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One of tho Guiteau jurors has gone crazy. He believed the Msassin was insane, and the thought that an irresponsible man had been executed so preved upon his mind that he became a raving maniac ïho secretary of tho interior will shortly 6end an agent to the Zuni Indiana in New Mexico to examine their land, and ascertain whether their water supply would be eut off if the land claim entered by epeculators 6hould be granted. The color of the new two cent postage stamp will be metallic red. White Wolf, Big Bow and Sun Boy, representing the Kiowa and Comanche tribes of Iiiiüiui Territory, have had a conference with the secretary of the interior reepecting the boundaries of their reserratlons, the Indians contending that in 1867, when they signcd a treaty with the government, they were giveu to understand that all land lying west of the Wachata and Red riYers belonged exclusively to them but now the land is held by the state of Texas as Grier county. The eecretary told the Indians he was governed by law and could not make &ny altcrations In the boundary linei. Tho fourth auditor of tho treasury has flnished auditing the accounts of the surviving members of the crew of the lost Arctie exploring steamer J.etnnette. He holds that they are not entitled to witness feea or to reimbursement6 of the amount paid by them for board, etc, while,in this city in attendance on the Jeannette court inquiry. He limlts their allowance to their sea pay as seamen. Seoretary Teller has reversed his decisión in the case of Wm. Chandler vs. the village of Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., and now decides that Porterrteld scrip is locatable upon the tract in question, evidence being produced that Indians did not reside on the tract as was supposed at the time of the flr6t decisión. Bigalow, the limb of the law, who sued the wlfe of Mason, the man who attempted to shoot Guiteua now offers to settle for $500 of the money that was raised for "Betty and the baby." Hhosucdfor $3,000. Major Nickerson, of the regular army, who has become so notorious through his frúndulent efforts to obtain a divorce bas disappearcd. His f riends claim to know nothing about his whereabouts. Thero is troublo among the women in the government employ. It has been decided women will be debarred from future appointment under the workings of the new civil service law. On the afternoon of June 9, the dust of John HowardPayne.authorof "Home, Sweet Home," was laid away in a rault in Oak HUI Cemetery in Washington. Abore the Tault has been erêcted an approjriate monument, upon the top of which has been placed an excellent marble bust of the poet. The spot where the monument has been erected is the most beautiful in the cemetary, and one whicb was the favoritf resort of the poet many year6 ago, before the oak greve became Oak Hill Cemetery. Heré he would frequently gather his friends about him and lying beneáth these splendid trees he would break forth in praise of the attractive scenery surrounding him. The ceremonies of the day were beautiful and iinpressive, and were attended by many distinguished cüizens of Washington, and nearly all the cabinet offieers. President Arthur, Gens. Sherman and Hancock, and W. W. Corcoran, the gentleman by whO6e generosity the remains of Payne were brought from a foreign land, were conspicuous figures in the procession. Complaint has boen made at the treasury department against Canadian steamers for carrying passengers between American ports on tbc northern lakes. The department willUke measures to step the praotice. The friends of Gen. Sheridan havo purchased a house in the mo6t fashionable quarter in Washington, which will bc presented to him on his return froni hi western tour. The contract for furnishiDg the Post Office Department with official envelopes for the use of postmasters during the next fiscal year will be awarded to the Morgan Envelop Company and the. Plympton Manufacturiug Compauy of Hartford, Conn., tbeir bid ($93,532) beiug the lowest. The contract for letter ecales for the next fiscal year will be awarded toFairbauks &Co., the only bidders. Secretary Teller says he shall spend ail the money he lesally can iu the purchase of stock cattle for Indians. Charges oí a most serums naiure aro wo;'gbt again6t District Commissioner Wc-6t. , l'he charges are brought by Loui6iana partios, , ind allege the íraudulent use oí $100,000 worth )t bonds cutrustcd to his care. The usual inrestigation will follow. For