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The total annual cost to the government of the 710 men employed in the United States military bands is $269,724. In addition they receive from the savings of the post bakeries and from subscriptions and outside earnings enough to bring their total receipts up to $296,724. , Secretary Endicafct says th:.t the musicians are trained soldiers, aud for that reason a valuable part of the army. At the present time in the United States there are remaining about 200,000,000 acres of public land for the use of the coming generations of men. The Chicago Herald says that "at the rate of disposal of the last year only ten more years of such reckless and prodigal frit4f !AnV ^nmoin tcill I tcriliij; U W a v UI tuc uativu O uuumiu n*? be necessary in order to reach the end. During the last fiscal year 20,113,663 acres were swept off the list of the free lands." A great many people are unaware that there are eight small reservations in New York State, located in the extreme southwest portion. The Indians number over 5,000, and consist of Senecas, St. Regis, Onondagas, Tuscaroras, Oneidas and Cayugas. The State provides the reservations. The general Government makes a school appropriation. General Eli Parker, formerly of Grant's staff and ex-Indian Commissioner, is the hereditary chief of the Senecas. An Indiana aeronaut says that a balloon 1 can be made to carry an elephant as i easily as a mouse, 100 men as easily as one man. He proposes to construct a 1 cylinder-shaped balloon 150 or 200 feet 1 long, with which to make captive and 1 free ascents. He is a believer in the theory ' that the north pole may be reached by a ' balloon, and in no other way. His plan 1 for this project would be to employ a 1 screw, operated by an engine to be car- ] ried in the car. By means of this screw 1 the balloon's course could be controlled, J as already demonstrated by French ex- < periments. In Vienna the goose is skinned before } it is sent to the market, and the skin ] garnished with its down is sold as swan's ^ skin or down. It is thus effected: The ^ skin of the back is slit, and the whole ( is drawn over the head like a shirt with , the greatest care, so as not to injure the ' breast. Such a skin sells for two or ^ three francs, but the value of the bird , is lessened one-fifth The carcasses are j sent to Paris, and are eagerly bought up by ^ the work-people and tavern-keepers. At I c Poitiers there are two houses which pre- ' c pare annually 40,000 to 50,000 swan 8 downs, England and Amcrica being the j chief markets. t ? c The use of dynamite for proper pur- j po?es has grown with great rapidity j within a few years, and men who are c accustomed to handle the powerful ex- r plosive have learned that only reasonable j. caution is needed to remove all danger. t Dynamite cannot be exploded by any or- ^ dinary concussion, because the molecules r of the nitro-glycerine are too firmly held j by the fibrous substance which it saturates. Thousands of pounds of it are made every year at the Du Pont works, opposite "Wilmington, and shipped in j care to all parts of the country. One t "frequent use to which dynamito is put on the Jersey coast is to blow up sunken wrecks which are dangerous to navigation, >* The vexed problem of whether bees arc injurious to fruit may be regarded at last as settled, at least so far as the courts of California are concerned. A recent suit for damages based on this question, after an exhaustive trial before the Superior Judge and a jury in San Bernardino County, has resulted in a verdict against the bees. A vast amount of "expert" testimony was given, and after a pretty thorough marshaling of everything that could be adduced cn either side the conclusion mentioned was arrived at. Hereafter, therefore, it must be accepted as a legal proposition that bees are injurious to fruit (in California, at least), and the owners of apiaries in fruit-growing regions will have to govern themselves ac cordingly._ j ! ? i Daring 1885 the number of "recep> tions'' at the morgue in Paris were 858. Of these 659 were bodies of men, 199 of . women. The busiest month was August, ( when the number was 106; the slackest, February, when it was forty-one. Of the 858 bodies, 605 were identified, and the following is the classification given of professions: , MEN. [ WOMEN*. Laborers 1151'Workingwomen... 37 Employes 67 Domestic servants. 20 Drivers. 51;Washerwomen .... 17 , Masons 47 Flower girls 16 [ Mechanics 23 Bookbinders 11 Gentlemen 19 Other professions.. 18 ( Other professions.. 158 The sundry forms of death are cla9<i- 1 fied as follows: Drowned, 181; hung, 79: firearms, 163; sidearms, 91; poisoned, C2; suffocated, 154; falls from houses, etc., 75; other causes, 53. A marvelous conjurer named Bautier de Kolta, a Hungarian, has appeared in Paris, and among'other tricks which confounded a company of adepts assembled to witness them was this: After spreading a newspaper on the floor lie placed a chair upon it, and then asked a young lady to sit down. He threw over her a piece of silk, which barely covered her from head to feet. lie then rapidly removed the drapery, and the chair was empty. As soon as the amazement of the spectators gave them time to applaud, the young lady walked on from the side and bowed her acknowledgements. There certainly was no trap in the door, the chair was of the ordinary kind, and the trick was done in a strong light. The lady, in fact, disappeared before the very eyes of the audience, but so quickly was the trick done that no one present saw her escape. A I Each Congressman is entitled to 6,000 paper packages of vegetable seed, 500 of flower seed, 300 of tobacco, fifty quarts of grass, thirty-two of cotton, twenty-eight of sugar beet, and twenty each of corn and sorghum, to distribute among his constituents. The 6tockmen of Nevada complain of the quantities of jock-rabbits which infest the cattle ranges and are rapidly denuding the country of all vegetation. Never since the settlement of that section have these animals been so plentiful, and unless some means of destroying them is soon found the experience of extensive portions of Australia bids fair to be repeated. In many parts of California and Oregon, . where