Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1892 — Page 2

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EAGER TO SHED BLOOD.

MANY MURDERS AMONO THE CHOCTAWS. Politics Causes a State of Feeling Which Benders Wo Uncertain In the Nation— Humors of Many Assassinations—Others to Follows. Safely Landed. A late dispatch says: The passengers of the.steamer Cepheus have finally been landed on Eire Island. Great bustle followed the arrival of the passengers at the hotel. Considering the fact that 500 guests arrived within five minutes It was natural that some confusion should result Everyone was good-natured, however, and waited patiently until assigned to their quarters. Such progress was made by the temporary hotel clerks that inside of two hoars all were comfortably located. No distinction was made In the disposition of rooms. It was all a lottery, but there wa9 no grumbling. Gray-hatred men jumped about In the sand like hoys. The second cabin passengers were put in the westerly end and the first cabin In the easterly. Civil. WAR AMONG CHOCTAWS. Seven Progressists Reported to Have Been Killed Near McAlester. The situation over the contested national election between the two political parties of the Choctaw Nation, the Nationalists and Progressists, grows more warlike every hour. It Is reported now that a band of Nationalists have killed twelve Progressists near McAlester. Everything Is In an uproar. S. H, Lester, a white man, but a Citizen by marriage, who has been running* a red-hot Progressist newspaper of South McAlester, has placed hirriself under the protection of the United States authorities, as the Insurgents were after his scalp in dead earnest. The nationalists are concentrating and arming themselves, and when Governor Jones and the military arrive on the scene more serious trouble Is expected. No word has been heard from the inland counties, but It Is reported that several men have been killed. The messengers which Indian Agent Bennett sent out have not returned. Missouri, Kansas, and Texas passenger trains from the south on Tuesday night brought in about thirty bucks, who joined the Jones party a few miles back south of McAlester, which now numbers about 100. Both parties are well armed and mounted. News has reached Caddo that seven, men have been murdered *ln the Choctaw Nation incidental to the polltlal war feeling. It Is feared that the worst has not yet come.

NERD NOT GO DRY. Samples of Liquor Can Be Given Away at the World’s Fair. The Treasury Department has rendered a decision which may relieve the thirsty visitors at the Columbian Exposition, even should an antl-llquor law bo passed. It relates to a cask of cordial which an exhibitor wants to give away In sample lota The department rules that samples may he given away. Thus, If cordial can he given away for samples, so can water or wine or beor or whisky, “Yes,” asked an inquirer of the official, “but how is that going to help the thirsty? No one is going to give whisky and beer away.” Before the official could answer a man old In experience said* “You now pay for your whisky and get your lunch free, don’t you?” The Inquirer nodded. •’Well," said the Wise man, “when you go to the fair you can pay for your lunch and get your whisky free. Pee?” The Inquirer wiped his mouth In anticipation and saw. BRAKES FAILED TO WUBK. Two Passengers Killed and a Dozen Injured at St. Louis. At St. Louis the other morning an electric motor with trailer attached was descending the steep incline on Bussell avenue, near 9th street, when the brakes on the motor failed to work on account of the wet and slippery rails, and the car descended the grade at a terrific rate of speed. The motor rounded the curve at Bussell avenue and 9th street without accident, but the trailer Jump d from the rails and overturned Into the gut-, ter. The cars were filled with passengers and the scene wsb wildly exciting. Beneath the overturned trailer was a crushed and bleeding mass of humanity, while on each side of the car were many persons who had either jumped or been thrown from the car as it tipped over. Dozens of persons rushed to the rescue of the passengers, and, lifting the car, found that the wreck was a sad one. Two persons were killed and a dozen badly wounded.

I HAS A REVOLUTIONARY MUMMY. Pennsylvania Workmen Unearth the . (Well-Preserved Remains of a Continental Soldier. v The well-preserved body of a soldier of the American Revolution was uncovered this week near Pottsvllle, Pa., by some workmen in excavating for a building foundation. The remains were dressed In the old Continental uniform, wrapped in a blanket and covered with successive layers of a peculiar fabric supposed to be tar cloth. The whole was in a remarkable state of preservation, due, doubtless, to the location of the grave, the dryness of the soil, and the impervious wrapping. The warTlor was provided with side- arms and a flint-lock musket, and these also were in good condition.

i> Ohioans Eat Adulterated Food, The August report ot the State Dairy Food Commissioner ot Ohio is a startling Indication ot frauds. Of fifty food articles analyzed forty-three- were found to be adultersted. Coffee is the food article most generally adulterated, and peas, beans, corn, wheat, barley, chicory, and bwlck dust were found to be most frequently used as coffee adulterants. Back from the Arctic. The North Greenland expedition ot 1891fit has returned. Its personnel, with one exception, safe and welL Hominy Hills at St. Insult Burned. The St Ix3u is Pearl Homigy mltls were destroyed by fire the other night. The loss on machinery, which was owned by Flannigan h Ca, who operated the mills, was sloo,ooo| Insurance, $60,000. Loss on building, $10,000; fully Insured. Over Niagara Falls la a Barrel. Bridge Jumper Meredith Stanley, of Cincinnati, proposes to float over Niagara Falls In a barrel of strong oak well hooped and covered with copper. It is 8 feet long and 0 feet in diameter, the inside being padded, and Is now ready for use. The Feet Passes Away. At Hampton Falls, K, R, John G. Whittle*. the famous poet died at 4;30 o'clock Wednesday morning. Mr. Whittier passed* away peaoefally. His nearest relatives and Dr. Douglas were at his beside when death eases and he seemed to be conscious gs Me surround logs at the last moment rslsnnsl fey London Paras. A Mexican on a plantation in Lavaca Gbonty, Teles, mot death In sn extraordinary manner. He was picking in a field where London purple had .been applied to ktu worms and got some on bis beads. He

