Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1893 — Page 7

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

Reports from the Kansas wheat Vop are not encouraging. July wheat made a jum p of three cents at Chicago, Wednesday. ** Gen. Hiram Berdan, the inventor of the famous Berdan long-range rifle, died al New York, Saturday. — -1 . - r A free love community has been brought to light near Wooster, O. Church people and ministers are implicated. ; Nearly 2,000 Polish residents in Trenton, N. .7., protest against the new treaty be* tween this country and Russia.An aerolite struck the monument to John Brown, at Ossawntamie. Kan., Saturday, damaging it considerably. William Smith, foreman of the American Strawboard Company, fell into a vat of pulp at Akron, 0., and was boiled to death. 4 The Allcn-Bradiy bonded warehouse at Louisville, containing 12,000 barrels of whisky, was destroyed by fire, Wednesday, evening. The New York World announces that the total amount necessary to free Dr. Talmage's Tabernacle has been subscribed. • - —rA negro desperado named Morgan was lynched by a mob of his own color at Graham, Va. Morgan murdered a law-abid-ing young negro. A powerful syndicate with $100,000,000 capital has been organized at Pittsburg to manufacture iron and steel products in opposittontoCarnegie’s. The birthday of General Grant, April 27, will be celebrated on a large scale at Galena, 111. Gov. William McKinley will be invited to deliver the oration. The Egyptian camel drivers recently arrived at the world’s fair grounds, went on adrunk at Chicago, Saturday night, and created great excitement in that city. The entire property of George Abingdon Baird, the noted sporting man, is left to his mother during her lifetime, and upon her death it is to be shared among the cousins of the deceased. The Kansas crop report says that 14 per cent of wheat in the State has been win-ter-killed. The condition, as compared with a full average, is 74 per cent. It is stated on the alleged and good authority of advices from Chili that martial law has been proclaimed in that republic. Definite information is awaited. A curious feature of the railroad exhibit at the Chicago fair will be a neatly arranged collection of railroad and steamboat annual passes once owned by Jay Gould. The beautiful summer homo of Joseph Jefferson, at Buzzard’s Bay, Mass., was destroyed by lire, Saturday. The family cook, Miss Helen McGrath, perishod in the ruins. 6 After a prolonged struggle the Nebraska Legislature has passed tho maximum freight rate bill. Tho bill contemplates a reduction of about thirty per cent, from ''existing charges. Dr. Everts’s sanitarium for the Insane at College Hill, 0., was burned, Thursday. Loss, $150,000. The fire started from a hot soldering iron carelessly laid down by a tinner atwork on the roof. Tho two hun--Bred patients were removed in safety. Samuel Weist died at Kansas City, Mo., Df protracted hemorrhage of the gums. Purple spots appeared on his limbs, hands and trunk. Monday morniug he began bleeding at the mouth. Efforts were made to stop the flow of blood, but to no avail. Farmer Henry Bogert, of Mottville, Mich., recently met a smooth stranger who wanted to buy his farm for $7,000. The latter had a bank certificate of deposit for {IO,OOO and Bogert gave him the balance, $3,000 in cash. Ho is wiser now. Elections were held in Ohio cities for local offices, Monday. Cleveland chose a Democratic mayor and a Republican council. Toledo elected a full Republican ticket. Canton gets a Republican mayor and a Democratic council. General results Indicate a division of honors In the State. Senator Morgan, of the Bering Sea commission, in an interview at Paris, holds that the decision of Judge Ricks, of the United States Circuit Court at Toledo, recently. that no employe of a 'railway lias* the right to strike, because striking interferes with public business, is unconstitutional and cannot stand. Furniture dealers allege that they havo been done out of $40,000 worth of furniture by a World’s Fair fakir named H. H. Homes. He leased an old building near the Exposition grounds, which was to be transformed into a palace hotel. He secured nearly all the furniture on credit, moved Into the building, and. It is alleged, disposed of $20,000 worth of it. The rest was found stored in secret apartments in the old building and recovered.

