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The Bloomington Courier. BLOOMINGTON, : INDIANA
NEWS AND INCIDENT. Out Compilation the important Happening of the Week.
CHOLERA IN EGYPT. : During the twenty-four hours ending at 8 o'clock Tuesday morning, 463 deaths of cholera occurred at Cairo; 23 at Zit teh; 16 at Tantah; 8 at Shirbin; 13 at ManBourah;118at Chibin; 43 at Mehallit; 95 at Ghizeh, and 7 at Ghobara. One or two isolated case of chole ra are reported in Russia daring the last few days. A Olarkon paper reports several cases of what it calls oholerin. Great efforts are making to purify St. Petersburg. The clergy held a special service of intercession Wednesday for the preservation of Russia from disease. The major seige has been imposed on the city of Nijni Novgorod during- the coming great fair. A dispatch says the number of deaths
from cholera at Mansonrah, Wednesday, were thirteen; Ghizeh, ninety-five; Tantah, sixteen. A dispatch to the Central News states that 558 deaths from cholera occurred at Cairo during the last twentyfour hours. The Khedive visited the cholera hospitals, Wednesday. In the last twelve hours, ending at 8 p. m., there have been 867 deaths from cholerain Cairo, and seventy-one at Chibin. Deaths from cholera Thursday: At Damietta 50, Tantah 28, Neballa 25, Chobas ft Samanoud 7, Mehallet 96, Ztfteh 21, Mansonrah 12, Ghizeh 55, Menzaleh Alexandria Cairo 42 A TEBBXBIiK CAUJCTTT. A terrible calamity occurred at North Point Trvoli,an excursion resort on the Fytappeo, ten miles from Baltimore, about ten o'clock Monday night, by which many lives were lost, the number being estimated between sixty and seventy. The accident was occasioned by the giving way of the outer portion of a pier on which several hundred persons were congregated awaiting a boat off on an excursion given by a Catholic society. A large number of those who were down during the day had removed, intending to return on the last trip. When the barge approached all those on sho;e made a rush for the end of the wharf, which is several hundred feet long and were closely packed together, at the gate about twenty-five feet from the end, impatiently awaiting admittance through the gate. As the barge came alongside and struck the wharf it suddenly and without warning gateway and a large portion of the crowd was precipitated into the water, which is about ten feet deep and many were able to save themselves by fleeing toward the shore as the outer end of the pier crumbled and felU Darkness added to the conf nsion and terror, and little co ild be done at once to rescue the drowning, most of whom were women
and children. The number of drowned
is said to be sixty-five, , . , The number of deaths from cholera at
Cairo, Friday, was 311. A Britis a lieu
tenant and eight soldiers succumbed to the disease. Fifty-six deaths occurred at Ghaseh, forty-eight at Chibin, twenty
at Tantah, twelve at Mansourah. and
twenty-five at Kafrel Hamza. HmCTEKH PASSENGEBS XHSLBSK
A terrible accident occurred on the
Borne, N. Y., Waiertown & Ogdensburg
Railroad at Carlton, Saturday evening.
Thirteen persons were killed and fourteen
wounded. As the Thousand Island train which was running at a high speed on the mam line, near Carlton the engineer
noticing a single car standing on the
' track ahead of him. He at once put on
the air brakes and reversed the lever of his engine, but before the speed of his train could be slackened the engine dash
ed into the obstruction, and in an instant
all was a scene of wreck and confusion,
and the air was filled with the groans of the dying and injured. The engineer
who heroically remained at his post was
rauury lnjureoY wnen tne crasn came the fireman who stood by him till the
last was instantly killed. From fifteen to eighteen passengers are reported in
jured. Many persons were killed outright and others left in a dying condition.
The suffering of the wounded was terri
ble. A whole family, named Brooks, is
behaved to be buried in the wreck.
Intelligence is received at London that
James Carey, the informer, in the Phoenix Park murder cases, was shot dead Sunday on the steamship Melrose, while she
was between Capetown and Port Eliza
beth. The deed was committed by a fellow passenger named CDonnell O'Don-
nell took passage at London by the
steamship Eonf arms' Castle, which left
Dartmouth on the 6th for Capetown,
where she iransf erred her passengers,who
were destined to Port Elizabeth, Natal,
and other coast ports, to the steamship
Melrose The report of the shooting of Carey caused intense excitement in the west end of London and in the House of Commons.
The imports of tea last year were 77,-
191,060 pounds. Lightning extinguished all the electric lights in Washington, Saturday night;
Dorsey denies that he was the author
of the New YorkSun's attack on Garfield.
It is developed that the outrage upon the American consulHte at Monterey was
only an ordinary robbery.
. CardinolMcCabe declares the opponents
of the papal circulars to the Irish clergy
were guilty of heresy. TheBapid Telegraph Company has compromised with its striking telegraphers and they have returned to work. The circular of the agricultural department in Washington says the backward weather has injured the corn prospects in Ohio and Northern and Central Indiana The secretary of the treasury Friday afternoon issued the expected call for $31,000,000 three and a half per cent bonds. . "Prince," owned by Banram, and said to be the best performing elephant on the continent, died Tuesday at Hamilton, Out He was thirty-eight years old and valued at $20,000. Information has been received at the Vatican from New York that the Catholic clergy in the United States will follow the instructions of the Pope in regard to Parnell and his followers. The presidential party on the Yellowstone trip will consist of the president Secretary Lincoln, Surrogate Rollins of New York, George J. Schuyler, Mr, Crosby, of Montana, and Gen. tSheridan.