qoßh Coitus fob Whittier. London Press Comment on the Death of the American Quaker Poet. The London Times says regarding the leath of Whittier: “It may almost be said that what Seott did tor Scotland Whittier lid for New England. The most 9allent features of his verse were those also oblervable In his personal character—sincerity, simplicity: earnestness and manliness.” The News says: “Whittier sang of a distinctive New England life as no one ever tang It before and, since It Is going the way as all things, as no one will ever sing it again.’* Thd Chronicle says: “Whittier was the nearest approach to our conception of an American Qobert Burns that the new world has given. The world Las last one Bt the sweetest lyrists of its saddest wrongs” The Telegraph says! “Whittier possessed no small portion of Wordsworth’s genius. Although Inferior to the best work of Bryant and Poe It Is probable that his ■Mogg Megone’ and ‘Maud Muller’ will. live as long as ‘Thanatopsls’ and ‘The Saven.' ” The Standard suggests that It was good fortune rather than pre-eminent merit that secured Whittier an attentive and sympathetic hearing on that side of the Atlantic, and adds that In America Itself his claims to distinction will be more energetically questioned than in England.

TWO LIVES WIPED OUT. Dole Judah Kills His Father-In-Law at Payne, Ind. A double tragedy was enacted at Payne, ten miles east of Bloomington, Ind,, on Wednesday morning, In which two men were killed. Shortly after midnight Bichard Wright and his daughter were awakened by a about a short distance from the house, and tho old gentleman recogptzed the voice as that of hD son-in-law,' Dole Judah, He went to the door and started for the fence, when a shot was flrod by Judab. Wright ran back Into the house, socured an ax and again started toward Judah. Tho men came together and thero was a soufflo in which the old man was shot three times. During the struggle, and whllo Judah was on top of Wright, tho old man oalled to his daughter to knock Judah off with the ax. Just as Judah shot tho last time she struck Judah on tho back of the head, killing him Instantly. Both men lay dead on tho ground. Judah had had trouble with wife, and It Is supposed he wont to his father-in-law’s house dotormlned upon killing the old man and also his wife. Mrs. Judah was not there, however, having gone to neighbor’s to remain for the night. Wright was about 00 years old and his sou-ln-law was 05. Judah's reputation was bad

CAPTURED IIY BANDITS. A Cuban Planter Kidnaped and Sent Homo to Secure 811,000 Ransom. Dispatches from Matanzas say that on Aug. 30, Senor Vega, colonist of the “Nena” estate, was kidnapped by five mounted and armed men, who led him to tho woods and demanded that he should pay 81,000 for his liberty. The prisoner under threats of vengeance In the event of his playing them false, was released on his promise to procure the sum demanded and to return with It to the bandits. Vega Informed the authorities of his adventure, and he was Instructed to go back where the bandits were waiting and to allay their suspicions so that a force of soldiers who would be secretly dispatched to the scene could surprise and capturo the outlaws. He provided blmsolf with the money required, and arriving at the bandits' rendezvous was engaged In counting out the ransom when the outlaws discovered the approaching guards and (led. The guards fired on thorn and pursued them for some distance, but all succeeded In making their escape. MOKE PEST SHIPS. The Wleland and Scandla with Cholera Aboard, Arrive from Hamburg. At New York three more cholera-afflicted steamships are held In quarantine. The Wloland, of the Hamburg Line, arrived at daybreak Friday with the dreaded yellow and black signal flying at her peak, and the steamship Wyoming, from Liverpool, which has beeq anchored at quarantine since Tuesday, sent up the plague flag at 7 o’clock. There were two deaths on the Wyoming, both children, and four or five other persons are sick with the Choleru. The Scandla arrived later, llterlly full of the plague, having had 32 deaths. All parts of the ship are affected. Yellow flats also fluttered from the peaks of the Normannla and Bugia, showing that there were either deaths or new cases, or both, on hoard those vessels during night; Tho death flag also floated over Swinburne Island.

KILLED BY A SHOCK. Light Tender at Pittsburg Electrocuted anti Thrown Born a Pole. •At Pittsburg Police Officer Bowly found the lifeless body of John Hoxwlnter lying against the base of an electric light pole at the corner of Fifth avenue and Stovenson street. Hoxwinter was a light lender in the employ of tho Allegheny County Light Company. He had ascended the pole to trim the light and had evidently been electrocuted. His father, who was also a light inspector, was electrocuted about a year ago. _ Bends a Capitalist to JatL At BK.Paul, tho criminal libel suit of Attorney Moritz Heim against Capitalist B. J. Ahern had a sensational termination. Ahem published a pamphlet in which he bitterly attacked Archbishop Ireland as a swindler and accused Heim of certifying to acknowledgments fraudulently. Heim caused Ahern’s arrest, and the trial resulted In a conviction, Ahern was convicted, and the court sent him to the workhouse for sixty days without the option of a fine. Ahern is a wealthy capitalist, and the sentence created a great deal of discussion. Ahern will appeal the case.

