Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1885 — Page 2

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THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE HUT. Six THOUSAND pounds of glycerine in a nitro-gtycerine manufactory, near Bradford. Pa., exploded, blowing two men to atoms, reducing a factory to fragments, and shaking the town. Trees were tom np from their roots, and great holes were made in toe ground... .New York telegram: “(Jen. Grant slept well last night, and arose this morning refreshed and cheerful. His stomach troubles have passed away, and liquid food is now taken without inconvenience. The General has also gained strength, and may be able to see friends in a few days.”... .John Norton, one of tfce bunko sharps who fleeced Charles Francis Adams ont of $17,000, died last week in Boston. The Bennington (YL), Wodlen Mills have become toe property of Bichard K. Haines, of New York. They were built in 1866, and originally cost's7so,ooo. .They will run under the management of the Hngnenot Woolen Company. The law library of the late Charles O’Connor was sold at auction in New York. Dbs. Sands and Shrody, consulting physicians in Gen. Giant’s case, visited the General’s residence and held a consultation with Dr. Donglass. They folly indorsed the treatment of the patient adopted by Drs. Barker and Donglass. The General was in a comfortable condition. The local disease is believed, for the present, to be stationary. A decision was rendered in the United States Circuit Court at Boston in the suits against the stockholders of the defunct Pacific National Bank, requiring the defendants to pay a second assessment of 100 per cent on their stock. The loss of the stockholders by this decision is $2,000,000.

TUB WEST.

Governor Marmaduke of Missouri is accused of having had pnhlished an affidavit that Bobert C. Pate gave money in 1875 to the St Louis Chief of Police and Major C. C. Bain water for the privilege of being permitted to ran keno rooms. This embitters the feud between Marmaduke and Bain water, the latter asserting in an open letter that Marmaduke knows the above-mentioned affidavit to be a lie, and that Marmadnke is a worse scoundrel than the man who perjured himself. The Chief of Police alleges that a written acknowledgment of the falsity of the affidavit is extant... .There is not a saloon open in Topeka, Kan. Seventeen whisky sellers are serving terms in prison for violation of toe law, and the fines collected from saloonists in the county for the past year amount to $11,500. Dispatches from the West and Southwest report that the strike on the Gould roads is assuming an alarming phase. The strike, which seems to be pretty general, extends along the MLoOuri Pacific Boad and Its branches in the State of Missouri, Kansas, and Texas. The Governor of Missouri sent by special train to Sedalia seven companies of St Louis militia with a Gatling gon, to hold in cheek the striking employes. There were seventy engines in the yards at Sedalia, and ten miles of loaded freight-cars on the sidetracks. The strikers adopted a proclamation promising to keep the peaoe at all hazards. . It is alleged that toe application of mortar from the walls of the Chapel of Knock, in Ireland, restored the sight of Mary MeAndrews, of Mingo, lowa, who had been blind for 6ome time. Other wonderful cases from application of the mortar are also reported... .Nellie Horan, of Whitewater, Wis., who was charged with poisoning her sister, mother, and father, has been acquitted. In toe United States District Court at Chicago, after listening to arguments relative to a new trial for J. C. Mackin and W. J. Gallagher, the election conspirators, two years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary at Joliet, and imposed upon them fines of $5,000 each. He ordered them into the custody of toe Marshal, and deferred their removal to prison for ten days. About twenty Oklahoma boomers were brought to Wichita, Kas„ last week, and arraigned before Commissioner Sherman. They all gave bail in $3,000 each for their appearance at the September term of the United States Court. They at once re- ■ turned to Arkansas City, where the boomers are concentrating their forces. - «’*" Thomas J. Nayin, the of Adrian, Mich., who left that city in 1882 on account of fraudulent transactions, and was captured in New Orleans several days ago, has been placed in toe Adrian Jail.... A dispatch from Olathe, Kan., announces the death of Maj. J. M. Haworth, at Albuquerque, N. M. He was Superintendent of all toe Indian schools.

