Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1883 — Page 6

The Republican. RENSSELAKR, INDIANA. G. E. MARSHALL, - , • Publisher.

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. Henby Wickes, an aged lawyer of Albany, has disappeared. It is known that for ten years he has embezzled moneys collected for Mrs. Van Rensselaer, of Greenbush, the aggregate being #50,000. A heavy storm at Dover, N. H., caused the barsting of a sewer, which flooded the Cocheco Print Works. damaging prints ready for shipment and other stock to the extent of 850,000. Seven persons were struck by lightning and three persons killed... .The mill of Bleakie & Co., at Amesbury, Mass, valued at 8100,000, was struck by lightning and burned to the ground John Armoy Knox, of the Texas Sift Inge, and oneD. B. Shcahan, said to be% sculptor, quarreled about politics at a wine supper in New York, the matter culminating in a duel across the river, in Now Jersey. The combatants were placed twenty paces apart At the second fire Knox felt his left arm twitched, and found that Sheahan's bullet had passed through his cont and shirt, slightly grazing the skin. Shcahan was untouched The pair then shook hands, and the proceedings were over. Goy. Barstow, of Vermont;, ordered out four companies of militia to quell a labor disturbance at Ely, ,jn the Green Mountain State. Three hundred mineys, armed with pistols and knives, took pos- . session of the mine explosives, threatened to destroy the mine and burn the town unless they received their pay, which is long overt. due, owing to the mining company being financially embarrassed Gnmley, an aeronant'who ascended from Honesdale, Pa., in a balloon, landed in the Cfttskllls, and had a terrible experience. » The heat in* New York last week was most intense. There were many cases of sunstroke. The street-car companies erected temporary sheds for their horses. Each street was patrolled by carts loaded with blocks of ice and covered by tarpaulins. The greatest suffering was among the immigrants at Castle Garden. No less than 672 children under 5 years of age died in the city during the week.... John Dennison Baldwin, editor of the Worcester (Mass) Spy, is dead. He served three terms in Congress and was a member of the National Republican Convention at Chicago in 1860. .. .Fire destroyed the Massachusetts Almshouse at Bridgewater. Six hundred inmates were lately removed. It is supposed that the conflagration was started by somebody inside. The loss is #150,000..... G R Marvin, the oldest member of the New York Stock Exchange, is dead... .Two leading physicians of Reading, Pa, were drowned in the Schuylkill river while swimming. THE WEST. In the suburbs of Cincinnati the Thunderbolt expresss on the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio road, which was running rapidly to make up Ipst time, struck a huckster’s wagon containing seven persons, killing six instantly. The victims, Henry Kracke and his wife and family, were shockingly mutilated, and the locomotive was sprinkled with flour to hide the blood stains....A masked mob in Grand county. Col., shot four Commissioners and the County Clerk. Mr. Mills and HarvevDay were instantly killed. E P. Webber and D. J. Dean were mortally wounded The citizens have called on the Governor for military protection... .-The suit of E. J. Lehman vs. The Chicago Htrald Company was dec ded against the latter. The jury awarded # 5 - 000 damages, the amount asked for. Lehman is a leading merchant, and the paper charged him with having formerly been a swindler and confidence man. An outbreak in the penitentiary at Salem, Ore, resulted in the death of three convicts, the fatal shooting of three, and the escape of eight....A fire at Astoria, Ore, swept away property of the estimated value of #225,000. The commission house _of Whitcomb A Kendall, of Chicago, has been closed on an attachment by Philip D. Armour. The liabilities of-the bankrupts are about #109,000. ... .Wood’s’ Opera House at St. Paul, Minn., was destroyed by fire... .Twenty-six buildings at Evansville, Mina, were'burned, entailing a loss of 8150,000. It appears that Commissioner Mills, of Grand county, Col, was one of the three men who assassinated the other Commissioners and the County Clerk. The whole affair grows out of the removal of the county seat

