Bloomington Progress, Volume 18, Number 26, Bloomington, Monroe County, 27 August 1884 — Page 4

HEWS CONDENSED. QoiMtse Record of the Week.

Ia attempting to lower their records at Belmont Park, Philadelphia, Jar-Hye-Soo made inft la IJQ14 and Jnallaa tn New York telegram : "Third Officer Kelly, of the steamer Bear, says the report of eatias the flesh otUeet. KWtBsbaryana Private Henry war true, aa tke snrvtvors, when bromrtat on board, were all ant delirious, and admitted that they had to aat the Jead bodies to prim te their own Uvea, Tke oookof the Bear said that all the survivors arid that they had toeat toefleahof the dead, aa an their food, except a little leather or sealsMn, had rven oat. Alt the men on board the Bear knew that the bodies had been eaten, but were told not to sneak about it Whenthey got into port." The Bev. Dr. John Brown, the oldeat Eplacopal minister of New York State, died last week at Newbunr- He deHyered an addresi of welcome to Lafayette tn 1821. A lightning and rain storm Tinted Pittsburgh and Allegheny City, cellrrs beingooded and buildings Mown down or wieohed by lightning. Water in some places was two feet deep in the streets, and the damage will be bearr. Br. J. J. Woodward, one of the physicians who attended Gen. Garfield during his last illness, died last week at Philadelphia. Hugh J. Jewett has formal lr tendered bta lesbnmatfen aa President of the Brie Bead, sad John King, Jr., is said to hare definitely accepted the position. Thieyea entered the residence of father Xoilinger, a Roman Catbolie priest, at Allegheny CHy, Pa. They made oil with (8,008 m money and a dhvnond-monnted csaUoe rained at $1,800. Hand 8. has been sold by W. H. Vanderbilt to Bobert Bonner for SM.aM, and taken to New York to be retired from the

The Grand Lodge of Knights of Pythias of Pennsylvania reported the number of lodges in the State at 38a, with a membership of M, 965. It haying been rumored that a compromise was being arranged in New York by which lerdinand Ward would be released, another order of arrest has been obtained by William H. Bingham, a broker, who brings suit for f48,O0S obtained by the firm of Grant U Ward onder false representations. The firm of Warner & Herritt, fruit importers at Philadelphia, have assigned. The liabilities are 1508,000.

At Tobias, Neb., Wiley Farris killed bis wife and himself with a revolver. Eight prisoners escaped from the jail at St. Joseph, Mo, by way of the sewer-pipe. Texas fever is raging among a herd Of cattle owned by the brothers Hngbes, , near 011)01110,110, They were recently purchased at the Kansas City stock-yards, Henry Ten Eyoe, a farmer living near Broadhead, Wis., became enraged at his wife and stabbed her three tinea, inflicting fatal wounds. Ten Kvce left the house, and the next day his body was found swinging from the limb of a tree, he baying committed saieide. The total loss eansed by the fire at Anoka, Minn., is placed at STeO.OOO, and the insurance is about $300,000. The sufferers are not despondent. Many merchants burned out have resumed business. It is felt that if the Wasbburne Mills are rebuilt all the knees win be made good fit two years, A fire at Pomeroy, Ohio, destroyed forty-two buildings. The toss is estimated - at 9SO.000 and the insurance at $30,000. By the request of relatives the body of Private William Whistler, who aacomnanied the Greely expedition and perished, were exhomed near BockSeid, Ind., the other day. Aa examination snowed that the flesh bad been cot front his limbs and portions of the body. Cannibalism had doubtless been practiced on him.

The large brewery of 0. Magnus, at Cedar Bapids, Iowa, was seised by the authorities on the charge of violating the probibitr cry Boner law. On the premises being seaiohcd there were found in the, building W0 barren) of beer, which the proprietor claims to have made previous to the 4th of Jury. A fire at Boaeburg, Ore., destroyed the Metropolitan Hotel, the general stores of Caret Broa., the United States Signal office, and other buildings. Louis Zeigler, the proprietor of the hotel, tn trying to save the guests, was burned to a crisp. Mrs. Johansen, of Astoria, wag fatally injured. The total loss will be about $180,000. A. D. Sly, formerly driver of an American Express wagon at St. Joseph, Mo-, where be confesses having stolen $10,500 last """September, and spent it, was last week arrested In Minneapolis, and will return to the scene of his crime without a requisition. Eighty trampe took possession of CssUeton, Dakota, drove many f amUlee from their bomeSr and coaunjtted other excesses. Four of the tramps were captured by the

