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room for Davne, because it was alleged that McAllister was not fit to boa judge. There was cne thine, however—the commission had not been mailed to the appointee, ami he had not yet taken tho oath of office. While the was going on a letter was received from, it is said, ex-Senator Grover. of Ore con, whose home is at Salem, where Dawne resides. His letter and the President's reply are now common property. The latter is dated Aug. 1, the former July 24. In the President’s letter, he said, “Your concession comes too late to ho of immediate use to tho public service.'* On the Oth of An trust, at the last Cabinet meeting held, the President’s anxiety about this judic al appointment was mentioned. On the following day ho was going to New York to attend the funeral of General Grant, and thence he was going to the Adirondacks. The commission was still held here, but on that day, Aug. 0, by order of the President, it was mailed to Mr. Dawne, at Salem. Ore. He has hardly had more than lime to get it. The President’s correspondence, it is now said, was made public with a view ot shaming Mr. Dawne into a resignation in lieu of an ultimate national disgrace. But up to (late it has not had the effect intended. He can. however, take the oath of office, and sail for Alaska on the 7th of September from Port Townsend. Before that fact could be known here, and Judge Dawne could be suspended, he would ho on his way to the Territory. He could delay his oath until after he saili and. ard until that oath is received here the government has no evidence of his acceptance of the office. The next steamer after Sept. 7 does not sail until Oct. <. Tho return to the United States will be about December. The suspension of Judge McAllister and the appointment of Mr. Dawne will then go before the Senate or some other name be substituted for that of Mr. Dawne. It is said that, could Mr. Cleveland have had his way, the commission of Mr. Dawne would never have been sent to him: but he had already had a lesson in the case of the United States marshal appointed for lowa, which was also a mistake, and the appointee admitted it by resigning instead oi demanding his commission and making a fuss generally, as lie had a right to do, according to the decisions of the United States Supreme ('ourt. That is the explanation of the sentence. our confession comes too late to be of immediate use to tho public service. Ihe mistake, it is said, will bo remedied at tho earliest moment.

MINOR MATTERS. Present Condition of the Controversy as to Ohio River Mail Service. Washington, Aug. 21.—The controversy with regard to the mail service along the Ohio river stands as follows: The orders relating to the service between Evansville and Paducah,and Paducah and Cairo, looking to the curtailment of the first and the discontinuance of the second, have been changed to take effect Sept. 10, and are subject to abrogation up to that date, if sufficient reason is shown. No action has been taken in respect to tho service between Louisville and Evansville, except to fix Sept. IS as the day for a hearing of the parties interested. Viewed from the stand-point of the postal authorities,the star service is preferable, both on the grounds of economy and efficiency, hut there are commercial interests at stake which are dependent largely upon the continuance of the steamboat lines. There are petitions from neighborhoods interested on both sides of the question, but those in behalf of the steamboat service -are in great preponderance. . Postal Matters in Indiana. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Wasp v uton, Aug. 21. —Commissions were today issu and for the following Indiana postmasters: WiiforJ L. Kitchen, Buffaloville; John H. Morgan, Derby; Ella Dickason, Joab Hincklo, Kickardsville; James Armstrong, Rosedale: William Harmeyer, Stindale. A postolflce has been established at Siberia, Perry county, and Walter P. Schenell appointed postmaster. The time schedule of the star mail route from West Franklin to St. Philip, Posey county, has been changed as follows: Leave West Franklin a. m.; arrive at St. Philip by 12 m.; leave St. Philip on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at 2:30 p. m., or on arrival of mail from Mount Vernon, and arrive at West Franklin by 4:20 P. M. Changes have been made in the star postal service as follows: Bean Blossom to Spearsville; from Sept. I omit Bean Blossom and begin at Samaria, then increase service to three times a week. Tapp to Russiaville: from Sept. 1 extend service from Tapp to and begin at Burlington. Nearly Twelve Millions for Pensioners. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Aug. 21.—T0 day Auditor John S. Williams signed a requisition for pension money to the aggregate of $11,730,000. Os this amount, $1,000,000, in round figures, went to Pension Agent Knefler, at Indianapolis; $1,080,000 went to Gilbert 11. Barger, at Columbus, for Ohio soldiers; $1,000,000 to Ada C. Sweet, Chicago, for Illinois soldiers, and the balance went to agents as follows: Maine, $500,000; Massachusetts, $775,000; New Hampshire, $500,000; lowa. $700,000: Michigan, $000,000; Tennessee, $575,000; Kentucky, $375,000; Wisconsin, $600,000: New York city. $525,,000; Philadelphia, $600,000; Pittsburg. $600,000; Syracuse, N. Y., $800,000; Kansas, $800,000; Washington. $700,000.