Kansas sends the first car-load of winter wheat to Chicago. It inspected Na 2, and weighed tiffy-nine and a lialf pounds to the measured bushel... .Nelson Howard, colored, killed an official of the Wabash road, named John Kane, on an excursion train near Mound Citv, 111, on the Fourth of July, and fled t> the woods On being captured he was jailed at Mound City, where a mob saved the county the cost of a trial and execution by lynching him. The death is announced of Mlle. Marie Litta, the well-known operatic and concert singer, of Bloomington, 111. The cause of her death was a complication of troubles, resulting in cerebro-spinal meningitis. She had beem breaking down for a year or more, though the attack that ended her professional career came about two months ago For years she had suttered at times exceedingly with stomach troubles, together with affections of the kidqeys of a serious character and other complications, including rheumatic affections, more or less severe. She sang for the last time at Escanaba, Mich., May,V. fihe then went to Negaunee, where she jvas competed to take to her bed, and where she remained till June 5, when she Was taken home to die. Her age was 27.... .Gov. Crittenden, of Missouri, has expressed his intention of strictly enforcing the Sunday clause of the new Liquor law. Though the Sunday law on the statute books has long been neglected, and looked upon as a dead letter, the Governor maintains the passage of it in the Downing bill revivifies the matter, “and expresses the will of the people's representatives, which he has solemnly sworn to obey....An enthusiastic temperance meeting was held at Milwaukee last Bunday. There were several addresses in which it was stated that the Prohibition pgrty of the country was preparing to nominate a Presidential ticket in 1881 THE SOUTH. Martin J ones, a ' negro, who murdered Mrs. Ambaeher at Skipwith, Miss., was hanged by a mob a short distance from the town ...On returning from a night session of court at Jefferson, Texas, Judge Haughn was fairly perforated with buckahetJH some unknown person, and died in The boiler of J. F. Kelley’s saw-mill t J? * SA *

at Huntsville, exploded, killing four men instantly, and severely wounding four or five others... .A bale of new middling cotton, weighing 885 pounds, was sold at Albany, Ga., ar cents per pound. Six negroes, four men and two women, were drowned in Columbus county, N. G On reaching a bridge that spanneda swollen stream, they found that a portion had been washed away. Determined to cross the stream, however, they looked for a boat, and, being unable to find one, made a raft of legs and grapevines, and on this they attempted to cross. When the middle of the river was reached the raft went to pieces, and thia whole party of six found a watery grave. Three men, one holding a large bucket of boilidg-hot pitch, were standing on a sky-light in Atlanta, whence glass gate way, precipitating the miralfety feet, the black nuid’pouring ti&theifi fitter their fall Although the victims wefonh fearfully bruised and their bruises sculled with pitch, yet none of them wtil die?.., .Joseph Brewster, a soldier, guiltysef criminally assaulting Mia Davis.:-t Fort Duds, was banged at Ysleta, Texas. .He made no confession, but delivered a speech of twenty minutes, during which he took two big drinks of whisky, his religious adviser taking the bottle from him once. The knot was tied in a bungling way. and after the fall Brewster writhed and twitched terribly. Then the rope slipped, and he was hauled up from the trap and upon the platform. The rope was replaced and the man was then rehung... John Cone, colored, was hanged at Houston, Texas, for a criminal assault on Mrs Effie M. Scott He made a speech from the scaffold asserting his innocence. , , Subscriptions amounting io SIOO,000 have been guaranteed ip aid of the World's Industrial and • Cotton Centennial Exposition at New Orleans next year. The total amount wanted is 8500,000. , ' POLITICAL. The National Anti-Monopoly Convention, with 325 delegates in attendance, asin Chicago, the 4th'of July Hon Allen W. Root, of Nebraska, was called to the chair. After £ hot debate of an hour, Dennis Kearney was ruled out by a vote of 118 to 74, and took his departure. John F. Henry, of Brooklyn, was elected Permanent Chairman, and C. C. Post, of Indiana, Secretary. At the evening session, principles .were discussed by Cant Stickle, of Nebraska; B. F. Snlvely, of Indiana; Mrs. Todd, of San Francisco; a farmer named Dean, from thfe Pennsylvania oil region; and J. C. Magie, of Illinois. Gen. Chalmers’ Independent State Convention was held at Jackson, Miss., with Reuben Davis, a Confederate Brigadier and Congressman, in the chair. The first plank in the platform is for a free ballot and a fair count, and the fourth demands legislative supervision of railroad®. About thirtyfive counties were represented. At the second and last day’s session of the Anti-Monopoly Convention, in Chicago, Martin Todd, of San Francisco, spoke of the oppression of labor. Mr. Crocker, of lowa, thought railroads the most damnable of all monopolies. W. 8. Wolf, of New York, regarded the tariff as a question which should be left outside the conventioa Bev. Gilbert De La Matyr, of Ind, denounced class legislation for the robbery of labor. A.' J. Streeter, of Illinois, presented the report of majority on platform, which adopted. It pronounces all corporations subject to the control of the States or the Federal Government, and demands an investigation by Congress of the cost of railways and transportation It urges the establishment of a postal telegraph, postal savings banks, a graduated income tax, and the amendment of the patent laws It opposes the issue of currency by banks, and favors paying off the national bonds in lawful money. The tariff is- denounced as being wholly in the interest of monopolies. WASHINGTON. Attorney General Brewster has rendered an opinion to the Secretary of the Treasury that the exportation of bonded whisky to Bermuda with a view to its reimportation, for the purpose of evading or delaying payment of the tax, is not an exportation within the meaning of the law. The Attorney General holds, however, that the tax due upon spirit? at the time of i importation is collectable upon its return to ■ this country. Following is a recapitulation of the debt statement issued on the Ist inst: Interest bearing debt— Three and one-half per cents $ 32.082,600 Four and one-half per cents 250,000.000 Four per cents 737.586.300 Three per cents 304,204.350 Refunding certificates 355.900 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 TotaUnterest-bearing debt 81,838,229,150 Matured debt 7,831,4J5