TJieBlinoig Central BaOroad have just issued a neat little pamphlet entitled the "World's Exposition Messenger.' giving a synopsis of the great Centennial Exposition that opens at New Orleans on the first of December. The publication contains much valuable information, and a large correct aasp of tho Crescent City. A copy can be obtained free by addressing Thomas Bra-win, General Northern Passenger Agent, 121 Bandolph street, Chicago. The convention of the Inmbermen of the Northwest met at Chicago last week. The aitondanea was Quits huge snd represented an aggregate capital of $500,000,600. Mr. Van Sehaick, President of the association, in kds address referred to the depressed condition of the lumber business, and suggested as ' possible remedies a temporary closing of the raffls or a reduction in the cot next winter. Several favored the latter resolution, while a few preferred the former. After alerigthy debate it was voted Inexpedient to close the nails before the first of November. The Commissioner of Agriculture aniioqrices the existence of what is supposed to be contagions pteuro-pneumonia among . several herds of Jersey cattle in Illinois, and , requests owners of Jersey stock to stop shipment until after Oct. 1. The infection has been traced back to the cattle sale of Mr. Kpler, in Virginia, TO, last February. Paul Popnlornni, ail extensive tanner of Chicago, has suspended payment. His debts are $Ms,000, and be is liable for $100,OS0 more as aa Indorse. His assets are estimated at $172,000. Judge Honntao, of the United States Court at Baa Francisco, 'decided that a Chinese laborer who left the United States prior to the passage of the an ti-Chinese law, and who attempted to come back subsequently, was properly refused read mission.

BOuxxxXxUf.

Alsop and Graves, the ringleaders of the gang that broke jail at Frankfort, Ky.. recently, weredlacoteied about nine miles

Kington. A Deputy Sheriff and posse

( in pursuit. The convicts resisted, and

Miled George Canasta, a fanner' in whose field they were found, and who bad but just jctoed the pnass. Both the scoundrels were then shot dead, the members of the pursuing party evidently not caring to capture them alive. Tom Griffin, a notorious Cherokee outlaw, was shot dead at Bofaola while perpetrating a burglary. Tlwotrtkmeovniiesof Arlunaas saxssisedthe atattrtlrlana by reporting an sgatsaayW4oC lPM bales,

Seventy-eight buildings, comprising two-thirds of the business portion of Grenada, kussw, were destroyed by Bro. The loss la estimated at $300,000. Tho insnsanoa is about $66,003. Ex-Senator John Pool, of North Carolina, died suddenly at Washington, D. C, of apoplexy. Be was Senator from 1888 to 1875. Gov. Knott, of Kentucky, pardoned the prisoners Bradley and Cunningham who recently tried to prevent a gang of desperadoes from breaking Jail at Frankfort. Cunningham was serving out a sentence for having shot a person who had seduced his sitter.

WASHINGTON. Mr. Hiram Price has tendered his resignation as Indian Commissioner. He does not ears to Bye at Washington, where be would be separated from his family. Mary Olenuner Ames, well known as a newspaper correspondent at Washington, died last week in that city.

POLITICAX.

Boston dispatch: "Gen Butler's letter of acceptance, or address to tho people of the United States, has been practically completed, and, contrary to general expectation, it may see Hie light before the' production of the anticipated epistle from Cleveland. The Butler manifesto is said to bo a document of great length. The General takes in the whole vocabulary of national questions, from Mormonism down to the preservation of the Mississippi levees." Thomas G. Skinner has been renominated for Congress by the Democrats of the First North Carolina District. Ex-Congressman J. C. Burrows, of Kalamazoo, was nominated for Congress by the Bepnblican convention of the Fourth Michigan District. Chairman Cooper, of the Pennsylvania State Republican Committee, announces that J. Son Cameron is not a candidate for re-eleetton to the United States Senate. Boseoe Conkling, in a letter refusing an election as honorary member of the Albany Plumed Knights, says: W. B. Nichols, Secretary: Noting yours, snd thanking yon for the offer of an honorary membership of the political organization referred to, I must ask you to excuse me, I am quite out of politics, and don't wish in any way to be drawn into the pending canvass. Tour obedient servant, Bosoos Coskuno." The Executive Committee of the AntiMonopoly party assembled in Chicago last week and nominated Gen. A. M. West, of Mississippi, for Vice President. It was resolved to issue an address urging vigorous efforts in close Congressionaljllscricta, and a union of all tho Butler forces, under the title of the Peop'e's party, was advocated. C. K. Breckenridge received a reuomi nation for Congress by tho Democrats of the Second Arkansas District. The Anti-Monopoly State Convention of Illinois met at Bloomlngton Aug. 19, and was attended by fortr-four delegates. Motions to nominate Butler clectors-at-htrge and a State ticket were voted down. S. P. Norton, the Chicago Greeubackor, and three others withdrew. Tho convention adjourned, to meet with the Greenbackors Aug. 27. Col. T. O. Black has been nominated for Congress by the ltepublioans of the Twelfth Illinois District. Mr. lUgps, the present Representative, has been renominated by the Democrats. B. G. Horr was renominated by the Republicans of the Fourth Michigan District. S. B. Davis was nominated for Congress by the Democrats and Grcenbackers of the Eighth Iowa District. Mr. Blaine made a brief speech at the Hepublican anniversary celebration at Strong, Me. The Hon. Prank H. Hard was nominated for reelection to Congress from the Tenth Ohio District by the Democratio convention at Oak Harbor. Ignatius Donnelly was nominated for Congress by the Democrats of tho Third Minnesota District. The Greenbackers of Michigan met to convention at Detroit, adopted a plan for fusion with toe Democrats on the electoral ticket, and nominated J. W. Begolo for Governor. A State convention composed of forty Antl-Monopollsts placed Wiidcman Mills in the field for the Gubernatorial chair, but he promptly declined. Tho Michigan Democrats, is convention at Grand Rapids, accepted the terms of the Groenbackors. Under the terms of the fusion, the Greenbackers were allowed to nominate the Governor, Attorney General, Superintendent of Schools, Commissioner of the State tandOmce, and seven of the thirteen Electors. The Iowa Republican Convention, which met at Des Moines, nominated J. H. Bothreekfor Justice of the Supreme Court, Gen. Baker for Attorney General, J. L. Lucas for Auditor, Prank D. Jackson for Secretary of State, and V. P. Twombiy for Treasurer. The New Jersey Democratic State Convention to select an electoral ticket was presided over by Gen. MoCleUan, who protested against centralization of power and the collection of superabundant revenues. The Democrats of Texas renominated John Ireland for Governor, and selected State Senator Gibbs for Lieutenant Governor, both by acclamation. The Republican State Convention at New Haven nominated Henry B. Harrison, of that city, for Governor. Mahone baa never had any admiration for Blaine, and has always been on tho friendliest terms with Ben Butler, who, two years ago, sent tno Virginia leader a check for a considerable amount to aid in the campaign against the Democrats. It is believed at Washington that Hahone will use his power this tall in Butler's behalf.

