Miners' Journal from Scammonville, Kansas • 1

F3 HIj -VlLS jidjzS JOURj' AL, VOL. I. NO. 21. SCAMMONVILLE AND KANSAS, SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1885.

81.00 A YEAR. CURRENT COMMENT. EN CLAN AND RUSSIA. THE WORLD AT LARGE. A POSTMASTER SUSPENDED.

Miss Bayabd, daughter of the Secretary, is an accomplished horsewoman, A Summary of the Daily News. and is said to be at her best in the society that goes in for mild athletic sports. house wore carried away. Great damag was done to the saloons. One seaman wai 1 swept overboard and several others of the crew were injured.

The firm of Byerson Brown, livery stable keepers of New York, failed recently with liabilities of over half a million and assets that may equal that amount in time. It was reported that another prominent London solicitor whose name was withheld, had absconded with $500,000 worth of securities belonging to clients. There were forty new cases of supposed cholera nt Jativa, Spain, and twenty deaths in one week recently. Thomas McClintock, of Chicago, was robbed on the train at Allegheny City, Courtney, the oarsman, interviewed lately, sajs he is not likely to row again. lie is engaged with his brother as a builder, and finds that occupation bet ter for pocket and reputation.

The tug "Arctic" arrived at Grand Haven, on the 3d, after being ice bound for twenty days. Provisions were taken to the boat across the ice, KANSAS STATE SEWS. CoSimanciie County lias eight newspapers within lior borders. A few weeks ago it was an unorganized county, and less than a year ago it was almost a "howling wilderness," without a paper and with but few permanent settlers. Tim new Stato Board of Pardons has about I'M applications for consideration.

A sale of some 40,000 acres of school lauds in Trego County lias beeu advertised, and believing that something was wrong, the Attorney General sent notice to the County Attorney instructing him to enjoin the sale. D11. A. P. Foster, of Fort Scoit, President of the State lloiiupopathie Medical Society, who was unpointed one of the Stato Board of Health, having declined, the Governor appointed J.

W. Jenny, of Saliua, to till the vacancy. The other two members of the Board were also appointed, as follows: G. H. Johnson, of Atchison, for the two-year term, ami W.

L. Schenck, of Osage City, for the one-year term. The Executive Committer of tho Kansas State Temperance Union recently appointed Dr. Philip Krobn, of Atchison, and Albert Griffin, of Manhattan, General Organizers for the State, who have mutually agreed on division of the work, under which Mr. Krohn will tuke charge of the portion of the State north of the Kansas River, and Mr.

Griffin south, Mr. Grillin announces itas his desire to organize the district committed to bis chnrge as speedily and thoroughly as possible; and iu doing so propose to pay special attention This was the last of the boats from Grand Haven to get out of the ice, which was breaking up fast. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. General A. C.

Garlington died at Newberry, S. on the 4th, aged sixty-two. Before the war he was one 5f the most prominent politicians in the State. In the war he won high rank for bravery and he was the trusted personal friend of Davis. He was the father of Lieutenant Garlington, the Arctic explorer.

Ex-Secretary Frelinghcysen was reported dangerously sick on the 4th at his residence-in Newark, N. J. A light voto was polled iii the Michigan State elections ou the fth. The election appeared to have beeu carried by the Democrats. M.

Brisson succeeded in forming a cabinet in France, with DeFreycinct as Miuis-ister of Foreign Affairs. Mrs. Garfield denies that she has thought of remarrying. The stories in circulation to that effect she condemns as cruel slanders. BfflSi The Democrats elected John VV.

Moore for Mayor of Kansas City on the 7th by about four hundred majority over Duncan, the Republican candidate. The Prince of Wulos left London on the evening of the 7th fos Ireland. The Republican ticket was elected in Cincinnati by about 4,000 majority Henry M. Stanley expects to visit tho United States in a short timo. His stay will be brief.

