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I tit JL t THE HERALD. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY plattsmouth" nebeaska. On Main Street, between 4th and 6th, Second Story. OFKICIAXi PAPER. OV CASS COC5TT. Terms, in Advance : One copy, one year..... J2.00 One copy, six months 1.00 On cepy, three months .so mm SKA ID J. A. MACMUEPHY, Editor. " PERSEVERANCE COXQIERS." TEEMS: $2.00 a Year. VOLUME IX. PLATTSMOUTII, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1874, NUMBER 52. THE HERALD. ADVKIlTlSIXa RATES. 1 square.. S squares squares. X column. X column. 1 column. 1 w. J w. 8 w. In. 8 m. m. l yr. $1 oo It no fa oo fa eo f 5 oo f s on f n oo 1 60 8 0(1 S 00 & n.l 9 i.ti a ar.i a to io oo 3 75 4 00 4 7M 8 (f 13 0O1 a vinn nn it nn i on 2H on H 00 15 00 1H 00 25 0040 00 lb on iB ooyt oo'aa ooj-io oo.w Q" in on SO 01 85 00 00 00 100 00 tST All Advertising bills due quarterly. t$T Transient adverusciaenU must be paid for In advance. Extra copies of the IIkralt for sale by TL J. Straight, at the Prmtotflrc, and O. F. 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J ohx Fitzgerald E. O. Dovkt Johh R. Clash T. W. Evans President, Vice-President. Cashier. Assistant Cashier. This Bank is now open Tor business at their new room, corner Main and Sixth streets, and are pre pared to transact a general BANKING BUSINESS. Stocks, Bonds, Gold, Government ' and Local Securities BOUGHT AND SOLD. Deposits Eeceived and Interest Al lowed on Time Certificates. DRAFTS DRAWN", Available in any part of the United States and in all the Principal Towns and Cities of Europe. AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED INMAN LINE ani ALLAN LINE OF STILUIERS. Persons wishing to bring out their frienda from Europe can rmcHAsK tickets from va Tliroiiyli to XMiattMiiontli. Excelsior Barber Shop. J. C. BOOISTE, Main Street, opposite Brooks Honse. HAIR-CUTTING, Shaving and Shampooing. ESPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO CUTTIXCS CHILDREN'S II AIR Call and See Boone, Gents, And get a boon In a OIiBA.Sy' SECATTT. n41-ly OO TO THE Post Office Book Store, H. J. STBEIGHT, Proprietor, FOB TOUR Baolts, Stationery, Pictures, Music, TOYS, CONFECTIONERY, Violin Strings, Newspapers, Novels, Song Books, etc., etc, POST OFFICE BUILDI3G, 8-tf PLATTSMOUTII, NEB. EPITOME OF THE WEEK. Condense! from Telegrams of Accompanying Dates, Monday, March 16. A dispatch from Berlin gays the German Reichstag has defeated the Government proposition fix ing the strength of the army on an effect Ive peace footing at 401,059 men. The National Liberals propose to 6x h minimum strength of the army at "GO,000... The Secretary of the Interior at Washington has asked that troops be eeut to the Ute Res ervation in Colorado, with instructions to no tify all unauthorized white persons that no one will be permitted to go upon the reservation, and that those who are now trespassing must abandon it immediately or be forcibly removed. The Jury In the Cballis libel suit agiins Victoria C. Woodhull and Tennessee Claflin have returned a verdict of "Not guilty." Jud ge Sutherland characterizes the verdict as "one of the most outrageous that he bad ever heard.".... An important case has been decided in the Supreme Court of Mississippi, involving the legality of a marriage between a white man and a negro woman. The children of the parties brought suit as heirs for a large amount of property left by their deceased father, and after years of litigation their right to the property has been affirmed, and the union thus declared legal. Tuesday, March 17. A great crowd of French people met at Chiselhurst, England, on the 16th, to celebrate the eighteenth anni versary of the birth of the Frince Imperial. Th-J Duke of Padua congratulated him upon attaining his majority and the Prince made suitable reply, and iu conclusion said: "De spite the confidence inspired by the loyalty of President MacMahon, an irresistible current of public opinion has pro nounced in favor of the plebiscite. I am ready to accept its verdict.". . . . A London dis pact of the lGth says Gen. "Wolseley would bring home the remains of Dr. Livingstone. . . . According to a cable telegram of the 16th the steamship Laconia, from Alexandria (Egypt), for Algiers, with 27S pilgrims who were returning from Mecca, encountered a ter rific gale in the Mediterranean. One huce wave washed overboard 117 of the pilgrims, and they were drowned.... There was a general suspension of business in Bos ton, and all the public schools were closed, on the ICth, on "the occasion of the ob sequies of the late Senator Sumner. The funeral ceremonies were very imoosiner. Vast crowds assembled to witness and do honor to the procession. The services at King's Chapel were of the most solemn and impressive character. The remains were buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery.... The Michigan House of Representatives on the 16th passed to a third reading the article of the new Constitution putting the question of woman suffrage to a separate vote by the people.... The colored people in various parts of the country held memorial meetings on the 16th in testimony of their love and veneration for the life and character of the late Charles Sumner. Wednesday, March 18. According to the statement of a correspondent of the Lon don Daily yews, in the Tirhoot district of India 100,000 natives, all of them famishing for want of food, have applied to the Govern ment for assistance. The correspondent adds that one-half the population will die if ade quate relief be not afforded.... St. Patrick's Day wm celebrated throughout the coun try with great enthusiasm by the Irish-Americans. No disorders are reported anywhere A Raleigh (N. C.) dispatch of the 17th states that rumbling noises were heard on the surface of Bald Mountain, in the western part of the State, and that a volcanic eruption was feared. The people living on and near the mountain were seeking safety in flight. One report states that houses on the sides and at the base of the mountain had been thrown down by the upheavals of the earth. Thttrsday, March 19. Prince Kalakena has been elected King of the Sandwich Islands, to succeed the late Lunalilo. When his election was made known there was a serious riot by a mob of Queen Emma's adherents, which was only quelled by the intervention of United States and British marines. One of the members of the Assembly was killed and several were badly injured.... A Berlin dispatch announces the death of Joharrn Heinrich Maedler. the well- known German astronomer. ... A Bayonne tel egram say3 the Carhsts have entered Olot without opposition.... Gen. Mitro has been elected President of the Argentine Re public. ..." The City of Pekin," the largest steamer ever built