Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1884 — Page 2

The Republican. RgWSSELAER, INDIANA. & E. MARSHALL, - - Poßuaßx*.

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. Congress bad a dull and uninteresting session on the Sth inst. The Senate passed bills to r permit the bridging of the "Rio Grande at Eagle Pass and Laiedo, Texas. A bill was introduced for the deposit In the Treasury of the receipts of the money-order system, and the payment of Its expenses out of the appropriations. After some debate on the naval appropriation bill, Mr. Hale gave notice of an amendment to set aside $1,750,000 for the ereotion of two factories for making guns from sixinch caliber to one hundred tena The House of Representatives passed bills lor the appointment of a commission to run the boundary line between Indian Territory and Texas; declaring that the Supreme Court of each Territory shall consist of a Chief Justice and three associates; and providing that Governors of Territories must have been for two years residents thereof before their appointment. In the Senate on April 9, the whole time was devoted to debate on the naval appropriation bill, during which Mr. Vest created something of a sensation by charging that the Secretary of the Navy would allow his personal feelings and partisan bias to do tinners in a public capacity that the best Interests of the country would not warrant. In the House a struggle arose as to which of the many pending special orders should obtain precedence in consideration. Mr. Dinglcy essayed to bring up the Shipping bill, but the effort was unsuccessful, the motion being defeated—yeas 76, nays 156. Mr. Reagan met with like fate, his motion to consider the Inter-State Commerce bill being voted down—yeas 101, nays 120. The Speaker ruled that the unfinished business was on the< Oregon Central Land-Grant bill. Mr. Stock - slager, asked the House to consider the public building bills, and moved to go into committee of the whole for the consideration of such bills. The antagonists of these measures and the more prominent advocates of the Oregon Central bUI united in opposition to the motion, but thev were unsuccessful, and the House, by a vote of yeas 10u, nays 61, went into committee of the whole, Mr. Wellborn in the chair. Bills for public buildings at Keokuk, lowa, and Waco, Tex., werepassed. A communication from the Secretary ol the Navy, urging an appropriation of $175,003 for a new revenue cruiser for the waters of Alaska was presented to the Senate on the 1 Oth inst. A favora de report was made on the bill to authorize the bridging of the Mississippi at St. Louis. Bills were introduced to protect employes of railroads engaged in Inter-State commerce, and to forfeit the land grant of the New Orleans and Vicksburg road. After prolonged debate on the Naval Appropriation bill, the Senate adjourned to the 14th. In the House, Mr. Eaton reported a substitute for the Senate bill governing the election of President and Vice President. A joint resolution was introduced directing the Postmaster General to apply the most effective means to protect the mails on postal cars from tire. The House went into committee of the whole to consider bills for public buildings. Favorable reports were made on measures for postoflices at New Albany, Pittsburgh, Chattanooga, and Augusta, Me.; but the House adjourned without taking action t’’croon. The Senate bill offering a reward of $25,000 for rescuing or ascertaining the fate of the Greely arctic expedition passed the House of Representatives on the 11th inst. The House adopted a resolution declaring the charges made by Mr. Keifer against H. V. Boynton not sustained by evidence. A bill for the forfeiture of the Northern Pacific land grant was reported. A message from the President was presented, urging the appropriation of $15,000,000 for armaments for sea-coast fortifica ions. An evening session was held for the consideration of pension bills. The Senate was not in session. In the House of Representatives, on the 12th, favorable reports wore made on bills to permit fruit-growers to manufacture brandy without the payment of tax, granting lettercarriers a month's leave of absence each year, and for the acceptance of the Illinois and Michigan CanaL Eulogies on the late Representative Herndon of Alabama, were delivered by nine members. The Senate was not in session.

The will of Mrs. Oswald Ottendorfer, of New York, covering property valued at $3,000,600, bequeaths $25,000 for distribution to employes of the Staats-Zeitung, and scatters about $75,000 among ch'arltable and educational institutions... .John Dillman, wifemurderer, was executed at Eastern, Pa. The exposition of the Keely motor has been again postponed, as the “work of perfecting the graduation" is not finished.... The Gloucester fishing schooner Nelson 1. McFarland and its crew of five men were lost in a recent gale.... N. B. Pierson and Thomas Vedder, brothers-in-law, of Suspension Bridge, N. Y., drove to Goat Island and quarreled. Vedder shot Pierson through the head and then it is supposed committed suicide by jumping into the Niagara Rapids. Maj. Thomas E. Moore, a leading member of the Salvation Army of America, was arrested in New York on the charge of grand larceny. TSE WEST. The Board of Trade at Minneapolis has petitioned the Postmaster General to change all the mails as far east as New York and Boston so that they will certainly arrive in Minneapolis before 4 p. m., as it interferes with their dinner hour.... The Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Railroad Directors have increased their stock to $30,000,000. Two distilling companies of Pekin, Illinois, have brought suit for $5,000 each Associatlorfir damages by restraining their productive capacity in the interest of the pool A special grand jury, composed wholly of leading business men, has been impaneled at Cincinnati to investigate the riot and the burning of the court house.... The Adjutant General of Ohio has placed under arrest Col. Mott and Lieut. Col. Phillips, of the Fourth Regiment, for misconduct while on duty at the Cincinnati riots.,..ln the Sharon divorce case at San Francisco, a female witness undertook to draw a revolver on one of the counsel, and her son made a similar attempt. Judge Sullivan declined to hear further testimony unless the policeman at the entrance to the court room would certify that no one present was armed..... It was learned in Cleveland that two young scions of wealthy families, named W. H. Boardman and Gussie Bissell, were recently married in a suburban church. The young lady's mother offered to take her to Paris, when she confessed the elopement.

