Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1886 — Page 2

The Republican. RENSSELAER. INDIANA. O. R MARSHALL, V PvßUKmtn.

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

: T»S M«T. The tte of natural gnu in the factories at Pittsburgh has thrown out of work about five thousand coal miners in that district ... Ex-Aiderman Waite, of New York, requested a commitment to the house of detention as a witness against the indicted aidermen. He had been so annoved by the public that he preferred to be locked up. He waa accommodated... In the trial of the seventeen Bohemian boycotters of Mrs. Landgraf, the New York baker, the jury brought in a verdict of guilty against six of them. Four of the prisoners were sentenced to ten days’ imprisonment and two of the most violent ones to thirty days, r The report that Jay Gould has been a loser to the tune of some S6,(KK),WX) in “Wabash" will posMbly be far from exciting profound sympathy in the breast of the great public. A few of those who regard themselves as his victims may even manifest an unchristian joy at the' thought that their loss is not his eternal gain... .Charles Marsh, the Boston dry-goods merchant, died from a stroke of paralysis, in his fiftyseventh year. Hi* estate is estimated nt *10,000,000, including life insurance for *250,000. A forest fire near Lancaster, N. H,, destroyed property to the value of $75,000. ....Henry Kirke Brown, the sculptor, died last week at his home in Newburg, N. ¥., aged seventy-two Carlisle D. Graham, of Buffalo, went through the whirlpool at Niagara in an oak barrel seven feet long, ballasted with cast-iron and a sandbag. He made the trip from the Cantalever bridge to Lewiston, seven miles, in half an hour. On reaching the whirlpool he opened the manhole and put out his hand, but concluded to be swept along until picked up by a boat.

THE WEST.

The swamp land in the southeastern part of Allen County, Indiana, is to be reclaimed by the Little River ditch of forty-four miles. The contract was let for $137,000. bids having been received from all parts of the country... .The motion to dismiss the case against the anarchists charged with unlawful assembly and indorsing the action of their Chicago brethren during the Haymarket riot was argued in die Court of Criminal Correction at St. Louis. Judge Noonan sustained the motion, holding that there was nothing to show that the alleged unlawful resolutions, as offered, were adopted... Seven men who were boycotting a bakery at Cincinnati have been held to the Grand Jury in SI,OOO bonds each on a charge of blackmail... The motion for a new trial in the case of Brooks, alias Maxwell, who killed Preller, was overruled at St. Louis. .... A forest fire reached alid destroyed Romeo, Wis., reducing to ashes saw and planing mills, 5,000,000 feet of lumber, a boarding-house, and dwellings. The loss is $150,000, with $50,000 insurance. Mrs. Theresa Turpin, who lived near Princeton. Indiana, cut the throat of her 7-year-old daughter, hanged her baby daughter, and then went' to the barn and hanged herself. The youngest child is still living. The woman left a note stating that the devil had been after her, and she

couldn’t get away from him. “ The safe in the postoffice at Minneapolis was drilled by burglars, who took SIOO in currency and SIB,OOO worth of stamps. The mail-cartier’s horse and a mercantile delivery wagon were seized by the thieves to carry their booty to St. Paul.... A terrific electric and wind storm, with torrents of rain and hail, swept across McLean Count?, 111. It was a genuine cyclone, the funnel-, shaped, gyrating cloud, and the green sky peculiar to twisters being present... .The populace were thoroughly frightened, and many rushed out into the street in the rain. Hundreds of trees were wrecked and blown into the street and across the street car tracks. Tin roofs were stripped from buildings and small buildings demolished. A peculiar turtle, with neck and tail eight inches long, and the head of a snapper, fell into the street from a cloud. During the progress of a game of baseball at Cincinnati, on Sunday last, bet ween the home team and the Brooklyn club, some decisions of Umpire Bradley angered the crowd and it went wild. Some one hurled a beer glass at the umpire and a dozen more followed, one of which struck Bradley on the foot. A- fight broke out in the west pavilion and Bob Clark, one of the Brooklyn players, seeing some of his friends in the fight, seized a bat and climbed into the stand to take part in the affray. He was soon pnt back in the field, Mid "the fight stopped. Meanwhile two or three thousand people poured into the field from the \ stand.., threatening the umpire and the Brooklyn players, and the private policeman had all he could do to protect them from the howling mob. Bradley escaped by fleeing to the directors’ room, where he remained for fifteen minutes. After the disturbance in the pavilion had been quelled the crowd slowly left,the field, and play was resumed without further incident In the crush in the grand-stand a number of benches were broken and the reporters’ stand was demolished, but nobody was hurt.