New York Civil-Service Hoard. Washington, Aug. 21.—Commissioner Thoman says Edward liowe, assistant appraiser, Las been appointed a member of the local board of examiners at the New York customs district, vice C. A. Stevens, resigned. lie says that Mr. Rowe has been for twenty years a member of the board of education for the city of Brooklyn. Ho is a gentleman of high character, and fine attainments. IBs selection has been made in a manner most satisfactory to the commissioners, and highly creditable to Appraiser McMuliin. He will enter upon his duties as an examiner upon completion of the pending examinations in the customs service, during which time Mr. Stevens will continue to serve. General and Personal. Breeiul to th e Indianapolis Journal. Washington, Aug. 21.—General George B. Vi illiams. of Lafayette, who has been here several days on business, started homo this evening. Ho will return within a fortnight. The usual semi-weekly purchase of silver for coinage into standard dollars was emitted to day. Several offers were received at the Treasury' Department, but were all rejected as being excessive. An official said that while tnc price of silver had declined, there was no corresponding reduction in any of the offers received. The general superintendent of the life-saving service has directed the superintendents of the several districts of the Atlantic and gulf coasts to open and man all their stations on Sept. 1. The stations will remain in operation until May 21, 1886. A rumor was current at the Navy Department to -lay that the sentence of the court-martial in ine case of Paymaster general Smith was a suspension trorn duty on furlough pay for two yeai>. No verification of the rumor is obtainah*' from those who know the findings of the court. Ibe Secretary of State has, at the request of the acting Secretary of the Treasury, applied to the President of Mexico for the extradition of Aufdemorte, who is charged with forgery and with embezzling funds from the New Orleans *ub treasury, and who is now under arrest at Monterey. The charge on which the extradition is asked is forgery. Senator Teller says that he not only never recommended Judd for appointment under the present administration, but refused to appoint him while Secretary of the luterior.

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INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS The Daily Chronicle of Happenings of All Kinds in the Two States. A Case of Glanders in Monroe County—A Friendless Swiss Girl Among Thieves —Notes and Gleanings. INDIANA. Monroe Country Farmer# Excited Over the Discovery of a Case of Glanders. Special to the Indianapolis JournalBloomington, Aug. 21. —A case of glanders has caused considerable excitement in tho south part of tho county among the farmers, they compelling James Hazel to kill ono of his horses that had an unmistakable case. Tho disease was brought by Robbins’s circus, which was here on the 29th. Pretending that tho horse had a light case of distemper, they traded the animal. Tho disease soon became a plain case of glanders. It is evident that as soon as the Robbins horses show signs of the disease, they are thus disposed of. and the’disease is likely to spread through the State. The facts have been telegraphed the State Board of Health. Tlie Reunion at Fort Wayne. ■special to tin* Indianapolis Journal. Four Wayne, Aug. 21.—Governor Gray and staff arrived this evening, and, after taking supper at tho McKinio House, were driven to the Aveline House and tendered a reception by citizens. At 9 o'clock to morrow morning the Governor wilj give a reception at Camp Grant to tho commander, tho staff officers, old soldiers and militia companies, and in the afternoon, with Gen. S. S. Burdette, national commander of the G. A. R., will review the military and industrial parade. Batteries and militia companies are still arriving, and the parade of Saturday and the sham buttle of Monday will be witnessed by 80.000 people. To-day and tomorrow are devoted to regimental reunions. To-night Library Hall was filled to its utmost capacity to witness tho military drama of “Robert Emmet,’’ the Emmet Rifles of Jackson, Mich., assuming the leading parts.

Death of John Vickery. Special to tho IndianapoiiH Journal. Vincennes, Aug. 21.—Mr. John Vickery, one of the prominent merchants of Vincennes, died last night, aged fifty-five years. Mr. Vickery was one of our most prominent grocers, and leaves an estate of SIOO,OOO. Mr. Vickery was born in 1827, in county Cork, Ireland, and came to this city in 1805. He was married three times, and leaves two children and a widow, lie was greatly esteemed in Vincennes. He was a member of the M. E. Church. Ho had been an invalid for over a year. Ho died of Bright’s disease of the kidneys. The Itenton County Veteran Association. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Fowleb, Aug. 21. —The first annual reunion of the Benton County Veteran Association closed to day, after a very profitable and enjoyable session of three days. A great many old soldiers attended from adjoining counties, and all join in saying that tho reunion was a grand success. Rev. Joseph Bell, of Kankakee, delivered an interesting speech thi? afternoon, and hi.s descriptions of army life were so true and real that they created great enthusiasm among tho old veterans. McFce Surrenders. Special to the -v.MWiiSTowx, Aug. 21. —This afternoon John Me Fee surrendered himself, waived preliminary examination, and went to jail. Ilis bond was fixed at $2,000, which he failed to give. He claims ho was secreted hero in town all the time. The excitement has subsided, and there was no attempt to interfere with him while on the street. Antrim is improving, and will recover. McFees's attorneys are goiug to make a plea of selfdefense. Asleep on a Railway Track. Special to the IndianasjolG Journal. Muncie, Aug. 21.—This evening, LouStoeber, a Bee-lino freight fireman, laid down by his engine at Daloville, while waiting for a passenger train. While in this position he fell asleep and rolled over close to the track, where ho was struck by the engine of another freight. His skull was crushed and internal injuries sustained which may prove fatal. The injured man was brought to this city. Drowning of Two Roys. Special to the Indianapolis Journal Delphi, Aug. 21.— Last night, near Rockfield, this county, two lads named Snyder and Stauffer. aged eight and ten years, were drowned while bathing in Rock creek, where they had gone unattended. Both were highly connected, 3'he Body Found at Louisville Identified. Louisville, Aug. 21.—The body found in the Ohio river near this city, on Thursday, was tonight identified as that of Mrs. Annie Johnson, of Madison, Lnd. The causes which led to her death still remain a mystery.

