Ligonier Banner., Volume 14, Number 24, Ligonier, Noble County, 2 October 1879 — Page 6

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EPITOME OF THE WEEK. ~ THE OLD WORLD. THE French Committee having in charge the proposed Franco-American treaty of commerce gave "a banquet to Fernando Wood, of New York, at Paris on the evening of the 23d. Among others United States Minister Noyes and Consul-General Fairchild participated. 3 A LonNpoN dispatch of the 24th says the bicycle riders of England and France, including the champions of those countries, had decided to visit the United States. ‘ A St. PETERSBURG dispatch of the 24th says four fires had recently occurred at _ Astrakhan, presumably set by Nihilists. The losses were heavy. - A LoNpoN dispatch of the 25th says three hundred of Lord Normanby’s tenants in Ireland had refused to payany more rents, and had threatened the agent, who offered to make a reduction, with violence. The affair had created great excitement in Tipperary. A LONDON telegram of the 25th says that Stanley,. the African explorer, left fierra Leone on the 3d for the River Congo, “with the steamer Albion. P » A CarrO (Egypt) dispatch of the 25th says General Gordon had' a parley with _the Commander-in-Chief of the Abyssinian forceés, which had resulted in the withdrawal of the Abyssinian troops from the-Egyptian fromtier. : : A BrusseLstélegram of the 25th says the Belgian Cdtholic:Bishops had instructed ~the clergy to refuse :absolution” to. parents i whose children frequented public schools, and to teachers and pupils in normal schools. A BERLIN telegram of the 26th anmounces the appearancé of the rinderpest at Koenigsberg. The disease was also extending in Eastern Poland. ol : A BeLGrapE dispatch .of the 26th “says.an affray had occurred on the Danube, near Tekia, in Servia, between Servian customs officers and . Austrian -smugglers, in which ten of the latter were killed. . . DurING August, :aceording to a late official report, 2,987 fires occurred in Russia, -involving a loss of 20,000,000 roubles.

A St. PETERSBURG ‘telegram of the 29th says the Russian expedition to Merv had been .abandoned. Jt was believed that ‘the troops comprising ithat .expedition would menace Herat. S e ‘ A CONSTANTINOPLE ‘telegram of “the 28th says that an understanding between Greece and Turkey had "become impossible, and that both Powers were making rapid warlike preparations. e THE British Privy Council, in consequence of the foot and :mouth disease in a cargo of American sheep recently landed at Liverpool, has issued :an order placing sheep from the United States in the same category with American cattle. : ON the 28th netices of .aten per cent. reductionin wages were posted in the earthenware and china manufactories in Staffordshire. This proposed reduction will affect 80,000 workmen, and it is -saidthey will resist ' it to the extent of striking. ON the 28th a dispatch was received from the Viceroy of India :atmeuncing the arrival of the Ameer of Afghanistanat Kushi, with an imposing ‘retinue. He reports that the gates of Cabul were closcd, and that a condition of anarchy prevailed. The British forees were within forty-eight heurs’ march of the Afghan capital. ; : _ A Simra dispatch «of the 29thult. says General Roberts had received instructions: to issue a manifesto to the Afghans announcing that the purport of the return of the British army to Afghanistan is to.avenge the murder of the British Envoy and hig suite ; the peaceable inhabjtants will not be molested, but, if opposition be offered, these persons with arms in their hands will be treated :as enemies. Non-eombatants, women and children, are advised to remove to a place of safety. THE Russian account of the late battle with the Tekke-Turcomans was received “ on'the 29th ult. According to that, instead of a Russian defeat, as reported from Simla, it was a 4 Russian victory. The Russians lost seven officers and 178 soldiers killed, and sixteen officers and 234 soldiers wounded, but they eaptured the Turcomam intrenchiments and inflicted a loss of several thousand men upon the enemy. The dispateh says the expedition had not fallen back, as reported. SiciLy and Southern Italy were visited by a great storm on the 28th ult. which carried away a railroad bridge hetween Ciro and Crueoli, and hurled an entire train into " the torrent below. The engineer was killed -and every passenger more or less injured. EASTERN SIBERIA is. menaced with famine. Grain is dearer tham ewver before, and the poor are greatly suffering.