White Caps Murder a Woman. The white caps have moved their basis of operations from Sevier and Jefferson Counties, Tenn., to Jellloo. A hand of masked men at that place took two women aod three men from a house and severely beat them. A woman named Honaker, from Knoxville, was so badly Injured that she will die. Yankee Seiner Seized. A United States seiner, the Hattie Maude, has been seized by the Canadian cruiser Curlew for Infraction of the fishery laws She was caught within the threemile limit In the Bay of Fnndy, near St Andrewa Bhe will be libeled, with a view to her condemnation and confiscation. Suicide of a Rector. Bev. J. E. Jullen, rector of the Protestant Church at Leesburg, Florida, commlted suicide, No cause is assigned for the act Jullen was an Englishman. Cleveland Not Coining West. A special from Buzzard's Bay says that Mr. Cleveland will not attend the rally at Bloomington, IIL, on Oct 10, as reported a day or two aga Failed for •200,000. Alexander Fraser & Son, Quebec, steamboat owners and general merchants, have suspended. Their liabilities amount to s>oo,ooo. Quebec Firm Embarrassed. Beaudet Garneau & Lefaivre, hardware merchants of Quebec, are In financial difficulties. Their liabilities are placed at SOO,OOO. Cincinnati Capitalists Fait The Carlisles, tor many years prominent and wealthy Cincinnati capitalists, have Vailed. Their affairs are in a bad tangle Killed on e Toboggan Slide. Near'Lincoln, Neb., an accident resulting fatally occurred at the Burlington Beach

bathing resort A number of woman were using the toboggan slide, while workmen were patting up a wire from the slide lo the pavilion for a walking performance. The wire was allowed to hang slack and lay across the toboggan slide: Mrs. Blna Cray, unaware of its presence, started on the descent The wire eaught her under the neck and threw Ldr' down with great force, fracturing her skull. She was removed to Lincoln and died two hours afterward.

GIGANTIC FIRE AT ALBANY. All Stale Documents In Printers’ Hands Believed to Be Lost. At Albany. N. Y., at two o’clock on Monday morning, fire broxe out In the rear of the large building owned by R. V. Dewitt The building was occupied by Russell Lyman, manufacturer of shirts; W. C. Geel, umbrella manufacturer; J, H, Igmire, paper manufacturer; C. T. William Company, Mack & Co., manufacturers oi shirts; U. IT. Walsh aud James B. Lyon, state printers. The structure, which Is about 90 by 300 feet, was a seething furnace before water was put on. When the fire reached the powder In a gunsbop there were several sharp explosions, and theK the walls, loosened by the shook, onme down. The old Reformed Church, now the State printing plant, followed and was soon ablaze. Tho Hotel Germania and the 0. T. Williams Printing Company plant wero the next to go, und the firemen thon turned their attention to saving the great dry-goods house of Mann, Waldman & Co. and a wholesale house. The loss Is estimated at 8750,000. The Btate printing house Is u total wreck, STOCK TAKES A II HACK. Industries anil Trade All Over the Country Show Steady Improvement. B. & Dun 8c Company’s weekly review of trado says: Last week's semi-panic In stocks and grain has boon followed by a more confident foellng about cholera, as it is seen that the pestllenco Is thus far confined to incoming ships by national regulations, which all officials uro now respecting. Stocks have advunctd 75 cents a share on tho whole, though In other markets the alarm dlsclosos weakness, which still continues Meanwhile tho general condition of industries and trudo throughout tho country Is not romurkably good, but Improving from week to wook, although the exports of merchandise are not yet large enough to prevent somo exports of gold. MASS FOR THE DROWNED. Commemorative Services for Those Who Went Down with tho Lady Elgin, Tho annual commemorative mass for the victims of the Lady Elgin disaster was celebrated In St John’s cathedral at Milwaukee, Friday morning. The church was crowded, and nearly ull the survivors of the wreck were present, somo of them coming from distant parts of the country to attend the meeting of the association of survlvora There aro only about twenty survivors now living, The Lady Elgin was sunk off Winnetka early on the morning of Sopt. 8, 1880, In a collision with the schooner Augusta. Between five and six hundred persons lost their Uvea

