The Star, 1875-03-18

NEWS FROM' THB OLD WORLD. LONDON, March 18.--,The Calcutta cor correspondent - respondent correspondent of the Times telegraphs that difficulties have arisen between the In Indiets - diets Indiets eovernment and the King of Burmah regarding boundaries and the latter's claim to sovereignty over sevpral independent States. la spite of Lord Northbrook's proposal for a Mixed Com Commission - mission Commission for the eettlement of the ques questions - tions questions at issue, the King has occupied the disputed territory, and refuses to with withdraw. - draw. withdraw. The British authorities insist on the settlement by the means they have proposed, and troops are going to British Burwell. Messrs. Biordil it Co., general mer merchants, - chants, merchants, No. 69 Mark Lane, have suspend. ed payment. Their liabilities are stated at ;2,000,000. The suspension was caused bv the failure of John O. inthurn Co. tither suspensions are said t o be immi imminent. - nent. imminent. The Lincolnshire handicap race was won by The Gunner, Kaieer second anti Madge Wildfire third. St. Patrick's Day was celebrated with the usual ceremonies and festivities throughout Ireland. There was no Alia Aliaturbance. - turbance. Aliaturbance. BEEI:IN, March ilk-o-The Post of this city says Spain has demanded the extra extradition - dition extradition from (kerma territory of Don Al Alfonzo, - fonzo, Alfonzo, brother of Don Carlos, charging him with offenses against the Common Laws. Spain has extradition treaties with individual German States, hut not with the Empire. The documents re required - quired required in such cases under her treaties with Bavaria and nesse have been lotiLed hy Spain. Thu Archbishop of Cohigne, on behalf of the whole Homan' Catholic Episcopate of Prussia, has sent a petition to the Lower House of tke Prussian Diet urging it not to pass that part of the Ecclesias Ecclesiastical - tical Ecclesiastical Bill which gives the people a share in the administration of- local church property., ,; MOstott, March 18.Don Alfonso and Princesti Blanca have arrived hi this city, ea route to Styria. Leah:afar& COLUMBUS, 0.. MArch 17.---SENATE.!- A message troni the Oovernor was re reeeived, - eeived, reeeived, nominatipg John P. Bruck as Di Director - rector Director of the Penitentiary; Ileorge W. Manypenny, L. O. DeWitt and W. D. 'Morgan as Commissioners of the Central Lunatic Asylum, and Durbis Ward as Trustee Mile Soldiere' Orphans' Boum at Xanie., The Senate then went into Executive session on the nomination el E. J. Dodd a Cats Inspector, anti con confirmed - firmed confirmed it. llousicBeatty's bill to restrain , va vagraucy - graucy vagraucy was passed. It provides for pun punishing - ishing punishing by line and imprisonment any per person - son person taken up for vagrancy, and besides wakes the amount ol Aiwa collectable by the eniploymeut of persons monvicted of the offemie at labor within the county Inuits. The Senate amendments to Mr. Brunner's louse bili prescribing the manner of condemnation of property for railroad purposes were concurred in.. Mr. Kemp's bill regulating the ,charges ' of telegraph compauies withiu the lim limits - its limits of the state was read the third time and gabbed. ' . ' Snail Eating.- A century ago, some four millions of snails were annually exported from Ulm in "cage" of ten thousand, fetching ' from twenty-live to forty florins a " cag. We do not know if Ulm still carries on the trade; 'nit any one desiring a lesson in snail culture may learq all about it in the Tyrol. There .younksters ot both! sexes are employed during the summer.' months collecting simile as stock for the snail gardens small plots of land, cleared of treee, and covered with heaps of moss and pine twigs and separated from each other by moats, having grat gratings - ings gratings at their outlets, to prevent eny tru truants, - ants, truants, that may get into the water, from being carried beyond bouuds. The pris prisoners - oners prisoners are supplied daily with fresh grass and cabbao leaves, until their appetites fail, and they retire into the moss heaps for their winter's sleepthe last one they wilt enjoy; for when sprhig comes, they are routed out of their beds, packed in straw-lined boxesand sent on to market. la. a favorable season one of these gardens will turn out forty thou thouband - band thouband snails. The consumption of them in the South Tyrol must be great. Italians and Tyrolese are not the only people who appreciate the merits of these ()lean reeding mollusks. In Paris, Burgundian snails are worth a half-penny apiece, and five hundred pounds worth oi snails are disposed of in the markets in the course