Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1891 — Page 6

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Ws. foot up, in the penitentiarj census, 44,000 rasle felons and 1,8 Q( femaie—entirely too many womei and too few men. The tendency of American oourti is to hold that when a saloon-keepei pays, say $250 for license to sell li quor for a year the license is not i contract and may be revoked at anj time within the year without refund ing the money. The British Parlia ment has just taken a different view, and in revoking a large number oi licenses has expressly provided for i return of their price. Thk Arizona Legislature has passed a law pmviding that a reward of S2O( shall be paid for every Indian killed while carrying arms. The Atlants Constitution protests that “this simply encourages murder. Few Indians can resist the temptation tc carry guns and pistols. Under tht present law, designing white meD will make Indians presents of cheap firearms and then murder them in order to get the reward.” --ft The following instructions, giver to a jury in a recent libel suit at Jeffersonville, Ind., by Judge Ferguson, seem to us to be about right and fail to both aides: „ . = If the jury are satisfied from the evidence that the published statement, as set forth in the complaint, 15 trite, in such case the plaintiff is not entitled to recover anything, and the verdict should be for the- defendant; but if the statement is found to be untrue, and it appears that the plaintiff has been actually injured thereby, then the plaintiff is entitled to such an amount as will fully compensate for the injury done to him caused by such publication. If the plaintiff has not sustained an actual injury by the publication, then he has nothing to be compensated for,' and should recover only nominal' damages. t 11 i It is the easiest thing in the world to assign to a rich man many mil- J lions more than he has indeed, it is, usually the case, but when he dies and his property is inventorized, there is a fearful slaughter among the seven or eight figures which have been used to state his worldly possessions. A short time since John: Plankington, of Milwaukee, died with ( reputed wealth of $10,000,000. He; was at one time a partner of P. D. | Armour, and was then reputed to be the wealthier man. He had been thrifty and prosperous all his life, and had met with no reverses. On the contrary, all his trades had turned out well. When his will was admitted to probate, his property was inventoried at $1,600,000. That is a great deal of money, but it is six times less than $10,000,000. It is possible that were the property ol most men whose fortunes are put a\ tens of millions inventoried at the price for which it would sell in two or three years, there would be a similar shrinkage. But it pleases a lot of alleged reformers to remark on platforms that two hundred men ovq the bulk of wealth in the United States. ________ The new immigration law came into force at the beginning of the month of April, just ended. Very important work has been done under it during the month. The inspection of immigrants has been more thorough than it ever was before, and a good many of those who were found to be undesirable have been debarred. At first the superintendent was over-cautious about sending back some of the steerage passengers who were legal, ly prohibited from landing, and several of the steamship companies tried to shirk their duty of taking them back;- but Mr. Weber has recently acted with decision in enforcing the law and the companies have learned that it will be enforced. All the pai ties concerned are gaining knowledge by experience. During the first fortright of the month the inspectors laid hands on very few undesirables, but during the present week they have been able to discover as many as ten or twenty of them almost every day, among them being criminals, paupers and incurables. The Secretary of the Treasury is now taking an interest in the enforcement of the immigration law, and Assistant Secretary Nettleton has been here this week, holding conference on the subjeot with Superintendent Weber. The law must be enforced.—N. Y, Cun. - - _ -