18 UNABLE TO KILL HEItSELF. A Woman for the Twenty-seventh Time Tries to Commit Suicide. For the twenty-seventh time In five years Pearl Bussell, a St Louis woman, took poison with suicidal Intent. This time she took carbolic acid, and although she Is said to bo out of danger she wished she had not taken it As she lay on a cot at 802 Carr street groaning she said to a companion: “Oh. I will never take that stuff again.” She has tried morphine a dozen times, arsonlc two or three times, and rough on rats almost a dozen time. She tried once to hang herself and another time to die by the knife. GROWS IN QUARANTINE. Patients on Swinburne Island Succumb to the Dread Malady, Tho death record from cholera at the New York lower quarantine was Increased by four Thursday. All those deaths occurred on Swinburne Island, where the sick from the cholera-infected ships are taken as soon as they show the first symtoms of the plague. In addition to the deaths, ten new cases were.reported among the crew of the Normannla and the steerage passengers on her and on the Bugia. MANGLED IN A TRAIN. Seven Persons Are Dead and at Least Twenty Receive Injuries. Just before 11 o’clock Saturday night the rear couch of an outward bound and heavily loaded local passenger train on the Fitchburg Ruilroad was struck by a freight engine at the North Cambridge (Mass.) station. Seven bodies igore taken from the wreck and twenty persons have been sent to the Cambridge Hospital. Threw Herself From a Moving Train. Mra Millie Bailey, wife of Attorney W. B. Bailey, of Wichita, Kan., throw herself from the platform of a Missouri Pacific train near Eldorado, and her Injurios are Considered fatal. 'I he woman waß suffering from melancholy. She has throe children. Two Boys Drowned. Two brothers, William and James Peer, aged 10 and 12 respectively, were drowned while bathing in the Monongahela River at Pittsburg. Victim Died and Murderer Arrested. At Buffalo Gennaro Nelbo, the Italian laborer who was shot by T. Barbuto, died at the hospital. Barbuto was captured and Is In Jail

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

CHICAGO. Cattle—Common to Prime $3.50 @ 6.75 Hoos—Shipping Grades 8.50 @6 76 Sheep—Fair to Choioe 4.00 @ 6.50 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 78 & .74 COBN—No. 2 46)4® .47)4 OATS—No. 2 33)4@ .84)4 Rye—No'. 2 60 @ .67 Butteb—Choice Creamery 23 @ .26 Eoas—Feesh 18 @ .19 Potatoes—New, per bu 65 @ .60 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle—Shipping 3.26 @ 6.26 Hogs—Choioe Light 3.60 @ 6.60 Sheep—Common to Prime 3.00 @ 4.78 Wheat—No. 2 Red 70 @ .71 COBH—No. 1 Whits... 49 ® .81 - Oa^s—No. 2 White, new 85 ® .36 ST. LOUIS. Cattle s.oo ® 1.75 Hogs 3.50 @ 6.60 Wheat—No. 2 Rod 68 @ .69 COBN—No. 2., .43 @ .44 Oats—No. 2 29 @ .so Rye—No. 2 81 @ .63 CINCINNATL Cattle 3.00 @ 4.75 HOGB 3.00 @ 6.60 Sheep 3.00 @6.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red 73)4@ .78)4 Cobk—No. 2 60 ® .61 Oats—No. 2 Mixed 34)48 .36)4 Rye—No. 2 ; 66 @ .68)4 DETROIT. Cattle 3.00 « 4.60 Hogs...- 3.00 @6.26 BHEEP 3.00 <§ A 76 WHM.T—No. 2 Red 75 @ .76 Cobn—No. 2 Yellow 48)4@ .49)4 Oats—No. 2 White 36 @ .36 TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 76 @ .77 Cobn—No. 2 White 47)*@ .48)4 Oats—No. 2 White S2!4@ .33)4 By® 60 @ .61 BUFFALO. Cattle—Common to Prime.... s.OO ® 4.50 Hogs—Best Grades 4.00 @5.75 Wheat—No. 1 Hard 86 @ .86 Cobn—No. 2 Bi>4@ .62)4 MILWAUKEE Wheat—No. 2 Spring 69 @ .71 Cobn—No. 8 *6 @ .47 Oats—No. 2 White se @ .36 Bye—No. 1 69 @ .60 BaBLEY—No. 2 63 @ .64 Poke—Mess 9.75 @10,25 NEW YORK. Cattle. 3.60 @ 5.25 - Hogs 3.00 @ 6.00 BBIIF 8.50 Kt 5.26 Wheat—No. 2 Red .» A.a Cobn—No. 3 .57 @ m Oats—Mixed Western A., .68 @ .40 Buttm—Creamery ,19 d j POBE-New Mem. 7 ..t ILK guS

