Bloomington Telephone, Volume 7, Number 44, Bloomington, Monroe County, 15 March 1884 — Page 2

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HEWS CONDENSED.

OnystiaaoNAL raocEEPiAm Mr. Bayard offered a resolution in the (Senate on tbe3d?tnst., which was adopted, that tbe Committee on Naral Affaire inquire into the expediency of eqnlrpinir a fou ndry for the manufacture of modern artillery of the largest caliber. Mr. Vest presented a memorial from the territorial eooneu of New Mexico in regard to assumption of power by the clerk, and a resolution was aejtpted thai the matter be investigated by tbe Gemmitteeon Territories. Bills were passed for the construction of public buildings in twelve Southern and Western cities, and authorftring tbe purchase of additional utronnd for the pestofltoe at Springfield, Illinois. Messrs. Tmcalla. Plumb, and others addressed tbe Senate in regard to the honorable career of the late Representative Haskell, and a resota tkm of sorrow at his demise was adopted. The Boose of Itapresentatires passed the bill pensioning survivors of Jhe Mexican war, the vote bets 321 to 46. Mr. Randall reported back a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury stating that tbe dates for rebate on tobacco can be paid in three months, Mr. Converse, of Ohio was outgeneraled in his attempt to bring his high-tariff wool hill before the House. The oppoaentsof the scheme, to prevent any consideration of the matter, carried an adJosAment 104 to St A resolution was adopted that the Committee cat Maval Affairs make an investigation of the charges brought in connection with the Jeanette aretto expedition. It was resolved that the Committee on Banking and Currency look Into the alleged miscondnet of Federal officials in the ooUtopse of the Pacific National Bant of Boston. Bills were introduced for the erection of public buildings at Zanesville, Ohio, and Fort Worth, Texas, to prevent the importation of lazzaroni and beggars, and to liquidate the war debt by the issue of $l,2SD.00O,000 in greenbacks. Thb military academy appropriation bill was panne if by the Senate on the 4th inst., with am amendment providing that any cadet hereafter dismissed tor baaing shall not be reappointed. A bill was favorably reported to relieve members of the Fits John Porter courtmartial from their oath of secrecy, and a memorial was presented from a Grand Army post of Kansas protesting against Porter's reinstatement. Mr. Sherman introduced a bill granting to newspapers or press associations a copyright on their news for eight hours. Mr. Cockrell reported adversely on the bill to lend tents for the soldiers" reunion at Chicago, as none were at hand. A bill was passed to punish the counterfeiting of so-, curiues of foreign governments. A resolution was adopted Instructing the Attorney General to report the awards for damages caused by the erection of dams on the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers, with other information on the subject. In the House of Representatives, bills were reported to amend the Chinese Imixagration act, to prevent the adult eration of teas, and to permanently improve the Erie Canal for free traffic. In committee of the whole on the naval appropriation bu It was agreed that the staff corps shall, after Jury, be largely reduced by retirements A ana. to extend tbe limits of the Yellowstone Park passed the Senate on the 5 th inst Che Judiciary Committee made a favorable report on the bill providing for the collection of marriage and divorce statistics A bill was introduced for a po bbo building at Jackson, Mich An act was passed to authorize the Postmaster General to lease buildings for BDstoffiees of the first, second, and dird classes for ten years, at reasonable rates, ue House ot Bewreeent&tives adopted a resolution unseating TranquiUino Luna as delegate from New Mexico, and admitting F. A, Mangan arcQ, who was promptly sworn m. An adverse report wasunade on the resolution for the relief of sufferers by the overflow of the Lower Mississippi and by the cyclone in North Carolina, but a favorable report was handed in on a resolution requesting tae Secretary of War to inform the House whenever relief is needed along the

jussppL There was a moionged debate on tbe naval appropriation bill. Ma. Uockreu. presented a memorial in the Senate, on the 6th inst from the united labor organizations of St. Ixmis, praying that ,the wholesale immigration of European roerChanics be restricted. A memorial from Uie ; Senate of Hew Jersey opposing the Morrison tar-

was preset! lea oy sac. be we J L mm were

to aocroDnate liOO.WXCto Cot Albert H.

for Inventing a machine for testing iron

and steel: to provide for a' system of courts in Maces outside the territory of the United

Btatftr. and to appropriate sh,ooo for the int

er the Mississippi delta. In

session tt was agreed to retbe vote on the Mexican treaty.

The House of Bepresentatfves perfected and

the naval appropriation bill by 259 to 1.

