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lbo nuniber of pension ocrtificates issued and signed during the month ending May 31, wac as follows: Original, 4,4C7; increase, 627; reissue, 244; restoraticn 91; duplícate, 78; arreare 5; accrucd pension, 160; pensions under act March 3, 1883, 4.113; total, 9,A terrible aflair occurred at Sydneytown, Pa., a few days ago: Johnuy Moore t.honght he saw at a window the face of his father, who was killed in mine accident five years ago. He called his motuer and a f riend in the house. Both saw the face. The mother was so frightencd that she jumped out of the wimlow, 20 feet, and was killed, the boy went Into hydryphobia spasms End is now a raving lunatic. A young farmer who attempted to quiet liim was bitten and is now also ravins mad. B Gen. Charles Ewing, brother of Gen. Tom Ewing, of Ohio, and a relative by mariage to (Jen. Sherman, died at Mr home in Washington from pheumonia. He wa6 a native of Oliio, and entered the regular army on the jreaking out of the war as captain of the 13th ü. S. infantry ; served throughout on Sherman's 6taff; was brevetted major in 1S63, lientenant colonel in 1864, and colonel in 1865 for gallant services. He resigned in 1867 and has since practiced law in that city. Mr. T. L. Tullock, postmaster at WashiDgton is dead. Much interest is maniested as to who will behis succes6or, though t is eenerally conceded that Frank B. Conger, son of Senator Conger, will be the fortúnate one. Conger has been the assistaut poetmaser for a long time, and according to civil service rule le in the direct line of promotion. Vithin24hours after Tullock's deatli a dozen or more office seekers were clamoring for the losition. It is but Just to s&y, however, that neither Senator Conger nor his sou have taken any steps 1b tte matter. But little progress is being made in he Hill investigation. Crook's captivos seem to be a source jf much concern to officials in Washington and uo decisión has yet been reached as to their isposal. Teller still adheres to his flrst idea hat the childreu be taken and sent to school, nd the women put on the reservations. Chief Moses and two or thrce subordinates have been in Washington to protest ígaiust relinquishing part of their reservation n Washington territory. The commissioner of Indian affairs ías authorized the agent at Fort GriïTin.Texas, ,o eend representatlves of the Tonkawa Indiana o the Louisville exposition. A mimber of promotions were nade in the clerical forcé of the land and penion olfiV.es a few days ago. Michigan was epresented as follows : Edwin L. Chapman 3f Monroe was promoted from $1,200 to $1,400 er anna:n and James A. Grant. son of Repreentative Grant, of Macomb eonnty, from il,O00 to $1,200. John N. Mueller of Michigan ras appointed to a $1,400 position, and )uane E. Fox of Michigan wa6 ralsed from $l,4Oo to4$l,60() Alexander Sullivan, president of tho rishNaticml League haihada lng t mvertittlon vith President Arthur, in regard to the l&ndng of British paupers on out shores. Othcr irominent members of the league were present luring the interview, which was in accordance with instructions f the Philadelphia conven,ion. The delegatien voiced the sentiment of ,hat society when they protested against the lisposiug of British paupers on our shcres, the pauper condition of these people being the reult of British mi6rule. Mr. Sullivan presented strong reasons why the United States gov;rnment should not allow them to land, and he matter will probablybe bronght up early in he nfxt congress. 'Je Washington potmaster has been appointed and he is tot Mr. Frank B. Conger. The President has named Col. David B Parker, who is t present chief postoffice inspector. Col. Parker was appointed because of his peculiar fitness for the place. He has jeen in the postoffice service for many vears andknows every detail of the work. Mr. Con;er did not apply for the position, for his Mends found on iDquiry that it was a settled matter that Col. Parker ehould have the place. Condition of the treasury Saturday Juue 23: Gold eoiu and bullion, $196,000,727; silver dollars and bullion, $115,302,657; fractional silver coin, $28,488,281 ; United States notes, $53,858,713. Total $393,645,37S. Certilicatesoutstanding: Gold, $61,060,300; silver, $71,903,191 ; currency, $13,000,000. Washington is agitated by a propoiition to open the national museum, Smithsonian instituto congressional library, etc, to Sunday vieitors. The President bas issuedan excoutive order promulgating