Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 6, Number 29, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 16 October 1884 — Page 2

ffappana 'SSkM® Dcna i t INDIANA. NEWS OF THE WEEK. 9Y TELEGRAPH AND MAIL. FROM WASHINGTON. The exchanges at twenty-four leading clearing-houses in the United States during the week ended on the 4th aggregated $806,001,155, against $708,848,294 the pre. vious week. As compared with the corresponding period of 1883, the elearings showed a decrease of 23.7 ner cent. During the week ended on the 4th the issue of standard silver dollars was 491,997, against $15,999 for the corresponding period last year. Dirkctor Burchard, of the Mint at Washington, estimates that the amount of gold and silver coin in the United States October 1 was $815,000,000, an increase as compared with October 1, 1883, of $35,000,000. The gold and silver bullion in the mints and assay offices amounts to $58,000,000. The agricultural reports for October show that the condition of the corn crop throughout the United States is better than it has been for five years. oThk sales, entries and selections of puh. lie lands, during the year! ended July 30, 18S4, aggregated 26,531,170 acres, an increase over the previous year of 8,101*137 acres. The total receipts from the disposal of the public and Indian lands last year were $12,779,130, an increase of $4,392,750 as compared wi h 1882-83. There were 213 business failures in the United States during the seven days ended on the 10th against 188 the previous seven days, and 166 in the corresponding period of 1883. THE EAST. Congressional nominations were made 6y Tammany Hall in New York City on the 6th as follows: Sixth District, N. Muller (renominated); Seventh, John J. Adams (renominated); Eighth, S. S. Cox (renominated); Ninth, Joseph Pulitzer; Tenth, Abram S. Hewitt (renominated); Eleventh, John J. Hardy (renominated); Twelfth, Orlando B. Potter (renominated); Thirteenth, Egbert L. Velle. The failure is announced of Joseph W. Rosenthal, wholesale dealer in clothing in New York City, for $400,000. Throughout Connecticut an election was held on the 6th to vote upon the Constitutional amendment providing for biennial elections of members of the Legislature and biennial sessions. The measure was carried by a majority of over 15,000. The cities also generally voted for license, while many of the smaller towns voted against it. Hon. Levi P. Morton, United States Minister to France, arrived in New York on the 6th. John Sherry and family were at sapper the other evening at Edinburg, Pa., when five masked men entered, commanded all to hold up their bands, and then bound and gagged them. After securing $6,200 the robbers drove off in a carriage. Congressional nominations were made on-the 7th, as follows: Republican—New York, Thirtieth District, Charles S. Baker. Democratic —Connecticut, First District, William W. Eaton (renominated); New York, Thirty-first District, Robert S. Stevens (renominated). A circular has been issued by John B. Finch, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Prohibition party, calling upon the people of the United States to observe Wednesday, October 29, as a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer to Almighty God that His aid may be given to measures for the suppression of the traffic in alcoholic drinks. A fire a few days ago destroyed the opera-house at South Bethlehem, Pa., and four ad joining buildings, causing a loss of about SIOO,OOO. One man was fatally injured. , It bas been decided by the officers of the* Hampden Mutual Fire Assurance Company of Springfield, Mass., to close up the company’s business. Recent losses cause the stoppage. Three thousand men in Oliver Brothers’ & Phillips* rolling mills at Pittsburgh, Fa., refusing to accept a reduction of wages, were locked out on the 7th. Judge, Tourgee’s magazine, the Continent, has been incorporated with the Christian at li onfc, of New York, and will no longer appear as a distinct publication. The Merchants’ Bank at Altoona, Pa., suspended on the 7tb, owing to the withdrawal of large sums. During the seven days ended on the 7th the exports of produce from New York agj E regated $7,110,000, against $5,999,000 the previous seven days, and $6,599,000 for the corresponding period of last year. Whilk attending to some caged tigers at Waterbury, Conn., a circus employe was badly mutilated recently. The animals dragged him inside and began to feast on his arms and legs. The beasts were beaten off with iron bars. Operations were resumed on the Bth at the Fort Pitt Iron and Steel-Works at Pittsburgh, Pa., which had been idle for three months for lack of orders. The annual meeting was held on the Bth in New York of the directors of the Western Union Telegraph Company. The report of the President showed the capital stock to be $80,000,000; bonded debt, $7,214,00ft; revenues for the yoar ended June 30, 1884, $19,632,000; expenses, $13,022,000; profits, $0,610,000; surplus June 30, 1884, $4,157,000. George DoliJng, of Honesdale, Pa., recently caught a young rat in a mine and made a pet of it. The qpimal repaid the kindness by biting its benefactor with such severity as to cause his death. Near North Adams, Mass., while out riding a few'evenings ago a train struck the carriage containing Goorge and Alice Hall, brother .and sister, both being instantly killed. 5 On the evening of the Bth a hipricane swept over Harrisburg,' Pa., unroofing housos and leveling trees. A section of the carriage bridge over the Susquehanna was carried away. On the Bth ten thousand persons gathered in the Northampton (Mass.) campgrounds to celebrate the centennial of the independence* of American Methodism. After a coatinuation of nine months tho strike of stove-molders at Pittsburgh, Pa., was declared off on the Bth, and union men would return to’work as individuals at a reduction of fifteen per cent. A decisioV has been rendered by the Supreme Court of New York declaring unconstitutional tho law forbiddiru: the manufacture of cigars in the tenmienthouses of the larger cities. Leopold Morse, of the Fifth Massachusetts District, and John Q. Adams, of the Second, have declined the Democratic nominations for Congressmen. Four business places at Perry, N. Y., were robbed by burglars the other night, who secured about $48,009 in bonds and cash. The death of General J. B. Murray, of Seneca Falls, N. Y., one of the originators of Decoration Day, oceurrod from apoplexy a few days ago. A Philadelphia telegram of the Bth states that at a secret conference of paper manufacturers just held in that city reports were made of a short supply of rags all over the country, owing to the Government embargo on imported rags from the East, and it was decided to call a meeting to be held in Cleveland. It was thought a determined effort would be made to force the price up an average of two cents a pound. The supply of rags in port and on the water will only keep the mills going until December 1. The large paper dealers in Chicago and other cities, East and West, are serving their customers with notices to the effect that they are compelled to withdraw former quotations and give prices on amounts, or from day to day. The writing-paper man. ufnoturerg flgmd, at a meeting held in INton on tho &>, 19 prtow two