the week ending June 9 tkere ' -ere 300,000 standard silver dollars issued f rom the U. S. mints. The Japanese indeninity fund has been delivered to that government. ín accepting tlie treasury draft for thc ainount the minister of foreign affairs exprcssed the appreciatiou of his government at the happy relations exi3ting bctween the people of both countries. Commissioner Evans says in order to be exempt f rom payment of the special tax, tobacco must be of the growth and raising of the producer who makesthe sales and that the tobacco must be in the form and condition of the leaf. If otherwise, a tax of eight ceuts a pound will be called for and if sold to an amount exceeding $100 he becomes Hable to special tax. The treasury department has issued regulations governingthe exportation of cattle f rom this country, of so stringent a character that it is very probable that England will relax the present rules which eeriously embarrase our export of live stock. In addition to the quarautine sheds already established, all vessels will be inspected and disinfectcd to pre vent the germs of contagión írom remainmf, in apartments in which cattle are shipped. The attorney general has decided tha the civil service commission is not to conside the "two members of onefamily" as mentionei in the civil service rules, but that the questio willbe decided by whatever power inay b called upon. GENERAL ITEMS. The eo-operation of the Domiaion of Canada and the State of New York in the project to preserve the natural scenery ol Niágara Falla is extremely gratifying. AU Americana have a deep interest in the restoration and preservatlon of the beauty and grand eur of the falls and islanSs of Niágara. Several attempts have been made to burn the houses of the flre department of Petersburg, Va., in order to destroy the apparatus ana thus endauger property. Pólice are investigating and citizens are very uneasy. Au important decisión respecting the legality in Canada of divorces granted In the United States courts was given by the chancellor in ïoronto. The case was that of Magurn vs. Magurn, in which a divorce was granted in St. Louis several years ago. The chancellor said the divorce would not hold good in Canada, and the wife's claim ior alimony must be allowed. If the divorce was required in Canada the persons must apply ior it through the Canadian courts, as the question was determined by a law of England as made applicable to Canada by a chancery act, the same decisión affecting divorces granted in the United States should hold good in England and other colonies. The husband, 8. F. Magurn, an insurance agent of Toronto, was f or many ycars a resident of Detroit, where he married the appellant in the case, who ie his cousin. He subsequently married another woman in St. Louis after a divorce was granted there. Forty-five business iirms of New York have signed an agreement to reject all trade dollars, and an effort is being made to obtain enongh signatures to such an acreement as to make it necessary to have trade dollars withdrawn from circulation. It is said tliat tho government will treat all whi6key that hag been Bhipped to Bermuda and luto Canada, as importations from aboard when it is shipped back. Brigham Young, son of his father, said in an interview at Denver that he expected 20,000 Mormon converts this yerr. Seven famps were buried under a quantity of wheat at Milwaukee. The foundations of the clevator 6ettled, and[precpitated. an immense quantity of the grain into the riveri Tho Canadian Irishmen are very much displeased at the appointment of the Marquise of Lansdowne ae the successor of Lorne. Miss Edith Fish, daughter of Socrotary Fisb, was married a few days ago to a son of Sir Stafford Northcote, the Ënglish conservativo leader. The President lias designated Saint Vincent, Minn., as a port from which imported morchandise may be chipped in bond in transit through the United States to and irom the Britisn possessions of North America. During tho first tivo months of tho year 26,0(10 passengere and 112,000 tons of freight TPcre landed at Portland, Oregon, a large percentage over any preceding jear. There is trouble in railroad circles betweenthe Michigan Central and the Grand Trunk companies. It is now deflnitely settled that the through Wagner coaches which have heretof ore been run from Chicago to New York and Boston, partly over the Grand Trunk and partly over the Canada división of the Michican Central, will now all go orer the lattcr line. Wagner cars will