Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 6, Number 23, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 4 September 1884 — Page 2

ffapparfee ‘SHeeMj Jtncs NAPPANEE. t t INDIANA. NEWS OF THE WEEK . BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL. From Washington* A statement was made on the 95th that • deficit of 814,003 had' been discovered in the accounts of Rev. Mr. Terrell, formerly an Indian agent, who was connected with Major Powell’s surveys. It has been decided by the Treasury Department that the Supervising Architect, in preparing plans and specifications for pnhlic buildings, shall be governed entirely by the amount of money appropriated by Congress for the purpose, without regard to fut are expectations. The Exchanges at twenty-six leading clearing-houses in the United States during the week ended on the 93d aggregated R5P.519.187, against $681,547,993 the previous week. As compared with the corresponding period of 1883, the clearings showed a decrease of 217 per cent-. Ox the 23th Secretary Folger called in $10,030,000 in three per cent, bonds. The United States Treasurer has forwarded to the Governor of Louisiana free* school bonds of that State tq the amount of $21,000, which were captured at Baton Rouge by General Sheridan. The hop crop - this year in this country is estimated to be about one-fourth short of the average, The business failures throughout the United States and Canada during the •even days ended on the 2fitb numbered 188, against 226 the previous week. The distribution was as follows: New England States,! 26; Middle, 43; Western, 62; Southern, 25; Pacific States and Territories, 11; Canada and' the Provinces, 14. At Washington on the 29th the discovery was made that in 1843 PresidanAPolk deeded to the Monument Association the ground on which the lofty marble column has been reared by the Government, and that the title still rests in the corporation.

.The East. At Pittsburgh, Pa., a six-days’ walking match between women commenced at 12:20 on the morning of the 25th. The Pennsylvania Democrats have nominated for Congressman Stanley Wood- . ward in the Twelfth District and John McKinney jn the Twopty-sixth. Daniel Reitr is the Greenback nominee in'the Fifth District • James Hill, of Stamford, Conn., gnd. George Tobin and Austin Navins, of England, pupils at Evangelist Moody’s school in Northfield, Mass., were drowned the other evening while bathing. Advices of the 26. h stated that it would cost 463,030 to repair the damage by the recent storm to the New London & Northern Railroad, in Massachusetts, and several thousand dollars to repair the highways. Acres of crops were destroyed and many of the mouutain roads were rendered impassable. Crazed by sickness Rev. Charles Sharp, a Catholic priest, shot himself dead a few days ago at Bloomfield, near Pittsburgh, Pa. John Burrows, aged fifty-eight years, a Chicago merchant, died at Springfield, Mass., recently, of paralysis of the heart. He had been to the White Mountains with his wife and was on his way home. Bridget Hates, her sister Annie and Mary McCabe, three young ladies, residents of New York City, were drowned at Catskill, N. Y., recently, while bathing in a creek. The most perfect counterfeit silver dollar since 1881 has made its. appearance in Boston and the New England towns. Tha only perceptible difference between It and a gennine dollar is that is does not weigh as much as the standard dot (hr. It is also thicker, and will not enter a tester. It has abont the same ring as a good dollar. . Joseph A. Scranton has been nominated for Congressman by the Republicans of the Twelfth Pennsylvania District. Pennsylvania Green backers will hold, tkeir S ate Convention at Beliefonte September 18.

It was reported on the 27th that Samuel Roberts, late paymaster of Charles Far* rish & Cos., coal operators at Wilkesbarre, Pa., was a defaulter to the amount of $30,09 9 or $75,000. He surrendered his prop* erty to his employers, and a settlement had been effected. It was announced on the 2Tth by Edwin D. Bailey, Secretory of the National Committee of the American party, that Senator S. C. Pomeroy, nominated for President, would withdraw in favor of St. John. A firs a few days ago destroyed the business portion of the village of Adams, Jefferson County, N. Y., involving a loss of $200,000. George Hikes has been nominated for Congressman by the Republicans of the Fi st New Jersey District. Thu other day Grand Duchess 43d, an animal that cost about $3,000 in England, was burned to death in a railroad accident near Albany, N. Y. A fire destroyed Bannister’s shoe faotory at Newark, N. J., the other morning. Loss, SIOO,OOO. On the 28th President Arthur, Secretary Chandler and others had a narrow escape from instant death on a boat at Newport, R. 1., by the premature explosion of a tor. pedo. No damage was done, but the es. cape wa3 almost a miracle. The State Convention of the New Hampshire Greenbackers will be held at Manchester, September 4. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, of Boston, on the 29th, in celebrating his sev-enty-fifth birthdny received congratulatory telegrams from numerous friends in Europe and America. > Off Newport on the 2flth an exhibition of naval warfare was given by the Alliance, Tennessee, Vandalia, Yantic and Swatara. President Arthur witnessed the spectacle from the deck of the Dispatch. The agents of the West Shore were selling tickets from New York to Chicago on the 29th lor sl4. On the 29th an unknown - sailer' died of yellow fever in New York, the first case there.

West and South. On the 26th Oklahoma Payne and seven of his followers, captured in Indian Territory by General Hatch, were being taken to Fort Scott to be handed over to the civil authorities. I The other day R. E. Wallace, President of the First National Bank of Jamestown, D. T. t confessed judgment to his brother in Newcastle, Pa., in the shm of $89,000, and the bank suspended. The schedules in the assignment of the lumber firm of Drys Sc Elliot, of Minneapolis, Minn., show liaoilities of $188,500, and assets of $132,000. At Knoxville, Ky, Samuel Bowman attempted a few days ago to beat his wife with a broomstick because bis breakfast was not ready in time. She seised a knife and stabbed him seven times, infecting fatal wounds. The Pacific Bank of St. Paul, Minn., was robbed a few nights ago of $10,009. The money was taken from the safe by some person who must have known the •combination. A yonng book-keeper named Mason was suspected. In Eastern Tennessee a slight shock of earthquake was felt the other night. It lasted a minute and a half. Congressional nominations were made on the 26th as follows: Democratic —lowa, First District, B. F. Hall; Seventh (long term). W. H. McHenry; short term, E. R. Kreidle. .-Michigan, Fourth District, G. L. Yaple (renominated). Illinois, Ninth District, Prof. Kirk; Eleventh, W. H. Neece (renominated). Missouri, Tenth District, Martin L. Clardy. California, Second District, Charles A. Sumner. • * The election of Jonas Wolf aa Governor f the Indian Nation it announced. Witow ten milaa of Granite fall*, HUmim thm m w # I nm