the rabbits have multiplied so as to become a pest, they have been thinned out by a combined move on the part of the settlers. All the residents of a given neighborhood by common consent have turned out for half a dozen entire days, and, well supplied with arms and ammunition, have waged successful warfare against the common enemy. By this means thousands have been destroyed in a single day. Apropos of the warlike feeling in Greece, a prominent Greek who was interviewed as to what his countrymen are niminor at sfirs* "Wc want Enirus and " """O **"> - 4 Crete, and other smaller territories, because in air respects?historical, geographical, ethnological, linguistical and ecclesiastical?they are Hellenic, inte- j gral portions of Greek territory, and by , natural right the inalienable possession of the Greek race. The vast majority j of the inhabitants of those provinces are ! our compatriots, eaten up and preyed ; upon by Turkish banditti who have been j uncamped there for four hundred and . 5ye hundred years. The Turks have no j more right to the possession of those provinces than has a band of pirates to j the ship -which they have capturcd by I force or fraud. Epirus, besides, was j leded to us by the treaty of Berlin." I i 'j As an evidence of the growth of thrift J imong the colored people of South Caro- * ina, the Charleston News and Courier j publishes a statement showing that one ;housand and fifty-seven colored people | )f that city have deposits in the local t savings banks amounting to $124,930. ^ rhe person who has the largest deposit, r ?G, 747, to his credit, is a pure-blooded ? African, but a born financier. He has li ' i, ecentlv bought a valuable plantation for . MO,000 and has paid $7,000 of the pur- [ :hase money. The News and Courier - I tdds: "There are thousands of active b ind thrifty colored men in the State who f lave bought land since the war, and who jire steadily collecting about them the t iomforts and many of the luxuries of * ife. Comparatively few of the colored a >eople entertain decided notions of * :conomy or have any faith in govern- ( aent savings bauks, but the wealth they * lave hidden away in old stockings and r he money they arc investing from year ? 0 year in lands and houses, if it could fc iglitly be estimated, would prove to be a * (leasing revelation." a t t The advocates of temperance have won 1 point in the contest in Ohio, where the legislature has passed what is known as he Dow Liquor Tax bill, a measure sirn- ( liir in most particulars to the Scott law, vhich was defeated in the Sup:cme b ?ourt. The new law provides for yearly issessments instead of license fees, the ^ ax on the sale of spirituous liquors being f ?200, and on malt liquors $100. Where & iquor sellers refuse to furnish to the ^ tssessors the information required by law, a ;he assessment is increased to $400. The penalty for false returns of the kind i )f liquor sold is an increase of the assess- U nent to $250. Local option is provided ^ for in a cause which empowers municipal 0 :orporations to regulate and prohibit ale, 8 seer and porter houses, and other places a where liquors are sold, and whoever sells t :o a minor, or a person in the habit of get- j iing intoxicated, is to be subjected to a 5ne of not more than $100 nor less than 1 $25, and imprisoned not more than thirty j aor less than five days. If one section | jf the law is declared unconstitutional, a provision is injected to hold the others < intact. ( i David Van Dvke, of Mason, Ohio, I seventy years old, owns a house and lot, ( and that's all, and owes a large debt con- 1 tracted by going security for a friend. \ As long as Mrs. Van Dyke lived the ] house and lot could not be attached foi i the debt, under the homestead exemp- < tion law. But Mrs. Van Dyke died a j short time ago, and suit was at once i brought against the widower and the 1 Sheriff advertised the property for sale. , Under the law Van Dyke could not now I claim a homestead, as his wife had died,' j and he had no minor children or unmar- I ried daughter living with him. The ! only way to escape was to marry again, I he thought, and so he went to Cincinnati and called on several women before be found one to suit him. At last he hit on Miss May Jones, who was willing, and they were married. That was but a 1 few days before the day nxea ior me i sale, and the proceedings in execution were stopped at once. The case was | then argued in the Common Pleas Court, and the judge has decided that it was not necessary that Van Dyke should have been a married man at the time oi the levy on the property, but that it was sufficient to entitle him to have the homestead exemption by becoming the head of a family any time before the actual sale. Epitaph on a Jnnkman. On Mr. Jones, a well-known junkman, we have the following; Here lies the bones of William Jones. Who once collected bottles and bones ; But death, that bony, grizzly sr ectre, That most amazing 1>one collector, " Has boned poor Jones so snug and tidy, That here he lies all bona fide. >r s< * - ? "In*. .J ,? < J. ... . , . MISS FOLSOM'S RETEM. The President's Bride-Elect Arrives from Europe. A Summer Home Near Washington Bought by Mr. Cleveland. Miss Frances Folsom, bride-elect of President Cleveland, arrived at New York from Europe on the ocean steamship Noordland on the 27th. Sh# is described as tall, handsome, and in complexion a light brunette. Her eyes, which are blue, are large and beautiful, with long black lashes. Her com plexion is very clear. Her manner is frank and winning, and is remarkably free from affectation of every description. Her fellowpassengers all express themselves as having been greatly charmed with the future mistress of the White House. Toward the close of the voyage, says a New York paper, the cabin passengers of the Noordland published a single copy edition of a manuscript newspaper c allea the North Atlantic Spray. Miss Folsom was one of the contributors to this journal. Although he contributions were all anonymous, it was generally understood that Miss Folsom's literary effort was an original story, the heroine of which Is "Little Moll," a New York newsprl, who has aroused the sympathies of the "criminal reporter" of one of the daily