Ligonier Banner., Volume 23, Number 52, Ligonier, Noble County, 11 April 1889 — Page 2

ABOUT BIRDS' EGGS.

Jnteresting Facts Concerning Their Composition and Formation.

Eggs are composed of two principal parts, termed, from their color, the yelk or vitellus, and the white or albumen. The latter does not exist in the ovarium or egg-bag; there, as we may . sce in altmost every fowl -that comes to the table, is also a numerous collection of yelks of various sizes. When these are fully developed, they drop, one by one, through a passage termed the oviduct into the uterus, in which the egg is perfectly formed, having collected its albumen or white, and its calcarcous shell, and from which it is ultimately expelled. | i The very expeditious growth or production of the white of the shell is ar extraordinary exertion of nature—a very few hours only being sufficient fo produce it. The texture of the shell is admirably calculated for preserving the ‘contained parts, and for retaining the heat!that is conveyed to them by incubation. Immediately under the shell is the common membrane which lines the whole cavity of the egg, except at its broad end, where there is a small space filled with air. Within this membrane, the white, which is said to be of two kinds, is contained; and near its centre, in an exquisitely fine membrane, is the yelk, which is spherical, while the white is of the same form as the shell. At each extremity of the yolk, corresponding with two ends of the egg, is the chalaza, a white firm body, consisting of three bead-like globules, and it is at these points that the several membranes are connected,’ by which means, in whatever position the egg may be placed, its various partsare retained in their proper place. : Near the middle of the yelk is a small, flat, circular body, named the cicatricula, in which the rudiments of the future chick are contained; and from these, in consequence of incubation, or from a certain degree of continued heat of any kind, the bird is ultimately hatched. In this process the germinal membrane, as it is called, or rudimental parts of the chick, is observed to become separated into three layers, from the extetnal layer of which are formed subsequently. the osseous and, muscular’ systems, and the brain, spinal cord and nerves; while from the middle and internal layers are formed respectively the heart and blood vessels, and the intestinal canal and its appendages. The yelk and white of the egg gradually become thinner, supplying the growing chick with nourishment, which, increasing in magnitude, at length bursts its cell and comes forth, still retaining in its intestines a portion of the yelk to serve for its support -until its powers are sufficiently vigorous to enable it to digest extraneous food. ]

It is a remarkable fact, that those birds, the nests of which are most uncovered, and the eggs of which are most exposed to the sight of their enemies, lay them of a color as little different as possible from surrounding objects, so as to deceive the eyes of destructive animals; whilst, on the contrary, those birds, the eggs of which are of a deep and vivid color, and consequently very liable to strike the eye, either hide their nests in hollow trees, or elsewhere, or do not quit their eggs except at night, or commence their incubation immediately after laying. It must, moreover, be remarked, that in those species,.the nests of which are exposed, if the females alone sit on the eggs without being relieved by the male, these females have generally a different color from that of the male, and more in unison with neighboring objects. . - Pure white, the most treacherous of ycolors, we find to be the color of the eggs of birds which build in holes, as the woodpeckers, the kingfishers, the swifts, the dock and water swallows, and others; also of those birds, as the titmice and wrens, which construct their nests with openings so small that their enemies can not see into them. Moreoyer, we find ‘eggs - white in birds which do not quit their nests, except at night, as the owls; or for a very short time during the day, as the falcons. Finally, this color is found in those which lay only one or two eggs, and which immediately begin to sit, as “the pigeons, ete. _ _ - ~ The clear green or blue color is proper to the eggs of many spéecies which build in holes, as the starlings, the fly-catchers, etc. ; it is also common to theleggs of birds the nests of which are constructed of green moss, or situated in the midst of grass, but always - well hidden. Green eggs, too are found with many powerful birds able to defend them, as the herons. e

A faint green ocolor, approaching to a yellowish ,tint, is observed in the eggs of birds, as the partridges and pheasants, which lay in the grass, without preparing a regular nest.” The same color is remarked in those which cover their nests when they leave them, as the swans and the ducks.—N. Y. Ledger. : b

SUNSET IN WINTER,

A Northern Scene That Would Be a Revelation to Southern People. - It is worth one’s while to get a cold nose by watching a winter’s sunset; to see the waltzers—those spiral columns of snow, rained by eddies in the currents of wind and driven along by it—turned by the sun’s rays into tongues of flame, go whirling over the drifts. Clouds in masses, streaks and detached flocks show all the shades of red and purple, while the clear portions of the western sky give many ‘shades of yellow. At the zenith is a steely blue, which, lower down, blending with the yellow, gives tints of green. North and south the waltzers are draped in many gay tints of purple -and rose, while to the east, as they «dance away into the distance, their L ghostly whiteness is enhanced hy the gay coloring of sky and clouds above. Reds and rosy purples crown the eastern clouds, while the blue of their dower strata gradually darkens to al~most black where it touches the white . snow lines. : g ot _ . A change passes rapidly over all this; _ the sun is down and the Jong twilight MW‘EM ~eastern clouds put on their eveting Grapery of gray, so gauzy ;'mmgzb’,us sham concealment for tgzig dark blue masses; the tints of rose hnd ! piirple ave fransferred to tho . clear

sky; grayness settles between us and the belts of woods, visible one beyond another with strips of snow between; the view narrows, and the darkness of the horizon advances toward us. :

