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In New York City there are five colored lawyers who enjoy a lucrative practice. They seldom appear in court to argue a case, their business being chiefly in real YM.AnorJri r* Krmffl clients, etc. Ninety per cent, of their clients are white people. The three signs of a counterfeit coin are not often heeded by a careless public. A bad piece of silver has a hollow ring or a light weight or an imperfect rim. If these characteristics were fully learned counterfeiters would soon be discouraged in trying to pass imperfect money. Those who suffer from obesity almost invariably complain of shortness of breath. Such people, the Boston Ilerald says, should make it a practice each day of walking on rising ground or climbing gentle hills by easy stages. The exercise should be graduated and rests taken when the heart begins to beat rapidly. A few years ago the Canadians were behind the New Yorkers in cheese making. They employed inspectors to go around among the factories and point out the defects. They are now trying to get a government grant of $6,000 to give exhibitions and prizes, and improve the make of Canadian cheese still further. These are good examples for American cheese makers. Lectures are now being delivered by army surgeons in a number of the posts and garrisons on the care of injured and wounded. For the want of a little information on the part of the soldiers numbers lie on the field and suffer from their wounds and die, when they might be saved had their able-bodied comrades a:?i -?i it? BO III U practical lUMluilluua l^rtiuiu^ iuv best means of relief. Aii extraordinary accident is reported from the neighborhood of Maidenstone, England. A lad, eight years of age, was flying a kite, when he stepped backward into a forty-foot quarry, to the great horror of the bystanders. Fortunately for the little fellow, the string of the kite was tight around his wrist, and the kite, acting as a parachute, effectually broke the violence of the fall and he was only slightly bruised. Ostrich farming is prospering in California. The feathers are equal ta. the best grown in Africa. The ostrich weighs from 300 to 500 pounds. Every seven , months, after it is four years old, its plumage is ready for the market, yielding twenty-five fine feathers, and a num- ' ber of less valuable ones. They are cut J off with shears. The longest and finest white feathers sell at four dollars each. , It requires a good deal of capital to run ( an ostrich farm. An ostrich in a hurry ( can make forty miles an hour. ' The number of sheep in the world is , estimated as follows, according to the latest statistics: ] Bouth America 100,000,000 1 I Australasia, including New Zea- I land 77,000,000 ? Europe 212,000.000 < *Xfrica 25,000,000 1 Asia 50,000,000 ^ United States 45,000,000 c Canada 3,000,000 i All other countries 5,000,000 * r Total 517,000,000 j In the United States the average yield t of wool is about six pounds per head. J 1 A wonderful surgical operation has J been performed at the New Haven City i Hospital, it is said, with entire success, * the subject being the three-year-old son t of George "W. Ficro, of "Waterbury, ^ Conn., -who was born with deformed } legs, which apparently destined him to j be crippled for life. But the surgeon t broke one of the legs three times, and the J other leg twice, and then straightened and reset the bones. The child endured j the operation well, under ether, and now walks long distanr^ with only a Blight limp, which will disappear in t time. j ] A plucky woman can do almost any- > thing when she sets about it. Mrs. Mary , L. Barr, who is making herself famous as ! a writer of Scotch dialect stories, hardly j touched pen to paper up to the age of fifty-four. She lost her husband, who ] wgs Military Governor of Texas, and J seven children in the space 01 tw'cStJ-f?ur < .hours from yellow fever, and found her- j' ielf left with four little one9 and fifty t cents in her hands. In the course of time ; she drifted to New York and beeaine a j governess in the family of one of A. T. ] Stewart's partners. Her first tale, which t was written at the request and to gratify the whim of her employer, dealt with i life in the old days in Texas, and found 1 a publisher with ease. In the center of the tobacco warehouses at the London docks there is an immense kiln, -which is kept continually burning, day and night, and goes by the name of the Queen's tobacco pipe. The English Government has a different way of treating confiscated articles than'that in use in this country, one of them being to utilize them as fuel for what is termed the Queen's smoking. Whenever merchandise is seized for non-payment of duty, or because it is considered undei the law as in a damaged or unsalable condition, it is taken to this great kiln and burned there, the owners having 110 remedy. The only utilization that is made of these seizures is from the sale of the ashes from the furnace, which, to the amount of a great many tons a month, are sold by auction to chemical works, and to farmers and others to be used in enriching the soil. There is a similar but smaller Queen's tobacco pipe in the Government tobacco warehouses at Liverpool, these two forming the points of destruction for all confiscated merchandise in the United Kingdom. IRISH EMMS. Editor O'Brien Attacks Lord Landsdowiie in Montreal. Describing Scenes on the GovernorGeneral's Estates in Ireland. Editor "William O'Brien, the Irish newspaper proprietor who has come to America for the purpose of denouncing the policy purj sued by the Canadian Governor-General, Lord Landsdowne, in his treatment of his tenants in Ireland, was received with great enthusiasm in Montreal. A Montreal dispatch I gives the following account of his first pubI lie appearance: At 8 p. m. Mr. O'Brien was escorted by twelve picked friends to Albert Hall, on Rodegonde street. Most of the escort carried revolvers under their coats. No personal violence to O'Brien was feared, but threats had been made, and it was deemed best to be careful. Two of the escort carried sword canes.' Albert Hall is one of the largest in the city, seating persons. Tickets were sold to the lecture at twenty-five