Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1887 — Page 7

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

’ Mr. Powderly denies that he is a member of the American national party. The pleasure yacht Ilpracombe capsized in the Thames. Friday, and twenty persons were drowned. A member of tlie G. A. R. at Baraboo Wis., has been been dishonorably discharged for kissing his servant girl. The fishing schooner, Lydia T. Cromwell, of Beverly, Mass., is given up for lost. She carried a crew of fifteen men.. Rev. Dr. Joseph Parker of London,arrived at New York Sunday. He says he has no intentiofi of accepting a call as Plymouth church pastor. The Cunarder Umbria Sunday landed at New York 621 first-class cabin passengers, the largest number ever brought over on a trans-Atlantic steamer. A. W. Cole, of Wellsville, N. Y., who claims to be the father of the Republican party, has offered his services in this campaign to the United Labor nartv. Mrs. Cleveland and mother have returned to Washington from Marion; Mass., whe,re they visited General and Mrs. Greely. The latter accompanied them. Alexander McCue, of New York, present Solicitor of the Treasury, has been oppointed Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries, to succeed the late Professor Baird. W. J. Burk, the defaulting and fugitive treasurer of Galveston, Tex., who fled last November, leaving a deficit of 140,000, is in San Francisco and wants to give himself up. Judge Potter, of the New York Supreme Court has granted a stay of proceedings in the Jacob Sharp case. Judge Potter believes the court erred in several instances and a new trial must be granted.

The late A. A. Talmage, the railroad man, gave to his children $lO apiece, and left all his property to his second wife. The children by his first marriage will contest the will. The estate amounts to $500,000. In Connecticut only forty-three negative votes were cast in G. A. R. posts against the proposed new pension bill. Thirty-six of the forty-five posts voted unanimously in favor of the measure and. only one against it. Cincinnati scientists are intereMedJn. the finding, in an excavation for a sewer in Walnut Hills, of a section of human vertebra, petrified, of such dimensions as to indicate that it belonged to a race of giants nine feet high. Senator. Beck, Of Kentucky, was interviewed Saturday. He says Cleveland will be re_-nominated, and declares that “he is the only advanced Democrat the country has seen in two decades.” Beck favors Lamar for Vice-President. J. A. Werner, president, and C. H. Shepps, cashreriif the First National bankof B urli ngt on, Col., were arre ated at Kansas City, Friday, on the charge of embezzling funds of the bank, which re- . cently failed. The amount lost was about $40,000.

Governor Richardson, of South Carolina, has commuted the sentence cf death passed upon Oxey Cheny, a twelve-year-old colored girl,to imprisonment for five years. The child killed a two-year-old white baby with a dose of concentrated lye. Morse Bros., bridge works at Youngstown, Ohio, burned Sunday. Loss SIOO,000. The Anchor Manufacturing Company’s stave, cooperage and heading house at Delay, Mich., burned Monday. Loss $250,000. Four hundred hands are thrown out of employment. The City of Montreal’s missing boat has been picked up, and the sevqn passengers and six members of the crew who were in it are safe and well. The rescue was made by a German vessel named the Mathilde, which arrived at Falmouth, Wednesday, with the thirteen survivors on board. Judge Kumler, of the court of Common Fleas of Cincinnati, has granted a mandamus on the application of the Union Labor party directing the Board of Elections to hereafter recognize the Union Labor party in making appointments of clerks, registers and judges of election. W. F. Barry, secretary of D. A. 99, K, of L., of Rhode Island, was arrested in Manchester, Conn., Friday night, under the conspiracy statute. Mr. Barry Has been prominent in the trouble between the Moss Manufacturing company, of Pawtucket, and their striking employes, and was soliciting aid for the latter. Twenty-three of the indicted “Bald Knobbers” at Ozark, Mo., pleaded guilty and were fined S2O each and put under S2OO b&nd to keep the peace. They ranged from seventeen to sixty years of age, and represented the best families in the country. The sheriff discoveied a plot to release the five men accused of murder. The guard and posse guarding the walls have been doubled.