in the United States, was re cently launched at Chester, Pa. The launch was witnessed by an immense concourse of spec tators, among whom were many Senators and Representatives in Congress. The steamer belongs to the Pacific Mail Steamship Com pany The Massachusetts Senate has passed the Ten-Hour law by a vote of 19 to 18 The vote of New Hampshire at the recent State election is as follows: James A. Weston, Dem ocrat, for Governor, 35,573; Luther McCutchins, Republican.34,131; JohnBlackner.Temperance, 2,135. The Legislature is composed as follows: Senate Democrats, 8 ; Republicans, 4. House Democrats, 177; Republicans, 167 An nouncement is made of the death, at Jack sonville, Fla., of Hon. O. B. Hart, Governor of that State Cairo, 111., was visited by a heavy wind and rain storm on the 18th. Stores were unroofed, 6mall buildings blown down, and In one instance a house was blown into the water, but no lives were lost. Wharf-boat proprietors and those in charge of the steamers in port acted on a hint from the United States Signal Office in that city that the local observations indicated a storm, and took the precaution to make everything extra secure. It is probably owing to this fact that no damage was done to shipping. Friday, March 20. The British Par liament reassembled on the 19th Miss AdaC. Sweet has been nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate as Pension-Agent at Chicago, vice Blakely, re signed. She is the daughter of the late Gen. B. J. Sweet, First Deputy-Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Speaking of this appoint ment a Washington telegram says : " The President has heretofore declined to appoint ladies to responsible disbursing positions, but the ability of Miss Sweet In the administration of the Chicago office while her father was Pension-Agent induced the President to make an exception in her favor. The Senate con firmed the nomination without the usual reference to a committee.". ... A counterfeit of the new fifty-cent note has been received at the Treasury Department in Washington. It is a poor imitation.... A re cent dispatch from Indianapolis announces that Mrs. Clem, four times convicted of the murder of Jacob Young and his wife, and whose fifth trial was set for March 27, is likely to be released from confinement, as the county authorities decline to appropriate any more money to prosecute her. The Iowa Legisla ture has adjourned tine die. Sattoday, March 21. Twelve thousand Carlists under Gen. Palacios are reported to be marching upon Madrid, after having de feated with great loss the Republican column under Collejo near MinglanUla, forty-four miles southeast of Cuenca. The CarlisU have captured an outlying fort at Bllboa. The bombardment of the city continues. The publication of military news at Madrid has been forbidden A Kingston paper of a recent date says an Inquiry will shortly be held in respect to the British subjects captured on board tha Virgin- ius and shot by order of Gen. Burriel The New Tork State Grange at Albany has adopted resolutions indorsing the declarations of the National Grange at St. Louis; demanding leg ifclation which will open aud improve the av enues of traffic and produce; cheaper trans portation; a pro-rata freight law; in favor of low canal tolls and the canal debt fundinsr amendment. and in favor of reasonable temperance-reform legisla tion The Oregon Democratic State Conven tion has renominated Lafayette Grover for Governor, and F. 8. Chadwick for Secretary of State. G. A. Lodon is the nominee for Congress. The platform favors the free navi' gation of the Columbia River, the construe tion of a breakwater at Port Oxford, and the construction of the Portland, Dallas & Salt Lake Railroad to the southern boundary of the State: sympathy was declared in favor of the Patrons of Husbandry, and in favor of an economical administration of State affairs President Goider, of the State Granire of Illinois, calls upon the farmers of the State to send seed to their suffering brethren in Northwestern Iowa. Seed wheat and oats are particularly called for, and, if sent to the Spencer Relief Committee, Storm Lake, Iowa, their proper distribution is vouched for by Mr. Goider Joseph W. Whicher, one of Pinkerton's detectives, was recently killed in eanne county, Mo., by one of the James brothers, whom he was striving to arrest for being concerned in the Gad's Hill outrage.... The Democratic members of the Massachusetts Legislature met in caucus on the 20th and nominated Judge B. R. Curtis for the vacancy in the United States Senate caused by the death of Mr. Sumner. FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS. March 16. Senate. Not in Monday, session. House. Bills were introduced and re ferredprohibiting the use of public horses and vehicles for private purposes in Washington, and forbidding the Government officials to require their servants to wear livery; for a commission in relation to the preservation of forests; to give land warrants to soldiers and sailors in the late war.. ..A bill was passed appropriating: $jo,wu to be expended in the course of the current fiscal year in improving the month of the Mifsisfinpi River.... An evening session was held for the dis cussion of the Transportation bilL Tuesday, March 17. Senate Petitions were presented In favor of an increase in the vol ume of currency, and one from citizens of Detroit in opposition thereto, and favoring a speedy return to specie payment. ...A memorial was presented and referred from the Legislature of Wisconsin in reference to the improvement of the St. Croix River, and for the preliminary survey for the canal from Lake Superior to the Falls of St. Croix ...A bill was passed to authorize the President to accept for citizens of the United States the jurisdiction of certain tribunals in the Ottoman dominion and in Egypt, estabished or to he established, under the authority or the buD 11 me Porte and in the Government of Egypt.... Mr. Logan addressed the Senate on the bill to equalize the distribution of the currency, advo cating an increase in the volume of the currency ..Adjourned. House. A hill "was passed exempting Kansas and Missouri from the operations of the act or Jay, iis, wmcn rornias tne pre-emption 01 4U-- iron Hnn riiu i Tninp. nt. j'i'iK i n 1 . - .: : 1 1 :.i A - i J. lit! military ACUlClUf AULIiUUIiaUUIl Ui.A Yl tlO reported from the Appropriation Committee A bill was reported from the Military Committee The lraer Movement. In Chicago, on the afternoon of the 16th, the promised mass meeting of the ladies oc curred. About 2,000 ladies were present, and after religious exercises a committee of fifty was appointed to visit the Common Council and present a petition for the closing of saloons on the Sabbath, which contained the names