Franklin County Record (Union, MO), 1875-06-03

              THE RECORD. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY, VCXISOXC"' UdTBETl, K'.HIOlt AND I'l.orKIEIOB Unioai Franlclin County, .Mo. STJB'CalPTIOH: 0n copy, PWT' five copies, wcluba, each INVABIABLV 111 ADVANCB. It only ptper at the County Sett 1 so , I (4 r4 tin " Mm i 'yf 'V I 1 if I ! f i VOLUME I. UNION, MO., THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1875. NUMBER 40. THE RECORD, BATES CF One q' an:, one week 1 W ' each additional wet k-.i " " three months , 6-; " " til month 9J " " one year 1- One-fourth column, three months. o " ix moutae -i i " " one year One column, six month M w ooyr ViO 00 Frolffwlnnal or business cards of tin lines or less will be inserted fur tea dollars a year. CURRENT TOPICS. The parties for " geogiaphical explorations and surveys west of the 100th meridian," under the Engineer Bureau of the War Department, and in immediate charge of Lieut. Gi orge M. Wheeler, U. S. Engineers, are alouc taking the field, the main points of departure being l ue-blo, Colorado, and Log Angles, Cal. The California Division will he under the immediate comniaud of Lieut. Wheeler. The field of operations will embrace portions of Southern and Eastern California, including portions of the Coast range and the Southern Sierra Nevada, extending eastward as far as Death Valley, continuing and connecting with the work of former years. The Colorado DivMon will be under the general control of Lieut W. L. Marshall, Corps of Engineers, who has had three years' previous experience. The Held of operations will be in Central New Mexico and Southern and South western Colorado, connecting with and continuing the work of previous years. All the parties of the expedition will be subdivided into still smaller parties whenever the necessities of the service may require. In addition to the specific work of the expedition, special examinations and surveys will be made with a view to determining as to the practicability of diverting the water of the Colorado of the West for irrigation and other purposes. A small party will also act in connection with a similar one sent out under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution, for making orchaoological investigations and collections in the Santa Catallna Islands, where it is believed ruins and relics of great interest exist Although the appropriation made for the work is comparatively small, because of simplicity of organization and improvement in methods and Instruments it is believed that the operations and valuable results will equal those of former years. All the officers, with one exception, have had experience in the work, as also most of the civilian assistants, who have been carefully selected. Recent advices from the Mexican border represent affairs as being still very unsettled. Cortina, the bandit Mayor of the Mexican city of Matamoras, is carrying things with a high hand. His available forces are estimated at 3,000 men, and his purpose eccuis to be to provoke open hostilities with the United States. He pays no heed to the commands of bis own Government, and continues his role of robber on a grand scale. Some of his men were detected in the act of running off a drove of cattle, and were captured by the Mexican authorities. This enraged Cortina, and he demanded their release. He killed the officer who made the arrest, and when ordered to report to President Lerdo, at the City of Mexico, for duty, refused to obey the command, saying that he had resigned as an officer in the Mexican service. A number of prominent citizens of Sioux City telegraphed to the Secretary of War, asking that the Gordon mining party be released from military control, for the reason that they were captured while on their way to the Big Horn country, and had abandoned their dei-ign of entering the Black Hills until the Government treaty was consummated. General Sheridan, to whom this matter was referred, telegraphed In reply : " General Terry, commanding the department of Dakota, has directed that the Gordon mining party be released, If the capture was made outside of the Sioux reservation ; but in case it was made inside, to require a pro mise from each Individual composing it, not to violate the conditions of the treaty of 18G9 with the Sioux Indians, which for bids any ti espass on the part of the whites until the Government gives permission The Gordon party, or any other oartv, has no more righr, under the treaty of 1SG9, to go to the Big norn than they have to go to the Black Hills, and it mightjust as well be understood at once that It, or any other par!y,wi!l not be permitted to go to these places, until instruc tions which now govern the military are revoked." injects Into the wound a fluid whichpo-sei-ses the properties of quinine. Let us not too closely examine the correctness of the doctor's conclusions. Rather let us as the season advances drop off Into dreamland, in the serene consciousness that the song which lulls us to sleep merely announces the presence of a physician who furnishes his own medicines, makes up bis own prescriptions, and carries his bill away with him. The Black Hills Geographical Surveying Expedition left Fort Laramie on May 24. Numerous mining parties had been for some time encamped in the vicinity, awaiting the movements of the military, with the evident intention of following their trail for the Hills soon after their departure Scouts bring in reports that trouble is brewing among certain warlike Chey-ennes and dissatisfied Sioux, who have been holding councils in the neighborhood of the Black Kill to- devise means of harassing, and if possible Intercepting ex. ploring parties. The Cheyennes belong to a tribe that lately left for Fetterman. The Sioux are largely young Indians fn hostility to Red Cloud and bpotted Tail, and are taking advantage of their absence at Washington to take the war path. Tax Commissioner of the General Land Office