Ligonier Banner., Volume 14, Number 20, Ligonier, Noble County, 4 September 1879 — Page 6

The Ligonier Bawwer,

EPITOME OF THE WEEK. . THE OLD WORLD. LORD CHELMSFORD, late-Commander of the British forces in South Africa, reached Plymouth, England, on the 26ih. He was received with something like an ovation. THE workingmen of Sheffield, England, met on the night of"the 26th, and adopted resolutions favoring a wholesale emigration to the United States. - - TaoMAs TANDY, a large landed proprietor of Athboy, County Meath, lreland, was assassinated at his own door on the 26th. . L ; A BERLIN telegram of the 27th says a new treaty had been negotiated between Germany and Japan which guarantees to the former power the free exercise of religious observances and the right of free access to the interior of Japan. ‘ } : Sik RowrLAND HiLy, the inventor of the British Penny-Postage system, died at his residence near London, Eng., on the 28th. He was eighty-four years old. AcCCORDING to a Rome dispatch of the 27th when the last encyclical was published, giving to the Jesuits the alternative of revolt or submission, the Jesuit chief sent to the Pope & memorial in which he announced the willingness of the order to submit entirely to: His Holiness. e

iLATE arrivals from Yokohama report the cholera as particularly virulent in Japan. Up to the time the steamer sailed there had been 45,000 cases and 25,000 deaths. Ex-President Grant would sail for home on the next mail steamer. . ; : Sixty Yorkshire (England) farmers sailed frop Liverpool for New York on the 28th. g : TeHE Porte announced on the 28th that it accepted the line 6f demarcation between Greece and Turkey indicated by the protocols of the Berlin Congress. - TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY Roumglian Turks have been taken prisoners in the Rhodope Mountains, charged with forming a conspiracy to attack Philippopolis. W.S. & S. CAINg, Liverpool iron merchants, failed on the 29th ult., the consequences of losses in the American trade. Liabilities $750,000. ~ e - THE official report of the recent Irkutfi; fire shows that twelve hundred houses ‘were burned and sixty lives lost. . A LETTER from Tangier, Morocco, published on the 24th ult.,, announces the death, by poison, of the brother of the Em‘peror. , L TaE Berlin Government has offered £75,000,000 for the franchises of the different German railways.’ ACCORDING to the London Standard of the 3ist ult. the Vatican had been warned that Prince Bismarck intended to concede nothing to the Church, and that all attempts to effect a compromise would be fruitless. . TaE Austrian Commission to arrange for the occupation of Novi Bazar crossed the frontier on the 30th ult. Two SocrarLists were hanged at Nikolaieff, Russia, on the 30th ult. Mgs. WriGHT, of New York, during arecent carriage ride from Martigny to Camounix; in Switzerland, was overturned and fell into a deep gorge, where she miserably perished. : e Tae foreign Ministers have made collective representations to the Porte respecting the numerous assassinations and robberies in Constantinople, and declared that the police system must be reformed. TeomAs W. BooxeE & Co’s sheetfiron and tin-plate works, near Cardiff, Wales, in operation since 1840, were closed on: the Ist by order of the Recciver of the East of England and South Wales District Bank, and the 1,500 workmen paid off and discharged. : A CONSTANTINOPLE dispatch of the Ist says the‘inhabitants of Novi Bazar were intensely excited over the intended occupation of that place by the Austrians, and threatened to resist the entry of Austrian troops. THE marriage of King. Alfonso, of Spain, to the "Austrian Archduchess Marie Christine has been fixed for the 2Sth of November. ; TuE American ‘Consul at Alexandria has officially notified the Egyptian Government that the United States demands to be represented upon the Commission on the liquidation of the Egyptian debt. ;

THE NEW WORLD. ON the afternoon of the 26th a respectably appearing man visited the Capital City Bank at Columbus, Ohio, and began to negotiate with the President for the purchase of some bonds.. While they were talking another man came in and distracted his attention for a moment. Finally his customers left. The President went into the vault and discovered that the bank had been robbed of $4,880 in currency, $l,OOO in Columbus City bonds. and $ll,OOO in four per cent. bonds. The bank offers a reward of $2,000 for the arrest and conviction of the thieves. AT the Cabinet meeting in Waghington on the 26th the Attorney-(eneral read an opinion to the effect that arrears of pensions, under the late law, go to the irmates of the homes for disabled volunteers, and not to the homes, as claimed by the managers. TeE Louisiana Democratic State Conyention has been called to meet at Baton Rouge on the first Monday of October. The Republicans will hold their State Convention at New. Orleans on the 20th of the same month. : »

