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Mrs. Grant has so far received from the
publishers of General Grant's Memoirs
nearly $400,000. The work has a constant
and large sale.
There is a man in Indiana who was
named after Buchanan, and his name was
then changed to Lincoln and from that
to Grant, and he now calls himself Cleveland
Smith. He is bound to keep up
uitli the procession.
Captain Morton, of Birmingham, England,
is building a monster balloon in
thirty sections, each sixty feet long. It is
made of silk and cambric, requires three
thousand yards of sewing, and is to be
coated with a preparation of the best
India rubber. lie intends to \ise it in
a balloon race across channel to France.
A cheerful beggar has just been hanged
in Vienna for killing a man who refused
to give him alms. He showed great
stoicism to the last, and burst out laughing
while the rope was put round his
neck. His last request was for a pair of
new boots, as he did not like to appear
in shabby garb before the distinguished
public that would witness his death.
The experiment of profit sharing with
employes, which has been adopted by the
Toledo, Ann Arbor and Northern Railroad,
marks a distinctive advance in the
co-operative idea. Quite a number of
firms and private companies in the United
States have adopted the system, but so
far as known this is the first effort of the
kind ever made by an American railroad.
Mr. Moody is making great preparationsfor
the evangelization of Chicago.
He proposes to erect a training school in
that city for the education of female missionaries
for "local application." Two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars-has
been subscribed for the purpose? Fifty
thousand dollars will erect the building,
and $200,000 will "be invested as an endowment
fund.
' |TAn Atlanta physician says that all the
generals and all the armies the world has
ever seen have not caused as great
destruction of human life as the man who
invented the bolting cloth. The physician
says that the bolting process flour is
rendered very unwholesome, and the man
who wants to keep in health should boycott
fine flour, and take his wheat in bigger
pieces.
4&X ?
The arrivals of Queenstown emigrants
on their way to the United States are at
present enormous. The railways are
running special trains to accommodate
this class of travel. The number of emigrants
now awaiting steamers to carry
them to their destinations is already
greater than can be housed in the hotels
and lodging-houses, and many are camp- ]
ing in the streets. Fifteen hundred em- <
barked in one day recently. I
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The Garfield monument at Cleveland, "
Ohio, will not be completed for two ,
years more. The exterior will reach i
completion this summer, but it will take 1
a long time to perfect the interior decorations.
The body of President Garfield ]
will remain in the receiving vault of the j
cemetery until the monument is completed.
The dedication ceremonies will ]
not take place inside of two years. No
arrangements have yet been made for 1
that event and the question as to who
the orators will be has not been considered.
Cocoanut raising is a growing industry
in Southern Florida. The raisers do not
expect to have any monkeys to throw
down the nuts, but they will rely on
American ingenuity to construct appropriate
ladders for the performance of the
necessary duty. In Florida pineapples
and cocoanuts pay very well. Ten thou- c
sand pineapples can be raised, it is said,
to an acre, and the same amount of space I
will support fifty cocoanut tree*. The (
latter require very little cultivation.
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Illcv tv Lnjai at iium uuiu tu
years of age and produce from eighty to !
150 nuts to the tree. They bring about '
five cents apiece to the grower. Many (
groves have been planted within a few
years. One New Jersey gentleman has I
330,000 trees. i
American wheat growers have cause to '
feel cheerful over the market prospects. j
The present available supply in the Uni- ]
ted States is 179,000,000 bush sis u
against 197,000,000 bushels last year at
this time. Of this amount. 120,000,000 <
busheb will be required for home consumption
before next harvest, leaving
only 60,000,000 bushels to export. For '
the year ending this August, Great
Britain and Ireland will be obliged to import
150,000,000 bushels. France has a
short wheat crop and will have to import
25,000,000 to 30,000,000 bushels during
the summer. The only influence that
can keep down prices is the fact of an unusually
large wheat crop in Australia.
The general tendency is toward higher
priccs, and no fall is likely to occur during
the next eight months.
Near-sightedness is increasing in all
parts of the civilized world. So affirms
Dr. Cohn, of Breslau, who examined
12,000 cases; Drs. Derby and LoriDg, of
New York, who examined 2,265 cases,
and Professor Anderson X. Ellis, A. M.,
M. D., of Cincinnati, who examined 1,797
cases in the schools of Hamilton and
Oxford, Ohio. Defective or abnormal
eyesight is a deformity which the schools
should guard against as far as possible.
Jt is a detriment to success not to have
good eyes, and glasses are inconvenient
for many purposes. Yet we are told by
those whose authority is unquestionable
that those countries whose schools are
the best contain the greatest percentage
of myopic people. Defective light,
poorly warmed and poorly ventilated
school-rooms, and lack of out-door life,
are altogether the leading causes of nearsight
among children in school.
A BIG LOCKOUT.
The Master Builders of Chicago
Suspend all Operations.
"Rnt.li "Flmnlnvftrs and Workmen
Determine to Hold Out.
A big lockout of workmen employed in the
building trades in Chicago has been brought
about by the employers, who have suspended
all operations. The master builders and contractors
of the city have declared war to the
knife upon what they call the arrogant
dictation of trades unionism in all its forms.
Over 300 members of the Builders' and Traders'
Exchange have combined to defy and, if
possible, break down the Bricklayers' and
Hod Carriers' Unions. At a meeting the
President of the Builders' Exchange, George
Tapper, said:
"A few weeks ago we had the carpenters'
strike, which was settled in a way satisfacto
neither side. Then we had the laborers'
strike, and now, on a paltry whim, we have
the bricklayers' strike. This is more than we
can stand, and we have determined to stop it.
Business of all kinds is injured by
these senseless strikes. This is the greatest
est strike ever seen in the city of
Chicago, and every citizen of Chicago is
interested, every workman is interested, every |
man who owns or ever expects to own a dollar's
worth of property is interested. Every
man engaged ifl -the building business,
whether a member of the Exchange or not, is
invited to give his views, but we want no
agitators."