CORN BELT EXPOSITION

TO BE HELD AT MITCHELL SOUTH DAKOTA. The Exposition Will be One of Great Credit to the State—Will Hold From September 28 to October 6 Twentyone Counties to be Represented. The Corn Palace. South Dakota Is one of those state* in the country which is at the present on the top wave of prosperity and her residents, with the object of calling the attention of her sister states to her unbounded resources and her richness in agricultural way have decided on the holding of a Corn Belt Exposition In Mitchell from September 28 to October 6, 1892. The exposition is to be held in a Corn Palace building which atthis time is nearly completed. The building will be a large and expensive one and all the various tasty features of architectural skill are being employed to make the exterior very attractive. The interior is su£3elently large to accommodate several thousand people while seated, besides the various exhibits from the twenty-one counties in the Corn Belt of the state, and all the mineral exhibits of gold, silver, tin, lead, etc., from the Black Hills. While the exposition is expected to benefit the entire state yet only those counties lying within the Corn Belt district will have charge of the exposition. The Corn Belt region is known as the twenty-one counties situated in the south-eastern portion of the state. It is here that corn is successfully raised and of such quality and quantity as to rival that grown in more southerly states. This is the spot in the state where the famers have grown wealthy from tho annual sale or turning off of vast quantities of cattle and hogs. Diversified farming here Is the rule and the farmers are in consequence successful in their pursuits. The Corn Belt is the oldest settled and most prosperous part of the state. A crop failuio has scarcely ever been known and with the pride brought about by success the residents of the Corn Belt are endeavoring by this Exposition to show her resources in an attractive manner, and to rid from the minds of Easterners the idea that South Dakota is a place where only blizzards, drouths, Indians, and destitute people abound. In this land of bright sunshiny weather genuine blizzards are as rare as in the East, drouths have never effected the Corn Belt, Indians are as scarce as on the streets of Chicago, and the farmers are housed in substantial homes, their stock in roomy barns, and the residents of the state will be found to be of an intelligent class. Americans by birth in an overwhelming majority, they are mostly educated. Theyare proud of their state and they ini tend that tho rest of the world shall, know it as they know it. In that par n of the state north and west of theCor 0 Belt region the farmers a few years ag were subjected to the discouragement, incident to a new country and to pio" neers. The southeastern part of the state was more slowly settled than the rest of the state, and the residents were farming successfully at the time of the great influx of immigration into the rest of the state in the early eighties. The people who then came to seeure Dakota laud were far different from the present class of residents. Those who came then were brought here with the expectation of securing land without making it their home. The majority of the fertile acres of tho bioad prairies of the state were taken up by this class. Many never tilled their land at all and of those that did do any farming done it in such a careless bap-hazard way that when any set back was brought about through crop failure they failed to withstand the storm and left the country. The experienced farmers among those who first came stayed, the inexperienced and thriftless class was weeded out, and their places afterward taken by the better element and to-day without exception the .farmers of tho state are of the right class and are working their way towards a sure enough success. The great crop yields of 1891 have been, take the state as a whole, repeated the present season. Conservative estimates place the wheat crop at 55,000,000 bushels, the corn crop at 25,000,000 bushels, and the oat crop at 60,000,000 bushels. The effects of these magnificent yields has been to install a spirit of enthusiasm into the people of the state and a spirit of enterprise which is showing Itself in all directions in increased business activity. From an assessed valuation of 647.701,000, in 1882 the state has prospered to such an extent that the assessed valuation this year is $137,373,761, an increase of 300 per cent. This part of the Northwest which was once considered ‘‘away out West,” is but 500 miles from the World’s Fair City and can be reached by a twelve hour ride from that place. Proximity to large markets is therefore clearly shown. Investments by eastern parties will be made to a large extent in the next few years. Nearly every other section of the country has been boomed by investors, in fact, South Dakota is about the only section of the country where the effect of ‘booming’ is not shown, and capitalists are bound in a very short time to becomr convinced that the avenue for rich investments have surely opened in this state. Louth Dakota expects in the future to have the only Corn Palaces in the Northwest. The celebrated Corn Palaces of Kioux City attracted the attention of the entire country to that city, and yet Sioux City's prosperity can be attributed to a great extent to the hogs and cattlo raised on South Dakota soil and fed on South Dakota corn. The present Corn Belt Exposition will be one of great credit to the state. It is no small affair but of such magnitude the visitors wonder when they view the building now going up at the size of the undertaking. The Exposition is directly under the management of the citizens of Mitchell who have assumed all the costs of the undertaking, but the prominent residents and real estate men of all the counties in the Corn Belt are at work to make the Exposition a great success. Among the attractions which are offered besides the beautiful palace decorations are the daily concerts of the lowa State Band, a musical organization of fifty pieces, and the doings of political days when Republican, Democratic and Farmers’ Alliance speakers of national repute will deliver addresses, besides others now being arranged for. The interiot of the building will be lit by myriads of electric lights and will resemble a palace in every sense of the word. The force of, 150 decorator* under the charge of Prof. Rohe, who bad supervision of the decorations of the New Orleans Exposition for several years has commenced work on the building. The Exposition is a big undertaking and reflects great credit on tho city where it is to be held and upon the residents of the Corn Belt as well.

The extent of the influence a lake may exercise upon climate is illustrated by the statement of M. Forel that the Quantity of heat accumulated by Lake Leman during the summer is equivalent to that which would be given out by the burning of 51,000,000 tons of coal A railroad Wain carrying this coal Would be 18.000 kilometers long, or nearly the length of the earth’s inertdan from polo to pole.

J. G. WHITTIER IS DEAD.

Hi* Quaker Poet, at a Ripe Old A**, PaiiM Peacefully Away. John G. Whittier, the Quaker poet, died at 4:30 o’clock Wednesday morning, at Hampton Falls, N. H. The end was like his life, peaceful, and he passed away like one failing asleep. His nearest relatives and Dr. Douglass were at his bedside when death came, andhe seemed to be conscious of his surroundings at the last moment. The funeral, at Amesbury, according to the Quaker custom, will be simple, with no sermon. John G. Whittier’s latter years had been a beautiful ideal of old age. Long ago he laid aside the heavy cares of life to reap the reward of his labors for mankind, and beloved of a nation and the entire English-speaking race he awaited patiently the summons to his final borne. It had been his custom of late years to spend his summers at Oak Knoll and his winters at his home in Amesbury, always among the books he so dearly loved. His birthplace, near Haverhill, Mass., still stands, only a little altered from what it was in 1807. A farmer’s son, bora a$ a time when New England farm life was more frugal than it is nowadays, he had none of the opportunities for culture which Holmes and Lowell enjoyed in their youth. His parents were intelligent and upright people of limited means, who lived in the simplicity of the Quaker faith, and there was but little in his early surroundings to encourage and develop a literary taste. Whittier’s only school instruction was at a district school and afterward at the Haverhill Academy,