FOREIGN.

Anarchists arc active in Spain. The Colombian concofcsion to the Panama Canal Company has been extended twenty months. Mr. Gladstone made a great speech in the House of Commons. Thursday, on the motion to advanoe the Home Rule bill to a second reading. Emperor Francis Joseph has not been in the Hungarian capital since the ireedom of the city has been conferred on Louis Kossuth. Emin Pasha is again reported dead. The dispatch states that he was murderod In March, 1893, on the banks of the Ituri river, in Africa. Mr. Blount, the United States commissioner to investigate the condition of the Sandwich Islands, arrived at Honolulu, March 29. His advent occasioned a great stir among the people. ( There is bow little doubt entertained that Russia is to again suffer from the ravages of cholera. As the warm season approaches every indication points to a recurrence of the disease wherever it appeared last summer and autumn. The British government has sent a circular to the post officials in Great Britain and Ireland, notifying them that since March 23, there have been fifty-fic deaths from cholera in Lorlent, in the department of Morblhan, France] President Hippolytc, of Hayti, and his Cabinet, have determined to meet an uprising of revolutionists. With hi* Cabinet the President has encamped at Port dp Paiv. The government troops have also been ordered in camp there.

WASHINGTON.

Jas. 8. Ewing, of Illinois, was nominated as minister to Belgium, Wednesday, by the President. ’ Fourth • Assistant Postmaster General

Maxwell appointed 119 fourth el as* peatmasters, Monday. President Cleveland will revoke - the discriminating duties against Venezuela, Haytl and Columbia imposed by President Harrison. •Judge Lochren. the new Pension Commissioner, will not take charge of the office for a month. He believes that reform In the conduct of the pension office is urgently demanded. - The President and Secretary Lamont will relieve Secretary Carlisle of the responsibility of making appointments under the treasury department in New York State. • President Cleveland, Secretary Gresh} am and other distinguished gentlemen spent Sunday at Secretary Bayard’s homestead, at Wilmington, Del., as the guests of the new Ambassador to England. Mr. Bayard will leave for London in a month. 5 The President, Thursday, sent to the Senate the name of Judge William Lochren, of Minnesota, to be Pension Commissioner; Hannis Taylor, of Alabama, to be Minister to Spain; Royal E. Purcell, to be postmaster at Vincennes: C. M. Hawkins, to be postmaster at Marion, Ind. A long list of other postmasters was also transmitted. 6 The President. Friday, sent a list of nominations to the Senate, the only important one being Caleb W. West, of Utah, to be. Governor of that Territory. Mr. West was Governor of Utah under Cleveland’s first administration, and his appointment breaks the rule laid down in regard to the appointment of “ex” officials. In the Senate, Friday, Mr. Voorhees introduced a resolution, which was referred to the inter-state commerce committee, reciting the decision of the Ohio courts in the engineers’' strike cases, and directing the committee to report what legislation is necessary to amend the interstatecommerce act so as to protect the rights of organized labor. Thfe Democrats in the Senate, Thursday, accepted the Republican proposition to compromise on the question of electing a new Secretary, Sergeant-at-Arms and Chaplain. The Republican proposition was that the new officers were not to enter on their duties until the regular session in December, unless a special session is convened at an earlier date, The resolution making the election of the Democratic caucus nominees a matter of record was passed. Col. Dick Bright is thus insured his old position as Sergeant-at-Arms.

A FURIOUS REFORMER.

Rev. McCarthy's Exit Before Her Vigorous Charge. Rev. Florence McCarthy was formerly a Baptist preacher but is now employed on a Chicago morning paper. He, in his. editorial capacity, had recently made some damaging statements against Mrs. •Matilda B. Carse, the founder of the temperance temple. Thursday, at the annaal meeting of the Woman’s Christen Temperance Union, Mrs. Carse appeared and at once discovered Rev. McCarthy sitting on the stage. With right hand extended Mrs. Carse charged on the exparson and ordered him from the hall, saying, “How dare you come hereafter lying about us as you have done in your paper.” The gentleman essayed an explanation. but tho tone and manner of Mrs. Carse were too much for him and he made a hurried exit, walking backward and bowing at every step. Mrs. Carso then mounted the platform and made a speech, in which she said: “I havo-never-cheated anybody out of a cent and would rather die than cheat anybody.” Mrs. Carse was in tears when she sat down. By unanimous vote she was again made president, the members thus indorsing her management of W. C. T. U. affairs.

