Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1882 — Page 2

Rensselaer Republican. BY (ftO. E. MARSHALL.

WEEKLY NEWS REVIEW.

THE EAST. An extraordinary falling off in the production. of the Cherry Grove district caused excitement and an advance in tiie Bradford oil market, where the sales reached the unprecedented figure of 6,392,000 barrels The yield of one well decreased in forty-six days from 2,180 barrels’ in twenty-four hours to one barret , A monument to the memory of Capt. William Morgan was unveiled at Batavia, N. Y., by the members of the National Christian Association. Jonathan Blanchard led the singing. Rev. B. T. Roberts prayed that the people might be emancipated from the evils of secret societies. Dr. Ray classed Morgan as a martyr, and Prof. C. A Blanchard accused the Masons of murdering Morgan. Chief Engineer George W. Melville, and the seamen William Noros and William Nindermann, survivors of the Jeannette Arctic exploring expedition, and of the party that discovered the dead bodies of Lieut. De Long and his companions, and Lieut Robert M. Berry, of the burned Arctic exploring steamer Rodgers, arrived at New York the other day in the steamship Parthia. The attempt to bring about a compromise between the iron manufacturers of Pittsburgh and vicinity and a committee of the Amalgamated Association resulted in failure, the manufacturers rejecting a proposition to adjust differences and end the strike by paying puddlers $5.75 per ton, an advance of 25 cents. The manufacturers adhere to $5.50, the rate prevailing when the strike began. • M. J. H. Hickney, of Baltimore, purchased the buildings and wharves lying between the historic rock at Plymouth, Mass., and the water, for the purpose of demolishing them, and thus permit the ocean to flow up to the rock.... .The 2-weeks-old child of Anton Pel ata, of Pittsburgh, was found dead in bed, and a big black cat sitting on its breast The verdict was that the child’s death was caused by its breath having been sucked away by the cat.... Dwight 8. Lathrop, assistant cashier in the office of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, has absconded with $20,000.. ..The British riflemen were victorious in the international match at Creedmoor, scoring a grand total of 1,975 points, against 1,805 by the Americans. The extensive boot and shoe factory of J. Richardson & Co., at Elmyra, N. Y., valueaat $250,000, was wiped out by fire, throwing 300 men out of employment Four firemen were seriously injured by falling walls. THE WEST. A recent dispatch from Independence, Mo., says: Mrs. M. H. Vaile, wife of the defendant in the star-route trial, has left to join her husband in Washington. A deed conveying the residence of Vaile to his wife was recorded here. The consideration was $22,000 —about one-fourth of its real value... .The Crescent mills and elevator at Denver, Col, were swept away by fire. The estimated loss is $225,000; fully insured. They were the largest in the State and full of grain... .Mrs. Garfield purchased the residence of Ralph Worthington, on Prospect street, Cleveland, for $50,000... .The postoffice at Huntingdon, Iqd., was burglarized and $2,000 worth of property taken. The rumor of an Indian invasion of the southwestern part of Nebraska, which was started in Dundy county and telegraphed broadcast over the country, proves to be entirely without foundation. The story was started by a frightened settler, who magnified a small party of peaceable Indians into an army of nostiles. The sphere of woman has been enlarged in a curious direction by the joint action of Mrs. Georgia Sackett Ruggles and Gov. Porter, of Indiana. There was a bigamist to be overhauled in Kansas, and, taking up the case in behalf of the wronged and penniless victim of nun's baseness, Mr& Ruggles applied for and obtained a requisition, and by appointment of Gov. Porter was vested with the authority to proceed to Kansas and bring the bigamist back to Bartholomew county, Ind., all of which Mrs. Ruggles did in regular man-fashion... .The Grand Trunk road has just finished at its Port Huron shops a locomotive fifty-nine feet in length, with drive-wheels six feet in diameter.