Senator Voorhees is Teported by the Washington Star to have said that Mr. English was responsible for the refusal of Mr. Hendricks to stand out of Mr. MoDonald's way in the Cincinnati convention. . ............ .---,:.. .-- In the amount of internal revenue collections, the state of Illinois heads the list with $25,977,525; New York returned $18,967,187; Ohio, $12,704,047; Kentucky, $15,387,077; Pennsylvania, $8,703,679; Missouri, $7,680,411; Indiana, $5,592,71ff; New Jersey, $5,424,457; Virginia, $5,078,196; Iowa, $062,720. INDIANA ITEMS: Burglars are operating in Wabash. Logansport complains of bad streets. There are twenty-one lawyers in Princeton. Harrison county will have only about two-thirds of a wheat crop this year. The storm Thursday evening at Indianapolis did damage amounting to $30,000. The Indiana State Holiness campmeeting is to begin at the fair grounds in Warsaw, August 10. During the month of June the expenses of the State Prison South were $6,105.9 and the earnings $4,428.41.
The.Lawrenoeburg board of health has
taken steps against cholera, and stopped
the further importation of Southern
melons.
The hmokleberry marsh, near Walker-
ton, has onened for the season and the
"Huckleberry Queen," is reigning su
preme. .......
There have been twenty murders com
mitted in Parke county since its organi
zation, but the murderers all escaped ex ecution.
The Metropolitan police force formally
entered upon their duties at Evansville,
Thursday, and everything is working
smoothly.
Jas. Fuller, a small boy, was so serious
ly bitten by a dog in Clarksville, Clark
county, on Thursday, that his life is des
paired of.
Knox county leads the state in big
wneat yields tins year, pne iarmer re
ports forty-one bushels te the acre, and
another forty-four.
Mr. Andrew Kreitlein, of Aurora, who
started for Germany a short time ago, fell
into the hands of a confidence man in New
York, and lost about $600 worth of prop
erty. ... ...... .,
Tne largest snaae yet reported was
killed near Carthage on Monday. It measured 28 feet in length, and 36
inches in circumference five feet from its
head. .
A few of the farmers of the south part
of the county have threshed their wheat
and report an excellent yield, one man
representing an average of twenty-five
bushels to the acre.- Warsaw Times.
At Seller&burg, some time ago, James
Anadale and his wife found that they
could not live peaceably together, and
were divorced. Presently inr. Anadale
fell in love with his ex wife's motherland
they were married.
On Tuesday of this week Henderson Bros., of Knox county, threshed on the farm of Mr. Pidgeon, the wheat from a eix-and-a-qnarter-acre field, yielding 276 bushels,- an average of forty-four bushels per acre. ...... The complaints regarding the quality of wheat in various sections finds no echo here. Mr. Panoost, miller at the Beardsley mill, says the grain is full weight, of excellent quality, equal if not superior to the crop of other best yars. Elkhart Review. Peter Goelet died at New York recently leaving a fortune of $24,000,000, which went to his brothers in the absence of other heirs. It is now come to light that Mrs. Geo. Myers, of Parke county, Indiana, is his daughter, and the fortune will be turned over to her without protest. So far in this county the reports from wheat threshed differs greatly. In some places the yield is good, going as high as twenty bushels to the acre. In other places it is very poor not yielding over four or five It is doubtful if the average will be over ten or twelve. Kokomo Gazette. Noble county has paid for 5,000 woodchuck scalps this spring. Nearly all the counties in the north part of the state pay 20 per cent. bounty,and it Is clearing out the "chucks" rapidly. It would be a good thing the Laporte Argus thinks to pay a bounty for rattlesnakes end close out the stock as far as possible. Near Rockville, Carroll county, on last Thursday, a daughter of Mr. By ere, a young lady of about -fifteen years, was standing in front of a mower to which was attached a team of horses. The horses suddenly started up, and before
the young lady could get away from in front of the machine one of her limbs was caught by the swiftly-moving sickle and cut off at the ankle. According to instructions received several days ago, the shops of the Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific Railway at Carmi and Butler were closed Wednesday throw. inn fifty men out of employment Sixteen engineers and their crews, numbering sixty-four, have been discharged on that division, and more will follow. A reduction in shop forces at Fort Wayne will be made shortly. The internal revenue collections for Indiana are reported as follows by the Washington correspondent of the Indianapolis Journal: First district.... $207,502.63 Fourth.district . 2,76? ,258.46 Sixth district. 728.84M Serenth.distriot.......... , 1,630,108.59 Tenth district 16,635.47 Eleventh district , 9871.ftd
The body pi Webb, who attempted to
shoot the rapids at Niagara Falls, has
been recovered.
The Massachusetts Legislature ad
journed sine die Friday, after a session of
206 daya, the longest on record.
The Ohio Liquor Dealers' Association
is called to meet at Toledo, August 9, to
organize for an aggressive campaign next
fall.
Captain Matthew Webb, the famous
English swimmer, lost his life Wednesday in attempting to swim the rapids at
Niagara Falls.
Samuel J. .Howard, the wealthiest col
ored man in the United States, has just
died in New York. He was worth several
hundred thousand dollars.
The Massachusetts legislature without
a word of debate adopted the majority report of the Tewkebury investigating committee by a strict party vote. This was
adverse to Butler. A young Philadelphian was exiled to China fifteen years ago by his parents to cure him of a passion for a danseuse amed Maggie Summerfleld. Ho returned last week with a stake of $100,000, and married the girl of his first choice.
