Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1893 — Page 7

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

■ Gov. Altgeld was hung in effigy at Jonesboro. The New York montment at Gettysburg was unveiled Sunday. .■ a --- . . The late banker Dn xel made liberalprovi? ion for certain charities . _ ' Colorado smelters are seriously embarrassed by the drop in silver. A damaging w reck occurred on tM> western division of the Lake Shore road. 6A. J. Drexel - , the Philadelphia banker, died at Carlsbad, Germany, Friday. Dr. McGlynn, the famous New York priest, is in Chicago to see the Fair. The Philadelphia mint yet has oh hand about a million souveniPhaN’dollars. By consolidation a reduction of twenty will be made in the number of land offices. Lane Seminary may be abandoned, as a result of the trouble with the Presbyterian Assembly. The Hartley Bank, of Jericho, Mo., was robbed of 110,000, Wednesday, by a gang of robbers. The steamer Haytien Republic, with 500 Chinese on board, was seized at Portland, Ore. ■ '5. A statue of Admiral Farragut was unveiled in the Marine Park at Boston, Wednesday. Gov. Russell delivered an ■ oration. _ Wm, Jackson and Rose Young, of Bristol, Pa., after a more or less eventful courtship of twenty years, were married, Thursday. , The closing commencement exercises of Yale college took place at New Haven, Wednesday. A class of 434 students was graduated. A number of men were badly hurt by the giving way of a floor at the cold storage building, World’s Fair grounds, Wednesday evening. 1 Cicero Harrison, aged seventy-eight, a cousin of ex-Presidcnt Harrison and a wealthy manufacturer, is mysteriously missing from New York. The collector at El Paso has been instructed to no longer admit sulphides of silver or bullion of less than 8109 value without a consular invoice, * Surgeon-General Wyman has been notified of the death from yellow fever of the captain of the bark Anita Berwind, lying in the Salima river, Georgia. ‘ Ohio Prohibitionists at Cleveland, Wednesday, nominated a full State ticket, with Rev. G. P. Macklin, of Germantown, as the candidate for Governor. Smelters throughout the mining regions of the West refuse to buy any more silver, on account of the low price of the metal, and many have shut down. Restauranter Reed and his two sons threw William Waldeck Into a lied of mortar at Ashtabula. O„ for trying to collect a bill. Waldeck will be blind for life. Mrs. O’Leary’s cow is evidently still at large. An animal of that description kicked a Pittsburg man, Wednesday, igniting a box of matches in his pocket and he was fatally burned. Health officers, in searching the hovel of a beggar woman known as “Aunt Sukey,” at Atlantic City, New Jersey found title deeds showing that she owned real estate worth 8100,000. Prof. Davis, of New York, has perfected a life-saving kite, to be used by ships in distress to carry a line to the shore. The apparatus was given a successful test at Newport, R. 1., Thursday. News from the Pelagic sealers in northern waters is that the sealing season’s catch is fully as large as in previous years. The catch of twenty-nino vessels so far heard fyom out of the 100 is 22,500 seals. The New York clearing house, Thursday, issued §9,000,000 of certificates. The financial situation was -at once improved and interest rateson call loans, which had been mounting upward for several days, speedily bepame normal. Stock quotations on the New York market, Saturday, showed a decided iiflprovement, as a result, it is believed, of President Cleveland’s proclamation convening Congress in extra session. Wheat advanced one cent per bushel at Chicago, also. It s reported that, the Pullman car shops at Detroit, which have given employment to 1,100 men, willbeclosed within two weeks, and those in authority say they will never bo reopened, Mr. Pbiknan desiring to concentrate his interests at Pullman, 111.

