The News

a ouinung ñas úeen nixeu up ín vv asuton íor the purpose of allowing those ambltious to compete for positlons an opportunity to atudy. A sign has been erected which read6 "Civil Service Institutc." The new tariff law provides tbat tradeniarks which may be adopted by any American manufacturer may be leposited wlth th Scrctary of the Treasury and distributed to customs offlcers, and that wheu so distributed nogoodsbearing 6uch trademark ehall be imported unless the person ownlng the trademark is the importer oí tlie goods. Appreheii6ions have been exprcesed that under this provisión Americau manufacturen might adopt foreign trademarks.and so prevent the importatiou of foreign goods bearing the same. The opinión is entertained at the Treasury Department that before any action is taken with regard to the enforcement of this provisión the person applying must prove his owner6hip to the trademark used by him by proper registration in the patent office, No deimite action Uas vot beeu taken by the department. Notwithstanding the great exertion the Post Office Department makes to find the ownnrs of letters and dellver the letters to thetn, the number of letters which reach the Dead Letter Office now runa above ten thousand a day. Tha number received at the Department during the past year is over four millions. Of tlieee three milllons were uncalled for at the ofllces to which they were addressed. Nearly a hundrei thousand carne from hotels, addressed to persons who had failed to leave Instructions to have their mail forwarded. A quarter of a inillion were sent there because they were in6ufficiently prepaid, a thousand becausc they contained articlee forbidden to be transported in the mails. Over ten thousand had no supserscription whatever. The number of dead letters inailed abroad was 850,000, all of which were returned to the country of their origin unopened. Of those received and opened in the past year, forty thousand con tained money, drafts, money orders, etc., amounting to two million dollars, and forty-four thousand contained paid notes, reeeipts and cancoled obligations. During the session of Ihe supreme court just ended, 387 cases have been disposed of, a deercase oí 12 in the number disposed of Mt term. The President has accepted another 50 mile sectloa oí the Northern Pacific railroad in Montana. This eection, recently completed, extends from the 55Oth to the 600th mile of the road west oí the Missouri river Paymasters who served in the Union army are to hold a re-uniou in Washington on the Ï6th and 17th Inst., in connection with the re-union of the army of the Potomac. Nebraska cattle herders have boen fencing in public lands in that state, and the land ornee wlll investígate. A vessel is about to sail from Newport-News a port of Virginia, for Bermuda with a cargo of 5,000 barrels of whiskey, and it ie expected that many hnndred thousand barrels more wtll be shipped during the sea6on for that pi ce. It is etated that the snippers will re-import the spirits at Newport-News and ask the Government to put it in the warehouee for three yeare. Judge French, As6istant Secretary of the Treasury, eays that this question will be considered and decided by the Department when it arises. Owners of whisky who are exporting it with a view of bringing it back and putting it into custoni warehouses will have no difliculty in getting it out of the country, but it is said their way will be seriousiy hedged when they try to get it back. Secretary Teller ad vises the institution. of judicial proceedmgsagainst the Union Pacific railway company, to determine what that corporatión means by "net earnings." The treasury balance is increasmg constantly, owiiig largely to the large receipts from intiírnal revenue since the lst inst Thohiirpn.il nf stntistifis of the treasurv L f J W V - -" " - - ----- - - - - - department reports that during the month oL Aprü there arrived in the custums districts of Baltimore, Boston, Detroit, Hurón, Minnesota, New Orleans, New York, Paesamaquodd , Philadelphia and San Francisco 78,475 immierauts. The arrival of iinmigrauts in the saine districts during the correspondXna. month last year numbercd 104,274, a decrease of 25,799. The arrivals in these districts for the ten montbs ending April 30 were 17,689; for the same period last year, 544,601, a decrease of 126,913. Lieut. Col. Ilges, wlioru Secretary Chandler asked toreigu or be court-raartlaled has tendered uis resiguation. The receipts of the postoffice departement for ihe fir8t threo nuarters of the tiscal year, were 122,033.979. There were $20,644,445 spent, leaving a surplus $1,389,534. A new counlerfeit fivo dollar gold coin is on the markct. It was made