St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 15, Number 5, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 27 July 1889 — Page 4

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ELECTRIC FLASHES. LATEST TELEGRAPHIC NEWS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WOULD. f ______ Political Gossip, Railroad Rumblings, Personal Mention, Conflagrations, Accidents, Crimes and Criminals, Minor Occurrences and Events. HUMAN SACRIFICES IN GEORGIA Horrible Results of the Preaching of the False Christ. A Savannah (Ga.) dispatch says the negroes of Liberty County, Georgia, are in a state of excitement over the preachings of a man named Bell, a pseudo Christ, who has been inciting the ignorant people of the county and telling them that he will lead them into the Promised Land of Canaan next month. Hundreds have left their farms and occupations to follow the false Christ. Bell was tried tor lunacy and sent to au asylum. His successor, a negro named James, began preaching and telling the people that human sacrifice was demanded. Several days ago in a remote part of the county a woman who was one of James’ followers slew a little child, her niece, cutting symbols on the head and body and then throwing the body into a ditch. The woman was arrested and is in jail. 1 he white people fear the violence of the excited negroes, who are crazed with Bell s and James’ teachings. WHITE CAPS IN WISCONSIN. A Mite-Beater ami the Salvation Army Excite Their Displeasure. A FEW days ago a young girl named Meyer became insane at the Salvation Army meeting at Neenah, Wis., and the Salvationists were blamed as the cause of her insanity. A number of threats wore made against them by excited citizens an<| Capt. Dallee of the army received a regulation AVhite-Cap letter of warning for himself and his associates to leave the city inside of six days or suffer the consequences. It was signed “Neenah White Caps.” Another White-Cap outrage occurred s.x miles south of Brodhead, AV is. The victim was a wife-beater, a rich farmer named Perry Nelson , known ns the strongest man in Southern Wisconsin. He had beaten his wife terribly of late. He was caught going home by a gang of White Caps, terribly beaten, and tarred and feathered. They then warned him to give his wife $7,000 and leave the country in ten days, or they would return and kill him. MURDERED HIS SWEETHEART. A Jealous Jian Shoots the Girl He Loves and Then Kills Himself. A Peru (Ind.) dispatch says: At Xenia, a village a few miles south of here, Jesse Overman shot and instantly killed his sweetheart, Miss Maggie Smith, daughter of a prominent physician. The shooting was done near the front steps of the doctor s residence. Overman has for the last two years been paying al tention to Miss Smith. He was of a jealous nature. He called, as usual, and the couple were out on the front porch. What was said is not known, but Overman suddenly drew a revolver on the gitl and tired, wheh^he ran screaming around the house, traversing it twice before falling down, dying from the shot. Overman then placed the revolver to his head, firingzwith fatal results. Both parties were-’young, the man being 22 and the gifl 18. No cause is assigned except jealousy. CIRCLING THE BASES. The Various Ball Clubs That Are Racing for the Pennant. Relative standing of the base-ball teams that are working for the championship of their respective associations is as follows: National. W. L. pc American. W. 1,. pc Boston 45 24 .652 St. Louis... .54 26 .675 New York... 42 27 .608 Brooklyn.... 48 27 .640 Cleveland.. .43 30 .589 Baltimore.. .42 32 .567 Philada 42 30 .5831 Cincinnati... 43 34 .558 Chicago 35 39 ,472! Athletic 40 32 .555 Pittsburg....2B 43 .SOpK’us’s City. .31 44 .413 Indiauap .. .27 45 .375 ( Columbus.. .29 49 .371 Wash’gt’n...2l 45 .318|Ijouisville...17 60 .220 Western. W. L. pc. Interstate. AV. L. Pc. Omaha 47 19 .712 Springfield .38 39 .5.58 St. Paul 41 25 .637 Quincy 38 30 .558 Minneapolis 37 32 .536 Davenport.. .36 32 .529 Sioux City. .32 35 .477 Peoria 34 34 .500 Denver 30 37 .447 Burlington. .30 40 .428 St. Joseph.. 26 37 .412 Evansville. .29 39 .426 Des Moines.. 26 38 . 406 Milwaukee.. 