Ligonier Banner., Volume 14, Number 21, Ligonier, Noble County, 11 September 1879 — Page 2

The Ligonier Banuer, 3. B. STOLL, Editor and Proprieters’ LIGONIER. : : : INDIANA.

‘" THE OLD WORLD. A CaLcuTTA dispatch of the 2d says the British Resident at Mandalay had been compelled to abandon his post in consequence of fears for his personal safety. A conspiracy had been discovered among the Ministers of. King Theebaw to depose him. ; A pispaTrcH from Cape Town, received on the 38d, reports the flight of Cetewayo attended by a few followers, and his pursuit by Lord Gifford witha party of mount_ed natives. His Prime Minister, two of his gons and three of his brothers had already surrendered. 5 - ; A coNsPIRACY for a speedy uprising. of the Mohammedans of Eastern Roumelia has been discovered. o : THE new quay of solid masonry at Galatz, one hundred and eighty meters long, sunk below the surface of.the river on the3d. GENERAL LAZAREFF, commander of the Russian forces operating . against the Tekke-Turcomans, has died, and LieutenantGenéral Tourgoukasoff has been appointed as his successor. i : / THE King of Burmah has concentrated an army of 40,000 men upon his frontier, with the intention, it is stated, of operating against the British. _ : THE National Railroad of Switzerland was recently sold for 4,000,000 franes. 1t cost 32,000,000 francs, o - A LoNDON telegram of the 4th says that, at a recent banquet at Limerick, given to Mr. Parnell, the Home-Rule leader, when the usual toast to the Queen was proposed it was received with violent hisses and other expressions of disloyalty. The Lord-Lieuten-ant of Ireland had ordered the Limerick Superintendent of Police to report upon the circumstances leading to this unpleasant and unparalleled demonstration. .

LURGAN, Ireland, and several surrounding districts have been declared to be i subject to the provisions. of the Peace-Pre-serving act. : . . ‘ It is announced that the French Government gontemplates tunneling Mount | Blane. i : - A TELEGRAM has been received at Gottenburg, Sweden, from Professor Nordenskjold, the Swedish Arctic explorer, dated Yokohama, Japan, September 3, announcing the arrival of the Vega at that place. A St. PETERSBURG dispatch of the _sth announces the arrest of the man who murdered Prince Krapotkine, Military Governor of . Charkoff, some time ago. It i 8 reported that . he was bribed to commit the crime by one of -the Socialists recently hung at Odessa. IN consequence of the failure of . crops in Bulgaria the Government has forbidden the exportation of cereals. . ° : Tae Portuguese Government has granted a concession for laying a telegraph cable between Lisbon, the Azores and the ' United States. e ‘0 A BerLIN dispatch of the sth says ‘the rumored resignation of Princt Bismarck was a stock-jobbing report intended to affect Ithe market for securities, and that there was »no truth in it. THE steamer France, plying between “Bordeaux and Royan, exploded her boiler on ‘the sth.. One person was killed; three mortally hurt and twenty-five seriously injured. A SMART earthquake shock was ex‘perienced in the vicinity of Szégedio, Huncgary, on the 4th. i A SimrA (India) dispatch of the 6th «Bays a messenger had just arrived fron'q Cabul .announcing that the army of Afghanistan had revolted and attacked the Ameer and the 'English Embassy. The Viceroy of India directed the immediate march of troopsand jincreased the forces guarding the passes.” On the' 7th information was received to the effect that Major Cavagnari, the /Britsh Resident and Ambassador, and his ‘whole suite, numbering seventy persons, had 'been massacred. About a dozen Afghan regiments were concerned in the mutiny.

“4«CHAM,” the distinguished French’ .caricaturist, died at Paris on the 7th. THE steamer Brest, en route from Havre to New York, went ashore on the 7th ©off the Lizards. Seven persons lost their lives. v : : e IN consequence of heavy rains the river Neva has overflowed its banks at St. Petersburg, and inundated all the suburbs. ‘There has been great destruction of prop€eryy. : : ‘ ! ?&Sxm (India) dispatch of the Bth says the’ Afghan insurrection was spreading. A regiment of insurgents had been sent from «Cabul to persuade the Herat Afghans to join therevolt. It was also rumored that the rebels had sacked Cabul. The Ameer’s fidelity was doubted, and it was even rumored that, in order to protect himself and save his life, he had been forced to join the rebels. - TaE carpenters of Paris have struck for higher wages and fewer hours. , CarTAIN GoLpsviTH and wife, Captain and crew of the miniature boat Uncle Sam, have reached Liverpool.. Th%r boat was lost in a gale off Newfoundland on the 17th of August. _ e ALEXKO PAsSHA has resigned the Governorship of Roumelia. o :