Congressional nominations were made as follows on the 27th: Republican—Michigan—Fifth D1 C. Fitzgerald. lowa—Eleventh District, Isaao L. Strublo (renominated). Indiana—Thirteenth District, EL G. Thayer (long term); John W. Reynoldr (short term). Democratic— Wisconsin, Ninth District, Isaao H. Stephenson (renominated). Michigan, Second District, pi. B. Eidredge (renominated). Mississippi, Seventh District, E. Barksdale (renominated). Kansas, First District, Thomas P. Fenlon. Missouri, Twelfth District, W. J. Stone. Alabama, Third Distriot, W. C. Oates. Prohibitionists —Ohio, Twentieth District, Thomas Rhodes. Illinois, Eighth District, Norman J. Kilbaru. Wisconsin Green backers and Antl-Mov nopolists met in joint convention at Milwaukee on the 27th, and “ The People’s Party of Wisconsin” was the name adopted for the fusion. A resolution pledging hearty support to Butter and West was adopted. The following ticket was nominated; Governor, W. L. Utley, Racine; Lieutenant-Governor, Milan Ford, Oshkosh; Secretary of State, G. W. Jones, West Bend; Treasurer, Theodore Shuman, Prairie da Chieu; .Attorney-General, M. W. Stevens, Green Lake County; Superintendent of Public Instruction, Dr. H. S. Brow*, Milwaukee. The Michigan Prohibition State Convention convened at Lansing on the 27th and nominated the following ticket: Governor, David Preston; Lieutenant-Governor, Alonso Sherwood; Treasurer, A. B. Cheney; Secretary of State, Zacbariah Chase; Auditor-General, E. O. Downing; Commissioner State Land Office, Barcus; At-torney-General, J. H. Fatem; Superintendent Public Instruction, Joseph B. Steeve; Member Board Education, Isaac W. Mackeever; Electors-at-Darge, Rev. John Russell and Prof. Samuel Dickie. Resolutions were adopted declaring against fusion and favoring woman suffrage. On the 27th the Illinois Greenback-Anti-Monopoly State Convention met at Bloomington and passed a resolution to fuse with either of the old parties, but in no case to accept less than seven electoral votes. Hie following State ticket was placed In the field: Governor, Jesse Harperof DanvHle; Lieutenant-Governor, H. C. Vanderwater, of ShelbyviUet Secretary of State, E. H. Baldwin, of Joliet; State Auditor, E. F. Reeves, of Elgin; AttorneyGeneral, John M. Givin, of Effingham; State Treasurer, J. B. Clark, of Chicago. The two" children of Judge Davidson, of Cleveland, 0., a boy aged fourteen years, and a girt aged eleven, were drowned at Dennison a few days ago by the upsetting of a boat. The bodies were recovered.

The suspension of tbe Second National Band, of Xenia, 0., occurred on - the 27tb, owing to speculation by its cashier, J. S. Aqkeney. The liabilities were placed at $400,000; assets, $6;0,000. At Cincinnati nine hundred cigarmakers have been on a strike for twentyfour weeks, daring which time the anion has paid out $130,000 in benefits. At Duck Hill, Miss., several arrests have been made of parties who have on several occasions wrecked trains on the Ulinois Central Railroad. At the session of the American Pharmaceutical Association at Milwaukee on the 27th, John Ingalls, of Georgia, was elected President, and M. Maiscb, of Pennsylvania, Secretary. On the 27th Dr. Salmon, Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, said that he found eight cases of pleuro-pneumonia among cattle in the vicinity of Chicago, and ten cases in other parts of the State. Nebraska Republicans met in State Convention at Omaha on the 27th and renominated James E. Dawes for Governor. Congressmen were nominated as follows on the 28th: Republican—North Carolina, First District, J. B. Respess. Indiana, Third District, James Keigwin. West Virginia, Fihit District, Nathan Goff, Jr. 'Maryland, First District, George M. Russum; Second, fhaddeus C. Blair; Fifth, Hart B. Holton (renominated); Sixth, Louis E. McComas (renominated). Democratic—lllinois, Fifth District, Richard Bishop; Ninth, James Kirk. Tennessee, First District, 0. E. King; Tenth,' James M. Harris. Louisiana, Fourth District, N. C. Blanchard (renominated). Texas, Third District, James M. Jones (renominated). Greenbackers Third District, A. D. Hudson. Prohibitionists—lllinois, Eleventh District, D. H. Broaddnt, ~ - Forrestburg and Diana, D. TANARUS., were visited by a cyclone on the 28th. At the former place a farmer named Briggs lost his house, thirty head of cattle and three horses, and a man named McKillon was killed. At Diana a track eighty yards wide was swept oyer, several houses were destroyed, and a number of lives were lost. lowa Greenbackers met in State Convention at Des Moines on the 28th and nominated J. F. Dooley, of Keokuk, for Secretary of State and George Derr, of Union County, for State Treasurer. No other nominations were made. The platform adopted arraigued the old parties as corrupt and dishonest, denounced the National banking system, eulogized General Bntler, and urged such a political alliance as would give the Greenbackers control of the electoral vote.

On the Wabash Road an open switch the other night wrecked over twenty freight cars, killing Heury Nordeck, the engineer, and 'Thomas Devlin, the brakeman. On the 28th Judge Knickerbocker appointed Austin L. Patterson, the business manager of tbe Chicago Times, to be conservator of the estate of Wilbur F. Storey, who had been pronounced insane by a jury. At a fire in a tenement house in Minneapolis a few days ago James Curran, one of the occupants, was fatally burned. He had rushed back to rescue a child. In filing a bill for divorce a few days ago Maggie Jones, of Baltimore, alleged that she believed she was marrying a bachelor of sixty years,, bat discovered at his residence nine grown children, eight of whom were older than herself. On the 28th 8. W. Tallmadge, the crop statistician of Milwaukee, issued his final estimate of the wheat crop of the United States for 1884, as follows. Winter wheat, 880,000,000 bushels; spring wheat, 150,000,000, or bushels more than the crop of 1883. In Manitoba a few nights ago a storm injured fifty buildings in Winnipeg, destroyed a church, a paper-mill and the Canadian Pacific freight-sheds at Portage la Prairie, and leveled the growing crops in a large territory. The State Convention of the Kansas Anti-Monopoly Greenback-Labor party met at Topeka on the 28th and nominated H. L. Philips for Governor and a full State ticket. The tracks of the Canada Pacific Road have been laid to a point.seven miles west of the summit of the Rocky Mountains, and hopes to reach tbe highest point of the Selkirk range this season. The California Board of Equalization reports the value of the Central Pacific Road at $24,000,000 and the Southern Pacific at $17,000,000. On tbe morning of the 29th a hurricane swept over Evapsville, lad., unroofing hundreds of houses, mills, factories, warehouses, stores, etc., and in many instances whole houses were blown down. The loss wasjestimated at $250,000. The transfer steamer Belmont, bound for Henderson, icy., and freighted with a train of cars, was sank by the gale, and fifteen lives were lost. A special agent was sent recently by Governor Crosby of Montana to investigate the reports Os starvation among the Piegan Indians. It was found that ip a band of two thousand the deaths for lack of food averaged one per day. The Governor on the 29th urged the Secretary of the Interior to issue full rations to the sufferers until Congress could take action. Congressional nominations were made as follows on the 29th: Republican—Virginia, first District, Robert M. Mayo (renominated); Second, Harry Libby (reaomin*t*d)i Third, R. T. Hubbard; Fis h, V>* WwMJj VlftMi F. A. MwMl

