Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1890 — Page 2

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[ Tetk orlme & train wracking' seem* (to be a fashionable on® at present, and *• it is one that involves a danger of a peculiar kind to the, innocent public, it may occur te the Legislatures of some of the States to provide especially severe penalties for it. It would not jbe too much to punish any attempt at strain wrecking by imprisonment for life, and the successful attempt, resulting fatally to any person, by death, (If some such heroic course is not taken, it is too likely that the services of ffudge Lynch will be invoked. The prevailing fashion in French duels is very pretty and inexpensive and the distance between the combats ants is cut longer than last year. Our {English great-grandparents were ac. oustomed to settle tlieir little difficulties across a handkerchief. This proving unwholesome the distance was made ten paces, but now the gentlemen across the border are setting their bad marksmen at a range of twenty-five paces, marked off by a long-legged man, and allowing but one shot to each contestant. It is a safer thing to fight a French duel than it is to eat a French dinner.

Whkx some of us not yet of middle ago were boys the proverbial expression used in indicating extreme speed was: “He is going at 2:40.” How weak this sounds to-day, and especially in: the light of the turf accomplishments pt the season just closed! Think of iPalo Alto, of Jack, of Nelson, of St&mboul and a score of other trotters that have skimmed the mile of the Ist&ndard track far down in the teens, to say nothing of the exploits of the ••side wheelers.” The time is coming when the gentleman driver will apologize for a horse that cannot do better (than thirty, when the “forty horse” |will be in demand for delivery carts and the unfortunate animal that cannot show a gait better than three minntes will be offered to the horse railways at a bargain. We live in a fast age. Could anything be a better illustration of the way women do their work aa compared with the way men do tbairs, than to look over a village of, say, a thousand families on a Monday morning? In a thousand little kitchens a thousand women would be aeen thrusting wood into a thousand little cook stoves, heating a thousand little wash boilers, bending their backs •over a thousand little wash boards .and hanging their clothes on a thousand little clothes linos. If„by some singular revolution, the men of such a village were to undertake to do the work, their first step would be to get up a stock company, invest capital in building and machinery, so organize the work that about a half-dozen men would do the work for the whole town, receive good salaries therefor,, and jthe rest of the men would go about their own business on Monday just as on other days.

The Obermunergau play, whicn began May 26, and which has been presented at intervals Bince then, came / • to an end Nov. 2. The report that the play is to be discontinued is discredited, as the enormous receipts are too tempting to give up for what is considered a vapid sentiment The attendance at the play this year was larger than ever before, and It was, too, somewhat of a better character. English princes and American nabobs and French dukes were jostled in the crowd of German mechanics, for the play is open to all who can pay for admission, and people from all over the world come to attend it Since the opening of the play there has crowded to the remote village an enormous and sensation-6eeklng audience from the most distant parts of the earth. The origin of the play, th, last relic of the mystery dramas of the middle ages, dates back to 1633, where a pestilence fell [.upon the district, whereupon its inh ibitants vowed that at its stay they would act the play decennially. This resolve was kept and only cnee—in 1870 during the Fran co-Prussian war—was the representation discontinued* As the plnv drew the greatest multitude of sightseers that ever collected in the place, greatly to the scandal of Germany and indeed of European Christian society at large, it was thought that the authorities would prevent a repetition of it, but such is not to be the case, as the revenue derived from the visitors is too large to be thrown away. Hence the play will be presented in the year 1900 and the same or •ven a larger throng is expectod to

