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THE M'COSKRY SCANDAL. Jim Youneer. the Outlaw His Piti NUBS. THE ENTERPRISE squares removed from the Washburn, two large plate-glass windows were utterly de THE NEWS. XLVth CONGRESS.

The House on the 4th passed the bill able Condition in Prison Probability that He Will Die Soon. From the St. Paul Pioneer-Press. Jim Younger, of the Younger brothers, confined in the penitentiary, and whose deeds at Northfield are still fresh in the memory of every Minnesotian, is in a fair way of shuffling off this mortal coil in a short time in the penitentiary. In his capture, it will be remembered, he was shot in the mouth, and the upper eft jaw is gone, as is nearly all of the antrum.

His wounds have nearly all healed, but occasionly small pieces of bone work themselves out, keeping his mouth very sore and inflamed, these sores almost constantly discharging matter substance. From the loss of Ms palate and left upper jaw, it is very difficult for him to masticate his food, which is taken with but little relish. He is un able to eat other than articles of food which can be taken easily, having but hree upper teeth, and these are on the right side of the mouth. A dentist visited him a day or two since to see if a plate could be fitted to aid him in eating, but it was decided that it would only irritate his mouth, without being of any benefit. The fact that a bullet is still imbedded in his month, aud that it is nearly all the time sore, with no hope of getting better, and slowly but surely growing worse, shows that it is only a question of time as to how soon death will result from the injuries.

Jim is a man of iron will, and the amount of suffering he has endured already would have crushed one less determined or hopeful. He is continually in pain, and often times very severe. Though he says but little, it is plain to see that he is discouraged and downhearted, and is slowly growing weaker. Of course it is only a matter of conjecture as to how soon he will get his freedom through death. He is in a bad shape, and has but little hope of recovery.

The State may be relieved oi caring lor him a short time, and possibly his endurance and determination may carry him through two or three years, at the longest. The British Troops. Edwarl King's London Letter to the Boston Journal While 1 was mushing the last sentence a thunder of drums and fifes warned me of the approach of troops, and from my windows I could see large body ot intantry, evidently transfer from some garrison in or near London to the exterior. The men, in their scarlet jackets, bearskins caps and dark trowsers, looked handsome and strong, and marched with elastic, swing ing step. They were fully equipped each soldier carrying a haversack, a blanket across his shoulder in the form of a roll, a kit of cooking utensils, an it seemed to me that they were but little encumbered.

The officers were stiff, consequential and gauche. Such troops as these certainly would be full of valor, and would resist splendidly, but the masses of the men do not look as if they had much initiative. Intelligence of a high order could with difficulty be found among them. On Saturday af terroon the town was alive with the volunteers, who are usually visible large jmmbers at this time oi the vear, but are more than customarily active in drill of late. The "city" and the lower part of the "West-end" was filled with young fellows, whose faces were as sprightly as those of the regulars were dull.

These youths were alert, sharp in their movements, and handled their guns as if they were fond of them Most of them were provided with modest dark green uniforms and a cap like tha worn by the London sportman. course these people are frantic for war Jiiach one burns lor distinction, and hopes for moments when even the home guard will b3 forced into foreign ser vice. It is difficult to imagine how old England is to settle down into a norma condition again if the war does no come on as promised. The lever can not cool until a blow has been struck somewhere. The Tramp's Immunities.

From the Boston Post. Blessed is the man who is penniless. for he is never stricken for a dollar, The deadhead annoyeth him not neither is he pursued by the book agent. He is not grasped by the lightning rod seller. The lunch fiend turneth away from him.

The trinket vender passeth him by. He is not asked to in vest in church lotteries. He hath no friends to cocktail he is poor and hath no enemies. "When he riseth in the morning his stomach i3 not rebellious from over feeding neither doth he chink his sil ver and say "How shall I get rid of these When he eateth he is not vexed by a multitude of dishes. His bowels, by reason of his sparingness, are not troubled with revolutions.

His lands will never take unto themselves wings, neither will the fire devour his water lots. He is not perplexed about taxes, neither careth he for the rise in lumber. He toileth- not for gold, nor orateth like Jones on silver. He hath no ties for money, therefore careth not to demonetize nevertheless a dime will he not refuse, nor turn away from a five-center. Yes, a gerkin will he relish, and storm the outworks of a steel-clad biscuit.

