Lincoln Nebraska State Journal from Lincoln, Nebraska • 1

STA Daily nnin HI TWENTIETH YEAR LINCOLN MONDAY AP1UL14 1S90 NO 235 JOURNAL. HOT TEARS WELLED OP! THE END OF TOE FIGHT REQUIEM IN PACE THE CLEARANCE RECORD. Monetary Transactions Thmnghoot the Country Dorinc tlie Past Week. Boston, April 13. Dispatches from the managers of the leading clearing houses in the United States and Canada show the gross exchanges during the past week as follows: CI KTIS' FIRST CONFLAGRATION.

Ci rtis, April 13. Special. The first fire this town lias known occurred this morning about 1 o'clock, when the house of ill-repute just outside the city limits, with the contents, was completely destroyed. The inmates barely escaped with their lives. There are various rumors concerning the cause of the blaze, but nothing definite is known.

The structure was insured with the Nebraska and Iowa company. DIED OF HIS IN.JI K1KS. Curtis, April 13. Special. J.

D. Middleton, the eight-year-old son of Mrs. Middleton, living five miles southwest of here met with a fatal accident recently being thrown from a wagon by a frightened team, died last evening. The funeral to-day was very largely attended. Much sympathy is manifested for the grief stricken mother.

CURIOSITIES OF PENSIONS. Blaine's great grandmother got a pension and Presidents Grant and Lincoln received land for their services in the Mexican and Black Hawk wars. Robert E. Lee got 160 acres of land for the work he did as a colonel in our war with Mexico, and Jefferson Davis received the same amount for his services. The Mexican war pensions are fast dying out and there are at present but few revolutionary widows on the rolls.

About five years ago there were eighty. The number is now r4uced to twenty-nine and three of ninety-seven years of age. They artSf una Young of Pennsylvania, Nancy Rains of Vermont and Susan Curtis, Maine. They must have been married to their husbauds long after the revolutionary war, for they were only seven years old at the beginning of this century, and the war closed seventeen years before that. The youngest revolutionary widow is Nancy Green, an Indiana womau of seventy-one.

She was born in 1819 and her husband must have been gray haired when she married him. Mrs. Grant and Mrs. Garfield are the only presidents' wives who now Teceive pensions. They get 3,000 a year by a special act of congress.

Mrs. President Lincoln got $3,000 a year from 1S70 to lHiW. The amount was then increased to 3,000. and this it continued until her death. The daughter of President Zach-ary Taylor gets $30 a month, and she receives this for General Taylor's services in the Mexican war.

Among the noted widows of generals of the lato war who receive pensions are those of E. D. Baker, Whipple, Sumner, Robert Anderson, the hero of Fort Sumter; of George H. Custer, the Indian lighter; of Daniel McCook and Frank P. Blair.

Mrs. John A. Logan gets $10 a week by a special act of congress and the widow of Admiral Farragut receives $2,000 a year in the same way. Mrs. General Hancock gets a pension, and there are a number of other soldiers' widows who have been pensioned by a special act of congress.

QUEEN VICTORIA'S COSILY MISTAKE. Queen Victoria is said to have a great fondness for pearls. She has taken care thatill her daughters shall have fine pearl necklaces. One of her first purchases, after the birth of each, has been two or three pearls, and every year, until their marriage, she has added a pearl or two to her stock until the neck-ace she required 'was ready. In this quiet, economical way she has been enabled to make up almost a complete rope of pearls for each of the princesses, and those who have seen the necklaces at court, say that the daughters are, so far as pearls go, well supplied with jewelry.

Thereby hangs a tale. Some years ago her majesty bought from a well known London jeweler three very valuable pearls, the united cost of which was not far short of live hundred pounds. A little while after the purchase had been made, the merchant was surprised to receive a letter from a lady at court, which read: "The queen wishes very much to know whether pearls will burn." The reply to this somewhat tartly scientific inquiry was an assurance that if her majesty wished to oxygenize pearls for her amusement she would find that they would burn in an ordinary fire. The rejoinder brought the secret to light. The queen had placed the pearls on her writing desk, wrapped in a piece of tissue paper.

As she was writing one morning, she used the tissue paper to wipe her pen, and then tiirew it into the tire. The jJearls, all unobserved, went with it. Tho ashes of the grate were searched for them in vain. They had been destroyed so utterly as to leave no-trace. The queen with her own hand had cast three splendid jewels, worth more than the average income of her middle class subjects, into the blaze.