THE NEW WORLD., THE Pennsylvania Prohibition State Convention was held at Altoona 'on the 23d. George E. Turner, Chairman of the Convention, stated that he had interrogated the Republican, Democratic and Greenback-Labor candidates, but fhey had so far deeclined to place themselves on record on the questions addressed to them, hence the Prohibitionists were impelled to take separate politieal aetion. Resolutions were then adopted, amd William Richardson was nominated by acelamation for State Treasurer. ; THE late Colorado State Convention nominated George Q. Richmond for Supreme Judge. The platform denounces Hayes’ vetoes, andeondemns the purpose to nominate General Grant for the Prezidency; denounces the crime by which the ceuntry was cheated out of its President and Vice-President; declares the dendonetization ef silver a Republican breach 'of trust; favore free coinage of silver; ete., ete. ' - " ; Tae Massachusetts Prohibitionists met ip Btate Comvention at Boston on the 24th, gnd nominated Rev. D. C. #ddy for Governory T. K. Earl for Lieutenawgt-Governor; Charlgs Almy for Secretary of Sate; David N. Skillings for Treasurer; J. H.Orme for Auditor, ‘and 8. M. Fairchild for AttorneyGeneral. Beside the usual prohibitery resolutions, a resolution was adopted inviting the ‘co-operation of women in the work of the party, and invoking ber uge of the ballot. ABOUT one hundred and fifty eolored emigrants of all ages, from Nashville, Tenm., arrived in Bt. Louis on the night'of the 23d, on their way to Kansas. They claimed to he bona fide emigrants, able to pay their way and to take up land when they should reach their destination. - :

Ar Louisville, Ky., on the 28d Gus Burkle died, after great suffering, from eating toad-stools in mistake for mughrooms.

Two of his brothers were lying in a critical condition from the same cause. THE Treasury Department in Washington hasrecently received several complaints from the West of the scarcity of notes of small denominations, and asking for a supply of such notes. A telegram of the 24th says the United States Treasurer will furnish new notes: of such denominations as may be desired in return for bankers’ drafts in New York, and will transmit them as the applicants may indicate, but without risk or expense to the Government.

It is stated that during. the first twelve weeks of the current fiscal year, embracing the period from July 1 to September 20, the imports of specie at New York exceeded the exports by $25,306,314. " THE Minnesota State Democratic Convention met at-St. Paul on the 25th and nominated the following ticket: Governor Edward Rice; Lieutenant-Governor, E. P. Barnum; Secretary of State, F. A. Bover; Treasurer, L. A. Cowdry; Attorney-General, P. M. Babcock’; Railroad Commissioner, Willjam Colville. The platform favors the speedy establishment of free trade; a thorough revision of the patent laws; the unlimited coinage of gilver; a genuine reform in Civil-Berv-ice; the abolition of sumptuary laws; a free pallot and an honest count; etc., ete. T A FIRE at Carroll, lowa, on the morning of the 25th destroyed the entire business portion' of the place—over tlirty business houses, six lawyers’” and doctors’ offices, a church, bank, hotel, livery stable, fifteen shops and dwellinghouses, four saloons and other buildings being burned, Loss estimated at $200,000. TrE lowa Women's State Suffrage Association met in annual Convention at Des Moines on the 25th. Mrs. M. C. Callanan, of Des Moines, was chosen President of the Convention. Reports of the different societies were read, and were generally of a favorable character. The resolutions adopted declare against taxation and laws without representation; against the laws governiug mar riage and property wherein the husband, in the event of the wife’s death, has the disposal of all the property, whereas the wife has only a. portion; in favor of petitioning the coming ILegislature for the ballot; in favor of temperance and of equality of wages for similarity of work.:

A HEARTY and enthusiastic greeting was extended to General Grant at Oakland, Cal., on the 25th, by the city suthorities and citizens generally. In the afternoon the exPresiient and party attended a camp-fire of ithe Federal and Confederate soldiers of Alameda County. Tables were spread, coyered ‘with tin plates, cups, knives and forks, and supplied with hard-tack, pork and beans, coffee and tobacco. When General Grant had been introduced to the surrounding throng he ‘addressed them as follows: : \GENTLEMEN OF THE TWO ARMIES AND NAwvies: I am very proud of the welcome you have given me to-day. I am par‘ticularly happy to see good will and «cordiality existing between the soldiers of the two armies, and I-have an abiding faith that this good feeling will always exist. Thus united, we have nothing to fear from any nation in the world. I am .satisfied, from my travels in foreign lands, that no country will wish to meet us as a united people. They will be perfectly willing to do us justice without an appeal to arms, and as that is all that Americans want, -I am confident that our 'countrg has a long career of peace and prosJperity before her.