of a year. Indeed the establishment of a special market for the sale of snails is talked about, and tile authorities are con considering - sidering considering the expediency of makiug snails pay the,00trol dutya very strong evi evidence - dence evidence that they have become a r,ecog r,ecognized - nized r,ecognized article of 'food. We are told that the Newcastle glasis glasismakers - makers glasismakers hold annual snail-leasts; that snails are publicly sold in Olouceater Olouceatershy - shy Olouceatershy markets; and that properly boilea in spring water, and seasoned with pep pepper - per pepper and salt, they make a very nice dish. Nevertheless, the clay le far distant when English talk will take kindly to them. They may, like Philemon Holland, OWII the possibility of snails being very wholesome, " but toothsome, certainly not. , ifir. and Mrs.-, Smith were troubled with cold feet 'o nights Until they bit upon the hot water jug; but one day the servant girl, vino knew little of the prop properties - erties properties of Steam, heated the water too much. The cork of the jug was driven la as far as it would go, and then the jug was set upon the stove. and when the water began to boil was carried up stairs and placed beneath the clothes at the foot of tee bed, where kr, and Mrs. Smith were already ensconced; The Smiths, husband and wife, cuddled their feet against the jug, and ivere happyit wao so warm, auti the bed was so cold. Sweet sleep was lust about casting its mantle over the couple, so to speak, when there came suddenly from the foot of the bed a report like that of a' shot-gua, and Mrs. Smith, bit with awful force by the -cork of the jug, leabed screaming to the door, shriek shrieking - ing shrieking for the police. oAlinoet at the' same instant Smith himself was nearly killed. A. -volume of hot water struck him lairly, then, raking up his back, lit literally - erally literally plowing a scalding turrow through the skill. lin yenta, as he bounded from the bed, were Antrim', and a parting squirt trom the jug, willoh lett ilia kit leg parboiled, brought forth even more hideous sounds. Smiths capered around the room la cointernatiou aud agony until the girl Came running in with a tamp, and surveyed the ruin she had wrought by getting, up too much steam in a jug. Finally the Smiths retired again, ail bound up in ootton-batting sweet oll, but the'jug was smashed by smith, in his, fierce wrath, and since the night tit the catastrophe told feet lave been made a opecialty Qat family.

NEWS FROM POINTS AROUND. JIAMILYONA young child, the only daughter of Robert alillikin, Esq., died yesterday morning of pneumonia. The Emmett Club entertainment last night was a suce( The case of Elias Webb against The County of Butler was celled iu tlaa.Com tlaa.Common - mon tlaa.Common Pleas. yesterday, but ou applies. tion of the defendant Like case way .con- tinued. John C. Weaver has announced self as a candidate for the offiee of City Civil Engineer. The Beek Club party at Mrs. Judge Kindérs last evening was an enjoyable affair-and passed of very pleasantiy. The repairs on the Baptist Church are being rapidly coinpleted. Tbb lecture- 7 , room will be ready for furniture Heat week. To-morrow night the grand spelling contest coulee of at Beekett's Hall, aud there will no doubt be a full hints. XENIA, 0,--OUr COURIy COMMISSIOR WS have determined to enlarge the Court-house, and Will commence work as soon as they can determine upon the specitioations. A number of vaults will be arrauged in several of the rooms of the new department.. , The pick and shovel will soon ie In use along the line et the D. it S. E. N. O. Railread. This will give employment to a great many people; and will greatly in increase - crease increase all kiuds of busiuess along the line. If Warren county will do its part the road will be extended to Cincinnati via Lebanon. - TROY, 0.The great spelling match, between Troy and Piqua, came off on lastTuesday eVening. The weather was very disagreeable, owing to snow dnd wind, but the hall was full of people not, withstandiug. Piqua bad eighteen spell- erg, four of whom wereladies. One bour was devoted to oral spelling from Mc McGuffay, - Guffay, McGuffay, rebutting in favor of Troy by 13 ' to D. Then fifteen minutes each were devoted to spelling from Hendersoit and Belittle, both ollwhich tests resulted in favor of Piqua. Then twenty-five words selected were given, out fur a Written - match to decide the winner of the prize, a Webeter'e Unabridged, which was won by Mrs. W. S. Thoulits,,ot Troy, she hav having - ing having a clean card. The beet of feeling prevailed and good order. The Mid Midnight - night Midnight Marauders, of Troy. interapersed the spells WWI their excellent music. , The general average was in favor of Troy by 59 to 00. The ground is covered with Snow, and old Boreas holds high carnival. PARIS, Rir.