Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1885 — Page 6

The Republican. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. CL EL MARSHALL, * - .tamHn

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE DYING SOLDIER. Gen. Grtmt'e Obstinate Battle with Dentil. Gen. Grant, after suffering a alight hemorrhage ot the throat, early on the morning ot the 7th Inst., relapsed Into a condition of greater ! weakness. The hemorrhage was from oneot ! the arteries of the throat, and the General lost a cupful of blood. The following Incidents of the day are reported by telegranh: Gen. Grant dosed In his chair in a darkened corner of the room. Dr. Shrady and Mra Grant by hie aide. He awoke suddenly and gated vacantly about him. Mrs. Sartoria and his son Fred came into the room, but he did not greet them as usual with a smile. On the oontrary. he bent his- head low and muttered some unintelligible things. Dr. Shrady was by hia side In a second, lor he knew that the General's mind was wandering. It was said at first that Gen. Grant was deliriottfe; that he laughed like a child at play, and gave orders like a General: that he spoke of ninny things: and tried to tell a fanny story, but lost the thread of the narrative. The doctor sdothed the old soldier, and soon afterward he recovered his accustomed equanimity. A strange fancy came upon him later on, and he asked that his chair be moved to the window that he oould look oht upon the world. His wife came and sat by bis side and spoke to him now and again, and when the General said "Dr. Newman." a messenger was sent for the divine. Dr. Newman came back to the house hurriedly, and he *nd_ Gen. Grant sat down by the window. Religion, Dr. Newman afterward said, formed the topic of conversation. The General was very resigned to death, and asked the diwine to pray. The curtain was pulled down, and the dvine man and the doctor prayed with Mra Grant and Mrs. Sartoris for some time. Later on, U. S. Grant, the son of Orville Grant, Dr. Newman, and Dr. Douglas were seated in his room. The General's chair was pulled near to the window. The fading sunlight fell upon him. He looked at Dr. Douglas and smiled gently. The conversation turned to Gen. Grant's friends. "The people all seem to be your friends at present," Dr. Newman said to the General. “Yes," said Gen. Grant, "and I have many friends on the other side. "Yes," repeated Dr. Newman, “and they are wattingfor you." “So they are," returned the General. Then he paused a moment and added: “I wish they may not have long to wait." An ex-Confedcrate soldier sent up a box of roses with this unsigned note: “Col. Fred Grant: Please place these roses convenient to your illnstrions father. They are from an old ex-rebel soldier who surrendered to him at Appomattox. There, with ma the war ended." At 5 o'clock On the morning of Wednesday, the Btfi, the General was sleeptng’Quietly, though it was feared the end was near. New York dispatches of the morning of Thursday, the 9th inst., reported Gen. Grant asjrcsting quietly. His condition was better, apparently, than at any time for three days, though be was gradually growing weaker. During Wednesday, the Bth, many distinguished people called at the mansion where the old veteran lay dying, though only a very few intimate friends, including ex-Senator Chaffee and Gen. Badeau, were admitted to the sick room. An expresswagon brought a large box of flowers that had been sent on from Philadelphia by Mr. G. W. Childs. They were invoiced at sllO, and the expressman said that a similar box was to be delivered daily. Monday and Tuesday were anniversaries of the battle of Shiloh. Dr. Douglas was at this battle, and Gen. Grhnt and the Doctor talked about it Gen. Rosser, C. S. X, who was wounded In the Avalry fight at Winchester, was among the callers. He saw Gen. Grant and expressed sympathy. He came from the Union Square Hotel, and brought a box of flowers. Mark Twain called and had a friendly chat with CoL Fred Grant He did not see the General