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The hog cholera is doing great damage in Madison county, Ohio. The Farmers’ Alliance leaders Of Kan. tea have decided to establish an assessmeat Use insurance association. A collision occured on the Pennsylvania railroad near Florenoe, Pa., on the 14th. Two people were killed and eleven injured George Fisher, -Henry Wyscup and Chas. Burket were killed by an explosion of dynamite, at Custer’s stone quarry, Lima, O. Three other men were injured. It is reported that several American fire insurance companies will soon go out of business, being unable to compete with the rates offered by foreign companies. A passenger train went through a trestle near Salem, Oregon, pn tho 13th, killing four people, fatally injuring six and slightly injuring nearly a hundred others. Judge Dakfd McLean, er-President of the Savings Hank, at Savannah, Mo., was sentenced two years in the penitentiary • for defrauding his depositors out of SIOO,000; which he lost in speculation. ... A night prowler who gains access to rooms of young ladies and clips their hair off is creating consternation among Detroit's fair belles. He usually gives warning to his victims, but all efforts to capture him have been unavailing. Complete official returns elect the entire lowa Republican State ticket, including Luke, Railroad Commissioner. For Secretary of State McFarland has a plurality of 2,000, and the other Republican candidates’ pluralities range from 1,550 to 3,779 Evidence has been secured of a conspiracy between Hocking Valley Railroad employes and ticket brokers, by which the company was cheated out of thousands of dollars. Whole blocks of forged tickets and passes have been discovered.

Charles Unger, Secretary of tho Farmeta’ Alliance of Crawford county, Ohio, has been reported to the United States authorities for violations of the internal revenue law, in selling tobacco to members of the Alliance without taking out a license. A license of incorporation was issued Thursday, tt> the'BaltimoreTin-plate Company, of Chicago, to manufacture and sell tin-plates and tinware or all kinds. The capital stock is $2,000,000, and the incorporators are Max Pam, Henry H. Kennedy, and George Einstein. A. H, Smith, of the firm or Mills, Robeson & Smith, brokers, New York, is under arrest for uttering forgeries amounting to $350,000. Tho forgeries have extended over a period of six years. Smith says he used the money to reimburse customers who had invested money nt his suggestion and lost it. He will bo sent up soon. An Ottawa special says: One hundred and fifty car loads of wheat are leaving Manitoba daily, and soon the figures will runup to -03 car loads. This is the largest wheat movement yet. ilt indicates that the Manitoba farmer is collecting his earnings. Financial papers think the large wheat crops should not lead people into extravagances in the matter of wheat growing. AMandan, N. D., special says: “Settlers on the border of the Sioux reservation bring stories of alarm of the Indians, which is borne out by Joseph Buckley, who speaks their language. Buckley says every- Indian on the reservation will shortly go on the war path, and that they have got pos.ession of Custer’s rifles, which the U. .S. .army has never found. Lo.caL.hardware men have, in the last few days, sold their entire stock of amunition to the Indians. The deaf-dumb-idiot child of Bud Futts and wife, of Hillsboro, Tenn., wandered away on the 9th and was not found until the 18th, although several hundred people joined in the search. The child was found on the edge of a precipiee in a part of the country that is iufested with bears and it is a miracle it was not devoured by some beast in its four days’ wondering*. Its -footorints showed that it had Deen perilously near the edge of the precipice.

Birchall.the murderer of F. C. Benwell, was hanged at Woodstock, Canada, on the 14th. The evidence - upon which he was convicted was largely circumstantial, but conclusive. He induced Beuwell to come from England to purchase a farm. When Benwell had arrived, and while on the way to the supposed farm, Birchall murqered Behwell in a swamp. H's body was. found two days later, and arrest, conviction and hanging followed. The financial year of the cotton mills at Fall River, Mass., is closing and the great er number Jof them are now able to present their exhibit for the year. Thirty" four corporations, with a capital of 958,000, have paid $1,387,770 loss to stockholders, or an average of about 7 per cent. There are still a few mills to hear from. The above showing is fairly good, taken by itself, but it is not so flattering as that made in the previous year, when the average dividend paid was 9.73 per cent, on a capital of $15,55b,.900.

