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CHICAGO TRADE.
The Market Rather More Active, and
Prices Advanced.

CHICAGO, March 29.-Wheat was a little
more active to-day, but prices were weaker,
influenced by the returning warm weather;
advices from abroad and domestic mar
kets all being unfavorable TO holders. The
movements of the combination are mysteri-
GUS. 1t is believed that a very large pro-
portion of the "shorts" have settled their
April sales, and the pressure, to be of great
account, must come in other months. Prices
were unsettled; irregular and trading wholly
for speculation. The opening was shade
easier, declined pretty steady 14@l5c for
May and June and l ic for July, then rallied
lsc for May and June, SC for July, fuctuated,
and closed &c lower for May and Ic for
June and July. Sales were made al 81 35(9
l Sc April, 81 2Ss(91 500 May, 81 1850
l 2Sf June, 81 2G4@1 70 July. On cali
prices were steady, except for June and
July, which were very weak and &c lower;
sales were moderate.
Corn was strenerne by very bullish
foreign markets; nome was chartered ior
shipments; t-auiHs as pretty active and
fluctuations fros"s-r or me close it WAS
a(94c better. o. - =ade at 63G635c
April, 69@6Sso s.ay, ui4@684c June,
6S968Sc July. - All was &c higher,
others rather e---=-- 80 ==lall.
Oats were 1c - --iet. Sales were
made at 424G----- 49, 45G45sc May,
45@45sc Jun, cry nearly un-
changed.
Pork was larry Eo..7e but irregular;
opened 5@l0c lower then rallied 10@129c,
and closed stea- p -s~I-s ~vr- made at SIG 923
@17 Oh April, ST. 15@17 80 May, ST. 374
@l7 523 June. On call it was rather easier,
but the last sale was trihe firmer.
Lard was just firm and steady, prices
remaining steady. On calls sales were made
at 1O5@10.924c April, 11@1110c May, Ills
N1ll.225c Jun.
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.=...-- s.ale

Farmers busy. The Temperance cause is
reviving here. .-.......A Dyersburg CORES
ponGent of the Sentinel writes: There has
been great loss OF cattle, hogs and horses in
this county by the high water. Mr. Bill
Burgie lost seveuty-hve head of cattle in one
lot. Mr.. g. T. Hay, on the Obion river, lost
all Of his hogs and cattle. We heard OF one
man who become so enraged at losing all Of
his stock, provisions, etc, that he procured a
dugoHt and went out in the middle Of the
river and blew his brains out with shot
gun"
Chattanooga Times: "There are no profes-
sional auctioneers in the city The sum
mer season will open in the mountains next
week Sunday showed too much drunk
enness on the streets. ..-. Five newspapers
are published at the Times Office, and fifty
eight hands are employed .........T The city
council is considering plans for building a
new colored schoolhOuse .........T The poets
find no word to rhyme with Chattanooga. Ii
she were girl pee. might hug her.
The city consumes daily 100000 gallons OF
water ......... Within the past week the Wo-
mans Christian Association has rescued five
children from the lowest depths OF squalor
and wretchedness.'
Franklin Rerie,e: "John Skinner lives at
the foot of Duck River Ridge, and a poplar
log three feet and half through and fifteen
parties or by some other means rolled about
80 yards, striking SINNERS house and totally
demolishing it. 1t threw their child across
the room, and wedged the parents between
the fallen house so that they could not move
until the logs were priced off them. Strange
to say none CT the parties were seriously
hurt go. Typhoid fever is raging west of
Forest Glen. The young folks there are
getting like strangers. The boys say the
reason they don't visit more is on account OF
the rain; but the real reason is because there
are so many poor horses. At Shady
Grove the Arlington Hunting Club has dis
banded. In the same neigL borhood the
sheepfolds are ravagei by dogs. Why do
not the farmers put one OF two goats with
h cir focks? They will butt the dogs Off"
Covington Call: eve hear of two cases OF
smallpox near Garland. One OF these,
stranger from Arkansas, was found in ar old
clubhouse, sick of the disease. He soon be-
came wild and ran away, going down in the
bottom, where he was found by some people
and brought back. Sustenance was placed
in the old house for him, but on another
visit the poor fellow was found dead. His
companion died also. Twenty dollars
each is offered Tor skiffs. Charley Kelly,
engaged in the timber business, died at Mr..
Kings camp, five miles above Randolph,
Sunday evening, of smallpox, which he con-
tracted in Memphis. TINS Is no cotton
country, but the soil of this county is pecu-
liarly adapted to anything growing on a
vine, or of this nature. The wild pea was
once spontaneous. Grape and muscadine
vines grow everywhere, and potatoes grow
with half culture The grasses, when at
tended to, pay better than anything Plaster
put upon the land brings big crops"
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in power in connection with it. 1t is sus-
pected that the Tories hope, if they have
the management, TO make the land and ex-
penses put TO so high a figure that the ten
ants could not pay it. Then the landlords
would get their estates back, and, the Land
act having been repealed to make way for
the land purchase act, they would rack-rent
and extSrt just az they have done for gener-
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ARKANSAS NEWS.