cents per pound, and to maintain the advanced rates. The Supreme Court of the State of New York recently gave a judgment against the city of New York for $1,500,000 for water-meters furnished by Jose F. De Navarro to tho city during the Tweed regime, but never used. It is announced that up to the 9th the total transactions of the New York Clearing House since its organization, thirtyone years ago, amounted to the immense sum of $750,818,518,669.01. The Cornell University faculty and tho authorities of the town of Ithaca, N. Y., , have determined to suppress **cane rushes,” and have read the riot act to the participators in the recent “rush.” The following Congressional nominations were made on the 9th; Republican— Rhode Island, First District, H. J. Spooner (re-nominated); Second, W, A. Pierce. Democratic—New York, Nineteenth District, T. J. Van Alstine (re-nominated). The other morning Dr. W. H. Zink, Trial Justice at Branford, Conn., was murdered while asleep, the assassin rifling his clothing of a watch and a large sum of money. The firm of Oliver Bros. & Phillips, iron men of Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 9th withdrew the notice of a 12per cent, reduc; tion, and work in their mills would be at once resumed. The other morning Josiah Kretchman perished by fire iu his residence at New Centerville, Pa., two other members of the family being fatally burned. On the 10th a comparison of the volume of business among the iron mills of Pittsburgh with a statement of two months ago showed an increase in the output of over two hundred tons a day, and the outlook for the future was not in the least discouraging. . Near Johnstown, Pa., the house of a farmer named Joseph Gates was invaded the other night by five masked men, well armed, who forced the family to surrender $l,lOO in cash. Underground tunnels leading *to m vault were discovered recently near New Haveu, Conn., and also counterfeit silver pieces and a broken die. It was a counterfeiters’ den, in which murders and other crimes were believed to .have been committed. In the Red Ash mine, near Wilkesbarre, Pa., a fall of rock a tew days ago, killed two men. Leo Bbigel, of Allegheny City* Pa., aged thirteen, destroyed the eyesight of Bertie Black, a four-year-old giri, a few mornings ago by throwing mortar in her eyes, besides seriously burning two other children. The following Democratic nominations for Congress were made on the 10th: Massachusetts, Eighth District, Charles Lilley; New York, Twenty-sixth District, C. E. Remick. % WEST AND SOUTH. Agents in Chicago reported on the 7th that the shipping business was the dullest known in thirty years, and the opinion was general that more sail craft would be stripped this month than ever before. On the 7th the ninth Episcopal Congress of the United States met at Detroit, Bishop Harris, who presided, delivering the welcoming address. Unknown parties shot and killed Mrs. Mary 'Davis, a wealthy lady living near Alpine, Ga., on the 7th while she was walking in her yard. Her body was perforated with twenty slugs fired froqj ambush. , At Cleveland, 0., five more incendiary fires were 'started on the 7th, but they were discovered before much damage was done. The Republicans have nominated for Congressmen J. N. Barber in the Fourth Arkansas District and J. W. Van Schiaick in the Fourth Wisconsin District. Seventeen persons, most of whom are qiissionaries, left Atlanta, Ga., the other day for China. Some of the ladies will organise in Shanghai a high school for girls. Owing to the excessive heat at Savannah, Ga., on the 7th dock laborers were unable to work at loading vessels. One death occurred from sun-stroke. At Laurel Hill, N. C., Mrs. Charles McNair (colored), aided by two other negroes, killed her husband, who was an invalid, being tired of supporting him. The Prohibitionists of the Eighteenth Illinois District have nominated Henry M. Moore for Congressman. A few days ago W. VV. Cotteral, of New Castle, Ind., was reported missing. He was ex-Auditor of Henry County, and short in his accounts $3,700. On the 7th the straight Republicans of Missouri met at Macon and nominated a full State ticket, headed by Adon Guitar for Governor. On the Union Pacific Road a freight train collided with a wild engine at Elkhorn, Nob., the other day, and a fireman ancLengineer were killed and another fireman lost both legs. , A number of buildings were destroyed by fire the other night at Richmond, Ky., including a planing-mfll, a flour-mill and the city gas-worker Loss, $125,000. On the morning of the Bth a terrible catastrophe occurred in Lake Michigan, off Hyde Park, near Chicago, during the most terrific gale of the season, involving the loss of ten out of fifteen men who were stationed there in a temporary shanty, pending the construction of a water-works crib at that place. Congressional nominations were made on the Bth as follows: Democratic—Michigan, Eleventh District, John Power; Tennessee, Seventh District, J. G. Ballantine (renominated). Republican—Louisiana, Fifth District, Frank : Mori. Prohibitionist —Illinois, Eighteenth District, Henry W. Moore. A bridge near Marysville, Mo., a few nights ago collapsed under a freight train laden with hogs, nearly all of which were drowned. The engineer was killed, and the brakeman and fireman badly injured. It has been decided by the Indiana Supreme Court that it has no power to respite or grant pardon to convicted criminals. The law conferring that power on any other person than the Governor was declared unconstitutional. On the Bth tickets from Chicago to New York were selling at sl4, to St. Louis for $2, and to Kansas City for $5.50. The other day a barrel of whisky exploded at Canton, Miss., the liquid immediately taking fire, though there was neither light nor fire in the room. At Jamestown, 0., great excitement prevailed on the Bth over the discovery that eleven graves in the cemetery there had been opened and the corpses stolen. A reward of SI,OOO was offered for the ghouls. At Birdsville, five miles east, and at South Baltimore violated graves were also found. The Ohio Powder Company’s mi\l No. 2, near Youngstown, was demolished a few days ago by an explosion, but no lives were lost. People for miles around thought an earthquake had occurred. Afire destroyed one-half the town of Alma, Neb., the other night. The Prohibition candidate for Vice-Pres-ident, William Daniel, issued his formal letter of acceptance of the nomination on the 9th. In sections of Kansas frost, with hail, snow and sleet, fell on the 9th, and cattle men believing that the Texas fever germ had been destroyed were preparing to ship beef cattle. It was reported on the 9th that W. W. Coteral, the missing ex-Auditor of Henry County, Ind., was en route to Dakota to procure funds to settle his shortage of $4,900. In th# vicinity of Brookings, D. TANARUS., small-pox, supposed to have been brought by emigrants, was spreading rapidly on the 9th. Four deaths had already ocdhrred. At- a furnace in Hickman County, Tenn., an accident occurred a few days ago by which three men were burned to death by melted iron and another was fatally injured. At Mount Jackson, Va., an incendiary flr* o few mornings ago destroyed nine business bouses and the Lutheran Church. Tan In the G*rondlt (Mot) For*