Eighth, Duff Green. North Carolina, First j District, J. Edwards. Democratic—lndi-i ana, Thirteenth' District, George Ford.; Virginia, Tenth District, James Yost. Near Greeley, Col., a railroad-car attached to a circus-train caught fire on the 29th, and of seventy-five men who were sleeping in the car at the time ten perished, and several others were badly, scorched. While city engineer at Sandusky, 0., Wesley -A. Lumui was indicted for accepting bribes. He soon entered on a career of dissipation, which caused hia wife to commit suicide, and he finished tha sad chapter on the 29th by ending his own days with morphine. The following executions for murder took place on the 29th: Berry Johnson (colored), at Shreveport, La.; Schip Holly (colored), at Tuscoloosa, Ala.; Josh Berryman (colored), at Natchitoches, La.: Willie Williams, at Franklin, La. At Prescott, A. TANARUS., the United States Grand Jury on the 29th found seven indictments for polygamy, the first ever found in Arizona. Mormons and gentiles were greatly excit9d. By the wrecking train near Stillwater, 0., a few mornings ago, three men were killed. Foreign Intelligence. In the Island of Jersey, in the English Channel, an earthquake shock lasting thirty seconds was felt oil the 26th. There was no damage. Admiral Courbet, it was reported on the 26th, proposed to destroy all the forts along the Min River at Foo Chow, and then join Admiral Lepes before Keelung and arrange with him for the occupation of that place. Other strongholds of China would also be attacked unless in tha meantime the Celestials submitted to France’s terms. The deep-sea portion of tbe second Ben-nett-Mackey cable has been laid by the steamship Faraday, and on the 26th the vessel was on the way to Woolwich to receive the remainder of the deep-sea portion and the American shore end. Advices received on the 27th at London state that the Chinese forts on the Min River were holding out well against the French bombardment. Seventy-five thousand Chinese troops were in the vicinity of-Foo-Chow. It was reported that'elghty thousand Chinese troops invaded Tonquin and had an engagement with the French, in which the French were annihilated and several thousand Chinese were killed. An order has been issued to the Gov-ernor-General of Canada by the home Government to secure the services of six hundred voyageurs for the relief of General Gordon at Khartonm. They are needed to take flat-bottomed boats up the Nile. A plan has been devised by the Ministry of Marine of Russia fora polar expedition. The idea is to have several large parties start for Jeannette Island, proceed entirely on foot across the ice, leaving large depots of provisions in the rear. At Nusserabad, India, the artillery barracks were struck by lightning recently, and six men were killed.

During the twenty-four hours ended at nine p. m. on the 28th deaths from cholera in France were as follows: Marseilles, six; Toulon, six; southern departments, thirty-one. In Italy there were fifty deaths and over one hundred new cases reported. In Lima, the capital of Pern, a terrible scene was enacted on the 28th. Caceres, with his rabble, suddenly entered the city, and before the Government troops got the upper haud of the mob 159 people were killed in the streets. The Mingen forts, below Foo Chow, and the Kinpai defenses at the mouth of the Min River, were bombarded and silenced by the French Admiral on the 28th. On the 29th General Millot, commander of the French forces in Tonquin, telegraphed that the Chinese were preparing an invasion of that region. The Viceroy of Canton had ordered, all Frenchmen to leave his province. ‘ The ministries to Sarvia, Routnania and Greece having been abolished by the United States Government, Minister Schuyler on tbo 29th presented the King of Servia with his letters of recall. Seven deaths from cholera occurred at Marseilles during the twenty-four hours ended at nine p. m. on the 29th, and five at Toulon. In Italy twenty-six deaths occurred. Quarantine of ten days had been established at ail Spanish ports against vessels from Algeria. The failure is reported of W. T. Sutcliffe, a grain merchant of Liverpool, Eng., for $600,000. On the 29th frauds aggregating £BO,OOO, in which foreign officials of high rank are involved, were developed in the Treasury Department of Egypt. In Spain a movement has been inaugurated in favor of the restoration of the temporal power of the Pope. It is chiefly championed by the bishops and clergy. In a coal-pit near Paisley, Scotland, seveu men were killed a few days ago. Another stupendous failure in the sugar trade occurred in Vienna recently, the liabilities being in excess of $4,090,000. It was reported on the 29th that a colored nurse summering at Saratoga with a Cuban family was sold to a widower from Havana for $1,299. The purchaser intended to present her to his bride in Cuba.

LATER. Nominations for Congressmen were made as follows on the 30th ult.: Republican—lllinoiß Third District, George R. Davis (renominated). Virginia, Fourth District, Colonel Brady. Democratic — Indiana, Seventh' District, W.. D. Bynum. Ohio, Twenty-first District, Martin A. Foran (renominated). On account of ill-health, General Millot waa on the 30th ult. relieved from the command of the French forces in Tonqtdn, and has been succeeded by General de Lisle. Wallace’s Savings Bank, at New Castle, Pa., has closed its doors, with liabilities estimated at SIOO,OOO. Five men belonging to the wrecked schooner W. W. Brigham were picked np on Lake Michigan on the 30th ult., after having drifted about on pieces of the wreck for four days and suffering great agony from hunger. Theodore Schumann has declined the nomination as State Treasurer of Wisconsin recently made by the Greenbackers and Anti-Monopolists. The flouriug-mill of J. B. M. Kehlor, at Waterloo, 111., containing a large amount of grain, was burned the other morning, causing a loss of $175,000. The Board of Aldermen of New York at a secret meeting on the 30th ult. passed the oniinance over the Mayor’s veto giving a company the right to lay a surface railway on Broadway. Striking miners at Snake Hollow, 0., commenced a riot at two o’clock on the morning of the 31st ult. by firing several 'hundred shots at the guards. William Hare was killed and two others received serious wounds. A hopper worth $4,000 was burned, and the telegraph wires had b-en cut. The Governor had ordered out the militia to aid in suppressing the riots. Eddie Mason, the seventeen-year-old boy who robbed the People’s Bank of St Paul of $6,C00, was captured on the. 30th ult., and $5,748 was recovered. During the twenty-four hours ended at nine p. m. on the 81st nit. there were nine deaths from cholera at Marseilles and twenty-threu in the southern departments of Franco. In tho various provinces of Italy thirty-one deaths occurred. Near Hamlin, W. Va., a lad named Henry Barton was shot dead a few days ago while taking apples from the orchard of J. Chapman. The New York National Greenback L 4 bor party mot in Stato Convention in New York City on the 30th ult. and nominated Patrick H. Cowan and Isaac L. Rice for Judges of tbe Court of Appeals. A union with the Anti-Monopoly party was made on the electoral ticket. The platform adopted at Indianapolis and General Butler's letter of acceptance ni made tbe pitlfem 0* U>o MBTOBtIOa. *• r