EE3 Rear Admirar Markton, of the United States Navy, died recently, in the ninetieth Mahshal Hughes, of Richmond, was arrested, recently for defalcation. He declared that from various causes he had as Marshal become in recently of nearly $5,000 in cash and not.i When the train stopped three passengers jostled against him, and after they left the ears he discovered his loss. The English ship owners at Hong Kong decline to ship rice for the northern ports of China. In consequence the entire trade is being diverted to Gorman bottoms. The Tainmauy Committee on Organization adopted a resolution recently indorsing the prompt action tuken by the Administration to protect the interests and rights of American citizens cn the Isthmus of Panama.

With tho assistance of bloodhounds officers succeeded in capturing the Ellis County (Tex.) negro who recently butchered his wife. Tho enpture was only effected after an exciting chose through the jungle and the wounding of the murderer in tho chest. debted to the United States in a sum greater than he could immediately pay, and would if he had not been arrested been able to meet the deficiency by loans from friends. The 1'rcsldfMit Suspc-mls a I'ontiuasKr for Nrctect of Uutlra Luoae Idea uf I) illei Not tu be Tolerated. Wasiiixoto.v, April 7.

The poslinnstcr at Rome, N. was suspended from further duty In his otlice by order of the President, and James 1. Corcoran has been designated to perform the duties of tli oflico in his stead. The President proposed tho removal of tho postmaster and the nomination of Corcoran to the Senate til Hie recent session, and as it failed to take action on the noiniunlioii, the lWinaster General applied to the President for directions iu the case, and received a written coiniiiimicalion, which has been procured for thu department, and is as follows: Kxkci tivk Mansion, I Washington. April 5.

Hon. W. V. VII113, PoslnniKlcr (ienenil: Dbaii Mil Iu answer to your imiuiry as to the disposition to nuule of the cuscof the postmaster ut Koine, N. hlch was pre Rented to the Semite on the -tith of March, With a proposition Hint lie tie removed I'm cause mid which proposition was not acted upun prior to tlie-Hrtjoiii-iiincnt of that hoily on they'd of April, I have to say that to ni It elciirly seems to be my duly toexcrcise, by prompt action in tills case, nil the power which Hie present condition of the law hu left in iiiyliHiuls so furasit may lnMloncimlc.

peiiilenlly ol 'the Senate to prolcd the interest of the liovcriiiiii'iil, to vindicate tin- liiwi which have been enacted for the lcxulHiion of the postal service nnd to impress upon Federal olllcials Hint no iluliilKi ncu will ba liruulcd by the Kxecutivo to I hose who violate the law or ucgloct public duty. Tills postmaster under section 4,1144, United Stales revised slat utes, and tho rcyulutions of the Post office llcparliucnt was required to transmit to the department weekly ti report of the business done by him in the money order branch of his cilice. It up pears from Ihn oliicial report of the lpsr.ee-iurof the I'osl-olllcci Department now hclor ine, and which was submitted to a coiiiiiiitleo of tlio Hemite while the proposition to re move this oiliciHl was bcl'ore it that tin of olPcc was ordered SS, in consciiicnco of Hie fact that nil such weekly report had been made since Decembers 1HM. It furlher appears from tills report llmt such examination developed Hie most disjtniccful condition in all tlinl pertained to the accounts and financial condi. Honor the office.

Thai I hero had been an entry Iu the money order cash book slnc July, ISS4, utid Hint as iinx'ht have been ex peeled there was a tlelleleiioy in the nioncv order account of more than ifVOD, and In Hi postal account of more than M. There is, 1 llilnk, 110 d'spiilc lourhlnjf Ihcsi fuels. Tho delicioncy has been refunded tc I lie (io eminent under tin irniiiccuiciit ol one of the sureties of Ihn olllclu. and he attempt to e.veuso tho wretched condition of his oflico by ulleffiiiK' thai his assistant had undue charge of lie money ordfn business, as well us other dot ill Is ol' the olllee In making such en excuse, Huh otllcei numiis.il seems to me, a violation of plain in tu nil up- over the operations ol 'hit otlice to an assistant without, tiny pretext ol the sickness or iim.vo dtthlo absi'iico uf the postmaster, which is contrary ton rcasoiinbl construction of section 4, 1144 of the revised statutes, which provides: "In case ol' sick ness or unavoidable absence ut any money order postofllco he may, Willi the approval ol the Postins'-ter Oeiierel. ntiHior zc the clocl clerk, or some 01 tier clerk employed therein to In his place, to scliaruuuil ihc dullcl required by law of such By the claim now made Hull he assistant having hud full churo, fs responsible for tin ilcliiKiuciic.cs and frrcutiliiril ics couiplulncil A Bitttln Precipitated and War Though) to bs Inevitable Ciladi tone on the Situation.

