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p* I . h. There are now on the pension rolls of the war of 1813 only 2,945 surviving pensioners, -while there are 17,212 surviving widows of pensioners. This furnishes another convincing proof that widows, like spinsters, never grow old. Owing to the fact that the mints of the country have stopped the manufacture of gold dollars these coins are commanding a premium?in some instances of twenty-five cents. The manufacture of $2 .50 gold pieces has also been stopped, -3 AT nf fivP HI1U UlCSe UUIUlliiluu a pvuiiuu w ? per cent. A visitor to Havana says he failed to discover the boasted beauty of the Cuban women, of -which so much is heard. They all have large, handsome, melancholy dark eyes, but their complexion is hidden beneath a thick plaster of powder. There seem to be no handsome old ladies. Cuban beauty does Hot last long. To get the staying article the boys must come to this locality. Her Von Schaffle, formerly the Austrian cabinet minister, has gone in for war statistics. He says war between France and Germany would cost $3,200,000,000. If our countries?Austria, Russia, France and Germany?fought, he says the bill would be $0,000,000,000, and he also thinks European war would bring universal bankruptcy, which seems reasonable, considering his figures. The Emperor of China insists on having bears' paws, antelopes' tails, ducks' tongues, torpedo eels'eggs, camel's hump, monkey's lips, carps' tails and marrow bones served on his table every day in the year. Then, according to the facetious Burlington Free Press, he drops oil to sleep, and dreams that he is shooting down a 4,000-foot toboggan slide, with a fifty-pound weight on his stomach. The United States Mint at Philadelphia has secured a counterfeit $2.50 gold piece of 1852, for which it has been in quest for years in order to complete its cabinet. It contains only twenty-seven cents' worth of gold, yet its weight is that of the real article to a hair, its size is the same with the exception that the genuine coin is somewhat thinner in the center, and it has the ring of the true metal. Agent" of the Interior Department have just succeeded in buying from the Indian tribes of Montana the greater part of the enormous reservation which covers the northern half of the Territory, and which Has greatly aeiayea its development. Something more than 17,500,000 acres will thus be thrown open for public settlement, and, as it is said to be very desirable country, there is no doubt that it will soon be occupied. A bill recently passed the Tennessee Senate granting a pension of ten dollars a month to Confederate and Federal soldiers who have lost the use of their eyes. In the House it was amended, the amount being increased to twenty-five dollars a ^' month and made available to those who lost both legs or both arms, or the use of them, while engaged in active service in either the Union or Confederate armies, and who do not receive a pension from the Federal government. The four daughters of Ignatius Riggin, of Madison County, Illinois, not only make their own dresses and other clothing, but spin and weave the cloth ol which they are made from raw cotton and wool. Jlr. Riggin is a rich man, rated worth $250,000, and his daughters are pretty, intelligent, and accomplished. They live luxuriously in a handsome house, expensively and tastefully furnished. Home-made clothing is the father's hobby, and the girls sensibly indulge him in it. In Germany long troughs are placed at ? the eaves of houses for the accommodadation of sparrows in building their nests. whnn +>in vnnnrr snarrows are hatched ii ?- j o ~r ? and the mother goes out to procure food for them, wire screens arc placed over them, with interstices large enough to permit the passage of food in to the younglings, but too small to allow them to escape from the nests. As soon as they have grown large and plump they are killed, and they make a very desirable article of food. Dr. N. B. Richardson considers the most deleterious effect of the "nightcap" is the extra work it gives the heart. He says: "When I lie down at night without my alcohol, that is the rest my heart gets. But when you take youi wine or grog you do not allow that rest, for the influence of alcohol is to increase the number of strokes, and, instead ol : getting this rest, you put on something j like 15,000 extra strokes, and the result is you rise up very unfit for the next day's work till you have taken a little more of the "ruby bumper." The pecuniary value of "a good time'' would seem to be as difficult of estimation as the weight of an odor or the j breadth of a smile. Yet a New York j jury will be called on to perform the delicate task. The City Surveyor of Rochester was invited to be present at the un veiling of the Statue of Liberty in New I York Harbor and laid himself out for a ! good time. The train which he took should have brought him to New York ! in ample time, but for some reason it ar- j rived six hours late and the good time ; was irretrievably spoiled. The Surveyor , has sued the railroad company and laid , his damages at $1,000, which is his cs- J mate of what a good time would have been worth to him in the elevation of his spirits, the rejuvenescence of his system, the expansion of his ideas and, incident - ally perhaps, of his head as well. Whether a jury will put it as high as that is still problematic. i ?tmrnrnrnm?mm ;? : ' i scholars of the day. Henry graduated at Amherst College in ISM and studied theology with his father at Lane Seminary, Cincinnati Im 1837 he began pastoral work in a small Presbyterian church in JLawrenceburg, Ind., and two years later accepted a call from Indianapolis, where he remained eight years. In 1847 he went to Brooklyn to take charge of Plymouth Church, then a new and small body, now the largest Congregational Church m America, there being at present over 3,000 members. Mr. .Beecher's success in his new sphere was immediate and phenomenal. The style of his pulpit illustrations was new to Eastern congregations and attracted general attention. Besides, Mr. Beecher at once achieved notoriety by espousing the cause of abolitionism and openly advocating the overthrow of slavery. In the agitation that grew out of the Missouri Compromise measures he was most conspicuous in pulpit and platform, and hi= congregation, which grew from a