cents, fifty cents and one dollar. The hall was the scene of the famous Gavazzi riots years ago. To-night it was crowded to its utmost capacity. The orchestra chairs were filled with well-dressed ladies and gentlemen. Tli- re was a motley crowd of French, Irish and Canadians in the gallery. The audience grew very boisterous before the red stage curtain rose, disclosing Mr. O'Brien seated upon the platform; surrounded by a number or prominent Irishmen, among whom were President Cloran of the National League, Carroll Ryan, Edward Nagle, John P. Wh?lan, Dennis Barry, Michael Donovan, and others. The men cheered again and again, and waved their hats and handkerchiefs in the air. The women jumped on the seats and waved their shawls. The ovation lasted ten minutes before Mr. Cloran rose to introduce Mr. O'Brien. Mr. Cloran's speech and introduction lasted twenty minutes, and was loudly cheered. There was another ten minutes' frantic applause when Mr. O'Brien stepped to the front of the platform. When the cheers and screams subsided, Mr. O'Brien said in part: "I desire at the outset to tackle the question why I have come to Canada, to ask a hearing, and to ask your sympathy. I will tell you m one word?because the homes of the people of Luggacurran, far away in Ireland, are desolate to-night, and because the man who is responsible for it is here in. the highest post of honor in this great, free land. "It is no pleasure to us to worry you with our grievances, but where else are we to turn when Lord Landsdowne sends the soldiers and armed police to dispossess every tenant in Luggacurran, and to fling the old men and little children out by the ditches? "We do not come to ask you for ?20,000 for charity any more, but to ask you to consider what use Lord Landsdowne is making of the ?'20,000 a year which you give him or which you enable him to get; and if that be i put to a bad and inhuman use we ask you to convey your censure of Lord Landsdowne, as you have a perfect right to do as the free cit- ; lzens of a self-governing nation. "The object of the Coercion bill is to enable ( men like Lord Landsdowne to wring intoler- l able rack rent out of Irish tenants. Its object is to render it safe for every rack renter , to desolate the homes of Ireland as Ix>rd Landsdowne has desolated the homes of Luggacurran. Its object is to gag us if we } don't lie down and submit to it like whipped J hounds. ' "The day you send Lord Landsdowne home with the stamp of Canadian disaffection on his brow, you will enable us to laugh at coercion and strengthen the arms of Gladstone to put an end to evictions for all time. ^ Lord Landsdowne is laying waste an entire stretch of country miles" long as completely J as if the angel of death knocked at every j ?abin door in these valleys and devoted every 1 man, woman, and child to destruction. As soon as he will have obtained his next batch < jf ejectment decrees, he will have made a 1 :lean sweep of the property, and, except 1 Lord Landsaowne's own baliffs and creatures. 'lio wVinlo nnnnlntinn will hnvp hnm'chcwl i ind their homes will know them no more.1' ( Mr. O'Brien then auoted from lengthy re- s sorts in the Dublin Freeman's Journal of the svictions on Lord Landsdowne's estate, with v leadings such as "One hundred and twenty , people evicted," "Sixty persons left homeless," 'One hundred and seventy human beings evicted," and so on. Then he described incilents attending some of the evictions, as folows: "Infirm old women, aged eighty and odd rears, whose tottering steps had to be guided >ut of their little homesteads, were put out a n the pitiless storm of hail and snow. The I old March blast blew around them, and the wot creatures cried bitterly. Old men over j iinety years of age were told to clear out. rhe delicate mother, with her babe only a ortnight old clasped in her arms, stood Z. ihivering outside, while the 'emergency nen' pitched out her little belongings, rhe 'emergency men' were there with sledge lammers, crowbars, ladders, saws and ? latehets, to pull down the house and smash 1 ;he furniture. A miserable thatched cottage, 0 nto which the rain poured through the roof, xxrupied by a tenant named Henry Mulhall, b vas entered by the Sheriff. On a chair near p he fire was a poor old woman, v vho did not seem to realize that she s K-as going to be put out of the house which f i&d pieltered her from her childhood, It was / aining at the time, and she was put out 011 h he roadside in the pitiless storm. These are 0 1 few typical cases of the hundreds of evic;ions that have been going on on Lord Landslowne's Queens county estates. "The Luggacurran tenants were honest, peaceful, and inoffensive. So far as crime is concerned, the locality is simply stainless. During these barbarous evictions not a blow was struck nor a stone flung; and nave these people ever done that they should be robhed of home and land? Simply sought abatements in their rents?abatements less than Earl Cowper's ? royal Commission, a Landlord Commission u appointed by a Tory Government, declared d to be equitable: less even than the Land Commission Courts are granting on neighboring states, and, finally,reductions to which Lord 11 Landsdowne's own arbitrator, Mr. Denning,. f ?ave his assent and approval in black and ivhite.'' Mr. O'Brien showed that the reductions 1 made by the Land Commissioners in neigh- 0 aoring estates averaged from forty to fifty g per cent., and said that Lord Landsdownes Dwn negotiator, Mr. Denning, suggested a re '^"tion of fifteen per cent.,wniie uie rewuiu*, i for peace:s sake, w?ro w>">ngto accept. Ho ?ai(l in conclusion: ... "I cl&iin, therefore, that I^ord Landsdowne stands condemned, and that the justice and moderation of the tenants' claim are as clear md convincing as ever God's blessing shed upon a righteous cause. Lord Landsdowne's . savage sentence against the tenants closed with Mr. Denning's offer. Lord Landsdowne construed the tenants' moderation into weakness. He construed Canadian forbearance into indifference to the cry of suffering from Ireland, and the terms his chosen representative suggested and agreed to were scornfully thrust aside. The next news we got from Ottawa was that Lord Landsdowne threatened us with a hot. if not a bloody, reception if we ventured to Canada to proclaim the wrongs of the Irish tenantry. I appeal to the people of Canada against "Lord Lands downe's savage sentence against the ( whole jtcnceabh; population. Substantially the Canadian flag floated over the evicting army, and it was Canadian money 1 that hired the 'eaiergency men' to do their dreadful work. I call upon you to free the Canadian name from this, and to let Lord Landsdowne and the world know that when Canada stretched out an arm t? Ireland it was not to wound or subjugate her, but to When Mr. O'Brien sat down; after speaking an hour, there was a storm of applause ttiat was simply furious. The !