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,vj|ui i irum .€ x .3 Paul Msrril, late proprietor of the Sacramento, Cali fora La, Union, and more recently naral officer at tkra Fnaciicn, la dead. >•/ /. • ■ • >• The Minneapolis lumber company’s 5t0,« stfovw rtrflrw “Liose, fw.w; insurance, $4,000. . Bullion *in the of England in. creased £314,000 during the peat week, ftoportion of reserve to liability, €7 0-10 percent Up to the first of May 154, 912 head of cattle from Texas, passed through Fort Worth, Kansas, en route to Kansas and Nebraska. A majority of tha delegates elects at the Missouri democratic state contention are opposed to the nomination of Tikten fbrpiesjdent- . William Neal, colored, of Wilmington, Delaware, convicted of felonious assault upon Mrs. Gasser, has been sentenced to be hanged August 27th. El wood Hadley, one of the largest Cry goods dealers in Richmond, Ind., has made an assignment. His assets are said to egoead hi* liabilities. *■ v--1 It; is tow annooaced that Sherman has eight of the Looistana delegate# to Chicago, and that on the second ballot this support will be incressed. 1 The assistant United States treasurer at New York, ha* been instructed to purchase $3,000,000 worth of U nited States bonds for the sinking fond.

The Toledo, Delphos A Burlington rsijrosd will construct an additional 100 miles of the road this summer and better equip that already in operation. t The superior court of Sen Francisco sustained the general demurrer of ‘Mayor Kallocb against impeachment proceedings by the board of supervisor*, and dismissed the case. The receiver of the Philadelphia and Reading railroad and coal and iron company nas been granted permission tw borrow $1,000,000 to pay the back wages of employes. <• Thomas M. Simms, a faimet in Rush county, suicided by cutting his throat. Deceased »ss 88 years old, and very Wealthy. Childishness and loss ol mind canoed him to commit the act The president has nominated Albert B. Bibb, of Idaho, Indian agent at the Malheur agency in Oregon; and assistant paymaster, Frank Plunkett, to be assist, ant paymaster of the U- S. navy. _ I The House Postofflce Committee willreport favorably the bill providing for ocean mail service with South America and the West Indies, and authorizes the Postmaster General to make contracts for the same. The secretary of state at Washington, has received a telegraphic dispatch from Mr. Furman, consul general at Cairo, stating that the obleiak and pedestal had been placed on board a steamer wbiob will sail in a fortnight for the United States. At the open air meeting held at Mon treai, in behalf of a commercial union with the .United States, in the French quarter,- after speeches by Joseph Perrmult and L. O. David, a resolution in favor of commercial union was carried, unanimously. V - - '

The manufacturers of writing paper held a convention at Springfield, Mass., and decided to firmly maintain the present prices. They claim to expect an advance in the material used in its manufacture. The mills will be closed three weeks from June 26th, and also three weeks in August. Clement- Setterthwaite A Son, of Lorn don, dealers in the American department of the stdek exchange,"have failed. Their liabilities are believed to be heavy. They were the “bears" of the Philtdelphia & Reading railroad stocks, and the closing of their account was caused by an advance in those securities. About one hundred striking stevedores, at Montreal, resumed work on the Grecian, bat were driven off by An attempt was made to fores m«n at work on other vessels to quit,*but the' government and city police had arrived, by this time, and assailants were driven off at the point of tte bayonet from the ships and docks. . ‘ Despite tke recent oppatitton of the German ultxamontanes it is said that the Pope will accept the measure proposed by Bismarck relative to the applicatiou of the May laws. This acceptance would not imply his approval in the.principle of the laws as a basis of the Canon law of Germany. ' It is believed that instructions to this effect Have been sent to the Papal Nuncio at Vienna. The Bradlaugh case is causing a great commotion in the English house of commons. He being an atheist, desires to merely affirm instead of taking the oath of office. Many of his friends in the house are withdrawing from his support, and it is now a question whether he will be admitted to a seat. Sir Henry Wolf and Fowler, and O’Donnel have anonymous letters threatening their murder for opposing Bradlaugh's admission. The M. E. general conference in session at Cincinnati has appropriated $25,000 to pay off the debts of the Pacific Christian Aavecate, and the committee has reported in favor of appropriating SI,OOO for the benefit of the California Christian Advocate. Editors of the several papers were elected as follows: Altoora, Christian Advocate, E- O. Fuller; Southwestern, Advocate at New Orleans, J. C. Hart sell; Caristian Advocate, San Francisco, B. F. Craig. -i . 'i •, ’

Gov. Foster, of Ohio, has notified President Hayes of the appointment of Alex. Handset Cincinnati, and Geo. A. Baker, of Cleveland, commissioner*, and Qfaaancey Andrews, of Youngstown, and Isaac Morton, of Cambridge, alternate commissioners to represent Ohio at the international exposition to be held in New York, in 1883. The nomination of the two former is substantially a reappointment, as they arf really now holding the office under an act which this act supercedes. The La Capttale of Rome has published a letter from Gen. Garibaldi, addressed to his constituents in. Rome, admitting that the house of Savoy had powerfully aided iu the regeneration of Italy, but accusing it of having afterwards ruined the country and brought it ton condition of misery. Gen. Garibaldi recommended. the dissolution of

the ftrmy ; and that nothing be given to priests. He concludes his letter by urging the people of Rome to hist all prominent members of the right as they leave the chamber of deputies. The paper containing the letter waa seized by tke police. , , „ _. A dispatch from St Petersburg says the great trial at the Nihilists has "been concluded. After the public proceedings die members of the court martial remained in consultation eleven hours. When they re-entered the court room the, president sentenced Michallofl and Baburofl to be hanged; DeMeinier to fifteen yean hard labor in the Stines; Usatehsmar to twenty yean hard labor; Berdilloff to eight yean hard labor, and Lawenihal to tea yean bard labor. Of die women prisoner* three were sentenced to fifteen yean hard labor. The women Malinowka and Baulonoff koff, chief supreme executive commissionpc, far confirmation.