Small-fruit growers Oh the line of the
Iron Mountain road anticipate an excellent
seasons business.
The lands of the Little Rock and Fort
Smith railroad are being fast settled up by
class of thrifty mmigrants-mostly Ger
mans.
Mr.. NJ. c. Harris, formerly Associated
Press agent at Little Rock, has pUrch ased a
half-interest in the lease of the Arkansas
City journal, and will have editorial con.
troll.
Jefferson is the best fixed Of any Of the
counties of the State. Her crops were good
last year beyond any other. She has scarcely
felt the food, and planting operations are a
present more forward there than elsewhere
In answer to inquiries "a to whether OF
not he would call the legislature together in
special session, to afford relief to taxpayer:
in counties affected by the overflow, Governor
Churchill has answered that it would entail
a heavy expense 10 the State to hold such a
session, and that the relief asked IRE mission
OF the penalty for non-payment) can be
granted at the regular session, which will
convene on the first Monday in January
1888. There are several counties beside.
those damaged by the overflow of which the
sheriffs find it impossible to make full col
lections-notably Drew, Ashley, Lincoln
Dorsey, Clark, and others. The action o.
the governor is thought to be generally
approved.
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DAVID DALE OWEN,
ROsINA DOYLE WHEELER,
Wife of the Late and Mother of the
Present Earl of LytfOn.

The New York World, noticing the death
of Rosina Doyle, dowager countess of Lyt-
ton, the widow of the first earl, better known
in literature and in life as Sir Edward Bull
wer, and the mother of the poetical ex-vice-
roy of India, says: She was an Irish girl,
the daughter of a Limerick gentleman, Mr..
Francis Wheeler. In 1927 she married Bull
were, then a rising novelist and man of let
ter, TO whom she brought, besides her beauty
and her wit, a small property worth some
e400 year, on which he qualified for par
Lament. Her married life was stormy from
the first. In 1856 the Unmatched pair sep
arated, her husband agreeing to pay her e400
a year during her lifetime. She then
took TO woodworking, and Bulwer having re-
fused to advance money for her printers bill
she satirizsd him mercilessly in a once but
Honor. She next fell out with the press, and
the preface to The Bulge! Of The Ba6ble
Fam ly denounced its "praise as a blot and
its support as degradation" Her husband
took no notice of the publications further
than to deny the authorship of a rhymed
rejoinder, Lady CheueIty; or, the Woman Of
Honor, and to add that he was compelled,
for the sake of his children, and in their
name, to enter his most earnest protest
against any attempt to prolong or widen the
nOtoriety OF publication which carried its
own answer and its own condemnation" In
1858 she provoked much scandal by appear
ing on the hustings to abuse her husband
while he was thanking the electors for return
ing him. This led to her being shut up in a
lunatic asylum, whence, however, she was
released July 20, 1858. with public intima-
ton that she was now free from restraint,
and was about to travel with her son and a
female friend. DR.. Forbes Winslow testified
that her husbands course was neither
harsh nor unjustifiable." Lady Lytton pub
lished, besides the novels mentioned, A
School for Husbands, a novel, ostensibly
translated from French manuscript, en-
titled, Memoirs of lMuseovite;. Blanca
CdpeLtd, Miriam SedIey; or, the TdreS and
The Wheat, The Peers Daughters, The
Word and his We, Behind the Scenes, and
Very ISuceesSfuL-all three-volume novels
besides some lighter publications. The
latest but one of her works, published few
years ago, bore the title of Shells from the
Sands Of Time. In August of last year she
startled the physicians who had pronounced
her sane by publishing A Blighted Lie, in
which she spoke of her dead husband as "a
loathsome BRUTE" and of her living son as
"a miserable hound"
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Telegraph lines, which, it is claimed, will
revolutionize the present method OF receiv-
ing signals by a relay sounder and local
battery. Aside from the important factor OF
economy, this invention is admitted to be
entirely outside of the scope of the celebrated
Page patent, which practically controls the
whole field Of biography. Tests have been
made between Washington and New York,
Washington and Cincinnati, and other dis
tant points, in the presence Of patent officers
and other electrical experts, which demon
strated that this invention accomplishes that
which has been heretofore claimed by cleo
tricians TO be impossible
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BRITISH roRIIs ON A NEW TACK.

