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4 The colored people of tills country have & n mcdical college and a collcgc of den* tistry. This rear ten students graduated at the incdical college in Nashville and three at the dental college. A Merced (Cal.) fanner has poisoned over 20,000 jack rabbits in the last four vears. and vet. in spite of the warfare against them, they arc increasing in number, and are becoming a veritable plague to the Merced and Fresno farmers. The ruling passion is strong in death, and also, it seems, in marriage, in Madame Nilsson's case. After her recent wedding breakfast she said to a friend: <4I shall not sing anymore in public," and then added, hesitatingly "except perhaps once in a while, for charity." It was always thus with noted singers. ITcrculcs it was who, wiien a lusty little babe, st? angled the serpent that sought to crush him. That was well enough for the ancients: hut, in order to sec how far wc are ahead of tlKan, just i i rrr ^r I read tins: "j&awara weus ui vtunw, 111., is wearing a black eye given him by his three-year-old son." The once famous Cardiff giant has beeu heard from again, after years of oblivion. It reposes in a lidless box at El Pnso, Texas, -which serves as a settee for the idlers of that town. It appears that the giant was carried to El Paso a long while | ago by some speculative individuals whose design it was to take him to Mexico and bury him, with the ultimate view of resurrecting him for the show business. Since then he is said to have been sold for the paltry price of $-32. Honduras is reported to be making rapid strides in substantial development. The national debt is being reduced, schools, colleges and telegraph lines are being established, and roads are being built. Under this favorable condition of affairs American capital is flow iug into the country, where it is amply protected by law, and valuable concessions granted for public improvements. A bank?the first in the couutry?has just been established by Americaus atTruxillo. "Englishmen, Germans, Americans, Frenchmen and Italians do not take | kindly to bull-fights/' sajs the Boston | Tranicript, '-Spaniards and their descendnats delight in them. Englishmen, Germans, Americans, Frenchmen and Italians make good soldiers, and Spaniards i and Mexicans do not. Perhaps this is not a coincidence, but it certainly is suggestive of a rare decadence, when people ^ enjoy a ghastly and cruel spectacle in n bull ring and shrink from a battlefield.'' I i One of the auditors of the Treasury Department, who had rented a house in a fashionable quarter of "Washington, was surprised to discover, when the end of the month rolled around, lhat his landlord was none other than one of the messengers of his Bureau. Further inquiry developed the fact that the latter had i been loaning money through the department to impecunious clerks aud others, extorting in return an interest of 10 per cent, a mouth. The ex-messenger claims to have kept ?10.000 in constant circulation. which, deducting losses, nettrd him a profit of about $8.000 a yea r. The Chinese are a mild-mannered race, but they draw the line at banking irregularities. When the reccnt failure of the Tung Lung bank at Hong Ivong was made public, a crowd of excited depositors stormed the building, ransacked it from top to bottom, and carried oil and destroyed everything contained in it. This is a shorter and perhaps a more profitable way of declaring a dividend than the one usually pursued in occidental communities. On this occasion it is not stated whether the officers of the bank were among the assets. The probability is that they tied to the Montreal of China, wherever that may be. The Emperor William will make Queen Victoria a jubilee present of a set of Dresden yellow ware. The service consists of 238 large, 120 small plates, and seventy-two dishes of all sizes, besides , tureens.sauce-boats and fruit dishes. The centrc piece for flowers and fruit will be ( surmounted bv a statuette of the Queen. and will be embellished with medallion i f ' - ; , portraits in relief ?white on gold?oi the ! t members of the royal family of England. J ' The plates, also, will each be decorated \ with tlve medallions, containing either allegorical pictures recalling memorable i incidents in the Victorian era,or portraits 1 r-. of celebrities of the Queen's reign. J 'The Washington Sunday Gazette says ' that Colonel James II. Marr, Chief Clerk in the First Assistant Postmaster-General's office, and Judge James Lawrcnson have been continuously in the service of the . Postoffice Department for more than fiftyieven years. "The phenomenal length of serviec of these two men has been for .years appropriately rccognized. In Mr. Marr s case the salary lias been fixed by special act of Congress at $500 per year more than any other man would get in the same position, his name being very specifically mentioned in the appropriation." Judge Lawrensori "has served under thirty-one different PostmastersGeneral. He has scon, the Department grow from a handful of clerks to its present huge proportions. IIe was appointed as a Democrat, and is a Democrat still. Jly virtue of his office as a notary public he has administered the oath of office to all the Postmasters-General for the past fifty years. When Mr. Vilas became the head of that Department he was sworn in by another notary. The old gentleman felt so badly about it that Mr. Vilas, j upon being apprised of the fact, sent for Judge Lawrenson. and a second time took the oath, in order that ihe record might not be broken.'' ^ ?V"; , i-' * . -- " Mr* - . ... . GONE TO THE BOTTOM. toss of a Sealing Steamer With All 011 Board. St, John's, N. F., Mourning the Death of Nearly 300 Men, The of the loss of the St. John's <N F.) scaling; steamer Eagle with all oil board is confirmed. The calamity is the most appalling that ever befell the province of Newfoundland. Of 280 men on board not one survives tr* iiio cti-irv nf thn <li?iKtor. More than one thousand widows and children hi St. John's and vicinity, most of them in poverty, are mourning the Joss of husbands or fathers. The lost vessel was last seen by the steamer Aurora on the night of the 11th ult., near Frank's Island, in Bucna Vista Bay, which is about UK) miles northwest of Sr. John's. A heavy sea was running al. tin; time. The next morning the Aurora couki lind no trace of the Eagle. A message has arrived from Greonpond, on the liny, saying that Lighthouse