Ways and Means Committee, by a vote of

f to S, agreed to make a favorable report on the Morrison tariff mil on Monday, the 20th. Salt, essL and lumber go on the free list. Bill -were passed by the Senate on tbe 7th test appropriating $350,000 for the erection of ffre-iproof bufiding for the Hall of Records, censtitue a majority of the Judges of the Suiausv.Court a quorum, and to repay fTOO iJWP the heirs of Maurice Givot, of Hentr Orleans. A favorable report was lands on tbe bill to forfeit lands granted to the Texas Pacific Railroad Company. The House of Bepresentatives voted to recommit the toC! to retire Alfred Pleasauton with the rank of Colonel, and a new measure was introduced to give him a pension of $100 per month. A bin to pension the widow of Gen. Frank P. Blair was reported. Bills were prised to increase the pension of Ward B. Burnett to $100 per month, and to grant relief to Louisa Boddy lor injuries at the hands of Modoc Indians. An evening session was held for the consideration Of ptTwjiffB hfHa

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TH EAST Johk W. Hawkins, of Buffalo, confidential secretaryrof Kelson Holland, is a de. fanlter for $50,000. He also holds the position of United States inspector of lumber, but his accounts with the Government are believed to be straight. It is found that the lom of the steamer City of Columbus was due to the rsTslfwrncsii of Cant. Wright, who was the only authorized pilot on board the ship.... John McGinnis was executed at Philadelphia for murdering his mother-in-law. Two membees of the jury which aoqxritafd Dekes of the murder of Capt. Nutt at Uniontown, Pa have brought proceedings for criminal Heel against a newspaper, and will instfttftte damage suits against its editors. Rev:sbph Cook, while taking a

atp at Mesne, N. H- was aroused by a local

Ito attend a prayer-meeting at his

church. 3U.lt "was seven minutes too early, Mr. Cook sensed the offender by the coat-collar and removed him from tbe door. . . Tbe boiler In Trees dyeing establishment of Lawrence, Mass., exploded klling one man and wounding two others mortally. Three buildings were femottafeed, and pieces of the boiler crushed hi the roofs of dwellings 400 feet away.

and Quincy Riiilroad Company, oorV. of Adams and Franklin streets, Chicago, been the victim of a heavv robberv whiK

for audacity, has rarely been equaled. Thd

amount stolen was about $27,000. Tbe robbery was per titrated at midday, while the employes were busy at their desks; the mrciey having heen abstracted almost fj on under their very noses. So sCT-.--. lly was the job consummated that tie i treves left no clew by which they could be u-ked jap As compared with last season, the hogs packed at Cincinnati the present winter decreased 0,000 head, while the comparative decline in weight approximates 21,41:0,000 pounds. Tho average cost, per 100 pounds gross, was $1.20 less this winter than last Frank Kande, the noted desperado, who was serving a life terra in the penitentiary at Joliet, committed suicide a few nights apo. By tearing his underclothing inio strips he made a rope, and hanged himself to the grating of his cell door. ... A propeller which reached Milwaukee the other day reported Lake Mich lira n oomnletelv frnsutn i!wp nHth

occasional icebergs twenty-five feet high. . . . farmers m Dane County, Wisconsin, report their winter wbeat in better condition than for years. The Chicago 2Vifcue p::ints the facts concerning the outWak o.' the foot-and-mouth disease at Neosho vjj8 km district circular injhape of a ctvneterof fifty miles, with ts center somewhere in Greenwood and other counties, in Southeastern Kansas, is affected. Gov. Gllok, a pronv

inent stock-raiser, is giving exclusive official attention to the matter, oxd believes that the disease can be stamped out with the expenditure of 6,000. The locality is already closely quarantined. This is the first outbreak of this !artle-pest in America. The disease generally leaves the anUxiaj without feet. ' . XV, TtXS SOUTH. A Chableston (S. 0.) dispatch says" that W. B. Cash, who shot' down two unarmed men in the street of Chernw, hus fortified himself In a barn near his father's mansion, and keeps a party of negroes constantly on picket duty. The senior Cash is said to have threatened to burn the town if his son be shot. The Governor's indignation, is at white heat, and the military of Columbia have tendered their services. Thera are ten thousand acres of swamp in the immediate vicinity of the Cash homestead. Hunteks in Chester County, South Carolina, captured a ferocious animal, with the head of a lion and the body of a goat, after it had killed five dogs. The stockmen of Texas are said to be moving for a division of the S tate on the 100th meridian, as their interests are totally different from those of citizens in the eastern portion. The Adjutant General is advised that fence-cutting has nearly ceased, and that iaclosures are being rebuilt David McClain, white, was hanged at Folkrton, Ga., for the murder of William F. Sexton in February, 1879. Harrison Williams, colored, was executed at Austin, Tex., and Noah Jackson, colored, was strung up at Lake Providence, La The Mississippi is now widening. At Blackfish, Arh., the river is forty miles wide. Sixty miles is the flood

width. El Paso (Tex.) telegram : 4iNws has reached hero of an accident at tbe Prieteas mines. Sonora. It is said that twenty men lie buridd in one of the shafts, which caved in without a moment's warning. None of the bodies have yeCjbeen recovered. There is no hopo sustained that any of the miners at work in the shaft at the time of the accident are alive WASHINGTON. The decrease of the public debt for February was $2,583,587. The available cash balance in the Treasury is $145,534,281. Following Is the official statement: Interest-bearing debtFour and one-half portents t 250,000.000 Four per cents 737,643,550

