Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1887 — Page 6

@l)c UfinocraticSentiiiel RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, - - - Publish**

A DAY’S DOINGS.

Eventful Happenings in Every Hemisphere, as Transmitted by Telegraph. Political. Social, Financial, Commercial, Industrial, Criminal and Other News. THE VERY LATEST BY TELEGRAPH. AN OPTIMISTIC VIEW. ArclihiGinp Walsh, of Ireland, Talks About the Probable Effects of Coercion. The report of an intoiview with Archbishop Walsh at Dublin on the probab e effect of the coercion act is sent across tho ocean by cable: The Archbishop says he does not regard it as apolitical question, but us one purely social and economic—ona that concerns the domestic welfare and Happiness of every household in the laud. It is quite certain that the literal execution of tho net would break up, root and branch, tho National League, and absolutely 6tine auy open demonstration of sympathy with home rule. It is i robably quite as much on account of its unusually harsh features as for auy other reason" that the Irish Na'ionaiists looa upon it as a measure that England would only fully avail itself of as an extreme rosort. Tho Archbishop, attaching only secondary importance to this act, an l looking upon the amended land bill as removing a largeportiouof tne injustices of which tho farmers complain, augurs happy prospects for the futuro. Ho, too, thinks that in a year or two more an Irish Parliament will again sit in the old Parliament House in Dublin. In the matter of the evictions, which the Archbishop asks to b > stopped, the fact seenu appalling that for the tinea months ending July 2, s,UO persons have been evicted. Gladstone, ho said, did not want an appeal to the country this year when they wore all as . confident as could he that Gladstone would go back to power with a tremendous majority to back him. THE NATIONAL GAME. A Hot Fight lor the Kase-llall Championship. Detroit aud Chicago are hav.ng a hot struggle for the championship of the National League. In the American Association Von der Abe’s St Louis nine continues to lead the field. The following tab os show the standing of the clubs in the two associations: NATIONAL LEAGUE, PercentClubs. Won. Lost age. Detroit . 49 29 .028 Chicago ...47 30 .910 Boston 41 33 .671 New York -.44 30 .550 Philadelphia 41 38 .018 Washington 31 41 .402 Pittsburg 29 47 .381 Indianapolis ....23 54 .298 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. PorcentClubs. Won. Lo3t. age. fit. Louis 03 23 .732 Louisville 50 .38 .505 Cincinnati 51 40 ,'ooo Baltimore 46 39 .541 Athletic : 43 43 .500 Brooklyn 41 4'2 .493 Metropolitan 27 50 .325 Cleveland 21 04 .247

About Wheat. Wheat is selling iu Vienna at 4 lower price than fur twenty-three years. The Ohio wheat crop is estimated at b 1,958,037 bushels, a falling off of 8,000,000 bushels from last year. The French whea: cvop will exceed that of last year by about 5,000,000 hectolitres. The harvest reports from Itussia are favorable. Southern Manitoba crops were devastated by a terrific hailstorm. Grain was beaten into the ground, and there was not enough left for seeding purposes. The amount of wheat in sight in this country waß increased last ■week 558,247 bushels, and of oats 784,159 bushels. The stock of corn decreased 234,320 bushels. The official showing makos the visible supply of wheat at the present time 33,69 , 359 bushels, of corn 7,308,808 bushels, and of oats 2,868,797 bushels. Heavy Failures in Chicago. A Chicago telegram announces the failure of the W. O. Tyler Paper Company with liabilities amounting to about $350,000. It is thought the assets will not be much more than one-half the amount. An assignee was named and the Sheriff took possession. Baird & Dillon, wholesale silverware house, Chicago, also made an assignment So far as is known • the liabilities will reach probably $175 ,000, while it is not believed the assets will realize more than $40,000. Dakota Horse-Thieves. Pierre (Dak.) dispatch: “Cattle Inspector Jackson has unearthed ten horse-thieves, who have plied their business between hero and the Blvk Bills for ten yr-.-rs. The gang is led by a half-breed named Van Moore, a character well known in Deadwood. Jackson captured him in Sioux reservation aud he is now in jaiL Van Moore made a full confession, implicating some fifteen different persons, and told the whereabouts of stolen horses. Moore is now on trial before United States Commissioner Coy.” The Fishery Dispute. The fishery complications with Canada *eem to be increasing. Excitement continues in Halifax over the seizure of the American schooner J. H. Perrin at Souris. The Perrin is charged with violations of the treaty of 1818 as well as with instructions of the Dominion customs laws. -It is rumored that the British war ships now in North American waters will hereafter assist the Canadian fleet in keeping the iankee fisherman out of the disputed area. July Fire Record. The fire record for July shows the fire loss in the United States and Canada to have been $14,026,500, against $10,000,000 in Julv, 18S6, and $9,000,000 in July, ISRT This is just double the average loss in July for the past twelve years. The total loss for the first seven months of 1887 wai $76,928,100, against $63,901,000 for the corresponding neried of JSeO. ______ Hany Heads Broken. A party of Nationalist excursionists from Belfast were mobbed by Orangemen near that city. Bottles and pistols were freely used, *nd many heads were broken.