He loveth none but himself; he is selfish yea, fond of fish, clams in chowder, oysters raw and lobsters in vinegar, will he not despise. He maketh his lair in a bar-room he squatteth on a keg while it is day, and sleepeth in a barrel at night. Where the scent of whisky is there he is found; he snuffeth the lunch with frenzy, and crieth "Ha. ha!" at the chink of glasses. About "Dying of Overwork." From the New York Express.

But is overwork already the sole cause of the deplorable result? Human capacitiy for work is almost unlimited, and one of the simplest and best definitions of health i3 "being able to do a good day's work easily." Other questions then arise. Was the victim obedient to the inexorable laws of health? Did they put, as Emerson says Englishmen usualfy do, a solid bar of sleep between every two days? Did they eat and drink "health and vigor, or, dyspepsia and debility and paralysis? Did they preserve the equUibriun and vigor of the physical system by taking regular and energetic exercise, filling their lungs with the oxygen of pure air? Did they heed Sir Philip Sidnej 's four wise rules for lengthening life "Great temp'rance. open air, Easy labor, little care?" A Sr. Louis juror fell asleep during a trial last week, and the court was so inconsiderate as to fine him $10. The lawyer that put him to sleep was left unpunished.

J. B. WADLEICH HAS FOE SALEII A LARGE STOCK OF OF ALL KINDS, GLASS, LIME. Stone Dwelling for $1,000. $600 cash: balance two to lour years time.

Situated One Block Kortli cl Poyntz Avenue. J8SRents ta pay good interest on invest ment. GOOD FRAME DWELLING, "Well Finished. One Lot. in Good Locality.

S500. One half cash, balance on time. GRAIN DEALERS. Cash For Grain! WHEAT, OATS. THE EIGHESTMARKET PRICE PAID FOR GRAIN G.

W- Higinbotham. Manhattan. Oct. 4. 1876.

3m J. T. ELL1COTT, DEALER GRAIN. Highest Cash Price Paid for All KiMs of Grain. Warehouse on Piailroad track.

South of Depot. A NEW STOCK JUST RECEIVE And will be offered at REDUCED PBIDES. QUICK SALES AND SMALL PROFITS Is the Motto at the OLD STAKD. WM. KNOSTMAN.

Opposite the Postoffiee. Attention FAR ROCKY FORD MILLS, FLOUR and FEED One door West of Purcell's Warehouse. EDWARD M'DEKMOTT, Millee Formerly at Louisville Mills. Riley County Bank. OF MANHATTAN, KANSAS.

(Incorporated under State Law.) SUCCESSOR TO The First national Bank. TRANSACTS A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS. Buy and sell Foreign Exchange. Negotiate all classes of Bonds. Place Funds on First Mortgage Security.

Particular attention given to Collections. Interest paid on Time" Deposits. Your business respectfully solicited. STEPHEN FRENCH, President. S.

A. SAWYER. Vice-President. J. K.

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MEXICO, HVHCX AND LOUISIANA, MO. Train Leaves Kansas City -AT- 5:35 P. M. DaHy Except Saturday. And Arrives Chicago 15 EXT DAY.

No Other Line Hakes Faster Time Tnan TMs Any advertisementa to the contrary are simply intended to mislead the traveling public. A Reclining Chair Car and a Pullman Palace Si- ep'ff Car run through in this train fro Kansas City to Chicago without change. No extra cl.a-are for seats in reclining chair car. J. C.

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LUfrUDBElFI I CLOTHING The saloon license in Northwood, Iowa has been fixed at $10,000. A man in Franklin county. Iowa, beat his horse to death for balking. A negro in North Carolina fractured his skull by butting a brick wall. Cattle-thieves are making it very warm for the stock men of "Utah and Idaho.

The population of Manitoba is increas ing at the rate of about one thousand per week. The new Mexican minister, Zamacona, will present his credentials to the President this week. Gen. Di Cesnola has been passing a few days in Boston, and has received many attentions there. Lake Winnebago has secured five hun dred thousand whitefish and two hundred thousand trout- Dying in poverty," says a modern mor alist, "is nothing it is living in poverty that comes hard on a fellow." The military college at Kingston, Ont, will in future be designated as "the Royal Military College of Canada." Six hundred and eighty rats were killed around the granary and out-buildinga of a Minnesota farmer the other day.

Minu the shop How can when you leave me all day with the baby?" is a "per sonal" in the London Daily JSews. Russia's war expenses are estimated at 850,000,000 rubles, a sum which will in crease the national debt by one-half. Congressmen who went to New York to see Wilbur F. Story off to Europe represent that he is in exceedingly poor health. W.

