Bloomington Telephone, Volume 7, Number 51, Bloomington, Monroe County, 3 May 1884 — Page 2

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THE NEWS CONDENSED, OlBESSI(ALP0CEDI5GaL A PWtrnoB from citizens of California, praying for an increase of the duty on raisins M presented in t ie St mate April 22. A resolution was adopted that the Secretary of War inquire and report, the value of all grants to tho tttateof Michigan tor the Portage Lake Ship Canal, and on what conditions that work can bo purchased by toe Government for a free waterway. Bills w?re passed authorizing a bridge over the Cumberland lUver at Nashville, granting a pension to the widow of Bear Admiral McDongall, and to ratify agreements witn the Sioux Indians for rtht of way for the Dakota Central and the Chicag ),Milwaukee fc St. Paul Roads. In the House, air. WaUer objected to consideration of the bill to authorize the Secretary of Um Treasury to invest lawful money deposited by national banks to retire their circulating notes. An order vae made that evening sessions be held for general debate on the tariff sill. The pension appropriation bill was passed, the amendment by Mr. Rosecrans to transfer the duties of Pension, Agents to the Pay Department el tha' anay bttnz lost. The House then went Into committee on the tariff bill, Mr. Wellborn said :he measure was a step in the direction of adjusting all duties to a revenue standard. Protection was a monopoly of the worst form, and ws an illegitimate and pernicious exercise of tie rights of taxation. This preat issue should not be evaded, and could not be postponed. The Democracy would ultimately triumph. Mr. Mcinley raid it was gratifying to know the real purposes of the Democracy to destroy the present system of taxation and protection. He congratulated the party that under the leadership of the honest statesman from Illinois it had announced Its true platform. The real great issue bet ween the parties was whether there should be free trade or a revenue tariff which would at tbeeame time care for the great industries of this country. He would not support the bill under any circumstances, because a reduction of 30 per cent, would destroy some great industries. The horizontal bill bore on Its very face the highest evidence of absolute incapacity. It was the invention of idleness. The only persons who demanded a reduction of the tariff were the wealthy members of the free-trade clubs of Brooklyn and New York. He held that the bill would reduce the price of labor, and appealed to the Democratic party not to take a leap in the dark by peseta the btlL It should first discipline Its mutineers. Hr. Herbert made an elaborate argument in fivror of the bilL A RnaofcunoH by the legislature ef Ohio, recommending the granting of pensions to prissners of the late war, was presented in the Senate, April 2S. A met sage from the President was received, transmitting a report by the Secretary sf State to the effect that the demands of foreign countries upon the United States for wheat should naturally be as great as last year. Bills were passed to provide for Government control of the Sault Ste. Marie Falls Canal in Michigan, and to protect Indian reservations from the aulawful cutting of timber. While the pleuropneumonia bill was under discussion, Mr. Coke said it the Agrlcultcxal Department would stop libeling American cattle there would be no more trouble with the business. Mr. Williams declared that, of his own knowledge, pleuro-pneumonia existed in the District of Columbia and adjacent States. In the House of Representatives, a resolution was adopted in th3 Kansas contested election sase gtvlntr a seat to Mr. Peters. While in committee of the whole on the navy appropriation MU, Mr. Kasson urged that armaments be given to vessels now in process of construction, and Hr. Rtnd&ll arsnxe l against accepting the Senate ra'nrlmeft to ne tnerf. TffBRn was a lively debate on the pleuro-

bill in the Senate April 24, but no

actios was taken. A petition was presented xrom the S3ate officers of Maine, asking that an - appoptiation be made in aid cf the World's Exposition at New Orleans. A joint resolution was passed that the two houses attend the ceremony of unveiling a statue of Chief Justice Marshall on May Sills were passed relating to trespass on Indian ijnds, and to provide for disposing of abandons? military reservations. The House of Kspifesentatives passed a joint resolution authosjzingthe lease to the Michigan Fish ComadMoners of a strip of land adjacent to the Matt Ste, Marie CanaL An adverse report wis made on the bill to compel residents of one State to attend as witnesses in the courts of another State. Favorable action was taken by committers on bills for bridges across the Mississippi at Bock Island and the Falls of St. Anthony, and over the Missouri in Douglas County, Nebraska. The House voted not to concur in the Senate amendments to the naval appropriation bill, except the item of $500,080 to provide an armament for the new cruisers. Messrs. Reed, E. B. Taylor, T. M. Browne, and McCoid submitted a minority report from the Committee on Judiciary in favor of female suffrage. Ma. WcLson, of Iowa, made an elaborate speech in the Senate, on the 25th of April, in favor of the principle ef national regulation of interstate commerce, Mr. Jones, of Florida, delivered a long speech against the pleuro-i-ueti-monia bill He took extreme State-rights grounds, and held that the National Legislature had no constitutional power to adopt the proposed measure.' A resolution was passed to deposit in the Smithsonian Institution a flag made of American silk, presented by Joseph Newman, of California The Hons j of Representatives, in committee of the whole, made a favorable recommendation on the bill to give Mrs. Myra Claik Gaines patents for 98.457 acres of land claimed by her, or pay $1.25 per acre for so much thereof as has been sold. There was no session of the Senate on April 26. The House of Representatives passed the free-ship bill, wi&h an amendment previdtmr that any American citizen may import free ef duty iron cr steel steamships of not less than four thousand tone measurment.

