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THE WEST,

GREAT distress has been caused in
Hot Springs, by the recent fires. Many OF
those who had their homes destroyed were
either infrm or crippled, and had gone
thither for treatment. Many who were en-.
gagged In trade have lost their entire pos
session, and there is but slight insurance
since 1t was hard to obtain on most of the
structures. The Inhabitants cannot mort
gage their grounds, for it has been decided
that their titles are not valid. Generous
aid has been asked
JUDGE MCALLIsTER, of Chicago, on
the 10th inst, decided that the city ordi-
nance prohibiting the sale of liquors to
minors, is void.
Hon. CHAs. L. WILSON, proprietor of
the Chicago Erening Journal, died at San
Antonio, Texas, on the 9th inst. There will
be no change in the conduct or policy of
the Journal. Hon. Andrew Shuman, who
has been for twenty years editor-in-chef,
will continue to control the editorial col
umns, and Col. Farrar, who has long been
business manager, will conduct the busi-
ness department.
J. b. MCWHoRTER, of Cincinnati, has
been appointed warden of the Ohio peni-
tentiary, and Jesse Campbell, of Steuben-
vile, deputy warden, vice Dean, who has
served 81 years.
THE hardware firm of Howard, Como
Co., Cincinnati, failed on the 9TH inst
The house was established in 1S4S, and is
one of the oldest firms in that line in the
city. 1t is stated that the liabilities will
reach $1,000
AT meeting of lead mine owners and
lead dealers at St. Louis, on the 7th inst, a
protective organization called the American
Pig Lead association was instituted The
society has for its purpose the prevention Of
further decline in prices, and will en-
deavor, if possible, to effect raise in them
THE fifth annual convention of the
National Butter, Cheese and Egg Associa-
ton met at the Grand Pacific Hotel, at
Chicago, on the 9th inst. About l 500 dele
gates were expected to attend the sessions.
FIRE COMMISSIONER ORDENITINE, O
San Francisco, is missing. He is supposed
to have absconded with about S., 900.
THREE prominent citizens of Chicago,
who have been closely identified with her
progress and development, died on the 5th
inst. Major E. H. Mulford, William Good
ing and Captain j. W. Tuttle. The latter
died in New York, where he had gone to
attempt a cure of long standing physical de-
preston.
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ABROAD.

Mr.. GLADSTONE has been invited to
clined
1NsURRECTION is very active in
Thessally, Epirus and Crete, and fresh out
breaks in Macedonia are reported.
A LETTER from San Domingo, of Jan.
uary 10th, states that the revolutionists had
attacked Baez's army, at one mile distance
from the city, and utterly defeated it, max.
ing many prisoners, and capturing all its
artillery and ammunition. Great conster
nation prevailed in the city. The only
places that still held out against the revo.
lutionists were Azua, Santo Domingo and
on the point of capitulation.
THE Archduke Francis, father of the
Austrian emperor, is dead.
GENERAL GRANT arrived at Piraeus,
Greece, on the sth inst, escorted by three
lron-clads. A large crowd witnessed the
landing. The general afterwards visited the
king.
IT is officially reported that the numbe,
of Cuban insurgents who have surrendered
from February % to March 5, is 1880 per
sons, with los stand of arms of the promi
nent chiefs there are Maxine Gomez, Beni
tez and Rodriguez.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has signed a de.
cree authorizing the German painters and
sculptors to participate in the Paris e1hibi
ton.
DR.. SCHLIEMANN has secured new..fr.
man, and intends to renew his excavations
at Hissarlik as soon as it is safe for him to
work in the country.
The yellow fever again prevails at
Rio Janeiro. Forty-fve deaths from the
disease occurred during the first two weeks
of February.
In the Cleopatra needle sslvage suit,
the court of admiralty fixed the value ol
ship and obelisk at f25,0o0
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The Clock i'm Trinity's Tower.

The clock in Trinity church tower is
the heaviest in America. 1t might seem
that in its construction an effort had
been made to ascertain how much metal
could possibly be planted in a clock.
The frame stands nine feet long, five
feet high and three feet wide. The
main wheels are thirty inches in diane
ter. There are three wheels in the time
train, and three each in the strike and
the chime. The winding wheels are
formed of solid casting, thirty inches in
diameter and two inches thick, and are
driven by opinion and arbor." On
this arbor is placed jack, or another
wheel, pinion and crank, and it takes
$50 turns of this crank to wind each
weight up. 1t requires 700 feet of three
inch rope for the three cords, and over
an hour for two men to wind the clock.
The pendulum is eighteen feet long and
oscillates twenty-five times per minute
The dials are eight feet in diameter,
although they look little more than half
that size from Broadway. The three
weights are about eight hundred, twelve
hundred and fifteen hundred pounds
respectively. A large box is placed at
the bottom of the well that holds about
bale of cotton waste, 50 that if a cord
should break the cotton would check
the concussion.-NewY York Mercury.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE EAST,