There is considerable excitement near Knobnoster, Mo., over a search for buried treasure now being conducted. Tradition says that Spaniards in early times buried 81,5C0,000 in gold and silver near that place to prevent its capture by Indians, and were subsequently killed by the savages who failed to find the money. Mexico has developed a financial scheme for the United States. The suggestion is that the latter issue 8500,0C0,000 gold bonds, which will be readily taken in Europe. This, it is argued, will cause a drain of gold to the United States, bi-metallism will be forced upon the European countries, and the American stock of silver will appreciate enormously. 0 John J. Lamb, treasurer of the International Machinists’ Association, who decamped with the funds of the association while in session at Indianapolis, in May, pleaded guilty at Scranton, Pa., to the charge of embezzlement of 13,500. He was sentenced to prison for one year. •' According to information given out Wednesday by the publishers of the Chicago city directory. Chicago is now the most populous eity in New York by 430.000. The 1893 estimate of Chicago’s population is 2,100.000. The calculation is that the names in the directory represent about one person in four residents. The new directory contains 150 more pages of names than last year. A sensational sequel to Gov. Altgeld’s action in pardoning. t,he gparchists has developed. The Chicago Journal has raised

the question whether Altgeld is legally Governor of Illinois or a citizen of the United States. If the Journal’s statements are true Altgeld, being of foreign birth, his father not becoming ft naturalized citizen before the Governor reached the age of twenty-one, is not legally Governor. The case is likely to be carried to the'eourts for settlements. The new liquor law of South Carolina went into effect June 30. Grocery men and liquor dealers throughout the State closed out their stocks to the highest bidder, and it is believed that all Who want liquor habitually have a supply sufficient to last six months, which is the limit that is generally set for the enforcement of the ndw law, people believing that it will be a failure for State officials to’ attempt to conduet the traffic. Bandits near Breckenridge, Texas, made

a bold attack on a passenger train, Wednesday. The robbers shot down and killed Fireman Martin. The passengers, twelve in number, nil armed, rashed to the rescue and the robbers took to the hush, excepting May, who was deserted by his comrades while on the engine cab. May tried, to intimidate the engineer, but failed, and then started to run tsp the track, but Conductor Steeled jumping ibto the engine cab, put loose from the train, and after a chase captured the bandit single-handed. May refused to make toy statement further than that, they intended to rob the express car.

FOREIGN.

5 Mr. Gladstone has determined to . push the home role bill; and it will be reported to the House of Commons, July 31. The French gunboat Lutin is anchored in front of Bangkok, the capital of Biam, and preparations have been made to fire on the city. Advices from Mecca show that 999 persons died from cholera in that city. Tuesday. This is the largest number yet reported during the present epidemic. Sir Michael Cume-Seymonr has bepn made chief of tho British Mediterranean station to succeed Vice-Admiral Sir G*<?. tryon, who lost his life by the foundering of the battleship Victoria. Rear-Admiral Markham's official report to the Admiralty office concerning the loss of H. M. 8. Victoria in the collision off Tripoli holds Admiral Tryon responsible for the catastrophe, because of his ordering an impossible maneuver. Rector Ahhvardt, the Jew-baiter of the Reichstag, has again been convicted of libeling Prussian officers and sentenced to three months’ imprisonment. He is now in the Ploetzenzee prison, serving out the sentence imposed on him for libeling Herr von Loewe, Hebrew gunmaker, and German officials. The latest libekwas/ uttered in a speech at Essen in October, 1881, and consisted of statements to the effeet that German, and more particularly Prussian officiai life was corrupted by Jewish influence. Reports received at Madrid from Manilla show that a desperate fight has taken place on the Island of Mindoro, the largestof the Philippine groups A force of 0,000 rebellious natives, led by their Sultan, made an attack on FortMunmungan, Mindoro. The Spanish garrison successfully repulsed the natives after a stubbornly contested-fight. The natives lost eighty-seven men killed, including the Sultan, while 300 Of their number were wounded. The Spanish loss, if any, is not known.

WASHINGTON.

