Bloomington Courier, Volume 9, Number 38, Bloomington, Monroe County, 21 July 1883 — Page 2

The Bloomington Courier BLOOMINGTON, : : INDIANA .NEWS AND INCIDENT.

Oar Compilation m the Important Hap- ' peoiflgs of the Week, OHOIABA IN EGYPT. Forty deaths from cholera occurred al Danietta Friday, seventy-three at Manson rah, fifteen at Samanoud, and three at Shjrbin. During the tweniy-fours ending at8 o'cIoekFriday morning there were twenty-five deaths from cholera at Damietfe, sixty one at JIansourah, twcnty-eev-enat Samonoud, and four- at Shirbin; three deaths in Malta. ITnrrv-eu'ht death from cholera oc

curred at Danuetta Sunday; fifty seven at Mansnrah, and fifteen at Samanoud. Knee the outbreak of cholera at Mansurah, eleven men and officers attached to the troops forming the cordon around that place have died from' the disease. ThejGolonel arid his staff became alarmed at these deaths and fled. The Colonel has been arrested and replaced by a British officer. At Danuetta.Taesday.forty-nine deaths from cholera occurred; at Samanoul, seventeen, and at Masourah, 101 At the latter place a number of Greeks forced the cordon surroiinding the town and escaped. Nobody is allowed to leave Manosurabnor are provisions allowed to enter be town. The people there are dying fttnn famine rather than cholera. At a meeting held at Alexandria delegates

were appoic ted to interview the Khedive

and insist upon sending food to the suffering people. Cholera has appeared at Zifth and Chihin, forty and thirty miles respectively from Cairo. A revised list shows the number of deaths from the disease at Mansourah, Thursday, to: have been

eiffhty-nine. The deaths at Menzalah,on

Monday and Tuesday, were forty-eight.

The English government has determined

to send to Egypt a British surgeon-gen

eral who has had much experience in the

treatment of cholera in India

There is great apprehension as to the spread of the cholera AH the reports

come through official sources and are be

lieved to be much underrated as to - the returns of the number of- deaths. The disease is believed to have broken out among the troops in Cairo and Alexan

dria. So far the' disease seems to be chiefly confined to four towns on the

eastern branch of the Nile. In Pamietta

about one thousand nave pensnea. or

about one in every thirty of population.

At Sherbin, a small village of mud huts, thirty miles up the Nile, there have been nine canen within forty-eight hcurs. In

Mansnrah, twenty milts further up, the

death rate has risen lapidly from six to

sixty a day. . The two towns contain six-

teen thousand inhabitants, and is a local

center of trade. From this point it has - spread to Menzaleh, on the lake of that name. The next outbreak is at Samanoud - a small village on the Nile, about sixteen miles further uf- It is noticed that the disease, as informer instances, is steadily following the couree of a great river. It is now only sev-nty miles from Cairoand should it reach that city a terrible mortality may be anticipated in the Arab and I Jew quarters, which consist of narrow 4 atgaatajoBany ending in cnlde nnr without J drainage or sanitary arrangements of any t land. At Mansnrah Monday 87 deaths cccurred from cholera; at Samanoud, 7; Sherbin, 2; fifty Europeans have died at Danuetta f torn the cholera since the outbreak of the plague. . : Thirty-five deaths from cholera atDamietta Monday, sixty-one at Mansourah, twenty two at Samanoud, twenty at Men-

The panic at Alexandria ... caused

by the fear that cholera would reach there has been renewed and the people are leaving the city in large numbers. Two cases of the disease supposed to be cholera are at Bulak. Six deaths occurred at Wagon. Cholera has appeared in several quarters of Cairo and I is spreading in the Arab quarter.1 There have been four eases in the hospital, one fatal.

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During the third quarter of the lost fiscal year the receipts of the Postoffice Department were $11,912,376; expenditures, $10,792,499; surplus, $I,11977. For the nine months of the fiscal year ended March 31, 1883, receipts, $33,946,856; expenditures 981,435914; surplus, 92,609,442.

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INDIANA ITEMS: Hugh Stout, a Blufffcon boy

years of age, weighs 243 pounds. The city of Evansville is now splendidly iUuminated with the new electric light The storm Thursday evening at Indianapolis did damage amounting to $30,000. The Lake Shore Baalway Company is expending 975,000 in improvements at Valparaiso. Hon. W. S. Holttan left on Wednesday night for a trip tothe-dfico&tT He

jwilibeabetaii, about six weeks.

The first installment of this year's wheat crop was sold in Columbus on Thursday at 90 cents a bushel. ',' William Hurst jr., living near Connersville, had all his work-horses, four in number, killed by a thunderbolt which struck a tree they were under. f A. T. Ijosb of KendalTville, recently received by express a parrot from Africa, which was sent him by Miss Walker, the lady miseioaary. . The bird was on the way about two months. The Steuben County Journal says: "Steuben county has ninety-eight lakes by actual count Of course they are not all large but all contain nice fish and the water in nearly all of them is pure and dear." , Bobert Pesley, of Jefferson township, Case county, had six sheep killed by lightning during the storm Thursday evening. A flock of thirty-five head had taken shelter near a Black Oak tree which the lightning, struck, but only six sheep were killed. James Overman, of Tipton, has in his poeseseicn a rifle which belonged to General Andrew Jackson and which was presented to him when he was president of the United States, as a silver plate to that effect testifies. The rifle is handsomely omamnted with silver. A boy by the name of Peters, who lives near Stoekwell, was plowing corn a few days ago when the plow share struck a root throwing the boy in front of the plow close to the heels of the horse. This startled the animal and he started to run away. The plow caught the lad in the adbomen almost tearing him to pieces. It is reported by those who know that