<i>eech produced a profound effect, and O'Brien proved himself an orator. His speeches in Canada will certainly stir up a great movement against Lord Landsdownc. Mr. Murphy, a local singer, sang several patriotic Irish songs, which frenzied the audience again, and then an address was carried with a great shout, denouncing Lord Laiidsdowne in the most severe manner tor the treatment of his tenants. Arbor Day was observed in Boston by two prominent officials. Governor Ames and Mayor O'Brien proceeded to the Common, where each, with his own hands, planted a white pine tree. About seventyfive trees were planted on the Common. The estate of the late Alexander Mitchell, of Milwaukee, is estimated at from $15,000,00!) ! to $25,000,000. His only son is the principal heir. The public bequests aggregate $50,000. NEWS SUMMARY Eastern and Middle States. Heavy forest fires have burned over large tracts in the Catskills. Hundreds of farmers and others, including 100 firemen from Catskill, fought the flames. The bill providing for a half holiday on Saturdays, passed by the New York Legislature, has been signed by the Governor. It takes effect Saturday, May 21. The corning mill of the Lafiin Powder Company, near Pittston, Penn., exploded with a terrible shock. One man was killed and two were seriously injured. Floods in Maine have destroyed many bridges and caused numerous washouts on railroads. The law prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors on bunday is being rigidly enforced in New York, even hotels and restaurants rpfncmfr tr\ QArvfl f.hotr tniAefs winonr h?>p. William O'Brien, the Irish editor and Home Rule leader, arrived in New York a few days since; and was received with great cordiality by a committee of prominent irishmen. He immediately went to Canada for the purpose of speaking against the GovernorGeneral, the Marquis of Landsdowne, whose tenants in Ireland are being evicted by wholesale. Prince Frederick Leopold, great-grand nephew of the German Emperor, nas arrived in the East from a tour across the Continent. He is making a trip around the world. A National Cattle and Dairy Show has been one of the attractions of New York the past week. More than 400 cattle, valued in the aggregate at $1,000,000, were on exhibition, and many valuable prizes awarded. General Aaron Stevens, of New Hampshire, died at Nashua the other day, aged sixty-eight years. He had been in Congress, and for many years was a member of the State Legislature. Governor Hill pj-esided at a meeting held in Elmira, N. Y., opposed to England's coercive measures toward Ireland. "Workmen were clearing out a furnace if the Edgar Thompson Steal Works at Brad docks, Penn., when a red hot arch of coke, limestone and other material fell upon their unprotected bodies. Five men were so horribly bruised that there was no hope of their recovery. South and West. A land slide near Cliff Cave Station, Mo., hurled a freight train from the track, burying six cars and the engine from sight. Two men were killed. Two murderers were hanged on Friday in New Mexico?Henry Anderson (colored) at Socorro, and Theodore Baker at Springer. The Southern Baptist Convention, the largest religious bodv in the South, has been in session at Louisville. United States Deputt Marshal Peete, son of Congressman Peete of Arkansas, was killed while attempting to make arrests in Indian Territory. Fannie Mcrray, a girl of fifteen, was about to mount a horse at Stonewall, Col., when the animal became frightened and dragged its rider, whose foot had caught in a stirrup, two miles across the fields. The girl was killed. The West Virginia Legislature has adjourned sine die. Six prisoners in the County jail at Columbus. Ohio. escaDed bv sawiner off the bars to a window. The Ohio Democratic State Convention will be held at Cleveland July 20 and 21. W. B. Todhcxter, a cattle-owner, of Sac amento, Cal., who owns 170,000 acres of land n Oregon and 50,000 acres in Nevada, hps failed for $400,000. Washington. General Greei.t,'Chief Signal Officer, will hereafter issue a special weekly bulletin, with the view of promptly placing before the public each Monday morning reliable infornation relative to the climatic conditions in :he agricultural districts of the country. The Navy Department has received word )f the death by suicide of Second Lieutenant Arthur H. Clarke, of the Marine Corps, on x>ard the Iroquois at Panama. Major-General Henry F. Clap.ke, U. S. (retired), died in Washington on Tuesday. Seneral Clarke was born in Pennsylvania ixty-seven years ago. The United States revenue steamer Bear las been ordered to Alaska for the purpose >f enforcing the law against killing fur-bearng animals within the limits of that Territory. The law prohibits the killing anvvhere of female seals less than one year old. Foreign. A bill to repeal the Canada temperance ict has been introduced in the Canadian Parliament. The anti-German feeling is so great in 5aris that violent disturbances have occurred it performances of Wagner's "Lohengrin,' ind the French Government has accordingly >rohibited further singing of the German omposer's opera. The French steamer La Bretagne, during ier last trip from New York for Havre, ran nto and sank a Norwegian bark. The crew if the bark were saved. Three old towns of Eastern Hungary have een swept by the flames. At Epieries every lublic building and hundreds of dwellings vere destroyed, while a number of girl cholars in a convent were killed by jumping rom windows. More than 100 nouses in irad were burned. At