Ladies' Homo Journal. Colonel George H. Thomas was at this time commanding officer of the Second United States cavalry, and to his regiment the Philadelphia troop was attached. Mr. Randall was a private in the company, lie saw his first real service very 60011, for his troop was or.lered to the front and participated in the engagement of Falling Waters against Stonewall Jackson.

Promotion came rapidly to Private Randall, and he rose through the grades of sergeant and acting quarteriuaater to that of colonel. He went to Philadelphia at the close of his three months' service, and in the autumn of 18G2 was elected to" the Thirty eighth congress as a democrat. Before he had taken his seat, news came in June, 163, of the confederate raid into Maryland and Pennsylvania and. he hurried to Harrisburg and placed himself at the disposition of the state authorities. A reconnoissance was made which established the fact that the rebels were present in large bodies lietween Chambersburg and Williamsport.

An appointment as provost marshal of Columbia county followed, in which capacity he served until Gettysburg had been fought and Lee beaten back. He received the thanks of the governor and of the secretary of war for his services. He came into public life at a very early age as a democrat and has never since been retired even temporarily. He served four years in the common councils of his native city and one term, 1858 '5'J. in the Pennsylvania legislatue as a state senator.

He commenced his congressional life in December, 1303, ia the Thirty-eighth congress (in which Hon. James G. Blaine served his first term) only two years after his old friend, but political opponent, of thirty years' standing tlie lato William Kelley had commenced a career in congress that lasted nearly thirty years. Mr. Randall was returned at every succeeding election, and at the time of his death had served twenty-six years congress, or through thirteen congresses.

He was elected for a fourteenth term, but though he took the oath and qualified as a member he was not able because of failing health to take his seat in the present congress. Mr. Randall was a candidate for speaker of the Forty-fourth congress in 1875, but was defeated by the Hon, Michael C. Kerr, by whom he was appointed chairman of the committee on appropriations. At the second session of the same congress Mr.

Randall was chosen for speaker Mr. Kerr having died during jthe recess. Mr. Randall was re-elected speaker of the Forty-fifth congress by the democrats in 1877. By rsason of long service and close attention to his duties Mr.

Randall became the most expert parliamentarian on the democratic side of the house. In familiarity with the rules and all branches of parliamentary law he perhaps had no superior in either party, and 83 far back as 1875, when the great contest over the Force bill took place, at the close of the Forty-third congress, Mr. Randall was by common consent assigned the leadership of the democratic mi-nu' i i I Mr. Randall's funeral will take place here on Thursday morning. The arrangements for tha funeral will be in charge of the congressional committee to be appointed to-morrow morning.

Mrs. Randall prefers that the servijes be held in the Metropolitan Presbyterian church, of which Mr. Randall was a member, and not in the house of representatives. After the funeral services the funeral party will take a special train over tlie Pennsylvania railroad to Philadelphia, where the interment will take place in the Randall family vault in Laurel hill cemetery. Mrs.

Sarah IV, Cooper. Seward, April 13. Special. Mrs. Sarah W.

Cooper died at the residence of Captain George Walker yesterday aftertioon, aged eighty-five years. Mrs. Cooper's maiden name was Sarah W. Babcock, and she was born in Washington county. New York, April 28, 1905, In 1S25 she was married to Roger Cooper and removed to Knox county, Ohio in 1829, where they resided until they removed to Jackson county, Iowa and from there to Seward county, Nebraska in 1SGG, being among the first settlers in this county.

After sixty-one years of married life Mr. Cooper died four years ago, since which time Mrs. Cooper has visited with! her surviving children, also visiting the eld home in Mt. Vernon, O. She was the mother of eleven childred, four of them surviving her, Ed ward Cooper, a prominent citizen of Ulysses, Neb.

Rolla Cooper of Custer county, William H. Cooper of Grant county, and Mrs. Hannah E. Runiory of Fremont county, Ia. They were all with her at the tune of her death except William.

She was the mother of Mrs. Elsie T. Walker, wife of Dr. Leland Walker of this city, who died suddenly at Kansas City a few years ago while on her way home from Hot Springs, Ark. Mother Cooper was universally beloved! by everybody who knew her, and her death is regretted by all.

