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*'NEWS SUMMARY . : , " —,_.-_—— 4 - Important Intelligence from All Parta ; Congressional. A BILL was introduced in the Senate on the 14th, by Mr. Wallace, to define the amount ~and manner of the purchase of public loans to be made by the Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. Voorhees submitted a resolution instructing the Committee on Pensions to ref)ort a bill authorizing pensions to surviving seldiers and 4sailors of the Mexican'war. The Consular and Digloms.tlc Approgriation bill- was amended andpassed....ln the House Mr. Hutchins in‘troduced a bill to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy. The, Indian Approprlatinn Bill was considered in Committee of the Whole. BILLS granting pensions to a number «of persons were passed in the Senate on the 15th, and the Geneva Award bill was further - «discussed. ... Bills were passed in the House—providing a construction fund for the Navy, :and to equip an expedition to the Arctic seas. The Indian Ap%x;opriation bill was debated in Committee of the Whole, and an evening session was held for the congideration of bills reported from the bom mittee on Naval Affairs, several of vyhich were passed. ; THE Geneva Award bill was further debated in the Senate on the 16th. Adjourned to the 19th....1n the House Mr. Cox, Chairman of the Committee of Foreign Affairs, reported a resolution requesting .the President to take steps to abrogate the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. The Senate bill to remove the political disabilities of Roger A. Pryor was passed, as was also the hill for the relief of settlers on public lands, providing that, when a pre-emption, homestead or timber-culture claimant has filed a written relinquishment of his claim in the logal land office, the land: covered by such claim shall.be open to entry without further notice on the part of the Commissioner of the Public Land Office. The Indian Appropriation bill was further considered in Committee of the Whole, : 4 THE Senate was not in session on the 17th. ... A bill was passed in the House providing for the re-apportionment of the members of the Legislatures of the Territories of Montana, Idabho and Wyoming. A resolution was adopted for an investigation into the facts relating to the reception by Mr. Springer of an anonymous ‘letter concerning the case of Donnelly vs. Washburne, The Indian Appropriation bill was taken ‘up in Committee of the Whole, and an amendment, offered by Mr. Hooker, to transfer the Indian Bureau to the War Department was ruled out of order, and the bill was then reported to the House, as amended in committee. Nearly all the amendments were agreed to—the vote on the one abolishing the Indian Commission being 103 yeas to 65 nays—and the bill as amended wus passed. It appropriates-$4,570,000, the Department estimates being $4,992,843.

: Domestie. | EXTENSIVE forest fires were prevailing in New Jersey on the 14th. A district of dense pine forest and cedar swamp, fifty miles long and ten miles wide, had been burned over, and the: fires were still raging. Thousands of game and other birds and many cattle had been suffocated. The smoke was s 0 dense that the sun‘had not been seen for two days. The district burned over was sparsely populated. . A MAN and woman who arrived at Baltimore a few days ago, with 1,500 other immigrants, have been sent "to the small-pox hospital in that city.: Itis feared that germs of the disease may, have been disseminated among their companions, who left immediately for the West. : i A seEvEßEshock ot earthquake wasex-. perienced at San Francisco on the 14th. Buildings rocked, but no serious damage is reported. ON the 14th a Warren (Va.) woman, who interfered when her husband was punishing their son, was thrown by the infuriated father from a ladder on which she was standing and instantly killed. Y A BILL to suppress stock :gambling has been defeated in the California Legislature. | G A NEW York telegram of the 14th says the butter merchants of that. city were seeking an alliance with the dairymen of the country, that Congressmen may be influenced to enact laws to prevent the adulteration of buttér and to regulate the sale of oleomargarine. ;