Keejier Cahot boarded the sealing steamers Vanguard and Hector oil' that place a few days later. Jloth those vessels reported passing spars, the forecastle and other wreckage, including tho nameboard of the Eagle, near the spot where she was last seen. Light house Keeper Cabot is a thoroughly trustworthy man, and his opinion that tlie Eagle has gone down with all on hoard is almost conclusive, aside from the ' evidence from other sources. The other steamers of the fleet are s|>oken and reported every few days, and all have been heard from since the 11th, except, the Eagle. No one at St. John's anj- longer doubts that alien board have perished. Ih'garding the circumstances of the 41 ? nluiiif nnniill, UlNltm UMTiCuir mv/ iv.7 tenable, One is that the boilers exploded, in which event all on board would have perished at once in the raging sen. The other is that the vessel in some way got into the breakers, which would " have made death to all no less certain. The sea that night is described by tho men on the other vessels of the fleet as the most terrible that ever raged, even upon this savage coast. No ship once caught in the awful breakers could possibly escape, and no small boat could land a man alive on the rocky, precipitous coast. Anything that could float, large or small, would have been ground to pieces on the wild rocks. The Kaglc carried a crew of fifty men and about ~-0 scalers. Their exact number is not known. All the sealing f.teamei'scarry a large number of men. The nature of the work makes it necessary. The seals are generally found upon theice in large nmntersor colonies. The men get as close as possible to thein, and then, am ltd with clubs, rush in among them and knock over as many as possible before they have time to escape to the water. The more men there are the more seals are caught. Capt. Jackmin, commander of ilie Eagle, was recognised as the bravest skipper of tho colon}*, l.'ntil 1SS5 he was king jiP e^olinir T?1 flint. WOOCi \n fr* ! ' '* lU^ *? *V? the first tune m his experience, ho failed to secure any peals. Last year ill luck again attended him and he Inst the steamer Resolute near the same fatal Frank's Inland, but his crew escaped. loiter, the same season, he took command of the Eagle, and within a few weeks she broke her shaft. She was refitted and a month ago she started 011 her last voyage. Nearly nil the men on board Mere married and were in the prime of life. The calamity falls with still more crushing force by reason of the impoverished condition of the colony. Nearly all the newly-made widows and* orphans are without means of support, and distress among them will be great. FOOD ADULTERATIONS. Investigation by a Chemist of the Agricultural Department. The chemists of the Deparment of Agriculture, under tlie direction of the Commissioner. have for a year or more been investigating the extent and manner of food adulteration practised in this country, and a report covering several 1 tranches of the work is in process of preparation. That portion relating to spices and condiments, prepared by Clifford Richardson, is completed. Mr. Rinlioi^cnn's inv<ishifrntioiis show that 110 I other kinds of human food are adulterated to such an extent. Of twenty samples of ground cloves examined only two wore pure. Tho others had suffered the extraction of their essential oils and had been polluted-by the addition of clove stems, alspico and husks of various kinds. Of eight samples of cayenne papper only one was pure. Of ten samples of mustard none w ere pure, though several had only suffered tho loss of their fixed oil; the others contained quantities of wheat Hour, the spurious matter l>eing in s>omo cases two-tliirds of tho compound. Tins made it necessary to add tumeric acid (harmless) to restore the mustard color. Ten samples of alspice were examined, eight of which were pure. Four samples of cussia were all pure. Of ten samples of ginger, four were pure. Only one out of thirteen samples of black pepper was found to bo what it purDorted to be. A specimen sent from Balti more to a man who had an army contract . was almost entirely spurious. Cayenne pepper. black pepper liusks and mustard hulls were used to give flavor and pungency while 'body" was supplied by ground beans and rice, and color by charcoal. Two samples of I white popper out of live were pure, two samples of mace out of five were pure, and of three samples of nutmeg examined all were pure. Mr. Richardson incidentally mentions a New York spice grinder v. lio within a short time worked off live thousand pounds of coeoanut husks. THE NEW "SECRETARY, Mr. Fairchild Formally Appointed to Succecd Mr. Manning. The appointment of Assistant Secretary Fail child as Secretary of the Treasury hal>een formally announced. Charles Stebbms Fairchild was Ikxii at L'azcnovhi, N. Y., April :ii>, 1st'.1. His father ivas for many vearsthc atlornev for the New Vork Central Railroad. and is one of the cmi K-nt, nicii ui 2 UI*K. inoOi.'Tinar) j >f tli? Treasury ro'viv.-l hjs early education j il iii?' . .ouiiuu y ;it CazeuOvid and j ?nterod Harvard College in 1S50, being t jraduated from that institution with tlw:-las,s t :>f 1!'.* then attended the Harvard Law j School and was admitted to the bar ill lV>i. [[??johi'd tU? firm of Hand, llalc, Swarcv. &. Fail-child, one of tho mo.it successful law firms in the State. In 1V74 ho was appointed Deputy Attorney-General, by Attorney-General" Pratt. In the* ensuing year he was nominated by the Dtmocratio Convention for the Attoriu y-Generalship and elected. He served in this capacity fur two years. In 1*7* lie visited Europe. Upon his return in 1KSJ he engaged in the practice of law in New York City and continued there till called to the Assistant Secretaryship of the Treasury ill 18S5. Judge Maynard.the Second Comptroller,has Ix-en appointed t?? till t!:o vacancy caused by Mr. Faireliild's promotion. FATE OF TWO GAMBLEBS. Desperate AflVay in Boston?Two Lives Lost. A shooting affair took place in Boston tho otherday, which w ill probably result in the death of two i>ersons. The premises No10 Avery street had been used as u gamblingroom by Edward Flanigan and David Tniinlimi Tho two "uronrietors and Adolph A. Albrecht were engaged in a game of faro, being the only persons in the building. According to Aibrecht's story, ho dctectecl Lanahan in nn attempt to cheat him, there being about $10 on tho table, and lie remonstrated with him, when Lanahan grabbed a big iron bar and mad; a savage