Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 5 July 1883 — Page 1

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HON. GEORGE HOADLY,

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A TIEBRIFIC EXPLOSION.

Jity Shaken to Its Foundations and Many Killed. fiNNEPEG, June 80—During a Are in warehouse of J. H. Ashdowu last rht a number of kegs of powder exjded, tearing the building to splinters injuring twenty persons more or less smashing the windows in a hun— fcd principal stoies to atoms. The leussion shook the entire city as by an thquake. The injured persons inlide Chief McRabie, of the fire brigade t. Scott, insurance clerk (since died) alarm superintendent, James Yuille

McRobie, the chief's son Arch Grant Cade assistant chief of the fire igade and a number of other firemen, ns thought several of them will die. the doctors iu the city are busj ring care of the wounded. The streets »thronged with people. The loss on warehouse will oe Heavy. c*»

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llrne and Elam the Virginia Duelists Finally Meet.

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ift for copies of two old Terre Haute ers. One is the Western Register of Cgust, 7 th, 1830, edited by no. W. Os-

acd tbe second a Wabash Courier eptember 13th, 1832. edited by Col. Los. Dowling. JThe first paper contains an official vote IVigo Co., which, at that time conIntti but eieht townships as follows: [arrisoD, Prairie Creek, Honey Creek, sr Creek, Fayette, Nevius, Riley and 3tson The total vole was 1684. Like old papere, the advertisements are the ist entertaining features. Mr. Curtis ibert, county clerk, has a, number ol Itices for sealed propoialsTor clearing, ibbing, grrding etc., on

THE NATIONAL BOAD.

a advertised letter list is signed by Gookins, postmaster. The editor |o has this notice: I Wanted—in payment o! any debts due this [ce, flour, chickens, sugar, butter, wood, iOes." the Wabash' Courier of li.88 Or. chard Blake has a column advertieeof drugs, medicines, paints, oils, series, etc. ihe commissioners of the Wabash ial offer 222,000 acres of land in the ]&1 donation for sale. This paper also jartially contains both the Henry Clay

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first exchange of sheta neither was ehed. At the second shot Elam was uck in the upper part of the right gh and Beirne escaped unhurt irnl then expressed himself as satisfied the parties left the field in opposite tions.

ELAM*8 WOUND.

HARLOTTSVILLE, Va.,June 30—Beirne represented, it is reported, byyoun^ alky and Wright of Richmond, anc "by John Snelling and John F.Lew

John Elam was dangerously shot gb_the right thigh. Hs is at the hoat Waynesboro and telegraphed for e.Bieme passed through Charlottsville Richmond on the 12:30 train. .'I .1

The Crops.

3IKC:NNATI, June I.8—The editor of a Iscinnati price current publishes toly the result of extended investigation pugh the producing states ot the ast concerning the corn and wheat

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[440.000,000 bushels against 504,000,000 It year. The corn crop is reported in pa stand generally. The acreage has lisiderably increased, and the'eondi[n is averaging weli though backward, liny sections now have drawbacks from Jussive rains which will interfere with lling. Seventy per cent of the returnn |ort fair to good supplies of old cor hand. ». v^nrv

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The reports of a hostiie meeting between Messrs. Beirn aud Elam, editors of Richmond, Va., are uaconflrmed. The whereabouts of the two parties are unknown. the eighth annual Yale-Harvard, eight-oared four mile straight away race was rowed yesterday. Harvard won time 24 minutes, 46U seconds.

Mrs. Pope, of Milan, Tenn., was stung on the nose yesterday by a bee, and soon died from the effects of the «ting.

Valentine's recumbent figure of Gen. Robert Lee was unveiled yesterday at Lexington before 6000 persons. Gen. Hampton acted as chief marshal. The araves of Stonewall Jackson and Geo. Lee were decorated by the procession. Major Daniel was the orator ot the day.

Rev. Kittredge, pastor of the Third Presbyterian church of Chicago, was married yesterday to Mr9. Jennie Swift.

Hempstead Washburne, son of HOD. E. B. Washburn of Chicago, was matried yesterday to Miss Anna Clark.

The National Undertaker's association adopted a constitution and by-laws at Cincinnati yesterday, providing for tbe representation from state and territorial associations. It was lesolved not to sell goods to any man whose standing was not endorsed by local members of his association.

