Ligonier Banner., Volume 15, Number 19, Ligonier, Noble County, 26 August 1880 — Page 2

: . . ey 4 ' The Zigonicr Banuer, ! J.B.STOLL, Editor and Pro}r. LIGONIER, : : : INDIANA. e S S D e 'NEWS SUMMARY. Important Intelligence from All Parts.. - Domestic. - ABouT 30,000 people witnessed the prize drills of the various commanderies of Knights Templar in Chicago on the 18th. Indianapolis was awarded the first prize, Louisville, Ky., the second, and Dayton, Ohio, the third. In the evening the Sir Knights liberally patronized the theaters and the special - concerts in McCormick, Central Music and Farwell Halls, and after these were over there was a grand display of fireworks on the lake front which was witnessed by vast crowds on land and water. o DurinGg, the seven months ended July 31, 1880, $151,411,463 worth of bread_stuffs was exported from this country; during the same period in 1879 the amount was $109,331,153. | o ! - RoBERT DONALDSON, ayoung Scotchman, jumped from High Bridge into Harlem River, a distance of 116 feet, a few days ago, and then swam to a craft-near by, being uninjured by his fearful venture. . IN the trot at Springfield, Mass., on ‘the 19th Maud S. made her fastest mile in 2:19, and St. Julien scored 2:15, The Spirit of ‘the Times says Orrin A. Hickok has offered to match Bt. Julien against any trotter or pacer in the world, mile heats, best three in five, for from $5,000 to *2OOOO a race. THE total value of lexports frem this country of domestic. provisions and tallow for the seven months ended July 31, 1880, was $81,471,785; same period in 1879, $67,089,797, ; ( : Four men, pamed Joseph. Belch, .Hubert Gould, Irwin Luther and John Manrtin, have been held on the charge of murder or having stoned a . poor tramp to death in ghé Ohlo River, near Pittsburgh, a few days ago, because he had stolen a bunch of grapes. SAN Francisco has been selected by ‘the Knights Temlar as. the place, and the third Tuesday in August, 1883, as the time, for holding the next Triennial Conolhve, e .

Mg. J. K. ERCHER, a farmer of New. Philadelphia, Ohio, died a few days ago from the effects of a bite inflicted by his-insane son.

" INFORMATION was received at the War Department office at Washington on the 20th that about 1,800 Sioux Indians were on their way to Fort Keogh with the intention of surrendering themselves as prisoners of war. It was designed to disarm them as soon as ‘they should arrive. These Indians had only a nominal connection with Sitting Bull. L

~ Up to the 20th twenty-one persons - had died from injuries received in the .May’s Landing, (N. J.) railroad disaster. SEVERAL valuable historical relics, in the shape of autograph letters of George Washington and other famous revolutionists, are said to have been recently discovered in Washington, while clerks were hunting up the records in old law cases that came before the United States Courts. : ~ TuE number of hogsslaughtered and. salted by Chicago packers fream March 1 to, August 20 was 2,143,000, against 1,362,000 for. the corresponding period last year. ’

Tue Chicago Tribune of the 23d says recent dispatehes from various points in fgxe Northwestern States told of continued dam‘jage to corn from the protracted drought. . This was especially true of many of the coun#ies of Illinois, where the absence of rain had : causeb great injury to late-planted corn.. A case of Asiatic cholera reported - from Erie, Pa., on the 21st hassince been pro- " nounced by physicians to havé been merely cholera morbus. There were no other cases in the city. e o . - Boyrox and Fearn had their international swim at Atlantic City, N. J., on the - 21st. The former was to swim two and onehalf miles and the latter two miles. Boyton - led at-first; but Fearn ultimately passed him and cameé in winner by six and a half minutes. : ¢

‘A DUEL between Joseph Bannon < Hope, editor of the Norfolk (Va.) Lawdmark, and Colonel William Lamb; Mayor of Norfolk, was prevented by the arrest of the Mayor as he was leaving his house for the place of meeting early on the morning of the 21st. He was taken before a magistrate and ‘bound over in $20,000 to keep the peace. * DuriNG the vear ended June. 30 last

457,243 immigrants arrived in the United ' States. In the year of the greatest immi- . gration, 1873, there arrived 459,803 immigrants. + During July of this year there were 49,922 immigrants, of whom 11,000 were from ~ Germany, 6,000 from Ireland and 5,000 from ~ England. ' .

Personal and Political.