decides that benefits extended by law topre-emptors, who, by reason of ravages of grasshoppers are compelled to leave and be absent from their lands, may j also be extended to p re-em p tors whose crops have in like manner been destroyed, but who have nevertheless continued their residences upon their respective claims. Those whoso crops were destroyed or seriously injured in 1874 will be en titled to extension of one year from and after July 1, 1875, and when the injury occurs in 1875 the extension will date from July 1,1870. Thb Sioux delegation called on the President by appointment, on the 20th. They were accompanied by General Cowan, Acting Secretary of the Interior, and Commissioner of Indian Affairs Smith, and were received by the President In his private office. Quite a number of ladies and gentlemen were present . as spectators. The President spoke to the Indians, through an interpreter, at some length. Ho told them that he did not propose to ask them about their con sent to leave the homes where they were born and raised, but ho wished point out the advantages to them selves and children if they will accept such arrangements as may be proposed to them for removal to territory south of where they now live; where the climate Is very much better, where grata Is much better, where game Is more abundant, in eluding large game such as buffalo, where there Is good pasturage for animals, and where teachers can be sent among the In dians to instruct them in the arts of civili zation, the means of self-preservation and support Thk memorial ceremonies at Mmphl, on the 24th, were very grand and impres sive, and were participated in by both ex. Confederate and Federal soldiers. Tim procession was over a mile In length. At the head of the mounted ex-Confederates rode General Forrest and the surviving members of his staff, while the Mexican veterans were led by Gen. Gideon J. Pillow. In one carriage were two lare flasra. F ederal and Confederate, made entirely of flowers. The Litter was partly furled, and the National flag flunjr to the breeze. The number of ex-Federals participating in the procession was about 100, representing nearly every State In the Union. Th exercises took place In Elrawood Cemetery, and the orations was delivered by Judge James O. Pierce, late of the Fede-am y, and Luke E. Wright Ksn. The orations were in keeping with the spirit of the occasion, and every thing passed off will, and the general impression prevails that nothing since the war has occurred to so completely break down the banlers between tin North and South, ana unite the whole people. Peoplb who voluntarily frequent the hauuts of the sanguinary mosquito are not wont to welcome his tiny note of warning, nor the admonition of his point er ana tubular proboscis. We are confl ueut therefore, that the srientlfle enncln eioiu reached by Dr. Samuel W. Francis will be welcomed by sll who contemplate passing the summer months in themog-qulto-bearlnsr dlstrii :t. The doctor 1- elares It to bo his firm conviction that genu tultx was created for the purpose of unvmg man out of the malarial litricts. Since, however, man U tblck- e alt d and wren w on't go when be I driven x-rovirjcnee has commisfiot-vl the mosquito first to DunUh him f. r oinlnsr. nd then to apply a prophyUeic i t view Of the malaria he must of new lrv inhn!.. That Is to say, she (for it Is i u'y the female mosquito that bites) hypodermlcally Thk Pennsylvania Republican State Convention met at Lancaster on the 2Cth. Gov. Hartranft was renominated by acclamation. The resolutions heartily indorse the administration of President Grant, but declare unequivocally against a third term. Osb of the mof t terrible disasters In the history of Massachusetts occurred on the evening of May 27, In the burning of the French Catholic Church, at South Hol- yoke, during evening service, Involving the death of sixty-six men, women and children, and the fatal injury of many others. The exercises had nearly closed and a vesper service was being sung, when the draperies on the altar caught fire from a candle, and the wall being low and the flames streaming up, the building was set on fire. The audience numbered about seven hundred. The people In the body of the church escaped, but on the stairway leading from the gal lery human beings were packed in a dense mass struggling to reach the floor, and as the flames ruehed toward them many leaped to the floor beneath and were trampled to death. The gallery skirted both sides of the building with only an area from the front. The scene was fearful while it lasted, for the whole was over in twenty minutes. Besides sixty-six dead, there are enough fatally wounded to bring the total loss of life up to seventy-five. Deceased had been In the editorial department ot the Methodist Book Concern for about S3 yean; was the author of several religious books, and for yean was prominent among Sunday, school workers ot the West. lie was 61 years old. Cameron Bcrnsidk, ol Pluladelpbla, nephew of Senator Cameron and Otis C. Tiffany, son of Iter. Dr. Tiffany, have been appointed Paymasters in the Navy. Ges. Mkiggs, Quartermaster-General of the Army, is to be relieved shortly from his pres. ent p08ition, and sent abroad on an important special mission, the nature of which has not yet transpired, although it is understood to be a tour of observation. He is to be allowed a secretary, and will be engaged in his European mission about eighteen months. Ex-Queen Amelia, widow of the late King Otlio, of Greece, died at Munich on the JOth. Col. A. C. Mathews, at present Collector of theNinth Illinois District, has been ad-pointed Internal Revenue Supervisor lor the District comprised in the States of Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin, vii-e Mudd, m.giwd. ' B0H7&XkxAMDK& II rferwiiENS was ill Atlanta recently for a few days, and the newspapers of that city say his general health is better than It has been for years. Wm. H. Darnklson