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I LATE NEWS ITEMS. The Triple Murder 'IrTlreland. THE VEDETTE. Electoral Votes for President and Vice-President, have agreed to a proposition providing for the election of President and Vice-President by direct vote of the people. i In the House of Lords, on the 8th, Lord Beaconsfield moved an address of thanks to the Queen for her Majesty's message calling out the reserves, and followed with a speech, which was repeatedly cheered.

The address was agreed to without division. Sir Stafford Northcote moved the address in the House of Commons, and made a speech. He was followed by Gladstone, who said that he did not intend to contest the address by offering an amendment, because the vote on supplemental estimates would afford a better opportunity in discussing the policy of the Government's armaments. The Chancellor of the Exchequer had failed to show the ex 0. W.

B. HOFFMAN, Puhllslier. COLUMBUS, KANSAS. CURRENT TOPICS. The following is the full text of the Queen's Message delivered to Parliament on the 1st: The present state of public affairs In the East, and the secessity of talcing steps for the maintenance of peace ami for the protection of the interests of the empire, having constituted, in the opinion of her Majesty, a case of great emergency, within the meaning of the acts of Parliament in that behalf, her Majesty deems it proper to provide additional means for the public service.

Therefore, in pursuance of these acts, her Majesty has thought it right to communicate to the House of Commons that slie is about to -direct that the reserve force or militia reserve force, or such part thereof as her Majesty may think necessary, be forthwith called out for permanent service, i i The following is the sentence in bury's circular to the Powers, verbatim, in which he objects to the treaty of San The combined effect of the treaty, in nd-. dition to the results upon the Greek popula-' tion, is to depress to the point of entire sub-1 jection the political independence of the Gov." i. ernmeiit of Constantinople, and the formal Jurisdiction which that Government extendi over geographical positions, which must be tf the deepest interest to Great Britain. It is fl the power of the Ottoman Government toj close or open the straits which form the natural highway of the nations between the JKgcan Sea and Euxine. Its dominion is recognized at the head of the Persian Gulf, on the shores of the Levant and in the immediate neighborhood of the Suez Canal, and it can not be otherwise than a matter of tremo solicitude to this eountry that the Government to which this jurisdiction be-; longs should be so closely pressed by politi-.

cal outposts of greatly superior power that its independent action and even existence is almost impossible. These results arise not so much from the langunge of any single article in the treaty as from the 'opera-. of the instrument as a whole. A discussion limited to the articles selected by one Power in the Congress, would le an illusory remedy for the dangers to English interests, and to the permanent peace of would result I'rotn the state of aifairs which the treaty proposed to establish. The public debt statement for April 1 shows a decrease in the debt for March and the following bal-1 ances in the Treasury Currency, 857 special fund for the redemption of fractional currency, $10,000,000 special if deposits of legal tenders for redemption of of deposit, coin, $138,357,608, including coin cer-.

iificates, $57,883,400 outstanding legal tenders, $347,848,712. Returns from the Rhode Island State election, held, on the 3d, nearly com-' plete, give Van Zandt, Republican, for Governor, Lawrence.Democrat, Greenback', 583 scat-, tering, 31. uVani Zandt's majority, 3,309. His majority last year was ,441. TJie 1 Legislature is very largely Republican, Tnff Maryland Legislature has adopt-l.

'ed Montgomery Blair's resolution, ask- ing Congress to reopen the Presidential contest. A Washington dispatch says that prominent Democrats in Congress assert that not a single Democratic Senator is favorable to the proposition. Another lengthy conference between sheet envelopes of good paper, which can be uscdjfor short written messages which are too long to be written upon a postal-card, but which can be written upon a sheet of note paper, with an arrangement bo that they can be partially sealed. The Sandy Fashion, a small steamer running from Catlettsburg, up the Sandy River, exploded her boilers on the night of the Cth at the mouth of the Sandy, and sunk in three minutes in nine feet of water. She had on board about 40 passen gers and crew.

Joseph Newburg, a merchant of Richmond, A. Osborn, pilot, and others, names unknown, were killed, and several others seriously injured. THE EUROPEAN CRISIS. Vienna dispatches of the 3d indicate a belief that Austria will support England's demand for a full discussion of the pro visions of the treaty, with a view to some important modifications. A Vienna dispatch of the 6th states that Count Andrassy has replied to Lord Salisbury, declaring he also regards the ac ceptance of the treaty as impossible and asking for specific stipulations from Eng land.