A BRIDE AND CORPSE.

Brief Honeymoon of an Unfortunate Kcntucky Girl. At Sturgis, Ky., Henry Delaney, a drug clerk, charged with the ruin of Miss Oliver, having refused reparation, was forced at the point of a revolver in the hands of the giri’s mother to accompany her and the girl and her father in a carriage a distance of fifteen miles to Morgantown, whore a license was procured aud the couple were married. On the way home the carriage wassurroundedby four armed men, who began shooting. Delaney joined the attacking party, who are supposed to be his friends, and the firing continued. Miss Oliverwas shot in the head and her father in the face and arm. The team ran and the attacking party followed, shooting at every jump. The girl died at 5 o’clock Wednesday morning. She would soon have become a mother. Mr, Oliver is fatally wounded. On warrants sworn out by Mrs. Oliver, Geo Delaney, Frank Hall, Geo. P. Henry and Henry Delaney have been arrested. They are in danger of heing lynched.

AGAINST HOME RULE.

Balfour And a Tory Demonstration at Belfast. Tuesday was a general holiday at Belfast. At noon Mr. Balfour and other leading Tories headed a procession oi Orangemen and other organizations which inarched through tho street. Theenthusiasm of tho day’s demonstration culminated in the reception of Mr. Balfonr when he appeared before tho mass meeting to make his attack upon Mr. Gladstone’s Homo Rule bill. Cheer followed cheer as he advanced to the front of the platform. When he began to speak his voice was lost In the shouts of the multitude. After the tumult subsided he ’spoke at great length, reviewing the Home Rule question. He prayed to God that Ulster loyalists would not be compelled to fight for their rights, yet the tyranny of majorities might be found as bad as tho tyranny ol Kings. Ho could not deny conscienclously that what was justifiable against a tyrannical king was, under certain circumstances, Justifiable against a tyrannical -majority. He trusted, howevpr, that such eifeumsfarices would UCVfer arise.

OLD LANDMARK GONE.

Walker’s mill, built in 1809 by Willian Pervitin, on Fourteen Mile creek, nea; Now Wash'ngton, has been torn down This was the first grist and saw-mills ii Clark county. It was situated on the fan assigned to Simon Kenton, in Clark" i grant, but history is silent irt regard t. any service having been rendered by Kenton in any of General Clark's campaigns