JOHN G. WHITTIER.

where he paid for his tuition by work done out of study hours. But he began to rhyme almost as soon as he was able to read. His father frowned upon his efforts, which for a long time were kept secret, but his sister had faith in his work and encouraged it. One of his earliest poems, “The Exile’s Departure,” she sent without his knowledge to the Newburyport Free Press, signing it with his initial, “W., Haverhill, June 1, 182(5.” The publication of this poem led to the acquaintance and friendship of William Lloyd Garrison, then the editor of the paper, a friendship which lasted and increased until death ended it. After this it was not long before Whittier’s household lyrics gave him such a hold on the popular heart, as later, in the struggle for emancipation, made him a power in the land. It is unnecessary to quote from works so familiar to almost every reader, but sufficient to mention suoh legends as "Skipper Ireson’s Bide,” “The Witch’s Daughter.” “Mary Garvin," Memories," “The Playmate,” and “Maud Muller." Probably the most popular quotation in poetry is the couplet from “Maud Muller:” For of all sad words of tongue or pea. The saddest are these, “It might have been. ”

Despite his advanced years—he was two years older than Tennyson and twelve years the senior of Walt Whitman—he was until recently sturdy and active, and the most charming personality in the world of letters. His mental powers were keen and acute to the last. He gave but little time of late to literary effort, his eye being dimmed and his hand unsteady. His latest literary production was a poem in the Atlantic to Dr. Holmes, and the last verse he wrote was on the occasion of Dr. Holmes’ recent birthday. Mr. Whittier never married. Between his sister Elizabeth and himself there existed the rarest and most delicate love and friendship, which, doubtless, had no little to do with the poet’s inspirations. His home was broken up at her death and his heart suffered in the same misfortune its greatest shock. His niece came to him at the death of his sister and always strove to make that great loss as little felt as possible. Mr. Whittier was not a rich man, nor was he poor. About fifty or sixty thousand oopies of his works are sold every year, and on the revenues thus derived he was able to pass his declining years in ease and comfort The news of the death of John G. Whittier was received at Haverhill with universal feelings of sadness and regret. The city hall bell was struck eighty four times at 8 o’clock as indicating the age of the deceased, and flags on the public buildings and school houses were displayed at half mast as tokens of respect for the dead poet Throughout the literary world the event, though not unexpected, evokes the profoundest regret

How Famous Bolen Died.

Philip of Macedon was assassinated by his own guards when about to start on the conquest of Greece. Fergus 111. of Scotland was stabbed by his jealous qneen, who immediately afterward committed suicide. Constantine XIL, the last Emperor of the East, was killed in the storming of Constantinople by the Turks. Ivan VI. was imprisoned for eighteen years and finally murdered. Mary Queen of Scots was beheaded. Leo VI. reigned seven months and was poisoned by Marosia, an infamous woman of great power in Borne. In forty-nine years, from A. D. 260 to A. D. 309, sixteen Roman Emperors were assassinated by their successors. Galba was murdered by men who were in every way trusted by him and whom he had signally befriended. Commodus, the Gladiator Emperor, was murdered by the Preetorian guards who had placed him on the throne. Claudius was poisoned by his infamous wife, Agrippina, to make room for her equally infamous son Nero. Otto 11. of Germany massacred his chief nobles at a feast and himself died of a wound from a poisoned arrow. Or seventy'three historio Kings oi Scotland sixty*, one are said to have died in battle or to have been murdered. Queen Mart of England died of mortification at the loss of Calais, the last of the English colonial possessions. Louis IX., the saint after whom the city of St. Louis is named, died of the plague while on a crusade in Africa. Edward 111. died of a broken heart caused by the death, from consumption, of his son, the famous Black Prince. The names of fifty-two Saxon kings are preserved, all of whom, with the exception of four, died a violent death. Magna Chabta John died of mortiflcation at the loss of his baggage and treasure while crossing a dangerous ford.

WEATHER FORECASTS.