of 14,175 women. After the organization of the Council the petition was presented by the Chairwoman of the ladies' committee in a neat speech, and ordered filed. The pending ordinance, allowing the sale of liquor on the Sabbath, was then passed yeas 22, nays 14 The ladies then retired, and were met at the exit-door of the City Hall by a crowd of dis orderly men and boys, who rudely cheered and Jostled them, and prevented them from leav ing the building. At last a posse of police came to their assistance and 6afely piloted the ladies through the hissing, screeching, cat calling, whistling, obscene rabble. The com mittee of ladies reported to those who had stayed behind to pray while they went on their perilous mission as follows: " In spite of your remonstrance, the Liquor law is passed by the Common Council. . We have nothing now to do but to renew our pledges to persevere in the cause. Let us all pray to that end." The praying women visited the saloons of Springfield, 111., on the 19th. The only result of the proceeding was to furnish an exciting episode in the experience of the corner loafers. The ladies were not discouraged, and proposed to repeat the dose until every saloon in the capital surrendered. In Cleveland, Ohio, sixty women marched through the city and visited several saloons, but were so rudely treated that they were compelled to suspend opera tions. Two of the ladies were seriously in jured by the surrounding mob. The crusaders renewed their efforts for the conversion of the saloon-keepers of Cleveland, Ohio, on the 20th. One band visited several saloons. Everything passed off quietly and the ladies were respectfully treated. Another band assembled at the Lorraine Church, where they encountered a large crowd, and as the ladies were leaving for their homes they were hooted at and jeered by the excited mob. The police, assisted by a number of gentlemen present, escorted the ladies to a place of safety. A policeman, at tempted to arrest one of the crowd of roughs. and a fight was started in which the police were obliged to use their clubs, which they did with good effect, making several arrests. The streets were crowded with excited Ger mans, and a riot was at one time imminent, but the arrival of a reinforcement from the police headquarters put matters in better shape. During the excitement the German brewers organized a procession, composed of lager-beer wagons loaded with beer kegs, on which sat a large number of men drinking beer as they moved through the streets Three of Pinkerton's bes men were detailed to pursue the Younger brothers and left for the woods about the time Whicher was murdered. They first sent out a spy, one of the employes of the Iron Mountain Railway, who came across tht men in a ravine near Man agaw Springs, where the Younger brothers own property and where they had established a rendezvous, ne was at once captured, but played his part so adroitly that he was set at liberty and told to leave the country. Instead of doing this, however, he hurried to Pinker ton's men and gave them what information he had gathered, and thov at once started for their hiding-place, accompanied by Deputy Sheriff Daniels, of St. Clair. On the after noon of the 10th the three on horseback called at the house, making some trivial errand. Two of the Youngers were eating, and, when the detectives left, they took their arms, mounted their horses, and rode after them. Coming close upon them the Youngers called upon the detectives to halt, and, aiming their guns ac the party, demanded their sur render. Allen, one of the detectives, turned bis horse close to them, took a pistol from his belt, and threw it down, saying: " All right, boys; what is it V" Then drawing a light re volver he fired at John Younger, hitting him in the breast. Younger in return discharged both barrels of his shot gun at Allen, and turning upon Daniels gave him the contents of a revolver, killing him instantly. Allen clung to his horse and discharged all his arms. The other man put spurs to nis norse at the beginning of the melee, and escaped unharmed, although pursued some distance by Jim Younger, who was also untouched. When Jim returned his brother and Daniels lay dead in the road, and Allen had crawled into the woods, where he lay un til he was found and relieved by some negroes. Jim Younger took his brother's body to a negro's shanty, rode buck to his house, told the news, and then made off toward the north. Wright reached Osceola, ten miles away, dur ing the evening, gave his story and set out to find his comrade. Allen had a bad wound in the abdomen and tight buckshot in his left arm. At last accounts he was lying at usce ola, receiving the best attention, but his recov ery was considered doubtful. John Younger was buried hurriedly on the following day and Daniels the day after. Jim Younger was, it was subsequently ascertained, badly wounded. The whereabouts of the two other Youngers is not known, although it was supposed they were intrenched in one of their strongholds in Ray County. THE MARKETS. Mayor has issued unlawful assemb saloons : reclamation S. . ' Vftfflr.iMvid (ilfT) .he 20th, but no con- NEW YORK. March 91, 1874. Cotton. Middling upland, 16!rfclbVic. Live Stock. Beef Cattle $1 nJ8.00. Host Dressed, 7.0027.12!4. SQ-.,.-i' BngA.psTtnrrs. ' cuotce. $ti.55a '": wMUj t-." J.TU3.2o, Wheat Io. , $ t.471.49; Iowa spring, f 1.5031.51; TUB GOOD OF IT. a ITeni THE GAD'S HILL ROBBERS. and made the special order for the first Tuesday in April, to provide for the gradual reduction of the army.... The transportation question was debated at the evening session.... Adjourned. Wednesday, March 18. Senate. A me morial of Mrs. D. R, Lawrence, of New York, was re ceived and referred, announcing that the " tidal wave" of temperance would soon reach Washing ton, and askintr that a band of praying women be received at the bar of the Senate, and that the Dresent occupant of the chair. with Senators Chandler and Spraiie, be appointed a committee to receive them.. . .The joint resolu tion of the Leirislatnre of WisconMn in favor of cheap transportation was received and re ferred. ...Bills were introduced for the relief of certain settlers on railroad lands; providing for the opening and improvement of cer tain water routes The financial question was further considered. Mr. Davis (W. "Na.) express ing the conviction that the remedy for the present evils was in the transfer of banking capital from New England to the South and West, and not in flation. ...The Army Appropriation bill was con sidered... Adjourned. Uotise. The regular session was devoted exclusively to debate on the bill to regulate inter State railroad commerce, on which subject several written speeches were delivered.... The evening session was