The President summarily removed from office Mt. Lotans, collector of customs at Portland, Ore. He landed Chinese in violation of the law. Spanish officials are excited over the receipt of an anonymous communication an nouncing the intention of the anarchists to blow up the Chamber of Deputies President Cleveland has signified his intention of taking part in the ceremonies connected with the centennial celebration of the laying of the corner stone of the capitol. He will introduce the orator of the day. Ex-Senator John B. Henderson has ad, dressed a lengthy .letter to Secretary Carlisle on the financial situation favoring a gold' basis and holding Bland and Sherman responsible for the present' embarassing situation. Ho believes that the country has been -going wrong for many years. As a result of the accident to the Ford's Theater building Secretary Lamont has issued an order that hereafter the chief of engineers will have charge of all buiid--1 ngs, either rented or other wise, occupied by the War Department or any of its bureaus or offices in the District of Columbia. The Busch building is closed. Secretary Carlisle ordered that the portion of the force in the Sixth Auditor’s office employed in this alleged unsafe structure be dismissed with instructions to report again. Meantime the work of strengthening suggested in a recent report of Superintending Architect O’Rourke, of the Treasury, will be pursued.

THE EXTRA SESSION.

Proclamation by the President Calling Congress Together. The National legislature Will Meet August 7 to Consider the Financial Situation. The following proclamation was issued ate o’clock Friday evening: “Executive Mansion, “Washington, D. C., June 30, 1893. “Whereas, The distrust and apprehension concerning the financial situation which pervades all business circles have already caused great loss and damage to pur people ana threaten to cripple our merchants, stop the wheels’of manufacture, bring distress and privation to our farmers, and withhold from our workingmen the wage of labor. “And whereas, The perilous condition Is largely the result of a financial policy which the Executive branch of the Government finds embodied in unwise laws which must be exccutued until repealed by Cougress; “Now, therefore I. Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, in performance of a constitutional duty, do, by this proclamation, declare that an extraordinary occasion requires the convening of both houses of the Congress of the United States at the Capitol in the city of Washington, on the 7th day of August next, at 12 o’clock, noon, Idtheend that people may be relieved through legislation from present and impending danger and distress. All those entitled to act as members of the Fifty-third Congress are required to take notice of this proclamation and attend at the time and place above stated.

“Given under my hand and the seal of the United States, at the city of Washington, on the 30th-day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and seventeenth. “Groveb Cleveland.” The President left Washington for Buzzard’s Bay, Friday evening. He will be absent three weeks. The determination to call an extra session of Congress the first week in August was only reached at Friday morning’s session of the Cabinet. It is believed in Washington that the action of the British government in suspending silver coinage th India brought matters to a crisis and induced the President to alter his determination, heretofore expressed, not to convene the extra session before September., The proclamation ! was a surprise in Jfew York financial circles, but the effect on the business situation, it Is believed, will be salutary.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

