Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 6, Number 42, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 15 January 1885 — Page 2

sappnte tSßifftls §)cb| YYPPANEE. i t INDIAN AtHEWS OF THE VEER BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL. ALVlllth CONGRESS. Second Session. Monday, Jnu. 3.—ln the Senate hills were Introduced to create a ig-veme commission and to amend the "revised statutes relative to tho lease of Indian lands. The Interstate Commerce bill was considered. In the House a motion to suspend the rules and pass the bills to abolish the internal revenue tax on tobacco and fruit liquors and the Mexican pension bill was defeated. Bills were introduced: To increase the number of Judges of-the United States Courts; to provide for the issue of one, two ancf five dollar silver certificates; to grant copyrights to citizens of foreign countries, and to throw open for occupancy the mineral lands situated on the Indian reservations. A motion to fix a day to consider the Senate Bankruptcy bill was lost by 135 yeas to 75 nays —not the necessary two-thirds in tho affirmative. Tuesday, Jan. 6. —In the Senate Mr. Hawley introduced a bill to establish intern ationl copyright. The Oregon Central Land-forfeiture bill passed. In the House a resolution was passed appropriating $30,000 for the support' of destitute Indians in Montana. The Pension bill, appropriating $39,976,000, was debated and passed. Wednesday, Jan. 7. —Ia resolution was passed iff the Senate appropriating SBO,- . 000 to relievo the sufferings of destitute Indians. Mr. Plumb presented a petition from the Oklahoma settlers protesting against their removal from their lands, and praying Congress to withdraw the military forces and organize the Territory of Oklahoma into a State. A long debate on the Inter-Statie Commerce bill followed. In the House a motion to strike from the Inter-State Commerce bill the section prohibiting railroads from charging more for a short than a long haul was voted down. An amendment was adopted giving Federal courts power to issue writs of mandamus compelling railroad companies to forward freightThursday, Jan. S.—The time of the Senate was occupied in a debate upon the bill concerning the fees of pension claim agents and the policy of attaching general legislation to appropriation bills. In the House the Reagan Inter-State' Commerce bill, for the national regulation of railways, was passed by a vote of 110 lto 73. A fourth Naval Appropriation bill was reported by Mr. Randall, calling foif $6,130,155. In the Alabama contested election case the seat was voted to Craig, Republican, who was sworn in. Friday, Jan. 9. —ln the Senate a bill was passed directing that one of the Greely relief vessels be used as a revenue cutter off the coast of Alaska. Mr. Cockrell introduced a bill to make the ' Bounty law apply to the heirs of all colored soldiers lost in the Federal service. Mr. Garland made a speech on inter-State commerce. Adjourned to the 12th. In the House a large number of private bills were placed on the calendar. A resolution was adopted calling upon the President ?or information relating to tho Congo Conference. At the evening session twenty-one pension bills were passed. - ; FROM WASHINGTON. In the United States and Canada the fire losses for the year 1884 are placed at $112,000,000 —more thah $13,000,000 in excess of the anynal average for nine years. The loss during the mouth of December was $11,000,000. The exchanges at twenty-six leading clearing-houses iu the United fftates during the week ended on the 3th aggregated $780,933,3-41, against $029,150,877 the previous week. As compared with the corresponding period of ISB3, the falling off amounts to $230,912,142. Twenty State Governors have offered to co-operate in the American Exposition to be held in Loudon in 1880. The Government paid $0,453,762 for collecting the revenue at ports of entery during the last fiscal year. Sergeant Holtnorth, for rifling the private papers of Lieutenant Greely, has been dismissed from the Signal Service. The arrival of the Electoral vota of Texas at Washington on the 7th completed the list. TtaE wives of tlje Cabinet officers at 'Washington held their first formal reception of the season ou the 7th. Mrs. Chandler and Mrs. Lincoln did n<jt receive. Winter gayeties are now fairly begun at the Capital. The report of the commission sent from Washington to the Central and South American States in the interest of commerce made to the President a few days ago states that there should be regular dire t communication by steam, and re- ■ c : pro< nI concessions in tariff duties. The roc >mmendation is made that ’ the Government establish an Executive Department, similar to the Board of Trade in England, to have the management of our foreign commerce. There were 470 business failures in tho United States and Canada during the seven days ended on the 9th, against 381 the previous seven days. The distribution was as follows: Middle States, 102; New England States, 51; Western, 157; Southern, 119; Pacific States and Territories, 19; Canada, 22. THE EAST. * From the port of New York the exports, exclusive of specie, for the seven days ended on the Oth were $0,393,000. During 1884 the Gloucester (Mass.) fish products were as follows: Cod, 55,846,200 pounds; halibut, 9,029,953 pounds; maekeral, 223,343 barrels: herring, 15,055,000 pounds. Prices ruled low, and the profits were much less than for many years past. The American Iron and Steel Association elected officers recently at Philadelphia, B. F. Jones being chosen President. . The New York Legislature met on the 6th. George Z. Erwin was elected Speaker of the Assembly and Dennis McCarthy was chosen President of the Senate. Governor Cleveland resigned his office, and Lieutenant-Governor Hill was sworn in. An adjournment to January 13 was taken, t The firm of Henry Croskey & Cos., Philadelphia lmnMr merchants, failed • few days ago with $450,000 liabilities. The assets would more than cover this amount, r George Augustus Sara, the English journalist, arrived at New York on the Oth, and will deliver lectures. I Ox the 7th the Sixty-second Legislature of Maine organized at Augusta by the choice of W. D. Pennell, of Lewiston, as President of the Senate, and General Charles Hamlin, of Bangor, as Speaker of the House. The Massachusetts Legislature met at Boston on the 7th and elected Mr. Pillsbury as President of the Senate and J. Q. A. Brackett as Speaker of the House. I W. Edgar Simonds was elected Speaker of the House at the opening of the Connecticut Legislature on the 7th at Hartford. A confession was made a few days ago by Alfred H. Oliver, cashier in the Eastern Railway office at Boston, that he had embezzled $12,900 during the past eleven years. John YXrf.k, a track-walker of the Lehigh Valley Road, was recently attacked by three tramps, near Easton, Pa., who, after brutally beating him stripped s him naked, tied him bend-and-foot, and amused themselves by sticking knives into him. Varek would probably die. Gknerai. Grant announced on the 7th that lie could not accept the proffered fund which Ml", Cyrus W. Field and other gentlemen were collecting to relieve him of