has been appointed Indian Agent at the Fort Hill Agency, Idaho, vioe James Wright, resigned. John Lightnkr has been appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for the St. Louis district, vice Con. Maguire, resigned. The New York Legislature adjourned sine die on the ?M. Ferdinand Mever has been appointed Supervisor of Internal Revenue for the States of Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas and Texas and the Indian and New Mexico Territories, in place of John McDonald, removed. Hon. Jesse D. Bright, ex-United States Senator from Indiana, died at bis resi dence In Baltimore, on the 20th, aged S3. It Is announced that the President and family will leave Washington for Long Branch about June 4, the President having abandoned for the present his contemplated Western trip. By the will of the late John H. Towne of Philadelphia, the University of Pennsylvania made residuary a legatee, and as such will re ceive over 1 300,000 immediately on the settle ment of the estate. The University has also a reversionary interest in the estate, which may ultimately make the total bequest to that Institution over $1,000,000. This money is to be held as part of the endowment fund, and the income is to be applied solely to the salaries of Professors. Miss Carrie S. Bcrnham, of Philadel phia, having applied for admission to the bar of the courts ot Pennsylvania and having been denied the privilege of a legal examination by the board of examiners, because she is a woman, and having in vain sought to procure an order from the Court of Common Picas directing the board to examine her as other law students are examined, has brought a suit against the board. placing her damages at $"200,000. The ground set forth In her complaint is that she has been denied the privilege of earning a livelihood in the profession of her choice, and thereby denied one of the privileges secured by the Constitution to citizens of the United States. Abraham Jackson, one of the oldest and heretofore most respected lawyers ot Bos ton, has absconded, leaving a deficit In his ac counts of over $700,000. It has transpired, since his flight, that for years he has been using trust funds confided to his charge and covering up his defalcations by forgery and other means. The telegraph Informs us that be has since beenarrested. A meeting of the Emperors of Austria. Germany and Russia has finally been decided on and will probably take place at Ems. A special from Rome, 23d, says the Pope is again seriously 111. The heirs of the late Stephen A. Doug las have received an award for 1,4.17 bales of cot ton, or about $260,000, seized in the State of Mississippi, on the maternal plantation, during the war. Hon. Montgomery Blair has come out In defense of his brother, General Frank P. Blair, against the aspersions, as he conceives them to be, contained in the "Memoirs" of General Sherman. Announcement is made In Washington, a coming arom a friend of Senator Morton, that the latter will permit his friends to bring his name before the National Republican Convention as a candidate for the Presidency. POLITICAL AND PERSONAL BREVITIES, Mrs. Lincoln made au attempt to com mit suicide by taking poison, on the evening of ths day upon which she was adjudged by the Court to be insane and ordered to a lunatio asy lum. , George Alfred Townsend ("Gain" of the Chicago Tribune) has assumed the editor ship of the St. Louis Time. Cardinal McCloskey was recently pre sented with a diamond cross worth $30,008 by the young lady pupils of St. Vincent Institute, New York. Jeremiah Hamilton, the well-known colored speculator of Wall 8treet, New York died on the 19th. Be waa said to be the richest colored man in the United States, and was re puted as being worth nearly a million dollars He had formerly been a slave in the West Indies He leaves two accomplished daughters. Ex Senator Young, of Wisconsin, was shot and fatally wounded recently by his son who Immediately shot himself dead. The boy had fallen into bad ways, It is said, and indulged in forgery, with complications following bin up to the point of this terrible crime. Sharon has bought W. C. Ralston's halt of the new Palace Hotel in San Francisco, He paid $ 1 ,750,000 in cash for it. The friends of the late Bishop Lee, of Iowa, intend completing the unfinished tower upon the Episcopal Cathedral at Davenport that State, and calling It the " Memorial Tow er," in his honor. It Is estimated that between $10,000 and $13,000 will be required tor the par pose, and steps will be taken to raise the neces sary funds at once. Professors Wilder and Corastock, of Cornell University, have received appointments as lecturers at the new School of Science, to be begua at Peoria, 111., during the coming sum mnr. It la an educational undertaking similar to the one at Fesix Island. Rev. Erww House, of Cincinnati, as eiataat editor of the Water ChrUtian JMxkoU fell dead of heart disease in Ma office, en thej.th taken prisoners. T measures to inau.- against the revolution A Boxfon tell';:' of another horrible a city on the afterix- bright little girt, nam years of aire, was her-- ed in the Western Ave-alter the conclusion versa ry exercises ii girl being missed, t Ulated body found ! tower. Thomas Tip was suspected of l:iu crime, and he was at Piper Is 1W years of der arrest for the nun was discharged (oi u , A later dispatch trous riro at Osceola . ' tlon aud desolation h than have been rt-v town is burned, 1 ;s mark where the bou. the eoii(!agr!irm ih: iuf their trade , trt ., f Government is taking aie a severe campaign t. gives the particulars r which occurred in that t Sunday, MayC A j Mabel II. Young, only 8 mutilated andmurder-i Baptist Church shortly '.!io buuday-school annl-tfio church. The little ii was made, and her mu- the loft of the church r . sexton of the church, io author of this horrible ' placed under arrest, , and was onoe before uu-j i' of a young girl, but i ot evidence. t 'ueerning