- THE New Jersey Republican State Convention met on' the 18th. Ex-Secretary

of the Navy Robeson presided. Fred A. Potts was unanimously nominated for Gov“ernor. The platform indorses the Chicago nominations and resolutions. , - THE New York Greenbackers met in State Convention 'at Syracuse on the 18th and nominated Thomas C. Armstrong for Judge of the Court of Appeals and two

Electors-at-Large. District Presidential * Electors and a._ State Committee were also

| ‘chosén. The Chicago Greenback platform | was reaffirmed. : i :

- Tae Greenback-Labor party have nominated Walter Raynor for Congress from the Sixth Massachusetts District, and L. H. Whitney from the Seventh District. ! TaE Congressional nominations made on the 18th were as follows: Republican— Eighth fowa District, Colonel W. P. Hepburn; Twelfth Ohio, John Grace. Democratfe—Seventh Missouri, John F. Phillips (renominated); Ninth Kentucky, Thomas Turner (renominated) ; Seventh Georgia, J. W. Robertson; Sixth Texas, Columbus Upson (renominated). Readjusters—Eighth Virginia, General J. H. Williams; Third Virginia, Captain John 8. Wisé, son of the late Governor Wise. i i ¢

Tae Grand Encampment of Knights Templar; at their session in Chicago on the 19th, elected officers as follows: Sir Benjamin Déan, Massachusetts, M. E. G. M.; Sir Robert E. Withers, Virginia, R. E. D. G. M.; Bir Charles Roome, New York, V. E. G. G.; Bir John P. 8. Gobin, Pennsylvania, V. E. .G. C. G.; Bir Hugh McCurdy, Michigan, V. E. G. 8. W.; Bir W. La Rue Thomasg, Kentl}lcky, V.E. G.J. W.; BSir John W. Bimons, New York, V. E. ‘G. Treasurer; Bir Theodore S. Parvin, Tlowa, V. E. G. Recorder, f JAMES A. SEDDEN, who was the Confederate Becretary of War, died at Richmond, Va., on the 19th, aged sixty-five years. -

THE following Congressional nominations were announced on the " 19th: Seventeenth Tllinois District, Congressman William R. Morrison, Democrat; Ninth Illinois, John 8. Lee, Democrat; William H. Reynolds, Greenback; Eleventh Illinois, Colonel William H. Edgar, Republican; Fourth Texas, Congressman R. Q. Mills, Democrat; Third Michigan, Henry C. Hodge, Greenback; First lowa, Congressman Moses A. McCord, Republican; Third lowa, ConPressman Thomas ‘Updegraf, Republican; First Virginia, Judge John Crichter, Readjuster; Eleventh Ohio, W. R. Hutchiuns, Democrat. ; .

. JosruA N. Oscoop has been nominated for Governor by the Prohibitionists of Maine. = S

- TaE Democrats of the Third Vermont District have nominated John W. Currier for Congress. . ' :

A PrrTsBURGH telegram of the 20th says J. H. Skelton, a Councilman of that city,. claimed that Dr. Buchanan, the notorious bogus diploma man of Philadelphia, reported to have committed spicide, was alive, in good health and in ‘easy reach of Pittsburgh, where he could 'be had provided sufficient reward should be offered for his return. .

THE Greenbackers of the Thirteenth Pennsylvania District have nominated Charles N. Brumm for Congress. TaE Colorado Democratic State Convention was held at Denver on the 19th and 20th. A full State ticket was nominated, headed by John 8. Hough for Governor.

CLiNTON B. ABotT, -of Beloit, has’ been nominated for Congress by the Democrats of the First District of Wisconsin.

Foreign.

. THe financial statement of the.Canadian Government for the last fiscal year shows that the expenditures were $25,161,712 and the revenue $24,768,585, leaving a deficit of $303,127. There were several extraordinary expenses during the .year amounting to a sum greater than the defieit. %

Tue Anglo-American and the French Cable Companies have come'to an understanding, and have adopted a uniform tariff of fifty cents per word.

THE National Liberal party of Germany has split. Of the number in Parliament only forty-five support Bismarck and his high tariff scheme. B :

A MOVEMENT -is on foot throughout Great Britain to abolish the House of Lords.

Lorp ROSEBERRY has been appointed British Under Secretary for India, vice the Marquis of Lansdowne, resigned. ‘

THE Paris' Temps of the 21st announces that the Bey of Tunis had granted ‘a French Company the exclusive right to construet and operate all future railways 'in his dominions. ; : |

Tue Czar has commuted to life imprisonment the -sentence of death passed upon two of the prisoners tried by courtmartial at Kieff. o . "

Tue celebrated actress, Mrs. Charles Kean (Ellen Tree), who retired -from the stage on the death of her husband, died in London on the 21st, azed eighty-five years. THaE weavers of Bolton, England, to the number of 1,450, struck on the 21Ist, because of a reduction of five per-cent. in their wacges. The TLancashire cotton manufacturers have refused a ten per cent. advance in wages demanded by their employes.