A WasHINGTON dispatch of the 26th says Colonel Brownlow, in making a statement of a conversation he had with George W. Childs in regard to the nomination of General Grant, represented Mr. Childs as saying that another term as President could add no glory to Grant’s fame, and his influence for good, with his countrymen of all parties, would be far greater out of office thau in it. As the General’s friend he}(Childs) wasearnestly opposed to his candidacy,-and he was satisfied it was distasteful to the ex-President to again be made a candidate for office..

AT a conference in Boston on the 27th between General Butler and his supporters it was decided to form a party to be known as the ‘lndependent party of Massachusetts, and officers were - chosen to manage the new movement,. ! S ~ BECRETARY MOURARY, of the War Department, has reviewed the proceedings and findings of the court-martial of January 16, 1864, by which BBurgeon-General Hammond was dismissed from the service, and recommends that the findings and sentence be annulled and s¢t aside, and that the name of

William A. Hammond be placed on the retired list of the army as Surgeon-General, without back, present or future pay, or allowance of any kind whatsoever. The President has approved of the Secretary’s recommendation. Mgs. CHISHOLM and General Woodford, her counsel, arrived at €incinnati on the 28th, and would leave the next day for Mississippi to attend the trial of the parties accused of the murder of Judge -Chisholm in Kemper County. Tae Chicago Commercial Bulletin of a recent date publishes advices from ;over three hundred counties in the Northwest regarding spring wheat. The increase in acreage is 12.26 per cent.; average yield per acre, 12.92 bushels, against 11.42 bushels last year, The aggregate yield is. placed at 137,849,615 bushels, against 108,744,374 bushels last year. The quality is generally reported as bein’tter than last year. = T RoBERT BONNER has purchased the celebrated trotter Rarus for about $40,000, and withdrawn him from the course. THE Internal Revenue Bureau authorizes the announcement that the whisky product for the fiscal year ending June 3¢, 1879, was 71,892,617 gallons, against 56,103,053 gallons in 1878. e A WASHINGTON telegram of the 29th ult. says the excess of exports over imports during the last fiscal year was $263,572,089. - THE Greenbackers of New York met in State Convention at Utica on the 28th ult., and continued their session on the 29th. After some boisterous and disorderly proceedings a permanent organization was effected on the second day, by the selection of Commodore William Voorhees as Chairman, he receiving ninety-six votes to eighty for Graham and nineteen for George E. Williams. Harris l.ewis was nominated for Governor and John Wieling for Lieuten-ant-Governor, both by acclamation; P. K. McCann for Secretary of - State; John; A. Shannon for Comptroller; Julian Winnie for Treasurer, and George Wright for Attorney General. The platform adopted demands that all National Bank currency be withdrawn, and that all money of whatever kind shall be coined by the General Government and be a full legal tender; that no more interest-bearing oblizations be issued by the Government; that Postal-Bav-ings banks be established; that the volume of money to be issued by the Government equal fifty dollars per capita, or sufficient to meet all the requirements of trade; that public lands shall be held for actual settlers; ete., ete. :

TaE Portuguese Consul at Pernambuco has been assassinated. ON the night of the 30th ult., Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague effected her escape from Canonchet, R. 1., with her three daughters. The immediate provocation for hep flight was, it is alleged, an ebullition of passion on the part of Governor Sprague, during ‘which he attempted to throw her out of the window. el THE coinage executed at the mint in Philadelphia during August aggregated 1,894,220 pieces, valued at $2,223,497. Of this amount $1,876.055 was silver. THE bronze statue of General Custer at West Point, N. Y., was unveiled on the 30th ult., with impressive ceremonies, in the presence of a large concourse of people. DurinG the week ending on the 30th ult. 65,805 standard silver dollars were paid out at the Treasury Department in Washingtod, being ten per cent. of the amount of all checks presented at the counter. The greater portion was givenin payment of salaries. Of the amount, §23,752 was returned and silver certificates taken therefor. ' A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 31st ult. announced that President Hayes and family would leave on the Bth for Cincinnati, on their way to their home in Fremont. The President would return early in October. , THE following is the statement of the United States currency outstanding on the 30th ult: . Olddemand notes.... ...} ... ...l $61,425 Legal-tender notes all i55ue5......... 346,681.016 One-year notes of 1863................ 47 145 Two-year notes 0£1863................ - 14.000 Two-year coupon notes of 1863....... * 23700 Compound-interestnotes............. * 260.650 Fractional currency, all issues....... 15,762,069 W0ta1....i oo 0L L 98P 860,006

