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One copy, one year (in 50 One copy, six months 75 VOLUME II. LOUISBURG, MIAMI FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1881. NUMBER 21. Entered at the Post-office at and admitted for transmission through the mails at second-class rates. 1 FACTS AXD FIGURES.

The Missouri Land Frauds A. Gigantic Swindle. Youths' Department. Kansas Conference Appointments LEAVENWORTH DIST. JNO.

R. MADISON, P. Leavenworth A. E. Biggins.

Do Soto G. R. Houts. Easton Supplied bv J. O.

Roberts. Gardner S. p. Holton W. J.

Mitchell. Holton Circuit O. F. Tector." Lawrence Wm. Jones.

Lenexiv A. G. Murray. -i North Lawrence A. S.

Kmbreo. Olatlie E. Jf. Hill. Okaloosa It E.

O'Rvrne. 'skalnosa rruit W. 8. Morrison. Rocdale C.

W. Shaw. spring Hill F. Hoys. Toiutanoxie C.

O. Culmer. Valley Falls .1. Dennison. Wyandotte E.

R.lrotm. Wyandotte Circuit T.R.Gray. WellMVilbj To he supplied. Winchester and Nortonviile G. W.

Haver-male. antes Marvin, Chancellor State University and member Lawrence Quarterly Conference. M. Spencer, Conference" Book and Tract Ascent, member Holton Quarterly Conference. TOPEKA HISTttlCT P.

T. KHODKS, P. B. Topeka. Quincy O.

J. Cowles; Kansas J. Lawrence; Circuit, O. H. Call.

Auburn W. J. (hot n. Baldwin City A. U.

W'Mlter. Baldwin City Cireuit-J. H. Colt. Murlinsaine-G.

W. Henning. Centropolia K. F. HoUand.

Clinton M. S-ott." Carbondale C. G. Crysler. Chalk Mound To be supplied by J.W.Webb.

E-krhUf J. K. Glenth nning. Grantville Geo. Winterbourne.

-Lyndon G. W. Browning. Meridcn W. G.

Campbell. Osaire Citv S. G. Grilhs. THE STORY OF A PES.

In a small town, not far from the River Rhine, there was a large dam, built, in great part, of heavy timbers, which shut in the waters of a stream that ran into the river a few miles below. Quite a large body of water was thus held back by the dam, while below it the stream was narrow and sha low. In the dam was a sluice-gate, which could be raised by a lever, and bv which the water could be let off, whenever it was necessary. It was not a very tight gate, and a good deal of water ran through its cracks; but that did not matter, for there was plenty of water leffor the uses of the townspeople. On the.

top of this dam, which was wide enough to serve as a bridge, four children were amusing themselves one summer day. Oscar, the largest boy, had put on a bathing-dress, which was nothing more than a pair of short trousers, and had climbed down to the stream, to see if he could take a swim. But he had found that tho swimming did not amount to much, for there was NEWS IH BRIEF, Compiled from Various Sources. PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. March 16.

Nothing was done. la the course of some remarks upon the existing deadlock, Mr. Beck said that as there was a JSepublican President hacked by a Republican House it might be better for the Democratic partv that he also had the Senatcat his back, and had the credit of all that was good and the responsibility for all that was bad; therefore he (Beck) thought the. Senate might as well adjourn, and a motion to that effect was carried without opposition. March 17.

Mr. Edgarton, of Minnesota, was sworn in and took his seat. It was announced that Senator Edmunds and Senator Vance had paired for the session, the former having gone to Florida for his health. March 18. The Senate Committees were finally organized, on the Republican basis, the Vice-President casting his vote to decide the tie between the two parties 37 to 37.

Mr. Davis, of Illinois, voted in the negative with the Democrats. "When Mr. Mahone's name was reached he also voted with the Demo-. crats, and a buzz of astonishment ran around the assembly, but before the result was announced he arose and changed his vote, amid Fome applause and pome vigorous hissing in the galleries.

Mr. Vance and Mr. Kdmunds were paired. The Vice-President then said: "The vote of the Senate being evenly divided the Chair will vote yea." lie therefore declared the motion earried. Senator Saulsbury placed himself on record as opposing the right of the Vice-President to decide a question of this character.

Mr. Logiui said the Vice-President merely followed precedents, and quoted a similar case in 187. After an executive session the Senate adjourned until Monday. March 21. Beyond the confirmation of a few executive appointments no business was transacted.

A single business house of Greensboro, N. has bought 250,000 rabbit skins this season. The frnit canneries of California are turning out a stock worth a year, and the business ia largely increasing. A German chemist has established the valuable fact that wood impregnated with paraline oil is preserved for many years from rot, even nnder circumstances most favorable tc decay. It is said there are 11,825,000 cattle killed in the United States annuallv, the meats from which amount to 4.088300,-000 pounds, and their total value when killed for food is $008,200,000.

About 600 inventors have sent models or plans of improved stock cars, in compliance with the offer of the American Humane Association of a prize for the best. The judges find themselves overwhelmed with the work of examining. The California Railroad Commissioners have fixed the railroad freights in the State at a reduced but varying schedule, avenging twenty-five per cent. The railroads must furnish transportation for second and third class passengers at sixty per cent, of first class fares. Special Agent Jenney, of the National Census Office, has prepared a blank for the collection of statistics of tires and losses br fires that have oc President, and Robert F.

Cramford, Secret tary. The Cherokee range was divided int six districts, with a captain for each, awd May 1 fixed as the date for beginning the annual round-up. France has issued a new 3 per cent. loan, and the streets ia the vicinity -of the Treasury office were blockaded by people desirous to invest in the bonds. For the twelve month3 ended March 1, the total number of hogs packed in Chicago was 5,752,190, the largest number ever packed in any city in the world in any one year.

A general strike of the Pittsburgh iron-molders is threatened unless wages are advanced 10 per cent, before the 1st of April. The first annual session of the Mis-, souri Wool Growers Association is to bo held at Sedalia, April and 7. CRIMES AND CASUALTIES Judge D. G. Venable, United States Commissioner, was thrown fromra Wagon and killed near his place at Denison, Texas, on the 17th.