N. Fleetwood and wife, living four miies south of Oakland, Coles County, 111., were brutally murdered a few nights since. The assassins broke the old man’s skull with some heavy instrument, and to make sure of their work cut his throat. They then murdered his wife, set fire to the bed, and escaped without wakening the restof the family, who were sleeping upstairs. No reason can be given for the murder. The old folks were inoffensive, honest country people. The tragedy produced the most intense excitement in the neighborhood.... The widow of Alexander C. Wingate was awarded $5,000 by the United States Court at Indianapolis against the Ohio and Mississiy pi hailroad for the death of her husband, who was shot 'on the cars of that road by a drunken passenger..... .The leading'creditors of Brown, Bonnell & Co., of Youngstown, Ohio, have matured plans to place that extensive iron works on its feet. The Chicago Tribune’s special cor-’ respondent in the Idaho gold fields sums up the situation thus: “It is nonsense to write the camp down, as some are doing, ft i»criminal towrite it up—to boom it, as the Northern Pacific and a few subsid:zed papers are doing. The man does not live who can say of his own knowledge that the district is not the richest gold-producing region ever discovered. On the other band, no one can pretend to know that the amount of gold to lie taken out will be anything like adequate to the exoitement."....The members of the Western whisky pool convened in Chicago,

and induced the disgruntled distillers of Pekin to withdraw their suits for damages. •H. B. Millers states that the Western Export Association is perfectly solvent; that after May 1 production will be reduced to 20 percent, of the running capacity, and that the price of whisky will be left at $1.15 per ga110n.... By a vote of nine to five the Galesburg (lU-) City Council Increased the saloon license fee from S6OO to $1,200 and changed the closing boor from 11 p. m. to 10 p. m Juan H. Patron, ex-Speaker of the New Mexican Legislature, was assassinated at Las Vegas by a cowboy.... .Heavy rains have fallen in California recently. The rivers are swollen and have been many washduts. News comes from the Idaho gold regions of the discovery of quartz leads on Eagle Creek, said to be as rich in paying ore as the Leadville carbonate. The first discovery was made by a boy. The prospectors are greatly elated, and anticipate a splendid harvest. Many claims have been already bought by capitalists. One vein is from six to ten feet in width, and assays S2O per ton. The snow is fast disappearing, and the prospectors will toon be able to enter fully on the work of mining.... The train-load of corn contributed by the people of Butler County, Kansas, to the Ohio River sufferers was sold at auction in Cincinnati at from two to three cents per bushel above market rates, realizing $7,000. ....Victor W. Clough, of Geneseo, 111., made 100 miles on roller-skates in five minutes less than ten hours. When he left the track the muscles of his legs were swollen and numb.... Theodore A. Hurd, of Leavenworth, has been appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Kansas, to succeed D. J. Brewer, who was called to Ihe Federal Bench—.An unsuccessful attempt to break jail at Milwaukee by fifteen prisoners, was prevented "By the j Aller's wife, who, hearing the disturbance, notified the police. Jailer Walsh received severe Injuries. THE SOUTH. Solomon Fkoman, an old and wealthy citizen of Louisville, who since October has become coo feeble to move about, has sued for divorce on the ground that his wife had confessed making several attempts to poison him, and bad finally fled. Frank James, the Missouri bandit, when arraigned at Huntsville, Ala., pleaded not guilty to the Mussel Shoals robbery, and his trial was set tor April 16, Six negroes, of eleven in a boat, were drowned by the upsetting of their skiff while crossing the Mississippi River, near Vicksburg. L. R, Redmond* the famous illicit distiller of South Carolina, isto be returned to Columbia Prison from Auburn Penitentiary, where he is serving a term for killing revenue officers. Senator Butler securedjhe change by showing that the prisoner is a cripple, carrying seven bullets, and is dying by inches in a cold climate. The Pocahontas (Va) mine was entered last week, and the remains of the victims of the explosion were removed. Some were headless trunks, others had the arms and legs torn away, and all were unrecognizable, save by their wearing apparel or other special marks. Death was believed to be instantaneous in all cases. Eight prisoners confined in the jail at Gainesville, Green County, Ark., escaped by overpowering the jailer. A posse of citizens started in pursuit. One of the prisoners, a burglar, was killed, and three were secured after they had been severely wounded. The jailer was dangerously wounded by his assailants. WASHINGTON. John T. Cramer, a clerk in the Treasury Department, Was called into the corridor by a Washington grocer and badly pummeled, for writing insulting letters to a lady. Soon afterward Secretary Folger ordered Cramer's dismissal. Gen. Adam Badeau, Consul General to Cuba, has resigned. A commttee of stockholders of the wrecked Pacific National Bank ot Boston has forwarded to Washington a series of fourteen charges against Comptroller Knox, supported by evidence, and threatens to institute criminal proceedings. Knox says he will not resign until these charges are thoroughly investigated. ? POLITICAL. = At a conference of Independent Republicans in New York City the prevailing sentiment was in favor of Edmunds and Lincoln. Blaine had friends, but it was urged that he could not carry New York State. The Independents will send a delegation to labor with the delegates to the National Republican Convention. The Democratic State Convention of Pennsylvania appointed sixty Randall delegates to Chicago, but left them uninstructed. W. W. H. Davis, a county editor, was nominated for Congressman-at-large At the Republican Congressional Convention for the Albany District, after the election of a presiding officer, a mob made a rush for the platform and threw off the Chairman and Secretary. A scene of wild disorder was followed by the appointment in the same room of rival delegations to Chicago J. G. Cannon has been renominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Fifteenth Illinois District The Republicans of the District of Columbia selected Postmaster Conger and Perry Carson as delegates to Chicago, and voted down a rcsoluton instructing them for Logan. It is thought in Washington on account of the intimate relations between TilPennsylvania Democratic Convention to indorse the former is a sure indication that he will not be a candidate for the Presidency.... The New Hampshire Democratic State Convention for the election of delegates to the Chicago Convention will be held May 31.