24 43 .35'-1 Minneapolis’ Population. The Minneapolis Directory has just been issued and contains 80,000 names, an increase of nearly 5,500 over 1888. According to the multiple used during the State census of 1885 the city of Minneapolis contains 235,000 people. ’This estimate is co ifirmed by other statistics. Minneapolis cast 38,0 0 votes for President last November and has 19,000 school children enrolled upon her books. The taxable valuation of Minneapolis exceeds $132,000,003. 3 Sent Rack the Governor’s Spoons. The burglar who stole ex-Gov. Long’s (of Massachusetts) silverware recently from his home at Hingham must have been a humorist. He has returned the spoons, marking on tho package the words “B. F. Butler.” The spoons were highly valued by Mr. Long, as the two small ones belonged to his mother and the large one to his wife. The Governor, however, laughs at the old Butler story, which the thief evidently remembered. The Chinaman Win. The Attorney General has given the Secretary of the Treasury an opinion to the effect that there is no legal objection to lire transit through I nited States territory of the Chinamen recently, arrived at New Orleans from Cuba en route to China via San Francisco. EASTERN OCCURRENCES. Michael McGrath and his wife, an aged couple, perished in their burning dwelling near Franckville, Pa. Lhe house was remote from any other, and help could not arrive in time for the rescue of the inmates. The passengers and crew of the steamer Lorenzo D. Baker, of Boston, with fruit consigned to the Boston Fruit Company, have arrived at New Bedford, Mass., on the whaling schooner Franklin. The steamer was burned at sea. She carried six passengers and twentyone officers and crew. Two firemen, Hugh Wylie, of Liverpool, England, and Ralph Robinson, of Boston, Mass., lost their lives. All the other persons on board were rescued by the Franklin. The fire which destroyed the steamer started in the engine-room and spread with great rapidity. The people on board took to the boats and a raft, and after floating about for several hours were picked up by the Franklin. Pittsburgh steel manufacturers disclaim all intention of selling out to English capitalists. They do not think Englishmen care to invest $100,000,000 for lhe privilege of controlling America’s iron industries. At Old Trinity Church, New York City,

Mrs. Harriet Atwood Aymar, of Jersey ! City, was married to Bishop George ! Franklin Seymour, of Springfield, 111. ! WESTERN HAPPENINGS. Near the Standing Rock Agency during a terrific thunderstorm, a blinding flash of lightning, accompanied by a deafening clap of thunder, came from the heavens and struck a wigwam a few rods below the agency in which were huddled five terrified Indians, instantly killing । AVhite Horse and Black Eagle, and stunning another so that he will not recover. Chief Mays is undecided regarding the sale of the Cherokee stiip, 0,000,000 acres, to the United States. The Government Commissioners, Hartranft, Fairchild and Wilson, appointed by Pres--1 ident Harrison to negotiate the sale, are due at Tahlequah the 25th. Mays will probably call a special session of the Cherokee Legislature to consider the 1 proposition of the Government, and also that of the live-stock company, the present lessee, who want their lease extended. Mays says the Cherokee title is perfect, and that a sale will be made to the highest bidder. At Lima, Ohio, William Deming and George Huber, two laborers, quarreled, ’ when the latter threw a brick at the former. The brick hit Deming’s forehead and broke the skull, inflicting a probably fatal wound. Kate Maxwell the noted “Cattle Queen,” and her partner, James Averill, j postmaster at Sweetwater River, Wy. T., have been lynched at that place by cowboys. The bodies of the Postmaster and the “Range Queen” were found dangling from the same limb of a big cottonwood. Stockman have suffered from cattle thefts for years, and the “rustlers” have been very bold. Aver 11 and his partner have been among the most active. Fifty freshly branded yearlings were found in their herd the other day by a stock detective, who reported the fact to the ranchmen. About twenty of the men drove to the cabin occupied by Averill and the Queen. The p air were surprised and were quickly overpowered. One end of a rope was fastened around Kate’s neck and the other around Averill’s as they sat on their horses. They were invited to speak. Kate said that for her mother’s sake she wanted the affair kept as quiet