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PHILIP, MY KING.
"Wtefceara vponltis babyhnnrtha
oy of so fu vlgnty. Lock at mc Tith thy nuga, browa area, PbiHp, my King. Fo round thaotha pnrpla ahadow Ilea Of babyhood ' ragal dignities. Lay onmy asekthy tiny hand ' With love's invisible seeptar laden, I am thine Esther, to command Till tbou shall find thy qneen hand-maldan. I hi lip, ray King. Oh, the day -when then gowta-wootofc Philip, my King! Whan thOM bcantilnl Hps an sniag.1 And some gentle heart" ban undoing; Then dust ecter, lore-crowned, and there attest an glorinedl rule kindly. Tenderly, oyer thy kingdom Mr, For we that lov'a, ah I we tore so blindly, Ibilip, my King! I aacs from thy sweet month opto thy brow, Ihtlrp, ray King; Ay, there liei the spirit, all sleeping now. That may line like a giant to make men bow As to one Gcd-throned amidst bis peers; My Saul, than thy brethren higher and fairer, Xjet raejbaboid thee in eomingyaars I X thy head needeth a chaplet rarer, Philip, my King! A wreath, not of gold, but palms, one day. Philip, my King; Tboo, too, rtuat tread, as we tread, a way Thorny and bitter and cold and gray ; Babels within thee, and foes without Will snatch at thy crown. But go on, glorious, Ifartyr, yet monarch ! till angels shout, As tbou si :t eat at the foet of God victorious "Philip, the King r
THAT DRUMMER.
BY A BXKTOTJIi RUL
You see I never was partial to drummers. They are an important, conceited set, the whole of them, and do not know how or when to teas a hint. And even while you know they are professional "mashers," and invariably glory in their conquests, they are generally so handsome and smart that a girl's heart fails her, even though she knows they deserve to be Bnubbed; unless, as I said before, one happens to have an special dislike for them, as is the case with
i whole world, and hoped every one else
The foU.winif narrative is
strickly to facts and is entirely true, excepting the 5roter names and places, which will be omitted. I dare say dozens of girls have passed through just such an experience, minus the mortifying conclusion to which mine comes.
Ton see, I happened to be on a visit to a
friend of mine, a college girl, m a small
town in the State of Illinois, and was just
returning home. When I entered the car I found that the only empty seat was
beside a drummer. I was sure he was a
drummer, because, well no one pos-
bly could mistake a drummer for any one
etoe.
He was so nice-looking, and had the finest
eyes, which seemed to fairly twinkle with fan. T saw no sample cases, bnt I eup-
nosed thev were there, somewhere, out of
sight.
Well, he arose at once and offered me his
seat m such a polire way that I accepted It at once and thanked him. I then proceeded to make myself and my belongings comfortable, supposing, of course, that he would betake himself to the smoking-car;
but he didst. That would not have been
Kite a drummer. He just waited until I 'got settled and then calmly sat down be
side me. I have very strict ideas, or rather
my mother has, in regard to talking to,
strangers, especially young men, and
knew by experience what to expect from
drummers. So 1 extracted a paper from my package and began to read. In the
meantime this young man sat there and
eyed me quite as coolly as if I had been a niece of crockery or some other; inanimate
object.
"Now," thinks I, "here's one of those aboronable drum-creatures again. Maybe
he thinks he can make an impression
me. If he does, III iust give him to
understand that I'm not to be impressed.'
His impudence, however, did not take that turn, I folded up my newspaper pretty soon and began to gaze around the car, in
an abstracted sort of way, at the other
passengers.
He at once began to talk in a kindly,
condescending fashion, quite as if he were
addressing a small child.
Now. I will admit that I hare an ex
tremely youthful took, m spite of my twenty-one years of wisdom and experience. I have been reminded of it more
'asm once. I am also the unfortunate posJessor of a pair of cheeks, which will persist in being red; and on this particular occasion, I had my hair braided and hanging down my back. I shall always bewail the fate which denied me the five feet six inches of height some girls possess. A
small, plump girl stands no chance at all, so far as being made a heroine is concerned. A tall girl can be graceful, queenly, dignified, or imposing at will, . while a small girl is always and invariably spoken of as being blight, or quiet, or rather pretty, if indeed they are spoken of tail, in stories. Bnt I nearly forgot. I started out to tell about this member of the "sample-ease" profession. Well, there he at, and talked, and talked, and X assumed an air of lofty indifference, which I maintained throughout the journey. I wondered if the passengers were hocked at his presumption, bnt they did not appear to notice in the least. Bnt the very idea of being mistaken for a school girl X who had graduated four
years ago with honors, and left school for
good, it was very annoying. Ho went on in this amiable strain for some time, though I did not deign to take the least notice of what he said.
He finally wound up by asking whether
I lived at 3 , the town we had left.
I replied that I did not, in tones ealcu-
- lated to freeze the marrow in any man's bones, except a drummer's, for it positively
seemed to have a thawing effect on Aim.
Be at once started off again, giving a run
ning commentary on the different' States through which he had traveled. After
several ineffectual attempts to draw me into conversation, he inquired if "I liked to
travel?"
An infant behind us was howling at the top of its lungs; directly in front of ns sat a
half-drunken old Dutchman, who sampled.
with evident relish, a horrible looking
liquid from a green bottle, every few
menu, and just then, at that instant, a brakeman stuck his head in at the door to
yell the name of some station or other.
and then banged die door shut again with
force enough to give any human being,
without cast-iron nerves, the headache for
a week.
I iust glared at that drummer a minute.
., sad then ejaculated. "No," with an ear
neatness calculated to leave no doubt whatever on the subject. He smiled a little,
a comfortable, reconciled sort of a smile,
to say he was at ease watt
Pretty soon he happened to catch sight
of some fine brick buildings through the
window, and looked at them with a show of interest. "May I ask yon what those pooHe buildings are?'' he asked, graciously. "Certainly," I replied. "Well," after a slight pause on both sides, "What are they?" "I do not know." Profound silence for at least fifteen minutes. At length he brightened up again and remarked that I was rather young- to be traveling alone. I answered that I hoped and believed I was old enough to take enre of myself, without resistance from anybody. "Ah!" he remarked, with a slight elevation of the eyebrows. "Then perhaps it would be as well for you to be a little more careful with your pocket-book. You have certainly heard that there were such people as thieves." I looked down at my pocket-book, which was one of those bandy arrangements fastened to a chain over my arm, and sure enougii there it was wide open. Several bills which I had carelessly thrown in the bottom were in plain sight and in imminent danger of tumbling out. I thanked him as stiffly as I could, Under the circumstances, and again addressed myself to my newspaper. Then without any warning he broke out again and began to tell some stories of how young and green Ae had been when he first started out in life and becan to look around. How he was "taken in" time and again by thieves, and so could sympathize with children, or something to that effect; and this to me who could
boast of my 21 years.
I just sat there and gritted my teeth in
silence. I to. It was all I could do.
I was firmly convinced by this time that
he merely took this course to punish me
for snubbing him so unmercifully.
Finally, he sweetly inquired where I at
tended school, and whether I liked my
teacher.
