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CALIFORNIA.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

SAN FRANCISCO, May THE thermometel
indicated 50 degrees yesterday and to-day the
weather is hot throughout the agricultural re
gion; the thermometer from 90 to $50.
The are over eleven millions of dollars in the
city, State and fedora! treasures here, and az
money is very tight the Withholding of such
large amounts from circulation is q subject Of
much comment.
The trustees of the Mercantile Library Asso
citation under special law have adopted the
following plan for paying all the indebtedness
of the Association. One-half the amount in
gold coin will be distributed among the hold
ers OF tickets on the first of September next
and 628 gift tickets at IS each will be Sold
The first prize will be 100000; the second
$4,000 and SO on down to 500.
Weiss furniture mandatory was burned
last night. Loss about 100000. 1t was the
most extensive mandatory of the kind on the
Pacific,
The Mill Creek Indians murdered Capt. III.
A. Good near his residence in TOhona county
His body was riddled with bullets.
THE NEW MEXICO MINES.
Intelligence from New Mexico states that
people are focking in from all directions
Shafts are being sunk on the different lodges
and the rock improves in quality. In some
places they find almost pure metal and lodges
nave been struck OF extraordinary wealth.
mere are no indications Of trouble from the
Indians. A company of regular troops are sta.
TONED in the mining district.
HOT WEATHER.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 8.-The hot weather
continues. There are unfav orable reports from
the interior in regard to the crops Such
weather is unprecedented for May.
FREIGHT ON FRUIT.
The Convention of the California Wine
Growers is in session here. A committee has
6een appointed to consult the railroad officials
IN regard to freight overland.
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United STATES Circuit Court.


SATuRDAY.-First National Bank of Chicopee vs.
Hiram o. Alden. Action upon second note given at
Bloomington Illinois, for $4,000 and endorsed by de-
PENDANT, and held By plaintiffs for value without no.
tce Of any defence to it, The same defence was Of
Tered as in the previous between the same par
ties, and objection was excluded by the Court. A
question OF notice was submitted to the jury.
The verdict was for plaintiff for 1884, and the
case will be carried forward to Washington upon
questions of law.
A. A. Strout. Bradbury,
Geo. M. Stearns. FOJ Smith.
In the case between the same parties, reported in
saturday mornings issue, the Court after hearing
counsel pro and con, rejected the evidence offered by
the defendant In support of the two pon of de-
fence, and held that the liability of tn endorser was
not determined by the law OF Illinois, and to this
ruling exceptions wore taken and the case, after
verdict pro orma for plaintiffs will now be carried
to the Supreme Court at Washington.
JUDGE sHEPLEY PRESIDING.
Samuel Il. Sawyer VS.. Jonathan Jewell, This wa,
an action OF debt on judgment vs.. the defendant
Kelley as Partners recovered in the Court o.
Common Pleas for Penobscot county, Maine in JAN
uary, 1884. More than twenty years fter the iudp
ment defendant moved to New Hampshire, where he
has since resided. Within twenty years afser he re-
moved TO New Hampshire this action was brou pht in
the United States Circuit Court for the district of
New Hampshire, and by agreement of counsel was
argued in this District Defence, payment and stat
ute of limitation.
3. c. Strout. j. F. Miller
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Candy.