the chauges aud eonsolidations in the internal reveuue dls'rlctfl. The number of districts is reduccd from 126 to 82. By this reduclion Michigan gets two district?, with oiliccs at Grand Rapids and Detroit. Several Washington papers have had an advertlsement headed"Civll.Service Examia atiou robbed of lts terrors," inserted by 60ic "teachers" who will fit an applicant bo that he ruay be competent to hold any position in the government employ. The poor fellows who apply are being fleèced at evcry turn by one deviso or another. Thomas J. IJrady has giren bail in tho sum of $20,000 unSer each of the new indlctroenta brought against him. Gen. Crook has been ordered to roport to the secretary of war for consultation as to the dispotition of the captured Apaches. Charles Walker, leading editorial writer on the Indianapolis, Ind. Times, has been appointed chief clerk of the Washington postoffice. President Arthur and his cabinet sustain the commissioners of immigration at New York in their effortsto put a stop to the importation of paupers, sent here by the British authorities. By the consol idation of internal revenue dlstriets about $200,000 will be annually saved to the government. GENERAL ITEMg. In the ïnonth of May there arrived in the custom distriets oí Baltirnore, Bostou, Detroit, Hurón, Minnesota, New Orlean6, New York, Pa6samaquoddy, Phlladelphia aml San Francisco, 110,148 passengere, oí whom 119,601 were immigrants. Oí this total uumber o immigrants, there arrived from Eneland and Wales 13,443; Ireland, 15,169; Scotland, 4,5S8; Austria, 1,668; Belgium, 373; Bohemia, 1,404; Denmark, 1,743; France, 455;Germany, 39,787; Hungary, S5G; Italy, 7,270; Netherlands, 1,008; Norway, Russia, 382; Poland, 1S3; Sweden, 6,801 ; Switzerland, 2,080; Dominior. oí Canada, 6,922; and írom all other eountries, 710. The total number oí irumigrants arrived in the customs distriets named from thc principal foreigu countries in the eleven months endedMaySl, 188!1, was 517,200, as aeainet 085,636 íor the correspondiug period oí thepreecdlng year. Twenty-one skulls or portions of skulh of infants have been íouud buried in the cellar oí the house ocenpied by "Dr." Hathaway, an allíged abortionist of Phüadelphla. Advices froni Western Missouri and Kansas state that the heavy rains have raised nearly all the rlvers and the iadications point tounusually high water in the Missouri River. The lown of Corning, forty miles north oí 8t. Joseph, on the Kansas City, St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad, and al60 on the Missouri River, is inundated and several houses have been swept away. About four miles oí the railroad is under water. All the railroads in Weetern and Central Missouri, with the cxceptioa of the Missouri Pacific, are badly washed out and tralno are abandoned. It looks as though serisus trouble, not only to the railroads, but to all the river towns and bottom land farms, isto result írom the present threatening condltion 9Í the rivera. Chicago's contribution to the Parnell fund hasalready reached nearly $6,000. A decree of the court has granted Mrs. Francés Maria Scovillc, sister oL the late Mr. Guiteau, and divoreed wife of George Scoville, the privilege of changlng lier name to Francés Maria Ilowe. E. T. Stewart, an eronaut of Fa vette, Mo., made an ascensión from that pla"ce the other day. At an altitude of 2,000 feet the balloon burst, and the unfortunate man feil into the river and was drowncd, if, indeed, he was not deadbefqre reac.hingtlic water. Opium is being stored in raults ui San Francisco as collateral. By July 1 therê will be $4,000,000 worth of the drug stored there. The four mea who robbed a train and murdcred the conductor on the Litile Rock & Ft. Smith railroad a few montbs ago were hung at Clarkston, Ark., a few daye ago.Thesc four men James Herndon, Monroe McDonald Jim and Gove Johnson, ontlie night of Mflrch 13, boarded the west bound train on the Little Rock & Fort Smith road. They wcre armed to the teeth, and drawing thcir revolvers they ordered the passengersto throwuptheirhands, andbegan relieving them of all valuables. Conductor Cañe was shot dead as he entered ;he ear by Herndon, while Lester, a brakeman who came to the conductor's assistance, was shot in the face by McDonald, who was himself wounded by a shot from Jim Johnson. McDonald bcing crippled was easily eaptured. The other thiee escaped to the mountains and were eaptured aíter a long and exciting chase. It appeared on the trial that the robbery was planned