The trustees of the Soldier's Hoi^e at Bath, N. Y., have investigated the charges of cruelty published in a Buffalo paper. The statements have proved false.

The large Bessemer Steel works, of the Bethlehem Iron company, at Allentown. Pa., are idle. The anion and nun. union men have been skat off.

Bismarck's health is improving. seven jurors have been secured for the Polk trial.

Colored miners are taking the place of the white strikers at Cleveland, Iowa.

Domestic difficulties induced Dugald McKenzie, living near Midland, Mich., to shoot his wiie. He didn't kill her.

It is said Chief Engineer Ghas. fl. Lor in will succeed Commodore Wm. F. Shock as chief of the bureau of steam engineering.

It is estimated thai the public, debt was reduced $17,500,000 during June, making the redaction for the last fiscal year $137,225,000.

President Arthur went to New York Sunday to remain a few days. He has not yet decided where he will spend the summer.

Col. Cook, formerly chief of counsel in the star-route prosecutions, now of counsel for Kellogg, threatens to sue Atty.-Gen. Brewster for slander

Stephen S. Price, ol Philadelphia, speculated with the funds of an estate of which he was executor. He is short $300,000, and i? held as an embezzler.

Louisiana will not default on her July interest. There is not enough money on hand to pay it, but public-spirited capitalists have come to the front nobly.

It has been proposed in the interest of harmony to withdraw all present candidates for Senator in New Hampshire and choose anew man. This is Chandler's opportunity.

Dennis Kearny is in Chicago to attend the anti monopoly convention. He makes the assertion that mechanic's wages have doubled in California since the passage of the antl Chinese bill.

At Murray, Io., a man selling Wizard oil on the street corner, Friday evening, was too free with his tongue, and as a resalt was hit over the bead with a bast ball bat. He died yesterday morning.

The New Jersey Central and the Reading Railroad Companies have been ordered to show cause July 9, why the recent lease by which the latter operates the former should not be made void.

The town of New Chicago, Montana, is evidently determined to be worthy the name. Ihe first news item sent from that place to the outside world i3 tne killing of Henry Nierling by his divorced wife

A new railway line is about to be opened from Detroit to Chicago. Trains will run on the Wabash from Detroit to Auburn junction, 126 miles from Auburn 1 unction to Chicapo, 146 miles, via the Baltimore and Ohio. Total distance, 272 miles.

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CONDENSED TELESRAMS.

Latest reports show a slight improve* ment in Archbishop Purcell's condition. Russia doesn't take kindly to the task of acting as mediator ,, between France and Onina.

The war on the trade dollar goes on. Every bank In Philadelphia has shut down on them.

Twenty-three "assisted. emigrants" were sent baek to England fiom New York Saturday.

Gen. Schofield recommends the adoption of Gen. Crook's plans regarding the captive Chir:cahuas.

Mref. Rogers, the victim of the negroes who were recently lynched at Jefferson, Tex., died Saturday.

Secretary Lincoln recommends Col. Samuel B. Holabird to succeed Quarter-master-Gen. Ingalls.

The Downs murder trial at Ironton, Mo, ended in a verdict o* gailty of murder in the second degree.

A "Drunk" picked up on the street by a policeman at St. Louis Saturday was found to have ovt $3,000 on his person.

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James H.Thorpe,a well known colored man, this morning filed a suit in the Superior court against Wm. Fremont, the grocery keeper, for $1,000 damages, for malicious prosecution. The complaint alleges that Fremont caused Thorpe to be arrested on the charge of provoke and lhat he was fined on that alleged offense before Justice.Steinmehl that he appealad the case to the Circuit Couit aad upon a trial being had was duly 'acquitted and discharged. His attorneys are Eggleston and Reed. t&W

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I PROBABLB OONSTDEKATIO#. ,, It is believed that the outcome of the suit of the Pullmin Cat Company against the Wagnek Company will be the consolidation of these companies. ...

WATER AT BAST BT. LOUIS.

The Mississippi has fallen at St. Louis since last report. The Vandalia and the O. & M. are still the only roads which are high enough to get into East St. Louis.

A 1 ater'reportftom .St. Louis, 'states that in addition to the Vandalia and O & M., the I. & St. L. and Wabash railways are now able to use their own tracks, the w#ter having Eufflciently abated. 8TBCCK ON THE HEAD.