John Secretary of loan association at Taunton, having been detected in a course of systematic embezzlement, killed himself with a revolver. Samuel Ci-ugston, of Valley Forge, was shot twice and killed by a burglar who had entered his sleeping room and whom Clugston undertook to capture. The murderer has probably been a wrested. Henrt Kutchell, a German, aged about 30, was recently foully murdered on his claim about five miles wtest of Cawker City, Kans. R.

W. Knox and his son and two other men have been arreted on suspicion. Knox and Kutchell had been having some litigation about the land occupied by the latter. Henry Howxand, engineer, and Wm. R.

Yawter, brakenian, were killed by a collision at the Stock-yards at Parsons, on the 18th. Harry Hulse has been sentenced at only one place a moderately deep pool Pci anton W. C. Howard, St. Mary's L.

Morris. Sliver Luke L. C. C. Biirics.

juss unaer me siuico-gaie where ne could have any chance of striking out with his arms and legs. So ho soon climbed up again to the top oi the dam. lie would have been glad to bathe in the great pond above the dam. but that was not allowed. Little Lotta, the only girl in the party, had been watching Oscar, and bad lost her cap, which had tumbled off into some bushes below, at the side curred in the United States during the I rooT-a 1K7Q orwl 1 curt Tho of the stream.

She had called to Oscar to get it for her, but he was already half-way up the face of the dam, and he did not want to co back, lie was PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Governor Crittenden, on the 11th, removed Morgan Boland, the obstreperous St. Louis Police Commissioner, thus making three vacancies in the Board, and then nated John H. Maxon, Samuel Cupples and E. Simmons for the positions.

The Secretary of the Treasnry, on the 11th, issued a decision on the request of various national hanks to withdraw their legal tenders deposited to retire circulation. He maintains that precedents of the Department in similar cases should be adhered to not related to Lotta, and she had two will, when the returns are complete, be classified by States, and will show the loss on each kind of property burned. About 50,000 of these blanks will be distributed throughout the country. The railway mail service of the United States embraces sixty-nine lines of railway post-office, some of them longer than necessary to reach across a whole European Kingdom. Including steamboat routes, the annual service foots up 102,166,001 miles, on which mails are constantly being received, distributed and delivered, with a saving in time over the old methods, upon each letter or package hundlcd, of from twelve to twenty-four hours, and in one year the employes in the railway mail service distributed 2,658,483,320 letters and pieces of mail matter.

The value of the grape and wine product of California for 1880 is estimated at $3,500,000. The State furnished over 10,000,000 gallons of wine, 450,000 gallons of brandy, $100,000 worth of raisins, and grapes for preserving and table use to the value of or 150,000 more. The new brandy is worth at wholesale $1.15 a gallon. The new vineyards that have been Elanted cover 8,000 to 10.000 acres. In onoma County alone 2,000 acres were planted in vines last year.

Jn Napa County the wine product has increased from 2U7.670 gallons in 1870 to last year. Land fit for wine growing may be had for $5 to $125 an acre, according to location aud soil. 1 '1 ecumseh J. Clock. Vinland (.

S. Dearborn. Wilmington J. M. Rush.

Wukarusa H. Mavs. W. H. Sweet.

President, and C. A. Weaver, Professor of Baker University, members ot Baldwin City Circuit Quarterly Conterence. J. J.

Thompson, District Superintendent of Ameiiean Bible Society, W. Oakley, K- nt of the Temperance Union for Shawnee County, niemlers of Topeka Quarterly Conference. J. M. Sullivan, agent for the Baker University, member Baldwin City Quar.

Conference. MANHATTAN 1I8TRICTW. A. SIMPSON, P. JC.

Manhattan T. A. Motter. Alma B. F.

Parlett. Bala Supplied bv J. P. Badgley. Camden and While City J.

8. Ward. Cireleville -L. A. Hibbard.

Clav C-nter E. Gill. Ciay Center Circuit To be supplied. Council Grove J. M.

WilSJn. Council Grove Circuit To be supplied. Garrison K. H. Parkinson, llavensville H.

Paslev. Junction Citv W. II. Zimmerman. I-ouisville 1.

C. Telford. -Manhattan Circuit L. Laverty. Milford F.

S. Allman. Morganville J. W. Dawson.

I'arkerville Supplied by C. Atherton. St. George J. Krown.

Wabaunsee 'o be Supplied. Waniego G. E. Nicholson. Westmoreland J.

D. Biatton. ATCHISON DISTRICT R. WAKE, P. E.

Atchison E. W. Van Denventer. Axtell and Coming C. Jlolman.

'attie D. J. Crooks. Blue Rapids S. Hunter.

Centralia Supplied by T. Carter, Doniphan F. F. Otto. I wood B.

F. Bowman. Frankfort K. If. Bailiff.

Hiawatha W. Filentl. Highland J. T. Shaekleford.

Hnllenburg To be supplied. MarySAiKe A.J. Coe. Monrovia J. S.

Smitn. MoiTill-C. H. RiKgle. Mnscotnh J.

H. Green. It tbinson J. T. Cline.

Sabetha J. Biildison. Seneca R. K. McBride.

Severance W. II. Underwood. Troy F. M.

Ptekles. Wa crvillo W. R. Kistler. Wetiuorc S.

M. Hopkins. White Cloud C. Minear. Whiting T.

J. Mayor. SAUNA DISTRICT WILLIAM SMITH, P. K. Sa'ina W.

R. Davis. Abi eno J. ok. A i)iieue Circuit s.

J. Kahler. Bennington S. Plttinger. Brookvllle K.Locke.

1 Bunker Hill S. A. Green. Chapman J. A.

Antrim. Delpho D. D. Campbell. Ellsworth I.

McDowell. Ellsworth Cin-ult O. N. Maxon. Cincinnati to imprisonment for life for committing a criminal assault upon a young eirl.

The mangled remains of John Seals, the missing pilot of the tow-boat John Means, werefound on the 90i in a field sixty yards distance from the bank of the river. The body of an unknown man, riddled with bullets, was found hanging from a tree near Jacksboro, on the 19th. At St. Joseph, on the 19lh, Jno. E.