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leap into the Kentucky river, yesterday jumped from Us mid die of the suspension bridge at Cincinnati into the Ohio river, a distance of feet. Little publicity whs given to the feat, and not more than thirty peopU were on the bridge, sod a wail crowd xm the shore saw him. lie tamed twice in the air and struck the water with bis head and shoulders. He was picked up by a skiff unhurt, though bis skirt, where it struck the water, was badly tom. WoosTiß, 0-, May 23 —The residence of John Hall, a wealthy - - nglare . where he kept his money, was most unmercifully beaten. HU sister was frightened, into telling the burglars where the money was, and about S4O was token »#Spsw*M Urm Ba*dcsxt, Q , May 23.—A horse race occurred yesterday. -between John Snyder's Sleepy ■ Jake and Laasdon's Duff Green. About half way round the track Snyder’s horse bolted, running s pftst into his side over-a foot, cutting a hole that would measure 12 inches in diameter.- The rider was .thrown to „ the earth and had one leg broken; The horse continued ou his course, his entrails dragging on tho ground and ho steping upon them. Not uatil he attempted to jump a fence and the animals entire smmach was tom trom his body, by catching ou a rail, did he slanen Bis speed. Hs was immediately shot. The boy is dangerously hurt and his leg may have to be amputated.

Ba* Fra*cisco May 24.- -A Santa Cruz dispatch says; A local train on the South Pacific Coast tailroad, which ran yesterday between hero aud Big Tree switch, carrying passengers to the Indejiendent Rifle pic-nic at that place, met with a terrible accident at 3:30. Three opea cars, with high railings outside, and loaded - with about 125 persons, left that place for this city. The tram was pulled by No. 3 engine, one Elliott being engineer. On me way down all went well till No. 7 tunnel was passed, said tunnel being located just above and overlooking the powder works. As the cars passed through the tunnel the ■peed of the engine was increased, it being down grade. Just aS tbh curving of tbc road was reached the first car jumped tbe track to the V*\ and the second to the right, the third car remaining on the track. The people on the first two cars were thrown into a heap inside, toward the bank, in a confused mass, tbe can passing over those who were across the track. Those on the third car were uninjured, .merely being knocked ofl their feet. Tbot»c not hurt immediately set to v'ork to assist the wounded and look altar tbe dying and dead, and word was immediately sent to this place asking for assistance which was promptly rendered.

A gloom of sadness to night is cast over our cit ', every hotel being turned into a hospital to receive the wounded, who will number upwards bf -forty Already thirteen are reported dead and others will die before morning. A number of San-Fran-cisco people were on the train at the time of the accident It will be impossible to give a full list of the wounded to-night, as they are being cared for by all partita and are spread in various parts of the towh. Some of the dead have not been identified. Physicians are heroically working to relieve the sufferings of the wounded, assisted by sisters of charity. No service is being held at the churches on account of tbe disaster.

Ban Francisco, May 24.—A train from Santa Cruz arrived early this morning bringing a number of killed and wounded by yesterday’s accident. A crowd awaited the arrival anxious for the tale of friends, and many touching scenes occurred whenthe ferry boat reached the slip. Two more of the dead have been identified : Clayton F. Merrill, of Soquel, and J. Orphita, of Ban Francisco. There remain still unknown fourteen in all. Those most seriously injured remain at Santa Cruz, the mayor of which city has requested the basin ess houses to bn closed to-day; The wounded are comfortably provided for atthe Ocean house, and with two exceptions are doing well.

Washington, D. C., May 24.—There is nc longer any doubt that Courtney deliberately cold out the 1 sfo rope here, "The evidence is such as cannot la disbelieved. It how appear* that the matter waft so well understood by some of his mend* who did not come on that they telegraphed the facta for the purpose . of directing, bets which they dcsireu to place. A prominent hanker exhibited a letter from a friend in New York, in which the statement is made that it is authentically stated in that city that the most made cut of the race was by the donomef the prjgg; that they arranged with Courtney To act the part he did, and, relying upon bins

in that respect, sent agents to the New York pool rooms to invest largely in Hanlan’s stock. Another story Is circulated hy Professor H. Daniels, an old citizen, whose word there is no occasion to doubt. He states that on the day before the boat race he picked up on Louisiana avenue a telegraphic dispatch, dated New York, to a well known sporting man here, signed “Chalmers,** containing this message: “Bet all you can even to SSOO on llanlan, rViUrtney has been fixed here.’’ Professor Daniels states that the telegram was written upon the usual receiving blank and had every appearance of being genuine. Lociavru.x. May 24.—First race. % mile heats; Knight Templar, LI; Florence 8., 5,2; Hattie 3,3. Thne-1 *5, 1:17. Second race, Clark stakes, for tkree-vear-olds, 2 miles, Kinkade won; Aurora’s Baby 3d, 3d. Tiaae—3«s7*g. Tnird race, Tennessee stake, for two-Cr-olds, jK mile. Hindoo tepn; Brametta 2d, Rtppfo 3d. Time-*1.:16. - Last race, for all ages, milodash; Montreal and Auder ran a dead heat; John and Happy Joe ran off; Montreal beat Audex four lengths. Time—l:44s£, 1:44*

TnoryN. Y., May 24.—During a fight between roughs this evening, John Wall, an ex-convict recently released from the Clinton prison, shot and killed’Bupervlkbr Philip Caaey, of the Eleventh ward, who was attempting to quell the disturbance, and fled, pureued by an Infuriated mob. During the chase a duel took place between Wall and the pursuing officers, and officer Owen Duff* wtas shot in the hea.l and side, but not fatally. A man named Browley waa also snot and injured slightly, and a child was shot in the hand. The wildest excitement prevailed. Wall,-when captured, had a narrow escape charge do‘affairs at Constantinople, In a. dispatch dated April 6th; reports that the following letter has been received by telegraph at the legation of the United Slates: Masoctl, April s.—The terrible famine, in which wa exist, is killing*!! of the inhabitants ot this town, and neighboring

villages who are assembling here in masses. Their luflerings arffiniftscHh*. ble. Finding no cereals at all, some are eatiqg corpses and have become ill. In consequence their lamentations are heartrending. Most of them are dying, as they have nothing to eat. Those of the inhabitants who nave lived until now, between life and death, pray you to give them' such assistance as will enable them to life. They take the liberty to present their prayers, with tears of expectation whichare flowing troya their eyes, covered withtAoqd. f )> .h

