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• The New York Capital is Just gOO Years Old. And Has Been Celebrating the Event in Grand Style* The ancient city of Albany, N. Y „ the Capital of the Empire State, is justSOO years old, and has been celebrating the occasion byaserie3 of festivities on a grand scale. The observance of the city's bicentennial was begun on Sunday by religious exercises. On Monday, the second day of the celebra- tion, the city was thronged with visitors, and the principal buildings were covered with many-colored flogs and bright bunting. At 9 A. M.MdyorThaefier, with drawn sword, id preceded by a crier and herald; headed and 1 a procession in which were the city offi- cials, the Burgess Corps, the Jackson C6rp3, the Bicentennial Cohjmittee, and Caughnawaga Indians in war pamt and feathers, and proceeded to the ancient city gates. The streets tnrouga which the novel procession passed werehned with spectators; Secretary Mauning-waved to the narty from his window, and was greeted\ with a salute. When the line reached the south gate, a high arch of ever- greens on the corner of Broadway and Hud- son avenue, the Mayor, after the crier had silenced the multitude, made the following proclamation: \To all ye of good fame and honest name, traveler, student, and friend, who shall enter our gates this day, aud in the days that for three-times shall follow after this, peace, greetings, cheer, and welcome. \Hitherto have we come after twice one hundred years, and within our walls to-day we celebratethis natal event Join with us in commemoration of the day when our fathers received their charter 200 years ago. Enter then beneath this triumphaL arch and unite with,us in poean and ovation. Freedom, liberty, anil immunity we give thee for this time. This proclamation was fastenedon both the south and north gates. The Indians sang in their native tongue, and the boom of cannon and the ringing of bells announced that Al- bany had thrown open her gates with a hearty welcome to all to participate in her festivities, At the conclusion of this ceremony the pupils of the Grammar School and; the High School, numbering several thousand, with • the teachers and the Board of Public Instruc- tion,'assembled in • a .tent M CapM, JgMB • -««8ga£»ffr-SS^,\*wifedi. representth; \ ceptjdn of the Dong»n Charter at'Albany on July 26;\ 1686, and the reception -of- Liotenarifr-General John Burgoyne and Baroness Reisde! toy Mrs. Philip Schujler, after the surrender at Saratoga at the Schuyler mansion in Al- bany in October, 1777. The music, rendered by a chorus of one thousand voices, was\ very fine. Two gold watches, offered by the com mittea for the best essays on \Albany's His- tory and Growth in Two Centuries\—one to be written by a boy and the other by a girl —were awarded to George L. Hudson and Elizabeth Davidson. The morning ended with canoe races. In the afternoon the school children pro- ceeded to the places where the forty-five memorial bronze tablets -had been erected to designate historic spots, aud unveiled them. The first of the grand parades oc.urred during the afternoon, and was participated in by organizations representing every trade and branch of business in the city, with floats and costumes illustrative of their re- spective pursuits. This enormous parade, with its thousands of men and hundreds of trucks and horses, extended aver the entire route of march, about four miles, and was under command of General James M. War- ren, Grand Marshal. In the evening there wasa concert by 1;000 school children in Capitol Park, and a grand children's fete, closing with an elaborate pyrotechnic display and a triple band con- cert in Washington Park. Tuesday was All Nations' Day. The pro- gramme was as follows: Morning—Parade of Indians, German, Irish. Scotch, Hollander,' French, Italian, English, and other national societies at U A. M. i planting of memorial oak by German citizens and elm by colored societies in Wash- ington Park; exercises by Irish societies in Academy of Music. Afternoon-^-First races of the annual re- gatta of the Notional Association of Amateur Oarsmen of America over the Pleasure Island course at 1:30; Scottish games- on fair grounds. Evening—Illuminated parade of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias; and other fraternities, with emblematic floats^at 8:80; exercises by colored societies. Academy of Music at 8 olcloek; grand band concert at Washington Park. The fireworks at Washington Park on Thursday night, the fourth day, were the finest ever seen in the United States, with the single exception of those at the inau- guration of President Cleveland. The aerial features of the inauguration fire- works were duplicated, but the set pieces were entirely different, and included mam- moth representations in colored fires of the delivering of the Dongan charter to Mayor Schuyler, the city's coat of arms, the landr ing of gendWk Hudson, and the Falls. of Niagara. ^ *\ A