Three pci cents 264.891.550 Refunding certificates 803.800 Navy pension fund 14,000,000 Total Interest-bearing debt $1,266,840,900 Matured debt $ 12,067,865 Debt bearing no interest Legal-tender notes. 846,739.586 Certificates of deposit 18,215,000 Gold and silver certificates 218,581,321 Fractional currency 6,986307

Total without Interest. . .

t 690,522,214

deliberating for three days

the Coroner's jury In the Willsondouble-mur-

mtittml mrdlet. It m in effect thai Mr. and

Mrs. wmaon came to their death at the hands of some person or persons unknown, bnt that from tbe evidence produced, they, fnelnrors, believe that suspicions are cast on KeiDsToKeagne as the perpetrator of the deed. MeKeagne is the young butcher who, upon the first discovery of the horrible crime, told a story to the effect that on tbe evening of tbe murder, Mr. Wlllson bought of him an extra fine steak, remarking at the time that he expected a visitor who would remain with him aS night. No trace of this alleged mysterious gnest has ever been found Martin O- Vaafleet, County Treasurer at Norwalk, ObJo, absconded the other night, and proves to be a defaulter for $60,000. His bondsmen are thirty-five citizens of Wakezaan, who are liable for $160,000. Vanfleet was a large woolbuyer and cgricuHurul-iraple:nent dealer, - and stood high In public esteem. CmzEXS of Wichita and Sedgwick Oounty, Kansas, hare sent to the Ohio flool anfferera forty car-ios'ls of corn besides a large amount of money. ...The cigar manufacturers of Ban Irancieco have locked out

a0$Ctunamen, and propose to employ 2,500

from Mew York.

Thb office of the Chicago, Burlington

Total debt (principal) $1,869,430,479 Totalinterest 10,364,105 Total cash in treasury 396,263,451 Debt, less oash in treasury 1,453,501,133 Decrease during February 2,682,587 Decrease of debt since June 30, 188i 67,590,074 Current liabilitiesInterest due and unpaid $ 1,572,837 Debt on which interest has ceased.. 12,067,365 Interest thereon 322,646 Gold and silver certificates 218,581,321 U. S. notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit 18,215,000 Casn balance available 145,534,21 Total $ 396,293,451 Available assetsCash in treasury. $ 896,293,451 Bonds issued to Pacific railway companies, Interest payable by United States Principal outstanding $ 64,623,512 Interest accrued, not yet imld. 646,235 Interest paid by United States 61,160,793 Interest repaid by companies By transportation service $ 17!36,869 By cash payments, 5 per cent; net earnings. 655,19$ Balance of interest paid by United States 42.569,730 The Senate passed an important bill touching the proceedings of the Supreme Court. A majority of the Justices are con stltuted a quorum. A Justice will be prohibited from sitting in a case which he has heard below while on circuit Kx-Senator Spencer recited to the SpringerCommittee his connection with the prosecutions of the mail contractors and Assistant Postmaster General Brady. Spencer claims to have been the man who started the ball rolling, yet he denies that be knows or ever know anything likely to damage the pleas of any of the de fendants. Where statements vhich he has made are nailed homo and clinched by the testimony of men of recognized probity. Spencer falls back on the declaration that if bo made the allegations thus nxel on him he must have been drunk The German Ministor at Washington has received f rom Berlin the Congressional resolution on the death of Herr Lasker, with an expression of regret by Prince Bismark that he felt compelled to return it. POLITICAL. A sub-committee of the Senate Committee on Postomces and Post-Roads examined William Henry Smith, General Manager of the Associated Press, in regard to the relation of tbe association with the Western Union Telegraph Company. Mr. Smith explained that the Associated Press Is a pri vate business, enjoying no exclusive contracts; that its news is personal property; that, its wealthiest mew bem take upon them solves the Jargeet payments for exponseu; and that at some points it pays the telegraph company mora than is asked from tbe papevs receiving the reports. A BILL has passed the Rhode Island House forbidding the location of dram-shops within 400 feet of schoolhouses. . . .The railroad suirvising bill has passed both houses of the Mississippi Legislature, It provides for tho appointment of three Commissioners by tbe Governor Tho Governor of California has issued a prcc'anation calling an extra se?-slr)n of the Legislature for the 24th iost Tho Republican State Committee of Wisconsin calls a convention April 8( at Mndlson, to elect delegates to the National Convention, nominate an electoral, ticket, and select a Eftate Committee. Tho regular State Convention will be held in September. Thb following nominationn for State frffices were made by the Louisiana Itepubliean Convention, at New Orleans : Governor, John A. Stevenson, of Iberville; Lieutenant Governor, William BurweU; Secretary of State, F. W. Liggins; Attorney General, John H. btone; Auditor