Johm Cotus was banged at Gettysburg; Pa, for the murder of Smily Myers. He bore up well until be beard the carpenters erecting his scaffold, when be passed into an excited condition, which lasted until the drop fell.... While boating on the Hudson River, near Sing Sing; N. Y., five persons were run down by a steamer :nd drowned. J. H. Deajte, a New York lawyer, has been rendered taukrupt by real-estate operattons. His liabilities are stated at over $&0G," CO, and be has given preferences to two banks, the Rochester University, and two religious societies. An English syndicate, controlling 9&5,O00,C0O capital, has offered $8,000,000 for the Trinity Church Block in New York, desiring to erect thereon a mammoth structure for brokers' offces, but the proposition has been rejected. Gaixbworth Pettis, a mill owner residing in Lockport Township, near Erie, Pa., who has been a Spiritualist for some time, was conveyed to an asylum. He believed the spirit of Nebuchadnezzar controlled him, and begun to feed on herbs and roots..... Mrs Amelia Bamet cut the throats of her two children, aged 2 years, and 5 months, respectively, at Pittsburgh, Pa., and then, giving the alarm, cut her own throat, and threw herself beside the bleeding babies. All are mortally wounded. - SHE WSfiX, Complaints come from Dayton, Ohio, of tyrannical treatment of disabled veterans by Gen. M. R. Patrick, Governor of the National Soldiers Home, and the citizens are clamorous for his removal.. . .An Indiana court has decided that the establishment of arbitrary rates by the Underwriters Association of Indianapolis is contrary to the freedom of trade and prejudicial to the common good Gen. Patrick, Governor of the Soldiers" Home at layton, Ohio, is charged with being unnecessarily harsh to inmates. The Boafd of Management of the Home say there is no foundation for the charges, and that they have originated in the imagination of some of the mmittes. It is probable that a committee of investigation will be appointed. Several unknown persons stoned and partially wnjcked the residence of L. M. Lynn, editor of the Greenback Herald, at SheibyviHe, III. The inmates escaped unhurt. Becent attacks of the paper on the bad ele-

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ments of the place resulted in the outrage. .....Amos Baokentros, a farmer of Boone County, i Kllana, was shot through the heart by burglar who broke into his house. Neau Audubon, Iowa, an old man by the name of Hiram Jefferson was taken out of his bud by1 three men, and. after being dragged by the men about 300 feet, washuugr to the limb of a tree. Dispatches from Fort Wingate report an uprising of Indians at Mitchell's ranch, in the Ute denervation. The Utes attacked the ranchmen of that section nnd a desperado battle ensued, but he Indians were repulsed with a lo?s of two Indians killed and two wounded. The Ute Reservation, the pcene of the trouble, is located in the corners of New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah, and news from there cannot bo readily obtained. , . .The postoflkes at Minneapolis and St. Paul have been added to the list of those which come under the civil-service rules. THE SOUTH. Near Cockeysville, MdM Joshua Gill and Charles Brown, brothers-in-law, fought what may be termed a duel, at the third shot

Brown falling wounded, his wife at the mo meat rushing from the houee and falling prostrate and unconscious on her husband's body, far Her in the day Brown attempted to assassinate Gill, and for years a feud has existed among the families. Gill surrendered himself to the authorities. The Supreme Lodge of the World of the Knights of Pythias, at its thirteenth annual session, held at New Orleans, elected the following officers: Grand Chancellor, John Van Valkenburr, Fort Madison, Iowa; Supreme Vice Chancellor, Howard Douglas, Ohio; Supreme Keeper of Records und Seals, Judge B E. Coven, of Missouri; Supreme Master-at-Arms, G. B. Shaw, Wisconsin; Past Supreme Chancellor. John R. Linton, Johnstown, Pa Near Monroe, Ga., Willis Gunn, a widower, went to the house of his son Jesse to kill him. as Jesse had justwon and married the girl whom both father and son had been courting. Jesse was warned.