TEE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Ex-Attorney General AlphonsoTaftdied on the 21st in California. Mayor Mosby, of Cincinnati has sat down on Sunday base-bail playing. The New York authorities will make a determined effort to enforce the alien labor law. *' In three sections of Texas, on the 17th i tost, hail storms nearly destroyed 24,000 acres of crops. Two-thirds of the California fruit canning factories have been bought by an English syndicate. ~~~ i The California fruit canneries have formed a trust capitalized with two million dollars’ worth of stock. Eleven hundred Italians arrived at New York Saturday with two cases of Smallpox. and were, quarantined. The 103 d annual Presbyterian General Assembly convened at Detroit on the 21st with a very largo attendance. it Is understood that the faculty of Harvard College has decided to prohibit athletic contests with other colleges. At the Elks’ convention at Louisville John L. Sullivan was declared not a mem ter of the order, and ineligible to it. ' 111., have teen starved out and have accepted a reduction of 5 cents per ton. A recent article in imitation of coffee has been introduced to the trade in the United States. It was discovered by a Swede. 1 Charles Krockel, a deaf mute of eleven years, in the New Jersey State prison, Is said to be the youngest convict in the country. Joseph Moncko run amuck in a hotel at Scranton, Pa., killing one man and injuring several more. He was insane from jealousy. A tremendous cloudburst of hail took placd near Salina, Kan., and the farmers’ wheat was nearly destroyed. The damage will reach <50,090, J udge’Tliayer. of the United States Circuit Court at St. Louis, has decided that trusts cannot compci flrnra teughtout by them to remain out of business. Pete Jackson, colored, of Australia, and James Corbett, fought sixty-one rpunds at San Francisco on the evening of the 21st, The fight was then declared a draw-. President Harr'r.on has issued a proclamation opening to public settlement about 1,600,000 acres of the land.of the Fort Bertholdi Indian reservation, in North Dakota. ■ • The deserted wife of Michael Welch, of Pittsburg, started on foot to reach friends inNanceburg, Ky. Near Portsmouth, G., she gave birth to a child in a ditch by the roadside. For fifteen weeks the life of E, H. Whitney, of Saybrook, 111., has been kept up solely by injections. He swallowed carbolic acid by mistake and his stomach was burned out. He will die. The sixth annual reunion of the B. P. 0. E. (Order of Elks) was held at Louisville on the 13th. Two thousand members participated in the parade. An Elks’ Rest (cemetery) was dedicated. At Coffeyvilie, Ivan., the postoffice was burglarized. About SSOO in stamps and the same amount in cash, all the registered letters and the money-order books were stolen. There is no clew to the robbers. Judge Van Brunt, of New York, has overruled the demurrer of the New Haven railroad directors to the indictment charg ing them with keeping stoves in their steam cars contrary to the statute. They must now stand trial. Dr. E. R. Carswell, an influential Baptist minister, has’ created a sensation at Atlanta by predicting the end of the world. His calculation is made on a mathematical proposition based upon Daniel’s numerical prophesies. The Hessian sty has made its appearance in the wheat fields near Jacksonville, 111., in great quantities and is causing considerable alarm among the farmed. The hay crop will be a total failure unless rain falls very soon. Charles King, of Salem, Mass., who was a kicking baby when Cornwallis; surrendered to George Washington at York town, died on the 16th at the age of 110 years, ; leaving upward of six hundred descendants through four generations. | Sam Jones is having remarkable success !in his evangelical work at Chattanooga. ; Among his converts are ex-Governor Taylor, Chancellor DeWitt, the chairman of ; the Democratic county committee, and a ! well-known Republican leader.. 1 Tlie liabilities of the Davis Shoe Company. with manufactories at Richmond, ; Ya.. Kennebeunk, Me., and Lynn Mass., ' are said to exceed $1,000,000. Hon. Joseph Davis, formerly president of the corporation has made a personal- assignment, i What is known as the Merritt conspiracy law, being a codification of thecommon , law on the subject of conspiracy to commit crime, the passage of which was the j result of the anarchist riots in Chicago I lias been repealed by the Illinois House. ' The switchmen who were foment ing and had arranged to strike on the Northwest- . ern railroad were discharged and new men put in their places before they could carry their design into effect. The eom- ! pany now refuses to take any of the old ! men back except as vacancies are created ! in the natural course of events, and the | leaders are notified that they will never again be employed by the company. THE CHARLESTON LEAVES ACAPULCO. Acapulco, Mexico, May 18. The Unitvd States'cruiser Charlestorileft Acapulco last night,. about 9 o’clock, after filling her bunkers with coal. She steered in a general southerly course, m a direction supposed to have been taken by the Itata. No onifhere knows what thecruisei 'g plans as Captain Remey kept his own counsel, and said nothing of his intended route The opinion is general here that the Esmeralda communicated with the Itata just outside of the harbor on Friday evening, and received from the transport a supply of provisions, after which the Itata continued her flight to the south. Even ■ if the Esmeralda secures credit and per- ; mission to coal, it will take her two days to get fuel abroad, so it seems hardly pro- [ bable il at she will be able to be present w hen the Charleston overhauls the Itata.