This was the very last straw. It was
more than I could stand, and I promptly
informed him with the most withering look
I could assume, that it was none of his
business.
If I could only have had the pleasure of
seeing him look crest-fallen, I would have
been quite happy, but I was denied that
satisfaction.
He began to whistle softly under his
breath, and actually looked pleased.
turned my back to him and looked indus
triously out of the window at the telegraph poles, ditches, grazing cows, and other ab
sorbing objects of interest, we finally,
after what seemed ages to me, reached the
city. With a sigh of relief I arose to
escape. tie also grabbed jus nat ana
prepared to leave. He courteously offered
to help me with my bundles and
of which I had a number. I elevated my
in the air and sailed out
without so much as looking
at him. Just as I alighted on the platform,
some hurrying passenger knocked a package from my hand, down between the
steps, directly under the car-wheels.
Would you believe it, that exasperating
drummer jumped down and got it, placed
it in mv hand with a mocking bow, and
walked off.
I would rather have lost the box a dozen
times than to hays that miserable upstart
rescue it, and I felt a strong inclination to
throw it at him, but desisted upon remem
bering that it contained caromels.
Cousin Sadie was there to meet me, and as she lived in the city, and I did not, I
went home with her and staid to dinner,
In the evening we drove out to what was.
at that time, my home, about a mile from
the city. Sadie didnotcomein, but hastened
back to attend a meeting of some kind.
walked un the path, and as I did so.
noticed that the parlor blinds were up.
Mother came running out to meet me.
her face all aglow, and so excited, she could hardly talk. "Oh, Gussie," she Banted, "what do you think your uncle
Elmer has come." Uncle Elmer, you see, was mother'
youngest brother from Texas. Me was quite a small boy when she had married
and come North.
He had only visited us once eight years
before, when I had been away visiting at
a cousin's. "He is very anxious to see you,
said she: "hurry up and come in." I flew
up the stairs, three steps at a time.
straightened my collar, combed down my bangs, and walked into the parlor. Some
one was sitting on the sofa, and turned
around as I entered, when lo and behold
there Bat my drummer. I will con
fess that for once I was completely
fmsterated.
"Why!" 1 gasped, utterly at a loss for
words with which to express myself, lie
stared at me a little bit, and then hurst into
an uncontrollable fit of laughter.
I earnestly wished a cyclone or some
thing would come just then, and give me an excuse for leaving. In a moment, how
ever, he recovered himself, and turning to
my mother, said: "Well, well; Annie, and
so this is Gussie! Why, she and X are
enemies for life already," and then he mournfully shook his head and sighed.
"Gussie," said my mother, reproachfully, are you not going to speak to yonv uncle?" And then I gathered up ray courage to
walk over and kiss him yes I did; I thought
I ought to make some amends.
Well, we have been the very best of
friends ever since. I never heard the
last of that drummer, who, for a wonder, wasn't a dmmmer at all, but a mischiefloving young merchant. I do not, however, love the members of the sample-case profession, one whit better than I used to.
covin mox coueuauBSfjt iiia sit
uation. "Bah Jawve," said Algernon at the
elub. "I feel pwovoked, don t you
know?" "Ah," replied a friend, "what
about?" "Bah Jawve, it's these demd geurls, don't you know? I was invited
to make a few wemarks befoahageurl's
school club last night, don't you know? awnd when I rose to speak I smiled,
awnd began by saying, 'When I was a
little geurl,' and all at once they set up
demnition loff, don't you know? awnd
continued it so that itwasimpawssible
faw me to pwoceed. I wouldn't coiah,
don't you know? but faw the. life of me
X cawn't see what thaih was lit what
said, don't you know? to make the
giddy things loff and loff, don't you know? Do von?" The friend said ha
did not. Washington Critic.
In a new and elaborate work on the bronze age in Scandinavia, Dr. Oscar
Montelius gives tho probable duration of the period as from 1450 B. 0. to 400 or 650 B. C. when iron come into use
in. Hortuexn Europe.
BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1886.
NATIONAL. LAW-MAKERS.
THE NEWS.
Intelligence by Wire from All the World,
FOREIGN. tioonro B. Watkins, Paymaster of the
United States ship Oasipoo, was convicted by
court-martial at Yokohama of emliczzlomont
and desertion. Ho was sentenced to tlireo
years' imprisonment at hard labor in a United States prison to be designated by tho Secretary
of tho Navy, to receive half-f unough pay during that period, and to bo dismissed from tho sorrioo at tho expiration of his term of ini-
prisonniont
-Tho general fooling in Umon-laberal cir
cles as to the conrsc to bo pursued towaru
Ireland, says a London d'spatehs seems to lie
in favor of increased cnorgy m ministerial
administration, and stronger action on the part of the Dublin executive authorities. Tho suppression of the Irish National League is not advocated.
Baron do Conrcel lias resigned tho post of
French Ambassador to Germany.
The Pono has created Gideon Ouitnet, of
Canada, a commandor of the Order or St. Gregory.
A secret Nihilist meeting was surprised lY
police at Warsaw, Polan l. In tho scrimmage
which took place two detectives wore killoa.
Many arrests were made.
-The result of the Parliamentary contest m
South Tyrone, Ireland, whero Mr. William O'Brion, editor of United frelanil, ParneU's organ, has been running for ro-oloction as the Parnollito candidate against T. W. linssell, Liberal-Unionist, has causo.l a sensation, says
a London dispatch Mr. O'Brion represented tho district in the last Honso of Commons, having carried it by a vote of 3,43 against 8,383 obtained by the Hon. Capt H. Harwell,
Conservative. In the present contest Mr. O'Brion polled S.8S3, a loss of 52, while Mr. Boswell polled 3,481, defeating Mr. O'Brien by a majority of 9ft
Tho cholora in Italy is continually decreas
ing in the worst diitricts, and is stationary hi
tho others.
A proclamation has boon issned declaring
Belfast and Londonderry under the provls
ions of tho arms clause of the peace-preserv
ing act
A meeting of the Gladstone Cabinet was
held Tuesday, July 20, and it was decided to
place tho resignations of tho ministry m tue
hands of the Queen.
The Bank of France has increasol its gold
balance about 878,000,000 in tho last eighteen
months, and Germany has widened out its bal
ance to a large amount The Banks ol fcn-
gland, Franco, and Germany now hold a total
of 95,167,000 in gold and SO0,437,UUU in savor,
beine a rain of S9.4(K.000 m gold and
$1,100,000 in silver in tho last twelve months.
The principal reform accomplished by the
special commission to revise tho laws affect
ing tho privileges of tho imperial family of
Russia is a reduction of the imperial incomes
to one-third of their former amount, with tho
single exception of that of tho Czar himself.
-The resignation of tho Gladstono Cabinet
was accepted by Queen Victoria on the 21st of
Juiy.
PEBS0NAL.
Lieut Greely is said to be sorely disap.
nnintcd over his failure to receive tho recant
vacancy in the Adjutant General's department
William Mink, of Alleutown, Pa., drove
his two sons, Tighlman H. and Benjamin, from
home twenty-two years ago. They wont to Chicago and prospered, and tho fathor subsequently rclonted, and sent for thorn. They reached homo in time to see him die, and found
that he had wUlod them $150,003.