Debt bearing no interest— Legal-tender notes 846,740,001 Certificates of deposit.. 13,376,000 Gold and silver certificates 170,995,471 Fractional currency 7,000,690 Total without interest $538,111,162 Total debt (principal)sl,Bß4,l7l,72B Total interest 12,309,382 Total cash in treasury 345.389,002 Debt, less cash in treasury 1,551,091,207 Decrease during June 18,098,201 Decreaseuof debt since June 30, 1882. 137,823,253 Current liabilitiesinterest due and unpaids 1,702,845 Debt on which Interest has ceased.. 7,831,415 Interest thereon 306,821 Gold and silver certificates 170,995,471 U. 8. notes held, far redemption of certificates of deposit 13,375,000 Total $345,389,902 Available assets— Cash in treasury 345,382,902 Bonds issued to Pacific railway companies, interest payable by United States— Princinal outstandings 64,623,512 Interest accrued, not yet paid 1,938,705 Interest paid by United States 67,283,388 Interest repaid by companies— By transportation services 16,777,380 By cash payments, 5 per cent, net earnings 665,108 Balance of interest paid by United States 89.850,809

As a result of the prolonged conferendtsat Washington, it has been agreed by Secretjpries Lincoln and Teller that the captured Apaches shall be cared for by and kept under the control of the War Department at somepointon ths San Carlos reservation. The War pepartmen . is to be intrusted with police control of all Indians on the reservation and the protection of the agent... .The Postmaster Ge ieral has decided to order the Postmaster at New Orleans to pay no postalorders to Mr. Dauphin, connected with the Louisiana lottery, and to return ail registered fetters sent to his addre s.

GENERAL.

