Ligonier Banner., Volume 15, Number 22, Ligonier, Noble County, 16 September 1880 — Page 2

| The Ligonier Banner.

J. B. STOLL, Editor and Prep’r.

LIGONIER, t : : INDIANA,

NEWS SUMMARY. - Important Intéiﬁg;ce from All Parts

Domestic,*

TaE Manhattan Market,; situated between Thfrty-f()m'th and Thirty-fifth . streets, on Eleventh avenue, New York, was entirely destroyed by fire on the Sth. The building covered 160,000 square feet of ground, and cost originally $1,300,000. The loss consists of the building and sheds and a large amount of stock and fAxtures.. = | .

Tae. Board of Army Officers who recently assembled in Washington to revise the United States army regulations have completed their work. There is nothing in the report of the Board that enlarges the powers of the General of the Army or curtails the jurisdiction of the Sccretary of War. A maN named Charles Livingston is attempting to fast forty-two days, and is &n exhibitjon in Brooklyn, N. Y. - He compléted his second day of the fast on the evening of the Bth. .- il -

THE President has commuted the sentence Of death, récently passed by Mr. Maynard, late United ‘States Minister to Constantinople, if)n an American citizen found guilty of murder in Egypt, to imprisonment for life. o . A rurious northeast gale swept along the New Jersey coast on the 9th, causing much damage to dockage and shipping. ‘The wind blew at the rate of sixty mile an hour.: - D A REPORTER of a Harrisburg (Pa) newspaper secured remarkably accurate particulars of various burglaries, and published them some time in advance of the discovery of the crimes by the \victims thereof. A detective was placed on the young man’s track; and in a few days he was under arrest. He confessed to several burglaries, and was sent to the penitentiary for one year. - IN. consequence of recent heavy rains the tobacco crop in many counties of Virginia has been very much damaged, particularly along the river bottoms. -The to-baced-worm has also been at work, and the crop will, it is said, be the smallest raised in Virginia for many years. ] \‘ : LATE on the night of the Bth an east-bound express-train on the Indianapolis & St. Louis Railway was thrown from the track on a bridge thirty feet high at the station of St. Mary’s, near Terre Haute, Ind. The conductor, Georze Morris, was killed and several passengers were injured. One of the rails on the bridge had been loosened and drawn to one side in the hope that the cars would be thrown into the chasm. Similar crimes have been committed in that locality before. - ' . A coLLISION occurred on the night of thé 10th between several Newark (N. J.) Re%u’blican clubs and some citizens of Harrison. uring th‘_e fight fire-arms were used and four members of the elubs wiere badly injured. A SeaTrLE {(W. T.) dispatch of the 10th says: ‘“Captain Smith, of the steamer Josephine, just arrived from Skagit, reports that while ascending that river Tuesday last,

' when opposite Mount Baker, he observed the | mountain 'in a state of violent eruption, flames. stréaming up from the summit and large volumes of smoke ascending.” ° Tue yield of wheat in Illinois, lowa, , Mi?(nesota, Nebraska, Kansas, Wisconsin and Dakota is. reported at 147,731,270 bushels in - 1880, against 11'3,6;46(5,690 bushels in 1879. The yield of winter wheat in Iliinois is stated by the State Board Qt Agriculture to exceed 53,-} 000,000 bushels, being the largest crap ever ~ produced in the State. ’ : A WauxesHA (Wis.) lumber merchant named Silas Richardsén blew -out. the gas, instead of turning it off, as he retired in a Madison hotel a few. nights ago, and was suffocated to death. i |

DurinG the week ending on the 11th there were paid out from the Uhnited States Mints 553,496 standard silver dollars, against 222,500 during ‘the corresponding* week in| Wy el

~IstDoRE ROSENTHAL, wholesale dealer in woolens in New York-City, failed on the{ 11th. Liabilities, $200,000; assets, §95,000. |

Two old people named Purdy were burned to death in their house at 'Aus_tingf Minn., on the 12th. 1 ‘ I A COMMITTEE of prominent eitizens of Pueblo, Col., recently waited upon Nickdl Smith, who had been charged lwith an in famous erime, and afgqr, a brief parley too% him out -and hanged ‘him to an adjoining tree. : s i

A ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-SIX Houng test race between men and horses terminate; in Chicago on the night .of the 11th. Thie score of the men who continued to the enf of the contest was as follows: Byrne, STﬂS miles; 6 laps; Krohne, 535-6; Colston, 529-4@: Jackson, XO3-2. Horses’ scoré: Betsey Baker, 563 miles; Rose of Texas, 545 milés, 4 laps; Bateman’s entry, 527-2; Crockett, 525-2. Byrne took the fifst prize of $2,000; the owyer of Beisey Baker the second, $1,000; Krohna the third, $250, and Colston the fourth, $l5O. . . i

Personal and Political, |

TuE National Democratie Executive Committee met in New York on the Bth and adopted resolutions approving the movement ‘to reeoneile the differences in Virginia by the substitution of a single Electoral ticket; for the two then in the field, and expressing confidence that it will receive the support of ?ém Virginians who desire the election of Hancoek. . ) L e

