Rensselaer Union, Volume 12, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1879 — Page 2

The Rensselaer Union. REN*BELAER : .. - INDIANA.

General News Summary.

From WMhingbm. 13i It* montly report timed on the 15th the Deportment of Agriculture pieces the general average of the cotton crop at eightyfive, against ninety-one the month previous. The average condition of corn in the whole country on the Ist was ninety-five, against ninety-three in August. The tobacco crop averaged eighty-seven, an advance of ten per rent, over Angnst, and of six per cent over the condition of the crop at the same time last year. ' - A recent Washington telegram says the J called bonds of the Government outstanding on the 10th, upon which interest ceased July 17, 1879, amounted to $32,510,060, and the amount of deposits with National Banks, the proceeds of bonds sold, was $10,206,918, of which $7,000,000 was covered by called bonds or coupons in the bands of the agent of the United States in London. Dlbixo last July there were exported from the several United States ports 80,082,280 gallons of petroleum and petroleum products, the aggregate value of which was $4^(98,461. Secretary Sheehan Issued an order on the 19th authorizing the United SUtes Treasurer and the Assistant Treasurers at Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis, New Orleans and San Francisco to pay out gold coin as well as silver coin and notes upon current obligations of the Government, and upon advances to disbursing officers, as may be convenient and practicable. Transfers of coin for this purpose will be made to any Assistant Treasurer when necessary by the Treasurer of the United States in Washington, by application to him. Standard silver dollars may also be obtained as heretofore. The United States Secretary of War has completed his estimates for the fiscal year ending June 30,1881. They aggregate $40., 4*3,218, being a reduction of $344,500 over the estimates made for.the current fiscal year. The original estimates submitted by the heads of Bureaus aggregated $54,194,568, but they were reduced by the Secretary to the sum named. A reporter of the Washington Port of the 21st claims to have had an interview with Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague, at her home in that city, and represents her as declaring it to be her intention to remain in Washington with her children, where she “can be quiet and wait until her wrongs are righted.” She says she has been charged with all manner of misdoings of which she is entirely innocent.

The East. Ik a swimming match at New York a few days ago, Ernest Von Schoening, of Brooklyn, won the championship of America and 11,500. Captain Webb, of England, and Daily, of were his competitors. A little seven-year-old boy died of hydrophobia in Philadelphia, a few days ago, the result of bites by a dog inflicted about two months before. ' - The Kennebec (Me.) Journal of the 16th contains official returns from the entire State with the exception of twenty small towns and plantations, with the following result: Davis (Rep.), 68,012; Smith (Greenback), 47,088; Garcelon (Dem.), 21,181. Davis’ plurality over the Greenback ticket is, according; to these figures, 20,924, and over the Democratic ticket, 46,831. The returns from the remaining towns will not essentially change the result. Davis will lack about a thousand votes of having a majority over both competitors. Aistim Birchard, uncle of President Hayes, died at Fayetteville, Vt., on the 15th. The Massachusetts Republican State Convention was held at Worcester on the 16th. Alexander H. Bullock was chosen Permanent Chairman. John D. Long was nominated for Governor; Byron Weston for Lieutenant-Gov-ernor; George Marsto* for Attorney-Gener-al; C. R. Ladd for Auditor; H. B. Pierce for Secretary of State; C. Endicott for Treasurer and Receiver. The resolutions adopted affirm the doctrine that the United Btates is a Nation, and declare that while local self-government on all matters which belong to the States must be fully recognized, the National Government should secure to Its citizens, from whom it claims allegiance, complete liberty and exact equality in the exercise of their civil and political rights; charge the Democratic party with having undertaken to revive sectional animosity for the purpose of securing political ascendency in the Southern Btates; insist that the paper and coin circulation of the country shall at all times be maintained at par with the £old standard of the commercial world; applaud the “firm and patriotic course of President Hayes In maintaining the Constitutional prerogatives of the Executive, and in courageously and successfully resisting all efforts of a Democratic Congress to cripple the functions of the Government;” etc., etc. The Commercial Exchange of Philadelphia have adopted, by a vote of ninety-four to six-ty-four, the cental system as thebasis for the purchase and sale of grain, flour and seeds, to take effect January 1, 1880. Shoktlt after midnight on the morning of the 18th a fire broke out in a three-story tenement house on Gold street in Bouth Boston, Mass. Nearly all the occupants—principally Germans—were asleep at the time, and the fire made such rapid headway that before those in the upper story could descend all avenues of escape were cut off, and the imprisoned victims appeared on the roof and at the windows in a vain attempt to find safety. Several were burned to death, and many others who jumped from the building s tye seriously injured. TnEstriking workmen at Fall River, Mass., on the 17th attacked a party of French men, women and children, who had been brought from Canada to take some of the vacant places Jn the mills there, and drove them through the town, hurling stones at them and beating and kicking them. Several of the women and children were very badly hurt. The Democratic State Convention of Massachusetts met at Worcester on the 17th. General B. F. Butler was nominated for Governor; A. C. Woodworth for Lieutenant Governor, and Michael J. Donohue for Secretary of State. The platform adopted reaffirms devotion to the time-honored principles of the Democratic party of the country; cordially invites the disaffected Democrats in the State to reunite with the party and make common cause with it in the contest with party now ruling the State;'deprecates the discussion, in this campaign for State officers, of National issues, as tending to create a division between men who are in entire accord upon all questions involved as-