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these people are la deeeribably greater than Fargo, II 5y May f*-£che estimates of moat reliable peraqns as to the increase in acreage io-ihaaeqreahrAis year, coatpared with lfiet,b4age from SO to 45 per cent. From the cap! and moderately wet weather of thow*|frV weeks the wheat has taken very root, and show* everywhere vigorous greuajh. Tower Crer,. D. .TY lay 24.—Small grain looks'wfelT, ahfrtiiere is a promising prospect of an average cram An increase of acreage ovM %ttjem of about 100 per cent, there befbg Oow SDofit 10,000 acres into crop in this vicinity* sad lb a probaICHMI »TO eiD * broken

Sahdcbkt, G_MM»2s.£sJeing informed that John T. lsni%JsC|eiecuve, was in Carey, about twelve mi£es north ofthia state of liuMise excitement MDetective Norris there fortyeight hours, endeavoring to unearth a matter that is envelopedingihe most mysterious darkness, and U J is hourly expected that the moat anroding revelation, will be made of'tmader of .as foul an inscription as ever (Hfigraced the annals of this portion of Ohio. The particulars, as aear as could be as follows: About six yean ago Usapfti zens of fills county,'Albert HmfMfjmti James Kjre, hhng Dear the vlllagboi Carey, disappeared from their home!, with money m their pockets, and hive-no t returned to account sor ■' their untimely departure. Theic respective fiupHjes watched and.waitad4or tbc return fiKeir loved oqes, and made every effoitpbssible to obtain the slightest informJttjpn that would enable them to ascertaioSge fate of their friends, bat throughodt ail these intervening yearvjvot onC . tfOT of Ultelli tence of the absent ones lidjrT sent to strengthen the hope (hat has been entertained , that'" they ..wore yet living,’ ‘ somewhere*’ among .the children of men, and would Return, bv-and-

by, to account for their strange taking off. On the contrary theic friends had despairingly accepted the prevailing opinion that darkest mysteries are unraveled, as time passes by, and this OajjfjF is gradually disappearing, under the influence brought to bear upon U.by John T. Norris. Norris received a telegram some time ago from the superintendent of the Sandusky county infirmary, that one of tbe inmates of that institution was daily telling his fellow inmales of a murder he had participated in over in Wyandotte county, near the town of Carey, some years ago, Thq fellow was not bright and no credence was given to his story, for awhile, but continuing to narrate the same circumstances with the same particulars induced tbe superintendent to notify the detective. Ncrris interviewed the self-confessed murderer, and readily concluded that the fellow* was speaking tbe truth. He immediately telegraphed some of the prominent citizens of Carey to know whether any person or persons were misting, five or six years ago, from that community. He received an affirmative answer sod immediately started for that point, taking with him the yonng man who bad beeen horrifying the bandusky county people with lm tales of murder. Arriving there Norris proceeded with his man to the Gault House, Carey, telegraphing the prosecuting attorney to be upon the spot to take immediate charge of the case. Allen Bmally, a prominent attorney of this place, was dispatched in place ol the prosecutor,.to look after the interest of the state. The young man was lead to the station at Carey, and immediately identified the buildings around, aad this is the story.hj tells; About six years ago, sometipia this simmer, I was in tbisplace with a rikn from Toledo. We were in t V bank, , thdM, '(meaning Straw A Co) when a man came in and drew S4OO. Tbe man went out and my partner said to me, “We will follow that farmer and take his money and divide it between U 6." ; The fanner gtartid ndrlla dow* tht Cincinnati, Sandusky & Cleveland rhilrb*! ma we fcxjn ovfrujok him, ana walked along leisurely until we had got out of town, probably two miles, or until we got to a dark wood on the right of the rauroad. When that place was reached tbe farmer said he would cut

acrosslom.he believed, and proceeded b clffcb the board fence. ..After he had Xkitered the wood!, my partner-skipped vrver the fence and fired two shots, afia the fkrmevfelL I guest ho was I saw his pockets rifled and he did not stir. It was -a dark,- lonely, marshy place; rite weeds were thick, and being afraid I hurried along the road north. Soon my partner overtook me, and gave me $lO, promising thtet I would receive more at the next towraAdrian. He then hurried on telling «nte*M* would wait for me at the town ahead. When I got to town I could not find him, and. hare never seen- him since. The simplicity that charaderlfted L, the fellow’s story stamped the conviction upon the minds of Norris, Smalley and others present, that the yonng man was telling the truth. Fearing that an excited crowd would tend to onbalance the mind of the criminal, Norris commanded the excited throng to remain behind, while he and the guilty party proceeded down the road to the scene of death. The murderer lad the way—walked straight to the point down the road, two miles, and stopped in front ot the centre of the dismal wood, and pointed out the place the farmer had climbed the fence, and also the scene of the shooting. It is a black T *odg, wUh an undergrowth or underbrush, 'in which a man- might He until the tesutrcction tnorning without being discovered. They failed to find any trace ot trskeleton, but returned with theTlrm conviction that that particular locality was the scene of a tragedy which mbbed Wyandotte county of one of her best citizen*. Norris la yet there. The Woods a refilled with parties rooking for some trace of the murdered man. f

Gideon Close, an Old resTdehYof - Carey, and other reliable citizens, now recall the, fact that threejdr four yean ago * couple of hoys, who were hunting in that dismal wood, returned to town pitti the story dT having seen the’ strangest lot of bon as they had ever beheld, and they believed they were the bones of a human being. The boys were laughed at so heartily, however, that they were ashamed, to refer to the stran gc sight they had beheld. All are convinced, now of the certainty of a tragedy occurring at that point, six years ago. Our citizens are confident that time alone Is required to bring the felon to judgment who conspired with the demented man to kit) xnd rob Albert Hunter m J Junes Nye, within sight of the toem or Carey, and in the bosom of fhe*vnld *wood lot whose abundant

and Inxurtant vegetation concealed the corpse from view and delayed the vengeance which will surely overtake and destroy. that villain-upon. Whose brew is the brand of a murder. r 3 Pnrsßuxck, Pa., May 2d—The Reformed Presbyterian By nod re-assembled this mpfuiag- The Rev. McDowell presented the report of the Northern Presbytery, giving police .to the sypod of the‘trial end saapenston of the Rev. Wood side by the New York Presbytery. ! . The. clerk then read the pom plaint-of R*r. WoodSide against the Rev. Alford and th* Pittsburg Presbytery, * and their illegal act*; dating since last November. The Rev. .Alford presented a resolution censuring Rev. Wood*ide for his actions last week in threatening to clear the. church, call-.