Adams died from an overdose of morphine mistaken for quinine. James Black, colored, was hanged at Marion, S. on the 17th, for the murder of a friend in a quarrel about a woman, lie was convicted by a jury composed of six white men and six colored. A. Y.

McDonald, of Dubuque, Iowa, was shot through the breast by a burglar brothers there. If she wanted her cap, one of them could go down and get it. lie did not consider that it was not a pleasant thing for a boy, with his ordinary clothes on, to scramble down the wet face of the dam. Lotta began to cry, and her younger brother, Peter, said ho would roll up his trousers and go down for her cap. This, however, made Carl, her other brother, laugh.

lie said he would try to get the cap with a stick, and if he could not reach it he would go tlown himself. He was nearly as big as Ocar, and could climb just as well. So he got a long stick, and, taking in one nand, he got over the edge of tho dam, holding with his other hand to a peg which was driven into a beam that ran along the top. Then he braced his feet against the dam, and grasping the peg very tightly, he reached down toward the cap with his stick. It was a white muslin cap, and hung lightly on the edge of the bush.

If he could but hook his stick into any part of it it would be easy to bring it up. He had just worked his stick under the front of it when crack! went the pe and down went Carl! Oscar, just before this, had reached the top of the dam. and had run into with whom he had grappled in his bedroom. There is a chance of his recovery. On the same night Richard Kirmes, a Dubuque watchmaker, was shot in the hand by a burglar who was attempting to enter his store.

DTrom the Washington Post, March 19. The press dispatches which have been published regarding the recent arrest of the land swindlers in St.LouIs give no idea of the extent of the fraud. The officials in the General Land-office in the city regard it as the greatest swindle ever perpetrated on the Government, and its immensity can only be realized when all the facts in the case are known. Its inception dates back to the year 1854, more than a quarter of a century ago. In that year, on the 4th of August, an act was passed by Congress graduating values of public lands to settlors and cultivators from $1.23 to 12 1-2 cents per acre.

Just after the passage of this act a ring was formed in Missouri to obtain public lands by illegal methods. Some of the men who engaged in the scheme are still living, and it is believed at the Land-office that the Government officials must have been in collision with the swindlers. The latter prepared and brought to several of the Land-offices in Missouri a quantity of false evidence, alleging that the public lands for which patents were desired were actually Fettled and cultivated according to law. This was sent to Washington by the Registers and Receivers, and on the presentation of this alleged proof patents were issued for hundreds and thousands of acres of land to the swindlers. All their well-laid plana seemed 1o prosper.

Then the war came, and all Southern and Southwestern Missouri, the scene of the swindling operations, was in a state of confusion. Duringthe time it is believed the windlers made the most of their opportunities and abstracted as many, patents as they could find. When everything bad quieted down they commenced to sell off the patents in a manner that was as plausible as it was successful. It was as follows: Mr. A came to Mr.

with a Cnited States patent for a certain number of acres. It was a genuine patent, though obtained by fraud. Accompanying it was a deed purporting to be made out by the person whose name appeared on the patent. That deed was a forgery. To obtain their end the swindlers had committed two crimes.

Some idea is thus given of the enormity of the fraud. First hundreds of affidavits that the signer had actually settled and cultivated the land were prepared, when the person whose name was affixed never existed. Page after page of some of the entry books in the Missouri Land-office have been found to be filled with the names of fictiliotii persons to whom patents were issued. Then, having secured a patent to the land by fraud, a deed which was not worth the paper it covered was written and handed to the guileless purchaser as bona fide evidence that his title to the property was complete. There was another and more careful way in which the skillful swindlers worked.

Mr. A appeared to Mr. who wished to purchase as the agent of Mr. a third party. "Mr.

wishes to sell this land," said Mr. A to the victim, "and will probably accept your offer. Call around tomorrow at 1 o'clock. In the meantime I will see him." It is needless to say that tbis tbird party was a "straw man," who nevei existed. When appeared next day A showed him a deed signed with C's name, but which really had been drawn up by A within an hour after he had left the day before.

As if to guard against any possible detection of fraud, the swindlers used what they called a "smoked deed." Tbis was a deed discolored by smoke or coffee, and made to appear of sufficient age to correspond with the date it bore. They grew so expert at the practice of smoking freshly-prepared deeds that the deception escaped discovery. The investigation which led to the exposure of the gigantic swindlers was instigated a little over a year ago by a letter received by Secretary Schurz. This staled that one Robsrt P. Lindsay, of SU Lpuis, whose father had once been In charge of the Land-office at Irontou, and who had thus had access to the contents and records of the office, possessed one or tws boxes filled with United States land patents which were certainly genuine, although Lindsay might have obtained them by questionable means.

The letter alleged that ho kept these boxes concealed or moved them by stealth, and had queer dealings with queer people. The writer, who professed to be a friend to Schurz, suggested in conclusion that It might pay to look into the matter. The statements of the letter were deemed of such importance that the Secretary at once secured Special Agent D. P. Terrell, of the Treasury Department, to work up the case.

His experience during the thirteen months he has been employed would, if published, read like a novel. lie has been In nearly every city in the country, under assumed He has figured in the pine woods of Missouri as a saw-mill owner or prospector, and In the Western cities as an Eastern capitalist who wanted to buy a large quantity of land in the southern part of Missouri, and was on an anxious search for the real owner of the property. In his investigations he found that the ramifications of the swindle extended to Pittsburgh, Cleveland and other cities. His labors were at laU crowned with success. A few days ago a number of persons, including Lindsay, were arrested in St.

Louis or the cities named. They have all given bail or are on trial. It is stated at the Land-office that the ring has obtained fraudulent titles to more than a million acres of land the larger proportion of this vast area they have sold to innocent settlers, who are now living in peace around happy hearth-fires. Legally they have no title to the land they occupy, and the Government can cause it to revert to the United States. Will this course be pursued? is a question which can not now be answered.