office was wrecked by robbers the other night, who secured $250 and a lot of postage stamps and registered letters. The l(Wth anniversary of the birth of Dr. Graham, theJKentucky pioneer, was celebrated oh the 10th at Louisville. J. H. Acklan has been nominated for Congressman by the Republicans of the First Louisiana District. The nude and headless body of Mrs. ’Stilwell Hendershot was found in a cistern neat Troy, Ind., a few evenings ago, and suspicion resting on the family,’.tbe husband and bis two sons, F. H. and William Hendershot, were arrested. At the investigation on the 10th F. H. Hendershot acknowledged killing his mother, and the old man also criminated himself, and both were held, while William was released. The murdered woman held a deed to the farm, and was killed because she would not relinquish it. Wilson & McGill’s tobacco factory at Petersburg, Va., employing three hundred operatives, has shut down, owing to the scarcity of tobacco. On the 10th tickets were 'selling from Ctfdago to Kansas City for sl.lO, and to Omaha for $1.60. A fire a few days ago destroyed tho Third Presbyterian Church, at the corner of Ashland and Ogden avenues, Chicago. Loss, $100,000; insurance, $91,000. The execution of Charles W. Butler oc curred on the 10th at Columbia City, Ind., for wife-murder. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. On the Adriatic coast a terrific storm occurred on the 6th. At Ravenna a railway bridge was washed away and twelve persons were drowned, and as Pesaro many vessel# were wrecked, the town was flooded, and several were drowned. Gas explosion caused the burning of the Windsor Hotel at Kingston, Can., a few nights ago. One guest leaped from a thirdstory window, and others barely escaped with their lives. ' In Austria fourteen children were drowned recently in the River Drave while playing in a boat which capsized. It was reported on the 7th that great distress prevailed at the Magdalen Islands, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and many families were said to bo starving. The Government had been asked for assistance. Owing to tHfe increasing number of defaulters and the immunity offenders enjoy, it was said on the 7th that the British and American Governments were engaged in negotiations for a revision of the extradition treaty. The Miromar, a British steamer en route from Yokohama to Hong Kong, foundered at sea recently, and forty persons were drowned. The only persons saved were two Chiuamen. The Canadian Government has granted to the Manitoba & Northwestern and Manitoba & Southwestern Railways land subsidies of 6,400 acres per mile. A cyclone which swept through Catania, Sicily, a few days ago, killed tv(snty persons and wounded fifty others. President Grevy, of France, has granted 50,000 francs for the relief of unemployed workmen at Lyons. During the twenty-four hours ended at nine p. m. on the reports of the cholera in Italy showed 145 fresh cases and 77 deaths, against 197 cases and 97 deaths the preceding twenty-four hours. Two deaths occurred in Spain and six in France. The Russian authorities have closed the University of Kieff and one hundred and sixty-eight of the students were arrested, charged with being connected with the Nihilists. At Harbor Grace, N. F., Orange disturbances were again developing on the 9tb, and the gates of tbe convent were torn down and flung into the sea. One Riverhead man was beaten almost to death by Orangemen. Soldiers of tbe Cuban army have not been paid for six months, and on the 9th they were almost starving. In the inte - rior towns of the island they obtained food by force. By the blowing up of the Hamilton Powder Mills at Cumminsville, Ont., a few days ago four men were killed and two others were injured. The report was confirmed on the 9th of the defeat of the Chinese by the French under Colonel Dennier on the Loo Chuan River, in Tonquin. The loss of the Celestials was stated to have been about 1,000. Twenty-seven persons were killed and 400 injured by the recent cyclone in Catania,, on the Island of Sicily. The damage would amount to 4,000,000 lire. The winnings of Mr. Hammond, the owner of the English race-horse St. Gatien, on the turf during the present racing season are estimated at $759,000. Mr. Ham. mond commenced life as a stable boy. An explosion of fire-damp occurred recently in the mines at Ostran, in' Moravia, causing tbe death of twenty persons. At a ree’ent meeting of' four thousand unemployed men at Glasgow, Scotland, resolutions were passed demanding assistance from the local authorities. There were during the twenty-fonr hours ended at nine p. m. on the 10th 121 new cases of cholera in Italy and seventy deaths. Ouly four deaths were reported in Spain. LATERSThe steamship Europa from G’asgow for Malaga was run into on the UtU in the River Clyde, near Greenock, by the steamer Roseville and sunk. The Captain and five of the crew were drowned. During the forty-eight hours ended at nine p. m. on the 12th there were 491 new cases of cholera and 234 deaths in Italy, 42 of which occurred at Naples- The Spanish Official Gazette announced the epidemic ended in Spain. Catania, Sicily, was visited by another earthquake on.the 12th, thirty persons being killed. Aeter a quarrel on the evening of the 11th in a (saloon in Chicago a sheep butcher named Joseph Whitney was murdered with a knife by a notorious criminal named Bob Haley, and on the evening of the 12 h Edward Roberts (colored) shot and killed his wife while in a fit of jealousy. Coal mines at Nelsonville ville, 0., were fired by unknown parties on tho 12th. The Prohibition State Central Committee of Kansas have put L. H. Phillips at the head of their State ticket, in place of A. B. Jettmore, who declined the nomination for Governor. An incendiary fire at Liberty, Va., on the 12th destroyed tweuty-one business houses, and the estimated los3 was $150,000. The Turkish mail was attacked by bi igands a few nights ago near Bagdad, and over $300,009 was secured. Three persons were killed and several others were wounded during the attack. On the 12th Moody and Sankey resumed their work as evangelists in this country by holding afternoon and evening services, in Brooklyn, N. Y. The National League base-ball season came to a close on the 11th, the Providence club securing the championship, with Boston second, Buffalo third, Chicago fourth, New York fifth, Philadelphia sixth, Cleveland seventh and Detroit eight. The bonded warehouse of J. G. Roach & Cos., atUniontown, Ky., containing over two thousand barrels of whisky, was burned a few days ago, causing a loss of $170,000. j Prresident- Theodore Woolsey has resigned from Yale College, the reason assigned being his advanced age. He is ’nearly eighty-three years old. At Livingston, Wis., the safe of John 'Allen was broken into on the night of 11th and robbed of money and securities amounting to $23,009. | Willie Aldhiuß, a Pittsburgh lad, j while engaged recently in oiling the machinery of the Republic iron works, fell between the cog-wheel* and was l|tfrall7 ground up,

GOVERNMENT STATISTICS. Report of the Chief of tho Bureau of SUktiHtics—Crop Kst imiitcs—l.and Olllce Report. Washington, Oct, 11.-“ in his annual report Mr. Nimmo, of tlffe Bureau of Statistics, speaks of the enormous magnitude of America’s internal commerce. It is shown that the value of the products of the various industries of the United States is seven times the total value of the foreign commerce, nearly three times the total value of the foreign commerce of Great Britain and Ireland, and five times the total value of the foreign commerce of France, including in each case both the imports and the exports. The total value of the products of industry in the United States is also shown to be a little more than twice the total value of the exports of merchandise from all the countries of Europe. The United States is now the largest manufacturing country on the globe. The value of the products of American manufacture consumed at home is five times the value of ttie manufactured products of Great Britain and Ireland exported to all other countries, and more than fourteen times the value of the exjtorts of manufactured products from France to all other countries. The relative value of the internal, as compared with the foreign, commerce of the country is also illustrated by statements showing that ninety-nine per cent of the coal mined in this country, ninetyfive per cent of the Jron and steel products, ninety-five i>or cent, of the products of the leather industry, more than ninety-nine tier cent of the