The mill and stock of the Mitchell & Rowland Lumber Company, at Toledo, valued at $325,000, was destroyed by fire.... The Missouri car and foundry works, at St Louis, were burned, causing a loss of $150,000; covered by insurance. James Ristengbrock, alias Tracy, convicted of killing Officer Huebner in the , early part of February, paid the penalty of ‘ his crime at Chicago, on Friday, Sept. 15. M The condemned man was firm to the last, and died as he predicted he would, sustained by what he claimed to be a consciousness of innocence. Clasping a black crucifix to his breast, he was launched into eternity with the name of the Savior upon his lips. * Death was instantaneous. At Metropolis, 111., on the same day, Samuel Redding, colored, was hanged. The Postmaster at Socorro, N. M., has been displaced and arrested because he is short $2,300 in his accounts..... About SII,OOO was realized at Detroit from the sale of animals belonging to Coup’s circus. The hippopotamus brought $2,900, a leopard $ 1,250, and fifty-six monkevs went off at sl4 each. s THE SOUTH. Dreadful destruction was worked in Florida by a tornado. The cotton crop suffered severely, and in some places was totally destroyed Buildings were torn down, trees and fences leveled, and many persons were killed by the storm. The sixty-eighth anniversary of the battle of North Point was celebrated by the Baltimoreans with more than usual ceremony and display... .Jay Gould has been elected President of the Texas Pacific railroad The annual report shows the assets to lie $2,375,773, and the current liabilities $395,562... .The Richmond (Va) Banking and Insurance Company has suspended business, with liabilities reported at $607,000. The amount of deposits is $600,000, one-half of which belongs to tbe State of Virginia Yellow fever pf the most malignant tyqe has broken out at Mier, Mexico, about 100 miles below Laredo, and the citizens are flee ng. There Ire many patients at ranches on ihe Texas side of the Rio Grande. The

Mexicans can hardly be made to appreciate the danger of a lax enforcement of the quarantine regulations. It is now announced that hundreds axe ‘ prostrate at isolated localities in the State of Tamaulipas. The disease is on the increase at Pensacola, Fla—.. Thirty buildings were consumed by fire at Crockett, Texas, causing a loss of $125,000. The blue-grass farm of the late H. P. McGrath, near Lexington, Ky., containing over 400 acres, was bought at auction by Milt Young, the turfman, for $112.50 per acre. The prisoners in the jail at Louisville recently manufactured two skeleton-keys from sheet lead and made a rope from blankets. The other morning, as the turnkey came in to extinguish the gas, three men, threw him into a cell and bound and gagged him. A revolver was placed at his temple, but one man saved his life. Seven jail-buds then unlocked the back door, battered down a gate with a stick of timber and made their escape. WASHINGTON. To GUARD against favoritism in examinations of pension cases Commissioner Dudley has issued an order directing that no special examiner shall rentain and perform his duties in the State from which he was appointed. The object is to leave examinations free from the influence of friendship or acquaintance, and to secure justice ana impartiality alike to the applicant and to the Government Miner and Rerdell, the convicted star-route conspirators, were granted a new trial, Judge Wylie setting aside the verdict because of its incoherency and the misconduct of the jury. Merrick, for the Government, acquiesced in the motion for the new trial, claiming the recent verdict simply trifled with justice. POLITICAL. A. C. Botkin, a well-known newspaper man, late of Chicago and Milwaukee, has been nominated by the Republicans for Delegate in Congress from Montana The son of the late Benjamin H. Hill, of Georgia, modestly declines appointment by Gov. Colquitt to his father’s unexpired term in the United States Senate. Learning that it was the Governor’s intention to apl>oint him, Mr. Hill wrote a letter declining the honor as one above his qualifications or aspirations. Gen. James B. Weaver was unanimously nominated for Congress by the Sixth district Greenback Convention of lowa GENERAL. The Department of Agriculture at Washington estimates the total wheat yield (winter and spring) of the United States at 520,000,000 bushels While the yield is unusually large, the yield per capita will ba less than in 1879 ana 1880. The potato crop is estimated at 150,000,000 bushels.... The Chiefs of the Fire Departments of the United States and Canada assembled in convention at Cincinnati William H. Vanderbilt says that “while the business of the country at this time is not in the best condition ever experienced, yet the outlook for the next eighteen months is certainly very good. ” At a meeting of the Western Union Telegraph Company, Dr. Green announced his intention of resigning the Presidency. A quarterly dividend of per cent was declared, payable on and after Oct 16. The united committees of the various Methodist bodies in Canada met at Hamilton, and unanimously resolved that the time had arrived when efforts should be made to ascertain the basis of an agreement whigh would unite all the Methodist churches m the Dominion.