fecting the sdministration of State affaire; demands rigid economy in the public expendi- > tores, and the abolition of all sinecures and unnecessary offices; opposes all restrictive and sumptuary laws; declares opposition to any system of convict labor in the prisons which brings Its products into competition with free labor. The present Btate Central Committee was continued until the Ist of January next. There were 1,723 delegates present in the Convention. , Rxv. Rolxjx H. Neale, D. D., a distinguished Baptist New England clergyman and author, died at his home in Boston on the 18th, He was seventy-one years old. Ax Independent State Convention was held at Worcester, Mass., on the 18th. After a permanent organization had been affected a motion was made and unanimously carried

nominating General Butler as candidate for Governor. A. C. Woodworth waa then nominated for Lieutenant-Governor, and M. J. Donohue for Secretary of State. Danikl Drrw, the old-time Wall-street magnate, died in New York on the 18th, from a complication of disorders. He iyae in his eighty-third year. The following were the closing quotations for produce in New York, on September 80th: No. 3 Chicago Bprlng Wheat, sLl2*@Ll4; No. 2 Milwaukee, $1.13*@1.14. Oats, Western Mixed, 34*<g86c. Corn, Western Mixed, 51<308c. Pork, Mesa, $9.00(39.00*. Laid, $6.35(30.45. flour, Good to Choice, $5.05 d&fiO; White Wheat Extra, $4.75(35.36. Cattle, $675(310.50 for Common to Extra. Sheep, $650(3650. Hogs, $3.37*@4.30. At East Liberty, Pa., on September 20th, Cattle brought: Best, $5.00(35.12*; Fair to Good, $4.8004.86; Common, SB.OOOSJOI Hogs sold—Yorkers, $3.00(38.80; Philadelphia*, $3.80(33.85. Sbeep brought $3.0004.26 —according to quality. At Baltimore, Md., on September 20th, Cattle brought: Best, $5.00(30.12*; Medium, $626(34.25. Hogs sold at $4.50(3650 for Good. Sheep were quoted at $8.00(34.25 for I Good.

West and South. Thb United States Grand Lodge of the Independent Order Of Odd Fellows began its fifty-fifth annual session at Baltimore on the 15th, John B. Hannon, Grand Sire, presiding. The report of the condition of the Older at the present time Is as follows: Number of Grand Lodges, 50; Subordinate Lodges, 0,975; Grand Encampments, 89; Subordinate Encampments, 803; Lodge initiations, 33,860; Lodge members, 442,291; Encampment members, 82,408; total relief, 01,740,405; total revenue, 44,206,936; decrease, $150,065. Jefferson Davis, in a recent letter, says his name will not be, with his consent, included among the candidates for United States Senator from Mississippi. Thb Quarter-Centennial celebration of the settlement of Kansas was held at Lawrence on the 10th, and was a magnificent success. It is estimated that 20,000 people were in attendance. The Governor and most of the State officers were present and participated in the ceremonies. The leading address was bv Rev. Edward Everett Hale, of Boston. Thb Louisiana State Republican Central Committee has issued an address to the people of that State, requesting a reorganization of the Republican party, aud calling a State Convention for the nomination of Btate officers to meet in New Orleans on the 20th of October. Thb Wisconsin State Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, at Delavan, was destroyed by fire on the morning of the 16th. Loss $250,000. The fire originated in the cupola, from spontaneous combustion, it is thought. Thb western portion of the City of Hastings, in Nebraska, was burned down on the 16th. Loss $150,000. Rev. Bamcbl S. Harris, of Chicago, was formally consecrated Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan, at Detroit on the 17th. A few days ago a seven-year-old boy named John B. Ramer died of hydrophobia, at Cleveland, Ohio, after an illness of one day. He was bitten by a dog about two months before the disease was developed in his system. The dog also bit a policeman at the same time the boy was bitten. It appears, according to official returns received in San Francisco on the 17th, that Berry (Democrat), i& elected to Congress from the Third District, instead of McKenna (Republican) as previously reported. General Geokoe B. Smith, a distinguished Wisconsin politician and lawyer, died at his residence in Madison on the 18th. His disease was neuralgia of the stomach. Advices received in Washington on the 18th state that the Indians aere committing horrible atrocities in Grant County, New Mexico. President Hates and party reached Detroit, Mich., on the 18th, and met with a hearty reception. They were present at the reunion of the Twenty-third Ohio regiment at Youngstown the day before, where a large assemblage of people gave them an enthusiastic welcome.

The Wisconsin Btate Democratic Central Committee met on the 19th and nominated James G. Jenkins, of Milwaukee, as their candidate for Governor,' trier Alexander Mitchell, resigned. Mr. Jenkins accepted. The Colorado Btate Republican Convention met at Denver on the 19th, and nominated William E. Beck for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, the only office to be filled this year. The platform was an exceptionally brief one, and touches lightly on National politics, but advocates strongly the remonetization and unlimited coinage of silver. The renomination of Grant was advocated, and a promise recorded to give him the Electoral vote of the State if he is a candidate for the Presidency in 1880. Ex-Presidknt Grant and party arrived at San Francisco on the steamer City of Tokio, on the afternoon of the 20th, and met with a grand and enthusiastic reception at the hands of the thousands of waiting people who had assembled to do honor to the occasion. At night the streets were illuminated by electric lights, and tiie distinguished guests were escorted to their rooms in the Palace Hotel, accompanied by an immense concourse of people. The Mayor delivered a welcoming address, to which the ex-Presldent made a brief response. In Chicago, on September 20th, Bpring Wheat, No. 2, closed at 98@99c cash; 98* @9B*c for October ; [email protected]* for November. Cash Corn closed at 36*@30*c for No. 2; 37@87*c for October; 37@3 * for November. Cash Oats, No. 2, sold at 25@ 25*c; 26*@26*c seller October ; 26%@26*c for November. Rye, No. 2, 57*c. Barley, No. 2, 77@77*c. Cash Mess Pork closed at $8.70 @8.76 Lard, cash, $6.05@610. Beeves —Extra brought $5.00@625; Choice, $4.50 @4.75; Good, [email protected]; Medium Grades, [email protected]; Butchers’ Btock, $2.45612.90. Stock Cattle, etc., [email protected]. Hogs—Good to Choice, [email protected]. Sheep—Poor to Choice, [email protected].