contnoutea over

8200,000 in the Chicago board of trade crash. One gentleman says the amount will exceed 9250,000. ,,j,.. At the M. K Church Sunday-school picnic at Battle Ground, a game of baseball was indulged with one side composed of nine clergymen. The preachers play ed a good game and made a good score. Property in Lawrenceburg, instead of depreciating, as many thought it would during the flood, has increased very mateiiaily, and .some sales have been made rt an advance of 30 to 40 per cent, it ore th an they were offered last year. . As harvesting progresses in Carroll county the farmers" are becoming more and more deieoted. The crop has -re

cently been dangerously injured by rust, and some of the most hopeful now expect it not to exceed one-fourth of last year's

yield!. .. . ........

Monday afternoon a four-year-old boy

of Dorf Seeley, living west of BooneviHe,

met with a terrible accident. The little

fellow had gone into a neighboring field of ripe oate unobserved, and lain down

and gone to sleep. Harvest was in ihiill

blast, and the mowing machine was driven on the bey, the knife catching his legs just below the knees and on thing

them nearly oft Amputation will be ne

cessary. W" . r. '

Daniel Burns, aged ninety, died at Mt. Gilead, O., a few months ago, leaving an estate worth $100,000. Ee was supposed to fee a bachelor, and his brother and brother-in-law" proceeded to settle the estate. But on Saturday a man and woman from Peru appeared, claiming to be Burns children by a marriage in 1825, and asking that the estate, a portion of which is in Indiana, be given to them. .. The new building of the State University, at Bloomington. was totally destroy

ed by fire Thursday. The loss will be about 9100,000,as follows: Library,$30,000; museum, 940,000; building, 9555,000; laboratorv.S10.000. This does not in

clude Jordon-s collection of fishes, which

cannot be duplicated. The library, con

tained 15,000 volumes, many of which

were rare works. The ma scum was the

finest in the country. The fire was caus

ed by lightning, and wfll be a. regret to

everybody throughout the State.-Spe-

ci al to the Indianapolis Journal

Last Sunday night CoL John w. Kay, of Indianapolis, delivered a lecturaia the

M. E. Church at F airland, on the tern

perance question, and his denunciation of the whisky traffic was so severe as to

cause a number of hoodlums to disturb

the meeting and threaten to pound to

pieces Rev. B. F. Morgan and "Squire

Culbertson, who attempted to quiet the

mo x While the Kev. Mr. Morgan was

on his -way home from the meeting he was nnmercifnily eg?ed by the hood urns

who not only spattered the minister, but

treated the front of his house likewise.

fHE CAST: At Albany, N. Y., on Thursday, Michael Peets, aged seventeen, while reading the

I Bible, was struck by lightning and killed.

At Glenns Pails, N. Y., Monday, twelve persona were injured by a boiler explosion ......- Chas. Hey wood Stratton, better known as "General Tom Thumb," died at Middleboro, Mass., Sunday morning, of appoplexy. A bark laderT with rags arrived at New Haven, Oonn., Monday, from Egypt, via New York harbor, where the vessel has been quarantined. The officers of the bark say there was no cholera in Alexandria when they sailed. No communication is allowed between the vessel and the shore. The army worm, in the northern sec tion of Lancaster county, Penn., is committing ravages in the tobacco fields. Many plants are covered with worms. During a heavy thunder-storm at Underbill, Friday, the school-house was struck by lightning and all the children more or less injured. The floor of the school-room was torn up, and the walls and ceiling wrecked. Several children were hurt by Bnlinters. The lightning rendered an old man and girl deal The girl iud the sole torn from one shoe and the upper from the other. The light ning plowed great holes in the school yard. Trees close by were also struck. THE WEST: , At Cleveland, 300 journeymen horseshoers struck, Monday, for higher pay. Correspondents throughout Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa write that wheat and oats are doing well and premise a large crop, but com and barley seem to have suffered from cold and wet. Capt. Frank Fisk writes to the Lincoln 111., Herald, to warn fanners against the spread of a flower known as the ox-eye daisy, which he has seen worn as an ornament in Lincoln. He affirms that if it once gets a start it will almost entirely kill the pastures and meadows. -. The Illinois State Veterinarian reports glanders prevalent among the horses in nineteen counties. He claims to have been prevented from killing animals afrhcted,aitorneys contending that he ould

tained on Saturday. The twelve are stated to be an ignorant, sorry lot, scarcely able to read or to understand questions asked them. A Gazette Helena, Ark., speoial says: On Saturday evening on the Williamson place, two miles out, two negroes, one with a musket and one with a rifle, fought a duel at twenty paces. A ball entered the mouth of one passing through the head, the other received the charge in the groin. Both died during the night. The Texas colored convention framed an address to the -people declaring that the white race tlironghout the South has continually increased in friendlinesseven to a surprising degree. Colored people

are recommended to keep a sharp eye on their teachers and preachers, and to remove at one ? those found incompetent or

immoral.

FOREIGN:

Cholera has appeared in London. Two thousand weavers at Ashton-un-

der-Tyne have struck.

A slight shook of earthquake was felt

at Cairo on Saturday.