Total T. ..45 892,718.81 The Insane Asylum Commissioners have selected a site for the asylum at Logansport. They had to abandon the Fitch farm; on- account of the cost of making the required railroad switch. The a nn selected is known as the Shanklin farm, contains 160 acres and is said to be
admirably suited to the purpose. Tfeft
that the tract will contain 280 acres. There is on the land selected building stone, gravel and plenty of pure water. THE EAST: J The steel-works' strike at Bethlemem, Pa., has failed. Ex-Senator Conkling has gone to the Yellowstone region. Langtry left for Europe, Tuesday. Gebhart did not accompany her. Eight persons were drowned nearRich
mond, Va., Wednesday, by the capsizing
of a boat.
Cadet Thomas F. Hartigan has been
dismissed from West Point, for hazing
new cadets.
The funeral of Montgomery Blair,Sun-
day, was attended by many distinguished
persons.
THE WEST: Montana will ask admisFion as a state She is democratic. Colonel. R. M. King soli a mammoth
ranch near San Antonio, Texas, to an association of British capitalists for $4000,000. The receipts of grain at Peoria last week aggregated 349,800 bushels, being larger by 100,000 bushels than the week previous. Since March 1, to date,Chicago packers have slaughtered and , salted 1,030,000 hogs, being 139,000 less than during the corresponding period last year. Orth H. Stein, who killed Fredericks at Kansas City, Mo., a month ago, on account of a paramour, has been sentenced to twenty five years in the penitentiary Mr. Conkling, on his way to the Yellowstone, sidetracked his car at Chicago, out of the reach of political friends and interviewers and escaped thoir attentions. Michigan has again been visited by terriblefloode. Saturday three railroad bridges were washed away, and damage to property amounting to 8600,000 was done. In Cincinnati 2,000 liquor dealers have taken out licenses under the Scott law, being a decrease of 166. Of the 2,000, 363 places sell beer and wine only. The amount of tax received from them to date is $409,217.15. John P. Reynolds, secretary of theChicago Exposition Company, states that during this season $52,000 has been expended in repairing and extending the building. Peter Miller, aged seventy, while crossing the railway bridge at Fremont O, Friday, was struck by a locomotive and knocked into the river. Strange to say, he scaped with his life. ... 'j hore is a war between the typos of
the Springfield, III., Journal and the typographical union. One party waa arrested for assault and battery and the other for carrying concealed weapons. Dr. Wilcox, of Marissa, 111., killed a vicious dog some time since, and the owner sued for $25 damages. The case has jns been tried in the St. Clair connty court, the eosta amounting to $200, besides atorneys' fees.
President Backus, of the Ohio Liquor Dealers' association, says the organization is in favor of a licensp, and one which shall yield a revenue equal to that now afforded by the Scott law, but that they will insist upon a graduated system
which will have a fair ratio between the
amount paid and business transacted.
One hundred persons in attendance at
a lawn party at Joliet, 111., Thursday eve
ning were made seriously ill by eating
ice cream, the flavoring of which is be
heved to have been poisonous. None of
the victims have died, though several are
in a critical condition. At Denver, Robert B. Birth, of Phila
delphia, was elected commander-in-chief
cf the Grand Army of the Republic, on
the second ballot. Many of the Grand Army attribute General Barnum's defeat to his expressed opinion of the Fitz John
irorter case. Gen. Carnahan was strong
at one time in fie balloting.
A Rose Bud Agency, D. T.,special says:
The annual sun dance of the Sioux Indi
ans occurred Wednesday afternoon at the
camp near that agency, about 1,000 sav
ages being precent from all parts of the
reservation, and a number of white visit
ors. Fifteen warriors entered for the
dance, having fasted four days before en
tering upon it The bodies of all these were frightfully lacerated, according to the usages of the tribe,attestiner the game
quannes or tne participants.
The forthconnng August crop report of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture bas
ed on returns from 864 townships receiv
ed from July 24 to 28, give3 the following totals and per cents; Wheat, 23,873,-
000 bu., or 53 per cent, of last years crop, being an average of 8-7 bushels per acre. Percentages compared with 1882: Rye, 63; Barley, 73; Oats, 108: Corn, 92; Potatoes, 118; timothy hay, 106; clover hay, 91; tobacco, 88; sorghum, 81. Also the following percentages; Apples, 25; peaches, 81; pears, 33; grapes, 66; pastures, 103, farm animals, 102. Tht result of threshing will probably diminish the wheat to 50 per cent, of last year's crop, The apple crop is a virtual failure, being the third very shore in as many years. THE SOUTH: The Morgan raiders closed their reunion by presenting the daughter of GenMorgan with a handsome gold watch . Congressman Dezendorf, in his letter accepting the chairmanship of the Virginia Republican Committee, repudiates M ah one and starts out to reorganize the party on tue old basi?. The jury in the case of ex-Treasurer Polk, of Tennessee, at Nashville, returned a verdict of guilty of embezzlemen t, fix
ing the penalty at imprisonment m the
penitentiary for twenty years and imposing a fine to the full amount of the embezzlement, to which all will say amen. At the reunion of Morgan's men at Lexington, Ky., several hundred of the chieftain's comrades are iu attendance. The camp is on the old Henry Clay estate.