few hundreds to as many thousands, heartily supported him. Pis church was the theatre of continual sensations. Now it was a slave girl whose freedom was to be purchased, and now it was a collection taken up to send rifles to "free Kansas" or to uphold the arms of John Brown, of Ossawatamie. In one sense Plymouth Church became the cradle of Republicanism, at le??t so far as the State of New York was concerned, and on the wave of this impulse Beechftr flimlwl into a r>onnl&ritv such as no Amer HENRY WARD BE!CHER. The Plymouth Pastor's Eventful Career Closed in Death. Stricken with Apoplexy, Followed V>rr Por+iol Poroliroio UJ JL UU UiUl X U>lUiJ MAUI Henry "Ward Beecher, the famous clergyman, was stricken with apoplexy on the 5th inst., at his home in Brooklyn. The apoplectic stroke was followed by partial paralysis. The doctors pronounced tbo caso a hopeless one. Mr. Beecher bad been ill since Thursday, the 3d. Saturday morning the sudden change for the worse took place. It was of such an alarming character that Dr. Wm. A. Hammond, of New York, was hastily summoned. He and Dr. Searle made an examination and declared that Mr. Beecher was suffering from an apoplectic attack. He lay in a semi-comatose condition, but was roused by the efforts of the doctors, Neither consciousness nor his unfailing sense of humor had quite forsaken him. "Can you raise your arm, Mr. Beecher?" asked Dr. Hammond. ' Yes, I guess so," came th? low reply. "How high can you raise it's" "Well, high enough to hit you, doctor," said the clergyman with a feeble smile. lie did not seem to be suffering any pain. When approached by Mrs. Beecher and other members of the family he looked up as though he recognized them and knew what was going on. Colonel Wililam C. Beecher, his son, asked him about noon if he knew what the doctors were doing. "Oh, yes," he replied, "they are trying to make out if I am going to get well or not.' All the family were summoned to the dying minister's bedside, and crowds of his friends and members of his congregation flocked to his house. On Sunday the paralysis resulting lrom nis apoplectic stroke grew more ana more complete, and the doctors said then that there was absolutely no hope of his recovery. All through Monday the dying man lay in a comatose condition, breathing easily but recognizing no one. Bulletins conveying intelligence of his condition were posted at the doorway of his residence, and were eagerly scanned fey hundreds of anxious friends and members of the congregation. The Final Death-Bed Scene. Monday night was drawing to a close,when at 3 a. m., Dr. Seale, the attending physician, noticed a change for the worse in the patient's condition. Those of the family and of the closest friends who were at that hour dozing were awakened just about four o'clock, and they began to group around the bed, on the farthest edge of which Mr. Beecher had been lying motionless and i mconscious ever since the attack of paralysis had seized him on Friday. Still, this end was not yet, and the rapid approach of dissolution was not noticeable until nine o'clock. Then the scene in Mr. Beecher's small bed-chamber looked like this: : ? : B c : : 0 o d : : ! O : A : : F : I i o : : : : : 1 : : G j A, Beecher's head; B. Mrs. II. \V. Beecher; C, Miss Hattie Scovllle; D, Miss Kate Beecher; E, Desk; P, Book Case; G, Sofa. Mr. Beecher was breathing in a slow, labored way. His face was flushed and bis eyes were only partly closcd. He was still unconscious, and it was evident that his death would be a painless one. Mrs.Beecher sat at the head of the bed. Her sons, Henry B. and William C., sat at her right; Mrs. Scoville, her daughter, was next; then the grandchildren, Henry Ward, Jr., the Misses Hattie and Daisy, children of Henry B. Beecher, and the Misses Hattie and Annie Scoville, next. Dr. Searle sat on the other side intently watching his patient. Mr. and Mrs. fc'covillc stood at the foot ol the bed. Behind them were Mary and Bella, the housemaids, who have been in the Beecher familv for rrnnu years; Bel, the old Scotch woman, who has nursed all the children of the Beecher family, i d Klordan, the trained nurse, employed for Mr. Beechi r's sickness. The only member of the dying preacher's family not present was his son Herbert, who was in the "VY est, hastening; homeward. At daylight Congressman S. V. White, Mr. Beeeher's near friend, and Mrs. "White had arrived at the house, and soor. afterward the gray-haired assistant pastor of Plymouth, , the "Rev. S. V. Halliday, came. A 8 o'clock Dr. Lyman Abbott, of the Christian Union, and Mr. E. A. Seccomb and wife, of New 1 York, life long friends of the Beecher family, i were admitted. These were all the witnesses of the last scene. Mrs. Beecher took hold of her husband's , hand and spoke to him, but there was no response by touch or uttered word. Mr.Beeclier was dying as he had so often expressed a wish to die?a speedy and a painless death. As the j moments passea,his breathing became shorter and fainter. *. Every one of the mournful party at the bedside wept aloud, save Mrs. Beecher. Tears ! trickled down her pale checks, but to the end she preserved the calm, heroic self-possession that has excitcd such frequent comment since 1 Mr. Beecher was stricken down. She again | I sought to obtain somo acknowledgement , from her husband that he recognized her, and again none came. She kissed his feeble lips and softly bade him good-by a moment before he breathed out his life. The end came softly. The great preacher fell away without a spasm or a throe. His breathing decreased imperceptibly almost, his 1 pulse grew weak and weaker. "Then came a moment wlien there was no more life. None of thoso eagerlv waiting and weeping around the deathbed could have told the exact instant, all passed so _ *1? l)..i T\? c? 1..1 i. i -i i .