The demands and purposes of the master
masons are: No more walking delegates; no
more interference with boys who wish to
learn a trade to support themselves in after
life; no more dictation as to pay days or
anything else, and no more buildiug in
Chicago until the backbone of the unions is
broken.
The main hope of the master masons is
that th.' International Bricklayers' Union
will refuse to countenance the strike. Chicago
and San Francisco are the only cities in the
United States where the local bricklayers'
union is not affiliated with the International.
It is asserted that there is a strong feeling of
enmity between the two organizations, growing
out of the fact that the Chicago union refused
to recognize the "working cards" of the
International.and compelled every bricklayer
who came to the city to pay $25 initiatiofi fee
before allowing him to work. It is thought
that an application to the International for
men by the bosses, either directly or through
an advertisement, will flood the town with
bricklayers who will ignore the local union.
On the other hand tne bricklayers and hodcarriers
are defiant and aggresive. They declare
that they have ample means to carry
thorn through the lockout, ana tnai tney can
bring the bosses to terms. At their meeting
it was expected that some dissatisfaction
among the Gernjaii element would be
manifested, but there was nothing of the
kind, and without a dissenting voice the
meeting, which was attended by over 3,000
men, adopted a resolution to strictly abide by
the action of the union in demanding a
Saturday pay day every two weeks, and refusing
to work on any other terms.
Never in the labor troubles of Chicago has
the conflict between employer and employed
assumed bo uncompromising a shape, and the
outcome is awaited with great anxiety and
interest
LATER NEWS.
A boiler at the sawmill of Betz & Momson,
at Gallipolis, O,, exploded, wrecking the
mill and injuring five men, three fatally.
Two Chicago Senators came to blows on
the floor of the Illinois Senate at Springfield. ;
Each afterward apologized to the Senate.
fcx-uoverxor william r?iith, popularly i
known as "Extra Bill}*" Smith, died at his | '
borne in Fauquier County, Va.. on Wednes- I
day. He had been twice Governor of Vir- <
ginia and was a Brigadier-General in the
Confederate Army. He was eighty-nine
pears of age. I
Nearly all the Chicago brick yards have
?hut down, thereby adding 7,000 men to the ]
number idle on account of the great lockout
oy employers in the building trade.
After a long deadlock, Pasco was nomi- ;
rcated on "Wednesday for United States <
Senator from Florida by the Democratic ]
caucus at Tallahassee. (
Major J. L. Rathboxe, of California, <
ms been appointed Consul-General to Paris. 1
There were more than o00 applicants for the '
x?ition.
The police returns show that on Sunday
eleven persons in Berlin committed or atx?mptod
to commit suicide. ,
Queen Victoria will review .TO,000 poor
school childien at Hyde Park, London, on i
rune 22. Each child will be presented with a j
nug commemorating the Queen's jubilee. ,
Another plot to kill the Czar of Russia is i
eporte<l to have been unearthed at Novo
rcherkash. Thirty arrests have been made. I
Mr. Parnell appeared the other day in [
he British House of Commons for the first t
ime in some weeks, but looked feeble and
maciated. 1
BARBED WIRE FENCES. ' i
(
Calvary Jo Aitl. in Enforcing the ^
President's Proclamation.
The General Land Office has found it necessary
to resort to extreme measures and has A
Jemanded of the War Department a troop of }
earalry to move ujxm the barbed wire fence ]
af the boundless West. Advices received in i
Washington from Wyoming indicate that the
rceat cattle comjKinies are not heeding the I
President's March proclamation against il- J
legal fencing of the public domain, and absolutely
refuse to remove the entangling en- F
nronment of their herds. They have inclosed ]
with each township of land which they have _
purchased large numbers of unoccupied al- t
ternate sections of public iand. They claim a
the right to fence their own lands, and say
they are not to blame. because the publiclands
are included in the inclosure. The agents ?
of the General Land Office have repeatedly
ileniarH^d that th? oMriv/tions should be removed
in compliance ~ith tug proclamation,
but to no purpose, and the Secretary of the
Interior requested of the President the aid of
the military land forces of the United States
to protect persons to be sent out to cut the S
wire. The President has directed the Secretary
of War to assign one troop of cavalry to
take station at Cheyenne and act under the \
direction of the officials of the Land Office lo- '
cated at that pla<-e. It is inferred from what
was said last spring by the representatives of i
the heaviest companies in Wyoming that they !
will fight sturdily for the right to keep their
fences, and an encounter between the cow- |
boys of the companies and the cavalry forces
is not improbable if this policy is pursued.
justice woods. ;
Death of a Member of the United
States Supreme Court.
Justice William B. Woods, of the Supreme
Court of the United States, died at his home
in Washington on Saturday. Hewasseriouslv
ill in California about a month aeo, but I
improved enough to enable him to come
home. After *?> arrival he continued to
grow worse. His disease was dropsy.
Justice Woods was born in Newark, Ohio,
and after receiving his primary education
was sent to Yale College, where he graduated
in 1845. Subsequently he studied law and began
the practice of his profession in 1847.
Entering into politics as a Democrat,
he was elected in 1857 to the Ohio
Legislature and made Speaker, and was
re-elected to the same body two years thereafter.
After the breaking out of the war of
1801 he went into the military service as
Lieutenant-Colonel of the Seventy-sixth Infantry,
serving until the war closed, when he
was mustered out with the rank of brigadiergeneral
and brevet-major-general. He was
mustered out in Alabama,where he remained.
Returning to legal duties and political
life he was chosen a State Chancellor for
six years, but after serving in this position
for two years was appointed by President
Grant Circuit Judge of the United States for
the Fifth District, which office he held while
in Mobile for a number of years. His
promotion to the United States Supreme
Court took place in 1880.
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NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.
A two-teak-old daughter of Mi's. Heorge
Moi-se, of Sawyer's Falls. N. H., fell down
stairs, and was choked to death by her clothing
becoming entangled around her neck. At
the same time Mrs. Morse's sister was beiug
married in the parlor below.
The Sunday liquor law was observed so
strictly in New York t'itv that little sniri
tuous drink was sold in saloons or served to
guests at hotels.