She had been a consistent and worthy member of the Baptist church nearlv ail her life. I SOME riiOSTECT OE A SEI TLEMEXT. Lively Debate Between Senator? Promised in the Montana Contest. Election Cases and Appropriation IM11 Booked for Consideration by the House. Reports on the Tariff llill to be Presented Ksrlx This Week Caucuses on the Silver Question Quite Probable.

The Congressional Crocrnm me. Washington, April 13. Tho senatei. intends to-morrow to grapple with the Montana election problem, with some prospect that it will be disposed of before the end of tho waek. Mr.

Hawley early in the week will ask immediate consideration of the world's fair bill, but the steering committee will have to piss upon his request. has given notice that he will try and get a vote on the Montana resolution to-morrow and the prospects are that he will not bo successful, as tiie announcement of the death of representative Randall may lead to an early adjournment and besides several senators are desirous of making speeches on the Montana case. Mr. Vest may be heard from, and if he speaks Mr. Ingalls has signilied his intention of following for tho purpose of mnking some brief but pointed comments on th now famous letter on the I Montana caso which Mr.

Vest wrote not long ago. The casi will be disposed of this week, however; of that there is little doubt. When it is out of the way and the republican contestanis Messrs. Saunders and Power have been seated Mr. Halo will make an effort to have the Chinosn census bill taken up and disposed of.

It has been discussed at some length and if Mr. Hale can succeed in getting it before the senate it may ho disposed of very quickly. In the regular order of business the administrations bill, better known as the McKinley bill, follows tlio Montana resolution, but it may bo laid aside for the Chinese bill. hen it is taken up it will be passed without, much discussion. There was no opposition to it in committee and the republicans exect none on the floor.

Incidental to tho consideration of tho measures named will be the notion of the senate on one or more of the appropriation bills which will be reiiorted from tho committee on appropriations during the week. The bills which will likely be reported are the District of Columbia bill, the pension bill and the army appropriation The fortifications bill also mav be reported. Of these the District bill and the army bill will likely be passed this week and they ma provoke some debate. Possibly also there will be one or more set political speeches although the only order of business fixed for any particular time is the consideration of resolutions of respect to the memory of the late Kdward J. Jay of Louisiana, which Mr.

Gibson has given notice he will call up on Friday at 4 o'clock. Saturday will likely be devoted to measures on the calendar, unless one of the appropriation bills interferes. The death of Representative Randall will interfere with Abe programme in the house for the week, ns orignally intended. To-morrow is District of Coivmbia day and on Tuesday it is intended ftocall up and finish consideration of the naval appropriation bill, but the house will undoubtedly aajotirn tomorrow as soon as Mr. Randall's death is announced and the usual committee appointed to attend his funeral, which will probably take place in the hall of the house on Tuesday.

On Wednesday the contested election cases of Bowen against Buchanan, from Ninth Virginia district, and Posey against Parrett. from the First Indiana district, will be disposed of. On each of these cases the elections committee been unanimous in favoring the retention by the democrats of the seats now held by them, and consequently the action of thej house in the matter will bo perfunctory. Mr. Cheadle of Indiana has said he intended to make a light against the committee's report, but his friends are endeavoriug to persuade him not to do this.

The legislature, executive and judicial aypropritttion bill has been reported to the house, and Mr. Butterworth of Ohio intends to call it up for consideration some time during the week. The debate on the bill may last several days. Saturday, after the conclusion of the morning business, will be devoted to tho delivery of eulogies on the'life and character of the late S. S.

Cox. Tho two vital questions now before the country will be considered outside tho caucus and committee during the vieek-. Unless the unexpected happens Mr. McKinley will report the long expected tarilf bill from the ways aiid means committee early in the week, while Mr. Carlislo "will present tlie views of tho minority iu opposition to tue bib.

The question jof fixing a time lor debate and for voting on the bill will be considered in tiie republican caucus called for to-morrow njight. The silver question is now under consideration in caucus committee' and caucuses of both the eouse and senate will likely hi held before the end os the week to determine on a party measure. I III I OK MIRDEit. North Nf.wpoktland, April 13, I At the close of His preliminary hearing yesterday Micap W. Norton was held I without bail to answer the charge ot murdering his housekeejer, Mrs.