pass at him. Albrecht drew a revolver and lired two shots at Lanahan one passing thr< iiij-h his forehead and coming out at the back of his head, causing instant, death. Flanigan then championed Lanahan's cause and Parted for Albrecht, also with an iron bar, but was met by two or three more bullets from Aibrecht's revolver.one of which passed through his left breast and the others took elFect in his head. Flanigan's wounds were pronounced mortal. Tho shots were heard by a hertlic driver, who reporl ed the shooting at the police station, and a pos<e of officers was sent to tho premises, who effected an entrance through the roof and windows ami succeeded in raj)- , till ing Albrecht. Flanigan is sixty and Lann- i ban is forty-two. ' % ... . t NEWS SUMMARY Eastern and 3Iiddle States. The auction sale in New York of the paintings owned by the late Mrs. A. T. Stewart lasted three nights, and was thesecond largest of its kind over held in America. The 217 Pictures brought $513,750, the highest prico eing ?06,000 for Meissonier's "Friedland, 1S07," together with a portrait of the artist., and the second highest being $5.'},000 for Rosa Bonhenr's "Horse Fair." The Steamer Scotia, from Naples lxniml for New York, went ashore Friday morning on the Long Island coast. Tho many ikissengei-s were all brought safely ashore by a life-saving crew. Mr. Corxelics Vaxderbilt, who paid 853,000 for Rosa Bonheur's celebrn te<l paintin" "Tho Horse Fair,"' at the Stewart sale in New York, has presented tho picture to tho Metropolitan Museum of Art. Elaborate preparations for the celebration in New Yos^ of the sixty-fifth anniversary of < he formation of tho Independent Order" of Odd Fellows in tbis country are being made. Ellis La Snow, a farmer of Tolland, Conn., ei*tv vnsrs nli) trmrdprprl Viis wife. STllit/ tingr open her head with an axe, and committed suicide by hanging himself to a beam in his barn. Five New York citv manufacturers have b<H?n arrested and held in ?:J(XI each on charges of violating the factory law relative to the employment of girls and women. General R. S. Ripley, who commanded the Confederate batteries that fii>t oi>ened fire on Fort Sumter, died suddenly of apoplexy in New York a few days ago in his sixty-fifth year. He was n native of Ohio. A fike at Troy. N. Y., destroyed a large building occupied by business firms, causing a total estimated loss of SISO.OOi). Rev. Dr. Ray Palmer, a prominent Congregational minister, author of many hymns and theological works, died a few days sinco in Newark, N. J. He was born in Rhode Island in 1808. The New York Yacht Club hns accepted the challenge of the owner of the Scotch yacht Thistle to race for the America's cup. The contest will take place at New York next October, and will be similar to tho races won by the Puritan and Mayflower. Father SIcGlyx.\\ the well-known Catholic priest who hns left his pulpit to advocate the theories of Henry George, discussed the land question before a largo audience in the 1 -\cw x oi-k Acaaemv or music. Tjie Superior Criminal Court at Boston ! lias decided, in the case of a barber indicted for keeping bis shop open ou Sundays, that shaving on that da}' was not a work of necessity or charity. ( i South and Wost. Amos Johnson (colored) was handed at Marion, Ark., for brutally assaulting an ; eight-year-old white child. lie was convicted i l>v a jury of his own color. \ A heavily loaded train of nine cars went ; through a trestle ninety-two feet high near < Liberty, Va. Four men were killed and three j wounded. < Twenty Polish residents of Detroit, Midi. 1 have l>een arrested for rioting. 1 More Chicago officials and ex-officials have J been indicted ou charges of corrupt dealing. J Detectives have been stationed along the < frontier to prevent the flight of the Chicago j j officials charged with corruption into Canada, j President Fitzgerald, of the National ? League of America, lias issued an address s calling 011 Americans and Irish-Americans to s support Farnell and Gladstone in the present t crisis. i There fs but one municijwl ticket in the ' field at Stockton. Kan., and all the can.li- f dates, including Mayor, aro women except 1 one. 1 J. G. ITogett, an owner of mining prop- * erty, and three of his four cliiJilren were * drowned while fishing from a rowhoat at Alameda, Cal. Washington. Thk Treasury Department has just weived the sum of $4,9&>, "conscience money,"' from f an unknown source. ^ Appointments by the President: Daniel A. \ Carpenter, Pension Agent at Knoxville, Tenn.; Charles W. Irish of Iowa City, Iowa, 0 Surveyor-General of Nevada; William C. n Hall of Salt Lako City, Secretary of Utah n Territory; Richard D.Gwyder of Covington, ii Ky., Indian Agent; James B. Jordan of v Virginia, Marshal for the "Western District of Virginia. Also six Postmasters in tho West. v Baron Tavera, tho new minister from J Austria, has arrived at tiie 2CntIoiml Capital. Ii 11 Foreign. [, Arthur Farke, physician to Queen Vic- c toria, is dead in his seventy-seventh year. a The birthday presents received by Kmperor p William wero sufficient to (111 live furnituru r vans. ? The revenue of Great Britain for the cur- j! rent financial year shows a surplus of receipts F nvoi' ostimntos of nbout ^.OOO-lKtO. This is regarded by English capitalists as strong evi- ? deuce of a revival of trade. Judgment has been pronounced by the j, Bulgarian military court upon seventy-four ^ of the insurgents who took part in the recent a revolt. Five were condemned to deutli, sixty- s 0110 to imprisonment and eight acquitted. j, A collision* between two freight trains on h the Canadian Pacific Railroad near Frank- p town caused a loss of $100,000. li A riot in Panama, arising from a military a officer's resisting arrest, resulted in the death ? of three men and the serious wounding of ? several others. o Thirteen* AnarrhiVts have been sentenced ^ to various terms of imprisonment for com- j plicity in a jjl.