Bloomington Telephone, Volume 7, Number 41, Bloomington, Monroe County, 23 February 1884 — Page 2

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THE NEWS CONDENSED. CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. Ths credentials of Henry B. Payne a Senator elect fro i Ohio were presented in the Senate oa the llth inst. by Mr. Pendleton. A petition wsa prevented for the removal of the discrimination against volunteer offioers as to pensions in contrast with the pay of regular officers on the retired list. Mr. Polph handed in a petition from the Board of Trade of Portland, Oregco. for a Btrengthening of the navy. Bills were reported to ftx the salaries of Judges of district contits, and to authorize the purchase of additional grounds for the Postoffiee at Sprlnjr field, Hi- Bills were introduced to authorise a foot and carriage bridge acrac the Misrisiaarppi at St. Paul, and for the officers and crew of the monitor which destroyed the Merrimac. Betoiuriow were passed ordering a report on the condition of the Government tea farm in South Carolina, and whether the Baltimore and Ohio telegraph within the past year received or made proposals for consolidation with the Western Union. The Sen ate receded from its amendment to the Greely relief bit), and parsed the joint resolution appropriating $300,000 for the relief of the flood-sufferers. The House of Bepresentattres, by a vote of 238 to 12, parsed a joint resolution appropriating $300,000 for the relief of the sufferers by the overflow of the Ohio river and its tributaries. Bills were TOtroduced to limit the number of cadeti in the Naval Academy, to restore to the penston-rolis names dropped on account of disloyal v, to encourage Indian education In Dakota, for the erection of a public building at Detrtit costing tl.500.ooc, to provide additional life-savin? stations, to authorize the payment of postal notes to the bearer, and to comjel voters m Utah and Idaho to take an oath that they do not belong to the Church of Latter-Dsy Saints, Btilo wore introduced in the Senate, on the 13th, to suspend the coinage of the standard silver dollar until June, 1886, and to recaive trade dollars in small amounts for postage and revenue stamps; for the erection of public buildings at Pneblo and Del Norte, Colo., and to prohibit the assessment of Government officials and employes for political purposes. A bill was passed authorizing the construction of a building for the Congressional Library. A resolution was adopted calling on the Attorney General to explain the delay in interpreting the taw as to the adjustment of Postmasters salaries. A bill was parsed to pay Mrs. Louisa Boddy, of Oregon, $3,400 for murders and depredations by the Modoes, The House of Bepresentatives adopted a resolution to send a select committee to Hot Springs, Ark., to ex amine all Government interests at that point. Bills were introducedto retire or rocoin the trade dollar, to authorize the extension of the Chesapeake and Ohio road to the military lands at Fortress Monroe, to provide for toe construction of the Michigan and Mississippi canal, to erect a public building at Carson City, and to convert the 3, 4, and 45$ per cent bond) into 2 per cents., wring a premium equal to the amount saved to the country. There was some debate on the naval appropriation bill. Mr. Stewart, of Vermont, offered a resolution, which was adopted, authorising the committee to investigate the manner in which the star-route oases have been prosecuted, with a view to ascertain whether such prosecutions have been in good faith. A caucus of the House Demcn crats was held in the evening. It did nothing but elect a chairman (8. S. Cox) and four secretaries. The tariff cuestion was not brought np. Mb, Voobbus offered a resolution hi the Senate, Feb. 13, directing the Secretary of the Interior to withold for the present his approval of certain patents for lands selected by the Northern Pacific Bead. Mr, Pendleton introduced a bill to grant condemned cannon for a statue to Gen William H. Lytle, of Oldo. The McPherson bill to provide for the lue of circulating notes to national banks was advocated by Mr. Bayard as being in the line of absolute security. Mr. Sherman offered an amendment as to bonds bearing more than S percent, interest. He said sentiment in Congress was hostile to the suspension of silver coinage or the adoption of a new ratio between the precious metals, and that a silver standard was casting its shadow upon the future In the House, a resolution wss offered inquiring into the delay in returning the measure for the relief of sufferers by the floods now prevailing. Petitions were presented for pensions to Union soldiers confined in Andersonville, Belle Isle, or otter Confederate prisons. The Secretary of the Navy transmitted ciaims of contractors for the care of monitors, aggregating $278,545. Some time was spent in debate on the contested election case of Chalmers vs. Manning. SxNaTOB Bbck called op the McPherson banking bOl Feb. 14, and during the' course of his speech deprecated the proportion to allow the issue of circulating notes up to the market slue of the securities deposited. Senator MorxSk offered a substitute providing for the issuance of notes up to 110 per cent of the par value of 4 per cent bonds deposited previous to 1890, the amount in circulation ta decrease 1 per cent each year subsequently until par is reached. On all other securities the circulation mav equal the par value of the bonds. No action was taken. Bills passed the Senate for the relief of the Louisiana State Bank and to make all publtcrrads and hisrbwavs post routes. Mr. Logan introduced a bill to provide that honorabl y discharged soldiers and sailora be preferred for appointment to civil offices. Mr. Beck handed in an act for the organization of Supreme Courts in the Territories. In th- House of Bepreeentf.tives, Mr. McKinley presented a telegram from Cleveland recommending that the flood relief appropriation be increased to $1,000,0001 Several members aired their views in regard to the Mississippi contested election case of Chalmers vs. ManBing. Ax additional appropriation of $200, $03, making the total amount $500,000, for th? relief of the flood sufferers, passed both nouses of Congress Feb. 15. The Senate spent an hour in debate on the bill to provide for the issue of circulating notes to national banks. A vote was then taken on the amendment submitted by Mr, Sherman providing that if any bonds deposited bore interest higher than 3 per cent additional notes shall be Issued equal to one-half the interest izr excess of 3 per cent, accruing before maturity, and it was rejected. The Hcre defeated a resolution declaring Manning entitled to the neat from Mississippi, contested by him and Chalmers, and decided that the seat should renuin vacant until decided on its merits. Both houses adjourned to Feb. 18.