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Lapelhas aneV Pythiah lodfffc Crinoline has appeared In Muncie. Kitchentown is a suburb of Anderson. Alexandria wants to become ft sporting center. 6 Lagrange is flooded with counterfeit coin. Labor is scarce at Arcadia because of the boom. Ohio county is flooded with groenjgoods circulars. Columbus x claims a population of ten thousand. SEE! A new furniture factory has been opened at Seymour. *T~ A child died from eating jimson weed seed at Sheridan. A big gas well was drilled in near Hartford City, Tuesday. Tim State federation of labor will meet in South Bend, July 18. Geo. Tucker was accidentally killed at a barn raising at Tipton, Saturday. Five Chicago drummers were arrested and fined at CrawfordsviJle for disorderly conduct. The Atlanta tin-plate works were opened with appropriate ceremonies, Thursday.---i, __ Muncie’s summer racesr will occur on July 4, 5 and 6. The purses will be from S3OO to SSOO. A Laporte milkman has been sued for $5,000 damages by a woman who was run over by his wagon. J. H. Ilodapp, Seymour, recently killed a blue crane that measured seventy-four inches from tip to tip. Knlghtstown had a mad dog scare, Wednesday. He was killed, but five or six other dogs were bitten. Edmund Tillman pleaded guilty to barnburning at Rockport, and was sent to the penitentiary for five years. Royal E. Purcell, nominated for postmaster at Vincennes, is editor and proprietor of the Vincennes Sun. There is a school in Clark county, near Nabb Station, which had only one pupil during much of the winter. Wm. Mitchell was killed at Mooney’s tannery, at Columbus, Wednesday, by a barrel of tallow rolling over him. Oliver Brown, aged ninety-six, who has resided at Rockport for the past seventysix years, has moved to Valparaiso. The ladies of Dana have petitioned the town council to pass an ordinance to remove screens, blinds, etc., from saloons. William George, a hostler, of Bedford, was found dead in a livery stable. Several empty liquor bottles explained the cause. The pay of postmasters per annum in Indiana ranges from 51 cents, at Mott, Harrison county, to $3,600 in Indianapolis. James Powell, who weighs 380 pounds, rolled down a flight of thirty steps at Muncie, Wednesday, and was badly hurt. Farmers around Elkhart are plowing op their wheat, which fared badly during the winter, and are now putting in other crops. A receiver was appointed, Monday, to look after the claims of the creditors of the Elkhart driving park and fair association.

Fenton Epworth Mill, of Elkhart, carelessly lighted a match while in bed. The clothing caught fire and he was burned to leath. Owensboro capitalists have purchased ten acres of land adjoining Rockport, and will begin the erection of a canning factory at once. The State Encampment G. A. R. mot at Evansville, Wednesday. There was a large attendance. The city gave the veterans a cordial welcome. An owl belonging to E. G. Krienke, of Elkhart, committed suicide, Thursday night, by drowning himself. He was melancholy over the recent death of his mate. Oscar Williams, near Fowler, accidentally dropped a gun, Saturday afternoon. The weapon was discharged and the bullet entered his right breast. He will die. Muncie merchants have been arrested for showing thefr goods onTthe sidewalks. They are indignant, because they have hung their banners on the outward walls for many years. Dr. George F. Edenharter, of Indianapolis, has been elected as superintendent of the Central Insane Hospital to fill the place made vacant by the death of Dr. Chas. E. Wright. Tho bridge over Wildcat, near Rossville, gave way under the north-bound vestibule Monon train, Friday night, killing fireman O’Brien, of Lafayette. No passengers were hurt. A party of fishermen left Washington, the other day, for Long Pond, Knox county, lost their way in the river bottoms, and after driving about forty miles found themselves at Vincennes.

While Mrs. Thos. Downey, of Washingington, was drinking water, Monday night, she swallowed her set of false teeth and they are now in her stomach. An operation will be performed. John G. Blake, tho disgraced superintendent of the Feeble Minded Home at Ft. Wayne, was taken to the eastern hospital for the insane at Richmond, Friday. His intimate friends claim that his actions are caused by hereditary insanity Rev* P. Me Dade, of Kokomo, seventy years of age, while on a visit to Monticello, was dangerously injured by a runaway team. He was taken to Kokomo, Thursday, on a cot, but it is feared that his injuries will prove fatal on account of his age. A disastrous fire raged at Wolcott,' White county, Friday, starting In an extensive hay barn. One thousand tons of hay were consumed, together with the new grain elevator, an implement store ahd two car loads of pressed hay. All efforts to combat the flames were futile. The loss will exceed SIO,OOO. Negotiations wero closed, Friday night, for the location In Noblosvllle of the largest canning factory and pickling establishment In the gas belt. The capital stock of the new concern is SIIO,OOO and It will have a capacity of 500 barrels of canned goods per day. It will give employment to 2,000 persons. An anti-liquor sellers’ association has been formed at Muncie to look after saloon men who are refpsed license by the commissioners and then go to the circuit court, where their cases generally go by default. A prominent law firm has been nigaged and will contest the cases. John Slefcrt, sixty years of age, of South Bend, was frightfully beaten about Jie head, Saturday night. The bed and several rooms were bespattered with blood,i indicating, a desperate struggle. Mr. Siefert says his nineteen-year-old son