District conventions to select delegates to the National Republican Convention were held in the various Congressional Districts of Indiana on the 10th inst. Following is a summary of the preferences, so far as known: First District—Gen. Sherman, 2; Second District—Unknown, 2; Third District —Unknown, 2; Fourth District— Harrison, E; Fifth District—Harrison, 2; Sixth DistrictEdmunds, 1; Blaine, 1; Seventh District— Harrison, 2; Eighth District—Blaine, 2; Ninth District —Unknown, 2: Tenth District —Blaine, 2; Eleventh District—Harrison, 2; Twelfth District—Unknown, 2; Thirteenth District—Unknown, 2. In the House of Representatives, at Washington, Mr. Hopkins, Chairman of the special Keifer-Boynton committee, reported .that the charges preferred by ex-Speaker Keifer against Gen. Boynton, the Washington correspondent, had not been sustained. Gen. Keifer was present, but made no objection to the adoption of the report. It is understood that Mr.Keifer tried to induce the Republican leaders, particularly Hisco, k and Reed, to oppose the adoption, but they refused. The ex-Speaker has now determined to appeal to his constituents for a double vindication. He wants them to re-eleet him to Congress and send him as a delegate to the National Republican Convention... .The Missouri delegation to the Chicago Republican Convention is said to stand 11 for Blaine, 9 for Arthur, 7 for Logan, and 5 for Edmunds. Washington telegram: “Virginia politicians are in a fluny of excitement over the report that Senator Rfddieberger and John D. Wise and Benjamin S. Hooper, Readjuster Congressmen, paid a visit to Mr. Blaine and remained closeted with him for a considerable length of time. Tbis is interpreted to mean that Mahone Is making terms with Blaine, believing him to be the strongest cand date The straight-out Virginia Republicans, or Wickham-Dezendorf party, will have, it is skid, one-half of ttye delegation? and, as their votes will be -cast for Blaine, Mahone now proposes to give him the rest if he can secure for himself the recognition that suchanofler should be worth." Gen.'Denver, in whose honor Denver, Cbl’ was named, and who was at one time Governor of Kansas/ is the latest person