^t to burn Vienna and destroy f the Imperial Palace at Schoubruun with jdynamite. a MR. Gladstone made another long address h in behalf of Ireland during the debate on the v Coercion bill in the British House of Com- li mons. t The debut of Mi's. James Brown Potter, a * prominent New York society lady, as an actress in a leading London theatre has created quite a social stir, the Prince of Wales being conspicuous in the large audience. A widespread military conspiracy has j s discovered at, Varmi, .Bulgaria. JNine ! officers, twenty sulialterns and throe cadets . have been arrested. J _ e I A BOY MURDERER. A Youth of Nineteen to 15? Hanged v in San Francisco. The Goldeuson murder t?a>o, which has ,, drugged along in the San Francisco courts for s six weeks, has come to an end with a verdict of murder in the lir.st degree. When the ' verdict was announced Gojdenson received 0 it with the cynical smile which his ? faeo had worn "so often in the trial. The, verdict gives the greatest satisfaction, ii as it was feared one <>f the jurors, who fre- g quently dozed on the trial, would hang the t] jury. Goldenson shot, down iu the street the little girl, Mumie Kelly, because she refused c to associate with him. * He is nineteen years j, old and his victim was fourteen, lie is a > typical hoodlum, and his only defence was ? insanity. 1 "" l e NEWSY GLEANINGS. 11 Tbk Cardiff Giant 1ms been sold for $31 Iowa is rapidly changing from a wheat j State to a dairy .State. t Thk balloon for the Paris exhibition of 1SS9 i will carry 100 pei"sons. r In >01110 places in the Maine woodsthosuow 1 is yet five and six feet deep. * Ginger has be-n raised in Florida that is said to compare favorably with any from I Jamaica. I Ahmed bex Aiimak, au Algerian who has J1 just died, killed eighty lions and as many pan- * Lhers during his time. D There are two solid gold bricks in the United States Mint at Denver, each ono of which weighs nearly 110 pounds. Ax Englishman of fifty-five recently sued r a lady of l'orty-six for breach of promise, and e the jury awarded him ?27. c A woman nemed Corrigan, residing near Dowra, County Leitrim, was delivered of four children last month. Tlicy we all doing well. " Alvtn Clark's bill for the great object u glaRS of tho Liok telescope Is California Till be about $51,000. The glass will weigh 450 ' p pounds, . ... :Aj&% r- , c V. > '*.) PERILS OF THE SEA. The Tragic Story of a Ship wrecked Schooner. Two of Her Crew of Six Men Rescued After Great Suffering. The bark Scot's Bay left Lislran fifly-lliree days ago, says the Now York Sxn, and after a strugglo of thirty-four days passed Hatter as. During a strong gale on Thursclay, while she was hovo to under two lower topsails, spencer, and forestaysail, Second Mate O'Brien dimly saw in the gray dawn, from his perch on the fore topsail yard, a long, dark object, nearly six miles dead to leeward, plunging and rolling in the big, wind-swept seas. He reported his discovery to Captain Steele, and tho Scot's Bay squared away and bore down on the object. It was the wreck of a schooner, and as tho bark got closer a'id tho daylight brighter, Captain Steele made out two men sitting on the after hou:>o feebly waving their arms. The bark passed close under the stern of tho wreck and hove to. Notwithstanding tho turbulent waves, a boat was safely launched in charge of Mate Peterson and four volunteers, and an attempt made to rescue the two men on the wreck. Mate Peterson noted that the mainmast of the schooner was broken close to the deck and | about half of the mizzen and foremasts were standing. The deck was flash with the seas, which swept her at intervals from st-m to stern. The two men were lashed to the after house. Their clothing was torn to shmls and their bodies were lilled with cuts and bruises. They laughed ami cried deliriously when they saw tho boat and its plucky occupants rowing toward them. Mate Peterson made several ineffectual attempts to board the wreck, but "he heavy swells proved to be too much for i he littlo boat, lite two shipwrecked men feebly lagged the boatmen not to leave them. 31 ate Peterson shouted encouraging words to the unfortunates. Alter much manoeuvring the rescuers got closo enough to get hold of the broken rigging dangling over the port side. The mute got aboard and lifted the two unfortunates in (ho boat and rowed them to v.he bark. They wen; hoisted aboard by io|xjs and carried by willing hands into tho cat in. All the brandy the Captain had and lots of steaming coffee were poured down their throats. Then they ate a nourishing meal and ivere put to bod. When they awoke the next day they told Lhe story of their adventure. They were Capt. Williams and Second Mate Dickson r>f the Marcus A. Dnvis. whirli snilivl from Feniaudina, FJa., for Philadelphia on March 7, hoavily kidon with lumber. Her crow consisted of Captain "Williams, Mate Bonner, Second Ma to Dickson, sprogue, the wliit?; steward, and two colored seamen?six in all. From March 12 to March il the schooner was the playtliing of the dements, which tossed "her about as 10 craft tho Captain had ever commanded ;ver was tossed. The men were kept it the pumi>s continually, for she leaked jadly. The northwesterly gales had iriven her far out of her course, and tho Captain, not having any instruments, was mahle to tell where sho was, wljen, on Tueslay, March 22, he hove to in a howling hur icane. He supposed that he was off Chincoeague, Va., but he was really &>0 miles east )t Norfolk. A lull in tho awful blast was mddenly followed by a squall tliat sent the ehoonor on her beam ends. The Captain orlereei the men to cut away the fore a ml mainnasts, and seized an ax himself to help them. Die mainmast, was cut closo to the deck and raslted over the port side, carrying half of the ore awl mizzen masts with it. Mate Bonier was struck down by a falling par, and limited l>elow with a broken eg, As tho schooner righted sho jot broadside of tho sea, and tons of foamipped water arose in mountainous masses qmd oppled on the decks, driving captain and xew Mow. The thunderous hammering of ~~~~ (.n.n.l.A.I 4-1%/% 4f 4-1 UO 9CU3 niliu.">lir\i ill Liio * tl J1JI UIIU iurcimut*. cashing away or destroying all the food, and oon filled every nook and conicr of the ves;el with water. The men were forced on leek a train, and, 011 the advice of Captain >Villiams, lashed themselves to the after house. All through the night the waves dashed ivcr the wreck, tearing the clothing of the uenlike the hands of invisible furies. The notion of tha wreck made the lashings cub nto their flesh, and the salt water made the rounds smart like hums. Mate Benner died in the night, and his lody rat* unlashed. A wave washed it array, ust before dawn (ho two ne^jo seamen, who iad been wildly praying and weeping, went (iad and unlasned themselves. The capoin tried to persuade them 1;o return to the ouse, but they seemed to l)e oblivious of his xistence, and recklessly ran about the deck lternately shouting for help and raying. They