S. George, of the Lansing (Mich.) Re publican, has just completed forty years oi continuous editorial service on that paper, While out hunting near Knoxville, a pack of hounds attacked a flock oi sheep and killed twenty-three ot them. Mr. Price died at Glenn Falls, N. the other day, and three wives, all good and true, are after the million dollars that he left.

Potted plants were distributed to the Sunday-school children of Boston, on Easter Sunday, instead of the customary bou quets. Mrs. feler Koeier, who lives a tew miles from Connorsville, has just become the mother of five boys, all of whom are alive. This storv about the discovery of the trichina in shad is doubtless a fish story, set afloat for interested motives by the fish themselves. There are now fifty six cafe concerts in Paris and sixteen in the suburbs, and 118 musical societies in Paris and ninety-two in the suburbs.

In San Francisco the Universal ist Society has tableaux, at one ot which this month ladv of the Society nosed in the "solo" of the Greek slave. A bed of gypsum has been discovered iD Hamilton, Gratiot county, 106 feel below the surface, 1 ieet thickness and of the purest auahty. The Russians have made Bulgarian the official language in Bulgaria, Macedonia and Thrace. Phillippopolis is hereafter to be known as Plovdii Miss Genevieve Ward has prepared for the stage a new version of The Stranger in which the olav is said to be more mod ernized and humanized. There does not seem likelihood that the Paris exhibition will be finished before July, at the earliest.

France is more back ward than most of its guests. There is a man in Crawford county Georgia, who never drank a glass of whis ky, smoked a pipe, or courted a woman. He is 50 years old and lives alone. Senor Mantilla, the Spanish minister Washington, will next month return to Snain on leave of absence, and visit Paris during the international exhibition. Midhat Pasha has turned author.

The Nineteenth Century will soon publish an article written bv him, its subject, "The Present Situation of the Ottoman "Henry Carey Baird, an alleged political economist of Philadelphia is the disre spectful way in which the Indianapolis Journal speaks of a distinguished citizen. Thomas Scott, a colored boy, lay down on the railroad track nine miles irom Sa vannah. aud went to sleep. The train passing he was struck and instantly killed At the golden wedding of a Washington officer the other day, the gifts were exhib ited, and were divided into two classes, one bearing a card spying, "These are all of solid silver. A "highly respectable" mob in Hunts ville, recently lynched a man named Mike White.

His lite was insured 000, and now the insurance company sues the county for that amount. Walter S. Morton, a son of the late Sens tor Morton, will publish soon a history of Capt. Eads' work on the Mississippi jetties. Young Morton has been an assistant of Capt.

Eads in the enterprise. In one of the reliet camps in India re cently, among the famine-stricken native brought in was a full-grown man, large limbed and big-made, who weighed forty- five pounds. Many of the dentists of New York State are gnashing their teeth over a bill lately introduced in the legislature providing that no dentist shall practice his profession without a diploma. The common council of Brooklyn recently spent $398.50 of the city's funds to bury one of their members, the other day, and not a word of grumbling has yet been heard from the tax-payers. The young Prince Louis Napoleon, who lately drew a number subjecting him to service in the French army, has obtained exemption, according to French law, as the only son of a widow.

Two of the ragged street children that Miss Rye brought over to Canada from England in 1876 have, by the death of a distant and previously unknown relative, fallen heirs to $125,000. Alfred Tennyson is reported as reported preferring Harold and Queen Mary above all his other works. That is not the only instance where popular authors and the public disagree in judgment. The American firemen witk their steam engines will create a marked at the Paris exposition. It is said that the authorities have granted them permission to parade in the Champs-Elysees.

THE "GOLDEN BELT" KOUTE. The quickest, safest and most reliable route to all points or West is via the Kaxsas Pacific Kaxlwat. through the famous "Golden Belt" (the finest wheat region in the world) Passengers for Denver and the Rocky Mountains should remember that this is 120 miles the shortest. 23 hours the quickest, and the only line running through to Denver without change of cars. Going East, close connections are made at Kansas City and Leavenworth with all the great through routes East, North and South.

The favorite line to the San Juan mines. Passengers taking the Kansas Pacific can stop over at Denver and visit the mines and smelting works in the vicinity. Close connection made with the Denver and Rio Grande Railway for Colorado Springs, La Veta. Del Norte and Lake City. The only line "West of the Missouri River equipped with the Westinghouse Automatic Air Brake.