beta jsMi» imffl— i threat, ohebws; sMU SOT»°ibt e LEartorwohTH, Kas , May 26 —Thos. C. rn* was Scquittotf about a month agonTit IX,R« Anthony, editor of the Times, on Delaware street, tbw afternoon, and, after passing bim, turned and fired two shots at him, neither ot which took effsot. One of them, however, struck John P. Douglas, a young man employed in the Times office, making a severe scalp wound, and the other struck Lucian Baker, a lawyer, standing On the sidewalk, about 600 feet away, in the left aide, about two inehesbelow the nfpple, and passed through the body, indicting what was at first thought to be a mortal wound, lint hie physicians now think he may recover. Mr,. Baker is a prominent attorney,' aid defended

Thurston and cleared him, when he was tried for murdering Embry. The aflaberrated great exfellement, and the' offleefs were, obliged to secrete Thurston, to prevent the-people froip iofljbcting summary punishment Upon him. - 1 Wasßikotov, DfC.-, May ®5 —The fol lowing letter wan mmled thin evening ? ;: Treasury Department, May 26., '* Bir lam not satisfied with the prices the department, has been compelled .to pay for bonds recently purchased, and am disposed to extend a call for bids for '4s ana which, at market rates, will pay the government a better interest. L have no fear bat "that Congress will proyiue means for the payment; of 'bonds as 4 they mature, and am qaite sure the, hope of holder* of bonds,that they will ruu longer than maturity <U tmtournl. Tdu' wultherefore,. please give notice that next Wednesday, and every Wednesday hereafter v until farthernotibe, thfe’department will receive.bidg tor 4 and- 4 % pec cent bongls of the United States, as well as lor thereof the fifscriptioa Hbrtofdre ptrrchased.. Very respectfully,? John Shermazi. Gk*. Thomas Hill House, Assistant Treasurer of the United Btales, New York. .Baltimore, May 26 First race, mile dash, won by scottls; Judge Murray second. Bounce third. Time, 1. The Keunel sweepstakes, one-mile, were, captured by Wanderer Filly; Ed. Lewis second, Judge Murray tnird. Time, Third race, one mile, all ages, was won by Hattie F.; Virgille second, Boardman third. Time, 1:44W. The Perion handicap, mile heats, was won by Gabriel; Waiter second, rest ruled out. Time, ter won the first heat. The trial steeple chase was won by Day Star; Faustina second. Time, 2:10. . Columbus, 0., May 26.—Governor Foster, today, granted a reprieve of six weeks to George Price, of Cincinnati, who was sentenced to be hung for the murder of Villie Black. The reprieve was granted after an examination made by tifo prominent physicians, who state that they have decided that Price is of unsound mind, caused by injuries to his head that he his epileptic fits. The convulsions a*e caused, it is probable, from these injuries. The reprieve is granted to allow a fuller examination to be made.

Washington. May 27.—The bill agreed upon by the senate committee, granting the extension of six years to the Northern Pacific railroad irom the 4th day of July, 1880. allows actual settlers to purchase a half section of land -from the company.instead ot a quarter section, as originally provided. The Texas Pacific measure was finally referred to a sub-com-mittee. The senate in executive session oonflrmin Benjamin F. Thacker, census supervisor for the third district of Iowa; and Leonard Love, agent for the Indians at the Cheyenne agency, Dakota; John A. Rea, register of the land office, at Bismarck, Dakota; D. M. Key, of Tennessee, United States district judge for the eastern and middle district of Tennessee; N. Goff, of Clarksburg, Va., to be United States attorney for the district of West Virginia. - The senate rejected the nominations of S. New tin Pettis, of Penn., to be associate justice of the supreme court for the territory of New Mexico and B. McSkinner, of Pomeroy, Ohio, to be postmaster at Pomeroy.

Nrw fiBoRK, May 27.—The right worthy grand lodge of Good Templars adopted the following to-day: lUooloed, That the right werthy grand ledge, I. O. G. T., representing the civilized world, desire, with pride and hearty approval, to make mention ot the noble act ot the president- of the United States of America and his most excellent wife, in prohibiting the use ot wine at their receptions, and trust this worthy example will not only be followed hereafter at the white house, but the practice will be adopted by the rulers of all laads. Madison, Wis , May 27.—1 u the general assembly to-day the appeal of the Rev. Van Dyke from the decision of the presbyteir of New Jersey, was reported by the fodiciSl committee, with a recommendation that the parties be allowed to

withdraw the complaint, which was "MSA. were strongly] :3i£g»>ieE» Philadelphia, was elected president. Baltoiokr, May 27.—Selling race, 1% piUpg tylttfWff l MI Seojmd stakes, won hy M < Janet was Won by Clyde Hampton; Edwin A. Sd;- Mill fttwin fti luii, »-.**s»re»^ Pittsburg, May 27.—The Reformed Presbyterian Synod took np and passed judgment upon the prtfiekt and Appeal of Rev. Woodside which Characterizes the action of the Pittsburg Presbytery since October last, and the action of the NorthSpeeches were ’ffiinutrV, and at the conclusion the record of the vote was eighteen to five in favor of sustaining the appeal. , • Nxw Y6rk, May 27.—The beat cOntin ues intense, the thermometer marking 95 has nearly doubled the* past three day*! Along the Jersey coast and up the Sound, the thermometer reached 100 degrees. All crop* are blasting.