NEAR Atlanta, Ga., a few days ago a little child fell over the steep side of Stone Mountain, which has a perpendicular height of 1,600 feet. The little one caught on a ledge of rocks, and, by sticking her fingers in the crevices, managed to hold on until an alarm was*carried to the town, three miles off. A large crowd hastened to the place, when the;’ found the child fiity feet below the brink of the mountain, she having slid down rather than fallen outright. 'A man named Joy Goldsmith was let over the brink with a stout rope. He reached the child just as she was exhausted, and they were drawn to the top amid the most intense excitement. The mother awaited the child at the -brink. The little girl was considerably bruised, but all were thankful that matters were no worse, as the escape. from death was a remarkable one. -

A DISPATCH to the Boston Herald from Providence on the Ist denies that Mrs. Sprague left Newport in a steam yacht on the 30th ult., and adds: ‘*Governor Sprague denies in toto that he left any watch over his wife, or that he intercepted any of her messages or letters,” It was said the Governor would take immediate steps to reghin possession of his daughters, A specigl from Providence on the Ist to the Chicago InterOcean says it was probable Mrs. Sprague had been aided in her escape by old friends of her father, and that she would be landed somewhere on the European coast, and be guarded in her seclusion -until some definite understanding and settlement over her husband should be arrived at. i ¢

THE public-debt statement for August makes the following exhibit: Total debt (including interest), $2,273,462,432. Cagh in Treasury, $243,696,228. Debt, less amount in Treasury, $2,029,766,204. Decrease during the month, $3,527,395. Increase since June 30, $2,558,948. o : . THE official vote -for Governor in Kentucky at the late election was as follows: Blackburn, Democrat, 125,799; Evans, Republican, 81,882; Cook, Greenbacker, 18,954, Blackburn’s majority, 24,963, b hs s

YELLOW-FEVER NEWS, Two MILD cases of yellow fever were sent to the quarantine hospital at Bt. Louis on the 26th, one of them being from Mem: phis, and the other a steward cf a river steamer. . oy gy : - THE Spanish Government has recently decreed that all vessels arriving at ports of that country from the Southern Blates of North America must undergo quarantime, LI BAREE. G A cAsE of yellow fever had developed at Bartlett, Tenn., on the 28th, the sick person being a. negro whose infection could be traced to Memphis, - A = Or six yellow-fever cases on board a bark from Havana atthe New Orleans quaran-

tine station three died on the 28th. * A young lady in the cify was reported sick with the fever. She was attacked by the disease on the 25th.. Her little brother died of yellow fever on the 31st of July. ‘ : A TELEGRAM from Germantown, Tenn., on the 31st ult. announced Julian Bedford down with the fever at Bailey station. His son died of the disease about two weeks before. : UNE new case was reported in New Orleans on the 31st ult. General J. B. Hood, the noted Confederate General, died on the morniag of the 30th, and his daughter Lydia on the night following. Another child of the family was very sick. _ THIRTY-EIGHT new cases (twentyone whites) and ten deaths were reported in Memphis on. the 30th ult. The number of new cases during the week was 171—eightyseven whites and eighty-four colored. Total cases to date, 848. Deaths during the week, fifty-one; total to date, 228. Twenty new cases(thirteen, colored) were reported on the 3lst ult; deaths, five. On the 30th the Howard Association reported 208 nurses on duty in 193 families—l 32 white and sixty-one ‘colored. i