as possible. She wanted the cattle sold and the money given fora home for homeless girls. She hade her nephew' adieu and then wound up with a blasphemous harangue. The horses were driven from under them. Kate was not shot at, but Averill’s body was filled with bullets. Kate Maxwell was one of the most unique characters in the West. Who she was or where she came from is not known, but for ten years or more she had been the leader of a gang of “rustlers,” or cattle thieves, and has stolen more oattle than any single man in the West. While Lieutenant Governor Meikeljohn and W. H. Paton, a stockman, were bathing in Cedar River, near Fullerton, Neb., the latter was drowned, and the Lieutenant Governor barely escaped with his life. An Albuquerque, N. M., dispatch says: Last Saturday three cattle and horse thieves, members of a notorious band of Mexicans who have committed many depredations in this city, were captured and imprisoned in a vacant house near Kelly, N. M. Last night a party of cowboys proceeded to the house where the thieves were imprisoned, overpowered the guard, and hanged the prisoners after riddling their bodies with bullets. Secretary Mohler, of the Kansas Board of Agriculture, states that the corn crop w’ill be unprecedented in extent owing to recent rains, and that a drought now’ can in no way injure it. SOUTHERN INCIDENTS. In a wreck on the Savannah, Florida | and Western Railroad, south of Savan- ' nah, William Wallings was killed and several train hands were injured. The smash-up was caused by a misplaced switch. The partial destruction of the excursion steamer St. Nicholas occurred on the i Savannah River, killing several persons and inflicting serious injury on many others. The St. Nicholas was eanying 500 colored passengers, and when passing Tybee railway bridge the boat was drawn by the current against the bridge with great force. The forward deck was crushed and torn into splinters. Two women were killed instantly and thirty other persons seriously wounded. A panic ensued among those on board, and a scene of wild excitement followed. During the' confusion several persons were knocked overboard, and one woman was drowned. Several of the persons injured* will die. THE NATIONAL, CAPITAL. Secretary Noble has issued an orderdirecting Dr. George Ewing and H. L. Bruce, of the Board of Pension Appeals, and Judge Frank L. Campbell, of the Assistant Attorney General’s Office, Interior Department, as a committee to forthwith enter upon an investigation of all reratings of pensions as made by the Pension Bureau during the last twelve months, and especially those of pensioners in the Government service, with a view to ascertaining whether any such reratings have been made in violation of law. ACROSS THE OCEAN. The Parnellites have decided to appoint Messrs. Davitt, Healy, and Sullivan as a committee to receive moneys for the new Tenants’ Defense League. They will also undertake the duty of registering the members. Pending the time when an election of the league's council can be made, Messrs. Campbell and Cox have been appointed temporary secretaries. The Russian Government has allocated a large tract of land to the Mussulman population of Kabardah. Such gifts are unusual and are generally the prelude to a conflict with Turkey, being intended to keep the Mussulmans quiet. The Governors of Odessa and Kiseheneff in recent addresses to the troops hinted that Russia was preparing to advance southward. The Navy Department has received a report from Admiral Gherardi, stationed at Port-au-Prince, dated July 10, in which Hippolyte was reported to be advancing upon Port-au-Prince and that upon the beginning of an attack a force of marines would be landed from the United States ship in the harbor to protect the American representative and the interests of American residents. The Admiral also reported that Legitime had appealed to the American minister, Mr. Thompson, to meet Hippolyte and endeavor to arrange some basis upon which the conflict between their forces might be stopped. In the English House of Commons it has been agreed, by a vote of 230 to 70, to grant a lump sum of £600,000, or, as rn alternate. £20,000 annually, to build railroads in Ireland. Advices from China state that during a recent fire at Su Chow, which burned fiercely for twenty-three hours, 87,000 dwellings were destroyed. Twelve hun- ! dred persons perished in the flames and 1 400 were crushed to death during the panic that prevailed, while trying to escape. Oue hundred and seventy thou-

