Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1885 — Page 6

The Republi<San. RENSSELAER. INDIANA. E. MARSHALL. - * Posuamn.

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THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. . A—Ik a contest at New York for S2OO a side, Frank Barrett opened 2,500 oysters and John Gillen 2,300 in two hours and eighteen minutes. A court in New York has rendered a decision that Miss Ellen King can not recover from innocent purchasers the value of bonds stolen from her residence .... Strikers assailed the miners ’who were going to work in the Old Eagle Mine, near Monongahela City, Pa., firing guns and revolvers in a reckless manner. The surprised miners fled for theft lives, and as they rushed down the hill-side some of them sustained painful injuries. The strikers also attacked the dwellings occupied by the “scabs,” demolishing the windows in twenty-five of them, but the inmates escaped unhurt. » Fire in One Hundred and Sixty-sixth street, New York, destroyed a dwelling occupied by Patrick Driscoll and his family. Driscoll, his wife, and one son escaped in a badly burned condition, but two youths, 17 and 14 respectively, and a girl aged 7, perished in the flames. Mat.com Hulbizeb, who went to the war from a Jersey town twenty-two years ago, and has since been mourned as among the dead, returned to his parents on Christmas night. He owns large beds of nitrates in Peru.... Cape Cod was visited by a severe gale which caused iguch damage and several casualties on shore and at sea.... About one hundred cigar-makers started from New York to take the place of Chinese in San Francisco.... A fire at Georgetown, Mass., destroyed the most of the village and killed two persons. The loss was $80,000.... Buffalo’s first cremation took place Dec. 27.

THE WEST.

Roman Nose, once the chief medicine man of the Cheyennes, who last spring killed a white woman in Indian Territory, has been surrendered to the civil authorities at Leavenworth, by onler of Attorney General Garland, to be tried in the Federal* Courts for murder... .The Korell family of five persons are seriously ill at Cleveland of trichiniasis, the result of having eaten freely of uncooked ham. A physician believes that he can 6ave their lives. Mb. W. J. Florence appeared last week at McVicker’s Theater, Chicago, in the character of Jules Gbenreizer in the play of “No Thoroughfare,” and delighted ms admirers by as fine a bit of acting as was ever seen upon any stage. The present week he will appear in a variety of plays, including “Our Governor,” the “Mighty Dollar,” and as Captain Cuttle in “Dombey & Son. ” It is claimed by statistics compiled by the liquor-sellers of Chicago that the city has a foreign population of 455,000 and only 174,000 Americans.... The Burlington Road has projected 250 miles of new track in Nebraska. The Lincoln and Grand Island branch will be extended to Broken Bow, one hundred miles.... Thomas King, a packing-house laborer, living at No. 2529 Cologne street, Chicago, killed his wife Ella by beating her head almost to a jelly with a chair. The fiend has been arrested... .The Circuit Court at San Francisco has declared void the alleged marriage contract between tne late Senator Sharon and Miss Sarah A. Hill, on the ground that the signatures were forged. ... .The great billiard contest between the three experts, Schaefer,Vignaux, and Slosson, is finally ended, and Jacob Schaefer, of New York, is now entitled to be called the champion of the w0r1d.... The real estate transactions in Chicago for the year amounted to nearly $48,000,000. The value of buildings erected was $20,000,000, the residences alone numbering 1,657.... Judge Crozier, of Leavenworth, at the request of the Attorney General of Kansas, enjoined a wholesale liquor firm from selling goods during the trial of a suit brought against it, and the doors of the store were closed within five minutes. Five large liquor dealers are preparing to remove their goods from the city... .A dastardly attempt was made to blow up the elegant residence of Judge Lambert. Tree, in Chicago. An infernal machine, in the shape of a carefully constructed dynamite bomb, was found on the front 6teps of the residence, which is now occupied by General A. C. McClurg. It was exploded on the lake front and blew a six-foot hole in the frozen ground. ... .A fresh riot took place last Sunday in Detroit among the congregation of ' St. Albert's Polish Catholic Church, the crowd, being estimated at two thousand. An attorney named Larned was struck with a stone. All the windows in Zoltowski’s grocery were broken. Officer Ewing was knocked down with a snowshovel. Detective Tuttle was thrown into a gutter. A captain and fourteen policemen fought the rabble all the afternoon. Bishop Borgess is confident that the trouble is incited by the deposed priest, Kolazinski.

THE SOUTH.

The Judge of the Superior Court at Atlanta, Ga., to whom appeal was made for an injunction in the election case involving the prohibition issue in the city named, declined to interfere. Prohibition was immediately declared carried by it majority of 228. The case will be appealed and other litigation over the election is in progress. CBAIO Tollivek who was reputed to be one of the bad spirits of Kentucky, had the audacity to rob a friend of a girl at a dance

at Martinnburg. The injured party put a bullet into Tolliver’s henlrt, and then fled to escape lynching. The desperado was mailed from head to foot with knife and bullet wounds.

WASHINGTON.

