The News

The appropriation for the pay of postmasters for the current fiscal year was $8.800,000. Oí thi8 amount thero was expended in the first six months oi the year {4,509,762, leavlng a balance available for the six monta endtng June 30, 1883. of $4,100,42. It Is estlmatcd that there will be a deftcieney in the appropriation for the ourrent year of botween ?1,000,000 and $1,500,000. At the presentation day exorcises at the national deaf mutc college in Washington a memorial bust of the late President Garflcld was unveiled with eppropriate ceremonies. The bust, which arrived from Italy only six hours before lts unveiling, was erected by fub8criptioi)9 reeeived from deaf mutes throuhout the United States and eot $1,600. J. Q. A. Ward of New York has been chosen as the artist to design and complete the Grfield monument, at a cost not excceding$50,Ex-arniy paymaster whoserved in the rebellion have organteed in Washington a oociety oalled the associatiou of Union army paymasters, whose objects are said to be social, historical and patriotic. A general order from Postmaster General Gresham dlrects postmasters to co-operate with eustodians of public buildings in aiding the civil service eommissiou iu the diacharge of its dnties. It is stated at the mint bureau that the demand for the new flve-cent nickel pieces continúes unabated and that there are now at the Philadelphla mint unexpected orders for $50,000 of minor eoins. The reunión of the Arruv of the Potomac, which was held in Waahlngton ou the 16th and 17th inst., was a most euecessful affair. The last nleht of the reunión a banquet was glven, whenQen. Sherman spoke in defen6e of the regular army. Gen. McCIellan recelved an ovation from the veterans, and made a speech dwelling upon the bravery and valor of his men all througli the long strugFraucl has been discovered in land preemptlons in the DenTer district, Colorado, and the attorney-general is recommended by Sccretary Teller to commencc criminal pröceedings against several suspected partjes. Postruaster-General Gresham has issued an order to the effect that all contractor9 must secure the permission of the postmastergeneral before making a sub-contract on any route. The issue of silrer dollars from ti; United States mtnts for the week ending May 19, was 159,098. The president has appointed Wal ter Evans of Louisville, Ky., commiesisner of internal revenue, vice Green B. Raum resigned. Evans is a lawyer of very marked ability, and well known in the politics of his state. He has not heretofore held office, although hehas considerable influence in distributing federal offices in Kentucky. He is a personal friend of Postmaster-General Gresham, and itisbelieved the latter was instrumental in securing the appointment. Samuel W. Ferguson of Mississippi, has been appointed a member of the Mississippi river commission, vlce James 15. Eads, resigned. The Secretary of the Treaary has issued a circular to customs ofilces in regard to the importation of animáis íor breeding purposes, from wbich the following is extracted : To entitle animáis to admission free of duty fcatisfactory proof must be made that they re specially imported for breeding purposes. The proof must be made primarily to the Collector at the port of importation. The formal proof 1b ordinarilv the production to the Collector of the certifícate of the United States Consul at the port of shipmeut showing that the animáis are, to tho best of hls information and belief, Intendtd for breedlngipurposes, and the statement of the owner, umler oath, that the animáis were purchased abroad and imported specially for breeding purposes. If, upon tbe produetion of the formal proof, the Collector has doubts, either from the charicter or condltion of the animáis, the general course of buslnee6, or from auy other eircumstance, that the animáis are iutended for breeding purposes, affirmative proof should be rcqulred on that poiut. In all cases where Collectors are not satisfled, upon the proof presented, that the animáis are imported specially for breuding purposes, duties should be imposcd. oenehal items. ü. M Rindan, agent in charge of Navaeo lndian Agency 'in Arizona, says that over 300 peisons are held in slavedy by thls tribe, some of whom are war captfves, while others are the re6ult of tralies or purehases. The desceudants of these slavas are also held in