THE Magssachusetts Prohibitionists 'met in State Convention at Worcester on the Bth and nominated a full State ticket, headed by Charles Almy for Governor. . V TaE following Congressioral nominations were made on the Bth: ‘Second Virginia Distriet, John F.. Dizendorf, Republican; Second Maryland, F. T. Shaw, Democrat; Fifth North Carolina, T. B. Keogh, Republican; Fourth Louisiana, N.: C. Blanchird, Democraty Third lowa, William G. Stewart, ‘Democrat; Second Wisconsin, . Congrcséfn#.n L.B; Caswell, Republican; Eighth Wiseonsin, Congressman T. C. Pound, Republican Ninth Michigan, George Parmalee, Greenback; Fourth Connecticut District, W. H. Barnum, Democrat, and Congressman Frederick N;}ileis, Republican; Twenty-ninth' New York, . 8. Laphgm, Republican; Fourth New Jeusey, Henry 8. #Harris, Democrat; Twenty-s:}ﬁond New York, Congressman Warner ‘n%ar Republicgn; Sixth New Jersey, -‘Phd_mas Jones, Republican. - g e It has been recently reported that Justice Swayrne, of the United States Supr{eme Court, will be retired after the session of | the ©ctober term of the court. - e

e% TraE following Congressional nominations were anuounced on the 9th: Second iWisconsin District, R. P~ Maine, Greenback; h‘hird Virginia, C. P. Ramsdell, Republican; FourtlhlAlabama, J.. Q. Smith, Republican; ‘Seventeenth Pennsylvania, General J. M. CGampbell, Republican; Seventh Pennsylvania, Congressman William Godshalk, Reppblican; Seventh New Jersey, Congressman Lewis A. Brigham, Republican; Third Conn’{:ﬁtli‘cut. CongressmandJ. T. Wait, Republican.

\PRESIDEN’I‘ HAves and party arrived inéSan Francisco on the evening of the 9th, and were cordially welcomed by the people of that ecity.. : : - S .§IARSIIALL 0... ROBERTs, the wellkxj*nvn merchant, capitalist and steamship owner, died at his home in New York on the n‘i_sjlb_of the 10th, aged sixty-six years.

I})3. BucHANAN, the Philadelphia phyisician of bogus diploma notoriety, was arrested at the village of St- Clair, Mich., on the Amilerican side, on the 9th, and taken to Philadelphia on the following day. o HE following Congressional nominations were made on the 10th: First Kansas District, C. C. Burns,, Democrat, in place of Tomlinson, declined; Second Kansas, L. F. Green, Democrat and Greenpack; Third Kegmc’ky,: M. T. Flipper, Republican; Sixth Wi-_kcousin’.-.JohnsE‘ Thomas, Greenback. o

Tue Republicans of the twentyfourth New-York District have nominated Joseph Mason for Congress. - :

L THE following Congressional nominations were made on the l1th: Second lllinois D strict, Congressman George R. Davis, Republican; Twentieth Ohio, John C. Hutchins, De)fno'crat,;- Sixth Tennessee, Congressman Jolin F. House, Democrat; Thirty-third New York, Congressman Henry Van Aernam, Repl:}&licun; Sixteenth New York, Charles H. Adams (Smyth) and Congressman John M. Bailey (anti- Smyth), Republican; Eighth Pebnsylvania, J. -Howard = Jacobs,: Republican; Nineteenth. Penusylvania, John Moor, ‘Giieenback. E

Foreign,

THE steamer Anglia, of the Anchor Line, while-on the voyage from Boston to Ldndon, - canfe into collision with the Glasgriw steam®r Irongate, from Antwerp to New York, on the 6th, during a dense fog, and th]Le Anglia* with her entire cargo was sunk. The crew and some cattle men on board were a1;l saveéd. The entire loss will be about §l,DOOO, - . A RoME telegram of -the 10th says a st}mam of lava was issuing from Mount Vesuvifus, near the new raﬂWay to the crater, and some imprudent visitors<shad been injured.

|'THE steamer Frisia, which left Hambung on the 10th, - brings $2;000,000 gold btlflion' to the United|States. The total shipped during the week ending on the 11th amounted to about $7,000,000.

| A PERA dispatch of the 11th says the P‘f)tvers had prepared a note to.the Sultan rtf:dommending that Armenia be granted antonomy. The condition in Asia Minor was léxhen.table. It ' contained 200,000 lawless réfugpes who were without means of subsistence except by pillage. 2

| AT a meeting of the Albanian _chiefs on the 11th it | was reseolved to declare AlBania independent of the Porte rather than submit to the cession of Dulcigno to Montefageo. -

. ' TeE French expedition up the Niger lﬁas been driven back by the natives after seyéTal hours fighting. o f | A sTONE light house on the coast of Java has been thrown down by an earthquake shock. L L || THE!| Sultan has reconstructed his i(babinét by dismissing Cadri Pasha, his Prime ,!;Miilister, and appointing Said Pasha in his }ﬁblace. - . : i-, AN insurrection has broken out at {Herat and the Governor of. the city has been imurdered. Ayoob Khan, the new Ameer, }}ms gone to put down the rising. ‘

| THE Queen of Spain gave birth to ja daughter on the 11th. . o

i Russia has proposed the establish‘ment of an international guard for the prolftecpion of fqreigners in Constantinople. .

LATER NEWS,

PorTLAND. (Maine) dispatches of the 13th indicated that the election in that State had resulted in the success of the Fusion ticket-for Governor by between 1,500 and 2,000 majority.g It was claimed, also, that the Legislature would be Fusion, insuring the election.of a Fusion United States Senator in place of Mr. Hamlin. The Third, Foush and Fifth Congressional Districts were believed “to have been carried by the Fusionists. At midnight the Republicans claimed the Tiegislature, and the probable election of Davis. !