Gen. Gran tie condition exhibited a perceptible change for the better on the morning of Friday, Apr.l 10, having obtained a good night’s rest, during which he slept soundly most of the time. Throughout Thursday the illnstilous patient took his food regularly, and dozed at Intervals, his poise and temperature being about, nominal. A cable message was received from Queen Victoria inqairing as to the condition of the sufferer. The following facts relative to the General's condition were obtained from one intimately acquainted with his case and in every way qualified to give a trustworthy S union: “It will surprise Gen. Grant's physiana very much if h§ dies within a week. The chanoes are that he will live two weeks longer, and 1 would not give much odds that be will not live until May. What is to be feared most is blood-pois ming, The physicians are now trying to ward off this danger. They may snooeed for a couple of weeks. When his temperature goes up and his pulse becomes irregular there is great danger of death. These symptoms mean that the poison has reached the blood. The cancer itself is really tbe last source of danger. It has been stationary for a week and is not likely to develop sufficiently in two months to prove fatal. A hemorrhage is likely to occur at any time, bnt ■will not canse alarm. It can be Btopped at any time. The General’s faculties are clear. He would be able tf> direct an army in the field today, so far as his mental condition is concerned.” -J - - The bulletins sent ofit on the morning of the 11th inst. in regard to Gen. Grant’s condition reported the distinguished patient as having passed a comfortable night, the greater portion of which was passed in natural and refreshing sleep. The pulse was CO and the temperature normal. He had, during the preceding six hours, taken the nsnal amount of nourishment, had conversed freely with members of his family and intimate friends, had scanned the newspaper headings, and evinced an interest in the European war news. Gen. Dent, the brother-in-law of Gen. Grant, is reported assaying that the Grant family have become reconciled to the fact that the General cannot recover. He says thecancer has made greater progress than any one who has not seen it can imagine. The artery in the throat must certainly give way soon, and then there is nothing to prevent the General from dying by strangulation. The condition of Gen. Grant on the morning of the 13th, as reported by the dispatches of that date, was worse than at any time for several days previous. He had a bad conghing spell the evening before, and the physicians admitted a gradual development of ulcers in the throat. The pain in his throat kept the patient tossing about on.his conch, restless, wakeful, and nneasy, and he complained frequently of his inability to sleep. He changed from his couch to the arm-chair three or four times in order to stop the constant cough and to breathe with greater ease, but he was no sooner settled in one position than he wanted to change again. Sleep was induced by the administration of morphine. His condition was reported to be more serious than the doctors’ bulletins indicate. During Saturday and Sunday the General sat for hours never speaking to persons about him. His only talk was to'hiinseif. and then he appeared to be semldelirioris, making; now and then references to his participation in battles. Among the mail race ved at Gen. Grant's during the week was a letter containing a check for SI,OOO, representing the amennt of a loan, with accrued interest, which the General made to a Western friend many years ago. The General had long thought the borrower dead, so that the check came as an entire surprise.

THE EAST.

A suit has been entered in the Supreme Judicial Court of Suffolk County, Maskichu6ette, by the National Soldiers’ Home against Benjamin. F. Butler, to recover $15,000, for which Gen. Butler is said to have failed to account whjle acting as Treasurer of the home Cyrus W. Field, after fifty years of active business in New York, is resigning his railway and telegraph directorships, and intends to spend the summer in Europe.... Byerson & Brown, livery-stable keepers at New York, who introduced what are known as the 'black-and-tan” cabs, have failed for half a million... .A commission will proceed to England to examine witnesses regarding the sanity of Mrs. Dudley, who shot O'Donovan Rossa.... Bid ard Grant White, the Shakespearean scholar, and literary and art critic, died at New York, aged 63....J0hn Marston, a Bear Admiral in the United States navy, died in Philadelphia, at the agesf 90 years. Kate SmuLsey, the faster of Fort Plain, N. Y-, who lived without food from March 11, 1884, till tho following Thanksgiving, and had subsisted since that time on wine and whev, died last week, weighing bat seventy-dive pounds.

THE WEST.

The Kansas State Live Stock Commission, at its meeting last week, recommended to the Governor the subjection to quarantine for ninety days of cattle from the following State's: Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey. Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio** Illinois, Kentucky. Tennessee, and four counties in Missouri, namely, Callaway, Boone, Audrain, aqd Montgomery, to guard against danger from pleuro-pneumonia.... The new Police Commissioners of Cincinnati have ordered the immediate closing of gambling-houses, the expulsion of confidence men, and the arrest of street-walkers for vagrancy and of sidewalk loafers- for loitering The commission appointed by the Legislature of Wisconsin to purchase a residence for the Governor 'the house and grounds formerlyoWned by Ole Bull, for $20,000... TSh epidemic among Bheep is reported from Clinton County. Illinois, where a farmer buried thirty of his flock in one day. John H. Shaw, a Democratic member , ] of the Illinois House, was found dead in his room at n hotel in Springfield ou the morning of April 12. Dri Kerr testified at the inquest that the deceased probably succumbed to paralysis of the brain during the night. Mr. Shaw was burn in Boston in 1825, was a lawyer by profession, and resided at Beardstown Fire in the Stillman House, Cleveland, Ohio, destroyed the upper story of the building, causing a loss of $50,000. The servant girls, whose quarters were on the seventh floor, had barely time to escape. At Lee’s Summit, twenty-five miles from Kansas City, twenty-eight buildings were destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of SIOO,OOO. Ten stores at Robinson, Kan., were burned, causing a loss of S4O,OQy. Cutsinge’s starch factory was burned at Edinburg, Ind.; loss $75,000.