Mayor Hewitt, Channeey M. Depew and
Charles A. Dana addressed a national meeting
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
in New York.
A Bitx to permit the sale of liquor in .New
York City by hotels on Sundays was killed in
the Assembly on Monday?CI nays to 17 yeas.
Striking coal miners near Hazleton, Penn.,
are being evicted from their homes by the
company, who own all the surrounding property.
Oxe of the greatest lockouts ever known in
New England has been inaugurated at Haverhill,
Mass. The employes of a shoe firm in
that place having notified their employers
that they would strike unless certain demands
were complied with, the Manufacturers' Association
took the matter up, and sixty-five
shops, employing 6,000 hands, were closed. ,
South and West,
Thomas Kextox, Kentucky's oldest resident,
has just died at Maysville in his onehundredth
year.
A BIG lockout has taken place in the building
trades at Chicago, the employers resisting
the demands of the workmen by suspending
all operations. In consequence tnoussands
of bricklayers, carpenters, etc., were
thrown out of employment.
Further earthquake shocks are reported
from Arizona and California. A slight shock
has also been felt at Charleston, S. C.
Captain William Mcrphisox, of Media,
Miss., has tasted no food or drink for more
than two months.
William Saxdford. a famier of Davics
County, Ind., mistook his son for a burglar,
and shot the lad to death.
Hundreds of car drivers were arrested in
Indianapolis for refusing to obey an ordinance
requiring them to call out the names
of all streets as they were crosscd by the
cars.
By a recent collision on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad at Tiffin, Ohio, a part of Fore
paughs show was badly damaged, and a circus
employer's arm so severely crushed it
\> as thought amputation would bo necessary.
The pecuniary loss was $10,000.
Washington.
About 250 members of the Sixth Army
Corps, who had taken part in the Sedgwick
memorial celebration at Spottsylvania Court
House, Va., called in a body at the White
House and paid their respects to the President.
By the terms of the convention of nations
for the "protection of industrial property,"
recently ratified by President Ceveland, citizens
of the United States havo the privilege,
not hitherto.enjoyed by tl^ein, of obtaining
valid patents in any of the countries which
are members of the convention at any
time within the period of seven months after
patent is obtained in America. The countries
of this industrial union are Belgium, Brazil,
France, Great Britain, Guatemala, Holland,
Norway. Portugal. Salvador, San Domingo,
Servia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunis
and the United States.
The vineyards of Germany are threatened
with devastation by the peronospora, a pest
as rapacious as the phylloxera. So Commercial
Agent Smith reports to the State Department.
The Department of State has received notice
that an agricultural exhibition with competition
in agricultural implements and niachii\ery
will be held at Kharkoflf, Russia, between
October 2 and October 22, 1877.
Americans can compete in exhibits of horses,
cattle, swine, poultiy, bees and agricultural
implements and machinery.
A number of petitions for the enforcement
of the Inter-State Commerce law have lately
been received by the Commissioners.
President Cleveland and his entire
Cabinet, all the surviving mombers of the
Supreme Court, General Sheridan, Admiral
Porter and many other noted people were
present at the funeral of Justice Woods.
After the services the body was conveyed to
Newark, Ohio, for final interment.
The President has ordered the War
Department to send troops of cavalry to
L'heyenne, "Wyoming, for the purpose of
protecting the men engaged in removing wire
fences placed around public lands by cattle
jwners. The President's proclamation
ordering the removal of these fences has not
seen obeyed, and a collision between the
:avalry and cowboys is not im probable.
Foreign.
The London Timrs has resumed publication
>f regular articles intended to show a connection
between "Parnellism and crime."
The French Government's experiments with
nelinite, the new explosive of which great
;hings were expected, have not been satis'actory.
Shells filled with me inite failed to
?ierce an iron-clad vessel agairst w hich they
vere thrown.
The Mayor of Cork has refused to partieijate
in the Queen's jubilee festivities on the
ground that in view of the Coercion bill the
nvitation is little short of an outrage upon
he self-respect of the Irish people.
A mass-meeting of Toronto citizens delounced
Editor O'Brien tor coming to
"anada to attack Lord Larsdowne, the
iovernor-General. The Orangemen at a
neeting determined to actively oppose
3'Brien in case he attempted to speak in
Poronto.
A great panic has arisen in the German
roolen trade, and seven firms have failed
vithin three days.
The authorities of Manitoba, British
America, have placed a patrol 011 the border
ine to prevent Blood Indians from raiding
11 to the United State*.
The five men who took the most prominent
>art in the plot to assassinate the Czar of
Russia on March 13 have been hanged.
.i.>uinr.n u*kt*u juauc in r i cui;u
iff airs, the Chamber of Deputies rejecting
Prime Minister Goblet's financial policy by
!75 nays to 259 yeas, whereujxm the resignar
ion of the (.Cabinet members was tendered,
Hid accepted by President Grevy.
Queen* Victoria's health is said to be
eriouslv affected bv over-exertion and anxety.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC,
Louis James, the actor, was one of Colonel
Ellsworth's Zouaves.
Elizabeth Gorewa, the Russian tragedienne,
contemplates a visit to the United
States.
The receipts of "Jim, the Penman," during
the New York season at the Madison
Square Theatre, amount to nearly $210,000.
Olive Nelson, a pretty girl of sixteen,
from New York's society circles, is engaged
for next season at Daly's New York Theatre.
Mrs. Langtry is having two new plays
written for her by native dramatists for
which she has invented several attractive
Bcenefc.
Mme. Jessy Lind Goldsmith will visit
this country next autumn, and will be the
guest of a prominent citizen. The visit is to
Be of a social nature only.
Buffalo Bill's show has made a big hit
at the London American exhibition. The
Queen attended a special performance given
for her own entertainment.
Masjfi, the eminent tenor, has accepted an
engagement at Buenos Ayres, where ne will
get $150,000. He will take with him a private
physician, secretary and two valets.
Of all the New York managers Lester "Wallack
is the only one who was born in the dramatic
profession and brought up in the expectation
of following a managerial career.