Teachers’ Institutes. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. . Muncie, Aug. 21.—Tho Delaware county teachers' institute closed at 4 o’clock to-day, tho session of five days having been one of the most pleasant and profitable ever held in the county. The enrollment reached 100. The leetjres of Prof. J. W. Bryan, of Bloomington, and Prof. E. E. Smith, of Lafayette, were quite well attended. by our citizens on Wednesday and Thursday evenings. The addresses were very learned. 31 r. L. L. Horton, at the close of yesterday’s session, read an excellent essay upon “Indiana in the War of i812 ; ” wiiich has been highly complimented by all who heard it. Today's session ended by an essay written and read by 3liss Kate Garst, of this city. It was a characterization of Fm-bel, and is regarded as the best of tho five good essays that have been road before the institute by local talent. By the way, this has been one of the most pleasing features of the institute exercises. Prof. H. 'B. Brown, of Valparaiso, was before the institute yesterday and to-day, aad bis work was such as to earn for him the admiration of all. Superintendent Lewellen feels that the institute has been such a success that its intluence will bo seen in the better work to be done in the schools during the ensuing year. New Castle, Aug. 21.—The session of the Henry county teachers’ institute, this week, at New Castle, was largely attended. A wellchosen programme of educational topics and exercises was followed. Among the notable addresses were those of Professor De3!otte, of De Pauw University, on “General Lessons;” Miss Carrie Furber, of the Richmond Normal, on “Grammar,” and the Rev J. 11. Ford, on “Physiology.” Superintendent Wiison talked on “General Topics,” and the lecture of I>r. •lordan, of the State University, on “The Ascent of the Matterhorn,” was brilliant in description. “The Future of the Mississippi Valley,’ was the subject of Prof W. ,T. Brvan’s address. Other features contributed greatly to the intellectual

enjoyment of the session. About two hundred teachers were enrolled as members of the institute. Columbus, Aug. 21. —The county institute, which has been in session this week, closed this evening. About one hundred and fifty teachers were enrolled, and the daily attendance was near one hundred Among the instructors were Profs. Carhart and Parr, of DePauw University; Prof. Bryan, of the State University; President Kiracofe. of Hartoville College; Prof. Hatch, Hope Normal School, and A. H. Graham, of the Columbus city schools. A number of new and interesting features were introduced, and the session was considered more than ordinarily interesting and successful. Minor Notes. Wm Rice's general store at Patsonville has been destroyed by fire. Jacob Riddle, of Harrison county, has had one of his shoulders dislocated for the sixth time. A two vear-old child of Jacob Salidan, of Columbus, was badly scalded by the upsetting of a coffee pot. The repair shop of the Michigan Central rail road, at Michigan City, was destroyed by fire. Loss. $2,000. James F. Alpha, a merchant of Vienna, jumped off the Chicago express and broke his collar bone. A New Albany citizen says he has a tomato stalk that had upon it this season 223 fully developed tomatoes. Washington Brand, a wealthy farmer, sixtyfive years of age, one of the pioneers of Tippecanoe county, is dead. Prof. W. C. White, formerly of Wabash College, was a member of the collapsed shoe house of Collins & Cos., at Columbus. James Sampson, au aged farmer, was run over and killed by a freight train on tho St. Louis Air line near Teunison Station. The drouth in Harrison county continues, and the farmers are unable to break their ground for wheat on account of the dryness of the soil. Miss Amy Phillips, fourteen years old, died of lock jaw at Vincennes, after suffering great pain since last Saturday, when she stepped on a rusty nail. Quite a number of cities in southern Indiana are putting in claims for the penitentiary, since Warden Howard said Jeffersonville was not a good place for it. A well-dressed, middle aged man, whose identity is unknown, waS found dead ou the track of the Ohio Mississippi railroad three miles east of Mitchel. A threshing engine belonging to Edwards Bros, went through a bridge in Wayne tonwship, Montgomery county, on Wednesday, and both the engine and bridge woro demolished. The colored youths of New Albany have or eanized a society to be known as the Sons of Veterans. They are sons of ex soldiers, and Quito a large membership was enrolled. A steamer for the South American Company is under construction at Howard’s ship yard. It will be shipped in parts to South America, where it will he put up by workmen sent from that city. Ten