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governor of Illinois for a pardon for John F. Burrell, the embezzling Masonicofficial, now undergoing five years' imprisonment in the Chester penitentiary. The books of the postoffice department for the last fiscal year show that mail service in Illinois paid a profit of $347,400, while the government contributed $845, to maintain postal facilities in Ohio. Pierre Prefaux, blind beggar, whose face was familiar to nearly everybody in Pittsburg, and who recently died while on his way to the hospital, is found to have over $5,000 in a savings bank. "Mother" Mandelbaum, the famous receiver of stolen goods in New York, forfeited her bail Thursday. It was subsequently learned that she is in Toronto, where she executed deeds to her real estate. Drilling in the natural gas-wells at Findlay, Ohio, has stopped at a depth of 1,650 feet, for fear of striking a vein of salt water. The supply of lightand. heat is ample for the fullest demands of the city. The senate of Alabama adopted a resolution favoring large appropriations for the schools of the state, and solemly expressing the purpose of the white people to aid in the education of colored children. J. B. Johnson, now in the penitentiary at Jefferson City, who cost the state of Missouri $200,000 by firing the prison shops last year, has been sentenced to ten additional years' confinement for arson. President Arthur finds himself unable to be present at the opening of the New Orleans exposition. Secretary Teller and Postmaster-General Hatton have gone forward in a special car, with their families. At a conference of republican politicians in New York, it was decided to send James D. Warren to Washington to learn whether President Arthur desires to make the race for senator openly or by proxy. Twenty citizens of Daggett, California, surrounded the officers in charge of William Pitts, suspected of murder, and hanged him on a telegraph-pole. He was a deserter from the 2d cavalry, stationed at Fort Ellis. H. W. Sanford, one of the earliest settlers of Dubuque, who accumulated a fortune of $250,000, died at Sherburne, New York, in his 73d year. He made the circuit of the globe, crossing the Atlantic seven times. It is stated that a representative of the Canadian Pacific syndicate has gone to Manitoba to purchase wheat with $4,000,000 advanced by the Bank of Montreal. The grain will be stored at Port Arthur until spring. There are twelve hundred men at work in the Eau Claire and Chippewa pineries, in Wisconsin, and three hundred in the woods on Black river. The heavier lumber corporations propose to largely curtail their product. Miss 1mm, of Cincinnati, caused the arrest of a distateful beau, named Leo Heller, for making threats. When arreigned for trial he attempted to shoot her, and when others interfered he killed himself in the court-room. A coach on the Grand Trunk road was set on fire near Kingston by the explosion of a mysterious box carried by Professor Dawson, of Belleville. Some of the passengers were nearly suffocated before the train could be stopped. The banking-house of Raymer, Seagrave & Co., of Toledo, Ohio, has been compelled to suspend business, with liabilities of $400,000. Its assets include the Erie street railway. a cotton-mill, and a large number of new buildings. The iron firm of Zug & Co., of Pittsburg, has thrown twelve hundred men out of employment. The Keystone Bridge company will next month reduce wages 15 per cent., and a planing mill is about to cut its employes 10 per cent. It is rumored that The London Telegraph has purchased a large tract of land in the Mojave desert, on the Pacific coast, to use the yucca plant in the manufacture of paper, the pulp to be shipped to New Orieans for Liverpool. The banking house of Opdyke & Co., of New York, which was founded by a former mayor of that city, susended payment Monday, with liabilities of $200,000. A speculative customer is charged with wrecking the house. Judge Baxter, of Cincinnati, has ordered the vice president of the Hocking Valley road to show cause why he should not be punished for contempt in discriminating against W. P. Rend & Co., as to facilities and charges for carrying coal. The cap-stone of the Washington monument was on Saturday noon lowered into place, 555 feet from the ground. The corner-stone was laid in 1848 by Robert C. Winthrop, who has been selected to deliver the oration next February. George Snyder, of Darrtown, Ohio, killed bis aged mother with a shovel and buried her in a ravine, to obtain $100 which he had paid her as interest on a mortgage. The deed was perpetrated last month, but was only discovered on Friday. The manufacturers of Youngstown, Ohio, are considering the practicability of a pipe line to force natural gas from Butler county, Pennsylvania, for light and fuel. The distance is twentysix miles, and the estimated cost of the scheme is $156,000. Lucy Maclem, the daughter of & hero of the Revolution, once well