MINERS IN ARMS* An Infuriated Mob of Strikers Attack a Coal Mine In the Mucking Valley District —Several Hundred Shots Fired, Resulting In the Killing of a Gnard and Wounding Several—State Troops Ordered Out. Columbus, G., Sept. I.—At two o’clock yesterday morning three thousand miners, representing the entire Hocking Valley district, attacked the guards at the Snake Hollow mines, killing one -and wounding two The miners had previously cut the telegraph wires to prevent the Sheriffs from calling on the Governor for helji During tlie battle which ensued the hoppers were found to be on fire. Sheriff McCarty, of Athens Couuty, sent a telegram to Governor Hoadly, in whicli he said that the miners had* blackened their faces before making the attack. They quietly surrounded the guards and opened fire without provocation. The battle which ensued lasted for an hour. It was not known whether any of the miners were hurt At Nelsonville the. mines were surrounded and the hoppers burned before the guards were aware of any evil intent on the part of the miners. The telegraph wires had previously been cut. The name of the man killed at Snake Hollow was William Hare, an elderly man. The two men wounded were shot in the leg and head respectively. The striking miners are concentrating at Murray City. The Deputy Sheriff has asked the Sheriff for aid, and it is thought troops will be called out before morning. Elsewhere everything is reported quiet. The rioters are firing on the guards at Sand Bun and Longstreth mines. Both places have called for help, and the militia at Lancaster and New Lexington have been ordered to be in readiness for marching orders. Owing to the cutting of the wires particulars are obtained with difficulty. Governor Hoadly has telegraphed the Sheriffs of Athens, Hocking and Perry counties that a'l means in their control should be exhausted to suppress riotous proceedings and protect life and property before the aid of the State is called for. On Governor Hoadly arriving at his office at miduight be received the following: Loqan, 0., Sept Alt the means in my rower are entirety exhausted to repress the disorder and to protect life and property. The strikers are cutting all telegrapn wires. 1 am worn out; have been going day and night for two months. Please send militia immediately and save further bloodshed. The jail is threatened. . J. F. McCarty, Sheriff Hooking County.

The Governor at once ordered out all of the Fourteenth Begiment. the Duffy and the Governor’s Guards, the Lancaster, Circleville and New Lexington companies, and replied to Sheriff McCarty that troops were on the way, and asking if more were needed. The Lancaster company, being only twenty miles from Logan, was sent to that place to guard the jail. One of the leaders in the riot at Snake Hollow yesterday morning, and the one believed to have killed O’Hara, was arrested and brought to the jail at Logan. The mob was coming in on the town to release him. Special trains have been put on the railroads at the Governor’s disposal. At a late hour the last wire was cut, so that there is no communication with poiuts below Logan, except as carriages reach southern points, and send to the city by circuitous routes. This does not enable the authorities to know what is going on till two or three hours’ time has elapsed, and it is beheved that riot has prevailed for hours at certain places. The bank bosses at New Straitsville report that no men are to be found in that town, and the women refuse to tell their whereabouts. They are believed to bo out in the riot according to a general and preconcerted plan. Advices are meager and unsatisfactory. Later.— Sheriff McCarty, of Hocking County, telegraphs from Logan that he has five points in his county where the riot is beyond control, and is unable to get at them so as to give definite information as to what is being done. The Governor replied that SSO troops were on the way, and more were under marching orders if needed. Owing to lack of communication advices directly from the points.of attack can not be obtained. 3:15 a.m.—The military are being held for further orders. The Lancaster company is at Logan guarding the jail. The Circleville and New companies have been taken by special train to Lancaster, and all the rest of tho troops ordered oat are being held at Columbus. The Governor has jnst left on a special train for the scene of the trouble, to investigate the matter for himself, and will then order troops if he thinks necessary. He can reach the point in one hour and thirty minutes. Birmingham, Ala., Sept. 1.- It is reported here that two hundred striking miners at the Warrior coal rniqes, twelve miles from fired on recently imported Italian miners, killing ten of them. There is no positive news, but the military companies of this city expect to be ordered to the mines.

Rescued from a Raft on Lake Michigan. Muskegon; Mich., Sept I.—The schooner Walker Smith, which arrived.here early Saturday morning, brought to port the Captain and crew of the schooner W. W. Brigham, which capsized in a gale last Sunday night The Brigham was bound from this port for Chicago with lumber, and about midnight Sunday encountered a violent storm. She began to leak badly very soon, and the crew worked the pumps until ten o’clock next morning, when she suddenly rolled over and turned bottom upi The deck cargo was floating about end the crew managed to construct a raft while afloat on the timber, and on this they floated about until six o’clock Thursday morning, when they were picked np by the Smith. While on the raft the crew snffered terribly from cold and hunger, having been nnabls to take any provisions with them owing to the suddenness with which the schooner rolled over. The rescued men are James O’Leary, Captain; Patrick Powers, Richard Bird and Edward Anderson. Statistics of Our Imports and Exports. Washington, Sept I.—The Chief of the Bureau of Rational Statistics, in his statement of imports and exports of the United States, says the excess in value of exports over imports, or imports over exports of merchandise, is as follows: Month ending July 31.1884, excess of imports, $532,646; seven months ending July 31, 1884, excess of exports, $10,23,189; twelve months ending July 81, 1884, excess of exports, $76,380,116: total value of imports of merchandise in the twelve months ending July 31, 1884, $666,830,063; preceding twelve months. $714,356,966; value of exports of merchandise for the twelve months ending July 81.1884, $742,210,118; same time time 1888. S&S2,105,945: for the twelve months ending July 31, 1884; exports of gold and silver, coin and bullion. $68,780,088; imports, $39,357,400; preceding twelve months exports, $26,802,989; imports, $39,545,300. Dry-Goods and Other Trade Prospects. New York, Sept I.—lnterviews with leading wholesale merchants in the drygoods, fancy goods, hardware, clothing and leather and findings trades to-day yield a very encouraging outlook for the fall trade. The prospects of the usual trade for the last quarter of the year are very much more promising than at the same time in the last Presidential year, although orders are from three to four weeks later than Othe general rule, owing to overproduction in the past and the conservatism of business men West and South. Money is plentiful, but buyers evince a desire to economize in every way possible, taking no chances on novelties and ordering mostly staple goods. Searching for the Belmont Ylctims. Evansviixe, Ind., Sept L—lt is now positively known that thirteen persons lost their lives in the disaster to the steamer Belmont The boat lies bottom up, with her upper works entirely demolished. Eleven of the bodies have been recovered, including that of Captain Smith. It is supposed that the cabin, in which nearly all the passengers took refuge; was crushed in and the victims prevented from making their escape. All the white bodies have beep taken out, and only those of the colored WWftß and ohgd in tip ■ —* ■