Nagy Kasoly 400 ouse-3 were destroyed and 5,000 people renered homeless. The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland prohibited Nationalist meeting .and a counter Orange lemorstration at Armach. LATER NEWS, Thirteen steamers brought 9,06o eniiTants to New York on Wednesday?this beag the largest number ever received on one ay. The Republicans of Kentucky have nomiiated a State ticket with William O. Bradley or Governor at the head. The American Government has asked for a [litigation of the sentence of the Mexican ifficers sentenced in Mexico to Iks shot for unoldierly conduct in Arizona. The President has appointed James W. lyatt, National Bank Examiner in Connectiut. Treasurer of the United States, to suceed Conrad N. Jordon, resigned. The eighteenth annual ro-UiiioA of the j Society of the Army of the Uumberiana vas hehl in Washington on Wednesday and riiursday, the latter day being devoted nainly to exercises conducted with tho un eiling of a statue of President Garfield. The Irst day was devoted to business matters, ind in the evening a large audience listened o addresses by tho President of the Society, jreneral Sheridan; Generals Sherman and [losecrans, ox-Governor Curtin and others. Mrs. Logan was in tho audience. Queen Victoria visited Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show at the American Exhibition Grounds in London. Fourteen persons were killed or injured by a railroad.collision in Australia. Floods have done immense damage in New Brunswick. The city of Frederic-ton woo L.ft- in fnfnl Hnrlrn<-ss. the filS hoUSC liaV ing been flooded, and a bridge, which cost nearly $&0,000, was swept away. THE PENSION LIST. Number of Certificates Issued During the Past Three Years. The following table will show the number of pwwion certificates issued from tho United States Pension Office during the fiscal years ending Juno 30, 1884, 1885, 1880, and for tho year of 1887 up to the 30th of April: iss; up to 1884. 1885. 1886. Apr.S}. OrigiHal 34.1'JO 35,771 40,852 Inc. and mis no rr/VD QO TTtf. eellaneous... 22,KM ;>4,oi.> oo,iu- ? Totals 56,729 70,380 79,554 74,608 In the fiscal year of 1886 there were issued 79,987 supplemental certificates to widows and dependent relatives, whose pensions had t?een increased by Congressional enactment of March 19, lbt#. , LIGHTNING'S WORK Four Persons Killed by a Single Bolt in Virginia. fiiv TTnnctfa StrnnTrflnd rpareral Mpti frJUX AAVUMVU fVUWWUWUU WVIW*W* Injured in Ohio. A communication from Stafford Court House, Ya., gives the details of fearful havoc by lightning in that vicinity. Terrific storms raged for two days, and many barns cud other buildings were struck by lightning. Four persons were killed in the rosidence of Anderson Pearson. He was away from home at the time. When he return 3d, he found his wife unconscious, his three children dead, and Luther Wright, a friend from Prince William County, dead. The four persons had been killed by a single bolt Mr. Wright stopped at Pearson's house for shelter in the midst of one of the worst of the storms. He tied his horse to a tree directly in front of the door. The fury of the storm made the animal restless, and Wright, who had been playing with the children, in the front room went to the door to quiet the horse. The instant he opened the door, there was a terrific flash. He fell dead across the threshhold. The electric bolt passed through the house, killing the three children as they played on AL. a ~^ i - l.U 4.1 u 4.u~ 11 j uie uwr, uuu Mmi uig a, nuit) uuruu^u uuo wait. Mrs. Pearson, who was in the kitchen, was struck down by the shock, and several other persons about the premises were stunned. Lightning: and Floods in Ohio. A thunder and rain storm at Akron, Ohio> in I'orty minutes did fully $20,000 damage, killed four horses and seriously crippled four men. Six houses were struck by lightning in Akron, shocking the inmates terribly and almost killing James Brown, William Sickler, Charles Morgan and William j Taylor, who were picked up for dead. The | entire business portion of the city was flooded, and thousands of dollars' worth of stock was ruined by flooding of cellars. The houses of James Durant, W. K Hilderman, N. C. Lewis and Mrs. Mary Murphy were swept from thair foundations and badly wrecked. William Bittman's barn was fired by lightning and three horses roasted alive, loss $1,500. In the barn of T. Wylie the lightning made a very small hole, but killed a horse instantly. This was the fourth storm of almost equal severity within four dayn. THE NATIONAL GAME, The Detroits won thirty-one consecutive exhibition games. The New York team has the most gaudy uniforms in the League. Fooartt and McCarthy of the Philadelphias are fine base runners. The Metropolitans have been Chicagoed three times in seven games. The baseball fever is raging with great virulence throughout New England. Little Davy Force is holding his own with the short stops of the Southern League. There are at present some 200 or 800 ancateur clubs in the field about New York. All the baseball managers are pulling their hair because it will cost iust douhla to travel this year. Whev in New; York city Governor Hill never misses a League game at the Polo Grounds. Or all thn League clubs. President Young thinks the Chicagos-and the Phillies play the best up-hill games. Boyle, of the Indianapolis team, was presented with a fine hat for making the first home run of the season for his club. (The spring tour of the Detroit Club did not o ove a financial success, owing to the Interstate Commerce law and long jumps, both of which were costly. A Southwestern Baseball League has been organized with clubs from little Rock, Fort Smith, Springfield, Mo., Webb City, Hot Springs, and Pine Bluffs. The twelve games played between the Philadelphia and Athletic teams, for the championship of Philadelphia, were attended by over 57,000 persona. The "Phillies" won six; the Athletics five, and one was a tie. The number of really excellent players ha? 10 increased and so many superfluous ones are under engagement tliat managers are really in trouble to decide whom to let go. The only class of players in which there is a scarcity is pitchers. The market is not likely