Look again to the west, a bank of cloud is rising, eapped with flame and gold, below the snow light lends it a dusky gray. A line of round-topped ridges of snow extends in one direction, looking as though the wind-had wearied in its task of rolling up the drifts; the first, sent the furthest, is nearly at our feet; the rest are dropped in succession, each fallivg short of the last before it. - Beyond, against a rise of ground, the snow lies in swaths, each showing a sharp edge- to the east. Down the slope come the waltzers in hurrying crowds, they chassee through the ' hollows bhetween the- drifts, then a mad ambition seizes them and they mount whirling to the tops of the ridges, only to fall headlong, adding layer after layer of snow-dust to the depth of the drifts. Now comes a side gust: drifts, hollows and levels are alike shut from sight by a sheet of driving snow. Away toward the woods on the left go the white, whirling forms—now singly, now in troops; the drifts along the northern edge of the woods will deepen before to-morrow morning. See the mist-like shapes circling around that tall, pointed drift on the right; there spins one to its very apex, poses for an-instant, then leaps to a glorious exit—disappearing in mid-air. . z

Look east again; the clouds are gow gray, while the interspacing of sky‘a\,e fully as intense, though darker blue than the dome of June’s bright days. Motion painting is beyond our power, but there’s many a northern winter scene the sight of which would gratify the passion of a lover of beauty.— Fulton County, (N. Y.) Democrat.’

BENEFICIAL INSECTS.

Entomological Information for Horticule l & turists and Gardeners. ! At a, recent meeting of farmers in lowa, Mr. C. P. Gillette, speaking of entomology for the horticulturist, said: It is utterly impossible to definitely draw the line and-say just how much entomology the horticulturist or farmer should know. There is no limit to the information that one might gain in the study of insects that would be a benefit to him in devising methods of prevention and remedy. I shall not go. outside of what may be called the essential knowledge to successful warfare against our insect foes. . “The horticulturist should be able to distinguish injurious- from beneficial® species. The majority of insects are vegetable feeders, but there are a great many that feed upon or within the bodies of other insects, causing them to die. These latter are called predaceous or parasitic, and in the main are beneficidl, as they destroy many injurious forms. When the lice have been mostly eaten from a plant by the lady beetles, the orchardist, finding many of. the latter and few of the former, naturally attributes the damage to the beetles, and proceeds to destroy all that he can find. Nature's check is in this way removed, and -the lice increase again and the injury goes on perhaps worse than betore. It is not at all uncommon for entomologists to receive these little friendly insects from farmers or fruit growers who report them as doing much damage to ‘some tree or plant. o

“The lady beetles, or lady birds, as they are often called, are among the most beneficial of our predaceous insects. Their food consists almost entirely of plant lice and the eggs of insects and they should always be protected. Nearly every one kuows these insects in their adult state. They are rather small and are shaped much like a Colorado potato beetle, aad are usu‘ally decorated with bright white or black spots. Who has not said whena a child, Lady-bird, Lady-bird, fly away home? Two other very beneficizl insects that I can only mention are the larvee of the Syrphus flies and the beautiful lace-winged Chrysopa. These are most commonly found in colonies of plant lice, of which they devour large numbers.’’ :

PARIS MEAT-SNEAKERS.

A Gang of Robbers That Has Been Discovered in the French Capital.

A meat-sneaking gang, the members of which lived literally and without the least touch. of exaggeration on the ‘fat of the land.,” has just been discovered -in Paris. Last week a man was ‘Observed lurking a considerable time before a well-stocked butcher’s shop, his eyes rivited on’ a ‘‘superb” leg of mutton, warranted to weigh six pounds, and which was duly dangling from a hook. The suspicious person walked up and down before the shop, and sometimes crossed to the other side of the road, returning, however, continually “to his mutton,” which he at last jerked off its hook by a fine trick of legerdemain and plunged into a canvas ’ba,g. The operation, although neatly and speedily performed, had been scen by two policemen, who thought they bad met the “‘mutton sneak’’ before. At the station the man gave his - address in the Rue des Morillons, whither repaired the two detectives and inquired for the thief. When the door of the room to which they went was half opened by a woman, the officers walked in and were temporaTily overwhelmed by the spectacle which was presented to their eyes. The place was long, narrow and dirty. On ‘a table in the center was a vast heap ‘of provisions, consisting of beef, mutton, pork, poultry and pates de foie gras. There were game, huge pullets stuffed with' Perigord truffles, nice ;neckspf lamb, and fine turkeys, all waiting to be roasted. After further: examination the detectives discovered 1 -uther stolen articles of a miscellaneous character, which showed that the occu- J pants of the rooms were members of a big thieving gang, of which the ‘‘mut- ‘ ton sneak’ was a duly qualified member. Besides the woman, an old man and two boys were captured in the tenement. The old man wasthe trainer of the youths and had hooks put up in oné part of the room from which hetaught hisapprentices to abstract joints of meat orpoulw—-imw% jdonTelegenpt, . 0 8

STATE INTELLIGENCE.

81X tramps were seriously injured in a railroad wreck near Harvey’s. James E.' WELCH, engincer, and Winfield &, Stier, conductor, were acquitted at Rockville of causing the Tuscarora disaster. i

THE shortage of John E. Sullivan, the defaulting clerlgat Indianapolis, as shown by expert:, amounts to $47,020. JosEPH PAXTON was convicted of murder at Jeffersonville, and sentenced to life imprisonment in the penitentiary. . -THERE is a strange disease among horses in Vermillion County. e Jacoß HORNUNG, a leading brewer of New Albany, committed suicide with a revolver, - ‘ % /

JACOB STUDEBAKER was lodged in jail at Logansport and will be placed in the in= sane asylum. Studebaker imagines that the White Caps are going to kill him, and his condition is pitiable in the extreme. THE farmers in Miami County and the north part of Wabash are combining to resist the demands of the Binder-twine Trust. They have decided te hire men to bind wheat after being cut with binders. A determined opposition to the Trust has been developed. o e

CHARLES SCHAEFER, of Evansville, sentenced in 1833 to twenty-one years imprisonment, at Evansville, for wife murder, was pardoned by the Governor. His wife and himself attended a social gathering, and both started home intoxi= cated. On the way he took out a revolver, which she attempted to make him put up, and in the scuffle’ the weapon was discharged and she was killed.