run from Detroit east over the Great Western división of the Grand Trunk, but they will start from Detroit and will not be through from the west. The Grand Trunk managers have as yet taken no steps in the matter. Nevertheless, they mean to get even with Vanderbilt as Boon as they get a good chance. Their new Jackson route to Detroit will be pushed to a speedy completion, and in the meantime they intend to run trains to Detroit over the Chicago and Grand Trunk and Detroit and Milwaukee via Durand. Not belng able to make the same time as the Michigan Central, they intend to make things even by reducing the rates. Eliphalet Clark, tho oidest homeopathie physician in Maine, died recently at Portland, aged S2. He was the founder with Dr. Gray of New York, of the American .icsti. tute of iiomeopathy. The Barber boys, tho noted desperadoes of lowa, whose arrest at Waverly in that state was noted a short time ago, were taken from iail by a mob and hanged to a tree. The sheriff refu6ed to give upthe boys, and the mob broke open the doors with sledge hammers. Major Wasson, the arniy paymaster whose crookedness cost him hi6 posltion and a trial by court martial, has paid in iull the amount of his deficit. The friends of the aceused hope for an acquittal. A cast-iron vulcanizer vreighingabout 35 tons eiploded at the factory of the Ansonia rubber works, near College Point, Long Island. The damages to the works will amount to $12,000. A number of houses were yery much shttered, and five men so badly injurcd that recovery is lmpossible. The Illinois House of Representa uves has passed the Harper high license bill providing for a license of $150 for beer saloons and $500 for the sale of distilled spirits. lts passag by the Senate is deemed very positive The Kentucky Court of Appeals has affirmed the decisión of the court below in refusing to grant a new trial to Ellis Craft, one of the Ashland murderers, charged with flrst outraging and then murdering a girl named Gibbons, and afterward setting fire to the house in which were the bodies of the girl, her comrade and brother, who were also murdered. At last vfhat seems to be authentic news of General Crook bas been recelvcd. He has not been massacred by the Inuians nr has he ma6sacred Juh and his band. A dispatch from Tombstone, Arizona, brought there by a courier, say6 that the General is about thirty miles northwest of Nacoria, on tbe western side of the Sierra Madre Mountains, and is sending out scouts in all directions. It add6, also, that he has found no sigus of indians. When last heard from, on May 6, General Crook was at Baisepe Apprently he has not been able to move quickly during the last month. The statement that he has found no Indiaus conflrms the belief that the hostiles have 6eparated in small groups and scattered throughout the mountains. The Mexican commander is said to be working up the easteru side of the Sierra Madre, hoping to close in the Indians between his torces and General Crook's. But if Juh and his followers have scattered there is doubt whether their pursuers will cateh any of them. If General Crook shoold extermínate them nnder such circumstances he would be tntitled to the greatest possible credit as an TnHinn fio-ht.pr. lint. what. YlO. llonfi ho. TnUSt do quickly, lor in twowecks the rainy 6eason may eet in, and that wül probably stop bis pursuit. A statuo of General Sylvanus Thayer, virtually fatber oí the military academy at West Polnt was unveiled a few days ago with appropriate ceremonies. A distinguished company of soldiers and civilian6 was present, and stirring addresses were male ly Gens. Giant and Snerman, Seeetary Lincoln and others. The Navy Yards at Pensocola, League sland and Portsmouth are to be closed, and others will be run on a more eeonomical scale. Reports f rom neariy 1,000 localities n the 10 great corn growing states show that n general th.3 condition of the erop is very rood. It scems that the unpropitious weather of April nd May fcfor the most part merely lelayed planting or retarded the beginning oL ,he growth, for which the more genial skles of June made ampie amends. No estímate is given of the total yield of the 10 states, but there is good reason to believe that the growing erop will exceed that of 18S8 by at least 13 per cent. '. F. C. Boyd, represenünsr the whiskey interests of the United States, has been In Ottawa endeaToring to obtain a. relaxation of the order prahibiting the importationof American whlskev in less than 100 eallous. Bat the anucks are flrm and ay it can't come. (l William A. Putney, a few years ago iroprietor oí onc of the largeet dry goods l) tores in Chicago, and considered very wealthy, ' leamc hopelessly involved, and gave up ie6s. He went to Boston and obtained a : ion in one of the largest establishments in r ,hat city. For eorae time the firm have been J ntssing large quantities of valuable goods. ! The thefts were fiually traced to Putney, and je was at once arrested at a summer cottage at tfantueket. While beleg taken to Boston on j steamer he asked permission of the oflïeers t to walk about the boat and visit some fnends. 