and fired upon and killed his father as the latter was taking aim. Seveeal thousand Kentuckians attended the unveiling, at Frankfort, of a monumect to the memory of the late Judge John M. FlHott, who was shot dead by Col. Thomas Buford for making a decision distasteful to the latter. In Bolivar County, Misa., a negro named John Henderson, who was caught in the act of brutally assaulting Miss Ida Davis, the beautiful daughter of a weal thy planter, was pursued by bloodhounds and brought to bay in the branches of a tree, from which he was made to descend at the point of a shot gun. He was then securely bound, and, a tope being placed around his neck, was slowly strangled to death. Several times he was hoisted into the air and kept there until life was almost extinct, and then lowered and revived, only to be hoisted again. This was repeated until life was extinct, after which his body was riddled with bullets and left in the woods. Miss Davis is in a very critical condition, and is not expected to live Five thousand farmers assembled at Centre Point, Ark., to witness tho execution of Charles Wright for participation in the Howard County riots, Jn which Thomas Wyattwas killed. . . .Henry Carry, colored, was executed at Monroe, Ga., for the murder of a negro who had aroused his jealousy.

Frank James, the bandit, was acquitted by the United States jury at Huntsville. Ala,, but was immediately arrested by the Sheriff of Cooper County, Mo., for com

plicity in the Ottervllle tram robbery. At Hot Springs, Ark, a verdict of not guilty was returned in the case of S. A. Doran and Aye allies for murder in the first degree, in the killing of Frank Hall in the bloody butchery enacted there Feb. 9. Hall was an innocent victim, the driver of the hack containing the three Flynn brothers during the shooting. Doran and party will again be tried under indictments of murder in the first degree in the killing of John Flynn. . . . .John Hognn, an aged bachelor living on a plantation across the Georgia line from Columbia South Carolina recently died of epllepsjr' on a pallet of straw. In a leather pouch on his person was found $7,000 in currency, and in his trunk lay $585 in gold. He could neither read nor write. ...In Western Texas cattle are reported dying for want of water and grass, while myriads of caterpillars are destroying vegetation. WASHINGTON. Secretary Lincoln, with a full appreciation of the character required by the Judge Advocate General of the Army, Addressed a letter to President Arthur, reciting the circumstances of the affair between A. E, Bateman and Gen. Swaim, and urging a court of inquiry for the vindication of tho latter officer. The President coincided, and Gens. Pope, Augur, and Sackett have been appointed to investigate the case The Greely expedition, consisting of three vessels, has been ordered to sea by the Secretary of the Navy, under command of Commander Schley, who goes uninstructed. . . . Hon. J. W. Foster, United States Minister to Spain, has returned to Washington to confer with tho administration in regard to the proposed commercial treaty. Gen. D. 8. Stanley has been assigned to command in the Department of Texas, with headquarters at San Antonio. Gen Stanley was at San Antonio when Gen. Sheridan was in command of the Departmentof theGulr. . . . The collections of internal revenue for the first nine months of tho fiscal year were as follows: Spirits, $55,497,303, an increase of $3,102,440 over the corresponding period of the previous year; tobacco, $18,854,635, a decrease of $13,755,893; ferinpnted liquors, $12,658,859, an increase of 895,773; banks and bankers, $3,392, a decrease of $3,741,534; miscellaneous sources, $440.f01, a decrease of $6,000,539. The aggregate receipts wero $87,454,084, which are $20,505,253 less than tho collections of the last fiscal year. John A. Walsh, the noted star route witness, has written to Mr. Springer, Chairman of the House Committee on Expenditures of the Department of Justice, urging that Secretary Chandler be summoned before the committee to give evidence in reference to a

letter which he is alleged to have written to Attorney General Brewster in connocj . . ... .

tion witn tne star route cases. . . . Senator George, of Mississippi, from the Senate Committee on Education and Labor, will soon report a bill proposing to prohibit the importation or immigration of foreign laborers under contract to work in this country. . . . . Senator Cullom's bill for the regulation of interstate commerce has been adopted by the Senato Committee on Railroads as the basis tor legislation on that subject. . . . Postmaster General Gresham, with his wife, left Washington hist week for Jacksonville, Fia. . . .The House Committee on Postofficcs has ordered the preparation cf a bill for a contract system of postal telegraphy. Holman, Carlisle, Hurd, and other advanced free-traders on the Democratic side assert that the Morrison bill will pass the House. They say they have reliable information which justifies their prediction that they will secure a majority for the measure. Mr. Morrison is also confident. . . . The value of imports for the year ending March 81 were $683,258,C4?, against $742,60,875 for the preceding year; and the exports were $761,733,431, against $10,727,802 for 1883. POXJTICA1U New York telegram: A party of leading Democrats and friends of Tilden, who have just visited Grey stone, say that under no circumstances will ho be a candidate for the Presidency, and under .io circumstances will he accept if nom.natcd. They regard this, bis last refusal, as final, and say that the field is now left, so far as Democratic candidates from this &ato aro concerned, to Flower and Clevelan. The Republicans of Mississippi met at Jackson and selected fourteen delegates to Chicago, of whom twelve are for Arthur. ; The Democratic State Convention of