The Charleston took on board a sufficient coal supply for a ten-days’ run at topspeed, which should enable tier to catch the Itata, provided she fc on the track of the fleeting vessel. * The-Chilian Times announces that by special agreemerft with Germany, Great Britain is taking German interests in Chili under her protection until the arrival of three German-war ships, which are now en route. The Times says the War Sprite forced an apology out of the insurgent man-of-war Blanco Encalada just before the latter was sunk by the torpedo boats. The Blanco was engaged in blocksiding Iquiqui when she, with other vessels of the blockading fleet, pan out of coal. The English and German merchantmen were lying side by side, bctil coal-laden. The rebel fleet took hold of them on the pretense that they were in range In the event of firing and towed them out to sea, despite the protests of the captains. When out of range of the fort’s guns the insurgents made a forced purchase of such coal as they needed. They voluntarily paid an extravagant price for it, but nevertheless the captains of the vessels reported the matter to the British Admiral, Holham, who gave the Blaneo the option of apologizing or fighting inside of twenty-four at noon the Blanco ran up the British and German flags above their standard and fired a royal salute. The coalwould have been replaced and the ships towed back to their former anchorage but for the fact that most of the coal had been burned and the two merchantmen had no further business at Iquiqui. " :

FOREIGN.

The Canadian national debt has doubled in the last twenty years. A new volcano has broken out in the district of Van ih Armenia and many people were killed. Lord Edward Cavendish, youngest son of the Duke of Devonshire and member of Parliament for West Derbyshire, died on the 18th from an attack of influenza. There are five thousand prisoners in Russia awaitlhg sultabTe weather fbr thelr transportation to Siberia. The prisoners will be voluntarily accompanied by'their wives and families, numbering ten thousand persons. In an account of the fight between the war-ships in Caldera bay, which resulted in the blowing up of the revolutionists vessel, the Blanco Encalada, a Peruvian paper states that during the fight the Blanco was at anchor. The government man-of-war, Almirante launched twelve torpedoes, not seven, as has been stated, against the Blanco. None of them but the last exploded. The twelfth torpedc exploded directly under the Blanco amidships and blew a big hole in her. killing 180 of her crew and many of her officers, and the secretary of the rebel army Valdez Vorgara, who was on her.

THE MOVEMENT FAILED.