saw imaginary ships sailing to escue them, and they lauglieJl in wild delight, 'lien the ships seemed to pass without l.eedng them, and their cries were more terrible lian the creaking of the wreck and themoanlg of the wind. One of the storm-crazed allors leaped from the weather rail into the urging sea, and the other dived headforemost ito the water-filled companion way and perilled. Steward Sprague already' had been omfrom his lashings, and carried away on giant wave. \\ hen morning came the \a had gone down somewhat and the wind lew with Jess fierceness. The captain tied is tattered shirt to a polo mid fastened the olo to the foremast. Several vessels passed ir to tho westward, and the weary, hungry, nd disheartened sailors shouted tlicriijlvcs hoarso in their frantic efforts ta atract attention. All day long and all be following night they lay awake n the house looking at the stars and prnving or succor. They saw the re scuing bark long lefore Lookout O'Brien spied the wreck, and bey added to t heir exhaustion by wild y< liing or help. The}- embraced each ether and cried or joy when they saw the bark square away nd come suddenly down toward litem. They ad been forty-eight hours without food or tater when they were rescued. When they mded in New York they made a beo linn for lie Pennsylvania ferry, and boarded ail early rain for Philadelphia. THE NATIONAL GAME. The Athletics have six pitchers to begin tho oason wills. The late I/>aguo Club of Kansas City ha'? oincd the Western league. Thk Governor-elect of Now Hampshire lias ;iven ?50 to a base ball team. The salary list of the Detroit* foots up 47,000. Hroutliers and ltichardson get $4,00 each. The market for ball players was never so ctive as during t he pjtst winter, and prices vere never higher. The latitude pi von pitchers by the now uK-s has compollcd the batters to practiso triking at high and low bulls. Brooklyn", Louisville and St. Louis will be hu only Association clubs that will play ball n Sunday on their own grounds tliis seaon. A baseball enthusiast has calculated that t M ill require $3,310,800 to pay the salaries, round rent and expenses for one year of the afferent clubs in tlio country. The Southern League clubs, with the exoption of Nashville mid Savannah, are nicklamed as follows: Memphis, "Brown-legs;" Jew Orleans, "Pelicans;" Charleston, 'Quakers;" Mobile, "Swamp-angels." The American Association umpire:; have icon instructed that if the ball goes over the orner of the plate, or a trifle out of tlie precribcd limits, it will be called a strike. Said impircs may now be prepared to listen to the mwl of (he sjwetators. The Brotherhood of Professional Baseball 'layers claim to have prominent Ipgal advice othc efTcct that the Leaguo and Association ules which givo them the right to dischargo, iservo and sell players are not worth tho iajK'1' they are written on, and neither can (layers lie ffned for poor playing. He.vry Boxneal*, aJFrenclnnan of New Jedford, Mass., claims rc> bo 103 years old. lo woaborn in the Province of Quebec ,wliero 10 married his first wife, by whom lie had Welvo children. Ho married a second timo nd live more children were born to him. A Georgia farmer named Britt, living lear Canton. Ga., has discovered on ;i jviivl if land which he recently sold to a Philadel?hia man a vein of garnet. The stouo is of xeellent color and almost, entirely fr<? from ither minend substauces. A late snow stonn in Southern Oregon id great damage to stock and timber. The reight of the snow uprooted largo trees, or roko off big bxanches, strewing the ground rith tho limbs. Oil the summit of tbe Coast lamco the snow was twelve feet deeo. , H 1 v' ' jfe LATER NEWS. Thomas C. Reynolds. ex-Lieutenant Governor of Missouri, committed suicide in St. Louis by plunging down an elevator shaft eighty feet deep. A letter foundin his pocket indicated that his mind was deranged. He wns l>orn in Charleston, S. C., in 1821, -was elected Lieutenant-Governor in 1860, and had occupied various positions of local, State and national trust. Thk President has received a letter containing f-r>00 and a statement that the money was due the government for " CustonrHouse duty." A chemist of the Agricultural Departmeut reports that nn immense amount of adulteration in spices and condiments is practiced. A mob of Greeks on Sunday attacked with stones tho residences of the American missionaries in Smyrna, Turkey. Another unsuccessful attempt is reported to have been made to assassinate the Czar of ] Russia attiatschina Palace. The Newfoundland sealing steamer Eagle, having 200 men aboard, is reported lost. The worst blizzard since ISO'J prevailed throughout Lower Canada on the oOth, and blocked railroad trallic between north New England and Canadian points. A wholesale merchant of St. Petersburg, reputed to be worth millions, has been shot with a revolver and killed by a man to whom he refused to give 80,000 roubles toward the Nihilist fund. The murderer has been arrested. Other Russian capitalists are receiving letters threatening them with immediate death if they do not comply with demands to furnish money for "the common cause." Moke than 2.000 passengers on trains of the Intercolonial Railroad wero at last accounts imprisoned m tnc Daeicwooas 01 .lew jjrunswicks ami Quebec, heavy snow-storms having causal a complete blockade. Captai.v Samuels, commander of the defeated yacht Dauntless during her recent race with the Coronet, attributes his defeat to the interference of the owner of the Dauntless, who was on board tho vessel. Tho Captain and five of the crew have left the Dauntless and sailed for New York. John* G. S.vxe, the,well-known humorous poet, who has for many years lived a secluded life at Albany, N. Y., owing to dementia, died there a few days sinee in his seventy-second year. He was a native o* Franklin, Vt. Carlos S. Leake, a National Express Company messenger, while at work in his car on a train near Utica, N. Y., was suddenly confronted by a masked stranger, who shot him in tho arm, bound and gagged him, robbed the safe of $0,000, and fled. The disappearance of a registered package containing $10,000 from tho New York Postoffice led to an investigation. "VV. A. Clarke, a clerk, confessed he was the culprit, and owned up to having frequently stolen valuable registered letters. The number of officials and others indicted at Chicago for conspiracy to defraud the county now amounts to twenty-three. The reported discovery of rich gold