Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1882 — Page 6

Rensselaer Republican. BY GEO. E. MARSHALL.

WEEKLY NEWS REVIEW.

TELE EAST. A fire occurred in the Callendar Building, at Providence, R 1, which resulted in a serious loss of life. The building was four stories high and occupied mostly by jewelry shops. The fire originate 1 in the middle of the building, on the third floor, and was caused by the ignition of a can of naphtha. The room was filled with light, inflammable clothes, and the woodwork was dry as tinder. The room was next the stairway, and before a word of warning could be given escape by the stairway was cut off by the flamea On the fourth floor was the workshop of William H. Robln’op & Co., gold-chain makers. The firm employed forty operatives, equally divided as to sex. When the flames swept up through the floor the employes made a rush for the windows. There was no fireescape on the building. Just across the alley-way, about fifteen feet w de, was a twostory wooden structure. The help ru-hed for the end of the building fronting on this alley. Then a panic ensued. The roof of the wooden building was about twenty feet below the wincows’ sills, where the excited girls were congregated. The persons in the rear crowded and pushed those in the act of jumping and many fell .short Others were injured by be ing jumped upon at'er they had rea hed the roof. Two girls and one man fell between the buildings and died soon after. Six girls were fatally injured, and three others had limbs broken. Coal operators representing nine of the principal mines of the Massillon district have followed their rivals by yielding to the demands of the miners, but they take revenge by ordering reductions in 'he whole sale and retail prices... .The public can not have forgotten the outrage perpetrated by lur.’iais on the t ilohrlst bro hers at Charlton, N. ’Y, las; August, when •125,000 in bonds and mortgages, •30,000 in certificates of deposit, and SBOO In cash were taken away. Part es in New York city have for some time been endeavoring to negotiate for toe return of the securities. Through the labors of Sheriff Van ienburgh all the stolen securities were purchased from a go-betw en for •950, the thieves not appearing ' o know the value of their booty. The fine residence of George Bailey, in Buffalo, was consumed by fire, involving a loss of •150,000.... At Scranton, Pa., Mrs. James Ruddy, afte« removing from her burning house her children and invalid husband, went hack to recov >r • JBO in gold from a bureau-drawer, and wa< burned to death. The petroleum gamblers of Pittsburgh, Bradford and other speculative centers have been going through a terrible experience reoent'y. Under the pressure of the bear influences the market, which had gone up to an unusually-bigh figure, took a sudden tumble, dropping from •1.05 to 80 cents n one day. The speculators, who had forced up prices, found themselves overwhelmed in ruin. The excitement throughout the oil speculative regions was unprecedented. Mrs. Melville, whose case furnishes a strange parallel to that of Mrs. Scoville, was the heroine of a sensational episode in Brooklyn. Accomnan ed by her brother she went to Miss Sarah Capel’s seminary, and carried off her daughter Maude The ch Id had been placed there by Engineer Me’ville. ....By the explosion of a tank at Greenpoint, Long island, the Brooklyn oil-works were damaged •100,000, andDerve’s refinery •60,000... .The wholesale price oi coffee in New York is lower than bar been known since the panic of 1857. THE WEST. Mark Gray Lyon, who spent some years in the Elgin insane asylum for firing at Edwin Booth tn a Chicago theater, is a clerk in a dry goods store at Keokuk. He has recently written to a theatrical manager in Nt. Louis to know which is the best acting edition of Hamlet, and announcing that he Intends to star in the small towns next winter... .John Herzer. a resident of Milwaukee, who weighed 486 pounds, was buried the other day. He literally choked to deith, and no coffin sufficiently large to receive his remains could be obtained. A band of Piegans swooped down on a party of Crow scouts, near Fort Custer, and ran off thirty ponies. In the fight which followed two Piegan warriors were killed. United States troops will be kept in motion in that region this winter, and tae Canadian , mounted i dice are working in union with them... .Mrs. Mary Long, 81 years old, living alone and destitute near Indianapolis, committed suicide by taking Paris-green... .The Northern Pacific Railroad Company has decided to sell 8,000,000 acres of land east of the Missouri river at $4 per acre. The war among the Northwestern railroads culminated last weekin the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul fixing the passenger rate at 50 cents between Chicago an 1 Rock Island, goine both ways. The Rock Island road retaliated by making the fare from Chicago to Cedar Rapids 50 cents, and to Albert Lea sl. Freights from Chicago to Mankato and Sioux City were cut to 15 cents per 100 by the Ro k Island, Cedar Rapids, and Omaha lines.... Fire at Morris Mine., destroyed sev-ral business structures, including the Tribune offic-. Th loss is variously estimated rom •S|AO to •150.0J0, with but pt oportionaliy Ujßinsurance.... The po-toffiee authorlem to have un against a case of systoHnic mail-robbery so adi oit as to baffleinves -gatiotr. The robbe. ies have occurred for several weeks in mails between Denver and Eastern cities, and without reckoning the thefts of money and valuables, the extent of which it Is impossib e to correctly estimate, the losses m drafts, checks, moneyorders, etc., nggr-gate over •600,000. An early-morning fire in an Indianapolis boarding-house burned the establishment, and t ree domestics perished in the flames... .The County Poor-house near Davenport, lows, was destroyed by fire, tuo sixteen inmates being safely removed. The large stovtf foundry of Bonnell, Duffy A Co., at Quincy, 111., was destroyed by fire, causing a loss or about •! 0,000 Hon. Lewis D. Campbell, of Ohio, for many years an iflnuential member of Congress from Ohio, and a prominent figure in the politic’ of the country before and dur ng the war. diet! the other day at ns homi in Hamilton, Oh 0.... William Wiight an-1 w.f J. t BiJinx near St Louis, h' ar I the report of a gun in the r ho se while they w- re at work in a field. They soon dlacov red tba their 6-year <> d on h id playful y drawn a loaded shot-gun upo i bl* younger sister, a t.tally blow ng away her headT...W. D. Hoyt, a telegraph opera-