An Attempt to Repreas Extravagance In Dress Among Hired Girls. There is a young matron living in one of the small cities in the interior of New York State who doubtless, in her moments of honest telf-conununion, wishes she had let well enough, or ill enough alone. She undertook recently, single-handed, a crusade from which many an older and bolder woman might have and has shrunk. Her sense of propriety and the eternal fitness of things was wounded by the attire of her own and her friends' women servants. Gay colors, silk and satin fabrics, flowers, feathers, ribbons—all the fripperies which the soul of Bridget delights in—she felt were neither suitable nor becoming, and she determined to bring about a change. To this end she drew up and circulated for signatures among her friends a petition or resolution which should bind every signer not to employ or retain in her service any maid who would not consent to restrict her. attire to certain prescribed limits, which were, practically, plainly made dark towns with cap and apron when on uty, and nothing better than a woolen Sown of simple design for Sunday and ay off use. : - But, alas, for the loyalty of friendsl Although many, indeed most of the recipients of the pledge had joined with its author in complaints of the evil it strove to mitigate, when it came to taking a bold stand in the matter their courage was lacking. The paper made its round and returned signerless. But it was not without result One of those whom it was designed to educate got a knowledge of its existence and mission. The story spread from kitchen to kitchen, gaining force and length as it flew. The maids attempted a coalition and succeeded better than the mistresses. A boycott was declared against the young matron who foolishly thought to make headway against the independence of American help, and her corps of servants is now secured from outside places. A complement and moral to this story, says a writer in the Sun, is the recent experience of a Brooklyn lady. Christmas brought her a coveted sealskin sacque, of which her colored nurse was, as events proved, a most sincere admirer. The maid was about to purchase a winter cloak, and the horror of the mistress may be fancied when she appeared in it. Although of coarse brown plush, in color, style and general effect it was the sac-simile of of her own costly fur garment. The lengths of the two cloaks did not vary half an inch; they were both of sacque shape, and so identical in appearance that at a glance they appeared to be twin garments. To increase the wretchedness of the situation, the mistress was in mourning, and the maid had a black cloth dress for usual wear. It whs the lady's habit on every pleasant day to take her nurse and baby over to spend an hour with her invalid mother, and to do so she must traverse a couple of blocks of a fashionable thoroughfare. One ordeal was enough. She tried to induce the nurse to exchange her garment for one of another style, offering to pay any loss she might sustain, but Topsy was indignant, and clung to her elegance. Then, as the sealskin could not go, the maid had to. The nurse lost a good place and the mistress a faithful servant through incompatibility —not of temper, but of clothes —all of which the young matron may read with complacency.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Vincennes is in debt $75,000. * Wabash College has 205 students. The Crawfordsville Y. M. C. A. has 207 members. " Paoli reports that section suffering fo r want of rain. . The Methodists will build a new church at New Albany, Thefis|i in Eel river are dying in immense quantities. -The mayor of Crawforasville is paid STStT per annum and fees. Crawfordsville is arranging for a monster celebration July 4 Anderson proposes ttrtnake Decoration Day a memorable one. Lebanon needs enterprises that will give employment to 500 men. Scrabbletown is the name or a lively village in Hancock county. —- The saw and flax mill at Lewisville was burned, causing SI,OOO loss. Arva Shultz, of Kelso, was 1 bitten by a horse, breaking his lower jaw. —; Reports from every quarter of the State show the drought, to be broken. - ———- For the first time in its history Columbus is controlled by the Republicans, _ The Plainfield creamery will have a capacity of 2,500 pounds o£ butter daily. A wood-working factory will be added to the industrial interests of New Castle. J, B. Gilmore’s saw miil, at Springport, went up in flame and smoke; loss S6OO, Ard Kennard, a boy near Walesboro, bit off his tongue during a severe spasm. John M. Eberlq, a section foreman, fell under a train at Areola, losing both legs. The miners’ strike at Evansville continues, and only one mine is in operation. A natural gas exposition of large proportions is to be heliTsrMarlbn in the fall. All the keepers of gambling houses in Ft. Wayne have been warned to close their doors. Several wells will bo bored at West .Fork, in Crawford county, in the search for oil; There is a great outcry at Anderson because Anderson capitalists are booming Alexandria. ——

