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Socialists took posession and created great disorder. They hooted at Dr. Stocker, and unfurled red flags. Stocker was finally obliged to retire. The meeting afterward dispersed. Upbraiding Papers in Franco. Berlin, Nov. 15.—The North German Gazette, referring to the declining trade of France, upbraids the anti-German press of that country for keeping the people in fear ot impending war with Germany, which paralyzes every branch of business. A Monster Trial. Vienna, Nov. 15.—A monster trial will begin in Hungary shortly, the prisoners being one hundred aud eleven persons accused of participating in the recent anti-.Tewish riots. To prove the guilt of the prisoners 1,400 witnesses will be called. Banquets fur tile Bishops, Rome, Nov. 15.—Cardinal Simeoni, Prefect of the Propaganda, will give a banquet on Sunday in honor of the American bishops. Cardinal'Jacobini, Pontifical Secretary of State, will give another banquet in their honor on Tuesday. Coble Nores. The Reichsrath of Austria has been summoned to meet on Dec. 4. The American bishops suggest that a Papal nuncio be appointed for the United States. It is reported that the German government will ask the Reichstag for a grant to build fifty torpedo boats. Bismarck merely desires to discuss with DeGiers, the Russian Foreign Minister, the State of affairs in Bulgaria. The German consul at Tamatave, Madagascar, has been instructed to hoist the German flag over bis consulate in that city. The weekly statement of the Bank of France shows a decrease of 2,375,000 francs in gold, ami 2,525,000 fraucs in silver. The tone of the French press in comme'tiijg on the proposed visitof the Crown Prince tt> King Alfonso has made a very bad impression in Berlin. James Russell Lowell, the United States minister to Great Britain, has returned to London from the continent, and resumed the discharge of his duties. Herrson, French Minister of Commerce, in speaking at a banquet, said the French chambers of commerce will soon exist in all great commercial centers abroad. John Alfred Burgen, late manager of the ITnion Bank, Birmingham, convicted of forging bills of exchange and falsifying accounts, has been sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment. The officials of the war office at Madrid deny that the Crown Prince of Germany will be made an honorary colonel of a Spanish regiment. Ttiey say sucn an appointment would be unprecedented. DESTRUCTIVE FIRES. Au Kttetiaive Lumber Yard at Oshkosh, Win , I>4sMtroyed. Oshkosh, Wis., Nov.. 15. —A fire, which for a tune threatened great destruction, and caused telegrams for aid to be sent to Fond du Lac, Neenah and Milwaukee, although fierce for five hours, during a terrific gale, was finally mastered, after a terribly hard fight. It broke out in the lumber yards of Steinhilber & Cos., about noon, slowly burned over a laree territory and consumed a large amount of lumber. It was checked at, the leeward extremity of G. W. Pratt's lumber yard, his mill being saved. Had it got into the lumber yard and sash and door factory of Radford Bros., just beyond, there is no telling to what extern it might have gone. Three dwe'iings of employes were burned, and about ttiirty families forced to move because of proximity to the fire district. Tlie heaviest loss is on G. W. Pratt, whose entire yard was consumed. Loss, $75,000; insurance, $20,000. Steinliilber it Cos. lost $10,000; fully insured. Heavy laOßftea In Chicago. Chicago, Nov. 15.—Fire broke out this afternoon in the heavy hardware and carriage and wagon stock warehouse of S. D. Kimbark it Cos., Nos. 82 to 84 Michigan avenue, adjoining the Illinois Central railway’s general offices. The third and fourth stories, containing all the lighter portions of stock, were destroyed. The goods in the basement of Reed, Murdock it Fisher, wholesale grocers, were to an unknown extent by water. The Illinois Central’s offices were •saved by a fire wall. The loss on stock is $200,000, and on building $25,000; insurance on stock, $235,000, and on building $45,000. One Side of a Public Square Burned. New Orleans, Nov. 15.—A special reports that a fire at Rusk. Tex., destroyed all the buildings on the west side of the public square. Loss, SOO,OOO, insurance, $-40,000. Losses in New York. New York, Nov. 15.—The losses by a fire last nicht at Ann street and Theater alley were $04,000; insured. Closing Out a Business. Chicago, Nov. 15—It is announced, today, that the wholesale dry-goods firm of Cleveland, Cummings it Woodruff had sold its business to Columbus R Cummings, a heavy creditor, and who says he was under tlie necessity of buying the stock. Cummings says he paid full value, after a careftd invoice. It is understood that tlie stock, notes and accounts are worth between $400,000 and SSOO 000. Tlie liabilities of the firm are not known. An Engineer Seriously Injured, Lebanon, 0., Nov. 15.