^eiuijr. ijut jjr. oeurie, waicn in nana, sianaing at the bed and holding the pulse of bis peat patient, finally said: "The end is here." The fingers of time on the dial marked exactly (J.oO o'clock. Mrs. Beeclior remained an instant, and, for the first time, sobbed aloud once. She pressed her husband's eyelids down, and kissed the dead lips. Then she, too, burying her face in her hands, went from the death chamber. The family's fears that when the end should come Mrs. Beecher would break down utterly were not realized. She wont to her room, where her sons and daughter surrounded and comforted her. A.s soon as the announcement of Mr. Beecher's death was made public the Brooklyn City Hall bell began tolling,and soon telegrams of sympathy from public men in all parts of the country and from abroad caino pouring into the house of mourning. Hundreds of citizens came to the house in carriages and on foot to express their sorrow to the friends and relatives of the family. The New York State Senate passed re-solutions of regret and immediately ad journed. Shortly after Mr. Beecher's death his body was embalmed, and a piaster cast of the face was taken for a statue to lie placed in ProsDec t Bark, Brooklyn. Sketch of Mr. Beecher's Career. Henry Ward Beecher was the third 6on of ! Rev. Lyman Beeclier, and was born at. Litchfield,Conn., June'.24, 1S1:J, and is therefore in ; his 74th year. His father was one of the most > distinguished Congregational clergymen and ican preacher has ever attained before or since! A rich fund of illustration, a dramatic style and a keen sensa of humor gave him hie hold upon popular audiences, and his pen was as busy as his tongue. For twenty years he was the editor of the Independent, and for nearlj twelve years he conducted the Christian t77it'o7i,and meanwhile was editinghis sermons, writing stories and lectures, and preparing his "Life of Christ." A busy man, he was constantly in demand as a miscellaneous lecturer, and could command his own price in the lecture arena. In 1803 he was sent to England by President Lincoln, at the suggestion of Secretary Seward, in order that he might speak on the question of the war between the North and the South. He produced a marked effect there, particularly as attempts were made to put him down, In the Long Island Historical Society Library is a collection of handbills and posters, priuted in red ink, which were distributed to incite public feeling againt him. In 1865 Mr. Beecher went to Charleston, S. C., at the request of the Government and delivered an oration on the occasion of the raising of the old flag over Fort Sumter. Theodore Tilton's suit against; Mr. uoecner, which resulted in the jury voting nine for Mr. Beecher and three for Tilton, was the most famous of the kind the country has ever seen. Last year Mr. Beecher went to Europe for the second time, accompanied by his wife, and delivered many addresses, sermons and lectures, being cordially received by his British auditors. Since his return from England he had been engaged on his "Life of Christ," and was also contributing a series of articles to a syndicate of prominent papers throughout the country. During his long career Mr. Beecher earned immense sums of money. His salary when he became pastor of Plymouth Church was $1,200 per year, but was shortly afterward increased to $1,500. These sums were increased on various occasions until his salary had reached $25,000 a year. During his Brooklyn pastorate Mr. Beecher's receipts from salary, lectures, and literary work were over $1,000,000. LATER NEWS. The peach growers on the Delaware peninsular feel very hopeful, and they are all talking about a full crop?from 5,000,000 to 8,000,000 baskets. TnE bark Hannah Blanchard arrived at New York a few days since, having on board the Captain aud crow of twenty-nine men be longing to the steamer Egypt, which had foundered at sea. The Egypt was bouud from New York for Lisbon, and carried a cargo of 103,000 bushels of wheat, valued at /Wl ^wy,wu, A bill, permitting women to voto at municipal elections, has been lost in the New York Assembly by 08 nays to 48 yeas. Four funeral services in commemoration of Mr. Bcechcr wore hell in Brooldyn on Friday?at Plymouth Church, a Presbyterian, Baptist, and a Unitarian Church. The exercises at each were largely attended. Strictly private services were held at Mr. Beecher's late residence on Thursday, after which the body was removed to Plymouth Church, where it lay in state until Friday afternoon. The remains were viewed by thousands. The removal of the body to the cemetery Saturday morning was private. A strike of printers at Milwaukee has failed, many of the men returning to work after promising to leave the Union. Total appropriations voted by the last Congress are: Agricultural,$1,028,730; Army, $23,724,718.69; Diplomatic and Consular, 81,420,942.14; District of Columbia, $4,205,890.66; Indian, $5,220,897.00; Legislative, $20,? a * ? <v?in non no. ; juiutaiy .mrouuiuy, Navy, $35,753,165.44; Pensions, $70,252,500; Post Office, $55,094,650.15; Sundry Civil, $22,382,490.96; Mexican Pension Deficiency) $0,900,000; Public Printing Deficicncy, $107," 000: miscellaneous appropriations (estimated) $3,500,000. Total of actual appropriations, $247,387,144.00. Although Secretary Manning's resignation do3S not take effect nntil April 1, he has virtually severed his connection with tho Treasury Department. R. W. Lougheuy, of Texas, has been appointed Consul at Aeapulco, Mexico. The second reading of Bismarck's Septennate Army Bill wrs passed in the German Reichstag l.y 223 yeas to 46 nays. This vote practically insures the final passage of this now famous measure. Samuel F. Bksse was [ hanged at Ply .u . *?? ? LUUUtU) .UU39. ) ui1 XUUtaviUJ 1V1 tuw miuiuvi vi Richard N. Lawson. A New York grocery firm has been fined 52o'J for selling oleomargarine as butter. The President lias appointed Charlton H. Way, of Georgia, to ba Consul General at St. Petersburg. Missouri is without militia, a bill for tho relief of the troops having failed iu the Legia tature. The five regiments of the State lave disbanded. CnaiSTiNE Nilsson*, the well-known opera singer, has been married to the Count Miranda. Captain Eads, of Mississippi jetties fame, died recently at Nassau, New Providence. Many men have been killed and wounded by nn explosion of melinite, tho new explosive, in the arsenal at Belfort, France. A YOUTHFUL ^MURDERER. A Boy Kills a Farmer ami Shoots liis Wile ami Two Children. News of a terriblo tragedy comes from a lonely farming community on Cat's Fork, Lawrence County, Ivy. Sam Smith, a lad of sixteen, had a difficulty with Steve Ham j ;_t.i ?