HovtsToN, Tex., having quarantined against the City of ‘Galveston, the Governor of the State issued a proclamation on the 29th ult. ordering the restriction’ removed, and on the 30th a train left the latter eity for the purpose of testing whether the former place would insist on enforcing the quarantine. On board the train were a Unitea States Marshal and several deputies and other officials. The train was stopped at the county line by the Houston Health Officer, ' who was promptly arrested, as was also the Health Officer at Websterville. -- Both were released on bonds.. When the train ‘arrived at the city limits of Houston it was halted by the whole police force of the city. The United States Marshal, having deputized ‘about one hundred persons on the train, arrested the police. On entering the ecity the United States officers were themselves arrested by the city authorities and taken before the Mayor. Bonds of fifty dollars each were demanded for their appearance in court on the morning of the Ist,which the prisoners refused to give. United States District Attorney Homan, who was one of the party, said they had acted under authority of the United States Government and by orders of Governor Roberts, of Texas. He showed dispatches from the Governor to the conductor of the train telling him to take the train throueh at all hazards

DepPuTy UNITED STATES MARSHAL Kirsy died at the New York quarantine hospital on the Ist, of yellow fever. He contracted the disease while in charge of a schooner from Port su Prince. THERE were three new cases of fever in New Orleans on the Ist, one of them being the son (aged eight years) of the late General Hood. One'dea.th. was reported. ‘THERE were sixteen new cases (thirteen white) and four deaths in Memphis on the Ist, and four additfonal deaths outside the city limits. The city was being thoroughly disinfected under the auspices of the State Board of Health officers.

- . The Cholera Wave, The dispatches have chronicled, within the last few weeks, several outbreaks of the cholera in different parts of India. It has appeared among the natives of the eastern portion of India, has touched the southern districts of China, and has caused more havoc than Afghan bullets in the British army on the Afghan frontier. The returning soldiers have carried it to commercial points in India, and it is feared the disease may move along the lines toward Europe, as it did in 1823, 1830, 1835, 1847 and 1853. . . = In; 1817 there was a violent outbreak of cholera in Bengal, the disease gradually: extending to all parts of India. During the next three years the cholera raged all over India, and extended to China and Persia. In 1823 it advanced into AsiaMinor and Russia in Asia. In 1830 another cholera epidemic swept over India, Persia and Asia-Minor, and, moving along the Caspian lines of travel, entered Russia in Europe. It reached England in October, 1831, and in the succeeding years spread into France, Spain and Italy, and was carried across to America. To make the story brief, the cholera wave which originated in India in 1817, within twenty years visited a large portion of the world. A country once visited was subjected to fresh outbreaks until 1837, when the cholera disappeared. In 1841 there was another outbreak of cholera in India, and the disease moved slowly along the old line toward Europe, reaching Russia and Germany in 1847, and at a later date England and America, taking in this time much new territory. | There was another outbreak in 1850, the wave this time reaching Europe in 1853, and extending to America two years later. : oo A further epidemic visited Europe in 1865-66, ‘but was less destructive than those of previous years. ok Since that date there have been outbreaks in various districts of Turkéy and Western Asia, but none of these have been destructive. In India the cholera maintains its footing, and the epidemics create alarm in Europe only when they seem to take up with the old westward movement.

If the present epidemic reaches the main line of trawel, or is carried by the British army in Aifghanistan, or the Russian army in Turkestan, to the commercial centers, will it extend to Europe as it did in 1830 and in 1858, aud finally reach this - country in the shape 8o dreaded in 1832, 1848 and 18557 If there is a possibility of this the most thorough pre:fiarations _should be made to meet the disease and. prevent its spread. It is singular that while the cholera rages this summer in India and adjacent countries there should Erevail in this country a milder disease aving some of the symptoms of cholera, and yet none of the disastrous effects. Do the causes that shape &n epidemic on the frontiers of India contribute to the prevalence of the milder disease here, and is the latter a Yremonitory ripple preceding the cholera wave that is to come? -

' An official report to the British Government on the cholera epidemic of 1875-6 in India declares that cholera is never a -%roduct“ of the soil where it occurs. Thatits spread is not effected by means of air currents, but by human intercourse alone; that the infective material may multiply in water containing sewage or other animal organic

matter 1n astate of decomposition; that cholera may be induced by errors in diet and by bad sanitary conditions. The remedy is in eradicating these bad conditions and in limiting human intercourse. It is comparatively easy to secure a good sanitary condition, and this is the main thing. Under the old style of commercial travel the cholera was seven years in moving from India to America. Under the modern style of intercourse, through the use of railroads and steamships, it reached this country in less than a year. This was in 1866, and 1f the old theory that the disease is virulent every twelve years is true there is gpecial need for such preparation as will prevent its spread. 1t is better to keep cities and dwellings :always clean, as a preveative measure, than to expend money and energy in cleanimg up when the cholera is at our doors.— Chicago Inter-Ocean. :