Jefferson Davis sends a letter commend-
the Union as commemorative of men "who had bravely struggled to vindicate the rights their fajthers left them." FOREIGN: m
The pope is again indisposed. All of Cetew yo's wives were Jailed with him. Cetewayo, the Zulu kin?, was killed in a recent battle. Great floods have caused much, damage in tue Argentine Jiepublic.
Ericsson's new torpedo boat has been tested and found to work well. The Irish Times says James Carey, the informer, has arrived at one of the British colonies. It is reported that Usihepu has defeated Cetewayo and burned TJhindi, Cetewayo is said to be wounded. The Lo.idon Times says the area of wheat planted in the United Kingdom is less than that of last year, and the yield will be below the average. According to the report of the Takes committee, 5,327 Irish emigrants were assisted within three months, at a cost of 35,000, of which the government furnished 26,000. Dealers in American salt meats and lard in Bordeaux have petitioned the French minister of commerce for a repeal of the edict upon the importation of American hog products into French ports General Wallace, American minister, has sent a fresh note to the Porte de man ding the prolongation of the trea y of commerce between Turkey and the Vm ted Slates, but agreeing to a revision of the tariff:. Within the last twelve days over seventy-five deaths have occurred from flux at Byhalia, Waterford and Victoria, Mis3., three small towns adjacent to each other, and located twenty-four miles soutwecst
of Memphis.
A carnage containing the skeletons of
three grown persons and two childrim,
fli!.' . I .11' . .a
Billing Doit upngnr, as it anve, was re
cently found under a large tree near Ihe
road in Llano county, Texas, the indioations being that they had been killed by
lightning a year or two ago. A trunk was
found marked "J, G. Chamberlain, London, England."
ix uispawm was received ounaay an
nouncing that the French troops bad
made a sortie from Hanoi, inflicting a se
vere loss Oxi the enemy, The d is Dutch
says Colonel Badens made a sortie on the
14th from Hanoi, with a force of 500 men.
He. captured seven pieces of artillery and
killed 1,000 of the enemy. The loss- of
the French was but eleven men.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
FRIGHTFUL LOSS OF LIFE.
Three Italian Villages Leveled
to the Ground by an Earthquake ! The Inhabitants Crushed and Maimtd by Falling W alls Three Thousand Persons Instantly Killed.
Ex-Uorann saioner Baum says the abo
lition of the revenue laws means the cut
ting off of 3110,000,000 of revenue an
nually, which would put a Btop to a fur
ther reduction of the public debt or ue ceesitate the increase of import duties.
It is probable that a call for bonds will
bo issued before the..olose of the present
week. The call will very likely include
all the outstanding 3 per cents, not yet
offered f or exchange, amounting to nearly 831,000,000. The amount of 3 per cents, exchanged into 3 per cents, to date is about $305,0000,000. " . The Treasury Department received a remonstrance from the British authorities against the return to England of three alleged pauper emigrants who were going to friends in this country who had promised to take care of them, and which emigrants had shown letters to that effect on arrival in the United States The matter is being inquired into. . Commissioner Dudley enters an emphatic denial of the ..statement attributed to a clerk in the Pension Officethat as many as 10,000widows of soldiers were leading immoral lives in order to retain their pensions, of which, in the event of actual marriage, they would be deprived. Colonel Dudley '3&ys there are not 100 of such oases known. Captain W. H. Haner, of the corps of engineers, submitted to General Wright hi3 annual report of the j regress of work on the improvement in the South Pass of. the Mississippi river, from which the following extracts are taken: Except for five days in July, 1882, there has been a channel between the jetties having at least a depth of thirty fret of water in it. The channel in the jetty had, during the year, except for nine days in July, 1882, at least a width of 200 feet. At present there is thirty-one feet depth in te jetties, and the least width of the thirty feet channel is ninety feet There is now a channel at least 160 feet wide, and having at least a depth of twenty-six feet of water in it from the Gulf into the main river. ThiB is the best channel that has ever been found since the jetties were constructed. But eighteen days' dredging has been done on the work during the
year, of which five days was in the pass,
nine d'iys in the jetties, and four days on the mud dumps outside the jetties. The annual statement of the exports of bre8dstufis grown in this country, just issued by Chief Nimmo, of the Bureau of Statistics, is quite gratifying. It. runs 25 per cent, higher than last year, and reaches well up toward the year ending July 1, 1881, which was counted the banner year. Of corn the exportations were some ,000,000 of bushels less than last year, but the quantity of wheat so far exceeds that of last year as to more than to make up the deficiency. The exportation of wheat during th 3 year run 12,000,000 bushels beyond those of the previous year. The enterprise of converting the wheat into ilouir before exporting seems to have met with general favor abroad, as well as at home, the quantity of wheat fSour exported during the year having run more than 1,000,000 barrels greater than in the last year ending June 31, 188), and
over 3,000,000 more than last year. The exports of wheat flour in 1882 were over 9,000,000 barrels, with a value of ovrr 854,000.000. The exports of wheat in 1883 were over 104,000,000 at an average price of $1.13 per bushel, The exports of wheat during the fiscal year of 1882 were 92,000,000 bushels at an average price of $1.19 per bushel. During the year preceding that the exports reached 150,000,000 bushels at an average price of $1.11 per bushel. '"The value of the wheat and wheat flour exported during the year was nearly $175,000,000, and of corn, 27,000,000. The corn export of the preceding year, however, was about double that of the one just ended, though at a somewhat lower price. The aerage price at which corn was exported in '81 was 56c per bushel; in '82, G5c. and in '83, over 69e. The exportations of rye were very small. Iimrope grows n great deal of rye, and eats it too; but she does not call much on the United Stales for that article. The ive sent abroad last year was less than 2,250,000 bushels, and its value a trifle over $1,500,000. The amount of rye grown in most of the European countries is quite astonishing. Omitting Russia and India the great wheats countries of Europe, it may bo properly said that rye is the principal small, grain crop of that country. The State Department recently issued a very interesting work on this subject, showing a wonderfully large prodnotiou
of rye in nearly all of the older of European countries,
The town of Casamicciolanear Naples,
Italy, was almost entirely destroyed by
an earthquake, Sunday bright, and the
neighboring towns of Ploris and Laccea-
meno greatly damaged. Three thousand
persons were killed.