is responsible tor his condition, having beat him with a elub. The boy has disappeared. Tha death Is announced of Ret.' Alfred C. Hathaway, pastor of the Friends’ Eighth Street Cliurch, at Richmond, at College Hill sanitarium, near Cineinnati. His derangement was caused by overwork at revival meetings, aa ha*befen previously noted in these columns. The Gas City Land Company, Saturday, signed articles of agreement by which a large window-glass factory will be erected at once. The concern will put up extensive and substantial buildings. It will be what, Is called a twenty-pot factory and will employ two hundred workmen. This is the nineteenth manufacturing located at Gas City to date. Dearbon county built a forty-thousand dollar infirmary for her poor. It remained almost tenantless, however, as the paupers prefer to be supported by the county at the homes of friends. To remedy this state of affairs the county commissioners have cut off all allowances for the support of paupers not living on the county farm. . -- ’ • The Indiana Trust Company, of Indianapolis, with a capital of S7S,(XX), filed articles of incorporation with the Secretary of State, Tuesday. Its purpose Is to “transact business as a loan, trust and safe deposit company pursuant to the laws of the State of Indiana.” Financiers throughout the State are expected to take stock, and the company expect to be ready for business May 14. Dr. M. N. Elrod, of Hartsville,' Bartholomew county, reports that ho has just examined a “blowing” well on the farm of JohnH. Peftey, near Dora. It is sixty-two feet deep, and expels or sucks in air with a great rushing noise, the respiration depending on the meteorological condition of the weather. The farmer has stuck a in the pump, and the screech can be heard two miles whenever a storm is approaching. Zerelda Nixon, the keeper of a drug store in Elizabethtown, is in jail at Columbus, for the failure to pay a tine for the unlawful sale of intoxicants. Within the last six months she has been prosecuted for the unlawful sale of intoxicants as many as a dozen times, and in each case she has paid a fine. It is estimated that she has spent at least SIOOO in fighting these cases, and is now without a friend and in jail. The sons of blacksmith John Dixon have made a splendid discovery of Indian relics. The find wa3 in a cave near the farm of County Assessor Thomas Lane, of Jackson township. They secured a large scalping knife fully ten inches long, with a copper handle, on which was rudely engraved the picture of an Indian and his tomahawk. The date 1701, and the initials L. L. I. also were cut in the handle. They found a brass necklace made of many crescent-shaped pieces strung together on wires.—Paoli Republican. A young Wlnamac woman, well known locally for her church work, rushed into the telegraph office the other day, and after explaining that her husband had hurried off to Cincinnati, forgetting to take with him a memorandum and dimensions for a new Sunday school motto, the buying of which was a part of his errand in the city, wrote, for transmission to him. the following dispatch: “John R., Palace Hotel, Cincinnati. Unto us a child is born. Four feet long and three foet wide. Mary.” Three years ago a Jesse James gang was organized at the town of Dale. Familiarity with the life of the James brothers and ownorship of a rrevolver and a Mexican pony, were the requirements of membership. The “gang” began making things interesting for people in and around Dale. The members were fond of riding at a break-neck speed across tho country, firing at houses. Another pet di •version was chicken-shooting. But barnburning and theft were not beyond them. Most of the gang are now in the penitentiary or exiles in other States. Walter and Findley Medcalf have lately been gathered up and are now awaiting trial at Rockport.

HYPOCRISY AND WHISKY.