Bishop McMullen, of the Boman Catholic Diocese of Davenport, died at Davenport, lowa, on the evening of the 4th of July. Bishop Pinckney, of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland, died in Baltimore at about the same hour. The venerable Archbishop Purcell also died on the morning of Independence day, near Cincinnati

Washington telegram: “The statement made at the Internal Revenue Bureau M to the complaint in lowa as to the removal of CoflectorAherman is tiiat Sherman was not physically capable to perform the duties of his office, and that he would have soon been compelled to retire on the ground ofill-hc’dth.’’ Two Grand Trunk freight trains collided near Port Hope, Ont, the locomotives and twelve cars being demolished and a brakeman fatally injured. The loss is placed at 8200,00tt Incidents and accidents of the Fourth: Henry Q Bowen’s annual celebration at Woodstock, Ct, was a great success. Rutherford B. Hayee delivered the chie£ ad- . dress, and Mrs Hayes was forced to step to the front of the platform and receive a round of cheers. Bishop Coxe, of Buffalo, spoke bn national topics, and was followed by Senators Aldrich and Blair. Apoem written for the occasion by John G. Whittier was read by Clarence Bowen Nearly 8,0.0 persons assembled at the cemetery on -the farm of the late Gov. Williams, of Indiana, to witness the unveiling of a suitable monument All the State officers wdre present, and addresses were delivered by ex-Senator McDonald and Senators Voorhees and Harrison At Erie, Pa,, Albert Kuhn and several companions. who were somewhat intoxicated, fired from the windows of a itreet-cAr in which they were riding. Mary Steiner, who was on the sidewalk, was shot through the heart and Kuhn' was arrested for murder. Two hours later Kuhn’s brother was found in a cellar, where he had hanged himself. Prince L Moody, of Streator, BL, after assisting to fire a cannon, early Wednesday morning, sat in a window to get cooled, and fell asleep. His wife called out to him in warning, and he awoke so suddenly as to fall into the street and break his neck. While 2,000 citizens of Goodland, Ind., stood in the park listening to the Fourth of July oration, a liberty pole beside them was shivered to fragments by lightning, but no one was injured. Hon David Davis presided over an oldfashioned celebration at Bloomington. HL, where John H. Oberly was the orator of the day. Michael Davitt addressed a massmeeting at Innishowen in celebration of the anniversary of American independence. The people of Portland, Me., celebrated the 250th anniversary of its settlement by dedicating a monument and placing memorial tablets at various historic spots H. H. Ludlum made a balloon ascension at Montrose, Pa. At a height of forty feet the trapeze rope caught on a tree, and the aeronaut was hurled to the ground, fracturing his skulL The feature of the celebration at Quincy, HL, was the unveiling of a bronze statue of the late Gov. John Wood, the first white settler of that city. ExSenator Oglesby delivered the oration In New York the Continental Guards of. Charleston helped the veterans of 1812 to raise the stars and stripes at the Battery. The cadets of the Military Institute of Virginia were received by President Arthur at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, and returned a flag captured from the OneTHundred and Sixtyfourth New York regiment Railway projects already outlined for unsettled sections of the province of Quebec involve an outlay of 8100,000,000 of. French and British capital. There are two lines from Montreal to Ottawa, with business for but one, and two from Montreal to Quebec, with a third in progress

FOREIGN.

A dispatch from Cairo, Egypt, says: The situation between here and Port Said in one direction and Alexandria in the other is deplorable, and can scarcely be exaggerated. The extent of the cholera plague, owing to GJveiyiment precautions, is not actually known, but the statements of those who have escaped from the infected districts, and those whose very presence is shunned by almost every one, reveal a terrible state of affairs. There are scarcely well natives enough to bury the dead in some of the comparatively Isolated villages along the Mediterranean and in the low Nile Delta districts between Lake Menzalen and Lake, BoorJos. 1 ”....5ir William Gull, an eminent English physician, does not believe the cholera will spread to Eurone....While the coast-trading steamer Daphne was being launched at Kenfrew, Scotland, she capsized when she struck the water, and of a arge number of persons on board 150 were drowned The ill-fated craft had all her mach nery on board, and her hull retards navigation in the Clyde The cable announces the death of John Winston Spencer Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, at the age of 61. In Parliament he distinguished himself for his efforts in behalf of the Established Church. In 1876 he was nominated to the Viceroyalty of" Ireland. He was a Prmce of the Holy Roman Empire, and enjoyed a pension of £5.0'10 per annum... .A man named Griffey was snot at Ennis, Ireland, for taking a place from which the former tenants had been evicted.