A tausb containing $25,000 was stolen from a transfer company in New York, while being- taken from th Grand Central depot to the Desbroraes street ferry. Tra will of Wendell Phillips contains no public bequests. An estate of $150,000 is devited to Mrs. Phillips, end on her decease reverts to the adopted daughter, Mrs. George W. Smalley, of London.

A sensation was created in the trial of Frank James, the noted outlaw, at Kansas City for participation in the Blue Cut robbery of 1981 Tbe Prosecuting Attorney moved to have the se dismissed, and justified his action on ttie ground that Gov. Crittenden had refused to grant a pardon for Dick Liddell, one of the most important witnesses for the State. After the dismissal of the ease Frank James was arraigned ttefore the Federal authorities on a charge of robbing a Paymaster at Mussel Shoals, Ala. He will now go to Alabama for trial Judd Crouch was arrested at Jackson, Mich., for an attempt to murder Itetective Brown, and furnished bail in 16,000..... Chicago (Feb. 12) telegram: "There was great speculative activity on tho Chicago Board of Trade yesterday. May wheat advanced to $1.08 ?i, and May pork to $18.30. For tbe flrst time in the history of the Chicago Stock Yards, the buyer for a large packer tooklors at random, and, after selecting such animals as were de sired, sold the remainder to the general public, thus giving the scalpers a death-blow. One small lot of fancy hogs brought $7.40 yesterday, being tr e highest price for the ee&eon, while the best cattle in the market pold at $tf.80. home choice Michigan ahoep changed hands at $6' Two aged pjople, Mr. and Mrs. James C. Willson, wealthy residents of the village of Winnetka, suburb of Chlc.go,x were assassinated in their home by unknewn bands. The house in which the criioewas committed is one of the best in ti e villas, standing on an eminence, and separated by considerable spaces from other build tags. Mr. Wilisou was shot and stamped

upon in his sitting-room, and Mrs. Wilson was most brutally beaten to death In an upper chamber, A bungling robbery was committed, though it is thought robbery was not the leading motive. There seems at present .to bo absolutely no hope Df placing the guilt where it belongs... .FranH James has been te ken to Huntsville, Ala;., to be tried for complicity in tbe Mussel Shoe Is robbery, . A abstracted from &? ofjlce ofDr. It. C. Brainerd, at Cleveland, f hat was considered to be the - latest numismatic collected in Ohio. The body of Miss Kitty Gilmore, which had been placed in a vault at Warren, Ohio, was removed a few hours later by the undertaker, taken to the housebf a physician, and placed upon a bed. A roseute hue still regained on the cheeks -at the girl. Three doctors, however, decided that she we a dead, and the remains were again returned to the vault. . . . The employment bureau of the Youog Men's Christian Association or Chicago retKrts 30,000 to 40,000 men and boys unable to procure work, which is 20 ior cent, more than usual. The applicants come from every walk of lite. .... Contracts have been issued for through sleepers and parlor-cars between Chicago and Pan Francisco, over the pioneer route, commencing April 1.... Indians are starving at the Poplar Creek and Wolf Point Agencies. THK SOUTH. .A negro named Jeff Sogers was lynched by a mob at Lafayette, Ala., for assaulting and brutally stabbing a white woman The Texas Senate indefinitely postponed the bill to justify the killing of fencecutters caught using nippers. James B. Pavis, Representative in the Texas Legislature for Lamar County, in a wild frenzy, caused by excessive drink, escaped from his room at a hotel in Whitesboro, Tex., with nothing on his person but Ms un-dcr-garments. Every exertion was made to find him without avail until the following morning when his body was discovered stiff in death lying face down in the road a mile away. Moss Harris, editor of tbe Hot Springs (Ark.) Daily llorsenhoe fired five chambers of his revolver at two local gamblers whom he met on the street and imagined were about to attack him. The gamblers were unharmed, and they had such a contempt for tbe editor and his poor marksmanship that they did not return the fire, although armed to the teeth. . . .A cyclone, the first of the spring- season, swept across the northern part of Georgia last week, doing great damage. WASHINGTON. Secretary Folger has written a letter to Chairman Morrison, of the Ways and Means, indicating the practical faults of the tariff law of March 3, 1883. The Secretary declares many amendments strictly necessary to prevent litigation and fraud. . . .The Coinage and Weights and Measures Committee will report a bill providing for the withdrawal of the trade dollar from circulation. The Proteus Court of Inquiry finds that Garlington erred in judgment in hasten ing away from Pandora Harbor, but his general conduct is highly commended. Gen. Haaen is represented as having failed in comprehending the necessities of the case and in instituting measures to meet them. . . . Tbe House Committee on Public Lands has agrted to report favorably a bill forfeiting the land grants of tbe Ontonagon and Brule River, the Marquette and State Line, and the Marquette, Houghton, and Ontonagon Roads, comprising about 200,000 acres. Senator Sherman told an interviewer, at Washington, that the revenue law of last winter greatly injured the woolen and iron industries. He claims that u proper tariff can only be made where one party has tbe power and responsibility. Ho admits that there is a growing feeling in favor of raw listeria K and he believes that what is needed is moderate but stable protective du