Ireland is still scene of disorder. The
land bill, which is removing the expressions
of landlords, is working well--too we'll for
Interested individuals who profit, not by
Irish peace but by Irish turmoil and dis
turbance, and therefore instead of satisfac-
tion, because of reduced rent, cry out, "no
rent" A curious phenomenon Is the conse-
quence. The Tories, who have uttered cu.ses
both loud and deep upon Gladstone, Tor so
far complying with popular feeling and just
dealing as to provide for fair renas and fast
tenure, are now giving Indications of out
doing all be has accomplished by gratifying
the mo rent" cry. This is amazing, but
under Disraeli the Tories learned strange
tactics, and those BOW in inception are a part
of them. Imagine feudal aristocracy en-
gagged in extinguishing one of the strongest
remsins OF feudal customl The Tory move
ment is intended to take the wind out of
Gladstone's sails by bidding higher for popu-
lar support than he has done. Fooled
by the check that minister gave
to the House of Lords when it
attempted to obstruct the operation of the
Land act, the Tory party is moving in favor
of demanding legislation from parliament
for the purchase of the land that is rented
out in ireland, the estates then to be divided
and sold to the present occupants. In this
policy they expect to have the aid OF the
Parnellite members in parliament, and so Sc
cure a majority there, drive out Gladstone
and the whole liberal ministry with him,
and thus secure power once more for the
tory party. The Tories have accused Glad
stone Of invading the right of property, of
violating the sacredness OF inheritance, and OF
degrading the queens ministry by making it
the instrument of compliance with popular
clamor, and the subservient tool of seditious
demands and threats. Yet these same Tories
are talking of helping TO do the work OF the
extremists, the demanders of "no rent"
Will their policy be successful? 1t is not
impossible; but the tactics that suggested il
will most likely fail. Ii the Tories get into
power by the movement now talked OF, they
would be under the necessity of purchasing
the lands at the landlords price,
which is something over twenty per
cent. above the price fixed by the
land commissioners, the latter valuation
the Tories object to and the landlords de-
nounce as unjust. The difference in the
gross sum would be immense-a great dis
advantage to the Tories. Should the Gid
stone government find that the policy =
tiated by the Tories could not be Withdrawn
from, it could justly undertake to carry i
out, for the land bill already provides fol
the purchase of lands, in certain cases thost
lands to be made over to the tenant on time
payments. With Gladstone, therefore, the
measure would be only carrying out to {
farther degree the principal already par
tally acted upon and by the Tories de
nounced. The ministry could also take th,
land at the reduced valuation, and thus, i
so extreme measure is TO be adopted, ow
ing to Tory interference, the Liberals, ant
not the Tories, are the people likely to b.
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SCHWAB.
The Game He Played on q Young Lady
from South Carolina.