Eyck, the famous oarsman, and Captain Wells, champion sculler of the Northwest, will compete for a purse of S2OO in a two mile-race at Cedar Lake on Sunday, Aug. 30. There will be other races, including gig and four oared contests. John Whittenberger’s large frame barn, in Miami count}’, was burned to the ground, and sixty tons of hay and two hundred bushels of corn were destroyed. Loss SI,OOO. and no insurance. The fire was caused by careless handling of matches. The body of a woman was found in the Ohio river, at New York landing, twenty five miles below Evansville, yesterday morning. It is believed to be that of Miss Nellie Farrell, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances about two weeks ago. Rev. Joseph Sedgwick, of Seymour, says his wife killed a chicken, when a live snake eighteen inches in length crawled from its throat and escaped. It is thought by some that the snake was swallowed when small and grew to its present length in the chicken’s throat. Frederick Schroeder, a foreman in N. G. Olds <fc Son's wheel works, at ut died yesuf trijuiics iccviveil on lhursaay, wane running a rip-saw. A heavy plank got on top of the saw and was hurled back." nearly disemboweling him. He leaves a wife and seven children. It is reported from Fulton county that McGuire, the man who recently brutally murdered old man Kane, has never left that neighborhood. He has recently been seen by a number of his neighbors out there. McGuire is said to be heavily armed and states that he will never be taken alive.

Wm. A. Kroener, of Evansville, aged fifteen, while engaged in adjusting some machinery in the Melrose flourinc mill, yesterday, was caught in the gearing, and before help could reach him his left arm was torn completely from its socket. Medieai assistance was summoned, but the boy’s life is despaired of. Eight and one half grains of arsenic were found in the stomach of John Hocker, a farmer who died a week ago at his place two miles south of New Madison, Wayne county. Suspicion noints to Lewis Captain, a son-in-law of deceased, though his friends claim that fie will be acquitted when brought to trial. A Dr. Frame, of Parkersburg, W. Va.. has created considerable interest in Richmond on account of his conduct while under the influence of choloroform. He, uninvited, visited several houses while drunk with the anesthetic, and was finally taken to his hotel by an officer who threatened to lock him up if ho did not keep off the street. The snake excitement at Pierceville lias been revived by a fanner, James Wright. He says the monster reptile is twenty feet long and about thirty inches atound the body. According to his description it is of a dull brown color, with greenish yellow spots. Thomas Alexander thinks the same snake created a sensation in that locality some years ago. The remains of a mastodon found on tho farm of Jesse 31. Parish, in Sugar Crock township, 3lontgomerv county, along the bank of Potato creek, will be on exhibition at, the 31ontgomery county fair. The skeleton lias been almost completely unearthed. The lower jaw is two feet six inches in length, and contains two grinders eight by four inches. The tusk is eleven feet four inches in length. • ILLINOIS. A Scoundrelly Imposition Practiced Upon a Friendless Swi. ■ Girl. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Marshall, Aug, 21.—A poor Swiss girl was brought hero last night who tells a sad story. She came over from Switzerland three weeks ago to visit her uncle, a book binder in Fort Wayne, Ind., named Geisert. The girl’s name is Louisa Geisert. On Tuesday she left there to go to tho home of her aunt's husband/John Henry Hoffman. Her directions, as near as she can remember, were to go to Marshall, where she would find a butcher by the name of Wallis who would keep her until her uncle came for her. She got to Indianapolis all right. While sitting in the waiting room she was accosted in German (she speaks no other tongue—her Swiss home being on the borders) by a man who asked where she was going. She told him, when he replied that he was going to the same place and would take her to her uncle’s. lie then asked her if she had any money. She told him she had, and then he offered to buy her ticket for her, telling her to stay with his wife and he would bo back in three minutes. She gave him a S2O bill and he left her with the woman he called his wife. He not coming back, she went to look for him. It is needless to say her search was vain, and when she returned to her seat the woman was gone. She had $7 left, with which she bought a ticket for Vincennes. By the time she got there her money was all gone. She was wandering arouuu the depot crying, when Road master Perkins, of the Cairo, Vincennes & Chicago line, whodives here, saw her, and, learning by means of an interpreter that she wanted to come to Marshall, he kindly passed her to this place. It was soon seeu that this was not her

