Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1885 — Page 6

The Republican. G. 1. MARSHALL, - Ptnsumm.

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THU EAST. An explosion of gasoline occurred in a provision store at Germantown, Pa., and three men, named Rief, Bieber, and Gansert received barns from which they died, while the case of a fourth victim, Kratz, aged 74, is hopeless. A ten-mile race in the East River, at New York, was in progress last Sunday, between Dennis F.Butler and Gus Sundstrum, the professional swimmers, when the police interfered. They were booked on a charge of Sabbath desecration The Webster Block, Manchester, N. H., was burned down, and seven persons were burned to death. "

THE WEST.

Cabpie Beakhead, a young Creek outlaw, was executed at Eufaula, L T., in Indian fashion, being shot to death while seated on his coffin by. the Creek Light Horse Guard. Carpie was 18 years ==old. -He had murdered an entire family, and recently killed a preacher. He was betrayed by his friends for a reward.... The Lake Superior and Southwestern Bailway Company, which will build and operate a line from West Superior to Menominee via St Croix Falls, has been incorporated in Wisconsin, with a capital stock of $4,000,000....The new bridge across the Ohio was formally opened last week at Henderson, Ky. All the Louisville and Nashville Bailroad officials were present. X...lowa’s new census, just completed, shows a total population of 2,200,000, against 1,624,615 in 1880. Oakland Mann, awaiting his fourth trial for the murder of Dr. Chenoweth, a prominent citizen of McDonald County, Missouri, was taken from the jail at Neosha by a mob who intended to lynch him, but Mahn fought so desperately with his pocket-knife that his captors shot him to death... .William Kearney, an insane man, who lives near Humboldt, Neb., was arrested at Kansas City while on his way to Washington to kill President Cleveland. He had a revolver, and was well supplied with money. At an open-air dance near Springfield, Mo., a bloody fight occurred between Cook Ashbridge and William and Joseph Hoover on one side, and Baxter Dulin, Lemuel Thomas, and Isaac Messick on the other, during which knives were the weapons used, and the three last named were mortally wounded.... Dumont and Dumas, who were leaders in the Northwest rebellion, are reported in Montana, where they have been warmly received by the French Canadians. They insist that Biel is insane. The Montezuma Hotel, at Los Vegas, N. M., was destroyed by fire. Nearly all the personal effects of the guests were saved. Tne loss is placed at $300,000, with an insurance of $250,000,... Fire at Walla Walla. W. T., destroyed the Delmouico Hotel, Petaluma House, and several other dwellings. Loss, $30,000.

THE SOUTH.

At Chattanooga,Tenn., Henry W. Brown, formerly a leading coal and oil operator of Erie, Pa., seized a .bottle of belladonna, drank it, and then gaining possession of a razor, fled to the woods and cut his throat, dying immediately. A mob who surrounded the residence of an unpopular citizen of Eureka Springs, Ark., named Young, was fired upon from within by Young’s son, and retired with three men wounded, two of whom will die. .... In an affray among negroes at Prestonburg, Ky., one man was killed, one fatally wounded, and two others injured. The cotton crop in the South as a whole is the best that has been known for years. The yield will largely exceed any previous crop; and while in some localities the caterpillar has appeared, as a general thing it is toe late to do serious injury... .Eight miles from Lafayette, Ala., William Hancock, a farmer, and a son William were partners in a thrashing machine, and quarried over the division of tolls. Both armed themselves, and at the second shot the father was killed. A younger son coming to his father’s assistance, he, too, was dangerously shot. William escaped with a slight woui d... .Gov. Ireland, of Texas, has addressed a communication to the Attorney General of the State, directing that the law be enforced which prevents the consolidation of competing lines.... Sylvester and Henry Polk, brothers, who two years ago robbed and murdered a peddler in Howard County, Arkansas, and were subsequently sentenced respectively to death and twenty years in the penitentiary, were recently granted a new trial by the Supreme Court .of that State. A few days ago a mob broke into the jail at Murfreesboro, where they were confined, and, being unable to get into their cells, shot Sylvester through the bars, and covered Henry, who had concealed himself in a reservoir, with burning blankets. Both men will die (frtheir injuries. .'. Joe Howard (white) and Tom Gee and Tom McNeill (colored) were hinged at Fayetteville, N. C., on the same gallows in the presence of 5,000 people.... Richard Johnson (colored) was hanged at Vidalia, La., for the murder of John Simmons (colored) November 1.6. 1884. On the scafvfold the prisoner confessed his guilt and said he was ready to die.

WASHINGTON.