—An engine of a passenger train on the Cincinnati Northern road, running backward, was thrown from the track. David Mock, engineer, was severely injured. A passenger car remained ou the track. The Sheriff Takes Hold. New Castle, Pa., Nov. 15.—Sheriff Douds to-nay levied on Reis Bros.’s sheet-iron mill to satisfy a judgment for SIO,OOO held by Cleveland parties. The exact liabilities cannot be ascertained, but will not exceed $50,00°. _ Not a Failure. Nm York, Nov. 15.—The announcement ®f the failure of the Novelty Rubber Company is incorrect The stockholders con'•l tided to liquidate the affairs of the concern. Liabilities are comparatively trifling. Manager of a Theater Arrested Philadelphia, Nov. 15.—Samuel F. Nixon, manager of the Chestnut-street Theater, was to-day held in $6,000 bail, to answer to the charge of violating an act by failing to pay t he State license tax of SSOO. Holler Kxploslon. Galveston, Nov. 15.—A Moscow special says the boiler of Smalley-& Harris’s sawmill exploded to-day. D. Cooper was killed and J. A. Jones fatally and two others dangerously wounded. Assignment of Clothiers. New York, Nor, 15. —Rosenberg it Cos., clothiers, have made an assignment. Preferences, $50,000. The New England Society, at Philadelphia, (elected E. A. Rollins president. Hoi* n.’TTr.ns cures and gives good dleestion, fjch blood and hcaWhy action of ail tho organs.

STATE NEWS AND GOSSIP. Tlie Murderer of Mrs. Nelson Preparing to Plead Insanity, liev. H. A. Buclitel Colled to the Missionary Field—Heath of C. D. Thompson —Minor Notes aud Gleanings. INDIANA. Nelson, the Matricide. Laying the Groundwork of an Insanity Flea. Hjiecial to the ludlananoßs journal. Terre Haute, Nov. 15.—The officers arrived this afternoon with James H. Nelson, and placed him in jail, charged with the murder of bis mother, whose remains were found across the river from here. On his way here he told the officers that the crisis had come to him, and told them about the murder of his mother, how she was killed with an ax, and the body taken in a buggy to the lonely ravine and left there. Then he would pretend to see his mother’s spirit, and would talk to it. To-night, in the jail, he is going through the same performance. The woman who was twice married and divorced from him, and who has again been living with him without the third marriage ceremony, accompanied the party here from Cape Girardeau. She now says she will have nothing more to do with Nelson. The authorities are keeping her away from everybody, apparently thinking she will yet make a good witness. Rev. Buclitel Wanted for .Superintendent of Missions. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Lafayette, Nov. 15.—Dr. J. M. Reid, general missionary secretary of the Methodist Episcopal Church, has offered the superintendency of missions in Bulgaria to Rev. H. A. Buchtel, pastor of Trinity Church, this city. A number of years ago Mr. Buchtel was a missionary in Bulgaria. He replied by telegraph to Dr. Reed that the condition of the health of his two children was such as to make it apparently impracticable for him to accept the complimentary offer. It is possible, however, that the matter is not yet ended. The offer is one very gratifying to Mr. Buchtel’s friends, and an indication of the high esteem in which he is held by the general authorities of the church. An Eloping: Couple. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Delphi, Nov. 15.—Waiter Vance and Mrs. I. N. Jackson, the eloping couple who were arrested here yesterday, are from Nora, instead of Carmel. The husband and a brother of Mrs. Jackson arrived yesterday eveuieg, and an interview was had at the jaiL The husband stated that he was willing to forget the past if she would return to her home with him. But she refnsed, stating that she would die if separated from Vance. There being no grounds upon which to base a prosecution, the couple were discharged, and departed on the west-bound train. Death of. Ex-Secretary Thompson's Son, Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Terre Haute, Nov. 15.—ChurlesD. Thompson, aged thirty-eight, third son of Colonel R. W. Thompson, died suddenly to-day, of paralysis and apoplexy. He was at the theater last evening, and not supposed to be ill until this morning. He was found in a bathroom in a stupor, from which lie could not be rou.-ed. Farm House Burned. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Greensburg, Nov. 15.