. PrESIDENT HAYES and party visited the State Fair at Neosho, Kan., on the 25th. He was warmly received. Both he and General Sherman briefly addressed the multitude. MRg. AND MRgs. FREDERICK LONG, living about thirteen miles northeast of Grand Rapids, Mich., a few nights ago put their three children to-bed early in the evening and went to a prayer-meeting. Soon: after they left a meighbor discovered the hquse to-be on fire, and the neighbors around soon arrived on the scene. One of them broke in the front «door, but was unable:to.enter the building because of the intense heat. He succeeded, however, in getting out one of the children, but the other two—little boys seven and two wyears old, respectively—perished in the fire.

A Sax Francisco telegram says Dennis Kearney called at the Palace Hotel on the 25th and sent wmp his card to General Grant, but the latter declined to receive him. General Grant and wife, accompanied by the Mayor of San Franeisco and other city offieials, and several eminent gentlemen and ladies, made a visit to San Jose on the'26th, where they were met and heartily welcomed by the Mayor and City «Council of Ban Jose .and a'vast throng of people. = -~ A FIRE at Deadwood, D. T., almost entirely destroyed that ety on the 26th. About oné hundred :and twenty-five business buildings and a large mumber of residences were burned, and two thousand people were rendered homeless. The loss was estimated at from $1,500,000 to $2,000,000. The work of rebuilding would begin at once, and buildings «of 2 more substantial eharacter than those destroyed would be ereeted. - INFORMATION was reeeived in Washington a few days ago of the arrestin New York@f a man named George Brown, who was said to ‘be implicated im frauds on the Pension Bureau amounting te thousands of dollars. It was stated that for :a number of years he had had possessionof pension certificates upon which he had regularly collected money in Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, by procuring persons to personate the pensioners: ; iy THE Dominion Government has forbidden the importation of American cattle into Canada. - ; : ‘ A YOoUXG man named Wentworth Rawlins left New York in July last, on a pleasure trip to the West on a bieycle. He arrived at Chicago on the 27th of September, having made the entire distance on the twowheeled velocipede. He was received and banqueted by the Chicago Bieyele Club. :

A LARGEbowlderof white quartzrock, from near the Wilderness, in Virginia, has ibeen placed to mark the spot where Stonewall Jackson recetved his death wound. A simple inscription will be put on the 10 le. THE President ‘was tendered a re‘eeption at the Capitol building at Topeka, Kan., on the 27th, by the Governor and State officers. A large nmmber of ladies and gentlemen were presented to him and General Bherman, after whieh short speeches were made by the two distimguished guests, A NEw York dispatch of the 27th says the Bank of Commerce had the day before made- its last payment to the Treasury on aceount of the United States four-per-cent. bonds, and the First National Bank made its last payment on the same account on the 27th. The latter was said to be the final settlement of all transactions im United States | four-per-cents on domestic aeeounts.

THE grain-dealers in New York have adopted a resolution changing the time of buying and selling_grain by the eental from Qctober 1 to January 1. THE international pedestrian contest for the Astley belt ended on the night of the 2ith. The official score of the nine contestants who remained on the track to the close of the walk is as follows: Rowell, 580 miles;

