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cratic committee. It is thought Governor Cleveland prefers Manning, of New York, but the understanding is that he (Manning) does not want tiie position. He has promised to devote his time to the canvass and to aid the committee to the full extent of his ability,' but does not want to be the responsible head. Prom good authority it is learned that Mr. Randall forbids the use of his name, and he will not stand in Wallace’s way. At Chicago Mr. Randall was ably and loyally supported by Mr. Wallace, and it is said the former will now do all he can to have the latter made chairman* of the committee.’’ Senator Pendleton Interviewed. Washington, July 16—Senator Pendleton, who has just returned from Chicago, was seen to-night by an Associated Press reporter, and expressed himself as follows concerning the declaration of the convention on the question of civil-service reform. “That declaration was satisfactory to the civil-service reformers, and the nominations were alike satisfactory to them.” He said both Cleveland and Hendricks were strongly committed to reform in the civil service, and asked. “Who could desire more absolute committal to the doctrines of reform thad the acts of GovfcrnorCleveland and the declaration of Governor Hendricks.” (Senator Pendleton referred to the speech by Governor Hendricks in 1872, and his letter of acceptance in 187 G, insupport of the assertion that the Governor is heartily infavor of civil-service reform. The Coming Prohibition Convention. Pittsburg, Pa., July 16.—The prohibition committees are busily at work preparing for the national convention, to be held next week. Secretary Swagge says he has been advised of the election of 600 delegates and alternates, and this number will be considerably increased. The convention will be strictly a delegate body, and will be called to order by G. S. Stewart, of Newark, Ohio, chairman of the executive committee. It is not yet known who will be temporary chairman. Republican Bolters in Massachusetts. Boston, July 16.—George W. Flagg, secretary of the Republican State committee, has resigned, owing to inability to conscientiously support Blaine and Logan. Senator John F. Andrew, who has been prominently named as the coming Republican candidate for Congress in the Fifth district, announces that he shall bolt the Republican ticket and support Cleveland. He will resign his membership in the Republican ward and city committees. Delegates to the Independent Conference. Boston, July 16. —The independents here have chosen fifty-two delegates to the national independent conference at New York, on the 22d inst Sympathizers in other parts of the State are asked to send representatives of their own. For Congress. Columbus, Miss., July 16.—J. M. Allen has been nominated for Congress by the Democrats of the First district. Lawbenoeville, 111, July 16. — I The Republicans of the Sixteenth district nominated James M. McCartney for Congress, Peoria, July 16.—The Republican congress sional convention was held at Canton to-day. Hon. Julius S. Starr, of Peoria, was nominated on the 386th ballot. Hkrnando. Miss., July 16.—The Republicans of the Sixth district have nominated D. E. Robinson for Congress. Mr. Chalmers was indorsed by the independents. St. Louis, Mo., July 16.—The Democrats of the Third district of Arkansas have nominated Jos. J. Jones by acclamation for re-election to Congress. Judge E. C. Mitchell will oppose him as an independent candidate.

TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. G. C. Cochran, one of the associate editors of the Chicago Current, has retired. The Atlantic Cotton Mills at Lawrence, Mass., will shut down on July 26 till Aug. 11. Bourne, Scrymser & Co.'s oil refinery, at Elizabeth, N. J., burned yesterday. Insured. " At Louisville, yesterday, Mike Taggart, a workman, fell from the new Ohio river bridge and was drowned. General Sheridan has been designated by the President to act as Secretary of War in Secretary Lincoln’s absence. A heavy fliw of gas has been struck on Miller’s farm, near Washington, Pa, two miles from the McGuigan well, at a depth of 1,106 feet. Body-snatchers carried off the body of John May, of Conshohocken, Pa., who murdered his daughter and then committed suicide last week. The manufacturers of boots and shoes at Cincinnati have refused the demand of the heelers and lift cutters for an advance of 10 to 15 per cent Miss Emily J. Leonard, of Meriden, Conn., died yesterday, aged forty-six. She was widely known as a botanist classical scholar and writer on political economy. According to the assessment mils returned to the Texas State Comptroller, the taxable value of the State this year shows an increase over last year of $60,000,000. The strikes of the journeymen plasterers and Knapp & Co.’s shoe hands, at Philadelphia, have ended. The plasterers got the advance asked, and the shoemakers compromised. W. H. Watson, an employe of R. H. Page, a Nashville, Tenn., druggist, lias been arrested on the charge of sending obscene circulars through the mails, advertising rubber goods. At Cooperetown, Ky., William Faulkner was fatally shot by Ben Miller yesterday. The shooting resulted from a revival of an old difficulty. Miller has not yet been arrested. The postoffice at Swanton, Yt., was burglarized on Tuesday night and the safe blown open. The work was evidently done by experts. The thieves secured SBOO in cash and $7,000 in notes. At Athens, Ga., Police-lieutenant Arnold shot dead Sam Taylor, colored, who was resisting arrest A large crowd is in town, and trouble is feared. The jury rendered a verdict of justifiable homicide. About dusk, yesterday evening, at Gonzala, Texas, in a quarrel, Bud Zeigler cut Peter Marsh in the abdomen, causing his intestines to drop out. Zeigler was arrested. Marsh is in a precarious condition. The body of C. H. Abbott, a physician of Kansas City, who disappeared from home five weeks ago, was found in the woods, near town, to-day. The remains were much decomposed. The manner of his death is unknown. Although the Canadian courts have refused to extradite John C. Eno, and have ordered his liberation, American detectives are still watching his movements, and this former millionaire cannot walk the streets without being shadowed. A oollison, on Tuesday night, on the top of the Dixon grade, on the St. Louto ft San Franciftoo railway, between two freight trains, resulted in the death of William Harris, fireman. Another fireman, name unknown, was fatally in.V^a. 'Charles Putiy, who for the past eight years has collected bridge fares on railway trains creasing the river at St Louis, was knocked from the bridge yesterday by a Chicago ft Alton train, and before assistance could reach him he drowned. Cincinnati cigar-makers are out with an announcement that the manufacturers have induced u number of workmen from other cities Vo cm us to that city by representing that the lookout is ended, but it is said the men so obtained are refusing to gn to work after learning that the lockout is not ended. Be. clopments at Lake Harbor, near Muskegon, Mich., show that the unknown young man whose iiody was found there last week under eir.mmstanees indicating that he was drowned eririlp bathing, was in fact murdered and left in tin. i situation for the purpose of covering the crime. The murdered man is thought to hare been a resident of Milwaukee, and is supposed to have been wealthy. Target-Tender Killed. East Saginaw, Mich., July 16.—Ferdinand IKrause, wed 26, a member at the Saginaw [National Guards, was tending target for the rifle team of that company this afternoon when he was accidentally shot th rough the left lung by Wiiiiam Bush, and died in fifteen minutes.

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS A Morgan County Farmer’s Queer Sys- • tem of Depositing His Cash. Rev. L. 0. Thompson, His Bon, and Another Lad Drowned in the Illinois River — State Notes and Gleanings. INDIANA. How a Morgan County Man Avoided the Effects of Bank Failures. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Greengastle, July 16.— Elijah Wallace, an old farmer eighty years of age, living in Morgan county, near the Putnam county line, died one day last week, and was buried on Sunday. The old gentleman was known to be pretty well-to-do, but the extent of his fortune was not realized, even by his own children. Being taken taken suddenly sick last week and told that he must die, Mr. Wallace called his children, ten in number to his bed-side. He then sent his wife for a fruit jar that was down in the cellar among others of a similar kind. On opening the can the family were astonished to sue $5,000 in gold and in greenbacks. The old gentleman gave SSOO to each of his children and told them he had more laid away, the whereabouts of which only he and his wife knew. After his death his wife disclosed more fruit jars in which were found the almost incredible sum of SIB,OOO. This sum was .brought to town yesterday and deposited by his sons in the Central National Bank until the estate can be settled.

A Seymour Man Dies in St. Louis. Special to the ladian&polis Journal. Seymour, July 16.—Intelligence reached here to day of the death of R. J. Goulding, at St Louis, yesterday. His death was caused by sunstroke. “Dick” Goulding, as he was familiarly known, was for three terms marshal of this city, and was a member of the Masonic, Odd-fellows and Knights of Pythias orders. He had recently been connected with the Iron Mountain railroad. The remains will be buried here Thursday. ' Bank Failure at Pendleton. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Anderson, July 16. —The Pendleton Banking Company, of Pendleton, elosed their doors today. The suspension was rendered necessary by the recent failure of Fletcher & Sharpe. The Citizens' Bank, of this city, had $4,000 on deposit with Fletcher ft Sharpe. A Traveling Salesman Injured. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Hartford Citt, July 16 —W. A Early, traveling salesman for G. W. Stout, wholesale grocer, fell in a deep excavation in front of a new building, last night, and was seriously injured about the head and face. Minor Is otea. Monroe Alexander, of Wabash, has been adjudged insane and taken to the Hospital for the Insane at Indianapolis. Mrs. Addison Whittaker, of Anderson, took Paris green with suicidal intent, on Tuesday* night, and is now in a dying condition. J. W. Curtis, a farmer living southeast of Wabash, while harnessing a horse, yesterday, was kicked by the animal in the forehead. Bis skull was fractured and he will die. A separator and stacker belonging to Helvie ft Richmond, took fire on Tuesday while at work near Anderson, and, together with a large quantity Os wheat, was entirely consumed. Loss $2,000. Henry Bergman, a stone mason, living five miles southwest of North Auburn, committed suicide on Tuesday by placing the muzzle of a shotgun in his mouth and discharging it He was forty years old. Sunday morning Mrs. Eunice Morse died at the residence of her son, in Angola, at the age of ninety years. She had been a resident of Angola for almost half a century. The bosy was taken to Cheshire, Conn., for burial. Considerable excitement has been caused by the discovery of a strong vein of natural gas on the farm of Captain Stone, near Wabash, which promises to furnish gas enough to light the town. The matter will be investigated. Warsaw Times: Letters have been received by Mrs. Williams, of this city, from the Hoa We Williams, dated the 3d and 10th of June. He had just received the intelligence of the nomination of Blaine and Logan, but at the time, of course, knew nothing of his own enthusiastic nomination for Congress. He expected to start for home early in July, and hence, all talk abont his declining the race' for Congress may as well remain in statu quo until his arrival. We are firm in the belief that as soon as he fully understands the situation; knows how unanimously and heartily he was chosen by his party friends for the place; the certainty of his election by an overwhelming majority, there will be no halting on his part