FOREIGN. The Czar and Czarina and;family have been on a visit to the King and ’ Queen of Denmark. Crown Princess Stephanie, of Austria, has gone off in a rage to he.. father, King of Belguim, because of Prince Rudolph's in fidli ties. • < •' On the 20th ult. another attempt “Was made to assassinate the Czar. A nihilist 'shot athim twice, with a "revolver, one ball penetrating his clothing. It is said that John Ruskin has become insane. Through excessive libera-

lity he has impoverished himself. His whereabouts are unknown to his friends. Prince Ferdinand reviewed 8,000 of the Bulgarian troops Sunday. There was great enthusiasm, and the Prince was received with' loud acclamations by the people. * Captain General Marius’s seizure of Havana custom house and arrest of the officials has led to several conflicts between the soldiers and citizens, and a reign of terror prevails. A general uprising is feared. Gladstone’s motion for an address to the Queen praying for nullification of the govenment’s proclaiming of the Irish National League was rejected in Commons, Friday night, by a vote of 272 to 194. The motion had been warmly debated for two or three days previous.

COERCION CONDEMMED.

Monster Anti-Coercion Meeting in the Dublin Rotunda. A Number of Eiigllnhand Scotch Members of i’arlihin*ur Participate in the Proceedings—Great finthusiasm —Gi»t" of the Speeches. A mass meeting to inveigh against the league’s proclamation, was held in the Rotunda at Dublin Tuesday evening, and was a gigantic success. Enthusiasm prevailed everywhere, and not a dissenting voice could be be heard within the precincts of the building. The Lord Mayor presided at the main meeting, and ex-Commoner Leamy and Commoner P. H. Gill at the two overflow meetings. Several English and Scotch members were p resent and addressed the gatherings. The house was filled to suffocation long before the time the meeting was to be called to order, hundreds of people entering through windows because of the crush at the doors. Professor G alb raith, a Protestant, moved a resolution denouncing the government’s edict a gainst the league, which was carried unanimously. There were no tickets of admission, but it was generally understnod-thatthe seats on the platform not occupied by leading members of the league were reserved for the occupancy of American, Irish-American and English visitors, and of these there were a large number present. Among the English members of the House of Commons who indorsed the principle of the league by their presence and active participation in the proceedings were Jacob Bright, Richard B. Halden, Henry Peyton Cobb, Chas, benwick, and Angus Sutherland, and they with others equally prominent in English politics, freely expressed their condemnation of the government’s action and the belief that it had done the league more good than harm through its influence upon English public opinion. The proclamation has certainly given great impetus to the work ot the league propaganda, and applications for membership from Liberals in England, Wales and even Scotland are constantly pouring in. These l. plicants represent all classes of social standing, and present a remarkable unanimity of opinion and sentiment. How much influence the meeting will have in shaping the future policy of the London government and the Dublin executive cannot now be even approximately estimated, but it is safe to assume that the results of the demonstration will not prove disadvantageous to the league. The English members of Parliament present advised Irishmen tp be calm and to refrain from collision with the law. Mr. Dillon said that in spite of the proclamation the league would continue to exercise-what Mr. Balfour had called intimidation. Instead of advising tenants to be reasonable they would advise them in future to double their demands. Mr. O’Brien said that no Irishmen was worth a pinch of salt unless he trampled the proclamation under foot, but he advised calmness in the struggle for freedom.

Struck a Snag.

In the application of the Pacific Railroad Commission to compel Senator Stanford and other officers of the a Central Pacific Railroad to answer certain questions in regard to expenditure of funds for the, purpose of influencing legislation, Justice Field, of the United States Supreme Court, deliverd Monday the opinion of the United States Circuit Court, to the effect that the act of Congress creating the commission improperly invokes the co-operation of the courts in an inquiryXhat is not judicial. The opinion is baseil on decisions and opinions of Storey, Marshall and Taney upon the limitations of Congressional authority, a*nd, in effect, voids that part of the act referring to the courts as unconstitutional. The court therefore declines to make an order compelling the officers to answer questions, and also declines to make an order giving the commission access to the books of various companies.

BASE BALL.