A BOAT containing seven men and five'bags of mail matter from the steamer American, of the . Southampton line, which foundered near the equator on April 28, was picked up by a Portuguese yesgel, and the crew and mails were landed at Londa, Africa, July 11. o

- THE commission house of Bondaé & Co., Montreal, has failed. Liabilities, &30, 000. - : '

A St. PETERSBURG dispatch of the 21st sogrs Asiatic cholera of a severe tyDé. had breken out in the Russian camp and town of Saratoff. - The mortality had been great, apd was increasing. Saratoff is a fortified town, capital of the province of the same name, situated on the right bank of the Volga, and has a population of about 65,000 souls.

LATER NEWS,

- CHIEF-SECRETARY FORSTER stated in the British House of Commons on the 23d that, though the present state of Ireland was a source of great anxiety tothe Ministers, and that defiance of the law was rife in that country, yet the Government did not feel that it would be justified in asking for special legislation, but he added that if at any time during the coming fall or winter the necessities of the case should require it, the:Government would have no hesitation in summening an extra session of Parliament to give the Irish law officers such additional powers as the occasion would demand.

HorAcE MAYNARD arrived in Washington on the 23d, and would at once enter upon his duties as Postmaster-General. -

Dr. BUCHANAN, the bogus medical diploma man of Philadelphia, is reported to have escaped to Canada. : v

AsA Dow, one of the most prominent members of the Chicago Board of Trade, and at one time its President, notified his creditors on the 23d that he would not be able to meet his obligations. His liabilities are stated at $102,000, and his assets at about $48,000. He was largely engaged in speculation in pork. { 2 !

CONGRESSIONAL nominations on the e3d: Republican—Colonel 8. E. Fink, Fourteenth Ohio District. = Democratic—Congressman John W. Ryon, Thirteenth Pennsylvania; Joseph Wheeler, Eighth Alabama.

CORRECTED censusreturns give Cleveland, Ohio, a population of 160,463, . THar Massachusetts Greenback Convention is to bé held. at Worcester on the 22d of September. : oo 3

JupGe H. M. SPoFrorp, of Louisiana, died at Red Sulphur Springs, W. Va., a few days ago, in the fifty-eighth year of his age. He was elected United States Senator by the Nichols Legislature, and was 'a contestant for the seat oecupied by Senator Kellogg. . ; : bk

- GoLD to the value of sBoo,ooo° was shipped at Hamburg on the 23d for the United States. -

A REVOLTING and horrible discovery has recently ‘been made by the Board of Poor Directors of Berks County, Pa. From the evidence it appears that Benjamin Zechler, a German by birth, and about fifty-five years of age, had been confined in a rude log-hut for twenty-seven years. In all that time the unfortunate man was neither washed, shayed, nor clothed. His Tbrother gave him some food at times, but his fuel was restricted to a fire kindled in early winter, and from which the smoke and gas escaped throfigh chinks in the hut. A chain was attached to his leg, which precluded all possibility of escape, but it was lonv enough to allow him to reach either wall, which in his frenzy he often beat with his hands, feet and head. The condition of the poor creatare when discovered was loathsome. It is said the . brother will be dealt with in the Berks County Cgurt for inhuman treatment.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

THE State encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic will be held at Indianapolis on the 21st, 22d and 23d of September. , DuriNG July the letter carriers of Indianapolis delivered 553,578 pieces of mail matter, and collected 288,433. e DIPHTHERIA in its most malignant form has beén raging as an epidémic in Waynetown, Montgomery County. Over fifteen deaths have occurred in the village alone, and a nnmber not reported. in the vicinity. The disease is spreading to adjoining towns. *= It is how believed that by reason of the drouth the corn crop in Tippecanoe County will fall short a million and a hgxl,‘“g bushels.! GEorGE RINK, a boy who wus?"sho’t in the head by his brother while playing with 4 toy pistol at Indianapolis several weeks ago, died on the morning of the 17th. He had been unconscious ever since being injured. i ‘A Boy and girl named Roberts, living in the suburbs of Indianapolis, were playing with 4 revolver on the evening of the 16th, when it was accidentally discharged, tue ball entering the sister’s abdomen and fatally injured her. - : vl AT Indianapolis, early oh the morning of the 17th, the wife of Dr. J. C. Walker discovered the feet of a man sticking ‘out from under the bed. She did not make an outery or alarm her hushband, but went to ler son’s room and notified him of what she had séen. By the timne she peturned to the room Dr. Waiker had discovered the intruder and was making things ' lively ‘for him. The burglar tired.at the man of pills, barely missing a vital part, when the son got in his work and shot the intruder dead. It was then discovered that the dead man was one William C. Rodifer, a well-known burglar and . thief. When he fell dcad he had in his hand a longbarreled Smith & Wesson revolver, 32-caliber, and a knife worked to a point and very sharp and keen. Mrs.- Walker displayed remarkable presence of mind and her son great cool{" ness and nerve, and the community is happi= ly rid of a scoundrel,- : o Ox the evening of theisth Mrs. Swan, a resident’ of Lafayette, jumped from the ’Change bridge over the Wabash, and was drowned. She was temporarily insane. . Mgs. LAvrs L. MITCHELL, cne of the pioneers of Indiana and mother-in-law of | General Manson, Auditor of State, died suddenly at the residence of the latter in Indianapolis on the evening of the 17th. =~ . , Two TrEES, standingon opposite sides of the Brandywine River, several miles north of Shelbyville, were struck by lightning the other evening at the same instant. A herd of hogs under one'of the trees, a beech, were all killed, and a milch cow under the sycamore on the other side of thestream also fell a vietim to the thunderbolt. :