THE SOUTH.

A fourth husband has been secured by Mrs. Sallie Ward Lawrence Hunt Armstrong. of Louisville, who fora generation has been known as the most beautiful womm in the South. The latent acquisition is G. F. Louns, a wealthy and cultured gentleman, 70 yeais of age. Bishop McCloskey. who usually does the lady’s marrying business, was on hand in good l form. Information has been conveyed to the Controller of Currency by the examiners in charge of the suspended Exchange National Bank of Norfolk that the concern is insolvent and will have to be placed in the hands of a receiver. The amount due to depositors alone is over $3,000,000... .L, K. Eldridge, a patient in the Tennessee insane asylum, killed two men by crushing their skulls with a floor mop, and was saulting a third person when seized. Enraged because the Legislature failed to reimburse him for time and money expended, D. S. Grimes totally destroyed the Colorado exhibit at the New Orleans show. This was accounted to be one of the most attractive displays of the exhibition. Grimes was arrested, charged with malicious mischief. Gen. Bethune, of Columbus, Gay, has been appointed guardian of Blind Tom, the musical prodigy, now an idiot

WASHINGTON.

The President last week gave audience to a delegation of Dakota citizens who came to protest against the proposed expulsion of the settlers from the Crow Creek Reservation. Mr. Cleveland promised that the settlers would be properly cared for in any event, and that no farther proceedings would be taken by the Government until a thorough investigation of the whole subject had been made. — — Last week President Cleveland gave audience to a committee representing the Grand Army of the Republic, which called at the White House to present an appeal for the retention of old soldiers in the Government service. Mr. Cleveland strongly expressed hia sympathy with the views of the delegation. Gen. Swatm has asked the administration at Washington to review his case, and the Secretary of War has promised to give him a healing. It is said that the President iB disposed to relieve the army in some manner of the embanassment in which it was placed by the sentence of the Swaim courtmartial, which effectively vacated the office of Judge Advocate General and made it impossible- for the President to appoint a successor for a period of twelve years.... The Washington Monument was the other day struck three times by lightning, but received no damage. Gen. G. D. lit g qles has been ordered to duty at San Antonio, Tex., to relieve Gen. Thomas M. Vincent, who has been assigned to duty at Omaha. The order takes effect June 1.

POLITICAL.

The Wisconsin Legislature has enacted a high license!liquor law. It .provides a minimum fee of S2OO and a maximum of SSOO in towns of over 500 inhabitants, and a minimum fee of SIOO and a maximum of S4OO in communities of less than 500 population ..,. The Emery Candle Factory at Cincinnati was damaged by fire to the amount of SBO,OOO. How much the introduction of women into politics would purify the political atmosphere, says a "Washington dispatch, is illustrated by the fact that Appointment Clerk Higgins has found that a young lady employed in the Treasury Department has for nearly two years given one-half her monthly salary—so2.so to a lady outside tho department. She was anxious to obtain employment, and offered to give one-half her salary to any one who would secure her a position in the Treasury. A lady possessed of, influence 1 secured her a positiou. The -young lady is an excellent clerk. Mr. Higgins will see that she hereafter g -ts all her pay, even if he has to issue her another appointment in order to relieve her/from the obligation under which she now is to the lady who secured her the position.... Gen. Lawton, of Georgia, desiring to relieve the .adnrnistration of any embarrassment in regard to his case, has requested the President to proceed as if the appointment of Minister to Russia had never been tendered to an ex-Confederate. The President has appointed Robert B Vance, e#f North Carolina, Assistant Commissioner of Patents, vice B. G, Dyrenfurfh, resigned, and William E. McLean, of Terre Hante, Ind., First Deputy Commissioner of Pensions, vice Calvin B. Walker, resigned. The President also appointed Postmasters at the following named Presidential offices: Ezra Ryans, at Westchester, Pa.; George T. Gross, at Allentown, Pa.; James Drury, at Bristol, Pa.; George W. Statler, at Mansfisld, Ohio; David O. Verman, at Marion, Ind ; Nelson Bruett, at Jefferson, Wis.; J. F. Mack ill, at Morehead, Minn.; G M. Houston, at Hartisonvilie, Va.; Benjamin Smith, at Chillicothe, Mo.; Stanley

8. Crittenden, at Greenville, S. C. It is expeteted that the President Will soon direct his ntention to. the Territoiial offices. President Cleveland inj giving audi- ' ence’ to a party of colored men advised them against regarding themselves as a race with special necessities apart from the white people, and cautioned them to beware of selfish leaders. It may be stated .that he intends soon to give offloe to one or more colored men. bnt a white man will be appointed Registrar of the Treasury to succeed ex-Senator Bruce. • - ■ f-f- 1

GENERAL.