Iowa adopted a resolution declaring for revenue reform, and appointed a unanimous Tildon delegation to tho national body at Chicago. The Republican Convention or Ohio adopted resolutions demanding tho restoration of the wool tariff of l;7fl, appointed one Maine and three Sherman de'o-gales-at-large to tho Chicago convention, and nominated J. S. RoUnson for Socroi ary of State and W. W. Johnson for Supreme Judae. . . ,'fho Michigan Republican State Con t enrion chose debates wlo favor Blaine first und Edmunds fO.or.td, with Lincoln as the unanimous choice for Vice President... .The Maine Greenback Convention nominated Dr. H. 11. Katon for Governor, and indorsed (ien. ttenj. F. Ilutler for the Presidency. . . .The Republican State Convention of Connecticut left its delegates to Chicago unloFtructed, but passed a resolution commending Joseph R. Haw ley as a candidate for President. The Isew York Republican State Convention was organl7od in the interest of Arthur and Edmunds, despite the hostility of Thomas C. Plflitt and Senator Miller, and the delegates-at large to Chicago are Andrew D. White, Edwin Packard, The:dore Roosevelt, nnd John J. Gilbert. The Virginia Republican Convention adopted the ur.it rule, and instructed tho

delegates to Chicago to vote for Arthur.. vv The Dakota Republicans elected N. E. Nelson and Col. J. L. Jolly as delegates to Chicago and instructed them to vote for Blaine and Lincoln while a probability of nomination remains. The Arizona. Republican Convention met at Phrenix and uppointed delegates to Chicago. The convention instructed for Blaine. .The Massachusetts Greentmckers held their convention at Lynn, indorsed Gen, Butler for President, and appointed delegates to tho Indianapolis convention. At the Greenback State Convention of Massachusetts held at Lynn, the recent decision of the United States Supreme Court in reference to the power of Congress 1o issue legal-tender money was indorsed; governmental regulation of railroads and corporations of alike charuCter was recommended, and the employment of young ehilddren in factories was condemned. Gen. B. K. Butler was indorsed lor President. The National Chairman of the Greenback Labor party thinks Gov. Bogole, of Michigan, and ex-Con gressman Jones, of Texas, will be the

national ticket, and that Butler cannot et the nomination because of his Democratic affiliations. It is thought in Washing ton among Republican politicians that Congressman Calkins, of the Valparaiso District, will be the Republican nominee for Governor of Indiana The Arizona Rcnublican Con

vention instructed its delegates to Chicago to support Blaine. A New Orleans dispatch says that returns of tho recent State election in Louisiana mainly official, from all the parishes but five, with estimat38 for these, give the total vote Of tho State as 038, being the largest cast since the ex-' citing campaign of 1876. It stands divided between the two parties as follows: Democrats, 85,107; Republicans, 42,031 a Democratic majority of 43,270. Tho Legislature will stand : Sen ate Democrats, 80 ; Independent, 1; Republicans, 5; a Democratic loss of 3. House Democrats, 82; Independent Democrats, 6; Republicans, 18; the Republicans losing 1 seat. The first amendment to tho fctate Constitution is carried. This amendment provides that the interest on the &tae bonder which had been fixed by the constitution at 3 per coot, for fifteen years, from Jan. 1, 1885, and thereafter, shall be raife:l to 4 per cent, from Jan. 3, 1S85, for the whole terra of thfrty years. This is believed to be the first instance in which a State, by the vote of tho people, raised the interest on its public debt GKXEiCAX The steamer Oregon, of the Guion Line, has just accomplished the ocean voyage from Queen s town to Kew York in six days and ten hours, eclipsing the fastest time on record. The twenty-four-hour runs of tho Oregon were as follows; Mile. Mites. April 14 440April 17 470 April 15 460 April 18 469

