Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1875 — Page 2

RENSSELAER UNION? 4 • -—•—-*■ W JAMES A HEALEY,. Prtfriam. , RENSSELAER, - INDIANA.

THE NEWS.

Great Fires at Osaka and Yokohama, Japan. News from Spain—Carlist Home Resounds Exhausted. z United States Senatorial Excur* curwlon to Mexico. Passage of the Louisiana Resolution in the Senate. Reduction In Passenger Freights from Chicago to the East. ♦ A Decision that the Civikßights Bill Does Not Apply to Restaurants. Letter from Gen. Sheridan Concerning the Black Hilla. Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc., Etc.

FOREIGN. A Madrid dispatch of the 22d says that Gen. Cabrera, in going over to King Alphonse, took with him eight of the Carlist chieftains. Castelar has resigned his professorship in the university In consequence of the Government re-establishing in the schools and colleges the text-books prescribed during Isabella’s reign and otherwise changing the mode of public instruction. A Paris dispatch of the 24th announces the discovery of a conspiracy the object of which was the assassination of Gen. Cabrera, the recusant Carlist chieftain. Don Carlos had issued a decree calling into the military service all the males in the Navarre Provinces over eighteen years old. Louis Kossuth has been defeated in a parliamentary contest in Hungary. Over 10,000 people attended the funeral of John Mitchel at Newry, Ireland, on the 23d. A great fire burred in Osaka, Japan, on the 7th of February, which destroyed 1,300 buildings and caused the loss of several lives. On the preceding day 300 houses were burned in Yokohama. Another defeat has been inflicted upon the Carlists at Huguet, in which they lost 300 and the Alphonsists sixty-eight killed. According to the latest advices from Estella, up to the 26th, Gens. Mundera, Saballa and Tristany had united in a protest against Gen. Cabrera’s manifesto in favor of Alphonso. A Melbourne (Australia) dispatch of the 26th announces the escape of twenty Communist prisoners from New Caledonia, under th e leadership of Dr. Rastaoul. A Madrid telegram of the 26th says that on the recent arrival of Gen. Loma at Zuruguary, the Carlists fraternized with the Alphonsists, and demonstrations were made by both armies in favor of peace. An Estella (Spain) dispatch of the 28th says that deputies from the four provinces occupied by the Carlists had met to consider the request of Don Carlos for contributions, and had replied that the country is exhausted; that fresh sacrifices are impossible, and that Don Carlos should procure funds abroad. Dispatches from Madrid report that Don Carlos had ordered persons found reading the Cabrera manifesto to be shot. There have recently been additional instances of fraternization of the Carlists and Alphcnsists on the banks of the Orea. A Santander dispatchstates that Don Carlos had departed for Ramales with sixteen battalions and artillery to meet a threatened invasipp of the province. Spain had paid 11,000 thalers for the Gustav outrage. \ An equinoctial hurricane passed over Vancouver Island on the 24th. At Victoria several vessels were badly injured, trees were uprooted and the telegraph lines demolished.

DOMESTIC. The Elizabeth Life Insurance C-Ainpany of Elizabeth, N. J., has failed. A tornado has recently visited the Ouachita Valley, in Louisiana, by which the loss of life and destruction of property were very great. Smithland was leveled te the ground, and at Ray’s Point plantation buildings, fences, mules, horses and cattle were scattered for miles. The track of the tornado was 300 yards wide and extended for fifteen miles. The United States Supreme Court has decided that dividends and profits earned in the last half of the year IS7O are subject to the income tax of 2X per cent. James Brown was hanged at Pottsville Pa., on the 24th, for the murder, in February, 1872, of Daniel S. Kreamer, his wife, her mother (Mrs. Machemer) and Annette Kreamer. In reply to a telegram from one of the miners who recently came out of the Black Hills, as to whether he would be permitted to return with reinforcements and provisions, Gen. Ord is reported as saying: “Troops from Fort Laramie and hostile Indians have both gone for' you miners. For their sakes I hope the troops will reach them first, as the military orders are simply to bring in the party, confine the leaders, burn their wagons, and destroy their outfit” A National Conference of Representative Workingmen is to be held at Cincinnati on the first Tuesday in September next A large body of armed Mexicans attacked everal ranches about seven miles from Corpus Christi, Tex., on the evening "Of the 26th, and robbed one store, taking several Americans prisoners. An invasion of the city was apprehended and the excitement was intense, all the citizens being under arms. After the Ist of next May mutilated currency will be redeemed according to rules which were formerly in existence but afterward abolished. Money will be redeemed according to the proportion remaining of the bill. • A Washington dispatch of the 28th says instructions would be issued through the War Department to the General commanding in Texas to take such measures as may be possible'to deal summarily with Mexican raiders. ' ’