destination, for although there is a butcher here by the name of Wallis, he knows nothing of any Hoffman. The girl is not very bright, and it is thought she was heartlessly sent away by her uncle in Fort Wayne to get rid of her, as telegrams to him receive no answer. She is now’ with a German lady here. It is feared her troubles have unseated her reason, as she is very wild at times. She will be sent back to Fort Wayne, probably. Band Contest at Urbana. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Urbana, Aug. 21. —A band tournament on the grounds of Crystal Lake Park, in this city, closed with a concert in the park to-night. Tho Gibson City Baud won the first prize, SSO; the Covington, lnu., Kid Band won the second prize; the Urbana Crystal Lake Band third, and the Tolono band fourth. Texas Cattle Fever at Bloomington. Springfield, Aug. 21.—The State Live-stock Commission instructed Dr. Paaren, last night, to go to Bloomington to investigate an alarming outbreak of alleged Texas fever among a herd of cattle there, which are supposed to have con tracted the disease from a herd shipped from Hutchinson, Kan. Out of a herd of sixty-one there are twenty dead and a number of tho others are sick. Hog Cholera at Tuscola. Tuscola, Aug. 21.—Hog cholera has broken out in this county, and within the past few days large numbers have died from this disease. One farmer, who a week ago had 100 head, has lost all but twelve. Many other owners make similar reports. Brie! Mention. The Union Agricultural Fair Association has been organized at Bana, with SIO,OOO capital. John Miller, a bricklayer, committed suicide at Peoria by taking laudanum. Dissipation and despondency was the cause. The Portuguese settlers and their descendants, of Sangamon and Morgan counties, had a largelyattended reunion at Springfield. A highwayman robbed Albert Stage, a pod dier, near Galena, of slls in money and a lot of gold and silver spectacles. Incendaries have again been at. work on the large straw piles of the Vandalia Paper Mill Company. Sixty tons of straw there were recently destroyed. Matt Egg, who claims to have a brother, a detective, in St. Louis, has been arrested on suspicion of being the man who assaulted Miss Ada Stewart, near Laclede. The strike of the Pana coal miners is said to be due to the discharge of Knights of Labor from the mines. Non union men have been put to work and serious trouble is expected. The board of pension examiners at Decatur has held no meeting for two months, and fifty or more applicants are waiting for a hearing. Old soldiers express great disgust at this example of reform. Joseph Russell, seventy-five years of age, who claimed to be one of the heirs to the Harlem commons estate, in New York, valued at several million dollars, died suddenly, at Kappo, of heart disease. The commissioners to locate the Illinois Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Home are making a tour of the forty-two cities and towns in ono of which the home is to be budt. They have visited so far sixteen places on their list. Lewis Ellsworth, a convict from Peoria, completed a three-year term at Joliet, but. was rearrested at the prison door by the sheriff of Stark county and taken to Toulon, where he is wanted for robbery and arson. A State exhibition of comprehensive character is to be made at the North, Central and South American Exposition at New Orleans this year. Governor Oglesby lias appointed thirteen special commissioners to make the collection of exhibits. The attendance at the tenth annual reunion of the old settlers of Macoupin countv, held at Carlin vilio, was the largest in the history of the ascnniiition. nnraberinrr from 6.000 to 8.000. The addresses were interesting, and full of reminiscences of old times in Macoupin. An old settlers' memorial log cabin was raised on the fair grounds at Morrison. Each settler of the county prior to 1840 was invited to contribute a log, and there were 118 responses. About 100 of tho pioneers assembled and built tho triple cabin. It will be dedicated Se’pt. 2, tho second day of the Morrison fair. John Henderson, of Ballard county, Kentucky, and a bridge tender on the Kansas City & Memphis railroad, committed suicide at a •Cairo hotel. lie was found seated upon the edge of a bed turning morphine from an original sixty-grain package into the palm of his hand and lapping it up rapidly with his tongue. Before he could be reached almost tho entire contents of tho bottle had been consumed. Falling back upon the bed, he was a corpse in forty minutes. Family trouble was the cause.