Dcking a quarrel a fsw evenings ago Arnold C. Stacy, of Bath, Me., was shot dead by his wife. Mrs. Stacy said the shooting was accidental. The Connecticut Legislature balloted for State officers on the Bth, electing the Republican nominees of November, headed by Henry B. Harrison for Governor. The inauguration of George D. Robinson as Governor of Massachusetts took place at Boston on the Oth. A fire swept away the wooden mills in Shannock Mills, K. 1., the other night, employing several hundred persons, together with several houses. Loss, SIOO,OOO. An affray occurred in the office of O’Donovau Rossa, in New York, on tho Oth between Captain Thomas P. Phelan, ot Kansas City, and Richard Short, leading Irish Nationalists, Mr. Phelan being fatally injured. t Catherine Van Nkssen, an aged woman, was burned to death at Pittsburgh the other morning by the explosion of an oil-lamp. The firm of Stix Brothers, Kerpan & Cos., of New York, cloak manufacturers, failed recently, with liabilities of SIOO,OOO. At Pottsville, Pa., four boys we e drowned on the Oth by the ire giving away. Among the miners and laborers in the vicinity of Wilktsbarre, Pa., an extensive movement is on foot to organize for the mutual protection of their interests. e T. W. Clark, of Boston, member of a banking firm, was missing ou the Oth, and was supposed to be sojourning across the border. His shortages were placed at $13,000. A passenger train was ditched by wreckers the other night near Bethpage Station, L. 1., the locomotive falling upon and killing the engineer and fireman, but the few passengers on board escaped with a bad shaking. Advices of the'Oth to Hrmtetreet's from leading business centers throughout the United States indicated, in many instances, evidence of an improved feeling in commercial circles. The general situation, however, was considered far from satisfactory, and the industrial outlook was un-. favorable. WEST AND SOUTH. The Legislature of Ohio reassembled in adjourned session at Columbus ou the Oth. In the Senate and House a bill was introduced to abolish October elections. On the Oth the Minnesota Legislature convened at St. Paul. John !>. Gibbs was elected Speaker of the House. On the Oth D. T. Edington, recently elected prosecuting attorney for Leelenaw County, Mich., was discovered to be David E. Swan, the defaulting cashier of the Northern Pacific Road at St. Paul. He was arrested aud taken to the scene of his crime. His shortage is $50,000. Six men were killed by the explosion of the boiler of a tug-boat near Marshfield, Ore., a few days ago. Only the Captain escaped. On theCth John Furim, his wife and two children, and Henry Bradentee and wife, of Youngstown, 0., were suffering from trichina, caused by eating partially cooked pork. The chances for their recovery were slightThe Legislature of Nebraska convened at Lincoln on the Oth. Church Howe was elected President of the Senate and Allen IV. Field Speaker of the House. Ox the Oth the steamer Belle, loaded with passengers and freight for the New Orleans Exposition, sank near Island 60, Ark. Only one passenger, James Moon, of New Albany, Ind., was di owned. Ix the office of Auditor of State Accounts, of Virginia, tho defalcation was on the 7th placed at SIOO,OOO. W. R. Smith, the guilty first clerk, was still in jail. In Ohio there were 27,133 marriages last year, 05,000 births, 1,739 divorces and 24, 804 deaths. John VV. Daniels, of Virginia, has been selected by the Washington Monument Committee to deliver an address in the House of Representatives at the monument dedication ceremonies February 21. On the banks of the river near Dayton, 0., the boilies of three dead infants were found a few days ago, within a short distance of each other. At the present time there are 79,880 Mormons in the United States. They have. 207 churches, with n seating capacity of 05,002. The North Carolina Legislature met at Raleigh on the 7th. E. T. Boykin was chosen President of the Senate and Thomas M. Holt Speaker of the House. On the 7th the first train from the Blast for twenty-three days arrived at Portland, Ore. The roads had been blocked by snow. During a fight at Lexington, Ky., recently between whisky dealers and officials, several men were killed. The organization of the Illinois Senate at Springfield was effected on the 7th by the.election of William J. Campbell, of Cook County, as President pro tern. In the House Elijah M. Haines received 7G Votes for temporary Speaker against 77 for J. B. Messick and others, and an adjournment was taken to the Bth without perfecting an organization. On the morning of the 7th armed men from Gettysburg reached Forest City, D. TANARUS., wrecked the building in which the Potter County records were housed, and carried off the safe and all public documents. The Sheriff, with an armed force, had gone in pursuit, and a battle was imminent. By an inventory of the seal and personal property of the late John W. Garrett, of Baltimore, an aggregate of $35,000,000 is shown, all of which is bequeathed to his widow and three children. The Legislature of Michigah convened on the 7th at Lansing. The Senate elected T. R. Belknap President pro tern., and the House chose Newcomb Clark as Speaker. Further details on the 7th from the cyclone which recently swept over Lancaster, Clarendon and other counties in South Carolina show terrible loss of property, but miraculous escapes of persons from loss of life. Iu Lancaster a number of barns, gin -houses and other outhoujfes were blown down. The greatest damage was done in Clarendon County. The cyclone cut a road Jive hundred yards wide through fifteen miles of country, making a clean sweep of buildings and timber, and killing or crippling large number of animals. The biennial session of the Indiana State Legislature met at Indianapolis on the Bth. Charles J. Jewett was elected Speaker of the House. In the Southern States n > less than 1,865 new manufacturing aud mining enterprises were started in 1881, with an aggregate capital of $105,2ii9,0M. At Grafton, W. Va , William Vaughan became jealous of his wife, whom he married four weeks ago, .and shot her dead through a window of their residence on the Bth. Twenty-five men took part in an affray with knives recently at Rutledge, Gn. One wad illled, and many of the others were badly wounded. In the Indian Nation snow has caused considerable suffering to stock. The losses thus far this winter are about fifteen per cent. Fiiuc destroyed the county jail in Fredericksburg,Gillespie County, Tex.,recently, and one of prisoners perished. The Chaiuoer of Commerce at Denver, Col., invited all friendly to the unlimited coinage of silver to meet in national convention in that city on January 28. Adam Brown, of Newport,' Ky., a huckster, was chloroformed and $769 taken from under his pillow a few nights ago. This was the savings of himself and wife for years. A fire the other evening destroyed the extensive iron-works of Stovering & Fleming, cn the flats at Cleveland, O. The marriage of Major Nutt, the famous dwarf, four feet highland aged forty-four years, occurred in Boston on the Bth to Clara Corfield, aged eighteen, and of tho ordinary size. On the Bth. Elijati M. Haines ws chosen temporary Speaker of the Illinois House, and the Democratic caucus nominees for temporary officers were elected. In the Senate Mr. Clough introduced an election MU wUob prevent* unregistered

from voting. A resolution was passed fixing January 21 as the day for tho Senatorial election. Judge Blodgett overruled a rnotibu in the District Court at Chicago oil tlie Bth to quash the indictments against Mackin, Biehl and others for the recent election fraud, and fixed January 22 as the date for trial. James M. Bingham, ex-Lieutenant-Gov-ernor of Wisconsin, died at Chippewa Falls on the Bth. The other day J. A. Bollin, of Chattanooga, Tenn., fifty years old, aud a grandfather, eloped with his wife’s servant girl. The death of Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines, tho famous litigant, occurred at New Orleans on the evening of the 9tb. She was eighty years of age. For attempting to wre.ck a train near Burchard, Neb., S. S. Voorhees was on the 9th sentenced to fifty years’ imprisonment. A fire at one o’clock on the morning ot the 10th had burned two business blocks at Sioux City, la., and the flames was spreading. Numerous offices, dental rooms and other establishments had lieen lafroed out, and the water supply was meager. The loss thus far would exceed SIOO,OOO. • HAt the house of Mr. Van Fossen, of East Liverpool, O'., eleven persons drank coffee a few evenings ago. Mr. Van Fossen anti a child died at midnight anti the otters were not expected to live. A package of rat-poison was found