DanNieL MiLLER and Charles Frazer were digging a well near Gordonsville, Pa., a few days ago. Miller descended, and, not being heard from, Frazer went down to ascertain the cause of the trouble, and was speedily overcome -by gas before assistance arrived. Both are dead. : By an explosion of gas at the works of the New York Gas-Light Company on the afternoon of the 14th ' three men were seriously burned, one fatally. v WHILE some men were raising a bridge in Newmill, N, J., the other day, the steel and iron works of the beam fell, killing William Obendenfer and Lewis Powell. Two' ExcLisH merchants, who arrived in New York on the 14th, blew out the gas when they retired at their hotel at night. They were found insengible next morning, and one was said to be likely to die. GENERAL SCHOFIELD stated on the 15th, that the public had got a wrong impression that the investigation then in progress at West Point in thé Whittaker case was the first. The fact was that, upon the presumption that the guilty parties were in the corps of cadets, the Commandant pfthe corps had used all his powers in a thorough and exhaustive investigation, and then sent his report of failure to ferret out perpetrators to the SBuperintendent. General Schofield then ordered a Court of Inquiry to investigate the imputation cast upon Whittaker. A wealthy citizen of New York had offered $l,OOO reward for the detection and conviction of the persons who assaulted Whittaker.. THREE men were fatally burned at the Pennsylvania - Steel-Works, Harrisburg, on the 15th, by the- overturning of a ladle containing from six to seven tons of molten steel. Seven other men were seriously, but it was thought not fatally, injured at the same time. v s A FEW days ago William Chambers, of New Egyrt, N. J.,-drank a solution of corrosive sublimate, supposing it was something else. He died on the 15th. - . ’ EpNA SOUTHWARD, eight years old, hasidied at Cleveland, Ohio, from congestion of the brain, caused by excessive jumping of the rope. : S THE Secretary of the United States Treasury received from New York onthe 16th a paekage containing $l,OOO and marked “Ineome Tax". It was placed in. the eonscience fund. W PresipENT HAYES has affirmed the _sentences of courts-martial dismissing two young Lieutenants, one for getting drunk in full uniform and falling asleep on a billiard-table, axq,th‘e other for cowardice in the field in Oregon. : ) REeceNT forest fires have done very serious damage in BSussex, Chesterfield, Din- - widdie and Prince George Counties, Virginia, and two or three persons were burned to death. Millions of dotlars’ worth of property

bas been destroyed by the fires in New Jersey. o : : REePORTS that there‘have bega cases of yellow-fever at Memphis durirg the present year have been pronounced absolutely un‘sue by Dr. Thorntom, President of the Board of Health in that city. : STRIKING employes of the Hudson cotton factory dt St. Paul, Minn., overpowered a small detachment of police on the 16th, and dispersed a number of women and girls who wished to resume their places in the mill. ; LADD & Davis, extensive dry-goods dealers of Providence, R. 1., failed on the 26th, owing to alkeged disastrous eutside speculations by the senior partner. ' A FURIOUS snow-siorm was raging in the far West for several days preceding the 16th. The Central Pacific Railroad was tlockaded between Emigrant Gap and Cisco, and several trains had been ditched in endeavoring to force a passage. On the 16th a heavy snow-storm also prevailed in Northern Wisconsin. A CHEYENNE (W. T.) telegram of the 16th says that tive desperadoes who had recently escaped from the Wyoming Penitentiary were robbing stages and holding up mail-carriers on the road to Fort Fetterman. © O’LEARY has oftered to match Hart .amd Dobler for $lO,OOO or $20,000 against any two English pedestrians. : GENERAL SCHOTrIELD, Commander at West Point, testified before the Board of Inquiry on the 17th. He explained his connection with the Whittaker case, and stated in | conclusion that his own investigations had convinced him of the innocence not only of Whittaker but of the cadet corps. A Boy fourieen years of age has been sentenced by a Pittsburgh Judge to ten years’ imprisonment for the murder of a companion not older than himself. TWwELVE white men and an equal number or more of Chinamen ‘were killed on the evening of the 16th by the explosion of about three tons of giant powder in a powder mill near San Franecisco. Several buildings were destroyed, and the bodies of some of the human victims could not be found.

THE value of exports from this country of provisions and tallow for March, 1880, was $12,487,512; March, 1879, $11,056,174 ; nine months ending March 31, 1880, $82,741,275; the same period in 1879, $85,469,500. A svALL lumber schooner on Lake Michigan was struck by a wind squall a few days ago, and her Captain was washed overboard, leaving a sailor as the sole occupant of the frail craft. For four days he drifted around at the mercy of wind and wave, without sleep, and for forty-eight hours was lashed to the mast. Finally exhausted nature yielded, and he slept in that perilous position for twelve hours, when he was rescued by a passing vessel. , SOME time ago a man obtained the numbers of some United States bonds held by an acquaintance, and to raise money on them concocted a story to the effect that the original owner;was dead; that vrevious to his death he gave the bonds to a brother; who embarked for Europe on a vessel which went down with all on board. This story the man related to the Treasury officers in Waghington, where he appeared with letters of administration, and the bonds were duplicated, re-issued and at once redeemed. Now the original - bonds have been presented for redemption, and investization shows the presumed administrator to be an impostor, the signatures on his papers forgeries, and that the bonds had never been on shipboard, having been held by an old. gentleman who did not need the money; hence he refrained from presenting them for redemption. The bonds, it is said, will have to be redeemed again, and the Treasury Department is in doubt if a special appropriation will be needed. SEVERAL speculators.in New York and London have got up a corner on opium. Of the 4,000 cases in the world, it is estimated that the ring has about 3,000 in its possession. The speculators bagan to purchase at $4.50 per pound, and the present price in London is $6.50. < :