A summary of (he reports of the Secretaries of the Missionary Committee of tlie Methodist Episcopal Church shows that of ! the *1,036,309 received for missions during ; the year, *400,170 was oxpendcd in the . United States. There is a membership of ’ 16,000, and *!,0(lO,000 in property in the' missions of Germany, 7,000 members in Switzerland, 1.1,000 in Sweden, 8,090 and a property of *500,000 in Norway, and a membership of 50,000 in the great Indian missions. There is urged a larger appor> tionment for New England conferences on account of the great influx of foreign pops ulation. The reports further state that there is to be a great Chinese Methodism, rivaling that in the English speaking world. A special dispatch from Lincoln,, Neb., says: The yield of corn is much less than anticipated, the average in this part of the State being less than ten bushels to the acre, and farther west even less. Farmers have nothing t 0 feed with, and vast quantities of hogs half fattened are being rushed {p market and sacrificed at very low prices. Corn is telling on the streets for 90 to *3 oento per busheL It it impotsi-

ble to disgqise the fact that in western counties there is much destitution. Large numbers of homesteads ore heavily eni cumbered and a few have been abandoned. Women and children are suffering for food, clothing and fuel. The churches and benevolently inclined people are qnietiy organising for their relief. FOREIGN. British poachers are still at work among the seals of Behring sea. The little country of Honduras is racked with a very big revolution—for it. The President has been driven from the capital. A decisive cattle is expected to l>: fought soon. The business men of Cuba have been asked to send a committee to Madrid, to confer with the Spanish Government offl-1 cials on the question of reciprocity with the United States. The trial of the O’Shea divorce suit began in, London Saturday. Mr. Parnell re- ! fused to defend himself. The testimony was of an unsavory’ character, and went to show that the relations of the Irish leader and Mrs. O’Shea were such as should only exist between man and wife. The Brazilian congress met Saturday. The President’s message after reviewing the work of -the provisional government formally transferred the powers of the government to the chambers. A committee was appointed to prepare ah address of congratulation to the president, Beodosi Da Fonseka. The first anniversary of the proclamation of tho republic was celebrated Saturday with fetes and a review of the troops.

HONORING THE OLD ROMAN.

Democrats of Prominence Olefrrate Tliurman’s Birthday, Hon. Allen G. Ihnrman'was 77 pears* old on the 13th inst., and it was celebrated heartily by Democrats from all parts of the country. Among the prominent people present were ex-Presidont Cleveland. Senator Brice, Congressmen Springer, Outwaitef ManSur, Coleman, Duburrow, McGann, Gov. Boyo, of Nebraska, Hon. Joseph E. McDonald, and many others. A public reception was given Mr. Cleaveland at 10 o’clock at the State House which was attended by a host of people. At the conclusion of the residence at the Capitol the ex-President drove 'to the residence of Judge Thurman and congratulated him on the anniversary of his seventy-seventh birthday. He assured the Judge that the Democracy of the Nation were rejoiced in his continued vigor and hoped that he might yet be spared many years of usefulness. Judge Thurman replied that no years of future acts of his could possibly increase the warmth of the congratulations which he had received from all parts of the United States, and that he was continually asking himself whether his services had really been such as to deserve all this homage. Judge Thurman entered the banquet room in the evening with Mr. Cleveland. They were arm in arm, the ex-President supporting his venerable companion, who further assisted by a cane, walked slowly up the hall. His limping gait attested the inroads that his old enemy, the rheumatism, had made upon his vigorous frame. A mighty cheer wont up from a thousand throats as the audience caught sight of tho two distinguished guests of the even ing, and this cheer was prolonged and thrice repeated ere the procession reached the upper end of the hall. The cheering was repeated when tho guests took their seats at the table, and it was accompanied this time by every person in the room waving a red bandana handkerchief. At the conclusion of the banquet Mr. John L. Lentz, Chairman of the Thurman Club, rappod the vast assemblage to order, and after a short speech introduced Congressman Outhwaite as the toastmaster of the evening. Judge Thurman responded to the deafening calls for the “Old Roman,” in a speech of some length, in which he reviewed the progress of the country in his life time and the part he had in such progress. He was followed by Ex President Cleveland in the sub je~t of “Citizenship,” He eulogized Mr. Thurman lavishly and referred at some length to the recent Democratic victory and the causes contributing to it. He was applauded very generally. Hon. W. T. Wilson, of Virginia, spoke on the “House of Representatives,” and ex-Sena-tor McDonald, of Indiana, on “ Ihe Senate.’’ The other toasts and speakers were: “The Democratic Party in Relation to Future Public Economy," Gen. Thos. Ewing; “The Early Ohio Bar,” Hon. Richard A. Harrison: ‘ Democracy in America,” Hon. Wm. C. P. Breckinridge; “The Democracy of the Future,” Hon. Don. M. Dickinson. Among the features of tho occasion were the large number of congratulatory letters and telegrams received by Mr. Thurman. Among the senders were ex-President Hayes, Governor Hill, Senator Evarta, Chief-justice Fuller, editor George W. Childs. cx-Secretary Garland, Gen. John P. Rea, Gen. Benj. F. Butler, Justice Bradley, Geu. Jubul F. Early, Justice Brewer, Hon. Carl Schurtz, Henry George ■ and Senator Carlisle. ’Some of the letters I were accompanied with regrets at being ; unable to attend the celebration, and all i contained words of cheer for the age! Ohioan.