>\ Washington telegram: Referring to the regrets that have been expressed in some quarters that Gen. Grant is not to be buried in his uniform, with one of his swords by his side, and to supposition thht none of his uniforms or swords are available for that purpose, because they were all turned over to the Government some 'months ago with his other military relics, Adjutant General Drum said to an Associated Press reporter that any or all of them are at the disposal of Mrs. Grant, while they remain in the War Department awaiting the action of Congress. A COMMITTEE representing Western livestock interests, waited upon President Cleveland and requested him to extend the time granted for the removal of cattle from the leas'd lands in the Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservations, but the President firmly declined to modify his order in any ™ y - The Department of State is in receipt of a cablegram from Mr. Lee, Secretary of the American Legation at Vienna, saying that the Austrian Government has positively declined to receive Mr. Keiley as United States Minister. The authorities of Austria gave no reason for their action, and merely say they will not receive t»>e official Mr. Keiley is now in Paris, .where he has

been for some weeks. He, also, has been informed of the decision of the Austrian authorities. Mr. Lee has been designated to act as Charge d’Affaires for the present. Washington telegram: “The committee appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury to investigate the condition bf the coast survey has submitted its report, which shows the existence of many scandalous abuses in that bureau, for which Prof. Hilgard, the recent Superintendent, is held .'argely responsible. The committee’deprecates the reinstatement of any of the suspended officials in their former positions. ” Pbof. J. E. Hilgard, .the suspended Superintendant of the Coast Surveys, tendered his resignation, which was promptly accepted. The resignation of Col. A. G. Sharpe, Chief Postotfic Inspector, which was entirely voluntary, has also been tendered and accepted... .Secretary Whitney declared JohnRoach’s contracts for building steel crui.sers for the Government forfeited. He intimates that the Government will at once go On with work. . Commissioner Miller estimates that the total receipts from all sources of internal levenne for the fiscal year will be about $115,000,000.

POLITICAL.

The Civil-Service Commission submitted a report of its investigation of the charges against Postmaster Jones, of Indianapolis, to the President. The commission acquits thc ficcused official of violations of the civil-service act or rules, but intimates that he was indiscreet in his * utterances before he understood the purport of the law as fully as he does now.The fourth annual meeting of the National League Civil Service Association was held at New Haven, Conn. Mr. George William Curtis, who was re-elected President, made an address, in which he congratulated the country upon the progress of reform under the new administration, and urged the necessity of continued vigilance by friends of the cause.... Between March 4 and July 25,4,046 fourthclass postmasters were appointed, in a great majority of cases to fill vacancies caused by resignation or death,. ..Col. Wm. R. Morrison’s health is so poor that he has been advised to abandon Washington and politics for a while and go to the seashore. From the inauguration of; President Cleveland to the 25th of July, says a Washington dispatch, there were appointed 4,046 fourth-class postmasters. Omitting appointments in Territories, the appointments in the States were as follows:__ State. No. State. No. 1ndiana..'...327-New Y0rk....310 Virginia... .5210hi0..... .310 -MissniirL. f....... ..240jIllilkliS . .t2H= Pennsylvania.2o9'North Carolina..... .190 Arkansas..;.. 152; Kentucky 134 10wa......117’Georgia ....., .109 Tennessee.... lOojMichigau .... 96 Wisconsin 96 West Virginia 95 Vermont..Bß;Alabama. 84 Texas .. .........83'Misaissippi..78 Kansas.... 70 South Carolina 68 Maryland 62 Louisiana 49 New Jersey. ... 46 New Hampshire 43 '"Maine 38 Minnesota 37 Nebraska 32 California 30 Massachusetts ...... 27Florida. 21 Oregon 16 Colorado ; 16 Connecticut... 13 Delawsre. 10 Nevada 3 Rhode Island 2 The great majority of these appointments have been made to fill vacancies caused by death or resignation. It seems almost incredible, but it is a fact that 222 Ohio men have resigned theit postoffices, which beats the record for Illinois, where 14,9 of the appointments were made to fill vacancies caused by resignations. The total removals have amounted to 998, of which 169 were in Virginia, 132 in New York, 98 in Indiana, 74 in Ohio, 55 in Illinois, 47 in Wisconsin, and 11 each in Michigan and lowa. , , ’ ,

GENERAL.