Thomas Judah, for thirty years a prominent member of the bar of Montreal, has been sentenced to imprisonment for six months for obtainipg $35,000 by false pretenses. •' 1 Richahd Fraser, colored, was hanged in the yard of the- courfty jail in Charleston, S. C., for the murder of Jack Gethers, also colored, last July. Columbus Crauford, colored, was hanged "at Yorkville, 8. , C., for the murder of Ellison Sanders, also colored. Qeprge H. Mills, wife-murderer* was executed in the jail-yard at Brooklyn, N. Y. A Winnipeg (Manitoba) special says: The alarming news of a massacre at Frog Lake has been confirmed by authentic dispatches. much to the dismay of many citizens, who have iriends among the killed. Anjong the dispatches received, the following to the Hudson Bay Company is the most explicit, and contains the best inforTniition regarding the massacre: “Intelligenca from dark’s Crossing confirms the startling report that a horrible massacre had been committed by the Cree Indians at Frog Lake, a village on the North Saskatchewan, twelve miles north of Battleford and about twenty miles from Fort Pill The Indians, incited by Big Bear, have been congregating around FFog Lake for some time, menacing the people. The massacre took place on the 4th inst., and fourteen persons were killed. The Indians are supposed to have commenced a massacre at Fort Pittnnd kitted ii large number, but the news is not confirmed. The Government warehouse at Saddle Lake has been raided and burned, and all the Indians have gone to join the rebels. A dispatch from Edmonton says the Indians are surrounding that placg,and a grave crisis is approaching.” .... E. Sheppard, the owner of a newspaper in Toronto, has tendered the Canadian Government the services of a company of mounted cowboys from Montana, who stand ready for active service... .A party of 400 persons who left England to settle in the Canadian Northwest have been diverted to Wisconsin and Indiana, in consequence of Riel’s revolt... .Geni M. L. Barillos has been installed as President of Guatemala, and the Cabinet has been reorganized since the death of President Barrios. The crop returns of April to the Department of Agriculture at Washington indicate a reduction ot over 10 per cent, of last year's area of winter wheat. The aggregate shortage amounts to 3,000,000 acres. A decrease is reported in every State except Oregon. It is 22 per cent in Kansas and Virginia, 20 in Mississippi, 15 in California, 14 in Alabama, 12 in Tennessee, Illinois, and Missouri, 11 in New York, 2 in South Carolina, 10' in Maryland and Texas, 8 in New Jersey, West Virginif, Kentucky, and Indiana. 7in Georgia and Ohio. 6 in Pennsylvania and Delaware, 5 in Michigan, 3 in Arkansas, and 2in North Carolina. The present condition of wheat, as reported, is worse than in 1883. It is 77 per cent, as against 96 last year and 80 in 1883. The Chicago Times prints a variety of information in regard to the winter wheat crop in the West and Northwest. Dispatches from Kansas and Illinois agree upon conditions which will lessen the yield one-half: Some portions of Ohio entertain hopes for an average crop, while the central counties show a decreased acreage. Very little injury was done in Michigan by the severe winter. Great damage is reported in the southern counties of Indiana. A crop of nearly 14.000,609 bushels is expected in Missouri, while the decreasing acreage in lowa will bring the product of that State down to 700,000 bushels. Unfavorable exhibits are still being reported at the prominent clearing-houses. The volume of business last week shows a decrease of 20.7 per cent, as compared with the corresponding week of last year. Outside of New York the decrease was but 6.7 per cent. The unfavorable report is , made more noticeable by the fact that six days of 1885 are . compared with but five days of 1884, Good Friday having intervened last year. In Chicago the decrease was 17.3 per cent. .... A cablegram from Libortad states that Honduras and San Salvador have signed atreaty of peace; that the allied forces are marching upon Guatemala, and that the army of the latter republic is rapidly disbanding.