The announcement at Ft. Wayne,Thursdary, that John G. Blake, superintendent of the Indiana School for Feeble-minded Youth had resigned and left the city after confessing to nameless and filthy crimes with the male inmates of the institution created a profound sensation. Mr. Blake’s actions had for some time aroused suspicion, but none were prepared for the astounding revelations of his own confession. He was regarded as peculiarly fitted for the position which he held and was almost idolized by the children. Mr. Blake’s physician publishes a statement that the superintendent, who has been a leading temperance worker, and has filled many pulpits in this and other States, has been drinking heavily for the past five months, and that he has been a steadydrinker for years. The physician believes that Mr. Blake is insane from drink. The crime charged against the superintendent is so filthy that it is not mentioned in the criminal statutes of Indiana and is not punishable. The charge was at first discredited by the friends of Blake, but is now generally believed. Assistant Super 1 intendent Leonard is now in charge of the institution and Mr. Blake is supposed to be in Chicago

NOAH MAY ALSO COME.

Large Consignments of Kgyptlans. Turks. A rubs and Wild Animals Arrive in New York. Aboard the steamship Guild Hall, which arrived at Nqw York, Tuesday, from Alexandria, were 175 Egyptian men and women destiaed for tlio World’s Fair. The vessel rested at anchor near BcdlooV island, and the Egyptians, dressed in their native costumes, were on deck in force. The dancing girls, dressed in short skirt*and decorated from head to foot with cheup finery, gave exhibitions of theii agility on tho quarter-deck. A number of Arabs and Turks are included in the party and there are wrestlers, gladiators and fencers by the score. The* .Egyptian; brought along seven camels, fLve cages ol monkeys, twenty donkeys and a lot a! Arab horses. Tho Bovic was a floating menagerie when she came Into port. Shi had aboard a large collection of wild an i mals for the World's Fair. Thelotlnclu (led two elephants, seventeen lions, fiv tigers, five leopards, twelve bears, twelv hyenas aud a lot of wolves. There wer also horses, zebras, sfxtecn cages of mon keys, twenty-nine cages of parrots, fiv. cages of storks, and ponies, goats, pigs sheep and dog- •” , *-hout number.

THE MORMON TEMPLE.

»tglqittea of th* Or—t mt Salt city. After forty yean, the great Mormon temple—the site for which was selected July 28,1847, by Brigham Young, at Salt Lake City, and the corner atone of which was laid April 6,1853—was dedicated with imposing ceremonies, Thursday. The building is 186>£ feet long and 09 feet wide. With tho towers it covers an area

of 21,850 square feet. The foundation wall js sixteen feet deep and sixteen feet thick. On this the granite walls are nine feet thick at the bottom and narrow to six feet at the square. There are six towers, three on the east and three on the west. The corner towers are twenty-six feet at the base. Those on the east are 300 feet high and on the west 140 feet. The east central tower of the building is 222 X feet high, surmounted by a figure with a trumpet to its lips proclaiming the gospel. The building is richly embellished with various symbolical designs, and has cost In excess of $5,000,000.

AVERSE TO AQUA PURA.

A St, Louis Globe-Democrat special of the sth says: Senator Turpie, of Indiana. Is a very nervous man and does not want anything near him to distract his attention when he is making a speech. Ho was addressing tho Senate yesterday on the question of seating the Senators with appointments frqm the Governors. When In the mldstof his profound constitutional argument one of the page boys carried a glass of water to him and set it down on his desk. “I don’t want that water," he exclaimed, “take it away.” The boy was startled by his abrupt manner and stood irresolute for a moment. The Senator, evidently annoyed, pickedupthe glass,and Sashing the water on the Senate carpet, handed the glass back to the boy.

THE LAFAYETTE CATHOLIC RIOT.

Convlotlou of Murphy, Ono of the Conspirator*. In the conspiracy cases at LaFayctte, which grew out of tho attack on ex-priest Rudolph, In January last, Murphy, the first defendant, was found guilty of as sault and battery with intent to kill. The |ury were out all of Tuesday night, and brought in a verdict at 9 o'clock WednesJay morning. Murphy’s punishment was fixed at two years imprisonment In the Prison North and to pay a fine of sl,ouo. The defense gave notice of t, motion for a new trial. Murphy’s bond was raised from SSOO to $2,500.

THE MARKETS.