Freight shippers attention The Kansas Pacific Fast Freight Expbess makes the best time and affords the most rapid transit of freight between the Missouri River and all the principal points in Kansas. Colorado, New Mexico, San Juan and Arizona. For information concerning rates, maps, guides, pamphlets.etc, call upon or address. JOHN MUIR, D. E.

CORNELL. Gen. Freight Agt. Gen. Pass.

Agt. T. F. OAKES, General Superintendent. Kansas City, Moi A.

General Belief That the Charges are False, and the tetters Were Forced. Detroit Cor. Philadelphia Times. As might have been expected very strong reaction has followed the awful dose of filth which a Chicago newspaper has been flinging into this city for the past week over what has come to be termed the M'Coskry scandal. The originators of the scandalous reports which have been published threw their mud so thick that little oi it has struck, and now that Bishop M'Coskry has given the stories specific and emphatic denial public opinion has undergone a complete change.

His sudden resignation and departure witn the intention of going to Europe so shortly proceeding the outbreak of the storm which has arisen, made very many people think that there was some truth mine stones: ms aeniaioi inem ana the expression of his determination to return have removed donbts and satis fied the public generajly that the bishop can readily dispose of the charges against him. It has become that tne person who claims to have discovered the cor respondence is one Geo. McConnell, a printer, once a beau of the annie Jtiicn ards, with whom, it is alleged, the bishop was improperly connected. McDonnell says that he stole the letters from Miss Richards while he was courting her, and only produced them as a measure of afety to himself. Borne of the letters deposited in the safe of the First Nation al bank are signed by the bishop.

These are letters suclt as any Christian gentleman, especially a clergyman, miffht write to a young female ward letters of advice, coun sel and instruction. A father writing to a daughter would adopt such a tone. The indecent letters are not signed. save by a hieroglyphic cypher, and they are plainly the work of another hand. The obscene drawings to which reference has been made in the Chicago Times' report, could hardly have emanated from the aged hands of the bishop.

He can not draw, while McConnell can. The language of the signed letters is refined and beautifully expressed; the unsigned it is course and there are frequent mis spellings and erasures. Mrs. J3anister claims that she never received any letters from the bishop that were not signed, either while as Fannie Richards, his ward, or since her marriage. She did not know of the abstraction of the letters until she heard of them in the charges promulgated in a local sheet and the Chicago limes She charges that all the unsigned let ters are forgeries, and declares tha McConnell has a peculiar faculty for imitating handwriting.

That, tins is true I have learned from other sources Mrs. Banister further states that after she was married, McConnell swore he would have revenge upon her and the bishop for the interference of the latter and the part he had taken in inducing Fannie to refuse McConnell on account ol the ditterent moral character oi the young man. Not until nearly a year after her marriage did these letters come to light some of them apparently newly written This same person, it ought to be be in mind, served six months in the "Wayne county jail, on a charge of bas tardy. His moral character is of the very lowest. There is no other accuser of the bishop.

A Southern Journal Tiays Down the Law of Judge Lynch. From Columbus Ga.) Enquirer Sun. To save words, we simply advocate lynching. When positive proof is ap parent, hang the captive to the nearest perpendicular object. A good, able bodied healthy corpse, or even a slight ly damaged one, dangling from the limb of a tree on a public highway.

strikes more terror into the heart of a criminal, and creates more respect for the fiat of justice, than the inside of a thousand jails or the presence of an army of judges and jurymen. There is an appalling grandeur, a horrifying sublimity, in the spectacle of a ghastly, half-devoured human form suspended in mid-air, receiving alike unconsciously the refreshing drops of the nocturnal dew that give life to the violets or the glowing rays of the morning sun as it ascends the Eastern horizon and beams smilingly down on a busy world. The foolish sentimentality of a sympathetic and romantic feminity will not answer in the treatment of such inhuman murders as the cne we now chronicle. The tenderer sentiments of an ennobling charity are not to be exercised in defence of crime or used in intercession against its punishment. Crime will not succumb to simple remedies, and, like a stubborn disease, it must be met with heroic treatment.