the disas-"ii., says: The dcslruo ire very much greater W Sine-tenths of the : iircely enough ashes to , e'.wd. In the midst of h i robbers vercjily- iv u tuika aod apprs- TELEGRAPHIC NOTES. May The price of gold In New York, on 27, waa 118. Pete McCartney, the notorious counter feiter, has again escaped from the officers while being conveyed from Marshall to Austin, Texas. The Centennial of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence was very generally and heartily celebrated in the principal cities of the South on the 20th. Newspapers can be sent after July 1 from the United States to any part of Europe at the rate ot two cents each, if they do not weigh over four ounces. A letter recently received at Quebec from the light-house keeper at the southwest point of Anticostl Island says that on the 22d of November last the brigantine Orient ran ashore seven miles from that island. The captainotnd seven men were frozen to death in the rigging, and six men perished while attempting to reach the shore. - A Sioux City dispatch of the 21st says : A courier Just arrived reports that Gordon's train, consisting of 17 four-mule teams and 170 men well armed, were captured on the 13th inst, by a detachment of 37 soldiers from Ft. Randall, D. T., and are now en route to that post In charge of the troops. No resistance was offered to the troops. The point where the party were captured was in Nebraska, some SSO miles west of this place and 40 miles south of the Indian re servation. The party had given np the idea of going to the Black Hills, and concluded to move on to the Big Horn country till the Hills were opened. A Memphis dispatch of the 20th says : W. D. Alexander, a planter residing near Ful ton, Tenn., waa recently shot and killed by a tenant named J. M. Thompson. On the same day A. Lea, merchant of Fulton, was shot and fatally wounded by N. C. Nelms, whom Lea had arrested on a charge of horse stealing, and who, after shooting Lea, made his escape. By an explosion of the Hszaruville (Conn.) Powder Works on the 10th, Moaee Bo lack, John Lewere and George Richards were Instantly killed. All leave large families. The villages of Osceola and Houtzdale, Clearfield County, Penn., were almost destroyed by fire on the 20th , caused by the burning of saw mills and lumber pile In the vicinity. It is said that over 80,000,000 feet of lumber were burned and over 200 houses. Gray Beard, one of the Indians con demned to imprisonment In Florida, Jumped from the train near Lake City, on the vlet, and was shot and killed by one of the guards. Very destructive forest Area have been raging in Northern Pennsylvania. In Pike, Wayne, Monroe and Sullivan counties miles of forests have been burned, together with hundreds of saw-mills and other Isolated buildings Twenty-five buildings were burned at Lexington, Ky. , on the 13d. Recent advice from the City of Mexico state that the Federal troops have suffered a re vera at the bands of the lnjnrgenta la San Lois Fototi, their lots being 4 killed and 1X prialiug to tueuietiivg suudry articles ot value Money and clothing is needed, and a supply ot food will have to be kept up for a time. A Madrid dispatch of the 2,'ld says : An important political meeting has been held here. It waa attended by nearly aix hundred gentlemen, who have held seats in the Cortes. A resolution waa unanimously adopted that on the opening of the next Cortes a Constitution shall be submitted, framed on the basis of the compromise of all monarchical and liberal parties. A dispatch from Des Moines, Iowa, 23d, says that Information from various sections of the State is to the effect that the grasshoppers are causing no damage in that State, nor Is any danger anticipated. Crops were never In better condition, nor the prospect for an immense yield more auspicious. A mysterious explosion occurred In Boston on the evening ot the 26th ult. , by which a large three-story building, No. 536 Washington Street, was entirely demolished The ground floor of the building waa occupied by J. D. Dow, apothecary and manufacturer ot soda water, and the upper floors by various other occupants, the number of persons in the building at the time of the explosion being estimated at about twen ty-two. Most of the inmates were more or loss injured, and several were known to be killed, while a number were still unaccounted for at the time this dispatch was forwarded. The most plausible explanation of the accident is that it was caused by the explosion of the gas goneratoT In the cellar. Thomas W. Piper, the alleged murder- eref little Mabel Young, in Boston, has been identified by a person who passed the Warren Street Church about the hour of the murder aa the man be saw climbing from the belfry window to the ground. Several little girls have stated that Piper has endeavored to entice them into the churoh at various times. The prisoner confessed that he waa not in his right mind Sunday, but maintained bis innocence. Another Insurrection occurred in the Nebraska Penitentiary on the 2flth, headed by William McWaters and Eldridge Gerry, two de pcrapoes who Instigated a previous revolt, i short time ago. McWaters was shot by one of the guards and killed almost instantly, which terminated the present revolt. 