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WASHINGTON.

The president has nominated Justin
E. Coleburn, ofVermont, United States con-
sui general at the City of Mexico.
ACCOUNTS from the Texas border
show that recently there have been but few
il any incursions from the Mexican side.
The members of Congress who have the
subject Of our relations with Mexico under
consideration say that the delay of our gov
ernment in recognizing that of Mexico has
produced an improved condition of affairs
on the border, but that that government has
not yet done what is requiredby our own as
prerequisite to recognition. One of the
most serious causes of complaint is that our
citizens are not protected from forced loan
while British and French subjects residing
in Mexico are not subjected to such illegal
transactions.
THE case of the United States against
ex-Assistant Secretary Sawyer, ex-Comnlis-
sioner Haines and T. W. Brooks, charged
with conspiracy to defraud the government
Of S57,0 900, resulted in a verdict of not
guilty on the 9TH inst. The court said the
money belonged to Parkman, Brooks & Co.,
or their representatives, and that there had
been no fraud practiced.
EX-GOv. PINCHBACK, of Louisiana,
lad an interview with President Hayes on
the 5th inst. He said that Louisiana had
now the best governor within his recOllec-
ton, and that the people are well satisfied.
The only thing Pinchback complained about
was that the few children who were nearly
white (his own among them) were required
to leave the public schools in New Orleans.
A SPECIAL to the Cologne Gazette from
Vi.nna says that England has informed
Russia that she intends to occupy certain
strategical points unless Russia Immediately
proposes frank modification of the treaty,
REAR ADMIRAL ROGERS, superintend-
ent of the naval observatory, has made ar.
rangements for observing the transit of
Mercury, May 9th, and the Western Union
telegraph company will transmit Washing
ton time signals throughout the country
from the 1st to the 9th of May for astrOnO-
mers and others observing the transit.
In regard to the resolutions of the
Maryland legislature to contest the election
of President Hayes, the prominent Demo-
crats in congress say that they do not be-
heVe that there are ten presentatives and
not single Democratic senator in favor of
them. Montgomery Blair, however, is in
dustrlously at work.
The house committee on judiciary
have agreed upon bill for the payment of
tn. unexpended balance of the Geneva
award. 1t proposes to refer to a court of
claims for adjudication of the claims of
those parties only who were actual sufferers
by Confederate cruisers, but without refer
ence to any exclusion by the law of 1874, or
the decisions of the late court of commits
sioners OF the Alabama claims. The claims
are to be determined under the treaty and
award, according to the principles of equity
md &c sod hNrC q
members OF the committee that the bill in its
present shape can pass the house.
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THE WEST.

A LARGE gold brick was cast on the
Sth inst, from the product of the Penobscott
mine at Helena, NJ. T., valued at over $780,
900. The mine is located about eighteen
miles frsm Silver City. The brick was the
product of one hundred and fifty tons of
ore, and the cost of production was 81 900.
REV. DR.. w. H. BRISBANE, of Arena,
Wis, died of pleuro-pneumonia on the night
of the 9Th inst, aged IS years. Since 1855
the deceased has been a resident of Wiscon-
sin, coming from South Carolina. In the
cause of abolition he has been an active and
practical worker, and gave liberty to thirty
of his own slaves prior to his removal from
the south to Wisconsin.
THE Indian Office has ordered trans
fer OF the Apache Indians to the southern
Ute agency.
The bank of California sold to the
government mint at San Francisco, on the
5th inst, several thousand ounces of gold,
at a reserved price, understood to be 545sc
in London.
TWENTY engineers and twenty firemen
mon brotherhood mem left ST. Louis on the
5th inst, to take the place of discharged
strikers on the Atchinson and Santa Fe
abroad.
The Manitoba sections of the Canada
Pacific railroad are being rapidly construct
ed. Several thousand workmen are engaged
at two dollars day, and more are needed.
THE hands on the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe railway struck for higher
wages on the 4th inst.
The Utah Northern Railroad was sold
at auction on the Sd inst. There was but
one bid offered, which was BY s. Fl. IL.
Clsrksr superintendent If the tnicn Pariac
ssi'sssG, tes sieo,eeo
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MISCELLANEOUS.