BOSCEIXAXEOITS. Evidence tending to prove the charges of cannibalism made against the survivors of the Greely expedition continues to accumulate. There seems to be no doubt now of their truth, but it is pleaded that under the circumstances cannibalism was inevitable. Lieut. Powell, of the signal service, who was at the funeral of the dead at Sew York, and who talked with all the survivors, said In a conversation at Washington: How, I have talked with Greely and the rest of the survivors and with officers of the recruiting party, and I'll tell yon my opinion regarding that story. There is no doubt about its truth, and there la no doubt about Greely's honesty when ha says if there was cannibalism ho did not know of it. When these men wero rescued they were not responsible beings. Thoy bad undoubtedly subsisted on human flesh for some time. I have no doubt that, driven to despair by hunger, thoy would go out and cut some flesh off bodies of their dead coinrandea and partake of It. Greely was in mighty bad condition. He was confined to the tent by extreme weakness. Ho was very popular with a majority of the party, and whan the men obtained something to oat it was their aattrat impulse to sbaro it with their commander. Ho partook of human flesh without knowing what he was Gating. His mental and bodily strength wore too far gone to know or care. There is no doubt in my mind but some of those who 1iod alto partook of human flesh. I toll you It will be a long time before the horrors of Cape day are known thoroughly. The drought ia seriously affecting the grain, grass, vegetable, and fruit crops in the Ohio River Valley, in Southern Iowa, and in soma portions of Mew England. The Frewen brothers, nephews of Karl Dnfferin, have caused a statement to be sent out from Montreal that they will hereafter ship 1,000,000 Montana cattle annually toHogiattdby way of tho Canadian Pacing