at New Orleane, is heuvily plated, and49Jigralnsligbt. The speeches made in summing up the btar route cases are certainly formidable document8. Ker flred away at the jury for seven days, and hls speei'h makus a paruphlet of 259 pages. Bllss' argument also lasted seven days. James F. Meliue of Cincinnati, lias been appoiuted chief clerk in the United States Treasurer's office, vice Charles Lyman, resigued. A testcase, in the United States court of claims was broaght to determine the status oí cadet engineers who graduated at the naval acadamy in 1881 and 1882, and the eourt decides tht they are not undergraduates, henee tney thcy werc not transformed into naval cadets, but now remain in the service as cadet enciDeers. The President will probably remain n Washington about a month lonzer. Those lesirine cfflces are requested to take notice. rt'hat hls Bummer campaign will bc lias not jet neen determined. The probability is, howcver, ,hat he will rest in the mountains of New Engand, where the fishing in good and politicians uid sight-seers do not trouble. He bas pretty well deelde"! not to go West. He fouud hii trip South very tlresome, and the public attenttons not only annoylng, but absolutely fatal, so far as rest is concerned. He could probably flnd comparatlve rest in the Yellowstone Valley, but it is a long way thcre, and the trip In hot weather would not be agreeable. Secretary Folger has informeel the President that in order to earry into effect the provisious ol the act to prevent the importauon of adulterated or spurious teas it will be necessary to appoint assistant appraisers at New York, Chicago and San Francisco who ehall perform dudes as 6pccial tea examincrB. These appotntments are vested in the President and not in the secretary of the treasury, as at lirst supposed. The claims of the Chickasaw Indians, andalso claimi of loyal Creek Indians, for losses sustained during the rebellion,have been referred to the court of claims. GENERAL ITEMS. The severest wind-storm ever knewn Ij Pennsylvanlaoccurred on the 9th inet. in the Lehlgh and Wyoming valleys. Trees of a een tury's growth werc broken like pipe-stems, and rocks and debris so impeded the passage of traius tbat freight train were thrown frym the track, and passenger cars very inuch dam aged. It seems nothing short oí a iniracle tba nolives were lost. An actpassed by the Tennessee legis lature making gambllng a felony went int effect on the 9th inst. All the gaming housee in Memphis closed tbeir doors. The national association of lumber dealers held a mettlng in Chicago a few davs ago and resolved nol to buy from a wholesaler who'sells in a towc where retail dealers do business. The works of the Standard oil companv, at Communipaw, ncar Jersey City, N. J the moet exteneiye in the country, were debtroyed bv flre a few mornings ago, and property valuêd at a million and half dollars Btroyed. The fire startod chiringa severe storm. One of the large tanka near the 8!nro wat. struek by lightniug and explodod. The running oil poured out like au angry river ami flowed dowu the avenues between roivs et enoriuoub tanks towards the river. lu a short, üm the flames conunuutcateil with three huge tank.and thev exptodod siumltancouslv with terrtflc force. ïragments of iron watt thromo a 3t tance of half a inile aud tlas burning oil s a. scattered in all direct ions. The entire lire department were 6ummoncd, but their services WTe almost useless. as buruiug strcaius of oii poured through the yard Uring tauk nitor tank on the east side aud licking up buildings. Tfie store-house, a solid structure where barreleO oil ivas kept, was attacked by the lluiiej and succumbed. The engine house went next. thi oil and water pump houses, suiikeu tanks, auii machine shops quiekly followed, and the whülteastern side of the works was a seethiug miss of dame. Despite the tremendous heat ann the blindinp smoke llie firemen did valiant work in hope of checkiDg the progreis of the flames. It is estimated tuat there were 500,000 gallonsof oil in the tanks and the loss 01 property laid in ashes will reaoh 11,500,000. The shaft ol lightningof uneriualed brilliancv and lirightne9s that struck the first tank was Been by a fireman of engine No. 10 in Halladay strëet, Jersey City, a mile, away, and the engine at once starter! for the scène. It was soon discovered to be useless work to play upon tlie flames, and all efforts were directcd to prevent them from spreading. This was partlally i-mccssful until tar Nti. 7 exploded with a terrific report, and the blazing oil spread with lightning rapidity. Chief Ferrier and a uumber of meL werewithin ten yards of this tauk when :t exploded and were saved almost by a