Over thirty thousand people attended the three base-ball contests in Chicago last week, between the present chjrmpiops and the famous Detroit team. AH three games were won by the Chicago club fey the respective scores of 9 to 4. 8 to 2, aiid 3to 1. In the three games the Chieages made 26 base-hits, with a total of 47; the Detroits 19 hits, with a total of 22; the Chicago* made 11 errors, the Detroits 15; the Chicago pitchers struck out 19 men, the Detroit pitchers 11,

THE SOUTH.

The people of Shackelford County, Texas, are said to fee in a starving condition from the almost total failure of crops, and cattle are rapidly perishing. No rain has fallen for fourteen months. The settlers in that region were mainly from the Northern States... .Paul H. the poet, died last week at Augusta, Georgia. In the County Court at Palestine, Texas, six of the late railroad strikers were acquitted of unlawfully assembling aad rioting, and the County Attorney nolle pressed twenty other cases. The parties acquitted, and some of the others, have ■charges pending against them in the District Court for killing an engineer and obetrueting Eighty Arkansas convicts at work in a krickyard.near Pine Bluff, made a dash for liberty, and three of them were killed by the guards.... Sidney Davis, colored, was lynched at Mergan. Texas, for outraging a

white woman.... Austin (Texas) special; “The bedple of Wise County, Texas, petitioned Governor Ireland to call an extra session of the legislature to proride relief for the people in the drought-stricken sections of the State. Thousands of acres of school lands have been sold to soldiers in the drought district. The settlers have come here from Northern and Eastern States. They have made first paymant# pn the(r ond payn7ents” duirmg August or lose their land aftd what they have already paid. Crops are utter failures. These new settlers have not raised even enough for next year’s seeding. Many of the beads of families have just left for the East in search of work to earn enough money to make the August payment on their homes.”

WASHINGTON.

Lieut. Grkf.LY’h friends, says a Washington special, Were disappointed by the President's nomination of Cant.TheodoreW. Schwan of the Eleventh Infantry to lie an assistant adjutant general in the army, vice Benjamin. This was the place thatGreely's friends hod been trying to get for him. Schwan is a very meritorious officer, who entered the service in 1857 from Germany as a private soldier. Ho was a sergeant when the war broke ont, and was- gradually promoted for gallant conduct until, at the close of the war he was a brevet Major. He has been in active service on the plains ever since the war. He had no social or political influence and was selected by the President purely on merit. Schwan is probably the only man,. except Adjutant General Drum himself, who has risen from the ranks to a place in thfevorps of the regular army.

Duncan C. Ross, the ex-wrestler and athlete, and Sergeant Walsh fought a tournament at Washington, with cavalry sabers, on horseback. Un to the end of the eighth bout the Sergeant had the best of it, he having made five points to three for Ross. That his opponent had received all the applause appeared to anger Ross, and in the ninth bout, while Walsh’s horse, which was growing restive and unmanageable, was backing away, the Captain struck Walsh a terrible blow across the shoulders, which made him reel in his saddle, and, as he whirled half aronnd, Ross struck him in the back. Walsh’s horse, which Was still backing, reared and fell, Carrying his rider with him. Ross, heedless of the signal of recall which had been given, rode down upon Walsh as if to strike again, when an excited bystander drew a pistol and threatened to shoot him. A policeman ran forward through the crowd and dragged Hoss from his horse and arrested him... .William H. Cole, Representative in Congress from the Third Maryland District, died last week in Washington. The Postmaster General has amended the postal laws so as to permit the transmission through the mails of non-explo-sive and non-inflammable liquids, soft soap, pastes or confections, ointments, salves, and articles of similar consistency, under certain conditions insuring safety to other mail matter in transmission.

POLITICAL.

The Connecticut State Prohibition Convention will be held in Hartford July 28 to nominate a Governor and other State officers.. ..The Sixth Illinois District Republicans renominated Congressman Hitt at Freeport without opposition.... John A. Donnell, of Sigourney, lowa, was nominated for Congress at Newton on the 112th ballot, by the Republicans of the Sixth lowa District.. . The result of the primary eleclion held in Georgia insures the nomination of Gen. Gordon for Governor. The Democratic convention meets on July 28 in Atlanta. The President has approved the act to forfeit the lands granted the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad Company, and to restore the same to settlement... .The Republican State Central Committee of Missouri accepted the resignation of Chauncey I. Filley as Chairman and elected General D. P. Grier to the vacancy... .The Prohibitionists of Minnesota, in convention'at St. Paul, nominated J. E. Childs for Governor and J. Finkham for Lieutenant Governor. Ohio Republican editors, at a meeting in Columbus, adopted an address reviewing the election of Henry B. Payne to the United State Senate and asking that body to reconsider its action in refusing to investigate the same.. .The Republicans of Kansas, in convention at Topeka, renominated Governor Martin, Lieutenant Governor A. P. Reddle and Secretary of State E. B. Allen. D. M. Valentine was nominated for Judge of the Eleventh District. The platform indorses a protective tariff and prohibition, and expresses sympathy with the Irish home-rule movement. Senator Hoar denies the published statement that Senator Logan requested that the votes of the members of the Elections Committees on the question of investigating the Payne election should be kept secret.!.. .The Democratic Congressional convention of the Seventh district of Texas unaniniousiy renominated Hon. William H. Crain for Congress. President Cleveland s policy was indorsed.

INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

There are at present 310 blast furnaces, with a capacity of 121,650 tons of pig-iron, in operation, and 335, with a Capacity of 68,015 tons, out of blast. While, the demand is restricted, and stocks at the furnaces have been increasing since March, the weekly production of pig-iron is reported greater than ever before. The employes of all the blast furnaces to the Pittsburgh district have decided to demand an advance in wages of twenty per cent .... The International Bimetallist League, at a ’ueeting held in Cincinnati, passed resolutions asking that the coinage of silver dollars be suspended until concurt rent action can be taken by the great' commercial nations, as the Bland law has proved a failure. Returns to the Department of Agriculture for- July show the com crop of the West in medium to high condition, the prospect growing better from Ohio to Kansas. .. .The clearing-house returns show an increase, and business through . the country seems well sustained. There has been a falling off in the number of failures as compared with last year, and the record of the past six months has been the best that has been shown since 1882. Railroad earnings give evidence of the general pros peri tv of the country.

GENERAL.

“The wool market continues to boom,” says a Chicago dispatch. “The latest news from the East is to the effect that dealers there are following in the lek<’ established for them by Chicago, and that the legitimate demand by manufacturers is supplemented by speculative purchases. The manufacturers are now buying a’ if satisfied that the higher prices have come to stay, and are insisting upon correspondingly higher figures for the product of their mills. London continues to send advices which favor

I a further improvement on this ride of the {Atlantic. Eastern buyers are reported to ; have gone out in force as ter West as Montana. where shearing is now in progreupn- ; tending to pick up the product as soon as it . is ready to ship awhy. I Dwight L. Moody has opened a sum* mer sAool for the sjtndyMihe Bible -Dr. Gatling will soon exhibit id Washington a gun specially devised for the suppression of riots. Its weight will be fifty pounds, and it will be capable of firing one : thousand shots per minute, The intention I is to place the weapon on police patrol wagons.. j£ '’. , j ( . The half-breeds now in the penitentiary for taking part in the uprising in Northwest Territory are to be pardoned. Business failures for the week number 179, against 157 the previous week. In its weekly summary of the business outldok, Bradstreet’s remarks: is a conspicuous absence of labor troubles throughout the country, and leading textile and metal industries are busily employed. Mercantile collections have notably improved at nearly all the distributing centers. The demand for fund’ is active at New Orleans and Boston, where money has been tight and interest rates higher, and fe fnereasing at Philadelphia and St. Louis. The supply exceeds the demand at Chicago and Kansas City.. But the visible signs of the reixrrted improvement are found in the hardening tendency in grain, pork, lard, wool, cotton, brown and bleached cottons, and print cloths. Iron and steel are firm, and, while not higher, are not likely to go lower. In fact, there is some gain to the toneof the market. Higher prices for wheat were based largely on reported damage to the spring wheat crop by drought. Chicago operators magnified i the damage, and, with others, unduly ad- ’ vonced quotations. Heavy reductions in stocks of wheat here and abroad and less favorable crop prospects abroad helped the advance. Corn sympathized. Oats were higher on poor crop prospects. Pork and lard nave lost some of their advance on sjieculative sales undercover of the advance in grain. Raw cotton is cent higher on better demand and unfavorable crop re]K>rtH In the South Atlantic States. Wool remains firm at previous advances, and manufacturers are buying more freely. Higher prices for new makes of brown and bleached shirtings and sheetings and for print cloths characterize the firm tone and confidence in the dry-goods trade,

Miguel Chacon, a Cuban negro, was hanged in New York for killing his paramour while trying to murder her husband. Sam Archer was also executed at Shoals, Ind., thus ending the career of the fifth of a gang of desperadoes who had been guilty of many crimes.... Fifty-five railroads earned during June $19,908,863, an increase over the name month in 1885 of $2,133,998. The Union Pacific is about to put an express train on to run from Omaha to San Francisco in sixty hours or less. (“The commission appointed to examine the claims of settlers on account of losses incurred through the Northwest rebellion will award about $670,000.

FOREIGN.