S. Davis Pago has boon appointed Assist
ant Treasurer at Philado.nlua.
The Eov. Adrian Foote, the oldest Baptist
minister in tho United States, died at Roches
ter, Ind., in his 100th year.
Henry Bicknell, a lad residing in Bangor,
Maine, killed his sister Mattio with a gun which he supposed to be empty. On wilnessing tho horrible wound in her neck, tho boy
lost his reason
Judge John T. Nixon, of the United States
District Court of New Jersey, who recently
became totally blind, is gradually regaining
his eyesight
Tho President, accompanied by Secrets ries Bavard and Whitney and Private Secre
tary LamonL went io Albany last weok to par
ticipate in tho bicentennial celebration .of tlio
founding of thatcity POLITICAL.
An extra session of the Cdifornia Legisla
tnre has been called to legislate on irrigation.
Tho Civil Service Commission have issued an ordor prohibiting the private secretary of au appointing or a nominating officer, or the officer acting in his place, from bsing o thor
chairman or secretary of a board of examiners.
The Democratic State Convention of Indi
ana will bo hold at Indianapolis, Aug. 11.
President Cleveland has approved the act fo a railroad and wagon bridge across the
Mississippi Itivcr near Dubuque
Tho Vermont Prohibitionists' State Con
vention, at Middlebury, put in nomination
full ticket with Prof. H. M. Seoley, of Mid
dlebnry College, at the head for Governor. P1HAN0LAL ATO INDUSTRIAL.
Tho strike of quarrymcu at Lomont, I1L
is ended by compromise. Tho married ran
ployes are to roreiv tho advanced wages asreod upon in Mav, and tho single men wi.l
accept 35 coma per day less.
Martin Irons, tho noted ex-striker, has re
signed his position as Chairman of the Exocn
tivo Board of the Kuichts at St Louis. Ho is
at Bosedale, Kan.
The street-ear strike at San Francisco was brought to an end by the companies conceding
tho demands of their men.
Six men. members of the Executivo Board
of tho local lodge of tho Knights of Labor,
have boon arrested at Wyandotte, Kan.
charged with wrecking a train on the morning
of April 20 and causing (he death of two per
sons. Tho affair has caused groat oxoitemout
among tho Knighis at Kansas City.
The price of anthracite coal hs decline
fully 20 per cent in the last two years, and appears to be still falling, though a combina
tion representing $5'JO,000,OOJ of capital is endeavoring to sustain it Tho visible' supply of wheat and corn is, respectively, aySiM,!03 and ,:)I7,4.r.! bushels. Since last report wheat, lias increase 1 071, 71S bushols, and corn has been augmeutad 130,07 1 bushels. Tho Bolloville colliery at Mount Carmel, Pa., has suspondod, throwing 400 employes out of work. Tho National Association of Pipe (iron) Manufacturers met at Pittsburg, reaffirmed tho card rato, and reported trade in a healthy condition. Tlio Agricultural Department at Washington reports a doclino in the condition of spring wheat from i)S.! In .Time to (Si.'l at the present time, in consequeneo of drought and high tomporalure. Tho total values of tho imports of merohandsointo tho United Htatoa dnriug the twelve months endod Juno SO, lStflS, wore $635,253,0 0, and during the preceding twelve months $577,527,320 au iiicroaso of $:7,TM,277. Tho total value-! of the exports of merchandise during tho twelve months ended June SO, 1(586, were $070,425,(172, and during tho preceding twelv.j' months $74'',ltM,755 a doorcase of $68,703, 7SS. The llandlo ,fc Dugan Machinery Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, has failed The lialulilio-i ars estimated at $50,000.
Heavy rain in Southwestern Kansas have
great'y benefited crops. RAILROAD INTEILICrENOE. Judge Gresham continued the sale of the iousvillo, Evansvillo and St. LouU IUilmad. Freeport Oil.) special: "The surveyors of tho Illinois Cci tral Railroad are nttiuiiig ft preliminary lino north of here, leaving the main track some two and a half miles west of Freeport. From tl at point it is understood that it
ill run north through the dlago of Urange-
ille, thence to Wisconsin through Monroo and
Madison, probably making St Paul the thial
destination."
A su t of the people against the Illinois
Central Hailro id Company lor unjust discrimination in the matter of f night rates has been decided in the Circuit Court at Springfield, I1L,
the jury finding the defendant guilty and assessing a line of 1,00.'. Tlio suit grow out of the railroad company charging a greater rato on a shipment of eoffcn tc KankaUeo, a dis
tance of sixty miles, than to Mat oon, a distanco of ISO m.lea The road claimed that it was not unjusi diseriminat.on, because no one
was injured thereby and consequently had
no cause for s. grievance and action, against
the company.
GENERAL. A revolution has broken out in tho Mexican
States of Tamaubpas and Nuevo Leon, and armed supporters are crossing from tho American side of (lie Hio Grando to participate in
hostilities. Tho Federal Government of
Mexico has sont 0)1. Parras to ew Laredo with 250 men.
The drout h in Kansas and Indian Terri
tory is the severest t-mce lt3. rraino nres are bnrmnir in every direction in Ind;an Ter
ritory. A !-t Louis dispatch says "the
drought prevailing through the South and
West is very severo in Ttxas. The people m
Runnels and Taylor Comities are m a deplor
able conditio x Many now settlors are desti
tute. The County Judge of Taylor County is on his way to Kansas City, St Louis, and Chicago to secnr? provision for the sufferers in that county. Cattle are dying iu great numbers for lack 3f wat-r and grass."
The Dominion Government has pardoned
Dnmont, Dumas, and tho other imprisoned leaden) in th.) late rebellion in tho Northwest
Nineteen men of the British war-ship
Goshawk wont ashore at Port Iloyal, Jamaica,
and while there a storm arose. They attempted
to return to tho ship hi tho storm, and on nearing the vessel their boat capsized. Tho next morning three of the pallors were found on (ho bottom of tho boat drifting toward
Port Henderson, and two on one of the royal
naval buoys in Port Itoyal harbor, to which they had swam. Tho other fourteen wero drowned.
A force cf royal engineers are en route to
British Columbia to dousrmine and report as to tho best manner of fortifying tho Pacific coast
Tho Nati mal Confonuco of Charities and
Correction closed its sessions at St. Paul, and selceteJ Omaha as the next place of meeting.
The Hon. H. H. Giles, of Wisomsin, was
elected President, tho Rev. George D. Gilleanie. of Michigan, heeding tho list of Vice
Presidents.
uaiiind William Seliger, who gavo startling dotails as to the manufacture of bombs in his
1 dwelling, and plaiuly unfolded to tho public
the plot to murder policomeu at the Haymarket. The witness describe.! the making of the bombs by Inag (one of the defendants) and others. The work was "rushed" tho day after the McConuielt factory riot and the day of tho Haymarket explosion. Half a dozen persons assisted. There was no concealment amoug the orkmen a to tho use to which the oxplos.vcswere to lw put 'liiey wero to b thrown at th-.' police. In the language ot the w itness, they were ktho hunt fojder" for persons marked for mnr.lei by the Socialists. Liugg, though he had beea a resident of America only nine month?, was the most violent advi-cate of Solialiitic "reform" by nussa-re in ilns coun
try. He devoted all hi i-pare lini-' t . the manufacture of tho bombe, sp. cimens of which were displayed in court to the consternation of nervous suhtors. Some loadc.t bombs wero exhibited iu the court-room, but an agreenient was reached that they should bo taken to the laliu shore and emptied At his own request Seliger lias of late been locke 1 up in the police station, to escape assassination. Near Louisville, Ky., Howard I lines, aged 14, deliberately shot and killed Samuel Dean, 11 years.