THE NEW WORLD. GOVEENOR-ELECT LUKE P. BLACKBURN was duly inaugurated Governor of Kentucky, at Frankfort, on the 2d. A very large crowd was present. : A ~ ON the afternoon of the Ist a severe tornado visited New Orleans, Morgan City, La., and the sections bordering on the Gulf and the Atchafalaya. ® Walls and buildings were blown down, vessels sunk and sugar houses destroyed. Scarcely a place between Morgan City and New Iberia escaped.

THE Minnesota Republican State Convention met at Bt. Paul on the 2d. John 8. Pillsbury, the present Governor, was renominated on the first ballot. C. A. Gilman was nominated for LieutenantGovernor. The resolutions adopted indorse. the financial policy of the present National Administration, whieh is claimed to be vindicated by the ‘‘emilent success which has attended the res\wn of specie payments;'” demand that * ‘Coustitutional means be exerted to maintaip that liberty and security’ throughout the South which all citizens are evtitled to wunder the Government;"’ favor Civil-Bervice Reform enactment by Congress; demand retrenchment in every department of | the National and Btute Governments, hnd declare that “the Republican party sets its face absolutely against Jve'ryt.hlng that savors of monopoly,’’ and will use all Constitutional means to protect the people against unjust discriminations and combinations by rafiroad

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Tae New York Prohibitien State Convention met at Syracuse on the 3d and nominated a State ticket as follows: Gov«erpot, Professor John 'W. Mears; LieuténantGovernor, James H. Bronson; Secretary .of State, #. H. Hopkins; Comptroller, C. W. ATH:; Treasurer, Stephen Merritt; State Bngineer, John F. Hooder; Attorney-General, Walter Farrington. A RreceNT Washington dispateh says the Postmaster-General had ordered an i .actual daily count in all postoffices, from the Ist to the 7th of November, of all letters, packages, postal-cards, ete. The publishers ‘of newspapers are requested to furnish postmasters with the number of papers mailed during the same time. . A NARRAGANSETT PIER special to the New York Times of the 2d says Governor Sprague had stated that his wife certainly did not leave in consequence of any threat er act of violence on his part; that no act of violence was committed by:him then or at any | other time. y ‘ :

Tae New York Republican State Convention was held at SBaratoga on the 3d. Senator ‘Conkling was unanimously chosen temporary chairman, and Vice-President Wheeler was subsequently elected permanent presiding officer. ‘A. B. Cornell was nominated on the first ballot for Governor, receiv ing 284 of the 450 votes cast. A motion to make the nomination unanimous was adopted with a single objection, The rest of the ticket nominated is as follows: For Lieuten-ant-Governor, George C. Hoskins; Secretary of fState, Joseph B. Carr; Comptroller, James W. Wadsworth; Treasurer, Natham D. Wendell; Attorney-General, Hamilton Ward; State Engineer and Surveyor, Howard Soule. The platform adopted declares the United BStates to be a nation, and not a league, and to be supreme within ite own Constitutional sphere; denounces the doctrine of State sovereignty as being the baleful mother of nullification,’ secession and anarchy; arraigns the Democratie party for its poliey during and since the wars declares that the Republican party neither justifies nor tolerates military interference with elections, but seeks only to protect the ballot-box from . the interference of force and fraud; that the successful resumption of speecie payment is the crowning element of Republican finaneial policy; that it ie the province and plain duty of the State to supervise and regulate moneyed and transportation corporations so as to secure just and impartial treatment of all interested; etc., ete. THE Chicago Inter-State Exposition was formally opened on the night of the 3d. It will continue six weeks. - THE St. Louis Colored Refugee Board held a meeting on the night of the 4th, at whieh reports were made going to show that there had been little ‘falling off in-the negro emigration northward, and that the number might be expected to increase after the crop was gathered. It was stated that a better class of people was coming, and that the demand for assistance was not so pressing and general as it had been. = .