In the British elections, up to Wednesday, the 7th inst., the Tories had made net gain of thirteen seats, and had elected 184 candidates, the Unionists had elected 41, the Gladstonians 83, and the Parnellites 34. George J. Goschen, one of the bitterest opponents of Mr. Gladstone, was defeated in the East Division of Edinburgh by a majority of 1,339. Sir Charles Dilke was defeated at Chelsea by a Conservative. C. E.. Lewis, Conservative, was re-elected at Londonderry over Justin McCarthy, Parnellite. John Morley, Chief Secretary for Ireland, was re-elected from Newcastle-upon-Tyne by a vote of 10,681. The British and Colonial Chamber of Commerce passed, by a vote of 28 to 15, amid great excitement, a resolution declaring that the remonetization of silver would relieve the depression under which trade is now staggering. The meeting is regarded as highly important, and its influence upon the coming silver demonstration in Lancashire must necessarily be very strong. ...“The new Parliament will meet Aug. 5,” says a London dispatch. “The Wesleyan ministers throughout the country are signing an address expressing sympathy with Mr. Gladstone and the hope that he will be spared to give such selfgovernment to Ireland as will satisfy the claims of justice and hasten the reign of peace and good-wi11.”... .Fresh complications are reported over the Afghan frontier question, the Russians now claiming Khamiab, which is alleged to have been an Afghan possession for thirty-five years.... Rioting broke out during the polling in Cardiff, Wales. The police charged the crowd and wounded over one hundred persons? twenty"of them seriously... .The Turkish Minister of Marine gave a gland dinner, at Constantinople, to Minister Cox and the officers and men of the Keirsarge. .... Prince Lhitpold, regent of Bavaria, has written a letter -to Emperor William expressing his loyalty to the German Empire. The annual report of the Suez Canal Company, which was presented at the recent meeting, contains the following foottogs: Receipts for the year, $13,009,989; expenses, $6,204,235; and 6,335,753 tons transported. The profit of $6,80’5,754, or considerably more than 50 per cent, of the total receipts, is a veiy good thing for the shareholders... .The Board of Guardians at Mifchellstown, Ireland, has petitioned the Lord Lieutenant to stay evictions until November, on account of the prospects of a splendid harvest. A cable dispatch from London says that the near friends of Gladstone are believing that he intends to resign on the assembling of Parliament, in which event Salisbury’s friends think he will be sent for by the Queen and asked to form a Cabinet. Trevelyan, who resigned from the Cabinet with 6 Chamberlain to oppose Gladstone s Irish policy, was defeated for re-election. Timothy Healey, the Parnell candidate, was beaten in South Londonderry. Captain Ker (Tory) was elected from East Down, and Saunderson from Armagh, both over Parnellites. Loyd Hartington was re-elected, and the total returns up to the 12th inst showed the following results: Conservatives, 289; Unionists, 63; Gladstonians, 149; and Parnellites, 72. Another cablegram states that “Lord Salisbury has made overtures to Lord Hartington for the formation of a coalition ministry, whose programme shall include a local-government bill for Ireland, Scotland, and England: a laborers’ allotment bill, empowering rural laborers to acquire small holdings; reform and extension of the artisans’ dwellings act, including dwellings of farm laborers; a measure for the cheaper transfer of lands, and the appointment of a select committee to inquire Into the administration of ttie government of India,’with the view of giving the natives increased local control. If Lord Hartington consents to the formation of a coalition ministry the cabinet will include Mr. Goschen, Sir and the Duke of Argyll, but not Mr. Chamberlain..” , The ravages of cholera in Rome is growing worse daily. New cases by the hundred are being reported... .The Pope has ordered the examination of the whole Irish question, in order to determine the course to be pursued by the Irish clergy in certain contingeneies....A letter from Hocerad, Bohemia, gives details of the catastrophe Which recently happened at that place,

and which resulted in the drowning of nearly fifty people. The correspondent says that ’seventy boys and girls of the neighborhood, while on their way to bo confirmed by the Bishop of the district; had embarked in a small ffrrvbaai to rvaeh the Opposite shofe. The river had been Swollen by hfeavy rains, and when the middle was reached the boat began to rock. Several of the occupants, including the boatmen, jumped into the river to lighten it and the jolt caused the eraft to upset, throwing every soul into the water. About twenty-five managed to save themselves by swimming, but the remaining forty-five were drowned.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Mbs. Caroline Benedict, aged sixty years, died at Mottville, N. Y., after living fifty-three consecutive days without food save a part of a cup of weak tea and a few teaspoonfnls of whisky daily.... Rear Admiral Reed Worden died at Newport, R. 1., last Week. He was born in Pennsylvania I in 1818, and was appointed to the navy ' from Ohio in 1834. He commanded a ; party of seamen at the capture of Tuspan, Mexico, and served valiantly in the war of 1861, assisting at the capture of Roanoke Island and Newbern. In 1864 and ’65 he was Fleet Captain of the East Gulf blockading squadron, and blockaded the rebel ram Stonewall Jackson in the port of Havana, West Indies, until she surrendered to the Spanish Government. He was commissioned a Captain July 25, 1866; served in the Mare Island Navy Yard from 1868 to 1871; commissioned a Commodore April 27, 1871; comnrmded the naval station at New London from 1872 to 1874; was commissioned a Rear Admiral in February, 1875, commanding in the South Pacific station until 1876, and retired/from service March 27, 1877. Prof. Dodge, the Statistician of the Agricultural Department at Washington, says, concerning the various estimates made from his last report on the wheat crop that, though the average condition of spring wheat on July 1, 1885, was 96, it fell to 86 at the time of harvest, which