Mr. "Wiilkie Collins has written a letter
to Mrs. James Brown Potter, warmly commending
the American society lady's performance
of the leading character in "Man
and Wife'?
Miss Helen- Cooper-Parr, who is one of
the popular actresses of the English stage, and
who will shortly appear in a new play written
for her especially, is a niece of Feaimore
Cooper, the novelist.
"Whalers at New Bedford, Mas*., say that
a result of the Interstate Commerce bill will
be a resort to the old method of bringing cargoes
of oil and whalebone from San Francisco
around Cape Horn.
TURMOIL IN. TORONTO.
Editor O'Brien Meets with a
Turbulent Reception.
His Speech Eeceived with Mingled
fThpprs and TTtssps.
William O'Brien, the Irish editor, met with
a turbulent reception in Toronto on Tuesday.
The train from Montreal containing the man
who had como all the way from Iceland to denounce
the Governor-General's treatment of
his Irish tenants arrived in Toronto on time.
An excited mob of 4,00) people surged round
the train,and when O'Brien emerged from hia
coach, followed by Mr. Kilbride, a storm, of
mingled cheers,groans and hisses greeted him.
Mr. O'Brien's sympathizers seemed to be in
the ascendant. When O'Brien alighted, his
hand was grasped by William Mulligan,President
of the Toronto Irish National League.
The two were immediately surrounded
by a dozen policeman, who, after fifteen min"
utes' hard work, pushed Mr. O'Brien through
the crowd into his carriage. The Orangemen
howled and groaned like mad, and several
times made a rush toward O'Brien as if to
seize him. They were beaten back with clubs
by the police.
In the carriage with O'Brien and Kilbride
were seated President M ulligan and Secretary
P. P. Cahill, of Toronto. The carriage horses,
excited by the uproar, pranced wildly, ana
there was another time of excitement, but
the animals were finally quieted. Then all
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the number of 100, surrounded the
carriage. There were two files of
mounted police in front of the carriage
and two files in the rear. The other officers,
carrying night sticks, marched on the sides
and at the rear of the carriage. Each officer
had strapped around his waist a belt in which
was stuck a large navy revolver and a box of
cartridges. As the carriage was slowly driven
from the depot and the crowd continued
cheering tumultuously for Lansdowne,
O'Brien, Salisbury and Gladstone, O'Brien
stood up in his carriage!, bared his head, and
cried:
"Three cheers for our friends in England
and the cause they are struggling for."
The Irishmen cheered and the others
groaned. The crowd followed the carriage
to the Rossin House, still cheering and groaning.
O'Brien's face was as placid and
cheerful as ever. The police escorted O'Brien
into the hotel, and then guarded the hotel
doors for half an hour. Then the doors were
opened, and a stream of people passed in for
an hour, and by O'Brien, who stood in the
lower corridor of the hotel. They
were introduced to O'Brien bj' President
Mulligan, who is, by the way, the
business partner of Sir John Macionald, the
Canadian Premier. O'Brien slrook hands
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flowers was presented to him, and then the
inevitable address. There was a tremendous
cheer when Mr. Mulligan got through, and
Mr. O'Brien, standing on the hallway stairs,
said:
"I can hardly express my high appreciation
of the manner in which the people of
Canada have sympathized with and supported
this mission of ours. If the London
Times had its way it would be treason to love
us and death to defend. Thank God, the
London Times is not going to have its way
here in Toronto or anywhere else. It is cheap
enough to find summer friends, but this is the
time to test to the core the sympathy and regard
of the people in Canada for Ireland,
and I must say that it warms my heart to
find how gloriously the old instinct of your
Irish hearts has burst through every difficulty
and danger to be with is on behalf of the
poor struggling' Irish people.1'
While the O'Brien reception was in progress
at the Rossin House the hostile mob
outside the hotel shouted imprecations on
O'Brien's head. t'rias of "Kill him!"
"Curse him:" and "Hurrah for King
Billy 1" were heard on every side. The
police made no effort to disperse the
mob es long as no actual violence
was attempted. Mr. O'Brien was not at all
disturbed, and his voice rang out cheerily to
each man who was presented to him. ' I am
glad to meet you, sir. and I hope to have your
sympathy for Ireland.*'
In a short time the mob outside dispersed
on its own motion. It was learned definitely
max, me urange iouges oi me cicy.anu oi
York count}', at a secret meeting, had decided.
by a small majority, not to interfere
with Mr. O'Brien by any officially ordered
movement. The Orangemen outrank the
Irish Catholics in the citv five to one, and
popular feeling, numerically considered, was
against O'Brien.
At noon Company C , l."0 meu, of the
Dominion Regulars Corps, were placed under
arms in their barracks at the new fort, two
miles from Queen's Park, where the meeting
was held.
The Queen's Park is in the northern part of
Toronto, and covers abou t fifty acres. Before
the crowd gathered the park presented a
really beautiful sight, with its trees just leafing
out and its bright green sward dotted
with dandelions. In the centre of the park,
under a canopy of trees, s'ooi the same platform
from wnich Professor Goldwin Smith
and the Right Reverend Bishop of Algoma
denounced Mr. O'Brien Saturaay as a venomous
and untruthful speaker.
As early as 1 o'clock people began to pour
op the wide Queen's avenue which leaas tc
the park, but the earliest Orangeman oi
Tory found a solid body of Irishmen, 5,00C
strong, massed in front of the stand. By i
o'clock 15,000 people were there.
The policemen were bie men. most of then
Orangemen. The crowd did nob manifest
its temper or its opinions until Mr. O'Brien
arrived, a little after 4 o'clock. His carriage
was escorted by twenty mounted policemen,
whn fnrrwl n wav throuo'h the crowd. It
contained, besides 1tfi\ O'Brien, Mr. Kilbride
and Messrs. Mulligan and Cahill of the
National League.
Upon the arrival of the carriage began a
sceno of uproar and confusion of whion Toronto
never saw tho like before, and which
lasted until the meeting closed. When the
Irishmen saw O'Brien they cheered wildly,
and flung their hats in the air. At the same
instant, from a lot of men on the right of the
stage, came a series of yells, groans, songs,
shrieks, and catcalls, so loud that people on
the platform had to shout to each other to
make themselves heard.