Road, loaaiff three steamships daily at Montreal during the open season of navigation. Clara Louise Kellogg, who has just returned from a foreign tour, expresses the opinion that Italian opera is doomed, and that Albani Is soon to sing in English. FOREIGN. Locusts have almost ruined the crops of Central Spain. The damage in the Ctudad Real district 1$ estimated at ton million dollars. Three Abyssinian envoys have arrived in London, bringing as presents to Queen Victoria an elephant and a large monkey. All the indications point to war between Franco and China. By an accident in an underground canal at Brave, France, seventeen laborers wero suffocated. A physician of Birmingham, England, reports the death of a patient from Asiatio cholera. Tho United States Consul at Barbadoes telegraphs that tho Bhlp Bracadallels en route to Now York from Calcutta with twenty-eight cholera oases on board, A dispatch from Pekin says France has reduced to two hundred million francs her demand for indemnity from China, and ordered her Minister to withdraw if payment be refused, A London dispatch says that the American Missionary Society ia making steady progress in Asia Minor. Salvation Army riots occurred at Worthing, England, the disturbance being so great that the riot act was read. Mme, Patti has signed a contract with Mr. Mapleson to sing lu America the coming winter and next summer in England. The trial of ex-Secretary Cornwall in oounection with the Dublin scandal, resulted fat a verdict of not guilty. LATER NEWS ITEMS. The North American St. George's Union elected tho following officers at tho convention in Chicago: President, Goorgo S. Belroll, or London, Ont.: Vice Presidents, S. C. Wilson of Bay City, Mich., and W. D. Stroud of Montreal; Treasurer, Daniel Batcholor,; General Secretary, Thomas Y. Yates of Washington. Mr. Patrick Egan, the recently elected President of the Irish National League of America, in a public letter declines to accept any pay for his services. Ho says that ho has served Ireland so far gratuitously, and will not accept compensation now. The Fifth Georgia Regiment, of the Confederate Army, held a reunion at Macon, nine companies being represented. L. C. Young, formorly of tho Fifty-sixth Now York Volunteers, restored tho flag of the Fifth Bigiment, which was captured at tho battle of Coosawhatcaie tn 1864. The affair drow tears from tho votorans. The Republicans of Mississippi have placed four colored men in the field for Congress, Including John B. Lynch. The Democrats of the First and Second Ohio districts bavo nominated John Follott and A. A. Kramer, respectively. The Republicans of tho Second Michigan District put forward Capt B. P. Allen, of Ypsilanti. T. B. Ward was nominated by the Democrats of tho Ninth Indiana District, and Charles Stewart by the same party in the First Texas. The soldiers and sailors' reunion at Battle Creek, Mich., was addressed by Gen. John A. Logan. Fifteen thousand people were present. A passenger train on the Kankakee Line collided with an Indiana, Illinois and Iowa excursion train near Kankakee. James Penn was instantly killed, a boy was fatally Injured, and several passengers, including Father O'Kolly, were seriously hurt. At a meeting of oil producers held at Pittsburgh, it was unanimously resolved to stop the drill till Jan. 1, 1885. The property of the Sprogue Manufacturing Company at Augusta, Me., which fifteen years ago cost 2,000,000, has just been sold at auction tor about $300,000. Reports received in Boston from 325 points in New England indicate that the hay crop this year will be about 30 par cent, loss than it was a year ago. President Arthur received the officers of the Greely relief expedition at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York. Secretaries Chandler and Lincoln and Gen. Butler were present. Secretary Chandler Informed Commander Schley that the President had decided to appoint him Chief of the Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting. A dispatch from Pekin says that the French Consul lowered his flag on the 31st of August, and that the interests of the French subjects are Intrusted to tho Russian Minister. China absolutely refuses to admit the French claims, and professes to be prepared for war to the bitter end. The Postmaster General, after .a thorough investigation of tho factory, has annulled the contract with P. P. Kellogg, of Springfield, Mass., for furnishing envelopos and tags. The Kansas Democrats met in State convention at Topcka on the 21st of August. A convention of Republican Anti-Prohibitionists assembled at the same time and place. The result was a complete fusion of the two forces and tho nomination of George W. Gllck for re-election as Governor. C. K. Halllday, a Republican, was named for Lieutenant Governor. The remainder of the ticket is aa follows: Secretary of State, Eugeno Hagan; Auditor, Hugh V. Gavlgan; Treasurer, W. A. HO man; Superintendent of Publio Instruction, M. J. Keys; Attorney General, G. P. Smith; Chief Justice, W. P. Campbell; Associate Justice, T. A. Hurd. The platforms of both conventions indorse the administration of Gov. Glick, and como out squarely against prohibition and in favor of a resubmission of the prohibitory amendment. THE MAKKET. NEW YORK. Reeves $ cso 9 T.so Hons 5.75 9 6.S0 Floub Extra 0.50 0 8.S0 WaSAT No. 2 Chicago 86 .87 No. i Bed 91 0 .93 Corn No. a .a & M Oats White 88 . Foas New Mess H.7S 01&1S CHICAGO. Beeves Choice to Prime Steers. 6.70 & 7.M Good Shipping. COO & 6.60 Common to Fair 4.60 & 5.S0 Hons...... 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INDIANA STATE NEWS. The little troodon steamer on Lake Mxinknol;co has gone to pieces. A school-house in nanover township,

Jefferson County, was burned Inst week.

The Sre was inooudiary. Boss A Fofidick's store, at Liberty, was robbed of flour, tobacco, and other articles,

amounting to about $ 150.