aewspapers. Moll shows her appreciation of the reporter's kindness to her by preventing her father,a hardened criminal,from murdering the reporter while the latter is discharging j in unpleasant duty in connection with his profession. Moll is given an edtu ation, and is anally r. arried to the fortunate reporter. The story was well told, and afforded much pleasure to the readers of the little paper. When a pilot boat spoke the Noordland,over 500 miles off Sandy Hook, Miss Folsom was standing on the bridge near Captain Nickels, rhat gentleman then surrendered the command of the vessel to Miss Folsom, who immediately signaled the engineer to stop the jngines. After the pilot bad climbed on board the vessel was started up at a signal given by the fair hand of the young Arnercan lady who, it seemed, was still in command. Miss Folsom was accompanied by hor nother and her cousin, Mr. Benjamin Folioui, a Buffalo lawyer. Some newspapers vhich were brought on board the Noordland >y the pilot announced the death of Col. John J. Folsom, Miss Folsom's grandfather. They pere all greatly depressed by the sad news. A Washington dispatch says that thePresi[ent has become the possessor of "Pretty Prospect," a country house on the Tennally own roaa, near me national capital, ine Dennallytown road is a turnpike road be;ween Georgetown and some- of the outlying mall towns of Maryland. Tennallytown s a little settlement of half a dozen nouses ibout a postoffiee. a store and a saloon, ["he purchase of tne property was made hrough Marshal A. A. Wilson for $21,500. ?ho price originally asked for it was $28,000. ihe old stone house on the property is quite i prominent object, as it stands on a little lillock back from the Tenallytown road, nd is a cool, romantic, homelike strucure. The President liked it when he irst saw it. The old house will require ome repair before he can occupy it. Its ooms are large and well ventilated, but thcrwise the interior of the house is very ommonplace. Almost as far back as the and records of th9 district the place was inownas "Pretty Prospect." There are few irettier views than the one which' is obained from the porch of the old stone louse. To the so<ith the river is to bo een far below the spectator, winding its way oward Mount Vernon, while on the north, ast, aud west the country stretches out or miles in gentle undulations. In mauy daces within sight the primeval forest s still standing, this being particularly he case on the old Carroll estate, The 'resident has bec'ome a propertv holder q quite an aristocratic section. Near by, nd once a part of "Pretty Prospect," is 'Wcodley," formerly the home of Philip iarton Key, and at present occupied by }hief Engineer Henderson, United States favy. Another subdivision belongs to Ime. Iturbide, who, when Miss Grean. marled Count Iturbide, then Mexican Minister ,t Washington. The Devereaux farm is on he north and Mr. H. G. Dulaney's property s on t,h? south. About a mile to tnn we;t vard is "Grass Land," the country seat purhased by Secretary Whitney about a vear go for $30,000, while on the opposite side of he Tenallytown road is the estate of Georgeown College. THE NATIONAL GAME, FlYE million baseball^ have been made tils season. O'Rourke is doing the best work with the at for New York. Macon* claims to have the best running 3am in the Southern League. The "big four" in the Detroits?Brouthers, lowe, White, and Richardson?are doing remcndous hitting. Bobby Mathews, of the Athletics, has een pitching professional ball longer than nybody before the public. The Pennsylvania State League consists of ix clubs, located at Altooua, Lancaster, ,0 wis ton, Scran ton, Wilkesbarre and Willamsport.. The paid base-ball players throughout the ountry, a Washington paper states, number iver 1,000, and draw annually salaries ag;regating about $900,001). The Supreme Court of Michigan has given i decision to the effect that persons owning louses overlooking baseball parks may erect eats for SDectators on the roof thereof, aud I he associations have no recourse. The National League was organized on February 2, 1S7G, in Isew York city, by delegates from the following clubs: Athletic of Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, lartford, Louisville, Mutual of New York, ind St. Louis. Speaking of the National League giants >f the Metropolis, a New York paper says: 'Only give them a little time and they will 5ometothe front again." But what they leed more than time, responds a Chicago mper, are runs. There is a statue in front of the national ,'apitol, holding a ball in one haud, which aas been known as "Columbus discovering ;he new world," but it is now supposel that the artist intended to represent a base-ball pitcher, in honor of the national game. There will be a very material change in the positions of the clubs in all the leading organizations by the middle of June. As ioon as the wear and tear begins to tell on the teams, those which have the most united teams and the most enduring "batteries" will lake up their position in the van. The North Springfield, (Mo.) Soiithwester reports a local baseball game with the following new and unique table of points in its score: R?Runs. O?Outs. F. D.?Pell Down. M?Muffed the ball. Umpires? Sperry, Gates, Fceeman, Meischbacn and others. One of the players had eighteen 'F. D.'s" marked against him, aml_ another aa 1 "M. 30" opposite bis name, xne large lumber of umpires show that the game was in jxciting one. national league record. Won Lost. iron Lout. Detroit ;.10 3 I Philadelphia.. 0 9 Chicaeo 14 3 | Boston 5 13 New York... 10 7 I Wshington....3 12 St. Louis 9 10 | Kansas City ...3 9 american association* record. Hon Lost. Won I.out. St. Louis....19 10 I Pittsburgh... 15 13 Brooklyn....12 10 | Cincinnati... 13 15 Athletic 12 10 I Louisville. ...11 10 Baltimore...12 11 | Metropolitan..7 10 southern. leaoue record. Atlanta 13 9 I Macon 13 13 Augtjs'a 13 11 | Savannah... 14 7 Charleston... .7 15 Nashville. ...12 12 Chattanooga .. 8 14 | Memphis .... 11 13 eastern league record. iron Lost. Hon Lout. Bridgeport. ..4 8 Mcriden 4 0 Hartford 6 5 Newark 11 3 Long Island..7 9 Providence....5 $ Jersey City. .8 4 Waterbury?8 4 international league record. Hron Lout. iron Lout. Utica 4 3 Bingham ton .. 