, and ouzht to be repealed; denounces the Republican minority in Congress for refusing to vote supplies for the maintenance of the Government unless the majority would agree to the use of troops at the polls, ete., and condemus the President for his unprecedented use of «the veto power in order to perpetuate the objectionable laws aforesaid ;)declares that not a dollar should be appropriated by Congress to pay soldiers, Marshals, Deputy-Marshals, or Supervisors of Elections, to-interfere with or control elections; reaflitms the financial principles heretofore advocdated by the Democratic party of Ohio; etc., ete. -

THE Workingmen’s party of California held their State Convention at San Francisco on the 3d and 4th. Dennis Kearney was chosen permanert President. The platform adopted repudiates communism and agrarianism; advocates the enforcément of the letter and spirit of the new State Constitution; demands the restoration to pre-emp-tion and sale of forfeited railroad lands; advocates the election of President and VicePresident and Senators of the United States by a direct vote ot the people, and no second term for President and Vice-President. A resolution was also adopted condemning the President for his veto of the anti-Chinese bill.

THE Supreme Court of lowa has decided that the law prohibiting the sale of beer and wine within two miles of any municipality where such sale. has been prohibited by a vote of the people, or within two miles of any voting-place at any election, is constitutional and valid. : | o

. GovErNOR CurLoM, of Illinois, has vetoed a bill passed by the late Legislature making illegal the payment of wages in storeorders or goods, instead of cash, on the ground that it is opposed to public policy. - AT Rohrersville, Md., on the 4th, L. 8. Miller, aged fifteen, shot and kilied Charles Norris, about the same age. Miller had been teased by the boys, who called him nicknames. He procured & musket, loaded it, followed his tormentors and shot Norris, who died instantly. : | THE German Catholic Convention in session at Newark, N. J., on the sth, voted to meet in St. Louis next year. i Tee New Hampshire Legislature was duly organized on the 4th. - ' Post & Co.’s manufactory of railroad supplies and electrical apparatus, fio(:_ated in Cincinnati, burned on the sth, involving a loss variously estimated at from $lOO,OOO to $150,000. In the afterpart of the day, while a number of meh were. overhauling the debris, the roof near the elevator fell in, and a section of the five floors under it, about twentytwo by twenty-five feet, fell into the cellar. A dozen men were at work under the falling mass and were borne to the basement. . Of these five were killed, and the others more or less injurdd. n e

ATt the Workingmen’s State Convention, held /in San Francisco, Cal., on the sth, Dennis Kearney was re-elected permanent President of the party. The following State ticket was placed in nomination: Governor, William F. White; Lieutenant-Governor, 'W. R. Andrews; SBecretary of State, A. A. Smith; Treasurer, Charles Krug; Comptroller, Hugh Jones; Attorney-Gendral, C. W. Cross; Sur-veyor-General, H. P. SBtevenson; Superintendent of Public Instruction, H. D. Trout; 9hlef Justice, R. F. Morrison. | Tue United States Senate Finance ‘Committee took up the Warner SBilver bill on the 6th, and then decided to postpone further action on the same until December next. ‘TLose voting to postpone were Messrs. Ferry, Allison, Bayard and Kernan; against: postponement wereé Messrs. Voorhees, Beck and Jones. . i b ¢

- NEws was received from Fort Belknap on the 6th that 800 lodges of Sitting Bull’s Indians were reported to have crossed over from Canada. Up to that time no acts of hostility had been reported. :

REv. SAMUEL HARRIs, of St. James’ Church, Chicago, was chosen Episcopal Bishop of Michigan on the 6th, to succeed Bishop McCoskry, deposed. di S . Tax iron manufacturers of Pittsburgh, Pa., signed the scale of prices demanded by the puddlers on. the 7th, and declared the lockout ended. -

JUDGE BLATCHFORD, of the New York D strict Court, has given a pro forma decision overrulins the plaintiff’s demurer to defendaut’s amended answer in the suit o test the, v.l.dity of the re-issue of legal tender noteg, and %:smissed the complaint in order that'au appeal may be taken to|the United States Supreme Court. : - THE five persons- indictjd in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois were, by a jury, declared not gu lty, on the 7th, of fraud in the coustruction of the Custom-House .at Chlia.go. The trial lasted twenty-eight days. 4