The Madrid cabinet considered favora

bly the projct of France for the construction of a tunnel under the strait of Gi

braltar.

An attempt, which was thwarted by the police, was made on Sunday to set fire to the house in Dublin, of James Carey, the

informer.

A steamer which arrived at Lisbon from the Congo'river'Teports Henry M, Stanley in good health, but five Belgian members of the party dead. King Oetewayo has been defeated in battle by Hamer, one of the irreconcilable Chieftains. The engagement lasted all day. It is reported that Mr. Grantham, a labor agent, has been killed by the Zulus. A dispatch from Hong KoDg, dated the 12th, reports Tonquin in a state of anarchy. The French have captured and hanged many marauders, bands of whom hovered about and fired upon the outposts. Nevertheless, the latter are still fired on nightly. A telegram from Lisbon gives some particulars about the wrecked bark Pimpao, hence about the middle of May, with a crew of thirteen men and twenty passengers. The vessel arrived safely at Fayal and landed a majority of the passengers. When a short distance from that port she again went ashore on an island and all on board except the mate, . cook and one passenger were drowned.

only resort to this measure after the Governor had issued a prt olamation declaring glanders epidemic. The Attorneygeneral is now expected to give an opinion as to the powers of the State Veterinarian under the law. Reports from Senora, Mexico, are to the effect that the Apaches are raiding the districts of Montezuma and San Pariepa, committing murders and stealing cattle. An Epitaph special from Opasura states that a band of twenty savages attacked the Hacienda Pariepa, six miles south of Opasura, killing three men. It is positively known that twelve men have been murdered by Apaches in the neighborhood of Opasura since Gen. Crook took their families from the Sierra Madras. A special from Cokato, Minn., states that at 2 o'clock on Saturday morning a fire was discovered in the hotel office. Thtre were about twenty hotel laborers and other guests in tae building. Three railroad men were burned to death. Another guest had a leg broken by jumping from a window. The bodies of the burned men were so charred that the three only weighed sixty pounds. Two were identified as being Shepard and Williams, laborers. The other is unknown. Threefourths of the town is burned, principally the business portion. The loss is 900,000. ;; THE SOUTH: " Yellow fever has appeared in the lower part of Mississippi. A new postoffice in Georgia has just been named Het Off, there being already a Hatton in the state. Over 1,000 men have been summoned to ex Treasurer Polk's case, at Nashville,

forthe juryj.andthe tweWtbone was ob

WASHINGTON NOTES. Since the first of January the number of postmasters commissioned has averaged 1,160 per month, a large increase over any previous year. Commissioner Evans has instructed Collector Harvey, of Chicago, to make a demand upon the manufacturers of Rock-and-Eye fo the payment of special taxes as rectifiers and liquor-dealers from the 1st iiibt, avd to require all persons in his district who sell that compound to pay special taxes as liquor dealers. According to the report of the Chief of the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics the number of immigrants arriving on these shores during the year ending J?ne 30, 1883, was 699,114, being 189,878 less than the immigration during the preceding year, and 70,713 less than during the year ending June 30, 1881. Of last year's immigrants 191,643 were Germans, 63,720 Irish, 64981 Canadians, and 79,862 English. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue hasissued a circular modifying and supplementing circular 259, as follows: "In view of the fact that there was no specific appropriation made by Congress at its last session to meet the expense of cancellation and return after redemption of stamps imprinted upon checks, drafts, etc., it becomes necessary to inform the public that suoh drafts, checks, and stamps will not be received for cancellation and return after the 31st of July instant AH stamps imprinted upon drafts, checks, eta, received for redemption after that date, if redeemed, will be destroyed, together with the drafts or chscks. . :ivJ: , Gen. Crook, who has been here, might be taken for anything else than a famous Indian fighter. There is nothing of "the regular army ; officer, yer know," about him. Tall, spare, nervous and active, face bronzed and deliberately wrinki ed ; eyes rather small and restless, of light blue; nose of an Israelite pattern; beard a tawny blonde, sprinkled with grey, and hair of the same shade, standing erect, each particular hair seeming to possess a distinct individuality. Gentle and genial to the last degree, a thorough gentleman, rapid comprehensive speaker, and a man, withal, one would be glad to olaim as a friend. He was dressed like a sensible traveler white shirt, linen coat, checked linen trousers and a straw hat, while Ids baggage consisted of a small satchel and a clumsy paper parcel. There were no stars gold braids, clanking spurs and waving plumes about him. He left the soldier in Arizona. The location of the next national Republican convention iB being very gener ally discussed here and in New York, and from appearances the contest for the honor will be between New York, Saratoga and Indianapolis, with the chances in favor of the latter. Indianapolis came very nearly carrying off the prize in 1880, and the reasons why the convention of 1884 should be held there are stronger than they were three years ago. It is more than probable thou ex Senator McDonald will be the Democratic nominee for the presidency, and as Indiana will not be very apt to present a Republican oandi date for that high office, the necessity of giving business a boom in the West, and particularly Indiana, will be apparent to all. Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis will also compete for the convention, but the sweat-box experiences of former years will deter the committee from the first or third city, and Chicago cannot hope to get two conventions in succession. The question of location will not be decided before December, but it is well canvassed already, . Over 600 reports have been received by the Commissioner of the General Land Office from thirty special agents engaged in investigating fraudulent land, entries up to July 1. In many of these cases sup plemental reports have been called for covering points which are not sufficiently specific to warrant official action. About 350 reports show sufficient evi. dence of fraud to justify the Land Office in summarily canceling the entries. The records show that without exception the fraudulent entries, whether homestead or pre-emption, cover the full area of land allowed by la namely:, 160 acres. The land already restre4 to the public (lo