by Gove Johnson and included raurder whenevcr there should be resistance. Beforc his execution McDonald confesscd to having eommitted another murder. All four were despcradoes and a terror to the country. One hundred and fifty revoluüonists attacked Chiautta, Mexico, and carried off two Ca-va!iy pursuud aiia the revolu tionists, being preeseil, assassinated their prisoners. Stories of disaster and great loss of property are reported from towns along the Mis6issippi, caused by the overflow of the "Father of Waters." The national exposition of railroad property ond appliances at Chicago has closed. Though a grand success in respect to the Jisplay, the expositie n proved a failure in a financial point of view. Keports of growing crops in various parts of the province of Quebec say they are Car above the average. Wheat is not much ïrown. In some place6 it is up to the average of pst years but other section6 are iar below. Oats generally poor. Corn is an average erop in somc districts ; others not good. Apples average. The rise and overflow of the Mississippi at divers points above and bslow St.Louis are producing ecrious aillictions and widespread ruin. Dispatches of the 24th inst. teil of tte great dlstress among people who have been llooded out of their homes and of damager to crops, railroads and buildings amountúig to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Later reports eonflrm and add to this story of disaster. A large number of the sufferers are camped in tents on rldges surrounded by water or are in the open air on the bluffs. Many also are housed in box ears on the railroad tracks and a good many of them will be obliged to be fed. Their o.rops are totally destrojed and they are de6titutc of monev or any neecssaries of ife. The national stock yards in East St. Loui6 ars in no danger of being flooded, as has been reported. They can easily stand a rise of thrce Leet, andit'would require four feet to stop bUBiness. The uniou yards on the other side of the rivcr also are wëll protected and in no danger. The eituation in East Carondelet and Cahokia grows worse daily. Water overs the wholo section of the country. Sonie flooded out families begin to suffer. In viow of the large arriral of pauper immigrants at the port of New York in the last few days, a special meeting of emigration commi6ioners has been held to eonsider measures to stay this greal tide of pauper iinmigration. Affcr a leugthy diecussion as to the means to be employed, it was resolved to instruct the secrcta'ry of the board to detain all immigrants prved to be sent here by funds f urnishcd by the Britisli government, and to appoint a committce of th boird towaiton the collector of the port, and to present affidavits taken in regard to such cases, and ask that the steamship companies whtch brought such immigrants lu-rc be compellei to return them to :he port from whence they came at their owu expense. While the meeting was in progrese Lhe anuouncement was made that a ehip had ust arrived wíth a number of paupers on Doard. They were not allowed toland until a thorough investigation had been made. The commissioners are resolved put a stop to the landing of paupers. Supremc court of Ohio holds that the much mooted Scott liquor tax law passcd by the last legislatura is a valid and constitutional enactment. The Mississippi i.o falliiig and there is great rejoicing all along its bank?. There are still immense volumes of water out of the proper chanuel, on St. Mary's bottom alone, 20,000 acres of w heat being uuder water. Aloug the Missouri rivcr a thousand acres of land are under water, and have been swept of their erop?. At Chicago an infraction of civil rights law occurred the other day. Prof. N. A. Ensley (negro) of iloward university, Washington, D. C, a gradúate of Newton thcological seminarv, and a learued Greek seholar, was ejected frorii a public restaurant on account of bis color. A dispatch frora Helena. M. T. says: On Saturday, June 22 a Northern Pacific gravel train with about 100 Chinamcn on board ran into a wcoJ train at the Perón éiíiug, instantly killing eighteen Chinamen and wounding twenty-flve others, and the engineer of the gravel train was killed and the fireman badlv hurt. 