London, May 27.—At the annual meetd\°f auspices of the association, the match to 'ttasgSSSS&fiix 15 shots to each mktt. ' . T mwk iW

May'sistl aad fowTasenMl Aauging £*m '£ ffifiSs, IrefificMkmt ra Harryi Whittakerimd ihettefafiMiMimii iM>HitfiiiafntkMgtlli ; fhfc man. In t subseaueot conversation in mh^keTWre vzaaUe to ssy tf'they were his psnts or Mi account for ikeirpresence in his room, i. Recorder Scare summed ud the lestimchy fn a speech of considerable length, te whwfi he cbsrgM WbittaMre wiM fiisguisiag his handin writing slips fog the experts. He finally charged that Whitta. ker had failed to dear himself, but, on -the contrary, the circumstantial evidence was so strong against him.as to jostily the recorder in demanding that Whittaker be tried by a court martial foe conduct unbecoming a cadet and a gentleman, and for perjury. ' Lieutenant Knight, counsel for Whittaker, then said the recorder had given his interpretations, but that was ho reason why tha oourl should accept them. No evidence had been produced to reflect on Whittaker’s ; character,' frOm boyhood. Tbs counsel- claimed that the noth of warning, was a forgery of Whittaker’s writing, and that the paper was stolen from his worn with the object of fastening suspicion upon him- There was every possibility 6f" doing this, 'is .Whittaker’s , imom was ea?y of access. Lieutenant ~ Knight . .then took tin the Writing of the experts, and in a most sarcastically, amusing way, showed how repeatedly contradicted themselves and each other. In conclusion he pronounced it as monstrous, to say a young man,, just entering on manhood, should be thonghf guilty of such a crime, with everything to nope foX-with bright prospect* *gcJ,opthio*.to g#u by the cumin ission of such a deed. At the conclusion ©T KnWbt**speedh the Afiutt ‘Mjoufned ~ jamt XWkitWhera inquiry ® CmdikjT Mly &8.-~tfie PiftisWre, iF'o’A Wayne A Chicago raliroatf fconfpfifiyWilf; neat Sunday, add a new fast line,express train to their )ine. The new train leaves Chioage at I- p. tn:,i daily, arriving at Pittsburg at 9:45 a. m,; Baltimore, 6:45 p. m.; Washington, 8:17 p. m.; Philadelphia, 6:45 p. m., and New York, 9:80p. m. Chicago, May 28.— Tliere was a considerable Influx of delegates and’ friends of the various candidates to-day.' Among the most notable arrivals were O. H. Booth, Judge Hunt, H- C. Hedges, Attorney General Nash, J. C. Donaldson, Col. Wood, all of Ohio; Marshal Jewejl, _ Connecticut, P. D Pinchbeck, I. H. Fitzhugh, Ex-Governor Warmouth, W. W. Phelps, and Governor Z. K. Pangburn, New Jersey. The. special train bearing the New Hampshire and Maine delegations will arrive to-morrow morning. It is announced that a Grant mass mretlng Is to 1« held in the exposition building next Monday. It is understood that John Russell Young started to Galena last night to visit General Grant It is not known whether the visit has any political significance or is purely friendly. Hartford, Cohn., May 38.— Henry Hamlin, the convict who, while attempting to escape from the stale prison shot Watchman Shipman, was hanged to-day. He attended special mass this morning and his spiritual director says he died repentant. Hamlin slept but little last night, spending the time principally In writing letters and conversing with his death wate’j. He partook of a light break last and received his friends' until the hour of the execution. The scaffold Was ifi the jail corridor and Hamlin walked to it from his cell with a firm step. He made a short speech, saying, substantially, that he never had any intention of harming his victim, and that he forgave all those who had doqe. anything against him! - Tfien until* the drop fell, be kept his eyes tamed uparfivd aad l his fall was nearly six feet, but the noose not being adjusted properly slipped around to the back of the tieck, and fourteen minutes elapsed before the ptflse ceased to beat, and ten minutes later the body was cut down and delivered to Father Hughes, who had it inferred one hoax afterwards. Hamlin had a sister in Toiedp, and she yesterday telegraphed him her farewell. Hamlin was not hts real name, which the priest will not make poblio.

The American Wheat Ring.

The realization of the pleasant anticipations of the warket, however, may be interrupted by other besides political influences. For example, the sudden break cf the wheat ring at Chicago, or rather of the unscrupulous speculators who have been trying to create a gigantic food monopoly in order to profit by artificially high prices, would not be without considerable effect. There are in this American ring a gang of leading stock speculators, ana if they were to collapse in one department, their collapse would extend ijs effects- to the other as well. A cpllapse in the American stock market would then extend its influence here. There need he no pity for the adventurers who hare been trying to bring about an artificial grain famine in Europe by withholding from* the market the produce of the United States, if they should burst They are vulgar gamblers of the worst type. It was their, threat to starve Europe by keeping 80,000,000 quarters of .wheat that would haVe flowed thither in

the natural cuiirae. stored apia. America. But their avarice has overleaped itself. declined in ;March to $1.46, and in AEril Ithe price was about the same. It > now certain to go lower: and the memwwbf HSr, new wheat within one month date, aajtenw, .threwis nm nhaenaeiiw sji pains going higher, and the expenses connected with Keeping the wheat, including storage, insurance, -interest, etc., will not be teach less than 30 cents par bushel. The grain must therefore be brought to market and is now beginning to arrive, and the ESSSE2S3S ring must be enormous. If they are, as we suppose, the same speculators who have been inflating the -stock and share market* in America, the one will react on the other and the effect will be disturbing here as well for a time. —London World.

Adobes from CopfctantiflWplAyepoft ttu| after the Jeturn of Mayfifird.ihe Am erf. can Minister to QfinStantiWopla, Pasha rife, newed his protest against the jurisdiction which Maynard had assumed, through orders from Washington. -Maynard has gone to Alexandria fotry'sftCthor American, accused rtjpgaßdering; an Egyptian. .It, iiVbeUeved that the Egyptian governnteit'" Wllr" protest against Maynard’s assumptions of jurisdiction, and ignore it. Philadelphia has contributed $20,000 to the sufferers by the Milton fire, ana other rAwmws awm* and some of tktt. business hotmse ’ft WWFJtIte jtolittbdow st fitt 8 : lfl ppo'<P#9««9* . |j

An Irish Castle and Its Lerd.