WEEKLY BUDGET.

THE EASTERN STATES. Thb trunk of Mooney, the man who tried to destroy the British steamer Queen at New York, was filled with explosives and infernal machines—enough, it is said, to blow up a fleet „ Treasurer Hoeie, of the Soldiers .and Sailors’ Home at Bath, N. Y., is a defaulter for nearly $9,000. His friends promise to make good the deficit Daniel Desmond, a salesman for Le Boutillier Brothers, drygoods merchants of New York, has been arrested for embezzling $12,000 from his employers.

THE WESTEEN STATES.

The trial of the Chicago "boodlers has resulted in a verdict of guilty. Seven of the defendants go to the State Prison for two years, while four of them get off with a fine of #l,000. The closing scenes of tho celebrated trial are thus described in a special from Chicago:

“Guilty of conspiracy as charged In the indictment" was the verdict of the “boodle' jury returned to Judge Jamieson a few minutes before 9 o’clock last night, after six hours' deliberation. The sentences imposed by the jury were: Commissioner Daniel J. Wren, two years in the penitentiary; Commissioner Richard S. McClaughry two years; ex-Commis-sioner Michael Wasserman, two years; exCommissioner Adam Ochs, two years; ex. Commissioner John E. Van Pelt, two years; ex-Commissioner Michael K. Leyden, two years; ex-Warden Harry A. Varnell. two years ; Commissioner James J. (Buck/ McCarthy. 91,003 fine ; Commissioner Christian Geils, 81,u00 fine; Commissioner Richard M. Oliver, 91,000 fine; Commissioner Christian Casselman, 81,000 fine, HjnWtly before 9 oclock Sheriff Matson was nrafted that tho jury had agreed. Eleven meh who had been doing business for tho county lagged slowly into tho court room to hoar the result. Wren, with his bronzed straw hat on his head was the first to take his seat. Leyden, Casselman, Ochs, McClaughry, Wasserman, Van Pelt, and the rest soon followed. McCarthy sat near the railing meek as a martyr. Then the jury tramped slowly in. Casselman breathed like a stricken man, Ho scarcely sustained himself In hie chair by grasping its arms with both hands. Ochs was pale and trembled violently. Leyden and Varnell hau lost the robust color of their faces. Van Pelt’s sallowed pallor was a shade lighter than usual. Wren appeared stolid but nervous. All the defendants were excited and expected the extreme penalty—three years at Joiiet. Tho call of the jurors’ names seemed an hour in duration. Then the Judge asked if they had agreed upon a verdict. Foreman Brown arose and said: “We have, your Honor.’’ Tho tinKle of the car bells rang ou the silence like church bells. The rattle of the vehicles below echoed through the room. Eleven men who had once been respected citizens waited the verdict of their peers. Ten of them had been elected to the County Board by the people whose confidence they were on trial for having betrayed. Tho Clerk began to read the paper handed him by Mr. Brown. “ We, the jury, find the defendants guilty of conspiracy, as charged in the indictment." No surprise. Everybody expected it. The defendants expected it. They did not wince when the clerk read their names. The conspiracy of which they were guilty was to defraud Cook County by false pretenses. “And fix the punishment, ” continued the elerk, as deliberately as though reading a text from the Bible. Then he read the names of seven men who wore given two years in the penitentiary. Varneli's color tied. Leyden sighed heavily and dropped his arms outside his chair. Wren's eyes were glassy and saw' nothing. Van Pelt never moved a muscle. Ochs blanched ahd clutched at his hair. McClaughry’B bronzed and wrinkled features became ashen and his eyes fixed to tho floor. Michael Wasserman showed the least anxiety, but slid out of sight in his chair. The Clerk continued to read. McCarthy, Oliver, Casseliuau, Geils, 81,300 fine. Casselman was too far prostrated, apparently, to notice his light sentence. He remained motionless. The crimson hue of his face did not change. His jaws fell apart, and he appeared to be in a swoon. Casselman suffered more than the other ten men combined. Oliver aud Geils maintained their composure. They seemed dazed by their good luck. McCarthy alone appreciated the favor of ti.e jury. His spirits and presence of mind flashed through his great hulk and blazed in his face. A smile wandered over his big red countenance. Not one of the defendants’ counsel was present. McCarthy was on his feet in a moment, asking that the jury be polled. When the last sentence of the verdict was read, some one in the audience opened his mouth to say “whoop!” but a score of Deputy Sheriffs started for him and his enthusiusm was smothered. Counsel for the defense immediately entered amotion for a new trial. The walls of the burned Anthony elevator, at Minneapolis, fell upon a gang of workmen who were digging out the damaged wheat. Six were taken out dead, aud one was fatally injured.