Thomas O. Osborn, Minister ot.tho Argentine Republic, has furnished the Department of State with a detailed history of the struggle in that country between cnurch and state for the control of the normal schools. A procession of one thousand leading ladies of Buenos Ayres marched to the Senate Chamber with a petition favoring religions instruction in the schools, and carried their point by one vote. The Attorney General has been directed to bring suit against several timber depredators along the Mobile and Girard Kailroad in Alabama to test the question of title to about 200,000,000 acres of land granted the company in 1868 to aid in constructing its ‘ line.... President Cleveland has announced his determination to protect the Chinese from personal violence, but at the same time said he would exact the rigid enforcement of the law prohibiting their immigration... .The Comptroller has 'decided that soldiers honorably discharged for disability are entitled to the bounty provided for in the act of July 22, 1861.

POLITICAL.

Dr. Eberrard, who was appointed postmaster at Kipon, Wis., failed to qualify within the specified time. When he attempted to take possession the other day he was refused admission by Postmaster Upham. The Marshal at Milwaukee was informed of the situation of affairs. Public Printer Bounds denies the rumor that the President has requested his resignation.,.. .John Bigelow, recently appointed Assistant United States Treasurer at New York, resigned... .One of the current rumors iu connection with the tenure-of-office act, says a Washington-telegram, is that Justice Miller, of the United States Supreme Court, has expressed the opinion that under the ten-ure-of-office act as it stands the President has no power to remove an official ■without the consent of the Senate (Sec. 1768), and that in case the Senate refuses to confirm nominations made to succeed suspended officials the latter are restored to office until their successors are confirmed. Justice Miller says that a suspended official whose succession is uot confirmed cau be held responsible for the conduct of his office from the date on which the uomination of his successor is rejected, and that any court will so decide.

GENERAL.

Mb. Parnell being unable to attend the Irish National League Convention announced to be held in Chicago, and also believing that it would be better to defer the gathering until after the meeting of the British Parliament, the Chicago Convention has been postponed to a date to be hereafter determined by Mr. Parnell and the Executive of the League in this country. Fire destroyed the largest rope-walk in the world, owned by the Colonial Cordage Company, at St. Johns, N. F. The loss is $140,000; uninsured. Although over three hundred persons were, during the small-pox epidemic in Montreal, employed by the health department, not one of the number contracted the disease. ' The Western Union Telegraph Company is reported to be anxious to have the Government purchase its plant for postal telegraph purposes, as comprehended by* Senator Cullom’s bill. It -is stated that should the Government buy up the telegraph company's property for the purpose named the latter could build new lines with improved appliances at much less, cost and become a successful competitor with the former..., Paddy Ryan, the pugilist, will, it is said, make a match with Sullivan for from $5,000 to $20,000 and the championship of the world. Ryan has found a backer in Tom Kearns, of Troy, N. Y... .The Peruvian troops under arms have reached Lima, and have been disbanded by the Council of Ministers, and sent at government expense to their homes. Peace prevails.

FOREIGN.

Anotheb terrible mine explosion is reported from Wales, the particulars of which are furnished by the following dispatch from London: Intelligence conies from Pont-y-Pridd, Wales, of a colliery explosion at the Ferndale pit, near there, and that 460 miners are intombed. The explosion' occurred in the upper of the two seams. There were 750 men in the mine at the time of the *cplosion. The majority of these were' in tno lower seam, otherwise the death-list would have been much larger. As it was, jit least fifty men were killed in the upper seam and scores were terribly burned. The injured were carried to places of safety by their more fortunate companions who had not been hurt. Hastily equipped rescue parties are laboring in the pit for the relief of the buried colliers, and it is now hoped that the greater part of them may be taken out ajive. The explosion was caused by fire damp, which was ignited from the lamp of a careless miner. The scenes at the mouth of the pit are said to be heartrending—the throngs of women who crowd around the mine shrieking and wailing as the body, of a husband or brother is brought up by the rescuers. The disaster is considered to be the worst that has taken place in Wales for a number of years. The latest dispatches say that 320 men have been rescued. Seven are so fearfully burned that they may die. William Sheehan, who was convicted of having murdered his mother, his brother Thomas, and his sister Mary at Castletownroche, near Cork, Ireland, has made a full confession of his crime. He exculpates his brother-in-law, David Browne, who is under arrest..-. .A portion of the victorious hrmy of Bulgaria, on its return from the front, received an enthusiastic welcome from the citizens of Sophia. An English war correspondent states that so great is the lack of discipline among the Servian forces that the life of King Milan is constantly threatened.... The London Timex suggests as a solution of the Irish question the exclusion of the Pameliites from Parliament and the proclamation of martial law in Ireland. With these conditions the whole affair, it thinks, could be settled in three months. Bib Ambbose Shea, a native and a Catholic, has been'apppinted Governor of Newfoundland... .The Rev. Marcus Gervais Beresford. Protestant Archbishop of Armagh, Ireland, is dead. He was born in 1801.... The Pope is suffering from a kidney complaint, and has been ordered by his physicians to take a complete rest.... The Emperor William is in the best of health and spirits. He spent Christmas Day with the Crown Prince, who|gave a

family dinner.'.. .Miss Helen Gladstone, daughter 6f the -ex-Premier, and head of Girton College, Cambridge, is engnged to be married to Prof. Stewart, M. P„ Professor of Mechanics at Cambridge.... The London Daily News says editorially that an Irish Parliament, strictly limited to legislation on purely Irish questions, would be the beginning of pacification, and is the essential condition of it... .The Standard says: “Gladstone has done more for home rule iu a week than Parnell and his agents have done through years of toil.” It suggests that the Irish National movement can be,, more properly called the IrishAmerican movement.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