Government officials who were conversed with to-day say that it will rest with the Secretary of the Interior and the Attorney-General to decido whether civil suits shall be begun at once to vacate the titles to these lands. It is believed that, whatever is determined upon, It will be so arranged that the blow shall not fall too heavily upon the thousands of duped settlers whose hitberto undisputed titles to their homes have been rendered valueless at one woop by this exposure. you. Look at that old crack under tho knot? And people do have to hold on to it, or else tie something to it- What else was it put there for?" "Pshiw!" said Franz. "You are making a great bother about a little thing.

Any peg might break with a great," heavy boy, like you, hanging to it." Not if it was as thick as this and had no knots in it," said Carl, walking away, quite as angry as he cams, lor he saw that the carpenter cared nothing at all for his mishap, nor for his own imputation in the matter of pegs. When Lotta and Peter reached homo they found no Carl, and when they told their mother what had happened, she was greatly frightened. Without waiting to put anything on her head, and foilowel by several neighbors who had been attracted by her cries, she ran to the dam. On the way, quite a number of people ran out of their houses and shops to see what was tho matter, and these all followed the poor mother; so that when they reached the bank of the pool there was quite a little crow collected. A new search was immediately herein, but it was soon very evident that Carl was not in the stream.

While alt this was going on. and Lotta and Peter ware crying, aud some of the older men and women were trying to comfort the poor, distressed mother, who was certain that she had lost her boy, Carl came walking down among them, with the broken peg still ia his band. He had been homo, and finding no one there had come to look for the family, supposing that Peter and Lotta, at least, might be playing by the dam. When he saw the crowd, he was almost as much astonished as the crowd was to see him. He was still batless, and wore his wet clothes, although the air and the sun had dried them a good deaL The moment h's mother saw him.

she rushed to him and caught him in her arms, while little Lotta and Peter clung to his legs. The people gathered around him and, as boon as he could get a chance to speak, they eagerly asked him where he had been, ttn-1 how everything had happened. Carl told them about the broken ppg, and how it had had a knot in it, and how he had been up to see Franz Holman about it. who didn't care a snap of his linger whether people tumbled off dams and broke their necks or not. Then he passed around the peg, so that everybody could 6ee that he vas right In what he said about it, and that it was not his own fault that he fell from the top of the im.

Some of the good people laughed as they looked at the peg, while others that Franz Holman ought to know better than to use a piece of wood like that for such a purpose; but the most of them seemed to thiuk the broken peg was a matter of very little consequence. They were glad the boy was safe, and there was an end of the matter. But it happened that two or three of the principal men of the town had been attracted to the stream by the crowd, and an idea struck the mind of one of these. "If Franz Holman was so careless as to use wood like this, in a peg which should have been a very strong one, ho may have been equally careless in building dam itself. And, now that I come to look, it seems to me that the water is running through a great many cracks and crevices." Several persons now examined the face of the dam, and thty thought that it did indeed look very leaky.

It was not strange that this had not' been noticed before, for it was very seldom that anyone, excepting boys, came down to the bed of tho stream under the dam. After a little consultation among the older townsmen it was thought that the dam might be weak, and that it ought to be carefully examined. Accordingly, the very next day. several carpenters and Franz Holman was not among them were set to work to make a careful examination of the condition of the timbers, and they soon found that many of them were very rotten, and that Holman, in trying to make as much profit as he could out of his work, had put in timbers which had been taken from an old bridge that had been torn down, and which were, probably, nnfit for use when they were put into the woodwork of the dam. Now, thev were certainly unfit to stand the strain put upon them by the great body of water in the dam.

This discovery excited a great deal of indignation against Holman. for if the dam had given way the whole body of water in tho pond instantly would have poured down into the valley of the stream, where, a short distance below, there were a number of small cottages inhabited by poor families. Had tho accident occurred in tho night these houses might have been swept away with all their occupants. The sluice-gate was opened and the water allowed to flow gradually out of the pond. When the water was low enough, the old dam was to be taken down and a new and strong one built.

Some of the officials of the town went to see Franz Holman, to call him to an account for his dishonest workmanship, but they did not see him. Ho did not want to talk to any one about the dam, and had gone away in the nigh, taking all his tools with him in his wagon, and leaving, unnred, the work on which he was engaged. As they walked home from their unsuccessful visit tho good townsmen began to talkof young Carl, whose strange accident had probably prevented a sad disaster to the town. One of them proposed making him a present, and when it was objected that the boy ought not to bo rewarded simply for getting a tumble from the top of a dam, this man asserted that if it had not been for Carl's sturdy earnestness in charging Holman with his bad work, and in aft A feud of long standing between the Ludlingand the Stubbs families of Monroe, culminated on the 17th in the killing of WIT AM WISDOM. the house near by to dress.

Little Lotta Fred.Ludling, a son of Judge Ludting, form erly Chief Justice of Louisiana, and the wounding of Frank Dinkgrove, a cousin of young Ludlhig, and a man named Mitch- Gorham To be supplied. Gvpsum W. K. enor, manager. The affray occurred on the Stufibs place, where Ludting and hU cousin had gone to resent an injury done by Stubbs's manager to Eome of Ludling's wagons which had been driven Lincoln Center J.

M. Miller. on the place against his orders. It seems that Dinkgrove and Mitchercor shot each other; who shot Ludling is not posi Emperor was accustomed to ride. A number of arrests have been made.

Dublin telegrams of the 16th state: Her Majesty's ship Valorous has taken process-servers and eighty policemen to the Islands Littermullin and Feenish, belonging to the Forster magistrate. The tenantry owe 5,000. Two hundred policemen have been dispatched in all haste to Clifden District, where a disturbance has arisen between the Catholics and Fleming relief expedition. One man is -reported killed. There is a bitter feeling in the district because a large number of processes were served.

Justice Fitzgerald, in opening the Kerry Assizes, said 4G3 crimes had been reported the last seven months, seven-fold of the record the same period the previous year. An immense elevator, to cost is to be built at Council Bluffs by a company formed of leading railway managers. A box containing forty pounds oi gunpowder with a lighted fuse attached was found by a policeman on duty near the Lord Mayor of London's residence on the night of the 10th. He extinguished the fire and took the box to the police station. There is no clew to the guilty parties.