The New York Daily Bulletin estimates the fire losses in the United States and Canada during July at $9,000,000, an increase of one-third over the average for the past ten years. For seven months of the present year the loss has been $60,000,000. ... .John Lohman, a passenger on the steamer Werra f,rom Bremen to New York, was detected while the vessel was at sea plundering the purser’s safe, having first chloroformed that official. He was brought to America a prisoner, and will be, sent back to Germany.,. .The visible supply of wheat is estimated by the New York Produce Exchange at 38,407,948 bushels, and of corn at 5,758,304 bushels. , The'schooner James A. Garfield, which arrived at San Francisco; twenty-six days from the arctic regions, reports that the barque Napoleon, of New Bedford, was crushed in the ice and twenty-two lives lost, including W. Bogers, first officer, and Thos. Pease, third officer The peace negotiations between Iglesias and Caceres have failed, and the civil war in Peru promises to continue indefinitely. It is said to be a fact which can be proven by the War Department records that some of the Illinois regiments were largely recruited from Confederate prisoners confined during the year 1862 at Camp Douglas.. Over 1,300 prisoners, it is stated, were thus enrolled in the Federal service, and it is believed that some of them.are now Government pensioners... .Gross railway earnings for July, as compared with the corresponding month of last year, are reported as follows: Canadian Pacific $890,000, increase, $318,000; Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha, $468,900, increase $17,090; Denver and Rio Grande,> $548,295, increase, $147,895. The gross earnings' of the latter company for the seven months ended Aug. 1 were $3,265,857, an increase of $348,897... .The Governors of five of the Northern States of Mexico are reported to have held a secret council, and discussed secession, owing to their dissatisfaction with the financial policy of the General Government. ...At Montreal, last Sunday, 15,000 Freneh- ’ Canadians passed resolutions requesting the . Government to commute Riel’s sentence to imprisonment... .During the week 211 business failures were reported in the United States and Canada, as against 1266 during the corresponding week of 188 L

FOREIGA.

The panic in Spain caused by the rapid spread of the cholera is increasing. Many villages have been deserted by the inhabit-, ants, the sick being abandoned and the dead left unburied. The importation of rags from Spain into England has been prohibited... .Emperor Francis Joseph and his EmpreSs arrived at Gastein last week, and ’were warmly received by Emperor William. The town was brilliantly ilhi-’ minated in honor of the imperial visitors The detectives have ascertained that Robert Farquhnrson, the defaulting manager of the Munster Bank, sailed for Spain on the night of his flight from Dublin... .The Government of New South Wales refuses to join the Australian Federal Council because it disapproves the form in which the federation bill passed the House of Commons. . * The work f ofortifying Herat is making rapid progrets. A large force is being pre-

pared by the Ameer for the protection of the town. The rumored massing of Afghan forces near Pefijdeh, and the dispatch thither of-Russian re-enforcements is unconfirmed Russian newspapers are distrustful of Lord Salisbury’s pacific declarations, because of (he active military preparations which England is making. It is rumored at Paris that’England and China have formed an alliance for mutual action in the event of war between the former Cower and Russia... .So likely is it held to e that cholera will appear in London that a hospital has been prepared for the reception of cholera patients.,