Personal and Political. A BURLINGTON (Vt.) telegram of the 14th states that while Senator Edmunds is not a candidate for the Presidency in the sense of being a seeker for the office, he would accept the trust from a sense of duty if nominated and elected. - Tue lowa State Republican Convention met in Des Moines on the 14th. The delegates selected were instructed for Blaine. In Missouri a Republican State Convention was held and delegatesselected. After slight opposition the latter were ins‘ructed for Grant. The Kentucky State Republican Convention also met and selected an instructed third-term - delegation.. A resolution pledg‘ing the members of the party to support the 'nominee at Chicago was violently opposed, but finally prevailed. - Rev. DR. SAMUkL Oscoop, formerly a Unitarian clergyman, but who, on his return from Europe in 1870, entered the Protestant Episcopal Church, since which time he has been engaged chiefly in literary and educational work, died at his home in New York on the 14th, aged sixty-eight years. > A ‘caLL has been issued for a State Prohibition Convention to meet in Springfield, 111., on the Ist of June. o REv. WiLLiaM B. Orvis, a Philadelphia Congregational minister, was expelled from the Philadelphia Association on the 14th, because of his connection with the Philadelphia University of Medicine and Surgery, which is charged with selling bogus medical diplomas. TaE California Democratic State Convention has been called to meet at Oakland on the 19th of May. i ACKLEN, member of Congress from Louisiana, failed to receive a re-nomination at the hands of his District Convention on the 14th. § : THE Ways and Means Committee of the National House of Representatives took a vote on the 15th on the proposition to reduce the duty on chrome iron, which resulted in a tie. Tt was then decided to refer all matters relating to the tariff then pending to a sub-committee, with instructions to report, by bill or otherwise, on the 22d. . . , THE Massachusetts Republican State Convention met at Worcester on the 15th and seleeted delegates to the Chicago Convention favoring the nomination of Edmunds, with Sherman as second choice. : APPROPRIATE services were held at the Lincoln monument, in Springfield, 111., on the morning of the 15th, the fifteenth anniversary of President Lincoln’s death. A few of his letters and speeches were read, and Governor Cullom made a speech. Tue Vermont Greenbackers wiil hold ‘their Btate Convention at Montpelier on the THE Maine Democrats will meet in Convention at Bangor June 1, to nominate Btate officers and select delegates to the Cincinnati Convention. . 5 oo e

. JUDGE FREELON., of the San Francisco Superfor Court, rendered a decision on the 17th, confirming the judgment of the lower court in the case of Denis Kearner Kearney’s counsel announced that they would apply to the Supreme Court for a writ of habeas corpus as the only resort left to them, but some time would necessarily elapse before any action could be:taken on the application. The Superior Court ordered a commitment forthwith, which would land Kearney in the House of Correction directly, but it was rumored that, anticipating the decision, and pending application for a habeas corpus, he had absented himeelf from the city.