sand people are without shelter, and I they have been dying at the rate of 100 a i day from want and exposure. The authorities are soliciting help from the benevolent and providing assistance as rapidly as possible. The German Government has denounced the treaty with Switzerland which regulates the settlement of foreigners in Switzoiland and which expires at the end of 1890. The Pesther Lloyd asserts that Prince Bismarck’s denouncement of the j treaty is far from constituting a settlement of the controversy between the two countries. The paper says that some pronounced action will probably be taken by Germany when Emperor William returns from his yachting tour, and the whole controversy will assume a new aspect. FRESH AND NEWSY. Near Ottawa, Ont., six men were drowned while attempting to shoot Roche’s Rapids with a raft. They were lumbermen, but their names are unknown. E. T. Jeffery has tendered his resignation as General Manager of the Illinois Central Railroad Company. The resignation was forwarded to President Stuyvesant Fish before the latter’s departure for Europe in the early p rt of the present month. No action has yet been taken on Mr. Jeffery’s resignation, and it is piobable that nothing definite regarding it will be done until Mr. Fish’s return । from Europe next October. There is a movement on foot looking to the consolidation of all of the naturalgas companies in the Ohio and Indiana fields and putting them into a trust. Dr. S. A. Baxter, of Lima, Ohio, is quietly engineering the matter, with the aid of J. B. Townsend, H. M. Ernst, and others. It is understood that this arrangement has the sanction of Calvin S. Brice, Oliver H. Payne, and other Standard Oil managers. They now own the majority of all the stock of the companies in Ohio and Indiana, and will buy up the stock of the remaining independent companies. It is a gigantic scheme, which will probably mature fully m a few weeks. The goods and chattels of District Assembly 49 of New York City have been sold at auction. It is the last act in the drama of the disruption of the wellknown and once powerful Knights of Labor organization. A representative of the Vanderbilts has purchased the interests of a number of heavy local stockholders in the Beech Creek Coal Company, at Shamokin, Pa. Over $3,000,009 was involved in the transaction. Tie Vanderbilts are now sole owners of the Beech Creek Railroad. The American fishing vessel Mattie Winship, recently seized by the Canadian Government for illegal fishing, is forfeited. Her owners offered $2,000 to the crown and the total expenses of the seizure, for her restoration. The offer will bo accepted. Sagi a (Cuba) papers state tint an American syndicate will establish a large sugar factory near Encrucijada. R. G. Dun's weekly review of trade says: For the dull season of the year business continues remarkably large. New business of a non-speculative character evidently exceeds that of the same month in any previous year. From nil parts of the country, also, come reports that an active and prosperous fall trade is an 1 icipated, and the crop prospects continue favorable. Hut the financial outlook is rendered uncertain by the continual exports of gold the liquidation of foreign holders of securities, and the doubts about, trust operations. Reports from interior cities indicate that the demand for money is everywhere met by an ample supply, and at nearly all points is still but modeiato. Trade is clearly larger than a year ago at Cleveland, with good collections; improving at Pittsburgh; by no means active at Milwaukee, though collections are better; excellent m both respects at Omaha, and a fair average lit. Kansas City; fair at New Orleans, with collections up to expectations; unchanged at Detroit, though money is in brisk demand, and rather more active at Philadelphia ana New York. Os the great industries the woolen manufacture seems in most uncertainty, for the price of ’he material has further advanced about 1 cent on the average and the tone is very firm, while manufacturers do not care to sell wool short by disposing of goods at present prices. Wheat has been advanced 1 cent