- r omml mono, a iKMgiiuuriug liu inui . with a revolver,went to the Hammond house, and, alter sonic words with Hammond, followed him in the house. Hammond reached for Ins rille. when you tig Smith lired, killing him instantly. Smith was then attacked hy Hammond's wife, daughter and son, the latter little more than children. Tlio youthful murderer hacked up against the side of the room and lired three balls into Airs. Hammond's body, inflicting fatal wounds. As tho woman dropped to tho lloor by the side of her dead husband, Smith leaped over her prostrate form and lired at the boy and girl who were retreating through a door, two balls taking cll'ect in the daughter and one in the son. Both of them fell, and satisfied that his work was done and that 110 witnesses were left to tell of tho awful butchery, the murderer lied to the mountains. Jt was hours afterward before neighbors discovered the crime, their attention being attracted by the feeble erics of the boy. Mrs. Hammond was mortally wounded, and her children were in little better condition. Tho boy made his escape at the time, but was pursued, with little doubt of his ultimate c?"turc. r yr^r. - . i'-*? ' ' . ' ?*..*.. ; ' * lying"in state. Mr. Becchcr's Body Yiewed in Church by Many Thousands. A Private Funeral, and Public Services in Plymouth Church, ?I..AnMA/4 /N? J no peupio ui uivuivijr 11 tui uu^cu wn luuuday to see the dead face of Henry Ward Be>jcher in greater numbers than ever assembled to see his living form or to listen to his eloquent words. For more that twelve hours a double column filed past fcho coffin in which he lay in state in Plymouth Church, and it was estimated that fully 40,000 persons passed through the church in that time. The only sign of mourning in the vicinity of the church was a national flag at half-mast. In deference to the wishes of Mrs. Beecher there was no black upon either the exterior or the interior of the church, but within it was abundantly decorated with flowers and plants. The universally accepted badges of mourning, however, wore displayed everywhere elsi in the city. The Brooklyn City Hall, Court House, 13th llogiment Armory and other public buildings were draped in black; thousands of Hags floated at half mast, au l portraits of Mr. Beecher with plentiful ga rniture of purplu and black were displayed in numerous shop windows. The private funeral was conducted in the pouriug rain at 9:30 a. m. at the home of Colonel Henry B. Beecher, at Hicks and Clark streets, where his father spent the later years of his life when in Brooklyn. At an early hour people drawn by curiosity assembled in the vicinity. The 1:5th Regiment, 500 strong, under command of Colonel Fackner, marched from the Hanson Place Armory and formed in line in Hicks street, to jscort the body of its late chaplain to the church. The sword-hilts of the officers, tho ft.*.*** ??>/] *1?a luilwl i nc+ni monto ivorA 4U1U tuc UllllU liuui Uuivuim ?V?W I dressed in crape, but no other sign of j conventional mourning appeared. While tho raiment waited, the private funeral services for the family wore conducted in the parlor where the body lay in the plain but rich coffin. Only the relatives and two or three intimate friends were present. Many beautiful floral tributes were arranged about the collin. Dr. Hall read tho Protestant Episcopal service and a quartet composed of George Werrenrath, Mrs. Werrenrath, Mrs. Lasar-Studwell and Mr. Chapin sang "Beyond tho Smiling and tho Weeping." and two others of Mr. Beecher's favorite hymns. Dr. Hall made a brief address. At the close of the service a farevrell look was taken at the face in calm repose by tho widow, children, grandchildren, brothers, nephews, nieces and friends present. When tho collin was closed it was borne by tho undertaker's assistants ami guarded by j eight sergeants of the regiment out of tho house and iwst tho ranks of the soldiery to the [ hearso, which stood in front of the Mansion House. To the music of muflled drums tho procession passed down Hicks and Orango streets to the church door. Company G (tho Plymouth Company) formed tho guard of honor, and behind them were a dozen war veterans, including General James Me Leer, of the Union Army, and General C. W. C. McCoy, of tho Confederate Army. At the church the regiment presented arms wliilo the collin was transferred from the hearse to tho edifice whither Henry Ward Beecher went so often to speak to gathered thousands. While tho body was borno down tho aisle, General H. C. King played Beethoven's funeral march on the organ. The collin was placed curecuy in itoiil 01 mo puipiii uu a. iu? {uatforin, the front paws Laving l>een removed M make room for the passing of the people. The whole interior of tho church was beautified with flowers, growing plants and evergreens. Tho Beecher family pew was filled with floral designs. Laurel wreaths wer? hung beside tho coflin, while upon it were maiden-hair ferns, lilies-of-the-valley and roses. A. large crowd had gathered at tho church j long before the doors were opened. In a short I time tho people were allowed to file into the church and view tho great preacher's body. From noon to well on into tho evening the procession was unbroken. As one of the body guards computed it, sixty persons passed the coffin every minute and moro than 40,'KKJ must have walked by during tho day. The church was closed at 7 p. m., but the crowd outside was then so large it was decided to open the doors again, anil they were kept open until 10 p. M. All the evening a steady stream of people passed through tho church and by the bier. Among those who viewed the remains were Henry George, the labor agitator, and Rev. Dr. McGlynn. After 10 p. 5f. four sentries were placed on guard in the church,and this watch was relieved every two hours until 0 o'clock Friday morning. Friday morning the public funeral services were conducted in Plymouth Church by Rev. Dr. Hall, after which the congregation and then tho public were again admitted to view tho remains until 4 p. m. Thousands moro availed themselves of the opportunity for a last look at Mr. Beecher. VT..V/VI- Whitnov linri reauested the citizens of Brooklyn, by proclamation, to close their places of business, and the request was quite generally observed The Board of Aldermen, beaded by the Mayor, attended the services at Plymouth Church in a body. Besides the funeral in Plymouth Church, services were also held duruig the day in four other Brooklyn churches, the First Baptist Church, First Presbyterian Church, Unitarian Church and the Sands Street M. E. Church. At 4 P. M. the doors of Plymouth Church were closed to the public, whilo the