given to the bill to revise aud consoli date the statutes. Thursday, March 19. Senate. Bills were passed amendatory of the act to prevent the extermination of fur-bearing animals in Alaska; authorizing the employment of certain aliens and engineers as pilots; appropriating $10,XX) to pay the expenses of the Joint Committee to investi gate into the management of the affairs of the District of Columbia.... The House bill repealing the thirteenth section of the act of March 3, 1855, regulating the carriage of passen gers in steamships and other vessels, etc., was re ported from committee without amendment.... The Army Appropriation bill was considered and several amendments were agreed to.... Executive session and adjournment. House. A bill was introduced to amend the act of 1793 In regard to the enrollment and licensing of vessels employed in the fishing and coast trade The Legislative, Judicial and Ex ecutive Appropriation bill was considered in Com mittee of the Whole, and after an exciting debate on the question of mileage an amendment to re duce the amount one-half was rejected 58 to 59. Other proposed amendments were also rejected ....Adjourned Friday, March 20. Senate. Resolu tions of the California Legislature were presented, protesting against any further subsidy to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, and instructing the Senators and Renresentives from that State to use their influence to have Articles 5 and 6 of the treaty with China modified so as to discour age the further immigration of the Chinese.... The Committee on Public Lands reported un favorably on the Senate bill granting aid to the Atlantic fc Great Western Canal Company The bill to equalize the National Bank circulation was made the special order for the 23d.... The Army Appropriation bill and the Fortification Appropriation bill were passed, with amendments.... At the request of the House a Committee of Conference on the bill in regard to paying annuities to the Seminole Indians was granted, and Messrs. Buckingham, Ingalls and Stevenson were appointed on the committee on the part of the Senate.... Adjourned to the 23d. House. The Georgia contested election case was considered, the majority report being that Rowlcs, the sitting member, is not entitled to his seat, and that Andrew Sloan, the contestant, is. The minority report takes the opposite posi tion. The Republican members of the committee join in the majority report, and nil the Democrats In the minority report. ...A bill giving the ap proval of Congress to the ronte and termini of the Anacostia & Potomac Railway in the District of Columbia was passed.... Adjourned. Mr. Snmner's Will. Senator Sumner left an estate valued at one hundred thousand dollars. His will was written in September, 1872, just before he left for Europe. Henry W. Longfellow, F. V. Balch and E. L. Pierce, of Boston, are ap pointed his literary executors, and they are instructed to transfer all his books and autographs to Harvard College. He gives his bronzes to Longfellow and Dr. S. G. Howe. His pictures and engravings are to be given to the Boston Art Museum, except one picture, " The Miracle of the Slave," which he gives to J. B. Smith, of Boston, ne makes a bequest of f2,000 to the daughters of IL W.Longfellow; $2,000 to the daughters of Dr. S. G. Howe, and $2,000 to the daughters of James T. Furness, of Phila delphia, which, he says, "I ask them to accept in token of gratitude for the friendship which their parents have shown me." After providing for an annuity of $500 to his aunt, Mrs. Hannah Richmond Jacobs, of Scituate, Mass., the residue of the estate Is to be di vided into two equal moieties, one to be given t his Eister, Mrs. Julia Hastings, of San Francisco, and the other to the corporation of Harvard College for the college library, the income to be expended in the purchase of books. It's rather remarkable that, -while several thousand feet are required to make one rood, a single foot, properly applied, is often sufficient to make one civiL One of the Railway Brigands Shot in Ills Tracks Like a Dog-Two Detect ives Murdered, and One Seriously, ir Not Fatally, Wounded -The Mis souri Outlaws Tracked to Their Hiding Places. Ever since the bold robbery of the train on the Iron Mountain Railway at Gad's Hill, Mo., on the 31st of January, measures for the dis covery of the perpetrators have been vigor ously prosecuted. The Postoffice officials, Adams Express Company and the railway company finally placed the matter in the hands of Allan Pinkerton, the well-known de tective of Chicago. After a full survey of the circumstances attending the affair the conclusion was reached that the five men concerned in the outrage were the famous James and Younger brothers, the former living in Clay County and the latter in St. Clair County, Mo. After the robbery above referred to these men traveled down into Arkansas, giving out that they were bound for New Mexico, and then doubled on their tracks and sought their homes the James boys going one way and the three Younger boys another. They were closely followed. Not long ago a detective named Joseph W". Whicher came across the trail of the James boys. He arrived at Lib c y, Mo., on the 10th of March, where h sought a banker named Adkins.with whom he deposited some money, as he had more with him than it was prudent to carry on such an errand, ne told Adkins his business, who advised him not to undertake it as the boys would be sure to kill him. Whicher, however, was fearless and persistent in going. Adkins then recommended him to talk with the Sher iff, who could direct him where he wished to go. The Sheriff also advised Whicher not to go on his intended errand. He told him that the boys were a bad lot and were away from home, but that the old woman was there, and she would kill him as quick as the boys, for she was a dead shot and could shoot like a man. Whicher obtained a description of the boys and the way to their house, and started off on his perilous errand, ne left Liberty on the afternoon of the 10th, on the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railway. Reaching Kearney Sta tion at about dark he left the train and struck off across the country for the James boys' place. The next known of him is from the report of John Brickey, the ferryman at the Blue Mills crossing of the Missouri River. He says he was called up on the night of the 10th by some men on the north 6ide of the river, who wanted to cross. The party consisted of four men on horseback. The fourth man was tied on his horse by a rope fastened to his legs and passing under the horse's belly, and had his arms tied behind him at the elbows; his hat was tied on with a handkerchief. One of the men dismounted and took the prisoner from his horse. Brickey