EvaxsviLLE complains of the census and wants a revision or a recount. )

Tur last Legislature -redistricted the State for members of Congress, and the districts now are:; - S . !

First—The counties of Posey, Vanderburg, Warrick, Spencer, Perry, Pike and Gibson. Second—Knox, Daviess, Martin, - Orange, Lawrence. Green and Sullivan. 47

Third—Crawtord; Harrisom, Floyd. (lark, Washington, Scott, Jackson and Jennings. Fourth-Jefferson, Switzerland, Ohio, Ripley, Decatur, Franklin and Union, o

: Fifth—Owen, Monroe, Brown, Bartholomew, Johnson, Morgan, Putnam and Hendricks. : Sixth—Rush, Fayette, Wayne, Henry, Delaware and Randolph. : : Seventh--Marion, Hancock and Shelby. - Eigbhth—Vigo, Clay, Vermillion, Parke, Montgomery, Fountain and Warren. Nimth--Tippeeanoe, Clinton, Tipton, Madison, Hamilton and Boone. i o

Tenth—Carroll, Cass, White, Benton, Néwton, Jasper,iPulaski, Fulton, Lake and Porter. Eleventh—Howard, Grant, Blackford, Jay, fidz_nn_s, Wells, Huntington, Wabash and iami. S -

' Twelfth-—Allen, Whitley, Noble, DeKalb, Steuben and Lag#®nge. S Thirteenth—Laporte, ‘St. Joseph, Elkhart, Kosciusko, Marshall and Starke. :

Tue following is the assessnient on railroad property in Indiana as equalized by the State Board of Equalization: | -

: ' " Total As- - NAMES OF ROADS. : sessment. Anderson, Lebanon & St. L0ui5...... . $40,110 Baltimore, @hio & Chicag0........ ... 1,473,305 Bedford, Springville, Owensboro & i