I. THFlt rKUHsBILITIKS. Warmer. Clearing. Washington, April 13, 8 p.

m. Indications for Nebraska: Clearing; southerly winds; warmer. i AX AEEECTIXG SCEXE IX' COURT. Orrin Carty of Dawes Couaty Sentenced to Two Years for Assault The Prisoner Deeply Regrets the Disgrace Thus Brong'ht Upon His Family. A elf-Confeaeed Heree Thief Commit Suicide The Kelao Kidnapping; A Hair The Criminal Caleudar.

Touching Scene in Court. Chadhox, April 13. Special. District court was adjourned last night by Judge Kinkaid after a two weeks' session, day and night. Charles Brooks, colored, was sentenced for burglary.

Orrtn Carty, one of Dawes county's substantial young farmers, forgot himself in a controversy with a neighbor and used a knife for which he will go to the penitentiary two years. The scene in the court room when lie received his sentence, surrounded by his aged father, mother and brothers and sisters, was most touchiug. The tears streamed down his face as he sobbed an appeal for mercy, not for his own sake but for that of those whose broken hearts and pitiful moans told the merciful judge the story of their sorrows. A special term will be held the last of May for the disposition of many cases that could not be disposed of at this session. Cat Short Ills Career.

Alliance, April 13. Special. A man registering as B. C. Kleet committed suicide some time during the night at the Grant house by taking a dose of poison and then hanging himself to the bed post in his room.

He camd up from Broken Bow yesterday morning and conversation with the town marshal here said that he had stolen a horse from the Kearney TTrca eftiiinflnv onrl Rnld it. nr. Rrnkpn Bow and that he wanted, him to the sheriff at Kearney to come after him. Ae gave his "name as Bert to the marshal. Do Not Believe the Girl.

Cleveland, April 13. The police and detectives discredit the story of Miss Hflir' who so -u-angely disappeared Thursday evening, came home Friday noon in a pitiable condition and related a narrative of abduction and violent treatment to account for her assence. The officers are trying to make it appear that Miss Kelso; who is only fifteen years ago, called at a house that evening which she had been forbidden to visit. Although its occupants are not of known bad. character, they assume she met some one there who induced her to drink wine and enticed her to some building not far away, and that the girl invented the abduction story to hide her disobedience.

If the officers are right the guilty parties cannot well escape detection. But Miss Kelso, who has now recovered her mental equilibrium, sticks firmly to her original story. There is as yet no clue to her abductor's identity. Frightened Into Suicide. Denver.

April 13. Oscar M. Roberts committed suicide yesterday with poison. He Avas one of the young men who some time ago arranged a plot to kidnap ex-Senator Tabor and hold him for a ransom of $00,000. Tabor refused to prosecute, but the chief of police thoroughly frightened the young would-be bandits, and that is thought to have unsettled Roberts' mind.

He was only eighteen and before the Tabor escapade had borne a good reputation. fOf.MY ALLIANCE. CllAMiON, April 13. Special. Fifty of Dawes county's leading alliance workers met at the court house Saturday afternoon to perfect arrangements for harmonious work iu the near future.

After an enthusiastic council of four hours the meeting adjourned to meet again at an early date. SWITCHMEN STRIKE. Neenah, April 13. A general strike of switchmen occurred on the Milwaukee, Lake Shore Western railway yesterday. Passenger trains are be-ins hauled over the-Northwestern Ifrom Appleton to Milwaukee.

The cause of the strike is a aomana lor increased wages, which the company refuses to pay. ASSIGNED THt ES TATE. Akron, April 13. The heirs of Everett. Farnham, a recently deceased farmer of Richfield township, filed a deed of assignment yesterday without references.

The liabilities already reported reach $03,000, and will probably not be far from 100,000. It is the heaviest farmer's failure ia the history of ihis section. Fatal Knnaway Accident. Fredericxtown, April 13. By a runaway accident here yesterday Miss C.

Levering was fatally injured and her guejt. Miss Kuifcline llill, instantly killed. Liverpool In Limbo. Frank Liveriool, the colored man who was arrested Saturday night on the charge of assaulting Manager Robert Mc-Reynolds, but who was later released on bail, was rearrested about midnight last night on orders from Captain Carder. Officer Carnahan found him in bed at the depot hotel and brought him to the station, where he was locked up.