Merritt, 515; Hazael, 5003¢; Hart, 4821¢; | Guyon, 471; Weston, 455; Ennis, 45014 i Krohne, 4501¢ ; Taylor, 2503¢. ' TaE Providence (R. I.) Club, having l won fifty-three games up to the 27th, have se- | cared the base-ball championship for the en- ‘ suing year. Boston was second; Chicago, | third; Buffalo, ' fourth; Cincinnati, fifth; Cleveland, sixth; Troy, seventh;. Syracuse, eighth. : : Huco PREYER, as Chairman of the | Union Greenback Labor party of the United States, has issued a call for a Union National® Convention, to be held at Bt. Louis on the Bth of mnext January, for the purpose of mominating candidates for the Presidency and VicePresidency of the United States, and to transact'such other business as may come before | the Convention. The chartered Greenback | Clubs in each county or parish are ealled upon to hold a County Convention on the 25th of December to elect one delegate to the National Convention. The ‘Chairman says, in the call, *‘ there will be no fusion with either of the old parties at any time or under any circumstances.” | : i GENERAL GRANT gave a reception to the public school children of Ban Francisco at the Woodward Gardens on the 29th ult. It was estimated that not less than thirty thousand children participated in the demonstration. : 1 ONE THOUSAND men, mostly cabinet- | makers, were out on a strike in Cincinnati on the 20th ult. The demand was for an advance of fifteen per cent. in wages. | Mgs. SPRAGUE'S trustee was refused admission to the residence at Canonchet on the 29th ult., by ex-Governor Sprague, al‘though he was accompanied by Mr. Chaffee, the trustee of the Sprague estate. The object of the visit was to make an inventory of the property in the house, that Mrs. Sprague might indicate what she claimed as her personal property. ORDERS were issued on the 29th ult. to the Treasurer and Assistant Treasurers of the United States to pay out both gold and ~ silver upon all Government obligations. 1 { e . -~ YELLOW-FEVER NEWS., ANOTHER case of yellow fever, imported from Morgan City, was reported to the New Orleans Board of Health on the 23d. THERE were ten new cases reported in Memphis on the 24th, seven of them being white; the deaths numbered four. Dr. Plunkett, President of the State Board of Health, telegraphéd to Mr. Johnson, Supeérintendent of the Quarantine at Memphis, that he had been advised by counsel that the election of Galloway as Special Judge of the Circuit Court was utterly void, and an injunction issued by him was also void. Mr. Johnson was, therefore, instructed to continue to enforce Rule No. 6 precisely as if the injunction (issued by Galloway on the morning of the 24th) had not been granted. ' SEVEN new cases (four white) and five deaths made up the yellow-fever record in Memphis on the 25th. Five cases of fever were reported to have developed among the negroes on President’s Island, five miles south of the city. i THERE were six new cases and six deaths reported in Memphis on the 26th. Four cases of fever were reported at Oak Grove, ten miles south of Bailey Station, Tenn., and two deaths had recently oceurred. A GREENVILLE (Miss.) telegram of the 27th says one new case had occurred at Concordia since last report, but no additional yellow-fever deaths had been reported.. THE number of new cases reported in Memphis during the week ending on the 27th was sixty-three—forty-one whites and twenty-twe colored; deaths, thirty-one—-twenty-six of whom were whites. Total number of cases to date, 1,279; deaths, 882. Thirteen new cases (ten colored) and six deaths were reported on the 28th. ' THERE were nine new cases and one :death reported in Memphis on the 29th ult. The development of several cases of yellow fever in the country adjacent, all of which were traced to infection from Memphis, had caused the rules and regulations governing quarantine to be drawn tighter.

Commemoration of the Destruction of ‘ ‘ Pompeii. » = NEW YORK, September 28. A cable dispatch to the Herald from Pompeii says:, : The destruction of Pompeii eighteen centuries ago was yesterday commemo-; rated in the preserce of an immense concourse of spectators, mainly from Italy, and of scientific men from every country in the world. The weather was beautiful, and the guests had a delightful day to wander among the ruin%, and examine the relics which have, been, removed from the- ancient ecity. From a pavilion erected in the ancient Basilica, Professor Ruggieri, the director of s the excavations, delivered an address, explaining the newest mode of prosecuting discoveries, and giving an account of some of the more important discoveries that have been made since the excavations were commeneed. He attempted to describe to the guests assembled the city as it must have appeared 1,800 years ag(-10, and referred to the account of the destruction of the city and Herculaneum, as recounted by the '{Ounger‘Pliﬁy in his famous letter to Tacitus giving an accoumt of the death of his uncle, the elder Pliny: Count Guancili and Mgr. Mirabelli then declaimed Latin verses commemorative of the event. - i . :

After a visit to the ruins, excavations were begun under Signor Ruggieri's superintendence. The spectatérs eagerly watched the progress as stratum after stratum was removed. In the first larger vases were discovered. In the second a mass of cinders, which gradually revealed ' several bronze vases of various sizes, two of them having perfectly exquisite silver handles, and " also many bracelets, brooches, rings, coins, kitchen utensils and earthern vases. Under them were found wooden beams and backs of partially ‘calcined coin. The objects that were discovered will enrich the museums of Naples and Pompeii. A spacigus refreshment tent was erected on an’ eminence - commanding “a lovely ngnorama.‘ Ca})_itgl music was furnished y orchestras from various Italian cities. " Vesuvius looked more threatening than usual, and all day long vomited a eontinuous stream of lava and smoke,

<A Troy burglar lost his liberty and his plunder by stopping to kiss the sleeping mistress of the house he had ransac]%;d’. He says the next time he will be content with the booty and let the beauty alone.—Norristown Herald.