HE LEFT THE SAFE.

The banking firm .of Cowling, Gowenlock & Co., of Mt. Carmel, 111,, was cicsed by Mr. Cowling, the "president of the bank, Nov. 5. Depositors expected the bank to remain closed for a few (lays, but, after waiting a week, they became impatient and wanted their money. On lass Tuesday, Dave Go wen lock, formerly of Mt. Vernon, 111., left to raise the funds to meet the rush on the opening. As he did not return telegrams were sent out in all directions for ,him but no clue to his whereabouts have been discovered. Saturday morning a receiver was appointed and the safe opened. It contained less than *2OO. The supposition is that the cashier got away with *15,000 or *20,000.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Horten villa reports on excellent who** Outlook. The corn crop Is not on average. The public uchools at Bedford have been elosedi because of scarlejt fever among the children. —~ Dr. Willis Congdon, a young but wellknown physician of Elkhart, is mysteri. ousiy missing. The Fort Wayne street car employes are combining to reduce their hours of labor from sixteen and eighteen to twelve per Jay. Miss Kate Yunker, of Mt. Vernon, caught a burglar breaking into her moth cr’s house, and she shot off the end of his nose. Since January 690 houses have been bd gun and completed within the corporate (limits- Of Anderson. This is equivalent to fifteen new buildings every week. Hon. Leroy Templeton’s large country residence, near Parrish Grove, was de- | stroyed by fire on the night of the Sth, the family hardly escaping with their lives. Loss $4,000. Frank Shunk, of New Albany, ran a rusty nail into his foot several weeks ago. Tha wound apparently healed, but a few days ago lockjaw set in and his death occurred Wednesday. ’Squire Frimple, of Delaware county, killed a diseased hog last week, during which he scratched his arm and is supposed to have inoculated himself with virus. His death occurred on the 12th. Adam Kerr, a prominent farmer living near Lebanon, committed suicide on the 74th. The result of the recent election (he was a Republican) and some ugly rumors are the only known cause for the act. The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Lou Bennett, of Anderson, is five months old and weighs eighty pounds. He has gained an average of twelve pounds per months since his birth, and continues in excellent health. The sureties of Henry Beaver, treasurer of Huntington county from 1876 to 1878, and against whom the county recovered judgment- on shortage for $15,957.27, after long and costly litigation, have satisfied the claim. Beaver is bankrupt and several of the sureties were beggared. Henry Stockfleth, of Evansville, who was defeated by James D. Parvin, his competitor for Auditor of Vanderburg county, has filed proceedings before the commissioners, contesting the election. Mr. Parvin received4s votes, Mr. Stockfleth 4,735, while 87 were cast for Washington Stinchfield. The main issue involved is that the inspectors threw out a number of defective ballots, whieh Stockfleth claims would have elected him. It has been rumored for soine time that a large linen industry from Belfast, Ireland, has been negotiating for a location in the Indiana gas belt. Advices state that the company will locate in Madison county, and to that end land has been pur chased. The employes will make a town in themselves, as the factory will bring three thousand workmen. It is reputed to be one of the largest industries in Ireland. The new town will be located about fifteen miles north of Anderson. Miss Emma Brightfleld, the young and handsome daughter of Jasper Brightfleld, a wealthy farmer liv-ing ten miles southwest of Columbus, has eloped with a drummer by the na mo of J. F. who travels for a Cincinnati firm. The young lady has made two previous attempts to elope,but was overtaken by her relatives. They were closely pursued by her irate father, but, arrived at the residence of a justice of the peace just a few minutes before he did and the oeremony was just completed when Mr. Brightfleld appeared on tho scene. Sim Coy, the Indianapolis Democratic “boss," who served a term in the peniten tiary for conspiring to change tally sheets in 18§6, has purchased a saloon on Clark street, Chicago, and announces that he will enter Chicago politics. He say? he will be a candidate for alderman as soon as he has gained a residence in the world’s fair city. In an interview. -Thursday, he also says: “The Chicago fellows haven’t taken their first lesson in politics. I can take hold of the Democratic party in Chicago and carry Cook county by 20,000 majority. I can carry it by that majority with such an organization as we have in this county. The annual report of State Treasurer Lemcke was submitted to the Governor On the 17th. A general account of the receipts and disbursements shows that the receipts from all source: the general fund; the school revenue fund; the endowment fund of Indiana University; sales of university and college fund land and unclaimed estates, amount to $3,737,195.18 which, added to tho bfldaace in the treasury at the end of last year, aggregates $4,711,304.53. Tho total disbursements in all the sources before mentioned were $4,471,958.13, leaving a balance in tho treasury of $239,358.40. against $974,109.35 remaining at the end of last year. Alexander Johnson, Secretary of the Board of State Charities, has retuijged from a visit to the Southern Insane Hospital at Evansville. He found that only eighteen patients have been admitted and that the trustees are holding back because they do not think the water supply is sufficient. Two hundred or more,patients are now in the Central Hospital who should be transferred to Evansville. Mr. Johnson says there is enough water at the new hospital to justify the reception of a hundred patients or more, and he insisted upon the trustees taking that number in. Tho Governor telegraphed the trustees, also, urging them to take in the patients if possible pending the boring of wells to increase the water supply.