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

The mail steamer from New Zealand which arrived at San Francisco last week, had on board Maxwell, wanted at St. Louis for the trunk murder. As Maxwell’ descended" the ship’s side and took a seat in the cabin of the steam launch, surrounded by St Louis and San Francisco officers, says a San Francisco dispatch, he looked like a smaller man than the one who was described to the San Francisco police. His face had little color in it. There were dark 11 rings under his eyes. His appearance indicated neglect,, but his manner was unembarrassed. He said that he wqs a Frenchman, a native of Paris, aged 34, and that his name was D.inguier. When reminded that he had been known under other names, he said that m itfered nothing, for other men have been known to have more than one name.' He - said,"also, that he had known C. A. Preller, but beyond this he would not say anything which might in the remotest degree bear upon the crime for which he was extradited, and for which he is to be tried in St. Louis. ... Chicago elevators contain 14,775,924 bushels of wheat, 774,576 bushels of c'crn, 272,611 bushels of oats, 20,1 LL bushels of 1-ye. apd 489 bushels of barley; total, 15,843,711 bushels of all kinds of grain, against 3,481,438 bushels a year ag0.... During a fire in an oatmeal mill at Leavenworth, Kan., several persons w’ere injured by a falling wull. The loss is $75,000.... Rank Bros., millers at Canton. Ohio, have made an assignment. Loss, $50,000. A cablegram from President Garrett, of the Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph Company, embracing some interesting correspondence between himself and Messrs. Field and Tender, seems to effectually set at rest the reported probability of the purchase of the Baltimore and Ohio by the Western Union Telegraph Company.... The hog cholera has made its appearance »in South Essex, Ont., and is resisting all attempts,4o stop its ravages. -> Advices from Tonquin state that the French troops have dispersed the Black Flags. Five'-missionaries and many Christians were massacred by the Chinese.... Judge Walsh, a famous Irish lawyer, died in Dublin..,, .While the railway station at,. Huddersfield, England, was crowded, the roof fell in, killing two persons and injuring many others. * Following is the last batch of appointments made by the President just before Jhis departure from Washington: William H. Taylor, of Bloomfield, lowa, to be Special Indian Agent at $2,000 a year, vice Baris H. Folsom, removed. Joseph Colburn, of Denver,, Colo., to be a timber agent of the i and Office. Adolf Erdman, of Missouri, and James Dugan, of Mississippi, to be Special Examiners of the Pension Office. To be Secretary of the Territory of New Mex-ico-George W. Lane, of Buffalo, N. Y.’j' To be Indian Agents—Joseph Emery, of Oregon, at the Klamath Agency, Oregon; Charles H. Potter, of Nebraska, at the Omaha and Winnebago Agency, in Nebraska; William H. Spalding, of Nebraska, at the Satnee Agency, in Nebraska; Robert L. Owen, of Indian Territory, at the Union Agency, in Indian Territory". To be Collectors oflnternal Revenue—John Dowlin, for the Twenty-second District of Pennsylvania, and Frank Schlandeeker,- for the Nineteenth District of Pennsylvania. To bp Receivers of Customs—John T. Gathright, for the port of Louisville, Ky.. and Leon Trosdale for the port of Nashville, Tenn. —To Be Postmasters—J. E. Jones, Portage, Wis., vice V. E. Brewer, declined: Willis