Hew HX ^tmtvo, STEWS OF THE WEEK mittee, as he had learned the committee formally LOBD UIXA3TS DAUGHTER. notes, $6,814,600 two year coupon notes, refused to call upon him for such information. $6323,750 compound interest notes, $268,760 [Oil City Derrick.] fiactional currency, all issues, $16,103,158 CRIMES Alt Mi VSIMX&AZ.8. Commemoration services in honor of Total, $363,208,584. A chieftain to the Highlands bound cries, JAS BOBELETETER, Proprietor. "Boatman, do not tarry, and I'll give the a Tae lynching of four horse thieves at the late William Cnllen Bryant were held in Major George K. Shaw has statad to a dollar and a half to row us across the lake." MINNESOTA NEW ULM the Academy of Music in New fork city, Dec. Corning, Clay county. Ark., is reported. newspaper reporter that he is arranging to "Now, who be ye would cross Loch-Gyle 30, President Hayes, Secretary Evarte, Gen. start a daily morning paper at Minneapolis, A hotel keeper in Copenhagen has this dark and stormy night?" asked the Sherman, Gen. Hancock, Bishop Potter, Samuel Minn., to be called the Minneappolis Daily been arrested for threatening to shoot the CURENT TOPICS. ferryman, with much 2uriosity. J. Tilden, and other di-tinguished persons 2\Tew. He has purchased a Hoe double cylinder kin?. 'What is that to you, you bald-pated were present. Mrs. Hayes, the Misses press, and all needed material. The In a fight in Baxter street New York Farmers can find much to their profit snipe of the valley?" replied the chieftain, Evarts and other prominent ladies were present new paper will be issued between the 15th, on Christmas night, John Brown killed John growing pale about the gills. "If I pay you in a study ot the markets, both domestic George William Curtis delivered an enthusiastic and 20th of Januay. a good round sum for your services, it appears Regalia. and foreign. Keep -watch of the movements address. Lehigh, Pa. operators have appointed to me your interest in the matter A. Remer Eaetter, Austrian consul at of breadstuff's and stock, and note should end there. Do you require the pedigree a eommittee to adjust the question of coal New Orleans, has committed suicide by ariSCEZLAIfEOUti. the fluctuations of prices and the shrinkages of every man, woman and child you prices. The Sehylkill operators have informed drowning. take across in your infernal scow? If it wasn't There were 180 deaths in New York as compared with former years. their customers that the following ffgures that I'm in a hurry I'd smack your At San Andreas, Cal., in a quarrel, will rule for the present for line and city last week, from scarlet fever. There is food for reflection here. jaws for your impudence, but as it is," dis lately, Frank Descloix was shot dead by John trade: Egg and broken, $2.15 ttove, $2.25 The Armstrong block in Rome, N. Y., playing a handfni of coin, "as it is I'm thechief Blackburn. small stove, $2 50 chestnut, $2. When the has been burned. Loss, $40,000. of Ulva's Isle, and thisLord Ullan's Postmaster Anderson, of Pittebnrg, has A tramp has been sent to the Winona present orders are exhausted it is believed The American hotel at San Francisco daughter. His horseman haTd behind us been notified, by the Department at penitentiary for four years, for robbing a prices will show another decline. ride, and should they overtake ns here in has been burned. Loss $20,000. Washington, teat the scratch ot a pen or kardware store at Madison. the glen it would go hard with as." The managers ot the Chicago, Milwaukee Major Pazenonski's house, at Chippewa any other mark on a circular, intended Officer Furness of New York city, shot & St. Paul, Chicago & Northwestern, Out spoke the hardy Highland wight, Falls, Wis., has been destroyed by fire. bj William M. Palmer, a lunatic, on Saturday *V*e6t Wisconsin, and Minneapolis & St, Louis to call particular attention to one feature while he unlocked his skiff and told them A general and plentiful fall of rain roads held meetings in Milwaukee, Dec. 23d, Dec. 27, died of his wounds on the Sunday get in, "I'll go my chief, I'm ready but of the circular, does not subject the throughout the State of California is reported. and on the 24th, for the purpose of making considering the terrible storm I hope you following. same to a higher rate of postage than for The SDOW blockade on the side tracks will make it $2, although as a matter of the customary revision of freight tariffs for A dyer was -arrested at Altorburg, the original matter unmarked. fact, I do not venture forth for a mere and switches at Buffalo, N. T., stops business. the winter months. Entire haamony prevailed, Saxony, charged