--Mr. John M. Caldwell and ' Mr. A. T. Forsyth gotinto an unpleaeant difficulty on Tuesday, which resulted in - their citation before his Donor Mayor Conner, who dismissed Mr. Caldwell and fined Mr. k'orsytii, 0. and coots, for dis- turbing the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Late on Mo.nday night Postmaster W. H. Polk discovered some person prowl-. ing around his residence on High street. lie tired at air oliject which atterward proved te be a negre boy, who said he was hunting a place to sleep. The bail front Mr. Polk's pistol lodged in the boy's arm. The Democratic meeting held in Mays Maysville - ville Maysville on Menday was a little more hereto heretonious - nious heretonious than the same party meetings held in this city and in Lexington. Tbre dele delegates - gates delegates were instructed tovete for General , Williams for Governor aud Dr. Render- , son tor Superintendent of Public In Instruction. - struction. Instruction. Judge B. F.. Buckner, Col. W. P. O. Breckenridge and general Jain 11.1lue 11.1lueton, - ton, 11.1lueton, of Lexington,. were at the Bourbon House on Tuesday, looking after public) matters. Mrs. Mottle Weatherby, wine of Con Conductor - ductor Conductor Weatherby, died , suddenly ou Tuesday ttt noon. LexueeTON, KY. St. Patriok's Day was duly -celebrated yesterday in fine old Irish style. A delegation front Frank Frankfort - fort Frankfort arrived at 11 o'clock, which wes received at the uepot, on Water street, by the'llish societies of this city, accom accompanied - panied accompanied by two bands of music- The grand banquet heel at Masonic Hall in tue evening, proved to be a very enjoy enjoyable - able enjoyable affair. One of our local,papers favors the re reestablishment. - establishment. reestablishment. of. the whippiug-post in Kentucky. s, - It turns out. that the Mrs. Short, who ' a as in Lexington collecting money and goods for the Kausas sufferers, is a fraud of the first-water. The colleutions made never reached,the sufferers. Mr. L. Fleming, the largest land , owner in Woodteekt county, died at his residence near Midway on Monday. Mr. Patrick tiribbous, who, was so , cruelly beaten by a young man earned Richard Self last Sunday. morning, near his residence about three miles. from this , city. is , lying eangerously ill trent tile effects of the blows recetyed.from his as as, - , as, eallant. Information comes toms- that Loring Loring!ton - !ton Loring!ton pays from live to six. 'thousand dol dolplate - plate dolplate a year to itsTax.Colleotor, and that 'Mr D D Lautleman a. responsible citi citi.:zen, - .:zen, citi.:zen, has offered to. do.the eity's collect- !ing tor 2,500 year,, and faraisa ahund ahundant - ant ahundant security ;.yet the-Citttiouncil Would !not apppielltim Major J. Alex. Grant.ca,ndidate for re reeleetioit - eleetioit reeleetioit to the office of Register of the Land Oilice,,passed through the city yes yesterday. - terday. yesterday. - , the Recorder's Court yeeterdity Fan-- . ay Broekins. wee te WO bail to au- , sWer a charge of greed larceny; for de defatal. - fatal. defatal. of which she was committed to jaiL NAIL Holl0Far Was held to 00 bail to en enewer - ewer enewer a ellaTge of cutting and woueding a hoy,, fer defeat of widish he was.colu was.columitted - mitted was.columitted to jail. The revival meetings began and car- tied OD for several days by Messrs. Bliss and Whittle are supplemented by Major Cole, a temperautte lecturer, who is nightly attracting crowded audiences at the First Baptist Church. The people of Lexington ate not very enthusiastic.in the temperance cause. Much of the wealth of a large number of our citizens, espeotally ot foreigners, has boon emu emumutated - mutated emumutated from the bale of liquors; and so long as tile tratje is profitable this class , of our citizens and their friends wilt show the temperance lecturers a vett shoulder.' Not until the sale, and mann. , facture of the article ceases to be lucre. tive will the temperance folks make any , headway in this city. The trieuds of Mrs. C. F. Cannon, wife of air. Chas. Caution, the popular real , estate agent, will be pleased to hear of that lady's recoverylroui a painful It- tack of neuralgia. - , . On Tuesday afternoon' the roof of the building on the. southwest corner ot Short and Mulberry streets caught fire. In four minutes atter tbe alarm the fire firemen - men firemen were throwing water on tue littmee, which tvere ptomptly extiuguished with Blight damage. kr..Paut Conlon, the new Chief, was promptly on the ground and ran up the burning building like a , squirrel would. ruu elven oak tree. ' was his tirst week ite OLIO' SIRES IIIS Kea pOIIIIIISIts -