. GrEorGE WiLsoN, Frank Wilson, George Smith and George Williams were arrested at Frankfort for burglary at Van Buren and placed in jail at Marion. A complete outfit of burglars’ tools was found in their possession. DURING an altercation between William Atkinson and John Banta, at Logansport, a bystander named Drummond was shot accidentally by a pistol fired at Atkinson. The wound is not fatal. The belligerents were rival candidates for sheriff last fall.

For the year justended Postmaster Barnett reports that the receipts of the Madison post-office exceeded $10,490, which insures ths free delivery system there. JAsPER N. WaTsox, of Jonesboro, has been arrested on seven indictments,charging violations of the liquor law. In default of $1,400 bail he was committed. JouN W. TATE, of Indianapolis, while at work in a quarry at Rowona, had his ankles so badly crushed by falling- timbers, that it is doubtful if his feet can be saved.

JorxN J. HAwklNg, of Indiana, has been promoted from a $1,200 clerkship to be a Chief of Division in the office of the First Auditor of the Treasury.

THE other afternoon James Pounds and his sister-in-law, Miss Kate Hutchins, who resided near New Washington, drove to Charlestown to make some purchases. About four o’clock they startsd to drive to their home, and were descending a hill when Mr. Pounds, who was occupying a seat in front of Miss: Hutchins, turned to speak to her. He noticed that she sat perfectly quiet, while all the color seemed to bhave suddenly left her face. As no answer came he took hold of her and found that she was dead. He drove to a residence near by, and, leaving the body there, returned to Charlestown to summon a physician, but his services were of no avail. The young lady was apparently in perfect health, and Mr. Pounds had been conversing with her only a few moments beiore the fatal summons came, and she seemed in the best of spirits. . WHILE Wolf Bros., butchers of Columbus, were driving a steer through the streets, it became mad, jumped int> a yard, ran into a dwelling-house, thence into the parlor, and made its escape through a window, completely demolishing the furniture in the parlor and thse window of the residence, without personal injury to any one of the occupants. 1 Caprain R. K. LorDp, of Lake Maxenkuckee, suicided on the 4th. He was captain of several steam boats that plied the lake during the past three years. At noon he rowed out in the lake, anchored his boat, tied a piece of lead to his person, cut his throat with a razor and jumped into the lake., His body was found near the boat, l 1 eighty-five feet of water, a feéw, hours after committing the rash act. : Arvonp Hicglns, brakeman, fell from a train and -was kilied, near Lafayette, AN entire counterfeiter’s outfit was found in a frame dwelling at Alexandria. WaHILE Frank Risley was loading cars with corn at Keystone, three miles north of Montpelier; the other evening, his boy was instantly killed by his head being caught between the bumpers of the cars. He was ten years old. " Francis MUrRpPEY has commenced a ser ries of ‘temperance meetings at Greencastle.

J. H. Burrorp, of Crawfordsville, has been tendered a position in the office of Attorney-General at Washington D. C., but he has declined the honor. The salary is only §2,000 a year, which would not pay him to give up his law practice where he lives. ' JoHN DouGHERTY was killed at a railroad crossing near Indianapolis, MaJor Wwm. NELsON, of Evansville, a retired regular army officer, has been appointed by Judge Shackleford as clerk of the United States Court for Indian Terri« tory. .

Dgr. Jas. Forp, of Wabash County, has exhumed the remains of an Indian on his farm who was buried: over eighty years ago. The bones were found in compact clay soil. e

WM. JoHNSON, of Chesterton, got on a drunk and fell into an abandoned well, which was filled to within five feet of the top, and was smothered to death. He fell inllt;.ea.d first and could not extricate himse : !

Tre White Caps on trial at Leavenworth are all trying to prove alibis. MAaRION A. HARDY, of Evansville, serving a sentence in the Prison South for highway robbery, has been pardoned by the Gbvernor. - j

THE remains of a mastodon have been discovered on the farm of Thomas Reynard, near Winchester. Tke tusks each measure nine and one-half feet in length and twenty-eight inches in circum‘erence two feet from the base, and each weighs over three hundred pounds. It is the intention to exhume the entire skeleton and place it on exhibition THE spring term of the DePauw University will open with a larger atténdance than usual. :

WirniaMm ScHELLER, aged sixteen, and Mary Hoehn, aged fifteen, eloped at Evansville,

Miss Dyg, of Zionsville, was instantly kiiled by being strueck on the head by a stone hurled by a blast, '

Tur people in the vicinity of French Lick, Orange County, are excited over an outbreak of hydrophobia among dogs and stock, and in order to prevent a spread of the malady, the dogs are being killed by the dozen. Twenty-five were slain in one day. Horses, cows and hogs have been attacked, also: a ram. The antics of this animal were very peculiar, It finally bute ted out its brains. Citizens carry arms for fear of encountering a mad arimal of gsome kind, ’

GroraE GAVIN, aged eighteen, an em-! ploye of the'Nickle-plate railway, whils ' handling a revolver at his home in Ft. Wayne, accidentally shot himself, causing ‘L death in a fow minutes atterward, o