mentioned as a Democratic Presidential candidate. He has a literary bureau at work for him. THE WEEK'S FIRE RECORD. loss of SIO,OOO and upward was involved, is shown in the annexed tabulated summary: ixisses. Scranton* lowa, business property....s2o,ooo Aurora, Ind., Freiburg's distillery 1. lOu.Ok) St. Louis, Ma. wire rope factory.so,ooo Shreveport, La., cotton mi 11.............. 30,00*1 Philadelphia, woolen mi 11.... *lo,ooo East Saginaw, Mich., furniture factory.. 15,000 Bertamont, Mich., saw-mi11...j 20,00 fl Hampton, lowa, grain elevator 15,000 West Point, Ga, cotton warehouses 150,003 Parsons, Kan., flouring mill 10,000 New York, apartment house.. 200,000 Philadelphia, malt house s 60,000 Moberly, Mo„ railway warehouse........ 30,000 Chatham, Vi, business property 15,00) Pensacola, Fla., bank and 5t0re5......... 35, oqo Boston, warehouse and contents 30,000 Marseilles, HL, Clark's paper mill 60,000 Port Deposit, Md., stores 35,000 St. Louis, Mo., business property 75,00 u Montreal, tea warehouse.3o,oo3 Athens, Texas, business block 80,000; Evansville, Ind., small stores 10,000 Muncie, Ind., barn and live stock.... iw.oooi Waverly. N. Y., railway shops,. iJo,OpO Churchill, Md., carriage factory?. . .... ..> is.ooq Hubbardston, Mich., ten bus ness houses. 30,000 Huntsville, Tex., a square of stores 80,000 Hampton, Va., thirty buildings „... 125,'KXX Athol. Mass., Cook's b10ck....25,0-00 Montreal, iron foundry .... 60,c00 Corsicana, Tex., wholesale grocery store. 60,000; Van Alstyne, Tex., five stores 25,000. Pensacola, Fla., hotel, depot, etc 65,000 Augusta, Ark., business property 15,0 K) Winnipeg, Manitoba, planing mills 20,000 Detroit, Daily Times office 20,00 A Lanesville, Minn... stores 10,000 Knowlesvllle, N. ¥.. business property... 16,000 GENERAL The First National Bank of Monmouth, 111., closed its doors, owing to the discovery by some of the Directors, tjs is alleged, that the Cashier had used about $120,000 of the money of the concern for hiej own purposes, and had lost it in speculation; ....T. R. Jenkins & Sons, provision mer-j chants, of Baltimore, who have been rated at over $500,000, suspended payment on account] of the decline in grain and pork. Theii] liabilities are said to be over $200,000, onehalf of which is due to the city banks... The Bank Examiner at St. Albans, Vt., ordered the First National Bank to close be*" cause it could not pay its drafts in Boston? Unfortunate speculations in stocks are charged against the officers... .Lee, Potts & Co., pork-packers at Richmond, Va., havei failed for $200,000, principally due in Chicago?; Thomas Scott, a well-known thief,lyingin jail at Jackson, Mich., made to the Mayor and nine leading citizens surprising statements In regard to the Crouch murders.' The Prosecuting Attorney then offered him $5,000 in cash, a pardon from the Governor] and a ticket to Liverpool if he would divulge! the name of the murderer. His re-{ fusal to do so stamps him as a 1iar....; James McHenry, the English railway mag-] nate, was arrested by a Federal marshal on board a steamship about to leave New York,' on account of a judgment obtained years ago! by the Erie Road. Rather than be delayed,, -he turned over to President Jewett bonds' and stocks aggregating $1,800,000, with a written promise to pay the remainder. J. B. A. Beique, an extensive contractor for water-works in the Canadian towns, has been compelled to suspend, with liabilities of ' $155,000... .The Calumet and Hecla Mining Company has for the first time in seventeen years"passed its dividend, causing its stock to drop in the Boston market from 225 to 200.... The steamer Grecian landed at Boston 886 immigrants who were assisted from Galway by the Tuke fund to the extend of from $5 to S4O per family. Nearly all have started westward. Most of them had been evicted from Irish estates... .The complications arising from the collapse of the Garden City Warehouse Company were increased by the arrest of H. J. Dike on a capias secured by the First National Bank of Chicago. Postmaster General Gresham has made arrangements by -which a fast-mail train on the Central Pacific Road will hereafter be run west from Ogden, Utah, making the time to San Francisco in thirty-nine hours. The mail time between New York and San Francisco is thereby reduced twentyfour hours. . The Governor General of Canada will visit Manitoba thia summer, and make a brief • stop at Chicago..... H. C. Atkins, Assistant General Superintendent of the St. Paul Road,! fell in the street at La Crosse, from a stroke of paralysis. A man calling himself Dr. Coss recently wrote from Chicago to Sir John A. Macdonald that he -could unveil a plot matured in the United States to destroy the Canadian Parliament buildings with dynamite. Coss was invited to visit Ottawa, where he is said to have given satisfactory evidence; to sustain his charges. ; Col. Aguero, the Cuban leader who' crossed from Key West, made hi? way toward the interior and was joined by numerous sac-i tions. The government has called upon Spain for more troops, and has re-established the;

censorship over dispatches. A coal operator well knoWn throughout the United States, when Interviewed in Chicago, stated his belief that anthracite wilß sell at from 26 to 50 cents per ton less this) summer than last, as the pool '/has but little, strength. Soft coal is lower, and the production is increasing... .The Mexican Govern, mens secured peace with the mercantile) class by agreeing that only goods actually sold shall be stamped. . , ' Charles Reade, the popular English novelist, died in Lon lon the other day, aged, 70 years. For some months he had been in delicate health. Other deaths among during the week were: M. Jean Baptiste, Dumas, a French , litterateur and man; Dr. James G. Ramsey, physician; and author, of Nashville, Tenntl Ex-Congressman Charles D. Hodges, of Can rollton, HL: Harrison Gray Otis, a distin-j guished citizen of Boston; ex-Lieut. Gov.] Jabez Fitch, of Ohio; Emanuel Gerbel, GerJ man poet; Jem Ward, the old-time English, pugilist; Rev. Thomas A. Cheek, a noted lowa] colored minister; Henry Hitchcock, of Gales] burg. 111., a prominent railroad man; Jarneu Lake, of Rockford, HL, who was Quarter-! master under Gen. Rosecrans: Gustav Rich-* ter, famousGermanpainter; William Procter, the well-known soap manufacturer, and Alfi Burnett, a noted humorist, both of Cincin] nati; ex-State Treasurer John M. Milliken,’ of Ohio.

Aguero and his followers in Cuba are marching toward Bazamo, the seat of former insurrections, and are hailed with joy. by the villagers on the route. His band has been largely augmented. Some plantations have been burned, and tax collectors despoiled of their funds. .>. A floating paragraph about the sale of relics from the scaffold oa on' which Osawatomie Brown was hanged calls out a statement that the. original structure was demolished and carried off piecemeal by Gen. Patterson’s command in the latter part of July, 1861. , foreign. The London Observer, the organ of the clubs, says that if the American law cannot reach the dynamiters it ought to be altered so that it may. It urges the British Government to make a demand in this direction, and says that Americans should be held to the doctrine urged by them at the time of the Alabama claims—that it is "the duty 1 of every government to suck municipal law*, as will prevent injury to citizens of friendly states.”.... There are serious strikes in various parts of Germany. In Saxons ’inost"<sf the stonecutters, masons, apd giassworkers have struck. There is general dissatisfaction among the cary enters also. The spread of the strike movement seriously alarms the capitalist classes throughout t.ie empire.... Mr. Kenny. a Parnellite member of Parliament, in a speech to h s 'constituants at Ennis,, Ire and, quoted with approval Biggar’s description of Earl Spencer