f the

20,000

30,000

Claudius Mayon; Treasurer, Dr. A Tiinrrier: Superintendent of Education,

B P. Flanders, formerly sub-treastrer

a wosiiiitirm was ofi'ered in the conven

tion instruotlnir the delegates to the Chicago

vmventinn and srreeted witn applause. 1

Ss referred to tho committee on resolur Hs, which reported in favor of Arthur.' The-Acnument of tho convection, however was s favorable to Logan that tho matter was no pressed and the delegates go unin-. structed. The Maine lemo.cratic State Convention has been cared to meet at Bangor 011 tho 17th of June.... Hon H, Stone, nominated for Attorney General bythe Louisiana Republicans, declines on the frour.d that ho is a Democrat. . . .Ten towns in LUster County, New York, voted no licene." Ellenville women threatened to boycott nerchant who supported tho whisky interest. THE WEEK'S FIRE RCOKX. The week's fire record, where a loss of $10,0(10 and upward was en at led, is as follows: Baker's wagon manufactory, Mishawaka, Ind.t loss. $25,000; several stores at ChesterOold. PI, $5tf,000; Hiydens braes works, Lorain, Ohio, $35,000; 1 block of buildings at Amoebury, Mass., 3J4QOOO.; the opera house and Blizzard office. Oil Jity, Pa.. $50r 000; a number of stores at Laurenburg, N. C, $40,000; a grain warehouse at La Grange, Mo., $0tC00; the United States Stamping Works, Portland, Ct., $500,010; the City National Bank, the (Jbscnvr ofioe, and eight other fine buildings, in Utica,N. YM $800,000;

an ongine manutactory, at Painted Post, N. Y., $40,000; the Court House and records at Wcatherford, Texas, $50,000; the Academy, at New Paitz, N. Y $20,000; six fine buildings, at Cainsteo, N. Y., $100,000; a drug warehouse, at Fond du Lac, Wis., $10,000; a flouring mill, at Pentwater, Mich., $25,000; a steamboat, at Bastrop, La., $30,000; a hotel, at" Denton, Texas, $20,000; five business m8!l&i-'& Mo., $10,000; 11 flouring ertv nrfPrt, $10,000; business propbouse of S5?&4 Mich $10,000; the dyeMass., $20,00Cf?hinK; mU!. Somerville, Pott6town Pa $JE"vato 8chool-bou3et at Hannibal, Mo., 0,008 several stores at con, Wis., $15,000; a wire"rS?t"miU a H?ri" ville. Me., $85,000; the Kimo1KS ,at WatAer" kona, Minn,, $15,000; a yar4n' near Providence, R. I., $20,000 r1?' ridge's dry goods store, Detroit, SaO,"

half the business portion of Odessa, Mo., $50-

000; an oil-cloth factory at Philadelphia, $100,000; a New York Central freignt house at Khineneck, N. Y.. $40,000. During the month of February there were 181 tires where the loss was $10,000 and over, the total losses aggregating $7,000,000. TO tfal losses from fires in January wen ' ,000, making $19,000,000 for the fit r vthaof the year. .

CMJMJEKCiLlA The record o- notable faillh

week is as folUw.v " V' ;: K'VV Liabilities. W. L. King, dry 4fedlslf?kport, N. Y.$ 20,000 Dewey & Hoganoceries, Galena, Hi. 15,000 J. O'Sullivan, lunber, St. Louis 30,000 C. F. Meacbim, lute, Montreal 100,000 W. A. Pew, manufacturer, Gloucester, Mass 225,000 Albert Benson, clotting, Chicago... 15,000 Spalding & Co., printers, Chicago.... .. 20,00v

A. S. Howell, !ry goodi, Bath, N. Y 100,000

David A Letcher, hardwire. Little Rock Alexander Butler, agricultural implements. Flat&svilfe. Wisx

Howes & Co., oankers, Nev York (-0,000

Martin Turner & Co.. East India merchants, Glasgow, Scotland 2,500,000 E. Detrick fe Co., San l-'rancfcco eo,ooo The Mt. Yemen Co., Baltimoit 10,000 Woodward, Baldwin & Co., brokers, New York.. C0,0O0 Middlecroft & Sons, Clinton, loVa 20,0iK) Zimmermm ifc Grpbb, grain, G-eSn-vilie, Ohio ; 30,000 GENERAL. JJecent deaths : Gen. Shraxum, a French hero of the Napcleonie era; Gen. De Wimpifen, upon whom feU tha duty of surrendering the French arn St Sedan; Lucius J. Know) es, one of the wealthiest citizens of Worcester, Mass., well known as an inventor; B. D. Hubbard, ex-Governor of Connecticut;