Standing of the Clnhx to and Including Au. « gust 29th 1887. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Per. Won. Lost. cent. St. Louis ......77 £6 .746 Louisville 59 44 .680 Cincinnati 60 47 .557 Baltimorean-. .53 Rrooklynl... 49 53 -44 k; Athletics ...49 53 .490 Metropolitan 3? 67 .314 Cleveland ........ NATIONAL LEAGUE. ———. s Per Won. -Lost. cent. “Detroit?: 7.7777777. ...;/.'..7777-57" 7. ”35 A l 9 Chicago ..........v..—; —.t. .... 1... 53“ .37 . .>B9 Philadelphia. 53 42 .55.3 New York .53 < 41 .553 805t0n....... ..49 41 .544 Pittstrnrr . T.777.T7777.“i77.7-,78 ~“ .422 Washington 37 54 .400 Indianapolis ....n29 65 .<OB

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Grant county has eleven gas wells. Oil lb incouraging quantities has been found in Crawford county. Riley Homan, of Corydon, is under arrest for attempted outrage on a Miss Jennie Paytop. Riley Michaels and Beltie Thompson, an adulterous pair of Jackson county, were tied to a tree, Thursday night, and unmercifully whipped. Geo. W. Byers, of Greensbuig, found a polecat in his kitchen, Saturday morning. After vain effort! to cause it to vacate, he shot it. , result: All that part of town in which Mr. Byers, lives immediately started on a vacation. Bayard S. Gray, postmaster of Portland, and bon of Governor Gray, was arrested Saturday morning on an affidavit charging him with assault an 1 battery on the person of Miss Nora D. Rogers, on the evening of Auzust 14, while out driving. The remains of a mastodon were discovered on Wednesday on the Godfrey farm, four miles east of Montpelier, at a depth of five feet. This makes two mastodons and one mammoth (hairy elephant) found in that locality during the past four years. The prosecuting attorney of LaPorte county is making it lively for the saloonkeepers at Laporte and at Michigan City who have procured license for the sale of beer and wine only. A large number of them have been detected in selling stronger liquors, and the violators of the law have been heavily fined. It is estimated that the costs and fines will aggregate $2,000.

Mr. Zeller,-city editor of the Huntington Daily Herald, is made defendant in a suit brought Friday by Alla U. Star, of Andrews, for $5,000 damages for alleged injuries sustained in attempted rape at Lake Maxinkuckee on the 18th. Zeller is married and highly connected and the filing of the case has created a great sensation. It is reported shat he has gone to Canada. A very strange thing has occurred on the farm of E. D. Higley,near Tocsin, on the Chicago & Atlantic railway. A well had nearly gone dry—had only a few inches of water on the bottom. W’hen Mr. Higley went as usual to draw water the other morning he found that the bottom had dropped out of the well. There is now a deep, black hole there, which has not as yet been fathomed.- " 7- ■■■■'■ ■ A case filed in the Supreme Court of Indiana will not, if it takes the ordinary course, come to trial for eighteen months. There are now 1,050 cases on the docket. At least a hundred more cases are filed in the course of a year than are disposed of by the court. Since the adjournment of the court, June 26, ninety cases have been filed and sixty or seventy more will be filed before the court re-assembles in September; —■:; ' — 2 ——” Attorney-General Michenen Friday instituted suit against the Central Union telephone company for $40,000 for failing to report- its earnings and for not paying a tax of 25 cents on each SIOO of its gross receipts. The company has made no report and has paid no taxes since 1882. The Attorney-General has an agent looking into the aflairs of the Chicago company which operates in northern Indiana. It is reported to be liable in the same way.

At an early hour Saturday morning a strange negro who had been lodged in the city jail at Seymour the day before, was forcibly taken out by a mob by Wrenching down the outer door, and taken to the noted gum tree in the city park, stripped and whipped, and so terrible were the licks that he jumped clear off the ground at every stroke of the lash. His black hide was literally cut to nieces. His crime consisted in having stolen a violin at Mitchell. The following members of the Legislature have resigned since the session closed: Senators’parley and Sellers,and Representatives Gordon, Patten, and Barnes, Democsats, and Scott, Republican. Tnese vacancies will have to be filled, in case the Governor should call an extra session of the Legislature.- He was asked Monday whether there was any probability of his calling such a session. He said that he had not as yet thought it necessary. The probabilities are that there will be none until the winter of 1888. Not less than $2,000,000 of New Albany capital is invested in St. Paul, Minn. The DePauw estate has a very large amount invested in lands and in bank stock in Indianapolis, Louisville and other cities, and railway stock in Kansas City, St. Louis and Omaha, and mines in Colorado and Mexico. Wichita hap many thousands of New Albany capital, and a very large amount is invested in mining properties in Dakota, Montana and Colorado. The total will probably aggregate not less than $4,000,000 or nearly one-half the total valuation of the city for taxation. Clay Davidson, who Committed an outrage on the person of Annie Flannagan several months ago, was arrested Wednesday near Rockport by Detective Hugh Hales. About three months ago Clay Davidson left a stave camp, near Owensboro, saying he was going to marry a young woman in Perry county. Upon arriving in.the neighborhood he found that only a younger sister and a brother of the object of his visit were in the house. He let down the fence and <1 rove the cat tie into the field in order to get the boy out of the bouse,