with threatening to assassinate money consideration, but for yonr winsome and a tayiff was agreed upon which The Chicago and Northwestern frcieht the emperor of Austria. He plead Michigan and Illinois rank as among lady. I have been there to some will go into effect as soon as the.agreementis depot at Fond du Lac was destroyed by fire drunkenness. extent myself, and can appreciate the situation the first of western States having little or signed by all the contracting parties. Dec. 25. Robbers attacked the train for Vera so, by my wordr the bonny bird in no State debt to pay. Illinois ha3 for The managers of the Chicago, & Great distress prevails in Switzerland danger shall not tarry. Sit a little more in Cruz near Puebla on the 14ih, killed the baggage years been virtually out of debt, that remaining Milwaukee & St. Paul, Chicago & Northwestern, there being 6,000 unemployed persons in the middle to trim the boat, please, and here master, wounded the conductor, and escaped West Wisconsin, and Minneapolis & St. being only such as payment we go!'' Geneva. with $27,000 of silver. Louis roads held meetings in Milwaukee, on would not be accepted on until due, and A tire in the Catholic publication society's By this the storm grew lond apace, the the 23d and on the 34th, for the purpose of J. W. Morgan, a Kentuckian, horsewhipped water-wraith was shrieking and things looked building, in New York city, resulted in making the customary revision of the freight for which there is ample provision. Charles Maguire, in the Chamber of most almighty dark. Bat still as wilder tariffs for the winter months. Entire harmony a loss of$50,000. Michigan is nearly out of debt, and in a Commerce the other day, because of a difficulty grew the storm, and as the night grew prevailed, and a tariff was agreed upon Business failures to a great or less extenc in a wheat transaction. Morgan is said to few years will have no State tax. All her drearer, adown the glen rode at leasst a dozen which will go into effect as soon as the asn eement are reported in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana have been drunk. is signed by all the contracting parties. men with old Ullan at the head on a creamcolored bonds will be paid before they fail due. and West Virginia. mule. "Oh, haste thee, haste!" tLe On the 13th of December, John Boyd Trade has been necessarily of a holiday A Dec. 30th, Green Bay telegram says, lady cries: "though tempests round is killed in a cowardly manner, Thomas O'Brien character both at Mark Lane and country A Memphis paper says: "A stranger gather, I'll meet the raging afire at Fort Harwood destroyed the Grand at Fort Wrangle, Alaska. The citizens tried markets, but tnero has been little or no alternation dropping into Memphis to-day can see the storm, but not my angry pa.'* Central hotel and barn. him by a jury of his own selection, found him in prices. The imports of foreign So on they rowed amid the roar of wateis no evidence ot the fearful scourge that for wheat into London were but moderate. The guilty, and hung him the next day. The liabilities of the Wheeler & Co's fast prevailing, and when Loi Ullan reachi three months has been destroying our only noticeable features in return have been In the criminal court at Chicago, in the Pork house, in Cincinnati, O., amount to betwesn the shore his wrath was dreadful to behold the cetsation of arrivals Irom Russia and increase trial of Joo St. Peters and Mrs. A. B. Clark for people. The streets are througed as of $40,000 and $50,000. And no wonder. For, sore dismayed of those from East India. A quiet but the murder of the latter's husband, at Lagrange, through storm and 6hade, he discover*ed A fire in the Cocheco print works, at yore, with bright-eyed business men, steady demand has been experienced for all daughter in the boat with a smile on htr the jury rendered a verdict of not Dover, N. damaged the buildings and contents intent on the main ohance, and also with descriptions at last Monday's prices, but there lip and salt spray in her eye, and both arn guilty, as to both, jfter five hours deliberation. to the amount of $75,000. more than the usual number of idlers, around her lover. For a while it seemed has been very little done in barley, oats and The Emmerson piano factory has been that he would take it ont of his hired men with nothing to do but to hold to the maze, although vulues kave not reached to Charles L. Otto, jeweler at Peoria, III., destroyed by fire. Loss, $100,000. 