BUFFALO herd at Stony Mountain, Man- itoba, now consists of eighteen bulls, twenty- five cows and eighteen calves. It was.startea with one bull and four heifers. HEWS SBMMAW Eastern and Middle States. THE Rev. Isaao Bevan,. D.D.; a widely known Baptist ininister, died in Clark's Green, Penn., a few days since^aged seventy-, five years. A CIRCUS train was wresked by an acci- dent at Riverside, Me, Four cars filled With animals were thrown over an embank- ment. Several employes connected with Forepaugh's circus were injured-and twenty- seven horses killed. THE Long Branoh police have been arrest- ing and the court has fined some of the lead- ing gamblers of that watering place. . Miss ANNA WMCOFF, a handsome young school-teacher, got in the way of an express train at Elizabeth, N. J., and was instantly killed; Tardmaster Jesse J. Cailin, oft Jer- sey City; in trying to save her was fatally Injured. THREE members of the New Havdh Typo- graphical Union, charged with boycotting, iave been found guilty. SAMUEL -K. GAY, chief clerk in the Pitts- burg (Penn.) (pension office, has disappeared. Investigations of his accounts showed that he tad. stolen from S 15,000 to $20;000; ALBANY,,N. Y.,,is,just'20O years old, and ha? been celebrating that invent by a grand jubilation, ABOUT forty men, women and- cnildreri were thrown into the water by the breaking of a steamer's gang plank at Bockaway, L. i. All were rescued: GAFT. GULIAN WEIR, commanding Batferv ,M, Fifth United States Artillery,, at Fort Hamilton, Long Island; committedsuicide, hi a moment of temporary insanity, on the 18th, by shooting himself through the head. South and West. A FIRE.at Merced, Cal., destroyed a ware- house containing 12*000 tons of wheat and five cars loaded with the grain. The total loss is {850,000. NEAR Pena, Texas, a house in which four women were sleeping was struck by light- ning, and all were instantly killed. DROUGHT has caused a total failure of the ; crops i n many Texas counties, and such is the! iesolation that prevails the National Gov- Drnment has bean applied to for aid. A. B. THOMPSON, Cashier of the Provident Savings Bank, one of the leading savings in- stitutions of St. Louis, has absconded after 1 embezzling over 860;000. The bank has col- - lapsed; and many poor depositors will be heavy sufferers. IT took three weeks to obtain* jury in the Malof'tbe eii Ut Anarchist ohargeS with killing policemen by -throwing a Domb at- Chicago. , .'.•'. tor tae murder of \Afrtej-tfuin BITISH ELEGTIOE Strength of the Various Parties in the New Parliament. Chiciip, in an ejection gta&ir.ttftmuel; Roland andGeorge SdlOhsoniBdthiJelorey), atDonaldsviile, La.,.theformerforkillihga 'German and the latter for a colored,woxan's homicide; George Harrison, at Shrevepbrt, La,, for the murder of George Allen, and DlckTownsend (colored) at Valdosta, Ga., for the murder of four men, including a Sheriff. PRESIDENT BELTZER, who wrecked the - Dundy County Bank at Benkelman, Neb., has also ruined the Chase County Bauk at Imperial, Neb., of which he was President. Washington. ACTING SECRETARY FAIRCIIILD of the Treasury Department, has summarily dis- missed the chief of a division and two clerks in his office for discreditable conduct in con- nection with examinations for promotion. ADDinoNALnominationsby the President: Douglas W. Taylor, of Portland, Ore., to be Surveyor-General of Oregon; Lewis Wil- liams, of Missouri, to be 'Commissioner for Alaska; W. A. Selkirk, to be Register of the Laud Office at Sacramento, Cal.; Gilbert D. Williams, Indian Agent. To be receivers of public moneys—Luke A. ' Burke, at Aberdeen,. Dak.; William G. Hobbs, at Springfield, Mo.; James N.Welch, at Detroit, Mich; Commodore James E. Jouetttobe a Bear-Admiral; Commodore John H. Russell to be a Rear-Admiral; Cap- tains John Irwin and James A. Greer to be Commodores; also numerous other naval promotions. Foreign. WHILE an iron dealer was unloading a wagon filled with old artillery material, which had been purchased from the Russian g overnment at an auction sole in St. Peters- urg, a 9-inch shell exploded among a group of workmen and others. Sixteen persons, in- cluding four children, were killed and sev- eral more were injured. AN internal ional chess tournament is in progress at London, A GREAT sieno of excitement was caused in the French Senate by Senator de Larein- •fcy, a Monarchist, calling General Boulanger, the Minister of War, a coward. Seconds were named oh both sid>s, and a duel seemed unavoidable. AT the meeting of the Supreme Lodge of the World, Knights of Pythias, in Toronto, Howard Douglass, of Cincinnati, was elected SupremeChancollor. . A REVOLUTION of unusual dimensions has broken out in Mexico,, and great excitement prevails along the Rio Grande. THE anticipated duel between General Boulanger; French Minister of War, and Baron do Lareihty, arising from remarks of the latter in the French Senate relative to the expulsion of the Duke D'Aumale from France, was foughtat 