B. Isbell, Westville, Conn.; Jacob D. Allen, Butler, Mo.; Chauncey M. Freeman, Broadfield, Mo.; R. P, Hitchcock, Tomah, Wis.; Wm. 8. Evans, La Grange, Ga., vice John C. Beall, suspended; Itte Beal, Rich Hill, Mo., vice G. P. Huckeby, suspended; Frederick A. Verborg, North Vernon, Ind., vice W. 8. Prather, suspended; Richard Holmes, Natchez, Miss., vice Wm. McGary, suspended; Michael Boland, De Kalb, Ind., vice Geo. W. Gordon, suspended; Wm. M. Gay, Wilson, N. C., vice Mrs. Virginia Sharp, suspended. Geo. Wise, at Hamburg, lowa, vice C C. Coolbaugh, suspended; Edward B. Miller, Pierre, Dakota, vice S. M. Laird, suspended; Henry C. Hunt, Reedsburg, Wis., vice John KeLogg, suspended; Washington J. Barrett, Kinstnn, N. C., vice W. A. Coleman, suspended; John W, Marshall. McLeansborouch, 111., vice G. M. Lyon, susi>ended; Chas. 11. Burroughs, La Crosse, Wis., vice B. T. Bryant, suspended; E. D. Fenn, Nevada. lowa, vice Theodore J.' Ross, suspended ; Jerome W. Pierce, Springfield, Vt., vice L. B.' Hurd, suspended; Charles T. Marsh. Oregon, 111., vice B. F. Sheets, suspended; Joseph 11. Alien, Durham, N. C., vice D. C. Mangum, suspended; George W. Morse, Waterbury, Vt., vice J. W. Moody, resigned; Francis G. Horton, Ellendale, Dakota; vice A G. Tyner, office becoming Presidential April 1,1885; Cornelius Carr, Woonsocket. Da kota, vice A H. Tyner, office becoming vacant April 1. 1885; J. A. Mantry, Mound City. Kan., vice S. L. Evesat, office becoming Presidential July 1,1885; Frank W. Frye, Parsons, Kan., vice 8. A. Fletcher, resigned; J. M. Gilliland, Nashua, lowa, vice J. F. Grawe, suspended.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. 8eeve5........... $4.50 @6.50 Hogs.; 1 4.50 @5.25 Wheat—No. 1 White .. .98 @ .99 < No. 2 Red 99 @ 1.00 C0rn—N0.2..... .53 @ .56 .Oats—White ....42 @ .45 Pork—Mess ■ ■ 11.00 @11.50 Lard........ .0612® .07 CHICAGO. Beeves—Choice to Prime Steers. 5.75 @6.00 Good Shipping 5.25 @ 5.50 Common 4.00 @ 4.50 ' Hogs. 4.75 5.50 Flour—Fancy Red Winter Ex.. 5700 & 5.25 Prime to Choice Spring. 3.75 @ 4.25 Wheat—No. 2 Spring 87 @ .88 GoRNt-No. 2. 46 @ .46)2 Oats—No. 2. .25 @ .27 Rye—No. 2....., 58 @ .59 Barley—No. 3.....48 @ .50 Butter—Choice Creamery) 17 @ .18 , Fine Dairy., •» .13 @ .15 Cheese—Full,Cream, new. .08,14® -09 Light Skimmed .03 @ .04 Eggs—Fresh......... JI @,.i1?4 Potatoes—New, per brl 1.00 @ J.lO Pork—Mess ...'. 9.50 @9.75 Lard ......... 6.00 @6.50 » TOLEDO. » Wheat—No. 2 Red. . . .93 @ .95 Corn—Na 2 47 @ .48 Oats—No. 2 ... .27 @ .27)4 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 : 83 @ .89 Corn—No. 2 Ji..- 46 @ .47 Oats—Na,2..; ./..... .45 @ .27 Ry&—Na 1 .58 @ .59, Barley—No.i2>... .58 @ .60 Pork— Me55.J..................... 9.50 @ 9.75 ' ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red. ....... .99 @ 1.00 Corn—Mixed 42 @ .43 0at5—Mixed............... .24 @ .25 Rye I, , 54 @ .55 Hay—Old Timothy 14.00 @16.00 PORK —Mess 10.00 @10.25 CINCINNATI. Wheat —No. 2 Red, New. 95 @ 96 Corn—No. 2... .48 @ .49 Oats—Mixed .. .27 .28 Rye—No. 2 Fall.. .50 @ 'el Pork—Mess.........■ 10.00 @10.50 DETROIT. F10ur..... 5.50 @ 5.75 Wheat—No. 1 White A.... .94 @ 95 Corn—Na-2 ....... 48 @ 43)4 Oats—No. 2 White ;.. .34 @ 36 Pork—Mess.... . 11.25 @ILSO INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—No. 2Red..., 94 @ .96 Corn-Mixed.....,;...,; .44 @ .46 Oats—Na 2 .24 @ .26 EAST LIBERTY. Cattle—Best..... 5.50 @6.50 <' Fair....... 5.00 0 5.50 C0mm0n..... 4.00 @4.50 Hogs. 7 5.00 9 5.50 Sheep..'.,,.. 4.25 0 5.00 n.