—¢ Excuse these steers,” is abont all a Texas drover can say for a ecattle stampede. % :

« INDIANA STATE NEWS, | At La Porte, on the afternoon of the 21st, while Miss Mary Tabor, a teacher in the La Porte Public Bchool, and her sister were driving acrosk the bridge between Clear and Lilly Lakes, their' horse became' frightened and backed off' the bridge. Both ladies ‘are probably fatally injured. L At Deedsville on the morning ot the 20th,. ~an insane lady, Mrs. Elizabeth Leedy; aged -forty-five, escaped from her brother’s house and-threw herself in front of a passing engine. Both feet were run over, a gash cut in her head and she was badly bruised. :Both feet I were amputated. It was thought that she could not recover, - At Roanoke, on the 22d, Martin Shy, ‘while 1 crossing the Wabash track, was. struck by an ;‘ engine and instantly killed. - S HEe A soX of Abner Grant, fourteen years old, while gathering nuts near New Paris on the 22d, fell from the tree and was instantly killed. i

A LARGE fire occurred in Grand View on the night of the 21st, which destroyed the most important business block in the town, includ. ing the Grand View Hotel, Tonine’s hardware store, the Biedinkoff property, and several other important business houses. The loss will reach from $20,000 to $25,000, on which there is very little insurance. The buildings were all of wood, and the insurance companies had very generally refused risks. Other property caught fire, but by great exertions was saved. 5 . A TrIP through halfa dozen of the counties of southwestern Indiana convinces the Sentinel’s correspondent that the wheat cropin that part of Indiana, in the acreage sown, will be larger in 1880 than ever before. ' A great deal of the early-sown wheat is .already up and looks well, while on nearly every farm the farmers are busy breaking land for late September and October sowing. ABOUT a year ago Adam Austin and his wife were driving over Blue River bridge—a structure erected by Shelby County, within the corporate limits of Shelbyville—when the horse took fright and backed over the embankment into the river, killing Mr. Awustin, while his wife escaped without serious injury. She now sues the county for €5,000 damages. . - CoLuMBUS REEVES, a son of M. 8. Reeves, a Justice of the Peace of Seymour, forged a note for $4O on the First- National Bank of that city and drew the money on the evening of the 20th, and immediately left the town and has not been heard from since. MicHAEL KALERHEAD, while attempting to beat his way on the railroad from Edinburg to Columbus on the night of the 22d, was fatally injured while passing through a bridge. Tue widow and children of the late John J. ‘Reynolds, of Lafayette, are quarreling over his estate, valued at $27¢5,000. Before his death he had given his children large gifts, and the question is whether these should, be considered as advancements, to be deducted from ' the share of each respectively, or as actual gifts of .which no account was to be made. ) : s

TuE infant child of Professor Alpheus MecTaggart, of Earlham College, was fatally sealded at Richigond on the 22d. GEORGE SMITH, a young unmarried Indianapolitan, went fishing on the 21st and next day his body was found in the river. He was subject to epileptic fits, and it is thought he fellin the water while suffering from one. . ON the 24th, as Hezekiah Fowler, of Metamora, was fixing a belt-in his saw-milf at that place, he was struck on the head with a circular saw, crushing his skull in a horrible manver- He died in a few 'hours. 2 : MR. FRANK MERRIMAYN, an extensive stock~aiser, formerly of Williamsville, 111., was 'attacked and gored by a bull on his farm'on Elkhart prairie on the 24th. He was badly, perhaps fatally, br@ised. ‘ : JosEPH SHANKS, of Deer Creek, Cass County, while riding home the- other: night, fell from his wagon and the wheels passed over his head, crushing it so badly that he probably received fatal injuries. . ... ~ WHILE cleaning his revolver the other day, Otto Delph, of Indianapolis, shot his wife, to ‘whom he has been married but. a year, the weapon having been accidentally discharged. Fatal results are feared. el B. RAYMOND was assaulted on ‘the streets of Logansport onthé nightof the 24th, beaten until insensible, and robbed of $4OO in money and igqld watch and chain. . Recovering-he dragged himself until he found assistance and was cared for. His injuries are serious., = GOVERNOR WILLIAMS has appointed Daniel Mowrer, of Marion, Trustee of the’ Blind Asylum, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the ‘death of Judge Ristine. - = Mgs: JULIA HARE, residing north of Logansport, was thrown from a buggy while driving home on the night of the 24th, alighting on her head. Itis feared: she cannot recover.,