NEW SERIES. VOL. XX -NO. 22.
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HEBE AND THESE.
Tin: amendment to the river and harbor bill incrcaHine the appropriation for improving tho harbor at Cuiraffo from S75.O0I to HiW.OJO was reject-.il by tho Honute on tun ltitli lust., as also tin- amendment increasing the appropriation for the Missouri IMer fr..m S:i7.,ott) to 5.V.K),()0D. Au nine: 'Inient swelling tlm appropriation lor the Mi8.-ii siippi Itivrr. frr-i the passes to Cairo, from sl.i7,'oi to h.J'ki.'HI was tabled. Tho amendiJH'iit rcdueiu-4 nil upprininutio-is in tho bil1 ''ft percent, was then nyreod 1o and the measure put "ii its lliml passage aiidH'loptcd. 't'11 Senate also pitsse-t ttie imvtU tippmin tation bill. In tho Ileus.' ot Koprescntatives au otfort to pass the nonaiun bill of l-'.li. dictli Luce over tUe
Presidential veto was lost by a vote of 110 yeas to 1 4 nays. Simllur action w us taken on tho
meahur pensioning Catherine Mevartny, tno
vote Iwinc yoas lis. nays vi, bit in tno
case of doscpn Komtser tno mil was
passed t-vof the veto veas lu. nays (Juite tt i i-satioll wim created In the House by it persona! enconut r between .Messrs. Cobb (Pom.' of Indiana, and I,nird 'Kop.i f N.-br-is-ka, prowltig c ut of the charges made by the former mi tho floor of '.be H .use, to tho olfoot that the Jio'.ruskn meml.- r hnd Inh-ii concerned
in a hind l ins! Mr. I,a i ' mado nn attack iiuojtlu Public Lands Committee, of which Sir.
Cobb is clmirniae. The latter undertook to defend th committee, and in the course of his remarks charged the Kebr.iska member with
Having been a mem er oi a tanu ring. uo tnrfmi bv n.iHii.' tlu- !eu:lcniun froul In
diana a liar. Mr. Cobb declared that
Mr. IMni did not dare to come outsiuo nun mmni. liiK lttmni i.-' Mr. l.i.ird Is said to have
replied that the gentleman could not get out
CASUALTIES,
Bernard Jussell and Martin Banker, of
Akron, Ohio were drowned while out rowing.
A boiler ill a manufactory at Wollsville,
O., exploded with terrifle. force, wrecking almost the out re building. Through a miracle
none of the employes was injured. Adjoiniuj
tho boiler-sl op is tho ret idonce of Mrs. Mag
gio Driscoll, whose two little girls, Clara, aged
and Miii-y. aged 8. wero playing m
the door-yurd, opposite tho lioiler-room.
When the c (plosion occurred tho little ones
were caught and held fast by tho debris of the
building, while tho scalding steam poured ovet thorn. Clan was dead when taken from the ruins, her bodv having been literally cooked,
and Mary nas terribly scalded, and may not recover.
The steamship St Andrew, bound from
Enropofor Phdadelphit , is reported lost. The crew was saved The loss ou tho vessel and cargo will amount to $2X1,000.
Firo at ltavenswood, K V, destroyed
property valued at $100,000. At Minneapolis
a lumber mill, a cooper shop, and a newspapoi oflico wero burned and tw o firemen were seriously injured. Loss, $i0,000.
The 1m ifcor yard cf Knapp, Stout ft Co.,
of St. Louis, covering forty acres along the
river front, lost 9500,(100 worth of stock by fire. Fifteen engines wero called iuto use, and several firemen were overcomo by heat The insurance is about $3JO,000.
While liathing in Lake Pepin, Minnesota, Miss Edith Bend and Kottio McKcy, daughters
of Col. William 15. Bond and Joseph MoKey, of St Paul, were drownei
A Are in the Nottingham Block, Cleveland, Ohio, oceaf ionod a loss of 930,000. Tlio repair shops of the St Louis & St-! panl Packet Company, at St. Louis, wero destroyed by fire. Tho I nion Machine and Foundry Company's buddings, at Allegheny City, Pa., wort burned, craating a loss of $;;.),000, Tlio business section of Madera, Cat, was swept away by lire, the losses aggregating 70,0tK'. Near Columbia, 'Psum, a special engine ran into a Louisville and Nashville accommodation train, causing tho death of seven persons. Miss Lizzie Yatos, of Sully County, D. T., foil from her horse whilo out horseback riding near Fort Stilly. Hor foot caught in tho stirrup, andsho was dragged live miles. Hor head was boatei into a jolly awl nearly every bout was broken. Tho house of Ilasnius Dilletson, near Min-
den. Neb. was struck by lightning, Dilletson, j his son ai d his danglitor being killed, and :i j child seriously injured. Greer 's Opera House in Cedar Ilapids, Iowa, wa-i damaged S J0.O00 by fa The loss is envoroc! by insurance. The Soldiers Orphans Homo at Knightstown, Inc., was destroyed by lire, tho inmates nil escaping. Tho loss to tlio Statu will be 900,000. CHIMES AKD0BIM.IHALS.
The Ihroo Milwaukee Anarchists, Hirth, Palm, ai d Simon, have lwai fontencod to three months each in tho House of Correction. P. W Clia.se, Sheriff aud Tax Colleotir of Concordia. Parish, La,, is i-hort in his accounts 427,011(1. He has a very good bond. Sann el K. -Gay. tlio defaulting pension clerk of I'iilsbnrg, was arrested at Cleveland and taken l-ack to the scene of his crime. Thiof-cH cntend the farm-hcuso of lcwis Dick, near Wa kill, X. Y., drugged nil the member or the family, stole 51, o in enrrency, ami tired tho build ng. K. ighbors extingnish d tho Uuineii and re ruod tho uno-m-soious people. Doll his ltooin. a trusted InHik-iicope: for Vhe lvr:j'.ht, Andi-iyou Co., n dry-goods conimiss o.i Hun of lkwton and New York, has disa ipeaie.l. He has suit a l iter to the
firm ifiife'sng tlu.t bo had robbed them of alxut 1 ,'- J(. II. lint-kirk, a diy goods dealer at Clinton, bin., l.-tt iW, tak ng ail his available asi-ets, and leaving nnj aid debt of Sf",M!0. A si.vagc .-:izc -light which recently occurred Wiimint ti:i, Dcl-iwure, between Golden i -let itfavy, I as I cwi followed y lie. arrcd.ii 1'hiind -loVa of th piine pal-i and s. imu.Ih, .vim will hi lined ((.". eieh an 1 Kent to tiie pctiiieni arv f ir from one to te:i jvars. In (1 e anarchist trial at ( "mcigo, t . protwHtiou placed u ) tliestSHda-Oennsu carpenter
Public Pbistek Borxus will, it is understood, tender his resignation within sfew days, he having purchased au Omnhn newspaper. This will necessitate tho appointment of successor sooner than the President had contemplated. Since the Indiana delegation ealied upon the President in the interest of J. B. Stoll,
last JIarch, there has been little said upon the subject, the President at that time say
ing no change would ue made until niter Congress adjourned. Judge Lowvy is still of (he impression that Mr. Htoll will bo appointed. Much influence is beiug brought to bear upon the President in be
half of some or ins isew lorn menus who are seeking tho appointment, and many think a New Yorker will be selected. Gi-okoe Statues, a cooper by trade, who has been out of employment for some time, was arrested at Youngstown, Ohio,
by Game Warden Ward aud fined
$2) by Justice Hezner for shoot
ing robins. In a voice choked by emotion Statler admitted killing the birds, and stated that bv reason of beine unable to
oblniu work his family were starving, and
that he hnd killed the birds for his wife
and children to ent, Au investigation con firmed his story.