‘ON the afternoon of the 7th, as two messengers from the Illinois Central Railroad office were going to a Chicago bank to "deposit their day’s aceumulation of money, they were met by a couple of thieves, who threw pepper in their eyes, seized their packages and made good their escape. The thieves secured about $lO,OOO. o

As Mgs. HONORA LAcY was driving from Wilmington, Del., to her home in Chester County, Pa., a few evenings ago, the contents of the carriage—cotton and straw—were ignited .by a match, and in an instant the whole interior of the vehicle was in a blaze. The horse became frightened and ran away, and, before it was stopped, Mrs. Lacy was literally roasted alive.

THE lowa Supreme Court has decided that the person who gives a note, which is afterward ‘‘raised’” and sold to innocent purchasers, is only liable to pay the sum named in the original contract before:it had been tampered with. G

TaE poisoned-brook horror at Island Pond, Vt., has assumed another phase. Medical men now declare that the children died from diphtheria, superinduced by the pools of stagnant water under and about the schoolhouse, and correspondents who have visited the scene of'the tragedy report a condition of affairs that seems to Harmonize with this theory. :

EpwARD PARR who, on the 6th of May, murdered his daughter, Mrs. Susan Irwin, was tried for murder, in Philadelphia, on the Bth, and found to be guilty and sentenced to be hung. Parr told his counsel that he was entirely satisfied with the verdict, and expressed a hope that he, might be hung on the followiny day. :

THE highwaymen who ¢ peppered”’ the messengers of the Illinois Central Railway Compauny, in Chicago on the 7th, were arrested on the 9th, and about $2,000 of the money recovered. There were several concerned in the job, who took no active part in it, and these have also beer locked up. The colored man who served as one of the messengers is believed to have been ‘‘in” with the ‘thieves, and is in custody. - L

A SAVANNAH (Ga.) dispatch of the 9th reports a terrible riot at Mclntosb, a sta. tion on the Atlantic & Gulf Railroad, between a party of colored excursionists from Bryan County and colored people belonging at MeIntosh. It began in:a fight between two negroes, whereupon the Captain of a negro militia company from Bryan County, a part of the excursionistg, ordered his company to charge, which they did, bayoneting everybody within reach. The Captain himself killed cne man by running him threugh with his sword. The Libesty County negroes rallied and drove the military company into the cars, ‘and openéd fire on them, killing four and wounding several others, only stopping the shooting when the cars got out.of reach. All the parties engaged were negroes. :

THE lower house of Congress passed, on the 9th, the Legislative and Executive Appropriation bill as reported from the Commit-: tee on Appropriations, by avote of 188 yeas to 21 nays. All political lezislation had been detached from the bill. All the votes against it were from the Democrats who opposed its passage upon the ground that an important Appropriation bill should not pass under a suspension of the rules. T

CONGRESSIONAL. ‘ SENATE.—House bills were passed, on the Bd, extending the time for the payment of pre-emptors on public landsin Minnesota and Dakota, and establishing post-routes. House.—The bill amending the statutes relative to the removal of causes from State to Federal Courts was further debated, Mr. Cox making a lengthy argument in favor of the repeal of the jurors’ testoath. : SENATE.—On the 4th, Mr. Bayard, from the Judiciary Committee, reported, with an amendment, the Senate bill repéaling Sections 820 and 821 of the Revised Statutes (which prescribe the Jurors’ Test-oath, etc.)....A resolution, offered by Mr. Voorhees, was adopted. directing the Secretary of War to inform the Senate of the circumstances leading to the arrest and removal of J. M, Bell and other Cherokee Indians from the Cherokee Nation....A bill was Buaegi to amend the act in relation to Judieial istricts in Texas. b