. Foreign. ' A Moscow telegram of the 14th says China had refused to ratify the treaty of Kuldja, because it left the mountain passes in the hands of Russia. ' A BREMEN telegram of the 14th says that 2,000 Swedes had left that port this spring for the United States. AN Alexandria telegram of the 14th says that Egypt had decided to occupy.the Red Sea coast to the entrance of the Arabian Gulf. . : | THE New Market handicap was won by Lorillard’s Wallenstein on the 14th. , OTERO, the man who attempted the assassination of King Alfonso, of Bpain, on the evening of the 30th of December last, was executed on the 14th. : : ROBERT LAURE, ex-Mayor of Chatham, Ont., died recently from burns caused by the explosion of a coal-oil lamp. v A VESSEL loaded with arms and ammunition for the Chilians took fire while lying in the River Elbe, near Humburg, the other day, and was scuttled to prevent an explosion. THE British Parliamentary elections, except to fill vacancies, closed on the 14th, and show a clear Liberal majority of about sixty in the House of Commons. i LETTERS received by the Dublin (Ireland) Mansion House Relief Committee on the 15th showed that the distress throughout Ireland was increasini. i THE bar-rooms in FKredericktown, N. 8., have been closed in consequence of the recent decision of the Supreme Court of Canada sustaining the constitutionality of the Temperance law. : A CaPE TowN (South Africa) telegram of the 16th announces the arrival of the ex-Empress Eugenie. A Carro (Egypt) dispatch of the 16th says the Jesuits had oftered the Khedive of Egypt $BOO,OOO for the Military Academy in thay city, with a view to make that their resting place ‘when expelled from France and continental Europe. ; Dr. Epwarp V. H. KENEALY, well known as the counsel of the Tichborne claimant in England, is dead. THE steamer Vega, with Prof. Nordenskjold on board, reached Copenhagen on the 16th. - She was received with great enthusiasm. ; - : ; THE port of Callao in Peru is blockaded by a Chilian fleet, and the inbabitants of that city and Lima are fleeing into the interior. : THE spotted typhus fever has made its appearance at St. Petersburg. THE Spanish journals of the 18th publish a confession by Otero, thelately executed would-be regicide, in which he claims that he was the agent of a secret organization whose object was the assassination of the King and his Ministers. _ A St. PETERSBURG dispatch of the 17th says over 20,000 prisoners awaited transportation to Siberia in different parts of the Empire. ; - THE Spanish Cortes has decided to fix the strength of the permanent army in Cuba at forty thousand men. A CORRESPONDENT at Constantinople reports a terrible fimine at Mosul, Turkish Koordistan. Four thousand inhabitants fled to Bagdad, and hundreds died on the road. THE Duke of Edinburgh has consented to take charge of the cargo of the Constellation intended for distribution in the west of Ireland. .

LATER NEWS, AN Edinburgh (Scotland) dispatch of the 19th says portions of the wrecked Tay bridg{e which had been recovered showed that the train went off the track before the bridge fell. : A WEST POoINT dispg:ch of the 19th says that some time ago €ach of the cadets at West Point was required to write. certain words used in the letter of warning which was sent to Whittaker. These papers were signed, but General Schofield cut off the names, numbering each piece, and handed the specimens of penmanship to Superintendent Gayler, of the New York Post-office, an expert, for examination. He returned them on the 19th, expressing the opinion that the author of No. 8§ should be looked after. General Schofield refused for the prese&t to divulge the name of the suspected party. : THE severe wind-storm on the night of the 18th extended, with more or less violence, from Kansas and Nebraska across Missouri and Illinois and north into Wisconsin. The damage done in all these States was very great. The village of Marshfield, in Webster County, Mo., was almost entirely demolished by the storm. Following the crash of the hurricane, and before the wounded could be taken from the ruins, a fire was started which intensified the horrors of the situation. Many of the wrecked houses in which the dead and injured were tightly wedged were destroyed. The loss of life was enormous, the latest estimates on the 19th placing it at etghty-seven. Nearly all the survivors were wounded, some of them seriously. In ther}es River valley, in the same vicinity, about fifteen persons were killed. A COLORED woman who served in the army for three years, wore men’s clothing and sbuldered a musket like the others, has applied for a pension. DENNIS KEARNEY was locked up in the fan Francisco House of Correction on the 19th, in accordance with the terms of phis recent sentence. ' : TrE Western File-Works at Beaver, Pa., were burned to the ground on the 19th. Loss $410,000. The fire originated from a spark_from a neighboring manufactory. A BILL was passed in the United States Senate on the 19th providing that, whenever the United States Circuit and District Courts hold sessions at the same time and place, one grand and petit jury will suffice for both courts. Messrs. Carpenter and Blaine made speeches on the Geneva Award bill. A large number of bills were introduced and referred in the House. The Senate bill providing for celebrating the one-hundredth anniversa'y of the treaty of peac€ and recognition of American indeKep%ence by holding an International Exibition of arts, manufactures and products of the soil and mines, in New York City in 18@38l was amended and passed— 43 to 56, A motion to take up the bill providing pensions to soldiers and sailors ,of the Mexican and other wars was detea.ted—-ua to 7flf-_-not;f?§e necessary two-thirds in the affirmative.