The Thorntown creamery burned; loss 85,000. _ ’ -—4— The Yorktown strawboard factory has started up. t The police of Richmond arc raiding the poker dens, A temperance revival is in progress at Crothersville., * Good bas? fishing is reported in the Mississinewa river. The Indiana iron- works, of Muncle, has closed down to make repairs. Rev. Mr. Wood, of Brookville, officiated at three weddings, Thursday; The aphis has played havoc with the apple crop in Lagrange county. The Midland steel-works, of Anderson, has signed the Amalgamated Association scale. Susie Randolph, a dwarf of Columbus, has fallen, heir to a large estate in PhilaAlbany has secured the location of two additional glass factories and one hollowware factory. The wheat yield of Orange county will average thirty bushels per acre, and is the" bc°t for years. William Cox is a hermit who has lived alone in a little hut near Petersburg, on the banks of the Patoka river, for seven years. Ex-President Harrison was in New York, Thursday, en route to Cape May. Ho was interviewed on various questions, but was non-committal on all. W. W. Rockhill has been appointed postmaster at Fort Wayne, to succeed Higgins, removed. Mr. Rockhill is one of the publishers of the Fort Wayne Journal. Edwin Pittinger was fatally injured at his home near Dasota, Saturday. While attempting to< fix a pulley in a tree top he fell a distance of thirty feet and his back was broken. E. N. Bowman, of Cpvington. will be appointed deputy third auditor of the treasury at a salary of 12,250 a year. The appointment will be made on the recommendation of Senator Voorhees. Another monster gas well has. been struck at Redkey, with a product of 3,500,000 cubic feet daily. The combined output of the six wells now open at this place is estimated at twenty million feet per day. William Kline, mysteriously assaulted with a hatchet kt Brightwood on the 22d, died, Friday, the 30th, after a brief return to consciousness. He was unable to tell who his assailant was, and there is no clew to the perpetrator of the crime. Calvin Miller, near Marion, was presented with triplets nine months ago. The combined weight of the children at present is fifty-five pounds. Mr. Miller, being a stanch Democrat, has given the babes the names of Grover. Frances and Ruth. Four-fifths of the several hundred depositors in the Fairmount Bank have signed an agreement topermittheir deposits, aggregating 5100,000, to remain in the bank, in order to replace the concern on its feet. The bank will reopen on the 15th inst. Superintendent Black, of the Michigan City public park, took great pride in the park fountain,. and he stocked it-with beautiful fish. The other night some unknown scamp threw strychnine into the water in sufficient quantities to poison the fish. The Indianapolis Journal is authority for the statement that Gov. Matthews' will call an extra session of the Legislature next winter and will urge the repeal of the McHugh law as well as recommend various measures which are deemed of urgent importance. 1 Twenty-one pioneers, all over seventy years of age, engaged in a CPU test, with reaping hooks at Mapleton, an Indianapolis suburb, Friday. The first prize was won by Daniel Hollingsworth, aged sev-enty-one. He cut and bound 102% pounds of wheat in nine minutes and five seconds. Orlando Byer, aged thirty years, a news agent on the L. S. & M. S„ committed suicide by jumping from the train near Goshen. The deed was a very deliberate one, and a letter which ho handed to Charles Langdon before he took the leap plainly shows that he had fully planned the move. . William Rickard, of Kokomo, while dissipating, passed two spurious silver dollars. His arrest followed, and the authorities discovered that a quantity of Spurious coin had been set afloat in that city within the past few days. It is surmised that other parties besides Rickard were engaged in passing It. A party of twelve will leave English, July 4, to go to the World’s Fair in can-vas-covered wagons drawn by oxen. Six of these travelers are old •’forty-niners.” They will carry their cooking utensils and food from home. They will also take their bedding with them, and endeavor to live just as.they did in their overland trip to the Pacific slope.

Auditor George Pence, of Bartholomew county, together with bis brother, Charles, who spent several years at Denver. Col., and William, another brother, of Salt Lake City, after careful investigation, have leased a large tract of land in Brown county for Sold mining purposes. They believe there is enough gold in the tract to pay for wojalng. The Valparaiso Sun reports that W. Fred Pettit, the wife-murderer in the prison north, recently underwent a surgical operation which left him in a very precarlous condition The Shn further says that it Is the belief of the prison officials that he will never live to hear the decision of the Supreme Court on his appeal for a new trial. A party of religious workers styling themselves “Heavenly Recruits" have begun a series of meetings at Tipton Junction. The meetings are under the direction of a young man named Buck, who preaches a trance religion. Several of the converts have been thrown into a cataleptic condition, in one Instance the attack continuing for several hours. The will of Mark Davis has just been probated at Indianapolis, and the bulk of his estate is left to Earlham College, at Richmond. Slxty-elght thousand dollars wore given to Individuals and various benevolent organizationsr the Flower M ission <3,000, free kindergarten <3,000, Home of Friendless Women <3,000, Orphan Asylum <3,000, Friends’ church, on Delaware street, <5,000. The Chicago & Central Indiana electric railway, Tuesday, placed the order ' through the Chicago office for 500 miles of seventy-pound steel rails, to be used in the construction of their roads. The company also placed an order for a five hun-