P Blopmfield 7. .0 oo o d b 89300 Bloomfield Narrow Gauge... ....... 13,500 Clexeland, Colurmbus, Cineinnati & - Inthanapolise. ..o cod e=g 800,085 Cincinnati, Hamilton & Indianapolis 56,716 Cincinnati, Richmond &Indianapolis 399,065 Cincinnati. Richmond & Chicago.... 56,716 Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan...... 506,195 Cincinnati, Lafayette & Chicago..... - 184,795 Cincinnati, Indianaoplis, St. Louis & Chieaoo.. ... .0 oo sl ILE2LE9 Lawrenceburg Branchofsame....... . 34515 Cincinnati, Rockport & Southw’ste’n 125,211 Ghiro e Vineennes....... ... 31,140 Chicago & Eastern Illinois ...... ... . 127,140 Chicago, Cincinnati & Louisville..... 293,395 Chicago & Block C0a1........0ic. ... 26,268 Chieago & Canada 50uthern.......... 54,846 Hob Hlver: iooos i e 501,950 Evansville & Terre Haute............ - 1,082,79% Evansville, Terre Haute & Chicago. 396,340 Kranktort & Kolkomo.. .. 0 ] 160,925 Fort Wayne, Muncie & Cincinaati... @ - 395,749 Fort Wayne & Jack50n...........5. .- 820.021 Fairland, Franklin & Martinsville.., . 79,798 Grand Rapids & 1ndiana............. 346,055 Havana, Rantoul & Ea5tern......... 14,534 Indiana (Chicago & Grand Trunk)... @ 682,900 Indianapolis Union Railway Compa'y 129,200 Indianapolis, Peru & Chicago......:. 656,007 Indianapolis, Decatur & Springfield. 471,638 Indianapolis & St. L0ui5............. 832,950 Indianapolis, Delphi & Chicago. ... .. 53.170 Indiana, Bloomington & Western... 848,008 Joliet & Northern 1ndiana........... 192.560 Indianapolis & Vincenne5............ 511,392 Jeffersonville, Madison & IndianApOLR oo oo sl S 0 193 D, Madison Branch of same r0ad....... 202,957 Columbus & 5he1byvi11e..*........... 88,671 Bhelbyville & Rushville...dcoicioiiv | - 70447 Cambridge City Exten5i0n........... 79,645 Bangan ..o o las i 3,480 Louisville & Na5hvi11e.......c........ | 198817 Louisville, New| Albany & Chicago.. 1,054,979 Louisville, News Albany & St. Louis. | 58,500 Tatle Miami. oo sl i 29,115 Lake Shore & Michigan Southern... 3,800,640 Lake Erie & Western... ..o i, 00 1,088.705 Lake Erie, Evansville & Southwest- - OEIL s o e 49,840 Michigan AirLiine.. . .0 L. 80,120 Michigan City & Indianapolis....... 58,054 Michigan Central.....«...iciniic, i | 080,490 Ohio & MissiSsippi..). . ciiioaio o 0 1,760,452 Ohio & Mississippi—Louisv’e Branch 375,008 Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis.. 4,074,408 Pittsburgh, Ft. Wayne & Chicago.... 3,396,370 Terre Haute & L0gan5p0rt............ . 421.545 Terre Haute & 1ndianap01i5........... 1,467,650 Terre Haute & Southeastern........... 152:518 Toledo, Delphos & Burlington....... 37,960 Union Railroad Transfer & Stockabash, St. Louis & Pacific.......... 2,674,000 WRe River.. 0.. o diosnai i L 195,300 o etals. vLI Raio gy Tue Indianapolis grain "quotations are: Wheat, No. 2 Red, 91%5@92¢; Corn, 30@3915¢; Oats, 28@30c. The Cincinnati quotations are: Wheat, No. 2 Red, 94@95¢; Corn, 41@ 42c; Oats, 30@31c; Rye, S3@s3l4c¢; Bartey, New Fall, 90@905¢. , . L g —— ey Tug Charlottesville (Va.) Chronicle notes an instance near that place of photographs pictured on window glass by electricity. The portraits of four persons are plainly discernible--two men, a woman and a child. . The faces are not all on one pane, that of one of thie men and the woman bein% on adjoining glasses, the face of the other man on another, and that of the child on one of the lower panes, and the theory is that the party were all looking through the window during a thunder storm, when asudden flash of lightning, by some mysterions process, instantaneously fixed their features on the glass. i ‘

KNIGHTS TEMPLAR.

The Twenty-first Triennial Conclave at Chicago—Sight-Seeing and Multitudes of Sight-Seers—Music, Processions, Decora” tions and Illuminations. .

The triennial gala week was ushered inat Chicago on gunda,y. August 15. 1t was the beginning of the twenty-first Triennial Conclave of Knights Templar of the United States, and citizens and sojourning Knights honored it Rg appropriate services to the Great Master to whom the Order is dedicated. There wags divine service at Grace Episcopal Church, at which Rev. Sir Dr. Clinton . Locke, the Grand Prelate of the Grand Encampment, officiated, and which was attended by the Knights of tne Chicago Commanderies and such Knights as had reached C;{lncago from abroad in advance of their several commanderies.” After service the day was devoted to sight-seeing, visits to;Chicago parks and to social intercoursé. ! The drum’s deep rolkand the trumpet’'s warlike blast made Chicago’s streets respnant on Mohday. The red cross multiplied itself by thousshds on wareltouses, hotels, structures devoted to commerce and private dwellings. The city looked like a bride decked out for her honeymoon. All along the principal thoroughfares, and particularly along the proposed line of march for the procession, flags and streamers bearing the well-known devices of the Order were thrown to the breeze, the thousands of camps upon the Lake front were pii;chedlj and a veritable canvass city arose as if by magic. The day was further devoted to sight-see-ing and the reception of guests, and the evening to visits to the theaters, moonlight excursions, musical and gastronomic receptions and the .like. Every minute swelled the multitudes on all the thoroughfares. It seemed as if the city had become a grand living lake into which were poured continuous " streams of men, women and children. Columns of gayly-decorated Knights, preceded by gorgeous bands, were, everywhere, and 'radiated from the Grand Headguarters like the spokes of a wheel as they were escorted to their resting places by detachments from local organizations. _ ' e Tuesday was the day appointed for the grand procession, which the managers promised should eclipse everything in the line of display ever attempted in this or any other country. It certainly was a prodigious affair, and if +. it did not egual the expectations- of 'its prgjectors, consolation may be sought in the fact that the ¢ best laid plans of mice and men aft gang aglee,” and that'while the management of a large body of men on paper is easy enough, it is altogether different when reduced to practice on a crowded thoroughfare. The procession was.delayed in the:starting, and delayed by the failure of some of its compunent parts to connect at the proper time, and further delayed by the general stupidity and mismanagement of the Triennial Committee who had charge of it. * It was a grand affair, notwithstanding, and was witnessed by fully a quarter of a million of people who thronged the side walks and filled ‘the doorways and windows along the’ route traversed, and even climbed telegraph and lamp-posts and seized every coign of vantage whence the display could be witnessed. The number of Knights in Chicago was estimated to be about 40,600, and -of these probably not more than 20,000 participated in the display, At the beginning they marched well and the procession kept intact, but, as blocks lengthened into mileg, the constituent parts thereof one by 36 dropped out, and only the Chieago Commanderies, impelled ‘thereto by loeal pride, traversed the entire route as originally laid out and published. The line of march covered about seven miles, and the procession, in consequence of the numerous necessary and unnecessary Gelays, was near-. ly four hours in passing 4 given point. The procession was composed of three. Grand Divisions, the First comprising the first to the sixth divisions, the Second comprising the seventh to the twelfth divisions, and the Third made .up of the thirteenth to the twentieth ‘divisions. . : 4 :