'Nobody on the wood train were injured". CRJMË A brutal story comes from Kensingtun, a few miles "from Chicago. A Belgiau laborer nmed Vcrunuler, beat bis wife in a fearful manner. Fearing he would murdcr bcr ehe erawled on her kmces to the nearest neiehbor, and related a story which shows what a Bend he is. In üctober last Verunuler sent his litllc stepson to make some purchases. The little boy returned with 40 cents short. The brutal stepfather then pounded the boj to death and buried the body under the kitchen fioor. He threatened to kill his wife if she betrayed him, and the unhappv mother has carried the secret with her until now. The man wa at once arrested. POL1TICAL The Ohio state prohibition conveution held in Columbus on the 14th inst. was the largest and most entbusia6tic convention ever held by that party in Ohio. Considering the many phases of the queetion involved the convention was remarkably harmonious. The prohibitionisté endorse the national platform adopted at Chicago last year, denounce personal liberty as advocated by the Democrats, and the policy of taxation enibodied in the muehtalked of Scott and Pond laws, condemn the tantion proposition of the constitutional amendment, and favor the adoption of a prohibitory clause, and urge the value of education of the young upon this all important question of temperance. The ticket nominated was as follaws : Governor, Ferdinaad Schumacher, Summit county ; Lieutenant Governor, H. T. Ogden, Hamilton county; Su;reme Judge (6hort term), B. C. Payne, Frankliu county ; Suprcme Judge (long term), ü. C. Monteomery, Knox county; Clerk Supreme Court, J. 11. Beachford, Prehlc county ; Attorney General, J. W. Roseborough, Fulton eounty ; Auditor of State, Gersham Lease, Hardin county ; Treasurer of State, V. M. Whiting, Huron county ; State Commissioner of Cominm Schools, H. Á. Thompson, Frankün county; Meinber Board of Public Works, G. Z. Cruzer, Hardin county. TITE DEMOtTRATIC OLAlf, Tho Ohio Democrats assembled m Columbus on the 20th inst.. and waf, without exception, the largest convention ever held by that party in that state. The platform dopted was "against proteetion and for personal Ilbcrty." They demand purification of the public service, cqualization of public burdens, favor a tariff for rcveuue limited to the necessities of the government and demand the abolishment of the contract labor system. After 15 hours of continuous aession a ticket was nominated with Jndge Uoadley of Cincinnati at the head as nomince fsr goTernor, and John G. Warwiek of Stark county as lieutenant governcr. The rest of the ticket was madfi out asfollows: Supreme judge, short term Martin D. Follett of Washington county ; supreme judge, long term, Selwin Olwin of Williams county ; supremc court clerk, John J. Cruikshank of Miami eounty; attorney general James Lawrenee of Cuyahoga county auditor of state, Emil Keiswelter of Frauklin eountv treasurer of state, Peter Brady of Sanduskv aounty. J THE NEW IUMPSniRE SEXATORSIIIF. The New Hanipshire legislatura bogan voting for United States Senator on the 19th rast. Seven candidatcs were voted for on tbc first ballot taken in the Senatc, and eifht in House Rollins receiving the highest vote m both Housee. By a vote of 13 to 10 the Senate decided to elect but one Senator this session. TUE SECOND DAï'S BALLOT. On the ballot for United States senator in the New Hampshirc legislature, Rollins was ttillahead,receivingl25 of the 329 vntop oaei VOTIXG IN JÍEW IIAMrsiIIRE. The voto cast on the thinl day in the New Hampshire legislature for United States senator, gave Rollins only 113 votes, showing that he had sustained a, loss of 10 from the day before. Harry Bingham led on the ballot cast on this day, receiviug 119 rotes. JUST FOR FU2Ï. The New Harnpshiro lcgislature , gan tbe fourth daye' work without a quoram present. Votes were cast, but of eourse there was no cüoice. STILL BALLOTINO. The legislature of New Hampshire resumed lts work of balloting for United States senator I after an adjournment of three days Harrv I Bingham was still ahead, 117 votes being cast for him, and 10-1 for Rollins. The latter candi¦ date is steadily losing ground. A paper is be' ïngcirculated amongRollins' men, pledginir him ' their support. , 1 OTHISR LANDS. 