;il If JCf. Qemnmta :(Me, owed no money he would be in receipt of £7OO a rear or thereabouts. He still make* an j>tmrn.lw(Welp—rally —gteated and imposing a.residtibce m might he expected from its somewhat i ppUutioua. name. A small two storied house, there was nothing in its architecture to justify the mag. niflcent addition to the (name of the townland on which the house is built, except a modest attempt by raising-tee waHs of the semi-circular oorch.to the top. of the house to gire that adornment the appearance of m castellated battlement. Once its name went near helping its present oWaer to a marriage with the daughter of a rich English manufacturer. It happened this wise: Mr. O'Hara, when a young man, spent some time ip- the neighborhood of Manchester, where he met the daughter of the rich Mr. Plumrigg. He cams, he aaw and hft conquered; and nothing was wanted but the consent of Mr.'-plumrigg to raise the fortunes of Gsrrauns Oastle to a higher level then they had ever yet attained. Mr. O’Hara honestly felt that in marrying Miss Plumrigg and consenting to accept her JC3O.QOO he was conferring an honor to that rich but mushroon family not too dearly purchased at the money, for the O’Haras, ot Garraun Castle, came or a family tracing Its descent for many centuries. In the interview with Mr. Plunfcrigg he answered -that gentleman’s questions as to his property .with such candor —showing that unfortunately not more than shout £6OOO a year remained to him oftha 6bce vAst possessions of his family —that a ready consent was given, and he had the happiness of assistingth&t evening At the Plumrigg family dinner. Mr Piumriarg was, however, a man of business ; ana while Mr. O’Hara was engaged with his wife and daughter in looking over ;the* most expensive things' with which the castle was to be refurnished, hfs inquiries of the shopmen indicating an order l*rge*«n*agh to refornish'awingpf twi atickonirnelau'tf andfouna himself at tee modes! wl#ay 'sftftiotP cloteto the gate oit his daughter’s future residence. An Irish jaunting car of the usual country type was at the station, the keen-witted but ragged driver looking out lor a possible fare. Nosoondr had Mr. Plumrigg stepped from the train than Jack Rogers seized upon bis portmanteau aud was busily engaged in tying it on the well of the broken car when Mr. Plumrigg appeared at the gate. “Why,” he said, “I cannot drive on a vehicle pf that description,” as he looked at the car, which was seemingly held together by ropes. One step showed signs .of having once been painted; the other had been knocked off by a passing cart a few days before, and the wood ot the new step was still unsullied by a paint brush. The harness was a mixture of leather, wire aud twine, and once off.no human being but Jack Rogers could again place ft properly on the wiry hack thift waited patiently at the gate. “Arra, don’t be the laste on&isy, yer honor,” answered Jack. “Sure, when yer on the car you will feci as aisy as if you wor sittin’ on a feather bed.” . You know Garraun* Castle?” asked Mr. plumrigg. “Do I know the mother that bore me?” answered Jack, in trim Irish ffcshion, thus indirectly conveying assent to the ques tion. “Well, how long will it take to drive there ?” asked Mr. Plumrigg. “I’ll row yon up ior half a minute,” replied Jack. “Sure that’s the gate there fornenst you. But, faith, there is no use at all for your honor to go up, for the master is not at there’s no one in the. house but owld Betty Murray; an’, faith, you mnst go in wid the hens through the kitchen dQor if you want to get in; for owld Betty* is blind an’ deaf, ana sorra one of her would hear the Dsy of Judgment if it kern rappinblp the doore.v “purely, my you make- a mistake,” said Mr, Phirarigg. “I mehn Mt. O’Hara, Garrauas Castle;”- “The devih a mistake I make, your honor. Sure, isn’t Mr. O’Hara In England, goin’ to marry a lady wid I,OQQ,QOOof gooldeir sovereigns; an?, be me sow]. I’m thinkin’ he’s the boy that’ll spend urab’flrf her!' Faith, When he comes home: fcveiy -man ih the village will be drunk for a week.” * • . Mr. Plumrigg returned by the next train, aud no more family dinners were shared by Mr. O’Hara. The English matrimonial campaign having faired, Garrauns Castle was once more inhabited; and in the fulness of time a marriage was duly solemnised between Mr. O’Hara and the seventh of Gregory Coleman, of Mount Coleman.—Paif Mall Gazette. I

“Skin Grafting.”

A letter from Danielaonville, Conn., gives &u account of remarkable skin-grait-mg -which has been going on there for the past twelve months, and which has Anally proved a gratifying success. On the 31st of December, 1873, Jesse, an ll'year-old son of Edwin Morgan, of Canterbury, fell into a vat containing a solution of potash in boiling water. He struck on both feet, the liquid coming nearly up to his hips, and instantly the skin of his legs commenoed to peel off. It was found that the flesh on both legs had been so horribly and thoroughly boiled that no cells re* mained for a new skin to form a growth upon. The boy’s life was one of excruciating agony for months. Last April-ayoung physician, of that town, named Rosa, finding that his older brethren had given the case up as incurable and one which must speedily result in death, determined to attempt the salvation of the lad’s life by skin grafting. The boy’s pa rents Imploring him to undertake Hhe operation, he was finally induced to try it. Over 2,<m«|aft* were used, the mother of the child, the Doy himself aud many of he neighbors submitting portions of their fuUfile fpr the operation. A prevailing desire was manifested to have the child live without becoming a cripple. Hundreds of visitors flocked.tb see 4hs, pati&t and f, flesh were about three times the size of the head of a pin. - The process of grafting is similar to that employed in horticulture. The limbs look as though pitted with small pox. The grafts grow fastest in the Spring months. One of them is put on a muscle, Where it sinks ih and deposits a cell, after which the top sloughs off Although the work is not yet complete, the legs are nearly restored to their formal and natural functions, and the thild can walk a short distance without a . crutch, but la still very week from exhaustion and emaciation.

Spring returns of the winter wheat area confirm those of December and indicate an addition of on&eighth to the breadth of last season’s harvesting. So the depart: ment of agriculture decides. At this rate a fair yield eve* less than that of last year, places the United States at least 60 per

cent., ahead or France, the next largest producer of, wheat in the world. Ten years ago the mean product of both nations was substantially the same. Some statements hare recently been current making Russia the champion wheat pro* ducer. It is a great mistake. Russia surpasses the world in the growing of rye, produeingmach more than wed©# wheat, and aUeast three bushels of the former to 2&fei3rof o ft^"“ i ’ wb : . utahi, «*■ They will be held for instructimu from I Washington. ,

NO. 37.

The Era of Wages.