At St. Petersburg the leading idea seems to be to serve the interests of Russian peasants and landed proprietors. Capitalists, manufacturers, scientists and literary persons are said to be disaffected. Roussa-koff, the man arrested for throwing the bomb that killed the Czar, is being tortured, and is said to have made a confession, although the report is not entitled to much confidence. Another statement given publicity is that in the assassin's pocket was found an ingeniously constructed torpedo, filled with vitriol, Bar-toldy salts, fulminating mercury, nitroglycerine whole weighing six pounds and three ounces.

It is also said that a revolutionary proclamation discovered at Roussakoff's domicile declares the Nihilists will continue their work, and warns the new Emperor to beware of bis father's fate. A dispatch from Rawlins says the latest and most reliable news from White River appears to point to an outbreak of the Utes early in the spring. Turkey now agrees to make the additional concessions to Greece in Thessaly and cede Crete instead of Epirus. The Embassadors referred the proposal to their respective Governments. It is stated that several Persian tribes, under a Persian General, crossed the frontier toward Bagdad and pillaged several villages.

At Charleston, 111., the other night, a party of masked men took out Myron Martin, Wm. Sweeny (alias English Bill) and Chas. Scott (alias Grasshopper), returned convicts from Joliet, and hung and whipped them till life was nearly ex-tinct. They were then warned to leave the town, tinder penalty of death. The three men are alleged to have been the leaders of a gang that during several years past have committed numerous crimes, such as burglary, arson, etc.

Some of their suspected confederates were also given notice that it would not be conducive to their bodily welfare to remain longer in the town. A genuine social sensation is now being enjoyed by scandal lovers in Berlin, caused by the elopement of Count Herbert von Bismarck, son of the Channcellor, with the Princess Elizabeth of Carolath-Beuttien, wife of Trincc Charles of Carolath-Beuthen, Count of Schonarch, etc. The Cotton Compress at Jackson, was burned on the night of the lGth with all its contents. Total loss about Two polar expeditions are to be fitted out and sent north early this coming summer under the direction of Gen. Hazen, the Chief Signal Officer, for purely scientific purposes.

Rome, has been inundated, causing a general suspension of business and property loss of $100,000. The Boers will probably accept the terms offered them by the British representatives. The Bartlett cloth works, at New-buryport, Masswas burned on the 18th. The loss may reach insured for $219,250. Gipsies seem to be after Cincinnati children.

Theodore Kelly, in his third year, recently disappeared, being last seen in the arms of one of them. Isidor Levi, of Isidor Levi crockery dealers; Mathew May, clerk, and Patrick Stintzon, packer, have been arrested on a charge of setting fire to store No. 20 Magazine Street, New Orleans. CONFESSED TELEGRAMS, iTnE question of calling an extra session of Congress was debated by the Cabinet at some length on th-s 23d. "While no decision was made, the general impression was that it would be impolitic to call an extra session.

Senator Voorhees offered a resolution on the 22d, declaring "That the hostile attitude assumed by the national banks toward refunding the national debt at a low rate of interest, and the recent attempt to dictate the legislation of Congress on the subject, are contrary to the best interests of the people, and well calculated to excite their alarm for the future." Senators Morrill and Ferry objected to the introduction of the resolution as beiug out of order and it was laid over. A large number of nominations were confirmed in executive session. Among new nominations sent in by the President were Albert Woodcock, Collector of Internal Revenue for the Third District of Illinois, and A. M. Jones, United States Marshal Northern District of Illinois.

The Boers have accepted the British terms of peace. These provide for the cessation of hostilities, that all arms, munition? and other property captured by either side shall be restored; that the Transvaal shall be granted independence subject to conditions to be hereafter settled by the Royal Commission, and that the Boer Government shall commence- after the commission shall have made a report. Meanwhile British garrisons are to remain in the Transvaal without in anywise interfering with local affairs. The Boer forces will disperse forthwith and Capt. Elliott's murderer Is to be delivered up.

Hon. John U. Petit, Judge of the 22d District, Indiana, and for several terms Representative In Congress, died at Wabash on the 21st. It seems that young Seymour, who perpetrated the murder and suicide at Lake-view, near Chicago, on the night of the 21st, had been a suitor fof the hand of Cram's young daughter. Seymour was 20, she 10, and the father objected because of their extreme youth, and also on account of the young man's dissipated habits.

The Boston reception and dinner to Carl Sciiurz took place on the 22d. He made an address explaining and defending his conduct of Indian affairs. An express train on the Lake Shore Michigan Southern Railroad ran off the track at Nottingham, eight miles east of Cleveland, on the night of the 22d, while running at a high rate of speed. Engineer John Lace and fireman Henderson were killed. Messenger August Schneider was severely but probably not fatally injured.

No passengers were injured, though all the forward cars were considerably shaken up, and the express and baggage cars Were badly wrecked. here and no return of legal tender made." Secretary Windom expresses' the opinion that no stringency in the money market need be apprehended, owing to the large amount of bonds that have been and are being purchased by the Government. Gen. Grant has resigned the Presidency of the "World's Fair, in consequence, as is said, of his Mexican engagements. It is known he has been for some time dissatisfied with the slow progress made in raising funds to carry out the enterprise, and has expressed doubts as to its ultimate success.

A Washington dispatch of the 17th stated that the Republicans will nominate Mr. Gorham for Secretary of the Senate, and Manistree, of Virginia, a Keadjuster and friend of Mahone, for Sergeant-at-Arms. The Globe-Democrat'' Washington special of the 17th says that Representative Farwell and Senator Logan have locked horns in a contest over the Marshalship of the Northern District of Illinois. Senator Logan champions the cause of "Long" Jones, while Mr. Farwell's man is Stillwell.

Tub Pope's encyclical letter has been issued proclaiming the jubilee frtom March 19 to November 1 for Europe, and to the end of the year for the rest of the world. On StPatrick's Day, Mr. Lowell, the American Minister at the Court of St. James, received a telegram from the President of the Knights of St. Patrick, of St.