A Policeman Assassinated. New York, Aug. 21.—Policeman James North was stabbed in the neck by a negro named Samuel Booket, janitor of a building in Nassau street, shortly before midnight to-night, and died almost instantly. The negro was arrested. He had insulted a lady on the street, and the officer, after chastising him, went about his business. The negro came up to him subsequently, and, without a word, inflicted the fatal wound. Steamship News. Hamburg, Aug. 21.—Arrived: Rhaetia, from New York. Nkw York, Aug. 21. — Arrived: Pennland, from Antwerp. London, Aug. 21. —Passed the Lizard: Canada, from New York. Queenstown, Aug. 21.—Arrived: Germanic, from New York, for Liverpool. Failures for the Week. New York, Aug 21.—The business failures occurring throughout the country during the last seven days, us reported to R. G. Dun to day, number, for the United States, 158, and for Canada, 19. or a total of 177. against 108 last week and 180 tho week previous to the last. The failures continue light in most sections of the country, especially in the Southern States. Tho Pacific States alone show no decrease. A Babe Comes to Fife in a Coffin. Detroit. Aug. 21.—0n Tuesday morning the infant child of Charles Sullivan, of this city, died, and was prepared for burial Fifteen hours after death, w.hile the family and friends were gathered about tho casket, tho baby began to cry, frightening nearly everyone from the house. The father retained his ‘senses and took the child from the coffin, and it has been since in better health than for some time. • ______ President Cleveland In Camp. Plattsburg, N. Y., Aug. 21.—President Cleveland and Dr. Ward have been in camp since Monday at Willitt's pond, nine miles from the Prospect House. The President is enjoying excellent health. The report that President Cleveland is ill, and that Dr. Ward lias sum moned Dr. Sawyer, of Au Sable Forks, for consultation is false. A Chance for go Per Cent. Lancaster. Pa., Aug. 21. Administrator Skills has tiled the official schedule of the bankrupt estate of the late Amos S. Henderson, the banker. The liabilities are $3111,380: assets from personal property, $61,793. The court granted ;.n order to sell the real estate, of which the estimated value is $20,000. Depositors may realize 20 per cent Charged with Swindling. Fort Worth, Tex., Aug. 21.—Wm. S. Hudson, of Bosque county. Tex., was arrested here this morning charged with swindling V. F. Randolph, of New Jersey, out of $30,000. Hudson contracted to deliver to Randolph 5,500 head of cattle, but, it is alleged, failed to deliver a single animal, notwithstanding the advance payment of $30,000. Great Slipper Sale to-day. ltochester-Buflfalo, 66 East Washington street Complete “gutting out” of entire iot of slippers now in stock. See prices and goods displayed in front of store.

THE FIRE RECORD. IS liming of Six Worn-Out Ships that Did Service in the Great Rebellion. Port Washington, L. 1., Aug. 21. —A fire, causing a loss of over SIOO,OOO, broke out on board the steamer Colorado, lying off Plum Beach, near hero, this evening. The flames spread from the Colorado to the following ships, all of which were burned to the water's edge and sunk: Minnesota, Susquehanna, Congress, South Carolina. lowa, Lotta Grant, and Fairplay. All, with the exception of the last two, formerly belonged to the United States navy. They have been condemned, and were bought from the government by Stannard & Cos., who were to break them up for the old iron and planks they could get out of them. The fire broke out on the forward deck of the Colorado, where men were at work burning planks to get the iron spikes. On the right of the Colorado was the Susquehanna, to which the flames spread rapidly, and it or the Colorado could be towed out, the flames had spread to the other boats. They all burned like tinder, and the sky was red for miles around The heat was so intense that it was impossible to go anywhere near the burning shins, while the crackling of the flames sounuod like the sharp crack of musketry. The flames crept along the decks and bulwarks of the ships, and made their way up the shrouds into the rigging. The picture now presented of the eight burning vessels, outlined against a hank of inky clouds, was one long to be remembered. The lire burned so fiercely that within three hours nothing was left of the once defenders of the United States but a sow charred planks and floating timbers. The hulls sunk at once to the bottom, going down with a hiss and a gurgle, amid a cloud of steam from the water as it swept over the burning wrecks. The Colorado was the first to gink, anti as the waters closed over her, a mast from the Minnesota toppled over on the Congress, and together they sought the sandy bottom of the sound. The Susqu**hana hurst loose from her moorings, and at one tune the various fishing ■crafts anchored along the shore appeared to be in danger. She floated about fifty yards from the shore, and after trembling for a minute, keeled over and sunk. The South Carolina and lowa followed her to the bottom in short order, but before going down the flames spread from the lowa to the Lotta Grant and Fairplay, two schooners lying near the shore, and they, too, sunk. Who the owners of the schooners are could not bo ascertained, as the crews became so mixed up in the crowd of spectators that they could not be found. • Mr. Stannard, in conversation with a reporter, said: “The loss to me is not less than SIOO,OOO, as it was only for the iron in them that I bought them. 1 lad the boats been serviceable the los3 would have footed up to millions.” The loss on the schooners, it is said, will not be less than $25,000. Fire in a Wool Warehouse. Chicago, Aug. 21.—The extensive hide, wool and tallow house of Osborn, Hosick & Cos., located at the southwest corner of Lasalle avenue and Michigan street, was set on fire by lightning at 3:30 this morning. At the time mentioned two watchmen were asleep in the second story of the .building. It is thought the loss will be between $40,000 and $50,000. Fully insured. Later. —It is now estimated that the loss by the burning of the wool warehouse of Oberne, Hosick & Cos. will reach SIOO,OOO on the stock, and $20,000 on the building; fully covered insurance.