- INDIANA STATE NEWS. As A result of the Constitutional amendment changing the date °of elections from October to November, the following judgeshfpg and county offices will need to be filled at the election in the fall of the present year, in consequence of the term of the present occupants expiring on or before the date of the next election in 1882, which would be November 7: ° ' Superior Court Judges.—Daniel W. Howe, Indianapolis; John A. Holinan, Indianapolis; Henry C. Fox, Richmond; Azro Dyer, Evansville; John é Nelson, Logansport; Robert Lowrey, Fort Wayne. Circuit Judges.—John B. Handy, Boonville; John 8. Davis, New Albany; John G. Berkshire, Osgood; Newton Mallott, Vincennes; Robert L. Polk, Newcastle; Thomas ¥. David--Bon, Covington; David P. Vinton, Lafayette; Daniel Noyes, Laporte; Hiram Tousley, Angola; Henry Hanna, Brookville; John H. Gould, Delphi; Sidney Keith, Rochester. Criminal Jud%es.—.l ames E. Heller, Indianapolis; Thomas B. Long, Fort Wayne. C(mnt% Clerks —M. V. B. Spencer, Allen; Simon F. Coates, Benton; Warren Tebbs, Dearborn; Thomas H. Daily, Elkhart; Nelson J. Barnard, Fayette; John B. Mitchell, Floyd; William Newcomb, Fulton; James S. Epperson, Gibson; John H. Zahn, Grant; John F. Slinkard, Greene; EPhraim Marsh, Hancock ; Dani%Bacon, Jennings: J. L. Henrfi. Madison: D. M. Ransdell, Marion; H. C. Hodges, Morgan;J. R. Simpson, Orvange; M. D. Bridges, Putnam; J. T. Chute, Tippecanoe; Andrew. Petzner, T(i]pton; J. M. Taylor, Washington; William J. Craig, Wells. Auditors—Martin E. Argo, Allen; J. P. A. Leonard, Blackford; Robert E. Carson, Cass; James T. Casteel, Clay; Newton J. Gaskell, Clinton; Albert Robbins, Dekalb; William H. Murray, Delaware; Lewis Haines, Fountain; William L. Town, Martin; R. B. RunJyan. Miami; -J. B. Connolly, Parke; ohn W. Minor, Perry; William E. Brown, Porter; F. H. Falvey, Pulaski: G. N. Edgar, Randolph; Peter S. Dykins, Scott; Arch E. Smiall, lipton; Thomas Cushman, Vermilllon; W. H. H. Butler, Whitley. - Recorders.—Elijah Stroud, Crawford; James L. Streeter, Delaware; John G. keoning, Dearborn; Charles Swartzel, Floyd; Murpby’Lewis, Fountain; James M. Keys, Gibson; James K. Fisher, Hamilton; N. H. Roberts, Hancock; John A. Osborn, Harrison; Jesse Wagner, Jefferson; W. M. Campbell, Jennings: J. B. Roberts, Kosciusko; A. C. Davis, Madison; John L. Place, Marshall; E. M. Smelser, Martin; Robert Gilman, Monroe; W.J. White, Parke; J. N. Fordyce, Sullivan. Coroner.—Henry C. Garnett, Hancock. Surveyor.—John V. Conger, Hancock. A TRAMP went into a stable belonging to Mrs. McDuffy, of Shelbyville, on the night of the 10th to sleep. Being drunk and smoking he set the barn on fire and was almost burned to death before he could be got out. THEY are poastin‘g in Lafayette that they have a citizen named Matthew Robinson who is 130 years old. DURING a heavy wind on the 10th Conductor Frank M. Shultz, of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway, was blown from his train, mear Rolling Prairie, and badly hurt, breaking several ribs and otherwise injuring him. e FrUIT-GROWERS in Central Indiana claim that the recent cold snap Kkilled the peaches in that section.

THOMAS STANSIFER, a stock dealer, of Waldron, Bhelby County, was fatally gored by a bull the other evening. : ; A BOY named Garrison fell into a vat at the distillery near Shelbyville a few evenings ago, and was fatally scalded. WHILE George Lloyd was sawing headings at Ryerson’s saw-mill, near Warsaw, on the night of the 10th, a piece flew from the saw, striking him on the head, hadly fracturing ‘his skull, and injuring him S 0 badly that his recovery is very doubtful. ENGINEERS have begun the re-survey of the Jeffersonville, Madison & Indianapolis Railroad. The survey is made for the purpose of reducing the curvatures, raising and lowering the grades, to improve and put the road in first-class condition, and will occupy about eight months’ time to complete the work. , : : Ebaar Swmith, aged twenty-three, son of James Smith, of Camden, was run over by the east-bound freight train on the Panhandle, three-quarters of a mile west of Red Key, the other night, mutilating his body, and causing instant death. GEN. MorToN C. HUNTER has formally withdrawn his name from the list of candidates for the Governorship. DipHTHERIA has been raging among the female patients at the Insane Hospital, two cases of which have proved fatal. "Hexry NEwBY, of Greenfield, who has just passed his eightie'h winter, after marrying all the marriageable widows in his own county, went down into Rushville, the other day, and married Mrs. Sioble Beckner, of Arlington. Mr. Newby has been married seven times. o THE widow of the late Gen. Jefferson C. Davis has arranged for the immediate transfer of his remains . from Clark County to Crown H 11 Cemetery, Indianapolis, to oceupy.a lnt in the vicinity of Morton’s, and to have a guitable monument. ! F. C. JouNsoON, of New Albany, having béen ap ointed census Supervisor of the Second District, has resigned as Trustee of the Deaf and Dumb Asylam. : JaMES AUSTIN, of Logansport, got. up during the night of ‘the 12th to drink a cup of coffee. In the darkness he made a mistake and drank from a can containing a solution of Paris green. Austin died. ANincendiary fire destroyed Richard Nixon’s barn near Kokomo on the night of the 12th, entailing a loss of about $3,000. A quantity of human bones was found among the ashes ' THREE children of Dan Eulaw, living three miles north of Hagerstown, are dangerously ill from the effects of the bite of a dog that was said to be mad. One of the children ate a piece of meat that the dog had had in his mouth. ‘ : GEN. MANSON, State Auditor, refuses to be a candidate for the Democratic Gubernatorial nomination.:

On the 12th Mrs. George Paul, mother of Mrs. Julia Merrick, for whose murder her husband was executed last year, was fatally burned at her residence, twenty miles north of Indianapolis. She was insane, and had to be strapped to a chair. A sudden openiag 6f the door swept the blankets in which she was wrapped against the grate, setting fire to them. Before she was discovered the flames had done their horrid work. She .screamed out in the agony of her pain, but her cries. were not heeded, the 'family imagining they were nothing but hier usual insane ravings. "THE hardware store of J. S. Coleman at Morgantown, and three adjoining buildings were burned on the 12th. Loss, $15,000. Tue Indianapolis grain quotations are: Wheat, No. 2 Red, [email protected]; Corn, 35L5@ 86c; Oate, 8254(@33%6c, The Cincinnati quotations are: Wheat, No. 2 Red, [email protected]; Corn, 4015@4034c¢; O 8, 85 86¢; Rye, 80@ °ol4c; Barley. F‘xtra Fall, 92@92%c. ————————— — SETH GREEN believes that many farmers have fortunes in frog ponds without knowin% it. He says?:fiat a little carc and cultivation wiil ¢nsure a large crop of frogs—enough far family use and market. o de g —_————e——————— A mAN who has tried it says vermin gives cedar a wide berth; and a hedge of white cedar or arbor-vite near the hennery is a sure protection fgr poultry against all insects. ; e @ - GuiNEA‘FOWLS will keep all bugs and insects of every description qff garden vines." They will not scratchlike other fowls or harm the most delicdte plants.

An Eviction in Ireland---A Catholic : Priest’s Story. i Before I left Dublin boß:lttend the ini dignation meeti at Ballybrophy, I regél a letter frolg a Roma); (g).tly;olic riest in a neighboring coudty, Cavan. ft was dated Egebruary 19. However sad may be the stories I may have to tell of famine in the West, I cannot believe that there will be any greater illustration to depict man’s cruelty to man.“In the midst of cries of distress around me,’” writes the Rev. Joseph Flood, the parish priest, ‘in the Cavan portion of my parish, while Protestants and Catholics here, .as elsewhere, are struggling to keep together the body and soul of the victims of this year’s visitation, I was hurried off to the Meade portion, no less distressed, to witness a scene —the first in my life—a heartless eviction of five whole families, thirty souls in all, of ages varying from eighty to two years. ~ <At 12 o’clock to-day, in the midst of a drizzling rain, when every man's lips are busy discussing how relief can be carried on to this home and that, an imposing spectacle presented itself through a quiet part of the Parish of King’s Court: a carriage containing Mr. Hussey, Jr., son of the agent of the estate of Lord Gormonstone. Behind and before the carriage came about a dozen of outside cars, with a resident Magistrate, an Inspector of the Police, about forty of Her Majesty’s force, the Sheriff, and some dozen of as rapacious-looking drivers and grippers as ever I laid my eyes upon. : ‘“There was a dead silence at the halt before the first doomed door. That silence was broken by myself addressing the agent, craving to let the poor people in again after the vindication of the law, when, to my disgust, but not to my dismay, one of the crowd is observed by me taking notes.” | - ~ ~«The" Sheriff formally asks: <Have you the rent?’ _ ; ¢ The trembling answer is: ¢My God! bhow could I have the whole rent—and such a rent, on such a soil, in such a year as this? ‘ : - “*¢Get out! is the word, and right heartily the grippers set to work. On the dung-hill is flung the scanty furniture, bed and bedding; a search is made for pig or goat, and forthwiththey share the fate of the evicted master; the door is nailed, and the imposing army marches on to the next holding, tillevery house has been visited and every seul set forth. : :