1 Suddenly while cliatting with a party of i tlemen he sprang overboard. He was at once taken from the water, but all efforts at . cttation failed. Nearlv all of the stolen property was found at hls hcmc. A company has been organized for the purpose of laying two cables between this country and Europe. An att'empt was made to rnurder the Hon. John E. Lamb of Terra Haute, Ind., a member of Congress from that district, by SamuelC. Davis, anattorneyof Terra Haute. The cause of the attempt Í6 attributed to occurrences growing out of a libel snit agalnst one of the papers of that city in which Davis is proseouting and Lamb defendlng. The wilde6t excitement prevalía in Terra Haute. The United States Mints coined during May, 1883, 107,750 doublé eagles, 2,600 gold dollars, 2,350,900 standard silver dollars, 530,000 dimes, 2,580,000 flve-cent pieces, and 3,160,000 one cent pieces, making a total coinage of 8,730,000 pieces, valued at $4,721,000. A statue of Commodore Perry of Lake Erie famc, is to bc erected over his grave in Newport, U. I., and artlsts are asked to6end in their rnodels. The only thing that marks the grave of the hero is a plain unpretending granite shaf t. It is hoped that the statue wlll be ready for dedication on September 10, 1884, the anniversary of the battle of Lake Erie. Beloit, Wis., was visited by a cyclone on the 12th inst. Great damage was done to property, but 60 far as learned no Uves were lost. On the same clay a tornado 6wept over Clarendon, Penn.; demolishing 80 largc oil rigs and five large buildings, and deTuging the entire town. The loss to property is very great. As a Philadelphia strect car was moving up Ninth Rtreet, a lady on the sidc-walk noticed that one of the horses was in great pain from a galled shouldcr. She stopped the car, and calling the driver's attention to the sore spots asked him not to drive the unhappy beast any f urther. The man attempted to drive on, but the lady sprang in front of the horses and declared that 6he woulcl bc run over before the car should proceed. üf course a crowd gathered, and in its wake carne a policeman who endeavored to effect a compromiso ; but the lady ref used to budge, and iinally the olficer orderea the driver to unharness the horse then and there. Having accomplished her original purpose, the humanitarian turneil her attention to her own rights and causeil both driver and conductor to be arrested for attemptiugto push her irom the track. As the party moved olí toward the pólice station a crowd of 500 persons eheered vociferoDsly. 3Thc first official information of Gen. Crook and his command was brought by a courtier from the General's head-quarters at Silver Oreek, A. T. Gen. Crook left American soil on May 3, marehing 200 miles Southwest from San Bernandino on the boundary line of Chihuahua and Sonora, following the trail of the hostiies. Crook was aided by an Apache, Nadiski, who was captured near San Carlos jusfc previous tothe expedition leaving. Ata point about 200 miles south of the line, the eommaad crossed the Sierra Madre Range, advanced fifty miles over an indescribably rough trail, eight mules being killed by falling over precipices, and pressed oh without delay, rendered ncarly barefoot by sharp rocks. Af ter fourteen days of hard marchlnj; night and day the campsof Chato and Conitowere discovered in the heart of the Sierra Madres in an almost impregnable position. The Apaches did not dream of an attack, for entranee to the stronghold was next to impossible, and the warriors were principally out on a raid, only thirty-seven bucks being in camp, with the women and children. The scouts surrounded the camp before the hostiles were aware of their proximity, and began iiring upon the savages, creating a perfect panic. Nearly all of the Indians surrendered, numbering3S3, among them eix chiefs. After the fight, the command with the prisoners marched leisurelv back to American