ABOUT five hundred bricklayers OF
New York, struck on the Sth inst. to en-
forco the union rate of wages, $50 day.
TWENTY-FoUR members of a colony
from the neighborhood of Dantzic Ger.
many, to Venezuela, arrived at New York
on the 9th inst, in pitable condition.
They say the cOlonists were sent into the
country about 100 miles from Caracas, and
given some lands, mountainous and sterile
Coffee and rice were grown in places, but
the men did not know how to cultivate it.
Disease was prevalent, and the death rate
frightful.
THE will of the late Madame Restell
has been admitted to probate, at. New York
NEW ENGLAND Methodist conference,
at Westfeld, voted to not admit ministers
who use tobacco.
Moss & MARTIN, cotton buyers,
Vicksburg, Miss, failed on the 4th inst
Liabilities, 100000; no assets. The ia lure
was caused by the suspension of the St
Louis branch house.
EX-AUDIToR JOHN GKAHAM, late
register of the Louisiana state 'end office
died at New Orleans, April 3 I, aged sixty.
seven.
AT midnight of the 1st inst, the Cali
fornia Legislature adjourned sine die. One
of the latest acts We s to pass the bill which
has received the governors approval
authorizing an increase in the police force
of San Francisco, by the addition of two
hundred and fifty officers, making a total
force of four hundred
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Col. .. l.. SHEPHERD, of Newport, a
has been tried by court-martial for neglect
ing to pay over a fund contributed by
brother officers in 1864 for a monument on
the Stone River battle ground, and Presi-
dent Hayes has approved the sentence,
which is thar Shepherd be confined within
the limits OF the post at Fort Adams for one
year and thereafter until the money, ST. 1903,
with interest from 1864 shall be paid.
THE German Catholic church at Potts
vile, Pa, was entered on tie night of the
9th inst, by thieves, who stole chalices and
other articles valued at $500.
Mrs. NJ. MULLER, keeper of the Hawk
eye rancho, near Rawhide, w. T., was mur-
dered for her money on the night of the 9th
inst.
CLEMENS LLOYD, aged 40 years, killed
his wife and himself at Chester, Pa, on the
5th inst.
THE through express train on the
Texas Pacific railroad was stopped and
robbed at Eagle Ford Station on the 5th
VIM. B. G. TELLER, the paying teller
of the American National bank, at Detroit,
Mich, has absconded with 5000 belonging
to the bank
JAMES KEARNEY fatally shot John
Wilson, at Westfeld, Mass, on the 4th inst.
Both men were drunk. Cause, jealousy.
VIM. G. Poor, of Chicago, a we'll
known tobaceonist, shothimself on the night
of the I'd inst, and was discovered in the
death agony by his family. The deceased
was formerly in business at Cincinnati and
st. Louis, but he retired with large fortune
estimated at half a million,
FREDERICK DUMoNT, son of promi-
nent citizen of Cincinnati, suicided on the
I'd inst. by shooting himself,
Ex-CONGREssMAN d. III. DUELL was
| arrested at Auburn, N. Y, on the I'd inst,
on a charge of defrauding widow of 5000
pension money.
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ABROAD.

The French elections to fill vacancies
'alidations of previous elections, took place
On the Sth inst Fourteen Republicans were
rturned. In c district second ballot is
necessary.
THE salvors of the Cleopatra obelisk
have been awarded Sl0,00o.
CARDINAL GIUSEPPE BERARDI is
deal He was an Italian, born.iu 1910 and
maSn cardinal in 1865.
JEFFERSON DAVIS and wife called on
President Diaz, at the City Of Mexico, on
the 9Th inst. The scarcity Of water in the
city is increasing.
THE Shah of Persia left Teheran for
Europe, by way of 1iiis, on the Sd inst.
RUSSIA offers to send an ambassador
to Rome at once, on the pOpe's accepting
the present condition of the church in the
Russian empire.
A GERMAN iron-clad fleet will pro-
ceed to the east in the beginning of May.
THERE are inundations in the depart
menF of Indre ct Loire, France The Seine
ard other rivers are also very high Snow
is falling in the east. The frost has done
some mischief in the south.
The trustees of the champion belt
have decided that O'Leary is entitled to
take it to America, and anybody challeng-
ing him must go to America, unless O'Leary
agrees to compete in England. Prizes in
the late pedestrian match have been dis
tributed. O'Leary received $500;
Vaughan, $1,000; Brown, 1925; other con-
testaIts got smaller sums.
THE Hon. Richard G. Mccormick,
American commissioner general to the ap-
preaching universal exhibition, has arrived
at Paris.
The Earl of Leitram, his clerk and
driver, were urdered near Vaughan, coun-
ty Derry, Ireland, on the I'd of April. The
deed was committed opposite cottage from
which he had recently elected a widow.
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CASUALTIES.