tor at Leaven worth, quarreled over the wire with Mr. Bailey, Union Pacific train-dis-patcher at Lawrence. The latter refused to retract an offensive remark, and Hoyt traveled to Lawrence and shot him in the tneast The schooner Collingwood was wrecked during the recent gale on Lake Michigan, fifteen miles nprtheast of Milwaukee. The particulars of the disaster are thrilling in the - extrema Four ot the crew, including the Captan, were lost The center-board chain parted, causing the board to drop down its full length. The additional strain proved toe much for the old craft, which went to piecea The sailors were left struggling in the water, and some of them went down. The three survivors had a terrible experience upoh a raft One of them was rendered bund and insane, and died from the terrible exposure. They were rescued by the propeller Wisconsin, eight miles from Grand Haven. THE SOUTH. At Frostburg, Ky., a party of young people were out walking, when a young man, Cook, called his sweetheart. Miss Austin, one side and conversed a few moments with her. Cook placed a pistol to the girl’s temple and shot her dead, and then put the pistol to his own heart, and shot himself through the body and twice through the head. Both were dead in two minutes. It is believed Cook asked her to marry him, and she refused. Cook was employed in a saw-mill. Miss Austin was a beautiful young lady. ....Five well-known business men of Arkansas have leased the State penitentiary at rates which will amount to •45,000 a year and all incidental expenses The testimony ot steamboat Captains and pilots before the Congre’sional River Commission at New Orleans was emphatically in favor of the outlet plan and against the extravagant levee system. Capt Leathers, who has been on the Mississippi longer than any man now living, and whose practical knowledge of the subject is probably not exceeded by that of any man living, is an earnest advocate of Ca;»t Cowdon’s plan of drawing off the excess of water through natural outlets prepared with especial reference to that result, and an equally earnest opponent of both the levee-and the jetty systems. From the romantic regions of North Carolina, near Rockhill, comes the recital of an extraordinary duel between two rivals in a love affa r. They met in the road, armed respectively with an ax and a bludgeon, and then and there fought it out to the death, the one with the club for his only weapon being killed by a frightful gash in the side, while the sutvivor was little better than dead when found. Peter Dick and Charles Roads, two Vrginia clerks with gen'eel aspirations, fought a desperate duel with knives in the hardware store where they were employed. Roads was shockingly mu' da'ed in the region of the abdomen....R. W. Barnwell, formerly Senator from South Carolina, died at Columbia, in his 81st year. WASHINGTON. Washington telegram: The President and Cabinet are in favor of a reduction of tuxes on tobacco and whisky and the abo ition of all other internal-revenue duties, bringing down the receipts to •100,000,000 per annum. The Garfield Fair in the rotunda of he Capitol was opened by President Arthur who made a few formal remarks expressive of his hope that the wishes of those who had inaugurated it would be realized. The fair includes an art exhibit and a bazaar, and is a very creditable exhibition. The Department of Agriculture at Washington reports that, by reason of a clerical error in the department, the estimate of the yield ot wheat in the abstract of the Commissioners’ reporc was 100,000,(100 bushel* too small. The estimated yield was 510,000,000 bushels, not 410,000,000. It is predicted at Washington that Judge French Is to be removed from the Assistant Secretaryship of the Treasury, having been the object of attacks from manufacturers dissatisfied with his tariff rulings. ... .Thomas L Tulloch has been appointed Postmaster at Washington, in place of D. B. Ainger. GENERAL. About thirty persons gathered at Hamilton, Ont., to hear a lecture by Mrs. Scoville, hut she announced a postponement on account of the smallness of the audience. The Labor Congress, in session at Cleveland, voted to strike out the protect-ive-tariff plank from the platform. The tendency of some of the speeches Was antagonistic io tue Knights of Labor organization, and S-cia istic organizations were denounced. A furious wind storm prevailed on Lakes Huron a'd Erie on the 24th of November, causing many wrecks of vessels. Fortunately there was little loss of life. The business failures in the United Stat s and Canada, for the week ending Nov. 25, numbered 157, and were confin *d principally t > tho smaller class of trader’s. The Eastern States had eighteen .allures; W s - <rn, lorty-nine; Southern, twenty ihr e; Middle, twenty-sis; P cifio, eleven; Can-da, sixteen; and New York city, founeen. POLITICAL. United States Senator Davis, of West Virginia, declines to be a candidate tor re-election. The names of Congressman Kenna, ex-Gov. Matthews and ex-Senator Hereford are mentioned in connection with the place, with the chances in favor of Kenna.... Frank H. Hurd and other leading Democrats of Ohio have arranged for a tariff and labor dinner at Columbus on Jan. 8, when Messrs. Thurman, McDonald, Watterson and others will respond to toasts The Alabama State Temperance Convention, in session at Montgomery, declared itself opposed to making the temperance question a political one, but demanded a better enforcement of the present license laws of the State. FOREIGN. The awfnl midnight murder of the Joyce faml yinConhoma a, Ireland, a region inf. mous for the many deeds of atrocity there perpetrated on the 17t iof last August, wil be punished in a manner scarcely less hrilllng than the crime its *lt Three of the leaders of the band of assassins had trial at Dub in, an t received the scntenc ■ of dea h, and last week four accomplices ph a ed guilty and threw themselves upon 1 1 e mercy of the Crown The appeals of their counsel, and the acqu escence therein of the Attorney General, were, however, of,p'> avail, and they too, were Sentenced to die on the scaffold Dee. 15... .Queen V.ctoria decorated at Winbo. 370 ot the officers and men engaged in the Egyptian campaign. She th nked them for their gallantry and devot on, and w s proud of them for the laurels the / had added to other nob e achievements of the British army....