This morning a carpenter named Wire employed on the new C. E. I. coal dump in the yard north of town was struck on the head by a falling board, causing partial concussion ot the brain, but not seriously injuring him. He lives at Danville and is anmaxried.

FOREMAN KILLED.

At about 8 o'clock this morning freight train No. 57 on the Logansport division of the Vandalia ran into hand car on a carve near Frankfort. All the men jumped except Jno. McHennery.the foreman, who was killed. The head light on locomotive No. 36 was broken and the hand car reduced to a wreck.

PBOBABLT FATALLY HUBT.

Last night when Vandalia west bound frei ght No. 8 reached Altamont, about 10:37, Brakeman Storer was found to be mining. He had been last seen by the engineer when turning the curve at Dexter and was on the sixth car back from the engine. Conductor Broom following with 13 extra picked him up two miles east of Altamont, very badly hurt. He told Broom that he was assaulted by a tramp who was stealing a ride aad knocked off'.he car. He was taken to Effingham, his home, on No. tH.

The Saunders Case-

Spefcial to the Indianapolis Journal. BRAZIL, June 30.—The trial of Isaac W. Saunders tcr tbe murder of his wife, in 1878, terminated to-day in th,e conviction ot be defendant of murder in tbetirst degree and a sentence oi life imprisonment.

As soon as'the verdict was announced Saunders was seen to drink something irom a small vial. As be had stated before the trial that he would kill himself if convicted, it was at one supposed tbat he bad taken poison. Physicians were summoned, wbo found the stuff to be morphine. He had enough ot it to have caused deatb if be bad taken it all. It is generally supposed tbat he intended to oommit suicide, but lacked the courage at the last moment. Tbe attorneys for tbe defense were speaking to tbe court on tbe motion for anew trial when Saunders was observed swallowing the poison. Tbe attorneys were immediately inform* ed of tbe occurrence. Mr. Lamb asked Saundeis wbat be had done. Tbe reply was, "you go on with the argument, never mind me." He handed a bundle cf papers to bis attorneys, but did not say what they were. An examination Bfter ward disclosed the fact that they were a dying statement, wbicb, it is said, is of a very sensational character. ,•

SMOTHERED IN WHEAT.

The Remarkable Accident Which Killed tbe Daughter of J. $. Jeffers, of 1 Shelbyviile, Indiana

ShelbyvilleSpecial.—Mr, J. S. Jeffers, of tbe firm of Denval & Jeffers, went to the warehouse and elevator this morning accompanied by bis ten-year-old daughter Percy. During tbe morning the girl and a little boy named McLean went to the head of the wheat bins, and were playing, when one otthe bins was tapped at the bottom for tbe purpose of loading a car. Tbe children noticed the wbeat commence settling, and with a laugh Percy sprang into the bin, which is ten feet deep, and was full to witbin a few inohes of the top. Instantly the child commenced sinking, the vertex oaused by the air running from top to bottom drawing her down and down until the whe&t covered her bead. The boy then realizing tbat bis companion was In danger, ran down stairs, informing Mr Jeffers what bad happened. In a moment the father and two men were in the bin shoveling out the wheat and another spout was knocked off to help empty the grain, but all to no purpose. When tue body was reached the feet were almost touching the floor aud life was so near extinct that tbe little girl died a few

To Measure Coro.

To the Editorof the Gazette:

You published an inquiry from a correspondent desiring to know how to obtain tbe number of bushels of corn contained in a wagon bed, the dimensions ot which you give. I have forgotten the length, width and depth as they were published, but tbat is immaterial. To find the bushels, multiply the length, width and depth together multiply that product by four and divide by nine. This will give you the number of bushels.

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SATURDAY the fine of John Stewart, who was in jail on a charge of drunkenness, was paid by his divorced wife, the medium, and John was discharged. She will help him no more.

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TERRE HAUTE, IND.—THURSDAY, JULY 5,1883* .50 PER YE.4.R

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Persons Ki'led by Cars Running Back on a Down Grade. PITTSBUBG, July 1.—A special from Bradford, Pa., to the Dispatch says: About 3 o'clock "this morning a coal train with a. passenger car attached, on the Rochester A Pittsburg railroad, broke in two while going up a steep grade, near Ranelas, a few miles south of Kinzua viaduct. The severed section, consisting of seven beavily loaded coal cart and a passenger coach, immediately started down the steep grade, and while going.' at the frightful speed Of eighty miles VA hour, collided with the engine of an approaching coal train. The passenger car was well filled and the destruction «lite and limb was appalling, seven having already died from injuries, and others being uualiy hurt. A relief train, with three surgeons and a numl#r of employes of the company on board, was dispatched to the scene.