House.—The Senate amendments to the Grasshopper bill (extending the time of payment by pre-emptors) were agreed t0....A resolution was adopted—l2B to 64—directing an investigation into the affairs of the Ocean National Bank of New York and the German National Bank of Chicago, and es%ecimly into the management of |their assets by the respective Receivers....A preamble and resolution were agreed to relative to the report of the Committee on Expenditures in the State Department in the last: Cox(ifresa in connection with the charge against George F. Beward. Minister to China, referring such report, the articles of impeachment, etc., to the Judiciary Committee, with instructions to consider the same, take other testimony if ngcessa.r%. and report to the House at the next session....The Senate amendments to the PostRoute bill were concurred in. -

SENATE.—The House join resolution appropriating money to enable the United States Government to participate in the International Exhibitions to be held atSydney and Melbourne, Australia, in 1879-80, was adopted on the 6th..., The bill relating to the repeal of Sections 820 and 821 of the Revised- Statutes (prescribing the Juror’s Test-oath) was taken up and debated, geveral amendments. being offered and rejected. The committee’s amendment (being a substitute for the original bill) was then agreed to, and a motion to recommit the bill was lost. . ]

Housg.—The Legislative bill asagreed upon by the Democratic Caucus Committee, was reported, ordered printed and recommitted....A message was received from the President, and ordered printed, with accompanying documents, trans_mxtnmé the proceedings and_report of the Board of Officers in the case of Fitz-John Porter, The President states in his message that he had given to the report such an_examination as satistied him that he ought tgmllay the proceedings and conclusions of; the board before (onfress. as he was without tglowet. in the absence of egislation, to act ug:n e recommendation of the report further than by submitting the same to Congress. ‘

SENATE.—On the 6th, Mr. Coke ‘asked Mr. Bayard, Chairman of the Finance Committee, what action had been taken on the Warner Silver bill: he (Ooke) had #:‘demtood that the committee had agreed to cxfi»ne its further consademt\ol:l unti]l Decembér. Mr. Bayard did not feel anthorized to say what had taken place in the commictee; he would only say that no member had been instructed to report on the bill. Mr. Coke then offered a resolntion, which was objeeted to and went over, to discharge the committee from the further consideration of the bill, and to declare the bill - before the Benate for action....The bill to repeal the Jurors’ Test-oath statutes came up and was debated at considerabiz length by Meéssrs. Edmunds, Thurman, etc.. after which a motion by Mr. Bayard to recommit the bill was lost—ls to 27— and the bill was then passed—2B to 16—a strict party vote.... Adjourned to the 9th.

House.—The Army Appropriation bill was reported, ordered printed and recomfmitted. It provides that no money appropri-

ated shall be .paid for the subsistence, equipment, transportation, or compensation of sny portion of the army to be used as aem_ce fgxoe to keep peace at the polls at any ion held within any State... .'Bhe bill mnkmf):dquunl appropriations for the Postoffice partment was debated in Committee of the Whole. ; SENATE.—Not in session on the 7th, "House.—-A joint resolution was passed legalizing the action of the President and Secretary of War in sending rations and tents to the yellow-fever sufferers....The bill making additional appropriations for the Postoffice DeW.rtment was amended in Committee of the hole, reported to the House, and passed as a.u}ended in committee. SENATE.—A bill was introduced on the 9th and placed on the calendar to confinue the special pension of one hundred dollars per month to the late General Shields to his widow until her death.... Mr. Coke's resolution to discharge the Finance Committee from the further consideration of the Warner Silver bill, and to declare the bill before the Senate, was brought up and postponed until the 10th ...The McDonn.&. bill authorizing the employment of the militia and land and naval forces of the United States in certain cases was taken up, and Mr. Harris masde a speech in support of tge measure.

r v . House.—The Legislative Appropriation bill reported and recommitted on the 6th was reported back from the Committee on Appropriations, Mr, Atkins, Chairman of the committee, stating that the report was & unanimous one, and that the bill differed in very few respects from the onereported and recommended a few days before. A motion tosuspend the rulesand pass the bill prevailed—yeas, 168; nafi's, 21. The negative votes were: Cahill, Caldwell, Clark (Mo.), Cox, Dunn, Elam, Finley, Frost, Gunter. Henkle, Hurd, Knott, Manning, McMillan, Nicholls, Robertson {(La.), Slemons, Smith (N. J.). ’l‘ur'ner (0.), Whitthorne and Wilson ...The bill making appropriations for the Judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1880, was reported, ordered printed and recommitted. ... Messrs, New, House, Ryan. McKinley and Williams (Wis.) were appointed a Sub-Committee to examine into the articles of impeachment against George F.Beward, United States Minister to China.