children of the three Sunday-schools, in charge of their superintendents and teachors, viewed the remains. The church was then reopened to the public for a timo, and when closed at night the public funeral exercises over the great preacher were over. The family and a few intimate friends alone accompanicd the remains to Greenwood Cemetery on Saturday morning. The body was placed in the public receiving vault. STEIKEES HT COURT. Two Rcccnt Leral Decisions of Great - ? i importance. I Two decisions of more than usual importance have just been rendered, one by Judge Brown, of tho United States District Court, and the other by the Supreme Court of Errors of Connecticut. In tho former case a number of men were arrested upon a suit by a steamship company to recover damages for interference in its business. The defendants were charged with causing the company's workmen to quit work in a body, declaring a boycott of the company's business and endeavoring by mcins of intimidation to prevent other persons from dealing with tne company. Tho court held that the acts of the defendants we:*e not only illegal, so as to render the defendants liable in damages, but were also misdemeanors at common law as well as against the section of the New York penal code directed against tho conspiracy. The court characterized the association of "the defendants for the purposes mentioned as an illega.1 combination, and declared that all acts done in furtherance of those pin-poses were actionable. In the Connecticut case tho court affirmed the conviction of three members of a typographical uuion for conspiracy in boycotting a newspaper for refusing to pay union rat-DS to its printers. The broad ground upon which the courts proceed in those cases is that associations formed with the design of interfering by overt acts with tho freedom of employers in the prop.tr control and managoment of their business are illegal combinatirmc I?,. WATERY GRAVES, Si*: Persons in a Boat, and Two in n Carriage Drowned. The tow-boat Diamond, ascending the Ohio River a few dnys since with a tow of barges, ran down a skiff which had just started from Malison, Ind., for G-lient,Ky. The skiff contained seven colored people?Harry Gross, hist three sons and two daughters and a young man named lirown. The skiff and its occupants were swept under the entire licet of tiarges, and sis of them lost their lives. John Graham, son of the Vevav ferryman, by superhuman efforts succeeded in rescuing three of the unfortunate poisons, but only ono survived, the other two dying from exhaustion. The bodies of the other four were not recovered. Robert Blacker, a wealthy farmer, living near Seipio, Ind., together with his wife and child, attempted to cross Dry Fork, near Hafriscu, Ohio. The carriage was overturned, throwing the occupants into the water. Mrs. Blanker was rescued, but Mr. Blacker and the child were drowned. > " - * .* " * ' ' . * NEWS SUMMARY Eastern and Middle States. Several attempts have been made to destroy property of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Jersey City, N. J., by infernal machines. A crowd of boys in the yard of a church at Pittsburg were fooling with a flask of powder when it suddenly exploded, having come in contact with a lighted match. Ten boys were more or less badly burned. Charles J. Peterson, founder and publisher of Peterson's Magazine, died the other day in Philadelphia, aged sixty-eight years. a fire in New York burned out the Weekly story paper and other publishers and printers, causing a total estimated loss of $100,000. An explosion of 600 pounds of nitroglycerine at the Ditmar Dynamite Works, Baychester, N. Y., killed Henry Bahr, a watchman, demolished a building, and shook the earth for miles around. A scaffold at a new building in Reading, Penn., fell thirty feet, carrying down fifteen men. One man was fatally injured, and five were badly hurt. Large numbers of trade dollars are being redeemed by the Treasury Department in New York and Philadelphia at par in accordance with the new law. A negro named Alexander Crawford was taken from jail and lynched at Winona, Miss., for the murder of Victor Loggins, a young merchant of that town. The Rhode Island Democrats in State Convention at Providence on Tuesday nominated a ticket headed by John W. Davis for Governor. The election takes place April 6, and besides State officers a member of Congress to fill the vacancy in the Second District will be chosen. President Garrett is reported to have sold his interest in the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to Alfred Sully, representing a syndicate which comprises the Heading, Jersey Central, and Richmond Terminal Railroads, the intention being to combine all these properties into one grand trunk line, with 16,000 miles of track. This is the greatest railroad deal that has taken place in this country in many years. South and West. i ^ There will be an extra session of the West ; V li guiiti JLTCgiaiauuiu m xxpin* Another severe earthquake shock has been 1 felt at Columbia and other points in South ' Carolina. A fight occurred at I^ogales, Arizona, j between Mexican soldiers who had crossed , from Mexico into United States Territory j and the American authorities. After ( numerous shots had been exchanged, the , Mexicans retreated into Mexico. The j United States Attorney requested General ! Mills to send troops to Nogates immediately. An express train plunged through the tres- i tie across Joachim creek, in Missouri, and fell into the swollen waters below. The train j load of passengers luckily escaped. The engineer and fireman were severely injured. A snow-plow train on the Central Pacific | Railroad was struck by a huge snowslide in the Rocky Mountains and hurled down a deep gorge. Superintendent Green and six other employes were smothered to death. J A lare meeting of Chicago Anarchists denounced a bill in the I Illinois Legisla- 1 ture which provides for the punishment of ; inflammatory speeches and- writings. The speakers upheld the right to preach treason and revolution. A "corner" in pork at Chicago has caused ] the suspension of several Board of Trade firms, and has swamped many of the "bucket ; shops." All tho railroads of the country are ac- ; tively preparing to carry into enect uie provisions or the Inter-State law regarding freight classifications, etc. i A bio "deal" in wheat has