At 5 o'clock this morning the killed and injured were brought to thiB city, and a* far as can be learned their names are as sollows: S. N. Tolles, aged thirtyfour, conductor, itsiding at Bradlord, terribly mangled, died instantly David Ford, breakman, of Bradford, both legs broken and fatally injured internally Alike

Downs, brdkeman, ot Bradford,

both tec# cat off and tatally injured, died at 4 o'clock this afternoon George Quinn of Bradford, traveling salesman, died on the relief tiain Angelo Odone, an Italian laborer, instantly kuled W- 8. Davis, of Olean, Pa., a terrible gash on the head,, supposed to be fatally hurt L. I. McKee, of Bradford, leg broken ana injured about the abdomen, died at aoonwhile be iog carried into hishoaae Robert deadens, ot Bradford, neck broken and body badly cr I ed, killed outright James 0'Connell,of Alton,, Pa dangerously injured Joseph Ravella, of Alton, badlv hurt,probably will not recover Mrs. W. H. McGurdy and baby, of Bradford slightly cat about the head and arms, child bruised John Collins, Lewiston, N. Y., badly hurt on the head J. Bosway, Beviral ribs broken and severe contusions on the head Cosmillo, an Italian, a leg broken |n two places R. Cosmillo, a brother, cms stove in andcondition critical- P|p Downs, engineer of the seconu train, wis the only one hurt in his crew. He saw the severed section approaching, and after revetsing his engine jumped, escaping with slight bruises.

Coroner Bannon empaneled a jury, who visited the scene of the wreck by a speciel train to-day, and will take testimony and render a verdict to-morrow. Mrs. McCurdy, who was only slightly injured, has made a statement, in which she says that the conductor and brakemen, w'ho were in the car with her, were asleep. It is not known to whom the,b ame km06tto %af%k&ed.

The New Money Order System.

Of late there has been much said about the new money order system, but outside of the telegrams that have been published from time to time in the daily press but little is known regarding it Festerday the new law went into effect, and now at money order offices postal notes in sums of $5 and under can be obtained by paying a fee of three cents. These new notes will be made payable to bearer without corresponding advices, which is, in one way, that ofindentification, a much better system tban the old money order system. These postal notes are payable within three months from the date ot issne at any money order office. After iho three months have elasped the holder can obtain the par value only by applying to the PostDepartment at Washington. The office Department has also issued an order for the issuing of postal money orders in sums as high as $100 where heretofore $50 was the largest postal oder that could fee obtained. The new order ankeo on postal money orders asflmfgrs

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N6t more than $10. ...7/. .*.... 8 $10 to $15 10 $15 to $30 15 $30 to $40 30 $40 to $50 .. 25 $50 to $60 30 $60 to |*70 35 $70io$80

$80 to $100 45 The general public will without qnestion fiud the new postal notes much better adapted for general use than the fractional currency, as they can be obtained in any sum under $5, and they will also be less liable to theft, than was fractional currency when it was sent through the mails. Tney will, however, be less convenient in that the^ can only be obtained in money order offices.

Another good act upon the part of the government is the reduction of letter postage from three to two cents which goes into effect on and after October 1, this year. This reduction is on each half ounce or fractional part thereof between all points in the United States, which is the same as the drop letter rate is. It will be seen from the above that after October 1 the cost ot sending any sum under $5 postal rates will be five cents—three cents fee and two cents postage. This will be a great saving to many of oar large firms who have a large correspondence.

Father Logan's Resignation. It is authorativelv announced FatherT. X. Logan, pastor, of Patricks church, recently tendered resignation to Bishop Cha:ard, it is not known what disposition been made in tbe matter.

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[Disgraced Trade Dollar.

It does seem the most absolute nonsense that the trade dollar with 420 grains of silver in it should be worth fifteen cents less than a dollar containing only 412% grains, bat it is ttue.

GREAT SALT LAKE.

Judge A. B. Carlton, of the Utah CommiMion, Visits Great Salt Lake.

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An Interesting Aocount of That Super-Salty Inland Sea.