to be glutted in that department at least. President Young of the National League, predicts not only a great season for the national sport, but he Is confident that the pennant race will be closer than for many seasons. The leading clubs are hardly as strong as last year, and the newly admitted organizations are in much better shape than Washington or Kansas City last season. Of the twenty-five leading batters in the League, in last year's record. Detroit has six? Brouthers. Richardson, Thompson, Rowe, White, and Dunlap: New York Ave?Connor, O'Rourke, Ewing, Gore, and Dorgan; Boston five?Kelly, Wise, Nash, Stemmayer, and Sutton; Washington three?Hines, Shock, and Meyers; Chicago two?Anson Jind Ryan: Indianapolis one?Glasscock; Philadelphia one?Fogarty, and Pittsburgh ono?McKinnon. the national league record. Won. Lost, Detroit 8 1 Boston 5 2 Pittsburgh 4 2 New York 5 3 Philadelphia , 4 4 Indianapolis 2 7 Chicago 1 6 Washington 1 0 THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Won. Lost. St. Louis 13 8 Baltimore 11 5 Brooklyn 8 4 Cincinnati 9 7 Louisville 8 7 Athletic 7 7 Metropolitan 1 13 Cleveland 2 13 THE COLLEGE LEAGUE. TVon. Ix>st. Harvard 1 0 Princeton 1 0 Yale ? 1 0 Columbia 0 3 THE SOUTHERN LEAGUE. ' TFoh, Lost. New Orleans Nashville ** ? Memphis ^ Charleston ? ,X Mobile a W Savemnab 2 14 THK INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. Won. Lost Newark 0 0 Syrstcuse 4 2 Rochester 4 2 Bing;bamton 3 2 Toronto 3 3 Hamilton S 2 Buffalo 3 4 Jersey City 2 6 Oswego 1 5 Utica 0 4 EASTERN LEAGUE. TT'on. Lost. New Haven 5 1 ' Hartford 5 1 Bridgeport 4 2 Wateroury 3 Danbury 0 8 Springfield 0 5 ARMY OF THE POTOMAC. Elaborate Preparations for its Coming Meeting at Saratoga. " -u ? i ~..A General M. T. McMnlion, rresiuent, aim Colonel Strusddl, Treasurer,of tho Society of the Army of the Potomac, have been at Saratoga, N. Y., making arrangements for the reunion of members of that society, which will be held June 22 and 23. It is probablo that the coming reunion will bo the mostsuccesful ever held. President Cleveland, Generals Sheridan, Sherman, Sickles, and other distinguished men, besides several military organizations of the State, will be in attendance. The annual address will be delivered ou the first evening by Chaunoey M. Dej?w,and the banouet will take place the next night. Five hundred badges have already been issued to members of the society in various parts of the country, and General Mo Mala on says tie meeting will be attended by fully 3,000 peri ions. j A DESPERATE APPRAY, I A Prohibition Editor Shot Dead bj a Mississippi Senator. ) A desperate pistol light has taken place ii Jackson, Miss., between Colonel Jones S Hamilton, State Senator for the past foui years, and one of the lessees of the Penitenti 1 ary, and R. P. Gambrell, editor o: the Sioord and Shield, thi State Prohibition organ. About a yea] ago young Gambrell, who is the son of t prominent Baptist minister residing in Jack ' son and the editor of the State Baptist organ 1 began in Jackson the publication of th< ' Sword and Shield and has ever since in very strong language, mad< war on Governor Lowery and th( State Administration and Congressman Catchings for his action in Penitentiary mat ters when he was Attorney-General of th< State, and has been especially bitter on Colo nol Hamilton, criticising in unmeasured terms his action in the State Senate and as i lessee of the Penitentiary. On April 21 there appeared in the Clarion a call signed over a nom de plume urging that Colonel Hamilton stand for re-election. Two days later Gambrell's paper came out with an article saying in substance that the people did not want a man to represent them in the Senate who disregarded the interests of the people and whose sole purpose in the Senate was to look after his own corrupt jobs. It charged that as lessee of the Penitentiary he was seeking to defraud the State out of $80,000 through a loophole in his bond, and wound up by saying that the man elected must also have a high personal character. Since the publication of this article trouble has been anticipated, and it came Thursday nig-hfc. (Tflmhrpll wnQ Wflltint* nn +Via cfriwt and just as he was crossing tSe iron bridge spanning Capitol street Colonel Hamilton's carriage overtook him and shooting began. It is claimed by Hamilton's friends that Gambrell fired the first shot and that Colonel Hamilton then jumped out of the carriage and the duel with pistols began on the bridge. This theory is denied by Gambrell's friends, who claim that Gambrell was overtaken and tho assault made on him, and that more persons than Hamilton shot. Gambrell was found in a pool of blood, gasping, and soon expired. He was shot through the knee and through the body, the latter ball going clear through him, fracturing the backbone and lodging just under the skin of his back. The third shot went in an inch below the left ear, and ranged upward, but did not reach the brain. His face was also frightfully disfigured, having been beaten and gashed by being struck with a heavy pistol. Col. Hamilton was the only person found on the bridge when the officers arrived. He also was frightfully wounded. His left arm was shattered at the elbow, and he was als6 shot in the stomdch. The affair caused great excitement in Jackson. Gambrell was unmarried, and about twenty-three years old. Colonel Hamilton is over fifty and has a large family. AN INSECURE BAILING. Women and Children Drowned at a Christening in New Orleans. Sunday morning a number of colored peo pie belonging to the congregation of Mount Zion Baptist Church assembled on the whan at the head of Lizardi street, in New Orleans, to be baptized by immersion, according to tlm rites of their church. A large number oi' persons followed the baptismal party to the wharf for the purpose of witnessing the ceremony. They leaned on the wharf railing, which gave way under the great strain brought against it by the pressure of the crowd, and about lifty persons were percipitated into the river. The following persons are known to be drowned. Harriet Cook, white, aged 3% years ; Amelia Williams,colored, aged 8; Rosa Edmonds, colored, aged 7; Rosa Lawrence, colored, aged 6; E. Cornelius's 7-year-old