: SPOFFORD vs. KELLOGG. The United States Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections began, on the bth, the examination of witnesses in the SpoffordKellogg contest. J. J. Johnson (colored), who had made an affidavit that Kellogg paid him and others $2OO for their vote,-was examined big Mr. Merrick, Spofford’s counsel, and completely retracted his statements made in his affidavit. Upon cross-examgmnpn, witness testified that a man named Ward persuaded him to sign the affidavit; inducement, big promise of work in t‘be_Cu(sLtom-House. No other witnesses were examine ;

On the 6th, the counsel for contestant offered in evidence the affidavit of Joseph J. Johmson to impeach the credibility of Johnson's oral denials of the truth of its contents, and also to lay the foundation for proof that this witness since making the affidavit, had been sutg’qctqdfp the influences of seductive benefits and intimidations. Mr. Shellabarger, of the counsel for Kellogg, objected, and the committee requested counsel to submit the legal authorities upon which they relied. 2o Thomas Murray, a colored Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Hepresentatives of the Packard Legislature, testified that Colonel Souer occupied a room next to his, and Governor Kellogg on a number of occasions directed witness to conduct members of the Legislature to Souer's office, which witness did. Witness said those who came before the election of Senator were hard up, and when they came they generally went to the Governor for a little money. Some of the men he took up to Souer’s office told him they went to see when their warrants would be ready; others, to get money. Witness had seen some men have as high as two hundred dollars, which they said they had got for voting for Kellogg,.but they were colored men, and he did not rely on everything they said. He had heard ienqmlly around the office that members of' the egislature had got money; fouror five had told him of+ it; and showed’ him aportion of it; he could not tell how many of them had told him of having received money without ghowing it to him. His office was headquarters where they all came, and some of them slept there. The men who showed him the money were Bonny Bims, of St. James; McGloire, of Avoyelles Parish; Josenh J. Johnson, of DeSoto Parish. The lalter did not tell him, but Robert Johnson, did. .These were all that he recoliected. The talk among them was that the price was $2OO. Abouttwenty members of the Legislature that elected Kellogg were now employed in the New Orleans CustomHouse. Had seen = Colonel ;| Souer pay money to two persons. Witness said he knew Thomas, of Bossier, a member of the Legislature whom the records - showed to be present at the Joint Convention. He knew that he was at home sick with the small-pox, and could not be present. Witness then made a statement that a colored man named Wzg:son, a member. had told him that it was he who had voted in Thomas’ name that day, and hethad got his *‘ sugar for it, too. Thomas was now dead, Thomas was a little taller than Watson, aud a little darker in color. Witness introduced Watson to Cavanac, Spofford’s counsel, but he told Cavanac that in his opinion. Watson was:* a dirty scouudrg]. Watson had since got into the New Orleans Cus-tom-House, and witness thought that was Watson’s game, : : .