ge. The agent has applied to the comïnlssioners of ludían affaias for assistance iu putting down this evil, and bas been promised all possible aid.] The bod'.cs of a man and two women which were stolen from the St. Polyearpe grave yard at Montreal last winter, have been fouud in the river at Cote St. Louis. It is supposed that they were hidden there by Btudeuts, who found it impossible to carry them from the city over the roads. It is announced that the Pekin government has decided to cstabliah a consulaje in Chicago, to conslst of twomembers. au Ameiieau and a Chinese, who wlll devote themselves to the protection of the subjects of the Celestial emplre,of whom there are 700 engaged in varioiH avocations these. Claims have been made that the pólice have raided the resorts of those people indiseriminately, and have thus confounded tlie innocent with the guilty. Certaiu of the Chinamen have requested a rypresentative of their govermnent to whom tliey can malte an ippeai. The breadstuff exported in April, 1888, are valued at $12,503,318: the eorrespeudIngniouth last year, $9,708,189: exported for the ten months ending April 90 last. $179,738,M8: same period last year, $157,619,727. ? Philip B. Thompson, the Kentucky congiTSsman. on trial for tho murder of one Davis, was acquitted. This verdiot of the jury was reeeived amld deafening cheers. A dispatch from San Antonio sayg the flag of Texas is llyiwg over Fort Alamo, the property of which it forms a part having been conveyed to the State by the Roman Catholic Bishop after purehase. Alamo has been known as the Thermopyl of America from the heroic defense of the fort made in 1836 by a sinall body of Texans against a forec of Mexicaas fully ten times their nuniber, The Mexicans murdered the six defenders of the fort whom they fouud alive on its surrender. The executive oommitteo of cigarmaker6 in Chicago heard the testimony of six young girls employed by oce Behrman on Kenzie street. It showed that they worked from 6 in the morning until 9 at night three nights each week, mailing bunches for cigars. The majority receive $3 per week and in order to make a proflt of thls scanty pittance he charges themj a ccnt a minute for lost time. When the health inspector visited the place the proprictor managed to secrete the ' children under age employed. Other tyranical practices are alleged, and it is claimed the place is only a type of others In the city. Hon. J. Preston Knott is the Democratie nominee for governor of Kentucky, and Capt. James R. Hlndman the nominec for lieutenant-governor. John F. Finerty, member of Congress from the thlrd Illlnola district, and editor oí the Citizen, advises all Irisbmen, if they have any reipeet for themselves or for Ireland, to bsycott the Pope for his interference and polltlcl allianoe with the arch enemy of the Irish nation and race. Chas. F. Kring, who has so pertsistently fought to escape puuishment for the murder of Dora Brem6ter in St. Louis, Mo., several years ago, and who was releascd from prison a short time ago under a decisión of the United States supreme court, died at St. John's hospital in St. Louis on the 18th inst. of hemorrhage. The exportation oí cattle to Knojland and pork to Gerniany has aroused so mmch ill feellng on the part of Grcat Britaiu and Germany towurd the United States, that a member of the United Statee treasury cattle commiesion has gone abroad lor the purposc of inTestujating the restriction now imposed upon our export trade. J. H. Sanders of Chicaeo, is the man chosen for this work. The Granito State, a Connectieut river steamer, was destroyed by lire on the morningof the 19th inst., a few miles below Hartford, Conn. The llames spread so rapidly that nothing was saved. Five lives are kuown to have been lost, four by burm'ng, and onc by drowning. The bodies were burnod beyond recognition. The oue drowned was Mrs. C. L. Main of New Haven. She was on her bridal tour, and together with her husband sprang overboard. They eauk together three time6, when Main beeame eutangled in tho paddlewheel and was saved, while hls young bride found a watery grave. The origin" of the ure is unknown. The prohibitory liquor aruendment was defeated in the Pennsylvania legislature. All of the railroad coal mines at Plttsburg, Pa., have resumed work. About 5,000 miners were on the sirike. Heavy forest fires have been raging