WASHINGTON'S CENTENNIAL. Official Programme of the Celebration to : Be Held in |Néw York. © NEw Yorx, April 4.—The official programme of the Washington centennial celebration is as follows: | - : - Wednesday, April 17.4-Formal opening of the loan exhibition of histgrical portraits at the Metropolitaz Overa-House. Monday, April 20.—Arrival of ‘the President and Cabinet. They willembark on the United States steamship Despgtch for the city. Governors, commissioners [[and other guests will go on board the Ergstu§ Wyman. The vesséls in the harbor will form in the upper bay and follow the Despatch to the foot of Wall street, where a barge rowed by shipmasters of the ‘Marine society will take the President ashore. There will be a reception at the Equitable building until 4p. m. and another at the city hall until 6. In the evening the centennial ball will be given. Tuesday, April 30.—S ‘pcial service of thanksgiving in New York andthroughout the country at 9a. m. The President will attend St. Paul's Church. Following will g’e the commemorative services south of the |Treasury building, the scene of Washington’s inauguration.. Prayer by R. S. Storrs, a poem by John Greenleaf Whittier, an oration by Chauncey M. Depew, and benediction by Archbishop Corrigan. Next the military parade under Major General John M. Schofigld, after the regulars the National guard of each State, headed by its Governor and staff in this order: Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina Virginia, New York, North Carolina and Rhode Island. The other States will follow in the order in which they yere admitted into the Union. Following willl be 200 companions of the Loyal Legion an - then the posts of the Grand Army. There will be a reception from sto 7 at the Metropolitan Opera-House and a banquet in the evening.| Wednesday, May I.—[The industrial and civil parade. | Wednesday, May B—+Close of the loan exhibition. | MANY LIVES LOST. . The Recent Storm in the South Pacifie Causes the Partia Submersion of the Island of Tapiti and the Drowning of Many Inhabitants. | . AUckLAND, New Zealand, April 4. —The recent hurricane in the South Pacific Ocean caused great damage ¢on the Island of Tapiti. Parts of the island were submerged and many persons were drowned. On the Island of Tonga the hurricane created great havoc. Thirty persons perished there in the storm. SAN FraNcisco, April4.—News of the dam.age done at Tapiti by storm caused some excitement among those in this city interested in the islands, but they thought the account of the damagg done exaggerated. The harbor at Papditi is inclosed by a coral reef which| would keep off the waves, and| . the town is surrounded by a leved four feet high, while the houses are elevated three feet above this. On more expdsed portions ‘of the island the damage might be considerable. If the storm had dong¢ damage at Tapiti it must have devastatedﬁ several other islands further south. American interests on Tapiti represent a capital of $500,000. Matthew Turner, who has an agency at Tapiti, said he believed the news was true. The islands are thickly populated, and possibly thousands of nafives were drowned without loss of life ¢ccurring at Papeiti. He believed the bark €ity of Papeiti was in harbor. i‘At present there are four vessels engaged in Tapiti trade carrying French mails—Bonanza, City of Papeiti, Tropic Bird| and Tapiti; also a steamship line betwgen the islands and Auckland, and the news was undoubtedly carried down by steamer. iR

A CYCLONE'S WORK. Many Houses Unroofed and Other Damage Done in Baltimore and in New Jersey. 2l Bavtimorg, Md., April 4.—Forty houses were unroofed in souphwest Baltimore and $12,000 damage donp by the wind here Wednesday evening. [The scheoner Nellie was capsized but the ¢rew was saved. BrigHTON, N. J., April 4. —A cyclone moving from the southeasgt struck the southern portion of this city] at about 6 o’clock Wednesday evening| doing considerable damage. A new house€ just finished at Riverside was leveled to the ground. The roof of the Eastlake woolen |mills was blown off, a packing house at, Fairfon was completely dedestroyed and severpl large windmills on farmg in this vicinity were blown down. Meager reports fromi Long Reach on the Morris river say that |considerable: damage was done to- oyster boats lying in the harbor, and that chimneys and fences were blown down and other damage done. CRUSHED BY THE SNOW. Two Girls Caught in a Falling Sausage Factory at Montreal. MoNTREAL, Can., April 4.—The southwest portion of Clarke’s |sausage factory fell Wednesday. The building is three stories high. The roof fell in owing to the pressure of the |snow on it. The southern wall was forced into the back yard, carrying with if to the basement the three floors. Eliza Marling and Kate Byrne, employed on the sedond floor, went down with the roof. Gayin Wood, who was * working in the same apartment, saved himselt by jumping forward and clinging to a table. The two girls were found buried under two| large iron tanks and were unconsciqus when taken out. 1 Kate Byrne was frightfully larcerated about | the héad and limbs. |The Marling girl'was f cut about the face, but appeared to be most injured internally. | - FOUGHT TQ THE LAST. A West Virginia Mo¢nshiner Falls Before a Band of Oﬂ'lcerg +His Body Pierced by Thirteen Bullets. % : BENFIELD, W. Va., April 4.—Detective W. G. Baldwin, of the Eureka agency, Charleston, W. Va., and tw}o assistants, Eugene Robinson and Joe Wgllace, shot and killed William Moran, ‘a| moonshiner, Tuesday night, on Tug river, near the county lines of McDowell and Boone. They had been| after him for two weeks. The offiders fired fifteen shots -before Moran fell, thirteen of them taking" effect in his body.» Rgbinson was shot in the hand, Baldwin receivg¢d a ball in the wrist ‘ and Wallace was shotjin the chin. Wallace 1s said to be! seriously injured. Moran’s wife assisted him, shgoting at the officers. She was handcutfed gnd sent to the county | jail. B v To Make a Tour of Canada. | WASHINGTON, April 4.—Senator Hoax's special committee on relations with Canada will méet in Chicago May 3, and pvoceed West to Seattle |and Tacoma returning by, way of the (Qanadian Pacific road. The Senators who expect to go on the trip are Hoar, Wilson, Hale, Dolph, Pugh, Butler and Voorhees. ! ; e ; Bled t¢ Death. : | MILWAUKEE, April 4. — Willlam Haegenkopf, night editor of |the Milwaukee Sentinel, while on his way to lunch Wednesday night broke an artery in his left leg and bled to death in a few miinutes. He had been night editor off the Sentinel for the past twelve years. . : o : 'Tl;e‘fCoqug of the Canal. - ~ PANAMA, March 26.--The steamers leaving the isthmus have carried away Jamaicans gaa, uud bihers o the number of 6,000. It is believed an ' equal [number of others will leave as soon as means of transportation are ~offered them. Owing to the great poverty and the ncaralty of el emgf‘fomm and the lumber in thom s being utilized for. ‘cookingpurposes. | . APt Agathst the Sultan, | JoxsranamNorLs, April 4Tt is stated e e (e AEpl b S