The flight of French Canadians to the United States is a subject which has received due consideration at Ottawa, and the Governor General has expressed a will ingness to assist in colonizing them in the Northwest ....The military barracks at La Prairie, Can., which originally cost $500,1X10, were fired during a storm, and totally consumed. Engineer Melville has caused a great sensation at Philadelphia by deserting his wife and children upon the moment of bls arrival. The wife’s story of his gruff greeting and brutal departure is a pathetic one. Lieut. Danenhower’s attention having been called to notices in the press containing Innuendoes of charges by him against Engineer Melville, he has issued a card stating he has made no accusations against any one, and that his relations with the Engineer have always been of a friendly character. FOREIGN. Many prominent names in English literature, art and politics have been added to the committee for the erection of a Longfellow memorial in Westminster Abbey. The Irish leaders have in view a consolidation of all the projects for the welfare of their country, based on the platform of self-government, abolition of landlordism, promotion of home industries, rights of lai bor, and a paid representation in Parliament ....One of the buttresses of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, fell, completely decapitating four women.... Emile Plantainour, the Swiss astronomer, is dead....lt is announced from St. Petersburg that the coronation of the Czar has been postponed until 1883. In the international/owing contest at London the Hillsdale crew took the lead of the Thames Club. Half a mile from the starting point a serious foul occurred, but the H ill sd ales got three lengths ahead, when Capt. Terwilliger's slide broke, which disabled the Americans, the British beating by fourteen seconds.

Foreign Immigration.

A New York telegram says: Superintendent Jackson, of Castle Garden, reports that during the first six months of the present year 278,342 immigrants landed At this port lhe avowed destinations of these newcomers in the West were as follows: Arizona 16; Arkansas, 416; Colorado, 1,252; 2,355; Dakota, 2,107; Indiana, 3,5-12; Illinois 33,834; Idaho, 8; lowa, 11,546; Kentucky’ 777 ; Kansas, 2,209 ; Michigan, 12,690; Missouri, S,(MX); Minnesota, 14,287Montana, 158; New Mexico, 31; Manitoba 280; Nebraska, 4,458; Nevada, 124- Ohio’ 14,6’3; Oregon, 159; Utah, 798; Wisconsin’ 15,2:12; Washington Tierritory, 38; Wyoming Bn); Indian Territory, 2. The greater porl tlon of these immigrants proceeded directly to the West, and comparatively few went either to the South or to New England. Although the avowed destination of nearly 160,000 was New York State, only a sru i.ll proportion of them have settled in this vicinity. ly——a Tre ordinary employment of artifice is the mark of a petty mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover himself in one place, uncovffs himself in another.— La Bochefoucauld. s

THE WAR IN EGYPT.

Brilliant Victory of the British at Tel-el-Kebir. Arabi a Prisoner, His Army Dispersed and the War at an End.