taken place in Chicago, the price taking a rapid upward j turn, followed by a sudden drop. "Washington. A great surprise on the last day of the session was the confirmation by the fSenSte of i the Boston colored man, Trotter, as Recorder 1 of Deeds in the District of Columbia. Notwithstanding an adverse report by the com- < mittee the nomination was confirmed?30 to 11. Blackburn and Ingalls spoke against confirmation, and Harris, Hoar and Dawes in i its favor. Eight Democrats and three Republicans voted against confirmation. During the session of Congress just closed 11,259 bills and 203 joint resolutions were in- j troduced in the House, and 3,357 bills and 110 ' joint resolutions in the Senate. Nine convict?, including two Chinamen, ! have just been pardoned by the President. Postmasters appointed by the President: i John B. Sackett, at Buffalo, N. Y.; John DnfA>wAn XT T P/iniomi'n I uuuiiduu, au xauciovu) . v. , Rhodes, at Niagara Falls, N. Y: J. 8. Davenport. at Richfield Springs, N. Y.; J. W. Erickson, at Freehold, N. J., and others. The President has also made numerous re- ] appointments of postmasters in cases where tne Senate failed to act. j The first reading of the Septennate Army bill was passed in tho German Reichstag without a division, showing what an ascendency the Government had obtained in the recent elections. Foreign. About 100 military insurgents were killed at an outbreak in Rustcliuk, Bulgaria. The ; leaders of tho revolt were captured and shot. 1 Cable dispatches indicate that peace in Europe is anything but assured. Austria 1 thinks war is" more likely to come from Russia than between France and Germany, and 1 she is making extensive preparations. 1 Ax explosion of fire-damp in a coal mine near Mons, Belgium, resulted in the death of 144 miners out of 160 who were entombed. Nixe Bulgarian rebels have been shot for taking part in the recent insurrection. Sir Michael Hicks-Beacii, Chief Secre tary for Irelaud, iias resignea. Princess Like Like, youngest daughter of King Kalakaua, has starved herself to death as a sacrifice to the Goddess Pelee, whose anger is believed to have caused the recent eruption of Mauna Loa, the great volcano of the Sandwich Islands. The Pope has appointed Mgr. Rampolla, the Nuncio at Madrid, as Secretary of State to succeed the late Cardinal Jacobini. Four Mexican soldier? who participated in the recent frontier raid on Nogales, Arizona, have been turned over to the tTnited States authorities. A financial earthquake has been created at St. Johns by the suspension of the Mari- ( time Bank of New Brunswick and the failure of two of the largest lumbar firms in the province. SUMMARY OF CONGRESS, Senate Sessions. t 61st and Last Day.?The General Deficiency Appropriation bill was passed with t amendments....The Senate conferrees receded from the subsidy amendment t to the Postoffice bill, and their re?ort was agreed to in the Senate.... he Naval Appropriation bill was passed. Tho ' appropriations made, in addition to the nmlirng expenses of the navy, amount to be> tween $11,(WO,000 and $1-,000,000 for the in- j crease of the navy A disagreement on the ? rortincaiion Apprupnauuu um woo iciwiku. The presiding officer announced the appointment of Senators Cockrell, Han-is, Jones, of Arkansas; Piatt and Cullom as the Committee on investigation into tho Executive departments; Senators Dolpli and Cockrell to attend tho annual examinations at the Military Academy, and Senators A Id rich and Gray on the Board of Examiners at the Naval Academy A resolution of thanks to the presiding officer for his ability, courtesy and impartiality was offered by Mr. Harris and unanimously adopted. Tho presiding officer then announced tlwt the constitutional period of the Forty-ninth Congress having been completed the Senate stood adjourned without day. House Sessions. 67th and Last Day.?A resolution of thanks to Speaker Carlisle was adopted by a rising vote A disagreement was reported ; on tho Fortification Appropriation bill j Tho committee appointed to wait upon i tho President announced that it had j performed its duty, and that tho i President had no further communication ! to make to Congress. As tho hands of the , clock finally pointed to the hour of noon, tho Speaker rose and after thanking the members for their resolution of thanks declared the House adjourned sine die. TriE 12th of May is the date irrevocably fixed for the sale of the French crown jewels, i i They will be on view for a month before the ! ! auction in the Pavilion de Flore. i / / S J?\. - A... ' -- . - - i.-i A PECULIAR ACCIDENT, - Many Men Swept From the New York Elevated Railroad. Hurled Into the Street While Walking on the Track, The most serious accident that has ever occurred on the line of the Elevated road in New York City since the first rail of that structure was laid happened at forty minutes past 6 o'clock Tuesday morning on the Third avenue road between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets. At that time a fire was raging In the store of Nieoll, the tailor, on the Bow ery, ana ine cars were DiocKaaea rrom Broome street to Sixty-fifth street, a distance of over three miles. At this hour in the morning the East side Elevated trains are filled for the most part with laboring men and artisans on their way to their daily work, and the loss of time caused by the blockade was a serious delay to them. At length, wearying of waiting, a crowd of passengers left the train nearest the Fourteenth street street station, and started down the footpath to the station platform. Some of the more timid men crawled on their hands and knees along the trestle work, while others, bolder and more impatient, walked upright. A few had gained the platform when the blockade was raised and the train started in motion. When the train started, the gatemen closed their gates to prevent any more passengers from getting down. But one of those who had already left the train?a half-grown boy whose name is not known?thinking to resume his ride, caught at the platform between the first and second cars, and attempted to get on. The train was in motion, and the engine was abreast of the station. The platform at which he caught was twenty or thirty feet north of the northerly end of the station platform. He caught hold of the closed gate, and found lodgment for one foot on the iron step under the edge of the