The Chicago papers of the 29th announce a mate Awßed action, of passenger rates to the East over the Michigan Central, Michigan Southern and Pittsburgh <fcFort Wayne Roads, to go into effect April 1 or as soon as the necessary tickets were printed. The reduction is as follows: To New York; from $22 to sls; to Philadelphia, from sl9 to. sl2; to Baltimore and Washington, from sl9 to $9; to Boston, from $27 to $18.85. Freight rates were unsettled. The Tribune saj’s: “If the Baltimore Ohio Intends to keep its present advantage it must reduce its rates still lower than those established by the other roads." __ PEHSONAU The United States Senate on the 22d confirmed the nomination of John Parker ns United States Marshal for the Western District of Michigan. In her direct examination on the 22d„J Bessie Turner corrected some of her previous I statements regarding dates, and identified several letters which she had received at different times from Mr. Tilton while he was absent from home. She said Mr. and Mrs. Tilton sent her to boarding-school, but nothing was ever said about her going away in connection with the charges against Mr. Beeeller. A letter was then read, written by witness to Mrs. Tilton in January, 1871, stating that Mrs. Morse had endeavored to,pr»cure her to circulate stories injurious to Mr. Tilton, and also a second letter stating that thy story that Mr. Tilton carried her from her bed was a wicked lie, which second note witness said was written at the urgent solicitation of Mrs. Tilton. Witness Was cross-examined as to her statement before the Church Examining Committee and stated that she had made some mistakes in her story there which she herself had subsequently discovered. She would have then told all she had sworn to on the trial had she remembered it at the time. She could not be certain as to exact dates of several occurrences sworn to here by her. Up to the time she came on the stand she had told her story substantially to a stenographer, Mr. Shearman and Judge Porter; this was some time during the week of her first evidence on th a witness stand; had previously told some of the particulars to Mrs. Ovington.

The Grand Jury of the District of Columbia has indicted Whitelaw Reid, of the New York for libeling ex-Goy.-Shepherd-A recent Washington dispatch says U appears that the late John Mitchel, who was elected a member of the British Parliament from Tipperary, Ireland, as a subject of Queen Victoria, was in fact a citizen of the United States, as appears from transcripts of the records recently made in the office of the Clerk of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia for the British Minister. It is presumed the Government of Great Britain intended to use said transcript to unseat him in Parliament. Bessie Turner’s cross-examination was concluded on the 24th. Several corrections as to dates were made, and she admitted to having made mistakes in her evidence before the Church Investigating Committee. She reaffirmed her testimony as to Mr. Tilton’s conduct in his family and toward her. BeorgeX. Perkins, of Norwich, Conn,, testified that he saw Mr. Beecher in the train on the Boston A Albany Railroad, en route for Boston, on the 4th of June, 1873, the date fixed upon by Mrs. Moulton as the day 7 Mr. Beecher confessed to her. Mr. Geo. S. Sedgwick and Mr. C. C. Higgins, lawyers, testified to having seen Mr. Tilton in the company of Mrs. Woodhull and Miss Claflin, in a communistic procession in 1871. John C. Southwick testified that Mr. Tilton had denied to him the truth of the Woodhull scandal, as far as it related to Mr. Beecher and Mrs. Tilton, lie (Tilton) had pronounced Mrs. Woodhull a fine woman, and gloried in having written her life. James B. Woodleigh (colored), formerly in Mrs. Woodhull’s employ, testified on the 25th. He had frequently seen MrTilton at the house and also at the business office of Mrs. Woodhull. He (Tilton) was at the office very often in the summer of 1871. The question of the publication of the scandal was discussed in witness’ presence; Mr. T. said she ought to publish it, as he could not do it, for they would crush him; he said Plymouth Church would pay SIOO,OOO to have it stopped. Witness ffiad seen Mr. Tilton and Mrs. Woodhull oftenySltting together, with their arms around each other. Richard Adams Gray and Lucy Ann Giles (both colored), formerly in the employ of Mrs. Woodhull, also testified to having seen Mr. Tilton frequently at the Woodhull house, and to having wit. nessed ma.ny demonstrations of affection between Mr. T. and Mrs. W. The witness Gray remembered a conversation between Mr. T. and Mrs. W. about getting Mr. Beecher to preside at Mrs. W.’s Steinway Hall meeting in 1871; Mrs. W. said he had better preside or she would make it very hot for him, and Mr. T. said he (Beecher) would have to and would preside. Atty.-Gen. Williams has given an opinion to the effect that the vacant Judgeship in Louisiana caused by the resignation of Judge Durell, and to which Judge Pardee was nominated by the President, but which nomination the Senate refused to confirm, cannot be tilled until the next session of Congress. A New Orleans dispatch of theSfith says Judge Woods had decided that the statutes give him the power to select a District Judge in his circuit to fill the Durell vacancy. * Gen. C. C. Augur arrived in New Orleans from Texas on the 36th, and the next day assumed command of the United States troops stationed there, Gen. Emory leaving for Washington. It was reported in Washington on the 29th that the President had tendered to the Hon. John C. New, Cashier of the First National Bank of Indianapolis, the office of U nited States Treasurer.