Dario Papa, editor of the Italia of Milan, is one of the molt uncompromising republicans in Europe. DEATH OF SAMUEL. J. HAS LA L.L. I'he Brilliant Statesman Taken Offi by That Dread Malady Cancer.

As Leader and Adviser of the DciiiO' cratic Hosts His Loss Will be Deeply Felt. Brief Sketch of HI Public Career I'p to the Freseut Iy A Pioneer fceward County Lady Called Home. Willi Die Silent Mujority. Washington, April 13. Congressman KamucI J.

Randall died at ten minutes past 5 o'cloc tliis morning of internal cancer, after a long and painful Ho waa surrounded by his familv hip devoted wife and affectionate his daughters, Mrs, Lancaster and Susie Randall, and his son Samuel in his last moments. Mr. Randall came to Washington early in hint November a sick man, but with hopes of improvement. He expected to be able to take his seat in the house when congress met in December. But when congress convened he was unable to leave his home.

Subsequently the oath of office as a representative was administered at his residence by Speaker Reed and Mr. Randall was made a member of the committee on rules and appropriations the two important committees ho had served on for so manjr years. Mr. Randall then hoped to be able to take his seat and participate actively in the affairs of the house at the cenciuftion of the holiday recess, but the dreaded and fatal malady from which lie suffered slowly but surely made inroads on his strength, and each month as it passed found him weaker. Mr.

Carlisle, his associate on the committee on rules, and democratic member of the appropriations committee, and other democratic representatives called frequently at Mr." Randall's home to consult him about party matters and committee work. Some of them who called occasionally, but regularly, noticed that Mr. Randall was slowly failing physically, although mentally he was as acute and vigorous as ever and for the past two months they felt tiiat he would never leave his house alive. During tno la-a few of bis lit he suffered verv much at times and he had become greatly emaciated, il is devoted wife and children were untiring in their attentions all through his sickness and his friends ill congresiand he had a host of them of both political faiths) contributed much toward his tt.imfort by frequent friendly visits. During his last, hours his wife and family ere constantly at his bedside.

Mr. Randall was unconscious at times during the last day or two of his life and was speechless toward the end. To Mrs. Randall he smiled a last fond l(Kk of recognition a half hour before his death. sKKTcn ok his urn.

Samuel Jackson Randall was born Philadelphia, October 10, 1-S'JS. the son a well known lawyer and democratic politician. A friend of his father was Samuel Jackson, a distinguished physician -of Philadelphia, which then, as now, was noted for the brilliancy, learning and skill of her doctors, and the father christened his son after his friend. There was nothing remarkable about the youth of Samuel Jackson Randall. It spent in his native place jin attendance upon school and the usual boyish sports.

Ike was not a brilliant scholar, and showed more fondness for outdoor life than for books. Thelre were occasionally exhibitions of the indomitable and stubborn will and logged persistence whicti in alter life marked him out as a man among men, but those ho knew him saw noreason to predict a great career of national usefulness tor nun. Samuel Crawford wasi a 'anions teacher in the Quaker city in Mr. Randalls youth, and the boy was sent to tind graduated from this school. A S(m of tins Samuel Ciwwford was a surgeon under Colonel Anderson when the Urst gun of the war was tired on Sumter.

After leaving this school young Randall decided that lie wanted to beeomej a and he as put with the fiijtn of b'obert Kirp Co. lie served for a time as an employe, learning "the business, and in 1S59 he be-camo a junior member of the firm. At this time the- bad a prosperous business and there was a long line of country merchants in Pennsylvania and in the neighboring and then sparsely settled states of Ohio, Tennessee and Kentucky, who purchased their hardware of the wholesale tint; of Robert Co. His couneition with this lirm lasted four years. Very soon after reaching lais majority le began to take an interest in local politics and giai-uallv acquired a following.

He was large framed and sti tig and his comrades soon recognized the fact that was not only "capable of taking his own part, but bail the spirit to 11. so, and Required no urging. A display of physical force was in tho-e days much more frequently necessary in city politics than now, "and in his early life the futilire leader in the hotie of representatives bliowed the same ability and couragej to give an 1 take hard knocks physically that he afterwards showed on the floor of congres-s he pT.sssssed in the domain of intellectual lighting: It is not generally known that lie was a si.klier in lie late war. but such is the "fact. Tnere was in Philadelphia a civilian military organization known as the First troop of Philadelphia City cavalry.