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POLITICAL. The Sherman sub-committee began its Copiah investigation at New Orleans on Feb. 15. Leon H. Matthews, brother of J. P. Matthews, killed at Hazelhurst, Copiah County, Miss., was the first witness examined. On the day before election he raw an armed mob at Hazelb urs t. They sent a message to his brother warning hie : to

leave the next day. A few days beiore the election the colored church was burned. The independents attempted to organize a club there. The mob carried a cann on all over the county, and fired It occasionally. Armed bands notiSed the Matthew family that if any trouble occurred the latter would be held res pons lb'e. Some mcfe in the mob owed himself and brother for goods, and had run away to avoid payment. As sc on as the polls opened on Dec. 7. J. P. Matthews went to vote, and was shot down by Wheeler just as his name was checked off on the poll-list Witness learned this from the election officers. An armed mcb was riding over the county before election, declaring that they would carry

the election with shotguns if necessary, or

witt knives. Witness made a statement concerning the efforts of his brother, himself, and other political friends to have the county officials take some action to check the outrage, and finally applied to the Governor, but nothing was done. Other witnesses were examined by the committee, an of them testifying to about the same as Matthews. B. W. Glass (colored) testified before the Sherman committee, on the second day of its sittings at Washington, that on the 3d day of November, at Danville, Va.,he heard a pistol fired, and rushed to the scene, where he found some seventy-five negroes and twenty-five white men. The white men and policemen were telling the ne groes to leave, which they declined to do. Then the white men drew pistols and fired. Said he heard some whites say: "Kill every damned nigger we see." Heard Henry Barkesdaie make a speech in which he said: "We intend to carry this election by fair means or foul." Heard him say it was to be carried "by de point ob de gun." At tbe time of tho riot saw white men riding up with guns; saw white men running home after their guns: paw no colored

men armed. George A. Lee (white) saw several pistols in the hands of the colored people. Believed the first volley was fired into the crowd of negroes, but after tbe latter bean to run a great many shots were fired in tbe air; saw some eipht or ten pistols among the negroes pointed at Taylor and himself, the negroes demanding that they come out and thow their faces. Charles G. Freeman, (white) described his efforts to disperse the crowd of negroes before the riot. They (the blacks) replied that they had been mistreated, and were going to have their rights before they left. Witness saw many negroes with pistols. John Stone (white) testified that the negroes generally did not vote on el ection day, saying they were not going to be slaughtered. THE WEEK'S FIRE BECORD, The dry goods store of Judell, Piatt &Mas, St. Louis, Mo., loss $40,000; several oil tanks belonging to the Standard Oil Company. Long Island City. N. Y., loss $75,000; a hotel and three stores at Middleport, N. Y., $20,!00; several stores at Trinidad, in the Island of St. Thomas, $400,000; TJlton's flour millH, Buckeye City, Ohio. $15,000; a planing mill at Lower tienesee Palis, N. Y., $40,000; a railway repair shop at Zanesville, Ohio, $20,000; a drug store and othe. business house sat Wheeling. W. Va., 70,000; a brick block at Omaha, Nob., $55,000; two stores at Sab in a, Ohio, $20,000; several business houses at Hekna, Ark., $75,000; a number of stores at Walcott, N. YM (100,(00; a grain elevator at Bronda'e, Minn., $2&,QdQ; Kuddock's shoe factory, Haverhill, MaBs., $50 000; several buildings at Albion, Pa., $20,000; George B. Smith's fine reddened at Keokuk, Iowa, $10,000; the steamer M. I. Ha' lid ay, at St. Louis, Mo $100,000; a hardware store at Onei.la. N. Y., $50,000; a paper mill at North Bennington, Vt.. $60,00 J; Leeson's grain elevator, Leon, lowa, $10,000: Morrison's soap works, Toronto, $50,000; o hotel at Con noil Bluffs, Iowa, $15,000; Haven's cooper shops, Minneapolis, Minn., $15,000; San key Brothers'