The shocks began at 9:30 o'clock Sunday night. At that hour the majority of the people of the upper classes were at the theater. Nearly all the houses in the town collapsed. It is estimated that 1,000 persons were killed and 800 injured. Steamers loaded with injured people are constantly arriving at Naples from the
scsene of the calamity. The hospitals are already filled with sufferers. It is impossible to give the number of dead at Casamiceiola, In the latest accounts the number is estimated at 3,000. The Hotel Pecciola Sentinella sank into the earth and was buried with many inmates. Some of the inhabitants of the town' escaped to the sea at the first shock, and made their way to Naples with news of t he calamity. A gentleman who was staying at the Hotel Pecciola Sentinella, and who escaped with his life, relates that he had only time to secure some candles for use in the darkness of the ruins before the collapse of the buildings. A person who lived near the now ruined bathing establishment says he escaped from the place amid falling walls and balconies the terrified people shouting to the seal" The gror.nd opened in many places, while in other places there was no movement. Wafer gushed out in springs, an i several boilers in the bathing-house burst. The theater, a wooden structure, was literally torn open, allowing the audience to escape At Lacco there are many dead and wounded. At Pario the churches were ruined, but no one killed. At Serrara fifteen were killed. All steamers plying between Ischia and the main land were immediately charter d 03'
tshe government to bring the wounded :trom the island. The excitement in Italy
maw be imagined from the fact that 2,000
visitors were in Ischia, including wealthy
Roman and: Neapolitan families and
several deputies, taking baths there.
Later telegi ams state that all the hotels
it Casamiceiola are wrecked. The Min
ister of Public Works and the prefect of
Naples, with a large force of soldiers,hurried to the scene. The soldiers will work
to make the ruins secure, and will engage in the search for the wounded. A number of physicians have gone to attend to
the injured, their aid being urgently
needed. The stories .told by survivors are
horrible. Many Bomans having villas at Ischia are known to have been lost. The dead are fearfully mutilated: in some
cases the corpses are plainly discernible
through the 1 uins, but they cannofc be ex
tricated. A correspondent telegraphs that th
calamity infinitely exceeds the Chios
earthquake ia 1881. The syndic ot Casa
miceiola telegraphs as follows: "The
shock came with irresistable violence,,
and was accompanied by a deafening
noise. The con fusion in the theater was
fearful. The lights were overthrown and
set fire to the building. A dense cloud
of dust filled the air and cries of pain
and terror were heard on all sides. On
hearing shouts of To the sea! a general
rush was made toward the shore; every
ooat ana noHtcug tnmg was tasen oy as
sault.
Dispatches of Tuesday increase the loss
of life to 4,000. The catastrophe was not
caused by an earthquake, bub was the re
sult of a subsidence of the ground. Household Hints.
Jierosene win mase your teasetiiie as
bright as new: will also take stains from
varnished furniture.
Mix your stove blacking with strong
soan 6uds: the polish comes quick and
the dust of the blacking is avoided. When eggs are scarce remember one tablespoonful ot cornstarch will take the place of an egg in anything you 000k. Have any of you sisters oiled your floors? Apply boiling linseed oil; it improves the looks of the floor and requires only cold water when you mop. Take teaspoonful of powdered black pepper, 1 teaspoonful ol! brown sugar,and 1 teaspoonful o:t cream, mix and place where flies are iaroublesome and they will
disappear soon.
For a nice rice nuddiiiff take 1 cup of
boiled rice, n pinch of salt, 1 pint of milk,
1 tablesnoonfull of cornstarch: let them
boil: add. yolks of two eggs, beaten with a cun of snerar and a teasnoonful of lemon
essence; place in puduing dish; it will
bake in a few minutes. Baat the white
of two eggs with two heaping spoonsful of sugar; spread over the top; let it brown. Washday 8, if you tired little wives will shave a half a bar of soap (or more
according to tha aizs of the wash), put iu boiler half-full of water, let it boil; then make about lukewarm? or hotter if you wish, enough water in the tub to cover your white clothes; put them to soak while you are getting breakfast. By the time you get. your dishes washed your clothes will be ready to go to rubbing. The dirt comes out ever so easy. Jus b try it once and you'll never wash the old way again. To iron shirts so they wi 11 look nice, take about one tabiespoonfal of starch, a very little bluing (to make them whiter); dissolve in a cup of water (that is the quantity for one shirt), dip, an I tub the starch in well, and dip in not quite IkhI ing water; wring them quickly, rub them a little, roll, and let them lay for half an hour. Do not have your flats too hot The more you rub them the glossier they will be. I had never "done up" but one shirt before I learned this way, and had an awful time with it. Since last winter t have ironed dozens successfully. A Tale From the Norse. One day Odin put the McClell an saddle on the horse Sleipner, and went to visit the giant Vnf th mdner. Sleipner was the bjoss bjo&s and could go n mile inside of one minute and tweflty-eight secon 'a, as easy as lying. He has eight jlegs and "runes were carved on his teeth." The runes of yesterday's tjurkey probably,
the i which is usually canted on the toeotfa.