- On the 7th, William John De Lacy, a mulatto, was the first witness, and swore that bull-dozing existed in Louisiana in Rapides Parish, and that he himself had to run away from the Parish to escape the White Camelias and other organizations, and flee to:New Orleans to meet the L;fxslature. tosave his own hife. He had received information of the operations of the bull-dozing bands from a white relative who gave him (De_ Lacy) early news,and the hint that he should hide in the cane-brake. De Lacy also swore that the Packard Legislature was broken down by the use of monefiéund that $40,000 were advanced to the Nicholls Government by Charles P. Howard, President of the Louisiana State Lottery Company, and that large sums of money were spent in the interest of Spofford to secure a guorum in the Nicholls Legislature and destroy the Legislature of Packard. In the Joint Convention for the election of Senator witness said he had voted blank, because he was in favor of Pinchback, but afterward changed to Kellogg. He denied that Ke)lo;g paid him money to so change, and said that Smith, who was afterward a member of Qongress and Collector of the Port of New Orleans, did not, before he voted, throw an envelope upon his desk and tell him that it contained money. An affidavit was shown to %lm in which it was stated that Smith did so give him ‘money, but hedenied that the signature was his, or that he signed any such affidavit. Thomas Murray had itold witness that, if Kellogg were successful, he (witness) would be provided for and get §2 500. Witness swore that Thomas (gvhom a previous witness had said was ill with the sn;alla)ox. and that he was personated in the Joint Convention by another colored man) was present in the Convention, and voted as the record showed ; he himself slept with him the night before the Oonve;\%on, and knew he did not have the small-pox.’ He (Thomas) died three months after. Witnesagave the names of several members whom he knew had received mone%' for voting for Spofford. h'mself being one of them. The money was in the hands of ‘the Democratic Senator Demas, of ;Bt. John’s, ‘who distribauted from $15,000 to $20,000. There were twelve Regnbhcan members ‘who refused to vote for Spofford. § ! Charles Cavanao testified that he was interested in precuring testimonv for Sgofiord. Del Lacy, the previous witness, came to him and offered to make an affidavit, cpargmg bribery on Kellogg and his friends. Witness had had the affidavit pr?ued. and DQLM;K went before a magistrate and swore to the truth of it and atfixed his signature. The document presented to committee wus the affidavit DeLacy :iigned. ; : Thomas Murray testified that DeLacy had told him that he had made ana.fiida.lgfi and read from a memorandum book what he sworn to. He asked how much money there was in it. Witness said he himself told DeLacy that he expected to make $2,600 out of it. :

—-As some lady visitors were goirg through a Penitentiary under the escort of the Superintendent; they came to a room in which three women were sewing. ‘‘Dear me!” one of the visitors whispered, ‘‘what vicious-looking creatures! Pray, what are they here for?”’ < Because they have no other home; this is our sitting-room, and they are my wife and two daughters,’’ blandly answered the Superintendent.

.—A dp:zint;er’s apprentice’ fell off a scaffold with a pot of paint in each hand. He was takenup insensible, but as soon as restored to éonsciousness he murmured, ‘I 'went down with flying colors, anyhow.”’ 5l i

—A cynical old bachelor says women are so full of their own secrets that it is absolutely impossible for them to keep the secrets of others.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. . A CLERK recently brought suit against a druggist named Miller, living in Independence, for the amount of his traveling expenses to and from Ashtabula, O. The clerk advertised for: a situation, which yas answered by Miller, who telegraphed the young man te come on. It seems that no definite arrangements had been made between them as to salary, but after being in Miller’s employ two aveeks he was discharged. The clerk brought suit for the amount of hig traveling expenses, and judgment whs rendered in his tayor for $36.50. i

Mrs. WirLLiAMS, of Richmond, an old lady of seventy years, was fatally burned while reinforcing the ' kitcen stove with coal oil, the other day. Her'son was badly burned in attempting to rescue her. : b AT Logansport, on the Ist, John Wessenburg went to his boarding-house at noon, and shortly after his landlady, going to his room to call him to dinner, found him lying dead on the floor. ; o 3

Bam IngrAM, late clerk of Clark County, now a resident of Dennison, Tex., hasbecome dangerously insane. A FEW days azo, at a negro dance on a farm in Kentucky opposite Mount Vernon, two negroes, George Payne, of Mount Vernon, and Jim Scott, of Kentucky, quarreled over Scott’s sending his wife home. His authority was resisted by the woman, and Payne supported her. In the fight *which followed, Payne drew a revolver and instantly killed Scott, and then made his escape. He has since been hanging about Mount Vernon, his home, and'on the 31st ult., a mob of about twenty negroes came over from Kentucky to arrest him. He fled to Blim Island, on the Ohio River, several miles below M(gmt Vernon, where he was brought to bay and shot to death by his pursuers, his body being literally riddled with bullets.. ‘ .