9 A. jr., on the 17th. Pistols were used and shots exchanged, but without in jury to either of the contestants. A Combined Majority of More than 100 Against Home lule. The English elections have resulted in a substantial victory for the Unionists and Tories over Gladstone and his Irish Home Rule allies. A London dispatch of the 18th gives the following result up to that day, when all but a few of the boroughs had been heard from, and later returns could not affect the totals to any appreciable extent: \The different party classifications of the new members agree with a clossness that is really surprising, in view of the great num- ber \of returns and the unusual looseness of ipoliticol ties; but ho two inatoh on every name. There are four or five mem-; bers whose attitude is more or less dubious, and in dealing with these the computers allow themselves some latitude. I have gone over the list with great- care and nlaced each of the doubtful members in\ accordance with his latest declarations. The returns re- ceived up to noon to-dfty cover 663 seats, leaving only seven unreported... Exclusive of Speaker \Peel the distribution is as follows: Conservatives (Tories), 818; Unionist-Liberal, 74; Gladstonites, 187; Na- tionalists. SS„ A Union muster of 393 ranked against 270 Home Rulers. Thus far there is a majority of 122 against. Mr. Gladstone on his Irish policy. The Conservatives have a: plurality of 56 over the Liberals of all kinds; but they fall 27 below the united vote of the Liberals and Nationalists. The seven constituencies still to be heard from' were represented in the last parliament by one Conservative, three Glaastoneites and three Nationalists. If they hold their former political complexion the new House will be composed of 319 Conservatives, 74 Union- ist-Liberals, 190 Gladstoneites and 86 Nation 4 alists; a Unionist total of 893 and a Ministe- rial total of 376 on the Irish question.\ Another London dispatch says: ^The gen- eral feeling in Conservative circles as to the course to be: pursued toward Ireland seems toibe-in\:favor of.iricreased energy in magis- terial administration and stronger action on the part of the Dublin executive authorities. The suppression of the Irish National League ; isnotadvocated. Theextentofspeciallegis^ latioh win be to-renew the Grjmef ^aoplj*; 1872, giving the magistracyrawer' '^•iMiffi'ft into crimes through sworn witnessesjaltHouEh. .... ^m^^'&asf-~i\aM)i MaWsai^gKdUA &> jotatf.ajaHiftffli Ministry. Lord Salisbury'* offer-to make the Duke ot.Argyle Premier was contitfgent upon Lord Hartihgtori's joining the coalition, and has therefore ibeen withdrawn. LATER NEWS. \NED BIJTOLmE,\ Remarkable Career, of the Famous American Fighter and. Writer. Edward Z. C. Judson (Ned Buntline), who died of heart disease at his homo i n Stamford, N, T., July 16th, in the sixty-fourth year of his age, was a remarkable character. The New Tork World publishes the following sketch of his life: Willis daylord Clarke once wrote an affec- tionate oBituary of Ned Buntline when a Nashville mob nanged him until they sup- posedhe was.dead. That,was twenty years orihbreago, yet the noted scout lived until yesterday, Ned Buntline's career was re- markable., His father was. a Philadelphia lawyer, who insisted upon putting Ned through a course of Latin\ and Slackstone at an early age. The boy rjbbeuea, and one day, after a severe flogging, ran away to sea as cabin boy to a ship that sailed round the Horn. The embryo, celebrity was then but eleven years old. The next year he-en- tered the Government service as an appren- tice on boird a mah-6f-war s A- year later, when thirteen years old, President van Bu- ren sent him a commission as midshipman for meritorious conduct In rescuing the crew of a boat run down bya Fulton tferry-bpat on East River. Young Judson was assignedto the Levant. Other midshipmen refused to.ihess- with hiih, because he hod bsena coinmoh sailor before the mast, and while oh the ^way to join the Gulf Squadron he challenged thirteen of them to fight. Some withdrew their refusal and associated with him; but he fought seven of them, one after another, in Florida, New Orleans and Havana, escaping without a scratch himself, butmarking four of hisan- tagohists for lifo, From that time oh his reputation as one of the best shots in the United.States was established. Ned Buntline probably carried more wounds in his body than any other liviug American. He had in his;right knee a bullet received in Virginia and had twelve other wounds- in- flicted by sword, shell and gun, seven of which were got in battle. He was not eddcatedf or the army and navy. The title of Colonel came to him as Chief of Scouts in the Rebels lion of 1881-5. Hisfirst story, \The CapiainJs Pig,\was published in the' Knickerbocker Maga- zine under\the pseudonym of Ned Buntline, in 1838, when in his fifteenth year. This sketch brought notoriety tothe young writer and fighter, who subsequently received as high as $60,009 a.year for. the product of-hist brain and pen. For many years his income as a sfory-wi'iter brought him in $20;000 an- nually. He oaceieamed $12;500in six weeks, - and at another time, under pressure, wrote a ilewfcpf-I^i^e^^iOx^j^p^ur?, scarcay Bie^pmi;;8r&|M,_^iijRjW i 'time. .: m: .