A TANK containing forty gallons of
benzine, at the factory of the Petroleum
Composition Paint company IN Cincinnati,
O., exploded on the 9th inst, injuing sew
eral persons. One colored man, named
Poyntz, died from the effects of his burns
THE steamer Sandy Fashion exploded
her boiler near Catlettsburg, KY, on the
night OF the 9TH. She had on board forty
passengers. Several were killed and a great
many wounded.
SEVEN OF the injured by the oil ex-
plosion caused by the collision of trains at
Slatington, Pa, have died. and several others
are in a critical condition.
A BOILER in the Boston stamping
works, Cambridge, Mass, exploded on The
9th, killing four men and injuring three.
A BOILER exploded in a factory at
Rochester, n. V, on the 9Th inst, and four
men were crushed to death by the falling
building.
A PERFORMER named Jennie Fowler
accidentally killed a companion at Provi-
dehce, r. l., on the 9Th inst, in at.
tempting to shoot an apple from her head.
| The shooter stood with her back to the VIC
tim, and took aim by means of mirror.
She was arrested.
THOMAS CoNRoY, foreman of the
Penobscot mine, Helena, Montana, fell
down the shaft on the ID inst, receiving
| fatal in juries.
HENRY S. GoREsCHE, assistant physi
clan at the st. Louis insane asylum, was
run over and killed by the cars on the 4tt
| inst.
THERE was a terrible hail-storm
| throughout Northern Mississippi, on the 81
| inst. 1t is feared that serious damage ha:
| been done to corn.
HIS LoRDsHIP, winner of the Chan
tilly races; last year, which was bought o.
August Belmont for 1900 francs, while be
/ ing exercised by Budd Taylor, in New
York, on the I'd inst, was frightened by
a section car on the Gilbert elevated rail
way, and, throwing his rider, ran away
When caught he was badly cut.
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gress negotiations on the basis of the pro
posal made by Bismarck, that the powers
be invited to meet to revise the treaties of
1856 ano 1871. Such an overture from Ger
many would spare the Russian susceptible
ties. 1t is impossible. however, that Russia
will take any step or come TO any decision
until General lgnatieff has reported"
THE latest advices from Constantine
pie say that strong convictions prevail at the
Russian headquarters that an Auglo-Rus-
sian war is inevitable.
IT is reported that Russia has offered
to cancel the money indemnity and increase
the Turkish power over new Bulgaria as a
reward for the alliance, but these offers have
not led to any result
A ST. PETERSBURG dispatch and ad-
vices from Berlin and Vienna mention some
indications that Russia might desire 10
renew the negotiations for a congress, TAX
ing the treaty of Paris as the basis of dis
PQSSlDn.
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THE SEAT OF WAR.

The withdrawal of the treaty of San
Stefano or its unconditional submission to
the judgment of Europe are regarded as the
only alternatives to war. Lord Lyons, Brit
ish ambassador at Paris, designated to repre-
sent Great Britain at the congress, has re-
turned to Paris, which is considered to indi-
cate that no great hope is felt of a speedy
meeting of the congress.
THE Turkish forces in the .neighbor
hood of Gallipoli and Constantinople num-
Der 24S battalions.
1t is stated that Russia has effectually
offered to quit the neigbbcrhood of Constan-
tinople if the British fleet withdraws.
RUSSIANS are desperately urging the
Sultan to surrender his iron-clads and posi-
tions on the Bosphorus.
A ST. PETERSBURG dispatch dated the
4th says that Lord Salisbury's circular was
communicated to Prince Gortschako off that
morning. 1t is said in official circles that
many of the British objections might have
been removed in the congress, but now the
door IS closed against concession. 1t is dit
teult, therefore, to imagine any pacific So
luton.
ADyICEs from Cetinje state that Rus
sia has requested Montenegro to prepare for
renewal of hostilities. Prince Nikita is
taking measures accordingly.
The Roumanian minister of foreign
affairs, writes to the Roumanian agent at
Vienna, March 10, that Prince Gortschakoff
had declared to Prince Ghika the Rouman-
ian agent at Petersburg, that notwithstand-
ing the elamoring Russia's decision in regard
TO Bessarabia was irrevocable. Russia would
not bring the question before the congress
nor consent TO another power doing so, as it
would be an offense to the emperor if she
could not make us give in. She would take
Bessarabia by force, and armed resistance
would be fatal for Roumania. The dispatch
concludes notwithstanding these threats,
We persist in our refusal to yield"
A LONDON dispatch of the Sd says:
"This mornings news shows little change
in the position of the eastern question.
Simultaneous dispatches from Berlin and
s.. Petersburg state that there are some
ssessas fer rar.s,inE renewal ef .hs Gems
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A River Intensely Salt.
from the Nevada Enterprise.