brick works, Pittsburgh, Pa., $10,000; A grain elevator at Jones uoro, lnd., $12,0JU; several stores at Union 1ty, Mich., $16,000, COMMERCIAL FAILURES. The notable commercial failures of the week were aaApllowsfLiabUities, Pilkington fc Ca,? agricultural Implement. St, Paul $75,000 H. A: H. S.0hurch, stove-f or nders, Troy, N. Y 60,000 Victoria Straw-Work, Montreal 80,000 H. J. Woodrich, clothing, Chicago 22,000 II. A, Saalfield, munic pul lisher, New York :io,ooo F. fc E. Jaeger, crockeiy. CLfoago 70,000 Perrine & Co., wool, New York 115,000 J. A. Grinstead. turfman, Ljxinton.Ky. 100.000 A, C. it C. H. Klomaneon, mills, Pittsbnrgh 26f,000 Renhaw & Co., clothiers, Now Orleans, 50,000 John Kerr, banker, Abilene. Tex 40,000 Isnac Hodge, banker, Platfc vllle, Wis. . . . 150,000 J. Frcedman, drv goods, Nt w York 100,000 J. W. Fowler, dry goods, St. Joseph, Mo. 12,000 Jones Car Manulacturiujc Company, Troy,N. Y 1 100,003 W. BeisterfiVlH, dry good , aginaw.Mi ;h. 10,000 Edward Pillsbury's Sons, cotton, New Orleans 140,000 Woodiside Co., liquors, P:iildc!ihifi... 50,0CO GIenntr & llo-s, confectio lers, Kansas Citv 40,000 NaWmal Wrapper and Parkin? Co., St. Louis W.noo T. P. A S. 8. Smith, shoes, Philadelphia. . 40,000 NECROLOGY OF THIS WEEK. Thomas Kinsella . editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, died last week at his home in Brooklyn, after a long and painful ill. ness. He was Postmaster under President Johnson, a member of rongrcss. and a delegate to t hree nationall enc ocraiicconventions. He leases a large fortune to a wife and five daughters. Oth r deaths reported during the week .vere as, follows: Hons Larsen Martensen, famous Danish preacher and theologian ; Charles Leslie, a pioneer settler of Davenport, lowar Jacob Srasongood, a prominent Cincinnati banker; Mrs. Catherine Pattison, mother of the Governor of Pennsylvania; i ohn Ball, a pioneer of the Grand River Valley, of Michigan; Mrs. D x, widow of the late Gen. John A. Dix ; Rev. Dr. Thonuis R. Austin, of Vincennee, lnd., a Ma?on of high degree; Gen. Biron, a distinguished French diplomat; Prof. Guyot, who had been connected with Princeton College for thirty years; Stephen B. Ives, a prominent lawyer of Salem, Mass. ; Hew Simeon Nor;h, of Utica, N. Y., .President of Hamilton College; Mrs. Mary Lynch, of Brower County, Iowa, aged 105 years ; G on. J. L. Gilbert, a prominent citizen of Btoomington, 111.; Rev. John S. Inskip, of Ocean Grove, N. J.; Mopes Williams, an ostee ned citizen of Terre Haute, lnd.; George Laie, a veteran hotelkeeper of Oshkosh, Wis.; Thomas Cheney for tho past seven years 3d it or of the London Times. GKNEKAX. The Postmaster of Kansas City, Mo., visited Montreal last week in company with his brother. The two had revolvers in their belts. They were arrestod for carrying arms and the weapons confiscated. Sentence was deferred. The gloomy situation at Cincinnati was rendered more hopeful on the morning of Feb. 15, by a bulletin announcing that the waters of the Ohio Ri'er, after having attained a height of 71 feet 3 inches, had begun a retrogade movement. The announcement caused great rejoicing among the people. At Lawrencebuig the storm and ensuing cold weather were sc verely ielt and hundreds were housed in tho upper sections ot two hal is, a sch oo 1 hou so, an 1 the Cou r t House. The inundation bad increased at Aurora, and the place was cut into three sections by the rushing river. ciefTerconville was in a sad plight, an 1 the ruinous work along- tbe Kanawha is reported as fearful. The families of 125 lime-burners at Utica,

Jnd., huddled together in a church. At New Albany hundreds of houses had been wrecked or carried off their foundations. There were 315 houses submerged at Dayton, Ky., and at New .port, Ky. , eighty s 3 u are s of grou nd were overflowed. Storm-waves destroyed hundreds of buildings at Portsmouth and Ironton, Ohio; Point Pleasant, W. Va.; Newport, Uniontown, Aberdeen, and Maysville, Ky., and in tho eastern section of Cincinnati. Joppa, 111., had been deserted by its peo le, and Shawneetown was com pie te !y um ler wa te r, but the residents were not suffering greatly. Metropolis, lit., had also been devastated by tho floods, and Utica aid Clarksville, lnd., were almost entirely submerged. Measures for rc'lef were being taken at r;early every prominent point m the country. Secretary Lincoln announced his intention of having Geu, Beckwilh disburse $120,000 from Ciucinnati. while $180,000 would be applied to the sueor of citizens to be reached by expeditions from Pittsburgh, Evansville, and Louisville. Wheeling reported the depots crowded wit 11 provisions and clothing awaiting distribution. The relief committee at that oint arrested two men for obtaining sixty-soven suits of clothes and seven pairs of sh es. Nearly 50,000 people were being 'ed by the relief committee at Cincinnati. At Cairo the water stood 4$ feet 1 inc 1 above- low-water mark, and at Helena the Mississippi was 42 feet above low water. Th 5 Arkansas River at Little Rock was higher than it has been tor thirty years. The waters of the Ohio lUver had fallen two feet at Cincinnati on the morning of Feb. 10, and was receding all tho way down