President Cleveland has issued a proclamation forbidding the invasion of Oklahoma. Gen. Hatch telegraphs that 1,200 settlers are encamped in Kansas, near the border..,.A Chicago Emigrant Asbocm&Mtt whose object is to furnish cheap Transportation to immigrants from Europe was incorporated, the capital stock being *IOO,OOO The citizens of Sarahville, Ohio, erected a post near the center of the village and severely whipped a man named Payton, who had beaten his children to an unmerciful degree... .Ground has been broken in South Minneapolis, Minn., for the erection of the largest elevator of that State. It will hold 1,500,000 bushels....A saloonkeeper of Des Moines, named McKee, was convicted on thirty-five counts of au indictment, and was fined $1,750. Gen. Joseph H. TAylob, D. S. A. and Adjutant General of the Department of the Platte, died at Omaha. The conference held at St Louis by the I Governors. Railway Commissioners, and Attorney Generals of Kansas and Missouri recommended that the Missouri Pacific Bead restore wages to the striking employes without prejudice. Notice is, therefore, given by Vice Presidents Hayes and Hone that old rates will be paid, and will changed except on thirty days’ notice. Maj. Frank North, a famous Indian scout, died at Columbus, Neb. Tom Fitzsimmons, William Stan wood, and Fred Esser, charged with grand larceny, and Tom Dorval with selling mortgaged property, escaped from the County Jail at Lincoln, Neb., by removing a largo stone and diggmg underithe bars between the cage and the lower corridor. Frank Bonham, charged with th« mur-

dor of his mother, brother, and sister, was token from jail at Independence, Kan., and hanged to the railway trestle-work... .An Omaha hotel was the scene of the murder of Henry Vorpoten, a barkeeper, by Thos. Ballard, well known as a hotel runner, who was intoxicated.

THE SOUTH.

The Maryland Court of Appeals has decided that the selling of pool tickets and the keeping of pool-rooms were not violalations of the law. J. G. Hudgins, member of the Arkansas Legislature, was arrested at Little Rock, charged with arson in Georgia nineteen years ago. Hudgins was afterward set at liberty, the Governor having quashed toe warrant issued on the requisition.. . .In the Criminal Court of New Orleans, Patrick Ford and Policeman John Murphy were condemned to death for the murder of A. H. Murphy, last December, While Judge Ford, A. E Caulfield, and W. H. Buckley were each sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. A telegram from Troy, Tenn., says: Ambrose Young, Charles Latham, and Frank Freeman, all negroes, arrested yesterday, charged with being implicated in the murder of Montgomery, near the State line, last December, were under guard at Union City last night. A mob of 100 overpowered the guards, took the prisoners, and hanged them just outside of the city. Their corpses were found this morning suspended from a tree. Pope & Cole, dealers in metals at Baltimore, Md., have failed, with liabilities variously estimated at from $600,000 to $1,000,000... The Southern Agricultural Works at Atlanta made an assignment to secure debts of $197,000... .The International Boad has restored wages at its shops in Palestine, Texas, and arrangements have been perfected for the resumption of work at Marshall. April 15 has been set as Mexican veteran’s day at the New Orleans Exposition. Jefferson Davis and William M. Burrell have been invited to deliver addresses on the result of the war with Mexico. A through express train on the Texas Pacific Road was wrecked on a bridge at Village Creek, near Fort Worth. The fireman was killed, the engineer was fatally injured, and two postal clerks were seriously bruised. A large number of strikers at Marshall and Dallas manned a wrecking train and went out to repair the bridge and track.

WASHINGTON.

Patents were issued last week by the General Land Office Commissioner at Washington to the New Orleans Pacific Railroad Company for 679,287 acres of land known as the “Backbone” grant. In addition to the lands patented, the railroad claims 336,706 acres. Secretary Lamar has directed the Land Office, however, to suspend all proceedings relative, to patenting lands to the New Orleans Pacific Bead until farther notice A court-martial for toe trial of Gen. H&zen convened last week in Washington, Gen. Hancock presiding. The accused entered a*plea of not guilty to the charge of criticising the action of Secretary Lincoln in refusing to send a sealing steamer to the relief of the Greely party after the failure pf the Proteus expedition... .At a dinner given in Washington by the Austrian Minister. Mrs. Blaine crumpled in her hand and threw npon the floor, with an ugly remark, a favor at her plate bearing a portrait of ex-President Arthur. The postoffice appropriation bill recently passed by Congress makes the following important ohanges: The weight of all single rate letters is increased from one-half an ounce each to one ounce. All newspapers sent from publication ■ offices or news agencies, including sample copies, are entitled to transmission at the rate of one cent per pound. Any article in a newspaper or other publication may be raarked ior observation, except by written or printed words, without increase of postage. A special 10-cent stamp is also to* be issued, which, when attached to a letter in addition to the lawful postage thereon, will insure its ; immediate delivery by special messenger at any time between 7 a. m, and midnight