says that the prisoner took things very coolly, and stamped his feet as if to warm them by restoring the circula tion. Not a word was said all the way across the river. The ferryman saw that all the men except the prisoner had the lower part of their faces covered with mufflers and their hats slouched down over their faces. When the Eouth side of the river was reached one of the men asked what the fare was, paid it, and the party rode off without a word. Brickey got back to his house at three o'clock in the morning. Next day a man going to Liberty with a load of wood found Whicher's dead body lying at the meeting of the Lexington, Liberty aud Independence roads. He was shot through the temple, through the neck, and in the shoulder. A fourth shot, evidently fired by a man on horseback, passed between his legs and was found In the ground. The pistol with which be was shot through the head was held so close as to burn the handkerchief with which his bat was tied on, while his neck was also badly burned from the close discharge of a pistol. There is no doubt in the mlnCs of the peo ple of Clay County that Whicher was mur dered by one of the James boys. These men have established a perfect terrorism in their neighborhood. E verybody is afraid of them. People will not talk about the murder or, if they do, it is only in low tones and in the seclusion of back rooms. The James boys have made hosts of friends by stealing from the rich and giving to the poor, it Is said. They have means of receiving timely notice of any steps to trouble them, and Whicher's fate shows that they do not scruple at desper ate measures to relieve themselves from molestation. :fjZ Milwaukee spring. $1.51(31.51 Rye W est- ernand State, 98&$1.02. Barley $1.623.1.70. Corn Mixed Western afloat, fc53S8c. Oats New Western, 60.Wc. Provisions. Pork New Mess, $16.0016.12J4 . Lard 949!4c. Wool- Common to extra, 4065c. CHICAGO. Livk Stock. Beeves--Choice, $5.61X5.80; good, $5.2o5.50; medium, $4.75(35.10; butchers' stock, $4.0J4.75; stock cattle, $3.25(34. 60. Hogs Live, $5. 1035.50. Sheep Good to choice, $6.257-25. Provisions. Butter Choice, 3842c Eggs Fresh, 1213c. Pork New Mess, $14.65(3 14.63. Lard 8X9c. BREADSTorrs. Flour White Winter extra. $7.00(39.25; spring extra, $3.00(36.00. Wheat -Spring, No. 2, $UbX7&l-lS!4. Corn-No. 2, 61 611-iC Oats No. 2, 43i'344c. Rye No. 2, 85 87c Barley No. 2, $1.54-31.55. Woox Tub-washed, 4355c; fleece, washed, 3fl48c.; fleece, unwashed, 25332c; pulled, 35340c. CINCINNATI. Brkad8TTJFT. Flour $6.75:37.00. Wheat $1.45. Corn 62S 67c Rye $1.03. Oats-X358c. Barley $1.65(31.75. Provisiohs. Pork $15.00(315.25. Lard 8X 09c. ST. LOTJI3. Livk Stock. Beeves Fair to choice, $4.35(3 6.25. Hogs lave, $4.735 50. Breads tTjFFS. Flour XX Fall, $6.00(36.25. Wheat No. 2 Red Fall. $1.031.51. Corn No. 2, 60361c. Oats No. 2, 4747Ka Rye No. 2, 893 90c. Barley $1.851.75. Provisions. Pork Mess, $15.23(315.50. Lard 8Xc. MILWAUKEE. BRKADSTUrTS. Flour Spring XX, $5.70(36.25. Wheat-Spring No. 1, $l.ii31.25V4 ; No. 2, $1.2113 1.21 . Corn No. 2, r8359o. Oats No. 2, 43(3 44c Rye No. 1, 8686J4c Barley No. 2, $1.60 1.65. DETROIT. Breadbtofts. Wheat Extra, $1.59(31.60. Corn ?2&73c. Oats 5152c TOLEDO. BREADSTtrrrs. Wheat Amber Mich., $1.47(3 1.47. No. 2 Red, $1.4231.43. Corn Mixed, 65J4 (366I4C. Oats No. 1, 49350c. CLEVELAND. Breadbtutfs. Wheat No. 1 Bed, $1.55(31.56; No. 2 Red, $1.47(31.48. Corn 69"lc Oats 4SQ 50C ' BTTFFALO. Lrv Stock. Beeves $5.2036.40. Hogs Live, $5.005.80. Sheep Live, $6.1S'47.50. EAST LIBERTY. Live Stock. Beeves Best, $4.2'36.373; me dium, $5.736.00. nogs Yorkers, $5.30(35.60; Philadelphia, $6.25(36.50. Sheep Best, $7.00(3 7.25; good, $6.006.75. The Cause or Mr. Sumner's Death. The autopsy of the body of Senator Sumner was made by the physicians on the 16th, and is made public, as follows: " The left coronary artery in a considerable portion of its length was so much ossified that its caliber was di minished at least one-half. The right cor onary was slightly atheromatous, and con siderably enlarged. The cavities of the heart were dilated, especially the lower third of the left ventricle. The, walls of this ventricle were generally thinner than usual, especially so at a point about an inch and a half from the apex, over a space two-thirds of an inch in diameter. In the vicinity of this were several small clots of blood, some of which had prob ably formed before death. Nothing abnormal was found in the brain or other organs." Dr. Brown-Sequard says no traces of the assault committed by Brooks were discovered in the brain. Reported Outrage in Mexico. The following telegram was 6ent by the As sociated Press on the morning of the 17th. It bears date " City of Mexico, March 16:" "A fearful outrage was perpetrated by a mob at Ahualulco, in the 8tate of Jalisco, last Sun day. In the morning a priest delivered an incendiary sermon, in the course of which he advocated extermination of the Protestants. This so excited hia hearers that an armed mob of 200 persons gathered in the evening and proceeded to the residence of the Rev. John Stevens, a Congregational minister Bent out by the Boston Board of Foreign Missions. With cries of Long live the priests !' they broke into the house and seizing the clergyman, smashed his head to a jelly, and chopped his body Into pieces. They afterward sacked the house and carried off everything of value. After much delay the riot was suppressed by the local authorities." A Lancaster (Pa.) man, who is a vet eran member of a lodge, says that while leaves may have their time to fall the cur tain lecture season lasts from Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, with no postponement on ac count of weather. The Detroit Free Frest would as lief die young as eat Graham gruel threo times a day. BT XAROARET 1. rRESTOK. Wren any task my hands essay. Wherewith to fill the eager day. There rises to my thought alway The hindering question: "Whence the need Of this thy lightly-weighted dredt Forego it and who taketh heed? Perform It who will praise or blame. Though it be wrought with purest aimt Done or undone, 'tis all the same. It cannot sorely much behoovs If in thy life's so narrow groove Thou movest, or thou dost not move. Amid the thousand myriad Uvea That overcrowd earth's humming hives. What matter if no work survives Of thy small doing ? Who counts, alas I One cricket chirping in the grass The less, when summer-time doth pass? So -keep thy song unwritten ; spar To spill thy music on the air; Let be the stainless canvas bare ! The world is over-deaved with speech ; And who so out of wisdom's reach As yet to lack what thou cans't teach 1" A poor, proud reasoning I Shall the spray Of fern beside the boulder gray. Threaded with morning-opals, say, " Whole winged flocks their nests