However horrible the suggestion, and however reluctant we may be to contemplate it as a remedy, still we assert that the only certain cure for crimes of the nature of the one under consideration is to hang the guilty parties on the spot of capture. Let would-be murders know that this is the sure penalty for their misdeeds, and the country would soon be deserted by them. Let the hanging be as conspicuous as possible allow the party to remain suspended until the flesh is torn away from the bones by piecemeal by the feathered flesh-eaters of the and then let the fleshless bones dangle and bleach in the sunshine and wind. It is a silently eloquent and solemn appeal to the only restraint of fear such callous villians have and it either reforms or causes them to leave the vicinity, and the grand object, a freedom and immunity from crime, is attained. "When known to be guilty and we do not mean by that for the murderer or ravisher to go through the tedious and uncertain technicalities of a pliable law hang the fiends to the nearest limb.

Let the trees bear human fruit, green and dried, and in five years our State will not know a criminal within its borders. Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty Edward King's Paris Letter to the Post. Charles Blanc, the eminent art critic, recently appointed to the only chair of esthetics in France, has written a very long and favorable notice of M. Auguste Bartholdi's colossal statue destined for Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor. He says that the money necessary to complete the payments for the statue be raised by the time the work is finished.

The sum still wanted is, I think, about one hundred and eighty thousand francs (or $36,000.) The well-known architect M. Yiollet-le-Duc is superintending the assembling and putting together of the pieces of this mighty figure, beside which the famous Colossus of Rhodes would have been a mere baby. M. Blanc's authority in art matters is unquestioned, and when he says that the statue will be a noble work there is no manner of doubt of it. stroyed.

All down Washington Avenue on both sides there is shattered glass in al most every store front. The plate-glass windows in the Morrison Centennial block were broken. The lumber yards of Pettit Robinson were swept out of existence by the fire. The latest revised LIST OF LOSSES and insurance makes the total loss $824,160, and the total insurances, $519,300. Speculation continues to be rifed as to the origin of the explosion.

The theory of the fire originating in the friction of the dry stones, communicating to the gas generating from the dust, is generally recieved. Another theory is that the building became supercharged with electricity thrown off from the shaft and not neutralized by conductors, hence the overcharge which caused the de struction and communicated the fire. As to the mills no doubt is entertained that all will be rebuilt at once. Gov. "Washburn states that he will put up a mill on the ruins of the Washburn which, it is believed, will be the largest in the world, containing fifty run of stone.

The new mill will be larger on the ground than the old one, and contain improved machinery. CRIMINAL. North Carolina Troubles. There was a fight at Welden, N. over a dispute as to the negroo's right to vote.

"Words, then blows were used. Eight or ten shot were fired at the rioters. A negro was shot In the mouth and breast, and died. Another negro was wounded in the shoulder. The sheriff, a Republican, spoke to the roiters; a prominent newspaper man spoke next.

The mayor of the town. Emery and Robert Day were bound over in $2,000 each. The excitement was great and the people were wild at one time, During the riot the polls were closed. GENERAL NEWS. Mercury's Transit.

The transit of Mercury came off ac cording to the programme. According to the observation of Prof. Newcomb and as sistants, the second internal contact of Mercury with the western edge of the sun occurred at 33 minutes 50 seconds past o'clock, and the external contact 2 minutes and 50 seconds later. The planet, through the telescope, appeared not larger than silver 50 cent piece. Gentlemen engaged in the work say there could not have been a better day for observations.

Live Stock Shipping Bill. Live stock shippers in Chicago, are taking active steps in opposition to the bill pending in Congress to regulate the transportation of live stock. They have for warded to Washington a ren mtrance and a statement of reasons why the bill should fall. The latter document is long logical and apparently conclusive. Domestic Troubles.

Hon. John M. Binkley, ex-Assistant Attorney- General of the United States, com mitted suicide by drowning in Lake Miehi gan, near St. Francis seminary, Milwaukee He left several letters addressed to differ ent parties in this city, the contents of which show conclusively his intention to commit suicide. A Romance "Busted." The story of Martin Ryan being a prisoner in Sitting Bull's camp has been officially denied by Sir Edward Farmington of the Dominion government, at whose in stance the camp of Sitting Bull was search ed.

The alleged tacts in the case were found to have no foundation whatever. Fenians Waking Up. The Advertiser learns from a reliable source that the Fenian brotherhood is get ting into working order, in view of the pos sibility of a war between England and Rus sia. More Bonds. The syndicate has subscribed for an additional five millions of 4 per cent.

bonds, making twenty-five millions taken of the fiftv million contract. THE MARKETS. WEEKLY GRAIN EE VIEW. We are indebted to Powers Lynde Wright, of Kansas City, for thefol lowing reliable review of the grain trade: Wheat: During the early part of the past week a decline in British Consols was fol lowed by a slight advance in English mar kets and an upward movement in our own. With advices of more peaceful news later on, and an improvement in Consols, the previous advance in breadstuff's was lost, and at the present writing English and Continental markets rule heavier or lower.