In joint convention of the two houses of the French National Assembly, M. Grevy was re-elected President of the Republic by 135 majority.... A circular was recently sent to all the Liberal members of the new British Parliament, asking them to state their opinions on the Irish home-rule question. The majority erf those who expressed a definite opinion are opposed to giving an Irish Parliament the control of the tariff and of the police.... The Balkan Conference will reopen at Constantinople Jan. 17. The Italian Embassador will make a motion in favor of the Bulgarian union, arid will be supported by the Russian Embassador. The Czar is about to reinstate Prince Alexander of Bulgaria to his former rank in the Russian army. Commissioner Sparks has issued regulations modifying his recent radical orders as to claims for public lands. He complains thirl criticisms of his conduct emanate from parties too deeply interested in his decisions to be fair. Mr. Sparks, in an interview, is credited with saying: If the President is not satisfied with my management of the land office, then I am much mistaken. I have not seen him for some time, as he has been busy about other things, but I know ho is-pleased with the way tae officers being run. The statement that hiy decisions have been overruled as rapidly as I made them is manufactured out of whole cloth. The Secretary of the Interior har .jjapver overruled a decision made by me, although he has sometimes suggestid changes. Complaints against me' and the management of the land office come from people who are Interested in land frauds and jobs. The complaints in the West emanate frurn editors Who are interested and from lawyers who have to get along somehow. We have a great many from there. These stories are, I believe, the work of people whose interests have been affected by my methods in running the land office, and I know that one of the articles a Western journal was written upon the office paper of a big firm here.

At a gathering in Clinch County, Ga., Christmas night, Edward Brown danced in every set from 8 o’clock until 5 next morning, was carried from the place in a weak condition, and died the following Sunday. ... .George Kirkland, of Savannah, Ga., who, on Christmas Day, -for a wager of 50 cents, drank a quart of whisky, survived three days.... Richard O. Reinhard, aged 17, cadet at the Oxford (Md.) Military Academy, was accidentally shot and killed by a fellow cadet. Deceased was a son of Judge Reinhard, of Indiana... .A negro named Aleck Reed who had murdered Miss Carrie Boyer, of Clark County, Alabama, was tied to a stake and burned to death. At Chicago 4,000 people witnessed a sixround contest with small gloves between Jack Burke, the “Irish Lad,” and Mike Cleary, of San Francisco.' Burke forced the fighting throughout, and knocked Cleary out in the third round With a terrific right-hander that landed just under the ear. * • Geobge V. Brown, recently appointed Appraiser at the port of New York, is charged by S. D. Phelps, a representative commercial man of that city, with incompetency and dishonesty. The English royal family are blessed with good appetites. They look upon four substantial meals a day as by no means an excessive allowance of food. Even at their 5 o’clock tea the waferlike bread and butter that customarily accompany the syrupy Souchong or Orange Pekoe is supplemented by beautifully cut sandwiches, pate de foie gras and other tempting delicacies, and every justice is done them by the illustrious ones without in any way “spoiling” the elaborate dinner that is to follow later on. (Charles Wood, of Lansingburg, N. Y., has received by mail, postage paid, a copy of the “Life of General Grant.” The book bears the inscription: “Byrequest of General Grant. Complimeiits of the family. F. D. G.” Mr. Wood, it will be remembered, kindly proffered pecuniary aid to General Grant at the time of his straitened circumstances, resulting from the Grant <fc Ward failure, a remembrance always peculiarly gratifying to the General.

THE MARKETS.

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A TEAR'S HISTORY.

A Chronology of the Important Events/ Political and Otherwise, of 1885. \ ‘ The Calendar Year One of Comparative Peace Throughout the Circuit of the Globe. The year 1885 haß added few political ' events of a startling nature to the annals of the world's history. It has been a year of peace, though there have been constant rumors of wars •in Europe—wars which, had they broken out, would evidently have assumed gigantic proportions and resulted in vast destruction of life and property. This very fact has no doubt caused the crowned heads of the old world to pursue a cautious policy and hesitate long before letting slip the dogs of war. The only serious disturbance of the peace of the world is on the extreme eastern confines of Europe, and that promises to bo settled without involving any of the great powers In a conflict of arms. France and China have been fighting each other at long range," inflicting very slight damage. England had a brush .with Burmah, which was “short, sharp, and decisive," the Burmese King throwing up the sponge and inglorlously surrendering to the red coats withont firing a gun. Canada’s war with the halfbreeds and Indians in the Northwest, and the change of administration at Washington by the retiring of a Republican and the inauguration of a Democratic President, constitute the chief events near home. Below will be found the record:

o JANUARY. The Slattery family formed a syndicate at Shenandoah, Pa., to prosecute claims for property worth $500,000,000 in England, Scotland, and India. St. Louis, Mo., was reported swarming with beggars ; 20,000 people out of employment. Twenty-three of the younger priests, and students of the Moscow Theological Seminary were flogged by the Archbishop of the diocese for exhibiting symptoms of rebellion. Gov. Cleveland sent his resignation to the New York Assembly on the oth, being succeeded by Lieut. Gov. Hill. Immense coal deposits, said to be the richest in the world, discovered in the vicinity of Pekin, China. Gen. Grant, in a letter to Cyrus W. Field, declined to accept the money raised to extricate him from his financial embarrassment. Presidept-elect Cleveland was notified by nearly 100 parents that as many babies were named after him, and he sent a photograph to each one. Discovery of an emerald weighing over a pound at Boyaca, Colombia. Failure of the banking house of John J. Cisco’s Sons, New York; liabilities, $2,500,000. Funeral of Hon. Schuyler Colfax, at South Bend, Ind. The mercury at Mount Washington, N. H., sank to 50 degrees below zero on Jan. 22, and a hurricane for half a day was at the rate of 100 miles an hour. A detachment of British troops, 1,500 strong, fought the hosts of El Mehdi at the WeHs of Abu Klea, in the deserts of the Soudan, and after a fierce battle the rebels were driven from the field with heavy loss. London startled by three explosions of dynamite in the Parliament House and at the Tower; the lobby of the British House of Commons blown to pieces, and the Speaker’s chair destroyed; senator Bayard introduced a resolution in the United States Senate expressing the indignation and sorrow of this country at the event. The Liberty Bell taken from Independence Hall, Philadelphia, under escort of 3UO policomen, and started for the New Orleans Exposition. Texas stockmen estimate their loss on account of the cold weather will exceed &,000,600. Russia and Germany conclude a treaty providing for extradition of assassins or abductors of royal personages, and persons guilty of illegal manufacture of explosives. Continued excitement in London over the dynamite explosions; numerous arrests made, vigilance committees proposed, and a system of espionage over persons of Irish extraction suggested. The Liberty Bell accorded a hearty reception at New Orleans, salutes being fired and shipping decorated; at Beauvoir, Miss., Jefferson Davis met the train bearing the famous relic, and made a short speech to those in attendance. Solomon Batt and Ellas Grossfeldt, educated Hebrews, renounce Judaism, and unite with the M. E. Church at Cincinnati. Ex-Gov. Moses, of South Carolina, released from prison at Dotroit, and rearrested on the charge of swindling 001. T. W. Higginson and other Bostonians. Amount of gold obtained from United States mines in 1884 ascertained to have been $31,000,000. Kansas and Missouri Legislatures adopt resolutions petitioning Congress to open Oklahoma to settlement. News received of a hardfought’battlo between Gen. Stewart’s command and the Arab rebels, in which five of El Mehdi's emirs were killed: Stewart was badly wounded and disabled for the remainder of the campaign. Mrs. Thankful Tanner, of Cleveland, brings suit against Mrs. James A. Garfield for $25,000 for injuries sustained by being run over by the latter's carriage. Thaddeus Louis Poniatowski, a grandson of King Stanislaus of Poland, found working as a cattle tender near Baltimore. The Minnesota Senate passes a bill making it a felony to attempt to increase or diminish the market price of cereals. After a dead-lock lasting twenty-two days, the lower house of the Dlinois Legislature organized by the election of Elijah M. Haines as'Speaker. A party of Oklahoma boomers numbering 150 persons dispersed by United States troops; lour of the leaders, bound over in SI,OOO eacn ; they threaten to make another raid on the coveted territory March 4.L**