have made In yon great oak: Why should my blade Afford an humble-bee its shade I" Or the light kreeze sigh, " Loud and deep The mountain winds thro' forests sweep: Must I just rock one rose asleep t" Or glow-worm murmur, " So divine. So flooding, sunlight's, moonlight's shine. What needs this moth with gleam of mine?" Because our music Is not keyed Beethoven-wise therefore, indeed. We scorn to blow our oaten reed I Because we may not counterpart The dance and trance of Shakespeare's art, We'll stoop to soothe no aching heart 1 Mock-meekness all 1 There doth not live Any so poor, but they may give Any so rich, but may receive. Withhold the very meag'rest dole Hands can bestow, in part or whole. And we may stint a starving soul. What then f If some poor song of mine Should yet prevail to bring the shine Back o'er one spirit's dull decline, And for a moment seem to fling A flash about its sun-setting, I think (God granting), I may Hngf JV. y. Independent. Fun on the Highway. The setting sun on Thursday afternoon threw a halo upon a vast drove of hogs, sedately marching down the Olive street rock road, attended by two gentlemen, one garnished with a stick and the other embellished with a black-snake whip. It waf rather chilly in f", . and as j - I i . MrvTsation, sometimes aaaressea u exttn other ana sometimes to me nogs, they began to feel the influence of the raw atmosphere, the effects of which they tried to overcome at the bar of every tav ern they fell in with. Encouraged with their success they became hilarious, and their good humor poked each other and the pigs in the ribs in that familiar man ner which characterizes good fellows charmed with each other's society. He of the black-snake cracked his lash until the air was full of snaps, and shouted and yelled in the fine exuberance of his spirits. As his enthusiasm arose he pined for loftier deeds, and told him of the stick that the next traveler would make some fun for the party that even the hogs could enjoy. But a few more drinks had been con cealed when they met a man in a buggy, a man who had been hunting, and who had some dangerous implements in the buggy. With a spring of the whip he grasped the reins and brought the horse, man and buggy to a sudden halt. " Stranger," said the man in the buggy, leaning forward with his elbows on his knees, " stranger, I wish you would let that horse go." " Partner," said he of the whip, " I can't. I can't let that horse go. I want to know, partner, where you've been and where you're going." " Stranger," quoth the man in the buggy, "I don't think that's any of your business. Really, I don't." " I don't want to hurry you, partner, but you must answer my question or you must slide outen that yer buggy, and dance a fling for us, right here," and he snapped his whip uncomfortably close to the buggy man's countenance. " You see, stranger," said the man in the buggy, 44 1 don't think I can dance. My boots are too heavy." 44 You can take your boots off if you want to, partner. I ain't modest, and won't mind your bare feet; but I say, partner, you want to be quick, 'cause these hogs and this yer friend o' mine is getting mighty impatient." "Well, if you want to see a dance mighty bad, stranger, I reckon I must ac commodate you. I've got some light boots in here, and when I get 'em on I'll show you how it's done," and he fumbled under the buggy seat. In a moment he rose up witlTa huge revolver in his paw, saying: "How will that do for dancing, stranger?" The next instant he was on the ground, his left hand comprehending the throat of Blacksnake and the pistol pressed tight to his forehead. The hogs looked at each other with raised eyebrows, and were all the more astonished when they saw him of the stick hoisting himself over a fence and sliding for peace on earth and good will among men behind a neighboring barn. 44 Stranger, would you be so poliie as to drop that whip?" He dropped it. 44 Now, stranger, we'll have that dance." 44 Well, partner, I don't know but what it's time that dance began." Just then Sam Ecker drove up, and the situation was explained to him. Samuel, being a devotee of Terpischore himself, gravely considered that the dance should goon. "You'll find it more comfortable, stranger, to dance without those boots, and 1 think you'd better take 'em off." "I estimate you're right about that, partner," and down squatted Blacksnake and disrobed his feet and took off his coat. It is said by those who saw him that Blacksnake is an excellent dancer. a He has a keen appreciation of the fine points, and has a way of slinging his feet that many masters of the art have not ac quired. 44 Warm, ain't it, stranger ? " Blacksnake conceded it was a little op pressive, and he resumed his habiliments after five minutes hard work. "Good-by, stranger," said the buggy man. , 44 Good-by, partner say, partner, don't mention this little thing in Lucas Market, will you?" But somehow it was mentioned in Sam's house, and at Billy Beek's, and for a day or two Blacksnake found no peace save in the society of his hogs. St. Louit Globe. A poison of any conceivable descrip tion may be rendered almost instanta neously harmless to most persons by swallowing two gills of sweet oil. An individual with a very strong constitution should take twice that quantity. The oil will neutralize every form of vegetable or mineral poison with which doctors are acquainted. AITJtCJ2 ULiU&i IVU, uiunu ple will be some of the fashionable colors in spring goods. Of green there are twenty different shades. He who cives a trifle meanly is far meaner than the trifle. Youths' Department. ALL CAN DO SOMETHING. A little boy, brimful of fun. Running ss hard as he could run, Piunged in a pond, bead over heels, Among the flh and silver eels. Ills eldef brother caught his hand. And brought him safely bach to land) 1 he second fi.