dred-horse poxver compound engine, to be used in the car works. Other orders for material will be placed in a few days, and the active work of construction will be pushed with '' < George D. Clemmons, the well-known contractor and builder, of Muncie, is mysteriously missing. He settled at Muncie three years ago and the first-year did a rushing business, clearing 510,000. The last two years, however, the rapid rise in building material and labor and the tightness of the money market gave him great concern, and he worried oyer several of hts contracts which turned out badly There is fear that ho is mentally affected and that he has committed suicide. The following patents were granted to Indiana inventors, Tuesday: H. B. Boyd, Cambridge City, assignor of one-half to L. A. Boyd, Indianapolis, pneumatic tire; W. Hall, Fort Wayne, shoe; T. J Hatfield, Dublin, fanning mill: J. N. Kailor, assignor to Reeves & Co., Columbus, screen shoe for clover hullers; R. W. Lundy, South Bend, track for door Over, Indianapoli,s soil pulverizer and roller; W. T. Putnam, Brightwood, oil burner; W. H. Robbins, MUI Grove, lampburner attachment; T. S. Wagoner, assignor of one-half to M. J. CarnahaiOE - Co., Loogootee, post driver; J. E Worrell, Jeffersonville, plumb level. The well on the Widow Pugh farm, on the line between Jay and Blackford counties, which was abandoned two years ago, broke loose, a few nights ago with terrific force, and with a rumble that could be heard for a long distance. It flowed one tank of oil in an incredibly short space of time, and overflowed over the surrounding ground before another could be provided. The well still continues to be a great producer and is the wonder of the Northwest field. • William H. Pigg and John Carson, confined in jail at Newport, on chargesof embezzlement and attempted murder, respectively, broke the lock of the inner door with a piece of gas pipe, and while the daughter qf the sheriff was gone after water, leaving the front door unlocked, they rushed'qut and escaped. The firstnamed, who is an attorney, left a note addressed to the sheriff, saying he would return in time for his trial.

The circumstances attending the suicide of Mrs. W. T. Davis, of Dana, are pathetic. She was a sensitive, nervous woman, a model housekeeper, refined in taste, a devoted wife and mother, and an ardent Christian. Her husband was ill, and she besought him to try thebichlorlde of gold treatment, to break off his dissipated habits. Finally she saw the last dollar of her surplus ckecked out. For more than a week she prepared for her self-destruction, carefully cleaning the house, washing all the clothes, and setting everything to rights, as was her custom. She confided to two intimate friends her purpose, but they, could, not believe she really was in earnest. On Sunday evening she swallowed rough on rats, and when the physician came she pleaded with him for something that would hasten death. Nothing could be done in relief. Two ministers officiated at the funeral service, and a large number of friends attended the burial. She left two little daughters, twelve and ten years old.

NEW YORK REPUBLICANS.

Sixth Annual Convention of Republican Leagues at Saratoga. The sixth annual convention of Republican leagues of New York met at Saratoga, Tuesday. Letters regretting inability to attend were read from ex-Presi-dent Harrison, ex-Vice President Morton and Hon. Whitelaw Reid. The letter of Mr. Reid was very lengthy. Among other things he said: You will find the country in an unfornate condition. The duty of every one of us is to do every right thing in our power to help the President and Congress to relieve tne situation. Ouroparty will not be unfaithful to that duty. Mr. Cleveland can confidently count, in Congress and throughout the country on more support in the first vital question of the day from the Republicans he tried to defeat than from the Democrats he helped to elect. In Industry the situation is only what most of us have long believed Inevitable. In an address before your league, last summer, at Buffalo, I had occasion to say that there was no intelligent business man, no matter what his politics, who did not know that the changes in the currency and the tariff threatened by our opponents, whatever their ultimate consequences, meant at the outset a general disturbance and unsettlement, of business for at least eighteen months. The result Is now upon us. By so much as Mr. Cleveland in these unhappy trials proves himself better than his party he will have our loyal and patriotic support. It is our country as well as theirs; and it is our policy, not theirs, under which it has had Its magnificent prosperity and growth.