in New Hampshirc and Vermont for several days. The Ure originated on the line of the Montpelier ar.d Wells River R. R., and destrojed much valuable railroad property, beside the incalculable loss of timber by the burning of the fore8t. As a rosult of the recent outrages on the Chinese in New York, a Chinese eonsulate is to be eetabllshed at onee. Citizens of the United States can hereaf ter, by conforming to the regulations governingthe subject, receive the same protection in Switzerland regarding their trausactions as do the citi.ens of that government. A dispatch from Deadwood, Dakota, says a flood has been raginir there, with the highe6t water ever known. Whitewood stream runs through the heart of the city. The channel is cut 100 yards wide and everything went before the flood. All the town above the gulch is badly damaged. Pcnnington is entirely eone and the valley tlooded and half of Spear Fish washed away. Crook City is nearly all gone. George Chandler and wife and two unknown men are known to be drowned Tbe loss is roughly estimated at, $600,000. Rope and basket eommunication is e6tablished between the two parts of the city. Kate Kane, the female lawyev of Milwaukee, who threw water in Judge Mallory's face in the criminal court, has been released from the couuty jail, where she has been conflned for 30 days for eontempt of court. She shook hands with the sheriff's employees, except Meyers, who was the one who seized her arm in the court at the time she threw the watr. Lady friends took her away in a hack and presented her with a purse of money. Chicago Irishmen held an indignation meeting reccntly, denouncing and defying the pope. Bishop Jesse Truesdell Peck, ü. D., died at Syracuse, N. Y., a few days ago. He had been in fccble health for several months, and about two weeks ago he wasattacked with pneumonía. Ahnost until the closing niomcnts of liis life his mind was uncloudcd. Bishop Peck was born in Middlefield, Otsego county, N. Y., April 4, 1811. He was lieensed topreach in 1829 ; two years af ter lie joined the Methodist church. In taking this step he followed three eldei brothers. In 1832 he joined the Oneida conference and continued in pastoral work until 1 S5i. He was then clected principal of the high school aftervvard kuown as the Gouverneur Wesleyan Seminary. In 1841 he beeame principal of the Troy Conference Academy at Poultney, Vt. In 1848 he was clected president of Dickinsou College at Carlisle, Pa. Four years later he beeame paetor of the Foundry church at Washington, and in issthe was made secretary and eider of the Tract society. In 1856 he beeame the pastor of the Greone strect ehureh in New York city, and two or three years later he was transferred to California, where he remained for cight years as pastor of eburcües in San ï rancisco, Santa Clara and Sacramento, serving for a time aleo as president of the Board of Tmsteesof the University of the Pacific and as president of the California Biblc eociety. Returning to the cast he was stationed at Peekskill, Albany and Syracuse, being sent to the lattcr city to ïiid in founding the Syracuee univcmty. Ho held the office of president of the Board of Trustees of this university until 1872 when he was elected bishop. Bishop Peek was a meinbtv of all the General Conferences held since 1844, and he was oue of the best known bishops of his church. As a pulpit and platform speaker he was attr.'ictive and at times powerful. He was always unceasiug in his labors, which were of practical advantage to his denomination. He was all his life interested in cducation and in the caUBe of missions. In the midst of othcr work he fuund time to write several books, lneludingthefollowing: "The Central Idea of Christianity." "The Truc Wonian," "Wliat Must I Do to be Saved V' and "The History of the Groat Repubüc," When the Syracuse university was foundcd Bishop Peck promlsed a subscription of $25,000 to its funds, end a few days ogo he told a fricud that the day of his death would lind this promise fullillcd. "I have an ambition,"' he said, "to die without anything, for I am goiug where I shall have infinite riehes of a kind thït will suit me better tlian any of these material things." Bishop Peck was married forty-sevcn years agfi and his wife survives Dim. Mrs. Scoville, the sister of Guiteau, is cvidcntly desirous of oblitcrating her connection with