as far as Evansville. A seething torrent was j

rushing through Jeffersonvillo, carrying everything before it. Great distress prevailed at Uniontown, whi m was partly deserted, and mountainous waves were destroying the structures which remained erect at Lawr-enceburg. The devastation at New Albany continued. DiHtreKgint; reports are narrated by persons cn the relief boats plying up and dotfn the Oalo. The horrors of the flood were aggravated at Cincinnati by a terrible disaster by which twelve lives were lost. Two largtj buildings, undermirujd by the water, fell with a crash, buryingmany of the occupants in the ruins. The accident spread terror among tho occupants of similar old buildings in the inundated district, and many who could do so wore seeking safer quarters. By the upsetting- of a boat in the Tennessee River. n?B r Newburg, TennM two women and three children Io$t cheir lives. FOREIGN. The British commander in Egypt hag been ordered to collect a force for the relief of Tokar or the defence of tbe Red Sea posts. A council of war at Cairo despatched four regiments and some Egyptian tcoop9 to Suakim. Gen. Gordon has ordered the destruction of the forts at Khartoum if they cannot be held. Queen Victobias's r ew bock, which was recently issued in Lc ndon, has reached its second edition. It ccnsi&ts of a disconnected diary from Aug. 21, 1H62, lo September, 1882, with a long gf p from October, 1879, to the final date, covering the perod of the transition from the administration of Beaconsfield to that of Gladstone. The entiro book U devoted to domestic a 3d family affairs, political allusions b&ing only incidental. Many touching allusions are made to John Brown and his services. The illustrations are numerous, and include portraits of tho Queen and tbe Princesses Eleanor, Louise, and Beatrice; aleo of Grant, tho Queen's body servant, and of her attendant, John Brown. There arc also pictures of the Queen's collio doirs, Shar?) and Noble, and several views of scene ii the Highlands, from sketches by Prinocss Beatrice...,. A mass of ice went rattling over tho Caspian, &nd all tbe fishermen who were working on tbe cake are believed to have been lost. ... A ruffian seized Mr. Gladstone by the collar on the streets of London and Br ook him roughlj'. The assailant escaped and has not yet been apprehended. The submission of the Merv tribes to Russia is regarded in Berlin as a menace toward England's Indian Empire. J tussia being now tbe "immediate neighbor of India," in case of hostilities with I'lUglaiHl, it is alleged the frontier tribes could, under Russian protection, invado tho rich provinces of Hiudostan. . . .The Britten oA-ped: tion for tho relief ot Tokar has t -tar tod from Sue., in command of Gen. Graham. Tints for a thousand wen have been sent from A Ion lo Suakim,

Mr. Gladstone stated in the House of Commons that England will defray the expense of tho ex pediton to the Soudan. Gen. Gordon has eent many women and children down tho river to Korasko There is hope among the Englishmen in the Soudan that some of the Northern races will aid the white men Many neutral tribes have already served notice on the False prophet a foroes tht he is carrying his war too far out of Equatorial Africa. . . .The Lord Mayor of London presided at a mass meeting which passed resolutions condemning the Egyptian policy of the Government as having caused he sacrifice of thousands of lives. . . . Two hundred women and an unknown number of children -were massacred by Soudan rebels at Siukat.