ODDS AND ENDS. Never get aiscouritgoti, rut your &Monition the wheel; - Let yotir wiu be Like to iron, and your norm to fittest steel. Flora Temple la thirty years old. Beecher's leading counsel are Demo Democrats. - crats. Democrats. Rats are undermining the Sewers. of Loudon. llot lemonade is one of the best remit remitdies - dies remitdies tor a cold. New York has sixty-five bankscap bankscapital - ital bankscapital 01,000,000. There is only one soldier left in Alaska lin unfrozen ears. A busy season is anticipated in fitting out sperm whalers. Ice thirty inches thick has been found on the Susquehanna. A Long Islander has taken the small smallpox - pox smallpox from his pet pig. Bothwell, Texas, is to hitve a 'Apr's 'Apr'smoidal" - moidal" 'Apr'smoidal" one-rail railway. Forty-nine waiters in a Chicago hotel have etruck agalust bassi treatment. The gold exported front Australia and New Zealand laet year was worth about $18,000,000. St. Louis proposes to reconstruct her streets at a total cost of a million and a half of dollar& Emperor William objects to the pro propissed - pissed propissed mounting of French cavalry on German horses. Saxony longs for the restoration of the "schlague"the public whip,,!--as an in instrument - strument instrument to justice. -The Nebravka Aid Society is preparing to fursileh the grasshopper eutterers seed for S00,000 acres. It is intimated that Western New York produces one-half of all the tipples naiad in the United States., A citizen of Utica, N. Y., has been three times" married to, and twice di divorced - vorced divorced from, the saute' woman. The Watpakencts (Ohio) Republican says that the severe winter has nearly exteriniaated bees in that county. A girl in Illinois recently sawed a cord of bard wood in one hour and forty-live minuten, each stick being cut twice. The Parisi Figaro Wormed its readers February 2.3 that "yesterday was the an anniversary - niversary anniversary of American IndepentienceP New Hampshire's State debt is larger than that et any other Northern State in proportion to population and valuation. The famous Cremona presented by Ole Buil to Professor J. Jay Watson, is to be exhibited at the Ceuteunial Exposition. The municipal putilic service of New Yerk costs the tax-payers $40 apieee per year tor each inhabitaut, or S40,000,004) in ail. At Zinnwald, in Germany, a widow of 103 has justlinarried a luau of sixty. One of the bride's children, aged eighty, was present. Tennessee has a scholastic population of 420,S84. Number ot pupils enrolled in 1874, 2458,577. Number of -teacher em employed. - ployed. employed. 5,551. A New York boot-black has been tient to the Penitentiary for one year for picking a nickel from the pocket of a Mr. Woodworth. One ot the Russian jeunesse doree has made an enormous bet that he will go from St. Petersburg to 'Vienna la tweety-one days in the saddle. Public sentiment is setting in against the appearance la opera or theatricals ot people dressed In costume that would not be modest on the street. The German Federal Council has re resolved - solved resolved to recommend a gra'at from the funds at the Emperor's disposal for the completion of tirnum's dictionary. Warwick Caetle, badly burped a tew yeara ago, has been reconstructed, and this tine antiquity is now as good. as new. Price 01 repairs, 2100,000. The annual horticultural aud floral fair will be heid at the grounds of the South Georgia Agricultural stud Mechanical As Assedation - sedation Assedation atThomasville bu the first of ..sM ay. s The French and Belgium manufac manufacturers - turers manufacturers are going to delight the ladies with a magnificent display of laces pre prepared - pared prepared especially for the Exhibition of 1876. Belle Seymour pia on male attire aud passed for a man ler a year, earning a living twit laborer in Memphis. But she got very drunk aL last, and her sex was discovered. The Memphis Theater admits colored persons without restriction, being, it is believed, the first place of amusement in the United States to yield to the Civil Rights law. N otwiths tending the compulsory schoollaw the average attendauce at the New York public beilOOld during the past month was 08,825, or 2,051 less than in Jauttary, 1874. A manulactory of piintings bearing the forged names of celebrated Erencil artists has been discovered in Switzer Switzerland. - land. Switzerland. Tile ithitations are !aid to be al almost - most almost Mettles& European travel and freights have fall4 en off so in the