President Mulligan stepped to the front of
the stage and tried to speak, but the noise was
redoubled. He could only shout into the ears
of the reporters.
Mr. O'Brien took off his hat, and, stepping
forward, bowed low. The ovation that was
given him by his sympathizers was a grand
one, and for a moment its mighty shout rose
above the din made by those hostile to him.
But his friends were not there to shout, but to
listen. and when he opened his
month to speak the noise made by
his enemies seemed to drive his
words back. It was with the greatest difficulty
that the reporters, who stood right at
O'Brien's back and sides, could hear what he
said, and it was at once apparent that,
though 110 violence was meditated, it was ttie
settled determination of the crowd to prevent
his speaking.
But Mr. O'Brien was not dismayed. He
itood erect with flashing eye and curling lip,
his whole body eloquent with indignation,
and he hurled his sentences at the mob until
the entire speech I10 had intended to give
was delivered. During its deliver}' the mob
tried other tactics besides making a noise.
They endeavored in vain to push the Irishmen
from their places in front of the
stage, mil managed to get up live
or six lights. Once or twice a litthe
knot of them got right in front of Mr.
O'Brien, but they were driven away. At
these timas t here was a general statu [>ede of
people on the outside of the crowd, all evidently
thinking that a riot had commenced.
The police made 110 offort to stop either the
yelling or the pushing. Mr. O'Brien, when
he got back to his hotel, said to a reporter:
"The attempt to suppress roe will do Lord
foner,4,?t?r.,a n criirvl (ilHll mnPfl hurt than it
will me."
Lord Lansdowne vouchsafed the following
information to a reporter:
"Mr. O'Brien labors under false information.
I have always l>een disposed to treat
my tenants with moderation and justice. I
have investigated every case where injustice
was complained of. I should have continued to
do so had not the Land League interposed in my
concerns. The statement that had been made
tliat I borrow money from the British Gov8i*nment
under the Land Improvement act
of 1881. and loan it to my tenants at an increased
rate, is wholly untrue. The charges
that have been brought against my grandfather
of cruel injustice and oppression are
also falsa."
O'Brien Mobbed.
Editor O'Brien left his hotel in Toronto at
i 8;3Q Wednesday evening for a^ walk and to
get a "breath Of fres'.i tilt. r:e tvos accompanied
by William Mulligan and D, P. Cabill
of the National League, and by the New
York newspaper correspondents. The crowd
that had gathered groaned and hissed with
vehemence and surrounded O'Brien.
The Irish editor turned into Kings street,
which bounds the Rossin House on the north,
and walked down a block to Bav street. He
8tailed down Bav street to the South. About
half-way down the street the mob surged
around him and pressed him to the side
of a brick building adjoining the sidewalk.
He cried, excitedly: "Boys, this is not
fair." Three policemen, who nad been following
him from a distance, then pushed
through the crowd, and managed to extricate
him. He went down the street, with the
policemen in his rear, the mob still increasing
in numbers and violence.
At the corner of Wellington street, which
forms the south side of the square around
which O'Brien was walking, a fight attracted
the attention of the police and they ran off,
leaving O'Brien 'unprotected. Instantly missiles
began to be thrown. A rotten egg struck
President Mulligffn in the back, and stones
began to strike the houses before which
O'Brien was walking, one of which knocked
off his hat. He picked the hat up, and held it
so as to protect his head as much as possible.
Then he increased his pace up Well
uiuju abicvt/f auu a. jjvritxt unii
of stones, rotten eggs, sticks, and
all sorts of missiles followed. J. U. Wall, the
Associated Press reporter, was struck in the
head with a stone and knocked down senseless.
He recovered in a moment, and crawled
into a little alley called Johnson's lane.
O'Brien turned to the mob and cried:
"You dogs, don't you see we are unarmed
men P
His cry was answered by a shower of stones
and brickbats. Then he started to run. The
street was unlighted, and O'Brien is so near
sighted as to be almost blind in the dark. He
tried to get into Sharp's jewelry shop, but the
door was locked. Stones smashed the shop
windows while he was trying the door. Then
he ran into Thomas Lalor s bicycle shop,
which is next door to the laundry. President
Mulligan was with him. They ran through
the shop, overturning the bicycles, and
trampling upon them. The mob did
I not follow them immediate!}", but remained
outside the store, smashing
the windows, and uttering the most horrible
cries. They yelled: "Burn O'Brien!''
"Hang him!" '"Kill the traitor!" "Down
with the dynamiters!" and the like.
D. P. Cahill, Secretary of the National
League, followed O'Brien and Mulligan into
the bicycle shop. His head was badly cut in
two places by the stones. Charles Cushman,
a clerk in the office of the
Crown Land Department, who happened
to be in the store, seized O'Brien's
hand and rushed with him out of the back of
the shop into a courtyard. Thence by a
crevice between two buildings the party
crawled into a yard in the rear of the itossin
House, and in a few minutes Mr. O'Brien was
safely in his room at the hotel. Not a stone
had; hit him, and he was absolutely unharmed.
NATIONAL GAME,
Orange, N. J., has five baseball ' earns, all
made up of hatters.
The predictions that the Chicago Club was
weak seem to be true.
The Chicagos early their mascot, "Willie
Hahn, on all their trips.
Snead, of Memphis, is said to be the best
stealer in the Southern League.
Baltimore is looked upon as the dark horse
in the American Association race this year.
HoRN'UNG and Johnston are saving games
right along for Boston by their marvelous
fielding.
It took the Champion Chicago Club thirteen
innings to defeat the Pittsburg nine in a
recent game.
Ansox says he will play ball at least three
seasons more. Chicago's big first baseman is
now 38 years old.
A singular fact about one of the DetroitIndianapolis
games was that all of Detroit's
fifteen runs were earned.
The Champion St. Louis Browns have
again taken the lead, and it will take a good
team to h at them in the American Association
race.
Joe Gerhardt, the veteran second-baseman,
has been released by the New York
Club, and has signed with the Metropolitans,
of Che American Association.