Millbrook, Graham County, Kan., twenty miles north of Kansas City, was almost wholly destroyed by a straight wind coming from slightly west of north. The place contains about 500 inhabitants. Only one house, a residence, escaped serious damage. Four persona were killed, and about twenty-five wore injured. An Omaha special says the little excursion steamer Manawa, bearing a party of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Eugineers, capsized in Lake Manawa, three miles south of Council Bluffs, precipitating about thirty excursionists, all men, into the water. Joseph Newman aud George Cartwright, of Omaha, and C. H. Pherson, of Council Bluffs, were drowned; also two others whose names are unknown. Their bodies were recovered. It is thought two or three more were drowned. The rest were rescued. Thousands of acres of land have been burned over in the neighborhood of Joliet, 111, says a dispatch from that city. The flames were in some instances twenty feet high, and the fires ro led along the prairies faster than a man could ruu. One house, hay, machinery, fences, etc., were destroyed. The men are organized as fire-fighters; wornsn are offering prayers for rain. / A telegram from Ellenßburg, W. T., says: Fifty tons of rock fell in the eastern end of the Cascades tunnel, now being built by the Northern Pacific Railroad, killing four men and wounding several others. Natjbal gas has for somo yc ar i beeu known to exist in many localities arnu id Albert 1 Lea, Minnesota. S -veral sn ail wel s have been struck, which were regarded as curiosities and never turned to any account. Now a company has been formed to operate gas wells on ten thou-and acres of land, and it proposes to light and boat Albert Lea aud neighboring cities. During tho launching of the new atoambarge Wolf, at Wolf & Davidson’B ship-yard, Milwaukee* a wave, caused by the displacement of the water, broke over a dock and shed covered with people aud swept them into the slip. Three persons were killed and many injured fatally. A Milwaukee dispatch says of the unfortunate affair: The eause of the accident is not fully determined. Some eighty people were on a staging, or runway over the dock of the Northwestern Fuel Company when the huge vessel made her

plunge as the last block was knocked away. A great wave was caused by the displacement of water and through the wall of spray the platform was seen to lift and then crash down upon the docks below, many of the .people beneath the fallen timbers, maluumg, mangling, and wounding a score of tbe nnfoitunates. The immense wave swept up on the dock ten or twelve feet, striking with terrific force agaiust the coal sheds, and throwing many people into the water. Fortunately all were rescued without serious injury.

THE SOUTHERN STATES.