and while he was out Davidson took the girl to a strip of woods and outraged her in a horrible manner. The prisoner’s brother, who was entirely innocent, was captured and lynched, and it is thought Clay Davidson will suffer the same fate. At 11 o’clock Friday morning a little son of Ancjrew Ruff, of. Union City,aged about five years, was at his grandfather’s farm, one mile east of town, playing on the track of the Bee-line railroad, which runs close to the house. A passenger train coming along, he attempted td get out of the way and fell in a cattleguard. His sister, aged seventeen, ran to his assistance, and both were struck by the train. The train was stopped, when it was found the little boy’s legs were mashed and his sister had received severe internal injuries. The train brought them back home, and it is thought that they will both die. Capt. James B. Patten, warden of the State Prison South, was arrested at Jeffersonville Wednesday afternoon oy City Marshal Cole for permitting S. S. Hol lings Worth,, the defaulting treasurer of Knox county, who is a convict at the prison, to come within the city limits unaccompanied by an officer, contrary to an ordinance enacted by the Jeffersonville City Council. A few hours prior to the arrest of Patten Hollingsworth was arrested on the streets of the city by Dick Hillyard, who was a guard at the prison during Howard’s administration, as an escaped convict, and placed in the city jail. He furnished bonds and was released. The arrests have created considerable excitement. Hollingsworth was treasurer of Knox county, and defaulted for the sum of SBO,OOO. Ever since he was received at the prison he has been allowed the privilege to remain in and about the offices, and has spent none of his time, unless it was during the night, inside the walls. He was never compelled to wear the stripes and was often seen in the city as late as 8 and 9 o’clock at night. Hillyard will claim SSO reward for making the arrest, but as there is no money in the State treasury bis claim is likely to go begging. Warden Patten apppeared before Mayor Warder, Thursday, and was fined $15.50. Hollingsworth’s case was dismissed.

SECTIONAL STRIFE.

Governors Foraker and Wi Ison "Talk Back” to Each Other. And Intense Excitement is Created—G. A. R. Veterans Refuse to March Under President Cleveland’s Portrait—All of Which Occurs at Wheeling, W. Va. I . _ There was a large reunion of veteians of adjoining States at Wheeling,W. Va., Thursday, Friday and Saturday Aug. 25th 26 th and 27th. A highly exciting political incident took place in -front of the McLure bouse, Friday night, where Governors Wilson, of West Virginia; Foraker, of Ohio, and Beaver, of Pennsylvania, were quartered. The Cathedral band, of Pittsburg, came down to the hotel to seranade the three strangers. Governor Wilson first appeared upon the balcony, and during his address took exceptions to the use Foraker made of the word “rebel” during his address at the camp fire on the previous evening Mr. A. B. Hays, a prominent Pittsburger, championed Foraker, and poured hot shot into Wilson. He was followed by Foraker, who made use of highly insulting personal language toward Wilson. The latter warmly, and the result was that a heated debate was kept up between the two oyer two hours. . Beneath the balcony the streets were packed with veterans and Wilson’s friends, each faction cheering wildly. Excitement was intense on all sides, and cool heads alone saved a riot. The action of both Governors is deplored as unfortunate and out of place, especially at the wind-up of a reunion which boasts of its purpose—in fast wiping away all sectional feelings. Members of the Grand Army who participated in the demonstration refused to pass under a portrait of President Cleveland suspended from the Register office,. The entire column made a detour, and drooped their colors in passing the picture. The action caused considerable excitement in the city. There were over 5,000 veterans in line, from western Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, Stanley All Right. - A letter has been received from Dr. Parke, dated Aruwimi, June 20, stating that Stanley and all comprised in his party were well. The followers of Stanley, the letter says, were intrenched in a camp, affording all necessary advantages, and the whole party would begin, on June 28, a forced maich of four hundred miles to Wadelai ,where they would meet Emin Bey. These advices are one day later than any others that have been received, and completely overthrow the possibilities of the correctness of the reports annoucing Mr. Stanley’s death, which nobody new believes to be true. Horrible Cannibalism. The Minneapolis Journal’s Winnipeg special of Friday says: Letters from Frazier and Stewart, dated Fort Chippewyan, July 5, state that they reached that noint after many hardships. Forest fires have been numerous and destructive. Destitution at Fort Chippewyan last winter was terrible, and several cases of cannicalism. were reported. One bld woman at Little Red river admits having killed and eaten her whole family. Starvation and cannibalism are also reported from Me Kenzie river.

