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W. N. BENNS, Editor and Proprietor, “LE1\THERE JliE UlGHT.” Subscription, $1.50 in Advance. VOLUME IX. BUTLEB, GEORGIA, TUESDAY. APRIL 21, 1885. NUMBER 25. NEWS OF THE BAY. [terns of Interest fiere, There and Everywhere. Fnptiem nnd Middle State*. .W ^ nTor f‘‘ on with his doctors on the Cth tastGeMral Grant spoke of a strung im- pratoi. wlttcl. he then felt that he would re- i although lie said Iio knew the chances were ninety-nine in a hundred against him. The Connecticut lowor house has almost *>•" manufacturing dynamite, r iin™- J . U 1 '"£i n ‘" no >' to destroy prisons or property with the explosive, eta ,3^! wf ERA1, , Tom TnrMB ha5 taken off J** woods and again entered the the ,u‘ r t r , " , ° 1 ^ Ih ' v s01; ond imsband is i?Sv Th nUt!TO a,U!lt rri 'no ilagri, of itaiy. The ceremony occurred in a New ir , a audionce witnessed the roarria-e of tlio mi i-ets. dinner was given in New T ork by prominent ct .sens of that and other ?‘‘f’ , t ° “onnr Irvins, the English actor, united States Senator Evarts, ifimry Ward Kcechcr. Charles Francis Adams, Jr of Massachnsetts; Ex-M..yor Morton JIcMichaol, ot i hiiadelphia, and others made addrasses. Mr. Irving hus returned to England. R^erson & Brown, owner? of extensive ^rystahies in New York, Lavo failed for The Democrats carried ... the Hartford (i-oim.) municipal election by about 1,800 majority. Evans, at Westchester. Penn.; George T. Gross, at Allentown, Penn.; James Dr ary, at Bristol, Penn.; George W. Statlbr, aJ Man*? field. Ohio: David Overman, at Muf;ou, Inch* Nelson Bl uett, at Jefferson. wis.; uenjamm F. Mackall, at Mooreh^ad, Minn.: George M Houston, at Harrison vide, Mo.; Benjamin B. Smith, at Chillicothe, Mo.; Stanley S. Crit tenden, at Greenville, S. C. According to April reports to the depart ment of agriculture the wheat crop has been greatly reduced in acreage, and promises to bo poorer in quality than any for tliroe years. Reduced acreage and winter killing indicate a reduction of 109,010,000 bushels over last year’s crop. The rye crop is also decreased in acreage, but its condition is hotter than the wheat crop. The President has appointed Robert B. Vance of North Carolina assistant commis sioner of patents, vice R. G. Dyrenforth. ro- sgned; and William E. McLean, of Terro Haute, Ind., first deputy commissioner of pensions, vice Calvin B. Walker, resigned. Postmaster Cooke, of Unionville, Conn., J'.Pf.. 0,1 the ( 'barge of umbezzlinr v->,o4i of money order fund: Rear-Admiral John Marston, on the re- Lred list of the United States navy, died in I luladelphi.a the other day, aged ninety-on® years. He ontered the navy in 1813. Richard Grant White, the well known author, died a few day-> ago at his homo in New\ork, nged rixt.v-four yeirs. His best known werk is “Words and Their Uses.” A short cable dispatch was received by the Grant iamily in New York from v u 0,1 ' ictoria on the 8th iuquiiing after the general’s health. Mr*. Grant sent a reply tout the general was no better. Tin: magnificent Cathedral of the Incan tiois, erected at Garden City, J.o.ig Island. j*v -hv. ; \. i. Stewart, as a memorial of he la.o i'.usonu!, was informally op -n.'d witi aj;pro;riite ceremonies. Bishop Littlejohn IT 1 * 1 ' “’ 'l the opening sermon before Mrs. Stewart nr * td it notable congregation 1 ne institutions built on the estite are the cathedral, St. Paul s school for boj*s, nnd St. Mary s s .-bool for girls, beside the bisho * residence near tne catheslral. and o -euoied summer by Bishop Littlejohn an i liis Iamily. Jefferson Davis, in his letter of svmpa s thy to General Grant, declare 1: “If the prayers and goo l wishes of ail those in the •South could a vail, lie would conquer the dread antagonist with whom he is now ecu tending just as triumphantly as he overcame the an- Iagonis.s with whom he contended twenty years ago.” William Donovan, the Elmira (N newsboy, who won tiie rocmt six day roller skating race at the Madison Square garden in New York died a few days since in tlio latter city, of pneumoifa. His do itii is ba- ltoi from a heavy cold a lack o: rast aftor t‘19 lievcnl to hav contracted tbrou nut toll. - ! : E ^ e *' *^ ILLS * "’bo murdered his wife in I.Vv» becauso she refused his drunken re quest to send one ot his children fer more <**•*_* r, was hanged the other day in Brooklyn. ina,le !l speech on the scaffold, saying that •ommitted tiie murder ho wu out of his mind. ftomli and Weft. The fourth m irriajr rf Mrs. Sr,llie Ward Lawrence 11 uni Armstrong, for forty years s the limit :» n if.iful woman in the t t ak ^ ice at Louisville, Ky. .is seventy, ki South, ii The bri li and the bride fifty-eight Municipal elections in Ohio have resulted jn Repn’ licnn snres-nt Cinlnuati, Cleve land, Columbus, Springfield and other cities note; in Democra'ic victories at > Tiffin, Crostlim and and in the selection of a of h , . Dayton, Chillico! ot her minor t mixed ticket at Toledo. A strike of th * I ,<> »•) men elnp’o red at Mc- Lornm k's reaj er works.Chicago—the largest factory of it ; kind m the wori l -occurred a o of an .