The procession over, the remainder of the afternoon was devoted to the task of recovery from the fatigue incident to the march.

In the evening a soiree musicale et dansante was advertised to be given at the Exposition building—a structure capa_ble of holding 30,000 persons with crowding. For this something over 200,000 tickets are reported to have been issued. As a consequence there was a prodigious crush, very little music and:scarcely any attempt at dancing. The outs were consumed by an insane desire to get in and the ins to - get out; and as the arrangements for ingress and egress were . totally inadequate, when the two lines met and strove to pass each other in the comparatively narrow passages the consequences were something fearful. Women fainted, and several were badly trampled upon and hurt. This ended the entertainment of Tuesday.

On Wednesday a monster concert waB advertised fo be given at the Jockey Club track, in which several thousand performers would participate, but, either because the weather was too hot or the musicians indisposed, the concert did not materialize to any great extent. There wasa little music, and a competitive dri'l for prizes in which Indianapolis was awarded the first prize, Louisville the second and Dayton, Ohio, the third. There were many excursions on the lake in the afternoon, :all the steamers in the harbor not otherwise engaged being pressed into service., In’ the evening the Sit Knights liberally patronized the theaters and special concerts in MeCormick, Central Music and Farwell Halls. After these entertainments there was a display of fire-works on the lake front, which was witnessed by vast crowds on land and water. G

On Thursday the commanderies were packing up and leaving on every train, and by Friday Chicago had resumed her wonted bustling commercial acSy, '

ONE of the India muslin gowns worn at a recent Newport reception was embroidered in thirty different colors, and four months were required to work it. : Ry

Ix freezing, water exerts a pressure of thirty thousand pounds per square inch.

MISCELLANEOUS.

—Berry Bradford, of Clinch County, Ga., was found dead at his plow handles recently.. He is the third brother that has died suddenly at the plow. '

—A snake was killed on the farm of W. H. Williams, Gwinnett County, Ga., which had two feet with five toes, the feet being shaped like those of a lizard.

—California millionaires are rated in the tax lists there as: follows: Charles Crocker, £34,495,458: Leland Stanford, $834,643.308, and Mrs. Mary F. S. Hopkins. $25,280,972. : . —The new ¢ Webster mansion” at Marshfield, Mass., on thesite of the old and historic Webster mansion, which was burned, is now nearly completed. 1t will cost about $lO,OOO. .

—A hollow old tree near the eorner of Broadway and Fiftieth Street, New York, was cut down the other day, and several large "ratilesnakes were found in it and quickly dispatched. Lo

. —According to recent surveys of the Great -Salt Lake its greatest length is ninety-three miles, while its greatest width is forty-three miles. The present evaporation is about one inch per day and the influx of water through the many rivers entering the lake is a little more. As soon as the snow in the hills gives out the lake will begin to lower. . —There is a lady at Saratoga who wears a large diamond ring on each of her eight fingers whenever she is seen, whether at breakfast or by gaslight. She also wears diamonds in her hair, large solitaires in her ears and bracelets and pins set with these rare jewels. She is suspected of also having anklets and garters clasped with diamonds, as well as shoe-buckles. 2 : o