It is said that Prince Gortschakoft will make a similar request Russia is se-ecretly negotiating for a large loan. A London dispatch of the Cth says There seems to be some hope of the renewal of the Congress negotiations, unless a col lision is precipitated by the necessity for counteracting the military measures Russia is pushing forward on both sides of the Danube. The position at Constantinople is regarded so doubtful, even threatening, for England, that very slight modifications of the situation might be considered to warrant an act which would amount to a breach of neutrality. Intelligence from St. Petersburg via Berlin, 7th, seems to indicate that the peace party is acquiring greater influence in the counsels of the Czar.

It is reported that the Czar will solicit the good offices of the Eni- eror of Germany as a mediator between himself and England. The Russian reply to Lord Salisbury's circular will, it is said, lay particular stress upon the of a definite counter proposal. This will be the main point urged. Natural Gas Works. J.

II. Jamison, of Lake County, describes in a letter to the Bee the Kel-seyville Natural Gas Works," as follows: But with all the rain and mud we have one of the grandest sights to be seen anywhere in the State that is, the gas mound situated on the eastern boundary of the. town of Kelseyville, on, an elevated piece of ground. This mound covers about one and half acres of land the gas is driven up through the surface of the soil over almost the entire area, and can be set on fire with a match, will burn a bright blue light for hours, and can be seen for a long distance at night. This gas mound belongs to John Kelsey and W.

G. Young. They intend to put it to valuable use at some future time. There have been three small shafts sunk on it, one to the depth of 80 feet, which sends the gas up very strongly, so much so that it will not burn long at a time but place a tin lid over the shaft or bored well, with small holes punched in it, and it will burn for several days and nights without going out. I have seen a pipe fastened on to the top of the shaft and led off 20 feet, with the end of the pipe put into a cooking-stove, and the gas set on tire, and a pot of cold water set on the stove, and it boiled in 20 minutes and cooked eggs as nicely as eggs were ever cooked anywhere.

This gas can and will be used to run ma chinery, and can be used to light up the town and to heat up stoves with but little expense. How long it has been in existence no one knows. It was discovered ten or twelve years ago. The gas burns at any and all seasons of the year, but gives a brighter light in the winter and spring. It is, indeed, a great natural curiosity among the many natural wonders of this county.

Lake County Gal.) Dee. A Long, Free Ride. A through freight-train which arrived in Louisville Saturday afternoon brQughtup a negro woman who came all the way from Montgomery, a journey of two days and two nights, without eating or drinking. When the workmen on the platform at the L. and N.

depot unlocked one of the cars containing after the arrival of the train, the woman crawled down off the bales and asked for a drink of water. She appeared to be in a feeble condition of mind, and, in answer to the inquiries of the curious crowd which gath ered around her, gave no more satisfactory account of herself than that she came from Wetumpka, and got on the train at Montgomery to go to Opelika, Ala. She said if she had known they would have locked her up she would not have got on the car. After getting a drink of water she sauntered forth into the depths of the city. Yesterday morning she was seen by Officers Brophy and McCord wandering around in the southern suburbs.

The policemen observed that she was deranged, and locked her up in Twelfth Street Station, where she gave her name as Fred George. Courier-Journal. 1 The Earl of Leitrim, his clerk and driver, were all shot dead while driving near his Lordship's lodge, Manor Yaughan, County Derry, Ireland, on the morning of the 2d. The Ear! had had considerable trouble of late with his tenants, a large number of whom were under notice to quit. There is no evidence in regard to the killing, the three dead bodies being discovered in the road and in the ditch, each with one or more bullet-holes in the head or body.

There were evidences of a severe struggle having taken place, and the Earl's left arm was broken and his head battered. Three or four men were seen loitering in the neighborhood before the murder. The Lerdoists have stirred up another revolution along the Mexican border. Col. Salinas, of has raised the standard of revolt, and on the 1st, with 40 men, attacked fhe Custom-house guard at New Laredo, who were overpowered and two killed.

Salinas then retreated, being closely followed by a force of National troops. Largo shipments of horses, for mili tary service, and also of cattle, are being made from Canada to England. Patrick and John Reilly, brothers, of cmppewa, were crossing the river above Niagara Falls, on the 1st, when they lost control of their boat and were carried over the Horseshoe Falls. It is reported in Chicago that two English gentlemen are in that city, andhave agents throughout the West, for the pur pose of buying 20,000 horses, ostensibly for street-cars in Scotland and England, but, judging by the character of the animals they select, they are intended rather for active movements than for draft purposes. The steamer Dawn, from Shreveport, with 500 bales of cotton and other freight, was totally destroyed by fire on the 4th, about 43 miles above New Orleans.