STRUCK BY A CYCLONE.

Over a Thousand Buildings Blown Over or Wrecked in Camden, N. J. Portions’ of Philadelphia Swept Away by the Same Cyclone—The Dead and Injured. [Philadelphia telegram.] A terrific cyclone, sweeping up the Delaware River, struck this city near Greenwich Point, demolishing a portion of the works of the Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company and injuring several employes. It then took a course across the river, wrecking the river steamer Major Reybold and the ferryboat Peerless. The storm blew Pilot Emery Townsend and Capt Eugene Reybold. of the steamer Reybold, into the river, drowning the former and painfully injuring the Captain. The Peerless was swept clean, almost to the water’s edge. When the Major Reybold left her dock for Salem, N. J., she had on board about fifty passengers, although, as no tickets had been sold, it is impossible to ascertain the exact number. There were also about fourteen officers and deck-hands. Of this number of people the wrecked beat it does not appear that any lives were lost except that of the pilot. B. I. Warner, one of the passengers, the scene. He *was standing On the upper deck and saw the black storm approaching, but as it moved rather slowly he supposed it was a rainstorm. Whenit struck the boat he discovered that its immense force came from its rotary motion. He and several others were thrown through a hole to the lower deck, and all the upper works were swept away like chaff. The confusion among the passengers was indescribable, and several of them jumped into the river; but Mr. Warner believes that all of them were rescued. While th§ cyclone was upon the vessel, everything Was black as the blackest night. Sofas were broken to splinters, and carpets tom to shreds in the cabin, as if they had been paper. The cyclone, he thinks lasted about a minute, and, after it passed, the vessel rolled and pitched frightfully in the great wdves, and came hear swamping. The storm then passed over to the Jersey side, striking John Dialogue’s ship-yards, below Kaighn’s Point, and destroying the buildings of the establishment. It then took a course along the New Jersey River, demolishing all the buildings in its path up to Bridge avenue, Camden. At this point the cyclone took an easterly course to Fifth street, Camden, embracing in its path all that section of the city between Second and Fifth streets to the Delaware River, which washes the southern section of the city. Passing over the river, skirting Petty’s Island, the storm passed over to that part of the Twentyfifth Ward of Philadelphia known as Richmond. In its ravages in Camden scores of dwelling-houses Were unroofed and some of them thrown down, and the damage to the business property along the river front is enormous. Hundreds of families were rendered homeless, and one victim, Charles Daizey, was killed outright at the American Dredging Company’s wharf. Another, Harry Stevens, had his leg cut off by a flying piece of timber, and will probably die. The path of the storm through Richmond was marked with death and destruction. Its track was almost due north from the Port Richmond coal-wharves. About 150 dwelling-houses-were wrecked, or so badly damaged as to be rendered unfit for habitation, and 200 families were driven from their homes to be eared for by their neighbors. ——- A number of people were seriously and some fatally injured. A girl of ten years, Lizzie McVey, was killed at her home, No. 1721 Melvale Street, in sight of her mother, who was herself pinned to the floor bv fallen rafters a few feet from her dying child. The cyclone is described by those who witnessed its progress up the river as an immense black, cone-shaped cloud, with its apex resting upon the water and its base mingling with the rainclouds which hung in dense masses from the sky. 'lt is impossible as yet to estimate the amount of damage done. The following are the names of the killed and injured, as far as can be ascertained: Dead—Emery Townsend, of Salem, N. J., pilot of the steamboat Major Reybold; Charles Daizey, aged 49, a shipcarpenter, killed instantly by flying timbers at the wharf of the American Dredging "Company. Camden; Lizzie McVey, aged 10, crushed to death between timbers at her home, No. 1721 Melvale street, Philadelphia. Injured (on steamboat Major Reybold)— Morris Doyle, engineer, slightly; Capt. Reybold, severely cut; Welch, a deckhand, severely cut; W. Gesner, a passenger, temple artery severed, injuries serious. Injured at Camden—Harry Stevens, aged 21, probably fatally injured, his right leg severed below the knee by flying timbers; Stewart Johnson (colored), of the dredging tug Pacific, seriously injured about the face and body; John Welcher, injured seriously about the head; Benjamin Smith, right arm broken and injured internally; Alonzo Maxwell, aged 16, injured by falling walls; Charles Thompson, manager of the < amden Tool Works, injured in the face and neck by falling walls; Jacob Miller, leg Freedom Peak, head cut; Elmer< Locke, bruised about the body; Mrs. Josephine McKinley, cutabput the face and body; John Brown, injured; John Silk, head badly cut In Philadelphia—Annie McVey, aged 50 (mother of the dead child Lizzie McVey), badly cut about the body; Annie McVey, 15, cut about the face and limbs; Francis Golden, aged 24, badly injured by falling timber; Michael Kent, aged 55, back broken; William A. Harb, of Short <t Harb, hosiery manufacturers, struck by falling brick, causing depression of the brain; it is thought he will die. The following employes at Sljort &, Harb’s mill were also injured: Annie Baitz. aged 16, arm broken; Annie Raren, aged 16; Emma Power, 19; Emma Thomas, 18; Emma Michener, 19; John Thornton, 15. TN DELAWARE. . [Smyrna (Del.) dispatch.] A terrible eydone visited this section this afternoon, totally destroying property •for miles in a swath 300 feet wide. Stock was killed, and orchards, cornfields, etc., were destroyed. No lives wore lost. AT BEADING. [Reading (Pa.) dispatch.] The rain here was very heavy, and appeared like a cloud-bprst. Many streets were filled with water from curb to curb. The cellars of many houses were flooded. The workmen were driven out of many foundries by the water running into the working-room. Great damage was done to the orchards and tobacco mop. Waiter Heines Pollock, editorof the Saturday Review, is writing a biography of Garrick, the actor. A well of natural gas has been discovered near Clinton. HL «■'

REMINISCENCES] OF PUBLIC MEN.

BY BEN: PERLEY POORE.