1 5 Toronto 5 3 Buffalo 2 5 Syracuse C 2 Hamilton 2 3 Itochester ... .3 2 Oswego 3 3 A Trapper in Pomfret, Vt., caught 2,6 0 skunks during the winter, and has just so 1 their hides for about $400. i'ifc ; * m--.V - is V.. ? t .' 'Tlii NEWS SUMMARY Eastern and Middlo States. The discovery of another big well.in the | Pennsylvania oil field has caused a tumble in petroloum. Firk hps destroyed the main building of Harrison's Chemical Works, Philadelphia? the largest of the kind in the country. The loss exceeds $100,000. A can of kerosene exploded in the house of Michael Feehan, a miner, near Mt. Pleasant, Penu. Thrre of his children, who had been playing with the can until it ignited, were burned to death. R. S. Spofkord, of Newburyport, Mas3., attorney for the American Fisheries Union, inland ficho-mon will linitA with New England in opposing future treaties with Canada bearing on that industry. Springfield, Mass., has been celebrating the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of its settlement by a big procession and other festivities. An Anti-Saloon Conference of New Jersey Republicans was held at Trenton on the 26tn, delegates from all over the State attending. E. A. Armstrong, Speaker of the Assembly, called the meeting to order. A platform was adopted and a State Committee appointed. Sonth and West. The prospects are good for large Western grain crops. The Knights of Labor convened in general assembly at Cleveland, Ohio, on the 24th, representatives of the Order from all over the Union being in attendance. The discussion and adjustment of differences between i the Knights and trades unions, a change in the laws of the order made necessary by a too rapid increase in membership, and the I powerlessuess of the General Executive Board to prevent strikes and boycotting, | were the questions to which General Master Workman Powderly had directed attention in his call. "Will Whitehead fatally shot Mis3 Laura Harwood, at Calrollton, Ky., and then killed himself, because the girl's parents objected to him as a son-in-law. A novel strike occurred in Chicago, a few days since, the employes of a large foundry, whose demand for eight hours had been complied with, striking for a return to ten hours a day. James Dawson's house, near Rushville, T*?yl flrn Of liirrkf QMc] VlIC flirno nil 1 |_ XiiU.) VUUijUV UIO ttU Ui^UV) UilU UM VV WM? I dren, asleep in the upper story, were burned to death. Governor Oglesby, of Illinois, presided . at a large meeting at Chicago in favor of Irish home rule. A tire at Wausau, Wis., swept over lumber yards covering half a mile of territory. The loss is *200,000. Twenty-five Mormons have been sentenced at Blackfoot, Idaho, to various terms oflmprisonment for violation of the law against polygamy. General Miles, with a strong force of Americans and Mexicans, is in hot pursuit of Chief Geronimo and his murderous Apache followers in Arizona. The General has offered a reward of $50 for each Indian or head of an Indian brought in and $2,600 for Geronimo or his head. One man was instantly killed and three others were mortally wounded by the explosion of a sawmill boiler near Deshler, Ohio. Cecil Marriage, chief engineer of the water works at Oskaloo3a, la ,and his cousin, Miss Hettie Marriage, were drowned a few days since while bathing in the river at that place. A large building in Chicago, occupied by publishers and kindred trades, burned down cn the 20th. The losses aggregate $1,000.00). Washington. The President has vetoed four more private pension bills on the ground that the claimants were not entitled to the money voted | them by Congress. The claims of all four had previously bsen rejected by the Pension Bureau. I Nominations by the President; John J. I Pin/>Vi fa Ka pAlluafnr r\f P.ncfAiTic fnr thA IAS WU WVAJTC??~l.XSA VI. \ZUCVW4UW AW. vuv District of Sandusky, Ohio. To be receivers of public moneys: Amos J. Harris, atKirwin, Kan.; Alexander H. Baker, at Grand Rapids, Neb.; Ezra W. Miller at Huron, Dak. Confirmations by the Senate: United States Consuls?H. M. Jewetfc, of Massachusetts, at Sivas; Charles H. Wills, of Maryland, at Managua; Francis H. Wigfall, of . Maryland, at Leeds. Collectors of Customs? j John F. McDonnell, for District of St Marks, Fla.; J. McGuire, for the District of j Pensacola, Fla.; William A. Mahoney, for tbe District of Fernandina. W. L. Dankins. of Mississippi, to be United States Marshal for the Southern District of Mississippi. H | F. Stevens, of Michigan, to be United States Distri'-t Judge for the Western District of Michigan. President Cleveland has vetoed two more private pension bills. j The revenues of the government during ( May are about $ 10,000,000 in excess of the expenditure* during the same period. Foreign. Many Turks were killed and the Greek General Loris was mortally wounded in recent engagements on the "frontier. The Greek losses before Grizovali were 150 killed and Wounded. Quiet has been restored by an armistice. There has been a serious labor riot in the town of Trani, on the Adriatic. A mob overpowered the garrison and burned dowu the law court buildings, tbe town hall, the custom house and a theatre. Several persons were burned to death and others were murdered by the rioters. Forty Odd Fellows were injured more or less seriously by an accident to an excursion train near Brompton, Canada. Mrs. Riel, wife of the hanged Manitoba rebel, has just died near "Winnipeg. A tornado at Wetzlar, Prussia, destroyed a railway station and unroofed manv factories and dwellings. Barges were lifted out of the river Lahn and carried considerable distances in the air. In the neighboring country entire forests were uprooted. The Derby, the leading English racing event, was won this year by the favorite, the Duke of Westminster'8 bay colt Ormonde, from a field of nine starters. Peace prevails again between Turkey and Greece. The Powers will raise the blockade of Greek ports. Twelve liieii were killed by an explosion In a dynamite factory at Valencia, Spain. The Belgiau Government has prohibited tbe holding of a contemplated immense Socialist demonstration. Thunderstorms have been raging in Germany for three days. Many persons and hundreds of cattle were killed. LATER NEWS. Ex-Alderman