ILLINOIS. Drowning of Rev. L. O. Thompson and Two Boys. • Henry, July 16. —Rev. L. O. Thompson, m company with his son Sidney, and Freddie Bishop, of Medina, N. Y., lads about twelve years of age, were out boating and fishing on the Illinois river at this point, this afternoon, and, nearing the dam across the river, their skiff was drawn into the eddies and capsized, and all three were drowned. Mr. Thompson was pastor at the Presbyterian Church here, and a popular preacher, author and scholar. Noneof the bodies have yet been recovered. Brief Mention. The summer meeting of the Mattoon circuit races will open to-day. The sum of $2,500 in purses is the attraction. Mrs. Flora Cain, wife of B. F. Cain, a wellknown farmer of DeWitt, has gone crazy from religious excitement. Burglars entered the residence of B. N. Berry, at Mattoon, and got away with S6OO in notes, a quantity of clothing and $5 in cash. Jonathan Waddell, an old resident, stricken with apoplexy on Sunday, was buried from his late home at Wabash Point on Tuesday. Gus Morris, colored, was struck by lightning at Cairo. His clothing was torn off, his left side badly burned, and he lies in a precarious condition. John Hes, night watchman, in attempting to board a moving train at Belvidere, fell under the wheels, and his right leg was crushed so it had to be amputated above tbe knee. The Great Council of Illinois Improved Order of Red Men. has just completed a successful meeting at Kansas. On Sept. 9 the Great Council of tie United States will meet at Springfield. A son of Joseph Lounsberry, residing three miles south of Nokomis, fell through a hole in the hayloft, striking on a corn-planter beneath, receiving serious wounds in the chest and internal injuries that may prove fatal. The Snake-Charmer’s Death. New York, July 16 —Crawling, twisting and writhing, stretching out his beautifully mottled body over and about his two companions, coiline and uncoiling with an uneasiness akin to pain, the Mexican diamond-backed rattlesnake that bit bis charmer, James Reilly, on Sunday, seemed all day to he searching for the man who had played with him for a year, and wbo died last night from the effects of his plaything's poison. Since Sunday the snake has set been like himself, and refuses to be comforted. He is about ten feet long when stretched out full length, and nearly six inches in diameter. He belongs to the species of rattlesnake that eats only once or twice a year, and Mr. Reilly had been accustomed to feed him and his companions with live chickens or rabbits. Reilly’s body was taken to the Bellvue Hospital to-day. and an

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autopsy was held by the coroner and Professor Welch, the pathologist of the hospital. The right arm was black, blue and red, and the color extended down to the hips, gradually fading away. The arm was terribly swollen, and the flesh was peeling off in places. Wherever a hypodermic injection of whisky had been made, the blood had settled in a black lump under the skin. Many doctors and surgeons interested in the case were present to make a technical study of the post-mortem examination. BUSINESS DIFFICULTIES. A Nevr Fork Lace-Hoods Firm Fails, with Liabilities of Nearly One Million. New York, July 16. —Edward Yard, jr., a lace merchant, No. 61 Leonard street, assigned this morning to William Freedman and O. W. Vanderpool. Preferences $550,000. The firm were dealers in white goods. The members are Ed Yard, jr., Wm. W. Yard and J. O. Willis. They were rated at $500,000. The schedule shows debts as follows: Hespmann & Alexander, $340,000; O. M. Bogart, jr., $9,jr., $9,000; Gideon, White, Son ft Cos., $7,000. Notes discounted by Central National Bank, $84,000; notes of same $3,000; botes discounted by Hanover Bank, SBO,000; total, $550,000. It is supposed the total liabilities of the firm will be about $1,000,000. No other cause can be given for the failure than the general depression of trade and the difficulty of getting single names discounted at the banks. The schedules in assignment of Miguel Fernandez and Jose Perez del Castillo,of the firm of Fernandez ft Castillo, commission merchants, 35 Broadway, to Walter R. Leggatt, was filed today, and show liabilities of $262,523; nominal assets, $276,560; actual assets, $22,837. The individual schedule of Fernandez show his liabilities to be $17,330; actual assets nothing. The schedules of the assignment of Leventhal & Mendelbaum, millinery and fancy goods, show liabilities of $83,000; nominal assets, $101,000; actual assets, $33,000. The entire sale of the real estate of John H. Deane aggregated SBOO,OOO.