The passengers saved their lives, but lost all their personal effects, A general strike of the engineers and firemen upon the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, was inaugurated on the 4th. A recent reduction of wages and the discharge by the company of two Brother hood engineers are stated as the cause of the strike. At Pawtucket, R. on the night of the 5th, during a variety performance. Mdlle.

Volante, trapeze performer, held an apple on her head, and Mrs. Jennie Fowler, known on the stage as Franklin, was to shoot it recklessness and danger of the performance being iacreased by the shooter standing with her back to the mark, taking aim by a reflection in a mirror. The rifle waB discharged and Mdlle. Volante fell dead on the stage, shot through the forehead. Mrs.

Franklin was taken into custody by the police. i i I A coal train on the Lehigh Valley Railroad, standing on the track at Slating ton, was run into on the 5th by an oil train going at full npeed. The oil cars were heaped up in a confused mass, which took fire, and several of the tanks exploded burning a large number of persons serious- ly and setting on fire the depot and bridge and also a foundry and machine-shop, all of which were totally destroyed. Two men were killed and 19 other persons badly burn ed, six seriously. A large number of per sons, including women and children, were' lightly burned, making the total Casualties about forty.

Henry Crouch, his wife and two chil dren, were drowned while fishing in a pond near their residence about seven miles west of Battle Creek, on the 3d. At Chester, on the 5th, Clemens Lloyd, aged 40, killed his wife and himself. Jealousy was the cause. An express-car attached to a train on the Texas-Pacific Railroad was captured at Eagleford, about six miles west of Dallas, on the night of the 4th, by four masked men. The robbers got about $50 in express packages, and also took a number of registered letters from the mail apartment.

The robbers are said to be the same gang who robbed the Central train some time back at Allen, and latterly at Hutchinson, both places near Dallas. It Is supposed their headquarters are at Eagleford. The passengers were not disturbed. The German Emperor's letter to Pope Leo XIII, while extremely courteous in the expression of a willingness to entertain friendly relations with the Vatican, gives no indication of a basis for negotiations. The boiler of a 50-horse power engine in the Boston Stamping Company's Works at exploded on the Oth, killing the engineer and severely injur ing several others.

ne of the buildings of the Steuben County Poor-house, near Bath, N. Y. burned on the night of the Cth, and 15 in mates perished in the flames. The fire was set by an insane pauper. The building was of hrlck with grated widows and doors, and the inmates, 00 in number, mostly insane jind idiotic, were se curely locked in and utterly helpless to effect their escape.

The Bcene is described as heartrending in the extreme. One thousand spectators witnessed an arena fight between a lioness and a bull near San Antonio, Texas, on the Cth. The fight lasted 12 minutes, at the end of which time the lioness lay impaled under the bull's horns, in a dying condition, i G. K. Clark, a Detroit grain speculator, has absconded, leaving about $12,000 in debts bjhind him.

The Indian Office has ordered the transfer of the Apache Indians to the Southern Ute Agency. J. W. Bugbee, an Indianapolis lumber-dealer, has committed forgeries to the amount of $150,000. His forgeries extended through several years.

Representative Springer has perfected a bill authorizing the Postmastor-Gener-al to facilitate letter correspondence by issuing to the public, with two-cent postage stamps printed upon them, postal letter- The following further detaili 6t the assassination of the Earl of Leitrim, his-clerk and driver, have been telegraphed from Dublin The Earl of Leitrim left bis residence at Milford shortly before 8-o'clockon the morning of the 2dJ accompanied by his clerk, and was driving on an outside -car to Derry to meet his solicitor. He always carried arms. It is supposed the assassins concealed themselves behind a low embankment between the road and plantation, and that, having first 6hot the Earl of Leitrim, they shot the clerk and' driver so there might be no witnesses. His Lord ship's valet was driving about a mile5 behind, and on coming up found his master and clerk ly'ms dead on the road. Life was still in the driver.

4 The assassins meanwhile escaped in a boat across the bay. The valet drove back, to Mil-ford and alarmed the police who1 on coming to the place found the, driver still alive, but unconscious. He died 1 .1 f- mi: 11 afterwards. There ta no aouDt tnat the murder was agrarian. The relations between the oi Lieitrim ana nis tenants were unfriendly.