Wednesday,, the 13th of September, was a great day for the British army in Egypt Gen. Wolseley, at day-break, advanced upon Tel-el-Keber. the Egyptians opening C-e when the British were one mile distant The place was captured by a charge, the struggle lasting only twenty minutes. The loss of Arabi Pasha is estimated at 2,000 men, beside forty guns and 3.000 prisoners. The number killed on the British side was about 20$. Arabi is said to have escaped on horseback to Zagazig, while his men fled toward the desert, hotly pursued by the Indian cavalry on the south and the British cavalry on the north. The Egyptian regiments are credited with cowardly behavior. while the black troops from the Soudan fought bravely, and the rebel artillery was well served The Khedive’s band headed a procession at Alexandria which indulged in a jubilee over the victory of the British. Gen. McPherson pushed forward and occu pied Zagazig, capturing five railway trains. Dispatches from Tel-el-Keber give the following particulars of the battle: “The rebels discovered our men when about a mile from their works, and opened a heavy rifle fire. Our men paused for a moment on the line of the sand-hills, and then, with a gallant rush, they were among the ssbels. Acting on Gen. Wolseley’s orders, they reserved their fire and went in with the bayonet The slaughter for a time was very great The rebels could not stand it, and broke and fled, pursued hotly. The final rush was made over a distance of 200 yards, the men skirmishing and seeking cover until they reached this point Several thousand Egyptians were taken prisoners. Our own loss up to this time I should compute at 200 killed. The following officers fell: British officers killed—Maj. Colville, of the Seventy-fourth Highlanders; Lieut. Somervell, Seventy-fourth Highlanders. British officers wounded :Col. Hutchinson, of the Forty-sixth regiment; Capt. Kephel, of the Seventy-fourth Highlanders; Capt Cumberland of the Seventy-fourth Highlanders; Lieut. Midwood, of the Seventyfourth Highlanders; Lieut Gordon Cary, of the Seventy-fourth Highlanders. Lieut Gordon in the melee killed three Egyptian Officers with his claymore. ” The English advance guard reached Cairo on the evening of the 14th inst, by rail, and at once took possession of the city. Arabis scattered in all directions over the. deserts, and were coming forward as fast as possible with offers to surrender. Arabi htmsclr was virtually a prisoner in Cairo, where, on his arrival after the disaster of Tel-el-Kebir. he was greeted with stones by the same populace that would have hailed him as the deliverer of Egypt and. the conquerer of her foes had the tide of battle turned the other way. It was stated that he would be held by the local authorities subject to the demands of the Khedive and his English allies. The Sultan telegraphed Gen. Wolseley his congratulations, at the same time preferring a request that the march of the British any further into the interior of Egypt be stopped To this cool proposition Gen. Wolseley returned a brief reply referring the Sultan to the British Government in London, but at the same time ordering his forces onward to Cairo. Numerous delegations arrived at Alexandria to express the loyalty and submissiveness of the people to the Khedive. The rebel force at Tel-el-Kebir comprised 30,(XX) regulars, 7,000 Bedouins, and 3,000 volunteers. The British loss was fifty-four killed and 350 wounded. The following account of the battle at Tel-el-Kebir was telegraphed by cable to the New York Herald: "The attack began on the left Nothing could be imagined finer than the advance of the Highland brigade. The Fourteenth were next the canal. Next were the Cameronians, and the Gordon Highlanders continued the line, with the Black Watch upon their flank. The Forty-sixth and Sixtieth regiments formed a second line. Swiftly and silently the Highlanders moved forward to the attack. No word was spoken, no shot fired, until within 300 yards of the enemy’s earthworks, nor up to that time did any sound in the Egyptian lines betoken that they were aware of the presence of their assailants. Then suddenly a terrific fire flashed along the line of sand-heaps, a storm of bullets whizzed over the heads of the advancing troops, a wild cheer broke from the Highlanders, and in response the pipes struck shrilly up, bayonets were fixed, and at doublequick time they dashed forward The first line of intrenchments was carried, the enemy scarcely offering any resistance. But from another line of intrenchments, behind which in the still dim light one could scarcely %ee, a burst of musketry broke out. For a few minutes the Highlanders poured in a heavy fire, but it was probably as innocuous as that of the unseen enemy whose bullets whistled harmlessly overhead. The delay in the advance was but short. Then the order was given, and the brigade again went rapidly forward Soon a portion of the force had passed between the’ enemy’s redoubts and opened a flanking fire. * This was too much for the Egyptians, who took to their heels and fairly ran, suffering, as the crowded masses rushed across the open desert, veiy heavily from our fire, being literally mowed down by hundreds. Meanwhile fighting began upon the other flank. The horse artillery shelled the enemy's extreme left Here the Egyptians were more prepared than on their right. For a time they kept up a steady tire. The Royal Irish were sent to turn the enemy’s left. At tbe word they dashed at the trenches and carried them at the bayonet’s point, so turning the flank of the defenders of the position. Next came the Eighty-eighth regiment, then the Eighty-fourth, the Guards being close up behind in support. These regiments advanced by regular rushes. For a short time the enemy clung to their line of intrenchments, but their tire was singularly ineffective, ' and the British troops got fairly into the trenches. Then the enemy fought stoutly for a few moments. The combat was a hand-to-htmd one. Maj. Hart shot one man as he was trying to wrest a revolver from his hand. Thia was even after the trench had been turned by our advance on tueu - flanx. Then, as Uie British poured in, the Egyptians fled as rapidly as those on the other side had done before the Highlanders. The fight was now practically over.” Ueu. Wolseley telegraphed from Cairo to the British War Office op Sept 15, as follows: “Gen. Lowe has occupied Cairo. Arabi Pasha and Toulba Pasha have surrendered unconditionally. Ten thousand troops at Cairo have laid down their arms. The war is over. Send no more men from England Midshipman Dechair is safe. I have been received here with open arms by all classes. The soldiers are glad to return to their houses. Arabi Pasha and Tonlba Pasha are both bon&ned tn our guard-rooms. I will noW change my base , from Ismailia to Alexandria” A dispatch from Alexandria on Sept 16 says: “After the