Duffy, one of the New York officials under indictment for bribery, has been re-arrested upon a fresh complain4. This time he is charged with offering ex-Alderman Waite, the man who has turned informer, a bribe to vote in favor of granting a horse car franchise on Thirty-fourth street. PfR-K Hpstroved a church, hotel and several ot her structures in Franklin, Mass. Twenty-one indictments have been found against anarchists in Chicago. A firm of grocers at Stillwater. Minn., have been arresto 1 for selling butterine. This is the first indictment in Minnesota for I this offense. I John C. Henning was hanged a few days ago at CrawfonLsville, Ind., for the murder of Mrs. Lottie Vollmer, a widow. They were engaged to be married, but on the day appointed for the wedding Henning was intoxicated, and Mrs. Vcllmer refuse 1 to fulfill the engagement. Henning shortly afterward shot Mrs. Vollmer to death. Tiie nomination of Louis K. Church, of New York, to be Associate Justice of Dakota has boen confirmed by the Senate. A commission of British experts appointed to investigate M. Pasteur's alleged cure lor hydrophobia announces its confidence in the Frenchman's discoveries. Canada will fit out six steamers and six schooner? to protect her fisheries. Audhan's latest and greatest operatic success, "Le Serment d'Amour," which is now running to crowded houses in Paris, will most probably be given its first representation in America at the Hollis Street Theatre, Boston, by the Carleton Opera Company. , ' -Iufci ANARCHISTS INDICTED. True Bills Fonnd Against the Chicago Prisoners. The Great Strike of Minora in the Clearfield Region Ended. A Chicago dispatch says that the Grand Jury have found true bills against the leading Anarchists, charging them with murder as accessories before the (act. It is said the indictments include the names of August Spies, A. R. Parsons, Samuel Fielden, Michael Schwab and Hermann Schnaioble. It was agreed to withhold the indictments until all the cases have been disposed of. The police have made two new arrests, which they consider important. Information concerning the men was given by one of the Anarchists already under arrest. A quantity of dynamite, a bomb, two revolvers and a "Winchester rifle were found. The chief of detectives refuses to give any information regarding the capture. The 3,000 packing house employes of Sidney A. Kent, who began the eight-hour movement at the Union Stock Yards in Chicago, have had a consultation with Mr. Kent, at which the latter agreed to continue the eighthour plan until October 1. The men in all the departments are to receive nine hours' pay, except the laborers, whose wages were only reduced from $1.75 to $1.65. The other packing house employers had announced their intention to return to ten hours on June 1. The great strike of coal miners in the ClearOaM /D * i i _ .1 rpu^ ueiu \lkuu.i region uus enueu. xue iueu r?jturned to work at the old wages and the mine-owners make the following concessions: "Absolute guarantee of just weight. Acceptable weighman to be placed on every tipple, and his wages to be paid in the office as agreed upon by miners. Abolition of the store-order system and cash payments in even dollars to the loth of each month, with full settlement at the end of the month, and the men to go where they please in making purchases without any restraint Questions of price to bo paid for all dead work and other matters of dispute shall be referred to a commission agreed upon by both parties, said commission being composed of the Superintendent of the mines and one of the miners. That no man shall be discharged on account of his participation in the present strike, but all the old miners shall be employed without any discrimination." At a mass meeting at Hutsedale, Penn., the agreement made by their committees and the operators at Tyrone was unanimously ratified, and the men resolved to resume work on the terms spocifled in the agreement. H. G. Fisher of Fisher, Miller & Co., who is in the milling business at Huntington, Penn., and whose flour has been boycotted throughout the bituminous coal region on account of his activity in looking after the interests of the operators, has received notice that the boycott has been removed. A Boston dispatch says that the employes of all the steam railroads running from that city have been quietly organizing themselves into local assemblies of knights of Labor. A general move Las been made in the direction of higher wages all along the lino, under the counsel of tte Executive Board of District 30. Notices were reeeived from several of the railroads that the requests bad been laid before the Board of Directors. CONGRESS OF CHURCHES, Important Gathering of Representatives of the Various Beliefs. The second annual meeting of the American Congress of Churches has just been held in Cleveland. The meeting lasted three days. A circular officially issued thus set forth the scheme of this new departure in religion: "The American Congress of Churches has for its object to promote Chri. tian union and to advance the Kingdom of God by a free discussion of the great religious, moral and social questions of the time, rhe general management of the Congress is in the hands of a couucil of twenty-five, in which the various churches of America are unofficially represented by clergymen or laymen or both. This Council has no intention of establishing a society or organizing a plan of union or putting forth a creed. It simply aims, by holding public meetings from time to time, to make provision for a full and frank discussion of the great subjects in wrhir?V? t.ho PhrlcHflnc nf AmArina nrp inter ested, including those ecclesiastical and the- j ological questions upon which Christians iiffer," Tn the council of tweuty-flve the following denominations were represented: Congregational, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Disciples, Baptist, Swedenborgian, Christian, Dutcn Reformed, Unitarian and Methodist. Governor J. B. Foraker, of Chio, was president of the meeting, with a long list of vice presidents, including Governor Robinson, of Massachusetts; Congressman C. R. Breckinridge, of Arkansas; Rev. T. L. Cuyler, of Brooklyn; Dorman B. Eaton, of New York; Rev. Henry M Field, of