It was an old established organizati an. dating i-s existence back to 1774, wjien its titTe was The Light Horse of Philadelphia." Mr. Randall was a member of this troop in 1801. at the outbreak of itlie war, when the news rang out through everv town and hamlet that Sumter had fallen. The troop immediately tendered its services to the government knd it wad mustered iu for ninety ityys, AMOOT.

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7 4 3 I 1.6 B.2' 11.3 14 9 U.o 21.7 9.3 2U.6 16.1 S.s 16.9 25.11 16.0.. C.O 29.0;' Zj.2 25.0 li.9 81,19,51 9.5! Not included In totals; year. no clearing bouse last NEWS FROM ALEXANDRIA. The Coal Discovery Came for Jnbllation on-Partisan Prohibitory Leagues Organized. Alexandria, April 13.

Spe-' cial Correspondence. Farmers are happy oq account of the advance in corn and Thayer county people in general are happy over the fact that coal of a good quality has been found in abundance down at Hubbell. This is the first coal found in the state and it means a genuine boom. Last night James G. Kreider of Iowa alked on prohibition here to a large audience, at the close of which he organized a non-partisan league with forty-one members.

This makes four leagues Mr. Kreider has organized in our county this week. He seems to be a rustler and a good talker and our people are well pleased with his address last night. Farmers are busy as bees. The indications are that there will not be as much corn planted in Thayer county as in for-iner years.

Small grain, flax and potatoes will predominate. A TIGHT SQUEEZE. The President of the Detroit Board of Trade Huns Against a Snug. Detroit, April 13. Four years ago Charles V.

Bryan came here from Rochester, N. and began to operate on 'change. He had but little money, yet by bold speculation he amassed in the first two years. He was elected president of the board and increased his bank account. Friday lie ordered all his wheat for May, June, July and August delivery bought in, and is understood to have been severely pinched.

Vai ions estimates are to the effect that he was sh ort from 2,000,000 to 4,000.000 bushels on the deliveries, and he is known to have operated in New York, Toledo. Detroit and Chicago, and sold short in all the markets. How badly he was squeezed is not known, but he admits to being 1,000.000 bushels short. His friends say that he will be able to recover himself by to-morrow and pay 100 cents on the dollar, but this is not generally believed, He was a daring speculator and his losses, it is said, will amount to all the way from $80,000 to $100,000. He has not resigned as president of the board and will not if he can weather the storm.

A Splendid Jail Keejker. Hart, April 13. Friday night Mrs. Sheriff Cooper went into the jail to give tlie prisoners a light. James Wal-dron, awaiting trial for forgery, struck her two blows over the head with a stick, his purpose being to escape, but she dropped the lamp and struck fairly out from the shoulder, catching Waldron on the j)int of the iaw ami knocking him out.

Then she drugged him into a celt and locked him up. Mrs. Cooper head, was badly cut. The Cbrnanso Disaster. Toledo, April 13.

Thecarjtain and thirteen of the crew of the steam barge Chenaugo arrived here last evening. Thursday at 11 a. m. a small blaze was seen issuing from the top of the boiler. The hose was screwed to the pump quickly, but the flames spread and the Chenango was headed for shoal water.

The boats were launched and the stamt-r Ward picked up the men and brought them to Maumee bay and transferred them to the tug Dexter, which brought them here. They took a train for Detroit at 9:20 last night. No one is injured. The accident occurred ten miles off Long Point. I HAMBUSC FIGS Are a crystalized fruit cathartic, composed of truits and vegetables, and, being in lozenge form, are handy to carry with you.

They act mildly but surely, and by their regulating influence overcome the tendency to constipation from any cause. This is especially true in all cases of sea sickness or car sickness, which is due to a dangerous condition of the digestive organs, over which Hamburg Figs exercise a peculiar intluenc'e. It is well known that even if the system is in good condition at the beginning, change in food and habits during a journey often produce constipation. Hamburg Figs are therefore recommended to all travellers as being the only medicine that is certain in action, handy to have with you, most pleasant and agreeable to the taste, and always harmless. Hamburg Figs are sold at 25 cents a box.