In the Hazen court-martial at Wasbington the accused admitted that he had criticised the action of the Secretary of War regarding the Greely expedition, and that he had said that if a sailing vessel had been sent to their rescue the party might have been saved. He disclaimed, however, any intentional disrespect to his superior officer. St. Dominick’s Catholic Church in Washington was partially destroyed by fire. The loss was $75,000, two-thirds of which is oovered- by >nsurance. , Mft. James G. Blaine called upon Mr. Cleveland at the White Honse, last week. ...;In the Hazen court-martial, counsel for the accused offered to prove that Secretary Lincoln, inspired certain articles published in Washington and Chicago, assailing Gen. Hazen, and that they could be traced to his clerk. —- Secretary Daniel Manning has discharged forty persons connected with the custom service at various ports as special agents, inspectors, or detectives, the Raving to the treasury being $40,00d annually. Orders have been given by Secretary Lamar and Attorney General Garland to sell at auction the horses and carriages belonging to their departments, and cover the proceeds into the treasury. It appears that seven clerks in the Interior Department have heretofore been used as drivers. Army circles are much wrought up over a recent law which permits of civil appointments to the Quartermaster General's Department, the vacancies in which have hitherto been eageaxly sought after by young Lieutenants and Captains. The Census Bureau has been closed up. Only ten of the twenty-six volumes have been issued.

POLITICAL.

Gex. Edward C. Waltham, has been tendered and has accepted the appointment of United, States Senator from Mississippi, to succeed Secretary Lamar... .The Kansas Legislature passed a resolution of sympathy with General Grant. .An extra session of the Indiana Legislature will be necessary to pass appropriation lulls. If the Missouri men are not provided for by the new administration, it will not be because of any lade of enterprise on their pert. They hate swooped down on the consular and diplomatic service, and propose that Missouri shall be represented in all quarters of the globe. As' far as heard from, the Missouri men want Charles Gibson made Minister to Berlin, ex-Congress-man Franklin Minister to Brazil, ei-Gov.

Orittenden Minister to Mexico, C. H. Mansur Ministei to Chili, E. C. Moore Minister i4o Belgium, William Jj Orath, Consul to Belfast, Frank Mahon Consul to Cork, F. W. Mathias Consol to Frankjfort, E. W. Ewing Consul to Melbourne, D. D. Richards Consul to Cardiff, D. C. Hawkins Consol toy Liverpool. Mr. Day, of Champaign, 111., on intimate friend of Col. W. R. Morrison, is a candidate for appointment as Solicitor of the Treasury. The applicants for the Milwaukee Postoffice are A. Warren Phelps, Geo. H. Paul, and Edward Wa11.... At the Republican State Convention at Lansing, Mich., Judge Cooley was renominated by acclamation for Supreme Judge, and C. S. Draper and Aaron V. McAlvay were named for regents of the University. Washington special to the Chicago Tribune: In an interview with the President Vice President Hendricks and Senator Voorhees tried to persuade him that ho ought to move promptly in putting Republicans out and filling their places with Democrats. Mr. Cleveland replied that he did not consider that sort of thing consistent with the principles of civil-service reform, and intimated that no removals were likely to be made except for cause. Secretary Bayard is said to be particularly discouraging in his reception of applicants for office. J. S. Stafford, of Whiteside County, HI., has been nominated by the Republicans to fill the vacancy in the Legislature caused by the death of Representative E. E. Logan. Secretary Bayard, in resigning the Senatorship from Delaware, gave the Legislature to understand that his successor should be Attorney General Gray. The Saulsbury r famity, however, are pushing Representative Lore sot the vacancy, and the struggle grows in interest daily.

GENERAL.

Miss Florence Mabbyatt, the English novelist, is ill in New York of acute bronchitis contracted in consequence of wearing low-necked dresses while lecturing. She has failed, in consequence of her illness, to deliver the number of lectures agreed upon,and her manager has given notice of his intention to sue Mrfpr the money she did not earn, which has been already paid. The manager claims that her dress shocked the modesty of the conntty folks and lessened the receipts; also that she needlessly exposed herself in cold halls. President Barrios, of Guatemala, sent ont troops to operate against San Salvador. The Government of Nicaragua has several thousand men ready to inarch to the front against the dictator. President Diaz telegraphed to Barrios that Mexico could not permit him to carry out his threat against the republics of Central America. The railway strike was broken at Hannibal, Mo., two of the leaders being arrested, and one or more freight trains sent East Employes of the Missouri Pacific Road at St. Louis were informed officially that in consequence of their loyalty and good behavior, the company had determined to restore to them the wages in force Oct. 1. This is equivalent to an advance of 15 per cent

