The News Condensed

Last fall the authorities of Mt. Moriah i ctery. Philadolphia, rofiised to allow tho body ' of Henry Jones, a colorod man, to be buried in , the cemctcry, adthough liis widow owned a lot thère. Tlio caso was takon into the courta, and op to tho Supremo Court. That tribiuial )a just decided that Jones or any other negro's boues liare the name rightu iii cemotorics as those of white folks. A tehbibi.k cnsnajty is rcported from BrookIyn. The Homo for Aged Peoplo, loeated in tho Eaatem división of tho city, tooit fire, and bo rapid waa tho spread of the ílanies that over twc-nty of the aged iuraates perished, their bodiea being biirned to a eriap. William Mitchell, of Troy, N. Y., waa drowned in the Owosco Iliver, tho othor day, togcthc-r with John Savago and Bertio Dixon, Iwyií whora ho was trying to roscue New York city lias recovero! a verdict agaiuat William M. Tweed for over $6,500,000. Anothee heavy failure in New York- that of H. A. t A. T. Meyer, realcstato opeerators. . . . The wifo of Senator Burunide died at Provideuce, R. I., last week. The houBe of a wealthy farmer namcd Crosby. in Northern New Jersey, was robhed of Í30,000 in nionoy and other valuables, by masked burglars, a few nights ago. . . . Josephus Sooy, Jr., the defaulting New Jersey State Treasnrer, has been Beutenced to confíiioaicnt in t!io Stata prison for throo year, and until tho costs of the prosecution are paid. Howept bitterly on hearing liis sentenco. He is over 60 yoara old. and luw a family who are highly respectetl Daniel Drew," the well known New York capitaliat and stock operator, has gono into bankruptcy. Hia liabilities are about 1, 500,000. THE WEST. J. D. Pitts, County Collector of Hickory Connty, Mo., has absconded with about f20,000 of public i ïid private f iindu. The f orgery of notes in hia private business for large sums is alrto discovered Kersaugna. Iowa. was passed turough tho very center of the town. going in to narrow line, toaring down and unroofing liouses, and demolishing out-buildiugs, trees, and fcncea. Tlie town was almost oomplraoly wrecked. Fortuuatoly no loss of lito is reported. A dispatcii from Yaiikton, Dak., naya: "A four-horse daily stage and expresa lino wiil horeafter make regular trips from Yankton to the Black Hills. Letters and papers sent via Yaukton to any point in the Hills will be forwarded through by regular mail to Pierre City, and from there by an independent and responeiblo liue to their deRtinatiou. A train composed of twenty-three wagons and 135 men drpjited to-day for the gold fields." News comes from the Black Hills that tho new miuing town of Custer City has been attacked by Indiane. who succeoded in driving ! off all the loose stock grazing in t!io auburbs. I There was great excitement, and overy 1 bodied iyhite man had been eurolled to iight 1 the red-skins. The minera apprehended a war ' with tho Indian Western Wisconnin, Northern Iowa and Southern Minncola are having their spring freshots. Recent heavy rains, melting snows and a general breakúig up of tho ice in the Btreams havo flooded the valleys and low lauda to an unusual degroe, cansing ruuch damage, and briuging railway operations to a staudutül on many of the roads. The Cincinnati Prfoe Curreflt publishes retiirus of the pork packing at live of the six leading Western cities. The general average is 9% pounds uet increase in average weight, and 2 pounds increaae in average yield of lard. The total cnmber of Iiors packed at theso Bis cities iaslightly over 3,200.000, and indications aa to interior points are tbat the cntire deticiency in numbera at ail pointe in the West will reach 700,000, with over 400. 000 shortage in the erop, a8 shown by decreaaed Bhipments to tLe seaboard cities The tide of emigration to Western Iowa haq set in this year at an unpreeedented rate. For the last "few weeks the western-bound traína have taken twenty to thirty cara daily of emigrant and their effecta bonnd for points botween Fort üodge and the Missouri river. Sixtï-foük tiiousasd beevcs were slaughtered and packed in Chicago lastneason The village of llazel Green, Cirant county, Wis., haa been alrnont obliterated by a tornado. The ton was built of wood, and" the cycloue swept a clean track tbroub'h it, deBtroying ome thirty buildiuga. Niue persona were killed aud a dozen or more serioualy injured. The same storm swept over a large section of country, demolisbing faim housen, feuces, etc., and dèatroying a vast amount of property. A destructïve tornado recently passed over a section f Northeast MisBouri, doing great damage. The town of Shrinkey, in Moaroe county, was almost totally demblished. Two persons were kilied and twenty wonnded, some of them seriously. At Renasellaer, a station of the Missouri. Kansas and Texas railroad, two children earried away by the storm have no't yet been found. The wife and child of Alian Johnson, reaiding four miks from Hannibal, were instantly