miracle. Dropping the hose, which was soon burned to ashes, fhey öed for tlseir Uves. When they mustered together at a safe dlttance six of their number were fouud missiug. The smoke was so dense that it was iinpossible to teil which way one was going, and it is thought ihat the unf ortunate men ran dowu to the river and were lost. Their nauies are : John Herbert, superintendent; Joáeph Jrnkins, foreman; Oeo. Davis, engincer; Heury Keglcr, laborer; Diek Conklin, laborer; Wm. Curry, boiler-maker. Among the Ios6es besides the standard oil companj are several other oil firms wlio each lose from 400 to 700 barrels of cylinder oil which was stored in one of the warehouses. was sioreu m one 01 luu arenuuM b. A compauy has been organized at ünluth, Minn., namod the Lak.; Superior and Northwest Railroad Company The incorporators are ruainly Duluh business men. The capital stock is Í5,000,000. The road will run from Duluth to Red Uiver at the mouth of Ked LaUe River, and will have various branches. The New York World has buen pur chased by Mr. Joseph Pulitzer of tlie St. Louis Fost-Dispatch. The Illinois Department of Agrieulture has ]ust completed a report covcrlDg 1,600 towuships in the State, f rom which au estiinate is made of the crops. The winter h hint erop will not exceed 40 per cent of the erop of 1882. Mrs. Hannah S. Grant, motlier of expresident Grant, (lied in Jersey City Hcigtat?, at the residenc.fi of her daughter, Mrs. Corhin, on the lOth inst. A dispatch frota Kansas City, Mo. eays that the lawless element in Dodge City, Kan., became so obuoxious that the auihorities determinad to drive them out. Tweutyt-o policemen were sworn in about ten days ago and have siuee been working to rid the town of gamblers and di66olute women. A number of these persons were put on a train and cautioned against coming back. There is no danger to life or propert, and the whole uilair amouuts to nothinií more than a determiuatiou on the part of the law ablding eitizens to establish order. The guards statloned at the depots were only lor the pui pose of preventing the return of gamblers. The cow-boys are not mixed up in tfie affair. Advices from Indinn tnrritory sav two bilis were iutroducedin the Creel: Iiidian couneil provlding for the lease of the land knowu as tlie 'Cherokee strip." The lease U to be eiven to the hiühf-st bidder for five years at not lees than $100,000 pi-r year reutal, payaDie sein: annually. Severa! parlies aud eompanies are readv te give even more tliaii tliat sum, and theve is Uable to be a good deal ot competition amonr them to gain control of the ooveted lauds, and perrons poeted reganling aftairs in the territory eay there is a monstrous job iu this land business and tbat greedy epeculators stand ready to lease the strip, whicli contaius about 0,000,000 acre, at almost auy priee if tbey eau get the privilege of renewal. ith thls privilege they thiuk they can secure praetically a perpetual lea?e or peihaps in a f"W years au actual deed to it. The strip i is said will be worth now fully $10,000,000, and in a fewyeareits valué will betwoor three times that amount. Fire in Cincinnati a few nights ago, destroyed lumber to the amount of $260,000. SittinL Buil and band arrived in D:ikota fronTFt. Randall. The old cliief talked peace, and bots he wants to be li-ft alone, aud engage unmolested In l'armiug pursuits. The imm2Taüon into Canada for llic four months of the present year was B3.2H(. ! Senator Fair's wife was the sucecssf ui oue iu the divorce suit oí Fair va. Fair. The plaintifïis allowed $4,250,000 in money, the residence in San Francisco, and the erstody of the three chuchen. The first week of May broulit 20,000 iinmigrants to Cistlc Ouden, and it is believed that tbc told number for theentiro month will not fall short of 100,000. These people come over here to bettertheircondition, and the vast majority of them will not be disappointed. It is uoteworthy that many are goiug to the faetories aud farms of the Seuth. A terrible storm passed over south western Missouri on the night of May 13. At Kansas City fifty buildings were blown down and 200 badly dámaged. Three perso-ns were killed and V.i iujured. The loss to property in that city is estimated at $300,000. The little town of Orongo, Mo., was almost entircly destroyed, aud bik Hves lost, wliile Si ])ersons were injured. At Masou City live persons i were killed, lïrent damage was done at other points. Telegraph wires were blonn down, and railroad tracks so eovered with fallen timbers as to seriously hinder conmiumcation. The wifc of the Rev. E. L. Stoddard, rector of Bt. John's Episcopal cliureb, Jersey City, was shot and killed a few daya aso. Mrs. Stoddard was dusting the shelves oL one of the closets. On one of the 6helveB lay a pistol. She brushcd the weapon off. Tlie triggcr struck tbe shelf below, the weapon was exploded, and the ball strikmg her in the side of the uead crashedthrough the skull and lodged inthebrain. The Sunday liquor lw of Pennsylvauia went into effect ou Sunday the lSth tast. Of Ar0 6aloonsin Wilkcsbaire, not one was to be fouud open. All law abidiug eitizeus are greatly elated over tlie succesa of whttt was at tirst thought to be Impoestblé. 