main upon reports of these agents aggregates 64,000 acres.' A great deal is located in rich valleys, and is held by the government at double the minimum price $2.60 per acre. The approximate saving to the government already effected by the secret service division of the General Land Office is estimated at $126,000, and it is maintained that these figures will be doubled when action is reached upon reports yet unex imined. The reseno pe of these special agents has had the effect of checking many fraudulent schemes not yet consummated. Special Agent Howell, near Plattsburg, N. Y., has called the attention of the Treasury Department to the large number of immigrants arriving at Quebec and Montreal, and says many of them are almost destitute, having neither money nor friends, and are too feeble, by reason of age or infirmity, to support themselves. He says most of this class are paupers who have been assisted in procuring pas

sage, and are ticketed to points in the Western part of the United States. The

special agent is informed that twentyeight persons who had left Ireland only

twenty days before were found helpless

and starving in the streets of Buffalo, and

were committed to the Erie county alms

house. All of these people came into the United States via Canada, The Canadian

steamer engaged in importing cattle to

Great Britain make very low rates for this class of immigrants from Irelan i to Canada. He says he is also informed that a large number of "state aided" immigrants are to leave FoyruB, Ireland, on the next Allan line steamer,and are to be sent at once from Canada to the United States. It is stated at the Treasury Department that there is no law to prevent pauper immigration through Canada territory. A prominent Baltimore dealer in old whiskies says concerning the opinion of the attorney general's department, that. it would necessarily have the effect of largely increasing the price of the old whisky in the future, because it would cost the dealer so much more to age it. Maryland and Pennsylvania whiskies were the best made and were always in demand, and the markets were not flooded with them as they were with Western corn whiskies. In England and other foreign countries whiskies and all kinds of liquors can be stored for years, and the dealers are not oppressed by heavy taxes. He said it will cost the Baltimore dealers abeut $2,310,000 to pay the taxes on all the whiskies owned by them now and to be taken out of bond. About one third of the stock in bond will soon be actually needed and sold, and the balance will have to be carried in stock instead of in bond. "We will have to shoulder about $1,500,000 worth," said the whisky man,

smilingly, "but the dealers in Maryland can carry that very easily." A leading New York dealer is quoted as saying

that the distillers have overdone the business, and that there is euough whisky in the bonded warehouses to-day to supply all the demands for six years

to coma The distillers have loaded the

dealers clear up to the muzzle. Many oi

the distillers have built large warehouses for the storage of their product, and the

only loss to the distiller is the leaving on

his bends of empty warehouses, which

may or may not be converted into churches, temples, or missionary shops.

CURRENT HISTORY,

Some Public Matters, Details of

which will be Found of More than Ordinary Interest

JEWISH TRIAIjS IN HUNGARY. The trials of certain Jews in Nyireghyhaza, Hungary, charged with murdering a Christian child and mixing her blood

with their passover bread, has been the

subject of considerable comment. It is not, liiowever, an entirely new or isolated case. In 1250 ninety-two Jews were tried in London upon the same charge. In that case the body of the murdered boy was found in a well belonging to a Jew, and it was declared that he had been crucified and his blood mixed with bread. Eighteen of the Jews who demanded that they should not be tried by Christians alone were sentenced by Henry III. to be drawn, which sentence was carried out, while the property of the whole ninetytwo was seized by the queen. Again,the famous burning of Jews in Brussels, in

1570, originated in a similar char ere. The

whole story in the present case in Hungaiy is like too many of those in which the object has been to extort from the Jews their money or lands, and which have usually bean successful ia various parts of Europe. r : THE AIiBANIAN REVOIT.

The meagre reports that are published

regarding the revolt in Albania against Turkish tyranny are enough to show that those brays people are making a desperate struggle against Turkish misrule. It is evident that the Turkish government is using every effort to suppress the real

facts in the insurrection, probably because

if they were known they would . furnish an excuse for the renewed interference by the great powers of Europe. Albania is a province of eastern Turkey, extending along the Adriatic and Ionian seas for a distance of 200 raile3, and. has a width qf from forty to 100 miles. The country is ragged and mountainous. It constitutes a province of the Turkish empire, and is ruled by a pasha. The turbulent and warlike character of the inhabitants is auch that it brooks no control, and in many respects some of the tribes are virtually independent. There is no peoplein Europe with stronger feelings of nationality than the Albanians. Their dress :,s fantastic, their habitations neat, and their food simple and nourishing; but they are a nation of warriors, and constitute the beat troops in the Turkish army. Albania was annexed to Turkey in 1466 and has a population of 1,600,000, OABBT, THE INPOBMEB. It is probable that a more graceless villain than James Carey does not exist. The instigator of the Phosnix park murders of May, 1882, he, upon the first evi dence of alarm, turned informer and, with the brazen features of a man wholly depraved, he appeared upon the stand and swore away the lives of his dupes, some of whom were mere boys. Erom the day of hie arrest to the present, the government has guarded him and his family to prevent a mob, actuated by an outraged sense of right, from giving him the punishment he merited far more than his victims. Last week- the government gave him the alternative of being turned loose in Dublin without further protection, or being furnished transportation to some of the

colonies in the otbf r hemisphere: He accepted the latter alternative. His family had in the meantime been quietly transported to London, and now Carey him

self has followed them. Where the British government will send him is entirely a matter of oonjectiire. He will be

a marked oharactor where er he may go

and if his villainies are not remembered by his countrymen it will be remarkable. WHY THBBB IS bHOIiBBA m EGYPT. The foul condition of Damiebta was known to the British authorities inEgypt for months before the cholera broke out

No sanitary regulations were adopted.