FEBRUARY. Mr?. Laura De F. Gordon, of California, admitted to the bar of the United States Supreme Court at Washington —the second woman accorded that privilege. O’Donovan Itossa shot in New York by an English woman calling herself Yseult Dudley; great rejoicing in England over the news. Queen Victoria offered to contribute from her private purse to auy reward the Government decided to offer for arrest of persons guilty of dynamito outrages. During a severe windstorm the Colorado Central train from Denver to Georgetown was lllown from the track ; eighteen passengers more or less injured. Intense excitement in England caused by receipt of dispatches from General Wolsely announcing the capture of Khartoum by El Mehdi. The Union Paeiiic Koad reports its gross earnings for 1884 at $25,791,000. Reported dissensions in the Mormon Church, causing its gradual disintegration—the young Mormons trying to break away from ecclesiastical rule. Authentic reports wore.received in London that at the time of Jho fall of Khartoum the city Was on the verge of and on entering the enemy massacred about 18,000 people ; General Gordon was among the latter, and his head was cut off and carried in triumph to the Mehdi, who received it with eager satisfaction. Michael Davitt compelled to leave a. hotel at Home because English guests refused to sit at table with him. Ex-Congressmau D. J. Morrell, President Cambria Iron Company at Johnstown, Pa., sent to a lunatic asylum. The Texus House passed a bill forbidding the carrying of deadly weal one. Ti e laLar crisis in Franco causes the utmost alarm ; 3iA',(M' unemp o. ed men in Paris and 1,000,0U0 more :n toe provinces. Nati nal Independent Association organized in Loudon, one of its objects bail-g un alliance btt.iozn England und tha United btat s. The worst blizrarl known in many years prevailed on the eth and 9th throu bout the ration btjoveeu tao fct I awien o and the M'.ssour . The charge of high treason and felony was brought aga nst J. G. Cunningham and Harry Burton, a leged dynamitards. in the how Street Police Court, London. Definite iriformatiop received of the death ts Gen. Gordon and the indiscriminate slaughter of -the non-com-batants and Christians at Khartoum. Die Vatican rfustd to recognize Michael Da . its, vho desired to ir sent an and ref s justifying t. e cause cf tab Irish Na ionalists. A cotton mill established at I all River, Mass., transf r ed its machiaerv to Mexico, to manmiictu.e print goods with native labor. Never bofer. in maritime history were so many steannhipt and sailing vessels so long overdue at New York ; over 100 bound f >r that poit not spocen or heard from - that should have arrived weeks previous. Fears were expressed thatlxng Isi ul Found would be sealed up by ice. M.ss Eva Mackey, daughter of the bonanza king, married in Paris to the Italian Prince of Gaiatro,. Ferdinani Juleu Oolonna. Secretary Chandler issu dan crier prohibit ng naval officers Qom memorializing Congress. The House of Representatives, by a vote of 158 to 103 (the necessary two-thiids not being obtejnedi, defeat-id a bill placing General Grant on the letired list,-. Intense cold weather, with snow drifts, almost suspended railroad traffic throughout the West; in the Dub;:quo section the embargo was the worst reported in eightsc n years;. The Susquehanna River was frozen to the bottom at Lancaster, Pa. The Nebraska Legislature passed a bill prohibing the sole of to hoc op to minors. Final decision rendered at Washington granting money-order fees to postmasters as perquisites ; the decision adds millions to cost of maintaining the mall service. Feb, 18 the first formal ballot for Senator from Illinois was reached by the joint assembly of the Legislature ; John A. Logan received 101 votes, W. R Morrison 94, with 7\cat*e ring—lo 2 being neces, ■arv to a choice —two absentees. ' Lake Mich* igkn, opposite Milwaukee, was frozen from shqre to shore, the ice ranging from nine inches to three feet in thickness. The British Parliament

assembled on the 19th. The Niagara River was covered by an ice bridge nine miles long and extending two miles into Lake Ontario. The lower house of the Michigan Legislature killed a bill requiring the securing of licenses to marry. New York and Chicago merchants drilled their employes in street-fighting tactics, anticipating socialist outbreaks. The Washington Monument Was dedicated on the 21st. A tramp secured a place on the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Road by saving the special train of Vice President Waite from being wrecked on a broken rail. Wood-choppers .at Galion, Ohio, beheaded a corpse while at work on a hollow tree; SBOO, a pair of revolvers, and some burglars’ tools were discovered. A huge meteor, throwing off smoke and flames, and hissing loudly, passed over Victoria, B. C., and was seen to plunge into the Sea of Haro, throwing up a cloud of spray. Judge Advocate. General Bwaim was court-martialed at Washington for conduct prejudicial tq military discipline, and suspended from rank for twelve years,- with the forfeiture of half his pay. A New York telegram of Feb. 28, based on. reliable authority, stated that Gen. Grant was a very sick man, and that the fact should no longer be concealed from the country that he would not be long among the living. MARCH. President Cleveland-took the oath of office on March 4, in the presence of an assembly estimated at 150,oOO; about 25,000 people in organized bodies escorted him from the Capitol to the White House, to the music of 100 bands, and 10,000 devotees of Terpsichore danced at the inauguration ball; sixteen regiments of Pennsylvania militia, headed by ex-Gov. Hartranft, bore off the honors of the parade. Almost the last act of Congress was the passage of a bill putting tho name of U. 9. Grant on the retired list, with the rank of General; President Cleveland’s first official act was the commissioning of his Cabinet; his second was the signing of the commission of U. S. Grant as a General on the retired list. The Chinese Government ordered home all its subjects studying in French schools. Andrew Carnegie, the Scotch millionaire of Pittsburgh, was blackballed when nominated for membership in the Reform Club of London. President Cleveland Issued a proclamation forbidding the invasion of trespassers upon Oklahoma, and ordering all unauthorized possessors of land to withdraw. The Supreme Court of lowa decided unanimously that the prohibitory law is constitutional In every particular. The Delaware River was frozen over at Easton, Pa. On March 22 the Bignal-service observer on Mount Washington, N. H., reported a gale of 100 to 140 miles an hour and a temperature of 48 degrees below zero. On the 26th, Queen Victoria called out 53,000 reserves of the regular army and 140,000 militia for permanent service. Map Crozior, of the Dominion frontier mounted police, with a force of 100, encountered several hundred rebels commanded by Louis Riel at Duck Lake, Manitoba, and after a hard fight Crozier was defeated, with 12 killed and 11 wounded. The anniversary of Ponce de Leon’s landing at,St. Augustine, Fla., in 1512, was celebrated with elaborate ceremonies at that place March 28.