Serious Failure at I ronton. Cincinnati, July 16—A dispatch from Ironton, Ohio, announces the failure of Hiram Campbell & Sons, iron manufacturers, and places the liabilities at $300,000; no statement of assets. Business men here say the failure has been expected; that the Campbells owned the Mt. Yernon and Sarah furnaces, and had been running them during the reoent depression in iron. Hardware Firm in Trouble. Sedalia, Mo., July 16—Thomas & Hadden, of this city, wholesale and retail hardware dealers, the largest in central Missouri, placed their stock in the hands of a trustee to-day. The members of the firm will pay all liabilities. An Insolvent Lawyer. St. Albans, Vt, July 16—J. J. Deavitt, formerly a practicing lawyer here, has filed a petition in insolvency. The liabilities are estimated at $50,000. Other Failures. Mansfield, 0., July 16.—The Whissemore Manufacturing Company has assigned. Liabilities not stated. Massillon, 0.. July 16.—Julius Wittraar, brewer, has assigned. Liabilities, $10,000; assets, $12,000. DAILY WEATHER BULLETIN. Indications. War Department, 1 Office of the Chief Signal Officer. / Washington, July 17, la. m. ) For Tennessee and the Ohio Valley—Fair weather, followed by partly cloudly weather, and in the western portion by local showers, northeasterly shifting to easterly winds, stationary temperature. For the Upper Lake Region—Fair weather, followed by partly cloudy weather and occasional rain, easterly winds in western portion, northerly shifting to easterly winds in eastern portions, stationary temperature. " Local Observations. Indianapolis, July 16. Time. | Bar. Ther Hum. Wind. Weather R’n. 6:24a.m.. 29.96 66.0 59 NE Clear 10:24 A. M.. 29.97 73.5 36 N Clear 3:24 p.m . 29.95 77.0 33 N Clear 6:24 P.M.. 29.94 77.0 37 N Clear 10:24P. M-- 30.01 67.0 59 N Fair. Maximum temperature 79.7 minimum temperature, 62.0. General Observations. War Department. J Washington, July 16, 10:24 p. m. i Observations taken at the same moment of time at all stations. Tw and i w ' 3 n f j? ®g- s I 3 P- g" S> g; STATIONS. I I i* g “ ? : I j i 2 j : ? ■ jf • Bismarck, Dak 29.76 60 E .02 Thr’tV. Cairo, 111 29.94 77 E Clear. Chattanooga, Tenn 1 Chicago, 111 30.01 63 NE Clear. Cincinnati, 0 29.98 73 NE ..... Clear. Columbus, O Davenport, la 29.92 71 E Cloudy. Deadwood, Dak 29.80 62 N , Clear. Denver, Col 29.75 74 SE .....Fair. Des Moines, la 29.92 67 SE .16 Lt. rain. Dodge City, Kan 29.81 77 NE Cloudy. Ft. Jssimboine, Mta 29.78 54 NW .57 Lt. rain. Fort Buford, Dak... 29.68 58 NE .74 Lt. rain. Fort Custer, Moat.. 29 77 69 NW Fair. Fort Elliot, Tex . Fort Gibson, Ind. T .' Fort Sill, Ind. T... Galveston. Tex 29.93 84 S .....Clear. Indianapolis, Ind... 30.01 69 N ... - Clear. Indianota. Tex i Keokuk, la 29.89 74 E Cloudy. La Crosse, Wis 29.96 69 SE Cloudy. Leavenworth, Kan. 29.82 75 SE Cloudy. Little Rock. Ark.... 29.88 81 8E Clear. Louisville, Ky 29.94 71 N Fair. Memphis, Tenn 29.92 80 Calm Fair. Moorehead, Minn... 29.89 60 SE .50. Lt. rain. Nashville, Tenn 29.92 76 NE Clear. North Platte, Neb.. 29.74 74 S Clear. Omaha, Neb 29.84 72 SE .01 Cloudy. Pitteburg. Pa 29.95 61 NW Clear. San Antonio, Tex Shreveport, La 29.87] 86 8 .....Clear. Springfield, HI 29.97 71 SE Thr’tV. St. Louis, Mo 29.93 75 NE Cloudy. Stockton, Tex...... 29.81 85 8 .02 Cloudy. St. Paul, Minn 29.94 68 SE Thr’t’g. Vicksburg. Miss 29.94 78 SE Clear. Yankton,D. T 29.82 67 SE .12 Cloudy. NewOrleans, La.... 29.91 86 NW Clear. Las Animas, Col 29.70 74 E .... Clear. Fort Smith, Ark 29.86 74 Calm Fair Salt Lake City, U.T 29.81 66 N Clear. El Paso, Tex 29.75 85 Calm Fair.