I.OMiox, April 9. The news of the engagement on the A fghau frontier between the Husshins and Afghans has caused greal excitement here. The people are incensed at tho Uussian duplicity, pretending to anxious for pence, while the object was merely for the purpose of gaining time. The fight on the frontier Is generally viewed as the first step by liussia in the lone-con-teniplatcd struggle for supremacy in Asia, and that a bloody and desperate war between her and England In Inevitable. The feeling lu financial and commercial circles Is panicky.

In the Stock Kxclmnge the gravity of the situation is reflected by a heavy fulling off In consols and Russian bonds. Tho former have declined fully two percent since yesterday," while Russian bonds have declined nearly ten per cent. The Kgyptlnn securities are down four per cent. The whole niarkel is oil. There are fears of a panic.

NOT S' l.oNHON, April 9. Huron de Staal, tl) Russian Ambassador at London, was Called on by a fVutnif AYiiw reporter this morning. Ho appeared not to be surprised bf the news of the outbreak on the Afghan faultier. Ho said he only wondered It had heen so long deferred. "The offalr Is said the ambassador, "but I fear the worst Is not known and that tha liirhting has been on a larger scalo than tha dispatches indicated." )e Staal would rot venture on nn opinion as to the result.

He -refused to tulk on the subject until ha find received official advices from his Government concerning tho affair. wii.i, disclaims wait, liONiiox, April 0. Ou receipt orwe telts grams announcing the outbreak of hostilities between the Russians and Afghans, a hurried consultation at headquarters of tha Htulf took place. The wires between London and India were Instantly cleared for dispatches between the Indian Ollico and tho Ciovornor tlcncral of Indln. The Secretary of Stale for India wired for a continuation and full liifoi'iimtlon.

The reply Is momentarily exported. If the report tele- graphed from Meshed is true, It is believed that a formal duchuatlon of war will bo made. CONFIItVKU. London, April 9. A dispatch from Jb slit'd confirms the report Hint In a battle between the Russian nnd Afghan outposts, the Afghan camp at Muruhuub on the Mtirgliaiil) River was captured by the Russians alter a brief but sanguinary battle.

Vive hundred Afghans were killed. The Russian loss Is fifty killed and wounded. The ctiuip contained a large tiiautlty of arms, aininnnllloii and military stores, all of which fell In the hands of tho Russians. A IIATT1.K. London, April 9.

Latest dispatches from the Afghan frontier state that the tight nt Miirghanh was a most stubborn battle. It wits fought in a driving rainstorm which rendered the arms carried by The Indian Bureau had not determined upon the line of action to be pursued in the case of the Winnebago or Crow Creek reservation settlers in Dakota. Commissioner Atkins said that white men who had gone upon the reservation would have to leave and that the Government would adopt the mildest means possible to effect their removal. AnouT forty representatives of cattle interests had an interview recently with Governor Marmaduke and Norman J. Col-man, Commissioner of Agriculture, ut Jefferson City, in which the most energetic measures were advocated to prevent the spread of the pleuro-pneu-inonia in Callaway County.

Tiik Mormon bishop, Stewart, and Elder year of his age. The Prince and Princess of Wales were fairly received by the Irish people in Dub lin. Along tho line of procession the enthusiasm was conspicuous. A body of Na J. C.