The Yellow Fever. There was one new case of yellow fever reported In New Orleans on the 15th, the patient being a young man lately from Morgan City. A dispatch was received at Cairo, ID., on the 15th, to the effect that there were eight cases of yellow fever at Concordia, Miss. Quarantine against the latter place had been established by the surrounding neighborhood. The number of new cases reported in Memphis on the 16th was twenty-three (twelve colored); deaths, nine. Several cases had recently developed outside the city limits, thus indicating the gradual spreading of the disease in the surrounding country. The Tennessee Board of Health decided on the 16th to adhere to the rule prohibiting the introduction of cotton into Memphis until the epidemic should decline, and thus to avoid the otherwise necessarily increased fffHtles of communication with the country, and because of the danger, more or less remote, of transporting yellow-fever poison in cotton ginned and baled in an infected atmosphere. On the evening of the 17th Mr. W. J. Corney, of Columbus, Ohio, was found dead in his bed at a hotel in Oakland, 111. Deceased had eaten a heavy dinner and then gone to his room. Decatur physicians pronounced it a genuine case of yellow fever. Three new cases were reported at Concordia on the 17th, (two colored). • Ohlt ten new cases (sir white) and six deaths were reported to the Memphis Board erf Health on the 18th. A notice was about to be issued to absentees, warning them of the risk they would run at present by returning to the city, as the fever was dying out only for want of new material. Os the 18th Vicksburg abolished Its quarantine regulations against New Orleans.

Woolen goods picked la New Orleans would still be excluded. There were eleven new cases (nine white) and four deaths reported In Memphis on the 19th. iHmrss excitement existed it Lebanon, N. HL, on the 19th, oversale of yellow fever there, the victim being a man named Arthur H. Gray, who had recently returned from a sea voyage. Four new caeca and one death were reported at Concordia, Mill., on the 19th. Srtrx new eases end two deaths were reported in Memphis on the 20th, and eight new cases and one death on the 21st. The total number of cases reported during the week was eighty; total to date 1,216 Total deaths during the week, thirty-one; total to date, 846 A warning to absentees was issued by the Board of Health, stating that, though the number of new eases of yellow fever was small, it would not be safe for those who had not had the disease to return yet The comparatively small number of new cases and deaths was thought to be due to the fact that there were so few unaocUmated persons in the city.

Foreign Intelligence. Con ßTantinoplr dispatches of the 18th and 14th say that advices received from Eastern RonmeUa represent that country as in a state of complete anarchy. Bclav committees multiplied daily, and openly advised the massacre of all Mohammedans and the union of Eastern Ronmelia, Macedonia and Thrace with Bulgaria, forming a grand Sclav Kingdom. , Thk Zoological Institute connected with the KeU (Denmark) University burned on the 13th. J According to a London telegram of the 15th a treaty had been signed between China and Russia, by the terms of which the latter had agreed to evacuate the Kuldja within three years, and the former to pay an indemnity of 5,000,000 roubles. Russia also reserved a strip of territory for a military road td Kashgar. A Glasgow dispatch of the 15th says that fifty-four Scotch furnaces had been blown out during the preceding few days because of the unwillingness of the owners to accede to the demands of the workmen for an increase of pay. At Ashton, Eng., 12,000 cotton operatives were on a strike for higher wages. On the 15th General Sickles visited Paris with the view of organizing a Franco-Ameri-can Commission, under the Presidency of General Grant, to make a definite choice between the Panama and Nicaragua Canal schemes. On the 16th Currie’s large distillery at Bromley, Eng., was burned to the ground. Loss, $2,000,000. The English Episcopal Bishop of Durham, Right Rev. Charles Baring, D.D., died on the 16th. One of the troopers of Major Cavagnari’s escort arrived at Simla on the 16th. The facts of the late massacre, as detailed by him, do not differ materially from the reports heretofore made. Major Cavign&ri and the most of his associates are certainly dead, but Mr. Jenkyns, the assistant, was alive when the soldier left. According to a Cape Town (South Africa) dispatch, published on the 17th, Cetewayo, the Zulu King, had been captured. It was thought this would end the campaign. King John, of Abyssinia, has written to the British Foreign Office complaining that General Kirkham, an English General in his service, had been poisoned at Massowah, while on his way to England with a communication to Queen Victoria protesting against the closing of the outlets to his territory by the Egyptians. The following was telegraphed from Simla on the 17th. Another Sergeant and several members of the escort attached to the British residency in Cabul had reached All Kheyl. The military authorities had received information that the frontier tribes had caused the interruption of all communication between Khyber Pass and CabuL It was reported and believed that the Governor of Jelalabad had gone over to the insurgents, and was organizing against the British. A strong Afghan force had been sent to Kushi to check the British cavalry advance in that direction. A dispatch was received in London from All Kheyl on the 18th, which stated that news had Just been received there that the Cabul tragedy had been re-enacted at Herat The native troops at that place revolted on the sth, and massacred the civil and militaiy authorities.