Steamship News. Glasgow, July 16—Arrived; Anchoria, from New York. Philadelphia, July 16— Arrived: Switzerland, from Antwerp. New York, July 16—Arrived: The Queen, from London, Wisconsin, from Liverpool; Amerique, from Havre; Bohemia, from Hamburg. London, July 16—Arrived: State of Indiana, Hammonia, Rugia, Egypt, Deruyter, Rhynland, Leerdam. and Holland, from New York; Scandinavian, Bulgarian and Samaria, from Boston. An Insane Delegate. New Haven, Conn., July 16.—The members of the Connecticut delegation to Chicago, except one, have arrived home. Charles H. Andrews was left at a lunatic asylum in Toledo. After arriving at Chicago, Andrews became ill, owiDg to tbe excitement. Physicians advised that ne be taken home. He grew worse, and at Toledo he became so violent that it was necessary to place him under restraint. He tried to kill himself by leaping from a hotel window, but was restrained. He is a manufacturer, and has a large family. _ CbeapTaras. Cleveland, July 16—A passenger-rate war is raging here, and round-trip tickets, Cleveland > to New York, are selling at sls.

SPORTING MATTERS. Second Day of the Summer Trotting Meeting at Homewood Park. Pittsburg, July 16—The attendance on the second day of the Homewood trotting meeting was very large. The weather was cool and pleasant, the track in fine condition, and the racing good, but devoid of anything worthy of special mention. Three heats were required to settle the unfinished 2:30 race of yesterday. Paul Hacke took the first heat in 2:24i, and Belle F. the two others in 2:27 and 2:251. Belle F. got first money, May Bird second, Minnie D. third, and Paul Hacke fourth. The first race to-day was the 2:25 class, for a purse of $1,500. Summary: Felix...,. 5 2 111 Secret 1 1 2 6 6 Florence M 1 3 5 4 5 Almonarch .....6 6 3 2 3 Joe Davis 4 4 4 3 2 Willis Wood 3 5 6 5 4 Time—2:2l*3, 2:2o hi, 2:22*4, 2:241*, 2:25. The second race was the 2:20 pacing, for a puree of SI,OOO. Summary. Joe Braden 6 1-11 Bessie M 1 8 8 7 Fritz 8 2 7 2 George G. 2 5 5 6 Jewett .33 33 Lorene 4 4 6 4 Little Em 7 6 2 5 Chestnut Star 5 7 4 8 Time—2:l7*2, 2:18, 2:21*2, 2:20*2The third race was the 2:23 class, for a purse of $1,500, which was postponed on account of darkness. To morrow Westjnont will pace with a running mate for a speeial puree of $2,000, with SSOO added if his record, 2:01}, is beaten. Racing at Brighton Beach. New York, July 16 —The first race, for nonwinners, three-quarters of a mile, Little Butiercup won; Cathcart second, Quixotte third. Time, 1:18}. The selling race, one mile and a furlong, Woodcraft won; Ledford seeond, Perilous third. Time, 2:00. Tho Manhattan Hotel stakes, one mile and a quarter, Maggie B. won; Wandering second, Faugh-a-Ballah third. Time, 2:13}. The handicap race, for all ages, one mile, King Fan won; Ten Strike second, Farewell third. Time, 1:46 The fifth race for all ages, seven furlongs, King Lion won; Tattler seeond, Jessie third. Time, 1:31*. _ Trotting at Beacon Park. Boston, July 16. —Summary of the 2:32 class: Onward 1 1 1 Professor 2 5 2 Fannie M 4 2 3 Rysdiek Maid 33 4 Franks. ....5 4 5 Time—2:29. 2:27%, 2:28*4. Summary of the 2:28 class: Fides 1 1 1 Minnie Moulton 4 2 2 Orange Boy 2 4 4 Breeze Medium 33 3 Belle Shaekett 9 5 5 5 Time—2:26*a, 2:26*4. 2:26*4. Base Ball. Clubs of. the National League played games as follow. At Boston — Boston O 2 0 0 O O O 3 *—s Providence 2 0000000 o—2 Base Hits—Boston, 9; Providence, 5. Errors—Boston, 2; Providence, 5. Clubs of the Northwestern League played games as follows: At Minneapolis— Minneapolis... O 023000000 2—7 Saginaw 2 000012000 3—B