April 18 455' April 19 472 The latter run the best was during very fair weather. It eclipses the best run ever made in twenty-four bours, that of the Alaska, by thirty-two miles. The entire distance run was 3,881 miles, or seventy-six miles farther than the Alaska when she made her best record of six days twenty-one hours and forty minutes. Tho average speed per day of the Oregon was 461 miles, or nearly twenty mAes an hour. The Mexican Government is serious ly considering and will probably grant the prayer of the merchants to repeal the stamp tax and to substitute a tax of from 1 to S5 per cent, on sales. The merchants promise to advance $l,f 00,000 to tho Government if their request shall be complied with. . , .A rebellion against the Mexican Government in one of Pacific Coast States of the republic has been put down. John W. Ayers, representing a powerful combination of Boston capital, has petitioned the Massachusetts Senate to sell him four railways connected with the Hootiac tunnel, together with 200 acres on South Boston flats, for all which ho offers $4,000,000, with the promise of extending the system to Chicago, to connect with the Boston roads leading to the Pacific coast and the Mexican capital. Bunting, Wilkinson, Meek, and Kirkland, the parties charged with trying to secure a vote of want of confidence in the Ontario Ministry, havo been indicted for bribery. . . .In an official report, Capt. Hchoanboven, of the steamer Daniel Steinmann, re-' cently wrecked on the Nova Scotia coast, re4 si lting in the drowning of 124 persons, is, charged with being the direct cause of the disaster. Hon. Isaac-K Arnold, one of the! oldest and most prominent citizens of Chicago, has passed a vay in his 60th year. He was tho earliest City Clerk of Chicago, andi served two terms in the Illinois Legislature and in Congress. He was an intimate friend of Abraham Linco'n. Of late years he has devoted himself closely to literary work. Marie TagUoni, the famous dancer, died in Marseilles, France. She was born in Stock ho!m in 1804, and won renown In the larger cities of Europe, retiring with a fortune in 1817. Other deaths: II. C. Atkins, of Mil

waukee, and George A. Leete, of Providence, R. I., both prominent railroad men; Henry J. Hutchinsou, of tho famo us f am ily of singers ; J um.es T. Todd, the oldest Free Mason in Maine; Col. Charles G. Hammond, a wealthy philanthropist of Chicago; Samuel J. Walker, at one time the most extensive real-estate operator in Chicago; Rev. Dr. Bickersteth, Episcopal Bishop of Ripon, Eng.; Conut Ribbing, a noted French dramatic author: Hon. Dwight Foster, ex-Supreme Judge of Massachusetts. At a council of the Egyptian Cabinet, over which the Khedive presided, it was resolved to inform the British Government that the immediate dispatch of troop3 to Upper Egypt is imperatively necessary. Great Britain has sent to all tho powers which signed the treaty of Berlin invitations to a conference on Egyptian affairs, to devise some means of negotiating a loan of itt,OO0,OO0 for the imperiled country. Tie Paris journals demand lor France a le.fr share of influence and authority on the banks of the Nile. It has been announced for the hundredth time at least that Mr. John O'Connor Power has withdrawn from tho Irieh Parnellite party. The fact is that hn has boi?u expelled from that or?ani3&atio:i. It is said that he wid not again seek election from an Irish constituency, but that he will bo an independent Liberal candidate in some English borough. O'Connor Power wa? onco a leading: Fenian, and, if; is said, was conmtssiouel by a lolgo of Fenian conspirators In Cleveland at ono time to kidnap the Prince of Wales. He did not deliver the goods. The King of Abyssinia has accepted a proposition from the English to invade tho Soudan, relieve the Egyptian garrisons, and aid them in escape. A friend of ticn. Gordon

at Cairo charges that Zebehr Pasha is responsible for the recent uprising north of Khartoum. . . , A bridge atCiudad Real, Spain, wa3 cut by some malicious parties. A passenger train passing over was precipitated into the river. Many persons were killed and twenty wei o severely injured. . , , The report that Bismarck had decided to oppose a Bitish protectorate over Kgypt is semi officially coniinnod. it io also reported that Minister Kerry has received overtures from Berlin looking to an alliance between Franca and Germany, which ho is sard to be advocating. . . .The Grand Master of Orangemen at Belfast has received it letter of warning from the ln indoles John Daly, the susrected dynamiter, has been transferred from Liverpool to Birkenhead.

ADDITIONAL KEW& A dispatch from Monroe, La., states that Mullicau and Clarke, who were convicted of the murder of old man Rogers and wife, last month, wto taken from jail and hanged by a mob.... Samuel T. Wilson, a white man, who whs acting as guard over convicts, was lynched tfy a mob composed of colored men, at Skip worth's Lauding, Miss., toe. fcbo brutal murder of a negro. ""Moses Fbalev, the St. Louis speculator, ba&failed, losing on the Chicago Board about 400,000, wfeilo he is said to be short for a lurge amount of wheat at New York, besides dropping recent y $190,000 in Urdnn and Texas Pacific stocks. A combination formed against him in Chicago is said to havo brought about the crash. Mr. Fraley states that his liabilities are about 91,000,000. . . , A confession has been made by Cicero Jeilerson of Audubon, Iowa, that no and his brother-in-law ha:ii;od his tather for incest. They traveled twiarity miles and bact: after dark, taking the ropo with them. A fire at Panama destroyed .two blocks of houses nnd tho public market building. The loss hi estimated at $500,000.