A Senatorial excursion party left Washing ton on the 24th en route for Mexico. It is composed of the following persons: Senators Cameron, Patterson, Dennis, Anthony, Morton, ex-Senator Chandler, Tom Scott and wife, Wayne McVeigh and wife, Ben Perley Poore, of the Boston Journal, and Miss Poore, Mrs. Senator Morton, and ex-Gov. Brown, of Georgia, and wife. It is stated that the State Department has officially assured Mexican Minister Mariscal thtft the excursion has no’ political significance whatever, either immediate or remote. POLITICAL,. The South Carolina on the 20th refused to adopt an address demanding the removal of State Treasurer Cardoza. The vote in the Senate was yeas 11, nays IS; House — yeas 45, nays 63. This is regarded as a vindication of Gov. Chamberlain's Administration and of the integrity of the present management of the State finances. A resolution was recently introduced into the New Jertey Senate requesting the Senators and Representatives in Congress from that State to use their influence for the repeal of the' amendments to the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill doubling the rate of postage

<ft transient newspapers,. *te. The partial restoration of the franking privilege is also •owdeinned as granting free use of the malls to a favorid tqfr at the expense of the many. In a charge to the Memphis Grand Jury, on the 22d, Judge Emmons, ofthe Unite® States Court, instructed them to the effect that the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution applies to States and. not individuals, and that the denial to a negro of the full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations and privileges of theaters and inns is a matter that the State Government alone controls, and can only be reached by a civil action. In the Rhode Island Legislature on the 24th a special committee report was made on the recent conflict of authority between the United States Marshal and the State Constables over the wholesale stock of liquors attached by the Marshal and afterward seized by the State Constables because the sales were made from the stock in violation of the State law. The committee censure the Chief of Police of Providence for refusing to obey the State Constables, but aiding instead-the United States Marshal, and recommended the adoption of a resolution -requesting the Governor to transmit to the President of the United States a statement of the facts relating to the interference of the United States Marshal for the District of Rhode Island with the State Constables in the discharge of their duty in the city of Providence on the 23d of February, 1875.

A Gov. Kellogg has issued a call for an extra session of the Louisiana Legislature, to meet on the 14th of April, to carry out the adjustment of the political difficulties and for other purposes. A bill to repeal the Registry law of the State has been defeated in the lower house of the Illinois Legislature. The recent Republican State Convention o; Rhode Island nominated: For Governor, Henry Lippett, of Providence; Lieutenant-Governor, Henry T. Sissen,of Little Compton; Secretary of State, J. W. Addeman; Attorney-General, Willard Sayles; General Treasurer, Samuel Cork. The last three are the present incum. bents. The Michigan Prohibitionists have withdrawn the State ticket nominated at Lansing in January last The reasons which have led to this decision are briefly stated by the Chairman of the State Central Committee as follows: A’irsf—The renomination of Judge Graves to the Supreme Court by DemoeTitsand Republicavs; Second— The non-political nature of the offices of Justices of the Supreme Court and Regents of the University; TAird—The resignation of three of the candidates nominated at the Prohibition State Convention. The Rhode Island Democratic State Convention at Providence on the s7th nominated Col. R. Cutler, of Warren, for Governor; John B. Pierce for Lieutenant-Governor; Charles E. Gorman for Attorney-General, and Philip Rider for General Treasurer. The proprietors of a Chicago restaurant were recently before United States Commissioner Hoyne on a charge of having violated the Civil-Rights law, and were discharged on the ground that a restaurant is not an inn, and henee doesnot come within the provisions of the law.