past year that the aver average - age average receipts of, the steamship lines run, ning to New York nave dropped 'rola $57,000 to $30,000. , Here, Brother Hainmend, how's Mel They've sent a man to the Insane Asylum from Oakland because, as they say, his reason was affected by attending your revival meetings. A movement is Making among British settlers of Virginia to induce Governor liempton to visit England to present to English emigrants the advantages of Virginia as a home.: In the single county of Nice there are S00,000 olive trees, and front this one district alone $36o,000 worth of olive oil, reaps and periumery wee sent to the United Statee in 187.4. A Germansavant recommends a weak scilution of campher for watering house plants. Ile regards this article as.hold as.holding - ing as.holding the same relation to vegetation ati 1 alcohol to the animal system. Frost has been found at Boston slx ' feet and fear Welles below the street , level, where there are stone pavements, while near by, uuder wootten pavements, but eleven inches of earth were frozen. A tine copy of Napoleon'a Egyptthe eight volumes of text, ten of plates, and two ot Mapsoccuplea a place in a Bos Boston - ton Boston window. id offered at less than a filth ot the original price, which was $2,500. A great number of'letters etre sent to !Mr. Beecher and Mr. Tilton at the court, ' some of them beiug entiouraging, (Altera soUrrillotiti and nearly all auonymous. The tiemati'd by mail tor autographs ,is also' greett. The new directory of San Francisco shows that city to have. a populution of 230,000; last year 1.30J builditigs ivere erected at a cost of 4;5,000,000, and 42,040,- 000 were expended la subetuatial public improvemetits. The tirst Boman journal appeared over 2000 years agoothd newe was written on painted 'wooden tablets RBA wax. Fontifex Maximus wasthe editor. It first appeared ouly once a year, but the public became so eager for it that the Government found itself obliged to issue the journal daily: Soule CIL jotraids , are still iu existonsei

DT TELEGRAPH. . , - rho Looses at Port Joitria f New Youx, March 18.---A Port ervis. . epecial eays the Barrett Bridge Com Company's - pany's Company's losses are $15,000 by destruction I.,f of their bridge. The toes by inundation of t Luildings on Pike street and vicinity , ' trill be heavy. The Erie railroad com-1 anyestimate their loss at $75,000, the , , eaviest loss being on the iron railway , ridges which were swept away. The mporary structures will be completedl Ly Sunday. Mayor Abbott estimates 1 the loss to private property about $100,- e0. There were tw,o hundred houses 1 nundated, occupied, chiefly by mechan mechancs - cs mechancs and laborers. A blerman Catholic Church and a few small store's were also tooded. Only two or three very. poor . buildings were totaliy deetroyed. The - p31.1Selehil people are distributed through ' - town among friends until their homes (I :Can be repaired. , The above mentioned losses, with $13,- )i COO lost by the destruction ot the Basket 0. atridge, $75,000 on lumber swept away, ' and $20,00e ou property damaged along . the river above Port Jervis, make the total loss nearly $300,000. The lime down the river will foot up $100,000 more. The tiver is now at its usuai leveL So far ;is known the flood has been unattended :by losti of life, owing to the prompt warn warn$ng - $ng warn$ng given ot approaching danger. The first intimation of the approach of the flood was given by Railroad Superin Superintendent - tendent Superintendent Thomas, who, perceiving the de dettruction - ttruction dettruction of the railroad bridge, run tiown with hie engiee, waruiug . the . iOWn people to flee to the higher ground. Ilells were rutig and whistiew were blown. an the contusion several ladies fainted. . 2n twenty minutes the water was several feet deep In the town. Out.housee alai lemma were floated off in numbers. , Forty minutes later ' the ice gorge 'tuned and swept slowly down the river sit the rate of lour utiles per nour, atnid tremendous cheers by the people. The twitter immediately began to subside, and . Ly ten o'clock the flood was virtually tver. 1 Another special says it is reported , Vkat two men were drowned above Port ervis.. Fears are entertained of anoth. 'er flood, as the streams tributary to the ' Pe;aware areaweiling. . . :' A special from Pitteton, Pa., says ap. 1 prebensious are entertained of another . Loud from the great ice gorge formed , two -miles above in' the Susquehanna t.iver, extending eight miles and averag. fag twenty feet high. , A number of mines have stopped work, Leing unable to ship coaLautle railroads . are not running. . . The destruction to bridges, railroad 'tracks and telegraph poles by the last flood has been great. When the present ' mrge moves Pittston, Wilkesbarre, I 'Iymouth ati'd Nortiooke will all be battled. TWO STEAMSDIP LINES,' litallory's and 'faker's, plying between this port and New Orleans, have discon discon1 - 1 discon1 Untied in coneequence of the great, de depression - pression depression in trade. 