Mrs. Sprague’s Departure from Her Home at Canonchet. : NEw YORE, Sept. 1. A special from Narragansett Pier says: : : ‘“ The seeming quiet that has reigned in the Sprague mansion at Canonchet since the return thither of Mrs. Sprague and her children and the hushing up of the scandal was broken in upon yesterday afternoon by the sudden departure of that lady, accompanied by her three little daughters. The son chose to remain with his father. This latest step not only revives the scandal, but presents some new phases of it, and freshly kindles public interest as to what the outcome of the whole matter will be. Mrs. Sprague went away, it is understood, without her husband‘l’s consent, and despite not only his, but, as it would seem, other and more potent opposition. It was stated soon after the unhappy lady’s return to her home that she was immediately placed under espionage. Though this was denied by various friends of the persons most interested, the belief has been general here that the statement was true, and that the surveillance was maintained up to the time of Mrs. Sprague’s departure. It is claimed that ex-Gov-ernor Sprague has -himself taken charge of all letters and telegrams that came for his wife, that he directed the servants to refuse admittance to such of Mrs. Sprague’s friends as he did not desire her to see, and forbade the domestics to obey their miistress’ orders.”’

A Sun special from Narragansett says: % Pecple at the Pier are in excitement overthe escape from Canonchet of Mrs. Sprague last night. Mrs. Sprague claims that ever since she returned to Canonchet with her children she has been subjected to many annoyances by the Governor, which culminated on Saturday in an actual outburst on his part. Her friends say the Governor, coming home Friday morning intoxicated, suddenly went into the room where the nurses were dressing the children and,seeing Mrs. Spraguethere, said: ‘T'll show you who is master here!” and, without further words, took hold of her arm and shoulder, dragged her around the room, and attempted. to throw her out of the window, saying before witnesses that he would do so. He was prevented from carrying his threat into execution by those present. The children were half-dressed, and screaming with fright. Mrs. Sprague began quickly to make preparation to. leave, and, Saturday afternoon, about 5:30, quietly took her departure, accompanied by her three children, their nurses and luggage. So well were: her plans arranged that the Governor and his 'nephew, © Arthur Watson,” who were Kkeeping watch upon her movements, knew nothing about her departure until the party had a good hour’s start and were many miles away. Mr. Watson, upon finding them gone. immediately started down town, and drove to the depot and the hotels in hopes of finding some clew to their whereabouts. Findingir none, he turned back, and when half waybetween the depot and the old pier, he met the Governor, who had started at a break-neck speed for Kingston Junction, about eight miles away. ‘

» ¢ Leaving the Pier at about the same time as the train for Kingston, he spurred his horse to race-course speed, and then began a race between the Governor and the itrain, he hoping to cut them off if theyhad got on board at any out-of-the-way place along theline of that road. When Conductor Hale’s train arrived at Kingston the Governor was standing on the platform, with mud-bedaggled coat, and excited face, watching for signs of the missing party. He accosted Conductor Hale with: ¢Have you lugged off my children?” Hale told him he had seen nothing of them, and, after looking through the train and inquiring of officials at Kingston depot, the Governor started back for the Pier, as was supposed, as all traces of his movemenis were lost from that point. ‘“ There are many theorijes as to the manner in which Mrs. Sprague managed the affair so adroitly. It seemed improbable she could have taken the cars, for no train left the Pier between 5:30 and 7:30 o’clock, and her departure was discovered between those hours. Her son Willie was ' at the depot keeping watchinall the interval between the time of discovery and the departure of the last train. The general impression is that Mrs. K Sprague left in‘a steam yacht, and' that, too, from the Fier of the Newport hoat. A strangeooking and very fast steam-yacht was seen hovering about the Pier all the afternoon, and suddenly went ap to the Newport boat-dock, and, after waiting about ten minutes, steamed rapidly away, perhaps with Mrs. Sprague on board. = :

‘ Governor Sprague will undoubtedly exhaust every means to discover the whereabouts of the children, and will certainly use every legal effort to recover them. A suit for separation, brought bg either husband or wife, will grobablgv e at once instituted to settle he ri,g t to the control of the children.’ '