SWeetS 10 the SWeet.
Perhaps our readers would like to know
something about candy making and the extent
to which it is carried in this city by one of our
enterprising confectioners. We took glance
into the establishment of l.. j. Perkins & Co.,
on Congress Street, last Saturday, and were
surprised at the amount manufactured daily.
Passing through the shop we entered into a
large room at the rear Of the building where in
one corner stood large stove on which was
placed large cauldron filled with liquid sugar
undergoing the preparatory process. Close by
stood long handicapped table on which the
melted sugar, when sufficiently cooked, was
poured, and then underwent knead;ng pro-
cess until it was in condition to be pulled
Then workman taking it up threw the mass,
some forty pounds in weight, over hook and
commenced pulling, continuing until the can
dy was sufficiently white. when it ~as- placed
hnfnra a littla charcoal fire. and the nrocess of
working the colored candies in the mass gone
through with Then it was rolled out into long
sticks which were placed on a snow-white
wooden table and these sticks in turn cut into
shorter ones and placed in bundles all labelled.
In this one room $50 to 400 pounds of sugar
are daily turned in candy.
Upstairs we saw the higher branches Of tue
art delineated in the manufacture of raspberry
drops, chocolate creams, etc. Mods are made
of corn starch and into these liquid sugar is
poured and the molds on them set in the dry
ing closet, which is kept at a high but even
temperature, where the drops crystalline 1t
may not be uninteresting to know that over
600 pounds of sugar are daily turned into candy
of all kinds in this establishment, and that ten
men and large corps of girls are kept con-
stantly employed. A splendid Concord wagon,
drawn by four elegant horses, has lately been
put on a travelling route that embraces the
whole State, by Mr.. Perkins, while he has
other wagons constantly supplying the adjoin'
ing towns. His candies have become justly
celebrated, since they are made of the very
best materials and contain no deleterious in
gradients
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many shiny greenbacks and National notes
were paid out in this way by Majors Robbie,
Mann aud Merrill.
Rut the bond business Was where the gov
eminent received its greatest help. The bank
had agents all over the State. Banks in other
cities and towns ordered through it,! until at
last when the totals were made up it was found
that its sales had exceeded those of all other
agents in the State combined. In Jay Cookies
private key, the words "Luke" Emily" fire.
quently passed, meaning ole or two hundred
thousand, until the very last day of the $40
loan, the bank sent this order send Choctap"
which is, being interpreted, one million more
than that They came and we're sold, and mary
to-day are not ashamed to say they had nib
BILE.
The dividends of the bank have averaged
about ten per cent from the very start.
Its directors are all living save one-HOn.
N. j. Miller, who was elected in October 1862
and continued in Office nearly one year.
Its honored President for ten years was St.
John Smith, and to him is due to a very great
extent the success attending it. He still re-
tains his place at the Board and his associates
can still call on his mature judgment for adj
vice.
In June 1861 FL. J. Libby was made Vice
President and in 1870, January, he took the
Presidents chair.
The other present Directors, Charles Holden
and Ezra Carter are still OF the original board
John b. Brown in 1865 taking the place of
Phinehas Barnes, and John Rand that of Mr..
Miller. The present capital is 800 900, and au-
thority is obtained to increase it to one million
as soon as may be deemed expedient. The
present cashier, Mr.. William e. Gould was
elected also at the organization of the bank in
1859, and taken from clerks position in the
old Manufacturers and Traders where he had
been for about five years learning his trade.
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MASSACHUSETTS,.

BOSTON, May 7.-Reports on the application
OF the Boston, Hartford s. Erie Railroad for
state aid. expected from the Committee Mon
Day, are signed by eight members recommending
and another by three opposing granting State
The people of Cohasset celebrated the cen
tennial anniversary of their town to-day BY a
procession, dinner, levee, and Grafton by Col
lectOr Russell. Gov. Claflin, 1t. Gov. Tucker,
and other notabilities participated.
Mr.. Kirmes who jumped from the Stoning-
ton train last night, 1t is now thought will re.
cover.
Boston, Nav Q-Fho city police last n;ob,
made a Wholesale raid upon night WALKERS, va a.
resting $50 women and young girls, some were
able to give bail, but most of them held in con-
fnement for examination tomorrow morning.
Bark Clotilde, with deck load of hay. for
CienfueSos, took fire last night in the stream
extinguished with a loss of about $4,000.
George Seddons, pugilist, recently arrested
in st. Louis. was brought here last night on a
requistion from Gov. Chaflin on an old indict-
ment for leaving the State to engage in prize
fight at Isle of Shoals. Geo. w. Barrested, at
the time, was arrested but stepped out on his
no
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TELEGRAPH ITEMS,