U. S. SENATE—EXTRA SESSION. Senator Johnson, of Tennessee, addressed the Senate on the 22d in opposition to the resolution approving of the President’s action in regard to Louisiana. He contended that the resolution was not properly before the Senate at the lime, as it was of a legislative nature, * and could not be legitimate--ly acted upon at a special executive session, and in the absence of the other branch of Congress. He then assailed the course of the Administration in its treatment of the Louisiana troubles. His speech occupied tto hours in its delivery, and was listened to by crowded galleries Messrs. Bogy. Withers and Randolph also opposed the resolution. The Louisiana resolution was further debated on the 23d, Messrs. Jones (Fla.), Walker and Thurman speaking in opposition and Mr. Christiancy giving his interpretation of the language of the resolution and the reasons why he should vote for it. An amendment condemning the use of the army in 1872 to enforce the order of Judge Durell and the interference of the United States soldiers with the Louisiana Legislature was rejected—yeas 22, nays 33. A proviso to the resolution was then offered and rejected—yeas 24, nays 33—that “nothing herein contained is meant to affirm that the said Kellogg is de jure Governor of Louisiana.’’ The Question then being on the resolution of Mr. Anthony as. substituted for that of Mr, Frelinghuvs’en, it was agreed to —yeas 33, navs 21—as follows: yens—Allison, Anthony, Boutwell, Bruce, Burnside, Cameron (WisA Christiancy, Conkling. Cragin, Dorsey, Edmunds, Ferry (Mich.), Frelinghuysen. Harvey. Hitehcock.Howe, Ingalls. Jones (Nev.),Logan, McMillan, Mitchell, Morrill (Me.). Morrill (Vt.), Morton, Paddock, Patterson, Robertson, Sargent, Sherman. Spencer, Wadleigh. West, vWindom. Nayg— Bayard. Bogy, Booth. Caperton, Cockrell, Cooper, Davis, Dennis, Gordon. Johnson (Tenn.), Jones (Fla.), Kelly, Kernan, McCreery, Maxey. Norwood, Randolph. Saulsbury, Stevenson, Thurman. Wallace, Whyte. Withers. Messrs. Hamlin, Conover, Oglesby, and Cameron, of Pennsylvania, who would have voted in the affirmative.’ were paired with Messrs. Merrimon. Johnston. McDonald and Ransom, who would have voted in the negative. The resolution as amended was then adopted—yeas 33, nays 24 ... Executive session and adjournment. The Senate, in executive session on the 24th, refused—24 to 14—to confirm the nomination of Don A. Pardee as United States District Judge of Louisiana. in place of Judge Durell. resigned’...Several nominations were confirmed, and a report was received that the President had no further communications to make to the Senate... .After votes of thanks to Vice-President Wilson and to President pro tern. Ferry for the courtesy and impartiality with which they had presided the Senate adjourned die.

Gen. Sheridan on the Black Hills.