Near Brown’s Station, Ohio, the other day, toe capture of a “wild man,” who lived in a cave and subsisted on raw food, was effected. His body is covered with long hair and his utterances are unintelligible. He has been sent to the Steubenville poorhouse. President Baßrlos, in his decree proclaiming the Central American Republic, declares that any one who opposes the union will be considered a traitor. He urges all Chiefs, officers and soldiers of Central America to join him, and proclaims himself “Supreme Military Chief.” Thebe were 282 failures in the United States and Canada during the last seven days, an increase of five as compared with the previous week. The attempt of President Barrios to moke himself dictator of Central America cansed toe United States to order southward the Wachusett and Shenandoah, and three more war vessels are to be held in readiness to sail thither. Recent deaths: At Chelsea, Mass., John Robbins, known throughout the United States as a manufacturer of bag-gage-checks; at Buffalo, N. Y., C. W. McCune, proprietor of the Buffalo Courier; at Washington, the wife of Congressman Herbert, of Alabama.

FOREIGN.

For the first time since the Crimean war the naval and military pensioners at Portsmouth, England, have been ordered to be in readiness for medical inspection... .It is said that Gen. Gordon’s diary is written on Egyptian telegraph blanks sewn together with twine, every page being illuminated with pictures fantastic and serious. Hundreds of placards distributed by emissaries of the Mahdi at Jeddah, Dokah, Lith, and other seaport towns in the Arabian Province of Hedjaz have been seized by the Turkish authorities. The placards order the “faithful” to organize and expel the Turks from Arabia, promising that the Prophet will soon arrive at Jeddah and lead his hosts to Mecca. Gladstone announces an agreement between Russia and England by which neither the Afghans nor the troops of the Czar will make further advances on the frontier James Stephens, Eugene Davis, and Mortimer Leroy, charged with being Fenian agitators, were expelled from French territory and ordered not to return. Three Anarohists were also escorted across the frontier. Warrants have been issued for the expulsion of other Fenian leaders. Memorial services in honor of Gen. Gordon were held in London at SC Paul’s Cathedral. Westminster Abbey, and many other cathedrals and churches. The Bishop of Chichester preached a sermon, in which he declared that the death of Gordon had brought disgrace upon England... .The cable chronicles the demise of Joseph J. Jenkins, the water-color painter of London; of Sir Curtis M. Lampson, a native of Vermont, onq of the trustees of the Peabody fund, and of Louis Gatineau, a member of the French Chamber of Deputies. .... Following is a summary of the situation in the Soudan, as telegraphed by cable from London: Gen, Graham's arrival at Suakin was hailed with joyful acclamation by the tropps, who have had anything bnt an ead; time lately, owing to constant at ticks by the‘Arabs. Gen. Graham ha ordered radical changes in the ln.es of defense or. the land side of ithe town. A gen eral advance towagl the .interior is to be made immediate h\ The first objective- 1 point will be Sinkat, where an intrenched camp is to be established for the summer. In the autumn Ae army will proceed to Berber. Incidentally to the march upon

Sinkat Osman Digma trill have to be whipped. Osman, however, has issned a proclamation promising to capture Suakin and to destroy the British. It was decided at the meeting of the Gordon Memorial Committee in London that the memorial should be a great hospital and sanitarium, to be erected at Port 6aid, open to the people of all nations. The Prince of Wales presided at the meeting of the committee, and among the members present Lord Granville and the Dukes of Cambridge and Edinburg. The Khedive has already granted a site for the proposed hospital.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