1 -DAM ButasTER. f. i The main dam at Valley Stream, Long ;eland, broke yesterday, and three mil million - lion million gallons of watel rushed out and de. ii.. atroyed the track and depot of the South Bide railroad. Loss not known. , . I KILLED. . . i: - ' J. ankle, s listlitylthrinkilireitLithb indrodtillere,r4citif. riliv(),()JoYlinn' Monahan, yesterday, during a family quarrel. fie pleads self.deienee. -----.....,..........--..... Ai. Fattiele,e Day-Lea4 Dino-Boarreoled-Lootor4' ,Special to the Star. . DAYTON. On March 18.--The proces. . Sion in honor of the Irish Saint, yester yester,,,,I - ,,,,I yester,,,,I iday, was one of the largest and litiest we ',. ' have eVer seen in thie city. It extended over a mile, and as the Secieties were . .- . arrayed in new and handsome regalia, ' land carried bright, new banners. they , presented a splendid appearance.. A 1 koncert was givou in the evening at Bus. I. ion Ball, which was attended by a 'crowded audience. ' The proceeds went to the Sieters of Charity. , A lead mine has been discovered on . 1 'the estate of Mr. Samuel blartindale, ,' , xtbout ten miles north of Dayton. It , t promises to be very productive. 4 A very large audience listened to Mr., Pough's lecture on "Oratoryn last even. ,,. ing at Music Hall. , i f. Park Chamberlain, atter having been , 6 convicted of larceny here in the Court of 1 , ,Common Pleas ran off to avoid his sen-1 - , lenoe, being ou't on bail, but was againl 0,, , trrested yesterday la a salooa at Car. 11 tolton, in this county. , , ? , . . pilðjourowseol-lovooiqoiine CoOstnitioe 11 . , ippootal to the star.- Containus, O., March 18.--The Demo Demos - s Demos ' ratio caucus met last algal and resolved i n a permanent adjournment of the Leg Leg, - , Leg, - filature March 29. i It IS believed that the committee to In In4vestigate - 4vestigate In4vestigate the charges against Dr. Lewis, 11 Of Tuscarawas, will be able toynake such ta report as will entirely acquit atm. .! 11. (711The Wood County Investigating Com. ittee Met again last evening, and soon 71. . ,tidjourned without transacting any bast bast, - , bast, , Imes. . -

The Ruling Ehlers of the Presbyterian Churches in Baltimore unanimously dis disapprove - approve disapprove of the proposed change in the Constitution of the- Church, authorizing the election of Ruling Elders for not less than three years, or what hi knowit as rotary Eldership. At Wooster, Oh lo, yesterday, Mrs; White leather, a woman about thirty:lour years of age, fell dead at her xesidence on tne street. lean disease is sup supposed - posed supposed to be the cause. She had finished her week's washing in apparent good health, mottled while attending to Mher household duties. At Van Vert, Ohio, yesterday, Isaac Grosseoross was seriously injured by a piece of an emery-wheel circular saw, which burst while revolving. The piece which struck him carried away one jawbone and btoke the other, besides mutiliating his whole face terrilily. He will be disliguered for life, while, it is feared his injuries may prove fatal. The carriage and wagon works, to together - gether together with all Unfinished stock, tools, itc., and an adjeining dwelling, with a great portion ot its contents, ail owned by Butter Swearing,er, were destroyed by fire last night at Perryville. Loss S7,000; insured tor t3,000 in the Niagara, and $2,000 in the Home, of Columbus. Advicee from Richmond, Ind., say the arm weather tast week improved the appearance of the wheat crop in the stir stirrounding - rounding stirrounding 'country to such a degree that the farmers generally say that the crop looks more promising than at the same time last year. The high wind of yes yesterday - terday yesterday did eonsidel able damage in break breaking - ing breaking down signs, awnings and smashing street show-cases. Lumber yards suf suffered - fered suffered considerably by having their high piles prostrated. A large smoke-stack of Frautnan's factory was blown down, 'several children just passing narroWly escaping.