- REBEccA LyoN, the noted bearded: woman connected with Barnum’s show several years ago, died at Syracuse, N. Y., a few days ago. She wias fifty-six years of age.

DrpHTHERIA of a very fatal type is prevalent at New London, Conn.

Benxsamix F. Tusßs, a druggist, of Kingston, Pa., went hunting plover on ‘the banks of the Susquehanna River on the 13th, and accidentally shot his compamion, John Butler: Tubbs became so affected by the terrible accident that he attempted suicide, and soon after became. a raving maniac. Butler died from his wounds. Both were very respectable men. :

" During the week ending on the 11th there were twenty deaths from yellow fever and four from small-pox in Havana, Cuba.

. THE English wheat crop is reported by the Mark Lane Express of the 13th to be disappointing, a considerable portion of it being blighted.. The yield had been overestimated and the quality was bad. Barley was light and discolored. The Scotch and [lrish crops were good, and mearly all had been harvested under very favorable conditions. The root crops throughout the island had been greatly benefited by a recent heavy rain.

:THE nearly full returns of the Vermont election,ireceived on the 13th, indicated that the Republican majority would be between 26,000 and 27,000. The Democrats had elected twenty-two members of the Legislature and the Greenbackers two.

THE following Congressional nominations were made on the 13th: First Illinois District, - Congressman William F. Aldrich, Republican; Third Illinois, Charles B. Farwell, Republican; Fourth Wisconsin, Congressman P. V. Deuster, Democrat. :

- ApAwms, the defaulting ex-postmaster at Deadwood, Dakota, has been sentenced to three years’ imprisonment and to pay a fine of $5,000. . _

- ON the morning of the 13th a parcel containing four pounds of dynamite, con nected with a tube filled with percussion caps and powder, was found under a rail on the London & Northwestern Railroad, sixteen miles from the Euston terminus, London. The express-train to Scotland "bad passed over. it, %ut the tube was shaken from the track by the motion of the train. There was no clue to the villains who had placed the dynamite under the track. S

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Tue Northwest Indiana Conference, in session at Frankfort, closed on the evening of the 6th., The following appointments for the ensuing year were made: | . Terre Haute District—C. A. Brooke, Presiding Elder. AsbuW‘ James Greene; "Ferre Haute Centepary, W. R. Mikels; Third Street, J. S. White; Sanford, D.. K. Tindall; Clinton, J. E. Wright; Summit Grove, J. F. McDaniel; Newport, J. H. Hollingsworth; P}errh&sville. J. Dale; Terre Haute Cir¢uit, D. 8. Morrison; Catlin, 8. M. Hayes; Rockville, T. Meredith; Bellmore, D. P. McCain; Annapolis énd- Montezuma, M. L. Green; Harveysburg, W. P. Hargrave:; Waveland, T. C. Webster; Russellvilie, H. C. Neal; Brazil, James Johnson; Harmony and Knightsville, T. M. ‘Guild.| .

‘Greeneastle Distriet—S. P. Colvixt: Presiding Elder. Greencastle, College Avienue, A. Marine; Bainbridge, W. A. Smith; Ladoga, J. H. BSiddell: Merton, Geo. W. Switzer; Clermont, J. 3. Demotti; Pittsboro, to be supplied; Jamestown, W. F. Clark: Mae¢e, J. li{nrrison; Crawfordsville, J. W. Harris; met{‘nrdsvine‘ Circuit, J. E. Steele; Youngville, W. W. Jones; Pleasant Hill, E. R. Johuson; Hillsbgrough, C. O. Stallave; Covington, H. N. Ogdeén; Plaintield, N. Greéene; Danville, J. €. Ree¢d; Coatsville, Jesse/Hill; Carbon, to be supplied; Indiana Asbury University, H. A. Gobin. " : Latayette District—A. A. Gee, (Presiding Elder. Lu?:iyuttf;-, Trinity, J. C. Stdvens: Lafayette, Ninth Street, J. W. T. McMullen; Lafayette,! Congress Strect, Chaiyncey A. Skinner; Weaver, F. Mikels; Shawnge Mound, H. &, Merrill; Newtown, . Handkdy; Attica, E. M. Pavey; Williamsport, L. 8. Buckler; West Lebanon, W. Préttyman; Marshfield, "Thomas Birch; State Line, G. Am‘uimsc; Pine Village, Rl B. Beatty: Montmorency, T. B. McManus; Oxford, . B. Combs; Boswell, J. J. Claypool; | Latayette Circuit, W. Crapp; Battle Ground, li, Neheker; Brookston, J. O, Martin. Frankfort District—S. Beck, Presiding Etder. Frankfortg, W. H. Hickman; Michigan Town, J. M. Stafford; Burlington, J. E. Newhouse; Rossvilleqi C. E. Lewis; Bringhurst. T. F¥. Drake; (amden, A. J. Clifton; liﬂ"\lphi. Il Claypool; Pittsburgh, C. Barker; Transitville, W. R. Nobes; Dayton, L. Smith; rlkomney. E. W. Lawhon; Stockwell, J. T. Boyd; Colfax, E. A. Andrepw; Colfax, to be supplied: Thornton, L. C. Buckles; Lebanon,|J. L. Smith; Lebanon Circnit, E. Mason: Whitestown. C, B. Heath; Leconsville, J. A. Cullen; Zionsville, J. Mathews, i |