. AT a Smith' family reunion held in Peapack, N. J., on the 4th, there were present 3,500 Smiths from various sections of the Union, East, West and South. CHARLES DEMOND, late Treasurer of the Massachusetts Home Missionary Society, was arrested in Boston on the 4th, charged with embezzlement. The amount.of his defalcation was placed at over $20,000. THE excursion-steamer Alaska exploded the dome of her boiler in Lake Erie, on the sth. | Both engineers and one deckhand were Kkilled, and ten’ deck-hands seriously scalded—some fatally. Only one of the passengers was scalded, and he slightly. ‘A Kings Ton (R. I.) dispatch to the New York World of the 4th says that Mrs. Kate Sprague was then at Jamaica Plins, Mass., where some cousins of hers were spending the summer. In a conversation with a Dr. Perry, of New -York, she had led him to believe that her departure from her husband’s residence wassolely in consequence of the inability of ‘her counsel to get Mr. Sprague to come to an understandixg about the disposal to be made of the children, A Providence telegram of the sth jays Mrs. Sprague had filed a petition in the Superior Court asking for the appointment ¢f a trustee of her property and estate in South Kingston, THE wife of ex-Sheriff William H. Kerns, of Philadelphia, died a few days ago, _of hydrophobia, the effects of a bite by a small black-and-tan terrier dog, about six weeks before, : ‘ .

A FAMILY at Linden, N. J., was recently poisoned by eating toadstools in mistake ' for mushrooms. Two children died from the effects of the poiton, and several other members of the family had a narrow escape from death. . A caLL has been issued for a Convention of Croquet Players, to be held at the Palmer House in Chicago, on the 23d inst., at two o’clock p. m.Mor the purpose of establishing National Rules by which all players may be governed. Beveral distinguished players will be in sttendance. All organized clubs are invited to send delegates, and skilled players generally are invited to attend. Those intending to be present are requested to send their names and addresses to J. A. Stoddard, 177 Madison street, Chicago, Illinois. A WAsHINGTON dispatch of the 6th states that of the ten-dollar refunding certificates: there had been sold by the Treasury Department $40,012,750. For the purpose of making the sale 799 Government officers, mostly Postmasters, were designated by the ‘Secretary of the Treasury as depositaries, But 509 of that number, however, qualified by filing bonds, aud through them sales were made to the amount of $28,569,20). Seventy-six National Banks sold $1,197,670. The balance—slo,24s,BBo—were sold by the United States Treasurer and Assistant Treasurers. Not & cent had been lost to the Goyernment in the transactions. There had been up to date 35,860,780 of refunding ecertificates presented for conversion into four-per-cent. bonds, © |

THE celebrated Oneida Community, located near Utica, N. Y., have recently taken a nev and wide departure, by declaring an abandonment of;what is known as the complex marriage system, They c¢laim to have taken this action in deference to' the popular sentiment which was evidently rising against their peculiar practices. : “ BEVERAL days ago discovery was made of a triple murder which had beén committed 'at Waynesville, Ohio, the déad bodies of ‘& Mrs. Hatte, her sister Mrs. Clementine ‘Weeeks and the daughter of the latter, aged eleven years, being found in the dwelling of Mrs. Hatte, where they had evidently lain for some time after the perpetration of the erime. Buspicion fell on William E. Ander son, eighteen years of age, a son .of Mrs. ‘Hatte by her first husband, who was the only. other occupant of the dwelling at the time of the murder. 1t was subsequently ascertained that William, who, after the]discovery of the bodies, had gone to Cincinnati, committed suicide by drowning himself in a water-tank at Plainville. On the 4th D. R. Anderson, father of William, who resides in Oinciunati,

was arrested and taken to Waynesville, under suspicion that he might have had something to do with the terrible crime; but there were many who did not- believe him guilty or that he bad any guilty knowledge of the affair. A pile of vile literature 'has been Tound belong--ing to the young man Willie. It contains papers with flashily-headed atrocities, pictures of fights by land and sea, wlere daggers, bowie-knives and pistols flash and gleam in the hands of ‘men and boys whose faces be‘token nothing'but the basest instincts. He s said to have been a constant reader of dime novels, and it is thought that his mind had been poisoned and rendered miorbid by what it was fed upon. : : THE votes cast in San Francisco have bsen counted, and give’ the following result: The Workingmen elect the Mayor, Sheriff, Auditor, Treasurer, Tax <Collector, Public Administrator, Burveyor, District Attorney, City and County Attorney, Poliece Judge, one Supervisor, five members of the Board of Education and a Railroad Commissioner for the City District. The Republicans elect the Assessor, Recorder, Coroner, County Clerk, Buperintendent of Schools, Superintendent . of Streets, eleven Supervisors, seven members of the Board of Education, a ‘member of the State Board of Equalization, and re-elect Congressman .Davis. The returne from the State at large received on the Bth left no doubt ot the election of Perkins and the Republican State ticke: by a plurality ranging from 20,000 to 23,000. It is conceded that the Republicans have elected all the “Congressmen. , ,