INHUMAN ATBOCITT. Miss Mary Eubanks, daughter of M. Eubauks, died on the morning of the 13th. at Mitchell, under suspicious circumstances, and a post mortem conducted by the Coroner disclosed that her skull had been fractured, and that in all probability she had been murdered by Bee Eubanks, her brother. Hes father and brother sent her out on Sunday evening for whisky which she was unsuccessful in getting, and she told friends she was afraid to go home for fear she would be killed. Afterward she was heard crying for help, but no one seems to Have interfered. In all

probability she was beaten to death with a whisky jug, and it is alleged that she was held by her father, while the son administered the beating. The brother was arrested. The family were once respectable and prosperous, but were wrecked by whisky; all of them are drifting into the use of morphine. The father and brother have been known to drive the girl into the streets to procure money, no matter by what means, so that they could indulge their craving for in toxicants. The trial Wednesday afternoon showed that a horrible condition of affairs had ex fsted. For months the father and brother have treated the defenseless woman in a manner to make savages ashamed. They have continually beaten herin a most barbarous manner, apparently for amusement. She was threatened with death if she re. vealedthe matter or cried out. She has been compelled by heartless wretches to spend the night in the yard, poorly clad, in the cold and tho rain, though begging pitteously to be admitted. The poor crea ture went to a neighbor’s a few days ago, and requested her to prepare her body for burial, as she knew she would be killed. She was bruised from head to foot, as the result of the beatiirgs she had received. The autopsy showed five different blows had been inflicted on her head, either of which would have been fatal. A club was found in the house, after the arrest, spattered with blood and hair, with which the the inhuman brother had committed the crime. The Eubanks family is well connected, and until besotted by whisky was well respected.

POLITICAL.