85 men a?.d the cream colored rnnle, as he decland any quotable extent. lamp-posts/' reported to the police that he had been men thrown out of employment. he would have the former beheaded as socn robbed of $2,800 cash and $10,000 in goods. A full and comprehensive review of the as he got home, and the latter he was President Gowen of the Reading railroad, The commission appointed by the French Investigation indicated Otto himself as the produce trade of Milwake for 1878, compared hammering over the ears with a clu gives it as his opinion that there will be theifandhe was arrested, his brother being with former years, as to the receipts of wheat, Presently he took another tack: "Come Government to consider the report upon no coal combination make next year. held as an aocomplice. Otto is a young flour and coarse grain, show a very considerable back! come back!" he cried in grief, across the mode of carrying out sentences of Three engines and a snow plow ran oft German who moved iu the best German society the stormy water, "and I'll forgive your increase over the two preceding years oapital punishment has unanimously recommended th8 track on the New York & Oswego Midland there. Highland boy, my daughter! oh, my daughter! while the recepts and manufacture of flour that executions should take and also settle the bill with the ferry- railroad near Fulton and killed two employes. aggregates a larger amount this year than William Snively, a notrious counterfeiter, man." place in the interior of prisons, and ever before. The live stock tables show an died recently at his home on the Little At Kingsley, Q-iebec, on Christmas unprecedented increase in business done, the Muskingun, near Bloomfield, Ohio. Ho was there can be little doubt that this recommendation But the young lady could not be caught so day, the boiler of the Dominion paper mills receipts of live hogs being nearly double, and 85 years old. He was very miserly, and is easily. Neither could the young man, who will become law. It is proposed exploded, and two men were killed and fire those of cattle a third larger than last year. supposed to have been very rich, his wealth told the ferryman to press on, and then to limit the number of newspaper injured. turning around in the boat, still keeping one The receipts of cheese reached the enormous being variously estimated at trum $100,000 to reporters to twenty. arm around his sweetheart to prevent her The most valuable business houses in aggregate of 13,263,000 pounds, an increase of $250,000, but he died without revealing where falling out, called to the old gentleman: Gardner, 111, were destroyed by fire, eailj on nearly 50,000,000 pouuds over 1877. The recepts he had hidden his treasures. "Much obliged for your kind invitation, A tramp going by the name of Frank the morning of Dec. 26th. Loss $75,000. In of wheat were21,9aO,000 bushels. Flour, George A. Blaikie, of Chicago, who my dear sir, but we will not come back at cendiary. 2 266 000 barrels. Shipments of flour, 2.620,- Watson, who was mangled by a railroad robbed the Fid-lity special deposit vault Dee. present. You can expect us, however, in 000 barrels. The schooner, Ellen, from St. John for train in Kentucky, proved to be a woman 26, of $3000. was brought before Justice Morrison.butDr. the course of a week or ten days. Till,then,adieu!" side the New Haven, has been wrecked on the coast of oih tQ Turpin, leceiver of the bank, in man's clothes. The frequency of such Lord Ullan called again. 'Twaa Maine, and the captain and three 6eamen CATHOLIC FINANCES. declined to prosecute, on the grounds that vain the loud waves lashed the shore return, Cases indicates that it is a common thing drowned. thety ewouldn't wer think of it. In fifteen the money had already been returned by Cincinnati Special to Chicago Tribune.! for women to pas3 for men, the usual object minutes they werwonderine on th side, thfodo what would A press telegram from Berlin says the Blaikie's father, and that he considered the minute A report gained currency here to-day that being to get work more readily and wa ^Jv1111"* ferr young man insane, and not responsible for socialist iaw is being enforced with renewed the venerable Archbishop Purcell has written ft venerable Archbisho Puroel has written at higher wages. It is said that robust the deed. Justice Morrison, however, bfund severity seventeen publicationos have leem ffo t* f.he PopA T*f*re askin oolrinrg to Ke relieve from al fiArpntnon nnVillPofmn \\Ci-wra 1 n/ WILD, c* !