THE hearing of evidence in the trial at De Kalb, Miss., of Henry J. Gully for the murder of Cornelia Chisholm, in April, 1877, was begun on the Bth. Mrs. Chisholm, the first witness, testified as to the arrest of her husband, and the scenes which occurred inside the jail, when the ecrowd made an attack upon the Judge, and his daughter Cornelia, son Johnnie and Mr. Overstreet were holding the door to keep out the mob. She said Rosser shot her son, and afterward Gully fired through the grate of the door while Cornelia ‘had her arms around her father’s neck, and ‘she received the wounds of which she subsequently died. ; TgE President, Mrsi Hayes, General Bheridan and Webb Hayes left Washington on the Bth for Cincinuati. THE election in Maine on the Bth, according to the news received up to the morning of the 9th, resulted in a plurality for the Republican candidate for Governor of about 20,000 over the Greenback candidate and about 40,000 over the Democratic candidate. On joint bailot the Legislature will be largely Republican. Davis (Republican) for Governor would probably lack between 2,000 and 3,000 of having a majority over both opponents. .

YELLOW-FEVER NEWS, At Houston, Texas, on the 2d Judge Jones gave the quarantine breakers a hearing on writs of habeas corpus, and discharged the prisoners, the Judge holding that the Board of Health had no power to declare quarantine, the power being vested in the Board of Aldermen alone. It was said the next proceeding would be to arrest the Mayor, Health officers and members of the Houston Board of Health on the charge of conspiracy to obstruct, and obstructing, the United States mail.

AN appeal, signed by W. J. Smith, acting President, and T. Roane Waring, Secretary, of the Memphis Howard Association, was published on the 4th, calling on the public at large for substantial aid. Every dollar in their treasury had been used up, and,no alternative was left them but to appeal to the charity of the Nation. They say: ¢“The generous people throughout the Union “will not fail to respond tq this call for help. We feel that we are performing a sacred duty to the impoverished and distressed people among whom our lot is cast. The bounty of a common people was showered upon us in 1878, and to thosé same willing givers we appeal. If help is not . specdily furnished we will be compelled to abandon the work in which we have been engaged, leaving hundreds ‘to suffer and die for want of a Howard’s heiping hand.” : A NEw ORLEANS telegram of the sth, in noticing the enforcement of the National Quarantine law .in regard to vessels leaving the * infected port of New Orleans,” says the population of the city was not less than 200,000, and there was then but one case of yellow fever there, and that was in the Fourth District, fully two miles from the tusiness center. Total cases in the city so far, twentytwo, and deaths, nine. ~ Five sesmen, just arrived from Jamaica and Hayti, were admitted to the yel-low-fever quarantine hospital at New York on the sth. . - , THE official report showed nineteen new cases (twelve white) and thirteen deaths in Memphis on the sth. Liberdl contributions were being received by the Howard Association in response to the appeal for aid. Jay Gould sent §5,000 by telegrap%from New York, and expressed himself as certain that ‘‘ generous people throughout the country will contribute liberally to aid your stricken city. At any rate (he adds) keep on at your noble work till I tell you to stop, and I will foot the bill.” In acknowledging the receipt of this liberal donation, Mr. Smith says the expenses of the Association aggregated $l,OOO a day, and should the fever continue to spread the expenses must necessarily increase. :

SEVENTEEN new cases were reported in Memphis on the 6tb, nine of them whites and eight colored. The deaths numbered seven, five of whom were white. The total number of cases reported during the week was 152—seventy-four colered; total number to date 1,005. The deaths from yellow fever during the week numbered forty-three (tbirty-three - whites), and .the total number to date (6th) was 272. The Odd-Fel-lows’ @ial Relief Committee announced that they were again forced to the necessity of appealing to the Brotherhood at large for material aid. Such contributions should be sent to Marcus Jones, Grand Patriarch of the State and President of the Cowmittee, Mem‘phis, Tenn,