A dispatch was received from Sir Garnet Wolseley on the 18th announcing the surrender of all the important Zula chiefs. Cetewayo would be taken to Greytown. According to Vienna telegrams of the: 18th there was a prospect of famine In Hungary. In consequence of the numerous floods and the bad harvest, the people of some sections had already been reduced to extremities. On the 19th the Viceroy of India telegraphed to the home Government that he had notified the Ameer that a large British force was about to march on Cabul to his relief, and requested him to use all his resources to facilitate the march through his country. • To this notification the Ameer had replied that he was virtually a prisoner in his own country; that he had preserved his life and the lives of his family through the good offices of rebels friendly to him, and through bribes and deceit; that several persons in high post tlon had become rebellious. He feared he would be unable to do much, but he was carefully noting the situation, and trusted that an opportunity would be offered to show bis sincere friendship for the British Government and secure his good name before the world. The Russian Government has begun the construction of a canal to connect the Sea of Azof! and the Caspian Sea. The estimated cost of the Improvement Is 50,000,000 roubles. In consequence of the Afghan revolt the Czar has ordered General Kauffman to return at once to Turkestan. The City of Serpuchoff, in Russia, was lately destroyed by fire. The 'loss was immense. Cause, Nihilism. • A portion of the large rock on which stands the Castle of Lampen, in Switzerland, fell into the pass below on the 20th. Over 18,500 cubic feet gave way. The castle Itself stands.

Rev. Joseph P. Thompson, D.D., a distinguished American author and clergyman residing at Berlin, and the oldest member of the American colony there, died on the 21st of apoplexy. For twenty-seven years Dr. Thompson preached In the Broadway Tabernacle in New York. A Pesth telegram of the 21st says the floors of a Jewish synagogue at Czolnok gave way the day before, in consequence of overcrowding. Eighteen women were killed outright and eight were seriously wounded. The Chairman of the Committee on Strikes of the Bradford (Eng.) mechanics has sailed for the United States to arrange for the emigration of 750 artisans. A French lass was at school, and during a thunderstorm the electric fluid fell close to her. For a moment she seemed to be suffocating, but this sensation soon passed off into a fit of hiccoughs. These became so distressing that after three days her mother took her to the children's hospital in Paris for advice. The surgeon ordered her to be taken to the operating theater, where on seeing the medical man standing at a table covered with some awful-looking instruments, and surrounded by a number of assistants in white aprons, the child became so terrified that she forgot her hiccoughs, and she was thus cured. —A recent writer says: “I do not believe in * encouraging ’ young or weakly authors by praising poor work of theirs. A good snubbing is the best thing that can happen to them.

GENERAL GRANT AT SAN FRANCISCO.

tire toll." BlWl * **" H *” The following particulars of the pubHe demonstration at San Francisco in honor of General Grant, on his arrival at that city, are given in the Associated Press dispatches of the 20th: The first tap of the bell and hoisting of the fiag ou the Merchants’ Exchange announcing the approach of the Cite of Tokio startled the city from the spell of suspense that has prevailed for the last three days, and transformed tpe idle throngs that were lounging about the streets into excited and hurrying crowds. Immediately on receipt of the Intelligence that the steamer was nearing port, the Reception Committee repaired to the tug Milieu Griffith, lying with steam up at the Pacific Mail Dock, and at once started to meet the ineoming steamer. The Griffith stood well oat to sea. and several miles oataide the heads met the Tokio coming in. The tug drew alongside, and the Executive Committee, quarantine officer, and customs officials and a number of representatives of the press boarded the steamer. No ceremonies were observed, except a general shaking of hands, and, after the committee had announced the object of their visit and informed General Grant of the reception prepared for him, conversation became general as the City of Tokio continued her course. Soon after the Government steamer McPherson came alongside, sad Major-General McDowell, commanding the Division of the Pacific, accompanied l>y his staff, boarded the Tokio, and rejoined his old comrade In arms. While this was transpiring, the General Committee of' Arrangements, with several thousand invited guests, assembled on board the large side-wheel Pacific Mail steamer China and a number of smaller steamers, while tugs took the squadron of the San Francisco and Pacific Yacht Clubs in tow, and started down the channel. In the meantime it seemed as though the whole population of the city, men. women and children, had sought positions from which a view of the naval pageant could be obtained. Every eminence commanding the channel was black with the assembled thousands. Telegraph Hill was a living mass of human bodies. Tne heights beyond Presidio, Clay Btreet Hill, the sea-wall at North Point, and every pler-nead was covered with spectators. The sun waa declining in the west as the steamers and yachts, gay with bunting* moved down the channel.