And when the dwease appeared the first thing and only thing done by tho British conquering heroes who occupy the land

was 'to draw a cordon around the tov

and imprison , its inhabitants. " "The rich" it is said, f,have bribed their way out through the wrdon,9' and the poor are dying at an enormous rate. Moreover, it has come to light since the cholera epidemic began that in all the section of the country between Kassassin Locks and Tel-el-Kebir, find for 100 rniles south of the latter place in the direction of

Cairo, may be seen the bones of horses

and men protruding from tho ground

where a year ago "the -victims of the war

were carelessly buried under a thin screen

of loose sand, which was long ago blown

away, leaving thousands of dead bodies a prey to the tropical sun or equatorial

rains, and to make appeals for pestilential punishment upon tme invaders.1 The

English authorities oaanot escape the responsibility for this horrible state of affairs. It is anofchor example of the beneficent rule1 of John Bull abroad. At present there is no tolHng when or where the consequences of England's carelessness will end. The pestilence may spread over the whole of Europe. If the invasion of Egypt last year was a high handed outrage on the people of that country, the utter neglect of sanitary precautions, resulting in a f right ftd plaguo,is gigantic crime against humanity. BBADIiAUiSH AND THE COMMONS. Mr. Bradlaugh has again been excluded from the house of commons by a vote of 232 to 65. TLis is the first time the case has come up since the. defeat of the government and the affirmative bill on the 3d of May last. It has been a frequent emark that Bradlaugh would cause the downfall of the Gladstone ministry, and it looks as if the prophecy might be true.

At all events, so ,-great has been the

premier's fear of the case that he persistently evaded it from 1880 until he in

troduced the affirmation bi?l. Tho whole

matter has been badly mixed since Bradlaugh was oted to parliament and refused to take the oath of office, asking

instead that he be permitted to affiiTu

like quakere and those who object to an

oath on cooscier. tious grounds. This

was denied him, whereupon he offered

to be sworn still, however, confessing

bis atheistic belief; This flop cost Bradlaugh manv friends, especially among the atheist3 themselves, who admired him

for refusing to take the oath but dispised him f r thua recanting. Bradlaugh was then sued for attempting to take a seat in the commons with out being qualified, -and after a vigorous defense he was defeated, but appealed the case. During the last session he attempted several times to take his seat, aud finally was dragged from the house by a policemen. The liberals , among whom there are some atheists, are 'opposed to Bardlaugh because he has written a book which has been declared to be indecent, and the tories oppose him because he has made himself more distasteful to the English than any man in the realm, In April Lord Coleridge decided Bradlaugh's appealed case in his favor, and this success seems to have inspired the government to bring forward its bill to permit atheists to aftinn, instead of taking an oath, Mr. Gladstone, while lie has no sort of sympathy for atheism, favored the bill on the ground that in a ' representative government an atheist wjjs entitled to an office to which he bad been fairly elected. FOBEST3 IN PXAMES. The report comes from Oiegon that terrible fires have been ragin g in the forests near Kalaina, wliioh have inflicted incalculable damage and caused losses in the pine forest regions that it is impossible to estimate. Forest fires, with the enormous -losses they entail, are by no means confined to the Pacific slope. According to the annual report of the State Board of Agriculture of Massachusetts, it appears that in 1880 there were 13,899 aores burned over in that State, and last year a single tract embracing 7,000 acres of timber was octroyed. The average annual loss in that State alone is- estimated at 10,000 acres. If such is the extent of the destruction in forests in a State where the timber supply is Hnaited, what must it be iu the whole country? The loss from such fires is far from being estimate ed by the value of the timber burned, or by reason, of the injury whin,h the State suffers by reason of diminished rainfalls and protraoted drouths. ( A further and far more serious loss is that wliich results from damage to the soil by the fierce heat of such fires. The fertility of such land has been found to be very muoh impoverished. A piece of wooUand that has been properly cleared will go on for an indefinite time. But it has been found that it rquires a period of from fifty; to one hundred ye irs to replace a traot with trees that has once been burned over. But the frequency of these fires prevents anything like a systematic effort to replace tracts which have been denuded with a second growth of trees- There is nothing that ca-ils for more oarA than the use of fires within the vicinity of forests of any kind. ....

GENERAL P. H. SHERIDAN.

His Home Life and Social Relations Anecdotes.