The new transcontinental train which is
to lie put on the Central and Union Paoifie roads will reduce the running tim-j over
those two lines alone twenty-four hours,
and it is probable that tho Iowa Hues will make such a reduction as will reduce the time this side of the river and euable passengers to make the journey between New
York aud Suu Francisco in less titan six uavs. instead of seven, as at present. The
train will lie made nn of bas'guge, mail,
and Pullman cars only, and will be limited
for the present to seven cars. Albert GbiFFIN, Cliaiiiuan of the Or
ganizing Committee of the anti-&o!oon Re
publicans, has issued a call fo; a confer
ence to be held in Chicago on September l(i. Each State is recommended to elect four times us many delegates and alternates as it has Senators and KepreserJniives in
Congress, and Territories can send ns many they would be entitled to if they were States. The call declares that this branch
of the Republican parly has received the ofticial indorsement of tho party iu Vermont and Maine, and delegations are already assured from Kansns, Illinois, Micbigan.'Kew Jersey, Vermont, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. The Indiana Republican State Convention is called to meet at Indianapolis, Tuesday, September 2.
At Galian, Ohio, while a 6-year-old son of Mr. I. Stickney was in the act of jumping from a moving freight tiain on tho C, C, C. & I., he lost his bnlnn:e, slipped nuder tho cars, and nearly half of the train pnssed over his left leg, horribly mangling and outline it off immediately below the knee. The mother, who lives a short distance from the track, carried the child in her arms to tho house, declining the assistance of anyone. The boy will die. Mme. Tien ase N. LEaociicwsiqj of Brooklyn, proposes to go over Niagara Falls in a big rubber egg. At tho bi-cenlenial celebration at Albany, N. Y., President Cleveland addressed an immense crowd in a short speech which was enthusiastically received. He said, "I thank you for your kindness. I came here as a fi'iend aud companion of one whom it is my honor to have to assist mo in the ad-mini-itration of our public affairs. I have mvself somelhing in my traditional aucestry of the blood of the Dutch, and I thank you for an opportunity of saying so."
Another and Fuller Report from
Professor Podge of the National Bureau.
Spring Wheat Has Fallen Off Fifteen
Points Oorn Prospects The Yield of Oats.
Is the Senate, on the 22d insfc, bills for public
buildings at Clarksburg, West Virginia, Spring-
fluid, Missouri, and Nebraska City, Jjebraika,
wero passed. Mr. Halo, from tho Conference f-,iirtA nn ilm nnviil Aimreimation bill, sub-
-itt.ert a r nort which wai acreed to. Tho
Senate resumed tho coiisideraln u of the Payne case, and after listening to speeches by Sh rnn mill Five, adiourned. In the House, Mr.
Hatch, from the Committee on Afrioultu'e, reported the oleomargarine bill, with ti e Senate amendments an . with thu r, comniendatimi that they bo non-concurred iu. Tlio Hoase went into a Committee ol tho WUolo on rvrenao bills, the nl.ir.r.t liAiii,' in .naeh the oleouiurciiuue bill, the
Morrison tariff bill, the bill giving notice of the
termination "t tno naivsuan treaty, auu oiuer
bills. Adjourned.
THE MARKETS.
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soon iionail fur linn . itu mis me pair iuuhi
through the lobby into tlio basement, heme one called Mr. l'avso'n attention to their exit, witti
!, utittmnmit tlifit tllrtV W(TJ OiU OUtSiUO tO
ftsiht It out. Tfccreunoii Mr l'ayaon hurried
turoujili tno diiornav. aim ohhiub m
the wonld-lm a-mibatamB eu tho stairway
caught Mr. Cobb by the collar and remon
strated with liim for lmrsuiiu; so uoywu
and fooli-h a eourw. Ii- smcecdoa In getting nr.- r',,1,1. t... ,-. imcK his tfloii-i so faras the west
door of the lobby. Mr. Laird fiillowim;. wnen
tii nntriiv.-rv bnino o.t iifrosn. jtoeumns w
tho cimv.'.K Mr Cnlib had male axaiust Mm In
a speech several weeks ugo, Mr. Laird angrily doebired -.bat b iMr. Cobb) was a Hor.