- ‘ON.the fair grounds at Bristol, on the evening of the 25th, a team of spirited horses;’ belonging to James Butterfield, got .frightened. at a passing train and. dashed into a line of ‘carriages, completely demolishing three fine carriages and fatally injuring Miss Lole Elliott, of Middlebury, . . . ) BEcAUSE he could not stop drinking and was out of work, Charles F. Attwater, of Indianapolis, shot himself on the morning of the 26th. ¢ i 1 JoHN MaBON was killed, and George Elsade fatally injured, on the 28th, by the cavingin of a gravel-bank at Huntington. - E DuRriNG -a severe thunder storm on the morning of the 27th, the barn of James 8. Mayfield, near . Goshen, was struck by lightning, and burned to the ground. Loss, $1,500.. AT the State House quarry in Spencer, the other afternoon, as a large stone was being raised by the derrick, the clamp broke, and it fell upon a workman named Billy Rush. He was fatally hurt. E L THERE was a jail-delivery at Spencer a few days ago. The inmates pried open and bent the iron door so as to allow four of them to crawl out. Two refused to go. : 81X prisoners in the Rush County jail escaped on the night of the 26th, by breaking through ehie Foof, = - .U o by '_l%iﬁ‘ following are the current prices for Teading staples in Indianapolis: Flour, $4.75 @>5.75; . Wheat, No. 2 Red, [email protected]; Corn, Mixed, . 33@39c;: Oats, 26@%7ge; Rye, 63@65c; ' Pork, [email protected]; Lard,” 63§ @b¥{c; Hogs, [email protected]. The following are the Cinéinnati quotations: Flour, Family, [email protected]; Wheat, [email protected]; Corn, rt) @4lc; Oats, 27@30}5c; Rye, 67@68¢c; Pork, :%&25@9-80; Lard, 6@bic; Hogs, $3.35@

: Fohaie ity ,slwp. 2 2 ,"x;,’i"k‘,' + WE" hear 'a ‘great deal about the amount-of sleep 'wé muist have in order to be and to keep healthful. There are;’ of course, many opinions on: the sub: ject,; and each physician naturally agsumes to be excellent ‘auth‘o‘rity.“:]f\ view widely held is that 'gersong‘ who work ‘with their braing need eight hours of sound sleep, and will suffer, soon or late, unless they average as much’ as’ that. Some persons maintain that six hours are sugicient for any vigorous ﬁerson; others that five will answer.. o absolute rule, however, can be laid

down. The quantity of sleep depends very largely on the man amf his Eabit. He who has been accustomed to sleep eight hours out of the twenty-four thinks it impossible to get on with anything léss. He who lies in bed but five oy six hours habitiiallg seldom feels the need of any more. 'Sleep, indeed. can readily be regulated by will and practice, occupation and self-interest often goveminf the matter. Most of us can, after a little while, ‘wake up "at any time we wish, and many .can ;drop asleep at onee, if they lg)iv'e‘"théir atten- | tion to it. Napoleon Bonaparte could slip into unconsciousness the moment he lay down; sleep for an hour, half an hour, ten or five minutes, as he wighed. And he hardly ever slept more than four hours a ‘might, althongh he wused his brain ' and nerves, not to speak of his body, ‘as few men have before -or gince. Quin, the actor, on the 'other hand, would sleep for twenty-four consecutive hours. Not a few persons sleep any length of: time if undisturbed, never waking spontaneously where there is quiet, even after twenty or more hours. ' One John Mackey, of Skerry, England, died in' 1797, at the age of ninety-one; hehad been remarkhly healthy and vigorous from birth, and yet he néver slept more than four hours of ' a night.: Frederiekthe Great and John Hunter, the celebrated surgeon, slept but five hours, and General Pichegru never allowed himself to exceed one hour out of twenty-four during a whole year’s campaign. Walter Scott declared. that he required eight hours of absolute oblivion to fit him for the duties of composition. Men of firm will, high character, great self-discipline, can do pretty much ‘as they decide. They ecan, if so' inclined, recreate themselves, and one seldom hears of their saying what they must do or must not do. léore or less sleep is essential to all of us, but we can live and be comfortable on very little, 'if we be so resolved. Sleep, like food, can be ordered and adjusted according to our will. What we wish to ' do we are wont to say we must do, but ' there are few musts in the life of a manly man.—N. Y. Times. ;