killed. The deetructiou of houses, barns, outbuildiugs, stock fences, etock. grain, etc, was very great. Advices from the scène of the recent destractive storm in southeast Missouri, átate that in the line of the hurricane, froin a point some twe miles west of Elizabethtown up to whero the damago ceasea, uear the Missisaippi bluffa, tiiere were seveu persons killed, seveuteen wounded, threo or four of them dangerously and probably fatally, some thirty housen blown dowu, and niiHmited damage dono to orchards, timber and feuciug. SOUTH. Dubino the past month, in South Carolina, the operations of the revenuo agonfa have resulted in the breaking up of thirty-three illicit distillerieB, the capture of eight copper etills, oapa and worms, 48,000 gallons of mash and beer, and the arrest and binding over for trial of forty-four illicit diatillers. Kveby one is expected to beliove this story, whicU i telegraphed from Louiaville, Ky., to the Western Asaoeiated Press : "A special to the C'oio-kr-JoiinwiifromJIount Sterling, Ky convoye the intelligence that durin" tlïe 9th in i. ,i nio.-t woiidciinl phenomenon transpired in thtetion. Tiie correspondent said that duting MuuHhiue and a clearxky theie feil from the heawene quivering fleáh, wiiich carne down in. largo (luantiticH and filled acres of territorv Hog8 and chickcns eagerly devoured the tíesíi' npocimeuB of which have boen sent to this citv Kr Bcientilio examination. Lietit.-Oov. Antoink and aixteen other prominent colored republicana of Louisiana signed a eard addressed to senator Ferry, protesting against bis aetion in ordering the exclusión of Pmcliback, an cx-governor, from thetloorof thasenate. They eay "thisaction neems anjust, and H painfnl 'rellection on our racethrough its highly-honored representativo. Tiie Alabama Legislatura, just before adjouming Jast week, adopted resolutiona deolariug that " the occurrence of the Drst ceutennial of the declaration of American indepeudence is a fit occasion for rejoieing on the part of all tbe peopleof the üuited Staten, and thcreby txtends this greeting of fraternal good will to all the poople of evcry Stato and Tcrritory of the American ünloii," .... A Louisville scientist naving examinod some of tito specimens, has RIven Ijíb opinión regardinc the shower of llesli that receutly feil in IJatli cöuntv, h.y. He aars the matter presents ever indication of being the dried spawn of frogH. Tiik Sonate of Mwsissippi, sitting a9 a court of impeachment, haa found Lieut. Oov. Davis . guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors. WASHINGTON. The rumor that Iiabcock had been rolievcd fiomdutyas Private 8coretry to tho Presidentisfullyconarmed. . . . Judgo AlphonzoTaft, of Cincinnati, haa lecn appoiuted by tho President to auceeed Belknap as Sccretary of War. A Washington ttfqgragi oí the" 8th inst. ays: "At the meeting of the Cabinot lat Friday the President aubmittod tiie names of tl.reo persons, suti atïkea tiie niembtrs which odo they wotüd advise him to tender tho vacant secretaryshto. The namen üubmitted were K B Wasfabnrne, thepreeutMhistorto Franco Senator Morrill and Jude Hor. Tliu Cdbiuot was unaimnously in favcr of Mr. Morrill. and on baturdav morniug the Preeident formaily tendeied him the place, and it was not formahy declmed until esrly yc-sterday morning. Tlio President then dëdded to ak Judge Taft into the Cabinet, which cotirse was approved by all the ( aoinet Maj. Ricliards. Chief of Pólice of WaWnngtou, made a formal arrest oT Belknap, Bï-Socretary cf Wnr. on the 8th inst., and brcraght him into tho Pólice Court. Belknap was acbompanied by hi.i counsel, ex-Senalov ('arponter, wlio fcuid tliey waived an exar.jination and wcrö preparod to give bail for Bolkn-op's oppoaraice before the court. Judge SneJJfiXi d tho amo uit of lii'il at Y25,000. BelKnap showsd by his movemunis, duriiig the short time be ma In the conrt-room, that he was muoh deprended in apirit, covering hli face mtli lus haniin and eighing deeply An army oiH :er wbo bas Interviewed Belinap, reporta iiim ui apparont wreek, buthtill aasoming a toi.e dl oonfideDaa, nd assertüig that he ha a nmch better defense tlian the public are yet airare of. He complains bittorly of the hulioji to which he ia Bubjected I.y the Attornoy-QíDcral and the District pólice, in tho prcHonce of guards lU'ound liin lioiwe. Peo. BtuLtuux h&n teetifled before the Hoorn Foreign AiTaiis Committoe that hi nection with the Emma miuo was morely profosional, tbat ho was employed to raako an examination, and was loft to fix Imb own cempensation. His terms were $5.000 in advance, and af ter the completion of the work not les thau $10,000 nor more than $20,000. He roceived $10,000, and for the porformanco of othor acienti lic services waa eompensated, his entire receipts amounting to $25,000. Orvil Gbaxt was before the Committee u the Expeuditures of the War Department the otner dav, and was interrogftted regardiug his connection