Hbmhm'akters Military Division of the i Missouri, Chicago, March 25,1575. >’ Gen. SV. T. Sherman. Headquarters of the Army, St. Louis, Mo.: Central: In reply to your question: “What do you know of the Black Hills?” I respectfully submit the following remarks: My first knowledge of the Black Hills was derived from Interviews with the late Father de Smet, a noted Catholic missionary, whom I met many years ago on the Columbia River, in Oregon, from whom I heard the Indian romance of a mountain of gold in the yßlack Hills, and his explanation of that extraordinary and delusive story. To Indians, frontiersmen and explorers the ' Black Hills country is much more extensive than that particular locality brought to the .notice of the public by the recent explorations of Gen. Custer, and gets its name from the black, scrubby character of the timber which grows on the sides and tops of the mountains and hills. It comprises' the whole of the country bounded ou the east by longitude 102 deg., on the south by the Sweetwater and Laramie Rivers, on the west bv the Big Horn and Wind Rivers, and on the north by the Yellowstone River. This is really the country of the Black Hills; but embraced in it are'several localities called “Black Hills.” For instance, the “Black Hills of the Laramie,” the “Black Hills of Powder River,” and the “Black Hills »f the Shyenne River,” the latter being the locality in which Gen. Custer made his reconnoissance last summer, and about which there is so much speculation at the present time, and within the bounds of which it is supposed by a large numberof people is to be found the Father de Smet mountain of gold. Father de Smet's story was that, while living with the Sioux Indians, he was shown bv them nuggets of gold, which they informed him had been obtained at different points in the Black Hills, supposed to be from the beds

of the Big Horn, Rosebud and Powder Rivers, and from branches of the Tongue River; and on his representing that sueh yellow metal waa of the greatest value, they told him they knew where there was a mountain of it. Subsequent investigation, however, proved that the Indian mountain of gold was nothing more than a formation of yellow mica, smjh as may be found in a number of places in .the above-described country. I had scarcely given the story a thought after this, until about three years ago, when I happened to be in New York, and It was there brought to my recollection by a prominent gentleman, who asked me where Father de Smet was to be found, and Insisted that some one should be sent at once to get from him the secret of the gold mountain which would pay tl'e national debt; etc. After I had informed him that it was an old and exploded story his ardor cooled, and the excitement about the “mountain of gpld” again subsidedIt so happened, however, that the Black Hills country was embraced in my military command, and two years ago it became apparent to me that a military post in the Black Hills of the Shyenne would t>oon become necessary for the proper protection of the settlements in Nebraska from the raids of Sioux warriors, who always before they commence depredating the frontier secured a safe place for their families and villages in the locality mentioned. Believing that these Indians would never make war on our settlements as long as we could threaten their families and villages in this remote locality, abounding in game and all that goes.to make Indian life comfortable, and with this purely military object in view, the order was given for the Custer reconnoissance. The discovery of particles of gold t by alluvial washing near Harney’s Peak, on the eastern slope of the Black Hills of the Shyenne, followed, and brought to the surface the Father de Smet story for the third time.

The Black Hills of the Shyenne, described by Gen. Custer, are situated between the north and south forks of that river, one of which is know-n as the Belle Fourche, the other tte South Fork; and although I have the utmost confidence in the statement of Gen. Custer and Gen. Jforsyth, of my staff, that gold was found near Harney’s Peak, I may safely say there has not been any fair test yet made to determine its existence in large quantities. There is not a Territory in the West where gold does not exist, but in many of them the quantity is. limited to the “ color,” which is as much as has yet been obtained near Harney’s Peak. The geological specimens brought back by the Custer expedition are not favorable indications of the existence of gold in any great quantity. Still it may be there; but as the treaty of 1869, duly ratified, virtually deeds this portion of. Hie Black Hills to the Sioux Indians, there is no alternative but to keep out trespassers. But to go back to the Father de Smet information, there is not much doubt of the correcthess oFliis statement that gold exists in large quantities in the Black Hills, but much further west than the Black Hills of the Shyenne. 'I have seen nuggets from the Big Horn and Tongue Rivers, and'many specimens from near Fort Stambaugh, in the Upper Wind River country, where mining has failed for want of water for alluvial washing and from hostilities of the Indians; and I have good reason to believe—in fact, it is quite certain—that gold exists in the Owl Creek Mountains, in the Lower Wind River and in the headwaters of the Powder River and the Rosebud, all these localities being under the general meaning in the Black Hills, and outside of the Sherman, Augur and Terry treaty of 1869, except so far as the privilege to hunt game. It has been my intention to communicate much information this coming summer to the Government on the above-described country; and as the Indians have no absolute right to the soil, there may be but little difficulty in extinguishing their hunting privileges; I purpose, if you do not object, to open up the Yellowstone River by sending Gen. Geo. A. Forsyth and Col. Grant, of my staff, up the Yellowstone to the mouth of the Big Horn as soon as the ice breaks, which will give the lowest tide of water, having already secured a steamboat to make this exploration. If Gen. Forsyth is successful I will send Gen. Custer, with a command from Fort Lincoln, across the mouth of Powder River, thence up on th# south bank of the Yellowstone, crossing Powder River, Tongue River, Rosebud, and on to the mouth of the Big Horn. This country is as yet entirely unexplored, and the expedition may develop a very valuable auriferous section and make the Father de Smet story to some extent true, but I am of the belief that the mountain of mica has not changed to gold. I will also send an expedition down Wind River, through the Owl Creek Mountains, from Fort Stambaugh, via Fort Brown, to the mouth of the Big Horn, and will bring it back through the parks about the head waters of Powder River visited by Capt. Mills and his command last summer. These parks are for beauty fully equal to those described so graphically by Gen. Custer as existing in the Black Hills of the Shyenne. I may also say from my own knowledge that the valleys of the Big and Little Po po-agie, Little Wind River, and Main Wind River can scarcely be excelled in beauty and fertility, while the student of nature will find there the most extraordinary upheavals of the earth’s crust probably to be found on this continent. I am of the opipion that this country is gold bearing, but of its abundance there can only be a conjecture at present. I feel quite confident of our ability to prevent the intended trespass on the rights of the Indians, and cavalry and infantry in the department of the Dakota are being moved at the present time to the most available points, to carry out my directions of Sept. 3 of last year. Were it not for these precautions on the part of the Government there might be a repetition of the California Gold Beach and Gold Lake humbugs, with a still greater suffering, as many of the persons now crazy to go to the Black "Hills never think of how they are to exist after they get there, or how they could return in case of failure.