WILLIAM JACOBS, clothier, of Spar
tansburg, Pa, and his clerk, U. S. Gold.
man, have been arrested and lodged in jail,
charged with incendiarism, from which
cause that place was nearly all destroyed
by fire, on the 9TH inst.
The Heme Savings Bank, of Boston,
suspended on the 10th inst, temporary in.
junction having been obtained.
The Chicago and Iowa railroad was
sold on the 9th inst, to J. NJ. Walker, attor-
ney for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
road, for $500, 200, 900 being cash down.
The steamer Timor sailed from Phila-
delphia, for Russia, on the 9th inst, with
twenty-si1 locomotives on board. The
WickAam with the remainder of the loco
motives required, sailed the next day.
Mrs. LYDIA NJ. ROOSEVELT, whose
boast it was that she was the first woman
who descended the Ohio in a steamboat,
died in her home atSkaneateles, New York,
on the Sth inst, aged So.
THE New York button company has
failed. Liabilities 100000; actual assets
about $50, 900; in stock, machinery, etc.
THE Lehigh Valley and Franklin Coal
Companies, have suspended operations for
TINS month. owing to the fact that the quota
allowed to that section by the combination
has been filed.
The greenbackers of New Hampshire
have nominated Samuel Flint for governor.
JOHN V. BARRo,, president of the
National State Capital Bank, of Concord,
\. IT,, and treasurer of the Coin and Trust
Savings Bank, Died on the 5fh inst.
THE Industrial Exhibition company,
established at New York in 1871, has col.
lapsed. The land held by the company was
sold under foreclosure of mortgages on the
9TH inst, for 100000. The original price
paid by the company for the property was
S1,700,OOO.
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MANITOWOC
DRY DOCK.
A New Code of Signals.

A Watertown, n. l., paper tells this
story: A rather ludicrous 81 ght was wit
messed while ago on top of an incoming
freight train. The conductor of the train
had ordered brakeman, very green
hand, to the head of the train, there to
repeat all signals to the engineer as given
by him (the conductor) to the brakeman
on the back end of the train. The last
brakeman was comical genius so he de-
termined to have some finn With
"greeny." The first few signals
necessary to the running OF the train
were all right, but soon the end
brakeman commenced his fun. He Law
down on the top of the car and rolled
over. "Greeny." on the other end f the
train thinking it was a signal, did like
wise. The end brakeman's leg went up
in the air; then the other leg went up;
then both legs together; then yell then
both legs commenced to kick, and a
grand kicking match commelced.
"Greeny" took all this maneuveriag of
the end brakeman as signaling, and re-
peated accordingly. Thus they were
drawn into town, fiat on their back, and
kicking in the air,
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The secretary of the treasury has al