WHAT PROPHET FOSTER HAS TO SAY. September Will Briny Storms, Bain and Frosts for the Northern States—Forecasts for the Three Divisions. Within a 250-Mile Radios. Are Tour Crops Bare? My last bulletin gave forecasts of the storm wave to cross the continent from 19th to 23d, and the next will reach the Paciflo coast about the 24th, cross the Western mountains by the close of the 25th, the great central valleys from the 26th to 28th, and the Eastern States about the 29th. Bains from the disturbance will extend over a large portion of the country, and following it destructive frosts will occur in many of the Northern States. The cool wave will cross the Western mountains about the 27th, the great central valleys about the 29th, and the Eastern States about October Ist. Local Forecast*. Weather changes move from west to east across the continent, and each local forecast is made for within 250 miles east and west of the magnetio meridian mentioned, and for all the country between 35 and 50 degrees of north latitude. These local weather changes will occur within twenty-four hours before or after sunset of the dates given: SANTA FE, DENVER AND BLACK HILLS MERIDIAN. September—--25 Wanner. 26 Storm wave on this meridian. 27 Wind changing. 28— Cooler and clearing. 29 Fair and cool. 30 — Moderating. October — I—Warmer. GALVESTON, KANSAS CITY AND MINNEAPOLIS MERIDIAN. September—--25 Moderating. 26 Warmer. 27 Storm wave on this meridian. * 28— Wind changing. 29 Oooier and clearing. 30— Fair and cool. October—--I—Moderating. ATLANTA, CINCINNATI AND LANSING MERIDIAN, September—--25 Fair and cool. 26 Moderating. 27 Warmer. 28— Storm wave on this meridian. 29 — Wind changing. 30 — Cooler and clearing. October— I—Fair1 —Fair and cool. Copyrighted 1892, by W. T. Foster.

CONDITION OF THE CROPS.

Frost Threatening: In Some Quarters and Rain Badly Needed In Others. Following is the weekly telegraphio bulletin of the weather bureau as to the crops: New England—Favorable week, light frosts; no serious damage; tobaego excellent crop; cranberries promising well; fall feed and rowen good. New York —Cool and dry, corn being cut in southeast; potatoes, rot Increasing. New. Jersey—Cool nights retard the maturing of fruit, corn and truck; cutting buckwheat and early corn. Pennsylvania —Crops are in fair condition; fall seeding begun; potatoes below average; slight injury from frost. Maryland and Delaware—Light frosts; all crops suffering from drought; farmers cutting corn preparing ground for seeding. Arkansas—Cotton shedding rapidly and boll worms doing serious injury In a few counties; all other crops improved. Tennessee —Bain needed tor late crops and fall plowing; clover pulling, fodder pulling and sorghum making progress. Kentucky—All crops and pastures suffering for rain and will be short in most sections; tobacco good In southwest counties and cutting progressing rapidly. Missouri—Late com, potatoes, grasses, stock, plowing and seeding have suffered from drought, but rain on Sunday was beneficial. Illinois—Early com maturing rapidly and will be past danger from frosts In ten days, and late corn will be safe' Oct. 1; rain needed. Indiana—Bain needed much; early planted corn ripening fast. West Virginia—Drought broken; oorn cutting begun; pastures very short; plowing for fall wheat is progressing slowly. Ohio Draught continues, injuring corn and pastures; corn cutting commenced; light frosts, no damage; plowing and seeding progressing slowly; some tobacco cut; buckwheat doing well.

Michigan—Northern and central counties report crop in good condition; southern counties poor; wheat and oats will be average; potatoes light; fruit fair. Wisconsin—Cool weather and light frosts retarded growth of com; large acreage of winter grain going in; tobacco cutting, excellent crop. Minnesota—Two weeks’ warm weather required for corn; flax being harvested; crop good; rain needed. lowa—Frosts three mornings in northern portion; no damage; com doing fairly well and most of it will be safe from frost about Sept. 25; rain needed. North Dakota—Slight damage by frosts; cutting grain practically ended and thrashing well under way. South Dakota—Com maturing rapidly; no damage from frosts; harvesting small grains about completed; flax and millet being cut; crop good. Nebraska—Too cold and wet for com; crop will require from fifteen to twenty days to be beyond injury from frosts. Kansas Conditions favorable to com, pastures, stock and plowing; com much improved. Oklahoma Rainfall heavy in sections; farmers cutting com and plowing. Utah—Frost in northern counties injured potatoes and late wheat; grain turning out well. Colorado Conditions favorable for grass, potatoes, com and fruit in northern and dry in southern portions; light frosts did slight damage. Oregon—No rainfall reported, but now threatened; oereal creeps nearly all thrashed; hops doing well; oorn promises fair yield.

Germans Arouse Fren [?]h Wrath.

There is much excitement among Montreal French-Canadians over the fact that the German steamship Pickhuben, now in port, was deiked in bunting on the anniversary of the battle of Sedan. The French population are wild over what they consider the insult which they say was premeditated on account of the presence of two war ships. The agent of the Hamburg-American Packet Company denies that there was any intention of insulting the Fremch inhabitants of Montreal.

Murderous Acts of a Bogus Indian.

At Uniontown, Pa., just before the Labor Day parade, Jonathan L. Moore, who had rigged himself up as an Indian, became intoxicated and ranged through the town with a keen-edged hatchet; He tomahawked three men and alarmed all the people in a hotel before he was landed m the lock-up. The injuries inflicted were only flesh wounds and not serious.

PAYING THE PENALTY.