engagement at Tel-el-Kebir, Arabi Pasha fled to Cairo and told the Council that the troops had deserted him, upon which the mission was sent to the Khedive with two letters from Arabi Pasha, one expressing his devotion, and the other warning him not to allow the English to enter Cairo, as the same results might follow as happened at Alexandria. The Khedive refused to receive the letters. Arabi Pasha was taken before the Khedive. He presented a loathsome picture of groveling servility. He swore he had not been aware he was fighting against the Khedive. The Khedive remained standing while Arabi Pasha was in his presence. When Arabi had concluded, the Khedive ordered his removal.” It has been ascertained that Arabi was in bed at the time of the attack on Tel-el-Kebir, and, panic-stricken at tbe sudden and unexpected attack, fled in dismay. All the Egyptian leaders will be tried at Cairo for their rebellion. Canned provisions for 20,000 men for a month were captured at Tel-el-Kebir. ♦ Lord Duffeiin informed the Porte that British military operations in Egypt havt ceased, and as England is about to withdraw a portion of her troops the Sultan might decide whether it was necessary to sign the military convention. Twenty prominent rel Mils captured at Cairo will* be tried by court-martial. A number of prominent Egyptians are still at large. Alexandria dispatches of Sept 18 announce that the British had occupied Kafr-el-Dwar and Damietta, and that the commander at Aboukir had signified his readiness to surrender. The official journal at St Petersburg says Great Britain will not be allowed to settle the Egyptian question alone. The London Time* insists that the rebel army must be replaced by gendarmes to. maintain civil order. When the garrison at Aboukir marched out to surrender, on Sept 18, an entire regiment decamped to join Abdella Pasha at Damietta, who refuses to surrender. The rest of the garrison, numbering 5,000 or 6,000, proceeded to Kafr-el-Dwar, were disarmed, the men dismissed to their homes and the officers detained Arabi, because of dread of poisoning, had his victuals cooked by members of his family while at Kafr-el-Dwar. Tantah had been occupied by the British, and service on all the railroads had been resumed. Natives with torn and bloody clothing had been paraded in the streets of Cairo by Arabi’s orders as representing brutal treatment by the English. Gen. Wolseley claims to have good reason for the belief that the resistance at Damietta was inspired by the Sultan, who has quite recently been in communication with Arabi Pasha. One of the participants in the June massacre was hanged at Alexandria.

BRAVE MEN BUTCHERED.

Frightful Atrocities Perpetrated in the Peruvian War. A Chilian Garrison Massacred After Making a Heroic Defense.

According to a Chilian correspondent of the Panama Star and Herald, native guerrillas burned and pillaged the city of Tarma and other places, committed frightful atrocities, and, among others, murdered a number of foreignera The correspondent says: When the inhabitants of Tarma learned that the Chilian forces were about to leave, a large majority of the Peruvian families appealed to be allowed to accompany them in order to escape the depredations of their lawless countrymen. Only some foreign families, believing the guerrillas would respect them, decided to remain. Fully 500 women followed the army. Just five hours after the troops left immense hordes of guerrillas poured in There were 600 armed with rifles and equipped like regulars, who. entered, formed in column, followed by at least 3,000 guerrillas armed with sticks, clubs, lances and other similar weapons, who entered pellmell, shouting vociferously. On it being known that all well-to-do and decent families had left town the fury of the Indians knew no bounds. Residences were stripped, and those of many foreign residents shared the same fate. Many assassinations followed. Among the victims were eighteen foreigners. In the midst of the drunken orgie Tarma was reduced to ruins. With the object of burning the properties of foreigners and Chilianized Tarmanians all the town was burned. The cities of Jauja and Huancayo shared the fate of Tarma The names of some foreigners assassinated are given. An Italian named Motto and two Germans named Strinz and Scholk are among the slain. Four Chilian soldiers and six fugitive Peruvians were frozen to death in the Cordilleras. At Concepcion the Chilian garrison made a noble defense against hordes of Indians. When the ammunition of the Chilians was exhausted, the assailants secured paraffine and fired the barracks, burning some of the wounded soldiers. Capt. Pinto and a few survivors of the garrison made a sally, cut down the enemy, and cleared the front and sides of the barracks, while the men inside extinguished the flames and removed the wounded to places of safety. In another sally Capt Pinto was shot dead. The Indians again fired the building, and sallies were organized under Sub-Lieuts. Montt, Cruz and J’ eicz - In one of the earliest of these the first-mentioned officer was mortally wounded. 'Subsequently Sub-Lieut. Peicz fell wounded in another sally. The young officer was immediately pounced upon" by a horde of Indians, who lanced hjm to death. At this hour five friars from the neighboring convent of Ocopa have appeared on the scene, and. crucifix in hand, commenced to incite the Indians to renew the attack on the building. At 10 o’clock, of seventy-seven Chilians composing the garrison, only four, and two of them wounded, remained to offer resistance. The others were either dead or dying. The building is now ablaze in every direction. Four women, wives of the soldiers, were eye-witnesses of the death of their husbands. One of them accompanied by her son of 5 years and another by an infant who had come into the world at the commencement of the attack—after removing the wounded from the burning building—went out into the square, hoping their lives would be spared. They had barely stepped outside the building w t'kc.V were sot upon by a crowd of yelling and drunken savages and horribly butchered. The 5-year-old boy had his throat cut from ear to ear, and was barbarously mutilated, and the body of the new-born child was found pierced with lance wounds. Sub-Lieut Cruz and the • surviving soldiers were also surrounded, and they fell one after another, but not until they had sold their lives dearly. When theptber Chilian troops ar-' rived, a few days, afterward, they found tn the square and the adjacent streets 2!>l of the feqemy’s dead. The wounded wemdouble that number, and were caltried off Cb' the hills The Chilian dead were collected and buried. The city was burned, and every!-ody ‘ implicated in the massacre dFho coii.d be found was summarily executed.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