is only three points higher than the present condition, and represents a loss of less than 6,000,(H)ff busnels as compared with the result of last year's harvest- The damage occurred last year in the last two weeks of July and later. There is great risk of further damage during July and August, but that already reported means only a loss of 6,000,000 bushels in spring wheat and 5,000,000 in winter wheat, or a total loss of 11,000,000 in wheat during the month of June. The New York Commercial Bulletin estimates the loss by fire in the United States and Canada, between Jan. 1 and June 30, at $53,900,000, or $3,000,000 in excess of the losses during the same period of last year. There were 999 fires whose reported losses were between SIO,OOO and $1,000,000, and 82 fires whose, aggregate loss exceeded $21,500,000, or 40 per cent, of the entire waste of the half year.... The visible supply of wheat and corn is, respectively, 28,567,844 and 9,180,788 bushels. Since last report wheat increased 372,466 bushels, while corn decreased 8,069 bushels... .Colonel Gilder, a representative of the New Xork Herald, has left on his expedition to the North Pole.

A bill authorizing the construction of a bridge across the St. Louis River, between the States of Minnesota and Wisconsin, was favorably reported in the. Senate on the 12th inst. The Senate passed the House bill granting pensions to the soldiers and sailors of the Mexican war. In considering the river and harbor bill the Senate adopted an item Of S300,')00 for the Hennepin Canal. A bill was introduced in the Senate and referred to stop all payments of public money to Janies B. Eads, his associates, or assigns, for past, present, or future work at the mouth of tho Mississippi River until further ordered by Congress. The railroad-attorney bill was reported to the Senate materially amended. No Congressman, according to its provisions, shall act as the legal representative of any corporation whose interests are or may become the subject of Congressional legislation. A bill to reimburse Jean Louis Legare for services rendered and money expended in bringing to the United States and procuring the surrender of Sitting Bull and a number of his followers was laid before the House. The claim is for 813,412, and is indorsed by Maj. Brotherton, the United States officer who received the surrender. A bill appropriating 810,000 for the erection of a monument to mark the birthplace of Abraham Lincoln, near Hodgesvillo, Ky., was introduced in the House by Mr. itobertson, a Democratic Representative from that State. The Senate amendment to the legislative appropriation bill, Increasing from $4,000 to $5,000 the salaries of the. Commissioners of Pensions and Patents. was concurred in by the House. Mr. Lovering, of Massachusetts, introduced a bill in the House to abolish the importation of Italian or other slaves or laborer#under contract and held to involuntary servitude into the United States. Mr. Voorhees (W. T.) reported to the House from the Committee on Public Lands a bill permitting all persons who have lost homestead rights to make new entries. It was referred to the committee of the whole. The House agreed to the recommendation of the Committee on Appropriations that the evidence in the Fitz John Porter trial and the report thereon by Judce Holt to President Lincoln be printed in the Rebellion Record. Mr. Wheeler, of Alabama, introduced in the House a resolution to the effect that Congress should not adjourn until it had enacted a law appropriating a portion ed the Treasury surplus to assist the States in the work of education.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Beeves $4 25 @5.75 Hogs 500 @5.75 Wheat—No. 1 White ‘ .8.9 @ .91 Na 2 Red 88 @ .89 Corn—No. 2.......47 @ .49 ,Oats—White.. Pork—New Mess 11.25 @11.75 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers 5.00 @ Good Shipping.... 4.50 @ 5.00 Common 3.50 @ 4.00 Hogs—Shipping,.Grades 4.50 @ 5.00 Flour—Extr a Spring.. . v 4.25 @5.00 Oats—No. 229 @ .30 Butter —Choice Creamery...... .15 @ .16 Fine Daisy .10 @ .11 Cheese—Full Cream, Cheddar.. .06J4@ .07)4 Full Cream, newoß @ .08’ 2 Eggs—Fresh .12 @ .13 Potatoes—New,'per bri.. 1.25 @1.75 Pork—Mess. 9.50 @IO.OO MILWAUKEE. Wheat—Cash 78 @ .78W Corn—No. 2 .36 @ .37 Oats—No. 2 .29 @ .30 Rye—No. 1...60 @ .61 Pork—Mess 9.25 @ 9.75 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 280 @ .81 : Corn—No.'2;?TU—. .38 @ .39 Oats—No. 2 .28 @ .30 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red .78 @ .79 Corn—Mixed 32 ' @ .33 Oats—Mixed.....3l @ .32 Pork—New Mess .... j 10.25 @10.75 CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Red .77 @ ,77M Corn—No. 2 .38 @ .38(4 Oats—No. 2....30 @ .32 Pork—Mess. 10.25 @10.75 Live Hogs::... 4.50 @ 5.00 DETROIT. Beef Cattle 4.00 @5.50 Hogs. 4.00 @ 5.00 SHEEP.... 3.50 @ 4.50 Wheat—No. 1 White..... .82 @ Corn— No. 2. 39 @ .40 Oats—No, 2....33 @ .37 r INDIANAPOLIS. Beef Cattle ..rtvvvvvl—.... 3.50 @ 5.25 H0g5....... j. 4.50 @5.00 Sheep...... 2.25 @4.00 Wheat—No. 2 Red .75 @ .76 Corn—No. 2 .33 @ .34 Oats—Na 2 '.....(.. .. •-EAST LIBERTY, CatuX—Best 5.25 @ 5.75 Fair... 4.50 @5.00 Cpnunon. 4.00 @ 4.50 H 055............. 4.75 @ 5.S Sheet....;. 3.50 @ 4.50 BUFFALO. Wheat—No. 1 Hardß7%@ Corn—No. 2 Ye110w....... .41 @ .42 ' Cattle. ~ 4.50 @ 5.50