—Aaron V. Logan’s Mrin residence, near town, caught fire at noon to-day and was almost destroyed. The timeiy arrival of a number of neighbors saved some of the goods and checked the flames. Insurance, $4,000 in the I'iioinix; loss a little more. Sentencing a Burglar. Special to the iniUanapoUe Journal. Elkhart, Nov. 15.—G. F. Smith, who was detected, last week, in an attempt to burglarize at Goshen, was to-day convicted and sentenced to three years in the penitentiary. Mrs. Monroe Bailey has been adjudged insane. She was taken to the asylum at Indianapolis, A Residence Destroyed. Special to the Indianapolis Journal Muncie, Nov. 15.—Yesterday evening, a residence on the fasrn of Fred. Cromer, at Cross Roads, nine miles southwest of this city, was destroyed by fire. The house was occupied by a tenant, James Boone, Loss from $1,200 to $1,500. A Clothier Arrested. Tep.re Haute, Nov. 15.—Lee Hirsch, the clothier who recently failed here, was arrested to-day on a requisition from Ohio, for obtaining goods from Heizig & 0o„ of Cincinnati, under false pretenses. Radiy Bruised. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Mokticello, Nov. 15.—Josiah Purcell, a prominent dry-goods clerk, was thrown from a wagon this evening. He received a broken arm, a fractured leg and other slight bruises. Minor Notes. William Watt, a young farmer living near Bnonville, was struck by a falling limb and fatally Injured. Susie Brannon, a Warrick county girl nineteen years old. Is reportrfl to nave been drugged and outrageiitat Evansville. There are twosmallpox and four varioloid cases In New Albany, confined to two families. No spread of tbe disease is apprehended. Tne yonng ladles of tlie temperance union of New Albany are discussing tbe questions: “What is iager beer?” and “Will beer intoxicate?” Religious excitement destroyed tbe reason of Mrs. Rosa Arndt and Charles Erickson, of Chesterton, who have beeu sent to the insane asylum. Fredrick Schober, a former resident of Madison, committed suicide at Philadelphia by banging himself. Ho married the daughter of Captain Hart, an old steam boatman residing at Madison. Jacob Oates Robbins, Urine with his father four miles south of Ureensburg, died very suddenly on Wednesday night. Heart disease was the probable cause. He was a partner in the firm of W. A. Robbins & Cos., swine breeders, and a prominent local Republican politician. Seventeen years ago a little daughter of Abraham Bates, of Warsaw, was taken from tbe father without his knowledge by Hiends. Tlie father bad met with misfortune, and an Ohio lady nereetng to adopt tbe child, it was thought, best to permit her to do so. A few dacs age the daughter returned to her old home, au accomplished voung lady. She bad been living at Gallon, 0., vi itb u family by the name ot Hoffman, whose name she bas. ILLINOIS. A Well-Known Bloomlngtonlan Charged with Embezzlement. Special to tho Indlanapplls Journal Bloomington, Nov. 10.—John Ansley, an insurance and real estate agent, was arrested to-night on a warrant sworn out by Dr. Cor-

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bus, postmaster at Lasalle, charginghim with embezzling $275, tlie rent of a piece of property owned by Corbus, for which Ansley was agent. Ansley has stood high in Bloomington for many years, and his arrest has caused a good deal of wonderment among all who know him. A Postmaster Missing, .special to the I nthanaooUs JournaL Champaign, Nov. 15.—The little city of Rantoul in this county is agitated over the disappearance of Postmaster John It. Manville, a prominent and influential citizen of that place. He quietly left about a month since, professedly to look after his soldier’s claim at Cavour, Dak,, since which time he has not been heard from. His clerk in charge of the office has notified his bondsmen of the facts, and that he believes the financial affairs of the office to be In very bad condition. Suit Against -Dr. K'ltu lv Detroit, Nov. 15. —Dr. Frank B. Smith, of this city, began a $50,000 suit in the United States District Court against Dr. John H. Rauch, secretary of the Illinois Board of Health, whose name, he alleges, was signed to a circular revoking his (Dr. Smith’s) license, for unprofessional and dishonorable conduct This conduct, the plaiutiff adds, consisted in his advertising his presence when he was a delegate to a health convention at Peoria. Suinide of an Esteemed Citizen. Pearl, Nov. 15.