manufactures in wool, ninety-live *>er cent of the products of the cotton manufactures, more than nine-ty-nine per cent of the manufactures in silk, and ninety-seven per cent of tlie manufactures in glass, glassware, eartheinvare and stoneware, are consumed in the United States. GOOD CROPS ASSURED. Washington, Get 11. —The October returns for com average higher for condition than in the past five years, but not so high as in any of the remarkable corn years from 1875 to 1879 inclusive. The general average is ninety-three, which is very nearly an average, and indicates about twenty-six bushels per acre on a breadth approximating 70,000,000 acres. The region between the Mississippi liiver and Rocky Mountain slope again presents tlie highest figures, which in every StateJ rise a little above the normal standard of full condition. No State east of the Mississippi returns condition as high as 100. The lowest figures are West Virginia, 73: Ohio, 74; Louisiana, 74; Texas, 80; South Carolina, 83. The reduction was caused by drought. The early planted is everywhere matured. The late plantings in the Southern States suffered for want of summer rains and will be light and not well filled. Very little injury has beep done by frosts. The damage by chinch-bugs and other insects has been slight The wheat crop will exceed that of last year by about one hundred million bushels. The threshing is slow and late, with the results thus far confirming the indications of former reports. The yield pe. acre will average about 13 1-3 bushels. The quality of the present wheat crop is generally very good, especially in the Eastern and Middle States. Some depreciation in quality is noted in Indiana, Illinois,llowa, Missouri and Kansas. The average for the entire breadth is 96. Indicated yield of rye is about 13 bushels per acre. The quality is superior. The yield of oats is a little above the average, being about twenty-seven bushels per acre, and making a crop approximating 570,000,000 bushels, of good quality. The barley crop makes a yield of nearly twenty-three bushels per acre, and a product exceeding 50,000,000 bushels, of average quality. The condition of the buckwheat averages eighty-seven, indicating a crop slightly under the average. The condition of the potato crop is represented by eighty-eight, live points lower than in October of last year, two points lower than in 1879 and in 1883, and the same as in 1880. THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. Washington, Oct. 11.— Tlie Commissioner of the General Land Office has submitted his report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1884. Receipts from the disposal of public lands were §11,840,993; from Indian lands, §938,137: total, $13,779,130; an increase over 1883 of $1,073,364, and over 1883 of $4,393,750, to which is to be added $10,375 received for certified copies of record, making the total receipts for the year $13,789,405. The receipts from cash sales were $10,303,583, an average of a fraction over $1.33 per acre. There were 3,118 tracts of land, embracing 300,003 acres, sold at public sale at an average of $3.94 per aefe. The Commissioner renews liis recommendation that the Pre-emption law be repealed, and deems it important that the Homestead law be amended so as to require proof of actual residence and improvement for two years before homestead entry may be commuted to a cash payment, lie recommends the repeal of the Timber-Cultqre act, the act providing that lands covered by relinquishments shall be subject to entry immediately upon cancelation at local office, the Desert-land law, and the Timber and Stone Land acts. There were 1,076 miles of railroad constructed during tlie year under the various grants. The Commissioner suggests that a commission be appointed to examine and decide upon the uusettled private land claims in New Mexico, Colorado and Arizona, and recommends the re-establishment of the boundary line between Colorado and Utah, and the survey of tlie boundary line between Dakota and Montana, and of the Yellowstone Park. In conclusion the Commissioner points out the necessity for the immediate adoption of some measure by which the natural forests may be preserved at the head-waters of important rivers and their tributaries and in such other situations where their preservation is expedient for climatic effect and other reasons of utility. He says there is no good reason why the lands worth from $35 to SIOO per acre for timber should bo sold for $1.35 and $3.50 per acre as at present, and lie favors the withdrawal from sale, or entry under the existing laws, of all the distinctively timber lands of the United States until an examination and appraisement can be made. After the examination permanent timber reserves should be established where deemed desirable, and provision made for their sale at not less than the appraised value of the remainder. Prescribed Chinese. Washington, Oct. 11. —A few days ago a party of eighty-six Chinamen arrived at San Francisco. Some of them, who had formerly resided in the United States, were provided with certificates prescribed by the act of 1883, but none of them had the certertificates required by the supplementary act of 1884. They were not permitted to land, as the United States courts in California recently decided that Chinese can be allowed to land only on production of the evidence required by law. The Treasury Department was appealed to, but the Secretary has decided not to interfere in the matter, on the ground that it is a question to be settled by the courts. An Underground Counterfeiting Establishment. New Haven, Conn., Oct. 11.—In demolishing an old building on the top of East Rock, the workmen discovered several underground passages, thirty or forty feet long, fifteen feet high and three feet wide, which led to a subterranean vault Several counterfeit silver pieces and a broken die were found. Milton J. Stewart, the last occupant, disclaims any knowledge of the matter. The place had an unsavory reputation. Murder ijnd various crimes had been committed there. * - Robbed in Ills House by Masked Men. Johnstown, Pa., Oct. 11.— Five masked men, with revolvers flourishing, battered down the door of the house of a farmer named Joseph Gates, in White Township, early Tuesday morning, and compelled Gates at tho point of the pistol to give them over $l,lOO which he had secreted. Tho robbers then hastily departed, firing their revolvers as they emerged from the house. _ Unemployed workmen to the number of four thousand held a meeting Friday In Glasgow, and paused a resolution asking •ilfenoo tim • WftfflsteMM,