The corporation of Dublin has, rejected a motion to present an address to the Prince of Wales on his visit next month. Ex-Pbesident abthuk, e*- Senator McDonald, and the Bev. H. W. Beecher called upon President Cleveland at the White House. Two hundred representatives of the Women’s Temperance Union, also paid their respects to the President.... An annular eclipse of the sun excited the interest of astronomers all over the United States on the 16th. The cloudy weather interfered seriously with the observations.... A party of 250 revolutionists, headed by Gen. Vizpura, made an attack on the city of Panama, and firing was kept up for hours. The president of the Central American Cable Company telegraphed to Secretary Bayard, yesterday, that a Guatemalan vessel had gone out to cut the wires. Secretary Whitney has ordered the Yantic to sail from New Orleans for Guatemala and protect American interests. Pkesident Cleveland has nominated Joseph S. Miller, of West Virginia, to be Commissioner of Internal Kevenue. The Kentucky Senators and Congressmen have been urging the appointment of Phil Thompson, of that State..... Senator Conger, on being made Chairman of the Committee on Postoffices, dismissed a clerk of long experience and appointed his own son to the position Gen. Hazeo, in his testimony before the court-martial, admitted writing the articles of which he was accused, and explained that in he sought to state that the entire Greely party could have been rescued, and that he did all in his power toward saying their lives.

Moke than 100 persons have been indicted at St. Mary’s, W. Va., for playing dominos in public. There are several women in the list, two physicians, a minister, and an attorney.... Emigration from the southwest counties of Virginia to the Western States has be&n progressing all'winter in sufficient force to be called an exodus. The cause is drought and a lack of railway facilities. Two officers at Springer, New Mexico, had a fight with three desperadoes, and the latter were killed. Friends of the roughs threaten to attack the town, and troops have been ordered out from Fort Union... .An open switch at Monroe, Wis., on the St. Paul Hoad, wrecked nineteen cars, their oontents being scattered in all directions. One man lost his life. Sakabada, the Japanese charge d’affaires to Holland, went to an hotel in Botterdam with a mysterious Belgian lady. During the night she shot him dead and wounded herself with a dagger... .A fire in a seedcrushing mill at Hull, England, caused a deep stream of burning oil to flow through the streets, carrying the fhmes to the corn- 1 ' exchange and the Town Hall. The loss is estimated at $400,000. A policeman lost his life. The Prohibitionists of Chicago have nominated William H. Bush for Mayor, W. W. Waite for City Treasurer, George C. Christian for City Attorney, and Charles M. Catlin for Clerk. The campaign fund of the party is $94.70... .George Gray, the candidate of Secretary Bayard, received the Democratic caucus nomination for Senator from Delaware, and was elected by the Legislature of that Slate. The resolution offered by Mr. Van Wyck callin* upon the Secretary ot the Interior for Information respecting the issuance of land patents to the ‘‘Backbone" Railroad, and inquiring whether there was undue haste used in executing said patents, was taken up in the Senate on Monday, 16th inst., - and debated at some length, speeches being made by Senators Eustis, Teller, and Van Wyck. On motion ot Mr. Morrill the Senate went into executive session, confirmed the nominations of John C. Black, of Illinois, to be Commissioner of Pensions, and Lieutenant D. L. Wilson, of the District of Colombia, and Ensign Henry T. Mayo, of Vermont, to be Lieutenants in the navy, and when the doors were reopened, adjourned. It seems a little singular that people who try to assassinate other people never make use of the deadly toy pistol for that purpose. They always pay a fancy price, and get something with a white handle; very pretty, but not dangerous.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. SERVES. 16.60 @ 7.00 OGS 6.26 <9 6.00 Wheat—No. l* White 1 .90 & .92 i No. 2 Red 88 @ .89)4 CORN—No. 2...... a 51)4@ .58 Oats—White . 39 ® .41 Pobk—New Mess..: 13.60 @14.00 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers. 5.50 @ 6.25 Good Shipping 6.26 @6,75 Common to Fair 4.25 @4.75 Hogs. .- 4.75 & 5.25 Flour —Fancy Bed Winter Ex.. 3.25 @3.75 Prime tt> Choice Sprimr. 3.50 @4.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red 78)4@ .79)* Corn—No. 2 41 @ .42 Oats—No. 2 ' 28 @ .29 Rye-No. 2. 61 @ .62 Barley—No. 2.. 64 & .65 Butter—Choice Creamery 26 ® .28 * Fine Dairy 18 @ .22 Cheese—Full Cream. 12 @ .13 Skimmed Flat. 05 @ .06 Eggs—Fresh....... 18 @ .20 Potatoes—Choice, per bn 45 @ .50 Pork—Mess 12.50 @12.75 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 75 @ .76 Cobh—No. s 40 @ .41 Oats—No- 2 si @ .32 Rye—No. 1 65 @ .66 Barley—No. 2 55 @ .56 Pork—Mess. 12.25 @12.75 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red 78 @ .79 Corn—No. 2.. .44 @ .46 Oats—No. 2 31 @ .32 BT. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red...... .= .83 @ .841, Coen—Mixed,....*.... 89 @ .391, Oats—Mixed . 30 @ .32 Rye .61 @ .63 Pork—Mess...... 12.50 @13.00 CINCINNATI. WHE*TV-Na 2 Red. .85 @ .87 06Elfc 4534® .46)4 OATS-Mixed...... 84 @ .35 Pork—Mess. 1250 @13.00 DETROIT. Flour. 4.75 @ A 25 Wheat—Na I White 88 @ .90 „ Cobh—Mixed 44 @ .45 Oath—No. 2 Whit£. . 34 @ .35 Pork—Family. : 18.00 @18.50 INDIANAPOUB. . i Wheat—Na 2 Red ~..: .82 @ .83 Oats—Mixed.... si .. .32 BUFFALO. Wheat—No. 2 Spring 92 @ .93 Corn—Na2 .48 @ .49 Oats—Na 2 White 25 @ .37 EAST LIBERTY. e Cattle—Best e. 35 @ 7.00 Fair:. ...... @0.00 Common 4.25 @6.00 Hogs , 5.00 @aso Sheep 4.60 & 5.00