Itis quite within the modern historical stages of development throughewhich the W* has passed, with reference to their in luatrisl advance. ~ •; AM was inevitable at the beginingof this process, the pioneers in this new field of investigation were first struck with the OstMfi side of industry, rather than with the morel and spiritual sides of the investigation—that is, with the tools men have used and the changes in their material, intfoduoed a« the growing experience ot generations widened man’s knowledge of the world about him, than with tho moral and spiritual changes in- man him—or u the growing conception of his own powers of the increasing privilege of life, rendered aew institutions necessary as the expression of the new life of the people. Thus the terms “tee stone age,’’ “the bronze age,” “the iron age,” the steam age” and “the press age,” were first consciously used to typify the various tools of industry by which the race has advanced, wit', a thorough unconsciousness that they implied, at the same time, the steps by which mankind has also advanced, spiritually. A similarly careful study of the institutions by which the race has sought to harmonise its social relations with its growing conceptions has not yet been made but has been begun so admirably that it is quite justifiable to hope that an equally accurate and suggestive nomenclature ior the archeology of institutions, if we may use such a term, will be invented as has been for the archeology of tools. Serfdom, slavery, peonage, villainage and wages ate the terms generally used to express the ascending steps by which industry has grown to its present condition. The terms themselves arc hardly definite enough, nor have they' been so carefully discriminated that the mention of an v one of them expresses so clearly the relation it held to the other institutions contemporaneous with it as to give an accurate picture of the moral ana spiritual position of thepeoplc living under it. With the archaeology of tools tineas* la subject has been studied.’ We can" tett, fpr example; with quite proximato accuracy, that in the stone age, men could have had none of the appliances of life, the very existence of which presupposes a better chtiing tool than stone could aftord. They conld not have had a smoothed plank/for example, and in the construction of their houses could not have bnilt such buildings as require planks. .It is the same with each succeeding invention. Before its practical realization, men must have dene the best they could Without it Of course, during the later periods, say dqring the iron age, good use may have been still made of stone or bronze tools, and there most probably ■were large numbers so well satisfied with these as not to conceive the need for better.

It is tho same with the institutions upon which industry is based. While serfdom was the only possible relation conceivable in society for obtaining the necessary production, ft was impossible tor the serts to conceive the need of their political freedom. But eventually the education of life itself—the longing fora better life—the inherent desire to improve the condition of our children, led the serfs to rebel against their condition. As it was the sword that held them down by the tyranny of the feudal system, it was through the sword only that they could hope to gain their freedom. The peasant wars in England and on the* Continent, though their aims and motives have generally bean misunderstood and carefully misrepresented, are now becoming recognized as the most important steps, taken for the inauguration of the modern era—vastly more important in the study of the social development of the race than all the wars for dynastic and other purposes undertaken by the kings and nobles. And so it is tp-day. The very general movement, all over the civilized world, of the wage workers to liberate themselves and their children from their absolute dependence upon wages as their sole reward for the efficient aid they take in general production, is a most significant and cheering sign for the future. They find themselves bound to-day in the tyranny of a network oi customs, traditions, legal enactments and superstitious reverence for institutions, and they are steadily strengthening themselves in the conviction that it is by the destruction or transformation of these that they shall gain their end. They know that it has been the dominance of the law oi violence which has prepared the conditions in which they find themselves caught, and t s at it is only in the substitution of the la# of love and sympathy that so different a conception of life can he made general as shall lead instinctively to the organization of a higher set of institutions than the* competitive war of industry, which has succeeded to the armed warfare which prevailed at the opening of the modern era of history, f

Secular Acceleration of the Moon.

Sir George Airy, who has been tor several years engagtp In a new method of treating the lunar theory, has finished labors, and laid the resalt before the royal astronomical society. The value deduced lor the secular acceleration of the moon’s mean motion is 10 min .1477, and it is remarked that this numerical value is founded on the assumed numerical value of the solar parallax (8 sec .91)—depending,' in fact, on the inverse cube of the parallax. If, for instance, the parallax be diminished-by l-60lh part, the accclera tie* will be diminished by l-20th. In stating this result, the Astronomer Royal said: “I think that this is the toughest question that I have ever had in my' life. It has occupied me, in one shape or another, for many years—some, times attacking it, sometimes repelled by it, and sometimes adhering to it for months together. It is the most slippery thing I have laid my, haads,9Ron; but I have got a grasp upon ft it last, and I have toot the feast doubt of the perfect accuracy of it. I need not sgy that the matter in which I have been engaged is s matter ot great importance, more especially in distant chronology. The total solar eclipses of former times depend entirely upon this small quantity, and I think that in this in -estlgation, which has cost me so much pains, I nave worthily bestowed time and -trouble to give a little certainty to that point” With reference to this secular acceleration, Sir George Airy writes to The Oburoatory: “In the moon’s orbit, 1 sec—--6,000 feet very nearly. In a century, therefore', the moon is accelerated 00,000 feet. In the first year (from the epoch) the acceleration is 6 feet; in the second year 18 feet additional, and so on. This is additive to the computed longitude whether before or after the epoch. In « century the moon’s distance is changed by 60,000-8,400 feet, or 7.14 ft; in one year Uis changed by 0.0714 .of s loot, or Jess than an inch. This change proceeds unifenaly.”

Lucy's Gelatins Puddekg.—Half box gelatine deeeolved in a large half pint boiling hot water; when cold, stir in two teacups of sugar, the juice of three lemons, the whites of four eggs beaten previously to a stiff froth. Put this in a mould to growstiff, and with the yolks of these four eggs and a quart of mtfk make a boiled custard, flavor it with vanilla, and tehen this and the pudding age coid serve on this same’ dish, pouring the custard round the pudding. It is a very flood and handsome dish for desert. ’ ~'r ,7**: - Joe Jefferson stopped acting for the season at Toronto, Saturday night.

Benaalaer Republican MAJOR BITERS & SON, -.-if t Pubtiafevnaa+fiepriMan. OH— 1* MilwnO " ■*•*.-« Public . ■ . s . j.j s'if’jfj Temse of Sslwvtylissb ,» ;■** The Official Paper of Jasper County. ITIIaSi ifsW laTnmmiHl Til Tilellm aaaUr

INDIANA.