—John J, Miller committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. He was a farmer, and au esteemed citizen. Brief Mention. Waflo Snoot, charged with stealing two horaea near Athens, 0., bas been found by a sberlffiiear Decatur. Richard VV. O’Banuon, a prominent- merchant oi Litchfield, died on Wednesday, aged ecveutyfive years. Aztec, a famous running horse, valued at $20,000, died of lung fever at Lexington, Ky. He was owned by Powers & Sun, of Decaiur, 111. An exchange says the La Salle county courthouse healing apparatus has cost $36,000, and it don’t generate enough beat yet to keep the judge and jurors from swearing. Havana is to have a foundry erected between now ami Jan. 1, for the mauuracture of drills, eic., a company having been organized with SOO,OOO capital, oue half of which is paid up. Avery extensive creamery la to be erected at Clinton. Tne material for its construction bas been sent for, and its arrival Is daily expected. It will be owned and controlled by a Joint stock oompany. The Ottawa fair grounds have been sold for $8,500. Though having acquired them for private use, the grounds will also be maintained for fair purposes, and tlie oounty agricultural association is to have the free use of them for holding its annual mootings. At present 600 cans of milk are daily shipped to Chicago from the Dundee and Carpentersville depots. The largest individual shipper furnishes sixty cans dally. In the vicinity of the two places named the dally product of milk is 1,500 cans, or 15,000 gallons. THE RECENT STORMS. A Cyclone in Maine Destroys Great Quantities of Lumber Forests. Lewiston, Nov. 15.—Dispatches say that the recent gale took the form of a cyclone in Oxford and Franklin counties. The damage to Oxford county is SIOO,OOO. In Franklin county the loss issso,ooo. Houses and burns were destroyed and cuttle killed. The damage is heavy throughout northerg Maine. Much timber land has been damaged. Lots on Androscoggin and Sundy rivers are totally destroyed. In Kinefield 2,000 acres have been destroyed. Forty Degrees ISelow Zero. Bismarck, D. TANARUS., Nov. 15.—Thermometer 30° below zero. A strong wind is blowing at 8 o’clock this evening. A. Bt. Paul dispatch says advices from all parts of tbe Northwest to-night show the thermometer ranging from 15° to 40° below zero. A strong wind is blowing, but there is no snow. All trains are delayed on account of wind. Navigation has been practically suspended here for several days. The river closed tonight. A Body in the Breaker®. Sauoatuck, Mich., Nov. 15.—A body, supposed to be that of Captain Stretchs, of the Ackley, was cast ashore this afternoon; dressed in a dark blue suit, with life-preserver attached. A large wave carried it off again. Men on the shore are waiting for it, as it can be seen tossing in tbe breakers. The wind is blowing a gale from the west, and snow is falling and drifting. Two Men Missing. Winona. Minn., Nov. 15.—There is much anxiety here over the unaccountable absence of Ferd. Rutscb, a jeweler, and Charles Schaeffer, a painter, who went huntingacross the river on 'Tuesday. It is feared that they were drowned in coming home in the evening in the high gale. Several searching parties have been out without success. A lilizzard. Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. 15.—There has been considerable high wind in this section today. At noon there was a blizzard of snow and rain, which lasted half an hour. No serious damage to vessels is reported. A Gale on Lake Huron. Goderick, Ont., Nov. 15.—There is another heavy gale to-night on Lake Huron. It is feared the result will be disastrous to shipping t Too Bad, that Whites .Should Be So Easily Excited. Galyeston, Nov. 15. —A Gonzales special says that the eastern part of the county is somewhat excited over the rumor that negroes are drilling at night. The whites have organizeda minute company. Steamship News. New York, Nov. 15.—Arrived: Bothnia, rom Liverpool. London, Nov. 15. —Arrived: Nederland, Erin, from New York. What an Egg Will Do, { f Kansan Farmer. For burns and scalds nothing is more, soothing than the white of an egg, which 1 may be poured over the wound. It is softer as a varnish for a burn than collodion, and being always at hand can be applied immediately. It is also more cooling than sweet oil and cotton, which was formerly supposed to be the surest application to allay tbe smarting pain. It is the contact with the air which gives tbe extreme discomfort experienced from the ordinary accident of this kind, and anything that excludes the air and prevents inflammation is the thing to beat once applied. Tlie egg is considered one of tbe best of remedies for dysentery. Beaten up slightly, with or without sugar, and swallowed at a gulp.it tends by its emollient qualities to lessen the inflammation of the stomach and intestines, and by forming a transient coating-on these organs to enable nature to resume ’healthful sway over the i diseased body. Two or, at most, three eggs | per day would be all that is required in ordinary cases, end since eggs are not merely medicine but food as well, the lighter the | diet otlierwi.se and the quieter the patient is kept the more certain and rapid is the re-j covery.