child; Felece Richard's baby; Rene Rogal's 5-year-old child; a colored "woman (name unknown); a white woman (name unknown); a white girl, who held a baby in her arms. She finally let the child go and sank. The baby was saved. Rosalie Williams, a colored girl, also had a baby in her arms. She was drowned and the child was saved. There were a number of skiffs in the river in front of the wliarf railing. Many of the occupants of these small boats were injured by people and broken railings falling upon them. Many of the skiffs were upset and some of the occupants were drowned. A great crowd lingered about the scene of the accident in the afternoon, many of them in search of relatives ?pd friends. A NEW PLAN. Mr. Dillon Counsels a Way to Defeat the Purpose of the Coercion Bill. At a meeting of the Irish National League in Dublin, just held, Mr. Dillion said that he had clearly in his mind a line of policy for the people of Ireland, which he would produce at the proper moment and knock the bottom out of the Coercion bill. When the Coercion bill was passed the landlords would find that the plan of campaign would continue without the slightest interruption or inconvenience. His proposed policy would involve neither crime nor violent resistance 01 me iaw. n, was a system of combination so perfect and the people would be induced to act so loyally toward each other that they would not revert to crime or outrage. A MEXICAN EARTHQUAKE, Towns Nearly Destroyed and Many Lives Lost. A disastrous earthquake has occurred at the town of Bahispe, in the district of Moctezuma, Sonora, by which one hundred and fifty persons lost their lives. At the same time volcanic eruptions began in the neighboring mountains, lighting up the summits for a long distance. The same afternoon earthquake shocks were felt throughout the State. Volcanic outbreaks are occurring near the Guatemala border, as well as in the State of Sonora. Twenty-seven persons have also been killed at Oputu by falling buildings. Many persons were injured at Grenada and Gusabar, which towns were almost completely destroyed. THE MARKETS. . NEW YOnK. 19 Beef, good to prime 8 <3 83* - ' ? ?- ? my/a flij; Uaives, comn io prime %& f Hogs?Li $ A Dressed ?i-a Flour?Fx. St., good to fancy 4 75 <?? 4 80 West, good to choice 4 00 @ 5 10 Wheat?No. 2, Rod 95#3 95% Rye?State ? @ 63 Barley?State 60 (g) 75 Cora?Ungraded Mixed.... 50 Oats?White State 39}<@ 89?? Mixed Westorn 34 (4! S7 Hay?Med. to prime S3 @ 90 Straw?No. 1, Rye 50 @ 60 Lard?City Steam 7 15 @ 7 50 Butter?State Creamery.... 23 (ft) 24 Dairy 20 @ 22 West. Im. Creamery 1<? 19 Factory IS (?< 19 Cheese?State Factory 11 13;/ Skims 7 (<$ 10 Western 13 liJJ-j Kggs?State and Penn 1~V<8 l''M BUFFALO. I ?. .J /? n nn DLlttflJ V*UUtl I'J V55 V Lambs?Western 5 15 & 5 50 Steers?Western 4 ?55 @ 5 <J0 Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 5 AO @ 5 00 Flour 4 75 @ 5 15 Wheat-No. 1 HI & 91}? Corn?No. 2, Mixed 44 ($ 44,li Oats?No. 2, Mixed IfcJ (<j 33 Barley?State 04 @ 65 HO STOW. Beef?Good to choice 14 Hogs?Live 6 Nnrt.harn Dressed GlZfit 1\n Pork?Ex. Primo,per bbl...12 00 @12 50 Flour?Spring Wheat pat's.. 4 90 @ 5 10 Corn?High Mixed ? (i? 52 Oats?Extra White 40 @ 40}? Rye?State 60 @ 05 W'ATEKTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET. Beef- Dressed weight 6 @ Sheep?Live weight Lambs ? @ 5 Hogs?Northern 7 @ 1)1 PHILADELPHIA. Flour?Penn.extra family... 3 75 @ 3 90 Wheat-No. 2, Red ? @ 96% Rye?State ? @ 53 Cora?State Yellow 50 @ 50J^ Oats Mixe i 34}<j@ 35 Butter?Creamery Extra... 28 @ 24 Cheese?N. Y. Full Cream.. ? @ 13}/ . :< > DESTRUCTIVE FLAMES. r i Two Towns in New Hampshire Swept by Fire., P f Many Buildings Destroyed and 9 Families Rendered Homeless. r * The mcst destructive fire that northern New Hampshire has ever known on Tuesday ' swept the town of Lebanon, a place of 4,00C j inhabitants. All the manufacturing shops ' and many dwellings were burned, leaving some thirty families without shelter. ' The fire was discovered in the [ j shops of Mead, Mason & Co., furniture man" ufacturei s, and the alarm given at 1 a. h. , Calls for help were sent to Hanover about 2 [ o'clock. The Hanover fire engine and a hun. : dred Dartmouth students we1 it down at once j to assist. All the manufacturing shops , I of the place were '* crov?a?,5 along . | the banks of the Mascoma River, which 't j runs through the town. Logs, lumber and other combustible materials were niled in i among the mills. They caught and burned ! like tinder. Assistance went from White ( River Junction, from Concord and from t Enfield. Eighty buildings, of which twentyfive were dwelling houses containing families, were burned. A man named Perkins was the only one injured. He was badly scorched but will recover. The Boston and Lowell Railroad bridge was burned, and passengers were transferred. Two other bridges across the Mascoma were burned. The entire loss is estimated at $250,000. This is one-fourch of the taxable property of the town. Mead? Mason & Co. met with the heaviest loss, estimated at $100,000, the greatest part of which was stock, as far as can be ascertained covered only by $5,000 insurance. Four hundred people are out of employment. Some of the shelterless people stopped with relatives and others were housed and fed at the public expense in the City Hall. The village is practically destroyed; as there is absolutely nothing left of the buildings there will be little to induce the corporations to rebuild on the old ground. The water power is good, but the larger mills were propelled by steam. Household goods of every description filled the yards in the vicinity of the fire. Over ten acres were 6wept by the flames. Large Fire in Sun cook. The freight depot of the Concord railroad at Suncook, N. H., caught fire the same afternoon from a spark from a locomotive and was uumwi. wgeuuer witu tuw uugu wood and coal sheds of William H. Hazeltine, containing 300 cords of wood and fifty tons of coal; the houses of Timothy Lynch and Miss Sarah Appleton; the ten-tenement block of Mrs. Grace Potter,and a four tenement block of Clifton B. Hildreth, on the Pembroke side of the river. Sparks from the burning buildings were carried by the high wind across Suncook river and