A Oonnersville horse fell dead .from fright at a locomotive. v The farmers of Knox county feel gloomy over the wheat .prospect, The State House contractors have just S ‘J* i . The crop prospects in Sullivan county are very flattering. The acreage of wheat. Km is much larger than test year, aad crop promises to be Rally as lam, if not laeger. Charles Shilling, a boy eleven years old, waa drowned in White water, three miles note of Lafayette, while swlmmikg, a few days ago. The body was recovered the same evening. Norris aad Maber, the two men arrested for the terrible assault on Barnhart Meyer, at Laiqyette, have been held in the sum of $6,000 each. Their victim is alive and may recover. The barn ol Dr. Inlow, of Manilla, was set on fire by an incendiary, a few nights ago, and completely destroyed. Five valuable horses perished in the flames. Loss nearly $2,500. A new town clook costing sss6 has been purchased for Asbury University and will * placed in tee tower next week. The hell, costing SBOO, is a gift of the graduating class of 1879 . / Colonel Smith Vawter says that on the 14te of May, 1884, a cold snap overtook vegetation in Indiana, killing the wheat and many forest trees. Ice froze to the thickness of several inches.

The residences of Mrs. Lon Vance, Mat Leifman and John Biehenbach, formerly of the City Hotel, Madison, were partially burned a few evenings since. The losses aggregate $8,000; not fhlly insured. Bishop Chstard goes to St. Mcinrad, Spencer county, to install. Rt. Reverend Mundweiler, O. B. B-, Abbot pf St. Meinrad’s monastery, vice Martin Marty, who was made bishop of Colorado, last February- - George Cochran, a farmer livingseveral miles southeast of Shelbyville.was thrown from a wagon, i few days ago, during a a runaway, and seriously hurt. One *1 his thighs was broken, and he was badly bruised; Mr. Gabriel Bchmuck, Clerk oCthe Supreme Court, has sent out the docket for the May term to the attorneys ove* the State practicing in tint court. It took 700 to go round. . V\‘ - : Hesse s drug store, at Middletown, with about half of the stock, was destroyed by fire recently; also, a dwelling house adjoining, used as a millinery shop. The oss-is estimated at $8,000; mostly insured. The State Auditor has settled with several counties, St. Joseph paying into the state treasury $28,375 53; Adams, $8,803 • 66; Porter, $17,645.76; Bartholomew, $21,. 107.78; Carroll, $15,681.95; Huntington, $16,219.93; and Delaware, $21,680.90.

Saturday was a big day for the wool sellers of Washington county. The Salem woolen mills bought from farmers’ wagons on that day 8,339 pounds of .wool,for which over $2,500 was paid. This is tee largest day’s wool sales ever known in that county. A w Louis Sihier, a convict sent from Vanderburg county, February, 1879, to the Prison South, to remain four years, for grand larceny, was, on Friday, pardqued jy Governor William*. Sihier was at odo time a successful manager of a variety theater in Evansville. George Bolman, son of a wealthy Lafayette banker, has been raising tee wind by laying in a stock of oroide watches, and raising considerable money by pawning teem, his victims supposing they were gottiDg his genuine gold repealer for security. He has disappeared. While the family of Andrew Brenning, of Peru, were away at a picnic, they scut their little son home at 7 o’clock to make the fire. The child used coal oil, and soon the building was ablaze, the boy barely escaping death. The building and contents were entirely consumed. Loss $3,000; no insurance. . - ■ ’

Colonel Jack Templeton, of Benton county, informed a representative of the Lafayette Sunday Times that out of a lot of 1,308 hogs recently purchased he has lost 600 by cholera. He sold 400, and has about 300 left, most of which he expects to lose. Four hundred of the lot died at the distillery in Lafayette. - Mrs. Nathaniel Coggshell, of Marion, is likely to die from a rat bite inflicted about (our months ago. She attacked the rat with a broom and it bit her through the fleshy part of the right hand. The wound healed over in a few days, after which it festered and became very painfnl. She has been growing worse ever since. y. ~ . . A party o( Ku-Klux visited Lexington, Scott county, recently, creating considerable consternation. They worelong,black gowns and maths. A conflict ensued, and bricks, clubs, locks, etc., were thrown promiscuously. In the conflict B. M. Wilson was knocked down and severely hurt, as was Cyrus Passwater, after which the KuKlux departed in haste.

There will be no strike among the iron workc rs of New Albany on acoount of the reduction in wages consequent upon the decline in the price of iron. The men in the mills of that city woik upon a sliding scale. They enjoyed the boom while iron was up, and are willing to put up with the decline, now that prices are down. The mills are fnll of orders, and are running to full capacity. The DcPauw American plate ghtn works in New Albany, after lying Idle since February Ist, on account of the strike ot the operative*, resumed operationa a few days ago, the men returnlag to work at the wages paid when the strike occurred. The wages lost te the men during the strike aggregate $66,600, while the {iroduction of the works, had not this enforced idleness occurred, would have been equal to about $250,000 of plate glass. During the strike SIOO,OOO worth erf the property of the works was destroyed by fire.

Potter Palmer, ot the Palmer house, Chicago,has sued the Tribune of that city Tor libel, claiming $25,000 damages. The Tribune said that “a prominent citizen and an equally prominent democnfWflfr. Potter Palmer, connected with the family of the ex.president by marriage, offered hi *ote, and inaiste-i violtaely Upon voting, he entire force of hotel servants in his employ in the Fftst ward, notwithstanding the notorious and admitted fact that many of them were non-residents.” A ConsUtinople dispatch says much alarm has been produced in the Bristish community by an attack on an Englishman, named Burn ess, and two ladies walk, ing in the suburbs, by three Mussulmeu robbers, armed with knives. Burneas was severely wounded and lies in a precarious condition. Two of his assailants have been arrested and will be court martialed.

No Hospital Needed.

No palatial hospital needed Tor Hop Bitten patient*, no large-salaried, talented puffers to tell what Hop Bitten wilt do or «n, as they, tell their own story by their certain and absolute cures at home.—New Task Independent, -i..., Gen. Hatch has warm fight with the Indians, aud his scouts and soldiers report having killed 65 of t&jkjpß& ’men. Three hundred tramp*, armed with iszors and revolvers, are eDC&mped near Centralia, ID., and threaten to ransack thq tin