Mr. Cobb r. joined that Mr. i,iuru was -a. iicrjuri r." but the Kords had hard- ' lv iMiHO.-d bis lips bi'foro Mr. Laird struck him a hoavv blow on tho mouth and nose. A stream f blood trii kl.-d down Mr. Cobb s face, and he was thrown backward ueainst tho doorway. A erowd which had collected int-rj osed at this juu-;tnr.i and the coinba-iiiiti separated, Mr. Laird taki.ig his seat in t-io Houso aud Mr. Cobb reciuing iu an easy chair in the lobby, where ho was surrounded by triouds. rnere was every r, awn t believe ttat, if interference had not cone in tho shape of Mr. Paysou, who fOiKht to pour oil en the troubled waters, a STinmiinary personal combat would have resulted. Both o'. the members concerned aro of powerful physique, and bow tho reputation of men ready a; all tiroes todefond thorns lvcs in a fittina manner. Mr. Cobb stands fix feet ai d over in his shoes and Is of jiniiiorti n-it. breadth, bnt is somewhat at a disadvantage on the scon; of ntfc. beinfj in th neighborhood of tiftv-ei-iht or si xty years old. Mr. Ln r l is but thirty-seven years f age, with a Birth of chest that would ornament an athlete, and a fiery, impetuous tempi r. The Committee on Indian Aiiairs made a report to tho Honato, on tho 17th lust, recomlnendtof.: the passage over tho President's veto ol tho bill crautine railroads right-of-way through the Indi ui r. s r vat ion iu Northern Montana. Mr. Hlair, from tl.o Committee on Pensions, sm mittod a report adoptimt us tho report of the majority of th-i einumiitee the report before submitted en tho uienaaKO of the President vetoiin! tho bill granting a pension to Maiv J. Nottag- ami which was recommitted by the Henate. The report wan adopted by a strictly party vote. Senators Wuittbornc, Camden, ami Wilson of Maryland, iubmittet a minority report, defending the President s action in tho matter. Tno Senate decided to consi ler the oleomargarine bill, and then refused to refrr it to tlio Finance Committee. The House of Uepresentat ves, in coa-sid-rins! the fortification appropriation bill, re$ecte.i au loiiemlmeiit to increase the item for sea-coat-t aruiamoui to .i,3o.).oo:). TiiKoleomargttr.no bill was tho subject Ota
long aul warm discussion in tho Senate on July l'J. Messrs. Miller, K iiuuiida, and Van Wyck ad
vocating, and Messrs. Vonca, Vest, a.id Ittgalls oiniosius: the uieos'ire. In the coarse of tho de-
i.i r,- ii uaiis reidiod to some remarKS uy
Mr Miller, say.ug tuat Ins (Minor si untax very in icli like uie uiteuipc of a hipiiOjKtamus todauco on a slack rope. ;Ln,..g.uir.j lUe ..,. nr from New YorK httd SOOU Ut tO
present, him (Inga.Uti as a country noddi.v eealina in Moris jowilry and elix
irs of life." In rep y no ' wished to say
e..i i... i.i nAi-nr fii.i.l Imturii tlio benuto ua-
vov-.iting a measure i i winch ho had tho strongest porsjiiai interest -as tho Senator from N-JW v i... i 'runt. t4 -n.Ltor wo, in tno dairy
business. He 'had iid.irvfar.u and a herd of dairy c ittle, putting its produce on the market
as tue product of Oak mil or ii.ik i,u,i yi- .... i .. i , -n i tie, whole oowor of his ofllotal
station as Senator a id a) ohairuian of acom-niitto.-to got the m a-nre away from the eommiiteo ti which it belou :e. and rcferr-d to oi own committee, and ho stood on tue I loot of the Senate day attar hy advoeotiuj a nnJ1, wiiieii was to increase direct-
57. .1.. t ( bis own TiroducC.
V . i......,.f,.i u -etne.lo had never been lire-
sonte.l to 'the Anuii -an i.o..plc thou had In-eu
pre.euted ill r- .i d io tuia m -asure. "- 5. . i... i i. .., no. .1- r.-.e teaderstltl: of
Obllcr li.utiie iv siu... " v.. ---------- . the chairman of a co.i.mitto.. who was himselt euimg- d in the dairy business ; au l in this body that . utlemnn was roinforeod by tho ( bairuiaa
r , r;., n,i;t.M on Acneulturo -r- Miuori,
"i l in tlm suniu business, wi
i,n 'vi-n. to' or ilit by tlio l-4islatio.l. Mr.
rio..- A nrK- ittii-tii- mi ier aroatr ox-
SiL-ZZr to rcoiv. Ho" denied
i ;'. f.-n.1 tn Hid 8cuutur's iCugatl's;
eallin-: in early life, and went ou to say that whether this bill b.-eom i a law or not it would not add ouo farthing W any proOt which he -,.!.i ,n.i r nivii Tho House of Uoire-
BOiitativee, aftor ailopting an amendment ira vidin,' that tlu guus, projectiles, etc., parcliHSed sludl bo of American manufacture,
pass-l the fortiflcnti-ins appropriation inn. air. Morrison offered a, concurrent resolution for the final a Ijonriimeut of Congress on Julv 28, and it was referred to tho Oomraittoe on Ways aud Means The oleomargarine bill, with an amendment reducing th6 tax on the product from nve to two cents a pound, passed tno Senate July 21, by a vote of 37 toil. All those voting for the bill wore .ttrpnl licons except two -Payne, of Ohio, and OoclireU, of Missouri. Tim twenty-four votes agjin.-t the measure were all cast by Democratic Senators. Henry P. Henderson, of Michigan, was noinmntml by the President to bo Associato Justice of tho Supreme Court of Utah. The President alsonomtuated these postmasters: W. H. Ilowsor, Warsaw, 7ud. ; l-'red-eriek H. Hates, Flu.lnust, 111.; William H. I ooniii. Shawn -etowu, III. ; Lmaimel M. I'nnk, Manning, Iowa ; Isaac 1). Toll, Pet. sltey. Mich. ; Otis ti. King, lionosha, Wis.; William A. McAllister. Vinton, Iowa. The Houso of Representatives, in committee of the whole, rejected amendments to tlio river and harbor bill striking out the Hounei in Canal clauso and taking tlio rlutrgo of tho MiHM'essppi ltivor improvement out of tho hands of tho Mississippi River Commission. Tub reports in the Paj no election caso cams up in tho Senate for consideration ou July 20. Senator Pugn, iu advocacy of tho position taken by himself, Bi-natois Saulsbury. Vonca, and tustia, contended that there hud been no express belief or suspicion ou the part of any lueiuber of tho committee to tho citect that Mr. Pay i o was connected in tho remotest degree with auvthinc wrung, criminal, or immoral to
bis election, wid that no fmtiier investigation of the charges should bd mado. Senator lloiu presented tho -views of himself and Senator Fryo. Ho argued that such an in ..Kt.i,M.tioii was duo to senator Pavno, and
eonteado t that th charges wore mud by individuals ant bodies of sultlcient wei.dit to comp. 1 the Semite to uivoatii ato them. Senator i-O-tan t'-oU the f.o.-r to reply to the argu. ment ul beuator Hoar and to sustain the views expressed in tho report nigucd by hinn elf and M s-irs. Toll r aud liuuti. reuatur l.ogau quote 1 from the Cineiuiu'-t: Cimiiim-i if HazUt nn ar;icle ngainsi lunisi If and Si natois Kvarts and Teller, tpcukiug of M. -. i:titaus a representative of coal oil m (be Si unto, ai.d spying that Toiler n an not worth tidkuig i bout Continuing, he reiut fixnu a :'tle i i xiruct i. statement that Senator I'l.iitoeu. 'iiIiom' tutiiuitte l-ela'-ioiis io the st.aulai'd Oil oiueauy i ro woll known." hud telegraphed ti i-r.-iuiii- nt liemocrut j ihat only six moie o c., wt re m lit. d to oairi -the Bonnto, nud tli' tl o.v were p eparod to pny 'l i,oi eiu li f-r tto m. e.ud ..hid : "I say that 'any man who wiil iulJi.-h -ucb au infunt us slander and Mich it wlh-tuous iie as that upon honorable liieniln r . of bis own party is unworthy of recognition un u in re." Senator It iga'i ttlell i:e:i.ile-l the coiil'se of the Ohio Legislature in ile.-tiue f-eimor Payno, and afterward iu itivt stigatmg the ihargos agabist its own ai. inl-.-rt,. 'there H8 not, said th--- Si-nalor. m the e'.idt lice 1. lom before iho coimnilu-' oi tlr- Ohio l.ortr.lnuire ouo ingle iota, of t- nthiiony iniplicaiiiu illr l'a ne, dire.dly or iietiroetlc. Se:ia"or Teller ii'oi.i next took tho Hour and suit lie wts not OU trial. He lu'.d ll i. fense ti i.i-'ke either lo the pe"iIe if ( i.i t or nitc t;er Slllle. Tho eoimiulle - brtd Kept t adit lUld truthfully iii tho line of ttie rc dei.is. The State of ob:o h.ul innite no di o-.-u.l t f :he Stm ate. What le d newspaper lunior to .o with the ue;t:on wi.en il en-! e lo the lnei'ic:in SeuateV He belli ted tlio Ohio new pa.v eon-veni-ion was called lev ttie pr.-.-i'oO of .-om-pelling rioreaut Heptib'iea'i.-i tt lurswcar themselves itinl perjme t-i ni-- -tms in tli - Intel est of political snt. r.s In ttie Ho i e Mr. M llittoii s cois:-urrelit r :.ol:'t!u:!, rep-i-.td tr.mi toe Ways and M- mis Coo. mil: e, provi litig for the ttdjinirni".' ut of I'onjrress on .inly idler bi liuM pposi d bv Mr. Keiij-an, Mr. Wenvil, Mr. Bawi . Mr. It A-. r-i. nud Mr. Wil is, was pumed bv a vote of to 3 . 'I l.in it -trugido arose for prionu of e'n. ideui'-ou betweer tho llltl rstnte CoiilIIU f.-e Mid tile :,'.,r(heit! piieilic forfeiture bills, wi ic!i was nsily.d -veiw 142, nays UO-iu fitvor of the foiuicr.