If they will only wait for further information from the Government, which now seems to be desirous of making concessions to meet these new interests, there will be no one more willing than myself to aid in ascertaining their value; so far as the troops are concerned I will promise activity in the present emergency and a conscientfbus performance of duty. Should the points from which the miners start be so remote as to make it impossible for our scanty force to watch them, we can occupy the two or three gaps in the Black H ills and effectually exclude trespassers. Very respectfully, P. H. Sheridan, Lieutenant-General Commanding. A tady having twelve sen ants in her house gave a small article of dress, known among the initiated as a chemisette, and composed of muslin and lace, to her lady’s maid to wash; the lady’s maid passed it on to the laundry maid, on the plea that the article was muslin and belonged to her department. The laundry maid declined to do it because it was lace, and, as such, it must be “ got up’’ by the lady’s maid. As neither would do it, the mistress ordered the necessary appliances to be got ready, and herself descended to the laundry and washed the article. — London Court Journal. - —The Parisians devour 100,000,000 of apples every winter. An eminent French phvsician thinks that the decrease of dyspepsia and bilious affections in Paris is owing to the increased consumption of this fruit, which, he maintains, is an admirable prophylactic and tonic, as well as a very nourishing and easily-digested article of food. * “ Then you won’t lend me that dime novel, eh?” inquired one boy of another in the Postoffice, the other day. “J<o, I won’t.” “All right, then; next time our chimney burns out you shan't come into the yard and whoop.and holler!”

A Lion Hunt at the Cincinnati Zoological Garden.