_Valparaiso District—S. Godfrey, Presiding Elder. - Valparaiso, N. D. Brakeman; Michigan City, G. M. Boyd: Crown Point.J. A. Clearwater; Lowell, H. Veneelly; He!iaron. D. G. Le Lourd; Koutts, supplied by J. Sebring; Medaryville, J. J. Thompson; Renssalaer, A. W. Wood; Beaver Lake, supplied by N. Jenkins; Moroccao; E. B. Woodson; Brook, s%uppli(xd be J. W. Hogan; Bradford, W. Hall; Woolcott, J. N. Harmon; Goodland and Remington, O. C. Haskell; Kentland and Raub, W./G. Vessels; Fowler and Earl Park, C. S. Burgneén; Monticello, T.|Mason; Burnettsville, R.| H. Calvert; Winamadce and Star City, A. Lewis; Logansport Circuit, J. T. Stafford. - Ly 3 La Porte District—J. H. Cessell, Presiding Elder. [La Porte, N. A. Chamberlain; La Porte Circuit,| T.- €. Stringer; 'Door. Village, G. R. Streeter; Westville, D. M. Woods; Union Mills, W. H. Mahoflie; Rolling Prairie, H: Middleton; New Carlisle, G. W. Bowers; South Bend, first charge,| 8. B. Town; South Bend, Michigan Street. F. M. Rule; North Liberty, O. R. Beebe; Walkerton, R. H., Sanders; Plymouth, W, P. McKinsey; North Judson, (. B. Woodson; Argos, J. M. Jackson; Rochester, R. D. gtter; Kewauna, A. B. Bruner; Marmount, F. O s { :

Tue Morton Monument Assbeiation has adopted a design submitted by Carpenter & Raymond, of Dayton, Ohio. The estimated cost of the monument built after% this plan is $30,000| a | ! -THE | report of the Auditgr of State shows an unusually small atnount of | receipts and disbursements for the month of August. Both ay‘e much less than they hiave been any preceding month of the year. | - OX the evening of the 6th while John H. Eck, of St. Paul, Sheiby County, owner of the Adams, Decatur County, stone-quarries,. was engaged in helping the workmen raise a large rock, ‘the . derrick suddenly gave way, one of the ropes striking him lon the head and causing instant death. o : GovErßNor WILLIAMS has paL‘doned Alfred Browt, who was convicted of higamy in the Madispn Circuit Court, and sentenced in 1879 to two years’ imprisonment. Brown released hims((:Jt “from an unhappy marriaze by means of a (Jhicago divorce. After ):*emaixiiug single for a year he married anbther woman, wlxerciupon he was tried anc} convicted of bi:am;_v, the court deciding that his divorce Wasnotvalia L

: Tin;j boundary line betweén Adams and Wells Counties has been infgsted for some time gyast with a ganz of tramps of the most disrejjutable character. They await every opportunity to pillage a'nd,plu]nder residenees and a|few days since one of the gang struck a girl working in a corn field with a stone and fatally injured het. _ «’ : |

'Lyy¥N Brooxs, aged twenty-one, living near Muncie, being jilted by his afﬁanced because he took another girl out riding, recently blew out his brains with a revolver. =

* WHILE Mrs.. Sophia Meyers, of Richmond, was carrying a vessel of meited sealing-wax across the kitchen, thé handle melted off and Jet the contents of the cup run into one of her shoes. It burned the skin off her dnkle and foot and cooked the flesh under it. In some places-it was burned tothe bone. |

JouN WisnMeYER was found dead on the rear steps of his boarding house in Indianapolis a few mornings ago.hj Hard drinking and other dissipation was the;‘a'lleged cause of his death. ‘ o :

A Miamr Couxty farmer went to Peru the. other day and bought a buggy for which he paid #6). He had hardly got home with the vehicle before a fellow came along with a $4O mortgage on it, and the brands and numbers agreed so nearly that there was no going back on the mortgage. | The farmer was given his choice to deliver gver the bugey or the $4O. As the person df. whom he. purchased the buggy was irresponsible, he was advised by attorneys that he could pay off the mortgage or ‘give up thé vehicle, in either case he would be a loser. The mortgage is a first-clasg swindle, and was no doubt gotten up by the parties in‘tereste(? for mutual benefitt L e

Ar Indianapolis on the morning of the 9th Sheriff Pressiy noticed the |fingers of a man projecting from a barred windowon the south side of the jail. On closer |inspection, he observed a saw plying its wof;k on the bars of the window. Going.into the jail slyly, he caught the man by the leg; who proved to be Murdoek, imprisoned on charge of counterieiting. " He said he had beer'put up to it by other prisoners. He is believed to have been the leader in the recent /attempt to tumnel out through the ventilating shaft. e .BamMUEL PERKINS was found in a dying condition on the platform of the depot at Vincennes on the morning ¢f the Bth. He had been robbed and, as his [death a few hours later proved, murdered. | - Tee Indianapolis grain quotations are: Wheat, No. 2 Red, $1@91%4c; Corn, 40@404c; Oats, 31@33c. The Cihcinnati quotations are: ;Wheat, No. 2 Red, 94@95¢; Corn, +6@ 46%5c; Oats, 35@36; Rye, 89@3914c; Barley, New Fall, 95@%%c. .| :

IT is claimed for the organ now being placed. in the Stewart Cathedral at Garden City, L. 1., that it will be the most perfeet, the most expensive and in many respects the most wonderful instrument in the world. ' It is the largest in existence and has 115 stops and 7,031 pipes. L

| THE Queen of Italy has made 4 gift ! toa Catholic church in Boston of a bronze statue of Augustus C:}zsm)q an antique of exquisite workmanship. e

A CoONNECTICUT woman who died recently, aged thirty-five, gave birth to four pairs of twins within nine years.