ASSOCIATIONS CONVENED. The National Association of Physicians Discuss Sanitary Matters. Cattle Men Organizing—Papers on Texas Fever Among Cattle Herds- Church Committees Assembled MEDICAL MEN. The American National Association Discussing Sanitary Measures. Detroit, Nov. 15. —At the third day’s session of the American Public Health Association the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Dr. Albert L. Gihon, of Washington, medical director of the United States navy; first vice-president, Dr. James E. Reeves, of Wheeling, W. Ya., secretary of the State Board of Health of West Virginia; second vice-president, Hon. F.rastus Brook, of New York; secretary, Dr, Irving A. Watson, of Concord, N. H.; treasurer, Dr. J. Berrien Lindsley, of Nashville, Tenn.; executive committee, Drs. Thomas L. Neal, Dayton, O.; J. D. Gatch, Lawrencebnrg, Ind.; Henry P. Walcott, Cambridge, Mass.; Gustavus Devron, New Orleans; Charles Smart, surgeon of the United States navy; H. D. Frazer, Charleston, S. C. The invitation of the Board of Health of St. Louis to hold the next annual meeting in that city was unanimously accepted. A large number of papers were read, but there were so many that some were only read by title, and will appear in the published volume of reports. Dr. Rudolph Bering, of New York, read one on the "The removal of decomposable matter from households." He advocated the system now practiced by the New York Board of Health for a complete removal of all gasses from houses. Dr. Win, Oldright, of Ontario, read a paper on “Overhead ventilation sewers," recommending the erection of separate pipes to and above the roofs of Houses. Dr. Joseph H. Raymond, of Brooklyn, read a paper on “The care of households,” divulging the methods of disposing of filth that accumulates in houses.' Dr. Oscar C. De Wolf, of Chicago, gave a very interesting description of the drainage of Pullman, 111., where the contents of the sewers of the town were pumped up and taken away by pipes to be used as fertilizing material on a large farm some miles away. This experiment he claimed to He a success financially, as well as in every other respect. Prof. W. C. Van Bibber, of Baltimore, read an interesting paper on the problem of drainage of level lands. A resolution was adopted calling upon Congress to re-enact a law which will give tbe National Board of Health funds for prosecuting a general work of sanitation throughout the country. The National Museum, under the care of tbe Surgeon-general of the navy, also received the hearty endorsement of the association, and Congress was asked to appropriate funds for its maintenance. At the evening session. Rev. Hugh Miller Thompson, assistant bishop of Mississippi, read a paper on “Sane humanity,” and Dr. Foster Pratt, of Kalamazoo, Mich., read one on “The increase of insanity in the United States.” Both were quite elaborate papers. STOCK INTERESTS. Texas Fever Discussed at an Organization of Cattle Men. Chicago, Nov. 15.—About 200 stockmen assembled here this morning pursuant to a call for organizing a national stock association. It was decided to effect a permanent organization, and the association pledged itself to make an effort to have the national government take action to prevent the spread of contagious diseases among cattle. Tite following permanent officers were elected: J. S. Williams, of Kentucky, president; G. E. Morrow, of Illinois; Alfred Butlers, of Colorado; A. B. Powers, of New York; M. H. Cochran, of Canada; vice-presidents; Thomas Sturgis, W. Young, and 15. B. Emery, of Maryland, secretaries. Professer Law, ot Cornell University, read a paper on “Contagious diseases among animals, and the means of suppressing and extinguishing them." He treated on Texas fever, whose spread could only be prevented by controlling, the movement of cattle northward; on tuberculosis, which exists to an alarming extent in New York; on hog cholera, which causes a loss of 20,000.000 hogs annually. These diseases it was next to impossible, he thought, to stamp out entirely. The lung piague among cattle was the easiest of eradication. Southern cattle should not be allowed to come North, and calves should be inoculated with sterilized virus. Dr. Salmon, of the Bureau of Agriculture, covered prractaoally tbe same ground in a paper on ‘The prevention of contagious diseases among the animals of America.” J. H. Sanders, of the United States Treasury Cattle Commission, spoke on the same subject. He said he was satisfied that on the Atlantic coast cattle were more or less affected by pleuro-pneumonia, but it did not exist in the West. The whole subject should he haudled by the government. Professor James i). Hopkins, of Wyoming Territory, formerly cattle inspector