THE LABOR CONGRESS. Platform Adopted at the Recent National Convention In Chicago. Chicago, Oct. 11. — The Federated Trade and Labor Convention closed its session in this city yesterday. Tho preamble to the declaration of principles adopted reads as follows: A struggle Is going on In the Nntlons of the civilized world between the oppressors and the oppressed of all countries—a struggle between the capitalist and the laborer, which grows in intensity from year to year, and will work disastrous results to the toiling millions of nil nations if not combined for mutual protection and benefit. The history of the wage-workers (It all countries is but the history of constant struggle and misery engendered by ignorance and disunion, and the history of the non-producers of all ages proves that a minority, thoroughly organized. may work wonders for good or evil, it, therefore, behooves the representatives of the workers of North America, in congress assembled, to adopt such measures and disseminate such principles among the people of tho country as will unite them, for all time to come, to secure the recognition of the rights to which they are justly entitled. Conforming to the old adage: ‘‘ln union there is strength,” the formation of a federation embracing every trade and labor organization in North America is hoped for. The following platform was adopted: 1. The National Eight-hour law is one intended to bonefli labor, and even to relieve ’ partly of its heavy burdens, and the evasion of its true spirit and intent is contrary to the best interests of the Nation. We therefore demand the enforcement of said law in the spirit of its designers. 2. We demand the passage of laws in State Legislatures and in Congress for the incorporation of trades and labor unions, >n order that the property of the laboring classes may have the same protection as the property of other classes. 3. We demand tho passage of such legislative enactments as will euforce, by compulsion, the education of children; for if the State has a right to exact certain compliance with its demands, then it is also the dutygif the State to educate its people to the proper understanding of such demands. 4. We demand the passage of laws in the several States forbidding the employment of children under the age of fourteen years, in any capacity, under penalty of fine and imprisonment 5. We demand the enactment of uniform apprentice laws throughout tlie country; that the apprentice to a mechanical, trade may be made to serve a sufficient term of apprenticeship, and be provided by his employer, in his Erogress to maturity, with proper and sufcicnt facilities to finish him as a competent workman. 6. It is hereby declared the sense of this Congress that convict or prison labor, as applied to the contract system in several of tha States, is a species of slavery in its worst form; it pauperizes labor, demoralizes the honest manufacturer, and degrades the very criminal whom it employs; and, as many articles of uSe and consumption made in our prisons under the contract system come directly and detrimentally in competition with the products of honest labor, we demand that the laws providing for labor under the contract systems herein complained Qf be repeated. 7. What is known as tho “order” or “truok” system of payment, instead of lawful currency as value for inbor performed, is one not only of gross imposition, but of downright swindle to the honest laborer and mechanic, and we demand its entire abolition. Active measures should be taken to eradicate the evil by the passage of laws imposing fine and imprisonment upon all individuals, firms or corporations who continue to practice tho same. 8. We demand the passage of such laws as will secure to the mechanic and workingman the first lien upon property, the product of his labor, sufficient in all cases to justify his legal and just claims. 0. We demand the repeal andferasure from the statute books of ail acts known as Conspiracy laws, as applied to organizations of labor in the regulation of wages. 10. We recognize the wholesome effects of a Bureau of Labor Statistics, as created in several States; and we demand the passage of an act establishing a National Bureau of Labor Statistics, and recommend for its management the appointment of a p oper person identified with the laboring classes of the country. 11. We demand the passage of a law by the United States Congress to prevent the importation of all foreign laborers under contract. 12. We declare that the system offietting out National, State and municipal work :by contract tends to intensity the competition between workmen, and we demand the speedy abolishment of the same. 13. We demand the passage, by our various legislative bodies, of an employers’ liability act, which shall give employes the same right to damage for personal injuries that all other persons have. 14. We recommend all trades and laoor organizations to secure proper representation in all law-making bodies by means of the ballot, and to use all honorable measures by which this result can be accomplished. SUMMARY VENGEANCE. TANARUS! The Headless Body Found In a Cistern at Troy, Ind., Identified as That of Mrs. Hendershot—Her Husband and Two Sons*Arrested on Suspicion—The Elder of the Boys Taken from JaU and Lf^hed. Trot, Ind., Oct. 11. —The headless body found in a cistern Thursday has been identified as that of Mrs. Stillwell Hendershot, who resided on a farm fourteen miles back of Troy. A neighbor of Hendershot, while in Tell City yesterday, saw tlie murdered woman’s husband, and also noticed a valise marked F. M. Hendershot, while the steamer Droillard was at Troy the same night. A search-warrant was procured, and the valise opened. It was found to contain the clothing of the victim covered with blood. Warrants were issued immediately for Stillwell Hendershot, the husband, and F. M. and William Hendershot, sons. The old man and his son William were arrested and brought to Troy. The oldest son refused to come and defied arrest. An Increased posse was sent after him, and he was brought to Troy yesterday morning and placed in jail. He acknowledges committing the crime himself, and says his father and brother had nothing to do with it The murder of Mrs. Hendershot arose from her refusal to sign away a farm to which she had a deed in fee simple. This farm the father and son wanted to dispose of. The result of the preliminary trial released William, but the other brother and father were remanded to jail. Stillwell Hendershot, the old man, made a full confession of the affair to tlie officers, which was about as follows: “My wife, myself and two sons were on our way to Troy Wednesday morning to make acknowledgment of a deed to a piece of land I had sold. When within about a mile of Troy she said the would not sign the deed,and a row at once ensued, and resulted in my son Sam knocking her on the head with a large stick of wood and killing her. The boys then carried her to a bam near by, cut off her head, and threw it into a brush pile. They then stripped the body of all the clothing and threw it into a cistern. I had nothing to do with the killing-; 4h® boys did It all.” At eight o’clock last night a masked mob of one hundred men made a demand on the jailer for F. M. Hendershot, the oldest son of the murdered woman. On their demand being refused they battered down the doors and, seizing the culprit, dragged him from the jail and hung him to a tree. —Who has studied and comprehends the wonderful capabilities of a singls bud, asks a writer in the Hural Neti Yorker. Scientists tell us its constituent elements and energies are n tiogen, protoplasm, etc.; but there is something greater than these that scientists have never been able to expla n: life and plant-life is so different from animal life, each bud is a whole being, capable under proper conditions of being developed into a monarch of the forest, existing for ages. Whoever has sufficiently studied) to comprehend the wonders of a single bud, is a student of nature and should be a forester. —The earliest known occasion of the name pianoforte being heard of was in a playbill dated May 16, 1767, of which a copy is preserved in the office of Messrs. Broadway, the piano manufacturers of Groat Pultcney street, London. It is a curious historical broadsheet. The piece announced is “ The Beggar’s Opera,” with Mr. Beard as Captain Macßeath; Mrs. Stephen as Mrs. Peachum, and Mr. Shuter as Peachum. Part of tho attraction is thus given: “ Miss Buckler will sing a song from ‘Judith,’ accompanied by Mr. Dibdin upon anew instrument called pianoforte.” —The frenzied * prediction by a woman on a Missiouri railroad train that an awful accident was impending might not have scared anybody haa she not immediately afterward fallen from her seat dead. Most of the passengers quit the cars at the next station, but nothing happened to those who continued their journey.— SL Louis Post. —Henry James says that a man may write an excellent novel without knowing why lie did it. That’s the case with murderers. They fail to furnish the jury with a reasohaWe.excusff, —JPtfrotf