‘FURIOUS STORMS. They Sweep Over Various States—Great Damage by :Wind, Rain and Smow-—Five ~ Lives Lost by the Foundering of a Barge in Delaware Bay—Much Destruction of . Property in Norfolk, Va. Lewes, Del, April 8. —The wind has been blowing fifty miles an hour and the sea is very high. A sailor who was drifted in a small boat says that the barge Sunrise was sunk Saturday night near here and five persons—the captain, his wife, little boy and little girl, and a sailor were drowned. The names of the victims are not known. FEARFUL STORM AT NORFOLK NorrorLk, Va., April 8, —The storm of thunder, lightning and hail which broke over this city Saturday morning changed at 10 o’clock, turning into a cyclone, the wind blowing at the rate of fifty four miles an hour until 5 o’clock Sunday morning. The wind came from the northeast, and blew into the harbor and its tributaries a tide which at high water was eigthteen inches hkigher than ever recorded before. The lower part of the city was flooded, and fire broke out on Water street, caused from slaking lime on the wharf of John A. Gamage & Son. The entire block, with the exception of Savage, Son & Co., commission house, was in flames. The old Cotton Exchange building containing about 800 bales of cotton, and the warehouse of J. W, Perry & Co., containing about 600 bales of cotton, were totally destroyed. Santos & Bros., coal dealers, lost every thing except their office building. Batchelder & Collins, coal, lumber and lime, are damaged to the amount of $4,000. ‘John A. Gamage's loss, including building, is $lO,OOO. The loss on building and stock destroyed in this block7is estimated at $150,000, partly insured. It lis probable that the losses sustained by the wholesale grocery merchants from the water forced into their. warehouses by the unprecedented tide will nearly equal this amount. Hundreds of barrels of sugar and flour and other 'goods are ruined. During the storm the roofs of the opera-house, Masonic temple and many dwelling were torn off, and the Virginia Beach railway depot is badly injured and the track for hundreds of yards seriously damaged. The United States ship Pensacola sunk in the dry dock Saturday night, where she was being repaired for sea. Her sea valves had been opened for inspection, and another one was being cut. The tide flooded the dock and she filled with water and sunk before she could be got in position again. A diver will have to be sent down and her valves stopped up and the ship pumped out. The Simpson dry dock was flooded, and the damage may reach $40.000. The wires along the coast are all down. No reports can be had from the shipping. It is feared that serious damage has been done, as there was no warning of the storm given. -

HEAVY FALLS OF SNOW.

WINCHESTER, Va., April B—A furious snow-storm and blizzard prevailed here all Sunday. Saturday the snow fell to a depth of fourteen’ inches, as much as has fallen during the entire winter. At10:30 Saturday morning, while the snow was falling so rapidly as to be almost impenetrable, there was a loud clap of thunder from the southeast. The winds were very high all day. Telegraph wires are down in all directions. RiceMoND, Va., April 8. —The worst stotm of the season prevailed here Saturday. It commenced with thunder and lightning and was followed by rain, hail, snow and high wind. ; r WASHINGTON, April 8 —Saturday’s storm badly interrupted electrical communication, and workmen were bugy' all day repairing damaged telegraph and telephone wires. The telegraphic situation is particularly bad south of Washington. There are-384 poles dow between Alexandria and Fredericksburg, Va., and 150 of them are in a stretch of country about five miles in length. Communications for Southern civies are being telegraphed via Cincinnati.

A MISSING CASHIER.

P, T, Pratt, of the First National Bank, Anoka, Minn.,, Runs Away with $lOO,-

000 and a Pretty Grass Widow.

ANOEKA, Minn., April 8 —The doors of the First National Bank closed Saturday evening. The cashier is in Canada. There is a woman in the case, and she is as handsome as she is wicked. '

P. T. Pratt, cashier of the First National Bank of Anoka, wentto Minneapolis a week ago last Thursday, complaining that he was unwell. On Saturday he telephoned to the assistant cashier about some matters of business, and to the inquiry as to the condition of his health jokingly remarked: “I am. gick and looking for watchers.” He is still looking. On Friday the bank officials were startled by a notice from the Merchant’s Bank of St. Paul that the account of the First National was overdrawn $20,000. A trusty messenger was at once dispatched to St. Paul to investigate, and the discovery was made that Pratt had drawn out about $B,OOO due the bapk and over twice as much more on his cashier’s check. The bank examiner was notified of the gituation. In company with the cashier of the Merchant’s National Bank of St. Paul and a Minneapolis expert he gave a hasty overhauling of the affairs. Enough was learned to show that matters were in a bad condition and that Pratt is a thief to the amount of nearly $lOO,OOO.