Prof. Proctor in Missouri. • St. Joseph, Mo., July 16.— Prof. Richard Proctor, the celebrated astronomer and scientist, arrived in St Joe, yesterday morning, from London. He was accompanied by his wife. Miss Mary Proctor, his elder son and three smaller children, and Mias Bettie Thompson, Mrs. Proctor's sister. They were quietly received by CaDt. Charles Thompson, father-in-law of Prof. Proctor, and a few friends, and taken to General James Cosaig’s handsome residence, which had been secured in advance for the Professors use during his stay in the United States. The family will be at home there in the course of a week or two. The report that the Professor would remain in St. Joe permanently is not true. He will pass the summer here, and sometime during the all will return to England to fulfill his lecture engagements. It is likely, however, that his family will remain here. His children will attend the public schools here. One of the principal reasons for Mr. Proctor’s coming to America was to have his children brought up under American institutions. Pinkerton's Police Arrested. Columbus, 0., July 16.—At New Straitsville, to-day, the entire Pinkerton police force was arrested, half for riot, and the others for unlawfully usurping the office of constable. There was great excitement during the preliminary hearing. At the request of defendants the case was continued until Friday, the men giving SSO bond each. At the dose of the trial an attempt was made to get possession of their arms, but it was unsne cessful, the Pinkerton men agreeing to discard guns pending the trial. A dispatch from Nelsonvidle says that half of Brooks’s Italian miners left him this morning. and it is rumored the others will come out to-day. Military Under Arms at Owensboro. Owensboro, Ky., July 16—A squad of fifty special police patrolled the city last Jiight, and mounted pickets guarded the suburbs. The Governor ordered the Monarch Rifles out, and under charge of Captain Ford they kept close suveillance over the city. On Monday night the county judge took refuge in the armory, which was guarded. These precautions were due to rumors that the negroes were organizing throughout the county, and would attack the jail and release certain prisQners there, and also attempt to lynch Siu Kelly, father of the girl on whom the rapist May attempted the outrage. The Rifles will again be placed on duty to-night It is the opinion of many that no violence will be attempted bes ore Sunday night

Personal Letter from Hr. Blaine. New Haven, Conn., July 16.—Ex-Auditor, Edward McCarthy, a local Democratic leader, who bolted Mr. Cleveland’s nomination, received to-night a personal letter from Mr. Blaine, thanking him for hie pledge of support. Mr. Blaines letter is as follows: Augusta, Me., July 14. Edward McCarthy: Dear Sir—Accept my sincere thanks for your kind letter of congratulation. I regret that I can make butthis formal acknowledgement. I can question the right of no men or body to vote as they elect, but I will any I am heartily grateful to have found new friends in tout beautiful city. With best wishes, believe me to be. Very truly yours, Jakes Gh Blaine. A Defaulting Railway Clerk. St. Paul, July 16.—D. E. Swan, chief clerk of the loeal treasurer's office of the Northern Pacific railway, was found to be a defaulter, and was arrested at White Bear, whither he went in a carriage and secreted himself in the The amount of his defalcation, as disclosed tonight, is a fraction over $5,060, He will be brought here to morrow for examination. Bwan was once wealthy, hut lost his money by a default in a New Jersey bank. He was speculating in Wall street, and thus lost the company’s money. 81 Keek, Editor rad Proprietor. Cincinnati, July 16.—The Bun, successor to the News-Journal, will appear to-morrow morning with the name of J. L. Keck as proprietor and managing editor. Mr. Keck is a Republican. Political Crisis In Nova Beotia. Halifax, July 16. —Mr. Pipes. Premier of Nova Scotia has resigned. W.T. Filling has been called on to form a government. Both gentlemen are liberals. _ Beer from California. San Ebanoiboo, July 16. — The first car-load of California beer ever shipped East went forward