|20 gold piece, and the young coupkt were inquiring the way to the nearest justice prohibited in Leipsic alone. women often work in the Pennsylvania active church duties, and that this action was him oyer in $2,000 bonds. of the peace. the result of the troubled condition of the A correspondent at Kuran says a proclamation coal mines in male attire, but without Some time ago the Chicago & Northwestern financial affairs of the Catholic church in of the ameer of Afghanistan has railroad built aside track to the ice taking the trouble to pretend they are AN UNPARALLELED CHIME. Cincinnati. Investigation proves that the been discovered, dated Nov. 11th. It shows houses in Watertown, Wis. Residents along men. archbishop has asked from Borne for the ap it had declarea a holy war against the tirit sh. The Assizes of Nuremberg, Germany, Ii'is the line commenced suit fur a l~rge amount pointment of a bishop, with cardinate powers had before it one of those cases which make of damages, so the company resolved to tear Backwater flooded the suburbs ot to share with him the labors and responsibilities In Russia much attention has been given certain people despair of the human race up the track, and sent men there for that purpose, Fulton, T., and a hundred families have of his high office. Should the request George Ulherr, the prisoner, is a day-laborer of late to insuring a supply of carrier but they were driven off by a mob composed been obliged to vacate their houses. The be granted, the archbishop will retain 32 years of age, and a strongly-built man t) his present titles and authority, but will be pigeon3 in all the principal fortresses of laborers employed by the ice house gas works and a number of factories were submerged. medium statue. He was married nine jears relieved from the burden of managing the company. The mob subsequently paraded The pigeons are frequently exercised in ago and had three children. He gave his financial interests of the church, which have the streets in honor of their victory. About 140 railway postoffice clerks, testimony in the most collected and indifferent flying from fortress to fortress, and not grown into large proportions. Archbishop route agents and local agents, will be discharged, manner. On August 26th of this year, Ions: ago twenty-five buds tauen from Purcell is 79 years old, and began his labors he committed an indecent assault upon irs and the pay of those remaining reduced in Cincinnati when there was but one Catholic PEMSONAX, AJtn VvjulTICAX.. Novogeorgievsk, were set free at Warsaw, daughter, aged only 7 years and 6 mouths. to bring expenditures within the apropriations. church in the city. In regard seventy-five miles away. Two hours afterwaid On September 5th he again attempted a second Ex-Gov. Stearns, of New Hampshire, is to the reports of the financial crime, but was prevented by his wife. dead. a pigeon arrived at Warsaw from Reports from all portions of the country troubles, which have been freely circulated Next day, however, he took the child with It is reported that Dean Stanley contemplates Novogeorgievsk, bearing a dispatch stating of late, Bishop Purcell, brother of show that the late polar wave covered a him to a wood, and there committed on it the archbishop, this morning made revisiting America shortly. vast extent of country, north, east and west. that seven of the birds liberated at the the most dreadful acts, at the same the following statement: There has been a President Hayes and party returned In the northwest the thermometer ranged former had reached the latter place. time making seveial incisions in run for several days by depositors which the to Washington from New York, Dec. 31. from zero to 20 below. the body. The intestines of the poor ohild church managers have been somewhat embarrassed The United States consul, at Kingston, Edward Wilkins, late collector of customs, 1 literally protruded from the body. It to meet. There have also been Washington Territory has adopted a pleaded for mercy, but the monster left it at Baltimore, is dead. Age 60 years. Jamaica, confirms the report of the loss of the some lossesone of $60,000by the Slevin constitution for the proposed State of lying on the ground and coolly walked away. John M. Walters, of Milwaukee, well steamer Emily B. Sauder, in a hurricane at failure, but the church has a large and On the following day he returned to the Washington. The name is good, but the sea, and the loss of all on board, passengers nown among the active people, died Dec. 311 valuable property, which is ample security wood and found the creature still living. It populationnot over 55,000is too small and crew, except two seamen. for her liabilities. A financial failure wouldbegged The President has nominated Mrs. for help. The man took a knife and be impossible, and depositors are gradually for a