Thomas Tweedy, 05 years old, ono of tho wealthiest farmers of Warwick County, was kicked to death by a mulo. At Cmwfordsvillo Guy Stoskton, while walking in his sleep, stepped ont of a seo-oud-story window and broke his leg. George Bennett, a fanner living iivo

miles west of Lebanon, was kicked by a

horse, and died five minutes afterward. In attempting to perform a "circus act," Hen'-y A. ShnB'er, a little boy, hanged himself in his father's bnru near Delphi. Near Sullivan, AV. C. MoKee, while re

turning home from a field where he had been at work all day, dropped dead from his

kcrso. A man named Braunau, living neat Dunkirk, was kicked by a horse, at Muiioie, losing several teeth and being badly disfigured. JoffersonviUe has a keno bank, patronized extensively by colored men and women, that is doing an oxceekingly prosperous business. The body of Whistler, ono of the victims of tho Greoly cx)editionf will bo buried

at Delphi. The remains will be buried with

impressive ceremonies. While engaged in turning a hub in tho factory of Williams Bros, k Hamilton,, at Greenfield, Charles Cochran was seriously hurt in the face by tho hub bursting. Charles Morris, 20 years old, living near North Vernon, was thrown from a buggy against a fence, his skull being fractured. His recovery is donbtfuL The County Superintendent of St. Joseph County received his list of examination papers last week, butfonnd tho end ol the envelope torn off, and ono set missing. Lucio Hughes, of Hunoie, 10 years ot

ago, madu a nearly successful attempt to

strangle herself with her garter because hci mother punished her for neglecting the baby. A 5-year.old son of Marion Harter living a few miles west of Winchester, was kicked by a vicious horse. His skull was

fractured, and it is feared the injury will

prove fatal. W. H. Prouty, formerly Assistant General Passenger Agent of tho Indiana, Bloomiugton and Western, has accepted a similar position with tho Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton. The 3-year-old son of Lafayette Jackson, living north of Centerville, was scalded to death by falling into a tub of boiling water which his mother had arranged for washing purposes. At Paris Crossing, John Vance, a young man from Lovett, was thrown from a buggy by his horse falling down. Dangerous wounds were inflicted, the result of which cannot yet be determined. Leslie Bishop, a young farmer of Johnson Township, Knox County, died in great agony. He was stacking straw, and slid down on a pitchfork which lacerated him terribly. He leaves a wife and two children. Burglars are raiding farm-houses iu Bartholomew County. Near Walesboro, Frank Studer's residence was burglarized, and be lost $40 and a gold watch. Frank Fearcefield's pantaloons, containing $52, were also taken. While practicing on the Sbelbyville track, Miss Nellie Burke, the rider, was thrown from her stallion, Hancock, but not seriously hurt, while, by rushing against a fence, the horse, which was valued at $2,000, was impaled, and died on the spot. The Connersville City Council, on petition of about one hundred business men, has passed an ordinance prohibiting all use of fire-crackers, cannon skyrockets, and pyrotechnic devices of all kinds within the city limits. The penalty is placed at $25. In the Moravian Chapel at Hope a lecture was given recently by The Star of the Cbeyenites, son of a Cheyenne chieftain killed in 1864. He was educated at Osage Mission. Neosho County, Kan. His subject was (he Indian policy of the United States Government. Some time last.mouth IngersoII Laden, of Windfall, bought a farm of William H. Leer, in Grant County. Laden went to Leer's one day last week, and whilo there Leer and his daughter caught him, took the deed from his pocket by force, and destroyed it Suit will soon bo instituted by Laden for the land. Warren Cornell, who has recently been returned from the Insane Asylum, was run over by a Grand Bapids and Indiana train two miles south of AVinehester and in- j stonily killed. His body was mangled almost beyond recognition. He deliberately laid down across the track, and it was impossible for tho engineer to stop the train in timo Co save his life. Joseph Grainger, aged 8 years, whilo playing on the platform at tho junction of the Evansville and Torre Hante Bailroad and Louisville, Evansville and St. Louis Air Line, attempted to jump on a car of a local freight train just coming in. Missing his hold he fell with both legs across the track, three cars passing over them, cutting the left leg off above tho knee and the right above the ankle. Mnj. Blackburn, of Cincinnati, and T. E. Fowoll, of Delaware, Ohio, were in Indianapolis, last week, urging upon Gov. Porter a postponement of tho elocution of Charles W. Butler, sentenced to be hanged Oct 10, by tho Whitley County Court for the murder of his wife in 1883. The postponement is asked in order that opportunity raay be afforded for tho preparation of evidence which is to accompany an appeal for the commutation of the death nentence to life imprisonment. This evidence, it is claimed, can not be prepared in less than three months, and will cover 1,20(1 pages. Tho case is a celebrated one, both for the atrocity of the crime and the prominence of the attorneys employed. Gov. 1'orter took the mat" er under advisement. A bmiius shooting affray took place at Contcrton, Morgan Couuty, in which Pink May, tho keeper of a saloon at that place, and a colored man Ben Evans were dangerously if not filially wounded. The quarrel began over a game of pool, May charging Evans with cheating. Evans donied the charge, and a general quarrel ensued. May and bis wife both drew revolvers and begun firing. Sumo seven or eight shots passed, ono of which lodged in the thich of Evans and one striking May in the abdomen. May and Evans were both placed under arrest by Sheriff Halliin, but were not able to bi removed from their homos. Thoy were both held under $300 bonds. May has borne a bad reputation for son) time. Evans was an employe in tho Slat;' brickyard, and wiis kuown a a peaoenWo citizen. His homo is in Indianapolis.