to-day, consigned to Chicago. It was ordered on its merits, which is due to the excellence of Cali-fornia-grown barley. , Senator Thurman’s Fish Story. Cleveland Pres*. Once upon a time, when crowded about his presidential aspirations, Mr. Thurman replied: “I really have no ambition in that direction.” A look of incredulity on every face was the only response. The Judge took in these looks and related a little story: “One summer I was at the Oaklaud House, Maryland, spending a little vacation up in the cool mountain region. Wo got to telling fishing stories. I related something of my own experience when I was present and saw caught a catfish weighing ninety pounds. When I told the weight there was a general laugh, and I was humorously awarded the prize for telling fish stories. I quietly remarked to my incredulous friends that I hoped soon to convince them of the correctness of my story that in Western waters there were catfish of ninety pounds weight When I returned to Columbus I went to the leading restaurateur and instructed him to procure me the largest catfish that could possibly be secured. He reported in a few days that he had one. I walked over, and found and excellent specimen, weighing seventy-five pounds. I had him boxed and carefnlly packed in ice, and shipped him by express to my disbelieving friends at the Oakland. From the restaurateur I got all the recipes I could for catfish chowder, eatiish steaks, stuffed catfish, roast, &c.. and sent them on by mail. I telegraphed as follows: ‘Skin your fish before you cook him,’ a catfish’s skin being so rank as to spoil the flesh when the fish is cooked with it on. They got my telegram and were puzzled. When the box arrived, dripping from the melting ice, they were more puzzled. The letter, wliich arrived by the same train as the fish, explained all. They had a fine feast, and at it formally organized with a president and secretary, aud passed the following resolution, which was sent to me: “ ‘Resolved, That the truth of Allen G. Thurman's statements should never be questioned; that his fish stories are always absolutely true, especially his catfish stories.’” Currant Cnlture. Correspondent American Gardner. Currant culture, if not entirely abandoned, is neglected to a great extent, owing to the ravages of insects infesting the bushes; and yet a little care will conquer all these. When the stems are eaten by borers, rendering them hollow, and in many instances causing them to break, trim the bushes in the fall or early spring, and where a hollow stem is found cut away till solid wood only remains. Burn all such prunings. If scales infests the stems, scrape them off. or wash the stem with strong potash water. For the worms that eat the foliage, apply one ounce of powdered white hellebore thoroughly stirred into a pailful of water; sprinkling the foliage with this from a watering-pot. Hellebore is not hurtful to man, and can be used on tbe currants even when the fruit is ripe enough to pick, if the fruit is only well washed before using. In the absence of hellebore, hot water, a little hotter than one can bear the hand in applied to the foliage will kill most of the worms, or, at least, hold them in check until hellebore can be procured. The currant span-worm, so-called from arching its back at every step, is more difficult to kill than any other of the leaf-eating caterpillars. Should ft attack the folliage while the fruit is upon the bushes, double or treble the amount of hellebore given above, and apply in the same manner. After the fruit is gathered, should they infest the bushes, use Paris green, a teaspoonful to a pail of water, applied with a watering can, or apply “slugshot,” dusted over them. In autumn, after the fall of the leaf, clear up all the litter from around the bushes and burn ft; then apply a top dressing of air-slaked lime, or potash in some form; wood ashes are especially valuable for this purpose. This dressing destroys most larvae of all insects that burrow in the soil near the bushes. Clean culture is a great foe to most injurious insects. Feed your ground with abundance of well rotted manure, and bnshes bending under the weight of fruit will be your reward.

Singleness of Purpose In Farming. Country Gentleman. Tbe successful farmer owes his success to a thorough understanding of his business. He carefully studies the character and capabilities of his farm, and marks out a course to be pursued. Having once decided what crops can be produced at the greatest profit, no radical change should be made without thoughtful consideration. The farmer who changes the character of his farming operations every year, in order to keep pace with the fluctuations of the market, is lost —be ia behind the best prices of all farm products. Unless some plan of operation is carried out the farmer will suffer financially in changing without good reason from dairying to tbe production of wool; aud from either of these industries to graingrowing. Those farmers who practice a system of mixed husbandry are more liable to fall into error than farmers who are bound down to the pursuit of a single industry. The farm being, by location or character, adapted to but a single leading industry, the farmer must, perforce, follow that one industry through good report and evil report; through years of financial prosperity and succeeding years of depression. This would be a veiy wise course for those farm ere having a choice of the production of different crops. These possess the doubtful privilege of changing too readily from one to the other. Constancy of purpose is a characteristic in which a great many of our farmers are deficient This is but one particular of a great many in which farmers can guard against loss; and in times of depression farmers should leave no effort untried to make the farm pay the highest possible profit The Arabian Free-Trade Steed. Chicago New*. A young man with exalted notions of free trade was once anxious to purchase an Arabian steed. Accordingly be visited a corral and called for the most docile brute on the premises. “He must be a thoroughbred,” quoth the young man, “or by my halidom I will not purchase him.” Thereupon they did show him a broncho which had been painted for the occasion, and forthwith, having mounted the treacherous beast, the young man was violently chounced about by the bucking quadruped and finally thrown upon a pile of rocks, very much mangled. “Is he the best you have in the shop?” inquired the young man, arising cheerfully from his recumbency. “He is,” replied the artful hostler. “That being thq case," said the young man. “I will take him, for 1 started out for an Arabian steed, and, however severe he may be on my system, there will be much consolation in knowing I have achieved my purpose 1” With which consolation the young free-trader returned with the broncho from Chicago to Kentucky.

Quick Buns l>y Steamboats. Charles Weed, Chief Engineer Steamer Pilgrim. The Pilgrim is capable of making twenty miles an hour, out we do not run her at that Bpeed, for it would bring ns to our pier at Pall River at too early an hour. At present her speed is about sixteen miles an hour. By the way, there have been some notable runs made by some of our river and sound steamers. As far back as 1852 the steamer Reindeer ran from this city to Hudson, a distance of' 116 miles, in 4 hours and 57 minutes, and made five landings. In 1864 the Daniel Drew was only 7 hours and 51 minutes in covering the distance between New York and Albany, 146 mi lea Site made nine landings, too. Her average speed was 22.3 miles per hour. In 1867 the Mary Powell made the run to Poughkeepsie, a distance 744 miles, in three hours, with six landings These, I believe, are the best runs on record in America, and probably will not soon be beaten. Costumes at a Fashionable Wedding. Girls’ Gossip, In London Times. The wedding of the Hon. Hallam Tennyson was a very brilliant affair. The bride was Miss Audrey Boyle. She wore the usual orange blossoms and white satin, and her ten bridesmaids wete dressed in ivory silk and lace. The four grown-up ones wore lace bounets and the six children lace hats, with pale blue aigrettes. Each carried a bunch of deliciously-sweet carnations. There was such a crowd that it was impossible to see the dresses of the guests, but I particularly noticed one charmipg toilet The areas was made of white poult-de-soie, which, as I told you before, is to be very much worn this summer. It had three deep .box-pleated flounce, and over each of these foil a flounce of old lace.