BY WATER AND FIRE. A Day of Frightful Disasters— An Ohio River Steamer Capsized by a Cyclone at Evansville, fuel., and Fourteen Elves Dost—Ten Men Meet a Horrible Fate, and Many Receive Terrible lujurles by the Burning of a Circus Train In Colorado—Other Casualties. AWFUL WORK OF A CYCLONE. Evansville, lud., Aug. 80. —At an early hour yesterday morning the weather was unusually sultry, every one complaining of Intense heat. There was something in the atmosphere that seemed to foreshadow some unusual barometrical phenomenon. At about 8:30 o’clock heavy black clouds began to form in the west, while occasional livid streaks of lightning lighted up the dark and* angry sky. Soon the wind began to blow, and dust on the streets for a few minutes whirled in clouds that obscured the vision farther than a block or two. Then the thunder pealed,, lightning flashed, and rain began, accompanied by a wind that seemed almost irresistible. People on the streets rushed to places of shelter. The water descended in sheets, and hi a few minutes the streets were flooded. The wind increased in fury, and the storm continued for more than half an hour, during which time most wide-spread destruction took place. The damage to properly all over the city is enormous. Hundreds of house s, mills, factories, warehouses, stores, etc., were unroofed, and in many instances whole houses were blown down. Communication with outside towns was cut off lor several hours, so that the first news of a terrible accident which happened to the steamer Belmont about three miles above Henderson was not received here till about one o’clock. The Belmont is a transfer steamer for the Louisville & Nashville Bailway between this point and Henderson. She left here at eight o'clock yesterday morning, towing a transfer barge with the passenger train for Nashville, with about sixty passengers. She also had about twenty or thirty of a crew on board. The storm was terrific on the river, and the boat and barges were separated. The former sunk almost immediately in the deepest water in the river between this point and Henderson. From the survivors it is learned that the cables holding the boat and barge together broke away. The hold of the boat filled with water, and she became unmanageable, the chimneys going overboard and the cabin topling over on the barge. At this time several persons escaped from the boat onto the barge and were saved, but immediately afterward the boat sunk and fourteen persons are known to have been lost. Following are the names: E. C. Roach and son. Mrs. M. S. Lyon. Miss Laura Lyon, Mrs. Saiiie Bryan, of this city ; Mrs. Add e Murray and child, of Brookvihe, Ala.; Mrs. Wooilviile, of Henderson, Ky.; Captain John H. Smith, Alice Bell (colored! and two other colored women; an old gentler man and wife, names unknown. It is impossible to give a complete list of the survivors. A newsboy named Spang jumped overboard and swam to shore, walked to Henderson, and gave the first information of the disaster. The Belmont was insured for $15,000, $7,000 being in the Underwriters, of Louisville. Other boats were damaged at the wharf, where the scene was terrific. -White caps lashed to fury by the storm, dashed high up, and threatened to swallow everything in their frenzy. The Keith was coming up the river, but wisely dropped beck to the elevator. The storm seized the Josh V. Throop, and tore her chimney off and riddled her badly. All of her crew deserted her except Captain Throop, Jim Larue, Bill Meyers and Dallas Webster. The Silver Thorn also lost her chimneys. Altogether the damage in the city will amount to several hundred thousand dollars, none of which could be covered by insurance.

BURNED IN THEIR BEDS. Greeley. Col., Aug. 30. —About eleven o’clock Thursday night a train of seventeen cars belonging to Orton’s Anglo-American circus left Fort Collins for Golden on the Greeley, Salt Lake & Pacific Bailroad. When the train, running about twenty-five miles an hour, was nearing Windsor, a small station a few miles from here, the engineer discovered that the car next to the engine was on fire. He at once reversed the engine and sounded the alarm whistle. In the burning car there were sixty men arranged in three tiers of berths on either side. The forward side door was closed and the men in the bnnks were sleeping against it. The rear side door was also closed, and the men, when they awoke, discovered that the lower unoccupied berth next to it, containing rubbish, was on fire, filling the car with smoke and cutting off escape in that direction. The only means of egress was through a small window between the car and the engine. Owing to the suffocating gases it was difficult to arouse the sleepers. Some were kicked and bruised in a shocking manner and pitched out of the window. The screams of those unable to get through the blocked aperture were terrifying. The wild glare of the flames and the screams of the burning victims outside, who lay writhing in agony on the cactus-beds caused the wild beasts in the adjoining car to become frantic with terror, making the scene truly appalling. The performers who occupied the rear cars gazed with white faces ou the awful spectacle. In the midst of the confusion two or three heroic fellows bravely cut their way to their companions to find them already in the agony of death. Albert Lake, in charge of the animals, with his friend Keut, walked over the cactus in his bare feet, pouring Duckets of oil on the blistered unfortunates, and wrapped them in blankets. Meantime an engine bad goue to Greely for assistance, returning with Dr. Jesse Hawes, President of the State Medical Association. Many of the rescued, in being pulled through the smail window, had ribs broken and joints dislocated. The hands and feet of some were burned off. Boasted tranks of bodies were found in one place, legs in another, and piles of roasted and shriveled carcases were pulled out of the ruins. It is impossible to get a complete list of the dead, as many were engaged but a day or two, and their names are unknown. The names of the dead, so far as known, are asfollows: Alexander McLeod. Marinette, Wis.; Thomas McCarthy, Independence, la.: John Kelly, New York City. The others were known as Silverthorn, Andy, Frenchy, Frank, George, Smithie, and one unknown. A number of the rescued agree that in the car there were two barrels of gasoline, which were exploded either by sparks from the engine or from a naked torch with which the men were accustomed to light themselves to bed.