A supplemental crop statement issued by the Agricultural Department at Washington says that the increase in the corn (i ren in seven years bus been about 20 per cent., and the present area is about 75,000,000 acres. The increase is rapid in the more recently settled. Western States. Heltlcrs nod the demand for wheat fixed and little, variable, except that the world's
.-ttujiply affects the demand everywhere,
while the demand tot corn is elastic, and
may bo doubled with prices sufficiently low. Wheat is tho sport oi speculators, while corn has seldom been cornered. Of spring wheat the report says:
The condition of spring who it has declined
from m.5 in Jnne to 83.3, in consequence ot high
temperature, drying winds, ana want oi rain
Last yoor the average condition was 90 in July,
and in conssnuenco if hit'li teinnoraturj at a
oritloal Dorlod. fell to 88 at tlm timo of harvest
ing. The apparent depreciation in June is 15 points, but it would be a serious error to apply that reduction to tho 1.45.O00.O0O bushels of enring
wheat harvested, which represented a condition
of 80 at horvestlnconlv 3 points above tho
present condition. 6;hould thire be no further
reduction the present condition should insure about 139.000.010 bushels. The loss of vitality so
early in the season exposes tho crop to f uither injuries bv the heats of July aud August, and renders it highly probable that the average condition at harvest mav be still lower. With favor
able weatner ;n iuiy ana Augusr, mcreaseu con
dition may bo maintained, though me enancei
are confessedly against it. Mnkina allowance for this rrobabilitv. a iud.
clous and reasonable interpretation of the July
rmierti of winter and finrlnc wnoax wouia suaw
a prospect for on increase of about 8.1,000,003 bushels above the official estimate for 1883. The threshing of winter .vlieat end th meteorological conditions of the next two months may easily
add 10,000,000 to these figures, or subtract quite
as largo an amount.
'mo winter-wneat area aireaav assures neanv
enough for home consumption and seed. The
average exportation oi wnoat turn uuur iux mo last Ave yeais hts boon 116,000.1)00 bushols. The present expectation favors a product nearly sufficient for this rate of exportation, in addition to consumption. Th -sxporta of the last year aro some million bushels less than this average. The surplus will prohablv no ample, therefore.
lor auy xoreign ueui uu lutniy iu uibu.
The distribution of the last year is as
follows:
Estimated consumption, food, 271,005.000;
seed, oi, 171,900. Exports from preliminary state
ment, 93,593.02). Total. iio,u-(i,oau. vurop oj 188S. 3S7.112.O0O. Prawn from crop of 1884.58
959,320. Tho visible supply has been decreased
daring the year about 13,000,003 unaneis, leaving about 10,000.0 0 but hots to come from tho surplus in tho hands of the farmers.
ino conaitton oi oats is niwm mh oi former July report since 1879, when the yield averaged 'IS bushels, per aero. The present condit on is 8S.8 against 87 in July of that vear. Tho average of rye is 95.6 against 87 last year. The condition of barlev averages 89.7 against 92 hut July and 98 in Julv of the previous year, SEVEN MEN KILLED. Disastrous Results of a Collision on the Louisville and Nashville Hailroad.
Seven Persons Instantly Killed Harrowing Scenes Around the Wreck.
KashviUe (Term.) spechtl.1
A special engine coming: north collided with the regular (ruin on the Louisville and
Nashville Hailroad near Duck River, forty-
eight miles south ot Nashville, and seven men were instantly killed. The collision occurred in a deep cut with a sharp curve,
nankin? it imnossiblo to see each other.
Both engines are a tofcd wreck. The fol
lowing is a list oi the killed: Henry Lau
man. engineer of the neeommodation train;
Uobert Brown, fixeman of the accommodation train: Thad Beech, engineer of engine
No. 519; Pot Kinff, fireman of engimi
No. 519; Monroo Wilson, bogsagemaster; A. P. Boberfson. of Louisville, Ky., a
passenger aRent, formerly a ticket agent of the Louisville A Nashville Koad at Nashville; Henry Whittemer. There were only two passengers injured. The sight is moM horrible, the booties being torn to pieces and scalded bv the escaping steam. As
soon as the terrible news reached Coltunbi every available conveyance that conld to secured was en route to the accident. There were betweeu fifteen and twenty pasisengers in the laoties' coach, who were uninjured. Engine 519 exploded, throwing the tender
150 feet. xtooeiKion was msiauuy kiubu, homo- disemboweled bv a piece of iron.
Henrv Whittemer was found with a flag in
his hand, wedged between the locomotive and the side of the cut. The train was running at a spesd ot forty miles au Uoitt
at the time ol the collision.
Fatal Hallway Disaster in Connecticut, (Bridgeport (Ct.l dispatoh.l
Th Hoston esnross on the New Haven
xwi which left New York at 11 a. ni., col
lided to-dav with a gravel train on which a large number of Italian laborers were riding. There is bnt one track at the place i,.m th a accident occurred. The gravel
train had the right of way, and the sigral
was set accordingly. The engineer of toe
express failed to observe the signu. TCnhraim Klavbask. enaineer of theespreiis,
jumped to the ground and received serious i;,.;..ti Tlm riremnii also inmned, but
escaped injury. Two ItaUnus, one named Michnol Ross" were killed and six were f e-
rwonsly hurt. One had his skull crushed in, and it is thought he will die. All wore more or less hurt internally. Slaybsck was arrested on a charge of manslaughter.