1 Parnell is coming to America. He 1 will start the first of September. i The Hawaiian government has issued J an edict announcingthat no more Chinese will bepermittc tolandon thatisland. ] The Princo of Wales read a paper bei fore the fisheries conference highly praisine i the American system and urging its adoption , England. ' Numerous Hollanders in i the Prussian district of Vlersen, on the fiutch iroutier, who have recently reaehed military '{ age, have been informed that they must be' come Prussian subjects oi leave the country ' within six weeks . Lord Randoiph Churchill has sent a ' communication to Gladstone in whic'j he says he will hand over an historica! memorandum provmg the Khedive's eomplieity in the Alcxandna massacre, if tbe prime minister will ony promise to make a full inquiry. The empress of Germany has written a letter to Queeu Victoria expressing her deep sympathy with the sufferers by the disaster at the childreu's entertainment la Sunderland. The steamer Nevada Í3 on her way to New York witb 671 Mormoñs on board besides manv Irish emisrants. The lloods of the last few days in Germany were atteuded by water spouts. A large part of t'je towu of "Hischberg was sub mergedand houses in adjacect villages were flooded. The railway cear Saizbmnn was washed away and a number of eattle pcrished. Dispatches from Breslau state that the rise of the river Neiese at the town of that name has been most aiarming, the water having reaehed the highest mark Enown since 1829. An evar.gelical school and church, two barracks and a part of the postotliee were nubmerged. IJÍ6astrous floodó also are reported in Bohemia and Moravia. Tlie Dauube is expected to overflow its bauks shortly as the rivcr Iuu and moun'' taiu streams are risinc rapidly. The quay t Liuz is flooded. Odor and liober are risiug rapidly, and mauy viilages are flooded. Tnestartling announcement has iust been made that the Queen of Madagasear bas beendeadsix months, and that the fact had been coneealed by the military party. Gen. Wallace, American minister, to Tnrkey, refuses to accept the notice given bv the porte of the termination of the commercial treaty between Turkey and the United States. The trial of Louiso Michel the "Fronch üre brand," is now in progrees. Several solders tcbtificd that they had received pamphlets from her inciting them to set tire to their bar raeks and murder their öfficen. A minibar of Jews are on trial in Ny reghhaza, Hungary for murderinR a Christian girl They osea the blood of the girl to mix with their passover bread. The latest scheme of the British o-overnment to get the obnoxious Carey out of the kingdom is to send him to Canada. The trial of Louise Miohel in Paris, luis ended in a verdict of guilty, and she was senteneed to six years' imprisonment and 10 years of pólice supervisión. Of the otber pnsoners charged with rioting and pillage, Bougct was sentenecd to eisrht vears' impris onment and 10 yeurs of pólice supervisión, and Moret to one ycar's imprisonment. Two others were acqultted. Yellow fever is making fcarful ravages at Vera Cruz among Europeans and Amerieans. Ten deaths occurred at the hospital in oucday and 1,000 during tbe past two months. Darwin died too soon. A tailed tribe of Indians bas been diseovered in Paraguay A boy of seven years was reeeutly captured naviug a tail nearly seven inehes long. All of the tribe are said to bc similarly adorned. The report of the death of the Queen of Madagasear is diseredited in London, and an illuminated address is being preparcd to be sent to her. Twenly-five persons were drowned bytbe Slnklngoi the Waitara, which wasstruck by the llurruuni off Portland, England. The yessels were passenger steamers of the New Zcaland line. The charge of murder against Hungarian Jews at Nyrezbhaza is not sustained. It is claimed that the girl committed suicide. An entertainment was being given at Dervio, on the shores of Lake Como, Ttaly when the theatretook fireandwasentirely destroyi il. Fortj-seven persons were burned to death, and 13 others so badly injured that they will die. An explosión occurred in a colliery near Cardiff, AVales. Ten persons were killed and 12 seriously injured. It is announced that all the people of leeland who can scrape together enough moncy to pay thcir passage are coming to the United States. Life in that cold island is too much of a burden to be endured. The Icelanders are gentle, honest and industrious folks, and will becoine valuable citizens of the nortbwest whcre tbey intend to eugage in their old pursuit- agriculture. Daniietta, Egypt, has a cholera epidemie. Ninetecu deaths were reportad in one day. Newspaper regulations in Japan are so stringent that 11 of the leading journals O! the empire have been forecd to suspend publi catión. Latest accounts say that the treatv o peace between (Jbili and Peru bas not beeu signed. Senor Elrnore, Peruvian minister to the United States, says the government. of Cbili does not want to make peace, and only seeks a pretext for eontinuing the occupation of Peru.