A CHAPTER OF HORRORS. A Powder-Mill at CumminsvlUe, Ont., Explodes, Killing Four Men and Wounding Two—The Headless Body of a Woman Found In a Cistern Near Troy, Ind. Three Men Overwhelmed by Molten Metal In a Tennessee Blast-Furnace. Toronto, Can., Oct. 10. —A terrific explosion occurred in the mills of the Hamilton Powder Company at Cumminsville, nins miles from Hamilton, at 12:30 yesterday. Nearly all the men employed in the mills were at dinner when tlie explosion happened, or els it would have been accompanied with a frightful loss of life, as tht buildings were almost totally demolished, and large pieces of timber and parts oi heavy machinery were hurled a quarter ol a mile from the scene by the force of the explosion. Os the six men who were in the factory at the time four were killed and two badly injured. Tlie names of those killed are William Murray, Henry Tibbies, George Matthews, all married men with families, and William Hetherington, a single man. Tlie wounded men are Albert Culp, badly burned, and Daniel Dougherty, badly burned, with some limbs broken. There was intense excitement at Hamilton when tlie news was received there of the explosion. The shock felt at Hamilton from the explosion was quite se- . Tere, and it was thought it was the result of an earthquake. There are broken panes of glass in almost every house in Cumminsville. Tlie cause of the explosion is a mystery. The damage will probably be $50,000. Nash villi:, Tenn., Oct. 10. —Information of a horrible accident reached the city yesterday from Warner’s furnace, in Hickman County. It is a rule to give a signal before tapping the -furnace that the blast may be shut off and all get out of danger. Tlie tapper, through negWbt, tapped the furnace before tlie signal was given. Three men standing near were covered by a seething mass of melted iron. Two of the men were burned to death instantly. The other man attempted to get out of the way and waded through melted iron, walking over one hundred yards. The flesh dropped off of all their bodies, leaving the bones almost bare. One lived two hours and then died in great agony. The tapper was also burned fatally. A mule and cart standing near were consumed by the river of melted iron whicli poured out of the furnace. Troy, Ind., Oct. 10—A horrible discovery was made by a small boy on the farm of Peter Bock, near this place, yesterday afternoon. He was playing around the mouth of a newly finished cistern, and, peeping in, discovered the nude body ol a woman, with the head severed from the body. He alarmed the neighborhood, and search was made for some clew to the murder. After an hour’s hunt the head was found in a clump of bushes a hundred yards or more from the cistern, and a barn near by gave evidence ■ of having been the scene of a terrible struggle. Blood and hair were found all over the floor, but nothing was found to indicate the identity of cither murderer or victim. Cleveland, 0., Oct. 10. —Franz. Vetter, a young German printer, stands an even chance for death or a slow recovery from a most peculiar attempt at self-destruction made Tuesday morning. Vetter, who is twenty-one years of age, was sent by his sister to the woodshed to prepare some kindling. After half an hour’s absence he was found in the woodshed with six terrible wounds in his forehead, from which the blood was streaming. He was also suffering from a blow from some dull instrument on the top of the head. Investigation disclosed the fact that lie had inflicted the wounds on his forehead witli the blade of the ax used in preparing the kindling, and that the blow on tlie top of the head was from the blunt side of the ax. Vetter has been looked upon for some time past as somewhat demented, and this is the only explanation to be given for the deed.

THE RAG-MARKET. The Government Embargo on Imported Bags and Its Effect on the Paper Trade— Prices Likely to Reach a High Point. New York, Oct 10. —“How has the cholera embargo on rags affected the paper market?” was said to the editor of the Paper Trade Journal yesterday. “Tlie market is very strong. Prices were low, but they have advanced steadily in some grades since the embargo was laid. Tlie lowest price touched in paper, such as is used by newspapers, was five and a half cents a pound, at which rate a contract for 100,000 reams was made by a Rose street publishei two weeks ago. Now the price is half a cent a pound higher, althougii not an ounce of rags will be used in making the paper. Tlie rise in the price of rag-paper w ill divert tlie chemically-prepared wood-pulp to writing paper, and so even the cheapest grades must advance. A further advance of from ten to twenty per cent would not surprise me much.” # Piiiladlphia, Pa.., Oct. 10. —The paper trade is in a ruinous condition, caused by the Gove'mment embargo on the importation >f foreign rags. The Eastern bookpaper manufacturers have called a convention at Cleveland for the 15th of this month, to consider the condition of tlie market. “The price of paper,” said one of thj largest manufacturers in tiie country yesterday, “is bound to go up, for to embargo rags from foreign ports is to cut down oiil supply just one-half. Before 1860 bookpaper was fourteen to sixteen cents and news paper ten to eleven cents a pound. To-day book paper is seven to eight cents per pound and news paper five to six cents; and these goods are better now than then. Paper for a year past has been so low that only' the best plants could hold theta own, and rags have sometimes been so low that it was cheaper to bum 'them than to collect. This condition of affairs has made tlie publication of so many penny newspapers possible. If, as seems likely, tlie embargo is continued another year, it is evident that rags must advance twenty-five and perhaps one hundred per cent. Even before the effect is beginning to be acknowledged they have advanced thirty to fifty pel cent. The paper-mills in this country have a short supply, and the domestic dealers have none on hand. “By December 1 the 1,000 mills using 2,000 so li,ooo tons per day will have ground up all tlie rags in sight. Tlie situation has been fully grasped by a few leading papermakers, who have secured all the foreign stock, spot, and what is on the water.” Mr. Daniel’s Acceptance. Baltimore, Md., Oct. 10. —William Daniel, tlie Prohibition candidate for VicePresident, has issued his formal letter oi acceptance of the nomination. It discusses in detail the basis of Prohibition, reviews the growth and extent of the Prohibitory law, shows wherein the sentiment is nol utilized, that drink demoralization is on tht increase, that officials fail to enforce tht law; it speaks of tlie policy of National and State Governments, gives a method foi changing the policy, holds tlie present parties are opposed to tlie reformation, and pleads that the presence of the Prohibition party is a necessity. The Railway Conductors. Toronto, Oct. 10. —The Old Reliable Conductors’ Association concluded its session yesterday. Denver, Col., was fixed upon as the next place of meeting. The following officers were elected: President, Ed Morrell, Columbus; First VicePresident, Samuel Defrees, Toronto; Second Vice-President, J. W. Oliver, Chattanooga, Tenn.: Orator, J. F. Lane, Cleveland, O.; Grand Secretary-Treasurer, 11. P. Faltrow, Columbus. James Berclier, Columbus, was elected to the Executive Committee for ‘three years, and William Sense, of Columbus, for one year, in place of Morrell. Fined for Drunkenness. New York, Oct, 10.—Mary Irene Hoyt, daughter of Jesse Hoyt, whose will she is contesting for $15,000,000, was arraigned in tlie Yorkville Police Court yesterday morning charged with being drunk and disorderly. She was found guilty and fined tea dollars. Miss Hoyt raised a great disturb ance in the New Haven Depot yesterday and assaulted two policemen, using her goM watch and baud-sachel as weapons. Sin was wrests wily dftw ft desperate strut * V