When Greeley and Chase went down to Richmond upon the indictment of Mr. Davis, Chase said: “What do you mean to do, Mr. Underwood?” .Lmeap to try and bang Jeff Davis,” was his ; reply. “Is it possible,” said Chase, I “that yon, a judge, w ill give your opin- i ion in advance of trihl ? This will not do.' The counsel for Jeff Davis will ! produce my proclamation and messages j to the Ohio Legislature, and prove that, I demanded the separation of this country, and the first thing we shall know will be that I shall be convicted and Jefferson Davis will go free. I cannot try him now. It is already the middle of May, and the cholera is in the country; it will be in Richmond by July, and it is too hot” So he put it offtdl Novenjtber. “Then,” said he, “the Supreme Court meets here in December; I cannot try him now. November is too cold.” It was very evident that Mr. Chase did not want to try him at all. Mr. Greely also told Judge Underwood that Jeff Davis could not be convicted of treason by a jury. He had in the New York Tribune denounced the stars and stripes as a “flaunting lie,” to be torn down; he had approved the proposition °f Gen. Banks to “let the Union slide,” and when John Brown had invaded Virginia he had proposed to “let the South go in peace.” He felt that he would be a witness against the conviction of Davis for treason, and he urged his liberation on bail, promising to head the list of sureties. This he did, although there was no lack of responsible Virginians ready and willing to sign the bail-bond of their deposed leader. Senator McCreery, of Kentucky, was a queer-looking customer, and a wag gave the following receipt for constructing a duplicate of him: Take first a good-sized, round pumpkin; knock off the stem, fill in the depression upon the top with putty until you have a concave surfacep.now take a bit of black velvet fringe and fasten it on along the lower half of the back of the pumpkin; then, with abit of punk properly blackened, proceed upoh the front of the pumpkin to sketch deep, sunken eyes, a small nose half buried in fat cheeks; underdeath outline a droop-lined mouth tremulous with weight of . tobacco juice unshed. After the outline is made, take a kettle of lampblack, and tone up to the heaviest possible shade all the prominent features of the face. Place it upon a pair of round shoulders belonging to a huge, shambling, largeboned figure, and you have a preliminary idea of ■ McCreery.— The loving hand of an artist will, however, find his work just begun with this outline. The shad-bellied coat, shiny with long wear, the bulging waistcoat, the knock-kneed trousers, the tumbled linen, over which strayed a huge turn-down collar tied with a tape cravat, and last, but not least, the silk hat given to McCreery by Henry Clay, and worn by him ever since except when in the Senate chamber, were all interesting studies in themselves. Another mystery about his figure noticed by anyone who had ever visited a jeweler’s shop in a country town, sis in every country shop there is invariably a comic figure that blinks a pair of very black, bead-glass eyes to the ticking of a very round clock of aldermanic form. This ingenious device for marking off time has great ;charms for the bucolic mind, and no one who had ever seen these interesting figures could see McCreery without suspecting him of having one of these clocks secreted under his vest. Mr. McCreery had retained, while in the Senate, his early childhood’s tastes. Mary, the smiling-faced old lady who kept the Senate refreshment stand counted upon Mr. McCreery as one of her best customers. He devoured ginger-cake, apples and candy with the voracity and indiscriminate mingling of this strange hodge-podge never surpassed by the irrepressible small boy. There was no day that passed that McCreery could not be seen lurking in the lobbies munching candy and cakes with a ferocious gusto.

Passing to the mental faculties of Mr. McCreery, one could find nothing but food for admiration. He was a perfect master of a world of satire, and could make a more interesting speech than any other man in the Senate. But the black cloud of laziness hung upon him, and his great powers lay. for the greater part of the time, perfectly dormant. He belonged to the great Kentucky family, and they make life easy by helpirfl| one another. Next to being born rich is to have been born in Kentucky. Then you are sure of the aid, comfort, and Sympathy of every man, woman, and child in the State. McCreery was a man of intense prejudices, and there is no being on earth that he hated like a “frog-eating Frenchman” Frogs and Frenchmen he placed in the same category of disagreeables. In 1858 he was a member of the board of visitors to West Point. Gen. McCook, afterwards of Serman s staff, was there then, and had on his hands the entertainment of his visitors. Ha at once arranged with Cozzens, the landlord, for a frog supper, and invited Mr. McCreery. It was an understood thing that the principal item upon the bill of fare was “Spring chicken.” McCreery ate with a terrible appetite. Some twenty-five frogs, washed down by copious draughts of champagne, disappeared down his throat with a rapidity that idicated a furious appetite. Afterwards McCreery walked home with McCook in the moonlight. When-about half-w.iy home McCook stopped and professed to be very sick. “McCreery,” said he, “I am sick, awfuL We have been deceived!” “Great goodness!” was McCreery’s excited reply. “What do you mean ?” “Simply this,” said McCook, between groans; “Cozzens put up a job on us. Those were not spring chickens that we had this evening.” “No?” exclaimed McCreery. “What were they?” “Frogs!” said McCook. “Frogs .cooked in French style.” I will draw a veil over what followed, but will add that, during the fol owing winter, no one dared to make any remark about frogs in the presence of the Senator from Kentucky. He would have re-

garded it as a personal insult, and would have demanded satisfaction.

Cookery in China.