Indianapolis, April 10. lftr! Quotations for Indianapolis whoa notspociiled GRAIN. Wheat—No. 2 red, 65c; No. 3 red, 62c; wagon wheat, 64c. Corn-No. 1 white, 41>£c; No. 2 white, white mixed, 4ic; No. 3 white, 4lc; No. 2 yellow. 40c; No. 3 yellow, 33KC; No jt mixed, 40c; N 0.3 mixed, 39>fc, ear, 40c. Oats—No. 2 white, 35c; No. 3 white, 14Kc; No. 2 mixed, 34V£c; rejectod, 30c. - Hay—Timothy, choice, $13.00; No. 1, 112.00; No. 2, flo.uO: No. 1 prulri*. $7.50; No. 2. $5.50; mixed hay, $7.50. Bran $12.50 per ton. I Wheat. | Corn. | Oats, i Rye. Chicago jS r’d 74 40V4 81 Cincinnati.... ! 3 r’d U'A &J 459 3t Louis 2 r’d «4 3.1 9J \* 61 Mew York 3 r’d 5!4 51 | 85 ! Baltimore....! Philadelphia. .2 r’d 7854 4j I 41 Clover Seed. Toledo 63 H.' 4754 33 « w Detroit 'i wh 6l‘„! 43 | 88 Minneapolis.. t 60 ' CATTLE. Export grados $5 Oo@s 5 Good to choice shippers .... 4 50C<S5 03 Fair to medium shippers 3 90<$i a Common shippers 3 25(03 2; Stockers, common to good 3 75,44 25 Good to choice heifers..:..... 3 75®4 6o Fair to medium heifers........ 3 25@3 0 Common, thiu heifers 2 f0«/3 ' Good to choice cows 3 25 cj3 0 . Fair to medium cows 2 5033 u Common old cows 1 50@2 t Veals, good to ch0ice.......... 3 50.46 0< Bulls, common to medium...: 250 (x‘, Milkers, good to choice...... 3000(440 o Milkers, common to modiura... 1500®2. 7„ HOGS, Heavy packing 7.MXg8.05 Mixed 7.20y7. r . Light 6.90*7.00 Heavy roughs 6.00(37,9 SHEEP. Good to choice sheep ....$4.25@r>.00 Fair to medium sheep...* 3,50 v u,4.2.) Common sheep 2.50^3.'i0 Good to choice lamb 3.. 4.75*5.5 Common to medium iambs 3 75(34.°5 Bucks, per head [email protected] POULTRY AND OTHER PRODUCE. Poultry— D>;youug chicken? 10c V B>; turkeys, lo*lic lb. ducks* 7c F B>; geese, 15.40 for choice. Eggs—Shippers paying 13c. Butter—Choice'eountry butter, 14@16c: common, 8® 10c; creamery, retailing from store at 25c. Cheeso—New York full cream, 13@llc: skims, s(®7c V lb. (Jobbing prices.) Feathers—Prime geese 40c V lb; mixed duck, 20c V lb. Beeswax- Dark, 15c; yollow.2oc (selling' Wool—Fino merino, 16<fl8c: unwashed combing, 21c; tub washed, 31@33c. HIDES, TALLOW, ETC. Hides—No. 1 green hides, 3c; No. 2 green bides, 23-ioj No. 1 G.- S. hides, No. 2G. S. hides, 3><c: No. 1 ’tallow, 4c; No. 2 tallow. 3Xc. * Horse [email protected]. Tallow—No. 1,4 c; I?o. 2.3%e. Grease—White, 4c; yellow, 3^i'c;brown. 3c. TRTTTTB AND VEGETABLES. Potatoes—4 ®9scl> fine Lemons—Choice, $3.50 > box; fancy. H-<> • Onions—33.7s@4}sl brl;Spanisb,sl.s3 per cr%te. Maple syrupy $1 per gallon;-maple suar 10c per pound. ' r

HISTORIC MOMENTS.