Neab Greenwood, Ya., the first-class coach and two sleepers of an express train w ere thrown from the track. The baggagemaster was beheaded, and a dozen passengers were badly wounded. A telegram from Macon (Ga.) says: Nine persons in one household were murdered some time between midnight on Fridav and daybreak this morning, at the house of Mr. R. T. Woolf oik, ,on the Culloden road, about twelve and a half miles from Macon. The victims are R. T. Woolfolk, his wife, Mrs. Mattie, Emma Woolfolk, Richard F., Susan* Pearl, Annie, Rosebud, Charles Howard, Mattie Woolfolk, and Mrs. T. West, a visitor at the Woolfolk house. According to the Coroner’s jury, the deed was done by Thomas G. Woolfolk, the oldest son of Mr. R. T. Woolfolk bv his first wife, and who is about 27 years old. Before tbe jury rendered its verdict Woolfolk was sent to the jail in Macon to prevent his being lynched, which doubtless would have been his fate hod he been present when the verdict was announced. The testimony developed tho fact that in the front room slept Thomas Woolfolk in one bed, and in another bed two half-brothers, Richard, aged 20, and Charlie, aged 5. In a room back of it slept Captain Woolfolk and wife and Mattie, aged 18 months. In a room opposite this slept Mrs. West, aged 84; Rosebud, aged 7 ; Pearl, aged 17: and Annie, aged 10. When the bodies were discovered six were in one room and three in another. All had been killed with an ax, and there were evidences of a struggle. The motive of the murderer was to gain possession of his father's property. Every one of the victims was fearfully beaten about the head. One of the girls (Pearl) was murdered in the hallway, and was probably the last to fall. Woollolk gave the alarm himself, and his bloody underclothing fixed the crime upon him, although he declared his innocence. A later dispatch from Macon says: The most remarkable funeral on record occurred here when the nine victims of the bloody hand of Thomas G. Woolfolk were buried. The funeral took place in the presence of about 3,000 people, many of whom followed the procession of five persons from the scene of the tragedy, thirteen miles from Macon. The procession started from Woolfolk’s home at 0 o’clock, reaching Macon at 2, followed by thirty carriages and buggies, none of which contained a person by the name of Woolfolk, the entire family in that section having been wiped out of existence by the son Thomas. The Rev. S. R. Branham took a position among the nine coffins and began the services. These were brought to an abrupt termination by the arrival of Mrs. Edwards, own sister of the murderer, who was in Athens at the time of the crime and arrived in Macon while the cortege was filing into the cemetery. She was almost frantic with griof, and her cries brought tears to the eyes of all. It was such a scene that the minister said he could say no more and withdrew. A Fort Worth (Texas) dispatch reports that— A number of men and boys were collected on the public square in lhat city ou Saturday night, engaged in firing anvils and discharging fireworks in honor of the victory won in the State by the anti-prohibitionists. A keg of powder had been secured for the occasion and one of the boys was Beated thereon, when some one from the other side of the square fired a rocket which struck the keg of powder, causing a terrific explosion. James Lazenby, 17 years old, was blown several feet into the air; he was burned on every part of his bodv, and expired Sunday morning. Wave Hatcholl, aged 0 years, was burned nearly as bad as Lazenby ; he died in the afternoon. Gus Hatchell, aged 11 years, was stripped of nis clothing from his hips down ; he cannot recover. Two other boys, Sam Johnson and William Saskaberry, Were terribly but not, necessarily fatally burned.

THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.

An Associated Press telegram reports President Cleveland as saying that he— Felt it to bo an absolute necessity that he should in every case request those cities which proposed to send delegations to Washington conveying invitations to visit them on his Western trip to forego that formality and forward their communications by mail. He has a full appreciation of the cordial spirit which prompts such courtesy, and which is most gratifying, but it seems to him unnecessary that such journeys, for such a purpose, at this heated season of the year, should be undertaken. It is probable he will leave here the last day of September and go direct to St. Louis, aud from there to Kansas City, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Chicago, Nashville, and Atlauta. The St. Louis and Atlanta dates being fixed, it will not be practicable to deviate much from this programme. The journey will be made by .the ordinary route of travel between the cities named, and the disposition of the President will be to see as much of the country and the people on his route as will be consistent with limited time and positive engagements. Secretary Fairchild has directed the anticipation of the interest on the public debt duo September 1 and January 1 with 2 per cent, rebite.

THE POLITICAL FIELD.