of New York, read a paper urging the necessity of action by the government. The National Swine-breeders’ Association, after a short session this afternoon, adjourned to meet in this city Nov. 24. Twenty-five hea'd of Clydesdale horses were sold by auction at the fat-stock show to-day. The prices ranged from $485 to $1,400. The Hereford Cattle-breeders’ Association met to-night, heard annual reports and received an invitation from E. A. Burk, director-general of the World’s Centennial Cotton Exposition, at New Orleans, to be represented. Tbe invitation was referred, The breeders and importers of Percheron horses of the United States met to-night and decided to recognize the American Percheron stud-book as tits standard authority. Its editor was directed not to admit to registration after the present year any imported stock, except those registered in the Percheron stud-book of France. The officers elected were: Daniel Dunham, Illinois, president; J. H. Bowman, lowa, secretary and treasurer. A vice-president was chosen from each State. The Chicago National Horse Association held its annual meeting to-night. The annual reports were heard. Instructions were given for the enforcement of the by-laws expelling members for misrepresenting the breeding of any horse for registry or sale. A banquet followed. NUMEROUS MEETINGS. An ARociati<m that Proposes to Reform tlie Nation. Cleveland, Nov. 15.—Preparations are being made for the annual meeting here, Dec. 11 and 12, of the National Reform Association, The association’s objects are to inculcate biblical teachings in public morals, to secure an amendment to tbe federal constitution suitably expressing Hie nation’s homage to God, and to maintain and strengthen existing Christian elements in national life, like a Christion Sabbath and marriage laws, and the Bible in the public .schools. Tlie ends are expected to be accomplished not by aggressive movements,

but persistent agitation and patiently educating the public sentiment. The society lias beeu organized twenty-five years. Church Committees. Philadelphia, Nov. 15. —The third general missionary conference of the Reformed Church of America closed to day. Many papers of interest were read, but no matter of great moment or demanding any special legislation arose during the conference. The general committee of church extension of the Methodist Episcopal Church assembled to-day. The corresponding secretary of the board read a statement showing that the amount asked for from conferences was $153,000; amount received, $108,433. Tbe report of the corresponding secretary and treasurer for the fiscal year of eleven months, ending Oct. 31, (shortened to present a full report in November), shows an increase in tlie net receipts for tbe year and a cash balance of $104,594. The Central Ohio conference asked that St. Paul’s Church, of Toledo, be excepted from the rule that no application for aid from any church costing over SIO,OOO be entertained. The request was granted for one year. Among the cases excepted from the rule of limitation were the church at Oslikoab, Wis., fora loan of SB,OOO, and the Chattanooga church, of the Holston conference. The committee adjourned until tomorrow morning. Th© Cotton Planter*’ Convention, Richmond, Va., Nov. 15.—Advices have been received to the effect that the approaching convention of the National Cotton Planters’ Association, at Vicksburg, will be one of the largest and most important ever held by the association. Large delegations of cotton manufacturers from New England and southern mills have signified their intention of being present. President Morehead has invited the Governors and State officers of all cotton States and a number from Northern States, and received acceptances from many. He left Washington to-night for Vicksburg. AN EARTHQUAKE SECRET. How a Guilty Love Was Revealed by tlia Convulsion at Ischia. The following melodramatic incident of tbe Ischia earthquake has just come to light: Count Jeppi, who possesses an enormous fortune and one of the oldest titles of the palatinate, had made a love match. His young wife was a daughter of Prince Cinella, ethereal as a Raphael, and radiant and blonde a3 a Titian. During eight months of tbe year the happy couple were in the habit of living at Florence. When the grosses cltoleurs began they went to this coquette little villa, draped with vine branches, on the side of the mountain, and near the sea, at Casamicciola. One evening last July the Count left his wife after dinner to ramble, according to ensiont, along the seashore. The night was superb. Suddenly the earth trembled as if shaken by the march of an invisible army of giants. The sky became overcast with black clouds, and