APRIL. Mahlon Van Horn, of Newport, R. 1., who was chosen as a member of the General Assembly of that State at the election on April I, was the first colored man ever elected to that body. On the Bth, the Prince and Princess of Wales and their eldest son, Prince Albert Victor, arrived in Dublin, being the first members of the royal family to visit Ireland for many years; they received a eordial welcome, particularly the Princess, who was arrayed in green, velvet. Infprmation was received “at the Russian War Office that Penjdeh, in the disputed Afghan territory, was occupied by Russian troops on the 2d inst. The New York Presbytery decided to retire Rev. Dr. Burehard, of “Rum, Romaajsm, and Rebellion" fame, on a pension -of SSOO. A snow-storm was general throughout Illinois and Wisconsin on the 14th,’ the snow drifting badly in many places ; snow fell also in Michigan and Northern Indiana. Orson P. Arnold, a leading Mormon of Salt Lake City, guilty to unlawful cohabitation and was fined $300; he promised to obey the.laws and abandon polygamy. The twentieth anniversary of the death of Abraham Lincoln (April 15) was marked by memorial services at the Capitol at Springfield, HI. Veterans of the Texan army of 1836 met at Sherman April 21, and celebrated the forty-ninth anniugrsary of the battle of San Jacinto, by which Texas established her Independence. The Ohio Legislature passed an act requiring all executions in that State to take place within the walls of the Senitentiary. Margaret Coleman died at Bonus, LI., having fasted forty-five days, for five days preceding her death refraining from partaking of water. The 321st anniversary of the birthday of Shakspeare (April 23) was celebrated with much ceremony at Stratford-on-Avon.

MAY. The resignation of, U. S. Treasurer A. U. Wyman made it necessary to count all cash and securities in the public vaults at Washington, a task of great magnitude; on the Ist Inst., 100 clerks began the work, and consumed about three weeks in accomplishing it. James R. Osgood &* Co., well-known Boston publishers, failed: liabilities, between $150,000 and $200,000. Capt. Lord, of the steamer Critic, which arrived at New York on the 14th, reported encountering miles of solid ice, with numerous bergs 200 to 800 feet high. Prof Odium leaped from the Brooklyn bridge, 135 feet to the river beneath, and was killed. In the Illinois Legislature, on the 19th instil, Gen. John A. Logan was elected United States Senator on the 120th ballot, thus ending a memorable contest of four months’ duration. Tbe British evacuation of the Soudan commenced on the 21st day of May. The bill to restore the death penalty failed in the Michigan Senate. Propeller lines running from Chicago to Buffalo offered to carry wheat at one cent a bushel, the lowest prico.e.ver known. On the 24th Illst., Queen Vic. toria’s sixty-sixth birthday was celebrated in an elaborate manner; but nine of the fifty-five sovereigns who have preceded her on the British throne have attained an equal age. By direction of Gen. Terry, Gabriel Dumont, Beil’s lieutenant, was released at Fort Assinaboine, Montana. The Brazilian Government adopted a programme for the abolition of slavery. A dispatch from Now Noxico stated that “no Indian raid for the last ten years equaled the present outbreak for cruelty7s whites were known to have been murdered ; women were outraged and their bodies pinned to the earth by wedges driven through them into the ground : men were terribly mutilated, and one little girl was hung up alive by a meat hook stuck in the back of her head. Louis Reauine, a Fronch-Canodian, became a raving maniac on a Wabash train from the West for Chicago, and on reaching-that city killed Officer B irrett and badly wounded Lieut. Laughlin, who were waiting at the depot lo receive him; the manioc received three shoiS in the back. JUNE. James McCann, of the Herald, defeated Ira Somers, of the World, in a type-setting contest at ’ New York; the lormer piled up 6,342 ems of solid rninitn in throe hours, the latter 0,042. at several placos in Maine June 10, An Ergiih insurance company Bent iLSTUCt.ons to a St. Louis agent to investigate tie Maxwell-Preller murder at the Southeru Hotel iu March, the company stating tbeir belief tbat the boly found in the trunk was a medical "subjectthat Preller, before leaving England, had his life heavily insured : that his relatives were anxious to get the money; and that Preller was still alive. JULY. Tho anniversary of the fell of the Bastile (July 14*, was celebrated at Paris as a general holiday. The Nia'ora Falls’Park was formally dedicated to the public on the i:th July, with appropriati ceremonies. John Itooch, the shipbuilt or, mads tn assignment, with preferred cla.ms i mo mt ng to $122,000. Princess Beatrice, vouugt st daughter of Queen Victoria, was marH d July 23, 10 Prince Henry of Eu.it nIu g. Appalling news from Spain; mortality from the dreadful scourge of ehol<ra averaged 1,000 daily iu the kingdom. Sixty Russian criminals, while en route to Siberia, made a break fpr liberty; twenty-three were killed by the soldiers, and thirty of the survival's made good their escape. In the British House of Commons a petition a mile and a half long, and containing 500,000 signatures, was presented, urging the passage of a law for the protection of young girls. A monument to the memory of Rebecca Nurse, who was hanged at Salem for witchcraft, July 19, 1682 ( was dedicated at Danvers, Mass: The famous mare, Maud 8., wiped out all previous records by trotting a mile at’Clovcland, Ohio, in 2:08%. AUGUST,. Miss Adrianha Physick, a gray-haired woman of 60, who was once a reigning belle of Philadelphia, was released from an insane asylum in that citv, where she had been incarcerated for twenty-seven years as “extravagant’’ and “eccentric she was In full possession of her faculties, and. it is claimed, had never been otherwise. Within twelve hours three brothers named Truby met violent deaths at or near Marta’s Valley, Pa; one fell into a cattle guard and broke his neck, another was drowned in a quar-ry-pit, aud the third was suffocated in a grainbin. The Oklahoma “boomers" broke up camp and dispersed. The steamship Etruria made the run from Queenstown to New York in six days five hours and thirty-one minutes; this is the fastest time on record. SEPTEMBER. A colored woman named Ellen Johnson, 112 years old, who was sold as a slave to New Orleans parties fifty years ago, arrived at her daughter’s home in Louisville ; the daughter was ik) years of age, and her roof sheltered representatives of five generations. The first race between the vachts Puritan and Genesta, for the cup won in' 1851 by the America, which was sailed on the 14th iust., over what is known as tho inside course of the New York Yacht Clqb; a length of thirty-eight miles, was wop by the former in 61)1:3u; the English cutter was beaten a little more than a mile: in the second race of