Dr. C. 8. McCLURE, late clérk in the Southern Prison, has been appointed Assistant Surgeon at the Louisville Eye and Ear Infirmary. ; . : O. F. BAKER, brother-in-law of W. C. Tarkington, formerly Secretary of the Board of State-House Commissioners, was in Indianapolis on the 3d, preparing to institute suit against Edwin May, the State-House architect, to rezover the value of two " notes a[r Jeged by him to have been given him by May for services in keeping him posted’ in rezard to the action of the Commissioners, when considering the plans for the mnew Capitol. May denies all knowledge of the notes, and says that, during the State-House investigation last winter, Baker swore that he had never received such notes. Baker now says “that he swore he never received them before the contract was awarded- May. The suit is liable to lead to racy developments. )

THe second trial of Louis Guetig, for the murder of Mary MecGlew, at the Spencer House, in Indiandpolis, on the 18th of last August began in Indianapolis, on the 3d. ON the 3d, Governor Williams issued a proclamation announcing the publication and circulation of the acts of the late Legislature. They became laws at four p. m. May 31, the time ‘that they were received by the last county..

THE credentials of Judge Charles W. War ren, of Maine, as Temperance Lecturer, under the auspices of the Btate Christian Temperance Union, have been “withdrawn for cause, it is said., . ,

MARrY P. SNYDER, an elderly lady, crazed ‘by religious excitement, endeavored to throw hergelf under a train at the Union Depot in Indianapolis on the evening of the 4th, declaring that God would take gare of her. She was rescued by the police, but fought desperately, declaring herself to be the chosen prophet of God. ' Lae AT Indianapolis some months ago an’dgent of the Singer Sewing-Machine Company attempted to remove a machine from the house of Margaret Piper, in default of payment of rent. Force was used, and in the scuffle the leg of a .three-year old child was broken. Mre. Piper brought suit for 31,000 against thé company, and on the 4th, in the Superior Court, recovered from a jury a verdict for $B,OOO. :

Evisar WasHINGTON, fourteen years old, riding on a gravel train on the Evansville & Terre Haiite Road, on-the morning of the 4th, fell under the wheels of the car and had both legs cut off, from the effects-of which he will die. He has made a declaration that he was pushed off by the brakeman of the train, and his parents will enter suit for damages. Rurus JouNsoN, of the firm of Johnson & Meloy, millers of Scottsburg, attempted suicide, the other day. During the absence gf his wife in Washingten County, he took% large dose of strychnine and was discovered in great agony. He refused all assistance ‘and antidotés, but was finally induced to inhale chloroform under the assurance that it would kill him quick. While insensible antidotes were successfully administered, and he was likely to recover at last accounts. THE other day, while. John C. Devans, a farmer who lives south: of Shelbyville, was plowing, the plow struck a root, causing a sudden check, forcing the handle into his abdomen and causing his bowels to protrude. " Pmiurp BusH, aged nineteen, was thrown from a mule on the sth, in Johnson Townghip, Knox County, and dragged. to death. ErNEST MoRRIS has given the Indiana State Museum several fragments of ancient ceramic art brought by him from 2,000 miles above the mouth of the Amazon. ' ‘

Tag floor of a barn at Logansport was rg moved, the other day, aad’ under it 248 rats were found and killed. : A wmysTERIOUS murder. came to light at Newburgh, on the morning of the 6th. William J. Pruitt, aged forty-five, a well-known man of that place, who had been' drinking hard for several days, was found in front .of an old warehouse on the river bluff, with a buillet-hole through his mouth and chin, dead. GOVERNOR WILLIAMS has appointed as delegates to the National Convention of the Board of Trade Hon. L. A. Roche and R. (. J. Pendleton, of Indianapolis, and Robert Mitchell, of Princeton. ; TaE latest reports. from Indianapolis give ‘the following as current prices for leading staples: Flour, Family and Fancy, $4.00@ 6.00; Wheat, No. 2 Red, [email protected]; Corn, 8614@83634c; Oats, 33@35c; Rye, 52@54:; Pork, - [email protected]; Lard — Steam, 6X@ Xc; Hogs, [email protected]. ; i