The daughter of the late Harvey J swell some wfeks ago dreamed that she bhw; an undertaker drive up to her residence with a hearse. Ho was a peculiar looking man. Mxb quecrly shaped nose, which looked as if it had been broken and was twisted to one aide, gave his countenance a very odd expression. He came directly toward her, and as ho said "Are you ready?" she suddenly ewoka Within a week the dreimi was repeated, even to the words "Are you ready?" While visiting Cincinnati some days afterward she went to a hotel to call upon a friend, and, stepping into an elevator, was startled to hear the man in charge say, "Are you ready?" She was greatly agitated when, turning to look at him. Sue behold the exaot counterpart of the man in hor dream. She requested to be let out of the elevator at the first landing. She stepped out and the man remained. The elevator machinery gave out; suddenly the oar went up, and then, clown, anc the man was

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Chicago News. The average biographer's waaknees is the boy hood of his hero in detail. Not so with the writers of the life of General Sheridau. This failure has not annoyed the man who lives at 2007 Michigan avenue, in this city. Th peace which surrounds the private life of the occupant seems to be two perfect to be broken by his contemplated removal. The house where he lives is simple in its construction, plain in its exterior. One would know as he wanders about tli at its master had been a soldier at some time. The pictures on the walls, the statuary, the books iu the library, indicate the character of the man. There. i one room that is filled with hltn ts,bounets, swords, spears, Bhsll, n "t th vari nu i i nuleimnt i of war by civiliaed aud s avage nations. He has gathered a store house of these. And when ha saunters about them, or when he looks at his pictures or hia books, twins toddle after him get tangled in his feet, and tug at the tails of his coat until he packs them up, one in each arm, and goes rolliolring over

the lawn with them, if it is as bright in

the sky as it is und3r his own roof.

Two others, a boy and a girl, the5 first

Phil. Sheridan, Jr., come in for recogni

tion, and get it. It doesn't take any fath-

omiug to discern that the wife and

mother of this home is just the happiest

in Chicago. This is all the mare pleas

ant to think about when one is reminded that she is not much more than half way

up to him, in years. .

They ail sit down to the tabic together

when nobodv's there to intrude. Those

twins get served first. They gat helped

as often as they wish just as long as the

nlatter holds out. They know there is a

. ... - ride for them, and they kuow that no

circus can ever come to town and get

away without their presence, guarded by

the same man who attracted the eye of Grant at Missionary Bidge, They have

their little 'parties and their liiitle enter

tainments. They shout, and roll about,

and play, and sometimes go the matinees.

The General plays euchre with, his guests

the only game he does play and these

cherubs never disturb him, though they

may crawl between his legs and steal his

cards. ,..

II don t know what he wants with a carriage for himself." said one of his

friends: "he never ereta into it when he

can help it. II! the day is fine, he likes to

walk down town; and if it isn't, he rather

come In a horse car." By the way, it is a little curious that a mau who is as fond of horse-rlesh as he, and who is so superb

when mounted, should never be found in

the 3addle any more. When his last war-

horse, " Winchester," died a few years ago,

his love for the possession of that sort of

flesh went with him.

One who knows him well vouches for

the truth of t he story that tho first time

Phil. Sheridan was ever on a horse was

when Bill Seymour, a boy in Ferry conn

ty. Or put him cn a fiery animal unsad

dled, unbridled, and told him to hold on

with his knees. And he did, until thfe

horse had galloped about two miles aorost

an open country, when the beast came to

a halt. Phil, was still on his back, hold

ing on with his kness. It became the

talk of; the country, Gossip was scarce

in those days.

He was an errand boy, aud then the

driver of a water cart in Zanesville. His elder brother had some influence with the Congressman of the District, and in 1848

had Phil, appointed as a cadet to the

United States Military Academy. No

need to follow him from tho graduating

class to the close of -the war. In sch.:o'

he was a student. The honor of disoov

eriog his merits as a soldier lies between General Grant and the late Edwin M. Stantou. The two latter and President Lincoln were talking one evening about the cavalry being without a head or leader. Buford was dead. : "How would Sheridan do?" asked the Secretary of War. "That's the vary m in," answered General Grant. ' ''..-.-.:". "Do yon k.i iw him?" asked President Lmcolu. "I do," replied Gamrai Grant, "I watched him at Missionary Ridge." "Send for him,' reap mded the president 8'ieridan is cue of the beit dressed men on the streets of Ohioigo. His tailor lives here and says he ha3 the best figure of any customer he has. His fifes are of the glove pattern, and as he walks dowu the street with a cigar, a switch cane ia his hand, a white hat and his apparel without a wrinki, he is as graosful . a figure as appears io the "passing show.". He is most resp33tful in his new at St Mirys, where hs oau be found nearly every Sunday. His nearest appro aoh to aristocratic bearing is his crest. He is to leave Chicago in September for Washington, to succeed Gen. Sherman. Tins remind one t'h ili hoT was one of the first captains in Sherm iu s regiment. His going will rob Chieago of one of i.ts most cheiished . ce'ebrities.. Aside from the pride which oitizms take in him as a soldier, those who kuow him in hissoial relations will have genuine reasions for regret. The preparaUoas'for an adieu to him are now being arranged. Gen, Sheridan was b jrn iu 1831, and his wife is the daughter of Gen. Backer, of the regular army. He wjoed and won her here. He is a Chicago man. The most intimate friend he has said a few days ago: "I know whereof I speak when I say to you that in all his success Gen. Sheridan never had a political aspiratioD; of any sort in his life." Aside from his military life there area few anecdotes of General Sheridan.. Once, after a certain battle in the South during one of the seasons of inactivity which always followed an advance in the

earlier years of the war, General Sheridan

went on a visit to bis native health. The fact that he was coming stirred up those along the way whose enthusiasm had been latent while their her 3 had baen in danger. They prepared him a royal reception. People from the fields and towns remote from the railway lines came out in wagons, stages and carts. At the point where the little soldiier was to be received the multitudes assembled. One of the trains came m and a shout went up. The crowd seized a richly uniformed soldier, and the hurrahs for Sheridan circled to the sun. The bands played and the anvil artillery belched. The Boldier M as carried to a coach, and the committee was orushjd by the populace, As tbe conveyance was about g,

move some newspaper reporter chanced to disco ver that the guest was another man -CoL Mike . Sheridan the brother of the General. He had submitted to the inundation of welcome, and, when the

mistake was discovered, appeared as

much contented as the crowd appeared

sold.