on reports of extensive damage in Dakota, with sales of 17,000,090 bushels hue. The accounts do not w arrant expecthtion that the yield will fall as low as 483,090,009 bushels, w hich, with the large surplus still in hand, w ill much exceed any demand at presc it probable. Corn has advanced cent and oats'4 cent without special reason. The general average of prices is lower by Ki of 1 P° r cent, than a w eek ago, and unless crops sustain great injury is likely to go still lower. The business failures number 208, as compared with a total of 209 the week previous. For the corresponding week of last year the figures were 228. PRESIDENT HARRISON'S CHOICE Prominent Offices Being Filled by Late Ap pointees. The following appointments have been made: William Rule, of Tennessee, to be Pension Agent at Knoxville, Tenn. ; William A. Richards, of Wyoming, to be Surveyor General of Wyoming ; "Boetius H. Sullivan, of Dakota, to be Surveyor General of Dakota. To be Registers of Land Offices—Charles H. Cornell, of Nebraska, at Valentine, Neb.; Edward H Champlin, of Wyoming, at Cheyenne, Wyo. ; Martin J. Wright, of California, at Visalia, Cal. ; John A. Mcßeth, of Colorado, at Denver, Colo. To be Receivers of Public Moneys — Robert L. Freeman, of California, at Visalia, Cal. ; Leroy Grant, of Wyoming, at Cheyenne, Wyo, To be Indian Agents—T. J. Buford, of Oregon, at tha Siletz Agency, in Oregon; John P. McGlinn, of Washington Territory, at the Neah Buy Agency, in Washington Territory; D. J, M. Wood, at the Ponca, Pawnee, Otoe, and Oakland Agency, in the Indian Territory. Capt. George Dewey, to be Chief of the Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting in the Department of tho Navy, with the rank of Commodore ; John F. Groenveit, to be Assistant Surgeon in the Marine Hospital of the United States; Charles C. Austin, of Alabama, to be Marshal of the United States for the Northern District of Alabama. MARKET REPORTS. CHICAGO. Cattle—Primo $ 4.25 tsi 4.50 Good 3.50 © 4.00 Common 2.50 © 3.50 Hogs—racking Grades 4.00 @ 4.50 Sheep 3.50 © 4.50 Wheat- No. 2 Red 81 @ .82 CoHN—No. 2 35}6© .86’2 Oats- No. 2 22 © .23 Rye—No. 2 41 © .42 Butteh—Choice Creamery 13 © .15 Cheese—Full Cream, flats 07’.'>© .08 Eggs—Fresh 11 i« .IPj Potatoes—Choice new, per bu.. .28 © .33 Pork- Mess 11.00 mi 1.25 MILWAUKEE. Wheat—Cash 79 © .80 Corn—No. 3 36 © .37 Oats—No. 2 White 28 © .29 Rye- No. 1 42 © .43 Barley No. 2 60 © .62 Pork—Mess 11.00 ©11.25 DETROIT. Cattle 3.00 © 4.03 Hogs 4.00 © 5.00 Sheep 3.25 © 4.00 Wheat- No. 2 Red 86 © .88 Corn—No. 2 Yellow 36 © .37 Oats—No. 2 White 2J © .30 TOLEDO. Wheat No. 2 Red 83 © .83>5 Corn Cash 37 © .38 Oats-No. 2 White 32 © .32^ NEW YORK. Cattle 350 @ 4.75 Hogs 6.00 © 6.75 Sheep 3.50 © 5.25 Wheat—No. 2 Red. 90 © .91 Corn —No. 2 45 © .50 Oats-Mixed Western 25 © .29 Pork—New Mess 12.50 ©13.00 ST. LOUIS. Cattle 3.50 © 4.25 Hogs 4.00 © 4.50 Wheat —No. 2 Red 72 .73 Corn— No. 2 33}£@ .34 Oats 23 © .24 Rye-No. 2 40 © .41 INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle 3.00 @ 4.2.5 Hogs 4.25 © 4.75 Sheep 3.C0 © 4.50 Lambs 4.00 © 5.50 CINCINNATI. Hogs 4.00 © 4.75 Wheat —No. 2 Red .83 © .835^ Corn—No. 2 39 © .39^ Oats—No. 2 Mixed 26 © .26'.j Rye No. 2 47 © .49 Pork-Mess 11.50 ©12.00 KANSAS CITY. Cattle—Good 3.50 © 4.00 Medium 2.50 © 3.W Butchers’ 2.00 ©3.00 Bogs 4.00 © 4.30 Sheep 3-00 <(S 4.00 Lambs ~..,2.59 ©4.50

TERRIBLE CLOUD-BURST. DESTRUCTION BY WATERS IN THE KANAWHA VALLEY. An Unprecedented Rise of Waters in Parts of West Virginia and Ohio—Widespread Loss of Life and. Property by the Raging Streams. A Parkersburg (W. Va.) dispatch says: The storm along the valley of the Little Kanawha was one of terrible violence, and the rush of water down the channel of the river and over the lowlands bordering it was unprecedented in its suddenness and about as large in volume as ever before known. It is feared drownings have been numerous in the narrow valleys upstream along the tributaries of the river. The storm extended across the Ohio, and railroad washouts, wrecked bridges and ruined crops are reported over a large area in Ohio. The storm burst about midnight, and by 3 o’clock in the morning the river had jumped up twenty feet, and at daylight the scene presented along the channel in front of this city was an alarming one. The entire surface of the stream was covered with