—On a recent Sunday the church of the Rev. Thomas K. Beecher, Elmira, N. .Y., was telephonically connected with a newspaper office at Williamsport, Pa., seventy-five miles away, and a portion of his sermon stenographically reported for -the paper. Nearly .every word -of the speaker could be heard in Williamsport and the music by the organ: could be heard as plainly as-if it had been only fifty feet away. | - ‘ - —A notice is posted in the ofiice of the Stockton House at Cape May to the effect that ¢ Guests accompanied by dogs will be charged ten dollars per week extra.”’ The cause of- thi¥ notice was the following orderreceived by the eaterer of the hotel last week: ¢ Please send to room No. 800 for my dear little Jupiter one tenderloin steak very rarely broiled, a cold chicken wing and a pint of new milk.”’ ' ‘ e

—Dora Young, a favorite daughter of the late Brigham Young, is in Chicago. She is described-as a particularly attractive and handsome woman, with a beautiful complexion and . golden hair. She dresses faghionably and in good taste. She nas considerable. property, secured from her father’s estate by a successful suit at law, and intends to enjoy it. Two years ago she was a zealous Mormon, but now she abominates the system and has forsaken her old home and friends. —Senator Sharon, of Nevada, has recently secured the title to the Grand Hotel property at San Francisco. He already controls the Palace Hotel, which stands on the other side of the street.

Tomake one great hotel by uniting the two hotels is now his plan. The dividing. street, some . seventy-five feet: in width, will be bridged by a massive iron structure thirty feet from the pavement. Suites of rooms in both houses will be made into connecting corrigors and the bridge will be roofed with glass and windows put in to correspond with the connected building. s e —Every now and then, says the Springfield Republican, we hear something about scores of American girls studying music in Ttalian cities, being for the most part silly creatures without a good note in their voices. When one of them ¢*comes out”’ it is always with an Italian name which doesn’t fit hér at all; and which makes it necessary if she ever sings in her own country to ex= plain that Signora Simperini is really Sarah Smith of Paquag. Here is'Lillian Norton, for instance, who a while. ago’ made a debut at Milan as ** Gilia Nordica,” a name not half so musical as her own. A girl by any other name may sing as sweet, but in spite of Hamlet’s opinion we still call a rose a rose.

—A fossil forest has been discovered in Oldham, England, in Edge Lane Quarry. The trees number about twelve and some of them are two feet in diameter. They are in good preservation. The roots can be seen interlacing the rock and the fronds of the ferns@re to be found imprinted on every piece of stone. The discovery has excited much interest in geological circles round Manchester and the ““forest’” has been visited by a large number of persons. The trees belong to the “middle coal measure period,-al-though it has been regarded as somewhat remarkable that no coal has been discovered near them. The coal is found about 250 yards beneath. . - - —QCape May letter to Baltimore Sun: It is painful to see at a resort like this the determined efforts of some halfgrown boys and beardless youths to imitate the habits and customs of men of mature age. They smoke cigarettes and sport miniature canes with all the importance of real big men. They occupy prominent seats at all the public assemblages and- when in company of young ladies outtival a French dancingmaster in bowing and scraping, Whi%e for soft-solder the vocabulary of the English language would fail to give a fitting idea.. Their little nobby hats, generally worn upon one side of the head, are constantly jerked from the head upon the approach of some young lady who they think i§ smiling upon them, but who is in reality generally much amused by their grimaces. = =

A Fish That Swallows Bigger Ones.

The Smithsonian Institution has received a 4 very curious specimen of the fish kind, recently found on the fishingbanks of Gloucester, Mass., by Mr. A Howard Clarke. It rejoices in the name of Chiasmodus niger, and its peculiar and distinguishing feature is the fact that - its raYacity leads it to swallow fishes which are twice as large and weigh four times as much as ‘itself, It is enabled to do this from the fact that its mouth is very deftly cleft, its teeth bent and that its stomach: has an elasticity resembling India rubber. When it commences to swallow its dinner its

jaws move alternately and seem to climb. over the fish, which is gulped - down and doubled up in this curiuos creature’s- inside. 'A% the process of digestion and decomposition takes place and gases are originated, the distended stomach ,becomé;fiighter than the other part of the bodv and the latter cons--quently turns-under. In this conditic v the fish is- utterly unable to help itself and may be easily eaught. This specimen, secured by the Smithsonian, is only the third known. The first was found a number of years ago tloating in the sew off the Island of Madeira, and the second was discovered in.the Dom- ° inican ‘Sea;, - Careful® drawings have - been made of this particular specimen, which is ten .inches in- length. It has in its stomach a’kind of codfish eigh-" teen “inches long. It is only by ¢on- - trasting the Jdong and slender 1lb0(ly of ‘the fish in its normal state with its distended -form after: gorging, that a ‘proper idea of the feat it so successfully attempts can be gained.— Washington (D: C):Post; . s el d e