A Cautious Boarder. CaARLES THOMPSON, Secretary to the first American Congress, was noted for his caution. It may be due in part to this trait—one of no mean importance in those stormy days—that he held the offica, through successive appointments, during fifteen years. An anecdote exhibits his caution and prudence. When & young man, he boarded with a school-teacher and his wife, bath noted for their slanderous tonglly:&s. For some good cause Thompson wished for a new boarding-house, but he dreaded to leave the teacher’s family,

fearing lest his chhracter might suffer from Exeir backbiting. He, however, hit upon an ingenious expedient to prevent them from slandering him. One evening he gravely inquired if his conduct as a boarder had been satisfactory to them. ¢ Entirely so,” replied both husband and wife. .~ - - * Would you be willimg to give me a certificate to that effect?’ he asked. ‘¢ Oh, certainly!’ and they wrote one then and there. B : The next day Thompson nioved to another house. = Thanks to his caution, he parted in peace from his hosts, and they never disturbed it.— Youth's Com~ panion. Ml do

The Late Gen. Shields., Gen. James Shields, the old veteran. of two wars, died suddenly- at Ottumw~a, lowa, on -Sunday' evening last, where he had been visiting [re%at’ives while engaged in the duties of his lecture course. . The news of his death will carry sadness with it throughout the entire country, which had come to regard the brave old ‘soldier with feel--ings of kindly admiration and respect.. _Gen. Shields was born. in County Tyrone, Ireland, in 1810, and emi-. grated to the United States-in 1827, set--tling in Jllinois about the year 1830. Prior to the outbreak of the Mexican. War he held several offices, although he was not naturatized ' until 1840. %n 1834 he was sent to the Legislature from Randolph County, subseguently was appointed Auditor by Gov. Carlin, and in 1843 was elected a Supreme Judge. He was next appointed Commissioner of the General Land-Office by President Polk, and, when the Mexicun War broke out, by favor of the President he entered the- service as a Brigadier-General, and made for him--self a record of soldierly skill and courage that has rarely been surpassed by any Ameriean soldier. -At Cerro Gordo: he was shot through -and through and Teported as killed, but he ?ecov-' ered 'in time to take a distinguished part .in the closing events of the war under Gen. Scott, and was the recipient of a sword from the State of South Carelina. On his return to Illinois, in 1849, he,was elected to the United States Senate, but, only having been naturalized in 1840, the time required to muke him eligible had not expired, and his seat -was declared vacant. As soon as he became eligible, however, he was again elected, and served until his'term expired. ~ He subsequently made Minnesota his home, and in 1857 was elected to the Senate from that State, agxd,served two year's During the War of the Rebellion he was given a commission in the Union Ariny, and served with great. galiantry in the Department of West Vir- | ginia until he | was again severe1y wounded. Meanwhile his old ‘ wounds broke out afresh. He became deaf and almost lost his eyesight. The combination of physical ailments compelled him to resign. ‘After the war he moved to Missouri, which has since been his home. With the évents of his life during the past few years—his election to fill the brief remainder of Senator Bogy’s term in the Senate, and his brilliant success as a lecturer—the ‘pub--lic is already familiar. e B ~ln his death the country loses one of | the most gallant and brilliant seldiers on her roils; an officer who will always ‘be held in grateful remembrance for his distinguished public service; a gentleman of the highest dignity and most ' spotless character; a scholar of excellent culture; and a man of those genial and humane characteristics which appealed not only to his.own countrymen but to the whole public.— Chicago T'ridune, June 3.. . g

—Dressy little kerchiefs of pink or white crepe lisse are trimmed with Breton insertion and edging, and are used for caps, for ecravat bows, or.as a pocket-handkerchief. Others, of muslin embroidered i 1 colors; have ‘the center caught up in a puff, and-held by a cluster of flowers. This may be used either on the head or at the throat.—Harper's Bazar. : Sl