The raftsmen, upon whose confessions so much depended to convict the Jews of Tiza-Eszlar, Hungary, now declare that their statements were obtained by torture. Their receital of the cruelties practiced upon them by the authorities reads like a chapter from Fox’s "Book of Martyrs.”..’.. A detachment of British troops in India accompanied a political agent to bring a refractory village into subjection. A band of f,OO natives made an attack, and were repulsed with a loss of fifty.... Irish Catholic Bishops condemn State-aided immigration, maintaining large tracts of uncultivated land, if tilled, would support the surplus population....ln the Bri ish House of Commons a motion by a Literal member in favor of female suffrage was rejected by a vote of 130 to 114... .The London Fima reports that James Carey, the informer, has quitted Ireland in disguise. The deaths from cholera at Damietta, Egypt, for the weekending July 9, averaged about 130 per day... .Several cases occurred among the gendarmes forming cordons around the infected districts, and particularly in the case of the cordon surrounding Samanoud. Fresh cordons drawn around the old and infected district have thus become necessary. The alarm in London over the cholera caused a discussion in the Cabinet whether or not to recall the British troops from Egypt, but Lord Wolseley decided in the negative.... The populace at Brindisi,.ltaly, fearing the introduction of the pestilence, refused to allow the steamer Surat to land Indian mail even when fumigated.

Four men named Bogerson, Tanzy, Kelly and Boughton were found guilty at Sligo on the charge of having attempted in March of last year to blow up the residence of a laddlord near Loughrea, in the County, of Ga<way. The convictions were obtained on the evidence of two Informers who swore that the con pi ators were to get #SOO. if the house wds destroyed and the inmates killed. The dynamitards were, the informers spid, the agqnts £of a secret society.... Detectives in If eland have) exhumed a box containing dynamite cartridges, part of the quantity stolen two yeats ago ip Cork, and' the officials breathe easier...;;Jameß Carey, the informer, has been taken by a detective from Dublin to London, to be shipped away without reward or a written pardon. His family wese sent in advance.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

A !rom Portland, Ore., says that tremendous forest are raging south of Kolama. Six miles of railroad find two locomotives were destroyed. Jhe Oak? Point logging camp. losses are 2.0.000. The flames extend for miles, and we »6 fierce that it is unsafe to attempt to investigate the losses. It is believed the fires will continue until rain fa 115.... Judge James-A. DAwson, of the Superior Court al Beaver v ‘ based the Hon Willard Teller, brother of the Secretary of the Interior, 8500 for contempt of court as attorney in filing a scandalous answer on behalf of W. H, Bush, in the suit of ex-Senator H. A W. Tabor vs. Bush. ‘ The document in reply to! Tabors complaint was the most remarkable ever seen in any court.... The State Entomologist of Illinois reports that vast numbers of the Heenan fly are now tn a dormant condition (the so-called tlaxt-seea state) so IoW down in the stalk that they are left In the stubble when the wheat- is cut, This is true of the entire wheat region of Illinois' He therefare urgently advises- that the stubble be burned at the earliest day possible, and that, where this is imptactical»e, the infested fields be plowed deeply and rolled. Ex-Speakeil Qolfax writes to the Lockport (N. Y.} that while he has no intention of returning to public life he still believes tfie people have confidence in his integrity, ana avers that, Oakes Ames’ oath to the contrary, he never had a share or a dollar of the dividends of the Credit Mobilier of America.