1 The financial embarrassments of the Erie Railway have resulted in the appointment by the court of a receiver, and Mr. II. J. Jewott has been appointed as such. The Dublin Court of Comaion Pleas, to which the appeal in the case of the Tipperary election was referred, has unanimously decided that the late John Mitcbel was disqualified, and that Moore Is entitled to his seat, The Postmaster General has rendered a decision that a 'regular subscriber" to a paper, within the meaning of the Postal law, need not be a subscriber tor three months or a longer pe riod.as has been heretofore held by the Depart ment. High-Priced Religion. The sale of pews in Dr. Hall's new Presl'yterian Church last evening was conducted on a plan more common in England than in this country. The pews were valued at certain prices, ranging from $300 to $6,000, at which the trustee-s agreed to give absolute deeds of the pews to the purchasers, their heirs and asigns forever, subject only to an annual assess' merit, fixed for the present at six per cent of the valuation. The total valuation of the 325 pews is $SOO,000, a sum almost sufficient to pav the entire cost of the church edifice and of the ground on which It stands. The annual assessment, in cafe all the pews are sold, will give an income of $48,000 to the society. Last night the church was thronged with members, who, after trying the seats In different parts of the building, finally. at half-past seven, settled themselves as closely around the pulpit as they could crowd. An auctioneer mounted Dr, Hall's rostrum, and proceeded to sell to the highest bidder, the first choice seats. The first bid was $500, and it was Immediately doubled and pushed by quick spirited calls to $1,500, at which sum the choice was knocked down to Mr. Alexan der Stuart, Heebose pew 130, valued at $0,000. Und..r the regulations he will today pay $7,500 cah, covering both bonus and valuation, and will receive for that money a d ed of the seat, nerealter will pay $300 a year, but the bonus Is paid once for all, and the seat can never be taken from blm. Robert Bonner, $1,100 premium for a $4,000 pew ; W. 8. Sloane, $1,000 premium for a $6,000 pew ; Mr, Skldraore, $1,000 premium for another pew of the same price; U. Mareiuand, $1,500 premium for two pews valued at $11,000; Geo. Sloan and Alexantkr paid premiums of $800, and those pews rang' ing in value from $2,000 to $0,000. From this point the premiums Ml to $700, and then by slow steps to $10, the lowest bid of the evening. This was reacheel after more than half the pews had been dis posed of, at an aggregate bonus exceed Ing $77,000. Then many of the remaining pews were contracted for at their valua tion only, so that at the dope about two-thirds of the pews in number and about tbree-fourths in value had been disposed Of. Aw York Sun, JHih MISSOURI STATE NEWS. THK COSSTrTTTIOSAL COSfVKarTIOIS. Mat 21. The report of the Committee on Executive and Ministerial Departments was read and ordered printed . . Consideration ofthe Bill of Sights waa then resumed, and eleven sections were disposed of. May 23. Mr. Niekerson presented a re monstrance from citizens of Johnson, Henry, Bei.ton aud Pettis counties against the section proposed relating to the formation of new counties ... Nearly the entire seSDlon was spent in cmialderina; the twclllh section of Uie Kill of Kiphts in Committee of the Whole, Mr. Pulitzer lu tli chair. May 2. Several petitions were presented and referred to committees The Bill of Rights was agnin taken up and oonsidered In Cemmitteft of Uie W hole, Mr. UulUwhalk in the chair, and disposed of as far as the mteenth section. May 25. Consideration ofthe Bill of Right waa continued, and occupied the entire session. May 26. Mr. Gottschalk offered a reolu- tinn that a special committee of seven be appointed by tli president, whose duty it shall tie to ijiRe into ctmsmerauon an tiipse ani'ites ana lmmoiMtHMis m.xm vhifha sws.rt vote, ol tm jxtople may be tlesij'ed, such committee to be styled the Committee on propositions separately to be submitted. Adopted The Convention thenrosolved itself Into wmmittee of Uie whole, Mr. Spaunhorst in the ohair, and resumed consideration ot the Bill of Kights. May 27. The Bill of Rights was disposed of in Committee of the Whole, and as revised and a mended waa ordered printed The majority and minority reports of the Committee on Keprexentation and Representatives and bena- bonai lmsutiuw hh kueu hikou up. The average length of a tanner's life is 85 years, that of a printer 33 years. Hence a healthy farmer, who La Inclined to lie dishonest, may, by beginning early and enlisting all his energies in the work, suc ceed In starving two printers to death. Brumwicktr. i To Remove Mildew. Soak the parts ofthec'oth that have been mildewed in two parts of chloride of lime to four parts of watt r, for about two hours, or till the mildew has disappeared ; then thoroughly rinse It la clean water. Mr. Taylor, of (Mas bounty, and Mr. Lay. of Cole, ana several other gentlemen-, followed in short speeches Senator Strother then announced that the committee had succeeded In raising tSTO. The committee was requested to continue to collect money, and the Uuvernor was aaked to Issue a pruclaniaUoi n-ulnt; forth the state ot affair to the people of the State, that all may help in the good work. PROCLAMATION BY THK OOVKBXOR. KxEtitJTiva Mansion, Jkkksksok City. May 26. Incompliance with the expressed wishes of a-pubho meeting, hidden in this city on the even ing of the Hn inst. , the benevoleut and charitable who may assemble va the 3d of June, in public worship, and fel wxkispesed, are requested to make contribution and forward the same iu parts as Uiev may think best, to Jesse Chilton, Ilarriwnville, Cass Comity; K. B. Howard, Warremtbtirg, Johnson County; to Dr. ti. W. Salmon, Clinton, Henry County, and to But ler. Bates County, and Dr. S. V. Dodaon, Nevada, Vernon County, or to the Presiding Judges of stioh other counties as are known to need the relief contributed. The peraons and uflloers ate requested to apply such fund as may b remitted to them to the benntit ol the destitute and needy ot Uteir respective countiee; and, also, the cit'wna of the more lavored eounlies are reqnosied to appoint committee to raise RHi-lt im-tui aa they tiiav tie able. Met irnrt. tlu.i-oniT!"Sji!t.i.'