From every flagstaff in the arty flags were flying, and the snipping along the city front was brilliantly decked with ensigns, festooned flags and streamers. The impatient crowds that covered the hill-tops stood straining their eyes to catch the first glimpse of the Tokio. It was half-past five o’clock when a puff of white smoke from seaward earthworks back of and above Fort Point and the booming of a heavy gun announced that the steamer was near at hand. Another and another followed in rapid succession. Fort Point next joined in cannonade firing with both casemate and barbette guns, and the battery at Lime Point added its thunders to the voice of welcome. For some time the position of the approaching ships could not be discerned, but shortly before six o’clock outlb.es of the huge hull of the City of Tokio loomed through the obscurity of tne smoke, and the rapidly approaching shades of evening were lit up by the flashes of guns, and in a few minutes she glidc-t into fun view, surrounded by a fleet of steamers and tugs gay with flags and crowded with guests, while the yacht squadrou brought up the rear festooned from deck to truck with brilliant bunting. Cheer after cheer burst from the assembled thousands as the vessels slowly rounded Telegraph Hill, and, taken up by the crowd on the wharves, rolled around the city front. Hats and handkerchiefs were waved in the air. The United States steamer Monterey, lying in the stream, added the roar of her guns to the general welcome, and the screaming of hundreds of steam whistles announced^that the City of Tpkio had reached her anchorage. Within the gates of the ferry-house were assembled the gentlemen charged with the duty of the immediate reception of General Grant—the Board of Sujicrvisors ranged on the left of the gangway, and Governor Irwin and staff and the Executive Committee, consisting of Governor-elect Perkins, W. H. L. Barnes, Samuel Wilson, W'illiam T. Coleman, Tiburcio Parrott, J. P. Jackson, John McComb, John Koscnfcld, Claus Sprcckels, John H. Wise, \V. W. Montague, occupied the right, Mayor Bryant taking ills position about half-way down tbo center of the gangway. In the meantime Gcm-ru) Grant and his party on the Tokio, together with the Reception Committee, General McDowell and stall and others, had been transferred to the ferry steamer Oakland. * Considerable delay occurred, during which the crowd outside cheered and shouted themselves hoarse, and it seemed at times ns though in their impatience they would break through the lines and invade the dock cm uvtx*e.

Darkness had fallen, and It. was twenty minutes past seven when the lights of the ferryboat were seen approaching the slip. 81ic moved slowly Into position. The platform was lowered, the band struck up “Home Again,” and, amid the roars of applause from the waiting crowd outside, who realized that the moment had arrived, General Grant stepped once more upon the shores of his native land. He was then introduced to Mayor Bryant, who welcomed him in a few appropriate remarks to which the General responded as follows: Mayor Dryant: I thank you and the city of San Francisco for this cordial welcome, and I feel great pleasure In returning: to California after a quarter of a century's absence. I shall be glad to participate in the procession. Amid the most tremendous cheers of the crowd, discharges of cannon, ringing of bells and screaming of whistles, the procession started up Market street. Bonfires blazed at the street comers, illuminations lit up every window, and the glare of Roman canales ana electric lights made the broad thoroughfare bright as day. Under a continuous archway of fiags, banners and festooned draperies, the procession moved up Market street to Montgomery, and turned dow n the latter street. Crowds blocked the sidewalk. Cheer after cheer rolled along the whole line of march, and almost drowned the martial strains of the numerous bands. The light mist hovering over the city reflected the light of the fireworks and illumination, until the heavens seemed ablaze. On arriving at Market street the procession, moving up a few blocks, countermarched to the Palace Hotel. Here a magnificent arch, forty feet in height, spanned New Montgomery street, blazoned with the National colors, and bearing the inscription, “Welcome ,to Grant.” At this point the carriage containing the General was drawn up, while the procession marched in review, cheer after cheer rending the air as division after division passed by. On the conclusion of the review the various organizations were dismissed, and General Grant was conducted to hii quarters in the Palace Hotel, which had been specially prepared and furnished for his reception. At ten o’clock the wide doors were thrown open, and the barouche containing General Grant was driven witbin.the building. He immediately dismounted, and, crowding his v*ay through the packed mass of human beings, was hurried to his room. As he alighted, Madame Fabri and a chorus of five hundred voices opened from one of the balconies with the “ Ode of Welcome.” The crowd rushed after General Grant when he dismounted, leaving the singers for a moment almost without an audience, but, being stopped by the force of police who blocked the way, they returned to the court, being reassured by the announcement that the General would appear on one of the balconies after he had had time to lay off his overcoat. After the chorus was rendered, General Grant, in response to repeated calls, appeared on the balcony of the fourth floor, ana Dowed to the shouting crowd, immediately retiring. Still the enthusiastic populace thronged the •ourt and refused to leave. Finally Mayor Bryant appeared, and announced that as soon as the General had finished his dinner he would show himself. In a few minutes Genetal Grant appeared, amid deafening and long- 1 continued shouts. Mayor Bryant called the crowd to order, and the General, mounting a chair which was passed over the heads of the surrounding crowd, was again greeted with a succession of cheers. When the noise subsided, he addressed them as follows! Fkiaow-Citxmhß ofßa!»FrawcißCO: After twenty-five years' absence, I am glad to meet you. and assure you of my oordial thanks for the kind greeting you have given me. I shall stay in your city long enough to greet you more fully. The Genesal then withdrew, amid prolonged and tremendous cheering, and the crowd at length reluctantly scattered.

Mrs. Utt’s Fight with an Eagle.