The French Chamber of Deputies passed a btil ratifying the treaty made by De Brazza, Stanley’s hated rival, with Makako, the Congo chief, and the Government will ask a grant of 200,000 francs to enable De Brazza to establish twelve scientific, commercial and hospital stations along the Congo river A Cairo dispatch states that a report prepared by the Egyptian Public Prosecutor, in which he summarizes the evidence against Arabi Pasha and other rebel leaders, was submitted to the Khedive and approved. It will be presented to Lord Dufferin. It is understood the Egyptian Government is prepared to leave it to Great Britain to decide whether the evidence is sufficient for proceeding with the trial on the charges »perilled in the report The authorities of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, have agreed to send a detachment of police to the Isle of Skye, if their expenses are paid, to assist in serving processes. Meantime tenants are organizing for mutual protection, and threatening any man who shall pay rent... .Thirty lives were lost by the foundering of the steamer Winton in the Black sea. Gladstone denied in the British House of Commons that the Irish Arrears act was a failure, as the full benefits of its provisions had not yet become apparent Trevelyan, Secretary for Ireland, Informed the House that the Government were doing their utmost to improve the condition of the country, and would see to it that distress would be alleviated in whatever district it made its appearance. In the Commons the procedure rule was carried by a vote of 82 to 26. It provides that if the Speaker believe that a motion to adjourn is made for the purpose of obstruction, he may put the' question from the chair... .On the appeal of Great Britain, the Spanish Government will liberate the Cuban reiugees seized near Malta, on the promise that they shall not return to Havana. The Khedive ordered a column to move to the Soudan to check the onward march of the False Prophet, but it is said the troops, well kuowing the danserous character of the expedition, and taainJful of the fate of thousands of their comrade’ who have been slaughtered by the barbaric legions of the pretended successor of Mohammed, refused to proceed unless they are given Arabi as their leader. The outlook is said to be gloomy in France from a variety of causes. Paris is at fever heat, and some new and stirring developments in ihe political situation cannot be much longer deferred. Englund watches the progress ot affairs with profound attention, but with too much skepticism as to the future of the republic... .English capitalists regard with u; savor the tricks of Wall street. The general condition of English financial affairs is good, the only disturbing element bein'? from Ntw York.... Detective Cox was fatally shot in the streets ot Dublin by a man named Christopher Dow.ing. Detective Eastwood pursued the assassin and shot him in the head, arm and hand, and he is not exnected to recover. It seems that a paitv of ten men had come out of a public hopse frequented by Fenians, when they commenced to fire orntire officers. -■S -