1t was very long supposed that the
brackishness of Salt river, Arizona, was
caused Dy the stream running over a
bed of salt somewhere along its course.
Its waters are pure and fresh from
where it heads in the White Mountains
to within fifty miles of where it empties
into the Gila. Fifty miles from its
junction with the Gila there comes into
it "a stream of water that is intensely salt.
This stream pours out of the side of a
large mountain, and is from twenty to
thirty feet deep. 1t is very rapid and
pours iatO the Salt river great volume
of water. Here could be easily manu-
factured sufficient salt to supply the
world. All that would be necessary
would be to dig bitches and lead the
brine 70 basins in the nearest deserts.
The heat of the sun would make the
salt. Were there railroad near the
stream its waters would doubtless soon
be turned and led to immense evaporat.
ing ponds 1t is supposed that the inter.
ior Of the motntaif, out of which The
streams fsw is largely composed of fhcl
salt.
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FATAL COLLISION.

On the morning of the 9Th inst. an oil
train ran into a freight train on the the
Lehigh Valley railroad, near Slatington, Pa
exploding the engine of the oil train and
burning several oil cars and several small
bridges on which the cars were standing.
Soon afterward the oil tank exploded, scat.
tering oil in all directions, setting fire to
the depot buildings and the foundry of
Williams x Oustard. The total damage is
estimated at 100000. Here is the casualty
summed up: Two men killed, nineteen
burned. (six seriously, nineteen oil cars
and their contents, four cars of merchan-
disc, one locomotive, the depot build,
ings and the foundry and machine shops of
Williams d Oustard completely destroyed.
A large number of persons, including women
and children, were slightly burned, making
the total number of sufferers about forty.
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NEWS OFTHE WEEK.


ONE of the buildings of the Steuben
county poorhouse, near Bath,'N. Y, burned
on the night of the 9th inst, and fifteen in
mates perished. The building was of brick,
with iron grated windows and doors, and the
inmates We're unable TO escape There were
sixty or seventy inmates altogether The
names, cause of confinement, and age of
those consumed, are as follows: l.. c.. Ford,
fits, 4S; John Alvian, cripple, 5S David
Curtis, cripple, 70; John Messenger, old
age, 81; Buel NJ. Page, fits and blindness, 80;
Betsey Smith, idiot, SO; Julia Davis, idiot,
3s; Rosa Welsh, idiot, 20; Amy Ranger,
idiot, 26; Mary Stone, idiot, &c; Chloe
Nudge, colored, idiot, 6S; Abigail Spultz,
etd age, 63; Catharine Sullivan, insane, Il;
Jennie Mills, child 4; Mary Hewitt, child,
|. The details of the terrible accident are
blood-curdling, and the scene at the ruins
sickening in the extreme. Over forty were
rescued. L. G. Ford, an insane pauper, who
fired the place and was burned with the
Others, was thought safe to be trusted.
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MANITOWOC
DRY DOCK.
The Young Heir.

She had invited him to stop to supper,
and he was trying to appear easy and
unconcerned, while she was on her pref
tiest behavior
"Have you used the sugar, John?'
inquired the mother, in winning man.
ner.
John don't want no sugar." ejacu-
ulated the young heir. abruptly.
"Why not?' inquired the father,
curiously, while John, in his surprise,
swallowed a bit of toasted crust, and
nearly cut his throat open.
"Cos he DON'T" explained the heir, in
an artful manner. II heard him tell
Mary last night"
GO You keep STILL" interrupted Mary,
in an hysterical manner, while the young
man caught his breath in dismay.
" l heard him say,'' persisted the heir
with dreadful eagerness, "that she was
so sweet he shouldn't never use no more
sugar any more-an' then he kissed her,
an l said I'd tell, am"
The young heir was lifted out of the
room by his ear, and the supper was fin
ished in moody silence.-Pias. Gazette.
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THE MARKETS.
Milwaukee.

MILWAUKEE, April 500 p M-Flour-
Very quiet and steady at frmer rates.
Wheat-Quiet and lower: No. cash Si.15;
No. 2 at sl.101zf91.11; No. 2 seller Nav
s1.103s@InI. Corn-Dull but steady :
No. 2, 4014c; new 37@39c. Oats-Quiet
for No. /; No. : Sc. Bariey-DuiI al at 55c c
for fresh; April 53c. Pork--Very dull and
lower at 1915 cash. Lard-S7.15. Hogs
Dull at S3.5V<13. 90.
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WHOLE NO. 1925.

eeipts 22,O0 bus; sales $4,000 bus at Sl.Sl
for No. = winter red, seller June. Rye =
Quiet; atF1dS0e. Corn Dull; &c lower;
receipts 1S 900 bus; sales $4,000 bus at Asa
54c for western mixed. Barley - Quiet.
Oats-Quft; receipts $4,000; sales 1900;
prices unchanged. Pork-Dull and un-
changed. I.ard-A shade lower; at $7.S5.
Whisky-kt s1.06H. Petroleum-Crude at
634c; refined AT II l%c
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Chicago.