Parts of Preston, Township, thirty miles from this place, are yet as wild as they were when the Indians inhabited the region. Some of the highest elevations in Pennsylvania we in

Preston. These are rocky peaks, abounding in deep ravines and caverns. In this wild territory there are seventeen large lakes, some of them on the very crests of the mountains, more than two thousand feet above the sea. These lakes are fall of fish, awl are favorite resorts of enormous fish hawks, which find abundant food in the bass, pickerel and perch that they catch. There are also many eagles, and they subsist by robbing the hawks when they rise laden with nsh from the lakes. The inaccessible crags and ravines afford them secure resting {daces, and here eagles still rear their young. Specimens measuring over seven feet from tap to tip have been shot near the lakes. Fishermen often see fierce battles between the hawk and the eagle, and often both eagle and hawk are brought down by the sportsman's rifle. At times the eagles extend their foraging expeditions to the fanning country south and north of the wildemess.j In the spring they annoy the fanners, for they sweep down boldly upon the sheep pastures and oarry off lambs and poultry. A farmer named Utt, who lives near one of the lakes in Preston Township, has a two-year-old game-cook that was presented to his wile, and she has taken a liking to the fowl. Thursday last, while Her husband was absent in Deposit, Mrs. Utt heard a commotion among the chickens in the barnyard, and, on running out, found her game rooster fighting with what she supposed was a very large hawk, which was tryingto fasten its talons in the chicken. The two birds were so deeply engaged in the combat that Mrs. Utt’s shouts did not frighten the enemy away. She picked up a stick and ran into the barnyard and struck the intruder. This did not apparently alarm it. Then she seized it by the neck with her hands, and for the first time she saw that it was an eagle. The powerful bird buried its claws deep in Mrs. Utt’s arm. She did not dare let go her hold, although the eagle was tearing her flesh dreadfully. She tightened her grasp upon its throat, and then threw herself heavily to the ground upon it. In this way she kept it down, and choked it to death. The flesh on Mrs. Utt’s arm was tom to the bone in places. The eagle measured nearly five feet from tip to tip.— Honesdale (Pa.) Cor. N. Y. Sun.

The Platform of the Massachusetts Republicans.

The Massachusetts State Republican Convention met at Worcester on the 16th, and adopted the following platform of principles: The Republican party of Massachusetts, at the close of the first quarter of a century of Its history, pledging Itself anew to continued performance of the duties in which it originated and to the defense and maintenance of those principles upon which it was founded, and which are still essential to the peace, security and prosperity of the Republic makes these declarations: 1. We affirm the doctrines heretofore proclaimed and maintained, that the United States of America is a Nation; that, while local selfgovernment in all matters which belong to the States must be fully recognized, the National Government should secure to its citizens fromwhom it claims allegiance complete liberty and exact equality in the exercise of their civil and political rights; that whether assailed by political persecution at home or menaced by tyranny abroad, all citizens of the United States, without distinction of origin, race, creed or color, must be protected by the National Government in all rights granted by the Constitution and laws; that our institutions rest upon the equality of all men before the law, and that a free ballot, uninfluenced by fraud, intimidation or force, and honestly counted, is the right of every qualified voter, and we demand that elections shall be free from all interference by unlawful bodies of armed men, and shall also be free from interference of National or State military forces, except when employed as a part of the posse comftatus. We denounce that fierce partisan intolerance which prevents a free ballot, denies freedom of political opinion and action, and takes from any of the people the right to choose their homes and to control and enjoy the fruits of their labor. 2. We deprecate the course of the members of the Democratic party who have undertaken to revive sectional animosity for the purpose of securing political ascendency in the Southern States, and who have revived the memories of sectional strife by a defiant declaration of a purpose to repeal laws made necessary by war and enacted to secure the results of the war; and we condemn their attempts to secure by legislation what was not accomplished by arms—namely, the establishment under the name of State Sovereignty, of those pernicious doctrines which destroy National supremacy, and which, in fact, have led to secession and civil war. 6 The pledges of the Republican party to maintain National honor and to preserve National credit have been redeemed in the face of bitter opposition by the prompt resumption of specie payments and reduction both of the principal and interest of the public debt; and we congratulate our fellow citizens upon the restoration of confidence and revival of business which have followed honest, prudent and wise management of public affairs under a Republican Administration. We are oposed to repudiation in all its forms, either by a “scaling” of debts or a debasement of legaltender circulation. We insist that the paper and the coin circulation of the country shall at all times be maintained at par with the gold standard of the commercial world. 4. We applaud the Arm and patriotic course of President Hayes In maintaining the Constitutional prerogatives of the Executive, and in courageously and successfully resisting all efforts of a Democratic Congress to cripple the functions of the Government. We recognize the earnestness and sincerity with which he has labored to restore harmony and good feeling to all sections of the oount ry, to secure purity, efficiency and frugality in every branch of public service, and to divorce Civil Bervioe from the management of partisan politics, to sustain the financial credit of the Government, and to insist upon free and honest elections, and we will support the President in the responsibility of making nominations to office without dictation from other departments of the Government, and in persistently carrying out the principles relating to Ciril Service declared in the Cincinnati letter of acceptance. The remaining resolutions refer to State affairs.

Control of the House.

In the possible contingency of a failure by the people to elect a President and Vice-President, the election would be thrown into the House of Representatives, where each State would have one vote. This has happened twice in our history, and is as liable to happen next year as ever before. The situation, therefore, is worth considering.That the Democrats are already considering it is evident from an expression of the Washington Post, the organ Of the Democracy at the capital, which says : We do not see how, in justice to the party and the country, the majority can delay much after assembling in December the work of seating those Democratic represent* tives-eleat who are now kept out, of the offices to which they were elected last fall by the radical usurpers. So foul an injustice ought to be quickly remedied.” In order to understand the meaning of this it is necessary to notice the present political of the House. Since the Republicans have elected all spur Congressmen in California they control nineteen State delegations, while the Democrats control eighteen. One, Indiana, is practically a tie, standing six Democrats, six Republicans and one National. Twenty States are a majority. If the Democrats oould unseat one Republican from this State and put a Democrat in his place they would have nineteen States, and if they could capture one other State by a similar process they would have a clear majority. This is what the Washington Post hints at and what the Democrats in the House will probably try to do. Some steps were taken last session toward contesting the seat of Mr. Orth of this .State; hit-the contest was abandoned. The Democrats, however, will not hesitate to re-