Two men named Brown and Mayer were arrested for an attempted outrage on the daughter of a wealthy citizen of Sunbright, Tenn They confessed, and were summarily lynched... Henderson Lee, colored, was lynched at Monroe, La., for stealing... Portions of Garland, Yell, and Montgomery counties, Ark., have for some time been under the control of outlaws, who defy the local authorities. The other day Gov. Berry wrote a letter to the Sheriff of each county saying he had been urged to call out the militia, but saw np necessity for, doing so, and urging the Sheriffs to call out large posses to hunt the outlaws down

According to a T report just received at the Navy Department, there would seem to be very earnest need of a prohibitory law in the navy. Drunkenness is alarmingly prevalent among the officers of the Asiatic squadron, and the loss of the steamer Ashuelot is directly traceable to the use of liquor.... A special agent of the Treasury Department calls attention to the large number oi assisted immigrants arriving at Canadian ports with through tickets to points in the Western States. Twenty-eight paupers from one vessel were recently found destitute at Buffalo and sent to the Erie county almshouse. Canadian steamers engaged in the cattle trade with Great Britain bring back these immigrants at the lowest rates. Gladstone having announced in the House of Commons that Charles Bradlaugh has affirmed his intention to take his seat, despite any orders of the House Northcote moved that he be excluded from its precincts until he agreed not to disturb the proceedings, which was carried—232 to 65.... Cholera is raging with violence at Swatow, Chinn A yacht will be held in readiness at Cairo to take the Khedive to Naples. One European died at Alexandria, where the abatoirs are in a filthy condition

Near Plinville, Ct., a passenger train dashed into a gravel train, causing the death of two men, injuring one fatally, and badly shaking up the passengers The bodies of two of the victims were thrown forty feet over the telegraph wires. A telegraph operator caused the disaster bv failing to give the passenger conductor necessary instructions.,.. Four apartment bindings, eleven stories high, are to be erected at Sixth avenue and Fifty-ninth street, New York, at a cost 82,400,000.

Paid in His Own Coin.

An old and well-known auctioneer in a New England city was driving by a group of school-boys, one day, when he received a thump from a snow-ball, just back of his ear. Reining in his horse, he turned about and addressed them: “I’ll give $1 to any one who xill tell me the name of the boy who threw that snow-ball. ” The response came from the urchins spontaneously, “One, give me two?” “One I’m offered; give me a half.” “One, I’m bid; who’ll make it three-eighths ?” He drove on without any more ceremony.

THE MARKET.

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DREADFUL ACCIDENT.

The Steamship Daphne Capsized Immediately After Leaving the Ways at Glasgow. A Large Number of People Drowned. A cable dispatch from Glasgow, Scotland, says the steamship Daphne tipped oyer on her side, capsized and sank in midstream while being launched in the Clyde. About 100 persons perished. The vesseL with upward of 200 workmen aboard, left the ways at a very rapid rate. Ab she gained the water she rolled from side to tide. When opposite Renfrew, about five miles above tills city, the human freight was seen rushing to and fra The ship gave a furious lurch, rose clear above the water and disappeared as if by magic. Those who had clung to floating pieces of ’ the wreck did their utmost to save their drowning comrades. Eye-witnesses saw a great number struggling and shrieking for help. Many were bruised and covered with blood, having been struck by the debris. Boats were , pulled hard to aid in rescuing the unfortunates; many were thus saved. A number of men at the ship's yard, on the opposite side of the river, witnessed the disaster, but were unable io render any assistance. They immediately set to work saving the people struggling in the water. They say some of the men on the steamer jumned overboard and others were thrown overboard and that a quantity of loose fittings fell from the deck and crushed many unfortunates struggling in the water. A number of swimmers were visible directly after the ship capsized, but many of them were afterward seen to sink. Six men were seen clinging together. Four endeavored to climb upon the steamer as she was sinking, but were forced to desist by rush of steam from the port-hole. Some climbed upon the keel just befqee the ship was submerged. Many who were dashed into the water swam ashore. Several of those picked up were so exhausted that it was found necessary to remove them to hospitals. e According to the stories of witnesses and survivors, the vessel left the slip too rapidly, causing her stem, which entered first, to sink deeply in the water. She was then caught by the strong current of the river, by which, as well as her topweight, she was caused to keel over so far that the water entered her port She had all her machinery aboard when launched. She is now completely under water. She was constructed for coast trading, and was of 500 tons burden Crowds of stricken relatives lined the quays all day. Whenever a dead body was taken out and recognized heartrending' cries drowned t)he splash of busy oar.?. A later despatch says: A diver reports that the bodies in the hold of the Daphne are so closely packed that he was unable to move them. Preparations are being made to raise the vesseL Fifty-two bodies have been recovered. It is now estimated that 159 pers ns were drowned by the s nking of the Daphne.