SHOT NIAGARA’S RAPIDS.

C. D. Graham, in a ' Vessel, Floats Through Nlag- ’ ara’s Whirling WatenApUninjured He Is Eeleased at a Point live Mile* Below the Starting Place.

[Buffalo dispatch.] Very few of the thousands of persons who visited Niagara Falls to-day had any idea that another adventurous man would attempt to the whirlpool rapids, in which Captain Webb lost his life, For some tilde past C. D. Graham has been making preparations for the attempt, but few persons really believed that his courage would hold out long enough for him to make it. Such, however, was not the case, and at about four o’clock this afternoon Graham started bn Lis perilous voyage, which he successfully accomplished. Gralinm Jwl told’ Mr. Porter all about his plans,"nd related that be would carry them out at the time he did, biit, requested that the time be not given in publishing the article, for fear that the authorities would prevent him in his purpose. Accordingly very few were among the spectators. Graham kept the cask in which he intended to make his trip in a saloon in this city. About 11 o’clock last night he loaded it in a wagon, and, accompanied by several friends, started for the falls. They arrived there about 4 o’clock this morning, and unload< d- the cask at a point on the American side of the river below the falls and about 300 rods above the cantilever bridge. A policeman arrested him on suspicion of being a Tonawanda horsethief, but his Buffalo friends secured his release on bail. When everything was ready Graham got into the barrel and closed the manhole at the top. At this point of the river the current is very slight. A small boat towed the cask out into tbe

river to a point where the current would scatch it, and where Graham Was started on what might have turned out to be his trip to eternity. The towing process took only a few minutes, and then the stream caught the cask and started.it toward the whirlpool. At first it moved slowly down, then faster and faster, until the mad current dashed it on with its full force. The cask bounded up and down over the great waves and several times turned a complete somersault, but the wider portion remained uppermost, although it turned around like a top. The cask kept pretty well in the center of the river until it reached the whirlpool, when it struck a strong side current and was carried swiftly through, reaching the waters beyond in safety. From here the journey was comparatively quiet. The cask was picked up at Lewiston, about five miles below the starting point, and Graham crawled out of the barrel with only a slight bruise on his arm. He remarked: “When I struck the eddies it was one continued round of -jerks, but I am not hurt a bit.” Graham is a native of Philadelphia, thirty-three years old, and a cooper by trade. He is a poor man, and did this thing for glory. The cask is 7 feet long, 33 inches in diamer at the widest portion. 23 inches at the top. and 18 inches at the bottom. It is bound aronnd with iron hoops which weigh 250 pounds. The ballast which was attached to the ca=k to keep it in position, weighs 240 pounds. Graham will probably repeat the trip. He says he will yet go over Horse Shoe Falls.

EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANOES.