The next train brought in the right

man. The excitement was not quitt Vr so intense, having spent its force on Colonel

Mike. The way was open to the old stage coach which waited. The commit

tee bowed at the door. The warrior; ar

riving at the step, motioned the committee to precede him. The members went in, and were seated. Then the gen

eral shut the door, lighted a cigar, and said: "Gentlemen, with your permission

I will ride with the driver.,. The master

of the reins glowed like a heated turn -we.

He drove away in a manner that was stately. The general in replaciu ki&

cigar put the lighted end in his mouth.

He winced and shook his head. The

johu managed to get his head turned

from the wheeler and said: "From the

uss that they was makm about ye, I

never thought yees was afroid of a little

f oire like that.'

THE TRUSTlNjGKitjKE

Do you dream ftometime, with a addoil.thriUl

Of ono whose palaw Btir

At thought of you and your braye, BtroHf Witt

T hlefis and comfort her? t

Ah, life of my soul ! it ia better to know . '

There ia one in this wide, wide world;

No matter how far or how free w may gi,. .

Or what fable we may have told, n.

That belong? to ub, as the earth to the nun

Or tho spirite to God who gave; this is as oarban chat we'are pnei . As life and death and the grave.

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GENERAL MISCELLANY.

Chicago eats $3,000 worm of , ice cream &

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In its fright on being chased by a hawk

a partridge flew against Joseph Brink, of Bullivan county, New York,?. with: -suoh

force as to break its neok.

Oharles Hedrick, of Lexington, N. O.,

shot an eagle which had black back, wings

and tail, while its neck and breast were

white as anow. It measured seven - feet

from tip to tip,

Iu a burning cabin in Franklin county

Cra., two colored children perished, and a

dog which had been -left witblthem refus

ed to leave them aud' was burned to

death by their side.

A buzzard dined on a lamb that had been killed by a dog at New Garden, G&, In some way it got fast in the strap which lasteued the bell around the lamb's neck, and has gone jingling about with the bell ever since. . J .';.J.. In Paducah two English sparrows tried to drown each other in a street gutter. The struggle was a long and desperate one, and finally one got the head of the ether under water and kept it there until life was extinct. . There are people in Norwich, Oonn., who believe that a robin in that town fastened a string to the limb of a pair tree, wound the Bering around its neck, and then dropped from its perch, and in a few moments died of strangulation, while its unhappy mate, sung a requiem. The granary of L., M. MsIntoahjOh the Saeremento River, at Ohico, was mysteriously robbed night afer night. A watch was set, and then a large knk of wood ducks Was seen entering thy granary .through an open window pana in regular Una After the last du 3k ha 1 got ia ud 3 the watchers secured the. window,' and, going inside armed with sticks, killed 193 duofts which had been feeding on the grain. . . " A curious experiment was made recently at Paris to determine the power of a crocodile's jaw. The animal was fixed on

a table with its upper jaw connected with.

a dynamometer. An electric shook caused him to give a sudden snap. Three hundred and eight pounds was marked

on the instrument. It was calculated

that the omtraotile forceof the muscles .

causing the movement was 1;540 pounds, The muscle on an ordinary sporting dog was 360 pounds of contractile force. ,. A chubby brown sparrow flew uo from tho ground in Boston Common carrying in its beak a soda biscuit. He flew but a few feet before he dropped the biscuit, when another sparrow seized it and carried it a fe v feet furl her, and so one after another carried it along until the last sparrow dropped it plump on a horse-car track. Then away they aU flew, as if their object had been aooompUshed. Pretty scon along came a car and, passing oyer the cracker, ground it into crumbs. Then down swooped the wholeJftpok of feathered philosophers and made a good break-feat.

or Vennqnrs nvrng ex-governors ,nye

are over 80. , ,f - k

A waltz called SCUq has don by storm. .. . . '

A Wisconsin mother died at seeim?r her,7

son arrestei for theft. ,":

General Grant has two cliestnuts can go together in 2:35. .

Connecticut devotes 9p,p) wres. to mm

cultivation of the oyster. . : Neighborly folks m Tecninael borrow each others liver pads.

Thflv havi atrflfit narn at Niaimra Fallfli

now, and only five cents there! : -x x K r. Over one million people in France Hffc in houses that have no windows. , $ . i

. uaterpiuars are damaging tne cotton . crop in many seofions of Alabama. -Xt Baroness BurdettOouts owns J2&M(. 000 worth of United States bonder The Palace hiteL at San Francisco," f

cost 250,003, including the ground. r j

Jay Goulds new sepulchre at wood Cemetev. Bmok Wost t85000: '

England is" no longer the 'tadHtar .ff

opuntry.M She is only "assister" to us.

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About 400,000 coaoanut trees have beefi planted in: two yearaiMni ,the. iMIAmS !