I During the progress of. tho flames a mob

bouan to rob the stores. The soldiers were

called out, and many of the plundering-party were shot. One soldier was shot for dieobeyingorders. Tho Chinese suffered heavily. Little s Opera Houe, the Glens Falls Opera House, the Presbyterian Church, and the Union Hall building at Glens Falls, N. V.,

were destroyed by fire. Thirty business firms who occupied stores under the opera houses and the I nion Hall were burned out. The loss is estimated at $. 50,000. Other fires reported during the week, where a loss of $10,000 and upward was involved, are shown In the annexed table: Losses. Trenton Falls, Ont., seventeen buildings.$ 30,ooo Alton, 111., drv good. store 35,000 Pittsburgh, Pa., planing mill 26,000 Wilson, Kansas, flouring mill 30,000 Cincinnati, tannery 400,000 Greenville, Texas, business houses 15,000 South Coventry, Conn., flannel mill 1S5,000 Fitchville, Conn., cotton miiL, 100,000 Elkporfc, 3&va, warehouse and contents. . lff,Ood Fall Hiver, Mass., cotton mill 600,000 Attica, Ind., two brick stores 16,000 Morris, 111,, grain elevator 15,000 New York City, business property 150,000 New Orleans, saddlery store . . 50,000 Le Claire, owa, hotel 10,000 Jackson, Mich , cartiago factory A . . 10,000 West Salem, O , twenty business houses 100,000 Devil's Lake, Dak., store ,....' 15,000 Lindsay, Ont., convent 20,000 Akron, O., clothing store 45,000 WUliamsport, Pa., sawmill 4 40,C00 Bath, N. V., planing mill 10,0D0 Pekin, 111., two grain elevators, G0,u00 Menominee, Mich., saw mill 100,000 Marysville, Kan., business property 10,000 New York City, hotel 2U,0fW Cedar Springs, Mich., lumber -45,000

Fillmore City, Mich., sawmill 10,000 Prairieburg, Iowa, four stores 15,000 Desplalncs, 111., basinetfR property. lu,oc0 Coleman, Wis,, saw-mill 10,000

Selins Urove, P.t stores.... 15,000

Petersburg, va., hotel 10,000 Halifax, N. S., tobacco factory. 60,000 Kingston, Ont., tannery , . 40,000 Buchanan, Mica., furniture factory '25,000 Brooklyn, N. Y., cotfee-mill 106,000 The indictment against Gov. Ordway, of Dakota, charges the asking and reception of bribes. The accused, by his at

torney, gave bail, at Yankton, in $10,000. The Grand Jury, in a series of resolutions, deny that Judge Edgertou or Unitod States Attorney Cam pi. ell acted maliciously in promoting the investigation. In voting for members of the Cortes throughout Spain the Liberals accuse Governmeut officials of using tbelr positions to

secure the return of ministerial candi

dates. The Republicans will present a petition against the scandalous suppression of electoral rights. . . , Thirty convicts were injured at Portsmouth, England, by the fall of a cavalry barracks which they were engaged in building It is announced that a new planet has been discovered by a Viennese astronomer. When the pleuro-pneumonia bill came up in the Senate, April 28, Mr. Coke secured the adoption of an amendment exempting Texas fever from the diseases included in the act, and Mr. Plumb succeeded m having the appropriation cut down to $150,000. Mr. Cuilom reported an original b.U to establish a commission to regulate interstate commerce. The House of Representatives passed a bill for the Bale of a portion of the Fort Hayes Military Reservation in Kansas, and adopted a resolution to attend the unveiluir of the statue of Chief Justice Marshall. Bills were introduced for the enlargement of the Cou;t House at Jackson, Tenn. ; to authorize the lighting of navigable rivers by electricity; to prohibit the importation of articles falsly bearing an American brand, and to provide tor the World's Exposition at New Orleans. Mr. Hewitt explained his charge that the Secretary of the Navy had failed to

cover into the treasury $300,000 received for con-'

demned vessels, but deposited It subject to his check.