Twenty Persons Killed and Numerous Villages Ingulfed in New Zealand. [San Francisco telegram.] The steamer Alameda, which has arrived from Australia, brings particulars of fearful volcanic eruptions in New Zealand last month. Natives of Taranga, in the Auckland lake district, were awakened by terrific lightning flasnes. which continued for two hours, when a tremendous earthquake occurred. People fled from their houses in their night-clothes. The earthquakes continued to follow in qpick succession up to 7 a. in., when a leaden-colored cloud was observed advancing from the south, spreading out until it covered the sky. While still moving it burst with the sound of thunder, and shortly after showers of fine dust having a sulphurous smell began falling. Accounts from other points state that Mount Tarewera was the first to break out, followed shortly by the entire Paeroa range, hurling flame, burning lava, and stones over the surrounding country. For the first time in tradition the extinct volcano of Ruapeta was awakened ~into activity. The entire country, over an extent of 120 miles long by 20 in breadth, was nothing .but a nias-i of flame, and hot, crumbling soil. Numerous small native villages were totally destroyed. Wairoa was covered to a depth of tenfeet with dust and ashes. Rahtomahana was completely ingulfed. Twenty persons, among them several English residents, are known to have lost their lives. One old Maori ehief, at Rotoura, was dug oat alive after having been buried in ashes 104 hours. At the date of the departure of the steamer the volcanoes were still very active, and the temperature of the hot was increasing. .

A MISER’S HARD LUCK.

He Is Robbed of Seven Thousand Five Hundred Dollar#: [Pennsboro (W. Va.) special] For years past Frank Moore, who lives on Stewart’s Run, this county, has been known as a miser, keeping large sums of money secreted about the old log hfit in which he lived, and in nooks and crannies in the rocks outside. Fully $20,000 in cash, mostly specie, was popularly supposed to be thus concealed, by the neighbors. At irregular intervals Moore would examine and count his hoard, and at such times his . friends say gold and silver wonld lie in great piles about the table in Moore’s sleeping room. Two weeks ago he made an examination of three lots of specie, and last night he concluded to look at it again. Ah ovei hauling of the bags and stockings in which the cash Was kept showed that $5,500 in gold, anil $2,000 to bills had been stolen by some one who had watched a previous examination, and noted where the money was concealed. There is not the slightest clew to the thief. Tommy was a little rogue, whom his mother had hard work to manage. Their house in the country was raised a few 7 feet from the ground, and Tommy, to escape a well-deserved whipping, ran. from his mother and crept under thehouse. Presently the father came home, and hearing where the boy had taken refuge, crept under to bring him out. As he approached on his hands and knees, Tommy said, “’Sh! > Is she after you, /oo?” A LITTLE girl being asked on the first -flay of school how she liked her new teacher, replied: “I do not like her; she is just as saucy to me as my mother.”

CONGRESSIONAL.