-.t empt t> re- mployci of one depart days since bora place the striking meat with i Tin: Michigan State election has resulted ‘ "i Democratic majority of over 20,009. A re.ii' cour- and regents of i»mj risrd the State ticket, li.ipal election resulted in justice oi lh» the universi The Detroit Democratic Sr. Lilts has elected a Democratic suc- re^or to the present Republican mayor. Urrai- destitution. owing to prolonged aro:.prevails among the farmers of H est \ irginin counties. Whole raim;ns arc reported to lie liteia.iy starving for want of food. Tiie three-months-old twin boys of Wil liam Blair, living near Macon, Ga.,were found dead ia h< d. having been smothered by their parents during the night. L. L. Li.dridge, twenty years old, inmate of th-' a-ylimi at Nashvitie, Tenn., sud- -leu.y attacked and killolan atic.idant aad another patient. I i’l'- bitter municipal content in Chicagoro- sulicl in th-.i: re-eloc. ion of Mayor Carter .ianTsi.n lor his fourth term by a majority of y-U over the combine 1 Republican and Citizens’ candidate. His election is to be contci-te 1. Hie next common council will stand: Republicans, 111; Democrats, 17. i’t.ori: went up with s.ich a jump in Min- n- ap i.s on re.•••ip* of tlio news of a battle netv.ivii th - Ku-sinns and Afghan; that one firm made a deal of d.oOO.O») banvls with a profit of 8125,00d, and another firm a coal *>f 2,000,:mo haiTels with a profit of $1 >0,000. diciiARD Fraser and Columbus Craw- for.l, both colorol. wvra hang • 1 a lew days mco m South Carolina tor murder, the fer- nerat Chvrlesto.i a:i-l th.- latter-at York- torcigii. The new French cabinet formed by M. Brisson to succeed the late Ferry ministry was officially announced a; follows: M. Bris son, president, of tti*» council and minister o.' public instruction; M. de Frefcmefc, minister of foreign affairs; M. Allain*Large, minister of the interior; M. Clcni igerao. m'nistfr of finance; M., Goblet, ininist-r of jus i c; Gen eral Campenon, mini: tor of war; M. Sadi- Caraot, minister of public works; M. • Fierfe Legrande, minister of agriculture; M. Horve- Mangon, minister of commerce; M. Sarrien, minister of posts and telegraphs; Admiral Galiber, minister of marine and the colonies. Premier Brisson was tiie president of the French chamber of deputies when summoned to form a new ministry. PrDLic ct nfidence lias again been restored nt Panama by the arrival of the American man-of-war SSbenandoah and a British skip. Several viceroys in China have ordered the destruction of all Catholic convents and that all converts be killed. Pa ports have reached Shanghai that several Roman Cath olic settlements have already been destroyed and soveral hundred converts killed. Later reports stated that Riel’s rebellion was still sj.reading among the Indians in Manitoba, and that three columns of Cana dian troops would try to surround and cap ture the half-brce t leader. At Toronto and other places in Canada there was great fear of a Fenian invasion from the United States, and afi the public stores were guarded day und night. A French friguto will sail from Franco for New \ ork at the end of April with Rartholdi’s Statue of Liberty Enlightening LATEST NEWS. i tht the World. Forty thousand coal minors went on strike in \ orkshire, England, against a 10 per cent, reduction in wages. Indians from the United States ure re' ported to bo joining Riel’s rebels in Mani toba. CADLE-advices on the 9lh stated that the probabilities of a war botwcon England and Russia were greaier than over. i m: presiden* of Salvador has confirmed the news of the d;*ath of General Barrios in a dispatch which says that the late presi lo ol Guatemala and one sou were killed in t battle at Cbalcliu ipa. Dispatches from St. Petersburg stated that the war j arty \vn< g-tting the upper hand and that the o/ar ha i agree-1 to appoint General Gurko and General Kuropotkine to U»o leading commands in the eWilt of war. Each wilt lead an ar.ny corps of 50 000 men. News has just been received that on tho ~>t!i of la^t February twelve vessels, com prising five Pi ouch and six native ships and tiie American bark Sarah Hobart, foun lered in the harbor of Ta-nat ive, Madagascar, dur ing «i terrible hurricane. Tiie levee given at Dublin Castle by the 'ncess of Wales Was larger than Ireland since the visit of Queen Prill any belli Victoria m 1849. Prince Rudolph, tho crown prince of Austria, has been scared nearly out of his royal boots by a lunatic who smashed in the window of the prince’s c arriage at Brussels without doing any further injury. The English nnd Russian press, on hearing of the Afghan defeat at Penjdoa, were noirl/ unanimous in favor <>f war. Russian papers t that G.-ntra! KomarofT’s attack was caused by host.le act* :>f tha Afghans. FOOTLIGHT FLASHES. fc Pctuceil Hns’iia a Afghanistan. rher.i p -v a -h we give herewith described •• »ir*tc‘ t ie : ceuo of disputs between Eng- : 1 an-l Russia. Peujdeh, the town cap. i\i 1 by the RuBsians in the first fight with * j Afghans, is situated in the northwestern >art of the region indicated oil the map; and Herat, tho strong' ' inched town which both England and Russ to occupy, is a tittle to the southwest ofT’enjdeh. An nrti- ilo in tho New Y T ork TFor/t/, describing the iause of the trouble between tho two coun tries, says: Afghanistan is between Persia and India, and the brittle at Ponjdeh is significant, be- causo England having Afgliinist-m as a ueighlxir on the west lias promise 1 that coun try protection in case of invasion by foreign powers- When Abdurrahman Khan suc ceeded to power at Cabul he was given what was called a charter of protection by Sir Lepel Griffin, which calls for substantia’ aid In case of “unprovoked aggression. ” A ques tion arises as to whether Penjdeh is in ghanistan, there having l>een so many changes in the boundary between that country and Russia. If by a slight stretch of tho imagi nation Afghanistan is likened to a billiard table, tho cities of Cabul and Herat, which are on a line east and west, would be tho places for “spotting” the balls, and I tory along ill * Mur Penjdeh is so far up in tho northwest corner ! this an excuse for nnki thrown across these rivers the Afghans would consider it an invasion, an-l England would undoubtedly be called upon lo keep her con- traet with the Ameer of Afghanistan and protect the country from tho Russians. The Pall Mall Gazelle lias lalifly given many f agos to discussions of the question whether enjdeh is within the Afghan boundary line* a Russian officer having quoted from the history of that country’s boundary troubles ns far back as 1S.'