—Every Eerson has two educations—one which he receives from others and one, more important, which he gives himself.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. THE State Superintendent of Public Insttuction has received returns from-the various counties showing that 8,108 male teachers and 5,849 female teachers have been licefised this year. The rejected applications numbered 1,880, and the revocations 4. The amount of Congressional township revenue is $110,585.11; of common school revenue apportioned $1,050,649.32; of tuition reyenue from local taxation §320,080.32; of revenue from liquor licenses $54,138,26; total revenue $1,535,452.97. Whole number of children in the State 707,845. The following table shows the proportion paid by each county: :

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ON the afternoon of the 23d, at Metamora, Alfred Senour was thrown from his buggy and sustained fatal injuries. -His horse was frightened by an approaching railway train and ran away, with the result stated. : HeNkY HUFF, yard conductor in the employ of the Panhandle Road at Logansport, caught, his right foot in a frog while switching on the 23d; and was ‘run over, making amputation of the foot necessary., He saved his life by throwing his body outside of the rails. , ' : EARLY on the morning of the 25th some fiend set fire to three beds in the Central Hotel at Brookfield. The proprietor fortunately discovered the smoke coming out of the windows and gave the alarm. He awakened his wife and ehildren and succeeded in awakening the guests. The fire was promptly extinguished with small loss. : ..TuE next annual meeting of the 'State Teachers Association will be held at Indianapolis on the 29th, 30th and 81st of December. : ; FOUR HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE New cases have been filed in the ‘Supreme Court since the close of the June term, making about 1,300 cases now burdening the docket of the court. . JAcoB MILLER, a lad of ten years, residing at Cleard.ake, while pldying with a gun was shot in émo’uth on the 25th, causing instant death. ¢ AT Angola on the evening of the 25th, J. Conklin Bodley fell and ruptured a bloodvessel, dying in a few moments. He was sixty years old. s . THE residence of Carl Rahn at Valparaiso was burned on the 25th. - Loss, $2,000. Mr. Rahn was severely injured in escaping from the burning building. ; Tue State-House -contractors are émploying three hundred men on the building and in the quarries, the latter furnishing . twentyfive car-loads of stone per day. = : ROBERT BEXJOWSKY, who recently attempted the assassination of Rev. Dr. Curtis, at Shelby¥llle, and was afterward sent to the Insane Asylum at Indianapolis, escaped on the 26th, and was seen in Shelbyville next evening, armed with a knife and club. E. NALTNER, a real estate agent, was arrested at Indianapolis on the 27th, on a warrant issued upon a requisition from the Governor of Kansas. He was charged with trading off a worthless mortgage for land. ON the 26th the boiler of Engine No. 41, of the Bee line, exploded at Brichtwood, just as it had been attached to a train to take-it to Indianapolis. William Gross, the engineer, was badly scalded and-has a scalp-wound. Dan Kelly, engineer of No. 18, who was standing by, was thrown quite a distance and was severely injured. The explosion was the result of a*defective boiler. The engine had been in use about twenty-five years. _

WirLiAM SHEPHARD was taken from his home near/Boston, Wayne County, the other morning, and unmercifully horsewhipped by four farmers, who suspected him of having sawed off some plow handles. - THE safe in the railroad depot at Ellettsville, Monroe County, was taken out and broken open a few nights ago. The thieves placed it on a car, and took’ it down the railroad about a mile, where they broke it open with a sledge-hammer, obtaining therefrom about seventy dollars, the most of which belonged to Depot Agent Wilson. Dr. WiLLiams, of West Newton, while making a professional call lately, was thrown from his buggy and fatally injured. i TeE bm? of Israel Whey, in Marion Township, Hendricks County, was burned on the morning of the 28th ult. Loss, §2,500; uninsured. Incendiary. .. Mrs. O. P. MorTON and' her son Oliver have gone to New Haven to remain during the winter. The son will attend Yale College. THE following are the current prices for leading staples in Indianapolis: Flour, $4.50 @5.40; Wheat, No. 2 Red, 9214@93c; ‘Corn, Mixed, 82)4@33%4c; Oats, 2214@24%4c; Rye, 50@51c; Pork, [email protected]; LEard, 53% @sB%{c; Hogs, [email protected]. The following are the Cincinnati quotations: Flour, Family, $4.50g_i,>5.75; Wheat, 91@95c; Corn, 87@ 8c; Oats) 25@29¢; Rye, 53@54c; Pork, $B.OO @8.05; Lard, 5% @s%c; Hogs, [email protected].