Edward Smith, of Beston, an early Abolitionist and associate of William Lloyd Garrison; Mrs. Mary Brown, of San Francisco, Cal., widow of Otawatomie Brown; Dr. D. F. Kobertson, of Port Jervis, N. Y., inventor of the flying machine; Alvin Bigelow, leading merchant of Boston; J. B. Winstanley, a leading citizen of New Albany, JTnd.; John Rapp, a pioneer of Henry County, 111.; Col. Joseph Cushing, of Dover, N. H., one of the oldest circus managers inthe country. The liabilities of the Montreal Loan and Mortgage Company are $2,590,000. At a meeting of the shareholders it was admitted that half the capital bad been sunk by the absconding manager, George W. Craig. A Viih reference to ex-Postmaster Genera James statements before the Springer committee, conveying the impression that the star route prosecutions led to Garfield's assassination, Charles H. Keed, Guiteau's counsel, asserts that in private conversation, the last one taking place the day before his execution, Guiteau solemnly averred that no one but God and him?elf knew of his purpose to minder the President.... The Ontario Legislature has decided that women shall be admitted as students in the Toronto Provincial University, and the ia!r sex are now petitioning the local government for the right to vote. Boston capitalists have invested $29,891,500 in tho Mexican Central Koad, the Government granting a subsidy of $15,00 per mile. Frcsnillo, where the divisions join, is 750 miles from the American border, and 475 from the City of Mexico. . . .The freeing of slaves in Cuba, which has been going on for several years under tho law for the gradual extinction of slavery, is progressing favorably, and within about a year the last one will have been manumitted. . . . An increase in the weekly number of failures is reported by the commercial agencies. Tbe total number for the United States and Cac&Ja was 828. rOKEICN. Buckingham Palace, the London residence of Queen Victoria, is believed to be' the object of attention of dynamiters, and extraordinary precautions are being taken to protect it.... An informer has "surrendered to the Irish constabulary, and makes allegations which putatively clear up the mystery of Lord Loi trim's assassination.,.. Switzerland is investigating the Anarchists. The President of the society at Berne is under arrest. .. .A Spanish shoemaker stabbedand killed a.n old woman, her two daughters, and a servant in a town of Tarragona. The German Beichstag opened with the usual formalities on tbe 6th of March. Two significant points In the speech from the throne are the reassernion of the divine right of kings, and the intimation that the relations between Germany, Austria, and Huesia are more friendly that they havo been. The haste with which Berlin and Vienna have contradicted rumors of alliances will but cause many to think there is even more in' the recent brotherly jrrectings than was at first supposed. . . .The National Liberal members of the Reichstag have agreed to await tbe international issue or the Lasker affair before acting on the matter at home.... Another suicide, due to gambling losses, occurred at Monte Carlo the other day, making the nineteenth since the 1st of January. . . : In the House of Commons, Gladstone said the Government had no intention of assuming control of Egypt, and that tho troops would be withdrawn at the earliest moment possible. . . .The committee in the French Chamber of Deputies will report in favor of the proposal to settle the pork question by the appointment of a board for the inspection of pork imported into Fran;o One thouer.nd rebels marching from El Obeid u pon K har tou m we re de Ceatod by tribes friendly to Gen. Gordon. In tho German Reichstag, the other day, the death of Lasker was announced, the matter Iniing a formal proceeding. Uponthie, the parties of tho Left precipated the debate, which was fairly uprourious,butonthe whole well repressed by tho creatures of Bismarck, who rulo the House. The dogma of the President of tbeHeichgtag and Botticher, Bismarck's Flr 4.eeietant Despot, was that Bismarck

must not be criticised. Tho mention of the American Congress once or twice oreated tumults which blocked all proceedings for several minutes each time Parneil and his followers intend-to work up excitement in Ireland for the amendment of the land act, and to open subscript'ons toward a epecia) agitation fund Theltalian Ambassador has been instructed to confer with the powers in regard to thr. proposed European demand upon the United Spates Government to legislate against dynamiters In a residence in a suburb of Vienna, opposite the mansion of Baron Kothjohild, was found aouaniityof dynamite and nitre-glycerine. . . . .British ship-owners threaten to register their vessels under a foreign t!ag if the proposed shipping bill becomes a law.

CURIOSITIES OF INSTINCT.

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ADDITIONAL NEWS. AnoT'T fifteen educational bills are before Congress for action. . Senator Blair proposes to appropriate $150,000,000 for common schools, to be expended within fifteen rears in tho States and Territories in proportion to illiteracy. Representative Willis has introduced a measure to set stride $55,000,000 within ton years. Senator Logan's hill provides for the annual appropriation of &50,000,00i from the internal revenue, and Representative Perkins introduced a similar neasure for disposing of $30tCD0,0i)0. A Topeka du patch says, "The cattle plague which has broken out in Woodson County, Kansas, proves to be the genuine foot-and-mouth disease and in its moct virulent form. Dr. Hoicomb, United St aces Veterinary Surgeon at Fort Leavenworth, after visiting Woodson County and examining tbe cuttle, pronounces the situation serious. Of 5ne herd of 120, 40 are affected, each animal Mthcr having lost a hoof or a portion of the leg. In another herd of i6, 35 arc affected. These herds are in the name neighborhood, hut the disease is spreading rapidly. The ? at tie men of the State are aroused and will do all in their power to 6 tamp it out, and have already invited the aid of the State by pasting a resolution at a large meeting in Emporia urging tho Governor to call a special session of the Legislature to pa?s laws which will aid in its extermination. The dieease made its appearance about three weeks ago in Keith's herd, and, as the weather was extremely cold, and no such scourge ever

having appeared in this State before, it was

jJ3rst supposed that the feet had been rrosh. fjne flrgt symptoms noticed were

1.1 UP of one le nv tDe cattle and arching tfieii-backs as if cold.".... At Alta, Ltau, a Snowslld killed nlAVAfi nfrHn. and