THREE new cases and one death were reported to the New Orleans Board of Health on the Gth.. : THE National Board of Health received word from Morgan City, La., on the Bth that there had been one death there from yellow fever, : : : ' THERE were eleven patients in the yellow-lfever quarantine hospital at New York on the Bth, three having been admitted that'day. Sk ‘ THE report to the Memphis Board of Health on the Bth showed twenty-five new cases (fifteen white) and eleven deaths in that city during the twenty-four hours ending on t:he evening of that day, 4 3 el e e —Two aged colored women fought in the Newport Almshouse, Eantf it transpired that sixiy years before they had qua_%eled about a lover so bitterly that, on meeting, their animosity was as strong as ever. : :

INDIANA STATE NEWS. Jamus THowresox, living at Rraokfield, Shelby County, committed suicide on the 27th ult, by jumring inte a well. No cause is assigned. : ; Taz residences of John Cook, James Simmons and George Bundy, at Knightstown, were entered by burglars and robbed of articles valued at §5OO on the night of the 27th ult. : :

A TERRIBLE fight occurred on the 31st ult., at Cambridze City, Wayne County, which terminated in the death' of Patsy Carroll, twenty years of age. He and a party of others went to Cambridge City for a little sport. While there Carroll and a man named Lee Morgan quarreled, when Morgan drew his pistol and shot Carroll, killing 'him almost instantly. After the horrible affair a Vigilance Committee set fire to the building they were in and burned it down. Morgan had not been apprehended up to the 2d. - A MAN named Copeland, in the southwest part of Hendricks Couunty, while repairing a buzz saw a few days ago, had his right arm completely cut off and the flesh on his left breast terribly mangled. : At the fair at Middlefork, a small town near Kokomo, a few days since, Lewis Hock, of Kokomo, in a fight, killed George Thompson, proprietor and munager of a dance-hall. It seems Hock and Thompson had some words the day before, and Thompson, wishing to avoid any further trouble, gave the charge of his hall to his cousin during the day, but, visiting the tent and coming in contact with Hock, a quarrel ensued. Hock struck Thompson on the head with brass-knuckles, knocking him down, and after he had fallen kicked him in the side. Thempson died in fiftcen minutes. Hock attempted to eéscape, but was caught before he got out of the grounds, and is now under arrest. TaE Superior Court, in general term, has. by‘a unanimous opinion, reversed the judgment? against Warren Tate, entered by Judge Burns, for contempt of court in shooting Wildlam Love, who wasa witness in Burns’ Court. Burns fined Tate $lO,OOO.

- Ofrver H. MILLER, of Rising Sun, whose term of office expired on the Ist, has held the office of County Clerk.and Auditor alternately and consecutively for twenty years: & THE departure of one Wallace, a Stone Bluff (¥ountain County) grain-dealer, is announced. He is said to be 5,000 bushels of wheat ahead of the farmers. i THERE will be a grand reunion of ' the soldiers of northern Indiana, at Auburn, on the 19th and 20th of September, being the fifteenth anniversary of the batile of Chiekamauga. THE remains of L. D. Ingersoll, at the time of his decease Librarian of the War Department at Washington, were buried at Crawfordeville on the evening of the Ist. THE assessed value of Indianapolis property for 1879, in round numbers, is §48,000,000. The municipal tax levy is fixed at 75 cents: school, 18 cents; total for all purposes, 93 cents. i .