There is nothing apparent on the surface of European politics to bring about an early adjustment of the differences between England and Russia. All outward and visible signs, on the contrary, point to an inevitable conflict. More favorable growing weather for the erops has been experienced during the past week, both in the United Kingdom and on the Continent, and prospects have improved. This fact and quite liberal receipts have led to an easierfeeling in British and Continental country markets. In our home markets there has been a decline at the seaboard of 22c a bushel in both winter and spring samples.

The general movement has been steady. Reports from spring wheat sections confiam a successful season's planting, and promise an earlier harvest than usual by three weeks. Throughout the winter wheat areas there is no change to note from the splendid prospects previously leported. Corn The most noticeable feature in this cereal for the week past has been the large amount taken for foreign account 2,361.778 bushels. In sympathy with dull and lower wheat, corn has lost the advance of the early part of the week in foreign markets, and in our home markets quotations are fully 2 cents lower.

Receipts and shipments at interior points show no change. An increased movement to market after the middle of the month, however, is looked for. Oats Large orders, principally for French account, continue to be filled in our markets, and large sales, not yet shipped, were made later for same account. Values steady, without material change. Rye Foreign orders are still active In our market, "clearances" for the week amounting to 199,000 bushels, light receipts tending to sustain values, which are unchanged.

QUOTATIONS. Liverpool Wheat, spot 3d lower; cargoes off-coast 3 6d lower. Corn, new, 26s 6d to 26s 9d; old, 27s 3d to 27s 9d. New York Wheat, dull No. 2, Chicago, No.

2, Milwaukee. $1.241.24 red Corn, easier; steamer; 51c 2, 52X55c. Baltimore Wheat, steady; No. 2, red winter $1.29 cash, $1.30 June. Corn, quiet; mixed western bl cash, 52 June.

Chicago Wheat, quiet; $109 June, July. Corn, steady; 40c May, 40 June, 4lj July. Milwaukee Wheat, quiet; $1.11) May $1.09 June, $1.08 July. Toledo Wheat, dull; No. 2, red, $1.22 cash, $1.22 May, $1.24 June.

Corn, steady; No. 2, 43 cash, 43K June. St. Louis Wheat, very dull $1.14 June. Corn, 41Jc July.

Kansas City Wheat, No. 3, cash, $1.08. Corn, No. 2. cash.

31c. Rye, No. 2. 46e. Cattle Good to choice steers.

native cows. $3.35 corn fed Texans. $3.00 3.a5: stockers, $3.253.50. Hogs Packers. $2.552.75.

A colored woman in South Carolina gave birth to a child whose appearance is quite a curiosity. From the waist to the crown of the child's head its skin is pure white, from the hips to the knees the skin is coal black, and from there down the skin is white. The head is covered with hair as white as the driven snow and unusually long for a child of that age. The child is large, quite healthy, and bids fair in time to become an obiect for showmen. A.

L. BHUTAN, Editor. MANHATTAN, KANSAS TOPICS OF THE TIME. A mass of very interesting information bout the singular and terrible explosions in the Minneapolis mills, is printed with curious facts and speculations from exprienced millers concerning the Bgent which doubtless produced the calamity. That agent is technically known among flour manufacturers as Mred-dog," and its dangerous qualities appear to be well understood and generally admitted, though with a good deal of reservation on the part of those who are interested in keeping down insurance rates.

The "red-dog" is extracted in the process of purification, and much care is taken in disposing of it by pro dent millers. The stuff appears to be as deadly as dynamite, and its capacity for propagating destruction was fully exhibited in the almost instant explosion of the second mill in Minneapolis from the concussion or the flames produced in the explosion of the first. The sub ject will be likely to receive much more attention now from millers, underwrit ers, and others whose property lies in the neighborhood of "red-dog" mills, than has been given it heretofore. The Nevada bonanza men have offered to support Mr. Sherman with all the silver bullion required by the Carson and San Francisco mints at London quotations.