fields in Alaska has started hundreds of prospectors for the auriferous fields. The United States Treasurer has mailed 09,737 checks, aggregating $0,188,130 in payment of the interest due April 1 on registered United States 5 per cent consols of 1907. Charles C. Hubbard has been appointed Collector of Customs at Hartford, Conn. Postmasters appointed by the President: Frederick Hoovcv, Holton, Kan.: Andrew M. R.Fitzsimmons, Reading, Mich.; James A. Canavan, St. Joseph, Mich.; Otto Kaupp, Blue Earth City, Minn.; Oliver H. Scott. Hebron, Neb.; Lafayette Myers, Grand Island, Neb.; T. 31. Davis, Alfred Centre. N. Y.: Albert H. Mowry, Charleston, S. C. A COURT-ROOM DUEL. Two Lawyers Fire at Each OtherOne Killed, the Other Wounded. Some days ago Lambert Jones and George Johason, lawyers, had hot words in a Jus. tice's court in Newberry, S. C. They were in court again Saturday, and during the proceedings Jones, who is not yet 21, insinuated that Johnson lied. Johnson is a prominent lawyer in the State. Last fall he made a close run for Confress. He rose from his seat and told ones if he repeated that he would shoot him. Jones reiterated that Johnson lied, and at the same time drew his pistol and fired, the ball passing through Johnson's ear. The latter drew his revolver, and firing between the two became rapid. Johnson received four wounds, but none of them was dangerous. He fired seven times at Jones, the last shot killing him. Johnson immediately surrendered to the sheriff. George B. Cromer, Mayor of Newberry, who is also Johnson's partner, in attempting to stop the fight, narrowly escaped with his life, two bullets passing through his clothes. nr.rk-AjrTrrTTvrm UTPrnDT D rnuillljln .dim 1 x juvj. jujj. Colonel Fred Grant resembles liis lather in his fondness for smoking. ' Preston H. Leslie, Governor of Montan:i, used to be a ferryman. Speaker Carlisle is going to take his wife abroad for a summer jaunt. Smith UTogins is the King of tho ilry goods business of New York and worth ?J0,000,000. General Sheridan is to build a summer home near New Bedford, on the Massachusetts coast. Citief Geronimo, the raptured Apache leader, is employed at gardening at Fort Pickens, Fla. There are only live ex-Governors of Pennsylvania living: Pollock, Curtiu, Hartranft, Hoyt and Pattison. Governor Beaver of Pennsylvania has a Sunday-school class in Harrisburg, which he instructs every Sunday. Mp. John A. Logan, son of the late General Logan, married a short time ago Miss Edith Andrews, of Youngster. , Ohio. i Mr. I)r,axe put an end to the talk about his going (o Europe by writing that he is going to visit his daughter, Mrs. Coppinger, iu Indian Territory. A G r.Asoow merchant asked Queen Victoria to accept a Jubilee gift of a cheese weighing five tons and made from tho milk of S.SOl) Canadian cows, but she declined. Pbi.vckss Mary ok Cambridge, Queen Victoria's cousin, and the Avife of the impecunious Duke of Took, is so popular in England that she is called "The Queen of Hearts." Yot'xg Wing, the JTartford Cliinamau who has lieon elected President of tho Connecticut Congregational Club, has been in this i country twenty yeais and is a naturalized citizen" Ex-Go VEltxon Moses, of South Carolina, who is dying of consumption in a prison hosnital, says the breaking down of his health is j due to the use of opium, to which ho was for many years addicted. Professor Boxamuo, of the Royal Naval . School of Leghorn, has invented an important! " * * *' not nnlv th<?ynoeW.but i jii *i mini-hi n..j ,,.,v - t a No indicating the rotative position of one ! sbinto another, nnd so preventing collisions. j Oxe of till Emperor William's physicians j states that the Kaiser's constitution is so ' wonder fully good that it resembles a perfect ! clockwork, which will only stop when run down or when something extraordinary happens. Professor Spencer F. Bairo i? said to bo one of the hardest workers in (ho country. Besides being Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, ho is General Suprvisor of tho Rational Museum and head of the Fish Commission of tho United States. Dr. Joseph Harker, of London,mentioned tisa successor of .Mr. Beecher in the Plymouth Church pulpit, was a friend and admirer of tho great American preacher, and for years ! there was tho strongest bond of sympathy j benveou the two, whom many waysresemble j each other. Each had preached in' the other's p-.lpit. | ; -'- " DANGERS OF THE MINE. ! Deadly Explosion of Fire Damp in a Scranton Colliery. I Two Miners Killed and ManylMore Seriously Injured, A AYiVloevm nf fira Hamn rw?r?nrr?1 the other forenoon in the Von Storch colliery of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company on the northern outskirts of Scranton, Penn., killing two miners and seriously injuring 11 other workmen. Thomas Lewis, twenty-six years old, and Edward Owens, thirty, were killed; and Daniel Lewis, Patrick Mearin,Ed ward Cusiek, Michael McGuire, Andrew Davitt, John Jones, Lewis James, Llewellyn Jones, John Phillips, William Littlejohn and James Morgan were badly hurt. The party entered the mine at 7 o'clock a. m. .under the leadership of Boss Lewis,for the purpvs? of making repairs, and on their way in discovered gas accumulating rapidly. When about 4<XJ feet from the heading tlioy found several "blowers" of gas. and the the boss turned back lo obtain more help. He had gone but a short distance when he met tho mine foreman, and began telling him of the condition of the colliery. While they were speaking the tremendous explosion occurred. The great volume of gas with which the mine was charged came in uuuuiui/ ?