j, Yaftbrudnei: was a giant who pr:
himself on knowing as much as a man pianist. Odin seated himself, and they began asking each other hard questions, with their heads as forfeits, unt'l the convention sounded like the Concord summer school of philosophy breaking out at Christmas. Odin, to play j roots on Vafthruder, called himself Gangraad. "Do you spell it with a j?" asked Vafthruduer. "Jno," replied Odin, "Ji jam jnot ja Jnorsejo-anjo, jbutjean jyou jtell jme iwhv the Birooklyn Bjridire ia like a
Bjeer Sjaloon?" 'Because one is a diisy level and the other"T jut, t jut!" said Odin, quickly, forgetting that he was only Gangraad. "I know; when it's a jar?" "Noap." "Ah er- an oh psha jw ! Tiro pigs under the gate!" "Guess again.' "Well, I eive it up." "Because," said Odin, solemnly, HVa not trussed.'' And he opened his eyes, and looked se
verely through a flint mjountain; ten
thousand miles away.
"Yes," said Vafthrudner, slowly, like a
man dropping an ace out of hi sleeve;
butitis."' "What is?" demanded Odin.
"The Brooklyn bridge" replied the
giant; "it is stirTeufd with trusses all
suspension bridges are'
"Well!" roared Odin, with a howl that
raised a lump on the mountain, he had
been looking at, "what of that? The beer
saloon isn't!"
And then the giant recognized thegjod
and remarking that he didn't often die, but when he did it was about this time of the century, twisted off his head and
handed it to Odin, who carried it to As-
gard, and the gods feasted on souse, Ab the Elder Edda sings, in Grimmer'slay
The Rods and dwarfs were theie to dine, And many more beside, And what they could not eat that nijjht. Next morning Mrs. Odin f reyjed. R. J. Bnrdette in Life. The Use and Abuse of Bathing. A physician gives general rule3 for bathing as follows: "A warm bath, with liberal use of castile soap, is best for cleanliness, and night the best time. Twice a week is often enough. Too frequent warm baths debilitate the system. A cool sponge or wet cloth bath should be taken daily for its tonic effect, and always in a warm room. If strong and vig
orous, the best time is in the morning; if
not strong, the cold bath had better be
omitted and the tepid substituted. Af
ter exercise, it greatly fatigued., take no m' mm m' a . . ...
barn, out ruo aowu vigorously witn a
dry towel. If thoroughly wanned up.
but not tired, tke a tepid sponge bath
standing. N" ever take a tub bath except
wnen paining ror cieanimess. &. warm shower bath followed by a cool sprinkling
is preferable to a cold bath after exercise.
Vigorous exercise renders Turldsh baths
wholly unnecessary; these should be reserved for medical cases. Skin disorders
are frequently caused by excessive bath
ing and the use of too much soap. Al
though general rules for bathing could
be given, every man must be guided by
his own physical condition and his oceu pation, New York's Big Taxpayers.
"Who are the largest personal taxpay
ers in the city?" I asked at the Tax Com
missioner's "The late Moses Taylor was the largest. He paid on $1,300,000 of
personal propeity without gmmbling,
and his widow now pays the same. On
the other hand, W. H. Vanderbilt came
here and swore off every dollar, but soon
after came back and said that as the pa
pers and the public were raising such a h 1 of a row he would pay tax on one
million. Jay Gould only pays tax on $100,000, and Mrs. A. T. Stewart on 8500-
OjX). Mrs. Catherir e Wolfe pays on $400000. The Lenox estate pays on $1,000,-
000, the late ex-Governor A. D. Morgan's
widow on $1,000,000, and the Astor family, all put together, on $3,000,000, which is the largest assessment under one name.
Thenumber of taxpayers is rapidly and steadily increasing. Last year thera were 11,666 personal taxpayers, and tbis year
year there were not to be more than 10,flGO, and the amount levied is decreasing at a like rate." ' General Custer. The first time that General Custer se his handsome eyes upon his future wife was when he was fifteen years . old, and gcing to school in Monroe, Mich, Going along the street one day, the rough,ffaxen haired, freckle-faced boy passed a little black-eyed eight-year-old girl swinging on a gate. She was a pretty little creature, her father's pet, and only child, and natjurally spoiled. She said archly her litt le face dimpling with smiles: "Hello! you Custer boy!" Then, frightened at her own temerity, turned and iled into
the house It was love at first sight with the wild young lad of fifteen, and he then and there vowed that some day that small girl should be his wife. And so she waa, but only after many lovers' woes; for Judge Bacon, pretty Lrzzaes father, was tot a long time obdurate t oward the young man, who he feared waa fickle and unsnapie, andhia daughter and -her suitor submitted most patiently to hie will until at last ho relented. The Right Kind of Cocoanuts. " ' A Georgia paper tells of the expedient of a trader for furnishing whisky in a local opTion settlement. He bought a lot of cocoanuts, and after drawing off the milk tilled them up with the coveted liquor. Soon after a minister oaliecl to buy acocoanut. The trader was in despair,
but managed to toll the gent of the cloth that the nuts were unsound. The minister seemed anxious to procure one, and told the merchant' that if they had milk in them tl tey were all right, a nd, shaking one, was convinced of their soundness. The merchant could do nothing- more, and soM him one, hoping he would get out of the scrape iu some way. In about half an hour after the minister left the merchant received a note from him say-, ing: "Bend me six more cocoanuts exactly like the one I purchased! of you."