Robinson, indicted for polycnifiy at tionalists attempted to raise a disturbance, but they were suppressed by the police and bystanders. Richard Grant White, of New York, the well-known scholar and writer, died of gastritis on the Nth. General Grant was resting quietly on to work on tho moral sunsiou line. Post-office changes in Kansas since March 4: Established F.well, Sumner County, John G. Chisui, postmaster; Hess, Ford County, Howard A.

lloskins, postmaster; Mumford, Barber County, Uiiiiiol McArthur, postmaster; Rockton, Wabaunsee County, Agnes Hill, postmaster; Wendell, Edwards County, Frederick G. Mellette, postmaster; Wilkie, Crawford County, John Bredeboft, postmaster. Name changed Bitterton, Lyon County, to Olpa, F. A.l'luscho, postmaster. William Bookout, who resides near Lenexa, has gone into the poultry business on a large scale.

A small town on the Snuta Fo road ro-porls 1111 average daily receipt, for four weeks, of nine car-loads of household goods. Other towns in the Stato can make as good a showing. By this parties in the East can form some idea of how rapidly Kansas is settling up. The Leavenworth Depot and Railroad Company, with II. M.

Iloxie, of St. Louis, A. Kimball, of Chicago, S. T. Smith, of 1 V.

W. Fngan, of Atchison, A. A. Robinson, of Topekn, P. AVnggoner, of Atchison, and S.

F. Needy, of Leavenworth, ns Directors for the first year, was recently Incorporated under the State laws. Tho the morning of tho ilth. Mr. Pierrepont, chnrge d'affaires of the American legation in Rome, was reported to be lying at tho point of death.

MISCKI.LANKOrs. Colorado has quarantined against Mis souri cattle in consequence of the existence of pleuro-pnoumonia at Fulton. A lot of cattle, consigned to Colorado, was stopped recently at Kansas City, It was reported nt Arkansas City, that Captain Couch himself had determined to go to Washington and plead the causo of the Oklahoma colonists. The postmaster at Rome, N. was Early the other morning three robbers burst open the door of Jacob Miller's farmhouse, eight miles west of Lancaster, and demanded Miller's money.

He grabbled with the intruders, one of whom had an axe. A desperate conllict ensued, which was ended by one of the robbers shooting Miller dead. They then took six hundred dollars, and after visiting several other houses escaped. The enormous wealth of the Orleans Princes is chiefly derived from Louis Philippe's mot her, who, in consequent of the death of her brother, the Prince tie Lamballe, became solo heiress of her father, the Duke of Penthievre, the richest subject of France. The Duke died in IPs daughter had two days before his death been divorced from her worthless husband, who was Ihus debarred from touching her property.

The American Copyright League has issued an address to the public, explaining the injustice done to native and foreign authors by the want of an international copyright, and calling upon the people to aid in demanding favorable action on this subject by the Forty-ninth Congress. Among the signers of this address are Bishop Potter, E. C. Stedman, Parke Godwin, Edward Eggleston, Thorndyke Rice, the Rev. Robert Collyer, Charles Dudley Warner and John Higelow.

Phienix, A. wero sentenced to ninety days in the Territory penitentiary for un lawful cohabitation. Suit bus been brought against General B. F. Butler for itdS.OOO alleged to be due from him as Treasurer of the National Soldiers' Home.

Tun Baltimore polico arrested many mediums and clairvoyants recently, and each wns fined Judge Van Brunt at New York on the the granted the motion made, in behalf of Lucille Yseult Dudley, who shot. O'Douovan Rossn, for a commissioner to bo sent to England to examine certain witnesses there regarding Mrs. Dudley's sanity. Proceedings were ordered stayed in tho meantime. An anti-Chinese procession, headed by the City Coroner, went through the streets of San Francisco, cm Sunday, the ftth, maltreating Chinamen as it went along.