A TERRIBLE DEVASTATION. The Recent Forest Filres Near Upton, Canada — Fifteen Hundred People Rendered Homeless, it 0 A Montreal special of September 8 to the Chicago 7vmes gives the following thrilling account of the terrible deva,statxon? wrought by bush fires in the vicinity of Upton, Can.: : - The people of Upton, in one of the eastern eounties of this State. are overwhelmed with a sudden catastrophe. On Sunday the farmers and their happy wives and children assembied from the country round uat the parish church, looking well and prosperous, contented with a harvest, better thun the ave.age, carefuily stowed away in their barns. On Monday night many of these same tamilies were llying hometless and destitute alonyg the roads, pursued by a relentiess e tnat had snatched away their homes and happiness, and was §o(*km;r to involve them, too,.in its’ fury. Upton has been the, center 00 & very weadlthy agricultural eluss, comprising muny French Canadians, who having got wealth in the * States, returned to pass the remainder of their days among the quiet/ scenes 'of their native land.: To these the catimity will be a doubie bitterness. As nearly as can be estimated the tire has unhboused one bundred and twenty-two fumilies, or about eight hundred and fifty souis. ‘l'hese are at present huddled together in tne small| village of ~ Upton and surrounding parishes, in barns and sheds, and with waceir neighbors who have been fortunate enough to escape. One man named Mallette, who has’ harbored thirty-six-of the retugees on - his premises, says the distréss of the women and children would draw tears from the most stolid. The fires have lasted for the last week, and were causedl by the burning of stubble and trees. -On Monday afternoon a strong breeze sprang up and fanned the flames inio dimensions beyond human control. IThis wind fortunately blew from the village of Upton, which contained about one thousand inhabitants, so that the risk which it ran was considerably diminished. ; The devastating work of the flames has been along three principal roads—>ste. Charlotte, Ste. Helene and Ste. Germain. Last aight the Times correspondent drove out on the Ste. Helene road along the route of the greatest destruction. On starting 4 man was seen, the very picture of despair, leaning against the side of a stable, his hands in his pockets, 'He stated that his nume- was J. I'ouhon, and that his two barns, filled with grain and one thousand bundles of hay, had been consumed, with his poultry, cattle and farming implements. By desperate exertions be had saved his house, but the future iooked blank. enough for him. Driving ahead, wé came to the house¢ where Lewis Cliche, formerly the wealthiest man in the parish, was stopping. “He appeared with his hair all scorched, and his ears, nose and hands teiribly burnt. He had one of the finest houses of the: range, and had stacked the produce of two farms into his barns. He had saved his family, but his cattle, swine, horses, carringe and house were consumed. Further along the road we met L. Cliche, Jr., and inquired wsiat he had saved. Throwing open his coat he exclaimed: *That is all.” - When the fire was increasing he was three miles away, and rushing through the burning forest, he tound his home abandoned by all save the eattle, which were bellowing in their,agony. They told the usual tale of no insurance. s & strong north wind was blowing, and it was hard to refrain from chattering with cold, but we soon experienced a change as we drove into the burning district. ‘Pelting ashes, and cinders, and hot blasts of air warmed us up, while the startled horse sped forward with more speed than was pleasant over the smoking corduroy roads -beneath. Dr. Gauthier, who so: narrowly escaped with several scars from the bush, met us and warned us not to go too far, as the wind was rising. Here and there along the road stood the utensils of & household abandoned in the ruace with the all conquering tire. Sig - Tt was a sad sight to view the blackened ruins of so many homes. What maple, poplar, bemlock and tamaruack adorned the landscape was naught but smoking cinders. The scorched fields of grain and the burnt crops of corn, potatoes and oats could be seen on either hand, with cattle, sheep and swine roasting in the trenches. The place where stood the house 'of Currier was reached. 'The barns and stables had been leveled to the ground. The driver pointed out the spot where the charred remuains of the grandfather, his son and grandson were discovered. 'The grandfather had lain himself out in a ditch, but the extreme heat had curled him up so ‘that he stood on his head and feet. Under ‘him a frightened hare had taken refuge, and when the poor old man was n\oved it darted out across the smoking fields, | its worthless life saved by the death of & human being. Along the road were frequently met dreary cavaleades returning from their hopeless search in the ruins. Pierre Cote gave a vivid narrative. Like a similar case in the great fire in Chicago, his house stands in the middle of the burnt district and is the only one remaining for miles around. By his-exertions he had saved everything. At tihe first he fled with his family, but had not gone far when he determined to see the last of it. ‘The fire had taken hold in several places, and he then ‘wished to make his escape, but saw the impossibility of so doing; so he set to work ‘with what water he had and with the edrth around. He disconnected his fences and choppe.l down the beams of his barn, that had ignited. " The _heat was most intense. One of his horses was very badly burnt, and will probably die. This family did not leave until they could jnot sce each other in the house, on account’ of the great smoke. o > The return to Upton, gave us some idea of the terrible grandeur ¢f some of the scenes in & brush fire. Night had fallen, and a strong wind was blowing, making the, smoldering flames shoot up on every hand, illuminating the darkness of the night. At dawn weset out for the St. Charlotte road, wherereven the logs of the corduroy road are fast consuming. For miles the drive was unrelieved by the sight of a human habitation. A ditch crossing the road is covered with planks, and in this cavity thus formeéd, three human lives were saved. . I'wo men named Roy and Robinette were escaping with their families on a cart and some articies of household furniture. The violent wind which caused the fire to assume so great proportions, blew Roy and two of the women oft the cart, with a feather bed, into the road. The frightened horse could not be stopped, and they were left to the mercy of Providence and their own wits. The road ditch was their only chance, and into it they crawled, and stuffed the entrance with the feather bed. The whole night long, the old man assured us, was spent in repeating Ave Marias and pater nosters. :