at the bottom of the coffee-pot. An assignment has been made by tl e Bank of Augusta, Ga., chartered by tho State long before tha war. Tho capital was $150,000. The message of Governor Porter' on tho Oth to the Indiana Legislature stated that the debt was $4,870,008. He recommended refunding the foreign debt of $585,000, and announced that the school fund amounted to $0,337,828. Number of children iu schools 501,142. The suicides are aunouuoed of Major Charles B. Brady, a well-known Kt. Louis citizen, and M. Guild, ex-cashier of the First National Bauk of Cincinnati. A fire in tobacco storage warehouse at Durham, N. C., the other night caused a loss of SBO,OOO. In Franklin County, Miss., a negro blew out the brains of one of a party of bulldozers who recently came to maltreat him, and the Coroner’s Jury declared that it was justifiable homicide. ; FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. At Montreal on the Oth an ice gorge dammed the St. Lawrence so that iu many instances cellars aud streets wore overflowed. By n recent railway disaster in Nicaragua seven persons were killed and sixteen others were injured. AVest of Pekin, China, immense coal deposits, which are said to lie the richest in the world, are to be opened. A railroad is to be constructed at ouoe for transportation. A FIRE a few days ago swept away the Catholic Church at St. Therese, in the Province of Quebec, valued at $90,000. The deaths of Rt. Rev. John Jackson, DD., Bishop of London, and Prince Adolph AVilhelin Auersperg, the Austrian statesman, occurred on the Oth. < Spain was still agitated on the Oth by earthquake shocks. At Loja, Spain, more earthquake shocks were felt on the 7th, and at Motril a church, convent and five hundred houses were destroyed. Series of shocks similar to the present prevailed in Southern Spain in 1829, and lasted forty days. Montreal advices of the Bth state that the total number of Canadian wrecks on the lakes during 1884 was fifty, involving a loss of SO7IJXK>. The seasvu was said to have been the most unprofitable one financially ever known. AVhile becalmed off the Spanish coast a few days ago the British bark Isabel experienced several earthquake shocks lasting fifteen minutes. The ship was shaken in every fiber and the submarine roaring was terrible. On the Bth Prince Albert Victor, the elder sou of the Prince of Wales, became of age. The occasion was celebrated in England with great rejoicing. It is said that William Churchill, and four brothers, residents of Newfoundland, have fallen heir to a fortune of $35,000,000, left by a relative in England. Over 15,<i06 people had left Granada, Spain, on the Oth, owing to the continued earthquake shocks. Tho village of Snevajar was slowly sliding downward to the valley. It is stated by an official bulletin that up to the 9th, in the provinces of Granada and Malaga, 1,400 persons were killed by the earthquakes, 900 were wounded and 43,000 rendered homeless. The recent earthquake moved the village of Guevejar, Spain, bodily sixty feet from its farmer location and it was n a semicircular crevassi sixty feet deep. The houses of the village, though greatly damaged, had not fallen. The repeal of the Mexican Stamp act, so unpopular and oppressive to commerce, is announced. Anew law has been adopted which meets with favor. The total number of immigrants arriving in ttaOlProvincj of Ontario, during the year 1884, was 87,300, against 97,515 in the previous year. Os the total number 58,489 came to the United States. LATER. W. H. Vanderbilt, having yielded to the request of General GranL on the 10th bought in all the real estate, war relics and works of art mortgaged to him by the General, and presented the entire list to Mrs. Grant, also the debt and judgment, with the condition that on the death of the General all articles of historical value shall become the property of the Nation, to be preserved at Washington. Mrs. Grant accepted the gift of the relics, but refused the debt gift. A Imports at the port of New Yorlf,/exclusive of specie, for the week ended on the 10th were $8,774,000. It has been ascertained that, under the provisions of the Constitution, a vote for United States Senator can not be taken by the Illinois Legislature until January 27. A river boat sunk the other night near Lockport, Ky., and the Captain, his family aud crew all perished. It was reported on the 10th that General Grant was suffering from cancer of tho tongue, caused by excessive smoking. In the Silverton (Col.) district snow was three feet deep on the 11th, a storm having prevailed for thirty-six hours. Toll roads were blockaded and business was suspended. , The special grand jury impaneled in Chicago to investigate the Eighteenth Ward election fraud aud any other irregularities of the kind to which its attention may be called began its work on the 10th. The Louisville & Nashville freight and passenger depots at Nashville, Teun.,ali the freight, one hundred loaded cars aud Linck’s;Hotel were burned on the evening of the 10th, causing a loss of $175,000. Hugh McCallister and wife wore found burned to death on the 10th in th?ii house in Tippecanoe County, Ind. It was supposed that robbers looted the premises, killed the aged couple and then set fire tc th! house. Dan Holcomb, who was on trial at Jackson, Mich., for the murder of spur people at the Crouch farm, near Jackson, more than a year ago, was acquitted on the 10th. Mine No. 5 of the Hocking Valley property, at Straitsville, 0., the largest in that region, was on the 11th fired by strikers. 1 Captain Charles W. Folger, only son of the late Secretary of the Treasury, died of consumption on the 11th at Geneva, N. Y., aged forty years. Earthquake shocks were felt again on the 10th in the Spanish Province of Malaga. The United States Senate was not in session on the 10th. In the House a bill appropriating $0,120,155 for the support of the navy for the first half of 1885 was passed, and the Consular and Diplomatic Appropriation bill wa* fleeted at lengthv ■‘ i “ v ‘

A GENEROUS OFFFRYamlct'hilt Cancels General Grant’s Obligations anil Offers the Kstate to Mrs. Grant —She Firmly Declines the Oiler, referring that the Debt be l*ahl Dollar for Dollar. New York, Jan. 12.—General ('want's financial affairs were materially straightened Saturday by the generous gift of William 11, Vanderbilt, who transferred tlio bills of sale anl mortgages on General Grant's estate to Mrs. Grant in trust. The money king's generous intentions were first revealed in the following letter: No. 040 FitTH vvtsvt, January 10,1885 Mrs. t’lysses S. Gnmt—Dear Matlame: So many misrepresentations have appeared in regard tt> the loan made by me to General Grant anil reHecjjng unjustly upon him ami myself that it seems proper hr.oily to recite the facts: On Sunday .May 4 last. General Grant raised at my house and asked mo to lend him 9150,060 lor one day. 1 gave him my check without question, not because the transaction was business like, but simply because the request came from General Grant. The misfortunes which overwhelmed hiiu in the next twenty-four hours tiroused the sympathy and regret of the whole country. You and he sent me, within a few days after that time, deeds to your joint properties to cover this oldigation. ami urged my acceptance on the ground that this was the only debt of honor which the General Itad personally incurred, and these deeds I returned. Dur.ng my absence in Europe the General delivered to luy attorney mortgages upon alt his own real. estate, ins household effects, and swords, medals and works of art. which were memorials ot his victories and presents from Governments all over the world. These securities were, in his judgment, worth 9150,0 D. At his solicitation tlie necessary steps were taken by judgment, etc., to reduce these proi>ortios to possession, and the arliclesVncntioned have tieen this day inaight by me, and the amounts bid applied to the reduction lof the debt. Now that 1 mn