A dispatch from Salt Lake, Utah, says: “Returns from tho election are not all in, but the gentiles elect two, and perhaps three, members of the council branch of tho Legislature in a total of twelve, aud three, perhaps, four, members of the lower house out of a total of twenty-four. The gentiles consider this a victory, being far tlie best they have ever been able to show. ” A Lexington (Ky.) dispatch says that “W. O. Bradley (Itepubhcan) claims to have been elected Governor of Kentucky. Reports from seventy-three counties show 24,000 gain for him, and the Democrats have cut their estimated majority for Buckner to between 8,000 and 12,000.” Galveston dispatch: “Returns from 450 polling precincts dearly indicate tho prohibition amendment is defeated by 50,000. It will bo impossible to give exact result until the official count is made. Tho results indicate that all the other amendments except the one extending the time of holding the Legislature have been carried.” A J out Worth (Tex.) special to the Chicago Tribune says: Compieto and official returns received from eighty nine counties in tho Stnto give a majority .of 56,422 against prohibition. Only ten counties of tho eighty-nine show 11 prohibition majority. Th ,‘se eiguty-nine counties Include all tho cities andiuostof tho large towns. Tnore are ninety-two counties yet to bo heard from, but most of them poll less than 200 votes. It is probable that the remaining count.es will swell the anti-prohibition majority to 75,000, but it is not likely to go beyond that. The returns are complete enough, to show that all the amendments are defeated by large majorities.

THE FOREIGN BUDGET.

The Crown Prince Frederick William of Germany underwent another operation on his throat, at Loudon, with good results. Ho will try the air of Scotland. The steamer Gaelic, from China and Japan, which arrived from San Francisco on Wednesday, brought an interesting batch of news

from ths Orient: Chinese papers contain the following items: - S. S. Popoff, Chinese Secretary to the Russian Legation in fekiDg, has just published a pamphlet on the Chinese population, in which he states it to be 382.u00.000, as against 413,000,0 JO in the year 1842. His statistics are derived from Chinese official sources Plague is raging at Nanking. People are dying in every quarter. There are many instances of very sudden deaths. People are apparently well in the morning and are dead in the afternoon. The Hu Pas says that over one thousand telegraph poles belonging to the UuDtmau Mingtsz district and Kweichow Lane line have been pulled down by the people, who say the telegraph is a diabolical European artifice. Troops to the number of 2,000 nave been ordered to the spot. Last week, according to the Shcn Pao, no less than eighty-eight persons were summarily executed near Shanghai lor belonging to secret societies. The fihrn Pao gives a most harrowing account of floods at Chu Chou Fu, up Wenchow River. Over a thousand human beings have been swept away and destruction of the growing crops was immense. A dispatch from St Thomas received in Ixmdon says: “Letters received at Stanley Pool from Henry M. Stanley anuounce that the expedition arrived at Aruwhimi Falls on June 18; that all the members of tho expedition were well, and that preparations were being made for the overland march. ” M. Agnieb, editor of the Paris Evenement, and M. Rainach, of the Republique Francaise, have fought a duel with swords. The latter was wounded Whitely’s dry-goods house in London was burned An accident occurred at the fire by which five persons were instantly killed and several fatally injured The financial loss by the fire is #1,250,000. There was a battle near Belfast, Ireland, between Nationalists and Orangemen. It was finally stopped by the police. A youth was killed and several persons Were wounded

THE CONTINENT AT LARGE.

The Civil-Service Reform League met at Newport, Rhode Island. George William Curtis, who was re-elected President, delivered an address denouncing the Democratic party for its attitude toward civil-service reform, and mildly criticising the President for his occasional concessions to the spoilsmen. The death of Vice Consul General Johu S. Miller, at Rio de Janeiro, has been reported to the State Department at Washington, v The national banks of tho country have been called upon for a report of their condition at the close of business, Aug. 1. A Chicago special says: “The authorities of Ontario have peremptorily refused to surrender McGarigle to the Montreal officials to answer the Baxter complaint. The fugitive remains in the vicinity of St Catharines, which will prebably be his headquarters for the present The Toronto Globe prints a leader advising the Government to surrender McGariglo to the American authorities as an act of courtesy. ” Fire destroyed Mason & Son’s cracker bakery, Licbrandt, McDowell & Co’s, stove factory, and other buildings at Baltimore, causing a loss of $1,000,000. Frazer & Jones, Syracuse hardware men, were burned out, losing SIOO,OOO. At Bowling Green, Ohio, twenty-two buildings were destroyed. A Chicago dispatch says: This week Mr. Palmer’s company, J which for two months’ has been delighting Chicago theater-goers by their fine representations at McVicker’s, will be seen in the double bill consisting of “Broken Hearts” and “One Touch of Nature.” Tho exquisite performance of the former play by this company will be remembered as one of the pleasant events of last season. The only productions at McVicker’s Theater next reason which are not entirely new will be “Ihe Rivals” by Mr. Jefferson and “lho Old Homestead” by Donman Thompson. Lotta, Boucicault, Florence, Mrs. Langtry, Henry Irving and Ellen Terry, and the Kiralfys all have new plays.