The Myterious Kafirs.

| It was hoped that7one of the results of the Afghan war would be t 6 open up commtmication with a tribe of people. known to the Afghans as ‘“Kafirs”—a term of opprobrium, apparently, as the . English are also styled Kafirsin Afghanistan.. Very little is Known about these people. For'centuries they have fought against the attempts of .their neighbors to seize their women, who are white. and extremely beautiful.” The only means -of - communication - with this strange tribe . has been through some men living near the bordeérsof Kafiris--tan, who are adroit enough to be Afohans on one side of the frontier and Kafirs: on the other. The account of their manners‘and customs given by the Afghans represents- them as a people whose wives are beautiful, whose{land produees a magic herb, the possessor of which can command the love of whomsoever. he. chooses; in whose corn fields pure gold is found lying around loose and *who kill every Afghan they can catch and drink his blood. The only - hypothesis on ‘which the savants can -account for the presence of these white people in the midst of darker races is ‘that they are descendants of one of the colonies established by Alexander the Great on his march to and from India. The Kafits have many European characteristics. ‘They drink wine, sit on chairs' and eat off tables:-and have no ‘superstitions as to their food, customs or religion ‘as prevail among their Mo-. ‘hammedan neighbors. They are knownto claim European descent and are sup- - posed-to be friendly to the British. .In order to look into the-matter-an English . oflicer has started for Kafiristan, but it is to be feared that Ayoob Khan's suc-. cess will disarrapge his plans.—N. Y.

Australian Women.

Our hostess is a speeimen of the rare womanly .beauty which ripens into such perfection beneath the ardent Australian sun. indecd,fthc traveler cannot fail . to be struck with the general appearance. of the Australian women. T think they possess greater eharms of faec and figure, and a more delicate, refined style of beauty, as a rule, than their Northern. sisters. The Australian-born womanu is generally tall, well-proportioned, agile, lithe of limb, and has: all her. features cut in 4 classic mold or rather a Grecian or aristo¢ratic type. . In plain words, I - think Australian women are more generally graceful in figure than English women. The eclimate has doubtless much to do with this, but beauty is not by any means confined to the wealthier classes. The free out-of-door. life, the abundant fare, the freedom from many foolish kinds of - conventionality which handicap the English girl, all go in favor of the Australian. One is surprised to find so many really beautiful faces and faultless figures in all ranks; and the observant student of “¢ the human form divine’’ must come to' the .conclusion that so far as outward beauty "is eon-: cerned, the race has not deteriorated by its transplantation to.the “antipodes. The Australian, however, must strike her flag to the fresh rosy cheeks &nd ruddy warm complexions of the village beauties of the old.country. Clear complexions. are not -the strong point of Australianelles: = ' 0 0 . Far more freedom is accorded to Australian girls than mothers in England woulg ordinarily think consistent with propriety: The Australian beduty is quite able to hold her own in railway, omnibus or steamboat. lis not considered at all uncommon or remarkable to see her go shopping, :traveling or.’ visiting without male escort or female chaperon. - Whether the girls are improved by this, or the reverse, may be a mooted point; ‘opinions vary. Australians are certainly quick, intelligent and self-reliant: Their detractors, who may not have had the same degree of " liberty accorded them 'in their own youth, will occasionally hint that they’ are just a little too strong-minded, impulsively forward, and free spoken. Let ° us assume that this is:pure jealousy.— . Inglis’ Life in Australia. o !

Blind Dog’s Buff,

‘The Indian and Chinese boys have discovered a curious way to utilize dogs in their games. They frequently play ball-and make a dog do the fielding. Their last trick is to cover a dog’s head with a gunny-sack, and make him play the leading role in the game of blindman’s butt. The dog enjoys- the sportas much as anybody, and allows. the youngsters to tie the sack over his head without protest. They then scatter with a wild shout, and the dog, singling. out one of the crowd,. runs him down, fol-: lowing hiin by the scent alone. In one instance the writer-saw the dog sick his way across a plank which bri ged‘ a stream, and on one occasion, when a boy took to water, the dog lost the scent and declined to trust himself to the stream. The dog will sometimes chase a boy five minutes before catching him. The white boys have tried to '.hti%i% a dog in this manner, but seem unable to ma%&e the animal see where the fun comes in, and all efforts to hoodwink dogs with gunny-sacks -,h__aw fruitless. Danbtless the reaso@” of this is that dogs have learned to mistrust the advances of the white boys, having in their minds vivid recolleetions of tin pans. appended to - their tails.— Carson (Nev.) Appeat.. - " . i