[ONot knowing what the end might be, the directors concluded to place the bank in the hands of the bank examiner, and he will appoint a receiver to settle the affairs or close up the business. It is impossible to tell how. great has been Pratt's villainy as the bank’s correspondents in both Chicago and New York allowed it to overdraw to the amount of §15,000. Last summer the good people of Anoka were shocked and horrified to learn that Pratt had been on dangerously intimate terms with a handsome young woman, Mrs. Jacobson, who, it is said, was supported by Pratt. The scandal became public property when Pratt's wife, a highly esteemed lady, took her two children and removed to Boston, where her brother lived. The president of the bank is H. C. Ticknor, one of the pioneer citizens c¢f the Northwest and' a well-known business man of this city. The capital stock was $50,000. Most of the holders were local business men, the heaviest losers being A. C. Frauman, E. L. Reed, C. T. Woodbury, W. Hammons, D. C. Durham, and M. Peck, of Minneapolis. : Pratt has been an intimate friend of Governor Merriam for years. Both were formerly connected with the old State Bank of Anoka, . o j

HEAD OF THE CHURCH.

The Mantle of Brigham Young Falls Upon President Woodruff,

SALT LAk Crty, Utah, April B.—At the Mormon conference Sunday George Q. Cannon spoke. In the afternoon the first presidency was organized, with Wilford Woodruft as president of the church and George Q. Cannon and Joseph T. Smith as counselors. TLawrence Snow becomes president of the Twelve Apostles. The new president, Woodruff, has been president of the Twelve Apostles since the election of John Taylor to the presidency of the church. He occupied the main part of the afternoon in his inaugurul sermon exhorting the saints to piety, faith and obedience. ; el A <At R _ WILL BURN BRIDGES. Boomers in Oklahoma Arrange' to Destroy "Railroad Property to Keep Out Settlers. - 'WinrieLp, Kan., April B.—A reliable man just from Oklahoma says that the boomers, hundreds of whom are hid in the thickets on the streams of that country, have combined on a plan to burn all the bridges on the Santa Fe on the night of April: 21, or sooner, so that no frains can get into Oklahoma on April 22, He says the boomers swear theyure going to have the claims that they have “staked out at whatever cost. People bound for Oklahoma are arriving here daily from all over the Union, and excitément runs hiﬂi. i B o e ) Fo el e T R e SO R PR eSSR e o B A R A S R R Y R

Newzpap'er Crltiéism.

It is a‘briﬂlege every newspaper reserves to itself to criticise, adversely if needs be, for the public’s benefit, any thing in which the public is deeply interested. { It is the custom of H. H. Warner & Co., proprietors of tlie renowned Kidney and Liver Cure,better known as “Warner’s Safe Cure,” to flood the country, and especially the post-offices, with medical pamphlets. The writer has taken the lberty to examine one of ‘these marvellous I¥ttle books, and finds food for criticism, but before indulging i it, will give our readers some quotations therefrom, from the highest medical authorities, which we believe worthy of consideration. Under the head of ‘“No Distinctive Symptons Apparent,” we find: _First—More adults are carried off in this country by chronic kidney disease than by any other one malady, except consumption. —Thompson. Ko

Second—Death from such diseases are increasing at the rate of 250 per cent. a decade.—Edwards.

Third—Bright’s Disease has no symptoms of its own, and may long exist without the knowledge of the patient or practitioner, as no pain will be felt in the kidneys or their vicinity.—Roberts. ; : Fourth—ln the fatal cases—and most cases have hitherto been fatal—the symp toms of diseased kidneys will first appear in extremely different organs of the body as stated above.—Thompson. Fifth—Only when the disease has reached its final and fatal stages mdy the usual symptoms of albumen and tube casts appear in the water, and will great pain rack the diseased organs.—Thompson. : Bixth—Bright’s Disease,which usually has three stages of development, is a universal disease in England and America.—Roberts and Edwards. iy \

Thompson is -authority for saying that more adults are cartied off 1n this country by kidney disease fhan any other malady except. consumption. Under Warner’s “Safe Cure” article on Consumption we find a paragraph claiming to be a quotation from a publication issued by Brompton Hospital for Consumptives, London, England, which states that 52 per cent. of the patients of that institution have unsuspected kidney disorder. Dr. Herman Brehmer, an eminent German authority, also says that Consumption is always due to deficient nutrition of the lungs, because of bad blood.

Medical science can no longer dispute the fact that the kidneys are the principal blood purifyingorgans of the human system, and if they are diseased and thus fail to expel the uric acid poison or the waste matter of the blood, as the blood passes through these two great organs, the ‘‘Safe Cure’’ claim is correct, and the reasoning of its proprietor holds good.

There is no doubt but that in too many instances the medical fraternity doctor for symptoms, instead of striking at the root of the disease, and that/under this forim of treatment many patients die. Sl

We can not, however, see the necessity of continually flooding the country with these advertising medical books, when their story once well told is enough for the time béing. People as a rule, now-a-days, go to their newspaper for information, and we believe such truths as we have instanced could be proclaimed therein more advantageously to the public and much more beneficially to the proprietors.—Ez. :

~ THE last month of the old and the first two months of the new year make up the limted period when inteﬁrigent folk are supposed to let lobsters alone. At all other times they are ‘‘seasonable.”