M a drunken - housebreaker A letter from Japan statps that the Army is to be increased to 100,000, and that the new conscription laws require three years’ service of all male citizens between 47 and 40 years York, United States Consul at Mannheim,’ Germany, died recently of apoplexy in an English railway car According to advices from Hue, the Annamites state that Hoang Ho has been evacuated. .. .Ghishin, banker, of Charleroi and Antwerp; Belgium, has failed. Liabilities," $3,000,000.... A new Russian loan of $7,500,000 will be devoted to the construction of railways.... Marquis Tseng has been summoned to Pekin. It is -expected he will return to England.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Berry Johnson, a negro, after chokJnd his wife to death at Shreveport, La., filled her mouth with snuff and Informed the neighbors that she died from going to sleep with snuff in her mouth. Alexander L. Lee took a dose of morphine in the presence of his family, at Jackson, Mich., and ran out of his house, pursued by bis children and his neighbors. The dose took fatal effect before he was c iught. The suicide grows directly out of the Crouch massacre. The Supreme Court of the District of Columbia has decided that there, is no appeal from a decision of the Commissioner of Patents.to the Secretary of the Interior. Business has been resumed in the Mexican capital, and the trouble Is over. A full understanding between the merchants and the Government has been arrived at, the Government agreeing to make liberal modificaticns of the tax regulations Residents of Quebec Province continue to flock to the United States, but principally to the New England manufacturing centers. A number of French Canadians are also emigrating to the Turtle Mountain districts of Dakota.... The steamship Reliance, plying between New York and Rio de Janeiro, was lost off Bahia, with a cargo of coffee. Her passengers and mails were saved. A free fight between rival factions of Hungarian miners occurred at a place called Ross Hill, near Wilkesbarre, Pa., during the celebration of the Easter/festivities. The ass air grew out of an attempt at robbery by one Hungarian, of another.— .Stones, knives, and clubs were freely used. Several men were injured, some, it is thought, fatally... .An explosion of fire-damp in the coal mine of J. A. Wood & Sons, near Elizabeth, Pa., killed two men and severely Injured two others. Nearly 1,300 citizens of New Jersey expressed their Presidential preferences at the request of a Trenton journal. The Democrats proved to be about equally divided between Ti den and Randall. Twothirds of the Republicans favored Blaine and Lincoln, most of the remainder supporting Edmunds and Lincoln. The naval appropriation bill, with amendments for the construction of crtiisers and for the preparation of plans and estimates for an armored vessel of 8,500 tons displacement, passed the Senate on the 14th inst A petition was received from Mrs. James A. Garfield and five hundred other citizens of Cleveland, praying that the Nez Perces be returned to their home. A favorable, report was made on the resolution granting certain publications to the Cincinnati Law Library. Hills were introduced to place General Fremont on the retired list and to forfeit the unearned lauds of the Northern Pacific Road. Severalisections of the bankruptcy bill were considered. In the House, Mr. Reed offered a resolution, which was adopted, directing the Committee on Agriculture to inquire into the introduction of the foot-and-mouth disease in Maine through the oversight of Federal officials, and to report a bill to reimburse citizens for expenses in suppressing the disease. Mr. Turner introduced a bill for a tax of 3 per cent, on incomes of $5,000 and of 10 per cent, on $100,0'30 or more. Measures were also presented to bridge the Ohio River at Cincinnati; to place on the free list agricultural implements and all machinery used in the manufacture of farm products; to retire John C. Fremont with the rank of Major General, and to establish a signal station at Houston, Texas. A bill to bridge the Potomac near Georgetown was defeated in committee of the whole.

A Curious Plant.

There is a strange plant With a curious flower, growing in the damp valleys of New Granada, called . “Masderalfia chimtera. ” It is one of the unique productions of the vegetable kingdom. This plant has a dense cluster of thick leaves; the slender fipwer stems creep along and flower under the moss or leaves. The flower end is divided into three lobes and is whitish in color, with irregular spots of pink. So fantastic is this flower that a writer in La Nature says: “In looking at this strange flower one sees the colors of a noctural bird, the form of a large spider in the middle, with two small piercing black eyes.” To everything fair in this world it has pleased God to affix some bitterness. 1

THE MARKET.