Earl Granville, Secretary of State for the
Colonies has sent despatch to the Governor
General of Canada that the Admiralty have
been requested to send to Canadian waters a
force sufficient to protect Canadian fisherm men
and maintain order.
MNeil Seymour, distinguished lawyer and
politician of Livingston County, New York, is
dead. = - Nv :" -
The General Conference of the Methodist
Protestant Church began its annual session at
Baltimore on Saturday.
J. B. Bell, proprietor of the Planters Hotel
at Cheyenne, ATTEMPTED suicide bv SHOOTING on
Saturday. Nedrly loo emigrants for different
points of Wyoming Territory arrived at Chey-
enne. Gen. Sheridan and staff arrived on
Saturday en- route West.
The reports of Indian outrages in Colorado
are pronounced groundless. There have bee n
no troubles for year.
The body of Patrick O'Brien was found in
the Kenduskeag at Bangor on Sunday. He
belonged in Mirimichi, and had been missing
four weeks.
Masses were said in the Paris churches fol
the success of the plebescitum.
M. Lermina has been sentenced to two years
imprisonment and fined 10000 francs for urg-
ing the impeachment of the Emperor Napo.
leon.
There are more than enough passengers
waiting at Sydney, Auckland and Melbourne
to come to California, than will fill steamer
More than $50 Congressman and their la
dies went on an excursion from Washington
to Hamilton, Va, on Saturday.
The question of woman suffrage is not to b.
submitted to the people of Illinois, the Oonsti
tutionai Convention having reconsidered it
action in that respect.
The attention of the Grand jury has beer
directed to the careless manner in which build
| ings are erected in Chicago, and the appoint
| ment OF building inspectors is suggested.
Robert d. Kicker, of Greenpoint, and hi,
| two sons, were drowned in the Hudson oppo
site Catskili Sunday morning.
The cgar-makers' strike in New York an
pears likely to result in failure. -
The report that John Bright will retire from
| the British Ministry is again revived.
The Spanish Government refuses to an,
| longer pay the salaries of the bishops who re
| fuse to take the oath to the new constitution
1t cannot displace them because it did no
| appoint them.
The Southern Baptist Convention at Louis
| vile has referred to a special committee tb
| subject of the union of the Baptists North an,
| South.
A four-story block and a three-story build
| ing in Kanzas City were blown down Satur
day night. Loss $4,000.
The election to fill the Whittemore seat il
| Congress will be held in the first South Coro
| lima district May 10th.
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Domestic Markets .

NEW YORK, May 7.-Cotton firm sales $500 bales
Middling uplands &c. Flour-receipts 21 1s5 bbls
with fair demand; superfine State s. "a 90: extra
81 loop Ohio Is q S56; choice dd S
625 auperne Western 4s5 500; common to 90 eoS9
extra Western 8 10 a b25; choice do 5 30 "a 5s5:
choice white wheat do $50 "a $50; Southern firm
and quiet; common to fair extra 90 a 20. Wheat
q 20; Winter Red and Amber Western at 30 al
32t; White Michigan 40 a As. Corn scarce and
shade frmer; new Mixed Western IA a IL; old
ern 60 a &c. Beefquet and steady; new plain mess
at - 90 q Is 90; new extraldo at 1900 % 1900 Pork
dull and heavy; mess, seller June at 20 50 mess at
29l2 q 70 80; prime at q IS q % %. Lard dull !;
steam rendered at 16 q 16ac kettle do at IS, a.
lie. Butter firm; sales Ohio at IA a soc; State at
70 q &c., Whiskey shade frmer; sales 400 bbls. !;
Rice firm; Careliua at 81 @7ac. Sugar STEADY; Mus.
covado at "a q l0c fair to good refining at 81 "a 9fs:
No. IL, Dutch standard, at9Hc Coffee dull Molass-
es dull Naval Stores weak; Spirits Turpentine at
aSs &c to arrive and on the spot; Resin at O5 q
U o. petroleum steady; crude at 153 az 16c; refined
at 274 q H3c Wool dull sales 250, 900 lbs; domestic
fleece at 20 46c pulled at 20 SIC; Texas at 33tc
California at 30 g S5c. Hides quiet. Freights to
Liverpool firm; Cotton per steam ID; per sail 1 a
5-32d; Grain per steam 4sd for Wheat.
CHICAGO. May 7.-Flour in better demand. Wheat
hrmer and unsettled at 93t a 94Jc for No. 2, Corn
at 87ac. Oats firm and quoted at As! a 4sac cash. and
49t @ Soc for No. 2. Lard quiet at 16i a 161c Sweet
picked hams at 10 q 16lc. Bulk meats firm at ific
Dry sailed shoulders; 144c for rough sides; 15c Tor
short ribs; 15t 153c for short clear middles loose
Cattle steady at 5124@ 25 for light stockers 10
extra prime. Live hogs active at GO a. 12A tor
common to extra. :
NEW ORLEANS. May 7-Cotton in active demand
at full prices; Mddiing uplanis at 22c.
CHARLESTON, May 7-Cotton advancing; Mid
ding uplands at 2l4c. :
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NEW YORK.
CITY AND VICINITY,