FOREIGN.

In the House of Commons Mr. Gladstone said that Russia had asked Gen. Komaroff to explain his conduct in attacking the Afghans, but that no explanation had been received as yet. The Russians doHiot occupy Peujdeh, but haye retired to the positions they occupied before the battle with the Afghans. London dispatches state that war is regarded as imminent. Sixty thousand men from the army reserves and the whole of the militia will be called out. The naval reserves will be relied upon for home defense. Various plans are being considered for striking Russia at vulnerable points outside of the present field of hostilities. The theory is that if England and Russia are to Russia should not be permitted to choose the battlefield. The Tories predict that Mr. Gladstone will again back dowD, as he did some weeks ago. The Russian newspapers charge Lord Dufferin and Sir Peter Lumsden with provoking the war by advising the Afghans to march into Russian territory. It is reported that the British Government has ordered on army of 30,000 men to be raise?! in Egypt. Definite advices from the seat of war state that Gen. Komaroff was compelled to occupy Pendjeh to stop the pillaging of the country by Afghans and Turcomans. An official message has been sent the General directing him' to thank the troops in the name of tho Czar.... While foreign dispatches show that England and Russia are conducting negotiations for a settlement of the Afghan troubles they also indicate there is still probability of war/ Earl Granville, the British Foreign Minister, advised Barou de Stnnl, the Russian Ambassador to London, that the British Government had decided that whatever the nature of the Bussiou explanation of Gen. Komaroff’s action might be, Great Britain would not allow any further discussion concerning the delimitation of the Afghan frontier to go on until the Russian troops have been withdrawn from their present outposts in the disputed territory back to the positions which they occupied at the time' England appointed her part of the commission to adjust the Afghan frontier. Both sides continue to make active preparations in anticipation of open hostilities. All the Rossian torpedo boatS\haveJ>een ordered to

the Black and Baltic Seas to guard against attacks on ports on these waters. All the Adrqirata of the British Navy have been notified to hold themselves in readiness for service. The Government has secured a number of the regular Atlantic steamships for use as trans- ■ ports. The feeling of the Russian people was manifested at an ovation given the Czar while attending the theater.,. .London reports the death of Geoi&e Swan Nottage, Lord Mayor, and the Earl of Selkirk, a representative peer for Scotland..... A box containing a dynamite machine r addressed to Prince Bismarck was discovered by the authorities at Frankfort-on-the Main. ,

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

The University of Virginia last week dedicated an observatory and telescope presented by Leander J. McCormick, of Chicago, at a cost of $75,000. The observatory has an endowment of $50,000, onehalf of which was given by W. H. Vanderbilt. j The Wisconsin Legislature closed its thirty-seventh srssion on|the 13th inst. Nine hundred and sixty-three bills were introduced during the session, and 425 became laws. The Governor sent in vetoes of bills for appointing Fish and Game Wardens, preventing the shipment of game from the State, and for the preservation of trout in Washburn County. Admiral Jouett telegraphs that trains ou the Banama Road are running regularly across the Isthmus, without molestation. .... The Fenians are said to be organizing for a fresh raid on Canada, and the news comes by the way of Detroit that they are now se.cretly drilling in Chicago. Riel, the leader of the half-breed revolt, is said to be 'in communication with the promoters of th'e proposed demonstration. Antoine Boyne, a professor of languages, threw sulphuric acid on Frankie Halligan and Margaret Ryan in the diningroom of a Detroit Hotel, because the former girl, who had promised to go riding with him, procured a young man dressed in woman’s clothes to take his place. The garments of both girls were ruined, and Miss Ryan may be disfigured for life.... The owners of two thousand acres of strawberry plants in the vicinity of Centralia, 111., report excellent crop prospects. The yield is estimated at 200 car-10ad5.... The Grand Jury at Springfield, 111., has .indicted Gen. J. N. Reece for procuring the signature of ex-Marshal Wheeler to false returns and expense accounts... .Apache Indians are reported to be raiding the section about Morenei/ Arizona, and two ranchers are said to have been killed. ■ The Superior Court of New York has reversed the decision in the case of ex-Mayor Franklin Edson, of New York City, by the terms of which he was to suffer fine and imprisonment, and ordered that all proceedings be dismissed with costs. Mr. Edsqn’s offense was the making of appointment? to office in defiance of an injunction restraining him therefrom.... Seven men were buried beneath a mass of fifty tons of bricks in a slab-burner at Oscoda, Mich. It was five hours before the bodies were reached. Only two wepe taken out alive.... A suit brought against tbe executors of J. H. Brown, of Pittsburgh, to recover on a note given for gambling losses at Hot Springs,, called out testimony that the deceased was taken to a faro bank and kept intoxicated while he lost $14,009 in three sittings in a brace game. * While workmen were engaged in bracing up the yielding foundation of eight fivestory tenements on West Sixty-second street, New York, the whole structure fell, not a stick remaining standing in tlie entire row. More than a score of workmen, carpenter?, lathers, plumbers, and others were extricated from the ruins, many seriously iujured, and takeu to the hospital or their homes. Threats of lynching were uttered against the contractor, who immediately after the collapse fled. Gaft. Couch, the lender of the Oklahoma colonists, called on Secretary Lamar last week, and was informed that the cattle syndicates will be compelled to leave the dispnted territory. The question of admitting settlers will lie decided later 0n.... Mr. Sparks, Commissioner of the General Laud Office, has revoked the order of March 20 allowing the Northern Pacific Road to change its limit between Wallnla and Dayton, Washington Territory, so as to include other lands under its grant... . Justice Wylie, of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, now 71 years of age, has asked to be p aced on the retired Ist. According to the bulletins sent out by telegraph, Gen. Grant's condition on the morning of the 14th inst. showed no change for the better. During the preceding twenty-four hours he had been troubled by coughing and expectoration. He took his nourishment regularly, and frequently walked about the room. The doctors stated in private that the cancer was steadily and surely doing its deadly work, and that the end might come at any moment.