Nothing was thought of the matter until a few days Inter, when it was reported twenty hud been seriously hurt, one fatally. IIeur Von Bkrtouch, a German writer, has published a book advocating the partition of Franc; on the ground of its chronic instability. Burgundy would bo possessed by Germany and Nice and Savoy I13' Italy. Tho rest of France would be formed into an independent monarchy. ADDITIONAL, DISPATCHKS.

TnE report is continued that the British Government has invited Italy to occupy Cairo and the Soudan. The Suakim-Berbcr Railway has been completed as far as Station No. 1. A nispxTcn from Paris, of the loth, stated that Franco and China had finally niecd upon peace. The Espucln Land-Cattle Company's property, near Fort Worth, embracing 70,000 bend of cattle and acres of land, was sold to an English syndicate in suspended recently by order of the President.

Many irregularities hail existed in the office, and although the delinquencies had been made good by sureties tho President stated that he felt compelled to order the suspension. Tho delinquencies were alleged to be due to tha irregularities of an assistant who had charge of the money order business. After a strike lasting four weeks the of, thu postmaster ulso appears to conlraiticl his own sworn sfalemciit ntadc to thcilcpart incut ns late as September im, ls4, to tin; cf feci that he himself hud performed for the ireeediiiM" iiuiirler the money order htislncsi lu his ofllce, except when necessarily absent I Hhsll do all that Is Iu my power lo rid the public service of officials woo exhibit suck loose Ideas of their duty to the public. A document before inn, sinned by many resl tle.nl of the city where the postmaster li located and who belong to both iiollticii parlies asserting their cntiro confidence It Ills honesty and fidelity, domotislrates Hit iinl'oi'tiiniile In I lit with which such papnri maybe obtained and irlvcs rise to sunn pleasant suspicion touching a too prevalent method of political honesty. If i can not remove tills delliuiumit post master 1 can surely suspend him.

This huvo determined to do promptly and I do sire you ut once to present tho papers ncces saryfurthat purpose wit a dcs gnntlon 01 James II. Corcoran to perform tho ol postinaslcr In pi, ore of the oliicial thus sits ponded. Yours truly, UltOVEIt operators conceded the advance demanded by the river coal miners in the Pittsburgh district. The loss by fires in the United States during March was estimated at The trial of ex-President Riddle and ex- Cashier Reiber of the defunct I'enn Bank, Pittsburgh, for wrecking the Institution, has been postponed until the Juuo term of court. A DISPATCH from Shenandoah, of purpose is to erect a Union Depot In the city of Leavenworth, nnd to constrnct one or more railroad tracks to connect with snid Union Depot.

Turkic are now eighty-four organized counties In tho State. The Governor of Missouri recently wrote to Governor MaHin that prompt measures were being adopted to stamp out pleuro-pneumonia that, apneared in Callaway County, that State, and asking Governor MaCtbi not to quarantine against Missouri cattle, as it would only obstruct commerco, and in his opinion is not needed as a matter of protection. John Sanders, of Lenvenwort.h, on bin way to Denver, was recently stricken with paralysis at tho Union Pacific depot at Topckr. II. Phillips, the late Prohibition candidate for Governor, died nt his homo iu Louislnirg a few days ago of pneumonia.

It is said that many farmers In the eastern part of the State report that wheat is looking much better since the rain, ami many who had made up their minds to plow up their wheat have since concluded to let it stand. Small-pox recently brolco out In a col-tired family at Atcbiso'l. Eight children all had the disease, ono of whom died, The most rigid measures wore being adoplud prev.it spread. The charter of the Suburban Railway-Company was recently filed with tho Secretary if Slnt' Tha object is to construct and operate a railroad iu the county of Leuven-worth, commencing at or near tho Kausul State Penitentiary and running thaws northerly via the city of Leavenworth to a point on the United States Military Reservation near the western upproa'''" of the Kansas and Missouri bridge. Tho istinia-lod length of the road is ten miles.

Tha tho Oth says: This afternoon ono of tho gangways of the Cuyler colliery at Raven Run, owned by S. M. lleaton caved in without warning, entombing ten miners. corporated in London. The consideration was not known, but the property was valued at Emigrant traffic was unusually heavy at Kansas City.