Louis, expressing sympathy with Parnell, and requesting Lowell to forward the telegram to Parnell. George Jones, Treasurer of the Grant income fund, announces through the New York Times that the desired subscription of $250,000 has been completed, and nearly all paid in. The funds will be invested so as to produce an annual income of about 15,000, which will be made payable to Gen. Grant's order. The ultimate disposition of the fund is left entirely discretionary with the donors.

The Arkansas Legislature adjourned sine die on the King Oscar II. of Sweden and Norway is seriously ill. Minister Foster has been informed by Secretary Blaine that the President wishes him to retain his post at St Petersburg. It was understood on the 18th that the Democratic Senators would resist by parliamentary devices all attempts of the Kepublieans to elect new officers of that body. Gen.

Gonzales Ortega, one of the most famous of Mexican soldiers, died a few days ago. The Chicago Socialists have adopted resolutions censuring Secretary Blaine for his dispatch officially conveying to the Russian Court the condolence of this Government for the assassination of the Czar, which 1hey regard, as an entirely commendable act. With regard to the existing vacancies in the House of Representatives, a Washington dispatch of the 21st says "The report reached the Democratic leaders that Gov. Cornell, of New York, would not call an election this spring, thus preventing the election of a Democrat in Fernando Wood's place. The Democrats communicated with Gov.

Plaisied, of Maine, and it is reported that he has assvired them he will not order an election to fill Mr. Frye's place until one is ordered in New York to fill AVood's." having become current that Senator David Davis was about to resign his office and retire to private life, a Blooming-ton dispatch says he has recently written friends there stating he will serve out his full term as Senator and then return to that place and devote his entire attention to his private business. The funeral of the late Czar took place on the 21st with most imposing ceremonies. COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY. Ktjmors were current ia Chicago, on the 15th, of pending negotiations for the consolidation of the three great railways of the Northwest the Chicago Northwestern, the Chicago, Milwaukee St.

Paul and the Northern Pacific The report lacks confirmation. There is a deficit in the Ashuelot Savings Bank, of Winchester, N. amounting to over $100,000. Th-! Treasurer of the bank, Mr. Elleroy Albee, has assigned all his per and l'eter were so astounded when they saw Carl go down, and heard the great splash beneath, that they just stood for a moment with their mouths open.

Then they began to cry and ran off to find somebody to help. Oscar soon came running out of the house, and some men who happened to bo working near by were attracted by the children's cries, and weut to them. When they heard the story, they all hurried to the dam and looked over, but there was nothing to be seen of Carl. Then the men, with O-car, ran to the end of the dam and hurried down to the edge of the stream. One of them waded in, and felt, with his bare feet, all over the bottom of the pool.

Ho thought Carl might have been stunned by the fall, and was lying there. But he did not find him. Perhaps be had been carried down the stream, one of them suggested; but this was not likely, as the water was so shallow below the pool. Still, the men, with Oscar and the two children, went down the stream for some distance, examining it closely. But there was no sign of Carl When the peg broke, Carl instinctively gave a great push with his feet, and this caused him to turn completely over, so that he went into the pool feet foremost.

The distance which he fell was not great, and the water broke his fall; but it waa a very much astonished and startled boy who, for a moment, floundered and splashed in that pool. When he could really see where he was, he half-swam, half-waded to the shore, and ran up the bank as fast as he could go. As soon as ho had recovered a little from the confusion into which this sudden accident had thrown his mind, he began to wonder if his body was all right. So he kicked out his legs, and he threw cut his arms, and soon found that nothing was the matter with any part of him. But he noticed that he held in bis hand tho peg to which he had clung when he was reaching for his sister's cap.

It seemed strange that he should still tightly grasp this little stick; but people often do such things when excited. Carl looked at the peg with a good deal of interest. "It's an inch and a half thick!" he exclaimed, and made of hard wood. It ought not to have broken so easily. Oho, I see! Here is a knot, right where it broke, and there must have been an old crack there, for only half of the break looks fresh." At this discovery, Carl grew very angry.

A pretty man," he cried. to put in such a peg for people to hold to! I am going to speak to him about it this minute. It watt Franz Holman who built the dam, and, of course, ke put the peg in. I might have killed myself, and 1 shall just tell him what I think about it." So, without considering his wet clothes, nor his little sister and brother, whom he had so suddenly left on the bridge, he ran off to the shop of Franz Holman, on the outskirts of the town. He found the carpenter outside of his shop, hewing some logs.

Hello!" cried Carl, running up. Didn't you build the dam, down yonder?" The man stopped his work, and looked with amazement at this earnest and Hushed young fellow, without a hat, and with the water still dripping from his hair and his clothes. "Yes," he said. "1 built it tho timber part, I mean. What is the matter with it? You don't mean to say that is has broken?" No, it hasn't," replied CarL But thisicg has broken, and it came near killing me.

If you built the dam, of course you put the peg and I think it's a shame to use pegs wllh knots and cracks In them, for people to hold on to." "People needn't hold on to them, if they don't wan' to," replied the carpenter. Let me see the peg." can look at it in my hands," aid CarL I don't intend to give it to Let 'er slide," as the man said when his wife fell on the ke. No matter how old a crowbar may be, it remains as pry as ever. The Whitehall Times accuses Boston of spelling beans with a capital B. Why is the nine-y car-old-boy like the sick glutton? Because he's over eight.

The weather-cock is a vane fowl. Some folks think it's a peacock, but this is an error. It seems as if them as aren't wanted here are the only folks as aren't wanted the other world. Adam Bedc "No dlinkee, no dlunkee!" was the sententious reply of a Chinaman when asked to take a friendly nip. Society never finds out that a woman is lovely and accomplished until her husband becomes rich.

A merchant who has a book-keeper with but one arm alludes to him as his short-hand writer. 1'hiladclphia Chronicle Schoolhouses should have lightning-rods on them, for if you spare the rod the children may be spoiled. Whitehall Times. Heigh-ho! handle the dough: How 1 do witsta mat dinners would prow: A ftpnnfre-r ake vine or a douiebnut tree Wuata rcfie'hhig eight to seel "If I punish jou," said a mother to her naughty Utile girl, "do you think it will be for my pleasure?" "For whose pleasure is it, then? It isn't for mine," returned the child. A prominent lumberman in Burlington has had his coat of arms painted on the panels of his carriage, with the Latin motto "VidL" Which by interpretation is I saw." llatckeye.