▲ LAKE SCHOONER AND HER CREW LOST. Milwaukee, Wis., Aug. SO.—News was received here late last night that the scowschooner W. W. Brigham was capsized in Mud Lake. The crew of five men, names unknown, are supposed to have gone down. OVER A TWENTY-FOOT EMBANKMENT. Bridgeport, 0., Aug. 30.—At an early hour yesterday morning a terrible accident occurred on the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling Railroad, near Stillwater, forty-eight miles west of here. A mixed freight and passenger train was coming east at forty miles an hour, and at Stillwater station the engine jumped the track, plowed through the siding, and plunged down a twenty-foot embankment, drawing six cars with it The passenger cars parted and stopped on the bank, else a terrible calamity would have occurred. As it was, the engine and six freight cars were piled up in the creek, with three mendn the ruins. A wrecking train ran out amrthe debris was searched. John Exton, the engineer, was found at his post his body burned and crushed horribly. His death must have been lingering and terrible. William Lovejoy, fireman, was taken out alive, but badly scalded. James Bulger, a brakeman, was crushed out of human semblance. Both of the killed lived here. The accident was caused through the engine wheel being old and worn out VIOLENT STORMS IN ILLINOIS. Carmi, lit, Aug. SO. —At eight o'clock yesterday morning *. severe rain and wind storm visited this place. Slight damage was done to several buildings in town, while the corn throughout the country was seriously damaged by the wind. The wife of John Haifa, Jr., was visiting Mr. Zeigler’s, and was struck by the lightning and instantly killed. The village of Centerville; eightjmiles north of here, was almost de- ■ molished, and several buildings were blown down at PhUlipstown. Sylvester TobePs farm-house near Centerville was wrecked. One of his children was killed, his wife; II Is tewed, fatally Injured, and two othei children badly bruised. Reports from ell ovei thi country yi of farm wndktd

WRATH OF THE ELEMENTS. Terriflo Gales til Manitoba and Dakota Wreck Many Houses and Great Dam ago to Crops—A Number of Perilous Said to Have Lost Their Lives. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Aug. 29.—A terrific wind-storm swept over the province Wednesday night, doing great damage to properly in various towns and damaging crops to a large extent The wind, which began to blow from the southwest about eight o’clock, following a hot day, was encountered by a violent eale coming down from the north. A fierce fight between the elements followed. Fifty buildings in this city were affected. Houses were blown down, roofs wrenched from their positions and carried far away, telegraph and telephone wires prostrated, signs sent helterskelter, the ends blown out of houses, glassplate windows smashed, and crops in the vicinity leveled. Terrific flashes of lightning, followed by alarming crashes of thunder, scared the citizens. A house and stable were blown away, the stable being carried to the Assinaboiue Biver. A street car with a number of occupants was lifted off tbe track and borne away with the wind. At Portage la Prairie, a town sixty miles from here, the church was blown down and the Cauadian Pacific Bailway freight sheds overturned. A paper-mill was also destroyed. At Ueadingly, a village fifteen miles west of here, a large number of stores, dwelling houses and farm houses suffered. Mr. Francis’ store was blown to pieces and stock scattered on the prairie. The dwelling housa occupied by a man named Bucuanan and wife was also blown away, and the pair had a narrow escape from being killed. A churcii at Portage was also overturned, and a house, a hotel and some stables blown to pieces. Sioux Falls, D. TANARUS., Aug. 29.— Meager reports reach here from Forestburg of a destructive cyclone which passed over that district yesterday afternoon. Tin; wires are generally down, and it is difficult to secure accurate information. The storm cut a track four rods wide. A larmer named Briggs, living six miles north, lost thirty head of cattle, three horses* his bouse and all his buildings. Mr. McKillon, five miles nortli, was driving a span of mules. They were lifted in the air and all killed. A report from Diana says the storm passed four miles west of that place, sweeping a track eighty yards wide. Four dwellings and several other buildings were blown down. A number of persons are reported killed. Huron, D. T. t Aug. 29. —A tunnelshaped cloud passed a mile and a half southeast of here at four o’clock yesterday afternoon. Its stem readied to the earth, cutting a track from twekyeAto fifteen rods wide. There was considerable excitement here. Twelve thousand dollars’ worth of property was destroyed, several stacks of grain on the Lyman farm were blown away, and the residences of Joseph Bloodgood and George and Marvin Cook were also torn to pieces. Mrs. Cook was fatally injured, and her daughter badly hurt The wind made a clean sweep of everything in its path. Five miles southeast the cloud divided, and at one time five large funnelshaped clouds, with stems reaching to the ground, were seen rushing over the prairie. No rain fell.

SLAIN BY THE HIRED GIRL. A Bloody Tragedy Enacted in the Little Town of O’FaUon. 111. O’Fali.on, Hi., Aug. 29. —Persons visiting the home of Mrs. McCormick, a relative of Hon. J. 11. Van Court, member of 4ho Illinois Legislature, found all quiet thcro yesterday afternoon, and, suspecting something was wrong, went out in the yard in the rear of the premises, and there found the dead body of Mrs. McCormick. Her clothing had been torn from her in shreds, and her brains bad been literally battered out with an ax which was found lying by her side, A further investigation of the premises disclosed the dead body of a Noiwegian servant girl, who, from appearances, had murdered her mistress and then committed suicide by poisoning. Bloody marks were found upon her hands and arms and her dress was also stained with blood. It is thought that the two quarreled, and that in a fit of passion the servant girl picked up the ax which was lying near and battered out the brains of her mistress. Mrs. McCormick belonged to one of the oldest and wealthiest families in tho county. Collision of Trains. Baltimore, Md., Aug. 29.—About noon yesterday a collision occurred on the Western Maryland Bailroad at Penmar, an excursion resort, between an excursion train from Washington and the regular train, due there at 12:10 o’clock. Express. Messenger Lee Fry, of this city, was seriously injured, and the fireman on the Washington train and a iady passenger, whose name could not be ascertained, were also badly hurt It appears that the excursion train was eleven minutes late, and was endeavoring to make up lost time. Instructions had been given to take a siding, but the conductor disobeyed the orders, r.nd as a result the regular express ran into the rear car of the excursion train. Tho excursionists were badly shaken up, and it is a miracle many more were not injured or killed. It is said the lady Injured gave birth to a babe while being taken from the wreck.

Wheat Production for the Year. Milwaukee, Wis., Aug. 29.— The following figures, based on official reports made within a few days by State agricultural departments and statistical give a final estimate of the wheat crop in the U nited States for 1884: Total production of winter wheat, 850,000,000 bushels; spring wheat, 150,000,000; total winter and spring wheat, 530,000,000 bushels. This makes the total yield of the country fully 25,000,000 bushels more than was ever before produced, 150,000,000 more than last year’s crop, and 80,000,000 more than the average crop for the past five years. The departments all agree in reporting the quality us superior, and where it has been threshed they say the yield has more than met their calculations. Water Two Dollars Per Barrel. Sierra Madaoa, Mex., Aug. 29 —Tlie terrible drought, which has afflicted this section for mouths, rendering the farms useless and cattle and sheep ranges untenable, lias begun to exercise a strong effect on tho town itself. In the mining village there are only three welts to supply the entire population, and thoy have been greatly diminished by the drouth. These are owned by private parties, who have raised the price of water to two dollars per barrel. Unless rain conies soon the town will be utterly deserted. Many miners, with their families and outfits, have already gone, and tho rest are preparing to goPresident Arthur Das a Narrow Escape. Newport, R. L, Aug. 29. —The Presidential party had a narrow escape from instant death yesterday afteruooD. The President, Secretary Chandler, Senators Aldrich, Hawley, Miller and other officials went on the torpedo-boat Triana for the purpose of experimenting with torpedoes. They had exploded one successfully and had put another overboard, preparatory to exploding it, and were standing on deck engaged in conversation, when without any Interference whatever it prematurely exploded. No possible reasou can be assigned for the exploeion, and had it occurred on board the boat the entire party would have been blown to atoms. Were They Color Blind. Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 29.—Tho Medical News says: **ln the official inquiry about to be held we hope the Navy Department will direct the special investigation by medical experts concerning tho color, vision and acuity of sight of all officers and men of the Tallapoosa, whose duty it was to have seen the lights of the colliding schooner, and thus definitely determine if defective oolor vision, the existence of which bad not been previously moon tainod. was reuMttilblfi for the ml |k| 7ftUIBAMfc