Carloads Lound for points iu Kansas, Nebraska and the far West were arriving at the Union Depot daily. Advices from Knssala Mate that the garrison there has a sulllcieiit supply of provisions for a month and plenty of ammunition. The rebels attacked an Ahys-siniau caravan which was en route to Gnlla and killed thirteen persons. Governor IIoadly, of Ohio, received a carefully-arranged infernal machine the A Coal Mine Cave In nnd Ten Mlnrr art Killed. SiiKNANitoAii, April 7.

Yesterday after noon one of the gangways of tlioC'uylci colliery at Kavciu lift, operated by S. llcnttm caved Iu without warning entombing ten miner. Tho cave wui 'caused by the sudden crushing of the tint bern. Tho imncs of tho ten men enloinbec re: Frank McLaughlin, Wlllium Amler sou, John Anderson, Henry Mervin, Beujn mill Mauser, Nicholas Purccll, liiirnoj Smith, Michael Merrily, Daniel Keimcy uiif John (Javiinautrli. The entombed men ul had families, -end the cries of their wlvct and children tilled thu air.

Kxplorini parlies report the mine a complete wreck and all hope of rescuing the linprlsonw miners alive bus been abandoned. Theslopi Is seven hundred is divided hilt four lifts, The ten men now in the mini were In the lower lift, and the place closed to the bottom of the first lift, 4(11 feet above. There were three openings tt the mine, nn air hole mid two slopes, ant all three ure closed below the first lift. Tin dangerous condition of the mine not onl prevents rescuing parties from doing ait work, but forbids even a thorough exiiuil nation of the workings, The concussion caused by the fall was ho great, that tin mine cars at the lout of the first lilt wen forced up the slope a distance of lifly feet Miners iicuuiiintcd with the workings clu dare it doubtful whether even the bodies Ihn men entombed can lie recovered. Tin colliery employed from to tfOO men, bn fortunately wa not In operation, or all tin men would have been lost, other day from unknown parties.

bolh Inelllclcnt. The Afghans fought willt desperation. They bravely opposed step by step the advance of the Russians. Two companies of defended one position 11nl.il they were completely annl-li I luted by the deadly artillery lire opened on tlicni by the Russians. The Afghans retreated In perfect order.

After Inflicting severe losses the Russians were evidently surprised by the stubborn resistance. They did not follow up the advantage, being evidently content with the capture of the camp. The Hiitlsh officers present during the fight are loud In praises of the valor displayed by the Afghan officers tintl at once proceeded to the hcad-ciuitrtcis of Sir l'eter Liimsden, English ('imiiulssloncr, and made a full report of the fight. AFCIIIANS THR AOflltKSSOrtS. London, April I).

Lcssar, the special envoy of the Czar, was called upon and viewed the news as serious. Ho regretted that a conflict should occur at this time. "Matters," said he, "with regard to the Afghan frontier were progressing nicely. There was a fair prospect of a peaceful adjustment of all disputes. But now I can clily hope for one.

The Afghans must undoubtedly have beon the aggressors. I have the best authority for knowing that the Russian commander had strict Instructions to keep the peace. What (IhulKton Ray. London, April 10. Mr.

Gladstone, in the Mouse of Commons, last evening, In answer to Interrogations, said that on Saturday the Cabinet had considered Kussla't reply to England's projiosul to limit the zone of survey to debatable points. Russia's reply was an agreement to do this, provided the 7.01)0 of survey ns marked out by England was extended south wttrtl, so as to Include the I'arapainissnn rango of mountains. The (iovcrnmetit. considered that this reply did not advance the question toward a conclusion and was dissatisfied with It. "Within the past twenty-four hours, however," said tho I'lcinior, "a subsequent communication had been received from Russia, and this appeared, In the opinion of tho Government, to place the matter In a more hopeful position." The Government had been Informed, Gladstone further said, that the Russians had made every endeavor to Indiico the Afghans to begin the lighting.