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ADDITIONAL NEWS. In or near the quarantine station at Deerln.sf, Me.,, are twenty-five head of cattle afliicted with the foob-and-raouth disease, which is said to have sprung from English importationa Dr. Thayer, of the United States Cattlo Commission, is on the ground, and is taking every precaution to prevent the spread of the disease. At a meeting of the cattle dealers of the Chicago Stock Yards, resolutions were unanimously adopted declaring that never in tho history ot the country were our food anlinuls in as healthy condition as at present. Two cases of glanders were discovered in Chicago. The infected horses v ere in a barn with thirty or forty horses and mules, all running loose, and the Illinois Stute Veterinarian has quarantined the whole lot The delegates recently appointed by the Manitoba farmers to present a statement of their grevanefts to thw Dominion Government have returned to their homes, and report that their mission has been a complete fuilure. The authorities at Ottawa refuse to do anything toward removing tho causes of complaint. There is great indignation among the Mauitobans over the bluat und discourteous refusals, and meetings have been callei to consider the situatiau. The chur ch and arbitrary method of tho Domin ion Ministers will no doubt have ttie effect of giving quite an impetus to the annexation movement in the Northwestern Provinces. Congressman Willis urges in support of hi i bill for national aid to education the facts that in fourteen Northern and in all tho Southern States illiteracy holds the balance of power; that there are in the thirtyeight States 1,871,217 illiterate voters; that onfy one voter in five can write his name; that in nuny of the Southern States the illiterate voters are halt of the whole voting population .... It is- said to be the conviction of tho House Committee on Public Lands that Congress has the leal right to forfeit the entire land grant of the Northern Pacific Ra.il road, excepting less than a million of acres already earnod and patented. As to the expediency of forfeiting the lands the committee is divided The iron and steel manufacturers and the su!?ar interest are making a fight against the Morrison tariff bill, on the ground that the reduction of duties proposed would be ruinous to their business. The New England manufacturers are also opposing it. The Queen's book, a London dispatch informs us, is being unfavorably received, and universally voted as dull and insipid Another large mass-meeting was held in Loudon, to denounce the policy of the Government in relation to Egypt. A resolution offered by Sir Robert Peel, that Parliament had cease J to be in accord whh the people, was adopted. . . .A bill has been introduced in tho English Parliament to so restrict the arrival of cattle iu England as to affect only infected ports, and not the entire country.... The anti-Jewish feeling in Russia is so violent that attempts have been made to incite a general Jewish massacre. . . . A Cairo dispatch says that Gen. Gordon las arrived at Khartoum, ana has issued a proclamation recognizing the Mahdi as Sultan of Kordol'an, remitting half the taxes of the region, and permitting the slave trade. The Arabs of the city are reported to bo satisfied It is the general opinion among Eng lish officials at Cairo that the Egyptian army is not only useless, but dangerous, and ought to be disbanded..,. A royal commission will be appointed at an early day to inquire into the condition of the working classes, and particularly the character of their dwellings, with a view to their improvement. The Illinois Supreme Court has rendered a decision declaring the Harper bill, which imposes a license of $;00 on whisky and. $150 on beer and malt liquor, constitutional. The Governor of Texas has sent there companies of rangers into tbe districts which have suffered most from fence-cutting, with the expectation that some funerals will follow their advent In a hotel at Lexington, Ky., two intoxicated men blew out the gas in their room and tiled in great agony. Washington telegram : Senator Bayard has had a number of consultations with ex-Senator McDonald during his visit in this city. Bayard is friendly to McDonald, and, while the substance of thoir consultation is not generally known, it is thought they have formed an offensive and defensive alliance. Bayard will support McDonald as against any other Western candidate, and the latter will support Bayard as against any other Eastern candidate.... Gen. Dan Sickles, who has acted with the Democratic party since 1S76, says that if the Republican Convention should nominate Senator Logan ho will feel compelled to suppert him. He says Logan is the choice of all the most conspicuous volunteer commanders, and that he would get the soldier vote. . 1 - - - THE MARKET. NEW YORK. I5EEVE- $ 5.75 7.50 Hogs..... 6.75 7.50 Flour Superfine 6.25 7.00 Wheat No. 2, Chicago 1.05 1.06 No. 2 Red 1.10 ! i.u CORN No. 2 tl'j $ .61 Gats Mixed 42 t& .47 Pork Mess 18.00 (18.60 Laki , 10 & .1014. CHICAGO. Beeves Choice to Prime Steers. 6.75 7.50 Fair to Good ff,50 & 6.25 Common to Medium.. . . 6.00 ($ 5.75 Hoc.R 6.50 (fl 7.75 Flour Fancy White Winter Ex 5.25 5.75 Gooti to Choice Spring 4.50 5.35 Wheat No. 2 Spring 94 & .95 No. 2 ltud Winter. 1.02 1.04 Corn No. 2 54 (i .55 Oats No. 2 y .34 Rye No. 2 50 .60 HAKLEY No. 2 04 .66 Butter Choice Creamery. .28 g .32 Hugs Fresh 26 .27 I'ORK-Mes 18.00 18.50 Lard 00ft $ .10 MILWAUKEE. Wheat No. 2 .$3 .94 CoRX Vo. 2 54 (rti .55 Oats No. 2 34 .36 IS YE No. 2 62 .54 JIA1XEY No. 2 ft9 .61 Pork Mess , 18.M) $ih.50 LAK3 U.75 &10.00 BT. LOUia Wheat No. 2 Red 1.07 l.WH Corn Mixed 54 i .55 Oath No. 2 34 .36 Rye 53 c .55 Pork Mess 17.60 18.00 Lard - 09 MM CINCINNATI Wheat No. 2 Red 1.02 1.04 Corn 48 .49 Oats .36 i& .37 RYE 63 i& .64 Pork Mens 17.25 trf 17.75 Lard 09 & ,oo& TOLEDO. Wheat -No. 2 Rod 3.03 1.05 Corn No. 2 63 (& .55 Oats No. 2 34 19 .36 DETROIT. Flour f .00 (3 6.25 Wheat No 1 White. 1.04 & 1.05 Corn No. 2 .54 .55 OATH-Mixed 37 3 .39& PORK Mess 19.00 19.50 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat No. 2 Red 1.04 1.05 Corn No. 2 48 .50 Oath Mixed 35 & .36 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle BeRt 6.25 & 7.25 Fair 5 50 6.25 Common n . . . 4.75 (3 P. 75 Hons 7.50 $ 8.00 Sheep 4.75 5.25