At a small clearing of three or four houses, saved by the greatest exertion, fifteen or twenty families were found huddled together. Some of the men had gone to St. Liboire, where a merchant, J. B. Lerioux, had offered to sup&oly them with bread. .Those remaining behind were in hourly terror of the etfects it a strong wind were to arise. On the Ste. Germa}{n road, which leads northeast, while Ste Helene goes to the north and Ste Charlotte to the northwest of Upton, the same dismal tales were told, whole families houseless and subsisting on the generosity of a few neighbois. The fine stretch of woodland from Ste. Dominique to Drumimondville, about thirty miles in length, has been laid in ashes, and but a few farm-houses in a width of fifteen miles have escaped. The damage done ig about three hundred thousand doilars, and tifteed hundred people are homeless. The loss to the soil is almost irretrievable. The insane policy of burning the bush may at length be understood, but right at the bovder of Upton village, yesterday, :n old man named Garveau started to burn the rubbish and stubble of his farm, which -had luckily escaped. The astonished anger of the villagers, however, proved too muech for Garveau and his little illuminaticn. It is difiicult to get bread in Upton, so great is the demand. Some means of assistance must be organized for the destitute families who have nothing for the winter. It is probable that great numbers will be forced to leave the desolat:d district and take up their residence in Camadian or American cities for the winter.

The Ibis.

. A HUNGARIAN newspaper reports that the ibis has settled down in great numbers on the thickly wooded shores of the Plattensee (Lake Balaton), to the surprise and delight of the sportsmen of the neighborhood, most of whom had never before seen their novel visitor. The bird has a long beak, bright steel-colored feathers, and resembles the snipe in its habits. Its flesh is savory. They build their nests of dry twigs, or of peat and reeds, setting them in long rows close to one another, and in & line as straight as if it had been laid down by an engineer. Toward evening they flock together, like wild ducks, in great numbers, and they are generally shot by the sportsmen as they alight. The eggs are nearly as large as duck eggs, and of a bright skyblue color. = :

A NIGHTGOWN is nothing but a nap sack.: :

Yhe Story of the Wrecking of the Vera

Cruz—Thriiling Incidents.

- A. R. Owen, Chief Engineer'of the steamer Vera Cruz, destroyed in a hurricane off the coast of Florida, and who was one of the few survivors, has made a graphic statement of the disaster which Il)ua.‘s been published in the N. Y. Herald, and from which we take the following extracts: ‘ _

**The real blast of the cyclone struck us on the port bow at about twenty-five minutes to two p. m. Saturday, and lifted the ship almost on her beam-ends. ¥rom this time it became next to impossible to wilk about without clinging to chairs, tables, and other stationary furniture of the cabin, and as ali moveable objiects in the saloon were quickly thrown from port to starboard, walking VWHS.C‘%CG(‘Ginziy dangerous. The wind was at that time northeast, and the vessel was steering south by cast. Y SR TN A

* ** During the evening three skylights in the muin saloon were carried away, and the waves poured considerable water into the s#loon and siaterooms, setting all adrift. By midnight the passengers were generally sitting upon or lying on the floor: of the saloon conversing withiand assisting each other, Ket' goopd cheer was the rule, and many were the exchanges of wit and humor between them all. The servants, as they passed around them, added to the good feeling. ‘Major-General Torbert, United: States army, had beeén washed .out of his stuteroom (No. 5), which was the first -on the port bow, early Saturday ¢€vening. He then .came tn’x*e in the saloon-room No. 27. He/had be¢en thrBwn against.a table in the afternoon and had cut his right cheek, which' troubled him considerably, as it bled freely, but he was in his best and kindest humor, speaking a cheer-. ing word here, assisting,a man therg, and attending to the women and childrén everywhere. He lay on the saloon floor for a part of the night, but was tiooded out, and then eame and laid with me, bringing his waterproof, which we threw over us to protect us from the water dripping in from the top and sides. At oneo’clock p, m. the engine-room. wae dry. Thedrag was put on, but it réversed and was useless. It was not, Rottenireudy until this time and was foo small for service, ewer if in proper order. %t two p. m. the shiptook a heavy sea; and the water put the fires out,immediuately stopping the engines,. “The donkey-engine thén started, and was going when the ship sank. The Purser came harriedly below, caYling for .Gcnerle‘_Torbert ‘ and said that the Captain had sent him to te"li the passengers to come and assist the crew or the vessel would go down. We immediately got up. I went to the deck and to the tloor of. the engine-room. where [ assisted to pass the buckets for an hour. Captain Van Sicé was in line n¥ar the top passing water while I was there. It was of no use. The sea was continually breaking over the vessel and coming down in large quantities between decks. The donkey-engine was working, but not toany purpose. After this I went to the saloon and told General Torbert that we were going to pieces and fast.filling. and nothin »gﬁﬁnined but ‘for us to get life-preservers) apon the women. General Torbert’s tace hurt him so that ne did not go to pass buckets.