The sensation on the northeastern hill suburbs yesterday afternoon and last evening was the news that a captive animal of the leoline description had broken from its cage in the Zoological Garden and was wildly roaming at large. The story at first sounded so much like the old menagerie-advertisement dodge that it was not believed until it was announced officially from the police stations on the hills. The particulars of the excitement are as follows: About three o’clock in the afternoon a boy was leading a donkey in front of a cage in the “ buffalo-house,” in which was confined a two-year-old lioness, a fine specimen, recently purchased from the Great Eastern menagerie collection at Lebanon, Ohio. The savage animal, in a fit of rage, bounded against the bars, which yielded, and let it free. It immediately bounded on the donkey, which in the onset was thrown to the ground. The boy who was leading the beast was scratched on the hand with the claws of the lioness,-but otherwise escaped unhurt, and ran away. The poor donkey was terribly lacerated about the neck and the hinder parts with the claws and teeth of the lioness, but gaining its feet turned upon and seized with its teeth its assailant and shook it viciously. At this the lioness quitted the donkey and bounded away through the park. Soon the news of its liberation spread and a crowd gathered, but soon dispersed when the lioness put in an appearance. Lieut. Cody and two or three policemen from Corryville District Station happened to be in the park at the time and a council of war "was held. They debated the question whether they would shoot the animal on the spot or capture it alive. They surrounded it, but the circle was very wide. As the circle grew less in diameter, the lioness in the middle growling and snarling and leaping about, the officers concluded neither to shoot nor capture alive. They got out of that vicinity as quick as they could. The panic spread, and a tumultuous skedaddle from the park was made. Spectators state that the appearance of the escaped animal was most furious. Excited with its freedom, it would stand for a few minutes with faring eyes and open mouth, lashing its sides with its tail and uttering wild, hissing cries, and then spring into the air. In a short space of time the lioness had the whole park to itself. Later in the evening a number of men and boys assembled from the neighborhood with pistols and guns, and with the consent of the Zoological Garden.authorities started in on a genuine lion hunt, the object being to kill the brute, as it was apparent that it could not be taken alive. About six o’clock it was found in an open space some distance from the cage from which it escaped. With a shot-gun, heavily loaded with buckshot, Patrick McAvoy, a carpenter, fired two loads at the animal ; one shot missed and the other took effect in the animal’s side, from which it soon fell upon its side and died. In the closing fight two men were thrown down and hurt, though not seriously. Altogether, the sensation was a huge success, though the Zoological Society has to mourn the loss of an $l,lOO animal. —Cincinnati Commercial, March 25. There is no risk in buying a Mason & Hamlin Cabinet Organ. These instruments are known to be the best of their class in the world. But if the opinion of a dealer be asked he will frequently recommend some other, for the simple reason that he can get larger commissions for selling inferior instruments. a The seafaring men of Newfoundland call pastors the skippers of the churches.

Iron and Hardware.

[From Chicago Tribune of March 20.] Iron and hardware in the endless divisions and subdivisions of merchandise included in the terms constitute a great feature of commerce in every manufacturing dr mercantile district, and in Chicago the business of this department has come to reach high figures. A visit to almost any one of the several large houses reveals a general condition of active preparation for a busy season. S. D. Kimbark, successor to the firm of Kimbark Bros. & Co., who is perhaps most widely and generally related to the iron and heavy hardware trade, and who is regarded as a general Western authority in matters and statistics pertaining to that interest, when interviewed by a Tribune representative yesterday, candidly referred to the depression in the outside manufacturing industry as the most conspicuous feature in the records of the year, but reasoned in a way 7 to apply effects on a national rather than local scale. The business of the great house on Michigan avenue of which Mr. Kimbark is the head, dating back a quarter of a century, entering somewhat largely into the history of the commerce of the city, has attained a stability and uniformity by simple magnitude which would naturally prevent- its being affected to any noticeable degree by 7 the ordinary vicissitudes of the markets. It is claimed that to the operations of this house is due the acquisition of considerable of the original territory of trade now constituting the common ground of the commerce of Chicago, including the Salt Lake district, and remoter fields to the West and South which were traversed by its agents, and made accessory to the business of the city, long; before any buffalo, or Indian, or other native of those fertile but unchristian lands had ever been scared by tfie whistle of a locomotive. And when it is remembered that for twenty years the house has constituted a sort of steady center of distribution of iron and hardware supplies for manufacturers, wagon-makers, blacksmiths and merchants throughout the entire dominion of Western commerce, with 3,000 permanent names on the books of the firm, 'and sales aggregating as high as $2,000,000 a year, it is reasonable to suppose that it would require something more than the temporary depression in the manufacturing industry to perceptibly affect the uniform volume and course of business. The establishment itself is one of the mercantile curiosities and solid attractions of the city—a center of very great interest to intelligent visitors generally as well as to a special community of mechanics, manufacturers and dealers—and may be properly designated as a perpetual industrial exposition of iron, steel, nails, carriage and heavy hardware, blacksmiths’ outfits and wagon wood material, each classified department and every broad floor of the lofty building affording a display in enormous bulk more calculated to surprise and interest the imagination of a wagon-maker, iron mechanic or dealer than a world’s fair.

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Pimples, Eruptions, Rough Skin.

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