THE CUSTOMS SERVICE.

Abstract ot the Supervising Agent’s Report. Su»ervis'ng Special Ag nt Martin, of the Treasury Department, m hi’ annual report for the fiscal year ending June 35,1882, shows that the amount recovered on account of seizures, fines and suits was $89,579; increased duties, •769.446; miscel'aneous, •12,15 >; number of seizures, 217; appriised value, 191,475’redu tion in expenses recommenced, $18,822; number of arrests, 54; number of reports received, 2,976. Of these reports, 58 relate to smuggling, 319 to undervaluation, 64t0 misconduct of customs officers, 182 t ■ seizures, 129 to inspection of customs distri' ts, 15 to suits commenced, and 2,2 i 9to miscellaneoqs subjects. The Supervising Special Agent says: “To secure more efficient and honest administration of customs service throughout the country, a consolidation of collection districts ana abolition of a large number of ports, at some of which there are no duties collected, and at others where the expenses are largely in excess of the receipts, would seem absolutely necessary, and in this connection it is gratifying to know that during the last session of Congress a bill for the consolidation of ail fees and giving the Collectors fixed salaries w s int oduced by a member of the House, who was formerly a special agent and familiar with the wants of the service. ” Respecting smuggling, he says: “Through the activity and vigilance of the officers of this service, assisted largely by locai customs officers, smuggling has been confined to very narrow limits. The seizure on the night of the 3d of January last of nearly a ton of opium valued at $26,C00, while an attempt was being made to land it from the steamship City of Tokio at the wharf of the Pacific Steamship Company, is the largest and mostimportant case of smuggling discovered during the year. It is reported that the business of opium smuggling on the Pacific coast has been carried on by an organized company, which includes capitalists, Custom House employe*, steam-hip employe*, local politicians and Chinamen. All customs officers suspected of complicity w.th smugglers have been dismissed from the service. On the subject of undervaluation, Mr. Martin says: ‘'lnvestigation has shown that, upon toe advice of an agent, foreign manufacturers often invoice consigned goods far below the cost of production. It is estimated that less than 40 per cent of the 60 perc ntum ad-valorem duty on s Ik is collected in consequence of the undervaluation of that article."

SUPERVISING INSPECTOR DUMONT.