The Death of John Quincy Adam* t» Z~T~ the Capitol at Wuhinfto*. Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, in bis description of the death of Hon. John Quincy Adams, which fe printed in Scribner for March, says: Mr. Adams rose impulsively-'-I had . almost said impetuously—with a paper in his outstretched hand, exclaiming with more than his usual earnestness and emphasis: “Mr. Speaker! Mr. Speaker!” The reiteration rings again in iny ears as I write these words. Bat before he could explain his object or add another syllable, his band fell to his side and he sank upon the arm of his chair, only saved from dropping to the floor by being caught by the member nearest him. An exclamation was almost instantly heard: .“Mr. Adams is dying!” Business was at once suspended and the excitement and confusion which ensued can better be imagined than described. More than two hundred representatives in all parts of the hall and from all parts of the country were seen rising from their seats and pressing forward toward their beloved and revered associate, almost as if it were in their power to reverse the will of God and rescue him from the power of the great destroyer. Few persons of equal eminence—or of any eminence—have been distinguished by such a presence at their death-scene. Fortunately there were several physicu ns the members of the House. Dr. William A. Newell, afterward the Governor of New Jersey, had tie seat immediately in front of Mr. Adams, and~ took the lead in repressing the throng, securing air for the sufferer, and rendering all the medical aid which was possible. He co-operated with others in removing Mr. Adams on a sofa in the rotunda, and thence, with no delay, at my earnest instigation, into the Speaker’s official chamber. “This is the end of earth.” was heard from his lips, as he fell, or when he was placed on the little eoueh which was hastily prepared for him, with the addition, as was alleged, “I am composed,” or “I am content.” But all signs of consciousness soon ceased, and he lingered, entirely insensible, until 7:15 o’clock on Wednesday evening, the 23d.

“Cranks” and the World’s Fair.

As was to be expected, the fair hagi attracted the indigenous and numerous American “cranks;” as well as foreign persons with mental and moral crotchets. These, and also youthful geniuses, have besieged personally and by letter, the Ways and Means Committee, of which Edwin B. Butler is chairman, and Samuel A. Crawford is secretary. A few examples will indicate how much of human nature as it really is will not be on exhibition at the fair. An American was early in the field with a divine revelation of the site which had been foreordained for the fair when the foundations of the world were laid, and an Englishman has desired to be put on exhibition as the Messiah. Two boys “of respectable parentage” in western New York nave offered to walk to Chicago, and to camp on the Exposition grounds with the purpose of illustrating the life of tramps, and of lecturing on its vicissitudes. Another boy of sixteen recommended that a number of nickle-in-the-slot phonographs fixed to repeat amusing fish stories might be placed in the Fisheries Building and about the grounds; he urged that a royalty on the suggestion would enable him to help his widowed mother. An enterprising dealer in cosmetics asked for space to exhibit an old woman, one half of whose face was to be smoothed out with his preparation and the remainder left with its mortal wrinkles until the end of the fair, when he would smooth out the other half in the presence of the multitude. The parents of a “favorite orator” of six years offered his services as introducer of the chief orator at the dedicatory ceremonies, which would, they thought, lend emphasis to the portentious importance of theoccasion. A mathematician asked for standing room where he might show the world how to square the circle. Out of Indiana came a solver of perpetual motion; he was informed that space could not be allotted for the exhibition of an idea, so he would have to bring on his machine; later he informed the committee that his self-feeding engine, which had been running a sewing machine, had unfortunately broken down, but the grincipal remained the same.” A eorgian asked for a concession to conduct a cockpit, and another son of the South knew of a colored child which was an anatomical wonder and could be had by stealing it from its mother; for a reasonable sum he was willing to fill the office of kidnapper. Innumerable freaks of nature have been tendered, and the pretty English barmaid has in several instances inclosed her photograph with an offer of assistance to the fair. A serious offer came from a Spaniard, who had been disgusted with the weak attempts to give bull fights in Paris during the. recent exposition. He offered to fill the brutal void at the Columbian fair if he could be assured the privilege of producing the spectacle “with all its real and genuine circumstances.” . The Ist of May is not especially sad, yet a great many are very much moved by its coming.