¢ At this moment there is a downpour of rain on that miserable furniture, on that poor bed and bedding; and an old man, whose generations have passed their simple lives in that house, is sitting on a stove outside, with his head buried in his hands, thinking of the eightythree years gone by. And are these tenants to blame? No! It is on the records of this parish that thiiy were about the most simple-minded, hardworking, honest and virtuous. Theironly guilt is this, that an ‘agreement’ with my Lord Gormanstone, some five years ago, disfranchising them of any claim under the Land act, and-involving an intolerable rise of rent, together with the common misfortunes of the country these few years past, and this in particular, has left them unable to pay the entire rent of this year. Yes, the entire rent—the half, the nine-tenths o:f;.\the rent would not be accepted. Priests joined the poor tenantry in petitioning again and again. No answer was %}VCH but ¢ Have you the whole rent? Have you the law expenses? If not, out you o‘7 ke 2 - ¢ ® Hundreds of such cases occur in Ireland. They explain the apparently vins dictive feeling of the peasantry and their leaders, like Mr. Parnell, for example, and Mr. Davitt, to the landlords as a class. The two classes are hostile at every point, and the existing famine has intensified their mutual antagonism.— James Redpath, in N. Y. Tribune. ;

Rival of the Keely Motor. New York is threatened with another motor which is destined ¢to revolutionize trade and commerce’’ and many other wonderful things. It has this advantage over its Philadelphia predecessor that there is nothing mysterious about it, there remains nothing to be patented, and any one may see all there is in it. Two Pittsburgh inventors, who.in 1878 worked out successfully an old idea, which has been tried for a hundred ye#rs. have taken a warehouse at Rutgers and Cherry streets, where they yesterday exhibited what they call the ‘ mammoth motor.”” It consists. of a boiler and high-pressure engine, Such as are ordinarily used for steam, except that they are of greater strength,: with a condenser and a small iron tank, the latter containing a mixture of crude petroleum and bi-sul-phide of carbon. The vapor of bi-sul-phide of carbon has long been experimented with as a motive power, but its great strength prevented it from being successfully used because of the difficulty in controlling it. - Its admixture with petroleum, it is claimed, has obviated the latter difficulty, and the inventors of the proeess say the experiments seem to conform the statement that while the power can be increased or diminished almostinstantaneously, an asgsured pressure 100 per cent. greater than that of steam can be obtained at a nominal cost. . - .

The inventors are Mr. Edgar Smith and Mr. J. R. Millig#m, who have taken out patents in this country, England, Germany, France, Austria, Italy, Holland, Belgium, Spain, Australia and Canada. The control of the Americanh patent will, it is understood, pass into the hands of a New York company, the ‘head of which is Mr. Henry F. Hamill, of the Delamater Iron Works. The patentees are Pittsburg machinists, who had been carrying on their experiments in that city unsuccessfully for several years, when, in 1878, they succeeded in controlling the enormeus power which had previously been developed from the vapor by other experimenters, and took out their patents. S The petroleum used in lubricating oil of 600 degrees fire test, and water is mixed with it and with the bi-sulphide of carbon. * The great economy results from tha fact that the latter, which is extremely cheap, can be used over and over again, vaporizing at extremely low temperatures, so that little fire;is needed, and the water in the boiler need only be kept at any point above 160 de%re’es." This can be done by a light or stdck fire. The ‘Vam instead” of being blown off, passes a condenser, seems in'st)t,n.htly

to resume its first condition, and can be . immediately used over aia,in the same as condensation water is. A single pound of the material, costing ten cents, it is, claimed, can be used for an entire week, making it about as costly as water, while only twenty-five per cent. as much coal will be required in keeping up the boiler | heat as is necessary for steam-engines. Should this prove to be true, the advantage to ocean steamers in the savi;xF . of space and tonnage in carrying coal, as well as the cost of the latter, will be enormous. The cost of the small quantity of coal-oil used -is represented as. practically nothing.—N. Y. Graphic.