The proposition seems to be fair enough on its face, but the Sec retary has probably heard of the method by which many market quotations may be manipulated, and is unwilling to put the treasury at the mercy of a silver ring in any single city. I xnere are signs 01 Trouble again on the Texas border. It appears that the adherents of Lerdo, ex-President of the Mexican republic, have long been quietly maturing these plans for an invasion, and the Governors of several of the border ing Mexican States have been waitiug the opportunity to join any movement of the Lerdists which might promise success. Impecuniousness is already seriously embarrassing the striking cotton oper ative3 in Lancashire, England, and be nevolent people are exerting themselves to provide for the families of the idle workmen. Large numders of the strik ers, it appears, are not members of the trade societies, and consequently re ceive no allowance from them.

A St. Louis paper complacently re marks that communism in St. Louis is not so obstreperously rampant as in Chicago. This is doubtless true. Noth mg ever gets very obstreperously rampant in St.

Louis. Erery thing there moves along at a decorously and respect fully moderate pace. Some of the English people are signing a memorial to the Queen expressing confidence in her ministers, and declaring a readiness to make any sacrifice for a war necessary to the maintenance of England's honor and power, and that will also afford good opportunities for making money. A Chicago paper, in tones of some alarm, announces a "a crisis in our city affairs." But then there is, after all, nothing new or alarming in the announcement. Chicago has had a crisis every day in the week, the year arouud, from the commencement of its history.

Changing the wording of a lease is, in the eyes of the law, a dangerous experiment. F. S. Pouli, a wealthy citizen of Wilkesbarre, has been sentenced to the penitentiary for two years for practicing pen painting after an illegitimate way. At the Cincinnati musical festival ladies will be required to remove their hats and bonnets.

The enforcement of this rulo in fashionable churches would leave them without female worshipers. The two children who, it was supposed, were carried off by the Indians in Texas were, it appears, killed by them. The raid was a murderous one, eight or nine persons in all having been killed. The permanent exhibition ts to be opened at Philadelphia on the 10th by the extraordinary feat of a genuine flying machine. Prof.

Rechtel, of Bor-dentown, is the inventor. During the nine months past, the aggregate value of exports from the United States has exceeded that of the imports, as shown by the custom-house books, by $206,000,000. The most of the foreigners at the opening of the Paris exposition on Wednesday were English and Americans who appear to have the most money to spend. General Trevino has been sent to look after Escobedo in Mexico. They are old enemies and the man that is captured stands a good chance of being shot.

There are fifty columns of delinquent taxpayers published in the English language, and sixty-four in the German, in Pittsburg. Russia seems to be making great preparations for preying upon British commerce in the event of war. There are so many American commissioners in Paris that it may bo difficult to aet glimpse at the show. Prices have fallen badly in the London market; Russian securities are way down; to re-establish the New Orleans mint. Mr.

Stephens, from the committee on coinage. reported a bill to retire five and three cent silver pieces, and stop their further coinage; also, providing that fractional or subsidiary silver coin shall be legal tender to the extent of $20, and shall be exchangeable at the treasury for other legal tender money, when presented In sums of twenty dollars or over. On the' Cth inst. the Senate had up for discussion the pension appropriation bill, but did not come to a vote. Mr.

McDonald presented a petition signed by a large number of persons, praying that Gen. John C. Fremont be included in the bill now pending to place Gen. James Shields on the retired list of the army. In the House bills were introduced as follows: By Mr.

Scales, giving to all re ligious denominations, equal rights and privileges in the Indian reservation. By Mr. hones, for the appointment or a commission, to be sailed the farmers' and stock-breeders' commission, and to consist of a veterinary 6urgeon and two practical sTocK-Dreeders, at an annual salary oi 500 each, to have charge of the investiga tion of the contagious diseases of farm stock, the causes, means of prevention, cure, etc. Mr. Phillips, to enable sol diers of the late war to pre-empt land to the extent of 1G0.

A lengthy discussion then arose on the government of the District of Columbia, and the House adjourned. The pension appropriation bill came up in tne Senate, on the 7tn. An amendment had been agreed to by the committee providing that the term of office of all pension agents shall expire and they be thereafter honorably discharged, and wounded or disabled soldiers or widows or daughters of such soldier shall bo appointed to said office. Mr. Edmunds said he was opposed to this whole thing.