Table IPIIoie Abread. Breakfast on the Continent always moans only bread and coffee; in the laboring people it means a bowl broth and a bit of bread, or bread alone. The American, however, will find himself served with "butler, and eggs or meat, Unless he has previously ordered a plain breakfast," when ho receive the usual bread and coffee. The noted table d'hite is perhaps the least susceptible of change. It usually is served at six o'clock, an hour when the day's work is over, and the meal can be taken at leisure.

It is Cjc social meal of the day, and all tho guests of the hotel are expected to meet at tho table. Ilj requires never less than an hour, oftener two, and unless your company is entertaining, it is a long and dreary process. Perhaps you hav been told that there will be ten or fifteen courses, and if uninitiated you have your mind made up that for once you will have vour usual square meal';" but when the waiter, with neck-tie and shirt front of immaculate whiteness, brings you a small piece of bread and a dish of slightly colored water calkd soup, you proceed with quiet resignation with the belief that you will have the dinner presently; but your curiosity is only the more aroused when the are changed, and after a long dreary waiting vou receive a very small bit of fish; then the table is cleared again, and you are served with a bit of chicken like a true American you have dispatched your bread long enough since, and you take chicken and "play it alone;" but you conclude it Is passing strange" when you learn that buttered chestnuts and nothing else, or a bit of cheese alone, will be served for a course, and so you continue for an hour or two in patient expectation of the meal that never comes. My Yankee friend put it exactly right when he said: There is a mouthful to eat, and then a square acre of silence." I shall always respect the American, who, tho other day, when he had borne patiently until the meal was half over, thundered out to the waiter: Good gracious! Life is too short to be wasted in this manner, sir! For heaven's sake, bring me something to eat" Foreign Cor. Cincinnati CgmnerciaL Mellville and Oak Hill-f npplyC.F.Blondln.

Minneapolis F. D. Baker. North Dickinson H. A.

L. King. North Saliila To be supplied. Russell T. J.

Ream. Salina Circuit T. G. Condell. Salt Ci eek Supply E.

G. Tozii-r. Solomon City W. W. Wells.

One to be supplied, J. M. Preshaw. South Saline Supplied by IL R.Gonldin. Waketield W.

Whitney. Wilyon M. M. Stolz. Woodbine To be supplied.

IIELOIT IHSTBICT J. II. LOCKWOOD.P. E. Beloit J.

M. Daviilson. lieloit Circuit To lie supplied. Belleville B. W.

Hoilen. Brown's Creek Supplied by David Prnitt. Burr tiak II. G. Breed.

Cawker City C. Shaikleford. Clifton J. K. Shnltz.

Clyde R.J. Walker. Concordia A. N. See.

Cuba Supplied by S. Brooks. Downs A. T. Kiley.

Glen Elder and Solomon Rapids R. A. Hoff-mxvil and one to be supplied by W. O. Day.

Greenleaf J. Webb. Iona and McCabe Chapel I. V. Morton.

Jamestown J. H. Bull. JeweU City A. B.

Con well. Mankato J. C. Dsna. Mount Hope J.

C. Walker. Nelson Cenier and Enterprise Supplied by R. A. Might.

Oak Creek Supplied by G. H. Woodward. Iottereburg 1o te supplied. Round Springs W.

Wiuterbnrn. Scott sville J. S. Horner. Scnndia and Republic City Supplied by C.

D. Day. Seapo B. XL Price. Washington B.

F. Kepheart. White Kock U. A. Tallman.

KIKWIN DISTRICT R. A. CARUTBESS, P. E. Kirwin G.

W. Wood. Germantown Supplied by A. Enyart. Aurora and Pleasant Plains E.

8. Arlington. I'Jaiiiville Supplied by K. G. Carey.

Alcona and Stmar IxafK. R. Zimmerman. Stoc ton A. Crumley.

Atwood and Beaver alley J. C. Langby. Olwrlin and Senning To be supplied. Itutfi 1 Tobe supplied.

Sheridan To be supplied. Cednrvale and Bull City W. A. Savillo. Gavlord To be supplied.

De hi-C. W. Casely. Kllis J. W.

Graham. Wa-Kreney J. A. Stavr. Hays City and Stnoky ilill Vnlley A.C.Pattce I.enora and Graham W.

Allen, lioscoe W. Bailey. I-ogan Supplied by H. Dalton. Norton Supplied by J.

T. Uritton. Marvin J. It. Or wig.

Osborne and Bristow E. IL Fleisher. I'hillipsburg J. Boicourt. Ixng Island and Deer Creek To bo sun-plied bv R.

Bisbee. Miiith Center IT. G. Miller. Cora Supplied by A.

Annistead. KANSAS DISTRICT W. O. LYNCH, P. K.

Atchison and Leavenworth M.M.JlcKinney. Burlingnme J. B. Gibbs. Manhattan and Clay Center J.

8. Grilling. Mount Olive and Wakarim T. L. Merritt.

Sudna and Abilene W. Wright. TopeknW.O. Lynch. "Wyandotte, Lawrence, Baldwin F.

Landor. Wamego Rector. SOUTH KANSAS 1IT. K. W.

HAMMANn, P. E. Baxter Springs and Fort Scott U. Cole. Coffeyville Geo.

B. Duftin. Emporia Bell. Independence K. W.

S. Hainmnnd. 3 Parsons, Ofage and Chetopa W. B. Averv.

Wlnfleld-Wm. Battle. Senator Alfred Perkins" has kept out of the newspapers in this country, but a French journalist identified him en his arrival in Paris. This Yankee," says Figaro, is celebrated on account of a. duel which he had some years back with an Indian Chief, also a Senator, whose feelings he had wounded.