HenatocVoortiees wears tnree nnKer,,

nncrs nn his lecfc nana ana carnesai

snuff-box. , .. V

Ex-Goveraor Brown, of Georgia, is to

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"V- -te-

Ida ship canal: r

Detroit has the largest local steambo alt

traffic of any city of;the nrdtedStatefi except New York. . ZZTi

Buskin believes that Oimrtship- should &&H

la3t seven years. Coal; and gas areoheaper in Eitaud than they are herew. - ' Horatio Seymmr has in his librarymt

old dead nhowiag that; ..v7aahinrfN

speculated in Mohawk aueylano- i 'i KnoxviUe, Tenn., ia entering largely . " s.p into maoufaoturing enterprise---- aai? .'r ' among. its industries art) oar -works, f';-;-.. ti-: . The wires used loar the air limits bl . y Chicago have been euby the .CrJB:

trician. They had beeamt up itt'wtet-

ground. ;.f,.-,r. -. :.. The Portehas decided upon- a tariff 1 ten per cent, upon articles importedr. consumption. On other importe Jjr : to 20 net oaat will be imposed. ,.v ?

Brigham Young Jr., of opinion thai f Mormon missionaries. . will send 20000 "J converts to the Waet this yearv l&e Apostlss are aow buying land ui Oohxu-:

ado for colonization purpose

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Helena Independent, Jiine ... , i : .. . Tuesday afrernooivs attempted stage robbory on the maiu range is the first affair in Montana since 1865 Where any passenger has had enough Hand, to attempt to stand ofl the road agents. Fortunatelyi for the encounter of . Tuesday terminated more happily for be ;tai Is of justice than that of 1H65: One day in July 1865, the treasure ooich for the south left-Virginia Oity with sevn passengers A. S. Packer, tu J. MjO iuHaud David Dinan, W. L. Mers, L. F. Oarpen ter, Charles Parks and James Bro vn. There, was a large amount of treasure on board. The p vweasersaU liai-.ly m ma-taineers-were well armed, principally with double-barrel shot gnus Un led with buckshot. They expected an attempt to rob the ooioh, but deter ninel tev fibt. They took turns watching at the coach windows with guns ready for quick use, determined to get the firs- shot if vppsa ble in case of an attack, d ie man also eat by the driver; Frank Williams, who was afterward found to have been in with the road agents. Th second day out from Virginia, while driving through Pont Neut canon tshe man on the box with the driver sang out; ''Boys, here they : are" he having discovered the barrels of the road agents" shotguns glimmering in the buBhes along the roadside. The outside watch follow? ed his words of warning with a hasty shot, almost simultaneous with which the inside passengers turned loose on the robbers, which was answered instantly from a volley among the bushes; Parker, MoOausland, Dinan, and Mars were snot dead. Carpenter was hurt in three places, and only avoided death! by feigning to be dying when one of the robbers came up for the purpose of shooting him a second time. Parks was also apparently mortally wounded, and was not further molested. Brown, who was not hurt, jumped into the bushes and escaped. The driver (Williams), who had purposely driven the coach into the ambush, was, of oonrse, untouched. His part of the -robbery was afterwards traced home to him, and although' he had left the territory he did not escape retribution, he having been hung by the vigilance committee, at Cherry Creek Borne months later. . The road agents who took part in this butchery were eight in number. They secured $65,000 in gold, and, so far as known in Montana, were never detected.

Senator Bayard is three doctors of laws, having received the degree .from Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth.

An object of eter

interestTh thermom-

Queer Stc.ries.

A deed of property lately made p ver-1 the United States, near Fort Davjs, Tex-J nfL rfladar 4tTo the 0nited States or dsar?

suocessorsr y..'-. . . '--' : A

An Kni?hshman becueathea his two ;

daughters! One of the girls receiyfd 20(Vjandii V other 59,544,' i

The wife of-J. W; Wise, of Spurli gtott

Ky,, is a g) andmother at 31: years ot .-agsi

She was married at the age of 14 finder- i her daughttT was.maxried fc the mmM-J age., ;. ,t ,.. .,-Z-:M The reason given by a Camden, OwBida.vcounty, man tor not marry ingi'ir: that his lot in the cemetery is now tul v 1

he having recently buried this sixth .wife

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Lettera deposited5 :':,&il.a. pfcti:'t'. (IowajPost Office in 1866 bnye juat era a to light - They were discovered in itearing dovn the building. batia WXi lost through a defect In a -leni', "sK;al'. -Wwiiiffllg Jmtana, nsm bought at auction for ipMI1-; ceseful litigant paid in ooata r more ,"f S50C.; Over 100 .femjamn ' A aron Stevenson of. Green Jlrilxid -f;K 7 was 96 years of age, and lived alone," Ai he was preparing hw dinner recently hia; C stole mntoa

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named Odum and Borden, quarrelled un-

der a pine-sapling during. a storm.

den held up the kuife to smse ma op

ponent, but at that instant a stroke" of

Jo hn Hense of Beading, Pa., was in the South when the war broke out , and he wrote to his wife thai; he had been foroedf

to join the rebel army. Nothing more

was heard from him,: and he was nmurned v: -as dead. RecetiUy her returned home He says when the relel army niarched to Gettysburghe one, but was-iaptured andpnt cue board a -warvessel where ue remained for sonwg time and then made his escape. He trav, . 4 , eUed'we:tard, was taken psoneby Tnlono ,ktA waa litxi antivfi tXT llftAMK . ..

Tears. He learued'a.number of Indian

diaieot.and4eoin He made Ins escape at lasi wi

France, and returned; to

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