with porst-tradcrehips. He said he ■waa interested in contracta under the Indian Bureau. He made application for the tradingpost at Fort Pock, ana received a letter from tho PrcBideut in reply, which was favorable. The President notifled him that thero would be Vacancies at Fort Peck, Fort Bclknap aud Standing lïock, and hc applied for these placea in pursuance of knowledge given him by the President. These wore the only trading stations on which witness had auy interest. He waa uot only uot required to furnisli capital, but not required to go out to attend to any business. He always feit grateful to his brother, the President, for his influenco in procuriu? the oflices. Ho had inlhience with tho President to manage sneu mattere lo soma extent, althongh he did uot alvrays llnd the mattere to be profltable. Ho testified that he procured the oftices from the Commissioner of Indian Affaire, and that neither the President nor Secretary of the Interior had any edgo of 1118 receivmg money. A canvass of the Benate shows that that body is opposed to the propoaition to transfer the control of Indian affaire to the war department.... The military committce of the house of roprcsontativea have agreed to roport a bilí to eiualize the bounties of all Unitod States soldiere and sailore who served for any time iu the late civil war. Jüdgb Alfhonso Tait was Bworn in as Seeretary of War on the llth inst., the oath beiug adminiatered by the Chief Justice of the United States One of the most important changes in the civil service "proposed and likely to be carried through the House of Bepreseütatives is tho reorganization of the Pension Bureau as a branch of the War Depart ment. The appropriations committeo has already provided for tho transfer, and last week the Committee on Pensions reported a bilí providing the method for the transfer of tho Bureau from the Interior Department to the War Department. GENERAL. While a way freight train, with a passenger car attached, was crossing a bridge over a narrow passage on tho Harper's Ferry and Valley Branch of the Baltimore and Olüo Railway, sixty-three miles from Harper'a Ferry, a few nights ago, the middlo span giive way, and the engiue, tender and train feil through and were wrecked. Ten persons were killed outright, and six or seven üeriously woundod, Ex-Secretaky Belknap, after big resignation, began to make arrangement to leave the country. Hia plan, it is said, was to leave Wanhington secretly by a Potomac Biver eteam! boat. go to Fortress Monroe, whero a Norfolk I steamei to Boston was to be iutercepted, from 1 whieh place he could take a Cuuard steamer to 1 Southampton, where they intended to cross into Belgium, with which country tho United States have no extradition treaty. Information to this effect having reached the ears of the Attorney-Genoral, that official, through District-Attorney Wells, swore out a warrant and placed it in the hands of tho Superintendent of Pólice, who, accompanied by several officers, proceeded to Gen. Belknap's rosidenco and ïiotiüed him that while they oid not propoae to take him away, they had been requested to place him under arrest and have him consider himself a prisoner in hia own house. Gen. 13clknap seemed very much distreseed at hia arrest, bat thankod the ofticers for Üjo privilege of remaining in hia owu home. At the annual meeting of the Union Pacific liuilroad C!ompany, held at Boston last week, Sidney Dillon was re-elected President, Elisha Atkins President, and E. H. Hollina Treasmer An extraordinary scène occurred in the House of Representatives at Washington, thu other day. The Sergeant-at-Arms appeared at the bar with a witnoss, O. D. Wolf, whose arrest was ordered by the House for refusing to anawer certaiu questioos before the Committee on Naval Affaire. The witness was giveu a seat in the space in front of tbe Clerk's desk, and Mr. Whitthorne, Chairman of the committee, was abont to make a statement, whftii the witness feil back in hia seat in a convulsivo lit. and was at once extended and wao laid on the floor. The Speaker inquired vhether any physician was in the gallery of the House. The scène) was something never before witnessed in the House. All business was suspended, and inany ladies in the galleriea were ao affected tbat they were compelled to leave. In a few minutes the physician had succeeded in restoring Wolf to partial consciousness, and lie was carried to the lobby. Therk is reason to believe, saya a Washington dispatch, that Great Britkin wül, at the proper time, make a formal claim for indemnity on the United States inbehalf of Englishmen who suffered by the Emma mine scheme, baving been deceivëd into the belief that it had the indorsement of the United Btates threugh the American minister as truatee . Room for another star. Tho state of Colorado wiü bo admitted on the 4th day of July uext, and the United States senate haa just passed a iill which, if it becomes a