Boston, March 29.-An advertisement
appeared recently in New York paper an
nouncing that young and handsome lady
OF means desiring to appear on the stage in
a leading part might hear of an opportunity
by addressing the person inser ing advertise
ment, and who cslled himself "Alfred
Schwab, Associate Manager Tabor's Grand
Operahouse, Denver, Col" Miss Helen
Morris Lewis; of Charleston, S. c., the
daughter of well-known and reputable
merchant of that city, and who was tempo
rarily residing in New York, read the adVer-
tisement, and had an interview with Sehwab.
Terms were arranged for two-years' engage
ment as leading lady 10 a travelling combi-
nation. She is to make her first appearance
in Daniel Rochat at the Boston Theater
Schwab informed Miss Lewis that it would
be necessary for her to purchase a
wardrobe, and that, as he knew Just
what she wanted, he would undertake
to get it for her. She gave him $500 to
make the purchase. The two soon after
came to Boston, Schwab accompanied by a
man whom he introduced as Mr.. Robert j.
Rummels, treasurer of the Park Theater,
New York, for six years. They reached this
city on the 18th instant, and rooms were en-
gagged at the Revere House. Shortly after
arriving here Schwab represented to Miss
Lewis that it would be a good thing for her
TO be coached" somewhat in the part in
which she was to make her first appearance,
and he accordingly engaged a professor of
elocution to instruct her, and she received
enc lesson. The wardrobe not appearing,
Miss Lewis became suspicious, and went to
the Boston Theater, where she discovered
that she had been victimized. She returned to
New York. Before going, however, she was
called upon 10 pay the hotel bills OF Schwab
and Rummels, who, suspeetlng that their
game was up, had fed Rummels managed
to induce Miss Lewis to lend him a sum of
money to help replace S45 belonging to
Schwab, which he confessed with tears he
had lost at faro. The two adventures
while in Boston inserted a similar adver-
tisement in Boston pap-r, and it is re-
ported that young lady living here is said
to have nibbled at the bait.
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LOUISVILLE, March 29.-Alex c. Wingate,
of Lexington, KY, was shot in the breast
and killed this morning at 3:l5 o'clock on
the Ohio and Mississippi train between
Sharksville and Medora, Ind. His assassin
was an unknown man who was crazed by
drink and had no provocation for the shoot
ing. After the tragedy the maniac jumped
from the train while it was going at the rate
of forty miles an hour, landed safely, walked
half a mile to a creek, stripped himself
naked and jumped into the stream, where
his dead body was found this morning. His
clothes were found hanging on bridge, and
contained 800 in cash, gold watch, an ex-
press receipt for $500 sent from Ell Paso,
Tex, to New Salem, O., and quart bottle OF
ginger brandy about half full. Both the
bodies were brought to this city, and an in
quest will be held tomorrow.
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Prominent Kentuckisn Gone Daft.

LOUISVILLE, March 29-From Lexington
comes the announcement that Colonel John
a. Prali has lost his mind. Daring the en-
tire period of the war Colonel Prall was
chairman of the State Committee on Fed
eral Relations, and exerted more influence
than any other one man toward keeping
Kentucky in the Union. In 1865 he was
chairman of the Safe Republican Conven-
ton, and in 1873 he represented his district
in the lower house of the Legislature. He
was for many years a lawyer of large prac-
tice, and one of the counsel for the defense
in the famous Buford trial. In 1874 he was
appointed United States pension agent at
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Cheap Land.

-Four cents an acre for land. That was
the nominal price paid in Georgia for 600
acres on Flint river island. In reality, it
was bartered for an old buggy, nominally
worth $25. With land of any description,
even half-submerged swamp, going for sale
in that State; at that price, there should be
no lack OF immigrants if the fact be made
known that land can be got for so little. And
yet the comptroller generals report shows
that the re are over half million acres of wild
land in Atlants's own county, which are
valued at eight cents an acre, and in the
State there are seven and a half million
acres at a quarter of dollar each.
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Insane mo,her.s HorribIe Crimr.