The New Albany electric light, heatand power company, capital stock §75,000, made an assignment. □ There is not a vacant tenement house in Lafayette, and many new residences are being erected. The first toward enforcing the Sunday law at Jeffersonville was in raiding ooritz players. The first meeting of the Indiana trotting and pacing circuit will be held at Edinburg beginning June 8. Martin Boyer’s saw-mill at Bowling Green was destroyed by fire, causing several thousand dollars loss. The Cerealine Manufacturing Company, of Columbus, is erecting a twenty-seven thousand dollar elevator. Hartford City reports a tremendous storm in which a number of small trees and fences were dismantled. Indiana stands fourth in school popul a tion and fifth in the number of pupils en rolled and average daily attendance. The humane society of Greencastle has served notice on the firemen that no more useless runs of horses will be tolerated. L. Belle Van Nada, daughter of George Van of Petersburg, and known as the poetess of Southern Indiana, is dead. A syndicate is organizing at Evansville for the manufacture of vitrified brick on an extensive scale, to be used for street paving. Patents were granted Indiana inventors! on the 19th as follows: O. E. Byrd, Crawfordsville, thill support; A. R. Cooper and T. E. Stucky, Mooresville, boiler-tube cleaner; A. J. Dawdy, Goshen, support for photograph printing frames; L. C Hunter, Fort Wayne, book support; C. D. Jenney, Indianapolis,theostat; J. B. Johnson, Indianapolis, excelsior machine; J. R. Johnson, Indianapolis, baling press; E. Leach. Sellersburg, mail bag catcher; A. P. Nichols, Jordan Village, fan attachment for chairs; R. B. Roberts, Indianapolis, Surgeon’s operating chair; J. J. Stedman, LaPorte, artificial denture; W. L. Zumbro, Land, bandsaw guide. INDIANA ODD FEIEoWS. : The Grand Lodge l. Q. Q. F. of lndiaam met in semi-annual convention at Indianapolis on the 20th and 21st. The report of W. H .Leedy, Grand Master, showed an increase of fifteen subordinate lodges and twenty-four Rebekah lodges in the last six months'with all evidence going to show that the order is passing through an era of prosperity unequaled for many years. The report of B. F. Foster, the Grand Secretary, showed the total number of lodges tohe 581 and the membership 33,562. The resources of lodges are $1,918,444.52. Amount paid for relief of brothers, $59,017.12. The Home for Indigent Odd Fellows is making gratifying progress. A memorial to the Sovereign Grand Lodge ip reference t;> saloon keepers was adopted unanimously. A proposed change in the general law prohibiting the loaning of funds by a lodge to its members was acted upon favorably and laid over until the November session. The following nominations for officers to be voted for at the November session w r ere made: Grand Master—U. Z. Wiley, of Fowler. Deputy Grand Master—George Ford, of South Bend. Grand Warden—H. L. Williamson, of Winchester; R. P. Davis, of Ft. Wayne;: W T . W. Canaday, of Portland; W. H.’Talbott, of Orleans; H. C. Beecher, of Lagrange; R. J. Slocum, of Jeffersonville; J. B. Williams, of North Manchester; F. J. McKasson, of Gentryville. Grand Secretary—B. F. Foster, of Indianapolis. r' * Grand Treasurer— I Theo. P. Haughey.of Indianapolis. Representative to the Sovereign Grand Lodge—W. H. Leedy, of Indiana polls. Trustees of the Grand Lodge Hall—J. A. Ferguson and J, F. Walliek, of Indianapolis, and George Shirts, of Noblcsville. Grand Master W. H. Leedy was authorized to fill out the unexpired term of John W. McQuiddy, deceased, as Grand Instructor. The following general note on Indiana growing crops is found in the nibntblyreport just issued from the Agricultural Department, referring especially to recent frosts: “No damage to grain. Grapes and strawberries damaged by frosts one-third to one-half. Vary little injury toother

fruits.”! Of the Indiana wheat crop the bulletin saysr “The condition of wheat is better than in ten years at this date. Rye and barley are fully up to 100 per cent, in condition. Jn nearly equal condition to wheat are meadows and. pastures, Excessive rains In early April retarded plowing for oats and corn, but the last half of the month was favorable and farm work is well advanced. In some counties the are a of oats' will be short, but a large acreage will be planted in corn. Considerable corn was planted the last week in April. Fruit of all kinds promises a larger yield than in many years past.”

ONLY FEW OF THEM LEFT.

A Score of Italians Slaughtered in New York State. Terrible Dynamite Explosion on a Work Train Near Tarrytown—Eighteen Men Blown Into Eternity. , Mfhere was a horrible accident near Tarry town, N. Y., on the 19th by which tho loss of iife is estimated aTbetweeri sixteen and twenty and the injured as many more. An engine and flat car were conveying a load of Italians and twenty-four cases of dynamite, each case containing fifty pounds. The Italians were being taken to a section of the road where a third track was being laid. A coil of rope lay in front of the truck of the engine. Just as the train was passing Holmes Point, midway between Tarry town and Irvington,® spark from the locomotive ignited the coil of rope. The moving train fanned the flames and before the Italians realized their danger one of tho packages exploded. Wiliiam Ilrannigan, the engineer of the derrick train, happened to be 150 yards from the train at the time. He tells the following story: “When the coil of rope set fire to the first package one of the men seeing it on fire sprang off the flat car. He Ml under the wheels and was killed. The next moment there was a rumbling noise, a dense cloud of smoke and a flying mass shot lip into the air. Before the explosion some, of the Italians had tumbled off and a few saved their lives by so doing. The train had just about come toastop. Brannigan saw one man blown fifty feet into the air. He fell into the Hudson river. Another man was blown over into the bluff. The others were blown in various dirietions. Several are supposed to have been blown into the river.” The floor, after the removal, looked like the floor of an abattoir. The blood lay all about in- pools. As to the number of men on the train, accounts differ. Some say there were thirty-three, The lowest estimate placed the number at over forty. Disston, the boss, thinks there were over forty, and as a matter of fact the number of those blown either to atoms or in the river is to a certain extent a matter of speculation.