NEW YORK, May 8.-Ten thousand four
hundred and four immigrants arrived here
last week.
Daniel Drew proposes to give another mil
lion dollars to the Drew Theological Seminary
to endow a literary department. and make it q
University.
The Chamber of Commerce have collected
$4,000 for the Richmond sufferers in addition to
the amount already reported.
Rev. DIR. j. M. Manning, of Boston, preached
the anniversary sermon of the American Home
Missionary Society. He spoke in high praise
of the good work already accomplished by the
Society. and said the time was not far distant
when the different sects would disregard theo-
logical differences and unite upon o common
basis of christianity.
J. Ross Browne late Minister to China, is at
the Fifth Avenue.
John G.. Whittier attended Mr. Beecher's
church to-day. After the sermon Mr. Beecher
shook hands warmly with Mr.. Whittier and
handed him boquet. The poet seemed much
affected at tie greeting.
THE WORLDS EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE.
Interesting services were held this evening
in the 9Th Avenue Presbyterian church, (Rey.
DR.. John Halls) in reference to and prepara-
tory for the meeting of the World Evangelical
Alliance in this city Sept 22d to Oct Sd. Adj
dresses were made by Rev. Drs. Hall, Schaff,
and John Cotton Smith, giving a full descrip-
ton of the objects of the alliance and its pros
pects and the purposes of its next meeting.
The European delegation will number $50, in
Guiding 20 or 30 of the most eminent scholars
and divines of the continent and number of
members of the English Parliament, &c.
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TIL e PACIFIC,