LITTLE Rock, March 29-Monday even
ing, near Palmyra, Lincoln county, seventy
miles southwest of here, Mrs. J. NJ, Ballard
and three little children left home, it was
supposed for her fathers, few miles away.
Next day she and the children were found
dead in a creek in the neighborhood. The
necks of the two eldest children had been
broken, but no marks of violence were on
the youngest. Their ages were seven, five
and three years. Ii is believed Mrs. Ballard
was insane All were buried in single
grave Wednesday,
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DETROIT Mich, March pa terrible
tragedy occurred at Crawford, settlement
about eight miles south OF Farwell, yesterday
in which man named Jacob Smith, aged
about sixty-fve years, was killed by a man
named Joseph Butcher. 1t appears that
Smith, who is Il resident of Harrison, went
to Bucher's with Mrs. Butcher, who has been
divorced from her husband, to get her chill
dren. Butcher refused to give up the children,
and Smith turned to leave, whereupon
Bucher struck him with his fist, and followed
it up by Jlow with Il wooden mallet, crush
ing his victims skull and killing him on the
spot. He was afterward arrested. Butcher
is about forty-fve years OF age, and is one Of
the earliest settlers of Glare county. He is
a man OF violent temper, it is said, while
Smith was quiet and peaceable.
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An Absconding Bank clerk.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND, March 29.-Arthur
Mueller, note broker. produce dealer and
teller of the Central Bank, left the city on
Monday, and his present whereabouts Is I'M
known. The matter has been kept quiet
until to-day. 1t is supposed that he has left
a large amount of the Indebtedness of his
real estate and commission house to his
mother, to whom he was indebted $4,000.
The Central Bank publishes card stating
that his accounts with the bank are all cor
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RICHMOND, VA, March 29-Forty-six con-
victed oyster dredgers, in Matthews county,
were marched into the penitentiary to-day.
RICHMOND, VA, March 29.-The post
office and COx's National Bank, of Virginia,
were robbed of their contents last Sunday
during the great fire.
DANvILLE, VA, March ga suspected
secret society of colored people will attempt
the rescue of Dock Wright, sentenced to be
hanged at Cheatham next Friday. The Dan
Vile Grays have been ordered here.
LOUISVILLE, KY, March 29-Allen Fox,
aged eighty-on years, cut his throat last
night MORALLY wounding himself. He was
an old and wealthy citizen, and the father
in-law of John FINER, a tobacco manu-
facturer
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a Wrong Idea

Many persons having gotten the wrong
idea that hops are strengthening, have taken %
drinking beer and ale very freely. The conse
quence Is they feel better for short time. but
when the reaction comes they are much weaker
than before. Reader. If you value life, lay aside
all malt and alcoholic beverages and put youI
trust in the temperance preparation OF iron and
vegetable tonics called u. owns Iron BttOrs. II
gives real health and strength every part of the
body, refreshes the mind and restores the nervous
system to its. proper standard. Over 10000 bot
ties have been sold this year
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Trouble Brewing in the Pennsy lyania
Coal Regions.

PITTsBURG, PA, March 29.-The railroad
coal miners of the Pittsburg district, in con-
vention here TO day. unanimously resolved to
resist any attempt of the operators to reduce
the prices of mining from four cents to three
and a half cents per bushel. Seventy five
pits were represented in the convention and
only few OF these have been notified by the
operators that reduction will be made on
April LIST. Where such action is taken the
miners will strike.
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Bribery in the New jersey Legislature

TRENTON, \. j., March 29.-When the
governors veto of the Jersey City water
grant bill "a bill said to be in the interest of
railroads. was called up in the House to-day,
me mber informed the body that he had in
his possession $500 of the $1,000 promised
him if he would vote for the passage of the
bill, Notwithstanding the veto OF the COVER
nor. A committee of investigation was ap-
Dointed
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CouIdn,t stand the brutality.

testified to-day at the inquiry into the
abuses in the Lynchburg prison, that he
resigned because he could not stand the evil
dences of brutality around him, and would
not be keeper there again for $1,000 per
month, on account of hearing the meanings
and wailings of the convicts being padded.
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ST.. LOUIS, March &c. Bookhoul, a
reputable citizen of Archer county, Tex,
was called out of his house night or two
ago by w. w. Parks, his son Theodore and
a man named Bowles, and riddled with bull
leis. The affair grew out OF a law suit, in
which Parks GOT Worsted
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The Piedmont Cotton Mills at Greenville,
S. C., has just shipped two hundred bales Of
its chevoit TO China, upon an order from an
enterprising dealer in the Celestial Empire.
Other orders from the same direction have
lately been received by the cotton mills in
South Carolina
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Heayy suov.storms i'm the West.

CHICAGO, March %. = St. Paul and
Winnepeg specials record heavy snow-storms
along the Canadian Pacific, which blocks
travelling until warm weather. The storms
al Winnipeg have been unprecedently severe
this season. Pierre Duchain, aged sixteen,
starting across the country with yoke OF
oxen, wasisnowed under nj ar Caviar, Dakots,
and found dead after eight days.
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! ST LOUIS, March 29-J. r. Bowman, late
county Judge Of Phelps county, fred load
Of buck-hot into the body OF Alfred Hayes
last night as he was walking the street in
the little town of st. james. 1t was regu-
lar assassination, Hayes being taken entirely