THE MARKETS.

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USURPER BARRIOS.

The Would'be Guatemala Dicta* tor’s Career.

General Justo Rufino Barrios, the man responsible for the excited condition of Central American politics, and who is now reported d ead, was born the 17th of July, 1835, at San Lorenzo, in the depar;ment ot San Marcos, Guatemala. He was educated in the College of Guatemala, in the city of that name, and was graduated,.in 1862. His special study was law, which he pursued in connection with keen observation of the mis arable condition of the people, kept down by bad government and the dominance of the clergy and upper classes. He began his public career in 1867, at the head of a revolutionary force, which in that year stormed the barracks of San Marcos and put the garrison to flight. This success initiated attacks on the Government undeiwils leadership, giving him great prestige. Failing to capture him, the ruling powers made his father and brother prisoners, and held them as hostages for the surrender of Barrios himself. In 1809 his forces were strengthened by the accession of Gen. SerapJs Cruz, but in the same year he was incapacitated by a wcund received in battle. Subsequently, while he was-still absent from the field of operations, disastrous reversea'overtook the revolutionary forces, Cruz and his army being taken prisoners and many of them being shot or exiled. Barrios was published dead, but the Government reckoned without the host in this matter, for upon his recovery he again assumed offensive opeiations, in which he was aided by Gen. Garoia Granados. May Bth, 1871, the revolutionists issued a proclamation. Subsequently they entered the territory of Guatemala, with Barrios at their head, and published their proclamation! Severe fighting followed with advantages to the revolutionists, and June 3 of the same year Gen. Garcia Granados was proclaimed President. Success still attended the insurrection, and Gen. Cerna, President of the republic, fled from the country. The revolutionary army' entered the capital the 30th of Jqne, 1871. Granados was then made Provisional President, and Barrios accepted the command of the West Departments, from which he expelled all Jesuits. The President followed this drastic policy with the expulsion of the Jesuits from the whole country. A reaction followed, and Granados, apprehending danger, sent for Barrios, who, having first forwarded troops to his coadjutor, followed them as soon as he could. Upon arriving at the capital he was commissioned to command the forces of the new Government. He disposed of the reactionary cause In two battles. Barrios then returned to his work in thq West Departments, but the Government not beihg able to carry out his policy,.-without his personal presence and assistance, lie was invited to take charge of it. In May. 1872, he entered the capital, the virtual head of the Ilenublic. His Immediate action was to dissolve all Roman Catholic societies and t - declare their properties national; to establish the liberty of the press and effect other changes of the same general character. He then, once more, returned to the west, and in the early part of 1873 was again called on to take charge of the Government. A popular assembly was convoked, and Barrios elected President of the Republic,, to suceced Granados. He was inaugurated the 4th of June, tiTi. In October,1876, his tenure was. prolonged, and March 15, 1880, be was re-elected for a term of six years. Two or three months ago his scheme for consolidating the Central American States into one Government, with himself at the head, was promulgated, and the subsequent details are too fresh to require repetition.