- - Advices from Los Angeles state that Chavez, Lieutenant of Vasquez., has sent letters to prominent individuals in that threateniug bloody vengeance If Vasquez fs executed. A petitiou was telegraphed to Governer Pacheco, yes yesterday, - terday, yesterday, front influential citizens ot Los, Angetes, including some of the party who captured Vasquez, staking a post postponement - ponement postponement of the execution. Governor Paelieeo has, replied,: declining to post postpone - pone postpone the execution, saying that the dan danger - ger danger from the operations of his Lieuten Lieutenant, - ant, Lieutenant, Chavez, will be aa great at the end of delay as now. . Ilacksville, a suburb ot Terre Haute, Is the scene of a Most dastardly and cruel murder. An old woman named Eva Peters has been living alone ina ' small hut on the entskina of litacksville some time. Last hvening, mines day, she was toned dead ' in her bed. tier hands were tied behind her back with a small chain, and a small string was around her neck anti tied to the head of tile bed. With Without - out Without haviute any bad scars, an examina examination - tion examination showed that she had first been bru brutally - tally brutally raviehed and then choked to death by the string, used like the bowstring of the Orientals. Suspicion lastened at once on Cal. Jones, nephew of a leading eltizen of Mackeville, mho had been beard to make numerous threats against the eld -lady, consequence of her bav bavBig - Big bavBig exposed him lu-a ilea of may from hie grandfather, ' , ,

WHAT THE WIRES WHISPER. The Indiana etiitors arrived at Mem Memphis - phis Memphis yesterday, and will depart to-day for the South. The name of the tramp killed by the falling chimney at Indianapolis was Henry Cooper, of London, Ontario. The body of a nian, supposed to be Jclseph Fraizer, ot Jefferson, Ohio, Wile yesterday lound in the river at Wheel Wheeling. - ing. Wheeling. The Yankton Herald claims that the treaty under which the Sioux bold the Black was never retitled by Con Congress. - gress. Congress. Governor Chamberlaineof South Caro Carolina, - lina, Carolina, yesterday vetoed the bill providing tor liquidating the floating debt pf the ' State. Gov. ftendricks has signed" the Indiana Liquor Law, and it will go into effect Au August - gust August In tbe mean tune the tratilo is unregtilated by law. A resolution was yesterday introcruced in the Missouri Rouse politely request requesting - ing requesting the James and Younger brothers to give themseivee up Lula be tried for Wel& Crimes. Dr. Thomas Goodwin, of Lancaster, Pa., isounder arrest for the seduction and murder by abortion of Miss Nary Eich-, elberger. Both parties were highly con connected. - nected. connected. , The Looal Option Repeal Bill, with a license law attached, after being amend amended - ed amended by a Conference Committee, passed both Douses of the Pennsylvania Legis Legis,lature - ,lature Legis,lature yesterday. The canal-boat Waizer strUck a stone, Tuesday, when two miles from Chilli Chillicothe, - cothe, Chillicothe, Ohio, and sank, with 2,300 bushels of wheat on board, the property of Geo. Davis, of Portsmouth. The loss will be eonsiuerable. At Worthington, Indiana, last' even evening, - ing, evening, as a young boy named Merritt 08- born was playing about a freight train, he accidentally fell limiter a moving train, several cars passing over awl terribly mangling him. Colonel Dunning R. MeisTair died In Washington on Tuesday night, in his seventy-eighth year. Ile was from Ken Kentucky, - tucky, Kentucky, and was Sergeant-at-Arms of the United States Senate for aeveral years previous to 1801. John pammon, a highly respeiited and wealthy merchant,' of Effingham, lor thiiteen years past, was arrested yester yesterday - day yesterday for 'a murder just come to light, which was egmmitted fourteen years 'ago in Rushville, Illinois. An extraordinary stssion of the Brazil Brazilian - ian Brazilian Legislative ,Assembly, called for the purpose of considering the budget and the disorder in the country, convened to-day. The speech from the throne was delivered by tile Emperor in persou. The session of the Pittsburg Confer Conference - ence Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church Commenced at Alliance, Ohio, yesterday, Bislittp Bowman presiding. About four 'hundred miniaters are present, and the meeting premises to be a pletteaut and agreeahle one. , At' Grand Rapids, 3fichigan, yester yesterday, - day, yesterday, while the family of James Coiyer , were away from the city on a visit, their residenoe took lire aud burned. Most of the furniture was saved. Damage to building $3,000, fully covered by insur insurance. - ance. insurance. Origin of lire unknown. A' colored man, about forty years of age, while walicing from Loudonderry to ' Chillicothe, Ohio, on Monday evening, wasmet by three ruffians, who inflicted serious injuries upon him, leaving him lit such a coudition that his recovery is doubtlui.