PENDING POLITICS.

lowa and Maryland Republicans and Pennaylvana Prohibitionists. The Tickets—The Platforms—The Proceedings—Alleged Disaffection of Democrats in Maryland—lowa Republicans in Favor of the Prohibitory Law. MARYLAND REPUBLICANS. Maryland Republicans met at Baltimore on the 24th and nominated Walter B. Brooks for Governor, and a full State ticket. The platform declares in favor of civil service reform, and that examination should apply to State goverment as well; declares the President’s claims in favor of civil service reform are hollow and delusive and condemns him ; for his“shamelesß disregard of his own declaration that Federal office-holders ; should not engage in efforts to control j their party action;” advocatesthe Blair I (or some similar) educational bill; sug- ' gests that laws be enacted to prevent j discrimination in the public schools i against colored children; for regulating I and adjusting the differences between i labor and capital; for the abolition of the system of enforced tobacco inspection; for the passage of such law’s as will effectually protect American labor and American society from the influences of the pauper and criminal classes of other countries and competition of convict labor at home; opposing the calling of a constitutional convention at the .present time; condemning the schemes of the Democratic party for the destruction of the Chesapeake & Ohio canal and its removal as a competitor with railroad monopolies; favoring the passage of more stringent laws against the use of money at elections, for an equitable system of taxation, a revision of the revenue laws, a curtailment of expenses of legislation and a revision of the laws regulating proceedure in courts, so as to lessen the expense. After the nominations had been made John and W. L. Marbury, two prominent Democrats, publicly announced their intentions to support the Republican ticket. In his speech Cowan said “he wanted his hearers to understand that he was a Democrat and always would be one, but he had grown tired of the broken promises of the ring headed by Senator Gorman and Free Rasin for good and honest government that were never fulfilled. These people dominated Maryland, and. were so corrupt that no decent man could stand with them. Gorman had for his henchmen ruffians who would not Stop at anything, no matter how low, and many of them should be behind prison bars.”

lOWA REPUBLICANS. lowa Republicans met at Des Moines on the same date and renominated Governor Larabee by acclamation; Also Lieutenant-Governor Hull in the same manner. The platform accepts as settled “the old issues and conclusive results of the war and hails with patriotic satisfaction all sincere evidences of returning fraternity and reunion;” condemns “the suppression of the colored vote in the South,” which is manipulated “to degrade the negroes of the South into a servile form of cheap labor, with which free labor everywhere must soon be brought into competition”. The tariff plank reads: We continue to favor a protective tariff for the upbuilding of American industries and the development of all our resources as a nation. We also favor it ■or the protection of American labor,and in such degree as will maintain to sueb labor the advantage of the difference bet ween the wages of the workingmen of Europe and America. V e believe the tariff should be revised and reduced wherever this policy will allow and the public interests approve. The strictest honesty, economy and retrenchment should be required and followed in the expenditure of all public moneys, and we declare for all possible and practicable reduction of taxation, both national and State. We favor the revison of the revenue laws of the State to the end that taxation may be equitable on all I kinds of property.”' I '"' '