It takes 1.000 men, 500 on each side, to play
a college ball game. Nine of each 500 play
Dan, ana yen. ine yeiiing is quite us important
as the playing, and the yeUers work
just as hard.
Nearly all the most notable League Cap
tains?Anson, Ward, Hanlon, Kelly and Irwin?like
the new rules and strongly advo- i
cate a fair trial for them. Most potent
friends are these.
Welch, of the St Louis Browns, is the
nerviest batter in tho profession: He stands
perfectly erect, and never moves a muscle
when a ball sometimes passss within an inch
or two of his head.
The New York "Giants" were defeated
two out of three games on their own grounds
by the Washington Club, and nearly lost the
third game. Spectators at these games frequently
hissed the New Yorks for their many
misplays.
Evert spectator at a League baseball game
has seen the umpire tear open a square box,
tako a ball therefrom and toss the latter to
the pitcher then in the box. Every baseball
used in a league game must be officially
scaled by the secretary of the League, and ,
the box must bear his signature. Before c
taking the ball out of the box the umpire i3
required to see that the signature and seal are
all right. Moreover, he must glance at the
ball itself, and unless he finds Secretary Nick
Young's name written on the horsehide cover
he cannot put the Dan into -piay." i
THE NATIONAL LEAGUE RECORD.
_ , .. Won. Lost. Won. Lost. I
Detroit 13 2 Boston 9 4
Pittsburgh.... 6 6 New York.... 7 7
Philadelphia.. 8 0 Indianapolis... 3 12
Chicago 5 7 | Washington... S 10
THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
_ . R"on. Lost. Won. Lost.
St. Loui5 10 8 I Baltimore 11 S
Brooklyn 11 5 | Cincinnati.... 13 8
Louisville 11 9 Athletic . 8 10
Metropolitan.. 2 15 | Cleveland 3 17
THE INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE.
XT . 1 W<"}; ? Won, Lost'
Newark 9 1 Syracuse 0 6
Rochester 7 5 Binghamton.. 0 5
Toronto 8 3 Hamilton 5 7
Buffalo 8 5 Jersey City... 3 8
Oswego 2 10 Utica 3 7
EASTERN LEAGUE.
AT TT Won Lost. Won. Lost.
New Haven... 0 6 Hartford 7 5
Bridgeport.... 10 2 "Waterbury.... 7 4
Danbury 2 10 Springfield.... 3 8
THE SOUTHERN LEAGUE.
_ , Won. Lost. Won. Lost.
I?ew Orleans.. 15 C Nashville 10 3
Memphis 13 9 Charleston.... 9 11
Mobile 5 10 Savannah 4 18
THE COLLEGE LEAGUE.
Won. Lost. Won. Lost
Harvard 1 1 | Princeton..... 2 1
Yale 2 0 | Columbia 0 3
FOREST FIRES.
Many A ores Burned on Cape Cod
and in the Northwest.
Immense forest fires have l>een raging on
Cape Cod, Mass., for several days, and many
thousand acres in the towns of Sandwich,
Bourne. Wareham. Agawam, and Mashpee
have been devastated. Several dwellings
have been burned, including
the fW.OOO summer residence of h.
L. Dorr, at Sandwich. The town of v\ are
1 -C ? /uui inhuhitnnts. WHS saved
Iiain, a jjja.ct3 ui t.uw ,
from destruction only by the severest exertions
of all tlie men* who were able to light
the tiames.
Specials from a dozen points in the Northern
Michigan peninsular and the Wisconsin
counties adjacent are to the effect that forest
fires recently started arc increasing. Despatches
from Sault Junction say men |
are being driven from the camps bv the fires
on the coast. The lire Ls in the Sault branch,
and is raging fiercely. Noguanee sends word
that fires are spreading to the north and east,
entering a vast tract of valuable pine, the
damage already amounting to $.r>0,000. Near
Cascade a valuable strip of hard timber wa<
burning.
Rome 1,900 delegates are expected to attend
the International Sunday-school Convention,
to be held in Chicago June ]. The convention
will be held in the Battery Armory, on
the lake front, which will be fitted up to accommodate
7,000 people.
Matthew Cherry, a negro of "Washing- ;
ton, has invented a vehicle for carrying four i
passengers which he works with his feet. He 1 ]
is making money out of it. ]
FAR AND NEAR. Important
Happenings in Various
Sections of the World.
Discovery of an Immense Silver
Treasure in India.
The Financial Secretary of India has advised
the British Government of the discovery
of an immense amount of treasure, estimated
at over $25,000,000, which had been
secreted in the palace of Gwalior by the late
Maharajah. The treasure had been sunk in
pits under the vaults beneath the Zenana,and
the secret was intrusted to a few servants.
The Secretary was present when the
treasure was unearthed. After removing
the earth to a depth of six feet the
workmen uncovered great flagstones.
Beneath these stones were several pits
filled to the brim with silver, chiefly
freshly coined rupees. In each pit was a
plate recording the amount of the treasure
and the names of the officials who had
assisted in secretin? it.
The Indian Government has taken the
hoard as a loan from the young Maharajah.
The native papers protest against this
action of tne Government. They say
that had the Maharajah been an
adult instead of being under a
regency controlled by the Government, be
would never have invested his whole wealth
in Indian securities. A question will be raised
in Parliament as to whether the "investment"
be not another name for seizure.
A Fatal Enconnter With a Lunatic.
Mr. Busch, the overseer on the Woodland
plantation, fifty miles below New Orleans,
was shot a few days since and seriously, i<
not fatally, wounded by a crazy man named
Wilson. The lunatic was armed with
a double-barreled shot gun, and attacked
the overseer in the field, emptying
both barrels of his gun into him, breaking
both of his legs. He then retired to his cabin,
in which he fortified himself for a seige.
Sheriff Thibaut summoned a posse to assise
him in capturing the murderer. Among
those who offered their services were
Mr. George Osmond, late editor of
the Mascotte, of New Orleans, and
of the Plaquemine Protector. The party
went to the man's cabin and called upon him
to surrender. Williams poked the muzzle of
the gun through the crack and fired; wounding
Osmond fatally in the neck. The posse set
fire to the cabin, and when Wilson ran out
they shot him. Osmond was a man of pluck.