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A French Love Story Her beauty was an intoxication to the eye. She was 24. She answered to the sweet name of Amelia. For myself I was simple, and credulous, and romantic. Happy times, that never return. I loved her as one lores but once or twice or thrice at most. My Amelia. When I pr onounced that name there were a grand concert in my heart and a ymphonf qp my lips. My Amelia! I met her first in a car. Yea, she was alone with me, and her pantomine of delicious timidity made me risfk some phrases of insinuating politeness. She listened. I3y the time other passengers had arrived I had arrived at permission to call. But why arouse these poignant memories? My friends, pour me a little of that absinthe. I will spare you trifling details. We adored evach other for throe weeks. I will tell you neither of he r charms nor of her goodness. The enumeration would fill pages. Only among all these attractions was one fatal gift which fascinated, intoxicated, transported me her hair! Such hair. All blonde divinities could give you but an insufficient idea. But why arouse these poignant memories? My friends, pbur cie a little of that ab&inthe. When one passed his hand over the silken tresses there was the sensation of satin combined with that of velvet, with the addition of an electric thrill. As to the color, Delacroix, i n his best day would have broken his pallet in Rpite. The hairs of that dear head did not cease to run in mine. One day, after long hesitating to risk such a bold request, I stammered : "Dearest, I I am afraid you may be offended at what I desire." "Offended? If I can pleoe you, you know very well I a;n ready to do as you wish' "My dearest, you have the hair of the Sultan's favorite. "You know I detest complimente." "That does not keep you tfrom valu

ing that head of hair."

"For you sake to please you.

"For me then you will not refuse mc 3 "What? 41Let me cut off a lock of it!" 'But why arouse the poignant memories? My friends, pour me a little of the Chambertia. I waited breathlessly lor Jier answer. I trembled lest she might refuse. But she smiled lovingly upon me and said : "Behold, then, that sacrifice so formidable! What a boy, to believe I loved him too little to accord him such a slight proof of love. Yes, Mr. Doubter, yon shall have the lock, and what is more, I will take it myself and have it made into a monogram our initials interlaced." "O! thanks."

"Are you satisfied? Iugrs.te !" "Am I satisfied! bui when

"To-morrow mornincr not to take

down my hair at this moment I will cut the lock off with my own hand." 'Yes, darling yes, my adored one only tell the jeweier to hurry." "Be easy." I was radiant. My heart leaped for joy. That night it was the best I could do I sent Amelia a pair of diamond earrings. But why arouse these poignant memories? My friends, pour me fb little absinthe. Three days passed. A century ! Each morning I hop 3d to find at Amelia's house the pronrised treasure. At last, the fourth day, as I entered: "Sit down there, sir." "Behold me obey, my beauty!" "Stoop over." "It is doue." "I make you Chevalier of Love and I pass around your neck the badge of my order." "My locket with the hair! It is admirable! How the hair is interwoven; it is only your silky ringlets that would be flexible enough for such curves. And that shade, that I should recognize among 100,000 what do 1 say ? There do not exist two like that on the surface of the civilized globe !" "Then you are contented?' "I am in Paradise!" That night I had to make her some return I sent Amelia an Indian shawl. But why arouse these poignant memories ? My friends, pour me a little of that absinthe. There are moments in life when one does not understand why the heart does not burst. I experienced such a moment. I had gone home with my precious love token. And what had increased its value a hundredfold she had sworn to me that I was the first living being to whom she had g;ven such a present. I was seated by the fire alone, but not lonely, since the locket recalled her. I turned nnd returned that talisman. I covered it with burning kisses. I could not got enough

of that speechless contemplation. A whole world of thoughts were awakened by lookiug upon it. I reviewed the past from our meeting in the car. I peeped into tho future fidelity for life love unalterable. But why arouse these poignant memories ? My friend, pour me a little absinthe. A few days later she was ill. A slight indisposition, but love fears everything. Without sayinff 'anything I took the

precious locket and went to a clairvoy

ant.

"Madame, I came to consult you

about the health of a person who is dear to me

The clairwant took the loekat, felt j, . . 1 -i .1 1. Wr

or n, ana angrity excjaimea; "xou amuse yourself, sir. That lock of hair came from a dealer in rabbit-ekins. It was in a lot bought by an artist in hair,

who cuts up those sort of things for the

love-tokens given by certain women."

I muttered an oath and took flight. ... But why arouse these poignant mem

or'e? My friend, pour mo vlcntv of

champagne.

Fkesh water fish ure reared un every

Japanese farm whore there is .a pool or

brook, with a much cave as poultry are

iu French cottage yards, (iiris go in the evening with long wand.s to drive

he fish into roofed tanks, where thov

are locked in for the night to keep them

from birds of prey.