!' to the porpcua and dicers nauiett, to i Uiiota!ii ot i aiMvu expressed.signed O. II. Hardin, Governor. General Note. Itev. Mr. Prottsman, Secretary ofthe Sen ate, delivered a sermon iu tbe hall of the House, on the 23d, during which he alluded to the destitution existing among the people of several counties of the State. After tbe sermon the congregation resolved Itself Into mass meeting, Gov. Hardlu In the chair. Resolutions were adopted setting forth that the grasshoppers, chinch bugs, etc., were ruining the agricultural districts, and that Providence alone could prevent this terrible state of affairs. It was also resolved that commissioners be appointed by the Governor, in every county in the State, to solicit and collect money for the relief of the unfortu-na e people who are said to be suffering from the grasshopper plague, and that on the 3d day of June, the day of fanting and prayer, the different Churches take up collection! for the same purpose. The Governor was requested to iBue another proclamation stating in full the proceedings ofthe meeting. Sections 14. 15 and 24 of the School Laws, require the different School Boards, by their clerks to make annual returns to the Couuty Commissioners. The reports of the Commissioners are now due, and the Superin tendent is receiving letters daily stating that tbe boards have failed to come to time through negligence or from other causes. Tbe only answer the Superintendent can give the Commissioners la to call their at'ention to section 91 of the 8chool Law, which reads : " Any District or County Clerk, County Commissioner or County Treasurer, or other officer, who shall persistently neglect or refuse to perform any duty or duties pertaining to his office under this act, shall be regarded as guilty of a miademeanor, and subject to tine of not less than $50, nor more than $500, to be recovered In any court of justice In this State nav Ing competent ju rlsd Iction." Tbe Women's State Temperance Associa tion held its regular annual convention at St. Louis on the 20th and 21st. The State Auditor has recently forwarded to the various County Collectors of tbe State circular in teference to the collection of railroad taxes. The County Collector are empowered to seize every thing In the way ol Railroad stock and personal property belong ing to the companies. The Auditor says that he ha no doubt but what his action In this regard will cause the companies to seek relief through the courts, but the State will employ the best legal talent to be found, and no concessions will bo mauo until the question Is finally decided. Tbe Board of Equalization fixes a valuation on their property annually, and provides for the collection of taxes accordingly, but the railroad men will not pay, ai they claim they are exempt from taxation under their charter. Mr. Holladay thinks that the State and the railroads will be bene fited by this decisive movement. If the rail roads are not to pay taxes, then the Legisla ture must make provision for tbe collection of revenue from some other source, and a final decision will prevent the trouble to which tbe companies are put yearly In trying to avoid tbe payment of their taxes. Tbe question having arisen whether mem bers of ihe Board of Equalization net present are entitled to pay for services during the session of the board, the Attorney-General ha given hi opinion that no member Is entitled to pay except for actual service, which the law provides shall begin when he appears In hi teat. Auditor Holladay state that it has been the custom to audit accounts for tbe attendance of member of the board from the first day of the meeting of the board, whether tbe member were present at uch meeting or not, and the question ba not been heretofore raised. Belief for Grasshopper Sufferer. A mass-meeting was held at Jefferson City, on Uie 23th, for tbe purpose of taking some steps toward the relief of the grasshopper sufferer in the western portion ot the State. Governor liar din called the meeting to order, and staled that It had become evident to him that destitution ex lsted in the counties of Jackson, Johnson, Cast, Clay, Bate and other counties, and that tbe suf fering of the people in many instance wa far greater man wa suppoaeu. j. oe resources ui Uie people were exhausted, and the Connty Courts had been asked to issue bonds for tbeir relief, but this they could not do. The object of this meeting is te raise funds, and we, a citizen of Missouri, should do every thing in our power to Assist our suffering fellow-citizens. Hon. E. A. Nickerson.of Johnson County ,wa called upon to state what he knew about the graaahopiwr plague in bis section. He said that reoorts which have been printed and circulated Concerning me sine sen people were in no way ri- aurgerated. Keuet was neceasary immediately. Ho knew of men in Johnson County who could it on Uieir door-steps and look aver tour and five hundred acre of land stripped of every thing that wa green, and the men, owning owe of tiie best land In the ooantry, were puv ertv stricken. The arasshonoer were not en tirely Uie cause of this. Tbe chinch-bugs came first, then the droutrht, which parched up vegetation, and now this latest visitation of Provi. dence. . ,. Hon. Josh Lndue, from Henry County, ald be had visited his home on Sunday, and he wa astonished to witness such numlier of the insect. You t ould take Uiem up by Uie bushel full, but it must be remembered that tnis destitution la limited, and something should be don to contradict Ui report which have gained a will circulation throughout th Cnion that the entire population of Missouri ar stricken, and t at there is no hope for ns. Tbe meeting should take some action now before tb prosperity of the State is checked. Hon. i-amuel Hays said that there was evidence, and it i fast accumulating, tost th po-pl In the gras-hopper region require Immediate assistance. He suggested that a committee f three b appointed to lake np subscriptions, and would open th ball himself bv subscribing S 'O. He assured tbe meeting tliat th railroad which he represented, uie Missouri rai-mc D rvpi USl-D MK1 , WW JUHWWMI -V"1U carry provision and freight of all kind to th Butrwws tree or uir. Messrs. tiavs. Shackleford Mid Senator S troth r war appoint! a eemmitM to solicit (obsonpoos