a tangled mass of logs, barns, fragments of houses, and rafts of valuable timber About 0 o’clock Mrs. Isaiah Tucker went to the door of her boat house opposite this city to view the wreck-covered river. As she stepped upon the deck a huge raft of logs struck the boat and she was tossed into the water and never rose. She left a family of live children in the boat, who were saved. Another shanty boat said to contain three women, passed the city about daylight. A short distance below it was overturned and all were drowned. The Ohio River railroad is broken at Harris Ferry, the Baltimore & Ohio at Kanawha Station, and the Cincinnati, Washington & Baltimore at Londonderry. Many lumber firms have lost about all their summer cut of logs, and thousands of acres of crops are totally destroyed. Details of losses are constantly coming in and the aggregate damage will exceed SIOO,000. Above the destruction was still greater. Big Tygart valley is completely ruined. The big mill near its mouth went out and took the Tygart bridge with it. In the valley all the fences, crops, ami live stock were lost. At Chesterville, a small town about ten miles above, half the residences were carried off bodily and left in corn fields. In Clay district a fine church and three dwellings were wrecked. About noon information was received that the steamer Oneida had been wrecked and sunk at Enterprise, above. Still later a report came that the steamer S. C. Martin was sunk at Burning Springs. The Little Tygart is also reported completely ruined. Heatherington’s store, Capt. Spencer’s residence, C. P. Cooper’s residence, and that of J. W. Smith ate completely demolished, but no lives are reported lost as yet. The woist story of all comes from Morristown, a small village near the head of Tucker creek, where the cloud burst eon centrated in all its fury, coming down of the village ami totally destroying it, to' getl er with many of its people. The first report gave the loss of life at eleven, but later news seems to fix the loss at a greater numlier. The houses of the citizens are said to have 1 een picked up and hurled against each other in such short space of time that no chance to escape was given tho people. Among those lost at Morristown are Jake Kiger, his brother? Joseph and Thomas, a man named Bailey, Orville West, wife, and child. The body of a man believed to le another Morristown victim was found on the Richardso: farm. At Pill Brush all bridges and culverts nr” •washed awa v and it is impossible to reach or communicate with that point, or any other on upper waters. It is impossible now to enumerate the loss even here, as the river is still rising and tearing everything loose. A family boat containing three or four persons went out during the night, ami it is believed all are lost, as last seen of thenF was when a woman held up a child in her arms ami beckoned for assistance as the house disappeared in the flood. Later—a freight train on the Ohw River railroad broke through a trestle at Harris’ Feriy, completely wreckir the train and fatally injuring William ep tune, an employe. The wreck was caused by a heavy washout. The Baltimore A Ohio train, delayed by washouts at Kanawha station, has just been reported. Lock No. 1 above the city on the Little Kanawha has given way before the flood. Advicss from Ohio show that heavy rains fell in many places. A cloud-burst is reported at Lancaster, which caused a big washout on the Columbus, Hocking Valley <fc Toledo railway. At Logan, Ohio, heavy rain caused much damage to crops. Lightning struck a house in the little village of Georgesville, in Franklin county, and set it on tire and burned half the town. At Marysville, Ohio, great damage was done. Lightning struck the electric-light works, ruined a dynamo, and put out the lights of the town. THE SALT TRUST ORGANIZED. Articles of Incorporation Have Been Filed at Albany, N. Y. Abbany, N. Y., July 21.