set fire to Hildretli's house, which was destroyed. From this point the fire spread to the houses of Charles Emerson, Peter Michand and Thomas Otterson, all of which were burned. A storehouse filled with lumber owned by Thomas Otterson was also burned. The steamer Kearsage and a large detail of men from the Concord Fire Department, arrived in time to save several fine houses, which were atone time seriously endangered. The freight depot was filled with merchandise. The total loss is estimated at from $35,000 to $50,000 with an insurance of $25,000 A MINE DISASTER, Eighty-Eight Whites and About 100 Chinamen Killed. An explosion followed by a fire has caused a harrowing disaster in a coal mine at the eastern end of Vancouver's Island When the explosion occurred a large number of miners were at work at the bottom of the shaft, and determined efforts were immediately made to rescue them Over onehalf of the imprisoned men leave wives and families to mourn their untimely end Samuel Hudson, who formed one of the rescuing party, died from the effects of the after damp. Five men were rescued alive, but seriously injured. There were eighty-eight whites ana about 100 Chinamen in the mine at the time of the explosion. Jules Michael, one of the injured, said that he was sittinein his cabin at supper in No. 2 shaft. He ?eJt the concussion. All scrambled out. He became insensible. Only one of his four companions was saved The dead bodies of the others came up in the cage with him. Several .of " those rescued hardly appreciate their miraculous escape, owing to the dazed feeing which "characterized all who came out from the deadly pit. Michael was only 150 yards from the entrance to the shaft when the explosion occurred He represents it . as something terrific. All became darkness. John Lynch was badly injured about the face and hands and had his hip fractured A Nanaimo (B. C.) dispatch says: "All hope of rescuing any one in the mines has been long ago abandoned. It is thought that all that man can do is being done to reach tiinm T+ ot. firct. thnncnt nf mittinc a ditch to the salt water, so as to attempt to put out the fire in No. 2 shaft by turning a stream of water mto it, but the scheme was abandoned. It would only flood the mine, rendering it practically useless for a year, and would banish any hope there might be of saving the lives of the men. Imagine the scene. The mines extend out from the shore more than a mile beneath the waters of the harbor, and as one looks over the placid waters he cannot imagine that beneath are imprisoned the fathers and sons of more than eighty families of this little city. Around the shaft tne scenes are harrowing in the extreme. As each cage comes up, anxious faces look there for glad tidings that never come. A black pall hangs over the city. Business houses are closed, collieries shut up, and the entire population is gathered at the scene of the disaster. Frantic wives, terror-stricken children, and sorrowing fathers hover in the vicinity and mourn over their terrible affliction. "Women with babes clasped to their bosom3 walk up and down in front of the shaft sobbing and moaning. Swarms of terrified Chinese are on the grounds. One woman laments the loss of her husband, father, and brother?her all. This is one of many cases." Since the above dispatch was sent many bodies have been recovered by searching parties. A REMARKABLE TRIAL. A Man Convicted of Murdering Hifl Wife "Fourteen Years Ago. The case of Jean P. Soquet, of Green Bay, nVarwoH with the murder of his wife fourteen years ago, has come to an end, the jury returning a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. The case has been one of peculiar interest, both on account of the many years intervening bet ween the commission of the crime and the trial, and other surrounding circumstances. The trial occupied two weeks. Soquet was charged with the murder of h's second wife in June, 1873. His third wife, whom he married soon afterward, has also been missing since January J, and is believed to have been mur' dered by Soquet to prevent her being a witness against him in this case. Mrs. Soquet No. 2 was formerly Mrs. Aug. \Vainsart. Mr. "Wainsart died about the same time of the death of Mrs. Soquet No, 2, and. as was proved,from poison. Mrs. Soquet No. 1) was arrested, but released. It was shown in the testimony of the present trial that Soquet kept the neighborhood in which he lived terrorized for twenty-five years. While it was freely talked among the farmers that he had murdered his two former wives, no onedared whisper a word outside for fear of Soquet. The spell was broken by the disappearance of ?? ' " n frii if | Mrs. coquet r*o. o. me ni3? ui Ka?iuiu?j secured since was astonishing. The jury took only three ballots before they agreed. Henry Ihmer, the oldest locomotive engineer in the United States, died a few days ago, in Whistler, Ala. He ran the first engine over the Charleston and Hamburg road, the third railroad built in this country. The drivers of the engine were of hard wood. General Bucl anger, the French Secretary of War, has ordered that tradesmen supplying food, clothing, etc., shall not be allowed to enln* French forts unless accompanied by soldiers. This is a precaution against spies. - 5ssii. .... a ? MUSICAL AND DEAMATIC. ' Patti has been giving a farewell engagement in Washington. ' They are still giving " Pinaforen in the interior of Michigan The Scotch universities have been asked to grant degrees in music. [ Bernhardt has not been doing well out West. High prices are out of date. A new show company in the West is composed of Mongolians, who are known as tbe Chinese students. ' P. T. Barntjm is worth over $18,000,000. His circus partners are worth from fl,000,000 I to $3,000,000 each. t Robert Buchanan, the English author, thinks that the greatest living actors are to be found in America. ( Mme. Bernhardt^ engagement in Chicago resulted in a loss to the management. The actress is now in California. I " The Simpleton'1 is the title of Strauss'* new coul'c opera to be produced next season, , and which he says will De his best work, i It is said that Sir Arthur Sullivan is devoting a great deal of time to the oompoeition of an