!3, and an English officer having exhausted a good deal of learning on the other side to show that Russia cauaot claim Poujclsli on the ground that other portions of that tribe of people were subjected by them. Ho claims that Penjdeh lias of late years paid tribute to Herat. But this tribute is said to have been only tho payment of nion *.y for the use of pasturage by the people of Peujdeli for their sheep. The Afghans never went to collect the rental, but when it was not paid they seized tho flocks of the Penjdeh people and held them till the tributo was forthcoming. The waste region along tho boundary is occupied only by tribes that live a pastoral life mainly, and they were continually at war with one another in years past, and appealed first to one power and then to another for pro:ortion from tlieir enemies, and so the boundary vacillated. The Russian bear went down there fiom St. Pe tersburg year before last and showed his claws, which has tended to keen the small tribe quiet, much as a brute will tsri ity chil dren into quiet by his scowl. Taking ad vantage of this pacification of tho desert re gion. tho ameer of Afghanistan occupied Penjdeh in July, 1884. Lately ho is said to have attempted the accession of more terri- and Russia m ikes ; a similar advanca that its nationality becomes a serious move- ' toward tho am tor's possession. Tho Afghans mont A part ot tho Heri-Roo<l river is ths i afterward te-am > alnriiio 1 and fell back to western boundary ot Afghanistan and a part ' p.. n j,i,.h, hut later advanced-twenty or thirty of the Murghab river is tho northern boun. . miles,and'Kiissia claims tint they were ursei dary. If tho Russian outposts should bo , t0 this bv Sir Peter Lumsdau’s staff. MASSACRE BY INDIANS. THE NATIONAL GAME, —'VThilu seven men were clearing the brick oUt of the smokestack of a mill in Ascoda, Mich., the bottom gave way and the seven men were buried under 50,000 brick. Fiv8 were killed outright and the others fatally in jured. —Judge Fleming re-sentenced Charles H. Rngg, the Maybee murderer, to be hanged on May 15 next Rugg trembled violently and bis eyes filled with tears as the sentence was pronounced, but he refused to say anything about the sentence. —James Giblins, aged 17, overexerted him self in a skating rink in Paterson. N. J., and was taken with an appopieotie attack, of which he died. —The pec->le of Arizona are greatly excited over the reported appearance of raiding Apaches in that, vicinity. M. T. Cunningham and Charles Croncb, ranchers, arc mLsing, nnd arc believed to Lave been killed by the Apaches. —A boiler at No. 5 Colliery, “Yorktown,” . -»doued, instantly killing the fireman and fatally m , CD * - ,, TM . . „ * "her of the Illinois -Henry Shaw, a - - n ,i de n!y on Legislature and a Democrat, dien •,_ * Sunday, leaving that body again a tie, w. order for a new election in 3Ir. Shaw’s district. ;—Governor Abbott, of New Jersey, says lie will protect the fishermen of that State in their rights to fish in the lower Delaware Bay, not withstanding the action of the Delaware Leg islature in passing a law to exclude all but Del awareans from the fisheries. THE COUNTRY ROADS. HOW THEY ARE DOCTORED CP BY TIIE PaTIIRASTEK AND MADE AL MOST IMPASSIBLE. A Slipshod Way of Dolnc Business that Sorely Needs a Reformation. —All the judges of election at Jlie Third precinct of the Third ward, Chicago, from whom the ballot box was stolen, were arrested —It need surprise no one if another strike occurs on the Gould system, in Texas, at an early date. The railroad companies arc grad ually dismissing the parties implicated in the late strike. —A cablegram announces the arrival at Dabiiu of the American ship Louisiana, Capt. Oliver, which left San Francisco on Oct. 14, 1884. Tho vessel was supposed to have been lost* TRYING TO MOB THE PRINCE. the London, April 13.—Tlio Prince and Princess of Wales, with their son and suite, left Dublin for Mallow. An immense crowd had assem bled in front of the Mansion House to see the royal party pass when Lord Mayor John O’Con nor drove up lo attend a meeting of the Conn- ciL His appearance was the signal for a storm of his.