8. ROBERTS, a stock-buyer, was accosted the other night by a stranger, on the road near Cicero, and asked for a ride-in his buggy. Roberts, making room for his new companion, was dealt a blow in the side with a stone, by an accomplice, and pulled” from his bug- - gy striking on his head. While stunned by the fall, he wasrobbed of $l7O.- On rallying and making an effort to rise he was kicked in the gide. - The robbers made their escape and are get at large. | A MosT diabolical attempt at murder took place at Millersburg, seven miles east of Goshen, on the Ist. Lawrence Konantz, a hotel-keeper, assaulted his wife with a rock weighing fifteen or twenty pounds. At the time of thisT attack Mrs. Kcnantz was lying at the point of death from dropsy, from which she has been a great sufferer. The fiendish husband was arrésted and given preliminary trial at Millersburg, brought to Goshen and locked up. Next day he was taken to Warsaw and imprisoned to await trial at the next term of Elkhart County Circuit Ccurt. A YOoUNG man named Thompson, living in Johnson County, recently committed suicide because a widow he expected to marry dismissed him for getting drunk. His body was found in an unused well. He bhad forced himself through a sixteen-inch opening in the cover, and, on reaching the bottom, - sat down and suffocated himself by placing his face in the water, leaning over on his Kknees for the purpose. His shoulders and the back of the head were perfectly dry. JEFF NEVITT, a Lawrenceburg farmer, was fatally stabbed by James Stacker, his hired -man, a few nights ago. WHILE arranging a belt at Indianapolis on the 4th, John Bahney was caught ir the slack and thrown over the shaft. His legs and arms were broken and his head badly mutilated. He is fatally hurt. Mgr. 8. L. KENWORTHY, Cashier of the First National Bank of Thorntown, was thrown from hig horse a few evenings ago, and sustained a compound fracture of his ankle. Even if he lives he will be a cripple. THE following are the current prices for leading staples in Indianapolis:’ Flour, $4.50 @5.40; Wheat, No. 2 Red, 92,@93c; Corn, Mixed, 324@33%4c; Oats, 2214@24%c; Rye, 50@51c; Pork, €[email protected];5 Lard, 5% @s3{c; Hogs, [email protected]. The following are the Cincinnati quotations: Flour, Family, [email protected]; Wheat, 91@95¢c; Corn, 37@ 38c; Oats, 25(@29c; Rye, 53(@54c; Pork, $B.OO @8.05; Lard, 5% @534c; Hogs, [email protected].

A Successful Trial, The Prosser twin cylinder car designed for transporting grain in bulk is a great novelty ineraiiroad rollingstock. It is emphatically rolling-stock as it actually carries. its load within its wheels. A car of this description large enough to hold about 500 bushels of grain was loaded and run over about 1,000 miles of road.to test it, both as to its effect upon the grain carried and also as to its behavior upon the rails. The grain was taken out improved in condition and the car itself showed a great saving in draught and easé in handling. The trial proved a 8 &reat. triumfih to the inventor. he ear with which these trials were masle is now on exhibition at the Chicayo Exposition, where the people of the Northwest will have an opportunity to examine its construction.

Powder Grains Under The Microscope.

IN an address delivered by Dr. R. H. Ward, of Troy, at the first annual meeting of the Society of American Microscopists, rccently held in Buffalo, an inte‘resting account was given- of the method o ascert_aining various particulars about pistol-shots by the examination of the wins of powder left unburnt. Dr. Ward said: “It is well known that modern gunpowderis not a powder at all, but consists of hard and well-formed grains, often of ‘considerable size, which, by burning gradually and comparatively slowly from their sur-

face only, gradually crowd the ball into | increasing velocitg as it movesthrough the barrel toward the mouth of the %un’, and finally ejects at a high speed. The barrel is never made long. enough for the powder wholly to burn before leaving it, and some of the burning grains must in all cases be thrown out as projectiles along with the ball. In using large charges and coarse pbwder. some grains also may be thrown out that have not been ignited at all. To observe the course of these burnin grains to advantage, cause a pist.o% charged with coarse powder to be fired in the dark at a distance of afew meters and at right angles to your line of vision, and the tiny projectiles will be seen to describe graceful curves,-each one mimicking within the range oftwo orthree metersthe trajectory of the leaden bullet in a course five hundred times as long. If the shot be fired through glass =t a distance of one or two meters, the ball will pass through, leaving a hole that will vary somew%a.t in appearance, according to circumstances, and the burning powder grains - will leave, where they strike the glass, pale, grayish stains, which lopk somewhat like grease -spots, or like the fungoid :specks. where deceased flies ‘have adhered to the giass in autumn. * * * Examined under the microscope while still, and recently, imbedded in some dry substance, the powder grains appear to be dry and dark, aad granular; and their size may often be so fully determined as to indicate positively to which of two different kinds of powder they belong. After being repeatedly or persistently moistened, they become brownish, and spongy in appearance, and may be surrounded by an efflorescence of piter which is very characteristic. In some cases they become surrounded by a bluish ring on the white paint they have penetrated, believed to be produced by a reaction between the sulphur of the powder and the lead of the paint. Usually some of the grains only indent the film of paint, or the weather-harden-ed face of the wood, without imbedding themselves: and this may. be true of all if the grains be small, the distance great, or the charge light. Ata mediura distance, the largest globular grains may imbed themselves fully, while the flat, lenticular grains, if they strike upon their flat side, will only indent the wood, but if they strike, edgewise will cut partially into the fibers if crossing their direction, but bury themselves deeply between them if they strike with a cutting edge in the direction of their length. In these and other ways may suggestions be gained as to the kind of powder and weapon used, the weight of the charge, the distance fired, the time that has elapsed, and the treatment to which the surface may have been subjected by nature, by accident, or by design.