The train was tom to attorns, the railway tracks ripped from their bed, and a great hole many feet deep dug out of the earth, totally blocking the traffic on the road for many hours. Up in Tarrytown, over across the river in Nyack and up and down the stream, the shock was terrible. The ground trembled as though an earthquake had occurred. The walls of several Tarrytown houses were shaken and cracked, and in the Tarrytown streets the window glass fell in showers to the sidewalk. Even over in Nyack heavy panes of glass were smashed. The beautiful houses which line the bank for a mile or more on each side of the scene of the accident all suffered more or less. The hillside with its heavy foliage wa ß scorched and blackened, and here and there heavy limbs of trees were wrenched off as though by a thunderbolt. In Tarrytown scores of clocks stopped, and it is in this way that almost the exact hour of the explosion, 11:20, is fixed. —• The list of dead is now eighteen. Of these thirteen are accounted for, and the remaining five are in the river. Gangs of men in boats are dragging the river for these, but the tide is running so strong that there is little chance of recovering' them. —~~~

THE MARKETS.

Indianapolis, May 85, 1881. GII lAN. Wheal, j Corn. ' Oats. Rye. Indianapolis.. '2 r’d 101 1 w(B 1 w!SB L 3 r’d ‘JJ lye&s 51 Chicago p r’d 101 Cincinnati 2r'd 10 8 67 50 92 St. Louis 2 r'd 1 03, 59 51H 85 New York...— r’d 1 15 78 57 Vt. 95 Baltimore.... 1 14 73 y 59 98 Philadelphia . 2 r’d 111 70 58 Clover Seed. Toledo 101 68 51 4 20 Detroit 1 wh 1 03 00 53 .! ! Minneapolis.. 1 107 ' CATTLE. Fancy export steers $5 40ga 85 Wood to choice shippers. 4 75®5 25 Fair to medium shippers 4 Common shippers 3 4()'*3 85 Feeders, 900 to 1.100 lbs 3 6<X«4 10 Stockers. 500 to 80u lbs 2 Heavy export heifers 4 Good to choice butcher heifers. 3 50i«}4'03 Fair to medium butcher heifers 3 00®3 35 Light, thin heifers 2 25(d2 75 Heavv export cows 4 00:«;4 50 Good to choice butcher cows... 3 40t«)3 75 Fair to medium butcher cows.. 2 90ta>3 25 Common,old cows. 1 53:52 50 Veals, common t-o choice 3 00:«!4 50 Hulls, common to medium 2 25032 50 Hulls, good to choice 2 75®3 50 Milkers, good to choice.. 12 Milkers, common to medium..’.27 00.®.37 00 lIOGS. Heavy packing and shipping. ..S! 90'"5 DO Mixed d 7.V<(.4 s;, Lights...; <■ \ 30® 1 S 3 Heavy roughs ••••• 3 75.(4 25 jpigS .. ••••• 3 50@4 25 SHEEP. \ . Good to choice sheep and yearlings ..id Cp,25,00 F'air to piedium sheep and y* art- 1,. ings..r. * 1 : o.x :4b Common sheep ami yearlings... 3 :.o : Bucks, V head..— 3 aXgSK) » miscellaneous. ‘ , Eggs, 13 c; butter, creamery, 21@2 ic; dairy, 20c; good country, lie; feathers,3sc; beeswax, lSys2oc; wool, 30vh.l5c,ainwftshed t 20c; hens, be; turkeys, 10c,toms, fie; clover seed, 4.75® 5.00; 1

FOUGHT FOR LOVE!

A Genuine Duel in a Park at Chicago.’*’ * A Nobleman and a Southerner Engage in * Combat with Rapiers—Both Wounded. Chicago was the scene Sunday of a genuine duel. Baron Kalnoky de Korospatek of Vienna, arrived in Chicago a month, ago. Kalnoky, according to his own confession, was at one time the staunch defender and passionate admirer of the erratic Natalie o.f Sorvia, during her sometimes embarrassing visits to the Austrian capital. He had also been a chosen companion in the revels of the gay young prince whose suicide shocked all Europe, That event only drove Kalnoky to wilder dissipations. Seeking a change in America, he accidentally met Miss Mittie Atherton, a member of the Duff company, dur- , ing the last Chicago engagemant. She was the possessor of a voice of unusuaj power and melody, a faultless form and charming face. She led the baron a doleful light, both in Chicago and in other cites to which he followed her. She constantly kept before him the fact that she could never become his wife, as her heart .was already gi von to one for whose sake She would shortly end her stage life. Kalnoky finally became convinced of this and remained behind when the company left Chicago.