While editor in New Orleans some months
ago he was attacked by two men in his offiee,
and killed one of the assailants?Robert
Brewster, State Register of Voters?wounded
the other, and was himself wounded.
A Failure for $1,100,000.
, Swan Brothers, cattle men, have made a
general assignment at Cheyenne, Wyoming
Territory, for the benefit of all creditors.
Liabilities estimated at $1,100,000. The firm
consists of Alexander and John Swan. It
is learned from the best authority that
the assets of the firm will be largely
in excess of the liabilities. The di
direct cause or uie suspension was an action
for attachment brought against A. H. Swan
by the German Savings Bank, of Davenport,
Iowa, on a note which had been signed by
Swan as security and on which no
ultimate loss could occur, because
the bank was fully * protected by
the property of the principals. This
action of the bank caused a run on the firm,
and after $85,000 had been paid out it was
decided to suspend in order to protect the
property from sacrifice.
The Trial of Jacob Sharp.
The long expected trial of Jacob Sharp)
President of the Broadway Surface Railway
Company, began in New York on Monday
before Judge Barrett. The Court-room was
crowded to its fullest capacity. The
technical charge which Sharp is before the
bar of justice to answer is that of
having offered a bribe to Ludolnh A.
Fullgraff to influence his official action as an
Alderman of New York upon the application
of Sharp's Broadway Surface Railway Company
for a franchise. Three of the New
VorK Aldermen of the Board of 1884 have
already been sent to Sing Sing for accepting
bribes to grant Sharp's company a franchise.
Mr. O'Brien Elected to Parliament.
William O'Brien, Editor of United Ireland,
who is now in Canada, has been elected without
opposition to the seat in fhe House of
Commons for the northeast division of Cork,
made vacant by the resignation of Edmund
Leamy.
SUMMARILY PUNISHED. ~
Three Train "Wreckers Shot by
Soldiers in Mexico.
A train on the Mexican National Railroad
ran over and killed a Mexican near Patzcuaro
a week ago. The friends of the dead man undertook
to retaliate aud put a big rock on a
curve. The engine of a passenger train struck
it And an American pntrineer was injured
and a Mexican fireman killed. The Jefe I
Politico sent a squad of Mexican soldiers I
with instruct ions to bring, in every person
suspected of any complicity in the outrage.
Thirty-three arrests were made. The investigation
resulted in the selection of three victims
and sentence was immediately passed.
Shortly after sunrise the three were marched
to the scene of the disastsr, stood up beforo
an adobe wall, and a file of soldiers fired a
volley at them. The men fell at the first fire.
A sergeant stepped forward to the bodies,put
a revolver close to each head and blew out
their brains.
PROMINENT PEOPLE,
Joaquin Miller proposes to end his days
in California.
Alma Tadema, the celebrated London
artist, has a staircase of solid brass in his
house.
Col. Johk Hat got his fortune of $2,000,000
through his marriage with MisB Stone, of
i/iev emiiu.
Prince Leopold, a grand-nephew of the
German Emperor, has been seeing the sights
in and about New York.
Captain Boycott, the original Boycott, is
now the agent on the Flixton Hall estate, near
Bungay, in Suffolk, England.
It is believed that the richest man in the
world at the present time is Baron Hirsch,
the banker of London and Paris.
The Emperor of Japan is described as dark
and with heavy, irregular features, but as
having much dignity and majesty in his bearing.
Governor Ajces, of Massachusetts, lives
in magnificent style. It costs him fully 150,
000 a year to keep up hie Boston establish
ment. (
Alfred Tennyson has been England's (
poet laureate since 1850?a longer period
than the honor was held by any of his predecessors.
i
Miss Elizabeth Garrett, sister of the
President of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad,
is worth about $1^,000,000, and is a very
bright and business-like woman.
Mr. Jay Gould requires three weeks to
make the tour of his railroads. He dines and 1
sleeps on board his private car from the start
to the finish, but he does not travel at ,
night. '
Gk.v. S. B. Buckkkr, whom the Demo- ,
crats have nominated for Governor of Ken
tucky, is a man of great wealth. He has j
more than fo00,000 worth of real estate in '
Chicago. j
Mrs. Elizabeth Ccstkr, widow of Gen- i
eral Custer, is tall and slender, with black (
hair and sympathetic gray-brown eyes. Her ,
face has been a handsome one in earlier days, j
but anxiety and heartrending sorrow have
left upon it many marks and lines. ]
Rose Elizabeth Cleveland, sister of the ]
President, has engaged to Mrs. Sylvanus
~ - * ^?1- oo accntiuit at Mrs 1
neea, 01 i?w ivia, ?o ? ?
Reed's school for young women. Miss Cleveland
promises to do no newspaper nor magazine
work while teaching in the school.
Jonas G. Clarke, of Worcester, Mass.,
who recently presented^ $1,000,000 to that city
for the founding of a University, has made a
further gift of a half million dollars' worth of
real estate, books and works of art, and $500,000
in cash for the establishment of professorships.
Secretary Batard rises between 7 and 8,
breakfasts at 8:30, is at the office an hour
later and goes home about 5 in the afternoon.
He dines at 7 aud passes the remainder, of ths
evening in his study or visits one of the few
bouses whese he is in the habit of calling. Hit
health is said to be very good.
?? P"
A GABnELDMEMOBIAL.:
Unveiling of the Late President'#Statue
in Washington.
l M MIIlufl
In the presence of a great multitude of people
the statue of General James A. Garfield,
raised by the Society of the Army of tb?
Cumberland in honor of one of their comrades,
was Thursday afternoon uncovered is
Washington with appropriate ceremoniec,
ana accepted ior tne people or tne urntea
States in a brief speech by President Cleveland.
The ceremony of unveiling the statue wasthe
principal feature of the annual assembly of
the Society of the Army of the Cumberland.