New York; Rev. E. H. Captice, of North Hampton, Mass.; Cornelius Vanderbilt, of New York; Bishop Rulison, of Pennsylvania; Chancelor C. N. Sims, of Syracuse, N. Y., and many others. Among the more imporiant topics of discussion were: "A True Church: Its Essentials and Characteristics;" "The Present Necessity for a Restatement of Christian Belief;" "Readjustments in the Church to Meet R^dBrn Needs in City and Country andinl-oreign Missionary Fields;" "Religion and Our Public Schools." On the second evening one of the burning questions of the time came up for consideration uuder the title "The Workingmen's Distrust of the Church: Its Causes and Remedies." The appointed writers and speakers were Rev. Wayland Hoyt, D. D., of Philadelphia; Everett P. Wheeler, of New York, well known as a leader in civil service reform; Mr. John Jarrett, of Pittsburg, one of the most prominent of "workingmen," formerly president of the Amalgamated Association or Iron and Steel Workers, and Mi1. Henry George, whose fame as a writer on social and economic questions is world wide. Mr. George is a member of the Protestant Episcopal communion; Mr. Jarrett, of the Congregational. DISASTROUS FLOODS. Great Damage to Property in South Carolina?A Canal Ruined. A terrible rain storm has visited Columbia, S. C., and the upper part of the State. I Seven to nine inches of water fell, and the highest freshet ever known in South Carolina raged. Many of the railroads have been impassable for a week. The water works at Columbia have beeu swept away, aud a water famine is imminent. The Columbia Canal, which the State has been building for five years at a cost of million?, is almost a complete wreck. Cotton in low lands has been destroyed, and the loss of cattle is very great. One cattle raiser, a few miles above Columbia, lost $10,000 worth of live stock. Cattle. ci<anr. o?/i v.a,o-c flr>ufAri dfiivn tho river. The manufactories in Columbia dependent upon water were obliged to suspend opsrations. The Congare? river at Columbia rose at the rate of an inch an hour, aud the railroad bridges were in great danger. TURK AND GREEKSevere Piffhilug on the Border?An Armistice Ktt'eetecl. Advices received in London say that severe engagements have taken place on the Greek frontier between Turkish and Greek troops. The forces en* gaged covered a distance of fifteen miles The heaviest fighting was at Timova. Many have boon wounded on both sides. Prime Minister Tricoupis, of Greece, telegraphed to the general in command of the Greek force.* instructingihim to endeavor to arrange an armistice. The latter was at first unable to comply with his instructions, owing to the difficulty of securing an interview with Eyoub l'ash.i, tho Turkish commander. The Greek Cabinet was in session at Athens and great excitement prevailed in the capital. A later dispatch from Athens says a truce was effected and there had been no fighting since that time. The cosualities were neavy on both sides. 1 i SUMMARY _0F_ CONGRESS Senate Sessions. 105th Da*.?The Bankruptcy bill and the District of Columbia Appropriation bill were in turn laid aside informally to permit Mr. Gib6on to address the Senate on Mr. Piatt's resolution regarding oper executive sessions. He said that no public interests required that any of the proceedings of the Senate should be kept secret from the people. Mr. Piatt said patronage had b&?n the political ruin of Senators more than any other cause. Mr. Hoar did not believe that any of the political "ruins" were in the Senate to-day.... Tho District of Columbia Appropriation bill was passed substantially as reported by the Senate Committee on Appropriations. The Senate took up and debated the Bankruptcy bilL 106th Day.?On motion of Mr. Miller, a bill was passed authorizing the Treasury Department to credit Chester A. Arthur and William H. Robertson, late Collectors at the port of New York, with certain sums now standing charged to them for moneys stolen from the customs funds at that port without fault of the officers named.... The Hous2 bill was passed forfeiting the lands granted the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad.... The bill was passed gran tine $30 a month to soldiers and siailors who lost either arm or leg in the service.... A sharp debate sprang up over privata pension bills. Mr. Ingalls charged Commissioner Black with drawing a pension of $10 ) a month for total disability, when he was able to draw a large salary for daily attendance as Chief of the Pension Bureau. He called General Black an impostor. Mr. Voorhees warmly defended General Black, saying ne was to-day performing his duties while open, running wounds from shattered bones were draining him of his strength. , 107th Day.?Mr. Van Wyck (Neb.) reported a bill to improve the navigation of the Mississippi River and prevent overflows ....The Senate took up the bill reported from the Committee on Federal Relations, supplementary and amendatory of the Chinese Emigration bill of 18S4. Mr. Sherman faid that the bill was simply to explain the meaning of existing law relating to Chinese emigration. For example, one meaning had been attached to the words "Chinese laborer*1 by Judge Field and another by a Massachusetts Judge. The committee had adopted the interpretation of Judse Field. Mr. Hoar protested against the bill for the reason that it aimed at men because they were laborers and be CUUbU l LIU J LAJlUUgtVl IAJ a. KXl UttLLl I OU3, *r uitu was against the fundamental principles of this republic. After further debate the bill was postponed. 108th Day.?Mr. Sewell, from the Committee on the Library, introduced a joint resolution to appropriate $25,000 for .the erection of - a monument, at Stony Point, N. Y., to celebrate the historical events which occurred there during: the war of the Revolution... .Mr. Miller submitted the conference report on the Shipping bill, which was concurred in. Thij bill contains the Frye amendment authorizing the President to deny by proclamation to vessels of foreign countries such privileges as are denied to American vessels in such foreign countries The remainder of the day's session was devoted to eulogies of the late Senator John F. Miller. Honse Sessions. 