CLEVELAND’S POLICY.

An Official Declaration that No Pressure Can Hurry Up Changes. [Washington special to Chicago Tribune.] A member of the Cabinet gives the following information as to the policy of the administration: No sort of pressure can hurry the making of changes. The several departments wifi be organized first by the placing of Demo, crats in the responsible positions, but in this the good of the service will be kept in view; that, of course, it is regarded as essential to have the places of responsibility and trust filled by men in political sympathy with the administration, bat that this does not argue that every man in the departments holding a position which requires confirmation by the Senate is to be removed. There are positions which in order to be properly filled require a knowledge of details ana familiarity with the duties, and to make sudden changes would impair the efficiency of the public service. It will be the rule, however, to put Democrats in the important places ultimately, but there will probably be a few exceptions where the present incumbents will remain permanently. In regard to the Sonth, the revenue, customs, and Department of Justice officials will be removed. They have all, it is charged, been political workers. The New Orleans Custom House is pointed out as a sample of the existing state of affairs in the South. It is charged that nearly every man in the service there has been put in by Kellogg and dther Bepublicans, as reward for political services. The present calculation in administration circles is that the Senate will remain in session until the first of ApriL In a week the Democratic heads of bureaus will be appointed aDd the subject of making appointments generally to fill vacancies and for the removal of such as are marked for slaughter will be considered. The policy of referring all matters of appointment to the head of the department under which the appointee must serve will be rigidly adhered to, and Secretary Lamar and Attorney General Garland hold that a very large proportion of office-holders in the Sohth ought to go. There seems to be no fear in admini tration quarters of any collision with the Senate. Where removals may be deemed necessary the same course as that pursued by the Bepublican Presidents will probably be followed. The reasons for removal, unless, perhaps, in special cases, will not be submitted to the Senate. Bepublican Senators have assured the President and members of his Cabinot that they have no disposition to set up any captious opposition, but, on the contrary, that they arc inclined to give the administration a fair show, and to acc-ond to it all that has been accorded to Bepublican administrations. But aside from the general feeling, it is believed that there are several Bepublican Senators who are entirely willing to Occupy pleasant relations with the administration. At any rate there is no apprehension at present that any difflcuKy will be encountered In procuring the confirmation of nominations.

THE CROPS.

Agricultural Department Statistics Regarding Wheat and Corn—Prospects. [Washington telegram.] The report of consumption and distribution of com and wheat from statistical returns of the Department of Agriculture shows 37 £ per cent, of the last crop of com remaining in farmers’ hands, against 33 per cent. March 1, 1884. The supply in farmers’ hands last March was 512,000,000 bushels; the remainder now is about 675,000,000. The stock in the Middle States is 29,000,000, against 22,000.000 last March. In the South the proportion is the same as last year, 41.6 per cent, but the quantity is 145,000,000 bushels, against 138,000,000. The proportion in the West is 36.7 instead of .30.7, and the quantity amounts to 490,000,000 bushels, or 144,000,000 bushels more than the stock last March. Two years ago the stock remaining at the same date was 585,000,000 bushels, or 36.3 per cent of the crop pf 1,617,000,000. The amount shipped is a few millions-less than last year. The exports equal 28,000,000 bushels, against 32,OOQ.OOO at same date in 1884, and commercial receipts at Western markets are also less, the full Eastern crop reducing slightly the demand, notwithstanding the reduction in price. The proportion of merchantable com is very large—B7 per cent, against an average of 80 per cent for a period of years and 60 per cent for last year. The wheat reported in farmers’ hands is about 33 per cent, of the cr0p—169,000.000 bushels, or 50,000,000 bushels more than the stock last March, when the crop Wag less by 92,000,000 bushels. There has been a slightly freer use of wheat for bread, and % little of the poorer quality has been fed to stock. The stock March 1, 1883, was 28.5 per cent of the previous crop, or 143,000.000 bushels, and that of March 1, 1882, was 98,000,000 bushels. The quality is reported above the average in every Western State except Illinois and Missouri and in nearly all the A'tlanticand Golf Coast States.