-'Cs from the crowd, which was composed principally of loyalists. The Lord Mayor be came purple with rage, and, jumping irom his carriage, he monnted tho steps of the Mansion House und tried to address the crowd. For a time the uproar was so great that what lie was saying could not bo dL-tingnishcd. He stood working his arms like a windmill and expressing his anger by vigorous pantomime Finally he was heard to say: “1 was determined to let the Trince go in ■peace. Now I am hissed by Orangemen, by Freemasons, by landlords, and by bailiffs. You will be sorry for this to-m urovv. I will tele graph to Mallow and to Cork about this out rage.” A few more words which followed were ren dered inaudible by a renewal of t-lie tumult, and then the Lord Mayor's voice was again hoard yoking above the din: “Three cheers for Parnell!” Tho cheois were given, but they were drowned by counter cheers from the loyalists. It is believed by many who witnessed the scene that the Lord Mayor was intoxicated. Ho speiddy carried out his threat of tele graphing to Mallow, and his dispatch proved THE REBELLION IN THE NORTHWEST Wholesale Butchery of Men, Women'and Chd dren by Indians* Califor- vilie. Wnsliing ton. The postmaster at Rome, N. Y.. has been suspended by order cf the President, nnd Jarnjs B. Corcoran, upon whose nomination the benate failed to net, has been appointed in his place. President Cleveland charges ttyu termer postmaster with irregularities * f i hi«* accounts. Mk. Palmer, Gy? deposed postmaster of Homo. N. Y. t has written to President Clove- land, saying that lie h.a l nev *r httnableto reply to the oharg»*s o:i which ho was re moved, and protesting against his removal. A. dispatch receive l by the Colombian minister stated that Panama was in the hands o. Hi*? revolutionist's, and that government troops were on their way to the city. The Prc.-ident lias .appointed An Irow Jack son Gross, of Kentucky, Unit 'd Siat h mar shal for that State A committee of the Republican Senators Has, after a consultation with the Senate’s sergeant at-arnis, decided to recommend that vhich will his • orcelie reduced twenty-live, wl effect a saving of SAOJH.'O a year. Mlle. Emma Nevada is called nia tho “Sage-brush Linnet.” Henry [ryixc's season of four weeks in ow York brought receipts of $70,415. Several London managers are endeavor- g to secure Clara Morris for a season in England. Hazel Kntmit, a young colored actress of Pittsburg, is to star in a new play called Seventeen Years in Slavery.’ A Nr.w theatre is to bo built in the New •gyptian Hall building, Philadelphia, which will have a seating capacity of 4,M)0. John McCullough’s “King Lear” wi - is aid to have cost him $ 100, and John Wilkes Bco*li wore a wig made of tho hair of liis sweetheart, who died of typh .itl fever. The twenty-guinea prize offered by the Philharmonic society in London, for a dra malic orchestral overture, has been awarded to a German resident of the English capital, Gustav Ernest by name. Jenny Lind is said to have “given a con ditional promise to give n c oncert next sum- icr in Norwich. England, in aid of the hildren’s Infirm : iy thero, of which she is tho foundress. She has not sung in public since 1803.’’ An international musical congress is to be held at Antwerp toward t ic c ose of the pres ent year. Papers on nm-u. al cdu- ation will be submitted, ami discussions will take place on subjects relating to tlio modes of spreading musical knowledge. Edwin Booth’s brother-in'law, John S. Clarke, tho comedian, i.s credited with own ing the Strand T boat re, in London, worth .8J5'V 00o, with the "Walnut Street Theatre and Haverly’s in Philadelphia, valued with the ground lots at *500,000. Miss Belle Cushman E \t< \. a grand niece of Charlotte Cushman. cJth ugh very young (she is not yet 19), has met with re markable success as a reader of late. She is E osse.-sed of great natural ability, which has een carefully cultivated, and promises to take first rank in her chosen profession. Jealousy reigns supreme in tiie Maj)leson opera troupe. Mine. Patti receives £4,209 by her contract each time she sings, and she insjsts that ii lx? paid her in gold before noon of tho day or ev ming on waich she singa One of tiie sopranos of the troupe says the reason there are no little Pat tis is that the youngsters could not afforu it—their mother wculd charge them £4,200 fc-r each perform ance of singing them to sleep money down in advance. id insist on PERGONAL MENTION. During the first month of Postmaster- General Vilas’ term in oifice he commissioned 450 pcstinasrers and prepared more thau 109 presidential commissions for approval. John R.. McDowell, ]>ostmaster at Ross- viile, Tenn., has been susjxmded for violation of the postal laws. Captain Norton, commanding the Shen andoah. informed the navy depa Burnt that lie hail landed n’-. ; i 159 me t iu Panama for tho protect'-. American interosts. Secre tary Wbl.uey replied: “Your duty is c/*u- fined to protecting railway and steamship conqlevy’s property and live; and property of American cirIrens, and. s » far ns your foico jiermits. to keep the transit open.. Iu con flicts between local forces you must not par ticipate, nor snow rnvor or oisravor to either.” Whilk a heavy storm was passing over the national capital, the other afternoon, tho Washingtm monument was struck three times by lightning without causing the least damage. T. * President has appointed Delos Birg« . . n.ot-r at Cooperstowu, N. Y. (-.enebal Im Barrilos has notjfic«l the President that i»* has succ<*eded th? late Geu- eral B.irrios as president of Guatemala The President lias apjiointed postmasters at tho following named presidential offices: ilenry L. Kenyon,at XoitlifieM, Vt.; Joroma La Due, at \JJ^riield # N. Y.: Ezra Ex-President Arthur, who has been sick at Fortress Monroe, is bettor. Sitting Bull nnd a tribe of genuine red skins are to visit Berlin this summer. Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, of the Brook lyn Tabernacle, is going abroad in July. Mr. Henry M. Stanley, the^Americanex plorer. hopes to visit the United States soon, returning to England in Maw William Putnam Exdicott, the father of the secretary of war. is still living at Salem, Mass., at the hale old uge of eighty two. Ex-Governor Waller, of Connecticut, who goes as esnsnl-general to London, used to sell newspapers in the streets of New York. Mrs. Rose H. Throve, the author of tho jx>em, “Curfew Must Not Ring To-night,” resides at San Antonio. Tex., and talks o: going to California to live. Sir Henry Pon>oxby, private secretary to Queen Victoria, has written a letter au thoritatively denying that members of the royal family are be.ievers in Spiritualism. Queen Victoria has a manta for collect ing relics of engagements in war. Among others she has. mounted in crystal and silver, the musket ball that ended tho carosr of Nel son. The new commissioner of agriculture, Nor man J. Column, is the owner of a iarge nnd valuable stock farm near St. Louis, on which h ? is raising forty-two colts—“'all promising trotters.” Mrs. S. S. Cox. wife of the newly appoint ed minister to Turkey, has visited* Constanti nople twice with her husband, /studies and reads French, and speaks the Turkish lan guage fluently. > Despatches received nt Winnipeg confirm a previous vague report regarding the massacre by Indians which took place at Frog Lake. Temporary communication was established with Battleford, nnd by that menus newso the shocking occuitcUco was obtained by the oj>erator at Clarke’s Crossing from Colonel Morris, inspector of mounted police at Battleford, Whero a man who escaped from Frog Lakp, which is west of that place, told the story of the massacre* This person Fays that fourteen persons were killed, as far esheknew; but the later information indi cates that all in tho place sutl'ereda like fate. Those known by him to have been killed are tho Rev. Father Falford, the Rev. Father La’ Marclmnd, James Delaney, In dian Turin instructor; J. J. Quinn. Indian supply agent; Mr, aiid Mrs. Gowanlock, John Williscrufr, Char.es Gorrin, George Gilchrist, Joseph Lay, and William Lay. After tho massacre nt Frog Lake the whole force of Indians proceeded to Fort Pitt, not far distant, an 1 l>esiege l the town. In the fort were only 15 soldiers, and these had to protect th? settlers, with their wives and families, who took refuge in the barracks. The soldiers made a gallant fight, but all iu Vain, tho Indians so far outnumbered them that they hud to give in. Only two or three den escaped to tell tho story of a hoirible massacre of all the settlers. Men ana chil- Ireli were murdered* and not one was spared. The chief of the ml skins is Big Bear, the most vicious Indian in the country. One thousand Indians were gathered around Battlefoid. A party of forty of these Indians approached tlu* r ort, and, as it was thought tiiat they were going to make an attack on those l»eseigod there, lire was ujxsued upon them at long range by the mounted police in tho fort. Two Indians were killed and the others hastily re treated. The Indians around Bran don, which is only about 100 miles from Winnipeg, have robbed several houses in the locality. Indians from the American side are coming in there by twos and threes and are evidently gathering lor an attack. The Sixtv-fifth regiment, from Quebec, ar rived ut Winnipeg, and left immediately for the West. Six thousand American troops are stn tinned along tho boundary to prevent Amer ican Indians from crossing. A settler who has arrived at Brandon lrom Duck Lake, says Riel has 3,000 men and six nino-pounder A later dispatch from Battleford says th- whites wen? fired on by Indians while taking water from the river, t ut their bullets wen* wide oi the mark. The whites returned the fire, killing two Indians and wounding several others. Fort Pitt is besieged by Bi- Bear and liis hand. Frog Lake is a'KVjt 120 miles northwest of Battleford and thirty miles from Fort Pitt. The ii-serves there a: e occupied by three bands of C rees and number about thr.oj bun tired Indians. A Toronto dispatch says that the effect of the rebellion in the Northwest on immigro- ti >n is liecoming apparent. Ten car loads of emigia its, chiefly Scotch and English, numbering a!w>u; CO i, who left England" with the intention of settling in the Northwest, on hearing of tho troubles there, refused to pro ceed iurther than Toronto, and will settle in Ontario. Another party of nearly 400 also refucdlogoto tho Northwest. These will go through to Wisconsin and Indiana. Alt Ouict on I lie J«thiine<. .VasHINoton. April 13.— \dmiral Jouett tele graph* d to Sacreiary Whitney from Colon a« follows: “l’li- situation on the Isihmus is un changed. Trains run across regularly without molestation ” It is the general opinion am >ng officers on duty ct the N.ivy Dcpartmeut that the marines who were recently sent from New York will return home within the next two weeks. The officers apprehend no farther difficulty, aiid say it is us less to keep so large a force on the Isthmus unless the rebels show signs of continuing their depredations. Should the marines return, Admiral Jouett will still have a force of about GOO men to protect Amer icans and American interests. —. 4 t uhlresse- to Prince Bismarck ex cited ue .