LOUIS RIEL.

Leader of the Half-Breed Rebellion Against the Canadian Government.

Louis Kiel -was first heard of In 1869, the year in which the Canadian Government bought the greater part of the lands owned bv the Hudson’s Bay Company. Boon after the Northwest became a part of the Canadian- Confederation, and the Government undertook to survey the whole country with the view of making allotments of land to settlers. Surveyors were then employed in laying out the country in “sections " of square miles, to be subdivided among the settlers. These rectangles are measured off apparently without regard either to the natural features of the country or to the habitations or claims of the settlers, mainly half-breeds, who are already in possession. Even when the half-breed has not established a habitation he has staked out a “claim,” and has “located” it, as a matter of course, with the greatest possible frontage upon one of the rivers, which are the only highways of the wilderness. No record existing anywhere of these c’dlms, the Government at Ottawa has disposed of many of them Jo persons who had acquired no rights hy settlement, but who had complied, as the half-breeds in possession had failed to comply, with the requirements of the law: One day as a surveyor and his men were surveying a base line through some property Kiel, who was followed bv a party of unarmed half-breeds, put his foot on the ch> in, being used and ordered the surveyor and his men to leave work. They did so. Subsequently, in-the fall of 1869, he took possession of Fort Garry, now Winnipeg, and armed his followers'with UOO Enfield rifles found in the stores qf the Hudson Bay Company. He issued a bill of rights from Fort Garry and continued the insurrection until the following spring, when he was driven across the border into the United States by the forces under Col., now Gen. Lord Woieeley. Five years later he returned to Manitoba and was elected to the House of Commons, but did not take his seat. Riel was born in 184+, within five miles of Fort Garry. He was educated for the priesthood in Montreal, and possesses the ability, especially in tact, craft, and persuasion, which, aided by considerable attainments, and a strong sense of what he believes to be the wrongs suffered by the haif-breeds, accounts for his domination over the aggrieved Indians and half-breeds who follow his leadership. While the form of bis features suggests the Indian, his complexion is fair’and his eyes are light blue. ’ Hugh Conway’s story. “Called Back," has been translated into French, German, Italian, Norse, Swedish, Dutch, Koumanian, and Welsh. *• The congregation of which Dr. Barchart) was pastor has dissolved, and the property is to be turned over to the New York Presbytery. The Rothschild family history is being written by a Paris author upon the request of the English branch of the house. After April 1 the average temperature of Khartoum is 90 degrees in the shade.

SPRING VOTING.