THE PACIFIC,
ARRIVAL OF THE FIRST STEAMER AT BAN
FRANCISCO.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 7.-Steamer Idaho ar
rived to-day from Honolulu, bringing the first
direct Australian mail. The Idaho connected
from Sydney, and is full of passengers. The
prospects of the new line are good The Idaho
brings 40 passengers from Australia, nearly
all en- route to England, and very large mail
from New South Wales and New Zealand.
The latest advices from Sydney are of the
Goth of March and from Australia of the 4th of
April.
Great floods prevailed on the western coast
of Australia, causing immense destruction OF
property and the loss of many lives. The gales
had been very heavy and numerous shipwrecks
are reported. Ship Martha RideOut, for Cali
fOrna, had returned leaking badly.
Police magistrate Fausett had been commit
ted for numbering drunken man.
The estate of Hon. John Robertson, late
Premier, has been sequestrated. His liabilities
amounted to 81, 100000.
NEW SOUTH WALES. .r,.
The political affairs of New South Wales
were unimportant.
VICTORIA.
A political crisis prevailed in Victoria. The
ship Eliza from Quebec, was burned in Hob
were rescued.
Robert Gladstone, nephew of the English
Premier. was killed by fall from his horse.
The Victoria Legislature has voted pension
of e1000 yearly to the widow of ex-Gov. Darl-
ing.
Trade throughout Victoria was very quiet
IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA
the general elections were progressing. The
construction of a telegraph line through
Queensland to connect with the Singapore
cable will be Immediately commenced.
The sugar and cotton crops in Queensland
were seriously damaged by heavy floods.
NEW ZEALAND.
The war in New Zealand was dropping
along slowly. All the English soldiers had
been withdrawn from New Zealand
The gold yield continued good throughout
the colony.
HONOLULU. .G
Honolulu papers of the Dist of April state
that the arrival of the Australian steamer was
an occasion for much rejoicing.
An unusual amount of rain had fallen in
the Hilo district.
Queen Emma visited the United States sloop-
ofwar jamestown and received special salute
Several shocks of earthquake had occurred
in the district of Hilo. One shock was the Sc
verest since the great convulsion of two years
ago.
The volcano of Killana was quite active.
The Great South LakeIhad overfown, filling
the basin caused by the earthquake of 1868.
TAHITI.
The reported wreck of the ship Eli Whitney
at Tahiti is incorrect A fire was discovered
on board the ship but was extinguished with
only slight damage to the vessel. The entire
faFSR q 67afbd sad TIE vessel was undoubt
~-Ils sat fra to- and the whole crew were ar
rested on suspicion.
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AccIDENrs.-On Friday afternoon as two
men named respectively VIM. Mcdonald and
McGann, were carrying q large pile of iron
bars to charge the furnace, as it is called, at
the Rolling mills, McDonald's foot tripped,
bringing so much weight upon Mccain that
he couldn't keep his hold, forcing him to let
go,and the bars fell upon Mcdonald with great
FORCE one of them striking him in the groin,
lnficting dangerous wound, while McGann's
hand was damned and badly cut. A physician
was called, who gave Mcdonald the best Of
treatment, and it is hoped that he will recover.
On Saturday workmen named McCarty, at
the same place, had a bar of iron fall upon
him, breaking his under Jaw. A physician set
it and he is now doing nicely.
The other evening a little girl aged ten
years, daughter of Thomas Carr, residing at
No. % Winthrop street, while at play with sew
eral OF her young friends in the yard fell and
broke her collar-bone. 1t is hard case for the
little girl was already sufferer from hip-dis-
ease. She is fast mendng from the late acct
dant
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MISSISSIPPI,
THE IEGISI. ATTIRE

JACKSON, May THE Senate has confirmed
the appointments by the Governor of the Su-
preme Bench, Judges Somerall, Peyton and
Tarbell. All of the court bills were passed.
Nominations will be made next week for the
Circuit and Chancery courts, and for Superin-
tendent and Board of Trustees for the Lunasic
Asylum. Many efforts have been made to in
sert clauses in various bills for chartering
schools. hotels and railroads to guarantee equal
accommodations without regard to color. All
sqGb amendments Waga. 10 rhia lt ts.!aif
persons in their civil and public rights.
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casks sheep SKINS ca wheels % doz shovels 20 cases
and IA bales domestcs, plano, bbs beer, 40 pigs
furniture, trails dates, 46 bxs cheese 300 pkgs to
Princes Express, 100 do to order. For Canada and
up country rs cases cassa so bales MANILA DO bags
dye wood, casks OIL 80 rolls leather 10 bales paper
stock, 10 empty casks 90 boiler tubes. coils lead
pipe, copper pumps, bags wool, 10 kegs lead, 70
COILS cordage, Al bdls steel, 100 pkgs to order.
GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY - 191 cans milk, 81
bhls pearl ash, 500 bbls -four, car fine feed do edg
lngs and slabs, do m ore, do oats, do corn, 60
40 lumber, do sundries. For shipment east 600
bbls flour. cars sundries.
PORTLAND & KENNEBEC RAILROADS. cars cid
ron do slaves. % bags waste 80 bbls -four 100 bdls
Eaper IL pairs springs, so bales Oakum, anchors,
chamber set cases goods, i4O do oil cloth, &c pkgs
merchandise, Is ears freight for Boston.
MAINE CENTRAL RAILRoAD-190 sides leather
gar shingles. Al cases carDets SO bdls dowel stock
~ bales excelsior 1913 sacks potatoes So cases and IA
Dxs scythes, 80 bxs eggs, G7 cases sundries.
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PENNSYLVANIA.
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL-sTORM.