His Lordship was kind, and liberal to the poor, but was very particular and exacting in his dealings with his tenantry, visiting with unsparing-severity the slightest infraction of rules of the estate. The Riband Society have a stronghold upon the country, owing in a great measure to his harshness. He had an iron will which disregarded alike appeals and menaces, and he possessed extraordinary courage and perseverance in the pursuit of his purposes The London Times, in an editorial on the assassination, says "It is no "exaggeration to say that the news of 'the murder of the Earl of Leitrini, which caused a profound sensation in the House of Commons yesterday when confirmed by the Irish Secretary, has struck this country with as much pain and amazement as an unprovoked declaration of war." Two men named McFaggart and Freel have been1 arrested on board a steamer going from Rathmullen to: Londonderry on suspicion of complicity in the murder of Lord Leitrim. k. A White Robin.

A snow-white robin may be seen' at No. 1208 Broadway, near Thirtieth Street. It is a real Albino, and its dark eyes are surrounded by a narrow rim of pink. Last summer, a German, of this city, while walking Island, saw a robin's nest in an apple-tree; on looking into it he saw four young birds nearly fledged, one of which was white. He took them home and reared them all.

Three differ in no respect from ordinary robins the fourth differs only in color. Bird fanciers, say that Albino to'nns are very rarei more so than white blackbirds. New York Tribune. Castle Pudding. 2 eggs, 1 their weight in butter, flour and white sugar put the butter in a pan before the fire till half melted then beat to a cream 'r beat the eggs (yelks and whites) together for 10 niinute3 mix gently with the butter, add the sugar, and then the flour by degrees add a veiy little -nutmeg and lemon-peel half fill cups and bake in a slow oven half an hour.

THE MARKETS, ST. LOUIS, April 1878. Beeves Choice to Fancy, Good to l'rime, Native Cows, $3,003 Texas Steers, $2.603 4.00. Hogs Packing, Sheep Native, 5.75. Flour Choice, XXX, 5.25s5.35.

Wheat Ked Winter, No. 3, No. 4, $1.05 1.05. Corn No. 2 Mixed, Oats No.

2, 25s254C. It YE No. 2, 1 Timothy Seed Prime, $1.1531.20. Tobacco Dark Lugs, Medium Dark Leaf, $4.00 a 5.00. hay uiioice Timotny, y.aowio.so.

Butter Choice Daiy, 25330c. Pork Standard Mess, $9,603 9.65. Wooii Tub-washed, Choice, Unwashed Medium, 2627c. Cotton Middling, 10c. NEW YORK.

Beeves Native Steers, Texan, and Cherokee, none. Sheep Unshorn, Hogs Live, $4.00. Flour Good to Choice, $5.205.85. Wheat No. 2 Northwestern, Corn Steam Mixed, 515ixc.

Oats Western Mixed, 3335c. Pork Mess, $10.20 jj 10 30. Cotton Middling, CHICAGO." "tf Beeves Common to Choice, Hogs Comvion to Choice, Sheep Common to Choice, Flour Choice Winter, Choice Spring, Wheat Spring. No. 2, Spring No.

CORN No. Oats No. 2, 22322.S-4C. Rye No. 2, 58 3 5Si PORK--New Mess, S9.00O8.U.

KANSAS CITY. Beeves Native Steers, a 4.25; Cows, $2.00 3.oo. Hogs Flour XX to Patent, per Corn 7580c. Wheat No. 3 Winter.

$1.02 3 1.03.., iti Corn-No. 2 Mixed, 32432jc. NEW ORLEANS. Flour Choice Family, COHN-White, 47(S)4tc. Oats St.

Loui. 337c. Hay Choice, $17,003 lH.oo. Pork New Mess, 1 10.37 10.50. Bacon 4f3c Cotton Middling, 10Xo.

istence of an emergency justifying the calling out of reserves. Mr. Gladstone urged the acceptance of Germany's proposal for a preliminary Conference. No vote was had. The Governor of Kansas, on the 8th, issued a' proclamation orderine: the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad strikers to disperse, and called out the militia companies of Topeka and Leavenworth to enforce the order.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Municipal elections were held on the 1st and 2d in States. The issues in most places were local rather than political. In Vigo County, the National party ran straight party tickets, and carried eight out of 12 towns in the county, together with the city of Terre Haute. The Greenbackers made almost a clean sweep in Little Kock, Ark.

A State Convention of the National Party of Missouri has been called to meet at Sedalia on the 19th of June. Senator Dorset went before the House Committee on Post-offices on the 3d and told the committee all about his action in aiding mail contractors in his section to prepare their bonds. He had done noth ing, he said, that was not perfectly lawful and proper, and what he should do again whenever occasion offered. He denied that he had any pecuniary interest, near or re mote, contingent or possible, in any mail contracts or any other contracts under the Government. Ex-Aluitor James Graham, of Louisiana, late Register of the State Land office, is dead, aged 67.