—The Northern American Salt company has filed articles of incorporation in the Secretary of State’s office. Franklin Woodruff. Horace K. Thurber, William A. Hazard, and Charles F. Burger are the incorporators, with a capital of $11,000,000, divided iuto 220,000 shares of $,50 each. They state that they are to manufacture and sell salt and salt products in their various ramifications. The principal part of their business will be located in Warsaw, N. Y., but they will also carry on their business in tho following places: Meigs and Tuscarawas counties, Ohio; Mason county, West Virginia; Reno and Rico counties, Kansas; Hidalgo county, Texas; St Clair, Huron, Saginaw, Ray, and losco counties, Michigan. The following thirteen trustees, who will manage the concerns of the company for the first year, are named: Wellington R. Burt, Franklin Woodruff, Horace K. Ihurber, William A. Hazard, John Canfield, William S. Conklin, Albert R. Boardman, Jay Morton. Diehard T. Wilsen, Henry W. Cnnuou, Charles F. Burger, Lord Thurlow and Joseph Verdin. Charles F. Bui ger and H. Aplington were in Albany to-day and paid the company’s organization tax, amounting to $13,750. this is the third largest organization tax ever received by the State. THREATENED WITH FAMINE. Farmers in the Canadian Northwest Subsisting' on I’i<*id Mice and Gophers. Grafton, D. T., July 22. —Crops in the Canadian northwest and along the Dakota line are in bad shape. Farmers are almost destitute, and some instances are reported where they are subsisting on field mice and gopher -. In the Canadian northwest proper the crops are nil. A party of emigrants from the Souris country were met yesterday at the boundary line. They had traveled 800 miles through a well settled country on the Canadian side without seeing a fair crop, and say a great many settlers are leaving their land to drive their cattle to timbered country on this side. Some families looked famine stricken and had eaten nothing but potatoes and turnips for some months. They were glllicted with scurvy and were sacrificing themselves to save their cattle. At one place northwest from Turtle mountain a family of English emigrants, who were traveling back to the mountains, had killed and were eating a young colt. The suffering in that isolated region will be awful, and those who have [ means will leave in such numbers as to depopulate that section. 1

AUGUST BELMONT. His Marriage to Commodore Perry’s Daughter Grew Out of a Duel. A romantic story is told about the firs:, meeting of August Belmont with the Ihdy who is now his wife. As became her brave blood, the daughter of Commodore Oliver Perry, “the hero of Lake Erie,” while still a blooming Baltimore belle, had an intense admiration for personal courage. It was while she was on a visit to some relatives in New York that the active and sturdy young German banker, who had at once taken the place in metropolitan society due the representa ive of the powerful house of Rothschild, became involved in a famous duel. At the (heater one evening he was among a group of young men, and between the acts one of the party expressed his admiration of the beauty of the ladies present in tho boxes, among Avhom xvas Miss Perry. A noted Georgia “fire-eater” standing by, Avho was Avidely feared and avoided as a bully and a dead shot, made some remark reflecting on the virtue of women generally. There Avas silence for a moment, Avhen young Belmont, a slight, timidlooking felloAv, to the dismay of his companions, faced the bully and said in distinct, deliberate tones: “The dog avho could utter such a sentiment insults the memory of his own mother and is untit for the company of decent men !”* AVhite Avith rage, the bully hissed: “You shall hear from me, sir!” It Avas before the Avar, in the good old times, and a duel folloAved, of course. Belmont’s friends gave him up as a dead mau. But Avhen the smoke from the simultaneous lire of the two pistols had cleared away it Avas found that the bully had a bullet through his heart and Belmont had a ball in his left leg beloAV the knee. He became the hero of the hour, and soon after he Avas able to get about he proposed to the beautiful Miss Perry and avas accepted. He afterward confessed that it Avas her noble face that nerved him to resent the imputation on her sex. To this day he limps painfully, bat his Avife is proud of his disfigurement. First a Pigmy—Anon a Giant. We are too apt to regard a small ailment much as wo would some pigmy, unpleasant of aspect ami prankish indeed, bi i incapable of serious mischief. AVe ignore the fact that it grows prodigiously, strengthens in proportion, and begets evil progeny. A fit of indigestion, a slight bilious rttaek, sensations of unrest and languor when tho system