^.^E,•l^^L.l!^l, lS g;n!OT•'*^TK^ftory..^MninK , \lie&gW*imi,. ,„.,.„,_.,... ,„ SB-wrote.' \Ho:\ ,.fSMpfe':S*?p l 'nitoiy stories ha ....,-jn,'frtfrt^wtiBflftjflth^fTl at between •im^'aSfour taftiJiiie^MliShlbng ehoughfor a book. Ned Buntline was not the wild man of the woods he was generally Biipposed tobe. He wa3-atemperance^ man in thebryand prab- tice, using neither tobacco nor profanity/ He wasa good, talker and much esteemed as a neighborandcitizen. • REPRESENTATIVES of the 400 Assemblies of the Massachusetts Knights of Labor have been holding a convention in Worcester. Over 1,000 delegates, representing more than 75, OOO'membeiif attended. A scheme was discussed to supplant thS Knights of Labor organization of the country with a combina- tion of national-trade unions. Six men alleged to be strikers are in jail at Kansas City, Mo., charged with murder by derailing a train. NOMINATIONS confirmed by the Senate:; Owen T. Rouse, United States Attorney for Arizona; Samuel F. Wilson, United State3 Marshal for.the Middle District of Tennessee: A. H. Baker, Receiver of Public Moneys at Grand Island, Neb., C. W. Bishop, Assistant Treasurer at Baltimore; D. W. Taylor; Sur- veyor-General of Oregon. THE President has nominatei S. Davis, Page to be Assistant Treasurer of the United States at Philadelphia. SEKATOR MORRILL, of. Vermont, the oldest member of-the Senate, has been in ill health: for some time, and left Washington for home on the 19th. He is in his seventy-seventh .year. A CENSUS report sent to the Senate shows, among other things, that thonumberof idiots in the United States has increased from 8iy- 627 in 1870 to 76,895 in 1S85. In the former year the ratio was 630 to-each one million of ; population, and in the latter year it was 1,583. Ths.number of the idiotic deaf mutes is: Moles, 1,185; females, 937. Idiotic deaf; mutes and blind: Males, 107; females, 110. Idiotic and blind: Males, 661; females, 525. THE Mexican revolutionists have been de-: feated with/heavy loss. THE final analysisof the voting in Great Britain give3 the Unionists 1,534,107 votes; and the Gladstonians 1,447,652. For a cor-' rect estimateof the popular vote there must be added the electorate of 118 Unionist seats which were not contested, a total of 1,035,101 votes, and that of the 104 uncontested Glad- stohian seats, a total of 805,877 votes. The popular vote results.in a Unionist majority : of 378,882. OFF FOB OAMBA, Plight of- a Nebraska Bank Presi- dent with- the Funds. A bank president's defalcation that is out of ths ordinary run ol such affairs is re- ported from B.enkleman, Neb. A dispatch from that place gives the subjoined particu- lars: President Beltzer, of the Dundy County Bank, of this place, started on Monday f or Lincoln as,a director of the Nebraska State Fair Association, to make arrankememWfor the annual, meeting of that institution. He left his bank in charge of his son, who is in the jewelry business. The young -man conducted the affairs of the bank as usual for twodays, but yesterdayhs locked the doors and refused to, admit the depos- itors or to see anybody oh banking business. The report that the bank had closed spread rapidly, and soon there was gathered a large crowd of frontiersmen, who ordered the young man to open the doors and explain his conduct. \Oh I can do that,\ the young man coolly remarked, \and rather easily, too. The old man is safe in, Canada by this time; and has taken with him the money the bank had. I closed her simply becausethere was no money ,to do business on.\ • The creditors were astounded at this an- nouncement, and hesitated in accepting it as true. A committee which was admitted to fhe bank was soori convinced that the Presi- dent had taken not only the money, but also the securities that he could readily'convert into cash. The total amount of his larceny is estimated variously at from $60;000 to $100,000, and nothing remains. •Beltzer came here from the United State3 army, in which he was SecondTLieutenant. He was fifty-four years old, and had a wife and three children, upon whom he waslavish with money and abuse. On the day of his departure he whipped his wife bratally, and then to atone for his conduct, deeded .her all his property, which, however, was not much. He has left absolutely nothing, for the creditors. Mrs. Beltzer has the confi- dence and sympathy of the deluded people, and they, will not endeavor to disturb hisr in the pittance giyeh.her by her husbahd'slait act. The excitement is intense; and were Beltzer present he would receive rough treat- ment. THE area sown in wheat in Manitoba this year is 450,009 acres, which, i t is estimated, will produce 11,250,000 bushels of grain.