Exports and Imports of the United : i States. e WASHINGTON, September. 3. . The following .is the first monthly. statement for the current fiscal year of the imports and exports of the United States: L EXCESS OF EXI’OBTS 'OVER IMPORTS OF MERCHANDISE, - Month ended July 31, 1879..%........ §9,673,174 Month ended July 81,1878...0........ 10.662,751 Seven months eénded July 31, 1879.... 124.609.785 Seven months ended July 31. 1578.... 166,317.268 Twelve months ended July 31, 1879... 263,572,089 Twelve months ended July 81, 1878... 270 893,056 The exports and imports of gold and silver coin and bullion were as follows: Month ended July 31, 1879, excess of i IMPOrtE: ... cod s o vdiiiticee . s BDOOIR Month ended July 81, 1878, excess of : pOrteEL. . s B s L.l 638606 Seven months ended July 31; 1879, exCEoRS OF eXPOTtE - ovovsn s in e o vin.s 1,083681 Seven months ended July 31, 1878, ex- o Cepß of eXpOYtE. Lo et S 0 oh Twelve months ended July 31, 1879; ex- ; ceRR of eXports. n. oo i i 7 b 2800ss Twelve months ended July 31, 1878, exCeEROf HNDOTIE. .-l vie o v 19D B Comparative statement of the imports and exports of the United States for the month ended July 31, 1879, and for the twelve months ended the same compared with the date for the corresponding period of the year imruediately preceding, corrected to August 28, 1870. Prepared by the Bureau of Statistics: e MERCHANDISE. - : : For the 12 2\ For the month months end--1879— Exports— _of July. edJuly3l. Domestic. ... v i.iuiiives ..-$49,985.X69 $701,897,391 FOTeIEN -+ iveerne.sovessa. 869995 - 11673384

T0ta1.....c........... 550,855,464 $713.670,726 ImpOrts..ooeeiesee.eeas. 41,282,200 449,998,636 CoupeHT O e Excess of exports over imp0rt5.....ec00.e..... $9,678,174 $263,672,089 1873—Exports— } g DomestiC.....ccveune ... .$46,428,868 $689‘588,i§7_ FOrelpn .. isivsearmanass 1,290:812 14.561,413 Total...evveerveennns.. $47.124.180 $704,099.540 Impo'rts. desediidiivenin e 81,061,429 ¢ 433.206485 Excess of " eiporfs over 5 imp0rt5................510,662,751 - $270.893,035 GOLD AND SILVER (COIN AND BULLION)J. 1879— Exports— Domestic ..oo.ovnnsnenan.. $889,101 $17.849,254 FOreigniic. s ivicsanss dovsnsy. 7884076 7,053,953 e Mt <. Do k 5, 25 Total..counenieennans .- $1.223177 $24,903,207 lOpONte. ... eseeessenr-s L 288,101 19,623,124 Excess of imports over . s S Sexporte . Ll i $69,924 Excess of exports over . HRDOTE: 4. avs W i ies - $5280,0881878— Exports— Domestic. .. eenenneee.. s $544,882 - $28,408,844 BUPCION o iasiresasss 772,629 . 7165,128 ; e e g e o Motal.ceervssess & 481917 A _33,573,972 1mp0tt5....,... sese s sdenn 1,955ym i ‘%9|476 Exce f imports over ke | SS O e VT o A § eXPOItS. ... b.000e.: - $638,566 - $195.604. ‘' TOTAL MERCHANDISE AND SPECIE. 1879—Exports— \ T i DOTICREIO. <+ o- - -a1 o 5 AENEAL D, 645 Foreign......co.venrnnnes. 1,204071 . 1827.287 TOtal.enes.snnn. ous $02018.641 $798,478 932 1mp0rt5........c000 ..flfimfl 'g% 469,621,760 Bxcest 'oF exports oveti . B op w 1 TnDOIa. .o Irrusteor-. - $0.518250 8268862173 1878—Exports— SNER L R e Domestic. ........coeno. -$46,978,7650 $712.946.971 Foreign.....covvienenaenes 2,067,841 21,726,541 Total.. .o .. veeeese i $49,041 691 $734.673,512 Emports.. .+ oo 39017406 g%,sqa,gq Excess of exportsoverim-. DOIE. . o evwensninseer $10,024,185 $270,607,658