NEAREST THE POLE.

Lieut Greely Interviewed on tie Scientific Results of His Expedition. How the Men Enjoyed Their Long Winter Evenings at Fort Conger. The Sublime Arctic Spectacle Only to Be Seen Within the Arctic.

For the purpose of obtaining some idea of tho general nature and probablo value of the scientific observations made by Greoly at Lady Franklin Bay tho returned explorer was interviewed at Portsmouth, N. H. Greely first stated tho object of the Lady Franklin Bay expedition, viz.: To establish a polar statiou, one of tho thirteen suggested by Lieut Weypreeht, of Austria, who discovered Franz Josef Land. Simultaneous observations of all physical phenomena were to bo taken. The complete programme which was to bo followed was arranged by an international polar congress, iu which representatives of thirteen nations took part. The observations, in which the greatest possible accuracy was to bo bad, were those of tho declination and deviation of the magnetic needle, the temperature of air and sea, the height of the barometer, and the mean and maximum riso and fall of tides. All explanations wero incidental to the main objects. Tho expedition was fitted out under tho authority of Congress; it was composed of three officers of the army, ono acting surgeon, and nineteen enlisted men from the army. Stores for twenty -seven months were put on- tho Proteus, "which left St. John July 7, 1881, with tho party. She touohed at Disco Island and Vpornavik to procure sledges, dogs, skins, and dog food. Two Esquimaux were added to the party at Proven. A landing was made at Carey Island and tho provisions caebed by Nares in 1875 in the Alert were found in good condition. At Littleton Island Greely personally recovered tho English arctic mail left by Sir Allan Young in tho Pandora, iu 1876. At Carl Hitter Bay, iu Kennedy Channel, a cache of provisions for use on the retreat was made. It was tho original intention to establish the polar station at Water Course Bay, but heavy masses of ice rendered Water Course Bay exceedingly dangerous anchorage. Moving to Discovery Harbor, the station was there established on the site occupied by the English expedition of 1875. The erection of a house at once commenced, and stores and equipments landed. On the 28th of August came the parting between the Greely party and the men of the Proteus. The little band gathered on a frozen shore and watched the Proteus as she steamed slowly down Lady Franklin Bay. In tho evening of the same day the temperature sank below the freezing point, and the arctic ioy winter was on them in earnest. Their honse was finished about a week after the Proteus left. It was named, iu honor of Senator Conger, Fort Conger. During the first month the cold affected the men more than at any subsequent time at Fort Conger. Later on, in December, the temperature sank to from SO to 60 degrees below zero, and so remained days at a time. But even in that weather the cook's favorite amusement was dancing, bare-headed, baro-anned, and with slippered feet, on top of a snow-drift. During the day the men dressed iu ordinary outside clothing, but their flannels wero very heavy. Five men wero generally, for a part of the day, engaged in scientific work under Greely's direction, and in the duties of a camp. The remainder wore employed generally about ono hour a day, and devoted tho rest of the time to amusement. All slept in bunks in the quarters, which were heated by a large coal-stove, the average heat maintained beiug 50 degrees above zero. Chockors, cards, chess, and reading wero the amusements of tho evening. The life, Greely said, was far from a lonely one. Many of the men said they had never passed two happier years than those spent at Fort Conger. On the 15th of October, the sun left them 135 days, and a twilight varying from half an hour to twenty-four hours succeeded. For two months it was so dim that the dial of a watch could not be read by it On April 11 the 6un came above the horizon and remained there 135 days, giving the party a great sufficiency of the midnight sun. During three months the stars were visible constantly, tho constellation of Orion's belt and Great Bear being the brightest The north star looked down from almost overhead. For one standing alone outside the fort on one of these nights the scene was weirdly grand. To the north flamed the 'anrora'boreaUs, and bright constellations were set liko jewels around tho glowing moon. Over everything was a dead silence, so horribly oppressive that a man alone was almost tempted to kill himself, so lonely did he feel. The astronomer of the party said that with tho naked eye a star of 1 degree smaller magnitudo than could be seen here in the same way might be discerned. The moon would remain in sight from eleven to twelve days at a time. The thermometer registered oa June 30 tho highest temperature at Lady Franklin Bay which they knew during their stay. It was 52 degrees above zero. The lowest was in February, 1883 66 below zero. In this February the mercury froze and remained solid for fifteen days. The mercury in the thermometer invariably rose during storms or high winds. The highest barometer was slightly above 21 inches, the lowest slightly below 29 inches. The greatest variations were in winter. The electrometer, an instrument used to ascertain the presence of electricity, was set up. but not the slightest results were obtained. The displays of the aurora wore very good, but not compared with thoso seen at Disco Island or Upornavik. As far as Greely could observe no crackling sounds accompanied the displiyrs, and their shape was that of a ribbon. The southwesterly horizon was the quarter in which the brightest displays were seen. Hares reported in 1876 that no shadow was cast by the auror., but Greely says he distinctly saw his shadow cast by it There were no eloctrical disturbances, save those manifested by rumbling distant thunder, heard twice, far away in the north. In the course of tidal observations mado, the very interesting fact was discovered that tho tides at Lady Franklin Bay came from the north, while those at Melville Bay aud Capo Sabine came from the south. The temperature of this warm tide is two degrees warmer than that of the south tide of Cape Sabine. Why this was, Greely would not venture to say. He usod in measuring the ebb and flow of tho tide a fixed gauge, an irou planted in the mud. The average rise of spring tides at Lady Franklin Bay was found to be eight feet At Cape Sabine the highest tides riso twelve feet Surf was only observed twice during two years. At Lady Franklin Bay the average temporaturo of tho water was 2'J degrees above zero. Wolves weighing ninety pounds wero killed around Fort Conger. There are foxes and other animals there. Fish is a wonderful scarcity. Perhaps the greatest surprise of the expedition was taken from Lake Alexander, a fresh-water lake fifteen feet above the sea level, a four-pound samon. Froin tho bay or the sea only two very small fish were taken during the entire two years, and few are found north of Capo Sabine. The vegetation at Lady Franklin Bay is about the saino as at Cape Sabine, aud comprises mosses, lichens, willows, and saxifrage. The highest velocity of wind was registered daring a terrific snowstorm, seventy miles an hour. Lockwood.s trips to tho north in 1882 and 1883 wero productive of most valuable results. Standing on May 19th in each year, where Dr. Hayes had formerly stood, at about tho same time of day, Ijockwood, from an elevation of 2,000 feet, using his strongest glass on Hall's Basin and Boboson's Channels, could discern nothing but ice-packs. Horo it was that Dr. Hayes claimed to have seen his open polar sea on the trip of 1832. Loekwood reached tho highest latitude ever attained 83 deg. 25 min. north. This was about 500 miles directly north of Lady Froukiiu Bay, but to gi?t there he traveled over a thousand miles of opon water and broken packs, frequently causing him to retrace, his steps fifty miles. Lookwood sounded the sea both years between Cape Bryant and Capo Britannia, but could not touoh bottom with a hnndred-and-thirty-fivo-fathom lino. Markharo, a few years before, about 100 miles west, got bottom at seventy-two fathoms. Loekwood found at his farthest north about the samo vegetation as at Lady Fmnklin Bay, but no signs ot a polar current or open polar sea.