William M. Ilunt, the Boston artist, starts immediately on a trip to Mexico for his health, but will take his pencil and sketch book with him. - - Worth. the great lady-tailor, Is under stood to be hard at work writing a new play, in which there is to he an immense number of splendid costumes. Miss Kellogg is Teorganizing her End glish Opera Company for next season, and engagements'are now pending with several artiste of European celebrity. Mine. ItistorPs engagement with New York parties will last about three weeks, when she will leave tor California', from thence to Australia, India, and home.to Italy. 'Pamela Brown, the widow of Major General Jacob Brown, the distinguished soldier of the war ot. 1812, is still living, having been a widow tor alrhost halt a century. Seventy thousand dollars have been laid aside already, as the fruits of bliss Kellogg's experiment in English opera, and silo does not intend to give it away to any mhn either. The Duke ol Edinburgh has consented te preside at the dath anniversary festi festival - val festival of the Society of Friends of Foreign Foreigners - ers Foreigners in distress on Wednesday, 21st of, April next, in London. Mr. Robert Ilyde Greg, well known as asa - a asa strenuous advocate of the early relorm, policy and of anti-corn lavi principles, died reeently at his residence at Nor,. entre Hall, Cheshire, Eng. Judge-Martin, Sixth Auditor of the, Treasury, is to be apPointed postmaster at Montgomery, Ala., and succeeded by Corgressinau Shoats, of. Alabama, who, was out of a job on the 4th. Brigham Young owns $800,000 of the drst mortgage bonds of the Utah Central Railroad,, which, although only thirtyi eight miles long, does it busliteits 014100,- 000 Per nionth. Brigham's faihrite son, John,' controls the Utah Western If.afl; road. , Cart Schtirz has always been his hero.. A little girl in liamintrg, she wer wershiped - shiped wershiped the pictured image .ol the revo revolutionist - lutionist revolutionist whom she had never Seen. She WaS introduced to him at a friend's house in Loudon and they were married with within - in within a year. . . Mr. James R. Kendall, onee so well Inown in Bostonohut tor many years au old and popular clarionet player of the California Theater (San Francisco, Cal.) orchestra, dropped instantly dead in the mush) room of the theatre on Sunday evening, Manch I. Senator &Aura will not return to Mis Missouri, - souri, Missouri, unless it be for a very short visit. Ile willprobably spend the summer in Europe, and then take up his residence iu the East; for the purpose ot gathering material for his promised volume on American politics. Fraulein Janotha, a puPil of Clara Schuman's, is it young planiste who re recently - cently recently so- delighted the Emperor:Wil Emperor:Wilhelm - helm Emperor:Wilhelm that ,be said to her. "Adt of me what you will, and it shall be granted." The artless Janotha immediately re requested - quested requested theatlfancemeut of her brother, who is in the army. : . Sir Henry Ellett the English Ambits- ' savior at Constantinople, is finding his post a very unpleasant one. The Turk-, ish government has steadily tiot its face against anything and everything En Englishi - glishi Englishi and takes delight in rendering. itself unpleasant to English subjects, trQUI the highest to the loweete -