PUBLIC MUTTER ROUKDS. Be Fy IOO,000 for an Omaha Newspaper, and Will Retire from OBItlnl Lire. Omaha iNob.) speoial.l S. P. Bounds, of Chicago, Public Printer at Washington, who has been in the city several days negotiating for tho pnrchise of the Omaha -Buiiif Bepubliean newspaper and job-printing establishment, closed the contract for the purchase to-dav, tho price to be paid being $l(lll,00tl cash, llounds will take possession iu October. Tho eilitor-in-chiei' is to bo O. H. Rothuoker, his son-in-law, formerly ed tor of th" Denver Tribune, but now editing the Washington Hutcht t. llouuds will probably icslgu tho office of Public Printer ia a few days. QIEER l'ETS-
A. l'ennsylvania Mini ami HI Tamo Kattlesnaktis. I Sasquohamia (IV. telegram.! Elijah Pelton, of Hawley. has captured alive, this year, nearly two hundred rattlesnakes, which ho keeps in an immeuse cage. Ho captured them early in the spring, when they were leaving their dens for the season, and when, it is claimed, tliey aro most deadly. Pelton declares that tho fangs still remain in every one of the snakes, yet ho goes in among them and handles them with impunity. The diu made by their rattles when he enters She cage ia almost deafening. Home of tho snakes are of euornnus size. Their owner has refused au offiw." of $:tt)0 for the collection.
INDIANA STATE NEWS,
Reports from various rorUons of Wa
bash County, indicate that the severs storm
f wind. rain, and had, which prevailed in
ihi.t section recently proved far more dis-
sterous than was at first stated, -ine rack of the gals was originally from north-
oast to southwtit, and when M reacnw
Wabash city, tt suddenly veere;! tome
northwest. Tie track of the storm w ubout four or five macs in width, and
within this scope fences wore blown down, growing corn ruined, vegetables destroyed, line timber prostrated, and fowls killed. SAMnil Vinrnn ami corn-CribS WeW UB-
roofed, the cleLiched portions being carried
a long distance. The estimates or wp damage in the county vary from W0,000o !?20,000, the former sum probably approximating the losi . The hailstones which fell were of prodigious size, and farmew La Fontaine poit finding drifts of Hail in fence-comers nearly two- feet In depth. . Stock exposed to the storm suffered severely, and travelers who failed to and -shelter wre bauly cnt and braised. The corner-stone of the new St Mary's Catholic Church, at Jefferson and Lafayette streets, Fort Wayne, was laid July 11 with the usual ceremonies, liishop Dwenncr delivered an address in English, and Father Meisnor, of Pent, spoke in German. The crowd was immense, and tie paradeof fraternities and sodalities veiy imposing. The church, which is to replace the cne shattered by an explosion last November, win be tho finest in the dioees. Tt will be fully as large as the Cathedral, and will not costless thai $80,000. The aggregate cost of the three edifices now being erected in that city, St Paul's and St Mary's churches, and the orphan asylum, with the furniture, frcucoing, pictures, statuary, etc., will reach $250,000. A few weuks ago a long tunnel on the narrow-guage railway, a few rniles from Koleeu, caverl in from the top, and since that time a force of men on the mountain have been employed in hauling dirt from
the tunnel acioss a hight trestle wont, xm work-train wns being used for this, and was
returning for a load to the tunnel, wnen fomr men. who were sitting on a board that
crossed the corner of a Act -car, were thrown
from their seats and fell headlong through
the trestle down on the rocks forty Iees below, a lot of lumber followinK them.
They were all more or less injured, two wt
them fatally.
A verv .idd-lookinff animal, half nan
and half fro J, has been found in Lamotte
Creek, south of Palestine, xne neaa aim bodv axe those of a frog, but the mouth
resembles taut of a buffalo fish, the tail is
that of a catfish; on one side of tie bony
three nerfect frog lens, all one
cluster, and on the other side of the body there is but one leg. It is shout three inches long from head to tail, and is a
well proportioned as a huh. wnen xouno. It was lying Jn a log, dead.
Sam Archer, the last of tae notorious
band of detperadoes, was execuiea recently in the presence of about 600 peace officers, at Shoals. Bis itepoJtment on Aw gallows was the source of much, remark. He spent his last night almost as usual, , receiving friends and visitors until a late hour. A m ist touching scene was the parting between him and his heart-broken mother, sisters, and brother.
About a year ago the town ot iioryoon
issued bonds to the amount or ,uuu, which were nold to parties in Ohio, and the town Board of Trustees" failed -to levy sufficient tax to pay ttie interest on bonds, which soon became due. The town treasury is depleted, and as the corporation is
heavily in dobt no funds can be secured, to pay the aeon mutating interest Hecentl;?, while an inspection was being made by several members of the Fire
Department at Jh-okomo, w was wKm" that soine scoundrel had cut the hose of both hose cc mpanies. The hose was new
and first-class, having just been purenasea by the Citj Council, and is damaged to the
amount of 3300.
A. St Joseph County rattlesnake,
though out in three pieces by a mower,
had enough vitality left m its Daaraess on to bite a German woman who was raking hay. The jaws of the reptile had to he torn apart to remove the fangs, and the woman had a close call for life..
A young lady at BaglesviUe, WWW handling a revolver, aowidenlally shot her mother. The ball entered midway between the ear and eye, on the left side of the woman's face, passing through the cheek-bone, and lodging, it supposed, at the side of the nose. Soldiers' reunions will take place in Northern Indiana as follows: Warsaw, August 13 lo 16; KendaUville, August 12 to 14; Michigan City, August lfi to 18, Fort Wayne, August 19 to "23; Lafayette, July 20 to August 3; Hartford City, August 11 to 13. Evans' Ule has forty churches, allotted as fallows: Baptist, 10; Methcdist, 9, Presbytorian, 5; Roman Catholic, 5; German livaugelical; 3? Lutheran, 8; Jewish, 2; Protestant Episcopal, 8; Christian, 1, and Unitarian," 1. The . :tti68issinewa Valley Chrisfian Conferanco will hold its nineteenth an-
nual session with the Bhii" vnurcn as gwayzee, in Grant County, Ind., commencing August 18. A blue racer got into the kitchen of a Warsaw lady and knocked down pans and dishts at a lively rate. It was finally killsd, aud was found to be ftve feet in length. St Miny's Catholic Church, at Huntingburg, was dedicated a short time sro. . Bishop Clatard assisted in the ceremonies. The South Bend Retiafer wants a paid fire department for that place, and says the Studebakers, Olivers, and other large
manufacturing teas are heartily in favor - . A 6-y.sar-old son of N. B. Jewell, of Viuccnuet , was seriously burned en one side, from head to loot by selling hie clothing on fire with matches. Lofavette is striving for the new X.,N. A. & C. Railroad shops, which are to be located somewhere along the road, A bee tree on a farm near Jefferson vilie, yielded nearly 400 pounds of honey. The seventh annual meettni; of the old settlers of the Indian Reserve willbe held at the fair grounds at Xenia, August 14 and lii. A little girl living near New Albany, was bitttn by a copperhead snake, bnt was savol from death by free use. of whisk'. The Northern Penitentiary, at Michigan City, now contains 730 prisoners, the largest number ever confined in the institution. At Goshen, recently, a prisoner broke jail by filing a bar off and escaping hy rope-ladder made of his bed-clotho.
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