2The irou steamship Mississippi was l)urned at Seattle, W. T., recently. ïhe chief engineer was burned to de&tb, and several otberswere killed by bunker timbers falllng upon thein. The vesscl is a total loss. Uur ing the war the Mteetseippl #M used as a bloekade runner. A land slide near Sioux City, Iowa, enjr.-.lfed ÜÜO feet of raüroad track, aud a. huge blult overlookine tlie track sank down eausing an impassible barrier. Three or four acres of land are affected. A silver deposit lias been disvovcred in wcstfrn Texas. The surface croppings of born silver are satd to be the richest on the continent. , The supremo court of Missouri ñas dccided tbat school funds can only be expended for tbe purpose of educatiug children betvveen the ages of six and twenty years. Tbis decisión is the resirit of an appeal froui prc.iuirieut , citizens of St. Louis to re.-train the school board of that city from sustaiiiing kii.d-r1 gartens Tbis decisión will abolish the kindergart(n there, unless carricd on by 1 private subscription. The decisión fuithcv states that the court caunot design"" what studies sball be pergued ia pub Ie schools, leaving school boards free to act as n - in-iv deern wise in the matter of torelgD IB- guages, and in what are called tbe "oruameu- tal" branches. Rev. Mr. Walker, a Prosbyterian clergrm&a of Blnbrook, Ont., lias been making strong statements disparaging Canada's climate and country as a field for immigration. For this disloyalty hewas called before the Presbyntv, anti bis statements deuounced as untrue. A.ml Tinw the reverend gentleman will appeal to the Synod. ïhc Ten Evck mansión on the Whiteliall ioad near'Albany, N. Y., was burned a few days ago. The house was built in 1713 by Gen. Bradstreet, and during the Revolutionary war was t!ie headquarters of tories. The house of John Pawson at Braeebridee, Out., bas burned. Pawson in attempting to save bis childreu burned to death ; also a son aged 10. A special session of the Chootaw Indian conncil met at Armstrong academy, the tapltal of the nation recently, baving been ¦alled hy the principal Chief MeCarlin to consider the freedman question. Bj the treaty of 1S60 between the federal guvernment and confederated Indians. the Choetaws and Chieka-aws agreed to omancipate and give the usual rights to eoloied poople in their dominion iu two years, for wbieh the United States was to give them $300,000. and if they failed to adopt thi m iu that time the money was to be used to remove and sett!1 í.ho darlíte 'lAí'wbt.ro. The Choctawl failed to adopt them and the government to move them, anti they have been there eyer siuee, without cither citizenship, rights or title to tlie land they work. The Choetaws now desire to adopt them, aud it is for this purpose the council was called. OTHER I-LA.N13S. Joscph Mullctt, iudietcd for ooruplicity in tbe attempt on the life of Juror Field, has been found guilty and senteneed to penal servitude for life. The prisouer refused to make any plea on the indietmunt, or even to accept the assistauce of counsel offered him by the court. Wbeu sentencedhe maintained a stolid iudiffcTfnce, aud said, "I might as well be in prisou at hard labor as anjwhere elee." Bismarck's physicians say ho must give upall state work for the present. All of the djnamite conspiracy prisoners, except O'Conner, agaiust whom sufflcient evidence bas not boen obtained, have been eommittcd for trial. During the revohitionary war Col. Jacob Baker eommandcd a troop of Heselans auii shortly aíter carne into possession oí 150 acres, now the lieart oí l'hiladelphia. üa a farm ncar the village of Portland, on Rideau Lake, Ont., live the family of G. V. Baker, a nenhew oí Col. Jacob Baker, consisting of five girls and four boys. tí. W. Baker dled in 1871, and since then they have made researches n-hich convinee tliein that they have a good claliu on the estáte of 150 acres, worth many millions of dollars. F. A. Hall, of Perth, a lawyer, is couductiug the case for the wouldbe heirs. (The pope is very mucli wrought up over the aetion of the Cathollc clergy in promotiug tho Parnell iund, and thinks such thinfis ought uot to be. There were 3,415 cmigrants booked for America from