Hamburg Deco! a ted by the Scourge ■ ( Caused by Her Apathy. The thriving, prosperous city of Hamburg has paid a fearful penalty for it» reckless neglect of ordinary sanitaryprecautions and its violation of all lawsof health when the terrible pest of cholera was right at its gates. Dispatches in the dally press give a vivid, and graphic picture of the condition of the plague-stricken city. Its usual gayety is turned to mourning. Itspalatial houses are empty and its streetsare filled with coffins and hearses. Its vast commerce is at a standstill. ltdwharves are lined with idle vessels. Itshotels are empty. Its schools, theaters, opera houses and conoert hall areclosed. The hospitals are overcrowded. The undertakers are taxed to their utmost to bury the dead. Under thisoverhanging cloud the people are naturally depressed. Those who could do sohave fled elsewhere. Those who remain, wait and wonder whose turn It will bonext, and meanwhile the poor are suffering from- a combination of miseries, in addition to their own poverty. And all this came upon the devoted city in less than a month, for it was Aug. 18 that the first case was reported. In tho brief period of twenty-two days probably over 6,000 persons had fallen victims to the disease. The official returns of the Board of Health up to Monday reported 6,124 cases and 2,676 deaths, but on the same day the director of one of the cemeteries stated he had buried 4,032 cholera victims in that period, and this was but one cemetery. All this suffering and death clearly are the outcome of criminal neglect. The first case brought to the attention of the medical inspector of the Board of Health was on Aug. 18, but he made noreport upon it until five days later. Meanwhile nothing was done to ward off the ravages of the pestilence already at work in the city. No effort was mode to stop the exportation of immigrants to other countries who were suffering with the disease. Hamburg freely admitted the disease, and asfreely sent it broadcast to Paris, Havre, London and New York. No precautions of any kind were taken until it was too late and it had spread from the low river sections of the city to the new and residence quarter. For a week or two it was confined to the lower classes who live in the suburbs of Hamm and Hammersbrook and in. Bpitaler, Stein, and other streets along the Elbe, reeking with decaying filth, garbage, and cholera-producing material, and adding their stenches to that from the poisonous waters of the river, daily made more so by the refuse from the idle vessels. Then the disease made its way into the better parte of the city, as might have been expected, for no effort was made to clean up and properly disinfect. The impure water, which is utterly unfit for drinking, helped to spread the plague. It was a terrible present which Bussia. sent to Hamburg and the world never will cease to wonder at the complacency with which Hamburg accepted it. But Hamburg is now paying the penalty which always follows the violation of sanitary laws in time of danger. If frosts do not set in soon the mortality list must swell to frightful proportions. Its business already is destroyed for the present. It is a city of suffering and death instead of the city of gayety and commercial enterprise it was four weeks ago. It stands as a conspicuous warning to all other cities. Its lesson Is to clean up, to do it at once and thoroughly, and then to keep clean. Bemove the filth. Purify the water. Burn the garbage. Make the streets and alleys and beck yards clean. Destroy the cholera-producing material. That is the lesson of Hamburg, whoso cholera victims are now quarantined in the waters of New York Bay and whoso pest ships are threatening our own ports.

The Sluggers.

Not James Corbett, but John Barleycorn, knocked out Sullivan.—Buffalo Express. At last Bully Sullivan received a dose of his own medicine —but it must be said to his credit that he always fought fair. —Milwaukee Sentinel. It is doubtful if a more unspeakable ruffian than Sullivan ever entered the ring, and as long as he was “champion” it was dominated by toughs.—St. Louis Republic. It was a sad blow to the dramatio profession. Booth is getting old, and who is there left to take the place of the uncrowned John L.? Louisville Courier-Journal. The glory of Sullivan has departed. The spell which attached to his name so long has been destroyed. Reputation, money, and friends are gone. On this broad planet there is no person or thing so dead and discredited as a defeated pugilist. —St. Louis Globe-Dem-ocrat. If, now, we must have prize fights and devotees of the ring, then it is a pleasure to chronicle the final defeat of the brute and bully who has worn his honors brazenly for so many years. When Corbett knocked out Sullivan, it came as near to being a triumph of decenoy as such an event could be. —St. Paul Pioneer-Press.

All Sorts.

The Gulf stream flows at the rate of four miles an hour. Banner County, Nebraska, boasts of a new bom baby who weighs 20$ pounds. Michigan has nearly 87,000 Methodists, with church property valued at over $3,750,000. An insect in the ear may be drowned out with tepid water, or killed by a few drops of sweet oil. Perhaps the most happily named man in England is Thankful Joy, a Hampshire cricketer. The first elevated road in Great Britain will be in Liverpool. The road is already in the course of construction. Catholic congregations in Prussia are increasing in much greater proportion than the increase of the population. A hunting-hobn in Limoges enamel, made in 1530, and believed to have formerly belonged to Horace Walpole, was sold recently for $31,500. Beginning in October Russian will be taught in two of : the Paris colleges and perhaps be put on the same footing as German and English. Small electric lamps are J>eing tried by the London police in place of the oldfashioned oil bull’s-eyes. The experiments have proved highly satisfactory thus far. In speaking of the solidification of &. body by cooling, Professor Dewar says that water can be made to become solid by the evaporation of a quarter of its weight. A blue crane, a rare bird in that region, was shot the other day near Manistee, Mich. It measured six feet from tip to tip of wings and five feet from head to feet. A Florida silver half dollar of 1760 is worth $lO, while the Virginia silver half dollar of 1773 is valued at $2. The pewter Continental dollar of 1776 is worth $3. i Investigations of rain drops’lead'to the conclusion that some of the lafge drops must be more or less hollow, as they fail when striking to wet the whols surface Inclosed within the drop.