> i LIi use liny iioxiiu ui a JUIUU jdiiip. In the storm of destruction that followed in tile darkness, men. nudes and mine cars were flung about promiscuously along the gangways. A driver boy named Mean was blown along the gangway a distance of about twenty yards, and tlie mule which accompanied him in this involuntary trip fell on top of him. A miner named Michael Maguire fell in the same heap, and other workmen had similar | thrilling experiences. The report of the explosion made itself felt a considerable distance from the shaft. In a short time hundreds of excited people who realized what had happened, and feared that their friends were dead or in peril, rushed to the scene. For a time the most painful anxiety prevailed at the moatli of the mine. Finally a rescuing party entered to ascertain the extent of the disaster. The rapid accumulation of the deadly afterdamp, which usually follows such an explosion, made the venture a perilous one, especially as all the air courses were deranged and there was no ventilation. After working heroically for some time a band of minei-s pushed their way ahead, made access and carricd assistance to the injured, who were promptly taken to their homes. Some were carried on stretchers, and others who were nut s>u uuuiy uui t were uuie w wunt without assistance. The bodies of Owens and Lewis were not discovered until tliis afternoon. The foarful force of the explosion was shown in the fact that large pieces of coal and lumber were flung from tlie mouth of the shaft when the shock occurred as if projected from the mouth of a cannon. ICE-GORGE AND PL00D. Most Destructive Floods in the History of the Northwest. A Bismarck (Dakota) special gives the following particulars of the terrible floods and ice gorges which have been widespread in that vicinity: The greatest flood in the history of the Northwest, and the most widespread since the settlement of the Missouri Valley, has been raging for several days with no sign of abatement. When the ice broke above and flowed to Washburn a gorge was formed which raised the river at that point over twenty feet. This gorge lasted one day, wheti it broke, and the pent-up flood swept clown upon the lowlands like tlie breaking of a mignty ! waterspout, and in less than five hours from the time the gorge broke the river for many miles 1k>!ow was increased in width from one mile to over six miles. Farms and meadowland were transformed into vast raging rivers, ana settlers were driven trom their homes, some to escape the floating ice and many to perish. But tiie breaking of the Washburn gorge was but a warning, as another gorge formed the next night at the head of Sibley Island. This gorge still exists, a-s firm and immovable as the rocks. It consists of six miles of ice wedged into the bed of the river and piled above the surface from twenty to fifty feet in height. Ko sooner did this gorge form than the vast sea of water in the Missouri, which had been swollen by the melting of the snows in the Rocky Mountains ana along the banks for hundreds of miles, was sent back upon the land ana the country along the lowlands presented a picture of desolation and ruin. The waters leaped tho banks of the river, and as in many places the banks of the Missouri are higher than the outlying country the water poured upon the settlers like the "falling of a cloud. At Painted "Wood, a settlement eighteen miles north of here, the settlers were not given time to lock their doors or don their clothing. The gorge having broken, the flood moved upon them in an instant and one family named Jackson, consisting of father, mother and three children, were swept away before they could escape to a small lull forty rods away. For days and nights settlers along the stream have been held in tops of trees and on nay-staeics, ana ine ices oi mo ana property i cannot be estimated until tlie waters recede. Photographers and artists are on the ground for tbo illustrated panel's of NewYork and other cities; but no brush or pen can do justice to the scene. A picture of the Hood on the day of the blizzard is impossible. Imagine a vast new-born ocean, with nere and there a chimney top to tell of previous habitation ; miles of ice floating at tlie rate of nine miles an hour on the terrific current formed by the bursting gage; rescuers' launches in search of death-confronted settlers, and a blizzard so blinding that tlie very air was impenetrable; and add to tliis horror the grief and the painful suspense denicted upon the countenances of the thousands who gathered upon the shore to await the return of their friends, and you will have a vague comprehension of the scene. When the gorge was formed, blocks of ice measuring HK) to 3X) feet in length and breadth and four feet in depth, were hurled into midair as though tne were marbles and fell back to wedge the lower stratum into tho river bed. The officers at Fort Lincoln report that with the aid of iield-glasses they have seen numerous .settlers in hay stacks and on the tree tops, and the}* must have perished era this. At one place two men and a woman were seen on the top of a building waving for help, but no help could 1*? sent. At tho home of a man named O'Connor three persons were seen in trees ami six persons were visible on haystacks which wore floating by tho fort. During the entire week .the Northern Pacific Railroad Company has endeavored to break the gorge with dynamite, but the explosions were of no more effect than the bursting of a bubble. The shock of the explosion shook buildings and broke glass in this city, a distance of ton miles, but failed to move the gorge. The high trestle of the Northern Pacific road has l>een seriously damaged, and 110 trains have crossed tho river for seven days, thus blocking all transcontinental freight. The steamer Helena has been chartered by the railroad and all i>assengers are being transferred by boat. The latent report from the upper countrv is that at a point about sixty miles north more than fifty people are in trees within a radius of * twelvo nu'les and that 1 numbers have perished. Unless assis I... ... nil l.lliet I I lUIll'W * 'it 11 t/\7 mztt ti uv vuvv mi* parish from cxjwsuro and hunger. Many of the uufortuuates are women an<l children, and through the Ik'id-glass mothers cm l)e seen holding their fliivering liabcs to their 1 biva-istoproUctthem from therav.-a:id)?iie- \ tra'ing wind. The truestorv of the lMo.I will never lie told. Many of the iVJlatr-d -vli !ers who have been swept away leave nothing to tell the sad story, and even the houses and barns which might attract attention to theirformer abodo . have been carried down with the flood. It is impossible at this time to estimate the damage to property or the loss of human life, 1 but it is known that the flood is the most 1 terrible in the history of tho country and likely to remain at its' present height for over a week. A Bowdel, (Dakota) dispatch says Jacob i MeCarty, Mr. Kirkland and three others have l>een drowned on the bottoms south of Legrace. Raymond Ferguson, of Utica, Ind., is the father of ja. baby that weighs just one pound, i Its arms are three inches long; its legs four i inches; it is well formed and apparently healthy and bids fair to live and grow. 1 ' ' pip $ OCEAN YACHT BACE, The Coronet Reaches Queenstowu Ahead of the ^Dauntless. The great ocean