pointed committee consisting of Assistant
| Secretary French, Dr. Linderman, director
| OF the mint, and Treasurer Gilfllan, to con-
slider all propositions under his circular for
the purchase of silver bullion and to report
| the result to him.
FROM estimates and tables submitted
to cabinet meeting by Secretary Sherman,
it appears that under the operation of the
| tariff bill now before the house, revenue
| will fall off annually from $14, ,0O0, 900 to
OO,OO0, and to meet the annual ex.
pendltures of the government, it will be-
| come necessary to make up the deficiency
by tarlH on the articles now on the free list.
The house committee on Pacific rail-
roads agree to recommend the passage of
the bill appropriating $4,000 for the survey
tor road from Austin, Texas, through Chi
huahpa, and Sonora to Topoiovampo har.
bor, u .alf af California.
THE secretary of the treasury will
until further notice, receive subscriptions
for the per cent funded loan of the United
States at par and accrued interest. Forms
of application will be furnished by the
assistant treasurers at Baltimore, Boston,
Chicago, Cincinnati, New Orleans, New
York, Philadelphia st. Louis and San Fran
cisco, and by national banks and bankers
generally.
The senate committee on Indian af-
fairs, on the 9th inst, agreed the report IA
vorably upon the bill authorizing the secre-
tary OF the interior to make certain negotia-
tions with the Ute Indians in Colorado.
The negotiations in question are for the con-
solidatlon of all bands in one agency, to be
located on, or near White river, and for the
extinguishment of the right of the Ute In
dians to the southern portion of their reser-
vation in Colorado.
The postmaster general has decided
that members of congress have the legal
right to become sureties on bonds accom-
panylng bids for mail service. He also
decided that the bid submitted by J. p.
Price, citizen of the state of Missouri,
could not be regarded as invalid, on the
ground that his wife is one of the sureties
thereon, is possessed of sufficient property
in her own right.
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The London Times in leading edi-
torial says that Russia must submit every
one of the peace conditions to the congress
not excepting the indemnity clause. "She
has no right" says the article, " to be die
tator over Turkey. The great powers did
not invite her to make war, or give her com
mission to replace the government of the
porte IN any way she may think fit"
ADyICEs from India state that the
Mohammedans are greatly excited about the
overthrow of Turkey, and serious trouble is
apprehended unless the government take
some anti Russian action shortly.
IT is reported that the sultan has rati-
fed the treaty of peace. 1t is reported that
the last clause is to the effect that Russia
and Turkey will regard the treaty as soli-
dare, implying that they will not recognize
the right Of any power to interfere with its
| terms, except as regards the question of the
straits and the settlement of the boundaries
OF Montenegro.
THE Vienna Political Correspondence
| asserts that II Russia persists in not SUBJ
mitting the whole treaty to congress war is
| certain.
IT is said that Russia and Servia are
negotiating for an exchange of the district
OF Bayazid for certain Persian territory on
the Caspian.
A LETTER to the Cologne Gazette from
Pera states that Sulieman Pasha has been
| drowned. His papers proved that he was
contemplating conspiracy for the over.
| throw of the sultan.
AT Russian headquarters it is positive
ly stated that when the British fleet passed
the Dardanelles orders came from st.
Petersburg to move into Constant i1ople,
but the Grand Duke Nicholas took it upon
himself to dlsobey the command, and only
moved forward in the direction of Constan.
tinople, sending at the same time to St.
Petersburg, statement of his reasons for
| his course.
A BERLIN dispatch says it is pretty
certain the Austrians will occupy Albania
as we'll as Bosnia, and perhaps also part of
Macedonia.
A DISPATCH from Athens says that
| official intelligence has been received from
Lar;ssa that the Turks are marching against
the insurgents at Makrenetz. Desperate
| fghing is expected. The Turks threaten a
| bonbardment from Volo harbor A battle
is aso imminent at Karditza.
The porte is stated to have sanction
ed tie stay of Russian troops at San Stefano
as ltng as the British feet remains on the
| Sea Of Marmora.
The sultan sent the following telegram
to the emperor: "Constantinople, March
8: On the occasion of the anniversary of
youi majesty's accession to the throne,
| offeI my congratulations, with the desire of
renewing our friendly relations" The en-
perG in reply telegraphed as follows: al
thank your majesty for your congratula-
| tom, which received simultaneously with
| the lews of the signature of peace. l per-
ceiv. in this coincidence presage of good
and lasting relations between us.
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CASUALTIES.

FIVE stores were destroyed by fire ct
Eaton Rapids, Mich, on the 11th inst. Loss,
10000; insurance, So, 500
A Mr.. HODGES, while walking along
a road near Memphis, on the 11th inst, was
struck by lightning and instantly killed.
A BAGGAGE car. was burned on the
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern road,
on the 11th inst, near Edgerton, Ind. All
the contents were destroyed, including con-
siderable mail matter. Reports of heavy
losses by passengers are current
A GASOLINE machine exploded at a
town hall meeting at Harrison, Ohio, on the
sth inst, killingT. Rapp, member of the
council, and a little girl. A. Probst and t.
Fisher were dangerously injured.
A SPECIAL from Constantinople states
that fully 700 Circassians perished on the
steamer Sphinx, which burned near Cape
Ella.
A coLLIERY explosion occurred at
Glasgow on the Sth inst. Twelve miners
were rescued, but seventeen remained in the
pit. At late hour at night the miners were
still entombed, and there was no hope OF
rescuing them alive.
A FIRE at Panama destroyed twenty
six buildings, including the Grand Central
Hotel. The total loss will foot up $500, 900.
The steamer City of Chester was
totally destroyed by fire at Memphis, on the
9TH inst. Two persons are known to be
lost. The vessel was valued at 900.
THE propeller Hope was run down and
sunk by the steamer Texas, near New Or
leans, on the 7th inst. Two lives lost
P. S. LEACH's shoe shop and contents,
at Brockton, Mass, were burned on the 9th
inst. Loss, $50, 900; insurance about $l25,-
900. Four thousand people are thrown out
of employment.
1NCENDIARY fires at Elizabeth, n. j.,
caused loss of S35, 900, on the night of the
9th inst.
Two hundred and fifty buildings in the
business portion of Hot Springs, Ark, were
destroyed by fire on the 5th inst. The loss
viii be i'll the neighborhood of a million of
dollars. No lives lost.
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nitely postponed -. .Paul's bill for county
system for the care of insane passed by a
vote of II to O