!wept VT" tne works of the new Emma Mme. The sno Hed forty feet high The Cotton Exchange Galveston unanimously adopted resolutions urgiuh Texas Congressmen to oppose the further coinage of silver dollars Col. E. H. Cash, the notorious South Carolina desperado, was captured by a posse of State Constables at his home near Florence, but his eon, who has utdone his father in deeds of violence and Murder, escaped to the swamps in ths neighborhood, where at last accounts he wns being botly pressed by the o moors of the law. The cider Cash was taken completely by surprise, and surrendered without a fight, unconditionally. A New Orleans dispatch reports a

1 serious break in the Mississippi levee above

that city The waters were pouring through In torrents, and all efforts to mend it had proved unavailing. Small breaks ba l appeared at other points. The Teurenste River at Chattanooga had overflowed and railroad traffic in that vicinity was interrupted. Five men employed in the construction of a railroad in Pylo Canon, Union Counr ty, Ore., were caught under a mass of earth and rock and instantly killed u,. A party of ten prospectors who recently Rft ltathdrum, on the Northern Pacific Hoad, for the Coeur d'Alene mines, are believed to have perished In the snow, uf they have not been heard from for thirteen days. A. M. Gibson tesLifiei before Mr.' Springer's committee relative to his connection with the star-route investigation. He gaid he had received $5,000 for his services as counsel, und that it was a sma ll compensation in comparison to what was paid to other parties. The witness further testified that in prosecuting the star-route men the Government took tne most complicated case, when it was, its business to take the simplest and plainest case. Continuing, Mr. Gibson said: "After Brewster was made Attorney General he said the duties of his oiHce were so engrossing that he could not give time to cases of this kind. He had been in the case before simply to make an argument as to the legality of filing an information. That's all he did, and for this he received $5,000." Mrs. Carrie Kilgore has been refused admission to the bar of the Philadelphia Common Pleas Court. Two Chinese boarding-house keepers were fined $100 each and given one month's imprisonment in New York, for allowing opium smoking on their premises. Several of the smokers were also fined. John Kelly's personal organ, the New York Star, strongly urges the nomination of the old ticket Tilden and Hendricks. It pledges the enthusiastic support of the Tammanyites. The House of Representatives, on the 8th inst, by a vote of 115 to 127, refused to go into committee to consider the bonded whisky biU. A favorable report was made on the bill for the erection of public buildings at Akron, OI Jo, and Dulutb Minn. The Senate was not in session.

THE MARKET. NEW YOKK. Beeves $ 7.00 0 7.50 Hogs 0.50 t&s 7.25 FLOUB Superfine 3.75 3 625 Wheat No. 2 Caicago .J.W i.os No. 2 Red 1.10 5 1.15 Cons No, 2: 03 ((8 .65 Oats Mixed 39 t"l .41 PottKMess. 17.no &1&00 LA111 .oS4 CHICAGO. Beeves Choice to Prime-Steers. 6.75 7.2 Fair to Good 5.50 tft G.2 Common to Medium 5.25 t(5 5.75 Horjfi tVJ5 H 7.2 Flouu Fancy White Winter Kx 5.25 (t3 6.03 ood to Choice Soring 4.50 5.2 Wheat No. 2 tipriuz i2 i6 .03 No. 2 lied Winter 1.02 t 1.0" CoitN No. 2 M ("3 .52 Oats No. 2 (9 .35 Rye No. 2 5S J ABLE No. 2 , ,73 .76 BuriEK Choice Creamery. 33 i .35 Koos Fresh 21 (5 .22 POBK-Mees IT. 50 d!8.00 LAKD K4 MILWAUKEE. Wheat No. 2 02 3 .93 CORJi No. 2... 51 ( .52 OatsNo. 2 31. i?l .33 Uye No. 2 5) t2 .il BaMET No. 2 (i .1U Pork Mess 17.50 ?i8.oo LABD 0-25 i$ 9.00 ST. Louia WheatNo. 2 lied 1.10 ($ i ll Corn Mixed 4S it .49 OATS-NO.2 .33 .35 rye 5? .so Pork Mess 17.50 iis.oo Lard - ot) i$ .00 J CINCINNATI. Wheat No. 2 Rod l 06 $ 1.0s Corn....... 50 t .52 Oats 36 .37 HYR 65 itf .67 PORK-Mess.....".' H25 1418.00 Lard w TOLEDO. Wheat No. 2 Red . 102 1.05 COK-No. 2 51 .53 Oats No, 2 38 0 .30 DETROIT. Flour 5-so mo WheatNo 1 White. 1.03 B 1M Corn-No. 2 48 ,A .40 OATs-Mixed 37 .38 Pork Mess 18.50 310.25 INDIANAPOLIS. WheatNo. 2 Red 101 3 1M Corn No. 2 47 : .40 Oats Mixed 34 .35 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle--Best fJK 7.00 Fair 5-25 i) r.00 Common 4.50 ; 50 HOOS 7.0 isO 7.50 Sheep .25 i.75