-X - NEW YORK “ BEEVES $7.00 @7.75 Hogs 6.0) @ 6.75 Flour—Western 3.06 @ UM. Wheat—No. 2 Chicago 92’ij @ .93’* No. 21ied............... .97 @ .99 Corn—No. 2 .55 @ .57 Oats —White 39 @ .421* Pork—Mess .16.50 @l7.u> Lard s .08J4® .09 CHICAGO. Beeves —Choice to Prime Steers. 6.25 @ 6.75 Fair to Good 5.50 @ s.otf Common to Medium.... 5.00 @5.75 Hogs 5.25 @6.09 Flour —Fancy "White Winter Ex 5.50 @5.75 Good to Choice Surina... 4.50- @5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Spring... */ .78 @ .si No. 2 "Winter .78 @ .79 Corn—No. 2. 4rt <'6 -49 Oats—No. 2..-. . 33 @ .36 Rye—No. 2... -t5 @ -56 Barley—No. 2 65 @ .67 Butter—Choice Creamery....... .27 @ .29 Fine Diiry............. -24 ,@ .27 Potatoes —Peachblows. .32 @ .35 Eggs—Fresh 15 @ >6 Pork—Mess l f, - ,io @16.50 Lard. •<» & MILWAUKEE.Wheat—No. 2.............. --■ •• • A 5 @ - 8b Corn —No. 2 -53 @ .55 Oats—No. 2.. 52 @ .35 Barley—No. 2......... A* @ .65 Pork—Mess.. 16-<-0 @l6-50 Lard ........... .... 'B.OO @ 8.50 LARD.......... . LOUIB Wheat—No. 2 Red.............. i-°® @ l-®‘ Corn—Mixed..... «♦ •« Oats—No. 2 - 34 @ rye -55 & -5® CINCINNATI f Wheat—No. 2 Red 5....-. LQI @ 102 M Corn .....' *5 *52 Oats— Mixed. ..r............ -35 w .36 P0rk—Me55...................... 16-25 @16.75 Lard <« «« •««* , TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red.. 90 @ ;92 Corn—No. 2 ...... .63 @. .55 Oats—No. 37 @ - 3!i DETROIT. Flour 5.50 @6.25 Wheat—No i White..... 95 @ •’"> Corn—Mixed ...—. -<9 tj - 5I Oats—No. 2 White 38 @. .3® PORK—Mess. ;. 19-M INDIANAPOLIS. . Wheat—No. 2 Red.... ........... .«• @I.OO Corn—Mixed -<7 @ .49 Oats—Mixed.... ...... -S3 xtf- .34 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle— *-‘ 5 , Fair...... 4 -"?5 @ C0mm0n............... 401 @4.50 Hogs.. t«0 @6.75 Sheep 375 @5.25

PRESIDENTIAL.

Preparing for the Great Quadrennial Political Contest. 'Conventions for the Selection of Delegates in Four of the States. STATE CONVENTIONS. Pennsylvania Democrats. R. Milton Spear presided over the Pennsylvania Democratic State Convention, which met at Allentown. The Chairman’s reference to Randall in connection with the Presidency was enthusiastically received. The resolutions adopted denounce the attempts said to have been made recently to overturn the principles Of government ordained by the Federal Government, and proceed as follows: We are against centralization, monopoly, extravagant expenditures, subsidies, and the debasement of civil service to partisan spoliation. We believe that the electoral frauds of 1876-7, by which 8. J. Tilden and Thomas A. Hendricks were cheated out of 'the offices of President and Vice President, to wfiich they were fairly elected, was a most deadly blow aimed at our system of representative government, and the duty of driving from power the men and party who made that fraud triumphant is the most sacred obligation ever imposed upon conscientious freemen. We favor tariff for revenue, limited to the necessities of the Government economically administered, and so adjusted in its application ae to prevent unequal burdens, encourage productive industries at home, and afford just compensation to labor, but not to create or foster monopolies, and to this end favor the abolition of the internal revenue system of taxes, and such an adjustment of existing tariff duties as will be consistent with these principles. The importation under contract of foreign pauper labor is an evil which should be remedied bv judicious legislation. Resolved, That Samuel J. Randall is the choice of the Democracy of Pennsylvania as the candidate of their party for President. By long, faithful public service he has illustrated an unfaltering devotion to high political principle and fealty to the Democratic party. His honesty and honor, his capacity and courage, his faithful labors and signal abilities have merited and won for him the confidence and support of the people of the United States. The planks relating to tariff, labor, and State administration were applauded, but the most hearty cheers were given and repeated again and again when the resolution referring to Randall was read. The platform as read was adopted, and then loud cries were made for Randall. The gentleman was sent for, and when he appeared, a delegate who had the floor at once declared, amid a burst of cheers, that he “gave way to the next President.” As soon as quiet was restored, Mr. Handall addressed the convention, briefly assuring his hearers that he should continue to pursue his previous aggressive course in obedience to the principles advocated by Jefferson, Jackson, Polk, and Buchanan. His remarks were greeted with great applause. The various contests having been arranged by the Committee on Credentials, Gen. Davis was nominated by acclamation for Congressman-at-large. Delegates to the National Convention were then selected. The delegates-nHarge are: William J. Harrity, of Philadelphia; William A. Wallace, of Clearfield; James P. Barr, of Allegheny; Eckly B. Coxe, of Luzerne; B. F. Myers, of Dauphin; and William H. Sowden, of Lehigh. Missouri Republican. The Republican State Convention of Missouri met at Sedalia, and was called to order by R. T. Van Horn, Chairman of the State Committee. Chester A. Krum, of St. Louis, was.made Temporary Chairman. The usual committee of one from each Congressional district was appointed. The Hon. J. B. Henderson delivered an address urging harmony and an uninstructed delegation to Chicago. The convention adopted the report of the Committee on Credentials, and elected Gen. O. Guitar, of Boone County, Permanent Chairman; James C. Broadwell, of St. Louis, Secretary, and R. T. Van Horn, Gen. Prentiss, J. B. Henderson, and H. E. Havens delegates-at-large. A mass-meeting of both Filley and antiFilley delegates was held in the morning in the interest of harmony. Mr. Filley called the meeting to order and urged the delegates to act as though there were no factions in the party, but to present a ticket and platform which every Republican could indorse. In the convention, Mr. Filley, who was not a delegate, was unanimously invited to a seat on the platform. He then made another speech in favor of harmony. He declared he did not wish to be Chairman of the new State Committee, and would not take the position under any circumstances. Hethen shook hands heartily with Col. Van Horn and John B. Henderson, amid loud applause, and retired from the hall. The Committee on Resolutions reported the following, which were adopted: Resolved. That the Republicans of Missouri renew their allegiance and adherence to the principles of the Republican party, as enunciated in the national platform of 1880 and carried oht by the national administration of President Arthur, Resolved, That the Republican party of Missouri, having burled all past differences, will discountenance any man or set of men who seek to create dissension in its ranks, and we hereby pledge our unfaltering support to the national nominees of the party. Arkansas Republican. The Arkansas Republicans met in State Convention at Little Rock, and appointed as delegates-at-large to the Chicago Convention Powell Clayton, H. H. Cooper, Logan H. Roots, and M. W. Gibbs; alternates, H. L. Remmell, E. C. Morris, R. B. Thomas, and M. A. Clark, lhe following district delegates were chosen: First District—Jacob Trieber and S. H. Holland; alternates, J. P. Jones and M. G. Turner. Distol—J/alm J. Johnson,' "Ferd' Havls; alternates, O. M. Spellman, 0. M. Norman. Third District—A. A Tufts, George H. Tompson; alternates, H. W. Adkins, B. G. Bryant Fourth District—M. W. Benjamin, Jacob Toes ; alternates, Wil iam Laporte, Josiah Clark. Fifth District—Lafayette Gregg, Kidder Kidd; . alternates, J. W. True, J. A. Spradling. All the delegates are unpledged, but, it is understood, are fyorable to Arthur, if possessing good chances. The following resolutions w.ere unanimously adopted: Resolved, That the administration of President Arthur has commended itself to the Republicans of the country, and to the people at large. When he was called to the Presidency he found the Republican party distracted by internal dissensions. His wise and prudent administration of the affairs of the Government has tended to heal these dissensions, strengthen and build up the party, and enable it now to pres-, nt a united front to the enemy, with full assurance of success in the coming campaign; also. Resolved, That we put a full State ticket in the field. A resolution indorsing Senator Logan was offered as a substitute, but declared out of order under the rules. Georgia Republican. The Georgia Republican State Convention met at Atlanta, and elected M. U. Clark temporary - Chairman. Considerable time was taken up in the discussion over the contested delegation from Chatham County. That settled, R. R. Locke, the Marshal of the Southern Georgia District, was elected permanent Chairman. A. E. Buck, N. A. Pledger, L. M. Pleasants, and C. D. Forsyth were elected the delegation to Chicago from the Ftate at large. The delegates go uninstructed, but are considered for Arthur as long as he has any hopes of success.