Michigan State Election -Municipal Contests Throughout the West - i Michigan State Election. Michigan held an election on Monday, the 6th of April, for a Justice of the Supreme Court and Regents of the University. Returns indicate that the tiaket nominated and supported by the Democrats and - Greenbackers is elected by a majority variously estimated,' at this writing, at from 30,000 to 40,000. In the city of Detroit, Jndge Morse, the Democrat-Greenback candidate for Justice, received a majority of nearly 6,000 votes over Judge Cooley, who had received the nomination of both the Republicans and Prohibitionists. Whitman and Field, fusion nominees for Regentp, are elected by probably 30,000 majority. Michigan Municipal Elections. Simultaneously with the 'voting for State officials, the cities and towns of Michigan chose local officers. The Democrats, aided in most cases by the Greenbackers, elected their candidates in the following municipalities: Jackson, Marquette, Escanaba, Grand Rapids. Bay City, Hillsdale, Kalamazoo, Laper, Niles, Grand Haven, Holland, Battle Creek, Charlotte, Port Huron, and Adrian. The Republicans carried the city elections at Coldwater, Hudson, St. Joseph, Benton Harbor, Muskegon, Big Rapids, Mason, East Tawas. Other Municipal Elections. ILLINOIS. The city election in Chicago was most hotly contested, and resulted in the success of the Democratic ticket, headed by Carter H. Harrison, who is elected Mayor for the fourth term, though by a greatly reduced majority. Hempstead Washburne, the Republican candidate for City Attorney, is chosen over his Democratia opponent. ExCongressman John F. Finerty, a recent convert from the Democracy, -Who was nominated by the Republicans for City ° Treasurer, runs for behind his ticket, and is the worst beaten man in the field. The Democrats were also successful in the charter elections at Joliet, Freeport, Quincy, and Carlinville, while the Republicans carried the day at Springfield. Jacksonville, Elgin, Rock Island, and Shelby ville. What are known as “Citizens’ ” tickets were chosen at Galesburg and Moline. At Mount Carroll, Canton, and Wheaton the issue in the local election was license or anti-license, and the Cold-water advocates carried the day at each place. OHIO. In regard to the municipal elections in Ohio, a correspondent of the Chicago 'Times telegraphs that journal from Columbus as follows: With the exception of Dayton, where only Councilmen were elected, all Ohio olties made Republican gains over the unusual vote of last fall. In Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Toledo, and other cities these Republ.can gains are attributed to the unsavory record of the present Democratic Legislature. The Republicans elect the Mayor of Cincinnati by 4.000, of Cleveland by 8,000, and Columbus by 1,000,. to succeed Democrats. The unexpected success of the Republicans in all other cities of the State is attributed to the slowness of Cleveland in making appointments for Ohio. In nearly all these places there are factional fights for Postmaster, Revenue Collectorships, and other appointments. Mansfield, the home of Sherman and Geddes, elects a Republican Mayor and city officers for the first time since 1879. Lancaster and Newark elect their Rcpu bi-can city tickets for the first time in their history: Mayor Constantine, of Springfield, who wanted to be First Assistant Postmaffer Oeneral,.and came home mad, let his city go Republican by 2,600. He refused to ran for re-etec.ioii. In Zanesville, Delaware, London. Logan, Coshocton, Steubenville, and all the c ties of prominence, excepting Dayton, Democratic officials are succeeded by Reiublicans. The old fight between the kid and the mossbaciC Democrats entered into fbe contest, aud has embittered the leaders so as to make it probably worse at the next State election. WISCONSIN. In the municipal contest at Milwaukee the Democratß s.xept the platter, the newly elected Council being composed largely of men of that political persuasion. The Democratic city tickets were also ohosen in Watertown, Madison, Mineral Point, Beloit, Bcnver D.im, Janesville, Appleton, Plymouth, Racine, and Oshkosh. lOWA. The Republicans carried the city elections at Keokuk_and Knoxville. At Dubuque the Democrats made a clean sweep. ELSEWHERE. David R. Francis, Democrat, is elected Mayor of St. Louis, Mo., bv about 1,000 majority over Ewing, Republican, the present incumbent. The Democrats elect their candidates for Mayor at Kansas City, Mo., arid Lawrence, Kan. At Evansville, Ind., Bismark, Dak., and Helena, Montana., the Democrats were successful in the municipal contests.

Death of a Great Composer.

A cable dispatch anuounoes the death of Franz Abt, the well-known musical composer. Deceased was born Saxony, Dec. 22, 1819. The son of aVlergyman, he entered the University of Leipsic us a theological student, but he soon abandoned theology for music. In 1841 he became musical director of the theater at Berne, which position he resigned to accept a similar one at Zurich. In 1852 fle became kappelmeister at the Brunswick court. In the death of Franz Abt music loses one of her most appreciated representatives. Twenty years ago his “When the Swailows Homeward Fly” was sung everywhere. That charming inspiration was little if any more fortunate than scores qf other songs that flowed from his facile |>qn. He was the author of a vast number of duets, trios, ana especially of part-songs for male voices, in which line he was one of the greatest of living composers. The great merit of his music is its sweetness, its melody, its expressiveness.

The British Lion.

London dispatch: The steamer America, of the National Line, has been ordered by the Brit sh Government to be gotten in readiness for naval transport service at sea within a fortnight. The America is to be armed with ten guns. The Atlantic Steamship Company, it is reported, are considering the question of the advisability of raising passenger fares and freight rates. If the contemplated advance be decided upon, the reason given will bo the depletion ofthe Atlantic fleet by the Government’s demands for transports.

ITEMS.

Mbs. Palmeka, of Chatsfield, Minn., has reached the age of 105 years. The late Minerva Gredley. of Hartford, Conn., left $50,000 to Carleton College, Minnesota. The Fargo Argus says Dakota has enjoyed the loveliest spring weather for the last two months, El Makki, a rival of the False Prophet in the Soudan, is now said to be Larry Mackey, who nsed to keep a shoe store in Donegal, Ireland. * Prince Bishabck is a regular sub-, soriber to the London Times for the reason, as he says, that he wants to read duly the same flutter perused by the British nofcility. ■ Thomas, A. Edison has bought a winter dwelling-house at Fort Meyers, Fla.