Kio Migration if Birds Where Animals f.nck the Instinct of Fear. . f Grant Alien, in Pall Iall (Jaiettc.l The American buffalo 'has,,.. ceased to be minatory beyond the Boeky moun-

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swullow has lately extended, to some pxtent, the range of its migrations. In Madeira, neither woodcocks nor swifts migrate; while a wounded brent goose which lived nineteen years in confinement, after becoming nneasy every spring for twelve years, and wandering as far north as it was able, at last ceased to exhibit any desire of the sort, us though the force of the instinct had in tho end completely worn out. How birds know the difference between the north and south we can not tell; but Wrangel was equally surprised at the "unerring instinct" which led the Siberian natives on the right path through labyrinths of ice, where he himself could do nothing even with compass in hand. The instinct of birds, however, is not "unerring," for many swallows get lost in the Atlantic; but, on the other hand, it is astonishing how small birds will return from Africa or Spain to the exact hedgrowjn England where they built their nests the year before. Domestic animals sometimes show signs of incipient migratory instinct. Hogg mentions a family of sheep which had an hereditary propensity to return for the breeding season to a place ten miles

on, wnence tneir nrsi ancestor uau ueen jbrought; and certain Spanish sheep, annually driven to new pastures 400 miles away, exhibit as April comes in a distinct uneasiness and a desire to re tusn to their accustomed summer quarters. Some times three or four even start by themselves, only to be devoured en route by wolves, Mr. Darwin considers, therefore, that the migrations of birds might have arisen by their ancestors being driven each year, by cold or want of food, to travel slowly southward or northward, and he believes in time that this compulsory traveling would become an instinctive passion, as with the SpanibU-pp During long ages, valleys might grannT become converted into estuaries, aa then into wider and wider arms of the sea; but the impulse which led the wounded brent goose to crawl a few miles toward its ancestral feeding-ground would still lead on the birds over trackless water, retaining a true course across the now submerged path of their ancient, though not forgotten, land journey. The instinct of fear of man is acquired, Mr. Darwin imagines, by bitter experience: and in certain oceanic island where man has never come, birds and animals entirely lack it In the Galapagos he himself pushed a hawk off a tree with the muzzle of his gun, and pulled the large land lizards by the tail, though elsewhere big lizards (for example, tbe iguana) are extremely cautious and suspicious. The wild foxes of Falklands ran up to Byron's sailors without sign of fear. Yet in England herons, which are so frightened at men, do not mind rail jray trains, and practically despise them after a few days experience. The habit of feigning death when detected, so common among beetles, exhibits a good graduated series, from very short and imperfect feints in some species to a motionless condition for &s much as twenty-three minutes in others. The nesting instinct, so remarkable in birds, shows also every possible graduation, from the practice of laying the eggs on the bare ground to the erection ot such wonderful structures as those of the weaver bird and the tailor bird. The edible birds' nests of the Chinese are formed by a sort of swift, which secretes the mucus of which they are composed from her own saliva; the nest is white and brittle, like pure gum arabic, and lined with soft feathers. This extraordinary instinct, however, is led up to by several allied species, one of which builds with bits of seaweed merely glued together by a similar substance, while a North American swift gums sticks for its nest in a like

manner, as even the English species has been known occasionally to do. Here we have preserved for us all the steps by which so strange an instinct may have arisen. Some ' Australian megapods scrape together large pyramids of decaying vegetable matter (as mush as lour cart loads), and lay their eggs to be hatched by the heat of fermentation. But in the Malay archipelago allied spe'ep place their eggs in holes in the ground, leaving them to be hatched by the sun alone, while in warm north Australia one kind makes a big mound, apparently including less vegetable matter than the pyramids o:; its congen

ers in the more temperate south. Here it is not singular that the birds should have lost the instinct of incubation, where the sun can be trusted to do all the work instead; and if members of such a family were to stray into colder regions, where sufficient solar heat was not available, natural selection would favor those individuals which chanced to have the accumulative propensity so far modified as to prefer more leaves and less sand in covering their eggs; to that at last the eggs would come entirely to be hatched by the heat of fermentation, of which the bird itself would te of course entirely ignorant. Besides giving many other interesting instances as regards birds, Mr. Darwin also notes some cases of similar instincts in the house budding of mammals; as when the South African hyenas, which do not burrow in uninhabited districts, take to burrowing in the populated parts. Getting Up to the Sticking Point. "One evonin' a3 I was sittin by Hetty, and had worked myself tip to the sticking pint, sez I, 'Hetty, if a feller was to ask you to marry him what wud you say? Then she laughed, and sez she, 'That would depend on who asked me. Then says I, 'Suppose it was Ned Willis?' Sez she, Td tell Ned Willis, and not you.' That kinder staggered me; but I was too cute to lose the opportunity, and so Isnys again, Suppose it was me?1 And then you orter see her pout up her l?.p, and says she, 4I don't take no supposes.' Well, now, you see there was nothing for me to do but to touch the gun off. So bang it went. Says I, Lov Hettie, it's me. Won't you say yes?' And then there was such a hullaballoo in my bad, I