at liberty to treat these things as. my own the disposition off the whole matter most ill accord with my Ifeelings is this: 1 present to you, as \pur separate estate, the debt und jonptuent 1 hold against General Grant, also the mortgages upon his real estate and all his household furniture and ornaments, con pil'd only with the rendition that the swords, commissions, medals, gifts from the I'nited States, States, cities and foreign governments, and all articles of historical value and interest, shall, at the General's death, or, if you desire it, sooner, be presented to the Government at Washington, where they will remain as perpetual memorials of his fame and of the history of his time. I inclose herewith assignments to you of the mortgages and judgments, the hill of sale of his personal property, and the deed of trust in which the articles of‘'historical interest are enumerated. A copy of this trust deed will, with your approval, be forwarded to the President of tlte I'nited States for deposit in the proper department. Trusting this action will meet witli your acceptance and approval, and with the kindest regards to your husband, I am yours respectfully, W. H. Vanderbilt. Mrs. Grant found herself unable to accept the gifts, and iti res]>eet to her feelings of gratitude for the offer of Mr. Vanderbilt General Grant sent in reply the following letter: New York City, Jan. 10, 1885.—Dear Sir: Mrs. Grant wishes me to answer your letter of this evening, to say that while she appreciates your great generosity in transferring to her the mortgage given to secure my debt of 9150.000 she can not accept it in whole. She accepts with pleasure the trust, which applies to the articles enumerated in your letter, to go to the United States at my death, or sooner, at her option. In this matter you have anticidated the disposition which 1 had contemplated making of the articles. They will ho delivered to the Government as soon as arrangements can be made for their reeept oa. The papers relating to all the other property will be returned, with the request that you have it sold and the proceeds applied to the liquidation of the debt which 1 so justly owe you. You have stated in your letter with the mlnuti st accuracy the history of the transucUon which brought nte in your debt. I have only to add that I regard your giving me your check for the amount without inquiry as an act of marked and unusual friendship. The loan was to me personally. 1 got the money, as 1 bcPcved, to carry tho Marine National Hank over a day, being assured that the hank was solvent, hut, owing to the unusual calls, needed assistnnee until it could call in its loan. 1 was assured by Ferdinand Ward that the firm of Grant & Ward had over 5660,000 to its credit at that time in the Marine Hank, besides fl.snnjHX) of unpledged securities in the firm's own vaults. I can not conclude without assuring you that Mrs. Grant's inability to avail herself of your great kindness in no wily lessens either ’her sense of obligation or tny own. Yours truly, U. S. Grant. To W. H. Vanderbilt, Esq. When Mr. Vanderbilt found that his offer was defeated by the refusal of Mrs. Grant to accept, he determined to take the matter into his own hands and apply the estates to the creation of a trust fund, that would accrue to her benefit. He announced his intention in a letter as follows : 640 Fifth avenue, Jan. 11, ISBs.—General UT 8. Grant, Dear SIT: Oil my return home last night 1 found your letter in answer to mine to Mrs. Grant. I appreciate fully the sentiments which actuate both Mrs. Grant and yourself in declining ttie part of my proposition relating to the real estate, t -greatly regret that she feels it her duty to make this decision, as I earnestly hoped the spirit in which the offer was made would overcome any scruples she might have in accepting it. Blit I must insist that I shall not be defeated in - the purpose to which I have given so much thought and in which I have so much ut heart. I will, therefore, as fast as the money is received from the sales of real estate, deposit it in the Union Trust Company. With the money thus realized I will at once create with that company a trust with the proper provisions for the income to be made to Mrs. Grant during'her life, and givingthe power to herto make such disposition’of the principal by her will as she may elect. Very truly yours, William H. Vanderbilt. General IT. S. Grant. General Grant at first accepted this last letter, but Mrs. Grant, on furthef deliberation. decided to refuse all gifts, treating the debt as one of honor, which the General should pay without attracting compassion or tieserving it: New York City, Jau. 11,1885.—Dear Sir: Your letter of this date received. Mrs. Grant and 1 regret that you can not accept our proposition to retain the property which was mortgaged in good faith to seciire a debt of honor. But your generous determination compels us to no longer resist. Yours truly, W. H. Vanderbilt. U. S. Grant. New York, Sunday, Jan. 11, 1885.—My Dear Mr. Vanderbilt : Upon reading your letter this afternoon General Grant and myself felt it would be ungracious to refuse your princely and generous offer. Hence his note to you. But upon reflection I find J canjnot. I will not accept vour mu ntffcence in any form. I beg you will pardon this apparent vacillation and consider the answer definite and final. With great regard, and a sense of obligation that will always remain, I am yours Very gratefully. Julia D. Grant. To Mr. William H. Vanderbilt. Statement of the Director of the Mint. Washington, Jan. 12.— The Director of the Mint has made his annual statement. The coinage, less reeoinage, hits been: Gold, " .593,726,852; silver, 528,119,978. Imports to the United States of coin, gold, 54,239,815; silver, 5725,150. Total gain 557,491,048. lie estimates that 54,875,000 worth of United Slates gold and 5210,000 silver coin was melted for use in manufactures and arts, and that 0,000,000 trade dollars, constituting a part of the silver circulation in previous years, has been withdrawn from circulation, The exports were: United States gold coin, 511,878,154; silver coin, 5525,431. Net gain of gold coin, 511,213,573; of silver coin, 522,100,097. This, added to his estimates of the total amount in the country on January 1, 1884, makes the circulation on January 1, 1885, 5503,000,000 gold, 5204,000,000 silver; total, 5827,000,000. The comparison- of the corresponding amounts of paper in the United States used as money or as representatives of coin shows at the close of the year an increase in gold certificates of 528,599,532; silver certificates, 538,260,080, and a decrease in bank notes of 521,324,200; net increase, 535,000,000. The gold bullion in the mints awaiting cointhe first of the present month was viftpcd at 502,422,047, a reduction of about $5g)00,000 from the previous year. - * ♦— Dynamiters Warned. Washington, Jan. 12.—The disclosures of Phelan, the member of the Irish Brotherhood who was assaulted in O’Donovan llossa's New York office, have given rise to considerable talk and speculation in diplomatic circles. It apjiears that for some time the British Government has hau a large number of secret agents atul detectives employed in the principal cities of the United States looking after clues to the operations of dynamiters. The British minister some time ago notified the State Department that he had grounds for believing the plotters had a base of movements in this country, and made Hying trips to England to carry out plans of destruction. The authorities here, however, after a careful inquiry, failed to discover any basis for the allegation, and the matter has thus far been at rest. Now, however, renewed interest will be aroused, and if it should turn out that the charges are true that dynamiters have their headquarters here, prompt action will be taken to prevent aiiy future operations, and any parties found guilty of desperate designs, or in complicity with the schemer*, will be surrendered to the Jingfllsli Government w demand. "