soil, and the entire command, with the prisoners, are now eampiid on Silver Creek about sixty miles south of Tombstone. Not one of Crock's command was lost during the command. The courier etates that the reason why Crook remains at Silver Creek, he is waiting for news from the Seeret.ary of War as to what disposal to make of the Indians, as Wilcox, agent at San Carlos, rcfueed to receive them and that fie will go back to the Sierra Madres after the rest of the hostiles if theydo not come. Frceat t,at. A sad story of injusticc and uninerited ] ishnaent is told by the Jackson Citizen of recent j date : An old Englishman, named Charles Smith, ' agcd 74 years, died early Tuesday morning at his home near Hlghland range, in the northwest corner of the city. He was a pauper, and a collection was taken up for his burial to save his remains from the Ann Arbor pickling vats. The old man has quite a history, having , I3erved 15 years in the state prison for a crime of which he was not guilty. Some time in '61 he got into a difliculty with a man named Harrington, near Frederick, in one of the northern counties, over the matter of painting a fence, and shortly afterwards, in company with one Nlcholswho got the old man drunk, he went to Harrington's house and ealled him out in the dead of the night, gun in hand. Harrington had an officer named Lamb in the house, saying ing that he expeeted Smith was coming there to kiil him, and he was loeked up, tried for assault with intent to murder, and 6entenced for life. From the confession of Harrington on hi6 death bed it appeared that it was a devised plan on his part to get Smith arrested. The ofücer was an innocent tooi in his hands, but Nicholfi was paid $50 to get him drunk, and by some pretest got him to attack Harrington at his home. It 6eem6 Niehols tried several times unsuccessfully and only succeeded in incluciug Smith to kick at Harringlon's door by pretendingthathe (Nichois) was going to the smoke house to stcal his hams. The o'.d man was a huntcr and trapper and had hls gun with hini because he was goiug to examine his traps. Upon these facts being made apparent, Smith was pardoued, aftsr beine in prison from August, 1801, to July, 1876. For the first 12 years he worked in the blacksmith shop, being a stout, rugged fellow, but gradually wearing down hc was latterly employed tending the prison cáttle, and will be remembered as the constant companion of Agent Morris' búllalo. Since his release he has been upright and sober, and bas tried to work to earn a living for himself and wife, büt has for most of the time been unable to do so. He leaves beeides his wife, a daughter, Mrs. S. E. French, at Williamston. OTHEH LANDS. The Spauish Tribune has sentcncod one member of the Black Hand Society to lifclong eervitude and another member to seventeen years imprisonment for having murdercd a man who decllncd to join the 6ocicty. Hcrr Lasker one of the most eminent statesmen of Gcrmany, is coming to thls country, and will remain about five months. Hls bject is to itudy American jurisprudence. The reprieve of Timothy Kelly, Phoenix Pffrk murderer, is a6ked for on the ground of hls youth and the fact that he is subject to epileptic fits. Quakers in Ireland have distributed in county Donegal 270 tons of seed polatoes, thus relieving the distress of 3,000 families of that connty. In a battle in the Soudan, Gen. Ilicks gained a over 5,000 Arabs, killing 500. The Arabs fight bravely, but spears are usuless arrainst. shells and cannon. George Sniythe, arrestcd at Birmingam, Eng., af ter avowing that hc was an Amer2an fenian and while practicing with his revolcr in the yard at a tavern, was taken to ourt the other day. It turns out that Smythe iad been drinking" heavily when he made the tatement and when arrested was undcr the inluence of liquor. A fine for inebriety was mpoeed by the court. A dispatch from London says the rexrtsconeerningthehealth of Queen Victoria ire greatly exaggerated. The queen is far etter than report.ed, and court physicians say ,here is no immedlate datief The village of Longefoy, in Savoy, las been almost entirely destroyed by fire, only [our buildings remaining standing. Four nundred oersons are made homeleéi by the Sre. Suleiman Daoud and Mahmoud Sami are sentenced to death for setting flre to Alexandria during the Britisti bombardment, and 18 others to various terma of pjnal servitude for compliclty. A convention has been nogotiated with Spain providing f ÓT the repeal of the law which prohibits the