PHILADELPHIA, May 8.-About 2 O'Clock
this afternoon the most destructive hail-storm
ever known here passed over this city from the
northwest to the southeast. For nearly thirty
minutes there was continuous fall of hail
stones from the size OF pea to six and seven
inches in circumference. On the south side Of
pane of glass is left on Broad street. Many of
the churches had their stained glass windows
destroyed and the front of the Continental
Hotel, so far as the windows are concerned, is
perfect wreck. The loss will be computed
by thousands of dollars. Reports from the
outskirts state that there is an almost tota, de-
struction of fruit trees which in blossom. At
8 o'clock tonight the hail still remained in
piles on the street. I
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WEST INDIES,
Cuba,
A CUBAN GENERAL GARRorEp,

HAVANA, May 7.-Steamer Triumfo arrived
last night bringing the Cuban Gen. Goicocuria
under strong guard of naval officers. He
was Immediately taken to Jail, where court
him. The Court sentenced him to be CARROT
cd, and he then was placed in the capilia, At
o'clo * this morning he was taken to Prin-
cipe Fort and at 8 o'clock garroted. An i'm
mense concourse assembled on the heights of
Principe. The General remained perfectly So
rene and firm to the last.
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NEW RAMPaEIyRE.
FOUR BuReLAR1Es IN CONCORD

TOUh BURGLAhIES IN =
CONCORD, May 8.-The houses of w. G..
Whitney, Abel Lamprey, VIM. Beard and
Mrs. s. b. B0dwell were entered by burglars
last night. Mr.. Whitney lost $77.73 in money
and note for 500, a silver watch and two
chains valued at $50 and five silver spoons.
Mr.. Lamprey lost $11OO in money. Mr. Beard
lost $15 and quantity of pork. Mrs. Bod
well lost provisions, &C., amounting to about
SIS. No clue has as yet been obtained to the
perpetratOrs
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APRIL TERH-wALToN j., PKEsIDINa.
SATURDAy.-City Bank Of Bath VS.. Sumner
Adams. An action of assumpsit upon draft for
$500, drawn by one j. G. Tiffany upon Yates g. Co..
of New York, In favor Of E. K. Harding Defence,
that Tiffany was not member of the firm at tie
date OF the draft and had authority to accept the
same in the name of the firm. After the testimony
was out the case was continued on report.
Putnam. Howard & Cleaycs
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MAIN z.
MAINE.
COMMITMENT OF THE RoCKLAND BANK ROB

COMMITMENT OF THE ROCKLAND BANK ROB-
BEERS.
RocKLAND, May 7.-Chas. Height, Langdon
w. Moore, Joshua Daniels andl Allen Litch-
field were arraigned this afternoon before the
Police court charged with the Lime Rock bank
robbery and all four waived examination and
were ordered to give bail in twenty-five thou
sand dollars each for appearance at the Sep
TENDER term of the S. j. Court. Height
Moore and Daniels were ordered to be com
mitted in default of bail. Litchfeld has NOT
yet given bail. E. S. McAlister was arraigned
before the Police court charged with being &C
cessory to the bank robbery after the fact. and
after full hearing was discharged. A f.
Keller was ordered to recognize in the sum oil
S2500 and John Graves, j., and Asa Black in
$1500 each for their appearance as witnesses
against the four principals