the series, frver. a fifty-mile coarse, the Puritan won by 1 minute 38 seconds; the Genesta led for three-fourths of the distance, and at one time was 8 minutes 6 seconds ahead. Jumbo, the enormous elephant, was run down and killed by A. train of cars at St. Thomas. Cnt., while bourfling a car. The seventeenth annual reunion-Of the Soeieiy of the Army of the Cumberland was held at Grand Rapids, Mich., Gen. Sheridsn presiding. A hailstorm, some of the stones being ten inches in circumference, devastated the country south of Granite Falls, Minn., on the 16th; drifts of hail three leet in depth were found. Thirty thousand Poles were expelled irorn Posen, Prussia, and in retaliation the Russian Government began the expulsion of Germans from Poland. The Governor General of Eastern Roumalia was deposed by the populace of the capital city, Philippopolis, who proclaimed a union with Bulgaria and established a provisional government. At Pittsburgh, the Coroner held an inquest on a piece of bono one inch long, all that was left of the body of John Osterineir, a lad of 14; the unfortunate boy was engaged feeding rock to a crusher, fell in, and was ground to atoms. The famous trotter, Goldsmith Maid, ended her career on a stock farm near Trenton, N. J., at the age of 29 years; she had trotted in 132 races, winning 92. her earnings being nearly S24O,HOC*. On the 23d inst., three inches of snow fell In the Derby Line (Vt.) section. OCTOBER. Ths work of demolishing Flood Rock, in New York harbor, was successfully accomplished on the 20th inst.; nine acres of solid rock were tunneled ; nearly 300,00 J pounds of dynamite were consumed in the explosion, and the Bhock was felt over the entire area of Manhattan Island. Everett J. Waring, an intelligent mulatto, was admitted to the ba/ in Baltimore, the first colored man ever authorized to practice law in Maryland. Te deums were sung in Madrid, Spain, on the 15th inst., as a token of thanksgiving for the disappearance of the cholera; the dread scourge caused over 100,000 deaths during its prevalence. Nearly a foot of snow fell in the Ishpeming (Mich.) district on the 20th; trains were blockaded. Lannie McAffeo made a run of 6,004 points in a three-ball game of billiards at Yankton, Dakota. Jacob Kauffman, a musician of Denver, became demented, divested himself of his clothing on a prairie, and crawled back and forth through a barbed-wire fehce until death came to his release; his flesh was found hanging in shreds. Mrs. General Grant wrote a letter to Mayor Grace of New York, saying that Riverside Park had been selected as the General’s burying place by his family, because of the agreement that she should ultimately be interred beside him, and that no change was contemplated. A crazy Corsican named Mattei attempted to assassinate M; De Freycinet. French Minister of Foreign Affairs, in the Btreets Of Paris, but failed. NOVEMBER. The purchase of the steamer Dolphin from the assignee of John Roach, was consummated by Secretary Whitney. The Andre monument, which Cyrus W. Field had erected on the Hudson River at Tappan, N. Y., was blown up by dynamiters. Ferdinand Ward was put at work shoveling ashes from under the engine boilers at Sing Sing Prison. Subscriptions to the Grant monument fund in New York were received from Paris, Amsterdam and Hamburg. Roach’s great ship-yard at Chester,.Pa., resumed work on the 9th, under the management of the United States Naval Department. The “Three Americas’"Exposition of Art and Industry opened at New Orleans on the 10th, to continue through the winter. On his Polo Alto ranch, near Menlo Park, Cal., Senator Stanford proposed to establish a great university, which he is to endow to tho extent of $20,000,000. Tho managers of a charity fair at Reading, Pa., created a sensation by refusing to let Hebrew women participate. Lewis Riel, the leader of the rebellion in the Northwest Territory, was hanged at Regina, tho capital, on the 17th; in his last moments he displayed a decent fortitude which had nothing of bravado about it. Earthquakes were reported In the Pacific Ocean along the California coast, similar to those which preceded the great upheaval in the island of Java several years ago. A jury at Sparta, Ga., sustained the will of David Dickson, leaving $500,000 to his colored mistress and child, and disinheriting his heirs. L. B. Joneß was fined one cent and imprisoned one hour at Richmond, Va., for sending a. .challenge to fight a duel. Thomas A. Doyle was for the seventeenth time elected Mayor of Providence, R. I.; the Republicans threw him overboard, but tho Democrats mode him their candidate, and carried him through. Gen. Javanovitch, commanding a division of the Servian army, was dismissed for disobedience, and suicided with a revolver.