CHICAGO, April S-1 80 P. NJ Wheat
Weak but lower; gilt edge at $1.10 for regu-
lar; $1.0S for cash; 81 l.09A9l. .0e7s for seller
May; 81 .0s1s for seller June. Corn-Weak,
heavy and lower; at &c for cash; AK for
seller May; 42e for seller June. .Oats-Dull,
weak and lower; at 223sc for cash and April |;
26Ac for seller May. Rye-At 5S13c. Bar
ley-Hesvy at Ale. Pork-Dull, weak and
lower; lat 1915 for cash; $o.22 9for seller
May. Lard-Heavy and lower; at $7.05 for
cash; $7.10@7.12H for seller May; $7.173
asked for June. Aleohol-At 33@34c.
Hogs-Receipts 10000 head fair demand at
5@l0c lower light at S. S50@3.55; packing
at s3. 5o@s.65; Philadelphias at ss.7o@3. so.
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Foreign.

LONDON, April So 80 P. M.-Consols
94A. Liverpool wheat market pens dull.
Wheat dull. Floating cargoes veiy heavy (;
on passage the turn cheaper. Mark Lane
rather easier. Fair average quality No. 2
Chicago spring wheat for shipment, &c. ASS
cd. English country markets very dull.
French steady
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New York.

Sew YORK, April $500 P. M.-Cotton
Quiet: at 10 9-16c for middling uplsnds
Flour-Dull; receipts $1,000 bbls; sales 12,-
500 hhls whest-Dull' tR2r l-w.r; re,
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THE California legislature adjourned
stne die, at midnight of the I'd inst.
THE subscriptions at the Chicago SUBJ
treasury, on the ID inst, for four per cent
bonds, were $25,00e.
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Bonds issued to Pacific Railroad COM
panies, interest payable in lawful
money, principal outstanding...........
Interest accrued and not yet paid ....
Interest paid by United States s.......
Interest repaid by trans. OF mails, etc.
Balance of interest paid bv the U. S..
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APRIL DERT STATEMENT.

The following is a statement of the
ndition of the public debt made ON the
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-12-07

responsibility for his dispatch, and would
not withdraw q single sentence. He made
q detailed statement in justification, and
particularly pointed out that Lord Gran
Vile, in 1873, declined 10 intimate to
Russia that any aggression on Afghanistan
would meet with British resistance.
Earl Grey moved an amendment to he
address, expressing o regret that Parlia-
ment was not summoned US soon as pos
sible after the war became probable.
The Duke of Somerset cordially sup
ported the prosecution of the war.
The Marquis Of Salisbury, Secretary Of
State for the Foreign Department, repealed
the personal charge that he had deceived
Parliament. by denying that there had
been any change Of policy towards Afghan
istan. He said 1t was brought forward by
Lord Granville to distract the country's
attention from the fact that his most
attached political friends were siding with
the enemies Of their country.
Lord Beaconsfield then addressed the
House. He criticized the attitude Of the
opposition in raising personal questions,
and challenged it to attack directly the
justice and policy Of the war. He stated
that the inspection of Cyprus, by his col
leagues, showed that that Island surpassed
bil WIG uOfCiniitnb . CADCCtutipibs ANU
would soon be recognized as one Of the
most influential positions in the British
domains. He expressed the opinion that
the results of the victory Of General
Roberts, in Afghanistan, would be speedy
and satisfactory. He believed the worst
or the commercial depression was over,
and expected that within a year the posi-
ton of things would be very different. He
added, in reference to the business pros
poets, the recent words Of the President Of
the United States, coming from such a
quarter, ON such o subject, cannot be
treated with too much consideration. En-
terprise in America reacts on that Of Eng
land. / look forward with much confidence
TO the inhuence Of American industry and
enterprise, as shortly producing more ia
vorable results than we can o estimate.
In conclusion, he said the Government
was prepared to meet Parliamcnt's deci-
sion, however it might affect the Ministry,
individually; but he hoped the House
would decide to maintain the Empire, and
not sanction a policy which mistakes tim
idity for wisdom.
The amendment moved by Earl Grey
was rejected, and the address adopted with
out division.