He was Surveyor at New Orleans under President Polk, and United States Marshal for Louisiana under President Lincoln. Dr. L. E. Jennings, arprofessed "materialistic medium," of considerable notoriety, both in this country and England, was detected and publicly exposed in his trickery at St.

Louis a few nights ago. The Massachusetts Senate, by a vote of 19 to 1G, rejected a resolution to amend the State Constitution so as to permit worn an suffrage. ur. rEREr, oi Jbxeter, jn. now over 90, is one of those who rode down the Hudson with Robert Fulton on his first steamer.

The House Committee on Elections have dismissed the Oregon contested elec tion case of McDowell against Williams, and also the Mississippi contested case of Lynch against Chalmers. Bayard Tailor was banqueted by a number of eminent New York gentlemen on the 4th, prior to his departure for Ber lin. Hon. Wm. Cullen Bryant presided.

Prof. C. V. Riley, of St. Louis, formerly State Entomologist of Missouri, has been appointed Entomologist in the Ag ricultural Department at Washington.

CARDINAL tjlUSSEPPE UERARDI IS dead. He was an Italian, born in 1810, and nominated Cardinal in 1808. President Hayes and several mem bers of the Cabinet visited Philadelphia on the Cth to witness the launching of the steamship City of Para, of the New Brazil ianlinc, Dr. George F. Seymour, 1 of New Bishop-elect of the Springfield (111.) Diocese, Protestant Episcopal Church, has finally yielded to the solicitation of his pres ent parishioners and announced his deter mmation not to accept the position to which he was chosen.

1 Col. O. L. Shepherd, of New York a retired officer of the United States Army, has been tried by cpurt-martial for neglect ing to pay over the fund contributed by brother-officers in 1804, for a monument on Stone River battle-grouud, and President Hayes has approved the sentence, which is that Shepherd be confined within the limits of the post at Fort Adams for one year and thereafter until the money, $1,903, with in terest from 18G4, shall be paid. Ex Governor Moses of South Car olina was arrested in New York City on the 0th, upon a requisition from Governor Hampton, upon a charge of forgery.

Senator Cameron' and Miss Sher man will be married in Cleveland on May 9, John W. Ames, recently appointed United States Surveyor-General for Call fornia, Is dead. The President has nominated Justin E. Colburn, of Vermont, United States Con sul General at the City of Mexico, Mr. Col burn has been the chief Washington corre spondcnt of the New York Times for a num ber of years.

The House Elections Committee have agreed by unanimous vote to dismiss the South Carolina contestod election case of O'Connor, Democrat, against Cain, Repub lican, the sitting member. i Secretary Sherman and the House Com- mittee in regard to the preparations for resumption and the ability of the Treasury to maintain resumption, was held on the 4th. The Secretary stoutly resisted all efforts to weaken his faith in the power of the Treasury to carry out the resumption law, and reasserted his I 'convictions both of his ability to do so ri and of the good policy of the act. The House on the 4th, by a vote of 139 to 80, adopted a resolution deciar the position of Doorkeeper of the House of Representatives vacant, and temporarily devolving the duties of that office upon the Sergeant-at-Arms. The Democratic members of the House of Representatives met in caucus on the evening of the 5th for the pur pose of nominating a Doorkeeper in place of Col.

Polk. Gen. Charles Field, of Georgia, was nominated on the first balloV.the vote. being Jas follows: uenvj j. ieiu, 01 ueorgra, uen Shields, of Missouri, 20; Harry Mc Coy, of Maryland, 18 Walter II French, of Massachusetts, 7 W.

K. Pendleton, of West Virginia, 2. Total vote polled, 116. Gen. Field is a native of Kentucky.

He graduated at West Point in the year 1849, and served in the Confederate army under Lee, and soon after the close of the war entered the of the Khedive of Egypt, where he remained until 1877, when he returned to the United States. His po litical disabilities were removed a few months; ago.1 A letter to the Chicago Tribune from Cairo, 6th, says Your correspondent has seen in a letter from a gentleman at Port Eads, received here to-day, evidence that the jetties are a success in every sense of the word. It is stated that, notwithstanding the high river, the scour or wash is still going on, and vessels drawing 234 feet come and go with ease. There is every indication that Eads will reach his 24-feet-payment in a month." i i The House Committee on Revision of the Laws Regulating the Counting of.