the ground cracked open, emitting blasts of sulphurous smoke. The Count was thrown upon his face senseless. When he became conscious his first thought was of his young wife. He retraced his steps through tite village—now a mass of smouldering ruins, mangled humanity and half-burnt men and beasts. Cries arose on every side: "Padre! Madra! Figlio! Jesu! Maria! Santissima!” Each stone seemed to wail and moan. With cold sweat dropping from his temples, Count Jeppi stepped over dead bodies and dinted up walls of tottering houses with the sole thought, “Shall I arrive in time?" At the corner of a street a hand, still trembling, projected above a mas3 of ruins, and a plaintive voice was heard crying for help. Count Jeppi dared not stop. He turned his head aside and hurried past. After having missed his way and having twenty times crossed and recrossed ltis steps, Count Jeppi at last arrived before what had once been his villa. A narrow end of a wall was all that remained standing, in a corner of which there remained, quietly hanging from its nail, a gilded wickercagecontaininga young dove which had been the favorite pet of the Countess. The Count felt himself becoming as feeble as a little child as he gazed upon this terrible debris. Suddenly be thought he heard a voice. The voice seemed to come from a great distance. He strained every nerve The voice was heard again. He recognized it as that of bis wife. "I will save her,” said the Count, and at once set to work. He feil upou his knees and began to dig into the smoking ruins with his hands. The fine hot plaster seemed to run through his fingers like water, He lifted up with his bleeding and burning hands heavy stones and blocks that feil again, jamming and bruising him fearfully. The distant, feeble voice guided him. Suddenly it ceased. He had been working for nearly an hour. With the exertion of despair he redoubled his labors. Just as he was about to faint away from exhaustion, the debris upon which he was standing caved in, and revealed au empty space filled with smoke. Count Jeppi jumped into it, and, stretching out his arms, felt about in every direction. His hand at last touched something soft and clammy. It was the dead body of his young wife. He passed his hand softly over the face. The mouth was open, the eyes were closed, and the hair was tangled and matted over the forehead. Caressing in the darkness the golden tresses, he exclaimed, “If yon are still alive, speak or make some movement.” Being convinced of his wife’s death, he tried to lift her out of the terrible tomb in which he had found her. Seizing her by the shoulders he tried to raise her up. But she seemed to have become terribly heavy, as if an enormous weight were attached’ to her feet. At last, with one supreme effort, he dragged her body near the opening. He scarcely dared to gaze Bther. But scarcely bad he done so when : the bereaved husband uttered a city like that of a maniac. His wife pressed to her heart the corpse of a man who had his right arm thrown about her fragile waist, while his left held in its rigid grasp a white rose that had not yet withered. The head was crushed, and no feature was recognizable. The man wore no ring, and no clew of any kind could be discovered. Tite next day the bodies were exposed to the villagers. The Count stated that he believed that he had tound the body of a long-loßt friend, ami offered 20,000 lire to any one who could make known and prove the identity of the stranger's corpse. But all in vain. The Count had tlie bodies buried separately in the cemetery of Cassnmicciola, and is still seeking to discover tlie name of the man who had stolen from him his wife's heart. Core of Cauary Birds, New York Evening Post. It is not generally known that draughts of cold air are as unwholesome for a canary bird as for 8 child. Many a pet bird has drooped and died a mysterious and lamented death for the lack of a little thought on the part of its mistress. Many birds suffer also from beat ; their cages are hung so high that while ihe room does not seem too warm for the mistress it is very uncomfortable for the bird, I have known of cages being hung so near a stove that the wire became so heated as to be unpleasant to the touch. If one has not the time to be Jhougbtfnl and careful of pets, it is more humane to dispose of them to someone wbo can be. An Indiana farmer, wbo raises many turnips, harvests them iateand stores in trenches. The trenches are two feet deep, about a foot and a half wide, and of any desired length. He puts tbe turnips in, filling the trench about half way to the top, then put* on a light covering of soil. As the weather becomes more severe, lie adds more covering, until the trench is full.