The white bonnet was trimmed with roses, and a bunch of similar flowers was tucked into tho silk belt. The white silk sun-shade was lined with pink and covered with old lace. Now, Who Told Wallace? Washington Critic. After the nomination of Hendricks at Chicago, the applause that followed lasted twenty-three minutes. At intervals tho band would strike up some national or street air and the audience would sing. What paralyzed the delegates, however, was when tne band played “Old Hundred." When the hand had played a minute or so, a delegate from Pennsylvania hallooed to Senator Wallace and said: “What is that they are playing, Wallace?” “ ‘Old Hundred,’ you fool; did you never hear it before?” “Damfi ever did,” said tbe delegate, “but I reckon I can hum it.” “Well, then, join in with the boys andhum it," said the Senator, and the delegate did so. A Reform in Summer Dress. Nov York Letter in Buffalo Express. Inquiry of competent authority has convinced me that simplicity will be the characteristic of summer toilets, and that for a season we shall have our girls in a state of improved but not perverted nature. lam led to predict, too, that they will behave themselves rather better than for the past few years. The promise is that at the seashore they will give up bathing in improper costumes, and will either dress modestly for the surf or not go in at all. In the hotel parlors they will not be so elaborate in their toilets and consequently more in consonance with the idea of relaxation. The fashions for once disfavor exaggeration, not only in garb, but also in manners, and the use of slang will be obsolete, along with absurd aestheticism and forced vivacity. The Thrifty Hessians. New York Dial. We are told on the authority of one who was in position to know during this last presidential canvass, that Puck’s biil was the largest paid by the national committee. Also, that It kicked after the nomination like a mule before it supported Garfield. Said he: “It will support Blaine now after the Democratic nomination is made-”

Beeelier’s Logic. Philadelphia Pres*. “I shall vote for Cleveland,” says Henry Ward Beecher, “not because I am a Democrat, hut because lam a Republican.” So? This is the flexible philosophy we suppose which permits a man to violate the commandments, not because he is a sinner, but because he is a Christian. A Trifling Error. Boston Journal. It i3 of no earthly importance, but the report that an “ex-Governor' Pillsbury, of Maine," reeled off long yarns of Blaine's unpopularity at home to Chicago listeners cannot be' true, because there is no “ex-Governor Pillsbury, of Maine.” Not one, Mr. Hendricks’s Exceptions. National Republican. Mr. Hendricks says, "I do not ask that all be turned out” No doubt the exceptions in his mind are the very' large number of Democrats now holding office under Republican rule in every department of the federal service. HU Beglnlng and His End. Illinois State Journal. Cleveland began his public life by hanging two Irishmen, and will close it by being hanged by two hundred thousand Milesans. Your true Hibernian cannot be outdone in politeness by even the Governor of the Empire State. At a Single Effort. Bloomington (111.) Psntagraph. So overjoyed was Mr. Thomas A. Hendricks at his nomination that he took the stump at Indianapolis the other night, and undertook to overthrow the present administration at Washington at a single effort. They Will Not Ratify. Philadelphia Pres*. Mrs. McDonald, as we understand it, flatly refuses to ratify the nomination of Mrs. Hendricks’ husband. In view of this, it is of little consequence what Mr. McDonald and Mr. Hendricks It Profits Nothing. Bloomington (111.) Pantsgraph. Any mun possessed qf common sense and a memory that can reach back four years, ought to know that it profits nothing to uttsr slanders against a Republican presidential nominee. Comfort for Butler. Philadelphia Press. For Governor of Massachusetts on the Democratic ticket, Benjamin F. Butler. Platform: If I can’t get the earth I’ll take pie. One of the small economies, which, if constantly practiced, will result in a large saving in the course of a year, is to purchase soap in large quantities and allow it to dry before using it Almost all the soap found in the stores is freshly made, and the great waste grows out of the fact that when soft it will dissolve rapidly in water. In the course of tjie Monday’s wash a large part of the bar will melt away with no perceptible result, unless, indeed, an unnecessary reddening and sofetning of the hands is taken into account. The Terrible Drain Which scrofula has upon the system must be arrested, and the blood must be purified, or serious consequences will ensue. For purifying and vitalizing effects, Hood's Sarsaparilla has been found superior to anyother preparation. It expels evory trace of impurity from the blood, and oestows new life and vigor upon every function of the body, enabling it to entirely overcome disease.

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