DECEMBER. Lima, Peru, igas surrendered to Gen. Caceres, who appointed Eusebio Sanchez provisional Governor, In the far East, King Theebaw, of Burmah, surrendered to Gen. the British Empire thus gaining control of about 180,000 square miles of territory at very small cost. A physician who attended Vice President Hendricks for many years stated that death was caused by a clot of blood reaching the brain. Subscriptions to the Grant monument fund at New York, up to the 3d inst., amount to about $105,000. A storm on Lake Michigan on the 4th caused the lake at Chicago to rise eight feet above the ordinary line. A. J. Cassatt, of the Pennsylvania Road, purchased the English racer Tristan; Americans are said to be rapidly acquiring the best horses in Great Britain. The ceremony of christening the steel cruiser Chicago (launched at Chester, Pa.) was performed by Miss Edith Cleburne, of Philadelphia, who broke a bottle of v wine over tho bow, and liberated a canary, an Irish linnet and an oriole. Reports were abroad in London that the Rev. Mr. Spurgeon hail permanently broken down from heart diseaso. A shower of young smalts, each half an inch indength, fell at Cumberland, Maine, for a radius of a mile, Mr. Tbomas P. O’Connor, Mr. Parnell’s political lieutenant, declared in an interview that what is sought for Ireland is a government similar In character to that of Canada. The funeral of Herr Strassman, President of the municipal council of Berlin, a leading Hebrew, was made the occasion to rebuke Jew-baiters ; the (Emperor sent handsome wreaths of flowers to the funeral, and the car was followed by thirty thousand persons. The funeral of Louis Riel took place at St. Boniface, Manitoba, on tho 12th, with seven hundred halfbreeds in attendance, eight of whom bore the remains on their shoulders for six miles. Benjamin Louth, Sr., of Pittsburgh, the inventor of a process for turning old steel rails into nail plate.sold his right to a syndicate for S3OO per day for the next sixteen years. For a purse of SI,OOO, at New York, Joseph McCann defeated W. C. Barnes in a type-setting contest; in four hours McCann set 8,062)6 ems, Barnes’ string measuring 7,951; the typo was solid minion. De Lessops, the famous civil engineer and canal builder, over eighty years of age, was presented by his young wife with another daughter. Rumors of political combinations iu Great Britain pointing to tho concession of home rule to the Irish. The bill giving Mrs. Gen. Grant a pension of $5,090 a year passed both houses of Congress. < "

The Wealth of the Rothschilds.

The combined capital of the great firm of the Rothschilds is estimated by persons pretending to know (although nobody but themselves can really know anything about it), at no less a sum than $1,000,000,000, fully one-half of which has been gained within twentyfive years. Their opportunities for making money, which are almost unlimited, are perpetually improved, s Their credit being of the highest, they might continue their immense banking business infinitely with little or ho capital. It is hardly more than a hundred years since the founder of the family and its fortunes, Mayer Anselm, of very poor Jewish parentage, was a humble clerk in a Hanover countinghouse. He afterward established himself as a banker in Frankfort. The discreet investment of $5,000,000 of silver, deposited with him in JiOfi by the Elector William, on the invasion -of his territory by the French, was the sonyoe of the enormous wealth of the firm. It was deposited without interest, but Rothschild paid interest regularly, fifid returned the capital to the Elector’s son seventeen years later. The Rothschilds have never been so rich as now, but they have nothing like the power they once had, probably because the capital of the world has so rapidly increased. It used to be said that kings could not go to war without their consent. Those days have forever passed.—A ew York Commercial Advertiser. "Well, this is a new wrinkle,” said « the pork-packer when they raised his pew-rent. “Gospel going tip and pork coming down." „ One of the hardest things for, a woman to do is to maintain economical notions while looking into a milliner’s window. -