- - -Ancient Nineveh. : - Chief Justic Daly, of New York, in his annual address before the American Geographical Society on the geographical work of the last two years, made some statements which show that there are not as many novelties in human society at present as we are inclined to imagine—that many appliances and processes which -we commisserate the ancients for_ being deprived of were very familiar to them. For example, additional discoveries in the ruins of Nineveh reveal the fact that the Assyrians were acquainted with the phenomenon of sun spots about ‘which so great modern astronomieal interest centers. But sun spots cannot be discovered without telescopes; ‘‘therefore,” says Judge Daly, ¢‘the Assyrians must have had telescopes to aid them in their study of the heavenly bodies.”” - In fact, Mr. Layard actually found a crystalline Jens in the ruins of the great city. So, then, Gallileo was not the first maker of a telescope. The contémporaries of the prophet Jonah used the' instrument more than 2,000 years before. The writing on the bricks found in the ruins Showefi also that houses'and lands were sold, leased and mortgaged much in the same way as they are now; that money was loaned at interest, and market gardeners ‘“worked on the shares;’ that plowmen while driving their oxen s:u:? songs; two of which have been preserved. These bricks, with cuneiform inscriptions on their smooth surfaces, constituted Assyrian libraries, quite as lasting, it would appear, as the printed books which make up modern libraries. One has been found containing a plain, busi-ness-like notice requesting visitors to give to the librarian the number of the book,-or brick they desired to consult, and he would get it for them. In fact, these imperishable brick' records bring before us almost startling pictures of dailylife in the great Assyrian capital three thousand years ago, and show that life ‘'was not materially diffetent from what is to be seen in one of the great cities of the present day.—St. Lowis Republican. s

‘Electricity---Hypothesis and Theory. Thales, of Miletus, thought that the magnet was endowed with a sort of immaterial spirit, and to possess a species of animation. The Greeks knew also that rubbed. amber attracted bits of straw, and supposed it to be endowed with life. Even Boyle, as late as 1675, imagined it to emit a sort of glutinous effluvium which laid hold of small bodies and pulled them toward the excited body. Du Fay, in.- 1733, conceived the double fluid theory, and Franklin, in 1747, invented the single fluid theory. Cavendish, in 1771, supplied some of the deficieneies of Franklin's: theory, but it was Faraday who first exploded the fluid notion and originated the molecular theory of electricity, while Grove boldly classed electricity with light and heat- as correlated forces and mere modes of motion. Light was thought by the Platonists to be the ¢consequence of something emitted from the eye meeting with certain emanations from- the surface of things, but no theory of light properly so-called was attempted until Newton produced his celebrated corpuscular theory in 1670, which has lasted until the present dayEven as late as 1816 Faraday himself said: ¢¢The conclusion that is now generally received appears to be, that light consists of minute atoms of matter of an octahedral form, possessing polarity, and varyix}xg in size or in velocity.” Although Huyghens in Newtop's own time conceived the undulatory theory, the superior authority of the great English philosopher overshadowed the lesser light, and it was not until Young and Fresnel, at the commencement of this century, took the matter up, that the present theory of light took firm ‘root. Thus we see that all these sciences have passed through the same stages of mystery and farcy, and it is only within the present generation - that they have emergéd from the mythical to the natural, from mere hypothesis to true thegry. Hypothesis is an imaginary explanation of the cause of certain phenomena which remains to be shown probable or to be proved true. Theory is this sapposition when it. has been shown to be highly probable, and all known facts are in agreement with its truth.—A4ddress of Ww. H Preece, m Nature. - .

A Curious French Trial. An incident curiously illustrative of French criminal procedure occurred recently at the assizes in the Department of the Oise. A blacksmith, named Clabaut, was being tried for the murder of a priest; there was no doubt that he had committed the crime, but the medical evidence as to his sanity was very conflicting. The Procurer of the Republic, instead of pressing for a conviction, told the jury that he felt convinced that theprisoner was not responsible for his actions, and called upon them to acquit him. The counsel For-the defense having followed in the same sense, the presi(Ting Judge proceeded to sum up; but, instead of placing the two sides of the case before the jury, he declared that, *‘though the procurer of the Republic had deserted his post, society should not be left defenseless;’’ and he thereupon proceeded to bringh out all the points which told against the prisoner, dwelling upon his bad antecedents, and seeking todiscredit the evidence of the doetors pro--nouncing himinsane. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, with extenuating circumstances, and Clabaut was sentenced to penal seryitude for life. | A —A large garspike was récently canght. in a net ig- afig creck near Aubimy;, Nn.g.i. It is of a peculiar sha&e,,h&vi_ng a long, bony dprobqscisfr something like that of a. sword-fish, It is seldom found in that gart ‘of the country, chiefly inhabiting: outhern lakes and rivers.”