A dispatch from Augusta, Me., says: The Kennebec Journal publishes full official returns from all the State except from six small plantations, the vote of which will change the result but little: Total vote 138,175 Robie 72,554' Plaisted..... 68,756 Chase 1,29 s Vinton 262 Eustis 305 Robie’s plurality. 8,798 The Republican candidates for Congress elected by pluralities a little in excess of that for Governor. The Republicans carry fourteen of the sixteen counties. Of the Senators twenty-eight are Republicans and three Fusion. Of the members of the House 108 are Republicans and forty-one Fusionists. In two districts the elections are not yet determined.... Official returns of the State election in Arkansas show the following vote on Governor: Berry, Democrat, 87,675; Slack, Republican, 49,352; Garland, Greenbacker, 10,142. The total vote was 147,169, the largest ever polled During a game of base ball at Bordentown, N. J., a riot broke out among the players and' their friends, fence-rails and bats being used freely, and several persons severely injured... .A dispatch from Philadelphia says that Dr. Longstreth, the Melville family physician, and Dr. Bartleson gave a certificate of insanity in the case of Mrs. Melville, wife of Chief Engineer Melville, and she was placed in the Norristown Insane Asylum. Her children accompanied her to the asylum and then returned home. Chief Engineer Melville telegraphed to his sister in New York, who will hereafter take care of his home and his children. Melville’s friends deny that he deserted his family, and assert that his wife has been deranged several yeara Frank James, the notorious outlaw, was recently the traveling companion of a Michigan merchant, to whom he stated that a project to rob the bank at Blissfield, Mich., had been abandoned, and his mission now was to "get even” with the Fords for the murder of his brother Jesse. So says the Chicago Inter Ocean.... Kt Denver and at many other places a brilliant comet was seen in close proximity to the sun at noon. The extraordinary phenomenon has excited much interest among astronomers. The receipts of the Russian Government increased 19,500,000 roubles during the first half of this year, while the expendiitures were diminished 22,500,000 roubles.... Girard V. Wellesley, chaplain to ’Queen Victoria, is dead Maj. Phipps, who forged Comptroller’s certificates in Philadelphia to the amount of $150,000, was arrested at Hamilton, Ontario, where he and his wife were staying at a second-class hotel under the name of Thompson. Secretary Teller -will hereafter furnish the Indian police only with revolvers. No more of our red wards will get breech-loading rifles. The seats of a circus exhibiting at Mount Airy, N. C., fell, carrying down 1,500 people, of whom fifty were seriously injured

The Cradle of the Boot-Black.

New York lays claim to he the place where the street boot-black first appeared, but Boston says the professional boot black is essentially an institution of the “Hub.” The Traveller of the latter city says at first the business was associated with window-washing, chimney-sweeping, clothes-cleaning and waiting and tending. In time, however, it became a distinct branch, and many of the boot-blacks of that day acquired a handsome independence, and became real-estate holders. The custom then was to call at the homes oi the gentry, take the boots and shoes, string them on long poles and carry them to their respective places of business, polish and return them at an early hour the next day. These poles would hold a dozen or more pairs, and it was a novel sight to see the boot-blacks passing to and fro. - It is stated that a block of creosoted pine, in use in the street pavement in Galveston for seven years, was recently examined and found to have lost but an eighth of an inch.

THE MARKETS.

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