A DEADLY ASSAULT. Captain Chelan, the Noted Fenian, Laired from lID Kansas City Home to New York, Where He Is Fatally Stabbed— Tile Alleged Cause for the Deed. New York, Jail 10. — Captain Thomas Phelan, Superintendent of the Kansas City Workhouse and famous as a Fenian leader, was wounded yesterday afternoon in the office of O'Donovan llossa by a man giving the name of Bichard Short. The cowardly deed was committed with a huge knife, and Captain Phelan is now dying in Chambers Street Hospital from seven deep wound:? The house surgeon said that Phelan was the worst cut tip man ever brought to the hospital. The Coroner took the dying man's antemortem statement. The first known of the murder was when two men rushed down the stairs of Bossa’soffice, located.on Chambers street, followed by Captain Phelan', bareheaded ami almost covered with blood. He dropped on the sidewalk in front of the building and was lying there when, two minutes Inter, an officer came up With Short in custody, and asked the prostrate man if the prisoner was his assailant. Phelan recognized Short instantly, raised himself suddenly, and, pulling a pistol, fired point blank at Short. The ball struck a matchbox in Short's pocket and did him no barm. Phelan fell back exhausted, and was taken away in an ambulance. Short was lodged in jail. When Phelan reached the hospital lie rallied sufficiently to tell this story : ‘'Last Saturday week," lie said, ‘'there was an interview with myself published in the Kansas City Journal. I received a letter from John F. Kearney, of 452 West Twenty-ninth street, of New York, to cotue here. 1 telegraphed Kearney that I would come, and arrived yesterday. I called on John Kearney at his place of business. Kearney and I called at O'Dono'van llossa's office. Bossa was not In. A man called ‘ltocky Mountain' O'Brien came into the office of Bossa. .lie shook hands with me and shortly afterward left the place. A man —I think his name is Barker—came in the office with a large knife in his hand. He struck at me and tried to stab tne in the chest, i was sitting down at the time He made several cuts fit me and succeeded in stabbing me several times. I then ran downstairs, and lie stabbed me several times on the stairs. He was brought before mtj as I lay on the sidewalk. I supposed he was going to stab me again and L shot at him. Kearney was present when 1 was stabbed. There was also two men in llossa's office at the time. I do hot kiffiw Who they were.” The accepteil theory of the assassination is that Phelan was lured to New York t > meet his dentil at the hands of Short because in the Kansas City interview Phelan had given in detail an account of the attempt to blow up the English steamer Queen at Liverpool, and also the story of the attempt to blow up the Glasgow railway station. O'Donovan Bossa reprinted the interview in his paper, the I'nilcl Irishman, and it eans-sl quite a sensation among the dynamite fraternity in thiscity. Itiehard Short Is known as the “Avenger.' 1 It .was he who attempted to kill Jim McDermott in a saloon in this city in 1882 foi the reason that McDermott was supposed to have betrayed the Irish cause and because he was alleged to he a British spy. Captain Phelan refused all spiritual advice, declaring that he was a follower ol Bob lngersoll. In June, 1883, Phelan want to Ireland on a visit to friends, and it was (luring his stay there that Informer Carey was killed by O'DAnnell. Eor a lime Phelan was suppose*! to be O'Donnell, mid the English detectives hunted him down only to find their mistake. He was one of the originators of the skirmishing fund, and is supposed to lie the famous No. 1 mentioned by Carey in his confession. It is said that Short was ono of the men driven out of Ireland by Jim McDermott. Among Captain Phelan's effects are a number of letters from Chicago Irishmen, a commutation ticket between Chicago and Kansas City, and a large sum of money. Warrants have been issued for OT lonova n Bossa, (John E. Kearney, “Kooky Mountain” O'Brien, and other dynamite leaders. The police are confident that there was a deep-laid plot behind the assassination, and tlntt a great sensation in dynamite circles will be unearthed to-day. John F. Kearney is wanted by the English police for the Glasgow explosion, and there is 510,000 reward offered for him. ♦ ' ELEVEN PERSONS POISONED. A Girl Puts “ Rough on Rats ” in Coffee * Drank by Her Mother’s Guests. East Liverpool, 0., Jan. 10. — Thursday night Annie Van Fossan, aged nineteen years, administered poison in the coffee of the entire family, consisting of eleven persons. A ntiinber oP visitors dined with the Van Fossans, anil the coffee was passed around to them with other refreshments. Within an hour everybody became sick. Their symptoms were those of arsenic poisoning and their sufferings were frightful. An investigation was made and a packageof the poison known as “Bough on Bats” was found in the bottom of the coffee-pot. Search was immediately made for the perpetrator of the crime. It was observed that Annie Van Fossan, a daughter of the host, was not near so ill as the others. she was accused of the crime, and tacitly admitted her guilt. Yesterday morning she was locked up to await a hearing. She refuses to make a statement, and no person can imagine what induced her to commit the deed. Intense excitement prevails in the town. Little Allie Mcßane is dead, and it is feared five or six of the others who drank the coffee will die. *-.-*■ * All Plead Not Guilty. CmcAGo, Jan. 10.—Joseph C. Mackin, Henry Biehl, S. P. Shields, Dr. S. Strausscr, P. M. Ilansbrough and E. I). Kelley, all dt fendants in the Leman-Brand fraud case, each pleaded “not guilty” in Judge Blodgett’s court yesterday. Biehl and Strausseronly were present, the others being represented by conncil. B. W. Shaffner, in behalf of the Judge and qjerks of election, entered a formal demurrer to tlje decision of the Court overruling the motions made Thursday to quash the indictments. Judge Blodgett said Mackin, Gleason and Biehl would be tried first, and then the Judge and clerks, followed bv Gallagher. A SUBSTITUTE FOR SMOKING. The Singing of Scotch Songs Recommended as a Cure for Those Who Use Tobacco. Prof. Blaekie recommends Scotch songs as a substitute for tobacco. Tliis somewhat alarming suggestion was made in the course of a “concert lecture” he delivered at Manchester on Wednesday.' “How pgople,” he said, “can get through their idle hours I don’t Know. In railway coaches and other places I see a number smoking what they call tobacco. Well, whatever may be said aboutthat, it is not an intellectual or moral stimulant,and the ilavor of it is not at all like the rose, or any poetic thing I know of. It is essentially' a vulgar sort of amusement. My amusement is to sing songs. At home I am always singing Scotch songs: and abroad, when those wretches arc smoking, 11mm to myself ‘Scots wlia line/ ‘A man’s a man for a’ that,’ and songs of that kind.” Prof. Blaekie then advised his audience “to do the same.” Their souls, he informed them, would by this means become “singing-birds, and the devil won't get near them.” It is earnestly to be hoped that smokers will at least hesitate before they generally adopt this advice. Even those persons to whom the odor of tobacco is distasteful would, as a. rule, infinitely prefer it to some Scotch melodies. The Nation has endured many calamities, and borne them bravely; but it will probably succumb altogether if every smoker takes to singing continuously “Scots wha hae,” like Prof. Blaekie’— Fall Mall Gazette. —Few people have any idea of the size of the Exposition braiding in New Orleans. The Centennial main hall at Philadelphia was considered an enormous structure, but it is said the Centennial buildings all together could be easily stored awav in the main hall in New Orleans, which covers between thirty wi<i forty acres.