TEN LIVES LOST. A Terrible Disaster on Lake Michigan, Near Chicago, During the Late GaleFifteen Laborers Washed Into the Sea from Filing Situated a Mile from the Shore-Only Five Survivors Left to Tell the Sad Story—Gallant Service of the Life-Saving Crew. Chicago, Oct 9. —Off Cheltenham beach at Hyde Park, a mile out Hi the stormy lake, fifteen men awoke in the dusk of yesterday morning to find that they were encompassed by death. Os this band only five reached the shore alive. The rest were drowned. The Board of Trustees of the village of Hyde Park have been engaged in constructing anew water system for the last two years. This summer a tunnel one mile out under the lake was finished. Three weeks ago a huge wooden tower to be used as a part of the crib was towed to the mouth of the tunnel and sunk. Hean & Corbyn, of this city, were the contractors, and General William Sooy Smith was the engineer. The contractors erected spiles about the sunken tower, built thereon a shanty, and with a gang of men went to work. The contractors, with their men, lived in the shanty and slept there. The lateness of the season made speedy work a necessity. It resulted in the death of the contractors and eight of their workmen. At 6:30 o’clock yesterday morning Robert Hawkins, chief engineer of the Hyde Park Water Works, noticing that the lake was very rough, ascended to the tower and looked out over the lake. The shanty was still there, but spray was breaking over it. Half an hour later Mr. Hawkins again looked out on the lake. The shanty was gone. It had been washed away. He at once gave the alarm. With the aid of his field-glass he saw nine men hanging to the spiles and stringers about the wreck. Every wave broke over them. Word was at once sent to the Vessel-Owners’ Towing Company, asking for a tug. The answer finally came that the lake was too rough, and that there were too many shoals off Cheltenham beach. It was eight o’clock when word finally reached the life-saving station. The boat was afloat five minutes afterward and started on a journey of seven miles, with a heavy sea and gale blowing. They arrived about eleven o’clock, and when they were within tlirowing distance a line was made fast by the almost drowning men to the timbers and made tight from the boat. Then each shivering man with uncertain grasp clutched the rope and hand over hand worked his way toward the boat through the surf. Out of eight men who made the attempt only four lived to tell the tale of the terrible hours that they had spent on the spars. Early in the morning when the shanty had gone to pieces Henry Klaussen secured a plank and decided to take his chances of being carried ashore by the wind and waves. He was cast on the beach at South Chicago completely exhausted, but still alive. The list of lost is as follows: W. H. Hean, contractor, thirty-eight years old, married, leaves a wife, Chicago; Knowlton B. Corbyn, contractor, forty-one years old, leaves a wife and sixteon-year-old daughter, Chicago; David Schmidt, twenty-live years old.wlfe;and no children. South Chicago; Peter Eleiason, South Chicago; Charles Falk, thirty years old, unmarried. South Chicago; William Koswoski, fifty years old, married. South Chicago; Otto Koswoski, twenty-two yean old, son of William Koswoski; Charles Monsky, forty-two yean old. vflfe and four children; Andrew Ainsworth, Manchester, England; E. T. Austcr, thirty yean old, Hamilton, Ont. The cook, Peter Thies, who was least affected by the intense cold and exposure, told the following graphic story: “This morning about five o’clock I got up to get brcaklast for the fourteen men who constituted the party. After the meal was prepared we sat down to eat. Before this 1 noticed the sea was running at a terrible rate, but none of us dreamed of the terrible thing tbat was to befall us before long. The meal finished 1 went into a back room which was partitioned off and began washing dishes. It was then about seven o’clock. I had finished my work and was just about to go out when I heard a loud crack, and in a moment the building in which l stood careened an 1 1 was in the water, surrounded by my companions, who struggled to free themselves from the timbers. 1 climbed upon one of the stringers and helped to get several others out. Then began a scene which I hope never to see again. Every wave that came struck us with such force that the fiesh was torn from our handfc, and we saw several of the poor men yield to the terrible power and loose tbeir hold. When we first reached the water Bosses Mean and Corbyn grasped a large timber and were washed away. They may have reached the shore in safety. When we first saw the life-boat about half a mile away new hope was given us and the eight then on the timbers hung on until the line was thrown and we tried our luck reaching the boat. Only four of us were successful, and a man more thankful for his life than myself can not be found.” The men who were rescued say that the structure was not considered safe and that they had protested against staying there over night, but they had been assured that it was perfectly seeure and that the water would never reach it • Heavy Gale at Cleveland. Cleveland, 0., Oct. 9. —A tremendous gale prevailed here all day yesterday. Two yachts were wrecked inside the harbor. The most serious casualty was the wrecking of an icc-liouse on Independence street owned by the Forest City Ice Company. The building was large, and was partly filled with ice. At the time of the accident three ,nen and a team of horses were at work inside the house. The building creaked, and was felt to shake several times. Suddenly it gave way and came down with a crash, burying the men and horses beneath it. Two of the men crawled out of the mins without assistance, They were badly braised and scratched up, but are not thought to be seriously injured. The third, Gilbert Hammon, was struck by heavy timbers, and is thought to be fatally injured. The horses were badly hurt

(■rare Robbing. Jamestown, 0., Oct 9.—The country about here is excited over the discovery 5 that eleven graves in the cemetery here have been opened and the corpses stolen. A reward of SI,OOO is offered for the ghouls. On Friday night the grave of Miss Etta Dyer, near Fostoria, was robbed, and the news of the outrage caused a general examination to be made. Twenty graves were opened, all of which had been made within a year, and eleven were found empty. When the graves were rifled no one can tell, and there is nothing like a clue. Every grave-yard in the vicinity will be searched. At Birdsville, five miles cast, and at South •Baltimore violated graves were also found. Children as Beasts of Barden. Nashville, Tenn., Oct 9.—A Mormon family of six passed through here yesterday. A boy and a girl aged ten and twelve were harnessed in a small cart containing their earthly possessions. The ankles of the children were swollen and bleeding. The father and mother each carried a child. They said they from Lewis County, and were going West but the man in evident terror said in answer to a question that they were “not exactly” Mormons, but were suspected and were forced to leave. Fatal Collision. Omaha, Neb., Oct. 9. —Yesterday at twelve o’clock there was a collision on the Union Pacific Road between an engine coming east and a freight train going west near Waterloo, about thirty miles west of Omaha. Engineer Chamberlain, and Fireman Sheldon, of the freight train, were killed. Engineer Lewry, of the flying engine, was injured, and has become crazy. His fireman, Norris, had both legs broken and was otherwise injured. It is not expected that Norris will survive. It is impossible to report the cause of the accident Burglars Make a Raid on a New York Down. Pebry, N.Y., Oct 9. —Burglars here Tuesday night raided Nobles A Sons’ coal office, Tomlinson’s mill. Sweet’s market and Tallmadge’s wagon-shop. At Noble A Sons tha burglars secured $21,000 in Arkansas leveo bonds, $25,000 in mortgage bonds, and $75 in cash. At Tomlinson’s $l5O in cash was secured. The tools used in opening the safes wen taken from Tallmartge’s wagonshop, a reward of sm is offered (or (be of bwfflaf*