Id 1883 he was stopped near Cape Bryant, 125 miles from Lady Franklin Bay, by an open channol extending west to the coast of Grinuell Land. The width of this channel varied from 200 yards to five miles, but on the north the Ice-packs extended as far as could be seen with a glass. With his supply of provisions, the failure of which had caused his return the year before, Loekwood wag confident he could have reached 85 deg. north if this open channel had not barred his Way. No fossil remains were discovered on the trip, and the only ones found were the trunks of trees on the southwest coast of Grinnell land. The only sea animals seen by Loekwood at 83 deg. 25 min. were walrus and seals, and, strange to say, the walrus is not to be found at Lady Franklin Bay. At 83 deg. 25 min. the deflection of the magnetio needle was 101 deg. west, more than one-fourth of a oirclo. As far as Loekwood went the northwestern trend of the Greenland coast continued. Tho maps of the new regions he discovered are in tho possession of Lieut. Greely, and ore very carefully made. All through two years at Lady Franklin Bay the magnetic needle was never quiet except during storms. In February, 1883, preparations for the retreat were made by establishing a depot at Cape liaird, twelvo miles to tno KOtith. Day after day anxious men looked off over Lady Franklin Bay, expecting the ico to open so that they might commence their journey toward homo. At last, Aug. 19, lb:S, the welcome news that the ico was open was brought All had been made ready, and that very day the party embarked iu tho little steam launch. Ufbind them they left their dogs, as they could not be taken. Four barrels of pork and some seal oil were left for tho animals. Lady Franklin Bay was crossed to Capo Baird, a distance of thirteen miles, and then the western coast of Grinnell Land was followed south as far as Capo Hawkos. Largo quantities of heavy ice were met and there was extreme danger every moment that the little lauuch would bo crushed. Several times all the boats were neariy lost Tho suffering of tho men was great They were now within fifty miles of Cape Sabine. Striking from Cape Hawkes for Bates's Island, the party was caught in an ico-paok and frozen in, ten miles south of Cape Hawkes. In thirteen days they drifted south twenty-five miles on floes, suffering horribly from cold. So they drifted to within eleven miles of Cape Sabine, and wero obliged to abandon the steam-launch on Sept 10. Tho pack now remained motionless for three days, and several times the party got within two or three miles of Capo Sabine, only to bo drifted back by southwest gales. Five seals were killed and eaten whilo the party were drifting about Eventually a heavy northwest gale, drove then by Cape Sabine within a mile of Brevoort island, but they could not land. On Sept. 22 there arose the most terrific gale they had yet seen on tho Arctic ocean. Their ice-floe was driven hither and thither by the tempest and the waves washed over them again and again, the spray freezing to them and causing them intense suffering. The night came on. one of inky blackness; tho wind threw heavy floes together, and crash after brash of the ice breaking from their own floe warned the men that death was near to thorn. No one knew at what moment the floe mi(?ht break up ond the water engulf them. The first faint light of dawn showed that very little remained of the floe on

which they were: the sea washed another

close to them. Close K came, and at lass.