HIS RIVAL’S REVENGE.

Shocking Murder of a Young Couple by a Man Whom the Woman Ejected. TWhite 1 ulphur Springs (Vs.) dlspatchj The details of a desperate double murder and probable lynching have reached this point. The affair occurred several days ago near Bond’s Mills, a way-side postoffice in Wise County, Virginia. Mary Reynolds, a country beauty, eloped the last week in February with the son of a neighbor named Henton. greatly to the chagrin of a suitor named Mitchell, who claims to have been engaged to the girl. After their return to the bride’s home her parents gave a dance to which all the neighbors were invited. Mitchell came, and before the evening was over became quarrelsomely drunk. He defied the newly made, husbaud, and finally grossly insulted the bride. The husband knocked Mitchell down, nnd a despeiate fight ensued, and the party broke up in a row. The next evening: a spelling m itch was held in the school-house, and was attended by Henton and his, wife, and Mitchell was not present, so far as known. Failing to reach their home, search was made for the . Hentons, whose bodies were found next morning at a lonely spot Each had been killed by a pistol shot The assassin then beat his victims in a horrible manner. The United States is said now to be the third largest silk manufacturing country in the World, and this despite all that has been said and written to discourage the raising of silk in this country. The value of our annual silk product iB now placed at $35,000,000. About 60,000 pounds of cocoons were mised in 1883. A Pittsburg girl wants SIOO damages for the loss of her “bang” by a natural gas explosion. The bong was natural and come out by the roots. % Dorsey County, Ark , has been changed to Cleveland County.,

GRAVE SENATORS.

Work in the Extra Session of the United States Senate. The "Backbone* resolution offered by Mr. Van Wyck was laid before the Senate, on the lltb Inst, as unfinished business. Mr. Van Wyck said the Senator front Colorado (Teller) had gone to New York to be absent a day or two. and asked that action upon the resolution be deferred for a couple of days. Mr. Van Wyck then offered the following resolution, and asked that it lie upon the table for the present: 'lihsoWed, That the Secretary of the Interior and the Attorney General of the United States be and they are hereby directed, respectively, to take such action as each may deem necessary, tqprevent any sale of the Atlantic and Gulf West India Transit Company, or by any company or person claiming under them, of ainrof the lands described in the act approved May 17, iB6O, entitled ‘An act granting public lands in alternate sections to the States of Florida and Alabama to aid in the construction of.certain railroads in said States,’ s > far as the samelies within the line of said railroads between Waldo and Tampa Bay, Florida, ontil Congress shall have authorized the same. * The President sent to the Senate the names of Edward' D. Clark, of Mississippi, to be Assistant Secretary of the Interior, ana Sidney D. Jackman, to be Marshal of the Western District of Texas. Bepublican Senators, at a caucus, prepared the allotment of places on the majority sides of the committees. Mr. Conger is to be Chairman of the Committeeion Postoffices and Post Roads, Mr. Pike tokemtbe chair of the Committee on Claims, and Mr.'Sewell takes Senator Logan’s place at the head of the Military Committee. Mr. Teller is marie Chairman of the Committee on Mines and Mining and a member of the Public LandiACommittee. Mr. Evarts is placed upon the Judiciary and Foreign Relations Committees. The principal topic of interest in the Senate on the 12th inst., was the consideration of Senator Van Wyck’s resolution, offered by him on the previous day. directing the Secretary of the Interior and the Attorney General to take sneh action as may be necessary to prevent anv sale Id the Atlantic and Gulf West India Transit Company of the lands described In the act of May 17,1856, granting lands In alternate section to the States ot Florida and Alabama to aid in the construction of certain railroads in said States, so far as the same lie within the line of said railroads between Waldo and Tampa Bay v Florida, until Congress shall have authorized the same. Senator Van Wyck said the land grant was made in 1856 in order that the railroads might develop the country; that from that time until the present nothing has been done in that direction; that the land has increased, from V) cents to $lO and sls per acre, and now the road asks the Government to recognize its title. Mr. George, of Mississippi, presented the credentials of E. C. Walthall, appointed by the Governor to succeed Mr. Lamar. After tbe reading of the credentials, Mr. Walthall was sworn, and took his seat. A written message was sent to tbe Capitol by the President for the purpose of withdrawing the Nicaraguan and Spanish treaties. The Senate, however, had adjourned.