A Horrible IUdiglous Kit of the Moqai Indians Tho Moqui Indians have a peculiar tlaaee, known as tho "Snake-Dance," of which the Albpquerque journal jivea the following fle&criptioijj : "This dance is a religious rite and only oconrs at long intervals. Eight days before the time for the dance the men go out to hunt for the snakes. They take with them the sacred meal meal which is chanted over, and over which the sacred rods aro waved and the nacred rod, a stick about five feet long, with a fork at the end. They take every snu ke which they find. When they find one they ra:se tho stick over him, and they watch their chance, and, when the snake starts to-run, with the speed of the lightniug's flash they seize him behind the head and carry him to the pueblo, where they put him into a place called an estufu, which is a hole in the ground about ten feet deep, eight feet wide and fifteen feet long, and which is covered all over, except a round hole in the center. They enter the estufu by a ladder. As soon as the snake is left in the 3stufu, they go out and hunt for more snakes, when the same thing is repeated. One-half of the estufu is raised about one foot higher than the other, aud in this en(l the snakes are kept by the snake-herders; in the other is the alter, which is about six feet square, painted on the floor in different colors, around which are hundreds of huge serpents painted, and at one end of which is the snake-god, a horrible clay image. Around the altar at equal intervals are the rainstakes, thirty-three in number round stakes one inch in diameter and eighteen inches long. When any one brings in a imake he goes to the alter, breathes over one of these rain-stakes, and calls on the snake-god to bring raiiu Should none come in their own name before noon of the eighth dayf the thirty-three oldest men

of the tribe take the rain-stakes, go half a mile to the east, and in the name of their squaws implore the rain-god to send rain ; and each one digs a hole, lays in his rain-stake, puts hi a little sacred meal, and buries them, and returns at precisely high noon of the eighth day. All who have not found any fenakes bury their sacred rods jrith a little sacred meal and return to tho pueblo, where all must be by 1 'o'clock, where they will wash their hair with the soappaint, after which they all go (the men only) into another large estufu where they go through a series of chants and singing, and invocation to another godt which is set up at the end of the estufu. After this they drink a decoction prepared from herbs and roots, and which sometimes makes them very sick, and which they think will protect them from the venom of the snakes should any bite them, but which will not protect them, as those who are bitten die. Meanwhile the snake-herders are collecting the snakes, which he says number several hundred, into sacks; the rattlesnakes are put into buckskin sacks, the others into common sacks. The dance ground is a smooth piece of ground about sixteen feet in diameter, in the center of which is the sacred rock ; on one side is the snakeshade, a piece about four feet square, with walls on three side about four feet high, and a curtain hung in front, in front of which is a flat board or stick. At a given signal eighteen men from the second estufu quickly ascend the ladder and rush to the danceground. The snake-herders bring out the snakes aud empty them into the snake-shade, where they are kept by the herders with sticks. The eighteen men msh three times around the sacred rock, stamping three times on the board or timber in front of the snakehade. Eighteen old women and eighteen maidens form a circle outside of the dance-ring, each with & dish of the sacred meal; eighteen other men rush out, each with a stick two feet long, on the end of which are three sacred feathers tied; tbey wave them a' ove the snake-Sihade three times each time making a loud, hissing sound like the hissing of a serpent, Tho first eighteen men then form a line, the right resting close to the snakeshade ; the other eighteen form in front of them the curtain is quickly drawn aside; the herder stirs up the snakes with a stick; all the women shout. The first man, with the speed of lightning, seizes a handful of snakes and grabs them in his mouth: the man opposite to him seizes him around the waist with one arm ; with the other hand he waves the stick and feathers in the face of the snakes to attract them. The man with his mouthful of snakes rushes madly around the ring, supported by the other one as a partner, who is waving the stick and feathers all the time. As he passes the women, each one throws the sacred meal on the snakes. Meanwhile each man is seizing a handful of snakes and

putting them in. his mouth it all being done in a moment, each one having his partner with the feathers and all rushing around ; the snnkes writhing in contortions, the rattlesnakes rattling, the copperhead and bull snakes hissing; the women shouting and throwing sacred meal; the whole forming one of the most revoltting and unearthly sounds and sights that a man ever beheld. They rush around the riug three times, when the snakes are dumped by the sacred rock. He says he saw one man with five snakes in his mouth, one of which wast a rattlesnake four feet long. One rattlesnake caught one of the men by the neck ; Lis partner seized it by the head and picked it back. Another caught a man by the side of the head and could hardly be jerked back. If the snakes are not all taken out of the snake-shade, another lot go through the same thing until all the snakes are carried three times aiound the ring. At the conclusion of the dance the eighteen maidens form a ring with the sacred .meal about six feet in diameter; the eighteen old women form two lines across the ring at right angles with the sacred meal; wary man who can get ono catchos a snake, throws it into the ring, and herders keep them there until the sun is just out ot sight, when every man again vushes into the ring, seizes a snake, an 1 all run jxb fast as