‘The Burning of Deadwood. DeAbpwoOD, D. T., Septembei' 26, Fire broke out in the Star bakery, on Sherman street, at 2:20 this morning,. and following that thoroughfare, swept everything before it on Lee, Main, Gold, Wafl, Patton and William streets, and some residences on Centennial avenue. il ’ S Fanned by a light; breeze, and nothing to contend with, except a very inefficient Fire Department, everything was at the mercy of the flames. Less than half a score of pronounced fireproof warehouses withstood the severe test. The buildings being mostly of wood - and poorly constructed, they burned like so much chaff. ; . The fire spread with such wonderful rapidity that any attempt at.saving anything would have been useless.- All along its course terrific explosions of gunpowder, petroleum, liquor, etc., were of frequent occurrence. Buildings were blown into atoms. -

The hook and ladder apparatus and hose carriage were the first things to burn, leaving nothing but a few feet of worthless 'hose; with ‘which to battle agains’t the devourin%(elements. o — The new waterworks were tried for the first time yesterday, and this morning they were put.to their full capacity, with little suecess -in subduing . the flames, on account of the scarcity of water. The hill ‘sides were almost a solid sheet of flame, and water from the bowlder ditch could not be had, otherwise considerable property. would probably have been saved, as the ditch ran almost directly over the worst spot. ‘ i i pThe wildest excitement prevailed on! account of the fearful force of the flames, and people thought of but little beside savi,n%l their own lives, hundreds escaping with only their night-clothes. Every team within miles of the city was called into service to help save what could be got: out. .There are probably about - 2,000 people who are’ homeless, and many destitute. ~ . - About one hundred and twenty-five buildings, beside fifty or sixty dwelling, houses, were destroyed, and, while it is. utterly impossible to get any definite . figures regarding los§7 well-posted busi-; ness men place it at from $1,500,000 to, $2,000,000. ey L e * The fire is still burning, but all its material is exhausted, and there is’ no,. danger of its spreading, unless an unfavorable change in the wind occurs. . Several of the firms whose fire-proofs were saved have posted notices that théy will open up for business in them on Saturday. : s Lumber is being hauled rapidly, and ‘building will commence, as soen as the debris can be cleared away, in a far more substantial way than before. Most of the merchants who have lost their wooden stores will erect brick ones in their stead. Labor is in great. demand, and” everything vresents a lively appearance. ; Lo All saloons are closed by order of f&e. Sheriff, and 'the city presents an unusually quiet appearance. A '¢itizens’ committee of safety, numbering seven, has been ap})ointed at a public meet-’ ing, who will assist the Sheriff in preserving “'the ‘peace.” "Evil-doers, if caught, will be speedily dealt with. A ‘proposition to organize a vigilance coms ‘mittee, one hundred strong, W:s voted ‘down, eniphatically. ==~ ' ke Numerous kind offers of ‘assistance: ‘have heen made bgr Eastern mei-elmnis, ‘but vwill harvdly be atcepted; 'las ‘the: mierehants bear theéir Tossés with"'the ‘best possible grave, and are not hclined | to place themselves under any obligax| tions, i atthe M&‘ﬂhié’&é:ft‘i‘&hatipg the 'willing' offers made by Eastérn “houses in all branches.of tradet radroir, 200 P ah W rrr - Sty RO | .—,—Jfohn L. Colerain,, a farmer, near! ,Qrwigsbl}i& Schuylkill County, | Pa.j« ound thaf an oﬂld;ggnm;x %ﬁhww ~‘i?a'{om.;down‘_ was alive with rats:. Te built a tight board fence ab&gﬁa D feet hig(lll ﬁunaéme fm;gy,, dfi d; won and threo dogs Kiled ooy | &?,\tﬁiﬂy—ﬁ;ﬁén;?&s mf’a‘;l@:%}mgi:ﬁ hours. About half a dozen escaped, Their :,hoﬁes _were not over two }ebt{ deep, and the ground was fifty feet: square. e R, & ki +«~Mardi Gras comes on the 10th ?f February next year.. ' :tii G Mg