Through Sleeping Car from Chicago To Crawfordsville and Indianapolis, Ind., Troy and Springfield, O. A combined sleeping and chair car leaves Chicago via Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad at 11:20 8. m. da.il{, running through to Sprihgfield, ~ Vvia Indianapolis. Passengers reach Crawfordsville at 5:50 a. m., Indiam(xipolis 7:40 a. m., Troy 12:04 noon, Springfield 1:00 p. m., Cincinnati 12:10 noon, Louisville 12:15 noon. Berth rate, Chicago to Indianngolis, $1.50. Chicago Ticket Office, No. $4 Clark street, Sherman House. i 7

UTax is so anxious for Statehood that the Mormons declare that they will abolish polygamy to bring about the desired result.

A sALMON caught on the Pacific coast had an iron spike seven inches long, with a half-inch head, in its stomach. ;

= Reforms Need More Than a Day

To bring them about, and are always more complete and lasting when they proceed with steady regularity to a consummation. Few of the observant among us can have failed to notice that permanently healthful changes in the human st’cem are not wrought by abrupt and violent means, and that those are the most salutary medicines which are progressive. Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters is the chéef of these. Dyspepsia, a disease of obstinate character, is obliterated by it.

" TaEr Buffalo and Niagara Falls Drainage Company has been incorporated with §5,000,000 capital. The object is to construct a ditch by way of Tonawanda to the bottom of the Niagara gorge. which will be used as g tail race for water motors.

News About Town.

It is the current report about town that { Kemp’s Balsam for the Throat and Lungs is making some remarkable cures with people i who are troubled with Coughs, Sore Throat, Asthma, Bronchjtis and Consumption. Any druggist will give you a trial bottle free of cost. It is guaranteed to relieve and cure. The Large Bottles are 50c and $l. . Six different patents were secured on chewing-gum last year. : FeAr L Lo i IT costs twenty-five dollars fine or thirty days in jail to sell boys ciearetnes in Ohio. ‘ THE MARKETS. : - . NEW YORK, April 8 LIVE STOCK—Cattle.......... 3 7% @ 4 40 Sheap, i 283 N b @6 00 HOES. ... v s aia 510+ @ 550 FLOUR—Good to Ch0ice....... 366 @5 60 PAateRIB ;... sulsiisvridescane s 400 @ 515 WHEAT—No. 2 Red............ 874@ 8% No. 2 Chieago. .. .ociiveiees 1100 7@ 1100 CORN—NO. 2 White..co cevren. 4Y@ 4% OATS—No. 2 White.cc. coieeee., - 83 @ 84 RYE—Western.... ... ceoo vess. 50% @ 53 PORK-—-MEBS | i iveiissonsvine. 1300 @137 4 LARD--Steam . ..vccvceniieve 1800 @7 86 CHBBSE ;i coivansal. ya 10% WOOL—Domestic coaiveevoenns. 32 @ 88 ] £ CHICAGO. | BEEVES—Shipping Steers.... $ 10 @ 48 CPRRANS ik e e 200 o D COWB. oo en Salabi vt IRO (@ 800 StoCKers: ..o ciicviiaaai- e 22 '@ R 0 Feeders. .. ... ainanuin@ies @8 40 : Butchers’ StocK.... «eciveee 27 @ 325 Inferior Cattle...:.oc..vis. 18% @2 16 HOGS—Live—Good to Choice.. 47 @bs 0% BHEBP .o oiovaaaas: 870 @4O BUTTER-—Creamery....... ..., 12 @ 9 Good to Choice Dairy. ...... 14 % 15 EGGS —Fresh..e.c «.c.cvvv.iln s 1034 10% BROOM CORN— ; | Selt-Working.... «.coveeaiin %@ -8% Hurl oo i @ 44 Inferior o oii,icniaivii e 2 @ R 4 POTATOES (bu.)...... 8. 0.0 10 @ 24 PORK--MESS. .. cveeve vsonsese 1225 @l2 KVI LARD—Steam. ... cceeese.ceeo. 695 @ 7 10 FLOUR-—-Spring Patents...... 59 . @ 620 Balers .. .ci i ea 3 15 4@ 4 00 WHNLEE ii.ivis i iviveatiinsie: 000 @5% GRAlN—Wheat, No. 2.......... 94 96l Ao N B s et vine o U 0 IS GON Onts, No: 2. oo v % 9558 By No. B cisuviavisiovise 43%@ 44% Barley--Samples ........... N @ 63 LUMBER— ' Common Dressed Siding... 1700 @22 00 FLOOTING ..c.one oesenninsee. 3200 @B4OO \ Common Boards ..... ...... 1300 @l4 00 Fencing ...s coveveenvvnnaanas 1250 @l5 00 Talß. il g i bin ineeine 820 GE NNO L Shlngles. vees vacivvinnives eR X 0 (@OO 00 : 4 | KANSAS CITY. R CATTLE—BeBt... viceserense. 8410 @ 435 Fair'to Good.....eesvveivess &80 g 38 HOGS—BEBt..ou coossaesenecns 457 465 Medium. ... ccee sreeiveraan.s 400 @ 450 SHEEP—Best. u.e.coocaes-eaea. 400 @ 485 CICODMRON e e R 0 @ BTG : : - OMAHA, i l{3 CATTLE—BeBt.... coviiveivnn. 8360 @ 410 e .M:Qd“lm_...,.vu-.-.‘ AL AR 160% i 2 :HOGB;;«. ißaaTar e Ilo;v’;’;<‘ ves ‘“L ‘6O . RERAUFIFLD 3= B ——FEMALR-— .y —ER b g’a.é BB B EEER P -~ B e. W " oures all Diseases Peculiar to Women! L blres @in i wgw:%%* RN iOO PO WOMANL A LLED :.h‘,egv; 4 BRABFIELD REGULATOR €O, ATLANTA, 6A W‘jm‘fv‘“fm'@‘ w“‘f LU sl e e O R T o ehalte S e B

_WiLL be found an excellent remedy tor sicle headache. Carter’s Little Liver Pills. Thousands of letters from people who have used them prove this fact. Try them.

