, 1881-10-14

Mr.. DewalPs house, 3 miles south of
Centralia, Iowa, was blown down and
himself, wife and four children buried in
the ruins.
A terrific hailstorm passed over Law
renee, Kansas, on the LIST. gailstones
were picked up weighing % ounces.
The city council at Chicago changed the
name of Sophia street to Garfield avenue.
| The board of education decided to name
| public school the Garfield School,"
The contractor who removes bodies of
dead animals in Chicago complained to
the mayor to-day that they could not get
enough teams to bury the horses which
have died of pink eye" The express
| companies. omnibus lines and street car
| companies are the chief sufferers.
The liabilities ofHough. of Chicago who
failed few days ago, are estimated by
| outsiders at S25 900 and most of the brok-
| ers on change are caught for small SUNG.
1t was stated late in the day that ]. w.
| Preston & w. +. McHenry, who were
brokers for the Cincinnati clique during
| their successful corner on August wheat,
| and who had lately joined teams and
were acting for the same clique in short
| ing" the market under the firm name of
Preston d McHenry, had been badly
caught by the failure of the CIncinnatIans,
and To protect the drafts for $50, 900 made
| on them, neither member OF the firm
would make up any statement and Pres
ton is said to have gone to Cincinnati AMI
| made a settlement. which will enable the
| firm to go on without interruption. In
any event they are not likely to suspend,
as both members are highly esteemed and
made a large sum by operations in the cor
ner
There was almost panic on change In
| Chicago OH the 4th when it Was noised
| about that John B. Lyon, who vas re-
| ported to be short about s, 100000 bushels
| of corn, had suspended. Lyon has for
| years been the heaviest shipper of corn
| in this market and sometimes almost the
exclusive shipper. He was said TO have
| been called on for one million dollars in
margins last night after business hours,
| and 10 have failed to respond. This fact
and the action of the board o. directors
| fixing the marginal prize of corn at 62
cents, broke the backbone of one corn
market, and all other grain sold down in
| sympathy. Novem ber corn sold down to
! 20 from 754. the closing price yesterday.
! December sold down to 6Ss, break of 59
| cents. October wheat sold from l424
| down to 14l, and November wheat from
| l461 to l44s. Oats sold off 2 cents. AT
i:l3 L. Nj. prices were still weak and de-
clining and it as thought that the fight
might help Lyon to pull through.
A Herald's Washington special says:
Guiteau, whose cell overlooks the eastern
branch, is now being treated for malaria,
! AN qulnine is administered in large quan-
titles. The wretch reluctantly takes paw
ders fearing that some subtle poison may
be Incorporated with the medicine and
his life taken by the hidden drug. He is
too anxious to live, so the guards say, to
attempt his own life, neither does he want
to die by the act of a physician any more
than by the act of hangman. He has
nervously put aside several of the pow
ders prescribed, and said he would take
them if he felt like it. The Jail guards say
he is the most consummate coward that
ever lived. He fears his own shadow, and
when taken to the bath room, short dis
tance from his cell, he insists on the
guard covering him, SO that if there is
among the soldiers on duty in the rotunda,
another Sergeant Mason, he will have To
hre through his escort to reach Guiteau.
He is still strangely confident that his
brOther-in-law's defense will acquit him.
Scoville is expected. His line of defense
will consist mainly in Offering evidence to
show that he comes from q family in
which hereditary insanity has been con.
spicuous for many years. Who will be
associated with Scoville, is not now
known, but ii is feared by the government
that some interested lawyers will be ac-
cepted, who will present all kinds ofques-
tions for the consideration of the Court,
and in this way mbarrass the prosecution,
compelling consideration of the law of
jurisdiction, of the right to practice on the
part of the presidents surgeons, and sew
eral other important points, consuming
time and putting the government to great
expense III summoning witnesses from
abroad.
A Washington dis patch saws: The pres
ident wishes to avoid a deadlock among
the senators of both parties here. Since
the announcement that there Will be GER
tainly two democratic senators paired
Slater and Fair, it is seen that the repub.
licans can. if they see fit, prevent the
election of democratic presiding officer
| by breaking quorum. The rules of the
| senate provide that Il quorum shall con-
sist of Il majority of all senators appointed
anu sworn. As there are three unsworn
senators. majority will be 81. In the
full senate the democrats have 3S without
Malone, and including David Davis.
Without the two paired senators they
have Sc, one short ofa quorum. In order
| to enforce their right to the presiding
officer, one of the pared democratic sem
ators must be here. 1t is not believed all
the republicans senators could be brought
to the point of breaking a quorum, which
could be remedied in week by the ap-
pearance of Slater and Fair, and even if
one of these could not be obtained, such
an exhibition would not be pleasing to
the country nor beneficial TO the party
in approaching elections. Indeed, the
| expressions of Dawes, who led the repub-
| lican forces in the dead lock of last session
show almost willingness to eoncede the
democrats the organization without any
! struggle and even uphold it, including
the secretary. 1t is very certain Gorh am,
the republican caucus nominee for secre-
tary, cannot now receive the united vote
of the republican senators, and probably
not halfofit. 1t is very positively asserted
that Davis will act with the republicans
to elect presiding officer should the un-
sworn senators be- admitted previous to
| the election.
CAREFUL LMARrHA.-"Areyo you prepared
for death?" the clergyman asked. with a
tremOr of emotion in his voice. as he
took the sick wOman's hand in his own