-hed his floating cap) His sister cried at his michap; And all directly homeward came. Dreading to hear their father's blame. His kindnens laid their fears at rest; They told the truth, and truth Is next. He heard their talk, then, smiling, said, Patting the first upon the brad, " Your courage saved your drowning brother! Receive this book; ana now another I give the second for hia aid. But what for you, my little maid f You nothing did ; you only cried ; Aud yet your right is not denied. You little did, but that was good ; Your little was juet what you could. To you an equal gift is shared ; Your kind desire 1 now reward." Thus let us help poor dying souls With all the means our power controls; -Stretch forth the hand, some burden bear. Or mine our hearts in fervent prayer; The Lord of men, the Qod most high. Approves us II we only cry, auntie ay School TUUor. THE BOY WITH RED SHOES. BY OLIVE TUORUE. And not only red, but pointed, and turned up at the toes, and, worse yet, no stockings, and, more than that, a red cap, and blue trowsers, made like a bag, with two holes for his legs to go through which they do nearly up to the knees. A droll-looking boy, isn't he? Perhaps you would laugh if you saw him; but I do not think you would ; for you would see so many others dressed just like him that you'd soon get used to it And, be sides, there are other strange things to see about this little boy's home. There is the dress of his sister, for instance. It is a dress of dark blue, with a sort of cap on the head, and a piece of white muslin for a veil, which she must be sure to pull over her face if any man comes along. And if the boy had not red 6hoes he would be sure to have them yellow, or made of wood, and called kobkobs. Then he has curious manners. When he comes into a house he is very careful to leave his shoes at the door he would be thought very rude to wear them in ; but he is equally careful to keep his cap on his head. That is just the other way from our way, you see. His school is not any more like yours than the other things about him. How he would stare to see the seats, and desks, and books, and other things in your school-room! Why, his school is just a large, empty room, where forty or fitly boys leaving their shoes in a pile out side of the door, you must remember go in and squat down on the floor, each one holding his book, or tin card with a les son on it, and proceed to study by sway ing back and forth and screaming out their lessons at the top of their voices. When one goes up to recite, he has to shout louder than the rest. It is enough to make one crazy just to think of it, away off here in America, with a good broad ocean between us. The teacher of this comical school sits on one side, with a long stick, and if one scholar stops studying he gently reminds him with the stick that he is expected to study in school. If one is naughty, he does not get an "error," or a "check," or any such little thing by no means. He is thrown on the floor, his ankles tied together, and beaten on the soles of his feet which is no joke, I can tell you. When school is dismissed, the whole crowd rushes out ; and then comes a grand scramble for shoes. The first boy kicks the pile over, and then follows a scene similar to what you may have seen when fifty American boys want the same thing at the same moment. If our little red shoe boy gets hurt, he cries out, 44 Ya Imme !" which means, 44 Oh ! my moth er!" For this is a Syrian boy, and this school is a native Syrian school. Everything about this boy's home would 6eem odd to you. Not the least, the house he lives in. Ifitisin a small village, it is probably made of large stones piled up lor lae walls, wiui no mortar to hold them together, and look ing as if a good shake would tumble the whoie thing down. For a root logs are laid across, and covered with earth a foot deep. Comical roof, did you say? Well, that is not the worst ot it itisotten built against a side-hill, and the cattle, and sheep, and donkeys walk right on to it, ana run about, ana nave regular fights, bringing down dirt and stones on the people. To be sure, it does not trouble the natives much, for they don't mind a little dirt nor a good deal, I am afraid. Inside the house is not much more like yours. To begin wltn, it is naraiy nigu enough to stand up in. " II a man wants to stand up, he can go out doors," the people say. At one end of the large room the floor is a little higher than the rest, with a trough around it. 1 he family live on this higher pirt, and the cattle, horses, sheep, and calves in the lower part, and the trough is their dinner-table. The family mansion or, rather, end is lux uriously turnisnea witn mats to sleep on. tray to eat from, and a few wooden plates and spoons. Of chairs they have no need, for there is tne noor to sit on; tables would be too high ; and as for bedsteads, they probably never heard of such things. When tne family dine, a tray is placed on a mat on the floor, and all sit around it. The dinner either camel stew, pot tage, olives, and rice, or cooked figs is put on the tray, and every one proceeds to help himself from it. If the family were aristocratic, they might have chickens. boiled to bits, or a grand mysterious dish made by pounding meat to a paste, seasoning it with nuts and onions, and baking in cakes. For a lamp to light this attractive nouse is provided a saucer of olive oil, with a piece of wick hanging over the edge. The oven used by this family to bake their bread is simply a hole in the ground, lined with plaster, it is heated by mak ing a fire in it. When burned to 'bright coals, and the oven is hot, the woman sits down by It, with a flat stone on which she beau out her dough till it is thin like a griddle-cake andfas large as a dining, plate, or larger. This thin cake she sticks on the smooth side of her oven. It cooks quickly and curls up, but before it falls she snatches it on and puts another one on. But I have not told you all about the shoes yet. Shoes are regarded as very un clean as, indeed, they often are, especially boys' 6hoes. But the people dislike to speak of them, and it is considered very impolite to mention them. If one is obliged to speak of them, he will make an apology for alluding to such a vile subject. The reason they are always left at the door is that every body sits on the floor, and houses are spread with clean mats for that purpose. The shoes are not like ours, laced up and hard to get off; they merely slip on, and are so made as to put off very easily. There is a disad vantage about that, too, for when boys run they easily kick off their shoes. 1 have not told you nan the curious things about these people. Missionaries who have lived in Syria have written whole books about them ; but this is all I can tell to-day. Christian Union. Crying Frank. Frank was a fine little fellow; but he was most undeniably a cry-baby. lie would cry when he was washed, cry when he was dressed, and cry for this, that, or the other thing, many times a day. now to cure him ot this habit his parents did not know, for neither kind ness nor severity seemrd to do him any good. When his mamma was obliged to go out of town for the summer, she hardly knew how to manage. She could not leave Frank behind, and she felt very un willing to take him with her to disturb a strange household. At last she engaged board in a quiet country place, with a family who had no small children either to tease or be teased. Frank got through the Journey very well, and when lie reached his new home was too tired to entertain the strangers with any music louder than a sleepy whine. But the next morning they had a good chance to judge of the strength of his lungs. He