It had held its business meeting*,
elected officers, listened to the oration
on the history of the society that
is required by the compact of organization
to be provided at each yearly gather^
ing, and at noon was ready to carry oat theprogramme
arranged for the formal revelation
of the monument to the public.
Just before noon the procession moved from
the Arlington Hotel under command of General
Absalom Baird. It was composed of
two divisions. Flags were flying from the
public buildings and hotels, but there was a>
Jtrvrinl nftomnt At. H?wv?rnrinn miHa /mm t.M?
Persons who desired to see the unveiling
assembled dbrlv about., the circle,
in the centre,^ of which stood the
statue wrapped in flags. The place choeen i?
almost immediately in front of the west end
of the House of Representatives, at the foot
of Capitol Hill, and facing Maryland avenue,
an avenue that leads out to the southwest
just at "Pennsylvaniaavenue do?
to the northwest . At the west sid?
of the circle, backing up against the
wall of the Botanical Garden, a platform was
erected. Here were seated the invited guest*, .
including the President and Mrs. Cleveland,
Members of the Cabinet, James and Henry
Garfield, Geuerals Sherman, Sheridan and
Rosecrans, and other noted people. ?
After the prayer the Marine band played
"Hail to the Chief," and amid the clapping of
hands the American flag enveloping the
statue was dropped, and the great bronze
image stood exposed to the rays of the mid*
day sun.
The statue is the design of the sculptor
Ward, who also designed the equestrian
statue of General Thomas in that city. It
is ten feet six inches in height, and represents
Garfield facing the west , in
the act of delivering an address, with
his right band resting on a column and a
manuscript held in nis left Recumbent
ideal figures at each corner of the triangular
pedestal represents the student, the warrior,
and the statesman, typifying the three
epochs in General Garfield s career. Bronze
tablets above the figures bear a globe,
a trumpet, and a sword, and a laurel
wreath enclosing the scales of justice.
The inscriptions upon the 'shaft arc
placed upon three sides as follows:
Southwest face?James A. Garfield, 1831?
1881.
Southeast face?Major General U. S. V.j
Member of Congress; Senator and President
of the United States of America.
North face?Erected by his comrades of
the Society of the Army of the Cumberland,
May 12, 1887. ^
A battery of artillery fired a national salute,
and then General Sheridan introduced
the orator of the day, General J. Warren
Keifer, who, on the part of the MonumentCommittee,
delivered an address transferring
the statue to General Sheridan. At its conclusion
General Sheridan, in behalf of th?
society, transferred the statue to the President
of the United States. The President re
ponded in a speech accepting the statue.
When he had concluded the band played "HaH
Columbia," and the Rev. F. D. Power, who was
the pastor of General Garfield's church in this
city, pronounced the benediction. The troops
were then dismissed, and the ceremonies
aided. -3
NEWSY GLEANINGS,
Rich coal fields have been discovered in
Australia
Gladstone is the name of a new town la
California.
Such is the desire to ascend the Washings ,
ton Monument, in Washington, that during
the year ending April 1 no less than 27,000
permits were issued, and it is estimated that
26,000 were used.
The recent earthquake opened two large
gold veins in the Santa Catarina Mountains in
Arizona, at a point where the side of tbc
mountain slid down.
Owing to ill-heath the Empress of Austria
was this year obliged to forego the customary
washing of the feet of twelve old women on
Maunday Thursday, at the Hofburg. Sb?
made them rich gifts instead.
The oil portraits of the Secretaries of th?
Treasury in the Department building at
Washington now extend from Hamilton to
Folger, and the officers in charge are now
planning to add Messrs. Gresham and Manning
to the list. ' r?A
THE MARKETS.
n'ew york. 30
Beef, good to prime S
Calves, cqm'n to prime 9
Sheep ? @ ?
Lambs 8?f@
Hogs?Live >
Dressed ? 'KQ Jpff:
Flour?Bx. St., good to fancy 4 75 @ 4 85
West, good to choice 3 85 @ 5 00
Wheat?No. 2, Red... . 97 <9 9IK H
Rye?State ~ & tB Barley?State
60 @ 73 |
Corn?Ungraded Mixed.... 47^@ 49%
Oats?White State 37}4& 37J*
Mixed Western 34 @ 36
Hay?Med to prime 75 @ 85
Straw?No. 1, Rye 50 60
r.oni?Ritv Steam 7 25 (?} 7 SO
Butter?State Creamery.... 22 @ 22#
Dairy ? @21 1
West. Iai. Creamery 16 18
Factoiy 16 @ 17 ;%
Cheese?State Factory 11 @ 11%
Skims 6 (6> 9 ,
Western 13% @ IS#
Eggs?State and Penn 13)i<g 14
BUFFALO.
Sheep?Good to Choice 4 10 4 30
l^ambs?Western 4 75 (& 5 00
Steers?Western 4 35 @ 4 60
flogs?Good to Choice Yorks 5 10 @5 15
Flour 4 75 <$ 3 15
IV heat?No. 1 98^0 93
_"orn?No. 2, Mixed 4."%($ 44
Oats?No. 2, Mixed .15 (aj 35J?
Barley?State '54 (? ft)
BOSTON.
Beef?Good to choice 15
3ogs?Live 6
noAiMiul M//& ri\ S
aiuj lucm i/icwcu...' < '/%
Pork?Ex. Prime, per bbl...12 00 @12 30
Flour?Spring Wheat pat's.. 5 00 (3, ~> 10
3orn? High Mixed ? @ 52J?
Dats?Extra White 41 @ 41K
[lye?State 63 @ 65
WATKRTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET.
Beef- Dressed weight 6 & 7l{
Sheep?Live weight 4^w 6#
Lambs ? @
iogs?Northern 7%
PHILADELPHIA.
Flour?Penn.extra family... 3 75 0) 8 00
IVheat?No. 2. Red..." 95%@ 96 V
2orn?State Yellow 50 @ 50V
3ats Mixe 1 So @ S6
rtye- State ? @ 53
3utter?Creamery Extra... ' SI @ 22
Cheese?N. Y. Full Cream.. ll%(a ft}
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