the families of her brother and her late husband. Sne has filed an applieation for a change of name, and not desiriug to re;ain her maaden name ehe asks that it bc changed to Howe, her mother's name. Mrs. Ann Eliza Young, mneteenth wife of Brigham Young. was married at Lodi, Ohio, a few days ago to Moses R. Duuning, of Manistei-, Mich. W astrlul Wtnd. Racine, Wis., for the lirst time in its history, was visited by a cyclone on the i'Jth inst., which demolished 150 houses and barns, killing 20 persone, and seriously injuriug over 100 others. All brick and frame house3 were alike dcmolished and the sites of beautiful liorna are marked by heaps of debris. LATES. Further reports from the cyolone that swept over Racine, Wis., and various towns ia Illinois only serves to swell the Hst of easualties and make more sweeping the destruction caused by the wind. The liet of killed will reaeh abou 30, while it is alaiost impossible to number the iujured, and tbe damage done to propertv is fairly beyoud estímate. Raeine, Wis., has suffered a calamity without parallel In its history. Iu many inetauces surviving relatives have lost all semblance of reason. The physicians were not numcrous enough to ?ive prompt assistance, and numerous bleeding victims were rolled up in blinkets while anxious relatives rau in every direction to secure medical aid. CRIME James H. Marriott, arrested in New York, on a charge of absconding from Paris with $75,000 worth of diamonds entrusted to Mm by a jewelernamed Kramer to show William Waldorf Astor, was convicted on a charge of grand larceny with recoiriinendation to merev. Muri Pcsux, who accompanied Marriott to this country, and to whom he has been married since hls arrest, manifested deep grief when the verdiot was aunounced. The case will bc appcaled. OTHKR LAIVIJK. Lydia E. Pinkhatn, whose name has become a household word in evcry liome in our and, died at Ljun, Mass., a few davs ago. Jere Dunn, the Chicago pugilist, who murdered Elliott, a brotlier pugilist, has been acquitted. Tho New York Sun has a 90,000 libel suit on hand. An extensivo cave-in took place near Raven Run, Pa., taking in nearly two acres of surfacc. Passengers on the Lehigh Valley railroad had to be transferred. The Methodist church, a granito structure, at Stansiead, province of Quebec, burned recent]}-. Loss about $JO,000; iusurancc $14,000. Martin Lalede, a soldier of Napoleon' war, died a short time ago at Lock Haven, Pa. aged DO ycars. He is said to be the last of tbc 14S)th regiment. ïhe car shops of the Pcunsylvania K. R. Co., located at Jersey City, N. J. were destroyed by fire, at a loss of $412,005. At a meeting in support of the Parnell testimonial Thomas Sexton, member of parjiament for Sligo county, was one of the speakers. He violently attackcd the government, which he declared was the worst that ever rulcd over Ireland. He said the papal circular applied only to tbe elergy and not to the laity at all He thought it might be desirable to send a deputatiou to Rome to explain to the pope the true condition of affairs iu Ireland. Sexton said the Irish people were sorry to lose the valuable services of the clergy, but that with or without allies the movement must go on. His speueh was greeted with cheers. News has been received from ü'Urrau, South África, that King Cetewayo having advaneed to attack Uham and Usibequ, the latter ehief s combined their f orces and utterly routed Cetewayo. The flr.st accounts of the engagement put the loss at 6,000 raen, but this Is probabiy cxaggerated. The London Times thinks Americans should be more gaartlcd in their speeches about the Irish agitation, and thinks that Americans do not believe that Englishmen are tbehypocrites and tyrants, the rcckless language of some of our spdeches would imply. The trial of Fitzharris, the eab drirer, as an accessory after the fact to the nmrder of Cavendish aní Burlíe is ended. The jury returned a verdict of guilty against him and he was sentcneed to penal servitude for life. Judge O'Brien in passing sentence said : "The crime of which you were eonvicted is morallv the same as murder. The deaths of Cavendish and Burke were mainly owing to your act in inducing Smith to point out the victims." The prisoncr appcared stupefied at the sentenee. During a popular fete and fireworks in a village near Lisbon, Portugal, a dynamite bornb