His Report upon the Steamboat Inspection Service. Supervising Inspector General Dumont, in his annual report for the fiscal year ended June 30 last, giv s the following statistics of the steamboat inspection service: Number of vessels insp- cte l, 5,*117; tonnage of same 1,298,564; officers licenced, 20,467, s owing an increase over the previous year in the number of vessels of 338, in tonnage of 74.561, and toe number of licensed officers, 2,669. The total receipts frcn ail sources during the y ar w re $279,889.80; total expenditure-, $227,615.63; receipts over expenditure, $52,27367. The total number of accidents to ste<m vessels during th • year, resulting in less of life were forty-one. L'ves lo«t from accidents to steam vess Is 205, of which but fifty-six we e lives of passengers. Total persons car led during the year, 354 - 070,447. Tnis n amber ivided by 2i5, the number of lives 1 st, shows -ope life 10-1 to eacn 1,727,172 per ons carried, a» ag dost one life lo t in eada 55,714 persons, carried in the fifty -on® years previous to theenactmenc of the first efficient steamboat? laWa in the year lass-named tber were 39,000,000 p ssenger carried, and 700 1 ves lost ' Don’t throw away your cheap Japanese fan<; remember that in a few years they will be more valuable, became in Japan, as elsewhere, purity of natural an is gradually being distorted‘hy acquired fashions and tastes.

A BUSY LIFE ENDED.

Death of Thurlow Weed, the Veteran Journalist and Politician. A Brief Sketch of His Active and Useful Career.

Thurlow Weed, the veteran editor, politician and statesman, breathed his last at his home in New York, at 8:55 o’clock on the morning of Wednesday, Nov. 22, after an illness lasting several weeks. At his deathbed were his children, grandchildren, friends and attendants. He passed away as though going into a gentle sleep, with his granddaughter’s hand reposing in his. Mr. Weed was possessed of a remarkably strong and vigorous constitution, and to this can bi attributed the long years of his life. His physicians say that old age was his only infirmity, and the one that carried him off. Since 1877 Mr. Weed’s eyesight has 1 ’een fa Ung, and latterly he had been almost blind. Lass August he was prostrated by a chill, and has since been de "lin ng. Mr. Weed leaves a considerable fortune in-, vested In New York real estate and in the stock of the Alb ny Evening Journal. He bad three daughters—Mrs. Barnes, of Albany; Miss Harriett Weed, his c nstant companion and housekeeper since th i death of his wife, many years ago, and Mrs. Alden, of Mornsanla. It is a curious incident that some weeks before his death, although then in good health Mr. Weed had a presentiment that he wa* near his end. About four years ago a beautiful white dove flew into the window of h s chamber, and was adopted by him 9s a pet It has been his constant companion, roosting upon the arm of his ohair by day and upon the foot of his bod by night He fed it with his own hands, and the gentle bird curiously enough would accept food from no one else. Some weeks ago he accidentally sat upon it, crushing out its innocent life, and nis sorrow was as genuine as if he had lost an only child. The death of the bird affected him seriously, and he spoke to his frends of a presentiment that he should soon die, and mentioned his belief in the poetical theory of tue ancients that the spiritsof doves surrounded t .e death-beds of the just.

Thurlow Weed was born in Cairo, N. Y., on the 15th day of November, 1797, and was the first-born of parents in lowly circumstances, and at an early age be was compelled to work to aid himself and his family. At the age of 9 he worked for a blacksmith at < at*kill, N. Y , from whom he received a shilling a day and bls board. He subsequently worked in a tavern and sailed on a sloop as cook. At about this time young Weed's father removed his family to Onondaga, where* the bov found work with the Postmaster, who enabled him to receive six months’ shooiing, the only tuition he ever enjoyed. In 1811 a paper, the Lgnx, was started in Onondaga, to the fortunes of which he attached himself as a printer’s apprentice,'at which business he served a year and a naif, when his employer left the city. Weed continued to run the paper for several weeks. In 1812 he volunteered for service in the war as a private under Col. Petrie, and was ordered to Sackett’s Harbor. Before reaching that point he received a Quartermaster’s commssion, for which he ever after cherished the kindliest feelings toward Col Petrie, and when the latter met with reverses Mr. Weed aided him materially. He served during three campaigns in the war and during the intervals worked at his trade in Utica and other cities of New York. After the war he was employed in Seymour’s printing office, New York city, where he became intimate with James, the eldest of the Harper brothers. Returning to the country he was married, and then embarked in the extremely-uncertain pursuit of publishing a country' pxper. The difficulties he encountered were numerous, but his industry and ability had their effect. His paper was called the AntiMasonic Enquirer. At that time there was great excitement over the opposition to Masonic institutions. In 1824 he was again found doing the work of a journeyman printer in Albany. Political excitement was running high, and Martin Van Buren, DeWitt Clinton and others equally famous in the politics of the State were there. Thurlow Weed here virtually began his career. His wonderful powprs of management were first noted. In this campaign he did the Ron’s share of the work which resulted in the election of John Quincy Adams to the Presidency. Mr. Weed next removed to Rochester, where, while he sustained manv reverses, his reputation ss an editor steadily grew. Twice he was elected to the Assembly as an anti-Masonic representative, and his political influence was so wide y felt that he soon came to be recognized as a lea ler, and to him was accorded the honor of the victory which placed DeWitt Clinton in the guberna torial chair of New York. In 1830 he was chosen to lead the Whigs against the Democratic party, which then controlled the affairs of the State, and it was through his effort ’ teat the Democrats suffered their fir t defeat. He went to Albany and assumed editorial man ueipenc of the Evening Journal, which soon gained a national reputation and influence. The political hi-tory of the State for forty years shows how he used his opportunities. He was prominent in secur ng tne nomination of candidates Harrison, Tavlor, Scott, Fremont and Linco n. When the Republican party was organ zed, Mr. Weed joined the young par.y, and early n the civil war he was sent to England, where he was instrumental in preventing that country and France from uniting in favor of the Confederacy. Mr. Weed acted in unity with the Republican pa>ty un 11 the close of the war, when he sided with Pres dent Johnson in his recon-ffruct on views, but bis influence has always been thrown toward the advancement of Republican prin iples, and has b fnltin every gr- at political movement for the last half century.