State. Washington has a fertile The representatives of twelve raihoadp, Emily J. Dillman, for postmistress at Toledo, gave the child two wounds in the neck. Ac coming to understand this, and are quieting including the Chicago & Northwestern, and O. soil, a genial climate, and all the requisites cording to his own testimonv he wank their fears. It may be stated in explanation Milwaukee & St. Paul, met li Chicago, and E. L. Pierce of Boston has been appointed now to hang the child^but tfifTcourage fcmt, for a flourishing commonwealth, except that the authorities of the church have for decided to abolish the issuing of free passes ed him. A woman' who asked him wh assistant treasurer of the United enough men and women, especially many years received from the Catholic people the child was received the answer that, to shippers of freights or their, agents. States. their savings, giving notes bearing interest women. It would not do to admit to was sick and in the wood, where, on ti The court house at Marjsville, Dekalb Col. Fred Grant has written to Gen. in return. This money has been reloaned equal representation in the United States father crying out "Riekchen" the child HL county, Mo., burned Dec. 26. All the county Sherman that he is about tojoin his father iu to the Catholic church and schools, hospitals, swered in a feeble voice. Ulherr then tool Senate with New York a State which has records excepting those of the circuit clerk and individuals, at a higher rate of Europe. the child in his arms it was all covered witjl interest. Thus an ecclesiastical savings not the population of a New York city and treasury were destroyed. The value of Judge Henry Smith, of Memphis, blood insects were creeping over its face! bank of very large proportion has grown up. property cousumed is 6aid to be worth $100,- ward. dropped dead at his residence on the night of and the terrible wounds alluded to were! The same causes that have affected -other 000. Dec 31. apparent. The little victim at first stated] A remarkable case of defective vision savings banks have effected this system, and that a strange man Lad committed th/ The assistant treasurers of the United Kearney, the anti Chinese agitator, is serious embarrassment is the result. Within is that of the three children of James crime, but afterwards acknowlodged that i| States have been instructed to make no distinction said to be now lecturing in California on the past few weeks five or six of the most Howard, a seafaring man, whose family was its father. The little girl died next between coin and legal tender after temperance. valupble pieces of Catholic property have night in the most terrible pam. The mcyxh-^ live on Ocracoke Island, N". C. They become the first of January. Checks for payment of been mortgaged for heavy sums, and the The Dominion parliament is further er refused to give any testimony, but weps interest on 4 per cent, loan due that day are totally blind each day immediately proceeds paid over to the anxious depositors. proronged to the 8th of February, and is not during the whole evidence. Neighbor being prepared. There is no doubt whatever that the people after the sun goes down. If by chance then called for the dispatch of business. swore to his indifference when questioned, bj who have committed their earnings to the At a meeting of prominent Roman the mother as to the child's absence. *i~h they happen to be in the yard playing A movement is already inaugurated to care of the church will receive every eent Catholics, in Cincinnati, on the 30th in6t., a was also proved that the man was addw secure the appointment of ex-Gov. Hartranft when the sun sets, their playthings are instantly back, but the present situation is none the committee was appointed to prepare a c'neular to drink, averse to work, and was buppa of Pennsylvania, minister to Berlin, in place less embarrassing to ali parties. laid aside, and efforts made to for distribution among the members of the by the earnings of his wife. The tehtinj of Bayard Tajlor, deceased. ^fc reach the house, when they soon pfter retire church, soliciting subscriptions for the finan of a physician Was to the effect that the i. Zady Smokers of BiiH*1a. A Washington dispatch says Samuel was perfectly sane, and that although heL cial relief of Aichbishop Purr ell. and sleep soundly unt:l sunrise, after [Buffalo Commercial.] J. Tilden will be one of the first witness called received a wound in the head elevejfyearsj The London Standard's correspondent which their 6ight is described as being Russian ladies smoke cigarettes and do it before the Potter committee when the House