exploded, killing four persons and wounding 30. A colusión occured on the Calendonian railway, ncarLockcrby Junction, Scotland, and twenty persons were instantly killed, and twenty more were serionsly iujured. Mullett, O'Bnen, McCaffrev, Delaney, Moroni-j, and Doyle, wlio had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to murder, have been sentenced at Dublin, the first live to ten years' penal servitude and Dovle to flve. Daniel Curley, Phoenix park murderer has paid the penalty of his crime. He met Uír death with a coolness that surpriscd even his most intimatc friends. He made no confes sions or revelations, but carried his secrets to his grave. The night before the execution he wrotea most touehing lettir to his wife, urging her to be true to her religious duüca, and to bring up her children in the faith of the Catholics. Mackcy of Nevada, the American minister, bas slarted for Moseow to attend the coronation of the czar as a member of the American mission. Mrs. Maekey, who aceompanies her husband, has 15 court dreeses. On learning of the existence of a revolutionary club iu Uussia, the ezar wanted to again postpone the date of his coronatiou but was dissuaded from his purpose. The resentment against the pope's circular to the Irish clergy continue to increase, the people claiming that it means dlsunion between pricsts and people. Advices from Hayti state that a great jattle took place there April 27, in which the jovernment troops were so badly slaughtered ;bat they were torced to send a flag of trucc to the rsbels, asking that hostilities be suspended uutil they eould bury their dead. Seven persons havo been arrested near Barbille. Ireland, on a charge of beingconnected with the shooting of Mrs. Smythe, who was murdered April 2, 1SS2. Marquis of Lansdowne has been tculered the governor-geueralship of Canada. He jas accepted, and will sail for Canada in Uctober. The Spanish government has agreed to pay the American idemnitv, provisión to be made in the Cuban budget for upwards of S526,000, beiue the remainder of the awanl üxed by the Washingtoa eommission. The Parnell fund now reaolies L10,000, and the subscription list will be kept open until L50,000 has been subscribid. Thatirrepressible Mr. líradlaugh has, in three years, been the subject of eleven important divisions in the House of Cnnimoua, the flrst being on the motiou of the laincutud l.ord Frederick Cavendish. DeLaney, one of the Phoenix Park gang, has been reprievcd. Orders have been sent to thecummander of the French squadron in the China Sea, ÍUGtrueting him to add all the vessels which be can spare to the Tonquin expedition, and send all his available forces, troops or marines. This will make the expedition a mueh more formidable alïair tlii.uwas expected afortuiglit ago. The four defoats inflicted on the Cabinet by Irish votes has thrown the Liberal party of Euglaud into a state of anger. In speeches, irtlclea and resolutions the members of the Irish party are denounced as "Papists," "rebels," "an üuscrupulous faction," etc. The outbur6t of rage is cau6cd by the possibility that they mav come to hold the balance oí power in the next Parliament. The Echo cxplains the position in these remarkable words: "The Irish people have the game in their hands nnless we disfranehise them. If thev are ready tovotestendy and subscribe half" the money they gave O'Connell for lifteen years they may beasfteas Canada or Anstralia before the end of the eentury." The reward promised for tho detecAou of the Phceuix Park murderer, has been ;qually distributed among the "infonners." Tis said some of the "Infonners" will be sent abroad by the government. James Carey, the man who was coneerned in the Phcrnix Park assasslnationa. and who turned informer and was the principal wiiness for the Crown against his companious luring their trials, has beeu released from cus;ody. Carey declares that he intends to remain in Dublin, and further that he will vigorously prosecute those of the tenants occupying ils premisee who have refuscd to pay their ent since he beeame an informer. Ever since Carey turned Informar his house bas been guarded by policemen, and on his liberation ;-day the guard was doubled. It is announced that Carey's return to his home is onlv tempnrary, and that the Croivn still holds "him as i witues8 to testify in the cases of Sheridan, Tynan and Walsh.