PRODl'CE DC SIN ESS SOLD. Newark, N. April 13. The wholesale produce business of "Wilkinson Gaddis has, it is announced, been sold to an English syndicate for $1,800,000, of which $900,000 is payable in cash and $900,000 in bonds. The present management of the business will be continued.

DESIOL'KATIC S.JOKITIK. Providence. R. April 13. The city election yesterday for senator and eight representatives resulted in the election of all the democratic ticket except one representative, bv majorities ranging from 181 to 53a.

This insures the election of Governor Davis and the democratic general officers in grand committee. Lost With All on lioard. Jacksonville, April 13. The schooner Ethel, hence for Nassau, with an assorted cargo, was wrecked near Cape Canavoral, and the crew of five are probably lost, namely, Captain William D. Garvin of Jacksonville, Dennis Star and John Gibson (colored), Gibbon's wife, who was acting as Cook, and a colored boy named Charlie.

Captain Garvin was an old sailor and owned several vessels. The schooner Bessie, which has arrived here from Lake Worth, passed the wreckage of the Ethel but could learn nothing of tho fate of the crew. The wreckage was strewn along the coast, but none of the inhabitants had seen anything of the missing people. AMONG THE SPORTING HEX. SEVERAL GOOD DIAMOND CONTESTS.

Von Der A lie Suspends Chamberlain, the Pitcher Omaha Itall Cranks Not Weil lMeased Sportlne Notes. On the Diamond. EVANsiVILLE, April 13. The score: Evansville i 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 00000010 01 Base hits Evunsvillo Loiiisvill 4. Errors Evansvilit- 4.

LouiKvillo 3. Batteries-Dolan ami Trust. tioolall and K'an. Umpires MeVey and Ehret. Omaha, April 13.

The score: Omaha 0001COOOO 1 Sioux City 1 0040000 4 Base hit-OraaIm 'J, Sioux Cilv 5. 5. Sioux City 5. But ti-rifs Bays and Tliuyer, Burdick, Siehpl and Crotty. Umpire Cusick.

Toledo, April 13. The score: Toledo 10150500 1:1 Akron 0 0000000 0 0 Base hits Toledo 14. Akron 4. Errors Toledo 1, Akron 4. Butteries Ilealy, Abbott and Vuinery, Van Iomineil- and Welse.

Umpire Michael McLean. Newark, N. April 13. Newark, (A. 1, Syracuse (A.

6. St. Louis, April 13. The score: Browns 1 3 0 0 4 0 0 0 19 yuiucy 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Batteries Seivetts and Meek, Munger and 31 tinker. Base hits Browns 12, Quincy 2.

Errors Browns 21 yuincy tt. Umpire Hunt. i Chamberlain Suspended. St. Louis, April 13.

President Von Der Ahe last night suspended Pitcher Chamberlain without pay until his conduct since he joined the team can be investigated by the board of directors. A meeting of the latter will be in a day or two. Von Der Abe will not say what charge he will bring against Chamberlain. Chamberlain was in the box in the Omaha game for two innings, during which time the visitors made sixteen runs. Yesterday he showek up as badly in the game with Quincy.

It is believed that he is playing tor his release, Fneulisni in Omaha. Omaha, April 13. Special. Pugilism is becoming a staple amusement in Omaha. To-morrow evening at the Grand opera house Jack McAuliffe of Brooklyn, champion light-weight of the world, and Joe McAuliffe, who is said to be spoiling to fight Sullivan and Jackson, or anyone else in the world, will give an exhibition.

Billy Madden is oere and is stopping with the two pugs at the Milliard. A choice aggregation, comprising Jack Davis, Jack Rvan, Dan Daly. Jack Gallagher, John Day, Professor Biil Hawley, Pete Boyle and Scotty Gordon are booked for places on the fistic menu, and Baby Barnes spent Sunday peddling the bills printed in red ink. I A N.ew Pitcher Signed. Omaha, April 13.

Special. The Omaha base ball team iias not gained any very enthusiastic admirers for the season. No one appears to have anything to say for it. One does not encounter any mention of it outside of the base ball grounds and the newspapers Aowever, it has been chiefly in need of a pitcher, and it is said that tlie management just signed II. N.