HUNDREDS OF HORSES. flow They Ar F©<! amt Housed and Cared for Cnder One Roof. “Ili, there,” shouted a gruff'voice. A reporter moved to* one side and a Irani of horses were driven into the main depot of the Third Avenue Surface Railroad Company. “A. team comes in and goes out every two minutes.” said John F. Waller,’-the company's foreman. ‘•On each day in the year?” queried the reporter. “>o,” was the answer, “but in sea"sous like this. When we arc at our busiest a team goes out anil comes in every thirty seconds.” The company owns about twenty-one hundred “head of cattle”—to use the technical term —but four hundred of them are required for its other stables. Mr. Waller lias made a study of tlie horse and is able to tell by glancing at an animal whether or not it is in condition. "I laughed,” said he, “when an old horse doctor tolil me years ago that he could tell the condition of a horse by looking at him. I have since discovered that the old ‘Vet’ knew what lie was talking about If you spend your days and often your nights, for years, among horses and keep your eyes half open you cau't help understanding them! They have much in common with the human family. The old horses, for instance, never take •kindly at first to anew horse and will kick at him when they get a chance. As soon as the stranger begins to feel at home the kicking stops, because he has plucked up spirit enough to kick back. They often light over their feed. .The horse first served is looked upon with feelings of envy by those that have to wait a little longer. They seldom kick any of the men, except if a man happens to pass close to their heels with a box of feed. Then they sometimes attempt to kick. There is one man in the st ible who hail his head almost kicked off last year. Two horses were lighting. One made a terrible kick with his hind feet just as the man was passing. One of the feet struck him in tho face and dashed him tip against a, stall. No, the queerest part of the business was that lie didn't die. Hallo, Mike,” lie cried, raising his voice. “Mike” came forward. His face! showed a sear reaching from right eye-brow to below his right cheekbone. It formed an indelible “ beauty} mark,” but “Mike” eared nothing for this as everybody had consoled him at the time the accident occurred with the information that his recovery was out of the question. Tho stable occupies three stories of the huge building, which covers a square. The descent to the floor below the grade of’the street is as steep as the ascent to the lloor above the ground, but the horses manage to make the trips without accident. Each horse, or rather each pair of horses, for every horse has a mate, is expected to work three hours per day. A team which starts from Harlem makes, one round trip, daily. If an accident happens to a horse while on duty the driver informs the foreman of it, with the attendant circumstances. If a driver fails to do this anil the ? negligcnce is discovered, the company lias no farther use for him. The best possible care is taken of the stock for obvious reasons. Car horses are injured in a variety of ways. They run the greatest risks during the hottest part of the summer and tlie coldest of winter. These two periods aggregate about four and a half months. Tlie month of September was tlie hardest month of tlie year for car horses. An intensely warm term came on the heels of a eoo'l period and the result was the prostration bf a large number of ear,horses in this city as well as in many other parts of the country. Leaving intensely hot and cold weather out of tlie question, the most perilous season for thft car horse is dry, windy weather. The cobble stones over which he travels are then as smooth as polished glass. Not a particle of any foreign substance can get a foothold on them, and. the sliarply-shoil hoof will slip from them with the same ease as the human foot will slide off" the smooth side of a banana skin. jSome of the roadbeds offer even more than the usual facilities for accidents of this nature. •They are constructed on the shape of a watershed, sloping from the center to the tracks. On these tlie car horse has a hard lime indeed in wintry anil windy weather. Comparatively few accidents happen in wet weather. Unless they happen to break a limb, only a small percentage of horses which slip anil fall suffer permanent injury. With rest and care they general I}’recover from sprains and strains. Out of seventeen hundred horses the Third Avenue Company loses but one a week, according to its foreman. The latter has ninety-three hostlers under his eye, besides a large number of men employed in other capacities. Each.hostler is expected to groom twenty horses per day, and to feed anil bed them. The stable - are as clean as it is possible to keep them. The horses arc in keeping with their surrouniliugs. Horses are purchased at all seasons, but the best are bought in the fall. The seller is willing to take much less at the beginning than at the end of winter. The company has a standing price of .$155. Some splendid specimens of horse flesh have been bought for this figure. Gray is the color preferred. Horses of this cotyr afe said to suffer less from the heat than blacks and bays. From eight to ten horses arc used in a snow sweeper, and one team possessed by the company attract much attention as they rattle through the avenue. Tho ten grays whirl the huge sweeper along as if it were a light road-wagon* Several of these horses stand seventeen hands high. Every new purchase is subject to au attack of pinkeye. This is attributed to change of climate and surroundings. Most of the horses come from the West, and they arc: found to require from a week to two weeks to obtain their “sea legs.” It is a common opinion that the lot of the ear horse is not a happy one. In comparison with the fate of ;i large number of horses which receive but little sympathy. the ear horse is to be greatly envied. He is not overworked; he is weil fed. well housed and is seldom ill treated with impunity.— N. Y. Tribune. Beware of Him. Farmers -good, honest souls—arc the special prey of the sharper anil confidence man. Their belief in anything that pretends to be scientific is unbounded. Anything, therefore, that relates to fertilizers and analysis of soils is very apt to be favorably considered by them. But in this respect the greatest caution should be observed. The fruit-tree peddler and the < ’lightning-rod men may be received as friends with open hearts, but when the patent-manure man comes around—as he docs and will —he .should be received with suspicion and coolness, if not warned oft' peremptorily; and this because he is a most dangerous fraud. His cheat is not discovered and its effects are always to be explained away. A common crab purchased for a Baldwin or a choice russet speaks for itself and bears its own sins; but the patent manure formula for which five dollars has beeu paid is buried in the soil, dml its failure can never be identified. It may be suspected, but can never be proved. But the experiment stations have taken hold of this manure fraud and have exposed the worthlessness of his formulas, and farmers should have nothing to do with hi,—Y. X. Tirmi,