nitely postponed. Pauls bill for county
system for the care of insane passed by
vote of II to 9.
Assembly.
SATURDAY, March 9.-The bill to ex-
empt cities OF less than 5000 population
from the action of the registry law was
passed. 80. The bill to repeal the exemption
OF the lands OF the Wisconsin Central rail-
way from taxation came up on consideration
OF the report of the railroad committee and
was indefinitely postponed by a vote of 81
TO -. A motion TO reconsider the vote and
lay the motion on the table was eoneurred
;n-S7 to 10.
Senate.
MONDAY, March IA resolution
asking for an income tax was concurred in
"A bill to appropriate SS,leS to the
Northern hospital for the insane, was passed
80. The assembly bill for the relief of
Horatio n. Smith who lost $4,000 of state
funds by the failure OF the Corn Exchange
bank, was passed on the ground that Smith
was instructed 10 deposit the funds with
that bank......The bin against the employ.
ment of children under II years of age in
factories, after having been indefinitely
postponed twice heretofore, was concurred
in.....The compulsory education bin was
lhdennitelS postponed.
Assembly.
MONDAY, March ll.-Bills passed To
remedy the evils resulting from the burning
OF public records; to transfer the normal
school fund income TO the board of school
regents; to extend the time for the construc.
tion of the Chicago, Portage and Superior
railroad The assembly spent considerable
time in committee of the whole on the Me
Fetredge claim.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

FRANK j. BOWMAN, of st. Louis, has
been found guilty of unprofessional con-
duct. The sentence of the court was that
his name should be stricken from the roll.
and that he be debarred from further prac-
tice in the state.
Miss CARRIE BEAUMONT, of Nc
Millville, Tenn, has been awarded $4,000
damages against B. c. Scott, for breach of
promise.
A TERRIFIC snow storm prevailed on
the line of the Union Pacific railroad on the
Sth and 9th inst. A great many OF the cuts
We're level full, and all trains on the Union
Pacific and Colorado central were side
tracked or showed in. The wind had
velocity of from fifty to sixty-four miles an
hour. In Cheyenne the snow was drifted in
banks from ten to fifteen feet high.
THE programme of the Liberian exodus
association is now completely arranged,
and the ship Azore, which is to convey the
first installment of colored emigrants, is daily
expected at Charleston.
AT a meeting of the directors and
stockholders of the Louisville base ball
club, on the Sth inst, it was resolved to re-
sign their position in the league.
AN officer at the Southwest Pass, near
New Orleans, has found four awning
stanchions tied together, marked "McAllis-
ter" which evidently belonged to the miss
ing dredge.
The statement of the clearing house
returns from twenty-one leading cities of
the the country for the month ending March
2, as compared with the CORRESPONDING
month last year, shows loss of Is $40 per
cent.
The Straits of Mackinac are clear of
ice.
The ship Berthot, of Portland, had
her captain and three men swept overheard
at sea
SUPERINTENDENT POLLOCK, of the
mint at Philadelphia, issued $50, 900 new sill
yer dollars, on the 9TH inst
HARVEY & KEITH, the most extensive
dealers in boots and shoes in Louisville,
KY, have failed.
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THE CRIMINAL CALENDAR,