Infectious Disease. ' Teachers and parents;will be interested in the answer given by the Academy of Medicine.. of Paris to the quecition, "How long is it necessary to keep a child a way from school after an infectious disease?" The Academy says: With scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles
and smal lpox, isolation is to be maintained for forty days. Chickm-pox and mumps lose their contagions power after
weuty-fiyo days. The Soldiors'Home estate, at Wash
ington, covers 503 acres, There are 590
inmates,
CURRENT HISTORY,
Some Public Matters, Details of which will be Found of More than Ordinary Interest.
THE OBOPS. It would be difficult to imagine a greater chauge in any thing than has taken place in the condition of the growing crops during the past few weeks. In all the wheat belt, where doubt and uncertainty existed in the spring,there are now the most satisfactory prospects of an immense yield. With the old crop that is left over and the new it is reasonably certain that we shall have 500,000,000 bushels of wheat, which is very near the yield of 1882, which was the largest we ever produced. Osits promise the most abun dant harvest ver gathered in the country, while ti't h g crop ip simply immense
It is not usual to I bink much about but hay, and yet that crop in Illinois is worth more in dollars and cents than the cotton crop of Mississippi. Potatoes will be plenty and cheap, and the prospects for corn are improving every day. In many portions of the country apples and fruit generally will be scarce, but there will be enough, although they may be expensive
to consumers.
THE OHOTjEKA.
The Asiatic cholera is spreading in
Egypt. 1 It has appeared1 in Cairo and Alexandria, but every effort is being
made to confine it to the south shore of the Mediterranean sea. The confining of
the d cease is difficult, owing to the char
acter of the inhabitants. It is said that the clothing worn by the victims is taken
as soon as they die by those more poorly
clad and worn by them, and in this way
the disease is carried into uninfected dis
tricts. The people, too, live in such a manner that it is, with the police regulations, utterly impossible to restrain them
and they wander into adjacent districts,
spreading the disease as they go. It will
probably spread all over Egypt, even if
there is a populous village where it does not exist. But by a rigid system of quar
antine it may possibly be confined to that country. The Spanish government has
appropriated a larcre sum of money to
defray the cost of all possible measures
against the introduction of the disease in
Spain. The lateness of the season favor its prevention in this country, although,
shouldVit get a foothold iu Europe, it
might appear on our southern coast early
in the fall. It is apprehended that we are
in more danger from it another season
than at the present, and should the germ
of the disease exist in Egypt or Europe
so appear there in the spring or early
summer of next year, it might make its
way across the Atlantic and become epi
demic here in 1884. There is, however,
ample time to put the country; and every
city in it in the besj possible sanitary
condition,and its ravages thus be checked.
OAPT. webb's dkat h.
Capt Webb attempted to shoot the rapids at Niagara, Wednesday. At precise
ly 4:02 Capt. Webb sprang from his boat
about a third of a mile above the railroad
suspension bridge, and close to the old Maid of the Mist landing. He was entirely nude save a band worn around his
body for the protection of his stomach.
He gave himself no ... artificial assistance whatever. His leap from the boat was greeted with prolonged . cheering. He struck boldly into the middle of the river and buoyed himself gracefully upon the surface of the water. The misrhty current carried him toward the deadly whirlpool nearly a mile and a half below. It was a thrilling spectacle and a brilliant performance. The struggle in the rapids lasted thirteen minutes, by which time Capt Webb had reached the whirlpool. His object was to hug the American side. Many contend that his chances, would have been better on the Canadian bank. By the peculiar formation of the channel at this point the water U dashed upward a distance of forty or fifty feet, resembling the billows of an angry sea. Then it whirls and seethes as if leaned by a thousand demons. In the frightful vortex thus formed, a vessel, a stick of timber, an animal, or a human being is carried under, and in some cases will remain for days before escaping into the lake be low. As the intrepid navigator came to the whirlpool he was seen to throw up one of his arms. Whether this was intended as a signal of distress, fear, L or .danger,pr merely to exhibit his strength to excited spectators, can on.y be conjectured. Nothing was seen of Capt. Webb afterward. The search was kept up until dark when his manager announced that there was no hope of the recoveiy of the remains. It was a foolhardy exhibition, without a redeeming feature. THE STBIKB. The trouble existing between the West
ern Union telegraph company and its employes for several years culminated, in a strike, the operators leaving their instruments followed by the battery atd line men, and a little later by the .messenger-boys and some other employes. It is not overstating the situation to say that the men have the moral- support of the entire business community. While business of every kind will suffer more or less by this lock-out; the demands of the strikers are so just, have been urged with so much moderation, and their situation
is so peculiar, tnat tne reeling is very.