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stepped forward when her name was call 'd, and confronted the police judge. "You are a very old woman to be in a place of this kind said the jndg "What is the charge against her? turning to an officer. "Stealing a pot of flowers, yenr honor," "Who made the complaint ?w "I did, replied a man, stepping forward. "I know that it looks hard tc have such en old woman arrested, but I am a law abiding citizen, judge, and I don't intend to be imposed upon. This is the way the whole thing came about: I keep a large flower depot. Day before yesterday this woman came into the store, and when I asked her if ehe wanted to buy anything, she shook her head. Just then a customer came in and I paid no attention to her, but after she was gone, I discovered that a pot, containing a fine geranium was missi ng. I knew she took it, and what she wanted tfith it is more than I can tell. If she had stolen something to eat or wear it would have been a different thing." The old woman looked up and said: "Judge, I stole that flower." "Didn't yOu know it was wrong?

"Yes. "Was the temptation so great that you could not withstand it? ''There was no temptation. It required more Of a struggle to take it than it would have required not to have taken it. "This is a very singular occurrence, madam. TeU us all abont it Don't think that you are among those who desire to see you punished, and rest assured that I will stand by you. Law 01 no law, it makes no difference. There is a court in the human heart, old woman, whose decrees go farther and are nearer to justice than the written de clarations of any tribunal. The old woman again looked np. Tears were in her eyes, but with a corner of the eld black shawl drawn around her shoulders, she wiped them away. ? . "Oh, sir," she said, "to make yon. understand why I took the flower might be a story too long to tell in a court, and it might be out of place to tell it anwwhere to strangers, but as you have spoken so kindly, I will tell you. Years ago, I lived in this city. My parent were well situated and I was carefully reared. I married a man whom everyone recognized as an elegant gentleman, but to me he proved to be a drunken brute. At last he took our little boy and went away, I know not where, leaving me with a baby just two months old. My parents had died and I went out into the country and changed my name. I worked lor a living, heartbroken as I was. One dav my little darling was taken ilL -1 took her in my arms ant' started toward town, where she might have the proper medical attension, but she seemed to grow worse. At last I knew she was dying and I eat down under a tree. I held her to my bosom a long time, for she shivered, and when I looked into her face again, she was dead. A man who lived hear by made a coffin, and I buried the- little girl under the tree where she had died. Then I went away, I know not how, and began a long search for my husband, not that I wanted him, but that I wanted my son. I' must have gone crazy, fori was seized one day and taken to a mad house. How long I remained there I don'tknow, but I could see that I was much older looking than when I went in. fYoni time to time I implored the keeper to let me out, but ho refused. About a month ago I saw an opportu

nity and escaoed. I was not mad, for

when agam uader the clear sky, the memory of my troubles were as fresh aa though but a day had passed. I turned, after much inquiry, toward my native place, and a few days ago I arrived here but I did not stop until I had found my way to the little grave under the tree. I had carried stone and built a little wall

around it, but briars and bushes had grown up so thickly that I could hardly lind the place. I cleared the briars away and came to town. While passing along the street I saw this man's flow ers. I stole a geranium pot, and it now sits on the little child's grave. The flower dealer had sunk upon a bench. " Great God, judge! he exclaimed, springing up, ."The wonqin if! my mother." Arkansas Traveler. An Engraver's block. As the lines in a good wood engraving have to be very thin, it becomes very necessary that the wood should be of a firm and strong fiber that will not break, or split, or "crumble easily. And, indeed, the wood used for engraving is one of the hardest known: It is box-wood, and is obtained almost exclusively from Turkey and Asia Minor. The grain of box-wood is exceedingly close and smooth, and engravers "blocks" consist of slices about an inch thick and usually from two to four, inches square, cut across the grain of the tree. The box-tree does not grow to any considerable size, and when a large block is desired it has to be made by screwing and Rlueing a number of small block together very tightly and securely. It is said that it would take more than 100 years for a box-tree to grow large enough to finish a block in one piee of a size sufficient to include the whole of the engraving, "A Midwinter Night, which forms the frontispiece of this mouth's St Nicholas. That picture is in reality engraved upon nine blocks of box-wood, jelosely joined together. W. Leuis JTrasserfih SL Nicholas. Thkre is a sound reason why there are no hones in our meat and stones in our land. A world where everything was easy would be a nursery for babies, but not at all a fit place for men. Celery is not sweet until it has felt a frost, and men don't come to their perfoetion till disappointment has dropped a half hundred weight or two on their toi?s. Who would know good horses if there were no heavy loads. Over 2,000.000 sheep are within the borders of Bernadillo county, New Mexico.