at tho word, the men succeeded in getting

upon it The storm slowly subsided, and they gained land at Esquimaux point, near Baird's inlet. Rent 29. Herb winter Quarters were

built, and scouts were Bent to Cape Isabella

and Cane Sotnne. in a few nays tney re.

tamed, and their reports sent a thrill of horror to every heart. At Cape Isabella and Cape Sabine wero found only 1,800 rations, aud from Garlington's records they learned

the fate of the l'ortous. .Every one Knew

death must come to noarly all of the party long beforo the ship of rescue could force its way into Melville Bay. Efforts were made to sustain the spirits of the men by

lectures and light reading. Oct 15 the

party removed to Cape Sabine. Jan. 18 Cress died of scurvy. In April the rations issued daily had dwindled to four ounces of meat and six ounces of bread. Man after man died, and all hope had fled on the day that the blast of the whistle raised the survivors from the lethargy of approaching

death. Lieut Greely, when asked as to his ideas noon the probable results of arctic explo

rations, Baid: "I do not think the North

Pole can be reached unless every circumstince hitherto found to be unfavorable should prove favorable to the party attempting to reach the pole. If it is to be done at all. it will be done by way of Franz

Josef Land. It could never be reached by

the Jeannette route. That there is an open polar sea I am well nigh certain. This is proved by the ice drifting out of Mussel Bay and Spitzbergen in midwinter, and by the northern drift of the polar pack experienced by Pavy and Loekwood in 82 deg. 8 min. Men can stand two winters very well at Lady Franklin Bav, but their physical strength rapidly deteriorates. If we had had every supply and the necessary amount of food, we could, perhaps, have lived eight or ten years at Lady Franklin Bay." BETTING 0N THE RESULT. The Leading- Candidates In the Principal Cities of the Union. New York special. The Times prints dispatches from twenty-three cities giving the betting at tho pool rooms and elsewhere on the Presidential election, and showing the chances to be about equally divided. In Boston Blaine it decidedly the favorite in betting circles, and odds are offorod on him with confidence. A Butler man authorizes the Herald to put up any part of $10,000 on Blaine, and another gentleman stands ready to stake at $100 to $70 almost any amount on Blaine. Betting on the result in New York is about even, or if anything Cleveland has the call. In Buffalo betting is nearly even, but favors Blaine. In Philadelphia Cleveland's backers are disposed to demand odds, ond Blaine's backers are not disposed to give odds. 8. W. Chartier, a man of fortune, has a bet of $1,000 against $900 that Blaiuo will be elected. In Pittsburgh bets have been booked at pool-rooms. $500 even that Blaine will be elected; $2,000 even that Cleveland will be elected; $50 even that Cleveland will have 25,000 majority in New York; $1,000 to $800 that Indiana goes Democratic. In Baltimore bets have been frequont, but not many of large amounts. There are no odds offered on either sido. In Biohmond, Vs., the bets have, with few exceptions, been confined to small amounts. Two offers of $1,000 on Cleveland, made a week ago, have not found takers. A merchant has bet $100 that Cleveland will carry New York by 50,000. In Cincinnati the betting thus far is all on the result in this State in October and in Indiana. In Cleveland there has been less betting than usual. A score of bets, in small sums, even on the general result and on New York State, have been made. The feeling in sporting circles is that it is too early to go in. , A Sensational Discovery. Augusta (Mo.) special. Tho Kennebec Journal prints the following: Much feeling has been excited in this community by an event of an extraordinary character. In ft well-known cemetery lot of the Stan wood family an infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Blaine lies buried. The ohild died in the month of July, 1854, and its resting place is marked by beautiful memorial of marble, erected in 1855, on which tho dsites of birth and death were plainly inscribed in raised letters. About two weeks ago it was discovered that the date of the child's birth had been carefully chiseled away. When this was discovered an intimated friend of the Blaine family placed a doteetivo on the track of the perpetrator, who has not yet been found, but it is believed a clew has been found. In fact, directly after the mutilation of tho memorial a person whoso name is known had copies of nu alleged record sent to newspapers in various parts of tho country, antagonistic to Blaine. The motive for act of vandalism is scarcely apparent There is great indignation among all classes of people over the sacrilegious act

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