The resolutions affirm constant belief in the system of. American protection, and view the present disturbed financial conditions as resulting from lack of confidence on the part of the people in the present executive of the Nation and the dominant party in Congress, fearing lest the President and the Democratic party may be true to the free trade principles of the Chicago platform; charge that the fear that the Democratic Congress will destroy the protective policy of the last thirty years Is the chief cause of the business hesitancy and depression; believe the purchasing power of every dollar should be maintained; note the hostility of the administration to the pension system; refer to the unpatriotic lowering of the flag at Honolulu and hold the administration responsible for the anarchy which now threatens the island: extend earnest support to McKinley. The remainder of the resolutions are devoted mainly to State matters. ■ * The fireman of a fast freight train on the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore rood, Tuesday night, observed that the engineer did not slack up in rounding the curve near Chester, Pa., and clambered up into the cab to see what the trouble was. He made the startling discovery that Engineer Ebenezer Craig was dead at his post. The fireman quickly reversed the engine and brought it to a standstill in front of the Chester station. When the train stepped a few miles northeast Craig was apparently all right.

SO, NOW, BOSS.

1 Now it is a cow race from Tyler. Texas, to the World's Fair. Each cow is to pull a gig, and a purse of <5,00) lias been offered for the winner. The Georgia watermelon will soon begin to supercede the Georgia office-seeker as an object of popular attention.

THE COWBOY RACE.

The Novel Contest Attract* Great Attention—Cry of Foul, The closely contested cowboy race from Chadron, Neb., to the final registering place at the arena at Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show at the World’s Fair, extended over 1,000 miles, and was conducted, through the instrumentality of Col. W. F. Cody, to the entire satisfaction of the officers of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to animals, who had deterarise. One after another of the contestants dropped out at different points along the route, their horses giving out, the riders taking the cars and leaving their steeds behind. Smith and Gillespie, two of the contestants, were accused of riding in a hack and leading their horses unsaddled, and when confronted with the proof acknowledged the corn and with-

JOHN BURKE, SUPERINTENDING RACE.

drew from the race. Geo. Jones, one of the contestants, reached Freeport, 111., at 5:45 Monday evening with Stephensnot far behind, with their horses in good condition. Several other contestants still in the race were in good condition, as were also their animals, but evidently they had no chance to win. But appearances are often deceitful and proved to be so in this case, as John Berry, oneof the laggards.proved to be the winner, arrivingat Chicago at 9:30 a. m., Tuesday. Berry was covered with dust, the perspiration running down his bronzed face and dropping on the neck of the jaded, mud-bespattered horse. The rider was clad in a grimy white shirt, a pair of yellow jeans panto and wearing on his head a worn-out, limber-rimmed cowboy hat. He half tumbled from his saddle In front of Col. .Cody’s tent, so weak and tired that he was unable to rise to his feet or to grasp the proffered hand of Col. Cody, who cordially welcomed the little man who had ridden 1.040 miles. He was hardly able to hold his head up. Emmet Albright came in seconfl. arrivingat 11:15. Albright made the last 146 miles in twenty-four hours. His horse is in a fairly good condition.

THE LOST ADMIRAL

Great Sorrow in England Over the Lot* of the Gallant Officer and HU Men. Additional details of the terrible loss of life by the sinking of the battleship Victoria, on the 23d, are appalling. The accident was totally unexpected, and was mainly due to the failure of Admiral Markham, commanding the Camperdown, to promptly obey orders. Vice Admiral Sir George Tryon, who was lost with the Victoria, was the grandson of the last

THE LOST ADMIRAL—SIR GEORGE TRYON

English Governor of New York, and was oneof the most gallant and distinguished officers of the English navy. Lady Tryon, at the hour of the accident, was holding a reception in London, and was resting from 'the fatigue incident to entertaining two hundred guests when the sad news was conveyed to htr by her son and brother. Queen Victoria immediately sent a personal representative to inquire after Lady Tryon’s health. Emperor William, of Germany, telegraphed a message of symuathy and regard, testifying to the personal esteem in which he held Sir George. The event has cast a gloom over the United Kingdom that has had no counterpart in recent years.

STATE MILITIA ENCAMPMENT.