About Oats. . It has long hedh a puzzle to those who have given thought to the matter how it comes to pass that a grain like the average oat, weighing little more than thirty founds to tEe Bushel, threequarters of that being hulls commonly supposed to be no better if as good m hay, should sell for about as much as or more than an eqnal weight of Indian corn, which, having little hull t | gives nearly its full weight in meal. Jtl is no doubt true that oatmeal, pound for pound, is more nutritive than com meal, or even wheat meal, but the difference is nowhere near so great as the difference in the weight of meal which they severally yield. At the same timo nobody believes that oats, or anything else, will during scores of years command a price much beyond its real worth, as determined by experience. This same experience has also shown that oats are preferred for traveling horses, while corn finds favor for slower working animals. Some light has recently fallen oh this puzzle. Scientific investigations claim to have lately shown that there exists in the pericarp or outer covering of the oat an amorphous vegetable alkaloid stimnlating in its Tects, just as the grystalline -lkaloid quinine, which is obtained from Peruvian bark, is tonic, or the alkaloid morphine contained in opium is soporific. This newly discovered substance is called avenin, from the botanical name of the oat plant, avenasativa. Its effect is stated to be chiefly upon the motor ganglia, thafis to say, upon the centres from efhich proceed the nerves of motion. If this be as stated, it is easy to understand how it is that the oat has maintained the position given to it by experience, as well as why it is preferred for the quick-step-ping horse rather than for the slower ox. It was, doubtless, a more or less obscure perception of the underlying fact that gave origin to the comparison sometimes heard at a cross-roads grocery between “lone oats” and “short oats,” meaning by the former the whiplash. It may be added that avenin is insoluble in water, ana requires alcohol for its extraction; also that grinding the grain appears to cause a change in Its proportions, rendering it quicker in operation, but weaker, and more transient in its effects; also that white oats contain more than black. Several new remedies have lately appeared,, purporting to be extracts or concentrated tinctures of oat, which are understood to have found considerable acceptance with the faculty, and which probably owe their efficacy to a larger or smaller content of alkaloid. What its permanent place as a medicine may be remains to be seen. —Boston Qlobt. j quality es Lime. V There is considerable difference In the quality of lime. When pure 2,000 pounds of limestone makes 1,100 pounds of lime. The loss consists of carbonic acid, which is driven off by the heat in burning. When impure from mixture with slate or quartz or flint, as in some slaty and flinty limestones, a greater weight of lime is produced, because the slate or flint loses nothing by burning, and it is easy to test the impurity or purity of lime in this way. But lime is mostly impure from mixture with murnesia; this magnesian limestone is called dolomite, and at times has nearly fifty per cent, of magnesia in it. This reduces its value as a fertilizer to' the same extent, because it has very weak alkaline properties and has not the same useful effect upon the soil as lime has. Pure lime slacks diy to a very tine powder-like flour, and combines in doing so with one-third its weight of water, and swelling to twice its former bulk; with more water it! makes a smooth, buttery paste. Impure lime slacks coarse and gritty and: does not slack smooth. In this way it; can be distinguished from pure lime.’ The limestones in your locality are generally free from magnesia. Limestone' is not changed by contact with the at-' mosphere, and in a bed or vein the top. is as good as that lower down, except-' ing that the top of a vein is apt to have more Hint in it than the deeper part; but when pure it is equally good under all circumstances. It is of nearly all colors in different places, pure white, black, blue, red, yellow, or a mixture.; The fine soft spar found in veins in the quarries is crystallized limestone, or calc spar.— N. Y. Times. mlt J j Feeding Crops. r ■ It is claimed, and reasonably, that better results will be realized from a given amount of fertilizer applied at intervals, through the growing season than if all was applied to ths soil before planting. Some of the largest crops of earn on record have been produced by continuing the application of fertilizers through the growing season, instead of depending upon the supply given to the soil before planting. The roots of com, as of many other plants, extend through the entire soil in search of food’ and readily take up any fertilizer applied to the soil in proper condition to bejappreciated by the plant. With many crops it is not practicable for the general farmer to adopt such a system of frequent feeding to his crops, but it may easily be done, and profitably, too, with special and garden crops.* Those who do not accept this theory can test the matter and demonstrate for themselves in a small way with the potato, tomato, or a corn crop. —San Francisco Chronicle. • N —lt is stated that over 15,000 Italians have sailed from New York to return to their native country during the past few weeks. The stoppage in railroad building and the hard times have thrown them out of business, and they have meantime become objects of hatred to many workingmen.— N. Y. Times. THE MARKETS. N*w York, October 18. LIVE STOfiK—Cattle $3 if ® TOO Bheep 3 0J © 5 00 Hoys 550 ® jjO FLOOR—Good to Choice 8 70 J® 8 SO WHEAT-No. 2 Bed 87 @ S?J< No, 3 Spring 83 @ §4 CORN 2 @ 8? OATS—Western Mixed 32 © 34 RYE ...2 61 ® 71 PORK-Mees 17 28 <417 30 LARD—Steam 8 0J © 8 06 CHEESE 4 a B*< WOOLr-Domestic 38 ® 40 Chicago. BEEVES—Extra *7 00 ® 7 15 Choice 6 80 ™ g 35 Good 650 >6 85 Medium 4 25 a 500 Butchers’ Stock 885 a 400 I* inferior Catt e 175 @2 59 HOGS—Live-Good to Choice. 50J a5 80 SHEEP ~... 300 a4 30 | BUTTER—Creamery 23 © 29 Good to Choice Dairy 11 a 28 i EGGS-Fresh 17*4® 18 I FLOUR—Winter... 4 00 § 5 92 Spring 4 00 a 5 0B Patents..: ~. 375 ©4 25 GRAlN—Wheat, N0.2 76*0 H Corn, No. 2 68*4® MX Oats, No. 2 Sar Barley. No 2 58*4® tߣ BROOM CORN— _ Green Hurl 7 0 8 Fine Green „. 5 & 6^ Inferior 3 ® 45< POTATOES <bu) 20 |JJ PORK—Mess 16 50 018 60 | LARD—Steam 7 60 ® 7 65 LUMBERCommon Dressed Siding.. 18 00 ®2l *0 Flooilng 20 00 036 00 Common Boards 12 00 ••16 00 Fencing 12 00 014 60 Lath 850 O 260 Shingles 240 0300 EAST LIBERTY. CATTLR-Best $6 00 *§ 21 I Fair to Good 5 00:0 5 26 HOGS-Yorkers... 630 ® 550 Philadelphia* 576 O 6 00 SHEEP—Best 400 04 60 I Common 200 0 600 j BALTIMORE. CATTLE-Best.. „,Ym 1$ 00 f •*.