A West Point Deficiency.

West Point cadets are said to be lamentably deficient in the use of the sword, and there is talk of having more attention given to practice with it in that institution of warlike learning. This is as it should be, for it is well known that nothing so thoroughly intimidates a foeman, and especially a wild Indian on the plains, wo shoots with a Winchester rifle at a distance of half a mile or so, than to see his opponent wildly flourishing h s sal er ou horizon, and going vio’ently through the different maneuvers of cut and thrust. It is also a standing di grace to our young army officers that not one in five of them can waltz with the sword on without getting that s rviceable weap on so tangled up w th his legs that he is constantly in mortal peril. It is certainly high time that our eadets were

better familiarized with the relations they should sustain to their trenchant blades. Journal.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

The aggregate clearings reported by twenty-five clearing-houses for the week ending Nov. 28 reached the stupendous sum of •1,553,799,998. This was an increase of more than •300,000,000 over ths previous week, and has rarely, if ever, baen equaled in the history of the American financial world. Fourteen lives were lost by the sinking of the French steamer Cambronne, in the English Channel... .Fourteen person* were killed and many wounded by the fall of a train through a bridge at Fyvle, Scotland. Dennis Field, one of the jurymen who found a verdict of guilty against Hynes for murder, was passing along one of the main thoroughfares of Dublin at. noon. A car containing two men drove rapidly up, and one of the men jumped off and stabbed Field several times with a sword, inflicting injuries which are expected to result fatally. It is believed that the murderers of Cox, the detective, were lying in wait for a party of Judges who had been dining toS ether in Mountjoy Square. Several arrests ave been made in connection with the affair. A mob attacked the Jervis Street Hospital, where Dolan, the murderer of Cox, was being treated. The crowd was dispersed by the police and the hospital guarded.... ’Gambetta accidentally shot himself in the hand at Paris. Baron Manteuffel, the Prussian statesman, died at the age or 77.... .The Russian police have arrested 180 students for revolutionary demonstrations. Troops fired into a gathering at Kazan University, and killed three. Near Newburg, N. ¥., a train on the Lehigh and Hudson railroad was wreked. The engineer and fireman were scalded to death under the debris.... .The body cf Dr. Lorenzo Ehrhart, of Allegheny City, Pa., was cremated at Washington, Pa., the process of incineration occupying two hours. The doctor was an earnest advocate of cremation as a means of disposing of the dead, and made arrangements in his will accordingly. Two boys of Mrs. Nash; of St. Louis, whose complexions are decidedly dark, were recently sent home from a public school as being of the negro race. The mother, a lady movin'? in good society, has previously proven that she is a Caucasian, but admits a litt e Indian blood flows in her veins. Some of her children are blondes. She is determined 1 o contest the case in the courts.... F ewbauer & Sons, o Milwaukee, one of the leading clothing firms of that city, made an assignment