general that they are in the right and that there was no other way for them to do. The Western Union company began froin
nothing at the close of the war, and now
oontrois 260,000 miles of wire and em
ploys 10,000 operatives. With a plant worth not far from $20,00000 it has been watered until the capital stock is now $80,000,000, and it absolutely controls both the supply of and demand for ope rators. With its increase of business it has grown more and more exacting of its operators until now a day 's work means twelve or fifteen hours' service, for 365 days in the year, at a salary of from $70 to &90 per month. With the company controlling the demand for operators there is no other market in which they can sell their labor, and the only alternative left them was to submit or strike. They chose the latter, and the contest is now pending. It is, of course, impossi
ble to tell how it will terminate, but the chances are that the "boys" will succeed. The offices of the company are in a far more desperate condition than its officers are willing to admit,and despite-the show that is made and the pretense that everything is in good shape, or will be in a few days, the company has not operators enough to do its own business. A glance at the telegraph columns of any paper depending upon the Western Vnion, for
its reports shows that the service is aini-: ply miserable. The operating-rooms are ?i deserted, and nearly every new man thate" v is obtained joins the strikers as soon aai 4 he learnB tue situation. The conduct of the men has been admirable through the .j whole controversy, and they have paid a deference to public opinion by niaking; : their demands so moderate in their char- -acter that they are almost un i versally regarded as just. So long as this mode- '1 ration is observed they may safely count ; upon the sympathy of the public, which X will give them a moral power the com? pany will find it impossible to ignore
Pressed to bea:
Blackwood. ,, ' . . In early times it was considered that, criminals accused of felony could not bey properly tried unless they consented toyri
the trial by pleading and putting nem
flelves on the country. A tter reading the t
.luUotment to him the qivtion was pot?
fHow say you are you . guilt of aofc gui! If he said Not guMty next question was, Culprit, how wjlf yon. be tried?" To which the prisoner had to
answer, "By God and by my country M he willfully o outtedither portion of thaa , .- answer he was said to stand mute, and
jury was sworn to say whethsrhe stopdt' mute of malice or mute by the- visitation! of God. If they found him mute of malice, that was equivalent to pleading guil
ty m cases of treason or misdemeanor;;
but in cases of felony he was condemned ' after much exhortation to the "peine forte
et dure" that is, to be stretched naked v"
on -his back, and to have iron laid upon him, as much as he could bear, and more,
and so to continue, fed upon bad - bread.-
and stagnant water on alternate days, tall he either pleaded or died. ; This strange
rule was not abolished till the year 1772, when standing mute in cases of felony was made equivalent to conviction. JR.-
case actually occurred as late as 1726;, -when one Barn atert accused at Kingston Assizes of murder, refused to pleadV
and was presseifbr an hour : and three-
quarters, with nearly 400 weight of iron, ;
after which he pleaded not guilty and was convicted and han ged. In 1658 a Major Strana ways was pressed to . death. The object of refusing to plead was that, as in that case there was no conviction, no forfeiture too place, and the property of the accused waa thus preserved for his heirs. . ;,
1
A Bad Man'sStory ' ' X Several years ago I met one of the most s desperate men the West ever produced. ' ?r It was in a post traders saloon. The bad y man's sometimes rival, , now bis friend v and henchman, was i.ot .toa...;.I(.-iw mired a maificent breast-pin which the bad man wore. The design was a anar 4? and it was heavily set with- diamonds of the finest water. ll'J rMt'- S
; Tes, said the bad man, "iPs a fine pin, Jim,n meaning the lesser bad man "gave it to me. v Do you know what tor'rT: I replied in the negative. ; V
WelV said he, "Jim's a bad one of the worst you ever saw and bis e gave me this pm rjeoauBe I -ama) worse man than he is.1 ' :fFne first time I saw 'Colorado Charlie Wild Bill's' old partner, was im a casino at El Pasa A drunken admirer of hw ; called my attention' to him. He was
dressed in a suit of black broadcloth and; his curly yellow hair fell' far dp wnuhM shoulder. f, .. .. ;. '.- ''ye see that fellow?" said the drunken man, pointing to Charlie, who was as the bar drinking with a friend. , . '
Ob, yes," I said, "I see him!
"Notice Ms long hairF
"An' that big: hatr ; "Yes." "Know what they mean?"
"Can't say that I do , ; l Wall! That big hat means Keatye et kyards,' an' that long ha'r means , 'Shoot ye ef ye kick.' ?: - ; : When "Wild Bui;V whose rup was Hickok, was killed' at Deadwood, 'Colorado Oh vlie' took criar pf ttii :v body: and ere 'ted a splendid monument over the grave of his deceased friend, The; inscription reads: . 4' v Here liea J. B. Hickok, Wd Bill?' Gpod-by,;'old pard. We shall meet in tho happy hunting grounds. Erected by ttrtrt.A nhoFim" to." n: TTHr
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Proud of His Young Bride:
Detroit Freo Press.,;. ::c: A correspondent who was a passenger
rn a Michigan Centrl train bound west from Detroit the othr day says that at a ' ' small station near Kalamazoo a 8traDpingi? f youth, boarded the train, leading by the ' hand a blushing rustic maid. Taking V his stand in full view of everybody, he 4 orated: '."Ladies and gentlemen, this ur my wife, Mrs. Heuflfer.' Ain't ehe a dat- ; 1 sy?" He proudly exhibite l his pria top 5 the amused obervere through a fifty f mile rids with an exemplification of the enticements he had used to win her. Ar- v rived at Buchanan, the happy pair alight- f
ed in the pres nee ot a large crowd as- ; sembled to greet them. Again the groom. announced: "Ladies and gents, my wifew f ;
AJn t she a darling?'' As the train moved; out the passengers waved their handkeriVl': -:" ,: ":''':: '.si-i-Ia it". .
nhiana nun nnninnnpfl.Hnu uhtiuddV'SIH" .
Tiot-nfihamed for- every bod.v-to Jriow-it
pair were left to their rare and .singular felicity. :. r :
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