PERSONAL AND LITERARY. —A library for women, just established at 'Calcutta,- is an encouraging sign Os the times in India. -‘One of the four living descendants of Oliver Cromwell is now the wife of General Harney, of St. Louis. —“America” was written by Rev. Samuel Francis Smith in 1832, and was first sung in Boston on the Fourth of July of that year.— N. Y. Graphic. —The author of ‘-Do They Miss Me at Home ?” is Mrs. Caroline Mason, of Fitchburg, Mass. She is sixty-one years old, and wrote the song forty years ago. -—Boston Journal. —Jean Ingelow is turning gray in the prime of life. Her London homo, where, she lives with her two brothers, is always full of flowers. She devotes much time and money to charity. —J. J. Stanow, the Boston patent lawyer engaged by the Bell party in the late telephone litigation, gets $50,000 as his fee. Half of it was contingent on his winning the suit. —Boston herald. —“lrcneus,” of the New York Ob-' server, says in a recent postcript to one of his letters to that paper: “The grandchildren of those who read the lirst of these letters are now reading the last of them." —lt was Rev. A. M. Toplady, a clergyman of the English Church, who wrote the “Rock of Ages" and published that hymn in the year 1776. In attributing the authorship of the, hymn to a young woman now living in Maine someone has blundered. —Judge Tourgee testifies in court that he has been financially ruined by his magazine venture, the Continent. He says be has given all the revenues of his new book to his creditors, and is willing to mortgage his brain-work for a year if the remaining creditors will accept that compromise.— N. Y. Tribune. —M. S. R., of Pawtucket, R. 1., writes to the Current relative to the discussion regarding the necessity of a new pronoun: “lias any one proposed the contractions his'er and him'er (his or her and him or her) ? How would that do? It sounds almost familiar already. ‘Let every person decide in his'er own mind what is right, and then let him'er abide the issue. ” — Current. —Ben: Perley Poore, who always writes a colon (:) after the Ben in his name, defends its use on the ground that? Washington and Jefferson invariably used the colon after an abbreviation of a Christian name, thus: Geo: Washington. Thus: Jefferson. In fact, rise of the colon is one of the good old customs which Mr. Poore, himself a rare old-timer, religiously clings to. —Chicago Herald. —Mr. Robert J. Burdette has severed liis connection with the Burlington Huivkcge and taken up a permanent residence at Ardmore, Pa. He says: “There is no quarrel; we still speak as we pass by; but I have decided to make my home in Montgomery County. The Hgickcgc can’t come down here to be edited, and I won't go to Burlington to edit it; hence, after twenty-one years of harmouious union, we separate amicably and I go out peaceably." HUMOROUS. —His master: “Did you take those boots of mine to be soled, Larry?" Irish Valet: “I did, sor; and see the thriflo the blag'yard gave me, for'ml Said they were party nigh wore through!" Punch. —“ls a woman capable of tilling an office?" asks an exchange. She is. A woman has just been inquiring after some rejected manuscript in this office, and she tilled it completely for the time being. —Boston Transcript. —“Pa." said an editor’s son who was studying natural .science, “teacher says you can't fill up space. Now, can’t you?” “No, my son, I think not; I’ve been trying for twenty years, and I haven’t filled it up yet.” — Peck's Sun. Alarmed Friend —“What do you mean by taking passage in a vessel commanded by such an officer as Captain S?” Jones-“ Why, c\ cry body says he is perfectly reckless and I don't want to be wrecked.” —Detroit Free Press. —A Western editor who was a little short of type and also rather lazy, made an item in which he spoke of anew arrival at the hotel as “Mrs. Rawly, the —ing young widow from Plattyille, and ; her brother, Colonel *btick."—Burlington Free Press. —We do love poetry, and especially when it conveys to us such a startling truth as was recently given to the world in a poem beginning: “Darkness creeps o'er us as night comes on. ’ A truth like that, even though crushed to earth, would bob up serenely ever and anon. — Oil Citg Derrick. —Boston school-class in history: Teacher— “Johnnie, what was the most notable ship that ever landed on the New England coast?" “The Mayflower, sir.” “Right, my bright little man. Now, Willie, what noble idea was brought over iu the Mayflower?” “Pork and beans, sir.” —Boston Times. —“.Did you ever try to train a miss?” asked the pedagogue of Farmer Furrow, with a view of perpetrating a prehistoric pun. “Nope," said the wilv granger with a twinkle in his eye; “but I’ve missed a train without trying. It was not until the farmer offered to swap almanacs that the teacher saw his “chestnut” was a withered one.— N. Y. Journal. —During the rage for spelling bres a clergyman was “turned down” at a fashionable assemblage for spelling drunkenness with one “u.” Shortly afterwards he returned to his parish, and found himself very coldly received by his parishioners. He sent- for the parish clerk, and asked him what was the cause. “Well, sir,” replied the man, “a report has come down here that you were turned out of a great lady’s house in London for drunkenness. ’’ — London Titbits. —Thus muses a rural correspondent: “When the frost is on the -pumpkin and the fodder's in the shock, and you hear the kyouck and gobble of the struttin’ turkey cock, and the clackin’ of the guineas and the cluckin’ of the liens, and the rooster’s ballylooyer as he tiptoes on the fence; oh. then's the time a feller is feeling at his best, with the risin’ sun to greet him from a night of gracious rest, as he leaves the house bareheaded and goes out to feed the stock, when the frost is on the pumpkin and the fodder's iu the shock.” —Gate Citg. Destructive to the Teeth. A Hartford dentist, writing to a newspaper concerning the destructive effect upon the teeth of bromide of potassium, which he advises people to take only through a glass tube —or, if they do not, to brush the teeth thoroughly after taking it —says: “The extensive and almost universal use of tonics and sedatives, iu the form of iron and bromides —and, I will add, the general use of line wheat and non-bone-making food materials, are what support the vast army of dentists in this country.” It is a curious fact that the effects of American food upon the teeth of Emigrants who have been used to a coarser and perhaps .a more wdiolesome diet, is more marked than upon tire teeth of the sons of American ancestors. As an illustration of this a former dentist of Cincinnati once remarked upon the rich Harvest which the members of his profession in that city enjoy dering the week of the May festival, which brings into town thousands of recent German emigrants from the surrounding country.—fliar*