ODD FACTS AND FANCIES.

The first tenement bouse in twenty-two years is shortly to be built in North Truro, Cape Cod. Mass, Men from 21 to 65 years of age pasi TOe hours playing marbles in the streets at Angel’s Camp, Calaveras Co., Cal. Denny-svtlle, Me., has no railroad, and in sixty years not a building in the town has been burned. Liquor has not been sold there during sixteen years, and in that time no person has died between the ages of One and twenty. Platinum wire has been drawn so fine as to be absolutely invisible to the naked eye.

THE EDUCATION BILL.

‘ . > Text of the Measure Passed by the United States Senate. , Following is the text of the Blair education , bill passed by the Senate, and now on thb Speaker's desk in the House: Be it enacted, etc.. That for' eight years next after the passage of this act there shall be annually appropriated from the money in the Treasury the following sums, to wit: The first year the sum of $7,000,000, the second year the sum of $10,000,000, the third year the sum of $10,000,000, the fourth year the sum of $13,000,000, the fifth year the sum of $11,000,000, the sixth year the sum of $9,000,000, the seventh year the sum of $7,000,000, the eighth year the sum of $5,000,000; which several sums shall be expended to secure the benefits of a common-school education to all children of the school age mentioned hereafter living in the United States. Sec. 2. That such money shall annually be divided among and paid oat in the several States and Territories in that proportion which the whole number of persons in each who, being of the age of 10 years and over, cannot write, bears to the whole number of such persons in the UnitedJStates. Such computation shall be made according to the census of 1880. Sec. 3. That no State or Territory shall receive any of the benefits of this act until the Governor thereof shall file with the Secretary of the Interior a statement, certified by him, showing the character of the common-school system in force in such State or Territory, the amount of money expended therein during the last preceding school year in the support of common schools, not including expenditures for the rent, repair, or erection of schoolhouses, whether any discrimination is made in the raising or distributing of the school revenue, or in the school facilities afforded between the White and colored children therein, and, so far as is practicable, the sources from which such revenue were derived, the manner in which the same were apportioned to the use of the common schools, the average attendance in each class, and the length of the school term; and no money shall be paid out under this oct to any State or Territory that shall not have provided by law a system of free common schools for all of Its children of school age, without distinction of race or color, either in the raising or distributing of school revenue, or in the school facilities afforded; provided, that separate schools for white and colored children shall net be considered a violation of this condition. The Secretary of the Interior shall thereupon certify to. the Secretary of the Treasuty the names of the’ States and Territories which ha finds to be entitled to a share in the benefits of this act, and also the amount due to each. Sec. 4. That the amount so apportioned to each State and Territory shall be drawn from the Treasury by warrant of the Secretary of the Treasury upon the monthly estimates and requisitions of the Secretary of the Interior, as the same may be needed, and shall be paid over to such officer as shall be authorized by the laws of the respective States and Territories to receive the same. Sfc. 7. No greater part of the amount appro-' printed under this act shall be paid out to any State or Territory, in any one year, than the sum expended out of its own revenues in the preceding year for the maintenance of common schools, not including the sums expended in the erection of school buildings. Sec. 8. That a part of the money apportioned to each State or Territory, not exceeding onetenth thereof, may yearly be applied to the education of teachers for the common schools therein, which sum may be expended in maintaining institutes or temporary training-schools, or extending opportunities for normal or other instruction to competent and suitable persons of arfy color who are without necessary means to qualify themselves for teaching, who shall agree in writing to devote themselves 1 exclusively for at least one year after leaving such training-schools to teach In the common schools for such compensation as shall be paid other teachers therein. Sec. 11 provides that the Governor of each State shall furnish all needed Information to enable the bill to be carried out for his State, and make full report as to the use of money furnished.