ago, it has not any influence on his mentalcondition. withthe Euram column telegraphs that Gen. in a way that is not unpleasant even to foreigners restored, and, to all appearance, perfectly instructs it to investigate the cipher telegrams. The prisoner was condemned tol who are not accustomed to woman's Roberts convoked the principal inhabitants unimpaired. The younge3t is three and death after ten year's imprisonment on another In Cincinnati, Ohio, on the evening of use of the weed one correspondent writes of Kuram valley at Peiwar and Ali Khejl, and indictment. His wife waq not in the Christmas day, an audience of 6,000 listened the eldest ten years oldtwo boys and that they smoke at railway stations, on 'informed them the ameer's rule had passed least affected on hearing the verdict. to the Oratorio of the Missiah at Music Hall, one girl, all of light complexion. Their steamboats and at hotels, dozens of cigarettes away forever, and henceforth they must look rendered by the Thomas, orchester, the great a day sometimes, scratching the necessary eyes are light blue, and there is nothing to the empress of India. Champion TTnUielty Jtoj/t organ, and chorus of 600 voices. matches on a pillar or post, just like a man. about them that appears at all strange. The suit against the government TFrom the Sacramento Union.] Sometimes a light goes out and they try Peter McNamari, of Washington city, brought by the heirs of Stephen A. Douelaa, S. Kingsbury's eight year-old son, who has, againas why shouldn't they? If they a well known citizen, died the other day, his for certain cotton captured by the United been spoken of heretofore as being exceeds have no matches or wish to save themselves Toward the end of her reign the Empress death" being the result of poison in the system mgly unfortunate, continues determinedDIcftiwhahwglfeehonshoiagkoit States government in Mississippi dnring the the trouble of lighting one they ask the first from a bite by a man named Donaher, Catherine of Russia touud the civil can be done by a Soy who is war and sold as abandoned property, settled gentleman smoking they meet to favor them with whom he had an altercation over two yearsr Bt n list of her son Paul much in deb*.. Several have accidents. Some with a light! Leaning forward to the cigar, finally in the court of claims, by a judgment stairsh months ago. down a flight of and oat hw head ver pipe or cigarette which he extends, they ignite thousand bottles of brandy were in favor of the claimant. severely B%t nex he fell and -rni Ex-Congressman Owen Jones, started their little roll, bow silently and pass a charged as having been used by him, although The suit against the government tured himself then his brothel from his residence at Winnewood, Christmas on. Sometimes a gentleman asks a lady to brought by the heirs of Stephen A. Doualas, ho never tasted brandy. The a f^SI extend to him the same favor. Well, in night, to visit- a neighbor, and was found for certaij cotton captured by the Uuited charges were traced up to the day of his Russia it may be all well enough to do as before midnight frozen tp death by the roadside. *D? df^yfrg its Bight last Sun? States government in-Mississippi during the fa? J?f Russians do but we trust that in America ,'birth. T&ere were some slight excoria- Deceased represented the Fifth Pennsylvania war and sold as abandoned property,has been against a nail .and .cut his scalp severely} the male sex will enjoy and insist noon their district in the forty-fifth Congress. *^waSt^gfk legs when he was born. The settled, finally in the court of claims byajudgment night before last, wnUe in the act of putting monopoly in the use of tobacco. President Hayes is reported to have nurse snait for a glass of brandy to make In favor of the claimant a oono for adog with ap axe,herece|ed agamS^lothcLSPhiCUmU said that he was giving no attention to the strikinga tast m,uy the axe a lotion for them. From that time a bot The following is United States currency The Rev. Dr. Bushnell calls the de na 1 coilectiou tf official reports showing iniimidaUoa-and outstanding Dec. SI: Old demand notes tie of brandy had been sent or charged 6 mandfor female suffrage an attempt to h^fnLX*! ta outt head in fraud in the recent elections in the rooh a manner ^oo the 6. $63,015: legal tender notes, i all i.sues, |346,- a make trumpets out of flutes and sunflow- M,j^??V* to him every day. ^-1%,-%-^ Southern States for the use of the Teller corn- 681,016 one year notes, $6,350,255 two jear era oat of violets." m*-? w*t** tnfi i.hi. !?v/w88tatmg surgeothcalled taking of Mn aUtchea by the in 7 4