123d Day.?Mr. Dingley reported back the Shipping bill, with a recommendation that certain of the Senate amendments bo concurred in and others non-concurred in. The recommendation of the committee was agreed to....By a vote of yeas 103, nays 93, the House passed a bill granting an increase of pension to the widow of Commander T. A. M. Craven ? Under the call of States the following bills were introduced: By Mr. Bland 'Mo.)? To revive the income tax, the proceeds to be anplied to the payment of pensions. By Mr. Bennett (N. C.)?To divide the surplus money in the Treasury on the 1st of June, 1886, among the States and Territories for educational purposes Mr. Stahlnecker (N. Y.), from tne Committee on the Library, reported a bill appropriating $25,000 to aia in the erection of a monument to Gen. Anthony Wayne at Stony Point, N. Y. Committee of the Whole Mr. Tucker, of Virginia, from the Committee on the Judiciary, reported the joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment on the subject of polygamy. House calendar.... The Oleomargarine bill was discussed by Messrs. Scott (renn.), Hammond (Ga.), Reagan (Texas), and Hiscock (N. Y.) 124th Day?Mr. Crisp (Ga.), from the Committee on Commerce, reported back the Senate bill authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Arthur Kill.... The balance of the day was counsumed in a running debate on the bill to tax oleomargarine, the rural members generally favoring the measure, while the city representatives opposed it. The debate was continue 1 during the evening session. 125th Day.?Mr. Blount (Ga.) reported that the conferees on the Post Office Appropriation bill had been unable to agree, and a further conferenco was ordered?The House went into Committee on the Whole on the "Oleomargarine" bill, all general debate upon the measure being closed. Mr. Lawlor (111.) read a protest against the bill from the Knights of Labor of Chicago, ? 1 xl.. Lfll ? 1 ana opposea me um us a iuvu product out of existence On motion of Mr..Breckenridge (Ky.) an amendment was adopted to the section defining "butter" so as to exclude from that definition the product of milk or cream when additional coloring matter is us?d.... Mr. Hammond (Ga.,) offered an amendment making it unlawful for any merchant or shopkeeper in the District of Columbia or the Territories to sell oleomargariue without labeling it in a conspicuous manner, and requiring hotel, restaurant, and boarding house keepers who use oleomargarine to place in their dining rooms a placard bearing the words: "This house uses oleomargarine," and to have the same words printed on the bill of fare. Agreed to?92 to 85. An amendment providing a penalty for the violation of this provision was lost. Mr. Findlay (Md.) offered an amendment providing that the provisions of the bill shall extend to the manufacture and fale of sausages, as far as practicable, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe. Pending action the committee rose. 12Ctii Day.?The Shipping bill, with the Frye amendment, was passed unanimously .... Discussion of the Oleomargarine bill was resumed. The pending amendment reducing the special tax imposed on manufacturers of oleomargarine from $600 to $103 was lost?14 to 119. Mr. Reagan offered an amendment extending the provisions of the special license tax section to watered milk, adulterated butter, ancient eggs, sanded sugar, glucose syrup, artificial honey, candles and soap of less weight than they are sold for, bottles of wine and liquor holding a less quantity than represented, adulterated wines and brandies, whiskys, shoddy cloths, shoes with brown paper soles, or any article|of food, drink, or wear which is impure, adulterated, or short measure. The amendment was ruled out of order. Mr. Reagan appealed. The Chair was sustained?131 to 32. Mr. Tillman (S. C.) opposed the bill. Other mock amendments were offered by opponents of the bill, but were all ruled out cf n-t.'flr PROMINENT PEOPLE. Vice Admiral Do* Patricio Lvnch, head of the Chilian Navy, died recently. Edward C. Knight, the Philadelphia millionaire, began life as an errand boy at a week. Mrs. Sartoris is said to have not yet recovered her spirits since the death of General Grant, her father. Ma Moodt is raising $200,000 to start a training school at Chicago, for evangelizing work among the masses. Chief Justice Waite, of the United Stntes Supreme Court, is going to Alaska to spend his summer vacation this year. Mks. Grant is going to spend the summer at West Point, and will be accompanied by Colonel Fred Grant and his family. Senator Joseph E. Brown, of Georgia, is hard at work on a book showing the material and social progress of the South since the war. I Senator Kenna of West Virginia, keeps a tine pack of deer hounds and beagles, and is a crack shot. In one day recently ha | brought down nine deer. I King Kalakaua is an* active member of the Honolulu Fire Department. He runs to fires with the engine, and is an expert operator of the pump handle. The Empress of Austria is going to England to visit the Edinburgh Exhibition. She will be accompanied by the Archduchess Valerie and will remain several weeks in Scotland. i ? ?? " If * 1? mm WEDDING. The Marriage to Take Place OH Saturday, June 19. ' Ail the Arrangements for the Oer emony Made. . New and interesting information aboat President Cleveland's approaching marriag* i to his late law partner's daughter, Miss FoV torn, of Buffalo, is given in the following Washington dispatch: "The President is to be married to Miaa Folsom on June 19.n This is the information obtained from a trustworthv sniirra. on? en? titled to great consideration, that is vouched for as true now, and is likely to remain tra* unless some great calamity should overtaksone of the principals to the proposed eeremony. The day was fixed, it was understood, with some regard to the exacting, obligations of a closing session of Coagrese upon the President. The round of ducy in the White House may seem an unimportant- ' matter to persons who are contemplating marriage, if they do not happen to know how , *easily a vast accumulation of important Affairs can fall behind by the neglect of 'a day or two. All the reports that have hitherto gone out have insisted that the wedding was to be on a Wednesday. This was only natural, as