WILLIAM Fl. COLLINS, a guard in the
pententiary at Columbus, Ohio, was fatally
injured by three convicts, On the 11th inst
A wELL-DREssED man jumped into
the river at St. Louis, on the night of the
10th inst, and was drowned. He left a
memorandum, saying: Whisky did it;
takecompassiono on my little boy. D. LAWN y
MRS. GREGoIRE KAISER, wife of A.
Kaier, one of the prominent business men
of Burlington, Iowa, suicided by taking
merIhine. on the 9th inst.
P, 7. VAN ARDEN, first sergeant Com
pan! E, Seventh infantry, stationed at Camp
gak,r, Montana, suicided on the I'd of
Marth, by shooting himself.
An affray occurred on the night of
the sth inst, at temperance meeting in
Kirlwood, No., between Louis Backley and
LOUIS Me1uecke over an old quarrel, in
whlth one of the parties received injuries
Likely to prove fatal.
JAMES FLANNERY, the defaulting
cleri of the Pottstown Iron company, and
Richard L. P. Rufsnider, late editor of the
Potttown Adrertiser, both pleaded guilty
10 the charge of stealing 5000 from the
Iron company.
TIE explosion of boiler in Robin
son ssaw mill, at London, Ont, on the sth
inst. killed Alex. King, foreman, and de.
molished the building and machinery.
Os the 7th inst, young lady named
Hamin, of South Bend, Ind, who is about
to become mother, attempted to shoot a
newlr-married man named Law, a clerk in
Z. s. Peck's store. 1t is developed that he
had ieduced Miss Hamlin under promise of
marriage, and then deserted her.
4 woIAN, known by the name of
Jesse Stockton, was shot and killed in a
bagrio al Toledo, O., on the 9th inst, by
Lous Altenbaugh. He has been arrested.
GEO. w. ABBOTT, the absconding
partaer of the firm of Brodis, Abbott & Co.,
of San Francisco, has been arrested on the
steamer Georgia, at Acapulco, by United
States Consul John A. Suttsr, Jr., and $15,.
COO recovered.
FOUR members of family named
Groisheim were arrested at Cincinnati, on
the 18th inst, by United Slater detectives. on
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THE MARKETS.
New York.

NEW YORK, March 11-3 :OOP. Moot.
ton-Quiet and unchanged. Flour-Quiet
and unchanged; receipts 5000 bbls; sales
1000 bus; no sales No. 2 spring seller
March, $1.2174 bid. Rye-Steady and un.
changed. Corn-A@1kc better; receipts
$4,000 bus; sales 10000 bus. Barley Quiet
and unchanged. Oats-Steady and un-
changed; receipts $4,000 bus; sales $4,000
bus. Pork-Firm at S9.S7H@1025. Lard
Steady and frmer at 1929. Whisky-At
$1.05. Petroleum-Crude unchanged; re.
fined at 12c.
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WASHINGTON,

On the 18th inst, the case of the
United States against General o. o. How.
ard, late commissioner of the freedmen's
refuge and of abandoned lands, was taken
up. This is an action to recover $13,394
found to be due on the settlement of his ac-
counts, and it is alleged that these moneys
came into his hands by virture of his being
such commissioner and trustee, the
amounts being due to colored soldiers, ETC.
The defense was that the case had been SUBJ
ject to inquiry by the army, and that he was
eIculpated; also that the funds in question
were in the hands of L. W. Bullock, a de-
tailed officer, and that the defendant was
not responsible. Under the instructions of
the court verdict was found for the de-
fendant.
THE president has nominated john ".
Hoyt of Wisconsin, for governor Of Wyom-
ing territory.
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Chicago.

CHICAGO, March lis P. M.-Wheat-
Firm, fairly active and higher at $l.053s@
1.055s for cash; S1.04A@1.04K for seller
April; $1.05A@1.055sfor seller May. Corn
-Firmer; at l5sc for cash and seller March
and May Oats-Steady and unchanged; at
At SIC. Barley-At 454c. Pork-Quiet !;
s9.35k for seller April; S9.45@9.47X for
seller May. Lard-Steady and frmer at
$6.9711@7.00 for seller April; s7.5O@10.OO
for seller May. Whisky-At$1.04. Hogs
Receipts 5000 head; light in fair demand
at $3.50@3.60; heavy mixed nearly nominal
at s3.2o@3.5o heavy shipping at S3.6O@3.70.
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charge of eounterfeiting trade dollars
Molds, electric plates, and 800 counterfeit
trade dollars were seized.
WINSTON ADAMS, who attempted to
outrage little girl near Clarksville, Tenn,
was taken from Jail on the 1st inst, and
lynehed by large body of armed men.
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FOreign.

LONDON, March 11-12 :CO M.-Liverpeol
wheat market opens dull; California club at
lis 9d912s I'd; average California, lis Ada
lis Sd; spring, 9s 1ld@1Os I'd. Floating
cargoes qliet; on passage quiet. Mark Lane
about Is p Or. cheaper; good cargoes Cali
fornla wheat, off coast, 54s; fair average
California wheat, just shipped, SIS; nearly
due, 5Ss 81. English country markets, turn
easier; French, turn dearer. Farmers deliy.
cries of wheat during the week $1,000 to
40 600 urs
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PROF. EDISON, the wonderful inventor

PROF. EDISON, the wonderful inventor,
looks, when at work, like boy appren-
tice. His face is beardless, and he is in
manner and speech very boyish. But
the fire of genius shines in his keen, gray
eyes, and the clean-cut nostrils and
broad forehead indicate strong mental
activity. Though but thirty-one years
old, the occasional gleam of siivery
hair tells the story of his application.