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SUGGESTIONS OP VAUZ&

It is saicbthat in families which roast r their own coffee, diphtheria cannot get a foothold, aa the pungent aroma of the roasting coffee effectually destroys the germs of the disease. Old taken from the common woodchuck or "ground-hog" ishigblyreeom , mended for leather. Boots, harness, or leather articles saturated with it become soft and pliable, yet it does not, it is claimed, open the pores of the leather, but effectual y excludes damn

uess. ) A bed-room in which there is a atova can- be well ventilated by putting a burning lamp just within, the stove, with the stove door open, letting it burn tUrough the night. This can be used in summer when no fire is kept in the stove. Tho burning lamp causes a

lrft Anil f.haf, tlraft takfis ont the foul

air. ( ' Delicious oatmeal gruel may be xnabe by stirring a cupful of oatmeal into a bowl of water, allowing it to stand a few minutes until tho coarsest -particlea have fallen to the bottom, pouring off tho water and repeating the operation once or twice. The water ; should then be boiled, stirring it conetantly until it it sufficiently cooked. A writer in the Germantown Telegraph says that a convenient place for 4 boots and shoes, which are sure to be in the way, can easily be made by procure -ing a shoe or boot box (or both if your family is large), at any shoe store. I'ut hinges on to hold the lid. Drive nails near the top on the back of the inside, . to hang the slippers upon, and it is ready for use. If painted or cushioned and curtained it looks well and will answer for a seat if necessary. A mixture which is excellent for removing grease apots and stains from carpet and clothing is made of two ounces of ammonia, two-ounces of whit castile soap, one ounce of glycerine, one 4 ounce of ether; cut the soap fine, dissolve in one pint of water over the fir; add two quarts of water. Mix thoroughly, and wash soiled garments in it For removing spots use a sponge or clean fiannnl cloth, and with a dry cloth rub, as dry as possi ble. Woolen goods may be made to look bright and fresh by being sponged with this. A simple and inexpensive method of cleaning the waste-pipe of washstands, bath-tubs, or kitchen ainks,the stoppage of which often entails great expense, is

tiring at night pour into the pipe enough liquid potash lye of thirty-six degrees strength to fill the "trap," as it is called, or bent portion of the pipe just below the outlet. About a pint will suffice for a washstand, or a quart for a bath-tub or a kitchen sink. Be sure that no water runs into it till next morning. During the night the lye will rtonvart, all t.hi rtffnl in thtk ninn intn

soft soap, aud the first current of water in the morning will remove it entirely, and leave the p ipe as clean as new. The

so-called pot as a lye is not recommended for this purpose. The lye should be kept in heavy g lass bottles or demijohns, covered with wicker wire, and plainly labeled; always under lock when not in actual use. Toilet set. Take a piece of brown Holland and truce a design of daisies . and leaves. Work the latter and stems, with dark-green crewels For the daisies, thin white Swiss muslin is used. Cut it in strips an inch wide. Take cne strip and one end and with a piercer make a tiny hole in the point of the traced petal; press the end of the gathered muslin through this, and fasten it securely on the wrong side. Proceed in this manner until all of the petals are covered. Work the stamens with yellow crewel in French knot stitch. This done by bringing the threaded needle up through the center of the flower ; hold tho thread down with the thumb of the toft hand, and with the needle in the right hand place it under , the thread once or twice, according to the size of the knot desired, then with- ' out removing the thumb, place the point of the needle in the same place it was brought through, draw it ont slowly and, when the knots are firm, secure on the wrong side. Finish the edges with rick-rack edging or with antique lace. The several mats and pin -cushion oor are made in the same way. Emerson's friend, Henry Pavid Thereto. v Henry David Thoreau, the son of a maker of lead encilB at Concord, Massachusetts, was born either in that place

or Boston July 12, 1817. After graduating at Harvard University in 1837, he taught for three years; but his love for solitude led him to abandon that employment and the remainder of his life he devoted to study, working at one trade or another only long enough to earn enough for the bare necessities of . life. From March, 1845-7 he lived as a hermit on Walden Pond, near Concord, having built his own house, and during this time the expenses amounted to but

$70 per annum. He was ingenious and could turn his hand to almost any work, but nothing but want could draw him

Homer and other ancient classic writers, the old English literature, and Oriental poetry and philosophy. He wrote much, but published little, and that little was seamingly forced from him after long deliberation. For instance, in 1849 he published a book written, ten years before, entiled "A Weei on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" a minute description of the country, supplemented with observations of plants and animals along the route. His second book, 4 Walden: or Life in the Woods," appeared in 1854, after a simlarly long period of delay. Both works abound in the transcendental philosophy, which he shared in common with Emerson, his friend. To this companion of many years the world owes n.ost of its knowledge of Thoreau, for after the hitter's death Emerson published hi manuscripts in several, volumes, among them 4Tho Main Woods." uExcarsions in Field and Forest," "Cape Cod," "A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-slavery and Reform Papers," togethc r with several poems. Thoreau was in all his life exceedingly eccentric. He never attended church, voted, or paid taxes, and seldom at , any meat. Ho died at Concord Mj 5 1802. inter Ocean. :