for the benefit of creditors. Depreciation in stock, indorsing for friends and the alleged peculations of a trusted employe are assigned as reasons for the failure, that it is feared will be followed by others.... Frank James was taken from the jail at Independence to Kansas City, and arraigned • in the Criminal Court, waere he pleaded not gu Ity to the robbery of the Independence Bank and the murder of Detective Wit ’.her. His iria was sen for Jan. 22, an I he was taken back to Independence by the evening train. Ex-Attorney General McVEAGHhas made public a letter addressed by him to President Arthur just before his retirement from the Cabinet In this letter Mr. MacVeagh insists upon the acceptance of his resignation, and gives his reasons for declining to reconsider it He states that President Garfield became satisfied early in his administration of the enormity of the star-) out® iniquities and was earnest in season and out of season to get to the bottom of the cases and secure the punishment of the guilty. The day before President Garfield was shot he directed Mr. MacVeagh to offer Mr. Riddle the District Attorneysriip, but this arrangement was prevented by the assassin's bullet Colgate Hoyt, of New York,has been appoin ed by President Arthur Government Director of the Union Pacific Rai road, vice Spencer, removed....Aven Pearson, of Chicago, was appointed Superintendent of the Congreuional Record, to succeed Helm, removed. Gen. Henry L. Hazen, Chief of the Sipnal Service, predicts that the coming winter will be a mild one. His prediction is based upon a thorough examinat on of all indications in possession of the signal office. Mr. Hazen, in making th s prediction, disregards the as'ertion of. meteorologists that a cool summer is invariably followed by a cold and stormy winter.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK Beeves $ 8.50 <312.75 Hogs 6.00 @ 640 Cotton. io%@ .10% Flour—Superfine. 8.20 @3.75 Wheat—Na 1 White. 1.07 @ 1.08 No. 2 Red 1.09 @1.1) Corn—No. 2 83 @ .84 Oats—No. 2 43 @ .44 Pork—Mess 20.00 @20.2> Lard 12 @ .12% CHICAGO. Beeves—Good to Fancy Steers.. 5.10 @0.40 Cows and Heifers 2.75 @ 4.0 > Medium to Fair 4.00 @ ft.oo Hogs 4.7> @ 6.8) Flour—Fancy White Winter Ex. 5.50 @5.75 Good to Choice Sp'g Ex. 5.00 @ 5.50 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 93 @ .94 No. 2 Red Winter. 95 @ .96 Corn—No. 2 61 @ .69 Oats—No. 2 35 @ .36 Bye—No. 2 58 @ .59 Barley—No. 2 82 @ .83 Butter—Choice Creamery 85 @ .36 Eggs—Fresh 27 @ .28 Pork—Mess 17.25 @17.50 Lard 11%@ .11% MILWAUKEE. Wheat—Na 2 . 94 @ .95 Corn—Na 2 66 @ .67 Oats—Na 2 .4) @ .41 Bye—No. 2. 64 @ .55 Barley—No. 2 74 @ .75 Pork—Mess 17.25 @17.50 Lard 1i%3 .1:% ST. LOUIS. Wheat—Na 2 Red 94 @ .95 Corn—Mixed 67 @ .68 Oats—No. 2 35 @ .37 Rye 56 @ .57 Pork—Mess 18.25 @18.50 Lard 11%@ .11% CINCINNATI. Wheat—Na 2 Red 99 @ 1.00 Corn 67 @ .68 Oats. 39 @ .40 Rye 62 @ .63 Pork—Mess 17.75 @IB.OO Lard .11 @ .11% TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red 99 @ 1.00 Corn 75 @ .76 Oats—Na 2 .87 @ .38 _ DETROIT. Flour. 4.75 @7.25 Wheat—Na 1 White.. 1.00 @l.Ol Corn—Na 2. 75 @ .76 ' Oats—Mixed 41 @ .42 Pork—Mess. 19.00 @19.50 . INDIANAPOLIS. WHEAT—Na 2 Red 95 @ .96 Corn—Na 2 68 @ .69 Oats—Mixed .. .86 @ .37 < EAST LIBERTY, PA. j Cattle—Best 6.50 @6.00 Fair. 4.50 @ 5.00 Common. 8.75 @ 4.25 Hogs 6.9 i @6.85 Sheep 2.50 @ 5.50