BRUTALITY OF ROBBERS. Outrageous Treatment of a Colorado Farmer by Four Men. They Hold Ills Bleeding Fcot in Eire au<l Try to Compel Him to Tell tho Hldiug-l’iace of His Money. brutal robber Their Ihirbaric Treatment of a Colorado Farmer. Denver, Nov. 15.—One of the most brutal robberies that has ever occurred in Colorado was enacted at Petersburg Grove, seven miles from this city, last night. At that place resides an old butcher, Peter Olsen, who usually kept small sums of money hid about the premises. Last night four disguised men went to the house, knocked, as is customary in the country, and the farmer asked the visitors tpcome in. As soon as all were inside tlie door, they seized Olsen, threw him on the floor and held him. They then demanded to know where his money was. He replied that he hand none. After thoroughly searching the house to no purpose, Olsen still refusing to tell where his money was hid, the robbers got willow switches and whipped tbe bare feet and lees of the farmer until they were covered with blood. Still refusing, tiiev built a large fire in the back yard, carried Olsen out and proceeded to execute their threat to roast him alive. The placed his feet iu the fire, literally roasting them. Even this terrible treatment would not force him to open his mouth. The old man was then compelled to walk back to the house, where a scuffle ensued, during which a stove was overturned, disclosing a money-box containing S6OO, which tbe robbers took and decamped. There is no clue. Olsen will probably recover. CRIME IN GENERAL. Stockholders in a Missouri Enterprise Inquiring; About Tlieir Money. Rich Hill, Mo., Nov. 15.—The criminal libel suit of Thomas M. Nichol, of New York, against Thomas Irish, editor of the Mining Review of this city, was called in the Bates County Court to-day, but Nichol failed to appear. Nichol has been manager of the Walnut Land and Coal Company aud Fort Scott, St. Louis & Chicago Rrailroad for the past five months, handling Eastern capital invested in these enterprises. There is an alleged shortage of funds, and several hundred men are angrily demanding their wages. The shortage is said to amount to $30,009, and the work on the railroad is stopped indefinitely. Governor Foster and Genera! Kiefer, General Townsend, Senator Miller, of New York, and others who are interested, sent an expert here to see what had become of the money. Passengers Panic-Stricken. Galveston, Nov. 15.—A Seur Lake special says twelve tramps were noticed about the depot, last night. The agent suspecting that they intended to rob the incoming train wired the superintendent, who ordered a posse of twenty men, who boarded the train at Liberty. As the train pulled into Seur Lake the tramps rushed for the express car, but were halted by a score of Winchesters. The passengers, especially the ladies, were almost panic-stricken. Valuables were hurriedly secreted or thrown away. The gang, however, was unarmed, and asserted that they only wished to steal a ride. Mystarinuftly Slurdi rnd. Kittery, Me., Nov. 15.—The mysterious shootine last night, of Thomas Burrows, a farmer, creates great excitement. The wife states that he went to the barn, and a few momentsafter she heard several shots. Slio then saw him crawling toward the house bleeding, and she fled in terror to the neighbors. Burrows was afterward found in bed dead, with two bullet wounds in the left leg and one m the head. Frank Sntm’h Trial. Vicksul'Bo, Nov. 15.—The preliminary examination of Frank E. Stark has beeu postponed, awaiting the arrival of friends and counsel from Cincinnati. Starks claims to be a grandson of tbe lute T. F. Eckert, for a nnmber of years a prominent Western steamboat man and president of the Cincinnati Board of Underwriters. A movement is on foot for a benefit for Mrs. Allen. Shot at a Foot Race. Wilkesbabre, Pa., Nov. 15.—At afoot race at Lee Driving Park, this afternoon, William Surtees, of Pittston, and Allred Jones, of Nanticoke, had a dispute, and Surtees fatally shot Jones. Surtees was arrested. One Dead and the Other Dying. Gainesville, Texas. Nov. 15.—Two farmers, D. R. Neal and William Lynn, quarreled last night about picking cotton, and shot each other. Lynn was killed and Neal is now dying. Found Dead. New York, Nov. 15.—Mrs. J. H. Eld red. aged seventy-two years, was found dead in a pork barrel at North Petersburg, her fe :t protruding. There was a wound on her forehead. Failing; to Confirm a' Report. Cleveland, Nov, 15,—Diligent inquiry falls to confirm the report that a man murdered lus family near Canal Dover. Arreflting a PoHtmaster. Reading, Pa., Nov. 15.—Morris Brown, postmaster at Brownsville, has been arrested, charged with opening letters. The Fasting Thiel Escapes. Belvidere, N. J., Nov. 15.—Peter Smull, the horse-thief, wbo fasted thirty-eight days, escaped from jail to-night. A Cheap Wasli for Outside Wails. A cheap wash for old brick walls and one that will last for years is prepared as follows: Make a good mixture of fresh lime, about as thick as thick syrup, and add about a twentieth its hulk of linseed oil while tbe wash is yet hot, and about a sixteenth part glue which has been dissolved in several times its bulk of hot water. Then, when cool, stir to a proper consistence for applying. This wash will adhere firmly. When painting is to be done, wash the wall well with crude petroleum. Sorghum for fattening cattle is highly recommended by Dr. Kedzie, of Michigan Agrictiltural College. It lias been found by some wbo have tried it, he says, to possess wonderful fattening properties, and produces beef of very superior quality. But he adds that the sorghum must be fed cautiously at first, until the cattle become used to it, on account of danger of tfieir eating too freely of the material, causing scouring, etc. The seeds of the cane are equal iu value, pound for pound, to oats or corn.