law, and the people interested accept its provisions, will enablo the president to issue his proclamation abont the lat of next December, declaring the State of New Mexico admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States, without any further action whatever on the part of congress. POLITICA!.. After more than three years hard knocking and impatient waiting at the door of the Senate for admiauion as the duly accredited representativo of the State of Louisiana in that body, the door is slammed in his face, and Finchback is informed that he can'tcomein. The vote on the question stood 32 to 29, the following Republicans voting with the Demócrata against the admiseion of Pinchback : Ediminds, Christiancy, Paddcck. the two MorrillB, Dawes, Robertson and Wadleigh. The Iowa Republican State Conventin, for tho appointment of delegates to the Cincinnati Convention, has been called to meet at Dea Moines, May 81. The Missouri Republican State Convention meet May 24 The Arkansaa Democracy will hold their State Convention at Littlo Rock on tho 14th of Jnno A convention of the Republican party of Nebraska bas been called to meet at Fremont on May 23 Pinchback still hopes to get into the Senato by virtue of an appointment from Gov. Kellogg as Senator f rom Louiniana . . . . The California Ropublican Convention has been called for April 26. FORKIGN. Advices from Iceland, via of Copetihagen, report that 500 iuhabitants of the Westmanua Islands, a group lying to the south of Mand, are ayroif of starvation Tbero is, according to our London letter, considerablo diaagreement in the Britten Parliament regarding tlie propricty of Queen Victoria assuming the titlê of Enipress of India. Mr. Disraeli and tho ultra Tories are in favor of augmentiiif; the royal style. but Mr. Lowe and most of the Liberáis take a different view, foreseeing that the new tifio may lead to endless perplexity and confusión .... The net resulta of the elections to the French Chamber of Deputiea give the Republicana a compact force of 350 membere, white the Bonaparti8ta, the only other faction of reapectablo strength, numbers between 80 and 00.... The Itepublic hasbeen proclaimed in 8ervia, the übronovitch dynasty deposed, and Ptinco Milan escorted to tlie frontier ... A Yienna dispatch aays horrible accounts of Turkiah cruelties continue to arrive from Bosnia. Tue appoiutment of Mr. Dana as Minister to England is favorably commented upou by tho liritish journals. Tlie London Daily Seut aays : ' ' Tho appointment of Richard H. Dana, Jr., as the American Minister to the Court of St. James is one of the most acceptable that could bo suggeöted. It revives the old tradition of honoring men of letters with important positiona. Mr. Daoa will be welcome here on roany accountsi. Hia appointment scems to indícate a hoalthier sense of public duty in the dititribution of pontH." Five of the most wealthy and populous States in Mexico aro reported to have pronounced in favor of Diaz for President The French ministry has been definitely constituted as follow : M. Dnfaure, vioe-president of the council and ministor of justice ; M. Ricard, interior ; M. Waddington, public iustmetion and worship; M. ;inistople, public works : M. Teiaserene de Dort, agriculturo and nommerce ; Admiral Fonrchou, marine ; M Loon öay, fuiance ; Oen. D'Cissey, war ; Duke do Cazes, foreign affairs. The Tiirks have been defcatcd by the inBurents in a severe engagement at Muratovizza. CiiicAT excitoment prevails in Brussels over the discovery of an extensivo defalcation in the national bank there. It appears that 6,000.000 francs have boon embezzled by one of tlie clerks of the bank. . . .Japan has declared war agains. Corea. Tuk recent municr of the captain and pilot of a Germán Hchooner by Chinese piratea has aronsed tho ire of Biumarck, and he will require absoluto Matisfaction from the l'okin Government. The claim is upported by tho American and Euglish reprenontatives, and Admiral Ryder, of tho British navy, has tendered his ennadron to aid tho Oerman war ships if necessary. The Prince of Wales bas grown weary of huuting elephantsand tigers in India, and is uow on his homeward voyago....A landslide t Coatcant, a email towu on the Rhino, in Northrn Germany, caiisedby tlie recont heavy rainu, mried eight housea and twenty-six persons. . . . Smokere will be interentect iu loarning that the 'uban tobáceo erop promifles toturn out almoat a total failnre. Enoland lias a domesti". aud socll acaudal of a high order. The Wife of Lord Aylesiord has elopod With that priuce of rakes, Manjuia Blandford, ho ís the eldcst pon of the Duke of Marlborough. This escapade i at present all the talk iu tho social circlea of London A severe battlo was rocently fought between the Egyptiaus and AbyBsiniaus, resultiug in tho disastrous defeat of the latter. The Abyasiaian King, his Grand Vizier, ex-ehiofs, and 5,000 men were killed. The Egyptian losaes were also heavy.