That it was againstthe spirit of the rules of the Senate to hava general legislation on appropriation bills That the proposed legislation was contrary to tne principle lor wnien tnese very soldiers fought and that was just and equal government. He felt that he was express ing the sentiment of the soldiers of Vermont who would scorn this little method ot un dertaking to get votes and to tickle their fancy. He would vote against the wnoie thing, the House provision, as well as the Senate amendments. The Senate then by a vote of yeas 16. nays 38.

refused to Insert the amendment above mentioned as a substitute for the second section of the bill The bill then passed with the amendment that all vacancies the bureau enouia be filled bv disabled soldiers. An amendment to the Indian appropriation bill was adopted authorizing the commissioner of Indian affairs to employ two special Indian agents at I urge at a compensation not exceeding 52 000 each per anum. No important business was transacted by the House. The Senate on the 8th spent the day in considering the Indian appropriation bill. An amendment was attached to re move the Nez Perces to such part of the INDIAN TEKKITOEY as may be selected by the government without encroaching upon the treaty rights of other tribes.

Other amendments were made, but the bill was laid aside and the Senate adjourned. The Houpo passed the dav In considera tion of the tariff bill, but nothing of special moement was done. The Indian appropriation bill passed tne senate on tne ytn alter extenaeu ais cussion and the adoption of various amend ments. Mr. Iagalls introduced a bill to regulate the railway mail service reform It is a duplicate of the bill introduced in the House bv Mr.

Phillips. The bin to re peal the bankrupt law was next taken up and with discussion uncompleted the ben- ate adjourned. In the House the ioint resolution report ed from the committee on education and labor, for the enforcement of the eight hour law in all departments of the govern ment, gave rise to a lively discussion, in the course of which Mr. Banks denounced the disregard of the law by the government as scandalous and inramous, and air. Jiut ler.

of advocated a penalty for its disregard, and said there was more powder and ball wanted in the administration of the laws. Mr. Sapp reported a bill to re store certain lands Iowa to settlement under the homestead law. Passed. Dis cussion of the tariff bill continued until the House adjourned.

Washington Notes. THE TEXAS FRONTIEB. Gen. Ord has notified the War De partment that he has made such distribution ot forces under his command as will in his judgement, with the cooperation of other federal and State officials, prevent any serious violation of the neutrality laws. He has directed the prompt arrest of all suspected parties who may attempt to cross from the United States into Mexico.

WATCHING MEXICANS. Gen. McDowell has been instructed to instigate a vigilant watchfulness along the southern border of Arizona and southern California to prevent violation of the neutrality laws by the Lerdo revolutionists, and to arrest any and all persons who are suspected of congregating on the border for that purpose. PROHIBITING THE PIGTAILS. The committee on education and labor agreed upon a bill making it a misdemeanor for the master of a vessel to take more than fifteen Chinese passengers, male or female, to the United States after January 1st, 1370.

PACKARD PLACED. The President has nominated ex-Governor Packard for United States consul at Liverpool. THE EASTERN WAR. The Situation. Notwithstanding the hopeful news of Russian concessions announced from Vienna, and intimated from St.

Petersburg, it cannot bo said that there is any positive change in the question in dispute. It Is said a conciliatory disposition has prevail-in the councils of St. Petersburg. The government, it is said, asked what does Russia consider at this moment to be peaceful concessions or conciliatory proposals. The misfortune seems to be that what the Rus-bians consider a question of principle, England demands, that Is, placing of the treaty of San Stefano before congress for unreserved discussion.

Russia, it is said, refuses to give way on that point. In Berlin as in London the subject is treated with skepticism as long as it is known Russia refuses to yield on the chief point and that England maintains her demand. DISASTROUS EXPLOSION. Destruction of Valuable Mill Property. A terrific explosion occurred in Minneapolis, on the 3d first in the great Washburn flouring mill, then In a mill adjoining.

After the explosions the ruins took Are and spread over two or three blocks of ground, destroying an immense amount of property, ihis much was told by first accounts. From later reports we gain the following: Wives, mothers, sisters and children who were dependent upon the labor of the dear ones lying dead in the ruins, were running despairingly about the ruins, wringing their hands and shrieking the names of their friends. The scene was peculiarly heartrending, and such as few people care to witness more than once. Eighteen persons were killed. Scarcely one stone stands upon another in the big Washburn mill, and the chaotic pile of limestone i3 interwoven with shafts and broken machinery.

The destruction of the Humboldt and Diamond mills is even more complete. The fire seared walls of the Pettit, Zenith and Galaxy mills stand stark and burned clear of their contents; the north wall of the Pettit mill is cracked and seared, and far from plumb; it is liable to fall. The intense heat which prevails will necessitate the rebuilding of every part of these mills. As evidence of the ttrrincri force of the explosion, to which so many can testify in Segulbaum's blocks, eight.