they can towarts the four points of tn compass for half a mile, when they m propped up and let go, and all return to the dancing ground, where they wave tho sacred rod over the men who are bitten, chant, and invoke the enake-god to save them. And so ends this frightful and horrible orgie. Of course those who are bitten die ; but the only wonder is that so few aro bitten, as many of the snakes are rattlesnakes. Restricted Babies. Some of the police regulations ia Germany seem r.bsurd to an American, on account of their minute restrictions and their abundance of "red tape." An American gentleman living in Berlin with his family, writing to a friend in this country, gives an account pt m annoying, os well as amusing, experience with the police of that city. His sense of humor may have led him to exaggerate the minor details, but the main fctct, which concerns the baby and the park, is true. He says : . "I have lately been brought in contact with that inexorably law-enforcing machine, the German police. Yon know my wife has been a invalid since our residence here. For this reason the care of the chidren has come upon Mary our Irish servant, who has followed our fortunes so long as to be almost one of the family. A more faithful girl never lived, and busily occupied as I am with my writing, I have left the children almost entirely to her charge. "The day after we came here, I sent her out with the baby for a stroll in the park that adjoins the house. After seeing her wheel the carriage out of sight, under the lindens, I sat down to my desk. In a few moments she burst into my room., much excited, exclaiming, " 'An' if you plaze, sorr, what sort of a counthry is this? The man says I must have a ticket to thrundle' the baby out there in the park.' "'What man V I asked. "'Whatman? Who but the man that calls himself the guarjeen of the park? " 'Well, but what is that you say?' I asked again, a little confused. 'A ticket to trundle the baby in the park?r " 'Yes, sorr. As if we hadn't a right to breathe out doors widout payin for it! "I looked out of the window and saw the 'guarjeen1 of the park pacing solemnly down the avenue. Seizing my hat, I nished out of doors and approached him. He was very polite, and when I spoke to him in German, he answered me in broken English. Perhaps he didn't understand my German ! "He gave me to understand that trundling a baby in the park was illegal without a permit from police headquarters ! So I meekly followed him to his. chief's station, and underwent the following examination in German : " 'Your full name?9 I gave it to hirxL. " 'Married?' " 'Yes, sir " 'You want a permit to take your baby out in a carriage iu the Schoelenfel city park?' " 'I do, sir, " "How old is this baby?' " 'One year, four months and twentyseven days " 'Male or female?' " 'Its name is John. " 'Does it speak German ?f M 'Well not fluently "As he seemed to pause for want of more questions, I ventured to remark that the carriage was of French manufacture, and the servnnt-girl of Irish, extraction. "After consulting with his colleagues iu the office, he gave me a large yellow stamped permit, Avhich entitled my servant-girl to take my baby out in a car-

1 riage in Schoelenfel Park. I departed

wir.u a new sense 01 tne auiies ana dignity of European police. w YoUhz Companion.

Disraeli and Wines,

"How do ycu manage to keep sohealthy?" he was asked by a dyspeptic fop. "By dining off a sardine," was the answer, and there was some truth in this. To the end of his life Disraeli always ate very sparingly when alone, and this enabled him to keep a good appetite for pfublic occasions thereby rebutting the presumption, which his pale face suggested, that ha was consumptive. In this connection some remarks of his about wine may be mentioned. Hard drinking was in fashion during his youth, and at public dinnersmen who let the bottle pass were hardly regarded as gentlemen. Disraeli, who could never stand much wine, suffered a good deal from the social usage,, and he set himself to study the demeanor of men who could drink deep without being any the worse for it. Lord Melbourne was one of these, and he gave Disraeli a wrinkle by saying: 14 You can drink if you don't talk ; if you talk much you needz.t drink, for people will think you are drunk and let you alone," It is obvious that the excitement of conversation must co-oer-ate powerfully with the fumes of wine in making the brain reel. Disraeli having noted this fact, went further into the subject by observing that a man's convivial propensities are always takeni for granted if he talks iu praise of wine and appears to be very critical about it. Some of his remarks savoring of the most refined epicureanism may therefore be described solely to his temperate desire to find excuses for drinking. He was not a judge of wines, though he pretended to be, and once allowed himself to lay down the law about Burgundy against-. the late Lord Sefton. A droll trait in him was that he spoke enthusiastically about certain choice wines, but he never decried any sort of liquor, even gin, A reason he once gave for "saying something kind about brandy in the presence of a person addicted to spirits would have had a Mephistophelean ring if the subject of the observation had not been, humanely speaking, irreclaimable : al could not speak ill of his only friend. "I should call brandy his enemy," interposed a lady. "Ah, well, a man hates his enemy the worse for hearing him well spoken of," was the mild retort. We seldom contemn mankind till they have injured us, and when they have, we seldom do anything but detest them for the injury, Bulwm