The Story of a Great Discovery. THEREis living near Catasauqua, Pa., in a hearty old age, the man who discovered how to use anthracite coal in the manufacture of iron. His name is David Thomas, and the story of his discovery he thus narrates: ‘“One winter nié'ht, in the old country, I sat with Mr. Crane, a brother Superintendent of a blast furnace, over a §rate fire of hard coal. We had talked of the recent invention of the hot blast, just patented by Mr. Neilson, a Scotchman, and our conversation had carried us pretty well along into the evening.

The fire had burned low, and we were about to separate, when I picked up the bellows and began to blow it.. ¢You will put that fire out,’ said Mr. Crane. As he spoke it flashed over me that if my bellows gave a hot) blast it would bring the grate full of coal to a bright glow, and wich the thought there came like an inspiration upon me that the hot blast was all that was needed to utilize the rich bedsof anthracite under our feet for making iron. I dropped the bellows and gave utterance to my’ thoughts. Mr. Crane smiled, ‘then grew attentive, and as I went —% ' thinking out my theory as I spoke he became interested. When I concluded we grasped hands over ‘the dead coals of our anthracite fire and separated. ' Little sleep we got that night. To me it was one of restless anxiety. - When- I read an account of the night before the execution of a condemned man I always think of my night with my new idea. The next day I posted up to Scotland, and on my return I brought with me the plans of a hot-blast furnace, which we at once proceeded to build for the purpose of making iron with anthracite coal. It wasa great success, and attracted capital to the development of the anthracite coal beds of Wales and the-attention of the scientific world. Before that for our furnaces we had brought coke from the distant bituminous coal, fields, thereby increasing the cost of our product over establishments more favorably situated. The very hills underneath our feet were filled with rich deposits of anthracite, and the | discovery of means to utilize it was. like a mine of'“gold to the country around. OQur experiment was a success. Of course the scientific diseussion carried on 'in the papers in that country provoked attention in America, and the few scientific journals published here took up the matter, and thereby the iron-workers of this region came to know of its great value. -They were then using charcoal and coke. At once they set to work on my plan. It resulted in great losses to the capital invested and many cases of financial failure and bankruptey. ¢“The Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company watched these experiments with ardent hope of success, for they saw what a great advantage to them must result in carrying to. perfection in this country what we had perfected in-Wales. They waited and hoped in vain, and finally concluded to send for Mr. Crane or me. Their representative visited me, in the person of Erskine Hazard, of Philadelphia. I had -often thought of coming to Ameriea, and my wife was strongly in favor of it, so we received Mr. Hazard’s propositions with favor. Terms’ were fixed upon; it was arranged that my expenses out were to be paid, and that if I did not wish to stay after five years I'was to be -sent back with my family at- their expense. I arrived here early in the fall of 1839, and 'Catasauqua being selected as the place to build the first furnace, I at once set to work.. The population, which at that time was only that of a hamlet, was composed entirely of Germans, and my %reatest difficulty was to get skilled labor. I picked up an old countryman here and there, and on the Fourth of July, 1840, I startec the first blast, and on that day made the first iron. : There is the furnace, sir, just: below my house. It was in blast ever since until within a few days. The success was so complete, as shown by the work turned.out during the following six or eight months, that another was started, which I built in 1842. I kuilt the third.in 1846 and the fourth and fifth in 1849. . For forty years we have averaged 40,000 tons of iron a year from . those furnaces, or 1,600,000 tons in the aggregate. Then furnaces sprang up -all over the anthracite region. The way to utilize the hard coal in the manufacture of iron was the only thing needed to completely develop the great mineral wealth of the country, and this fact being recognized there was no lack of money to take the preliminary steps.” - :

—A woman at Burlington, Vt., was. fatally poisoned while washing a pair of trousers which a man had worn while applying Paris green to his po- | tato vines, -the poison ' taking effect through a cut in her hand. - - —A little girl has just died at Newport, R. 1., from injuries received in . playing snap-the-whip at & Sundayschool pignic. = - ) ' t —A Nevada mule was killed and carefully dissected because he had swallowed ten twenty-dollar bills. -

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