it is the admitted popular day of the week with brides. The ltfth of June is the third Saturday o* the month. Saturday is not at all a favored day in the estimation of brides, but it will be a very convenient day for carrying out the arrange* ments made for the Presidential wedding. Occasionally, when the President has seen Gt to leave town for a day or two of recreation, he has quietly disappeared on Friday: his going away exciting no curiosity untiL Saturday afternoon, when the few v&itora ' to the White House would learn that he had gone away, and the fact would be announced in the papers in three or four lines. As the wedding is intended to oe a private affair, at which none bat a few of the President's most intimate personal friends. Colonel D. 8. Lamont, his ' . secretary, and some of the relatives <4 the bride, are to be present, it was regarded as unnecessary, if not unwise, to give formal notice of the event, as information of the date would naturally be accompanied by statement of the place where the ceremony was to be celebrated. * From other sources of information than that conveying the date of the wedding, it it' ' ">* learned that the President will leave here on r riuuy, tuts nay urewuiug buo {uuuumu won* . ding day, or perhaps as early as Thursday, in the same quiet way that he recently went off on his tnp down Chesapeake Bay with Mr. W. L. Scott. A night's journey will carry him to the place at which the wedding is to be celebrated. An idla day will follow, and then the President, it i# expected, will return with his bride to Washington. His recently acquired cottage out i on the Tenallytown road is not yet ready for the reception of a bride, but the Whit* House is in good order, with a brand new roof, just completed, the furniture i* in good order, and the hothouse and conservatory filled with flowers that can be used to decorate and make fragrant the interior of the mansion. That there will have to be some sort of Summer reception, for the purpose of presenting the new mistress of the white House, will occur to > everybody here as the correct and dosirabl* * and perhaps inevitable thing. If there Ji such an event now it will be noted as one of the most important of the social events of this administration, and will attract a distinguished throng of diplomatic, official, and private persons, notwithstanding the late* ness of the season. The arrangements for the wedding, so far as the President's Movements are concerned, have been left in the hands of Colonel Lamonfc, No more discreet and worthy, confidential agent was ever intrusted with the management of such a matter. Some of his friendt who have learned of visits to New York that have not been made public are disposed ta insist that the talk about a weadmg in the western part of New York tijjfi absurd, as making a long journey necessary.^ Thoy say thatit is to take place in New York City, and that tbe Secretary's trip to the city was made as much for the purpose oJ arranging for the wedding as it was fcr tb? arrangements of the Decoration Bay movements of the President.. The arrival of Mrs, and Miss Folsom may cause some change in plans, but will scarcely effect the date decided upon some time ago. Washington people, in and out of office, arc delighted at the prospect of soon having a "Lady of the White House," who will be entitled to all tbe honors of the position a; the wife of the President Some regret is expressed that the President will ?br V obliged to bring bis bride to a bouse that if more public than most others, - a house that is overrun, even in th?t so-called private part, by from 10 tc* 100 privileged visitors every day. The crowdi' are not usually so great in the summer ai they are in tbe winter season, but the fad that the wife of the President is soon to be there will undoubtedly attract an unusual number of visitors,and inspire many of then with the hope that by getting into tht "home side" of the mansion they may be abk to get a glimpse of the bride in liernea home. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC, As many as 600 American girls are study ing music in Milan, Italy. According to the latest reports Mme. Nilsson has abandoned her contemplated ' A morion tnnr j Mr. Joseph Jefferson's next season will i comprise twenty weeks, beginning August 30, in Denver, CoL Lester Wallace is going to do a farewell starring'tour next season, beginning the middle of September. The title of a new two-act comic operetta, for which Max Marotzek is composing the music, is "The Peachblow Vase." Miss Emma Abbott is going to Europe this sjmmer to secure two new operas, which she will produce in this country next season. THE MABKETS. new york. 21 Beef cattle, good to prime 1 w 8 @ Calves, com'n to prime veals 4 @ 5* Sheep 4%@ 5* _ Lam Hogs?Live 4&<gl ffi Dressed, city Jpi Flour?Ex. St., good to fancy 3 60 @ 4 2o "West, good to choict) 4 00 <g 5 00 Wheat?No. 2, Red 85% @ Rye?State 66 @ 68 Barley?Four-rowed State... @ Corn?Ungrad. Mixed 34 @ 44 Oats?White State ? @ 44*4 Mixed Western 37Jtf@ 39 Hay?Med. to pr. Timothy. 80 @ 90 Straw?No. 1, Rye 90 ? - S2 Lard?City Steam 5 85 @ o 90 Butter?State Creamery.... 17 @ 19 Dairy 13 @ 15 West. Im. Creamery 11 @ 13 Factory 10 @ 13 Cheese?State factory 4 & oX Skims H@ Ji Westerr 6 @ 7 Eggs?State and Penn ? @ 13 buffalo. ~ J A 50 <a 5 00 I SIl66p?tr(XXl w - -Lambs?Western 6 50 @ 7 50 Steers?Western 4 60 @ 5 00 I Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 4 00 @ 4 15 Flour?C'v ground n. process 5 25 @ 6 50 Wheat?2?o. 1. Hard Duluth. ? @ I Corn?No. 2, Mixed New @ 48jf D Oats-No. 2, Mixed Western 38>* I Barley?Two-rowed State... ? @ ? I BOSTON. B Beef?Ex. plate and family. 10 50 @11 00 H Hogs?Live 5 I Northern Dressed.... 6 (<? 6^ I Pork?Ex. Prime, per bbl... 12 75 @13 00 | Flour?Winter Wheat pat's. 4 75 @ 5 15 Corn?High Mixed 50 50}f I Oats?Extra White 47 I Rye?State 70 @ 73 fl WATERTOWN (MASS.) CATTI.E MARKET. 1 Beef?Extra quality 0 00 @ 6 50 M Sheeri?Live weight 5 & 6 Lanios 5 @ 6? Hogs?Northern, d. w ? @ I PHILADELPHIA. I Flour?Penn. ex family, good 3 75 @ 4 10 Wheat?No. 2, Red ? @ 90 I Rye?State @ 75 B Corn?State Yellow (a: 453< H Oats Mixe.l 40 @ 42 H Butter?Creamery Extra Pa 15 g 16 I Cheese?N. Y. Full Cream.. lljtf(i? 14 I l - ,