should have boon braced by recent sleep, unaccountable nervousness, inactivity of the kidneys or bladder—what are these but the precursors of obstinate and serious bodily disturbance? lu either of the above emergencies. common sense and experience unite in indicating Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as tho best preventive. I’articularly should its use bo prompt when tho languor, yawning, ehilliness down the back, and feverishness that precede a malarial attack, manifest themselves. Incipient rheumatism grows apace. Don’t neglect it. So with constipation and debility. Method of Photographing Stars. When wo place in the focus of the telescope a highly sensitive photographic plate the vibrations of the rays of light throw themselves assiduously on the plate and steadily apply to the task of shaking asunder the molt cnles of silver salts in the gelatine film. Just as the waves of ocean by incessantly beating against a shore will gradually Avear arvay the mighti«'st cliffs of the toughest rock, io the innumerable millions of Avaves of light j ersisteutly inq iuging upon a single I obit of the plate Avill at length effect the necessary decomposition, and so engrave the image of the star. It Avill be obvious that this process will be the more complete the longer the exposure is permitted, and thus Ave see one of the reasons Avhv photography forms sm h an admirable method for depicting the stars. We can give exposures of many minutes, or of one, tAvo, three, or four hours, and all the time the effect is being gradually accumulated. Hence it is that a star Avhich is altogether too feeble to produce au impression upon the most acute eye, fortified by a telescope of the utmost power, may yet be competent, Avhen a sufficient exposure has been allowed, to leave its record on the plate. Thus it is that photographs of the heavens diseloseto us the existence of stars which could never have been detected except for this cumulative method of observation that photography is competent to give.— Macinilla'n's Magazine. Muskets and Bayonets in a Tree. One night, long since, H. T. Huff, a Avell-known coal-dealer of Atlanta, Ga., Avhile cutting doAvn a bee-tree on his farm, live miles from Atlanta, on the SandtoAvn road, made a strange discovery. The bees Avere in a bolloAv tree, and Felix Jackson (colored) Avas put to work Avith an ax to heAv it down. “Lawd a-mercy!” exclaimed the negro, as he dropped his ax and peered into the opening he had made by the light of a torch. The negro had discovered an arsenal Avhose implements of war were like the gun of Hip Van Winkle after his sleep of tAventy years. In the holloAV tree were eight old army muskets and tAvo bayonets Avhich had been stored away by soldiers twenty-five years ago. The stocks of the guns had nearly rotted away and the barrels Avere rusted. The tree had grown about one of the bayonets and made it immovable.—Nt Louis Globe-Leni-ocrat. California Colonization. The r.nnouneement of the “Chicago and California Coloniz.ation Company” will be read with interest by persons who contemplate going to California. The C. & C. C. C. is a legitimate enterprise, and one which we arc pleased to mention thus favorably. The Most Valuable Metal. "If I gave you a pound of metal and ordered you to make the most out of it, Avhat kind of metal Avould you select?” asked a Avell-knoAvn jeAveler. “Gold, of course,” was the prompt reply. “I’d prefer a pound of steel,” said the jeweler, “and I’d have it made into hair springs for watches. A pound Os such springs would sell for an even $140,000.” —Egress. No soap has ever been imitated as much as Dobbins' Electric Soup. The market is f ull of imitations. Be careful that you are not deceived. "J. B. Dobbins, Philadelphia and New York,” is stamped on every bar. \\ 11 unditected by benevolence generally falls into personal satire, the keenest instrument df unkindness. It is so easy to laugh at the expense of our friends and neighbors—they furnish such ready materials for our Avit—that all (lie moral forces should be ar raved against the propensity, and its earliest indications checked. It is an unselfish Foli^^ho prays for the coming of the iri lenmum. 7 If affiicted with Sore Eyes, use Dr. Isaac 1 hompsou s Eye Water, DruggwU sell it 25c.

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