OBITUARY.

Charles Reade. Charles Reade, the noted English novelist, who died recently in London, was born in 1814, the son of an English country gentleman, m as enviable a social position as can well be conceived. His boyhood was both robust and studious, the right preparation for a life of astonishing intellectual results. He was educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford. After graduation he read law, and gained a Vinerian fellowship at the University of Oxford in 1842. A year later he was called to the bar. While Mr. Reade’s chief distinction has been in the fields of fancy, his voice has been not infrequently heard on social and political questions. His noyels, moreover, some more particularly than others, have dealt with abuses and strongly suggested the necessity of reform. In “It Is Never Too Late to Mend,” for example, published in 1856, the atrocities of prison discipline, as then administered, weie dealt with in a most powerful manner. We may be pardoned for adding that purpose in a literary work outside of the artistic intention, while perhaps marring it as viewed from the standpoint of mere art, is not regarded with disfavor by readers in the English-speaking countries. This is particularly remarkable when a contrast is made between English and French writers on Set on. Charles Reade began his long list of successes as a novelist with “Peg Woffington,” published in 1853, a work which evinced the manly sympathy, independence, and liberal views of the author, while evidencing mastery in style, construction, and imaginative power. In the same year he produced “Christie Johnstone.” “It Is Never Too Late to Mend ” appeared in 1858; “ White Lies” the?next year afterward. Of his remaining works “Griffith Gaunt,” publiehod in 1868, is the most talked about; but “The Cloister and the Hearth,” produced in 1861, is regarded by the best judges as his ablest production. ' — Bfenry-W-Hyronr - Henry J. Byron, dramatist and actor, whose death was announced by cable a few days ago, was born in Manchester, and completed his education in London. He was one of the most skillful and prolific writers of burlesque extravaganzas. -His earliest effort in this line, “Fra Diavolo, ” produced at the Strand Theater in 1858, was speedily followed by several successful pieces, among which may be mentioned “The Ma:d and Magpie," “Aladdin, 1 ’ “Esmeralda,” “The Lady of Lyons,” “Grin Bushes,” and a comedy entitled “The Old Story.” He wrote "Babes in the Wood,” “111-Treated II Trovatore," “Mazeppa Travestie,” “Miss Elly O Connor," “Dundreary Married and Done For,” and original comedies, “War to the Knife’’ and “A Hundred Thousand Pounds.” Mr. Byron contributed extensively to periodical literature, was the first eaitor of Fun, and was the author of a three-volume novel, “Paid in Full,” originally published in the Temple Bar magazine. He made his first appearance in London as an actor at the Globe Theater in his own drama of “Not Such a Fool as He Looks,” Oct. 23, 1869. His latest pieces were “An American Lady,” a comedy in three acts, produced in March, 18«4; “Old Sailors,” a comedy brought out at the Strand later in the same year, and “Our Boys,” which was immediately popular on both sides of the Atlantic a few years ago.

CHIPS.

Several. young ladies in Detroit will start a school for journalism. ••Coffin” is the rather suggestive namevf the commander of the arctic steamer Alert. Noble sentiment by a Washington department clerk: “Let me but draw the nation’s salary, and I care not who does the work.” Bridgeport. Conn., has a dog boarding school. The owner of one of the dogs pays the trainer $25 per month for its board and tuition. “ ' Chief Justice Park, has sued the New Haven HetrMer tor SIO,OOO libel In stating that he hud allowed his sheep and cattle us starve on his farm. About 150 miles north of Missoula, M. T.,' a region has been discovered by an exploringparty in which are twenty two cascades over 500 feet in height and a true glacier with a mile frontage and fW feet fall. It is said to be a more wonderful region than the Yellowstone. ■' A New Haven goat trawled into his own- t fir’s open oven and roasted itself to death.