—Now is the season of theyear when the man who sees the sign, ¢ Fresh Paint,”” will walk up to the door, leave the marks of his dirty fingers on it and go awag muttering to himself, ¢ That’s so.”’—Hackensack Republican. "

—Always help those: who are able to help themselves. Lightning can reach the earth without any assistance, and fiet ~men put up lightning rods for ightning to slide down on.—XN. 0. Pica~ yune. ; AR e

‘ THE MARKETS. “ NEW YORK, June 10,1879: LIVE STOCK—Cattle....... $7 50 @slo 00 ° Sheep (e1ipped).......... 300 @ 500 80g5..., vtk 36000 BKO - FLOUR—Good to Choice.... 895 @ 450 WHEAT—No. 2 Chicago.... 105 @ 1 06% CORN—Western Mixed....... 43 @= 44 OATS—Western Mixed...... 37@ - 40 RYE—Western.........icc.ee ~ 64%@ 6 P0RK—Me55...............5s 900 @ 10 00 LARD—Steam.... ............ 6 3275@ 635 CHEESE . .40 0. 52 iiingie | U3ts@ 0. ° WOOL—Domestic Fleece.... 3L @ 40 - ; CHICAGO. : iy BEEVES—Extra.......io:i.. $4 00 @ $5 10 - Choite. .. i v vivansvave. 8D @4 8O Goodis. il aniiiial s 495 450 Medium.:, ... ..06. 5000898 @ 416> . Butchers® Stock.i.:i v 225 '@ 820 Block:Cattle, ....oli il 7 295 -@. 3'25 HOGS—Live—Good toChoice 3650 @ 370 SHEEP—Common to Choice 2 76° @ -5 00 'BUTTER—anc?' Creamery.. 1S @ = 170 Good to'Choice.... ......i . 12" @ 14 EGGS—Fresh.......:... % ... PY%@ 10 FLOUR—Choice Winters.:,. -5 50 @ - 4 50. Fairto Good d 0........... 400 @ .4 50 Fair to Good Springs...i. B 756 @ 425 PV, o L it i 6008 -8 00 GRAlN—Wheat, No. 2 BSpr'g 103 1 08% VoaCom, No. B g o BBNE 367% 0at5,N0.2...»......'.....;fl. 84@ 84 o Rye, Noß.evanvinnails (BR%@ | B 3 : 8at1ez,N0.2........._.'... B+ @ 866 BROOM CORN—GreenHurl. 05 @ = 05% Red-Tipped Hur1....«.... .04 % 04 Fine Green o ... 500 do4@ 05 Choice Carpet Brush..... 05 @ 05%: Crookett. /i coiidiiiaii 02 @ 03 PORK—MeEBß..oivees vunesihs 9 d;% 985 LUMBERZisi o 0 34 Gioar. 3000°G 300 Wlv—lBl and 2d Clear. S 0 'oo° @ <4 O Third Cledr. . ... v voe 2;88 28 00 .+ Clear Dressed Biding..... 1500 @ 15 50 Ocmmon.Sld:l;g...;,..‘.v. . 1180 @l3 50 gomxglon‘lio sgfig %88()0 EHOBIE: oo o i shicniany 5@ 10 00+ Lohg B geeeeeee e SR @) B ~ A 5hing1e5..........e.0iu 230 @ 1225 ST B,AL'I_‘IM(H;'&E‘S e " CA H—Best.....i..nvi $E @B5 50 : %lam 3§B 4338 HOGSB—-Good. ....ne. cveeieee 450 @ 500 SHEEP—GOOd . .ociiiinassvi |3 : 4.25. {iad - . EAST LIBERTY, . CATTLE—8egt.............. $4 80 @ $5 00 ; Medium.,.i...,..fi.....,._. 80 4R HOGS—Yorkers.... 5i.......” - 30 885 ._Philadelphias........ .... 870 .fa_z;; SHEEP—Best.....cvvs vovee g‘oo @ 425 Lomon. (i 3 ,00 ',3.“5_ i