Our kitchen certainly is not so cozy and neat os American kitchens usually are. The smoke goes through the Skylight, and wherever it finds an outlet. The walls are black with the accumulation of years ’of soot That large stove in the corner is built of brick. On the top of this stove is a large round iron spider about three feet in diameter. In this rice is cooking. Straw, being cheaper, is burnt in this stove, instead of wood, and some one is required to feed the fire constantly. Turning.to the left, we see little clay stoves, on which food is frying in spiders or boiling in earthen pots over a wood tire. Vegetables are cut into bits and boiled with pork or mutton, making a soud. Greens are boiling. Fish is steaming, frying or stewing, with or without vegetables. Meat is cut fine; when the spider becomes heated lard is put in it, then pieces of onion, then the <*hred meat, and all is stirred till well embrowned, then turnips, potatoes, and sometimes other vegetables are added, and after boiling water is poured in the whole is left to simmer and stew. All food, we observe, is cut in pieces before being cooked, or el e before serving, for no knives, no forks, are used. At 10 a. m. the tables are set; these for men either in the wings or in their rooms; those for the women in their common sitting-room or parlor. Each table will seat eight No table linen is used. Chopsticks and spoons are placed before each place. The food is brought in large bowls or plates. Rice is carried to the table m a wooden pail or wicker basket, from which it is served in small bowls. The servants summon the inmates to breakfast. The younger ones do not presume to sit till their elders are seated; then after making a show of asking permission to eat, when the elders gravely nod assent, the breakfast begins. Soup is taken first; then each person, holding the chop-sticks in his right hand and the bowl of rice in the left, lifts his food to his mouth, pushes the lumps in with the sticks, alternating this motion with picking meat, fish or vegetables from the dishes which are common to all. One must take only from that side of the plate which is nearest, to him, however. It is a breach of etiquette to reach over to the opposite side. When one finishes he bids the rest to “eat leisurely,” which is our mode of saying “excuse me!” The Chinese invariably wash their hands and faces after every meal. Tea is drank about the same time. It is taken without milk or sugar. Coffee is not common in China, and we are not accustomed to drink cold water. Tea is the national beverage, and is taken to assuage thirst at all times and occasions as water is in America. At noon a lunch of cakes or pastry may be served. The majority of people are satisfied with two meals a day. Supper or dinner is served at 5 p. m.— Pan Phon Lee, in Wide Awake.

An Ashantee Gentleman.

The author of the book, “Chronicles of No Man’s Land,” describes minutely an Ashantee gentleman: “He has neither a flat nose, nor thick ebony skin. To take Bossoonaga as a specimen, he is not darker than many Spaniards, has feature of a European cast, and an eye that protrudes in a manner admired by French people, and called a fleur de tete. His dress, even when a prisoner, as I saw him, is a miracle of taste, unequaled since the Roman toga vanished. One single piece of ‘cloth’ it is, a cotton print, home-, spun and home-dyed. Your native gentleman, whether from east or west, would not condescend to wear DianChester stuffs, and he is conspicuously right. To see Bossoonoga was to see a picture o’s antique grace. It was a marvel how he kept so clean that sheet of cotton, adorned with blue arabesques and flowers on a white ground. _ Nothing else did he wear by day except the “breech-clout,” fringed with silk, the ends of which fell below his knees. At night he rolled it round him, and so slept; but the stiffening never went out of it, and its folds were always statuesque. He looked a swell, every inch, bright and wholesome and courteous, though tied by Its wrist, and trudging barefoot through the mud. When permitted the use of a carriage hammock (instead of walking chained to a common soldier), Bossoonoga stepped into his conveyance with a courteous bow' toward the marine. Through my interpreter he expressed regret shat circumstances over which he had no control forbade him to reward Private Smith for his “uniform consideration,” etc. The face of that gallant soldier, when he thoroughly mastered this parting shaft of politeness, cjid one good to see. ‘Why—why!’ he said, ‘this nigger—he—oh, blow it!’ Words would not come to him fitting to describe his sentiments. I saw him again two days after, with his lemaining captives still in tow. Private Smith had changed into a thoughtful man; the sublimity of Ashantee man- ' ners had overpowered him.”

Potter Palmer’s Piano.

One of the finest outfits ever brought to Chicago is the pcr..or set that will furnish the Moorish room in Mr. Potter Palmer’s lake-shore The most important articles in' the suit are the piano, cabinet, and divan, made of maple and inlaid with brass, ebony, sandal. Brazil-nut wood, and mahogany. The body of the piano is inlaid with dark wood, and over the keyboard is a trio of horshshoe panels beautifully carved in open patterns. The sides of the box are filled .in with matched woods and seamed with bands of fine wood-carving. The standing cabinet, which is formed of two alcoves of varying sizes f, and divison Of" arches, each locating a separate compartment, w very complicated in design.— Chicago Tribune. “Cured patients are employed by certain San Franciscan physicians, and stationed in the waiting-rooms’to testify with tearful earnestness, to new patients how thpy themselves were cured of“precisely i|he same disease by the prince of medical science inside. There is one word in our language which may be pronounced quicker by adding to'its length, and that is quick, itself. ’ » ’ • f ■> . . ■ * - "v