The arms chosen were unusual, beiDg two barrels of dynamite, on which the adversaries were placed, and to which two slow matches of equal length were attached. These were set on fire by the seconds. Ten minutes after the Indian Senator was blown into the air, and then Mr. Perkins was immediately delivered from his perilous position by the seconds, who declared the claims of honor satisfied." A lady at Pillsboro, N. has a coffee urn of pure solid silver which we'ghs ounces, and is nearly 200 years old.

It is an old family relic, hating belonged to the ancestors of its present owner all that time. It has been hidden in three wars, having been buried during the Revolutionary war, and again in the War of 1812. when the British threatened to attack Wilmington, and during the late war it wu thrown into a deep well. tively known, as several persons were present and a number of shots were fired. Ludling's revolver was taken from his body with all the cartridges intact, which is evidence that he had no part in the shooting.

Judge Ludling was in Washington at the time of the sad affair, and Mr. Stubbi was not directly concerned in it. The towboat John Means, of the St. Louis New Orleans Transportation Company, exploded her boilers on the eningof the 17tb, just above Osceola, and sunk out of sight almost immediately. She carried a crew of twenty-six men, four of whom John Scales, a pilot, a deck-hand named Morris, and two firemen, Germans were killed or drowned.

Several others, including Capt. McClelland, were somewhat injured. A boiler explosion in Tyler Har-rod's saw-mill at Frankfort, resulted in the death of eight men. A railway collision near Palestine, on the ISth, resulted in the death of J. E.

Bond, express messenger. Nine persons were injured. Part of a freight train detached from the locomotive, started down grade by the wind, was met by a passenger train from Longview while at great speed. A most brutal outrage wa3 recently committed upon a lady near Evening Shade, the wife of 31. L.

County Treasurer of Sharp County. Three young men who have hitherto borne a good reputation are under arrest charged with the terrible crime. Five citizens of Arizona pursued a band of Apache mule thieves for seven days, but were ambushed nd murdered by them. At Lake view, near Chicago, on the night of the 21st, Chacles T. Cram, a city merchant, was called to the door of his bouee by Willie Seymour, a lad of 18, son of a prominent Board of Trade man.

As Cram opened the door young Seymour shot him dead with a revolver, and then, pointing the muzzle at his own head, blew out his brains. The affair is involved in mystery, as friends of the parties are reluctant to make all the facts known. The most curious feature of the affair is that Seymour was taking a young lady out riding with him at the time the tragedy was enacted, and left her sitting in the sleigh in front of Cram's house while he went to the door. White Russell's saw-mill, near Middlefield, was entirely demolished on the 21st by the explosion of the boiler, which instantly killed Joseph Hamilton, Selden Sprague and John Tatchin, and seriously wounded Nosman Russell, one of the proprietors. The large three-story brick building of the Rochester (N.

Hydraulic Company fell in ruins on the 21st. The cause believed to have been an explosion of the steam boiler used for heating the building. Joseph Schell, aged 20, was killed instantly on the sidewalk by a falling wall. Four or five other men were injured, none fatally. James Tolen, an insane wife-murderer, committed suicide in his cell at the asylum in St.

Peter, on the 21st- MISCELIiANEOUS. Alexander III. has, by a special ukase, summoned the peasants to take the oath of allegiance. A decree is published granting persons deported to Siberia, with the loss of civil rights, permission to engage in commercial or professional pursuits after three years' good behavior. The Kame privileee will be accorded political exiles, subject to the approval of the Minister of the Interior.

Another nitro-glycerine plot has been discovered in St. Petersburg. The police have taken possession of a small shop, beneath which was found the entrance to a mine leading under the street where the late erward bringing the attention of tho to it, no one would havo thought of examining the dam. This view of the case was thought a fair one, and when the matter had been considered for a day or two it was determined that the town should send Carl to school. He was known to be a good, smart boy, but hi3 mother, lfr had lost her husband, could not afford Additional Arrests LAier Particulars.

ST. Louis, March 19. Another arrest was made to-day in the land fraud conspiracy, the person being Mr. John Brady, Notary Public, who is charged with having, in 1878, made a fraudulent acknowledgment to a deed conveying eighty acres ot the stolen land in Butler County. To a reporter who interviewed him immediately after bis capture he stoutly maintained that an egregious mistake had been committed in his arrest.

He says that he will have no difficulty in furnishing the required bond of $5,000. He says, also, that ta the year 1878 he did acknowledge a number of deeds conveying land In Southern and South: astern Missouri, but he always had taken pains to hare these acknowledgments come witbin the letter as well as the spirit of the law. In the District Attorney's ofhee it Is said, on the other hand, that the case against Brady will be found to be a very strong ope, all of it being not yet given out, for reason) ot State. The passengers on a train, snowbound at Marengo, Iowa, saw wolves prowling about the cars at night. In the moraine several men with revnlvmra ant sonal property to make good the deficit.

It to give her eldest son tho education he ought to have. When Carl was told that he was to have a new suit of clothes, and was to be sent to school to Baroles a town about five miles awav, from which ho is believed the defalcations have been in progress for years and entirely unsuspected. The deposit-books have been called in and show that $150,000 made to appear as drawn have not been drawn by depositors could walk home on Sundavs and holi The Mexican Telegraph Company's cable from Brownsville, Texas, to Vera Cruz, via Tampico, has been completed and con gratulatory messages have been exchanged between the Presidents of the United States days he was delighted. To go to school to Baroles was a thing he had longed for, during more than a year. And his mother was just as glad as ho was, and very proud of him besides.

"What I want," said Oscar the big boy who had been on the dam with Carl and the others is to find a rotten peg." But ho never found one. Paul Fori, in SL Nicholas. and Mexico. Hon. Edward Sere, Consul-General of Belgium to the United States, has arrived in Chicago to investigate what may be out to hunt the beasts.

Thev soon re termed the pork scare. It is said that rep resentatives from Spain, Portugal and Aug tria will instigate a similar investigation. turned, triumphantly displaying a scalp but it turned out to belong to the station keeper's COod-n attired doer, whinb thov The Stockmen's Convention, held at Vanilla has been found to be an abundant wild product in the Paraguayan woods. had slain by mistake for a fjerce wplf. Caldwell, elected S.

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