vive the oontest and unseat Mr. Orth and put a Democrat in his place, if they find it necessary to the success of their political plans. 'Hie record they have already made in the mattered contested elections shows they will stem at nothing. If they find they can depend on De La Matyr in all contingencies, they may regard their tenure of Indiana secure, but if there is any doubt about him, they will, in aH proDablUfy, renew the raid on Mr. Orth and make a desperate effort to unseat him. What we have said refers to the control of State delegations, bnt the numerical division of parties is made veryclose by the California election. The House is now full with the exception of two vacancies caused by death, one from New York and one from lowa. Leaving these out of the oount, the Democrats have 148 members, the Republicans 131 and the Nationals 12; total, 291. If the Republicans carry both the vacant districts this fall, as they are likely to, they will have 183 members, and the Democrats will have only one more than a majority in the House. They will not rest content with this situation if there is any possibility of improving it, and that they will resort to any means, however desperate, of doing it, admits of no doubt. The extract which we have given from the Washington Post shows that the situation is being discussed at Washington, and that the Democrats are preparing to strengthen themselves in the House by a resort to arbitrary and high-hand ed measures. —lndianapolis Journal.

Democratic Cries of Distress.

The Republican triumphs in California and Maine have occasioned serious alarm among the leading Democrats. These results indicate a decided change of political sentiment within the test year from one end of the continent to the other. The California delegation .In Congress was equally divided between tne Republicans and Democrats; the Republicans elect all the Congressmen from that State this year. Last year the Democrats and Greenbackers combined elected two Congressmen in Maine; this year the Republicans sweep the State. All this has. set the Democrats to thinking, and the more they think about it tne more alarmed they become. We print this morning some evidences of the Democratic distress. The Kansas City Times virtually abandons the hope of carrying Ohio, and expresses the fear that the dissension among the New York Democrats will result in the election of Cornell. It says that the Democrats “ought to carry Ohio and New York,” but admits in the same sentence that “they ought to have carried California and Maine.” The outlook is discouraging, and the Times does not hesitate to attribute the fact to Democratic blunders, chief among which was the extra session of Congress and the revolutionary method by which it was proposed to break down the National Election laws. The Louisville CourierJournal is equally concerned as to the future. Commenting on the result of the California and Maine elections, it says tlu.t the Republicans only need to carry No v York and Ohio to “succeed in confront,, i the Solid South with a Solid North.’ ’ Of course Democratic rout could be th; cnly result of that situation. The same journal admits that the Republicans are “ better fixed ” for the next National con. ict than the Democrats, “who have been doing their best to kick the fat in the tire since the 4th day of March, 1877.” The mistakes which the Courier-Journal thinks have wrought so much damage are the opposition to Tilden within the party and the war that has made “ upon the only Democratic Senator who has the smallest chance of being President,” meaning Bayard. Mr. Watterson has always clung to the idea that the chief reliance for Democratic success is the alleged wrong endured by the party when Tilden was counted out, ana that to make this reliance sure it is necessary for the Democrats to run the old ticket of 1876. He has evidently given up all hope for this, renounces in effect all pui> pose of leading in the fight, and says he will work in the ranks, though overcome with the fear of defeat. There are still other evidences of Democratic alarm. The chief party organ in Washington plainly advises the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives, which has been reduced to a very precarious condition by the gain of the Republican Congressmen from California, to throw out every Republican in Congress whose election was close enough to warrant a contest. From Ohio comes the information that Ewing and his friends have practically given up their State ticket, and wifi now turn their efforts to the Legislature, with the purpose of saving the Senatorship. Hard upon this comes the open breach in New York between Tilden and Tammany, which cannot fail to engender the most bitter dissension between the two factions of the party in that State. Altogether, there is a very general scare in the Democratic camp, and there will be various suggestions of. a strategic character to save the party. But mere strategy will not avail. The reason Why there has been a change of sentiment from’ California to Maine, the reason why Ohio and New York are likely to go Republican, and the reason why the Democrats are growing so despondent over the prospects for the Presidential election of next year, must, be looked for outside of party strategy. The old Latin motto might be truthfully paraphrased by saying, “It is Democratic to err;” but the serious blunders of that party are in principle, and not in strategy. It is tne popular apprehension of the dangerous purposes of the Democratic party that has induced conservative people everywhere to turn again to the Republican party at the threshold of a new era of prosperity, and created a general disinclination to risk any change in the finances or politics of the country that may check (he new tendency of things. The Democratic party (or at least the ruling element of that party, which has always made its caucus supreme) is committed to State-sov-ereignty and soft money, and the people erf this country are afraid of both heresies. No amount of strategy will serve to allay, this popular apprehension.—Chicago Tribune.