MEXICAN RAILWAYS.

Nearly Twenty-five Hundred Miles Completed. The ATextcan Financier gi e the following list from official sources of the railroads completed in Mexico up to the end of April: Miles. Tlascala railroad 2.50 Orizaba-Ingenio 3.01 Nuetla-Tlasciaco 8.75 San Andres.., 7.01 Tlalmanaico 9.0 J Pueblo and Matamoras Izucar 19.01 San Martin v ... 23.0) Tehuasm-Esperanza 31.00 Tehuantepec 31.00 Sinaloa and Durango 36.00 Vera Cruz-Medelin 3’9.00 Hidalgo railroad 56.00 Pueblo San Marcos 57.00 ■Yucatan lines 68.00 Mexico-Tlalpulalpam 75.00 Sonora lailway, Guaymas to Nogales' ..234.00 Interoceanic, Mexico to Cuantia and branches 183.00 Mexican National, Mexico to Acambaro...k 178.00 Laredo southward 2U8.U0 Branches 87.00 Mexican Centra], Mexico to Lagos. .311.00 Paso del Norte to Chihuahua. 302.00 Tampico to San Luis Potosi 62.50 Mexican railway, Vera Cruz to Mexico 264.00 Pueblo and Jalapa branches......... 89.50

T0ta12,379.26 The table foots up 2,379% miles, although the Financier gives the total completed road at 2,437 miles. The Mexican National, the Interoceanic, the Hidalgo, and the Yucatan lines are narrow-gauge, the rest standard gauge. A number of tife shorter lines given above are worked by horse-power, and some of them have been in existence a long time

PERSONAL.

Dom Pedro, of Brazil, wears white silk and white satin when he sits on his throne, a necklace of immense diamonds and- emeralds, and a rich lace cravat A ninety-year-old Pennsylvanian, who neyer smoked, never drank, never fell i n love, and never went out of his native town, has just started on his first journey. He went in a hearse. Olive Logan has discovered a Scotch girl to whom the Prince of Wales sent a nosegay, which terrified her parents to such a degree that the Caledonian lamb was promptly shipped to the North of Tweed. Bichard Henry Stoddard has set his son to learning the publishing business. One poet m the family is enough.' In the Stoddard family there are two, Mis Stoddard being very felicitous in the use of blaxk verse.

Gen. Sherman’s idea of Washington recalls one of Horace Greeley’s letters: “There is so much villainy going on in this place,” he wrote in 185(1, “that I am ahncst afraid to look in the glass lest I shall see the face of a rogue.” ( Richard Rowley, the hero, who, in the memorable fight of the Keataarge with the Alabama, picked up a 100-poui.d she 1 from the Kearsage’s deck, while the fuse was burning, and threw it overboard, was.up before the Bangor Municipal Court last week on a charge of drunkenness

FISH TALES.

Fish are so plentiful in the Hackensack river that they appear to be crowded for room. It is not an uncommon sight to see them swim up alongside of boats and mutely plead to be taken in. , A Long Island angler threw in his line t other day, and fastening it to a sta >e wehi home to dinner. When he returned th** weight was so great that he was compelled to call for assistance. Hauling up the ca. ch he was surprised to find that thbre was only one immense catfish, button cutting it open he discovered another fish which, when dissected, contained a smaller one that had swallowed the hook.