Mb. Camebon offered a resolution naming the Chairmen and members of the Senate committees, as agreed npon by the caucuses, and asked its immediate consideration, on March 13, Agreed to. A new committee of seven members on coast defenses was created, with Dolph, Chairman, and Cameron, Sewell, riawtey, Maxey, McPherson, and Fair as members. On the appropriations* Mahone succeeds Logan, and Gorman succeeds Ransom. Upon public lands. Teller succeeds Hill, Cockrell succeeds Walker and Walthall succeeds Slater. The Judiciary Committee Is made up as follows: Edmunds, Chairman; Ingalls, McMillan, Hoar, Wilson of lowa, Evarts, Pugh, Coke, Vest, and Jackson. The resolution embodying the committee was adopted unanimously. Mr. Sherman declined to serve on the Committee on Finance. President Cleveland nomloated Col. Nelson H. Davis, Inspector General, to be Inspector General with the rank of Brigadier General;. Lieut. CoL Absalom Baird, Inspector General, to be Inspector General with the rank of Colonel: Maj. Robert P. Hughes, to be Inspector Genenal with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. Cbarles S. Fairchild, of New York, was confirmed by the Senate as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. Ingalls offered a resolution calling npon the President for information in regard to the occupation of Oklahoma, and what action was being taken in that regard. Under objection from Mr. Cockrell, it wept over. After a short executive session, the Senate adjourned until Monday, 16th.

We Have an Idea

That he who is callous to slander hath the wit of true patience. That a great deal, which iB hopefully anticipated, gets here long before we are ready for it. That it is easier to trust in Providence than to obtain any credit at Newport, although both cities are in Rhode Island. That in the midst of life we are on the verge of enjoying it. That merit always finds the’sEppery pole of success thoroughly greased with the oleomargarine of contumely. That when Adam hugged Eve in the groves of Paradise he established “the pioneer press.” That no man’s humility causes disquietude to his self-sufficient neighbors. That it is better to be behind the age than before a police magistrate. 7377 That long before the telescope was invented many a Dutchman’s wife made him see stars through the butt end of a rolling pin. ® That when lovely woman stoops to folly she slackens the girdleiof 'prudence and tightens the cords of despair. That a buckwheat cake, a table leg, and a witticism should ail be neatly turned. That a traveling menagerie advertises every animal under the sun, though not one-third of them could possibly be got beneath that special canvas. —New York Sunday Advertiser.

Philosophy on the Bridge.

The wind blew strongly across the bridge. The black derbv of a large, burly, red-faced man suddenly cleared the iron fence and fell upon the railroad track. The face of the owner grew redder as he leaned over the pickets and saw a train approaching. But he never moved a step, although some thoughtless spectators looked on to see him follow the course of lift property in a mad resolution to rescue it. A small hoy on the roadway apposite saw his plight, leaped from his wagon, mounted the fence, picked up the hat and handed it to the owner. ■' The red-faced man said simply, “Thank you,” and resumed his way. “Never go for a lost hat yourself, ” he observed to a companion. “During a long experience I have uniformly observed a principle in human nature which invariably leads somebody else to rnn and pick it up.” “My dear fellow,” replied his companion, “the principle is of universal application. The great man is not the one who does things himself, but who can make others do them for him.”— New York Commercial Advertiser.

A Senatorial Giant.

Dixon H. Lewis was the largest statesman this country ever owned. He was Senator from Alabama away back in the thirties, and beside him David Davis would have been the merest stripling. He weighed 500 pounds wdien he was thin, and goodness knows how much when fat. He was a marvel to behold, and in his time one of the most popular of men. History is the preserver of godd deeds and the average of had*