Pattison’s Pennsylvania plurality is 16,554. The Republicans of Peru have organized a Wiliam McKinley Club. Senator Ingalls, of Kansas, expresses confidence of his re-election. Col. E. W. Hutchins, a leading Alliance man in the Southwest, announces himself a candidate to succeed Ingalls. He has quite a following aronnd Wichita. The returns show that W. M. Magiey, Republican, was elected Clerk of Whitley county by four majority, but Harrison, his Democratic competitor, has filed notice of contest. W. J. Buchan, chairman of the Kansas Republican State Central Committee, in an interview said: “I have no doubt that Senator Ingalls will be ro-elected I could, were I so inclined, give the names of the men who will vote for and elect him.” Democrats of the First Maine district have decided not to contest Reed’s seat in the next House of Representatives. For a while there was some talk that this might be done if thpre was a good Demo’ cratic majority in the House. The leaders now contemplate an appeal to the House that a committee be sent there to inquire into election methods. The Chicago Tribune Trursday published interviews with the three members of the State Legislature elected ou the farmer’s ticket at the late election, who hold tho balance of power on ballot for United States Senator. They declare that they are unpledged to any candidate for the position, and they propose to use their present advantages only for the benefitof the constituency which elected them -the Farmers’ Alliance. The Democrats in the Rock Island legislative district now claim that W. C. Collins (Rep.), of that city, who received a major ity of the votes, is ineligible, not having been a resident of this State for the statutory time. If this claim should prove correct, it would reduce by one the number of Republicans on joint ballot and give the Democrats a majority on a ballot for United States Senator.

In many of the counties the election on members of the South Dakota Legislature has been so close thht the official canvass was necessary to determine who was elected. Corrected returns have been received from about all tho counties in dokbt and it is beyond question that the Legislature is lost in both branches to the Republicans. The House will probably give four majority fSr "“the “ Democratic Independent Fusionists, while the Senate will have not less than three, giving them seven majority on joint ballot to elect a United States Senator. One of tho duties of the Federal Supervisors of elections was to report to Chief Supervisor Van BureiPthe num ber of ballots thrown out of each pre» cinct. Supervisors served in 900 of the 2,989 precincts in the State, and reports from nearly all the 900 have been received by Mr. Van Buren. The reports show that the average number of ballots to the procinct thrown out were between six and seven. Basing an estimate upon tho reports from his deputies Mi\ Van Buren places the number 6f thrown out ballots at 20,000. This is exclusive of the protested ballots, which the law requires to be placed in the sealed bag and returned to the county clerks, numbering about 6,000, ur 26,000 in all.

QUAY WILL RESIGN.

A Harrisburg, Pa., dispatch of tho loth says Senator Quay will resign from the National Republican Committee. He ha 3 been wanting to do so for some time, and would have resigned shortly after the electron of Harrison but for the assaults made on him for alleged acts during his political and official career in Pennsylvania. *lB felt then that his resignation would be a confession of weakness. What Senator Quay is most likely to do after ro signing, for reasons wholly apart from the assaults, will be to pay attention to these publications. He will tell his own story, and furnish proof of a state of affairs that is likely to startle the public. Tt is said he will contradict the story of his enemies in every particular. When Congressman Kennedy mude his violent attack upon Quay, tho latter for the first time was fully aroused and on the point of breaking his silences At times before that in the Senate he had -about made up his mihd to rise to a question of privilege to make a statement in his own vindication, but he failed to do so from circumstanoes of the moment. But now be is resolved and will create the occasion for uttering what can not fail to cause a sensation, and place him in a new light before the country.

WAR VESSEL FOUNDERED.