platform. In this position his body was bent, extending outward over the narrow ind crowded track walk. In a moment he same in collision with a large and elderly man, now supposed to be Judas Sinai, the iged Polander who was killed. This man. losing his balance by the shock, gave a cry of alarm and caugnt his nearest neighbor to save himself. That man clutched a third, and with a united cry the three went over, falling to the pavement in a heap. The boy held on and knocked more men down. The cries of these men created a panic among those on the walk between them and the station, and a rush was made along the narrow walk to the platform for safety. As nearly as can be determined, the first three men were crowded from the walk, eighteen or twenty feet north of the station. From that point to the station the track walk was full of people. Tho6e nearest the station caught at the railing and endeavored to climb up' and over it. rhose behind crowded upon and pulled it them Those still farther back shouted and pushed and struggled to get on, imperiling the lives of all by their frantic iiaste. And in this wild scramble on that narrow and unguarded footway seven were forced off, falling to the street below. The boy who had begun the mischief let go and joined the crowd on the platform. He got off safe. W hen the train came to a standstill and the panic was in a measure checked, two hideous piles of bruised and helpless humanity lay in the street below. Just in front of Stewart's oyster house was a pile of three bodies, nearly motionless, and with only a slight muscular movement observable in it. Two of these bodies were Sinai and Matthews. About twenty feet further down the street and just beneath the point where the overhead structure widens to form th3 station platform, was another pile, more scattered and struggling than the first, as it contained the greater number of bodies, there being seven in it. These had fallen originally one upon the other, but those falling on top bein?j less seriously injured than those beneath, twisted, and rolled and worked themselves off until they were scattered upon the muddy pavement. But the horrible picture remained only a moment in view. Before all its details could be observed a score of willing workers were gatheing up the bodies ana conveying them to the sidewalk. Three men were dead, and a fourth died at the hospital in the afternoon. Six men were dangerously injured. THE NATIONAL GAME. The League and American Association have nearly 250 players under contract. The Inter-State Commerce Bill, which goes into operation April 1, will add largely to the expenses of all professional clubs. The Chicago League Champions have gone to the Hot Springs, Arkansas, while there they will play a series of games with the local team. The Eastern League will consists of the representative clubs of Hartford, New Haven, Waterbury, Danbury, Bridgeport, Sleriden, Norwalk and New Britain, all Connecticut hnwrtc There will be but sis clubs in the Southern League this season, as follows: Charleston, Savannah, Memphis, Nashville, Mobile, and Ncvr Orleans. Iheir championsliip season will extend from April 10 to October 11, each club playing 110 games. Nine men have led t he National League in batting during its eleven seasons. Anson and Brouthers each led for two seasons, and Barnes, Jim White, Dalrymple, Gore, O'Rourke, Connor and Kelly each stood at the head of the list for one season. The college nines ought to be exceedingly strong this season if the numbers for candidates are any criterion. Amherst has twentyfive; Harvard, twenty-two; University of Pennsylvania, twenty-six; Princeton, twenty-one; Columbia, twenty; Yale, twentyfour. The members of the Detroit League team almost to a man are opposed to the usual gymnasium practice as a means of putting themselves in trim for the season's work. They say that the exercises ordinarily taken in a gymnasium does them more harm than good. The veteran Jim "White is especially opposed to it. His idea is to keep the muscles m a healthy condition during the winter with a pair of dumbbells and to throw a ball occasionally if the occasion presents itself. NEWSY GLEANINGS, Twenty-five Mormon women are at work is missionaries in East Tennessee. Minnesota is shipping wheat to Europe via he Mississippi River and New Orleans. Esmeralda County, Nevada, produced ibout ?110,000 worth of borax last year. Titere will bo an immense pineapple crop >n the Florida islands and mainland this eason. V It is estimated that the cotton crop of the ,-ear is 0,040,000 bales. The quality is very iuperior. The German government proposes adopting rery stringent measures with a view to liernanizing tlie Alsatians. The Empress of Germany has made another iward of medals to servants who have lived brty years in the same family without inter uption. Abraham Wolf died recently in Karlsjurg, Austria, at tlie age of 112 years. He is relieved to have beeu tho oldest man in Europe. HANLAN'and Gaudaurhavesignedan agreenent to row a three-mile single seiill race for 5-,500 a side and tho championship of America >n tho 30th of May. A farmer living near Tallapoosa, Ga.. rejently killed three turkeys at one shot. Ono )f them weighed eighteen pounds and the )thers sixteen pounds each. TnE longest tunnel in the world, which has aken over a century to construct, has been ately completed, lc is at Schemnitz,iu Hungary, and is i0.2<" miles long. That Germany has now nothing to fear !rom France is the general impression of members of the government of Berlin. The (.plosion of war rtsts with Russia. A remarkable wedding in Salt Lake City the other day was that of Hong Hop, a Chinese merchant of that city, who has abjured paganism, connected himself with the Congregational Church and espoused a young Englishwoman who was recently imported as i prospective Mormon bride. * ^ - - a. j . TBADE DOLLARS, A Treasury Department Circular Regarding their Redemption. The United States Treasury Department has issued a circular to holders of trade dollars. Trade dollars, if not defaced, mutilated or stamped, will be redeemed or exchanged at the offices of the Treasurer and r; \ Assistant - Treasurers. Requests for re- I demption stating the amount held should b& -jj forwarded to the above named officers, who '> will file applications and notify holders in < their turn when presentation may be mad* and