LOVE AND POTASH. A Little Romance Binging; on the story Os a Dead Industry of Bohemia. “There’s what broke up my home and made me come over to America.” The speaker was an employs in a large soap factory on the west side, fie was pointing to some drums of imported soda as he spoke. “I was born in Bohemia, among the mountains, in a little village. Our chief industry was making lye, and sometimes soap. I think half of the people mado their living that way; my family did. When I was a little boy I was sent ont every day with my brother and other little boys to gather leaves and twigs. The best were those of the fir, but we took everything. We’d build big bonfires in dry weather, and the moment the ashes and embers were cold we’d throw them into bins under low sheds. Below these sheds were what you’d call leach tubs. Some of these were old barrels sawed in half; some, and they belonged to the poorer folks, were heavy willow baskets. One I remember was square, built out of bricks, with a door on tiie side. We used to fill the tubs witli ashes and pour as mnch water on them as they’d hold. When it ran through, it would run into a small .bucket. This was what used to be lye. It was too weak to sell or to use to make soap, and so we’d boil it down. Sometimes we’d sell it when it was boiled down very strong, but generally we let it boil till it was dry. What was left was good potash, and that we’d sell to a rich man in the village, who’d send loads of it away to foreign countries. If the potash was gray we got a good price for it, but if it was red or brown we got less money and also got a good thrashing from our parents. “Down the road was my father’s cousin, who was the best, soap maker in the barony. Ho made soft soap from our potash and hard soap from potash and common salt. He had a pretty daughter —she’s my wife now, and when she was fifteen she was as good a soap boiler as her father 1 was about seventeen when times began to grow quite hard. The village merchant didn’t buy as much potash or soap, and what he did buy lie paid less for. ’ And then the men who’d start out in the Spring with a wagon to peddle the same wares found things just as bad everywhere. We thought it came from the wars that were going on, and that good old prices would come back before long. When I got to lie twenty I was my wife’s beau, and the old folks agreed that wc should marry two years after and keep up the family trades in the old places. Well, we married, but not there, and I've never been there since. “You see it came about like this. I went down to the village one day with a load of potash and soap, and called as usual on the merchant. For the lirst time he refused to buy the latter, and offered so small a price for the former that, I began to laugh. But when he took out of a box. some foreign soap and ottered it to me at half the price I wanted, and explained to me how the French and English were making soda and potash in big factories out of rocks that cost almost nothing, I saw that my business was The news ran* through the village and everybody was very blue. T was particularly blue- when I thought of Gretchcn. •lany tried to fight it out, but they nearly starved. Mpst of us wandered away to other countries, and I came over to America, whero I’ve been ever since. And a little over a year after I landed I sent for my sweetheart, and she came over and we were married.”— N. Y. Sun. , WEDDING PRESENTS. Are They the Property ot the Husband or Wife? Are wedding presents the property ol the wife or the husband? This curious question lias been raised in the English Courts. Mine. Mercicr sued Mrs. Williams foi a bill of goods to the extent of $5,000, supplied before the latter’s marriage. She recovered -judgment and levied on Mrs. Williams’jewels. They were wedding presents and were claimed by the husband as his property. The case was tried before Lord Chief Justice Coleridge and a jury. He instructed the jury that in law the articles belonged to the husband, and that accordingly the ■ suit against the wife could not be maintained! An appeal was taken to the Divisional Court. The Judges were equally divided. Then the Court of Appeals was called upon to decide the question. It held that both the weddiner presents and other valuables owned by Mrs. Williams before her marriago became the property of her husband, but that their ownership had been transferred to her by an ante-nuptial agreement. This agreement provided that all property of • the wife should be assigned to trustees for named purposes “except jewels, trinkets, ornaments of the person, and articles of the like nature.” These, it was declared in the agreement, should belong tp her for her ,separate use. The case was then carried to the House of Lords, which lias just given its opinion. It sustains the decision of the Court of Appeals that the jewels were the separate property of Mrs. Williams under the ante-nuptial agreement. They were therefore liable to seizure bv her creditors. The views of the House of Lords on the question whether wedding presents become the property of the husband or belong to the wife do not appear in the report of I,he opinion. The inference is that the House agrees with the Court of Appeals on this point also. — N. Y. Herald. —Port Said, situated at the northern terminus of the Suez Canal, is said to be the wickedest place on earth. THE MARKETS. New York, January IS. 1 LIVE STOCK—Cattle *5 80 & 6 76 Sheep 3 16 @6 43* Hogs 4 SO @ 5 30 FLOC It—flood to choice 315 @ 676 Patents 6 50 @ 6 00 j WHEAT—No. 3 Ited I!*@ > ‘ No. 2 Spring 90 @ 94* COHN 61 @ 54* OATS—Western Mixed 34 @ 36 PORK—Mess.. .ft 13 00 @l3 25 j LARD—Steam.l 7 25 @ 7 30 ' CHEESE 5 @ 11* WOOL —Domes! Tf\-'4 @ 37^ CHICAGO. / \ BEEVES-Extra $6 C 5 @ 6 86 | Choice 6 25 @ 6 60 1 Good 5 50 @ 6 00 I Medium 4 85 @ 5 40 • Butchers’ Stock 300 @4 50 ' Inferior Cattle 2 00 @2 75 HOCS—Live—Good to Choice. 415 @ 4 77* SHEEP 2 50 @ 4 75 BUTTER—Creamery . 25 @ 33 flood to Choice Dairy 13 @ 23 EGGS—Fresh 23 @ 24 FLOUR—Winter 325 @ 4 30 Spring: ’. ! 300 @3 75 Patents 4 25 @SOO GRAlN—Wheat, No. 2 80*@ 81* Corn 37 @ 87* Oats 26*@ 28* Rye, No. 2 56 @ 66* Barley, No. 2 60 @ 61 BROOM CORN— Self-Working: 2 @ 5 Carpet and Hurl 4 @ 6* r " Crooked 1 @ 2* POTATOES-(hu) 30 @ 43 FORK —Mess II 87*@12 03 LARD—Steam 6 85 @ 6 87* LUMBER—- ♦ Common Dressed Siding;.. 18 00 @2O 00 , Flooring 32 00 @35 00 t , Common Hoards 10 50 @l2 00 1 Fencing 10 00 @l3 r -o j Lath 1 no @2 * I Shingles. 2 00 @260 [ EAST LIBERTY. CATTLE-Best $5 50 @ 6 25 Fair to Good s 400 @625 HOGS—Yorkers... 4 40 @ 4 60 Philadelpbins 4 65 @470 SHEEP—Best 4 25 @4 50 . Common :. JOO @4 00 BALTIMORE. CATTLE-Bost >4 75 @ • 00 Medium.....r. 8 OJ @ 4 50, fmfo-foQf ;;; §Pi j (J;