PERSONAL AND LITERARY. —W. H. Vanderbilt admits that he is worth $194,000, and has an income of $12,000,000 a year.— N. Y. Star. —Max O’Rell’s little book, “John Bull and his Island,” is said to have netted him $20,000. He now contemplates “Jonathan and his Continent.” —Mrs. Skidmore, of New York, is 120 years old, has had live husbands, has smoked the same pipe for fifty-live years, and was once kissed by George Washington.— N. Y. Tribune. —J. W. Lamotte and James M. Johnson are two printers who, the Savannah New* boasts, have served forty-eight and forty-nine years at the case, and are still hale and hearty. —ThB body of General James Shields, the hero of two wars and Senator from three States, who in life received the freedom of cities and honors from Commonwealths, &'ls an unmarked grave in a neglected burying ground two miles outside of Carrollton, Mo.— N. Y. Post. —Of the Prince of Wales’ three daughters the Princess Victoria seems to possess the greatest sense of authority. She is taller than her elder sister, of more decisive countenance, and has brighter eyes. She is said to resemble the Queen more than the other children, and to be more like her grandmother in character as well. 1 —The oldest clergyman in the Church of England is believed to be Richard Moore, Vicar of Lund-in-the-Fylde, Lancashire. On a recent Sunday he completed his ninety-fourth vear. He was orda’ned in 1815, and his health is still good. He is also the senior Justice in Lancashire, having been appointed by the Crown in 1820. —Henry Goodwin, the manager of the Hartford Courant for the qua ter of a century previous to 1835, died Monday, aged ninety-one. His father was the publisher of the Courant before him, and also a member of the firm that published hun reds of thousands of Noah Webster’s spelling books. Father and son were practical printers, and when his son was managing the even then venerable Courant, which another son was editing, the father, dressed in knee-breeches and the Con inental vest and hat, set type in the office for recreation.

—The Los Angeles (Cal.) Herald prints the following curious letter: “Editor Herald: I have just read in your local columns that Jr A. Reavis and Laura Bridger were licensed to be married. Now, whilst J. A. Reavis has my most unlimited consent to make a fool of himself, he has never had my consent, nor never will have, to make an application for a marriage license for himself and me. My impression is that the next application to be made by Mr. J. A. Reavis ought to be a commission in lunacy to examine into his mental condition. I am afra and that his great possessions in Arizona and the heat of that climate have very much muddled whatever little brains he ever had. Laura Bridger.” HUMOROUS. —An ostrich egg is worth one hundred dollars. Does anybody know anything that will beat an ostrich egg?— Lowell Courier. Try an ax.— boston Post. t —A sailor has been “sent up” for six months for kissing a girl on Broadway. The mariner was evidently not aware that smacks were so expensive in New York.— N. Y. Graphic. —A Boston female bae-ball reporter put it this way: “At this point the delegate from - Boone County got tired of keeping second warm, and vigorously limbed it for third.”— Chicago Tribune. —When Fogg came into the room unexpectedly Mrs. F. gave a scream and exclaimed: “You frightened me half to death.” “Did I?” was the un'eeling reply; “suppose I try it over again?”— ho ton Transcript. —A young gentleman wishes to know which is proper to say on leaving a young lady Iriend after a late call—-good-night or* good-evening. Never tell a lie, young man. Say good-morn-ing.—Burlington Free Press. “You are lucky,” said a criminal lawver to his client, a thief. “Am I acquitted?” inquired the thief. “No, not that.” replied the lawyer, “but you will be th<k first inmate of the new prison, and you will get awrite-up as such.” —Galveston New.

—A little girl, meeting a countryman with a load of slaughtered swine, dropped a courtesy. The rustic laughed without returning the civility. “What!” saidhe, “do you courtesy to dead hogs?” “No, sir,” promp’y responded the little miss, “I courtesied to the live one.”— Chicago Herald. —A young mother traveling with her infant child writes the following letter to her husband at home: “We are all doing first-rate and enjoying ourselves very'much. We are in fine health. The boy can crawl about on all fours. Hoping the same can be said of you, I remain, etc. Fanny.” --Because Robert Bonner, of the New York Ledger gave one bJM to a church he is now being driven nearly crazy by applications from every struggling congregation in the country. This will explain why we hesitate about building the Bartholdi pedestaL We are afraid every other city will want one too. —Philadelphia Call. —But, oh, papa, George and I dol&TO each other so devotedly.” “I don’t care. I say you shall not marry him. How on earth can he support the daughter of a wealthy merchant when his salary is only $5,000 a year?” “But, papa, you forget he is your confidential clerk, your trusted employe.” “What of that?” “Why, he probably owns more of the store than you do already.” —Chicago New?. —“Nancv, is George still flying around witb you?” “Yes, mam,” an-, swered the girl. “Why, l thought you had given him the mitten?” “I aid, several days ago.” “And he still comes! That’s strange; a young man usually flies to pieces and never speaks to the girl again.’ “He seemed to like it,” answered Nancy, blushingly. “Well, I can’t understand him; can you imagine why he likes it?” “Don’t know, mam.” turning very red, “unless it was because my hand was in the mitten when I gave it to him.” “Hum, that’s enough, child.” —Atlanta Constmtion. Queen Victoria’s Fori sue. Her Majesty possesses an immense fortune. The estate of Osborne is at least five times as valuable as it wps when it was purchased by the Queen and Prince Albert about forty years ago. The Balmoral property of her Majesty now extends over 50,000 acres. Claremont was granted to the Queen for life in 1866, with reversion to the country; and her Ma>sty purchased the property outright three years ago for £78,000. Probably its market value is not much under £150,000. The Queen also possesses some property at Coburg, and the Princess Hohenlohe left her the Villa Hohenlohe, at Baden, one of the best residences in the place. With regard to personal property, Mr. Nield left the Queen over £500,000, and the property left by the Prince Consort is believed to have amounted to nearly £600,000; but the prov sions of his will have been kept a strict secret, and the document has never been “proved.” The Queen must also have saved a vast sum out of her income, which has always been very well managed. Since the death at the Prince Consort the general administration of the Quetta’s private affairs has been confided to Lord m * trvpvwt •