The Missouri Press Association. Boonvilli, Mo., May 28. Th Missouri Stat Prs Association held It convention here to-day. The attendance wa not so large a wa expected, but Uie proceedings proved exceedingly Interesting, and were witnessed by a very large number ot people. General Xastia caned the meeting to order at 10 o'clock a. m., and prayer wa offered by Bev. M. L. Law. Tbe annual ration wa delivered by Mark. L. De- motte ot Islington. The poem, oy ueo w. Ferrell, elicited prolonged applause. In Uie afternoon a variety of business was transacted and the following officer were elected tor Uie ensuing year: President Milo Blair, of the Boon-vifie JUaale: Vioe-President, B. J. Blakey, Pleasant Hill Reritte I Secretary, Cha. E. Has-brook, Kansas City Timts: Treasurer, J. M. London, Macon Journal; Orator, W. L. SwiU-lr Columbia, statesman! Poets. J. H. Turner. Wakenda Huord. and Will F. Visscher, St. Joe Herald. The next place ofmeeting was located at Macon City, and the time waa changed to the second Tuesday in June, Instead of Uio fourth Wednosday in May. The citizen of Boonville have been unsparing in Uieir hospitality. The proceedings to-night wound np with a banquet at which hundreds ol people parucipaiea. Cooper County, A despatch from Sedalia. 23d, say that a family by the name of Finly, residing in Cooper County, thirteen mile eat of Sedalia, had lost three members for want of food and clothing. The thre corpse were in the home at the tame time, and burled by neigh bor. Htekorjr County. A special dispatch from Jefferson City to the Su Loui Timet, 22d, ay : Reports re ceived in this city to-day, direct from Hickory County, represent a state of anarchy and terror to exist In the county, which la likely to cause the Intervention of the State Department. Tha difficulty grew out of the killing of Danlol Naffzelgcr (or Noffslnger) and the wounding of a man named Ruther foid, by a Mr. Bger, Deputy Sheriff of tbe county, at Wheatland, a few day ago. The Sheriff of the county ha cnt word fo thl city that he 1 perfectly powerles to preserve ordi-r or protect life and property, and ak the astthOsnce of th Stat authentic Jackson County. On the 20th ult. three hundred farmers of Jack.on County met at Independence to devise ways and means to afford relief to the tlestilute and suffering. Reports from all part if the county were that the grasshoppers were destroying all the crop and fruit. They resolved to isue an tdtlrcs calling en the people of the county to assist tbe helpless. Fifteen barrel of grasshoppers were caught in the Public Square at KaBsas City in one day. The farmers are cutting down trees for their stock to eat tbe leave. Straw la being placed in the rack for cattle. One farmer aid that half of the farmer will De object of charity In three month. Petti Couuty. Five prisoner made their escape from the Sedall Jail on the 24ih. All were captured except one negro. The Sheriff's wife stopped two other with a drawn revolver after they had gotten outside. The prisoner sawed through an Iron bar of the cell ani then made a hole In the brics wall with a ctove-pker. St. Lout. The Globe-Democrat ot the 21st ay that an alarming disease had broken out among the horse In tbe stables ofthe Bellefontalne Car Line, from the effocts of which four horses hsd died and eleven others were laid up In bad condition. Other horse outside of the stable were inillarly affected, and at least two had died. Dr. Swift, veterinary surgeon, consider ths disease a specie of in fluenza, affecting the nervous sytem, and liken It to what pbysiciun style cerebro spinal meningitis in a human. It ha un doubtedly taken an emzooiic iorm. James MoBurney hanged himself on the nlcht of the 2lt at the residence of hi brother, Nineteenth and Howard Streets MoBurney had recently ceme to the city from Hannibal. Mo., bringing his wife, who iald to be Insane, for the purpose of placing her in an asylum. Failing to secure her admission, the matter troubled him o much that be probably concluded to end ni wouoie in ihe manner stated. The competitive examination for tbe Naval eadetshtp from the First Congressional District of Missouri resulted in the selection of Emlle Arthur Starkloff, son of Dr. H. M. Starkloff.ofCarondelet. The Mayoralty contest in this city is daily growing more complex. The Committee appointed by the Council to make an Investigation Into the return of the judges of the election reported that gross irregularities had been committed In several precincts. On the trength of this report, a resolution to Install Britton, the regular Democratic candidate, was lost by a vote of 15 to 8. Tbe contest for tbe seat bid fair to be long and tediou. A meeting of prominent ladle wa held on tbe 24th, for the purpose of meeting Mr. E. Q. Gillespie, of Philadelphia, the President of th Women' Centennial Executive Committee, with a view to determining what action shall be taken by the women of this city and State in connection with the Centennial celebration. Mr. Gillespie, in her remark, stated the object of her visit, and Mrs. Dr. Dickenson, a member from Missouri of the Centennial Executive Committee delivered an address to the women of the State, Inviting earnest action and co-operation In tb celebration ofthe national anniversary. An Executive Committee of twenty-five ofthe most prominent ladles of the city, headed by Mrs. Gen. Sherman, wa then appointed to take charge of tha matter, and the meeting adjourned.St. Louts County. Ob the night or the 26th ult, Philip Pfarr, a German farmer who reided near Cheltenham, wa aroused by tbe barking of hi dogs and went to the door to ascertain what was th mstter. H had no sooner stepped out-id than he was truck a terrible blow on the head with bludgeon, which knocked bun senseless to ths ground. His wife heard him utter a ties' exclamation, and Immediately thereafter a burly &gr entered th house, seized the helplea woman and omniltted a terrible outrage upon her. He tben robbed her