" *The General came to ne immediately after this with Master Wallendge, about nine yea:s old, and said: *Romeo, you and I must take this little boy and care for him between us.” I allowed that he had but fiftéeern minutes to live, and argued tbhat it would be merc{ to let the little tellow go down with the ship, but the General_kindly insisted, and said, ‘I cannot leave this little fellow behind; you and I must save him. Take him until I come bslgck.' The next minute the sea camé into the saloon more terrifically than ever, filling it waist-deep in water, and s,mashin% the most of the port side. The little fellow and myself were rolled over among the chairs and tables, and I lost "him, but he was picked up and brought to his father. I called to'General Torbert to come to the deck with me. He said, ‘I will go dift and meet you above.” I never saw General Torbert again alive. :

“The Yassengers now crowded - into the gocial hall, which was at the top of the saloonsteps. Here they said farewell to each other: We adjusted their life-preservers. and extended sympathy one to the other. Never before, perhaps, was there a set of passengers so quiet and unexcited under circumstances so app:lling. Mr. Alexapnder Wallendge brought his. little boy to me and said, ‘Mr. Owen, I will give you $l,OOO in gold if you will take my son and get him to land.” I said no; I did not expect to live tive minutes after the ship went down. I told him it would be a mercy to himself and his son to go down as quick as possible. 1 told him I could see nothing to hope for in a storin like this. 1 said, ‘Let us look at it.as if our chigll'a‘icters on the world’'s stage were about ended.’ . . 0

‘“Miss Sadie Fay asked me in her sweetest manner to take care of her, but I said to her and the others that there was nothing to be done but to stick to the ship until we were washed from her and then to cl.‘in% to the fragments as long as possible, and this: plan was carried out by every passenger. The (apiain was seen just betore the sea smashed in the port side of the upper decks, at twelve minutes past four a. m., but whether he got exoited and jumped overboard or was swept away is not known to any of us. S ‘““Mr. Purris, the First Officer, the Second Mate, and one or two more of the crew took to the starboard-bow boat and were killed hefore the boat could be g,%t free. Mr. Miller and his engineers stood by the ship till she sunk. The Quartermaster, William O’Neal, and asailor, name unknown, stood at the wheel until the ship sunk. ThetCaptain never came near the gassengers during the storm, nor did he send tO inquire into their condition, and it may be sincerely hoped that no other passengers may be left to so thoughtless and indifferent a man. It was six a. m. when the ship went down, breaking in the middle, and filling the “sea Wwith fragments of stores, trunks and merchandise, vl s o

“To say there were ten million pieces of '| wrecked stores all clashing together five min- | utes after the ship went to. pieces would be gross exaggeration, but even: with such a | statement no idea could be conceived as to | the state of the case. Men, women, children, } horses, ¢ats and rats mixed in and went in, through 'and over this mass., The waves were | fifty teet high, notin swells and ridges, but i in peaks like sugar-loaves. Four peaks beating like surf, tore into each other. When we | went upon one it was not to. go down on .the other side, but to be_turned over at the top | and sent rolling through the air at the op-. posite one, and 8o back and forth. This lasted about two or three hours, after which the: waves, took a more natural character, and. came in swelling ridges, and we whirled down and over them to the opposite side. : “Genéral Torbert was picked up by Charles Smith, one of the crew, übout fifteen minutes after the ship sunk. He was then weak, and could crawl on the fragments of the wreck only with assistance. When the fragmerit.on which he was turned over, a minute | later, Mr. Smith came up on another piece. and never saw the General again alive.: The wind was so territic that when a plank, ralt, box or tﬁ;uuk would reach the top of a wave it was ‘whirled through the air with a force terrible to behold. Ameng the living and dying [ never passed:a person who was not bleeding from some wound inflicted by passing fragments, and half 'of them were deai or dying within fifteen minutes after they took to the waves. This was most appaliing; and sad, indeed, was .it to see those heroic wonien struggling against timbers, - waves and fate. 1 passed oir. Wallendge and son ten minurtes after thesinking. They were. about ten yards apart, clinging to-ditfferent . picces of the wreck, and the little fellow looked as calm and haridsome as when playing in the saloon two days before. His father was depressed, but only for his son; no thought of himself entered his head. Would to God that I could have done something for. them both. Thus could I tell something about each passenger,-but as I did not know their names [ cannot enter into details. el *The stewardess was jammed in the saloon among doors and tables, and sank with.the ship. She was erying bitterly and a‘iwpealed to me for helﬁ. when the water poured in upon her like a Niagara. I'stood by the mainiast till the water rushed in over the hurricane deck, and then I climbed up the rigging twenty-five feet and was washed off by the waves. An instant after txagments of the wreck piled in and over me. ‘I was stunned . by a blow across my head, cheek and eyes as'l climbed first upon one thing and then upon another. For half an hour I rushed up one. mountain of water, then down ' another, ustil finally I caught hold of a piece of the ship," about twenty-five feet long by ten feet wide. This was the port side of the dining-saloon.-Through one window was the head and shoulders of a man, Thomas Grambool, oaught in the wreckage. He asked me to break the frame and get. him out, but, as that Was impossible, I shoved him down, and he came ug through the next apening. We now threw off our life-][:resei'vers'-and stuck to the fragment of wreck, through thick and thin, for twenty-four hours. During that tifne ‘ye were at least two-thirds under water, Iffthe night we were both completely blind from the salt deposited in our. eyes. : When we struck the surf, at four o'clock & m. on Monday, our raft went to pieces, and we were turned over as many as six times before coming to the surface. We were landed at My, | Botefuhr’s farm, near Daytona, Volusia Couns< ty, sixty miles south of St. Augustine, and twelve miies north of Mosquito Inlet. i