Terre Haute Will Get It—Offer of the Roby “Sports” Ignored. The State military encampment will be held at Terre Haute from July 21 to 27. The offer of citizens of that place was accepted by Adjutant-General Robbins, and he will recommend to the Governor that the encampment be ordered to be held there. The offer Includes grounds for the camp and all the horses needed, wood, straw, and rifle range free to the State. This is not in the nature of a bonus, but is merely to reimburse the State for the extra expense incurred by reason of taking the camp so far away from the heart of the State. The trip to Terre Haute will make a difference of about <2,000 in the railroad cost of mobilizing the troops, which number abont 2.600. Gen. Robbins says that the report that he intended or desired to hold the encampment at Roby is utterly without foundation, and he shows papers in proof in connection with correspondence with citizens of Terre Haute. Ho asked that city to furnish all that its citizens have agreed to do, aud <I,OOO in money besides, but the best offer made was <6OO. Inasmuch as there was no acceptable competition, there was no alternative except to select the Terre Haute, offer. Governor Matthews said that he had the sole authority in selecting the place, and that no proposition to uso the grounds of the Roby race track would be considered. His impression had been that there was a desire on the part of some of the officers and men to hold the encampment near Hammond and keep up the camp •bout ten days, so the boys could take two days at the World's Fair, the State, of course, not paying for these days as service In its behalf.

THE ABSORBING TOPIC.

Th* Financial mtwstioa aad the- Metre .‘Mlon of CongreM. New York bankers, Wednesday, reported an easier condition of Mte narket. There was much talk tn Wall -tr.-ft.-i-; to the reasons which prevented the President calling Congress together immediately. Owe of the reports was to the effect that the President hi conversation with a leading member of the House had said that while there was no reasonable doubt about there being a majority in the House favorable to the repedt Of the Sherman law, it was by no means certain that a like result would* follow in rhe Senate, and that this uncertainty of the Senate was the principal factor against the calling of an extra session earlier than September. An intimate friend of Secretary Carlisle is authority for the statement that a canvass made in Mr. Cleveland’s behalf has disclosed the fact that while there is a majority of the House favorable to the repeal -of -thelaw there is a majority of twenty in the Senate the other wav. A general belief prevails, however, that an extra session of Congress will be called very soon. Bankers and many prominent business men are besieging Secretary Carlisle, and urging that Congress be convened at once. The talk of the silver men since they have got :>ver the shock of the news from India to defiant and they declare that they are more than ever determined to maintain the white metal as a money standard. Ex-President Harrison will spend July and August in his cottage at Cape May. For a few days in September he will entertain the Grand Army guests, and after that he will be about ready to start for California to deliver his course of lectures it Stanford University. —— - Edmund Law Rogers, of Baltimore, recently exhibited before an I issembly of dentists a complete set [ >f false teeth that had been worn by ' George Washington. The base plates ' were of lead and perfectly flat. Some rs the teeth weTeof ivory and others had been extracted from a living person. , At the Paris Academy of Inscriptions M. Haureau has announced the: liscovery of a new manuscript of Abelard's poem addressed to his son. It contains 1,040 verses, of which jnly 461 were hitherto known. It. contains some of the heretical views 1 attributed to him. It mentions Heloise, and versifies a passage from jne of her letters. M. Hureau will publish the poem.

THE MARKETS.