introduction of free black laborera into Cuba. Carey, the Iriah informer, chafes at his long'confinement, but says if he is corapelled to leave IrelaDd he will return at his Ürst opportunity. The new observatory at Vienna has been opened. The refractor used is au inch largcr than the one in the obseryatory at Washington. Mr. Edwavd Harriugton, the editor The Kerry Sentinel,published in Dublin, an the printer of that paper have each been sentenced to imprisonment for six months ou account of the publication in the oflice of The Sentinel of a placard inviting person6 who wlsh to join the Invincibles to attend a meeting. They will appeal from their sentences. Two compositors ou the paper pleaded guilty to aesisting in the publication of the plaeard nj were each sentcnced totwomonths lmprisonment. Sir Georee Bowyer, the eminent English jurist, isjdead. After the first of next January the poorest of the Kussian peasantry will be ëxempt irom poll tax, and the remaindcr of the people be taxed only one-half. The commercial treaty between Turkey and the United States terniinates March 13, 18S4, and the Porte is anxious to havo an American delégate appolnted to negotiate a new treaty, that the commerce between the . two countrles may be without interruption. Over 200 Turkish regulars were massacred at Dalmatia. There was a storniy debate i n the House of Commons when a motton wa3 made to recommit the Lord Wolseley and Baron Alcestor annuity bilis for the purpose of committing th proposed pensions for eums of monejr. Several con6ervatives thought that an inqulry into the Egyptian war was neceesary. These conservatives beliove the origin of the war was disgraceful, and that the Khedive, whom they characterlzed as the government's puppet, was responsible for the massacres at Alexandria. The recent letter of tho pope to the Irish bishops was intended to be a secret, but onc Euington, obtained a copy before the Irish bishops received theirs, and communicated it to the English party in Kome. Timothy Kelley, one of tho Phccnix Park murdertrs was hanged on the 9th inst. He was the fifth of the murderers who has been executed. Another shipload of emigrants, 600 this time, lef t Galway for America on June 9. Suleiman Dond, who sat fire to Alex andria during the late war, was hanged amid the ruins of the great square. The man was nearly comatose f rom fright, and it is believed that he died before the drop feil. While being carried to the scaffold he murmured that he had been victimized by Arabi Pasha. The bill legalizing marriage with a deceased wife's sister nave passed a seeoná reading in the British House of Commons. It8 final passage is eonfidently expected. Michael Davitt has given up the idea of coming to America but will remain in "Ould Ireland" to help carry out Parnell's programme. Helen Markovich, tho woman who became so notorious by her attempt to shoot king Milan in theoathe"dral at Belgrade in October last, suicided in her cell a few day6 ago. The Popo's latest pontiücial only reiteratcs hts opinión, previously expressed, tht British statesmen wül give satisfaction to the Irish people when the latter demand what li just. There are on trial for manslaughter in Paris 18 prominent men of the Frenen republic. In July 1877, the Marquis De Pays adyertised land lor sale in the island of Port Breton, Oceánica, and in&ugurated a scheme for emigration. Legitimist papers interested themselves in the enterprise and 5,000,000 francs were subscribed. ÜÍ this sum the marquis pocketed 3,000,000. It is stated that 700,000 hectares of land were sold, although the island only contains 7,000 hectares. The marquis had maps of the island published in which were indieated imagiaary houses, churches and roads. He also instituted militia and gendearmic forces and the necessary civil officers. Finally he dispatched to the Í6land four old sailiug 6hips with a number of emigrants, the majoiïty of whom perished under the most miserable circumstancc6. On one vessel 30 emigrants died duriug the passage, and 250 more died f rom hunger and disease after reaching Port Breton, and five others were captured and eaten by natives of the island. Only 100 of the unfortunate people suceceded in reacb. ing a friendly country. News has just been reeeived that the total eclipse of the sun May 6 was successfully observed in the Caroline islands of the South Pacific by South American, French and English expeditions. Vulcan was not scen. Several good photographs of the corona and spectrum were obtained.