Queeastown for the one week endingMay 5. ¦ The North Germán Gazette ascribes the rejection of the bill to inercase the duty on wood by the reiehstag to hostile votes oí Polish deputies, whoíe eiíorts, it saye, are wholly directed towards the restoration of the klngdom of I'olaud, and who favor every moasure detrimental to the empire and especially if, as iu the present case, it is advantageous to their brcthren iu Austria and Russia. The opening of the international fisheriea exhibitior. at South Kénsington, Eng , May 12, was witnessed by an enormously large cvou d of people. The exhibition was opeued by the Prlnee of Wales, who expresssd bis great pleasure at belug able to assiet at thts cereniony and ïegretied lliat an accident unavoidably prcventi'd the queen irom being present. He hoped f.he exliibition would be the means of bringiug to tbc uuticc of Uie people the lateet aud most efficiënt methods of securing the bounty of the streams, lakes aud oceans, and n-ouldthereby be of piaetioal benefit to tuein. He dwelt at Borne length on the iniportanee of the life Baring eectlon display and eominended li to the attentlon of the people. In couclusion he eonvejed the tbanks of tbe queen to all the coiratrles and eolonies taking part in the diBplay, aud to their represutatives for tbeir untiring exenions in bringing the exhibltiou t a suecessful issue. He was wannly applaudeO. The London Times foels very much deprfssed over the glooray outlook of a&V'-s ia the United Kiugdom. The lygemie exhibition at Be' iiu is in progreas. rrince Fredrick Williaui jpened the exhibition. Kinsella, who made a voluntary confeession to the Dulilin pólice tbat he va.i in the murfler of Lord Ieltrim, has been again arraigued in court. His story is not belic.ved, as it is thought he is a lunatic. The Jndge was auout to discharge Krusella, when the latter Raid be was afraid hewould be shot if released. He was thi refore remandad to prison. Nearly all the tradesmen ia Dublin have recelred a circular which is termed "an aualvsia of Bpecial juries on 18 trials under the crinu s act." Euclosed with the circular was a slip contaiuing the words: "Woe to you if you have any goods of these jurors, for you and likewisethoy will liavc the blood and sufferiug of innocent people on your heads." The slips ar aigoea, "By Hook'OT by Croot" A seusatlon lias been caused by thls latcst movement on the part of friend3 of Irish prisouers. Affaira in South Afriea are turbu'ent at present. Cetawayo'a forces are gathering etrength in antieipation of anattack upon their fallen king. The Pope's edict says it is intolerable that priests and bishops should aid in such obiects as Parnell's fund. Joe. Bracly was hanged in Dublin ou Lhe 14th inst. lic is the lirst of the "invinetbles" w'.io has paid the penalty of his crime. An immer.se ooncourse of people surroundcd the teii, but the executiou waswitnessedbythe illu'iul.s ouly. It has bien thouglit all along that ba wonld make 6ome statement thatwould throw more light upon the workiugs of the "iuvinoiMus," but he made no anle-mortem statoment aüd met his death with the earne stolldity that bas characterized hls course since bis conviction. It is stated on rood. authonty that the C'auadian parliamèut will not be prorogued befóte June 4th. Ouo hutidred and bixty-slx oetUlou. eontaining 12,94-t eignatures, have b.-rii i.rcscntedto parliamtnt during this scs slon prayiug for leglataUon to secure a bettir observanee of the Sabbath dav as regarda thu runatng of railway trains. The London Times says that in vanety nnd c,)mpletenes6 of illiistration the United States eollection at the fi6heries exhibltion is unsurpassed. 1h ciroulr addi-eased by the pope to the Irish bisliops, dispatehed on the lltb, 6ays the clergy must keep aloof from eubseriptions wlk-n it is plain that hatred and disseusion are arou6ed thereby and when it i evident that crimes and murders are never censured by those for whom the collections are made. It tmnrai the clergy tbat tbsy are eertainly non forbidden to raise collections to relieve distrees. At B meeting of the Suez eanal cora1 any, to bc hel 1 June 4, a proposal will be made to construct a caual parallel with the exieting one at a cost of 125,000,000 fraucs. ¦ Guit.- The toree ei will is a potent element in determining longevity. This single point must be granteil without argument, that of Uvo men, evory way alike atnl similarly circumstanceil, the one who has the greater courage anti grit will be longer'lived. One does not need to practice medicine to learn that men die who miglit as well live if they resolved to live, and that myriads who are inválida could becomestrong if they had the nalive or acquired will, to vow