PrANTERS in North Carolina are much alarmed at the exodus of negroes. Many agricultural sections will not be able to se~ cure hands to cultivate the lands this year.

SurrErßEßs " from Coughs, Sore Throat, etc., should try Brown’s Bronchial Troches,”’ a simple but s% remedy. Sold only in bozes. Price 25 cents. o

THOROUH pregaration ‘before sowing the seed induces a better germination, stronger plants, and lessens the cost of cultivation.

Fortiry Feeble Lungs Against Winter with Hale’s Hone%of Horehound and Tar. Pike’s Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.

A FRENCHMAN is anxious to arrange for a fight between a devil-fish and a shark ina tank where 20,000 people can see the combat.

Coucns and cro'ﬁ% can be cured b{ tha great Homceopathic Bronchial Syrup, 25 cts. Ask Druggists, or Halsey Bros., Chicago.

NEW Zriraxp offers a bounty of five cents each for the destruction of English Sparrows. : :

Palx in the Side nearly always comes from adisordered liver and is promptly relieved by Carter’s Little Liver Pills. Don’t forget this.

Tar dark oranges "gro"wn in Florida are known there as the ‘‘African russet.” They are growing in popular favor.

S'JACOBS Q] |, FOR NEURALGIA Neuralgla and Paralysis--Nov., 1880--Cured. 2 : lgrlngﬂom, Tenn, My wife suffered 18 months with nomu}sh and paralysis. I had to mGve her in bed, could findnorelief. By the time she had used two-thirdsg ' of a bottle of Bt. Jacobs oil ahe could walk. Bed JOS.P. MURIEY. . From Same 6 Years Later--Permanent Cure. Springfield, Tenn., Oct. 17, 1886. ; My wife was psnlyzeci -and could not walk & step. Before I used a bottle St. Jacobs oil she was about the house. She isnow entirely well; does all . thehousework andmilkingtoo. JOS. P. MURPEY. Sold by Druggists and Dealers Evergwhere. ‘The Charles A. Vogeler Co., Balto., Md. R S — n 5 Diamond Vera-Cura ; FOR DYSPEPSIA. : A POSITIVE CURE FOR INDIGESTION AND ALL Stomach Troubles Arising Therefrom, r Your I?ruggist or General Dealer will ggt Vera-Oura or you ift not already in stock, or it will be sent by mait on receipt of 25 cts. (5 boxes $1.00) in stamps. Sample sent on receipt o) 2-cent stamp. THE CHARLES A. VOGELER CO., Baltimore, Md. An Honest Statement. In endeavoring to give to their preparation a greater publicity and a wider field of usefulness, the proprietors of Magee’s Emul= sion are presenting no new medicine for popular favor, nor are they attempting to attract public attention to any mysterious comspound or doubtful decoction,of dangerous drugs and cheniicals.’ : It has been on the market long enough to prove its rare merits to the satisfaction of the thousands who have been benéfited by its use,” and whose restored health and happy lives bear living testimony to the power and virtue of this excellent preparation. ; It has stood the most severe tests of the medical profession, and the fact that no other preparation on the market has been so freely prescribed by doctors’in théir regular practice, is conciusive evidence that this has' been the most efficacious in all wasting diseases, such as Consumption, Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis, Scrofula, Dyspepsia, General Debility, and any low state of the system brought on by éxposure, overwork, impurities in. the blood, hereditary taints, etc. i Ask your Druggist, and be sure you get MAGEE'S EMULSION : . v y Manufactured by |

J. A. MAGEE & CO., Lawrence, Mass. Regulate The Bowels. Costiveness deranges the whole system and begets di;eases, such as < ; Sick Headache, Dyspepsia, Fevers, Kidney Diseases, - Bilious Colic, Malaria, ete. 2 ills produce regular habit of l'l)‘:)‘(%isal:ild sglt’)od diges%ion, without which, no one can enjoy good health. Sold Everywhere. i PEMARRABLE CASE, y o For two years I had ey 7 ° rheumatism so bad that TR / ] it disabled me for work AR\ | and confined me to my %y :\V% bed' for a whole year, /4 'W”’"‘ 3B /‘ ; during which time I Ll m\g‘@ 7 could not even raise my 7 /f:’.’lf},v/s‘é/ hands to my head, and *\"ﬁ\“' P : G for 3 montlllfs co&ld not i ~—=TSoN Move myselfin was '\l\\ (RN reducedyin flesh dfrom. i &\ (s ’“;,ﬂ;i; 192 tOB6 Ibs. Wastreat~ S Q@ ESUD o 4 by best physicians, ) only to grow worse. Finally I took Swift's Specific, and soon begun to improve. After a while was at m¥ work, and for the }mst five months have been aswell as I ever was—al} rom. the effects of Swift’s Specific. ST e JoBEN Ray, pJan. 8, 1880, Ft. Wayne, Ind. Books on Blood and Skin Diseases matled free, Ui Swirr Speciric Co., Atlanta, Ga, J. |. CASE T. M. CO. RACIINE, = — Wl‘.,« - MANUFACTURERS OF

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