tuned up in his loudest style; but the first time he stopped to take breath he heard some one else crying so lustily that, in his amazement, he forgot to keep up his own cry. His mamma had told him there were no children in the house; who then could It be? After breakfast FraDk wanted to go out ; but, as it was raining, his mamma thought it best to keep him in. Instantly he set up such a bawling that his mamma was very much ashamed of him. Hut he stopped as sudJenly as before ; for, Just In the next room, a voice took up the strain, and sobbed and cried so pitifully that Frank was quite frightened. How distressing was the cry I "Oh, dear! oh, dear! oh, dear! boo-hoo-hoo-hoo! Oh, dear! oh, dear! oh, dear! boo-hoo-hoo hoo-o ! " prolonged and re peated over and over again, and finally ending in a boisterous " Ha, ha, ha, ha I Polly wants a cracker." Frank was at first surprised, and then angry; for he thought some one was making fun of him. He ran into tho next room to see who it was; when a little lady, dressed in green, almost over his head, introduced herself as 44 Pretty Poll; pretty Poll!" nodding and bowing as if very glad to make his acquaintance. Frank stood speechless, with eyes and mouth wide open ; for it was the first time be had ever heard a bird talk. Pretty soon, Poll, peering at him over the side of the cage, sang out, "All right; all right! What's your name?" What's your name ? " and then began very soberly to whistle 44 Yankee Doodle." This talking bird amused Frank for a while; but his crying habit was so strong upon him that he was soon at it again. The moment Poll heard him she set up her cry too ; and theft? would be such a dreadful racket that even Frank would be tired of hearing it. His mamma so often said to hiraf "Don't cry, Frank; let Poll cry," that tho bird learned to sav that. She would call out, "Don't cry, Frank;let Poll cry;" and then would come her dreadful, "Oh, dear! oh, dear!" always ending in a hearty laugh and a call for a cracker, as if she were exhausted by her labor. Poll soon learned to cry so exactly like Frank that his mother could hardly tell the difference; and this mude the crying boy so ashamed that he would stop as suddenly as if he had lost his breath. At last he got so tired of cutting his cry off short that he thought he might as well not begin it at all; but, as a boy must have some amusement, he took up laughing instead, and he and Poll always kept on good terms about that. lie soon came to the conclusion that it was much better to be laughihg than cry ing; and when, at the end of three months, he returned to his city home, he did not take back with him his old habit. He left that with I'oll as a thank-offering for the good she bad done him. Mrt. E. V. Hill, in Tlie Aurterv. Government Among the Arabs. The principles of government among the wandering children of the desert are based upon ancient custom from time im memorial, and their civil institutions are well adapted to their habits and mode of life. Every Arab tribe bas its chief sheik, and every camp is headed by its own sheik, or principal man, but he has no actual authority over the individuals of his tribe. The real government of the Bedouin consists in the separate strength of their different families, who, by their own individual weight and influence, maintain an even balance in the entire body social of each tribe. If a dispute arises between two individuals the sheik endeavors to settle the matter, but if the relations of the parties fail, aided by the sheik's influence, in making peace, then commences war between the whole kin dred and families of cither disputant. The prerogative of the sheik consists in leading his tribe against the enemy, in conducting negotiations for peace or war, after consulting with the chief men of the tribe, in fixing the upot for encampment and in entertaining distinguished stran gers. He derives no yearly income from his tribe or camp; on the contrary he is obliged to support his title by considera ble disbursements; be must maintain the poor, and divide his presents among his friends. He derives a certain income from the tribute he exacts from the Syrian villages, and his emoluments from the . Mecca pilgrim caravan. When a sheik dies he is succeeded in his dignity by one of his sons or his brother, or some rela tion distinguished for valor and liberality, but not invariably. Sometimes a stranger to the family may be chosen, and occa sionfclly during the lifetime of the sheik he m.iy be deposed from bis dignity. There exists in some tribes an official called the bidy, or judge, who is selected from men respected for their age, intelli gence, and love of justice. They wear no special dress, and have no written code of laws to refer to, but they receive con siderable fees and emoluments. A still higher judge is the mebesshae, of whom there is one in every principal tribe for deciding in cases of great difficulty. The punishments inflicted are invariably pe cuniary fines, according to the nature of the offense, and, as the amount of these is well known and dreaded, this has a whole some effect upon the unruly spirits of a tribe. The laws of inheritance among the Arabs are those prescribed by the Koran, and on a man's death his property is di vided among the male children in equal shares. His effects are known to the whole tribe, and if he leaves children un der age the next relation takes them under his care. The law of blood revenge is one terri ble peculiarity which characterizes these strange children of Nature. In theory it is that whoever sheds the blood of a man owes blood on that account to the family of the deceased. But not only is blood claimed from the actual homicide but from all his relations, and this right is never lost; it descends on both sides to the latest generations. Sometimes the feud is healed by a certain fixed price of blood being stipulated to be paid to the nearest relations of the slain person. In consequence of a single murder it is some- ' times necessary to remove many hundred tents, and the fugitives move from one tribe to another for more than fifty years, until at length a compromise is made. For those slain in wars between two tribes, the price of blood is required from the persons who were known to have actually killed them. Appeals are some times made to the tnebennhae to settle by whom a man may have been killed in bat. tie if the accused denies the charge. 2 he Alps of Arabia. "Oh! I'm so glad you've found it; it contains the hair of a deceased relative, and though it cost but $50 I wouldn't lose it for $500." And then she magnifi cently gave the Boston newsboy ten cents' w rth of the "brst currency in the uni verse," and, sad to relate, he was bribed by another passenger to return the dime. ,. il II a" a