July 8.1803. Indianapolis. ’ GRAIN AND HAY. Wheat—No. 2red, 58c; No. 3 red, 52@ »3c; No. 4 red, 50c: rejected, 45@50; unmerchantable, 35@40c; wagon wheat. «1. Corn—No. 1 white, 40>.jc; Nq. 2 white. K)c:No. 3 white, 39c; No. 4 white, 32c;No. 2 .vhite mixed, 38c; No. 3 white mixed, 37c; So. 4 white mixed, 30c; No. 2 yellow, 38c; No. 3 yellow, 37c; No. 4 yellow. 30c; No. 2 mixed, 38c; No. 3 mixed, 37c; No. I mixed, 30c; sound ear. 41c for yellow. Oats—No. 2 white, 34c; No. 3 white, 13c; No. 2 mixed, 20c; No. 3 mixed, 29c; •ejected. 25<®30c. Hay—Choice timothy, 812.50; No. 1. H 2; No. 2, 89; No. 1 prairie, 87; mixed, >8; clover, 89. Bran, 811. LIVESTOCK. .'attlk—Export grades. 8 [email protected] Sood to choice shippers....... Fair to medium shippers...... Fair to choice feeders 3.75(<*4.25 Stockers, 500 to 800 2.75(33.50 food to choice heifers 3.75f<*4.2& Fair to medium heifers, 3.25(33.60 Jommon to thin heifers 2.50(33.00 ?ood to choice cows 3.50(34.00 Fair to medium cows [email protected] "ommon old cows - 1.50(32.25 Veals, common to good. < 3.50(36.00 Bulls, common to fair « 2.25(32.75 Bulls, good to choice 3.00(33.75' Milkers, good to choice [email protected] VI ilkers, common to fair. 18 00(325.00 Hogs—Heavy packingand shipping ~ . ■■...... [email protected] Mixed 5.80(3’6.00 Light Heavy roughs , 4.50(35.75 Pigs 5.00(35.90 Sheep—Good to choice clipped. 3.75(34.25 Fair to medium c1ipped.......... 3.25(33.60 stockers clipped 2.50® 3.00 spring Lamos ...... 3.00(34.75 Bucks, tier head 2.0X34.00 poultry and other produce. [Prices Paid by Dealers.) Poultry liens, lb; young chickens, 12@14c turkeys.young toms. 8c ¥ 1b; >jens. 9c ¥ 1b; ducks, 6c lb; geese, BK<? 1.80 for choice. « £gos— Shippers paying 12c. utter—Grass butter, 10@12c; Honey—lß@2oc. Feathers Prime Geese, 40c ¥ mixed duck, V B>. BEESwax—2oc for yellow; 15c for dark. Wool. —Fine merino. 12@16c; medium unwashed, 17c; coarse or braid wool, 14@16c; tub-washed, 20(325c. Detroit. Wheat, 65c. Corn. No. 2,40 c. Oats, No. • white, 31* 2 c. Clover seed, 46.35. Minneapolis.

Wheat, 60c. New York. Wheat, No. 2 red, 71c. Corn, No. 2, c. Oats, 35c. Lard, <9.70. Butter. Western dairy, 15@18c; creamery, 17@2Se. Chicago. Wheat, 64i,c. Corn, 39\ z c. Oats, ?Bc. Pork, <20.10. Lard, <9.25. Short-ribs, 18.30. Cattle--Prime steers, <[email protected]; others <[email protected]. Hogs—Heavy mixed and packers, <6.">5<a6.70; prime heavy. <[email protected]; prime light, <[email protected]; other lights, <[email protected]. Sheep —N ati ves, <4.50 @5.50; lambs, [email protected]. Cincinnati. Wheat, No. 2 red, 6O@tt2c; Corn, No. 2 mixed. 37c; Oats, No. 2 white western. 30c; Rye, No. 2,45 c; Mess Pork, <20.10; Lard, <9.00; Bulk Meats. <9.15; Bacon, <11.25. Butter, creamery fancy, 20c; Eggs, 12c. Cattle, <[email protected]. Hogs, [email protected]. Sheep, <[email protected]. Lambs, <[email protected]. - . _ St. Louin. Wheat, No. 2 red, 61Xc; Corn, No. 2 mixed, 36JX; Oats, No. 2,29 c; Butter, 20a . ...... BafflUo. Cattle. [email protected]. Hogs, heavy, «f1.20@<5.70; mixed, <6.80@ <6.90; light, <[email protected]. ___ Sheep, native, <4.80@f500.; Texas, <3.25@ Philadelphia. Wheat. No. 2 Red, 68c; Corn. Na 2 Mixed, 4?c; Oats, 37c; butter, creamery» 28><c; eggs, 12Mc. Baltimore. Wheat, No. 2 Red. 67%c; Corn, mixed; 48H'c; Oats, No. 2. White Western. 39v. Rye. 60c; Pork, <21.62; Butter, creamery, 22c: Eggs, 14, l ,c.