Ileavy Loss by Fire. New Orleans, Aug. 21.—Fire at Texarkana, Ark., this morning, destroyed the Arlington hotel, the telephone office, the postoffice, the Pacific and Southern Express office, and the Western Union telegraph office. Two squares on the Arkansas side were also destroyed. The loss is estimated at $150,000. The insurance is not known. Dumber and Spool Mill Rurned. Bangor, Me., Aug. 21. —The lumber and spool mill, spool sheds and other buildings of John McGregor, at South Lincoln, were burned this morning. The total loss cannot yet bo ascertained, but there is understood to be an insurance of $23,000 on the property. Flouring-Mills llurned. Fort Scott, Kan., Aug. 21.—The Excelsior flouring mills of this city were burned this aftornoon. Loss, $25,000; insurance, SIO,OOO. TO TROT IN TWO MINUTES. An Expert on Trotting Horses Thinks This Time TV ill Re Made. New ITavon News. Prof. William H. Brewer, of Yale College, has made the evolution of the American trotting horse the subject of much careful research and study. Professor Brewer owns the most complete collection of ancient and modern hooks relating to horsefleshin all its forms to be found in New England. Yesterday the Professor gave an interesting roview of the’ progress ot trotting in America. “It is not known exactly,” he said, “when horses began to trot against time. Englishmen had always run their horses, and had fhiined them for that. So the English horse is seddom if ever put to the trot on trials of speed. It was in the year 18uG that the New York Spectator made mention of a horse which had trotted a mile in two minutes and fifty-nine seconds, which at that time was without precedent. Laws against horse-races, that is to say running horses, were in colonial times extremely stringent. In the early part of this century they got around the laws against horse-races by trotting their horses alone and timing their speed by a watch. This was a purely American discovery. Aftera while the horse laws were so modified as to aliow “trials of speed,” as they wero termed, to be given at certain periods of the year with impunity. It was not until 1818 that the first trot for money was given, when Colonel Boyd, of Maryland, bet Major Jones, of Long Island, SI,OOO that ‘no horse could be produced that could trot a mile in less than three minutes.’ Boston Blue was produced, and covered the mile in just three minutes. This was held to be a wonderful feat in those times, and Boston Blue was taken to England and exhibited there. In 1825 the New York Trotting Club was organized, and built a course at Jamaica, L. 1., which was probably the fastest trotting track in the world. From that time trotting became a general sport, and was adopted by the mass of people who owned horses, and that very thing Guaranteed its progress. The record in 1818 of Boston Blue, of three minutes, was broken in 1824 by Top Gallant in 2:40, in the same year by the Treadwell mare in 2:34, in 1830 by Burster in 2:32, and in 1834 by Edwin Forrest-in 2:31 j. It took nine years to lower the last record, which was done in 1843 by Lady Suffolk in 2:28, and in the next year by the same horse in 2:20’. But it was lett to I lor a i era pi eto astonish the country when she made her celebrated time, 2:19|, in 1859. Flora Temple from that time became a household word. Ladies wore Flora Temple bonnets, boys smoked Flora Temple cigars, politicians drank Flora Temple whisky. It is not probable that any one trotter will ever again creato such enthusiasm. Her winnings were very large indeed. Then came Dexter, lowering the record twice before retiring from the turf. Then Goldsmith Maid, whose speed and fame are said to have brought her owners a quarter of a miilion dollars. Then Rarus, St. Julion and Maud S whoso recent performance of 2.08* stands before the world without an equal. “Thus, you perceive the great lowering of records since trotting was inaugurated, in 1818. During the past decade records have steadily been lowered, and Mr. Bonner is authority for the statement that he expects Maud S. will surpass her time of a day or two aco heforo the summer closes. It is iny firm opinion, based on many years of deep study of the evolution of the trotting horse, that before another generation passes wo shall hear of trotting horses wl.o can mako a mile under two minutes. Horses are bred nowadays for the single purpose of bringing out tlieir trotting qualities, just as in England they are bred solely with reference to running. Now, if a lot of thoroughbred horses are bred within themselves, without admitting any mongrel blood, and if they are trained solely for

trotting, there is no question that man can bring the record down to two minutes and under. “Mr. Robert Bonner, who owns Maud S., ridicules such an idea, and ho may think this an impossible result. lam aware, as lie says, that trotting is an acquired srait. But still my theory holds, and if the thoroughbred is carried through one generation after another, we shall one day see a horse which can trot in two minutes. ” TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. At Auburn, N. Y., Franz Josef Petnrnkev, yesterday morning, suffered the extreme penalty of the law for the murder of Mrs. Paulina Freitzheira, on June 1, 1883. Alejandro \ idourra, a wealthy Mexican, was mysteriously assassinated, a few nights ago, near Carolitas ranche, Sevalla county, Texas. H. A. Smith, a traveling agent of the Mayer Pottery Company, of Uuer Falls, committed suicide last night. ly jumping into the Cuyahoga river, at Cleveland. In St Charles parish, Louisiana, yesterday afternoon, a lot of colored