,i | in i. uij.li • «...<-...■ The Work of the Senate and Hons* of Representative*. Is considering the river and harbor bill, on the 7th Inst., the Senate adopted an item appropriating J 150.000 to make the Sturgeon Bay Sanai free of toll to commerce. A Presidential veto was sent to the Senate of the bifl authorizing the construction ot railroads tnrough the Indian reservation in Northern Montana. The Speaker laid before the House of Representatives twenty-one pension veto ntessages from the President. Mr. Jdckson, of Pennsylvania, attacked the veto policy of the Executive, who, he said, was not actuated by regard for the worth and merit of private pension bills. Mr. Bragg (Wis.) said that there Se>-tned to be an idea in the House that it was the duty of the President to abdicate his office in favor of a majoritv of the Committee on Invalid Pensions. Whenever, in the' exercise of his constitutional prerogatives, he examined legislation to see whether or not it was provident and wise, it was charged that he had perpetrated an outrage on the American people. He (Mr. Bragg) was glad to find that at last there was a man in the executive chair who had the nerve and courage to place his hand upon legislation when he thought it improper, whether it were pension or railroad legislation. Congress had gone altogether too far in the way of pension legislation. Before the House_ went further ta pensioning the dead-woo 3 ”of'' the' army it should make some provision for the men who went to the front in 1861. Mr. Browne (Indiana) criticised the action of the President,. and invoked God’s mercy on a man who had the heart to veto a bill for the relief of the widow of a man who died in the line of duty to his country. His Excellency belonged to that class of men who, during the war, were afraid of nothing but danger. Mr. Cannon (Ill.) read in the vetoes the story that while Cleveland was President there would be no further pension legislation. There were great questions in this country calling for the attention of the executive, yet the President brushed them all aside, and appeared anxious to cater to nobody except that little. solid knot that came from the solid South. There he stood, looking through a gimlethole with a magnifying glass, hunting for excuses and heaping derision upon the heads of the poor men who lost their health in the service of the country. He assured the gentlemen on the Democratic side that they would have to defend the President’s actions before November. Mr. Matson showed that nearly all pension legislation of importance hod been enacted by Democrats, and that nearly all of these bills had been vetoed by a Republican Commissioner of Pensions years ago. The Hennepin Canal amendment to the river and harbor bill was taken up in the Senate on the Bth inst. Senators Logan and Cullom both made speeches in its favor. A bill was introduced authorizing the Secretary of War to have published additional volumes of “The War of the Rebellion’’ sufficient to supply all Grand Army posts. The resolution for open executive sessions was made the special order for Wednesday, December 8, thus practically disposing of it at the present session. The Senate passed the bill to establish a forest reservation on the headwaters of the Missouri River and on the headwaters of Clark’s Fork of the Columbia River. Resolutions inquiring into the authority under which a so-called State Legislature had been organized in the Territory of Dakota were indefinitely postponed. The Commerce Committee of the Senate reported unfavorably upon the nomination of Captain H. F. Beecher, son of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, to be Collector of Port Townsend, W. T. It is charged that he appropriated to his own use funds intrusted to him for others. The House met, but immediately adjourned, on account of the death of Representative Cole, ot Maryland. Mb. Hoab offered a resolution in the Senate on the 9th inst., calling on the President for ini formation as to the seizure or detention in any foreign ports of any American vessels, the pretexts or alleged causes therefor, and what efforts have been made to* provide redress for such seizures and to prevent their recurrence. The resolution went over. Mr. Call offered a resolution calling on the President to direct the American representative in Mexico to investigate the truth Of statements made in the newspapers that citizens, of the United States are confined in Mexican dungeons without trial for alleged offenses against the laws of Mexico, and that their final trial has been postponed without cause, rfnd requiring the United States Government (if such statements are found to be true) to demand the trial of such persons and their humane treatment. The Senate, in executive session; rejected the nomination ot John Goode, of Virginia, to be Solicitor General of the United States. In the House of Representatives a motion to refer to the Committee on Invalid Pensions the;message ot the President vetoing the bill granting a pension to Sarah Ann Bradley gave rise to an animated debate, in the course of which the Executive was arraigned by Messrs, Grosvenor, Barrows, McComas, and Boutelle, and defended by Mr. Springer. The message was referred—l3o to 118. The President sent to the House a message vetoing the bill for a public building at Dayton, Ohio, on the ground that the Federal officials at that point are well ac- “ commodatod at a rental of 53.850 per annum. A House bill authorizing the Chicago, Burlington and Northern Railway to bridge the Mississipi River at Dubuque, lowa, passed the Senate on the 10th inst. A resolution was adopted by the Senate calling on the President for information as to the. seizure or detention of American vessels in foreign ports. The Senate discussed the Hennepin Canal project at length, but did not reach a vote on' it. After a warm debate the House adopted a resolution setting apart July 13 for the consideration of such business as may be presented by the Ways and Means Committee, not to include any'bill raising revenue, the main object being to allow the House to reach the joint resolution reported from the Ways and Means Committee looking to the paying out of some of the surplus money in the Treasury. The House passed the general deficiency appropriation bill. Mr. Morrison reported the Randall tariff bill adversely from the Ways and Means Committee.

Is the Earth Drying Up?

Physicists and scientists say that the amount of water on the surface of the globe is steadily decreasing, -and that the land gains on the sea year by year. It is quite true that in some portionsof the globe the sea is eating up, as it were, the land. This is true of the Atlantic coast, which gives evidence of a steady encroachment of the ocean upon its shores. New York will some day be a city under the sea, and its great bridge and ruins can be examined and disinterred only by means of div- , ing bells. Geography tells us that two-thirds of the earth’s surface is composed of water, “■ so we can afford to lose a good deal of that element without suffering. If the nebular hypothesis is correct, and the earth was once a vast sea of fire, water was then non-existent, and when it first appeared, must have come in the form of steam. Life was not possible until the fluid cooled, and it must have been myriads of years before the great salt seas formed. If the earth should gradually lose its moisture, great changes will be effected. There will be more land and a denser population, fewer marine animals, and mote room for the races which now inhabit the land. Certain districts will become arid, swamps will dry up, vast waterways will be converted into dry land. What a pity it is we cannot go to sleep for a thousand years, so as to see what kind of a world this will be in the year 3000. There will, we apprehend, be some water left even then. The Chinese must find it extremely hard to secure wives, for we are told that in China marriage between all per? sons of the same surname is unlawful, and that “there are only about a hundred different surnames altogether throughout the empire. ” The thickness of the earth’s crust is believed by Monsieur Faye, the French geologist, to be greater under oceans than beneath continents, because the earth’s heat has always radiated more freely there. ‘ •