Two Haadrod and IWij Marines Find. Watery Graves. I The British warship Serpent was lost at a point twenty miles north of Cape Finis-: terre, Spain, on the 12th. Out Of a total of 250 persons on board only three were saved. The Serpent went on the rooks' during a storm on Monday night. A heavy! mist prevailed at the time of the disaster. Owing to the violence of the storm it was impossible to send assistance from the: shore. The tremendous seas swept the decks of the doomed vessel, carrying away group after group of the unfortunate men on board. The news of the wreck was conveyed to Corunna, a distance of sixty miles, over mountain . roads. The Serpent’s complement was 170 officers and men. (The others on board were going out to relieve men now on ships on the As rifcan station. ■Hie Serpent was a swift, light cruiser, one of eight commenced during the administration of Lord Northbrook. She was launched in 1887. 1 The Duke of Edinburgh was attending a Patti concert at Plymouth when the news of the disaster reached that town. Hej was immediately informed of the calamity' and at once left the concert haJOLand hastened to the various newspaper offices in search of further details. After reading all the dispatches that had been received concerning the disaster he went directly home without returning to the concert hall. He expressed the utmost sorrow at the fate that had overtaken so many brave men. The newspaper offices at Plymouth were besieged by crowds of people anxious to hear further news of the disaster. Among these were the sobbing wives and daugh ters of many of the lost seamen. It is stated that many of the crew of the Serpent, before the vessel started on what proved to be her last voyage, expressed the fear that some misfortune would befall the ship. • The admirality has telegraphed to the British consul at Corunna asking for des tails of the disaster' The queen has sent a similar message to the duke of Edinburgh. The Serpent was built after the ideas of Admiral Cooper Key, who insisted upon an immense horse power, which, according to previous notions, was out of all proportion to her displacement. She could maintain a speed of seventeen knots an hour. Lord Brassey, in his navsl annual, adversely criticised the vessel. He said that economy of weight had been carried to excess in the construction of the ship, that her plating was too thin and that her armament was over done. “In a seaway,” he said, “her heavy top-weight would be a detriment to ;her speed and would unduly strain the hull.” The vessel was 225 feet long while she had a draught of only fourteen and a half feet. The Lloyd agent at Corunna telegraphs: “It appears the Serpent was running for shelter in one of the bays north of Finisterre. It is not known whether she foundfiered or grounded on the fearful reefs that are continuations ot the Galician mountains. If she foundered, nobody need be surprised but the admirality. If she grounded on the reefs she could not stand a minute's battering in a heavy sea.

He Had a Hundred Eyes.

Just as the rush was under way at Fulton Ferry, Saturday, says the New York Sun, a man, accompanied by a little dog attached to a long string, slowly picked his way put of the crowd. The man had been celebrating the landing of Columbus or the marriage of Princess Louise, and hi 9 course was very meandering. At times tho dog led the man, and then, again, the man led the dog. When the man didn’ t get the dog into trouble, % the dog was pretty sure to get h.ii master into a tangle. The string wa9 so long that the faithful animal was ever being separated from his master, and the treacherous twine wound itself around the trousers or skirts of the pedestrians, as the case might be. In the midst of the disturbance a policeman came along. “Why don’t you pick up the dog and carry him?” asked the officer, as he watched the man make vain efforts to Jplace his hand on the frisky canine. “Are you so drunk that you can’t see where he is?” “See him!” echoed the man in a maudlin voice, “why, I can see a hundred of’em. ”

THE MARKETS.

lNDiA.Xi.roi.iß, November 18, 1890, CHAIN. | Wheat. Com. Oats. | Kye Indianapolis,.'2 x’d 96 i*JV/,2w<B .. Chicago—.—— 2 r ’ d 03 4 *% Cincinnati—. 2 r’d 92% M* 49 , St. bonis 3 r ’ d 9V '< 60 47 M New York 2 r’dlOO W Vy, Baltimore...... 58 49 Philadelphia. 2 r ,<J 96 65 50X Clover ' Seed Toledo. 63X 87 4 30 Detroit...—... 1 wh M 92 47 Minneapolis : 9.? ............ .......... Louisville UVS STOCK. Cattus —Export grades *1.30^4.60 Good to choice shippers 4.00(^4.20 Common to medium shippers.... 3.30(83.60 Stockers, 500 to 850 tt •.... 2.00(83.03 Good to choice heifers 2.50(83.00 Common to medium heifers 2.00(82.30 Good to choice sows _ a.20©2.5) Fair to medium cows. 1.75(82.10 Hogs— Heavy 8.70(81.90 Light 3.50(83.70 Mixed 3.60® 1.80 Heavy roughs..... [email protected] SHUBr —Good to choice 4.20(84.5:) Fair to medium 3,75(84.10 miscsllaneous. Eggs 30c. Butter, Creamery 22®24; Dairy ltt, Good Country sic. Feathers, 36a Beat wax, 18(8*0}- Wool 30®35, Unwashed 93; Poultry, Hens 60. Turkeys 7o toms 0o Clover seed AW® 4.76.