Russian troops hud even twice ATTKMI'TKD TO KOItcmLY PASS Ihroiigh the Afghan picket lines. After one of these attempts had failed to provoka an Afghan attack, Captain Yates met a Russian chief of staff and talked to hlra about the conduct of the Russian soldiers being an evident violation of the Russian agreement to not advance pending the outcome of the negotiations. The Russian olllcer staled that he had 110 knowledge that any arrangement existed against Russian advance. Captain Yates referred to the official dispatch sent from St. Petersburg on Murch 17 assuring England that Orders would be at once sent to the Itua-slan ofllcers at tho front directing them to forbid any advance and to do all In their power to prevent provocation of the Afghans.

Tho Russian olllcer declared that be knew nothing whatever of any such arrangement. Uelnif asked what tho value of this subsequent comma nlcatlon was, Mr. Gladstone said that it would be Impossible ftt present for theGev-ernmcnt to make any further statcmant concerning thu pending negotatlons nbovt th Afghan frontier lu view of th gmv CUrrcnco Jiim reported, A body, supposed to be that of R. 8. Conant, the missing editor of Harpers wns discovered in Coney Island Creek recent v.

Tho body was very muc The cave was caused by a sudden crushing of timbers. The entombed men all have families and the cries of wives and children filled the air. Exploring parties report tho mine a completo wreck and all hope of rescuing the imprisoned miners alive has been abandoned. The employes of tho McC'ornilck roaper works, at Chicago, to tho numbor of sixteen hundred, went ou a strike recently. The Turkish authorities wero taking extraordinary precautions to protect Tripoli against any attempt on the part of Franco to seize the province.

The grain crop of Ohio was expected to reach about 73 per cent, in average. At Pittsburgh, recently, Judge Ewing decided that a store order given by a company to an employe, was illegal. A BAZAAR was opened in Baltimore, on the night of the 7th for the purpose of raising funds for tho relief of distillled Confederate soldiers. Copious rains have placed a Letter outlook on tho crops of Unofficial information was received In Washington that San Salvador intended invading Guatemala. Tho proposed treaty of the British West Indies with the United Ktut was rejected in London on the grounds that It would revolutionize tho conventional stipulations which govern tho commerce of all nations, would render the favored nation clause a fruitful subject of dispute, and would infringe upon international law.

Ex-Chief Clerk Uaiimoan has given the names of bis confederates in the navy fraud cases at Washington, and will ap decomposed. A syndicate of Rbenaugo and Mahon Cable advices from Aspinwall received by Postmaster Pearson at New-York, reported a serious loss of mail matter in the destruction of that city by lire on the the 31st ult. The entire mail from the South Pacific, dispatched from New York the 21st ult. by the steamer Colon, was destroyed, and also the registered mail and ordinary paper mail for Aspinwall sent by the same steamer. The letter mail was nearly all delivered before the lire broke out.

As accurately as could be stated, the mail for Central America and tho Pacific Coast of South America burned consisted of ono hundred and fifty paek-nges of registered mail, ten sacks of ordinary letters, and lifty-three sacks of papers. In the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims, up to and including March fit, judgments had been rendered in 1,431 eases of the first class for actual damage done by Confederate cruisers to the aggregate amount of including interest. All of these judgments except somo ten or twelve of the most recent have been cerlilied to the Secretary of State for immediate payment. During the sumo period one hundred and seventy-six ca-ses of the second class for premiums paid have been adjudicated, and judgment rendered for an aggregate amount of exclusive of interest. No poil'on of these claims is to be paid tint'er tho law until till the judgmonts of the first class are satisfied.

The unexpended balance of the Geneva award placed at the d'fposal of the court was a little over 9,500,000, and the total number of claims filed against this fund wnsfi.oTl. Of thcM? 2, to!) still remain to be disposed of, 1G3 of these being en-ei of the first class. It is found practicH'ilo to dispose of tho business now ponding at tho rato of about two liuti'lvutl nun a month, i directors ura L. T. Smith, George 1.