HALF Scotland is owned by seventy persons. i S

Too Conimen Gullibility.

- SoME few months ago a fascinating Zzentleman with a fascinating name — Charles Albert Ashley—arrived in New York and, putting up at: a fashionable® inn, advertised for a. loan on property worth ten times the value of the sum of money wanted. A certain ResSler; a letter-carrier by profession, who by years of saving -had amassed - five hundred dollars, took the "bait and waited upon Charles Albert Ashley. whose story was to the: effect that he was the only-son .of a noble English family; by divers queer. misfortunes the remit-, tances from his family had misearried, and here he was without the necessary . money wherewith to support. the dignity of the Ashleys. Fortunately for him: it happened that he ~had the family jewels of the:Ashleys ‘along with him; . they were svorth untold sims, of course, but a spirit of pride which did him: houor forbade him to sell or pawn them to- an ordinary pawnbroker. ' To borrow money from his. aristocratic acquaintances he. was ashamed: and so the only-course:left to him was to borrow the money-from sonie one who was willing' to -turn ‘an -honeést penny and swho knew a-rood business investment when he saw. it. If the letter-carrier was such' a man and” would lend him five hundred dollars ‘e - would entrust him with enpugh of the Ashley jewels to make him a rich man in case he nev--ér saw his five hundred dollars again. The letter carrier was dazzled with the jewels svhich Ashley showed him and lent the money, taking with him a diamond pin, some rings of enormous value, and a cane-head-set with jewels presented to Ashley by his friend the ¢ King of A friea.’ So‘impressed was the letter carrier with the value of these: articles that he rented a safe- in some deposit compuny’s vaults in - which to stdre his'jewels. - There they remained antil Ressler. happened to think that if Ashléy- should ‘die or disappear “these treasures would make him Tich, and the. possibility of such an. event made him curious as ‘to ' the -real.value of the jewels. o he took them to a Bowery, pawnbroker and asked what the lot was worth. . ¢“ Three .dollars,” was the reply. 4 What!l’ - exclaimed - Ressler, *“three dollars! * Do you know that this cane, head - comes from the King of Africa?’ " ‘“Don’t care if it does,’’ was the-unfeéling reply; “I can buy ’emfor twenty dollars a dozen. seventy-five'per ‘cent. off to-the trade.”’ © - e ‘As soon as Ressler got ‘through his public* duties that day he hurried.to tell his story to Ashley, whose ,ind':? nation at the King of Africa’s perfidy knew no bounds, = ‘‘He was a friend of mine,’” said Ashley, “but I.will have nothing “more.‘to do with +him. His ‘heart .Is, as. black ‘as -his skin.” . To make matters. right with Ressler, Ashley gave. him at’ least a quart of the family jewels which' had been -handed down from his’ ancestors, he said. Much pleased, the letter carrier accepted them, but could not resist taking them to the pawnbroker's /shop the next morning. How much would he lend on-the whole bag full?. < Six dolJars,” said the money-lender. Strange to say, Ressler began to suspect that. all was not well. Either Ashley was a scoundrel or else he was a victim of his ancestors’ rascality, for they had certainly handed down to -him as poor a lot: of family jewels: as the Bowery pawnbrokes had ever seen. In the cir‘cumstances Ressler had Ashley arrested, and: bushels of such precious stones were found in his: room.. He managed to get away from the "police in some one of the many ways known to adroit criminals; and is now in Baltimore endeavoring to obtain possession of the bag of - glass diamonds now in the hands. of the Néw York police authorities iiiaaue s L

... This story ‘is as old as ' the hills, and yet it seems as if there was need of telling it again 4nd- again. Perhaps this last. variation of it may catch the eye of some;gudge‘qn ‘in search of such “good things’’ as Ashley and his kind are every ready to offer. When Ashley gets a fresh lot of glass trinkets' he will begin again.. His pwetended 'respectability.is disproved by letters from London received - yesterday, in which his career. is ‘shown to have been any-thing-but straight.—N. Y. Evenung FPost. " S R g e i

It is a good thing for Noah that he had the only ark afloat in all the universe at the time- of the tlood. If there had been just one more ark, there would have been a collision the third day out, unless those things were managed betthan they'are now. And probably they were not, as’it seemed to be considered dangerous to send out more than one at a.time. = Fob Baridette. e

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