Ten days ago ho again weakened and made a flying trip to Louisville iu one last effort to conquer the pretty actress. While there he seems to have met one of his numerous rivals, though not the successful one. Last Friday morning he returned to the Richelieu, havinggiven up his original idea of following Miss Atherton from Louisville to Pittsburg. The same night the man whom encountered in the South dined with him at the Richelieu restaurant, and the two seemed to take a morbid interest in together drowning their mutual sorrow. A too free indulgence in wine, however, quickly ended tlie friendly character of the meeting. In the parlor a few minutes after dinner a cry of rage was heard and a heavy fall? Kalnoky had knocked his companion down for speaking disrespectfully of the woman he loved. An hour afterward a friend of the Southerner appeared with a respectful note demanding a meeting. Kalnoky at once accepted in a note which he sent to a friend then stopping at the Richelieu, to whom the Southerner’s second was referred. With the exception of the rash act which gave the excuse for a challenge, the affair was carried out with regard to every nice distinctions of the code. All the arrangements were made and the duelists went to Jackson Park Sunday morning. At ten minutes past 6 the adversaries were facing each other sword in hand and bared to their shirts. A moment later the word was given and like a flash the southerner commenced the attack. After some sharp fighting the southerner succeeded in inflicting a slight wound in the right leg of the Baron, A little later the Baron made a clever lunge which pricked the skin on the right shoulder of his adversary. The latter* however, parried admirably, and at that moment, to the horror of the seconds, the Baron appeared to slip and literally fall on the point of his adversary’s sword, which entered his neck. A stream of blood gushed from the wound. The seconds at once stopped the combat. Baron Kalnosky was assisted to an adjoining knoll and his wound hastily dressed. After ascertaining that the result would not necessarily be fatal the Southerner and his friend left the field. Every effort to identify this man has failed. With the exception of Kalnosky, he appears to have been unknown to all concerned. His appearance, however, leads to the belief that he is the son of a prominent citizen of Atlanta, Ga., famous in the South as an authority on the code duello, and who, though quite young, has taken an active part in several affairs of honor. He is known to have boarded the Cincinnati train on the Big Four, which left the Hyde Park station at 9:45, two hours after the termination of the combat.

OTHER NEWS ITEMS.

Onyx has been discovered in Missouri. "$• Minnesota trains have been delayed by caterpillars on the track. The health of the Prince of Wales causes grave anxiety to his friends. A mob of young farmers strung up a six-teen-year-old boy, near Winterset, la., to ,make r him confess to cutting a saddle. Ho was almost choked to death. A conflict between British and Portugese colonists, in which seven Portugese were killed, took place in South Africa. The British loss is unknown. For some time the farmers of Bartholomew county have been considering a change of crops, having in view the object of a better income from their farms. This subject was thoroughly discussed at the farmers’ institutes held in that county this year, and greater diversity of crops will be the result of it. Two farmers near Jonesville have each planted twenty acres of potatoes, while several others have turned a part of their attention to the raising of broomcorn. Several others are trying a few acres of navy beans, while another will try to reap some profitfrom a small field of* the castor bean. In the western part of the county there will be several who will embark in the tobaccoraising business. In the years of 1865 and ISGG tobacco was successfully raised in Brown county In large quantities, and Sue pf two men who yet reside and do bttsini - in Columbus made several thousand dollars on tobacco raised in Brown county l alone. Since that time the culture of t;iaccS in Brown county died out and the stave business took its place, but of la: ■ - business has, on accountof the -* yof timber, become unprofitable. US ■ re many farmers who have grown tisv.l I raising wheat am* corn, and will likely ~* benefited by tin hange, and bCsidx • w ill save a great amount of labor.