William M. Gibson has arrived, in San Francisco on the brig John D. Spreckles. He is the deposed Prime Minister of the Hawaiian kingdom and was tried on a charge of defrauding the government. The trial resulted in his acquittal, and immediately he took passage for the United States. The steamer Olympia, which arrived at Victoria from Sitka, reports the seizure of a fresh lot of British and American schooners by the United States revenue cutter Rush. The seizure was due to alleged illegal seal fishing.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. Cattle $ 4.00 @ 5.50 Hogs 5.2.-, 6 .0) Wheat—No. 1 Hard 85 >4 t .86% No. 2 Red 77 <@ .77 >0 Corn—No. 2 48 @ .51 Oats —White 37 © .41 Pcrk—New Mess ...16.00 3 10.50 CHICAGO. Cattle—Choice to Prime Steers 4.50 @ 5.00 Medium 3.50 (3 4.25 Common.... 3.00 ©8.50 Hogs—Shipping Grades 5.00 @ 5.75 Flour—Winter Wheat 4.00 @ 4,25 Wheat—No. 2 Red Winter 70 tea .71 Corn—No. 2 38*2 § .30 Oats—No. 2 White 24 @ .25 Butter—Choice Creamery .23 <3 .26 Fine Dairy 15 <3 .’lB Cheese—Pull Cream, clieddars. .09 @ .09'4 Full Cream, new 10 @ .1014 Eggs—Fresh 10 @ .11 - Potatoes—Choice, new, per brl .65 @ .70 Poke—Mesß 16.75 * 17.25 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—Cash ........... .68 'A @ ,69'A Corn—No. 3 39 <3 .394 Oats—No. 2 White 27 <3 .28 Rye—No. 1... 43 © .44 Pork—Mess .' 1425 *14.75 ST. LOUIS. WnEAT—No. 2 Red 63 @ .68 4 Cohn —Mixed 35 © .36 * Oats—Mixed 23 @ .24 Pork—New Mess 15 25 ai 15 75 TOLEDO. Wheat—Cash 72 @ .721$ Corn—No. 2 42 <3 .43 Oats 25 (3 .26 DETROIT. Beep Cattle 3.50 @4.25 Hogs 3.50 @ 4.00 Sheep 3.50 <3 4.50 Wheat —No. 1 White 76 @ .76 >£ Corn—No. 2 43 tit ~44 Oats—No. 2 White 28 (3 .29 CINCINNATI. Wheat—No. 2 Red 71 i 3 .72 Co UN—No. 2 43 <3 .4:314 Oits—No. 2 27 @ 27(4 Pork—Mess 14.75 * 15/25 Live Hogs • 5.00 © 5.75 BUFFALO. Wheat—No. 1 Hard 80 & .81 Corn—No. 2 44 © .45 Cattle t 3.75 &■ 4.50 1 INDIANAPOLIS. Beep Cattle 4.00 @4.50 Hogs 5 0.) @ 5.59 Kheep 3.00 (3 4.0) Wheat—No. 2 Red 68 © .69 Corn .42 <3 .’42 14 Oats—No. 2 Mixed .26 <3 27 EAST LIBERTY. ■Cattle—Prime 4.00 <@ 5.50 Fair 3.50 in 4.03 Common 3.0) @3 50 Hogs 5.00 <3 5.75 Sheep 3.75 @ 4.25

DRY AND HOT.