On immigration, the platform says: We are opposed to criminal and vii cious immigration of all kinds, to threaten the public welfare and disturb the social peace, aud to all uauper immigration and convict or coolie labor, or to the contracting of prison labor by the State to bring unfair competition to American workmen. We„ favor such legislation in the State as will protect miners and all other laborers in their full rights as to compensation,protection of life, hours of labor hnd freedom of trade. All public lands should b'e held, and all unearned lands granted reclaimed for actual settlers. Non-resident aliens should not be allowed to acquire title to lands in this country. The platform declares in favor of the civil service law and condemns the administration for “flagrantly disobeying' and violating it;” condemns President Cleveland’s administration for “discrimination against and abuse of the Union soldiers; in its attempt to reverse the verdict of the war in the rebel flag incident; in its failure to reduce the surplus or-decrease taxation,” etc. Regards with increased favor public regulation and control of railways and other corporations; declares in favor of pensions to all disabled or dependent soldiers ami to the dependent widows and families of soldiers: on the prohibitory “Taw and home rule the platform declares: lowa has no compromise to hold with the saloon. We deetkre in favor of tlie faithful and vigorous enforcement in all parta of th- State,-of the-prohibi-tory law. The pharmacy laws and county permit law should be so amended as to prevent the drug store or whoa•sale liquor house from becoming in any manner the substitute orsuccessor j the saloon. •

Weexpress our sympathy with the people snuggling for liberty and home rule, whether it be the Irish people led by Gladstone and Parnell, seeking to escape from long-time oppression, or the people of Dakota or other territori- s in this country, deprived of home rule bv the partisan injustice of the Democratic party. PENNSYLVANIA PROHIBITIONISTS. Four hundred Pennsylvania Prohibition delegates met at Harrisburg on the same date. Half an hour of prayer and praise prece led the calling of the convention to order. 8. B. Chase was made temporary chairman and afterward C. 8. Wolfe permanent chairman. Fiftytwo of the sixty-seven counties were represented. A committee of three was appointed to investigate charges of unjust discrimination on the part of the Pennsylvania railroad in favor of the Republican party. The platform denounces the liquor traffic and demands the prohibition of the same by constitutional amendment; upbraids the present great political parties for their cowardice in failing to meet the saloon power at the ballot box; favors protection to American labor and capital; the restriction of immigration as against pauper and criminal classes; the reservation of the public lands for actual settlers; popular education with the retention of the Bible in the public schools; just pensions io dependent soldiers or their families; civil service based on personal character and official fitness, and a wise and economical administration of public affairs. The platform also favors equal taxation, arbitration in labor disputes, and woman suffrage, and denounces the “continental Sunday.” „ Hon. 8. B. Eaton was nominated for Supreme Judge and Captain Dallas C. Irish for State Treasurer. NEW YORK PI'OHIBITIONISES Nine hundred and eighteen delegates reporied at the New York State Prohibition convention at Syracuse on the 25th and 26th. H. Clay Bascom, of Troy, was made permanent chairman. Mr. Bascom, on taking the chair, made a speech arraigning the Republican party for its affiliation with dram shops. Several speeches were made, committees appointed, etc. A short examination was held, Friday, with the object of discovering the standing of each delegate in his church. All were found to be church members; ninety five were ministers, and a large number of the others were Sundayschool Superintendents. About 2,000 delegates *ere in attendance Friday. Of these, 134 were formerly Democrats, and the rest were formerly Republicans. A platform was adopted declaring against license and in favor of woman suffrage. It declares that both .the Republican and Democratic parties are controlled by the “rum power,” and cited the Vedder andMves bills as proof

of the assertion. It also covers arbitration of labor disputes, prohibition of liquor traffic, reservation of public lands for settlement, and equal wages for men and women. The ticket nominated was as follows: For Secretary of State, Rev. Dr. C. W. Huntington, of Olean; for Comptroller, C. B. Hitchcock, of Cortland; for State Treasurer, W. W. Smith of Poughkeepsie; for Attorneygeneral, Silas W. Mason, of Wes'field, Chatauqua county; for State Engineer and Surveyor, John G. Gray, of Ulster county. The candidates all made speeches and were loudly applauded. It was voted to allow the Woman’s Chrisiian Temperance Union to have delegates to all conventions of the.pirty. The convention adjourned sine dieamid cheers, and with the doxology. The claim is made** that they will poll 75,000 votes in the State. Chairman Bascom says they will hurt the Republican party this year worse than ever on account of that party’s breaking their promises.

Official Fire Bugs.

Seven men who have been hired by the citizens of Plainfield, N. J., to act as firemen, and to constitute in part the fire department, were arrested Saturday night for having carried on for some time a system of incendiarism. Some of the party have confessed having set fire to several houses, for the purpose of giving them work to do and earn their sa’ariea. Great excitement is reigning there over the arrest.

THE MARKETS.

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