Shade Trees. The custom of overshadowing the dwelling with large shade trees, shutting out the sunlight and air, is fast disappearing. It is found that a house thus shaded is not healthy or pleasant. But this by no means indicates that shade trees ought not to be encouraged in the neighborhood of the dwelling, for few objects, if any, add more to the beauty of a home than groups of shade trees arranged so as not to cover up and shade the dwelling. Near the house should be groups of shrubs and flowers, and outside of these should be the shade trees; not arranged in stiff straight rows all of one variety, and as near as possible of one size, but they should be set without order, as nature set them, and a variety of trees should be intermingled with each other. This relieves the eye, and to every lover of nature looks far more beautiful than stiff formalities. Ia the selection of varieties oare should be taken not to set trees that attain a large size in the vicinity of the dwelling, but to select those that never grow more than thirty or forty feet high. The large trees, like the elms, should be set on the outside of the groups that have been set in the vicinity of the dwelling. In making a proper selection, it is always best to examine groups of trees growing on soil similar to the one where it is desired to set them; then a good idea of what is best may be for med and the appearance which each tree will make better understood. No one can describe the appearance of a tree, so as to be understood by any person half as well as they can understand it by personal observation. Each locality has its peculiarities and is particularly adapted to the growth of eertain varieties. If it can be understood what these peculiarities are, success is more likely to be attained, especially by those who cannot spend time to change the nature of the soil or protect the trees from the cold winds of winter. A few dollars spent for shade trees to set in the vicinity of the farm buildings, will in a few years change the appearance of the home so much for the better, that its market value will be raised ten times as much as the cost of the trees.^-J tassachusetts Ploughman.

While Bread. It appears to be a fact that this small quantity of alum whitens the bread In this, as in so many‘other cases of adulteration, there are two guilty parties—the buyer who demands impossible or unnatural appearances, and the manufacturer or vender who supplies the foolish demand. The judging of bread by its whiteness is a mistake which has led to much mischief, against which the recent agitation for “whole meal” is, I think, an extreme reaction. . If the husk, which is demanded by the whole-meal agitators, were as digestible as the inner flour, they would unquestionably be right, but it is easy to show that it is not, and that in some cases the passage of the undigested particles may produce mischievous irritation in the intestinal canal. My own opinion on this subject (it still remains in the region of opinion rather than of science) is that a. middle course is the right one, viz., that bread should be made of moderately dressed or “seconds” flour rat her than overdressed “firsts,” or undressed “thirds,” L e., unsifted whole-meal flour. Such seconds Hour does not fairly produce white bread, and consumers are unwise in demanding whiteness. In my household we make our own bread, but occasionally, when the demand exceeds ordinary supply, a loaf or two is bought from the baker. I find that, with corresponding or identical flour, the baker’s bread is whiter than the hoqge-made, and correspondingly inferior. I may say, oolorless in flavor, it lacks the characteristics of wheaten sweetness. There are, however, exceptions to this, as certain bakers are now doing a great business in supplying what they call “home-made’’ or “farm-house” bread. It is darker in color than ordinary bread, but is sold nevertheless at a higher price, and I find that it has the flavor of the bread made in my osrn kitchen. When their customers become more intelligent, all the bakers will doubtless cease to incur the expense of buying packets of “stuff” or “rocky,” or any other bleaching abomination.— W. Mattieu Williams, in Popular Science Monthly.

The Canals of Amsterdam. The canals are an unmitigated nuisance. They may be all very well in the winter, if the frost be hard enough to freeze them, but as soon as the weather begins to grow warm they give out an odor like that which the Scripture tells us is emitted by the deeds of the wicked. They cut the city in all directions, and are of course only to bo crossed at regular intervals by the aid of bridges; so that the pedestrian wanting to get from one side of the street to the other is liable to be seat 200 yards out-of his way before be can do so. At; night, in a dark street, they are to be approached warily, for a false step or a tumble against the stone pillars to which the boats and barges are moored would be apt to send one head-foremost into the water. But the quaint craft that ply their sluggish waters have a character and interest of theirown, and the mingling of town life with the life of the river is curious enough in the streets where the canals are found.— Tinsley's Magazint. , —Major Andre, the spy, drew a portrait of himself the morning of the day on which he was hanged. He stood before a. looking-glass and sketched the likeness. It is preserved in the Capitol at Albany. —Albany THE MARKETS. Nbw York. September 1. UVB STOCK —Cattle *6 75 SIB Sheep 400 94 75 FLOCK—Good to choice 8 TO @ 680 , Patents 5 7# 9 6 86 WHEAT-No. 2 Red 80*® 99 No. 9 Spring 87 & 88 COHN 64*9 48 OATS—Western Mixed 83*9 as SB 44*9 79 KK—MessKO—Steam 7 85 9 7 M EESE U @ 13 WOOL—Domestic 89 ft 40 CHICAGO. BEEVES —Extra 87 00 9 T 96 Choice 6 60 9 4 86 G00d... 6 76 9 #4O Medium 4 50 a 6 60 Butchers’ stock 2 80 04 25* Intoriur cattle 150 98 25 HOGS-Live-Good to Choice. 500 Otis SHEEP 800 (A 440 BUTTER—Creamery M 9 21 Good to Choice Daily 13 & 1514 EGG5—Fre5h................... 14 9 16 FLOUR-Wlnter 500 9 6 76 Spring 450 @ R 40 Patents 50> @6 50 GRAIN-Wheat, No. 2 7*i9 70* Corn, No. 2. 53 9 63* Oats, No. 2 25X9 28 Rye. No. 9 55 9 85* * Barley, No. 2 #4 @ <6 BROOM CORN— Green HurL 7 9 8 Hue Green 6 9 4* Inferior 8 9 4H POTATOES 1 00 9 1 #8 PORK—Mess 18 00 918 66 LAND—Steam 7 37*9 7 40 LUMBER- t Common Dressed Siding.. 13 40 on to Flooring.... . £4 00 984 00 Common Boards 12 M 91s 40 Fencing . . 12 00 @l4 80 Lath 2 60 >9 2 84 Shingles 240 9 800 „„ „ EAST LIBERTY. CATTLE—Best #8 00 9 4 26 Fair to Good 5 25 9 4 40 HOGS-Yorkers... 6 75 9400 Pbltade’phist 4 50 9 4 78 SHKEP-Best 408 A 4 96 Common.... 8 00 9 840 BALTIMORE, aessTO fa vwwhiHjH IP pip ; .