A Farmer’s Experience With a Mad Ox. A HORRIBLE scene was witnessed near Orwigsburg, Schuylkill County, Thurs.day. George Herman, a well-to‘—dg; farmer, narrowly escaped being kille by an ox which was suffering from hydrophobia. A few days ago it wad bitten .l:{ a dog supgg:ed_'m be madyWednesday - evening Mr. Herman noticed that the ox acted strangely, and he penned it u& in a shed in the barn-; yard. About four o’clock yesterday

morning he was awakened by hearing strange sounds in the direction of the barn. Suppasing one of his horses was unwell, he wd?fit*m}t, and was surprised to see the ox raving around the barnyard, uttering low moans and tearing %the ground with its horns. . When Mr. Herman entered the yard the ox stopped its antics and he approached it. When he was about twenty feet from the animal it lowered its head and with a blood-curdling roar, made a rush at him. The man retained his presence of mind, and as the animal approached he stepped to one side, but in doing so he was ‘struck in’ theface by a hoof. - He -staggered to his feet and made toward a garden fence, but the ox turned and charged after him. The distance was about thirty yards, and the race was won by the man, who reached the fence, and fairly‘threw himself over it.- Before he could rise from the ground there was a-terrble crash, and the ox dashed through the fence, scattering boards right and left and rolling heaglo.ng over l\% Herman. It didn’t take the man long to get on his feet and escape over another fence, which surrounds the house. His clothes were badly used up -and his face was covered with blood from the wound caused by the kick he had received; but he was not seriously injured. After getting a gun and loading it with powder and - a handful of bird shot wrapped in -a rag, Herman returned to the fray. He found the oxpawing the ground wrathfully, and pausing occasionally to dig his horns viciously into it, at the same time giving vent to roars that could be heard more than a mile away. The suffering animal’s hea@ was covered with blood from cuts received by butting its way out of the stable, and great quantities of saliva issued from its mouth. Herman mounted a stone wall which runs along one side of the garden, and from that place fire two shots at the infuriated bovine. . The first shot took effect in its neck and only seemed to increase its rage, for with blind fury it charged at-the stone wall and battered its head against the stones. . The second shot, however, struck the ox in the side and killed it. On going to the stable where the animal had been penned the night before, Herman found the sides of that structure completely battered to pieces, and in another part of the yard he found a hog weighing ‘nearly 200 pounds, dead, and gored to a shapeless mass of jelly.—Reading (Pa.) Eagle. /

The Romance of Postage Stamps. - IT is strange, but true, that a love affair should have delvoped the present system of postage stamps. But ‘“Love rules the camp, the court, the bar,’” and why not the postoflicet ; - Sir Rowland Hill, who died yesterday, when on one- of his philanthropic and discovery tours through England, stopped one evening at anorth country. inn. While sitting with other travelers: warming himself at the Kkitchen fire, the postman brought in the mail. Among other persons .who received a letter was a kitchen lassie. She took the letter from the " carrier, turned it over and over in her hands, locking wistfully at it all the time, and at last handed it back to the postman remarking: “I have no money to pay the postage on a letter from India.”” Rowland Hill stepped: forward, and said: “I will pay the postage rather than have you deprived of the pleasure of a letter,” and handed her the required sum, which she received with evident gratitude and surprise. =~ . o . After she left the kitchen another traveler said: “That is her game; she knew all that was in that letter from. certain marks on the outside. It was from her sweetheart in -India, and before he went off they agreed upon some signs by which she was to learn if he was well, prosperous, and when cdoming home, and when a letter is brought to her she examines the outside and knows all that she wants to, out makes that excuse in returning it. G Mr. Hill wentin search of the girl and by adroit. questioning found his fellow traveler’s guess to be correct. The girl also showed him -how she deciphered the signs, telling him at the same time.that she was:too poor to pay the postage, and that was the reason that she and her lover had agreed upon this plan. ... . ... @ ~ From these facts Mr. Hill inferred that the Government must annually be defrauded by such artifices of large sums, and he be‘gani planning a system of stamps which - would secure to the Goverhment a certain postal revenue. The-present postal system is the .re-sult.-=CGor. N. Y. Evening Post." = =

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