" BURIED ALIVE'IN A" WELL. Remarkable Case of Endurance—A Man Forty Hours Under Ground— Breathing Through a Gas-Pipe, and Communicating with His Rescuers by the Same Means, - W L ~Last Friday at-neen a well being dug at the fainrgPounds cayediin at the bottom after it had reached a depth of one hundred and sixteen feet, burying William Selves, a workman, wunder 'about thirteen feet of sand, measuring ffom his head while he 'was in a nearly up#ight pesitiohy 1 & Sl et s o 0 "The well had reéachéd the depth of one hundred feet when 'a stratum of loose, white sand: was - reached, which ‘made curbing necessary. . An upright curbing in sections fonr feet long was used. ~While putting "in the’n%ourth seetion sthe 'caving of ''the . well took place, first crushing in :the lower section not. yet finished, .and pinning Selves in solid sand and nearly to his armpits. It was instantly followed, by ‘the three! sections aboyve, which were crushed in to the center, leaving a vacuum there. -On seeing it start, Selves had - instinctively . raised a section’ of the curbing owver his head, bending backwards,: face up, with the arm supporting the . piece of. curbing, stretched above his ‘head.. In this position the sand settled ‘about him, ¢or:£letely binding 'him, except his head and one arm, ‘which he could move at that time. = The seetion of curbing which he had raised. above his head created. a vacuum, which for a short time communicated with the vacuum through the eenter of the well made by the coming together of the barrel-like curbing.® . SE

. “As soon as possible a gas-pipe for the purpose of pumping air to.him' was inserted / through ' the ‘epening—Selves, who then had one arm.at liberty, placing it as nearhis mouth as the boards over him would permit. Soon after this was accomplished, the sand settled solidly above him, leaving only the vacuum under the board. which soon filled so close as to" imprison’' the arm that had been at liberty. and to also render his head immovable. In this situation, plainly depicted by -himself in sepulchral tones through the air-tube, and perfectly audible at the top of the well, William Selves, then six hours without food, and cramped and chilled by the cold sand, said he would hold on to life if there were brave hearts énough, above him to undertake his- release, knowing full well the danger to those ‘who might attempt it.in a huarry.. The ‘task was to remove from thirteen to eighteen feet of sand from the bottom of a well one hundred and sixteet feet deep, by putting in new ocurbing while taking out: ﬁle gand and debris of the old curbing,: and: to do it all so carefully asmot to fill the little vacuum .above his face. Coupled with this task 'was the appalling danger to the work‘men of a fresh caving of the well, now more imminent than ﬁle‘ first, for above the ominous vacuum made by-the caving of the sand hufg'the hundred feet ‘of clay wall with‘no support but its own 'adhesion, its natural foundation of sand being gone. The bore through the clay, being but twenty-seven inches in diameter, could not, for lack of both time and space, be curbed. In the face of ’ these' discouragements, there were brave hearts enough found to work night and day, never slacking except for a short time on Saturday morning, when for a time further attempts seemed suicide by reason of the caving in of # smmall portion of the clay wall. But soon new precautions were devised, and the almost hopeless work went on to its practical conclusions' ‘at one o’clock this (Sunday) _mornin%,' when a friendly: hand raised, the plank .and ‘brushed the sand from the now nearly unconscious face.. He had t'e;,ained his mind perfectly up to within a few mornents ' before, ‘wWhen the tenderly cautious” hands above’ him, in spite of their care, had so disturbed the sand as to eover his face: and to!interrupt the supply of air, from 'the tube. He returned to pérfect consciousness in a few moments, and, his hands released, the ‘work went rapidly on, he himself helping. materially after; his arms -were reloased.. .. .. % e i § i

At 3:30 c’clock, nearly forty hours “after his incarceration, ‘“’illiam Selves ‘gtepped - firmly from the mouth of his living grave; and ‘was’ réceived in the iarms-of ‘his ‘young wifé amid the glad ‘shouts of ‘the throng ‘who 'had SO'Tc‘mg ‘shared his suspense. ' His ' exertions in assisting to free 'himself had given him ‘the use of his limbs again,and, when he :reached the surface; aboutall he seemed .toneed Wwas nourishment, which he had “not had-since the Friday morning be\fore,’ nearly two. . days.—Neillsville (Wis.) Republican. o : i 3

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