-uspicious of the authorities at Frankfoi t-on-the-Maiu und it was opened. It contained clockwork and a dynamite machine of a new type aud of skillful contrivance. There is nothing to indicate by whom the box was prepared or sent. —A prominent Prussian officer says: We feel sure that General Komar off acted from sheer necessity. To recall him would cause bitter feeling throughout the Russian army, while a court-martial would certainly aequU Tiie Southern cities arc patronizing base ball liberally. The Detroit-? have been taking all their pract ice in a skating rinks. The Western league is now under tho pro tection of the national agreement. The Kansas City Western league grounds will have a seating capacity of 11,090. A second nine will be formed at Harvard and kept iu training during the spring. In nine years the Boston League clubjias won 419 championship games and lost 297. IT is estimated that tho baseball clubs of this country will cost the people 8IG,OjO,OQO this year. The propose Hour of the Canadian base ball club through the United States has b€C3- abandoned. Tiie Philadelphia league club’s four catch ers are pretty heavy men, weighing respect ively 171, 172, 184 ^nd 187. IN eighty-six games between League and American clubs last season the League clubs won fifty-eight and two were drawn. The Chicagos will make a desperate effort this year to brie the loague championship pennant West. fiey will have no less than five catchers anf. three pitchers. The greatest surprise so far this season has been the defeats that tho champion league club from Providence has twice suffered at tho hands of the league club of Richmond, Ya. There are four college associations in t he field this season—tho American inter colle giate, tho New York college league, Western college league, and Maine State college league. The national game is booming at a great rate in Mns^uchusattand nearly every city, town and hamlet in the old Bay State will be represented by a professional or amateur club this season. The Southeastern Massachusetts league was organized recently at Taunton. Amo lg tho clubs represented were the Tauiitons. Middleboros uml Fall Rivers. The number of clubs will be limited to ten. The Providence team have met with two deceive defeats by scores of 4 to 0 and 7 to 3 at'the hands of the Virginia club* in Rich mond. Ya. 'I ii • league champions were out batted and out fielded m both games. The t3’pesetters employed on the New York IForM, Herald, Journal and Times have or ganized a bas<* ball league, to be called the New York Morning Newspaper league. Officers have been elected au«i a schedule of games has been arrange.!. - - There will bo no overhand throwing in the American association this season. The umpires have received explicit instructions to . enforce the per alt}’ot a balk every timo « pitcher gets his hand higher than his shoulder when delivering a ball. fruitih l of mischief, c-n!minuting ir* a/serious riot.* The- journey of the I ■ . .the royal party was un eventful until Mallow Junction was reached Thero the royal party alighted from tho train and crossed the platform to enter carriages provided by the Earl of Listowel, by whore they were to be entertained at his seat, Conva more. There was a large and rough crowd around die station, and just as the royal party steppe, ‘j on the platform the crowd broke throiu ‘ ’ A lines of police and pressed around tliejp The police charged upon the crowd a: them back at th- point of the bayonetJ are said to li-tve l>eeQ wounded, meu.b.rs of Pariiameut—AYilliaqj Wiiliatn n-dmoud, and Timothy weie in the crowd aud were bad| Ever since the riot the telej and from Mallow have been ' tho Government, and it is i any additional details. The news of the Mallow rioti a sensation in London. Excited ■ round MteJ^ariiainent building threats of Veiigt'^flce .on Jlie Ii House of Commons even tin with Russia is forgotten for the i everyone is asking for the latesi Ireland. Mr. Parnell and his folio we if they expected a sorm of English] burst over tlieir heads. [From the Now York Hour.] There is no place where slipshod or imperfect methods are more disastrous than they are in road-making in this State; the very system itself—which a few townships have lately freed them selves from—virtually inflicts these methods. A small township is divided., say into twenty districts, nearly cotiter rninous with the different school districts. The different persons representing votes or property there are taxed, both by poll and assessment, and an officer called a pathmaster, on one or £wo different periods between the 1st of May and tiie 1st of November, “warns” these persons out, by timely notice, to work their tax. - _ "'-mer’s team, cart and scraper, all The - v,is own personal labor count, ns wen »«, 1 men. Those and tho labor of hia hireu _ .r,t e »* who do not choose to Work “comu* w * at the rate of a dollar per day, uhd need not appear. There are always a goodly number of the commuting class—widows and valetudinarians, and others—and their money, theoretically, goes to hire the labor which they cannot or do not wish to bestow. As the pathmaster is not held to any very strict account, there is a general belief that, in frequent cases, this money goes no further than into his own pocket. If the pathmaster is honest it does; but if he feels that he has a certain in com pie to interest in these public funds which he himself may com plete, the road will not get the benefit of them. Practically, too, it often hap pens that some of the assessed men got out of giving their work, and escape com muting altogether. The pathmaster, as every country resident knows, either lacks the power to compel obedience to the law, or stops short of any extreme measure. In addition to all these