Anthony, M. II. Iiisley, Paul E. Havens and J. W.

Cruncer, nil of Leavenworth. Tim capital stock shall be fOO.OOfl, divided Into 2,000 shares. Tub Nebruska State teacher nt their Into meeting passed a resolution recommending Topck.i as the place for the neat annual meeting of the National Educit-tlonul Association. The clerks In the Pension Office at To-peka recently encountered tho name of Samuel V. Robertson, of Seneca, who Is totully blind.

From July, IWiTi, ho was entitled to a pension at eight dollars per month according to law. In 1W17 it was raised to per mouth, followed by another raise In 1872 to $111.23, In 1H74 to and In 1H1H to ili per month. His buck pension will amount to about $10,000. AT a late meeting of tho Oklahoma Colonists it was decided that Captain Couch should go to Washington and lay their cause before the authorities. His followers meanwhile will remain In camp General Hatch has bout his private uuout l.jto Oklahoma to ascertain what cattle companies and men are now occupying lands there, FitoM January 1, to April 7, there find boon eighty-six niorriuges iu Shiiwneo County.

Tl 9 Methodist minister per-formed tho largest number of cerouiotiles, twinlyfour, The Probata JudK the next sixteen, followed by ttitfftf ol Ili IVm') with a ul'Milblrl. ing Valley blast furnace owners has been formed for the purpose of buying a largo block of coking coal lands In the Con-nellsville (Pa.) field. Tho furnace men are actuated by a desire to escape from tho domination of the coke pool. General Grant continued to improve. His friends, ou the 1 lib, wero quite hope-ul.

The State Department at Washington has received Information to the effect that the family of the late General Barrios bad left Guatemala for Ran Francisco. A. J. Hnider, of Kansas City, the well-known stockman, offered his credit to tho amount of for tho purpose of stumping out the pleiiro-pnoumonlu in Callaway County, Mo. The offer was accepted by Governor Marmaduko and steps were at once taken to buy up end kill every animal that miht possibly bo affected.

President Grew cave a banquet the other evening to the American and English Director! of the American Exhibition cf Inventions, which is to bo held in 1SC. M. Grevy greatly Interested in the project, and suggests that similar exhibition be ho held In Paris. A private cubio dlrpatch received In Ronton on tho lot from London says: Is reported that tho English ulliuiutum to Russia Is twenty-four liuum In which recall Jnral Komarnff or go to war," A Chine Munsaere. ax April 7.

Tin steamship Oceanic, which arrived thlx after noon, brings new of a terriblo rcligiotit masftftcre In certain sections of China. Froir the accounts contained In tho Slmngha Mercury, It appears that the Vlceroj of the Yum Nav and Klve Chon? prov luces Issued a decroe last month command Ing the destruction of all Koman Cathollt convents. Me also ordered all the Human Catholic converts und all foreigners killed. Iteports had reached Shanghai that several Koninn Catholic settlements had alreudj btcn destroyed and several hundred converts killed. The village of Klnyaphig.

two days' Journey from Tall had been stroyed and four converts an 1 two prlesti killed. The only reason assigned by tin Chinese Viceroy for tho iimNaacro was thai the Komnn Catholics were going to rovoll Khii)t the Chinese (lovennueut, pear against them. Wallace Son, of Norfolk, recently deeded property amounting to to Bain Bros. The same firm assigned their Interest In the Richmond Cedar Works In favor of Bain Bros. TuE City Treasurer of Worcester, baa received a chock for $10,000 from Georgo Bancroft, the venerable historian, to found a scholarship in memory of bis parents.

The now French Cabinet Insists on C'ldua ceding Tonqnin as tho basis of peace. Tiik White Star steamship Uenuunie passed through a fearful storm after lcav lug (Juoenstown, five tinttilri.il miles went of r'ttstfiet, AH the boat nnd, lb pilot 1.