—A soda-water generator exploded in an. Albany, N. Y., drug-store one day recently. While they were charging the fountain the druggist asked ms assistant how many pounds of gas were on and was told that there were two hundred and thirty. Me then reached up to turn the valve which lets the gas into the fountain, when the generator exploded, filling the eyes of both with its contents and knocking them down. The force of the explosion drove the vitriol chamber, weighing about sixty pounds, up through the flooring, making quite a large hole, and drenching the contents of one sidfi of the store. The two men were badly burned.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. —The mav who is rich in theories is apt to be very poor in practical results. —A Russian proverb says everything is bitter to him who has gall in his mouth. —The broker’s sins are those of owemission, and mi occasional little commission. , —Happy people sre those who do not want what they cannot have.— N. O. Picayune. —lt is stud a bad temper shows the worst side erf a man, which must be the inside. —Picayune. —McStinger thinks beating a donkey is the handsome thing, because “ Mac’s welt on brays are bonny.” —“ Mamma, can’t we have anything we want?” ‘‘Yes, my dears. But be careful and don’t want anything you can’t have.” * I —Happy Greenland has no cats, and the nights there are six months long. For along quiet nap it is the place of all the world. J~ —There are now in Syria five hundred girls attending evangelical churches. Twenty of them have learned the Westminster Catechism by heart. —Eggs imported from Chicago last month were eaten at Dublin breakfasttables, and good American butter at eight pence per pound was and still is on sale on the Dublin quays. —When a handsome Baltimore lady asked a pedestrian to knoek a man down who had been following her, he ‘swiftly obeyed, and was much astonished to learn that it was her husband. —A young lawyer of Boston says that persons seeking solitude, where they can commune with their Own thoughts uninterruptedly, should come to his office where it is as quiet as the grave. —A circular has been addressed to the Bishops throughout j the Catholic world calling on them to promote a monster clerical pilgrimage to the Eternal City for the next Feast of the Epiphany. J ' ' ' —One of the most noteworthy facts in connection with the demand for railroad supplies of all kinds is that the purchases are for cash or very short time. It is said that the exceptions to this rule do not exceed five per cent. —The Rev. Mr. Ross, of East Williams, Ontario, has forbidden Free Masons to approach the communion table in his church on the ground that at Masonic funerals the name of Christ is not used in supplications to the Deity. —Bridget (to caller): “Will ye kape still a minit while I look ait ye? No, missis haint to homo. Slip told me- if a woman come with a wart bn the end of a red nose to say she want to home, and there’s no mistaking jthat wart.”— Andrews' Bazar. ’ , —The colored Baptists, of Alabama have for the past year sustained a theological and normal school at Selma, with two hundred and iifty-two students, without incurring tfcbt, and have also paid one thousaml dollars on their grounds and buildings. —An Episcopalian preacher recently married a young couple, and in the service omitted the wprd “ obey.” When asked his reason therefor, he said that the parties were not members of his church, and hence were not entitled to all that the rubric allows. j —Some one has opened a chfe just opposite a cemetery in Paris. He dedicates his house “ to those coming from funerals,” and announces on his private sign, “Private rooms for all who desire to weep by themselves. Wine and liquors of the very best.”: — Paris Letter. —Muki Bacsi, the ablest wine-drinker in Hungary, was a guest at a recent wedding dinner. A glas? holding three pints was set before him, and he was informed that he was expected to empty it as often as an ordinary glass was drained by the host. He obeyed, but the feat killed him. —“ Edward, what do I hear? —that you have disobeyed your grandmother, who told 3’ou just now not to jump down these steps?” “Grandma didn’t tell us not to, papa; she only came to the door and said,/I wouldn't jump down those steps, boys;’ and I shouldn’t think she would—an old lady like her !” — Harper'B Bazar, on; table manners, says: “Do not betray by any gesture that you are hungry.” Certainly not. For, of course, no one is supposed to go to the table to satisfy his appetite ; it is a mere form. Any indication that you go there because you want something to eat is very ill-bred.- Boston Post.

—Some one at the British Association’s Dublin read a paper on the intellect of animals. He cited no case so remarkable as that of Cuchino’s dog, which livfes on this boat. This, and the steamer which runs to Desenzanp—fifteen miles away, at the southwest corner of the lake—start from Riva, at the north end of Garda. The dog was familiar with the crews of both, and with the other braft, but he had never made a trip by her. For a long time he watched her course down the other side of the lake, and saw her drawing farther and farther away, until she was hidden by the projecting point. One day, his mind fully ! settlecT to its theory, he proceeded to verify it. He marched deliberately oyer to Desenzano, took passage, dame safely to Riva, and went back to his familiar kitchen with an air of entire satisfaction. He could not be induced to make another trip by that boat. He had “done” it, and had no more worlds to conquer in that direction. He had reasoned out a plan of action, and had/ found his reasoning correct.— Colonel Geo. E. Waring , in Harper's Magazine. Frederick Cull, on trial in Sussex County, N. J., for the murder of his daughter, is an eocenjtric individual, who always wears both summer and winter a heavy overcoat with a muffler enveloping his face. He has lived for years on a mess composed of bread, molasses, vinegar ana fat pork, all mixed up in a large bowl. In his confinement he demands and receives, by the consideration of the jailor, this impressive dish; and he also continues to wear the overcoat and muffler. He amuses himself by sitting in one, corner of his cell and picking his clothes to pieces; and altogether, for a promising Elea of insanity, a prettier case is seldom eard of. } • 1 (tr —— i. Bishop Elder, of Natchez, has sent a circular-letter to his clergy, informing them that, in compliance with the command of the holy father, he has laid aside the title of Bisnop of Natchez and taken that of Bishop of A vara, in partibus infidelium, Administrator Apostolic of the Diocese of Natchez. Bishop Elder becomes coadjutor of the archdiocese of San Francisco. —The fund to erect a monument to Wm. Lloyd Garrison amounts to about $3,000.