payment obtained. Such notification will be held to be a sufficient presentation of the coins, and will entitle the holders to deposit such coins in the respective Subrreasuries on or before August 1, 1887. Th? V coins may be forwarded by express or otherwise, transportation charges being prepaid, when receipts will be issued for the amount* purporting to be contained in the deposits. Payment will be made in standard silver dollars, or in fractional silver coin, at the option of the holder. Defaced, mutilated or stamped trade dollars will not be redeemed or exchanged. COUNTY SEAT WAB. * ^ A. Fatal Fight in Kansas?Six Mca Killed. A fight about a locai political contention afc Coronado, Wichita County, the other night, resulted in the killing of two men and the fatal wounding of four others. There has been a bitter controversy between residents of Car onado and of Leoti about the location of tb? county seat. A party of men from Leoti went to Coronado, and during a dispute over the elections. Charles Cotter, froin Leoti, struck Frank LilJex, of Coronado. over th? h'eod with a revolver. Ezra Loornis tried to s stop the quarrel, and received a bullet from Cotter's revolver. The shooting then becamefeneral, and resulted as follows: William ains and Charles Cotter, both of Leoti.were instantly killed; Ennnet Dimming, Frank. Jeness, David Johnson, and -Albert Bovey,all from Leoti, were fatally wounded. Frank Lilley, Charles Loornis, and Ezra Loornis, all from Coronado, were slightly wounded. PROMINENT PEOPLE,. ? Captain John Ericsson, the great navalinventor, works ten hours a day. General Sherman is the most sought for hero in New York society this winter. Wiggins, the Canadian prophet, now teysthat he predicted the reoent earthquake* The oldest British peer is Viscount Ever*ley. aged ninety-two; the youngest is the Duke of Albany, two years old. Miss Winnie Davis has an older sister who is married, tne two oeing wie oniy butvjyoi* oI Jefferson Davis's six children. Cardinal Newman, of England, is just eighty-six years old, has been a Cardinal for seven years, and is the oldest in years of th? Cardinals. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes says that he was once offered a large sum of money towrite some verses in praise of a stove polish. He declined. M. Chevreul, the eminent French chemist, now 101 years old, attends meetings of th* French Academy and takes an active share in. the proceedings. The sum of $120,000 is given as the price paid by Mr. John Wanamaker, the Philadelphia merchant, for Munkacsy's great painting, of "Christ Before Pilate." Johnson Whittakeb, the colored cadet who was charged some years ago with mutilating his own ears while at West Point, isnow a member of a successful law firm at Charleston, 8. C. The name of the new United States Consul to Mexico is Elizabeth Caroline Moore. He was named for his two grandmother*. Just why his grandfathers were slighted is an interesting question. One of the largest land "proprietors in the States is General Beale of Washington. HisCalifornia ranch comprises 250,000 acres, and he also has a larger estate in Pennsylvania and another farm near Washington. Tho present Southern tour of the Rev. Dr. John Hall, and a similar tour to be made presently by the Rev. Dr. T. L. Cuyler, are remarked by the Atlanta Constitution to be in the interest of a union between the Northern Cmifliarn Jirflnphw of t,Vl? Priwhgtorinn Church, to effect which an attempt wfltt b?- - made at the next General Assembly. ' x"-i MUSICAL AND DBAMATIO, Youno American prime donne are holding, their own in Italy just now. The coronation robe worn by Mr. Lawrence Barrett in "Rienzin cost 1850. In addition to writing a comic opera, Ella. Wheeler Wilcox is going to write a play. Eugene Sue's famous French novel, "TheMysteries of Paris," has been dramatized. Lieutenant Powell, of tho United State! Signal Corps, has resigned to go on the eoi.?cert stage. " , When Henry Irving comes to this country " next season it is said that he will devote himself entirely to "Faust." Patti's receipts for seven performances in. 2 Mexico were $85,000. Ten performances of * Sarah Bernhardt paid $47,000. : Miss Ethel Chase, granddaughter of Salmon P. Chase, intends to adopt the stage as aprofession. She is sixteen years old. Mme. Christine Nilsson has just completed a successful conceit tour of France, and will spend the spring in England. Miss Johnson, of Washington, who is singing in London under the name of Mile. Decca, will soon be heard in this country. A new American tenOr has recently mad? ? <ni/v?iccfiii Hr?hnt at Washington after season of study in Europe. His name is Frank Baxter. _ The approaching ninetieth anniversary of the birth of Emperor William of Germany, ? will be observed with unusual ceremony by the Austrian court. A State dinner will be given in honor of the event, and the entire staff of the Germany Embassy will be invited to attend. ' ?: . THE MARKETS. NEW york. 10 Beef, good to prime 7J? Calves, com'n to prime 9 Sheep 5% Lambs 8 @ 9 ^ Hogs?Live 5}?@ 6% Dressed 8 Flour?Ex. St, good to fancy 3 CO @ 4 00 West, good to choice 3 65 @ 5 00 Wheat- No. 2, Red 89 @ 93* Rye?State ? @ 60# Barley?State 70 @ 78 Corn?Ungraded Mixed.... 49 @ 50% Oats?White State 38 @ 89 Mixed Western So @ S7 Hay?Med. to prime 75 @ 80 Straw?No. 1, Rye 55 @ 70 Lard?City Sieam 7 50 (g 7 98 Butter?State Creamery.... 34 @ 85 Dairy 23 @ SO West. Im. Creamery 2i @ 26 Factory 10 @ 17 Cheese?State factory ll?a@ 13% Skims 11}^@ 12 Western 16^@ 16% Eggs?State and Penn 117 BUFFALO. Sheep?Good to Choice 5 00 @ 5 25 Lambs?Western 4 75 @ 6 25 Steers?Western 3 75 @ 4 25 Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 5 90 @ 0 10 Flour 4 75 @ 5 15 Wheat?No. 1 ? @ S9}? Corn?No. 2, Mixed 43K@ 45 v- > "i Mi'a as WJllr??iw. v, AU.I.YV*A 2V2? Barley?State 63 @ 65 BOSTON*. Beef?Good to choice 7 @ 7>? Hogs?Live 5)^6$ 6 Northern Dres>ed.... 7H Pork?Ex. Prime,per bbl...12 00 @12 50 Flour?Spring Wheat pat's.. 5 00 (5< 5 25 Corn?High Mixed 51 @ 51^ Oats?Extra White ? @ 37% Rye?Stato GO @ 65 watkktown (mass.) cattle market. Beef- Dressed weight ? @ 6 Sheep? Live weight 7% Lamb? ? 9% Hogs?Northern 77}$ PHILADELPHIA. Flour?Penn.extra family... 3 65 @ 3 80 Wheat?No. 2, Red S9 @ 93 Rye?State ? @ 53^ ? Corn?State Yellow 4$W@ ^ Oats MixoJ 37 Butter?Creamery Extra... 32 @ 33 Cheese?N, Y. Full Cream.. 13%@ 14 * i i ?