liabilities, an other aid to inefficiency is to be found in the brevity of the working day on the road. For eomo reason, although the farmer himself rises with the sun to do his work on the farm, be does not appear on the road until eight o’clock, and he is not expected to. Aud he does not re main on it till the day ends. He de parts, usually, in time to do an hour’s work oa the farm after returning home. To make matters still worse, the spring work on the road is never done iu timo. It is almost always made to wait for the farmer’s convenience, and this is not often earlier than Juno. But, by June, the general road-bed has made itself, for the most part, and, to do more than to fill up the gullies on the hills and to re move loose stones, aud reshape the water-courses, at this late date, is to do positive damage. The pathmaster thinks not; and so about nine-tenths of hia efforts are worse than thrown away. To rake up soft loam on the hard road-bed is liis delight, and it is the equal delight of tho summer shower to transform -ii into the thickest mud. It requires weeks, sometimes, for nature and the pressure of ct^^nued travel to set things right miceja^fclut, b' SAVED BY A JACKAL. STORY OP INDIA IN TIIE T1JIE OF TIIE SEPOY REBELLION. “Jackals are at once the bane and the blessfugs of India,” said a gentleman, whose face, either through a disorgan ized liver or from a quarter of a century of steady curry eating under an Eastern snn, or in consequence of both, had ac quired a rich yellow hue. “They ban- ish 6leep with their nightly howling and sometimes they carry off a child, but they are the scavengers of the plains, which, I think, wculd hardly be habit able without them. Let me tell you a curious story about one of the brntea saving a child: “I had better state at once, to cheok nudne sympathy, that the' jackal, when ho rescued Lai Chckrce, acted purely as an involuntary agent, for he certainly intended to eat her. The little girl’s real name, given to her in England a year previously, was Mabel Stern. Her father, Col. Stern, whose regiment was in India, was on leave of absence in bis —* land when little Mabel was born, -onths later rumors of the T ndia began to be alid tiiV'Cf* coming matin? --red to rejoin heard. Col. Stem H>si9 / his command, and with hfe -- insisted on accompanying him, his y.' fant daughter and an ayah, or native nurse, obtained with some difficulty in London, he turned his face eastward. When he stepped ashore in Calcutta the country was in a flame of insurrection, and the colonel learned that his own regiment, composed of sepoys, recruited chiefly in the northwest, had been among the first to turn the arms they had obtained and the arts they had learned from their English masters against their teachers. He was ordered to do geueral duty with the forces be- sieging Delhi, and, still accompanied by his wife and child, though the ayah re fused to go any further, he went up the country. "The last scenes of the mutiny were being played. Their horrors, and those that preceded them, are too well known to need description. Col. Stern and his little family, with another ayah, were living in a bungalow, or Indian house, a few miles from Delhi, and keeping a careful watch at night time, for parties of disbanded mutineers were still prowl ing about, actuated by one prevailing purpose—to murder white men, women and children whenever they conld do so with a fair chance of escaping with their lives. The colonel was an old In dian campaigner, and was apprehensive of an attack. It came at last in broad daylight, and when the master of the house and his wife were absent in the city for an hour, and nobody was in the bungalow except the ayah and the child. When the colonel and Mrs. Stem returned Mabel was gone, and the ayah, who seemed half distracted, told the story in her native tongue: “ ‘They came, Mem-Sahib,’ she said, exoitedly addressing Mrs. Stem, 'so qnickiy that I nSard no noiso until they were in tho room. “Where is the Sahib Loguo ?” said one of them. I told them the Colonel had gone out and would not THE JOKER’S BUDGET. STRAY BITS OF HUMOR FOUND IN THE COLUMNS OF OUlt EX CHANGES. Bldins their Time—XuM ns .It wn* In War Time—A Bit ot American Hnraor—A Wicked Editor—AI way a the Way, Etc.# Etc. WIVES MADE TO BE USEFUL. Kev. Dwight Mcody, while in Texas, visited a Sunday-school at Fort Worth Being anxions to discuss how much the children knew he asked a girl of abont fifteen: “What is requisite in order that yon can obtain remission of sins ?” “I most first of all commit sin,” was the reply. Mr. Moody was satisfied and did not question the girls any more. He, how ever, tackled the boys’ class. He asked Tommy Dexter^ a . Judge Dexter: —' “Why did God create Eve ?” Tommy hesitated. “Why did God give your fath wife ?” “To sew on buttons,” was the prcS reply. “What? How?” “All I know is that when pa puts on a clean shirt and there is a button gone, he says ‘What in the world have I got a wife for if she don’t sew buttons on my shirt ?’ ”—Texas Siftings. le, how- ] igii HE TOOK THE HINT. “Get>.'" e i said a country young lady to her beau C? the J snuggled into a seat, “it’s nice to ride the cars, ain’t it ?” “ Yes, Sarah.” “George, if yon were going to travel a long ways on the cara where would you rather go ?” “To Chicago-or California. Where would you rather go ?” “To Florida,' by all means.” “Why?” “Be-becanse, yon know, George, be cause—because in Florida they hove so many orange-blossoms, yon know.” On theretorn trip they sat still closer together, and she laid her pretty head upon hia big shoulder. He mnst have taken the hint—Chicago Herald, AMERICAN' HUMOR. “And now Mr. Fieshton,” said the Professor, in a suave and encouraging tone, “how would you define humor—I weuld suggest more particularly Amer ican humor?” “Well, sir,” replied the representative of ’88, after several min utes had been employed in seemingly profound reflection, “I think I could best define it by an example.” “Your example, then,” gently urged the Pro fessor; "it will evidence your compre hensive knowledge of the subject; pi‘ ceed.” “Well,” replied the youth, man sat npon a keg of powder: be^ absorbed in deep reflection, cigar in his month. Then one button.” Freshtog Columbiana. REALLY , A pretty yon bachelor were d “Do you conseS the minister asked. The bride made no rep The minister repeated tS “Yon will have to ask i C VLLIJfG FOR HIS LOST B Slinutlna lirr Nn be Expected at Since the American association organized, in I8S3, the Western clubs won a total of -iTJ games over tho Eastern clubs, and the lattor oi!l over-their Western allies. Allegheny, Baltimore, Washington and Virginia are re- sponsible for tiie bad sli r.ving of tho Hast. Squirrel Island is.a popular resoi Boothbay harbor, at the mouth of tfil Kennebec River. In summer there is a gay colony on the island, numbering at limes, 000 or 700 persons. Prominent New Englanders have cottages there. But it is a dismal place in winter, and there is nobody on the island save the man who is left in charge of the property by the cottage owners, and he has a lonesome time of it. On one of the coldest mornings of the w inter a fisherman sailing out of Bootli- bny harbor saw a man standing on the rocky shore of this island, shouting at the top of his voice. His cries coi " " barely heard above the boomin: snrf, which beats against the ledgl great fury. The fisherman thong “King of the Island,” as the maiS charge of it is called, must be in distre! and was signalling for assistance. Hi pnt bis smack about and made for the island. When he was within hailing distance he shouted to the man on the rock, but received no reply. He was a handsome yonng fellow, and stood gaz ing ont to sea, paying no attention to the approach of the fisherman’s boat, and occasionally uttering a loud cry that resounded foil of anguish. This was the yr.uDg man’s call to the ocean “Josie^Josie.” The old fisherma:, thougjfwthe young man was crazy, and, ■ml Shoving of thu East. T, 6 ,, . J P . Tho Iiast. however, held the peasant twice— : alter listening a few minutes, made for Athletic ior 1SS4 mid Metropolitan for 1885 J the Cackles, and soon was hauling hake —to tho West once, Cincinnati the first year, over the side. The secret of the yonng man’s strange TUB FISH CASK ENDED. After a month’s trial in the United Suites Circuit Court, before Judge Benedict and a jury, on tne technical cl.arge of violation of tiie United States hanking law. James 1). Fish, ex president of the Marine Bank, was found guilty on eleven, of the twenty-five counts in him. On each count (ffM’hich he was found guilty, ho is liable to imprisonment for not less than five and not more than ten years. In summing np the ease the District Attor ney said it was for tho jury to decide whether, when Fish allowed Ferdinand Ward, of the house of Grant A Ward, to overdraw his ac count to the amount of £750,000, and to bor- totv besides £1,500,000 iu tiie shape of loans, for which there were no securities, he was not acting as Ward's confederate iu defrauding tiie stockholders and the depositors of the Marine Bank. As president of the bank on the one side aud a partner in Grant & Ward’s firm oil the other, he carried on bargains be tween the bank and himself, and in this dual position his conduct has been faithless, iniqui tous snd criminal. The iron doors of Ludlow Street mil shut with a clang on Financier James D. Fish at i o’clock Sunday morning, -while his vontbfnl partner. Firdinaml Ward, was sleeping tiie sleep of the luxurious in die largo, handsomely fnnrsliul room on the ground floor in which William M. Tweed died. Fish appeared to take his imprisonment coolly. He was visited dar ing Sunday by a number of his relatives. communing with the breakers is now known. He is a graduate of Williams College, and became a journalist in New York. Subsequently he concluded to be a lawyer, and was admitted as a student iu the office of one of the load ing legal firms in New York city. He bos a fortune inherited from an uncle, who died worth 82,000,000. He became engaged to a young lady in a city not far from Bath. She was beautiful, a musician, and on artist. He aud his affianced spent last summer together at Squirrel Island. In October she was suddenly prostrated, and died after an illness of seven days. At 10 o’clock of the day she died they were married at her earnest request She said but n few words after the wedding ring was put on her finger, and in two hours the bride groom was a widower. Since that day the young man has been failing bodily and mentally. He went to New York, but bad to return, and spent the meet of his time at his wife’s grave. At length he chartered a steamer at Bath, took a box of fuel and a supply of provisions, nnd went to Squirrel Island. It was he whom the flsberman^aw standing on the rook, where the spray splashed over him, and crying, “Josie, Josie,” as though he expected an answering voice to come from the waves.