opera to be entitled " Mary Stuart" Irving will close his season in London on the 16th of July and will leave for America soon after, to remain until April, 1888. .Beginning with the 4th of July, Theodore Thomas will give a five weeks' concert season at the big exhibition building, in Chicago. Memphis has a musical prodigy, Tommis Key, a five-year-old colored boy. it is said he can play any tune on any instrument with equal ease and excelleuce. Mme. Patti is to make another South American tour, beginning in April next. She is to receive *5,000 for each performance,-and all expenses of travel will be defrayed by the management. A correspondent says that by actual count there were daring a recent week 80S actual and legitimate actors behind New York footlights, men and women cast' in speaking parts, in twenty-four theatres. J. K. Ekhbtt says that all the music inhia* plays is written by himself. He says when he struck the refrain in his famous Lullaby lie jumped to his feet with as much enthusiasm as if he had struck gold, and it was almost as valuable. The *'Golden Legend" has been sung jjn Albert hall, London, in the presence of an andience of 8,000 persons, with Nordica, who is fliA ftnlr on a Alhani trlin haa minor part in England. The young American scored, a success of the first magnitude. She was- t > cheered over and over again, and Sullivan left his box to thank and congratulate her. PROMINENT PEOPLE. :f ?| Secretary Lamar and wife will spend a month in the White Mountains this summer. General Sheridan will be present at th? unveiling of the Soldiers' Monument at New ' Haven, Conn., June 17. ? . Queen Kapiolani, of the Sandwich iV Islands; has a face that indicates bfenevolence and good nature. Her features do not belie hei? character. General Sherman smokes a light domestic cigar, limiting himself to three a day; ' General Sheridan puffs imported, three for half a dollar. \ Judge McConnell, the new Chief Justiceof Montana, is an aggressive temparance nun He closed up every saloon in his judicial -i circuit in Tennessee. '? . Pom Leo received among his Easter giftsan egg carved from a block of the finest ivory. j lineawith quilted satin, and inclosing a ruby and several diamonds. The gems were worm $10,000. Ex-Secretary Manning write? from ~ * Europe to a friend that he is nearly as strong as ever, and will be home early in June to gointo harness for the new bank in New York, of which he will be President. The Sultan of Turkey has just,had the members of his harem vaccinated. There- * were 180 in all. Tfce physicians were not permit ted to see the Women, wbo poked tneir I arms through an opening in a screen. W. E. Darwin,son of the author of ^Origin of Species," who is traveling in America, ae- v clinee tc be interviewed. He has brown hair and wears long side-whiskers, with shaven chin and upper lip. His heiznt and size are /, rather below the average, ana his appearance is that of a country vicar. ' .. George Francis Train says that when hestopped eating meat, thirteen years ago, and began living on fruit and grain he weighed 210 pounds. He now weighs 180, and as ne'ia six lest in height he thinks ho has the correct proportion. He has not been ill an hour since he-began fasting. Lady Cook, formerly Tennie C. Claflin, of New York, has almost the face of a religious recluse, wjthout the slightest expression of a woman of the world. Her eyes are a cold, steely blue and she looks to be at least fortyfive years of age. Her husband is a linen draper, knighted while in some municipal office. :>* NEWSY GLEANINGS, Missouri has 1203,000,000 worth of railroads. The Southwestern earthquakes extended over a section 1,000 miles wide. Mexico is about to expend $4,000,000 in improving the harbor of Vera Cruz. . . . All cattlemen and other.whites have been ordered off the Cheyenne reservation. There are 8,800 persons in the various National fhomes of the United States receiving Government care. The Mexican Senate has passed a Consti- ? ' -3 tutional amendment prohibiting the second Preadential term. A catch of 8,000 shad was made in one haul on Raritan Bay, west of Sandy Hook, one day recently. , The Chinese Government has made a contract with a Birmingham, England, firm for I - ?a# wlrni* on/1 HrnriTA minAffA. it BUpJflJr VI OUTVI UUU m v.. 0 The America cup race will be sailed at New York on September 27 and 29. A tie, should there be one, will be sailed oft on October 1. Two of the wealthiest Episcopal churches in New York city, Grace and Trinity, have determined to make their pews free to the public. A coubt martial has sentenced to death three Greek officers for treachery in having surrendered to the Turks during frontier fighting. ScrsANTfA Madora Salter, justed elected Mayor of Arigonia, a little town in Kansas of 500 inhabitants, is the first woman ever chosen for that office. It costs a man forty cents every time l? swears in Oxford, Penn., an ordinance imposing such a fine having recently beo? passed by the local council George K. graham, once the owner of Graham's Magazine and lor many * years the leading publisher of Philadelphia, who gave employment in their early days to men and women who have become the shining lights ot American literature, is now a joor, infirm old man, and bnt for the kindness of a philanthropic Philadelphian would be in ] the poorhouse. He is lying, a hopeless and practically friendless invalid, in a New York hospital. Among the regular contributors to Graham's Magazine were Henry W. Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, J. Fenimore Cooper, Richard Henry Dana, Nathaniel P. Willie, James Russell Lowell, Lydia H. Sigourney, Francis Sargent Osgood, and Ann S. Stevens. Some of the earliest and best productions of these now famous writers first appeared in this rnihliriftfcinn. Edcrar A. Poe Was lon? employed upon it and put some of his best work in its pages. Willie Lamb, a 13-year-old Kentucky boy, found that a big rock had fallen on the railroad track in a narrow cut near Scottsburg. He waited an hour and then flagged and stopped a coming passenger train. The passengers made up a purse for him. "I didn't expect nothing," said Willie, "I just didn't like to see the train busted up." - -* ' --