McDtcmott. late of the Louisville American association team, who did srood work with the Auburn team last year in its successful contest for the pennant of the New York state league. 8portlna- Notes. The Denver Republican says that Omaha is not in the Western association penant race this season, but that first place lies between Denver and Kansas City, with Sioux City in third place. Old man Anson will not play his men on Sunday, even in an exhibition game.

Of Des Moines" thirteen players Hart is rated eighth as a siugger. This being the case some heavy hittiug is assured. AN AMJ1AI. UAKOMKTEit. Hugh McQuaid is feeling rather blue because the rat in the Drum Lummond mine is looking a little thin.

The rat is the best known creature connected with the great mine. When Colonel Cruse discovered the mine he discovered the rat. He used to be afraid of the creature and tried to kill it several times, but the miners were thoughtful of the animal and said it brought great luck to them, so Cruse left it alone, lie said he was often tempted to kick it when he met it going up and down the ladder. The mine at several times was at a low ebb, and Sir Hugh said he always noticed that when stock was down the rat was down also. It grew thin and gaunt, and, although the uiiuers shared their food with it as they were in the habit of doings it remained lean and lank as usual.

Suddenly a change came. Baylrss fc Brathnover commenced managing the mine and everything prospered. The rat alBO grew fat and saucy. Ho grew so familiar that Mr. Bay liss says lie would frequently meet it anil it would sit upon its hind legs, whisk its tail and look intelligently out of its little eyes as he passed him on the ladder.

The little animal became an annoyance to Colonel Cruse and he ordered it killed, but it was such a favorite with th; boys that thev refused to carry out the orders. And he still thrives, for the Drum Lummond is prospering. When there is a bad streak struck the rat grows thin. It is the animal barometer of the mine. Helena Independent.

THK FORTISB TKLLEB. In ancient times oracles were so ambiguously constructed as to have reference to an event, however it might terminate; and those who consulted them ignomini-ously perished at the peril they believed they were to be trimphaut. Heathen ceremonies have passed away, and neither flights of birds nor entrails of animals prognosticate the good or ill success of modern enterprise; yet in the present day, when there is a liht by which all may be directed, ihe infatuation of consul iirg fortune telleisan 1 clairvoyants prevail t' a disgraceful extent. In the metropolis they are "numerous, altliougn to thinkinr; persons fortune telling is a subject of abhorrence, rendered odious by tieing opposed to common sense, moral feeling, and the dictates of Christianity. The practice of consulting these is followed by the most deplorable circumstances.

mind can lie' more degraded than tiiat which can soli' it from an unworthy any information concerning its future welfare? The confessing or relating to such creatures any particulars of private import is not only repugnant to every decorous idea, but it is revolting indelicacy, and a positive surrender of all that constitutes rationality. Who are the individuals assuming the possession of supernatural wisdom? I Thev are robbers, in the worst accepta-: tion" of the term, whom tlie laws of the country condemn to the trea imin, anu whom" the intelligent portion of the community consign to infamy and detestation. If there be a designation more opprobious than'another, it is that of fortune teller. New York Ledger. JOUTA SOCIAL MENTION.

JfNim, April 13. Special Correspondence. Mrs. Mosher, who has spent the winter with her daughter, Mrs. E.

G. Angell, returned to her home in California this week. Mrs. L. F.

Picard, who lias been east on a visit for some length of time, returned home to-day. At the demorest silver medal contest, held the M. E. church last evening. Miss Mamie Burr was awarded the medal.

I Mrs. A. P. Slack and Mrs. W.

Sla intend, iu tiie immediate future, to make an extended visit to relatives in, "New York, their fortuer home. Quite a delegation will attend tin; declamatory contest at Harvard on Friday evening, April 18. Mr. and Mrs. L.

D. Sergeant returned yesterday from a visit to friends at Wilcox, this state. i Miss Maggie Jones, assistant in the high school, spent the Sabbath with her parents at Hastings. Mr. George C.

Faber of Taw Paw, 111., is spending a few days with his brother, G-lbert Faber. 1NTHK HOLY Grand Islajtd, April 13. Special. Billy Collins, day clerk at the Palmer house, was married to-day to Anna Erickson. The travelling men in the city presented the couple with nu-! ruerous valuable presents.

After the ceremony 1'astor Britton, of the Emmanuel Baptist church, extended an invitation the knights of the grip to attend his church in a body, which was accepted by seventy of the boys..