or a mall sum of mo&ey and left the. house. Mr. Pfarr, m a moat aisiracted condition, then started fcr the nearest bouae for assistance, and soon several person came t ber aid. Her huaband was found lying on the graas with hi skull frao tured, and be died on the following day. Mrs. Pfarr was expecting soon to be confined, and her condition was considered critical. The negro i described a about 25 year of age, 6 feet or 7 inches high, having light chin whisker, thick, fleshy face, large lips and . note, heavy et, and wearing dark grey pants, black slouch hat, blue drilling jacket with a trlng around the waist and had a blue blouse on hi arm. Hi old shoe were run down at the heel and ha wore a leather strap around hi waist. The officers were scouring the country In all direction, and it wa thought he could not escitpc. Fuilip Plarr, the murdered man, was al out 50 years of afro. Hi wife 1 much yoMM'.ir, Itcinu only 8i. Tim ! ):'! :';;'( yss'.-sf .ra-3. .v ;" ordinary eifcumaiauceav A man named Thomas Stranahan, a workman in tbe Douglass Bagging Manufactory, wa scalded to death In a water-closet on the premise, an the 27th. Th sewer opening connecting with the closet was used for the purpose of blowing out the boiler of the establishment, and it i said that on this occasion, as was customary, the foreman went to ascertain If there was any one in the closet, but saw bo person there. It is supposed therefore that Stranahan went In unobserved after the foreman bad gone away. He suffered a most horrible death, tbe kln being entirely roasted off his body. The murderer of Philip Pfarr wa lrreted In St. Loul on the 27th. Hi name is Hnry Bowen and his home Is In Hog Hollow Bottom. There is no doubt of hi identity. Amusing the Baby. When the huby is Just able to open Its little unused eyes it is first Induced to gazo upon the lamp. The lntanc, witn weak, pinkish, half open eyes, Is a sufferer beyond any pbwer to tell of or get relief from Its own woes, and yet the torment of making it gazi at "ze putty yed ylght" 8 supposed to bo exquisitely amusing. After the bother with the sun and lamp. 'the baby is Jumped at, screamed at, and otherwise startled, until lu nerves arc dis turbed beyond ordinary quieting. It is a subject of marvel to most people that bo many children die In their Infancy, but to an observing and reflecting mind the wonder Is that any children grow to maturity. When yon and I fcel miserable we want to be left In quiet. Repose Is the sweetest remedy for our nervous or other Ills, but baby Is trotted, bounced, toted, " ke tchy-kt tchled,'' chucked under its chin, poketl In its cheeks, or somebody's thumb is thrust Into Its toothless mouth irrespective of a need of ablution, and then If baby Isn't happy It , Is reputed very Irritable. Tickling the baby's feet, creeping the fingers like tbe motion of a raoute across its breast and up into its fat sensitive neck-wrinkles, is another mode of amusing baby. Of course the child laughe. and the idiots who torment it forget that it is the same expression with which they reply to a similar process from the hand of sorno mischievous, but torturing friend and yet we all know that this laugh from a man la an hysterical outcry. of nervous Irritability. When the laugh ceases, weariness brings weeping, or perhaps a restless and uurefrcshirig sleep, followed by depression, and probably by indigestion and colic. Nothing should ever be done to startle a child even a too frequent playing of bopeep, if viedent, has bee:n known to bring on fct. Vitus' dance with delicate organizations. All surprises are dangerous to the nervous system, just as all sudden atmospheric ordietetlc changes are very unhealthy, and sometimes fatal. If music Is selected to please the young child's ears, it should be gentle and soothing. Metropolitan. THE MARKETS. ST. LOUIS. May 28,1875. Bkeves Choice, $6.008.6.80; Hood to Prime, 15.Mga.2S; Cows and Heifers, t2.76go.60; Throntrh Texans, 3. 875.00; Corn-Fed Texan, ti).60$S.44l. lUMiSUiHxi to Choice, t7.50;7.9O. 8HKKK Uood to Choice, t-6ua&.w- FLOUB-Choic Country, t-6.6S; XXX 5.76.2A. . WiiKvr-Red, So. 3, l.e1.27; No. t, tl.lfigl. 0. Cokn No. , Mixed, 63S64C. Oats No. 2, 61Sio. Rva Prime, l.OSfl .06. JiAHLRT Prime, fl.Do 1.83. TimothvSkko Prime, fi-3032.8. Tobacco Planter Lug, t.3W.S Medium Leaf, tll.718.00. HAf Prime Timothy, $17.t0$ 18.00. ItuTTEK -Choice Packed Dairy, 23a25o. Kuos 18J 14c. Pork standard Mess. $40.50320.75. I .lkHrinMl UUAilS. Wool, Tub-washed, Choice, 52i33c.; Ln-Waahed.Combins, 3iJtOc. Cotton Middling, i5Xo. NEW YORK. Bkkvss Native, $ 10.25a 13.25; Texan. $ 10.75 $ Vl.ti. Hikis Dressed, $9. 50 5 9.75. HHKKP Clipiwd, S4.00S5.75. FuiliR Uood to Choice, $5.S.75. WllKAT No. 2 Chicago, $I.121.U. (Jiikn Western Mixed, 7437 . Oats Western Mixed, 714"3X. RVB Btate, $1.0tt 1.10. PORK Mess, $i0.50'.'0.75. Lari Prime Steam, 14 J IttfO. COTTON Middling, lc. CHICAttO. Brxvks Common to choice, $5.508 '.CO. JIoum Uood to Choice, $7 2S47.&0. SHKKF-Shorn, $4.IK85.J5. Fixiur Choice Winter. Extra, $6.50 3 7.59. Choice Spring Kxtra, $.12)i . M. , WHKAT-hpring No. g, $SMg94.; Spring No. S, HU39le. Couie No. , 65g'iKe. Oats No. S, '99 59.Ho. RtK No. , ti .0481.05. BaBUtV NO. . $I.15S1.10. Pokk New Mess, $19.5 f 19.55. LaKU Pcrowt. tl. 754 14.00. CINCINNATI. FLfina Family, t5.65J5.7S. Whkat Red, new, l.i-'S l.SO. Cork New, 73 7t. Oats No. ,6yjj70o. Bablbv No. S. tl-5081.60. - Pork New Mess, $J0.n0420.M. I.ARU Prime SU-am, 14HOUje. CottoK MidiUing, 15i,o. KANSAS CITY. Beeves Texas Steer. $4. 70S 5.00. Text. Cows, ts.isgt.sd. Hogs Buthers, tS.X?7.00; Torkers, $5.75 f6.; SUK'kers, t5.ftiJ5.5n. oHEKf tiood to Kxtra, $5.00 3 4.09. MEMPHIS, FxorB Family, t4.7i$5.75. CORN White, Son fM. OATS Mixed, "04 73c. H AT hoi-e , 1 13.(X f 00. ConOS Middling, 145 15c. NEW ORLEANS FlOIJBCholoe, 7.iia7.60. Corn Mixed,tias7o. Oats 71 73c. HAT-Prime, tw.00.w;., PORK Mess, til.5u " Bacon fit I-"- ... 8i;ajs-fair toP"n,, ... CorivN Low Mia-Urns, to 5 i