field hands took refuge under a tree, during a storm. Lightning struck the tree, killing five of them. A man giving the name of Howard Wood, and possessor of several other names, was arrested atJßay City, Mich., last night, on a charge of uttering a forged New York draft for $2,500 on a bank at Lima, O. A freight train on the Cleveland & Pittsburg road was ditched last night, just outside of Cleveland. Six loaded oil cars, one car of beer and six ears of lumber and merchandise were burned. The loss was $15,000. The St. Louis Sugar Refining Company, with a capital stock of $750,000, was organized in that city yesterday. The company has grown out of the old Belcher Sugar Refining Company, and will commence operations in the immense refinery of the old BeJcher company about Dee. 1. Yesterday William Arnold, son of Thomas Arnold, of Sedalia, Mo., got into a dispute at the depot at Syracuse, Mo , with. Charles Hardy, a barber, and was stabbed by the latter eight times, with a pairof barbers’ scissors, and killed. At last accounts, Hardy had not been captured. Patrick McKeever, of Pittsburg, was arrested last night, charged with murdering his wife. About three months ago McKeever and his wife had a drunken fight, during which he struck her on the back with a stone. She died three weeks afterward, but it was not until Tuesday that the police were acquainted with the facts. McKeever is about fifty years old. The body of Will Carlton, the actor and playwright, who committed suicide in New York, on Wednesday last, by asphyxiating himself with illuminating gas, was buried yesterday from an undertaking establishment. No services wero held, and only a few people attended. The interment was made in the plat of the Actors’ Fund, in the Cemetery of the Evergreen. The national Prohibitionists are holding a camp-meeting at Ottawa, Kan. Dr. Boole, of Brooklyn, N. Y., at the opening, Thursday night, lectuied to about 150. Yesterday there were devotional exercises, ar.d a spirited discussion between Dr. Boole, O. H. Stephens, of Rochester, and W. Anderson, of Michigan. Mrs. Ella A. Boole, the Doctor's wife, gave a veryinteresting address at night entitled, “The Representative Voter and Ilis Vote.” Charles F. Blever. a nativo of Philadelphia, committed suicide in his room at the Astor House, New’ York, yesterday morning at an early hqeir. Pour years ago ho was one of the chief cl*ks at the custom-house in New York, hut owing to some mental trouble he resigned, and since that time has been engaged in uo business. He was never married. He frequently visited New York to consult physicians regarding his malady, which was said to be a mild form of insanity, brought on by overwork end loss of sleep.

Museum of Art* New York Special. A. H. Huntington, of Paris, who has spent twenty years in the collection of engravings, bronzes and medallions of Benjamin Franklin, and literature on the famous American, has recently made an important gift to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, A previous gift, known as the first Huntington collection, now adorns one of the halls. This second collection includes a full-length portrait of Washington, a reduction of a larger picture by C. W. Peale. This picture was brought from America in 1788 £>y M. tie La Boissiere, aide-de-camp of Rochambeau. Another among the attractions of this collection is a copy of an original pastel of Benjamin Franklin, now owned by Henry Sanford, who bought it in Paris when secretary of the United States legation. Mr. Huntington’s books on Franklin, comprising about 530 volumes, by and about tho philosopher and patriot, and in almost every tongue, were presented to John Bigelow. But Mr. Bigelow, feeling that they should be accessible to scholars, has recently transferred them to the library of the Museum of Art. Where General Grant Is Buried. Mrs. Martha J. Lamb, tho historian, is preparing an historical account of Riverside Park for the Magazine of American History. She says that it was a favorite daily drive of Washington, and that an historic party, including General and .Mrs. Washington and Thomas Jefferson, made a trip to the heights and lunched there. In thie neighborhood Louis Philippe, afterward King of France, and Joseph Bonaparte, who had been King of Spain, lived in retirement Louis Philippe taught a school there in the early years of tho century. Biography of Battenberg. Philadelphia Press. It is said in favor of Prince Henry of Battenberg, the Queen’s new nickel plated son-in-law, that he is an excellent practical printer. It will be remembered that Battenberg used to be slug nine on the Berlin tri-weekly Gesundheit Blatter, and that when the office was mobbed by the Anti-thick-bottomed Beer Glass Society, in tho spring of 1878, Battenberg dispersed trie rioters by fracturing the skull of their leader with a blow with the office towel. Advance in Prices of Lumber. St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 21. —The Northwestern Lumber Dealers’ Association, with representatives from lowa. Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin. met here to-day. On the ground that less lumber is left over this season than last, a resolution was passed advancing rates $1 per thousand on all crades. iSsj SPEC , Pj j| eerner MOST PERFECT MADE vSS’iT&SiMa®. flavor as delicately and naturally as the nun. pkice baking powder CO., CHICAGO. eTWHITE’S NEURALGIA CURE Gives Quick Relief, ami ElFects a Permanent Cure of that most painful disease. li* Try it, and Suffer* no more. Price; Small Bottles, 25 ots. Large Bottles. 5U For sale by all Druggist*. 10.15. WHITE, Solo I‘roji., Lancaster. 0