yacht race for a sweepstakes of #20.000, which began on March 13 from New York was finished at noon of March 27 In Queenstown Harbor. The Coronet crossed the line off Roche's Point at 12:41 p. si., making the passage in fourteen days, nineteen hours and three minutes actual time. The officers of the Royal Yacht Club of Cork, had been waiting outside of the harbor for the winner. The wind was blowing hard and the stately schooner, with full spread of sail, stood proudly on to the crossing line firing her five guns and showing her signaLs of triumph. To all appearances she haa passed uninjured through tne terrible gales which just now swept the North Atlan- . tic. No lives had been lost, no seamen had lkxjumjuj^ii. it uauie uespaucu says: Seven heavy gales threw the sea into a condition of fearful disturbance for eleven day* ' of the trip, and for two days the weather was , so severe as to make the question of the yacht's surviving it somewhat doubtfuL The voyage lias covered Capt Crosby with glory. He freely expressed his fears of the skill of the veteran Capt Samuels, of the Daunt- less, for he himself had never before sailed in a yacht race of any kind. To-day he can take his place as one of the first yacht sailors - " in the world, for he has brought the Coronet through a series of gales which would have-- ->i sent inanv a big ship down to the bottom. 4' And all honor is due to the schooner herself. Her behavior in all kinds of weather was magnificent, and she is unquestionably one of the staunchest, if not the fastest, yachts afloatHappily then) was no accidents on the voyage. The sailors have come into port all well, sound in limb, and hearty, though it can easily be understood tliat they had'to take tremendous risks. Three sails were torn, and here and there some tackle was broken, but otherwise the schooner and her company are in as good ""l" condition to-day as they were on the day of their departure through the Narrows. The apparent time occupied in the voyage was 14 days. 23 hours, 34 minutes, and 46 * seconds. "Tne actual time, however, as measured by Greenwich meridian time, was 14 days, 19 hours, 3 minutes, and 14 seconds. The total distance traveled by ' the . schooner was 2,94'J miles The vessel's speed was excellent, in fact surprising, at all times when any progress could be made at all. Her largest day's-' ran was made Saturday, when she covered 291.5 miles, beatiner bv 20.5 miles the best day's run made in the great race of the Henrietta. Fleetwing and Vesta. Her smallest v rim, 38.8 miles made on Tuesday last, speaks volumes fox- the terrific condition or the weather. The yacht Dauntless reached Queenstown. on the day after the Coronet's arrival, at 3:10 P. m. Her actual time on the passage was sixteen days, one hour, forty-three minutes, and thirteen seconds. She was met off Roche'sPoint byalarge fleetof steam yachts and craft - ^ of all descriptions, and her reception was as hearty as if she had been the victor. Her* perfect condition speaks volumes for the jsplendid seamanship of Captain Samuels, and he is regarded as a hero of the deep. Consid- ; ering the discrepancy in the size of the yachts and the terrible nature of the weather the Dauntless is considered to have done quite a* well as her competitor. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC,.. Mjie. Patti's next birthday will make her forty-five. Four "Ruddygore'1 companies are now performing in America. "The Vice-Admiral" is a new opera to b* produced in New York the conung summer. New York was so much interested in Bernhardt^ season that $40,000 was subscribed for oPAte in n/K-nnrp Uncle John Robinson, the oldest showman in the world, is very ill at Cincinnati. He is worth $2,000,000. Banker Joe Drexel, of New York and Philadelphia, plays the fiddle and five other instruments with facility. Anna Dickinson says she has had several offers to go upon the dramatic stage. Sha thinks sh9 will go to Europe. The King of Sweden has written a drama J which will soon be produced at the German, theatre in Buda-Pesth, Hungary. Miss Bessie Cleveland, a second cousin- - i of the President, is playing in "A Trip to- "* Africa,1' through the Southern cities. ? Alice Whitacre. an American girl, hasmade a successful London debut. She is pretty, a soprauo, and from Berlin, Wis. The first grand Scandinavian Sangerfest in America will take place in Philadelphia the latter part of July, 1SS7, lasting three days. Chicago is the only city in which Patti san*; at a loss to her manager. Mr. Abbey was out almost $5,000 as a result of three concerto . there. - ^ President Cleveland's name led the petition to Manager Palmer for the Washington performance of "Jiq?. the Penman," in aid of" the Actors' Fund, .April 18. It is said that the two best female violinists in the country are Miss Duke (the daughter of" General Basil" Duke, of Kentucky) and Mist Maud Tarletou of Baltimore. Mr. Wilson Barrett advises nervous peo?' - ! ??. ? ?*? ? f/\ /I<"? olarrA UJtJ W llil> C iv uu n iin mc oiagvj declares tliat this trouble has caused him much suffering. He has a headache after ?very performance. . The ex-minister, George D. Miln, played "Othello" at St. Louis recently, and after the performance a conrtable attached the actor's costumes for a debt. Mr. Miln, armed with Othello's cimeter, drove the officer of the lair from the stage. # Off the stage Lorta is a quiet, unpretending little body, with her red nair worn high, and her little feet encased in the most perfectly fitting boot*. Very earnest and impressive in her manner, she is an excellent talker, a polite listener and perfectly wellbred lady. ~ _ i In South America the ladies havaa custom of throwing valuable fans upon the stage instead of bouquets, and the Bernhardt, who has a trunk full of these costly articles, coyly informs a New York reporter that she likes the South American idea much better than that which is observed here?throwing bouquets. Faxnte Rasch, a New Orleans widow who followed the occupation of a rag-picker, was found dead in her bed on Monday with $1,400 concealed about her shabbily furnished room. THE MABFETS. new TORK. 13 Boef, good to prime 7K@ S,V ' Calves, com'n to prime 10 Sheep 5 >,<(</? 6 Lambs 7 Hogs?Live 5K<8 -i Dressed Flour?Ex. St., good to fancy 3 CO ($4 00 West, good to choice 3 65 @ 5 00 Wheat ?No. Red S3 Ryo-State 57 @ 58$tf Barley?State 60 @ Coru?Ungraded Mixed.... 4$>?@ 00 Oats?White State ? 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