Disastrous Effects of the Long-Pro-tracted Drought in the Mis* * sissippi Valley. [Chisago telegram.) The Tribune, in an editorial on the protracted drouth, says: “Still the rain holdsoff, and the drouth is severe. People in the city, with a full supply of lake water and a lawn sprinkler at the command of every householder above the poorest grade, can have little idea of the condition of things on the many thousands of sqnare miles which constitute “the country in the great Mis-issippi Valley. All over the West, with here aud there a little oasis-like exception, the land is parched dry and the subsoil moisture has long since been sucked. out of it by the f-corching rays of a midsummer sun. No rain 0: any consequence has fallen since the hot weather set in, and the situation is all the worse as a smaller quantity of moisture than usual fell during the winter, and very little in the spring months. The streams have given ou: and the wells run dry. Human beings are reported to be unable to obtain water unless by hauling it several miles, and the cattle are moaning in the fields because it is impossible to give them a good supply. Corn is wilting under the heat, the leaves firiug, and the incipient cob 3 shriveling. The grass was cut over large areas early in June, a light j’ield being taken off in the hope that a good second crop should be cut; but there has been no rain since, and consequently no crop. Cattle are said to be turned into the standing corn already, because that is the only available way of using it for feed, as the stalks would soon be 100 dry for that purpose, and. the ears arc believed to be gone.

THE IOWA RESOLUTIONS.

Gen. Rosecrans Formally Presents Them to the President—The Latter Makes a Speech. (Associated Press dispatch from Washington.] Gen. Rosecrans recently received from Charles Whitehead, Chairman of the Committee on Resolutions of the National Veteran Association, at Res Moines, lowa, copies of the resolutions adopted by that association, repudiating the utterances of certain members of the Grand Army of the Republic in connection with the proposed visit of the President to St Louis while tbe Grand Army of the Republic encampment was in progress there, commending the President s veto of the dependent pension bill, and condemning the efforts of those who seek, by the rebel-flag episode, to rekindle the flames of sectional hate and contention as unmanly, unpatriotic, and meriting the contempt of every intelligent man. The resolutions also compliment Gen. Black’s administration of the Pension Office. Gen. Rosecrans, by request, delivered a copy of these re >lutions to the President, in a neat speech. President Cleveland, replying, said: Without reading the resolutions presented by you in such a gratifying manner, I have only to say, judging from the tenor of your remarks, that the action of the veterans mentioned is in tho direction of acknowledging the duty which devolves upon them us veterans, to emphasize tbe value of their service in the field by a patriotic service at home, and demonstrate the same bravery shown in the battle by courage no less conspicuous, when called upon to defend and maintain freedom and patriotism, which in peace is the safety of American institutions. Understanding this to be the purpose of-the resolutions, lam glad to receive them at your hands. Gen. Rosecrans sent the resolutions to Commissioner Black by mail. The resolutions were adopted by the National Veterans’ Association in mass convention July 15 last. Mr. Whitehead, in his letter, asked Gen. Rosecrans to present them i the name of 10,000 ex-Union soldiers of lowa.

COLONEL LONG.

The Distinguished Traveler Whom the President Recently Appointed Consul General at Corea. Charles Chnille Long, of New York, known as a famous Central African traveler, was born in the town of Princess Anne, Md., and is 45 years old. After participation in the campaigns of the civil war Captain Long left toe United States army and some time after entered the service of the Khedive of Egypt, with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel of the staff. An accomplished linguist, he was chosen chief of staff to the late Gen. C. G. Gordon

(Chinese Gordon] and accompanied the latter in that capaciiy to Central Africa. Under circumstances which render the result accomplished little less than marvelous, he traced the river Nile for the first time from the Mediterranean to its source and was received by the African monarch, King M’Tse, in princely fashion. The impressic n made by the Khedive’s soldier and diplomatist was of such a nature that it assured to Henry M. Stanley, who visited him subsequently, a kindly welcome by M’Tse. The King sicned an in rurpent by which he foimally recognized himself as a vassal of Egypt.' On his lelurn journey Long discovered a third basin and source of the Nile. Subsequently, at the head of a column of regular troops, he entered the Niam country, west of the Nile, and after many encounters with the savage tribes subjected that country to the Khedive’s authoritv.