To theEditor of tbe Gazette: Salt Lake City, Utah, June 28,1883. a visit to qrxat salt laks. Ji

The members of the Utah Commission, with a party of friends including Geo. Murry and Secretary Thomas Ad their ladies, visited the lake to-day. At its nearest point it is about twelve miles from Salt Lake City but the two most noted bathing places, "Black Rock" and "Garfield Landing," are on the southern end ot the lake, eighteen or twenty miles west of the city. We took the train of the Utah and Nevada railroad at eight o'clock a. m., and reached the lake in a little ovc an hour. At the western limits of the city we "crossover Jordan," a river that flows from Lake Utah (or Timpanogoe,) in the south, into Great Salt Lake, a distance of forty or fifty miles. For a short distance from the city we pass through cultivated farms and the air is laden with the delicious oder of the pnrple blossoms of alfalfa but for the greater part of the way, the land is uncultivated, and is white with alkali in many places.

Arrived at the Garfield Landing, we had a fine view of this great inland sea. It looks a great deal like Lake Michigan, except that the view here is* obstructed by islands on the right and left: bat directly to the north the vision extends unimpeded, as far as it will reaeh. TOTS FIRST MBMTION OFGRHAT SALT LAKH was by the Baron La Honton, in 1689. He had gathered some vague notions of the Lake from the Indiansc In 1833, Captain Bonneville sent a party from vireen River to make the circuit of the great lake bat when they struck the Great Desert on the northwest, they lost their way and wandered off into Lower California.

In 1842 Col. John C. Fremont on his exploring expedition to Oregon, visited the lake and spent a night on one of its islands. On the 22nd of July 1847, the Mormon pioneers first caught a view of the Great Lake and valley, from an elevated plateau at the mouth of Emigration canon, as they emerged from the Wasatch mountains. Two days later (July 24th) they came down into valley and camped, near where the Great Temple i*now located. ir*8 DTMIOTI&JTS.

The lake is nearly a hundsed miles long and forty or fifty miles wide It has a number of islands, the largest be' ing Antelope (or Church) Island, Stansbury and Fremont.

Several hundred persons come to these bathing places from thes ity, every day, on excursion trains.

Hie water is very clear, and so dense that a person cannot sink in it. Lying down on the water one floats like a chip, and keeping one's self in a vertical position cannot sink lower than the tops of his shoulders. It is a hard place to make muck headway in swimming, because it is so difficult to keep your feet upper water. It has been poetically observed that the albatross sleeps on the wing- a fact however, which is not sustained by writers on Natural History. Tet I have no doubt that a man could go to sleep and float en the surface of Great Salt Lake, if he would rig up some contrivance to rest his head on ana to keep from turning over.—There ap pears to be no danger of drowning. Last summer a leading merchant of this city went in a bathing with a large party He has never been seen since. He staid in somewhat longer than the others, until a strong wind sprang up. He was missed by the party after the train started for the city,and though large reward has been offered, nothing has ever been -seen or heard of him: Tne lake has been searched in all its -parts. One of the searchers told me that he had killed a large dog and thrown him into the lake to see if he would float—and he found that he did float like apiece of timber. _.

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Bat while one will not drown, in the ordinary sense of the word, yet it is exceedingly dangerous to swallow the salt aad acrid water Even a small quantity, not ever a spoonful, if taken into the throat will almost strangle a person, and I have no doubt that a large quantity of the water would destroy life, or render one insensible in a moment. It is supposed by some persons that the missing man became strangled in this way, and floated off to some desert shore of the lake, where the body was devoured by wild beasts.

We all went into the lake and had a fine time. Several little children were in, floating around like ducks. Commonly there are many large gulls on the lake, and they are very tame. The Mormons appear to have a great respect for the gulls. In the pioneer days their fields and gardens were ravaged by grasshoppers and crickets, until the lXrd sent the gulls and destroyed them by millions.

IT'S TRIBUTARIES.

A number of streams flow into the lake, the principal of which are, the Jordan, from tbe south, the Weber irom the east, and Bear river irom the north. None of these "rivers" are large, and wonld be called "creeks" by the natives oi Indiana. There is no outlet to the lake, and it was once supposed that there was somewhere, in the lake, a subaqueous vortex that served as an outlet to the water. This idea is now axploded and

indeed the rivers that flow into the lake are so inconsiderable that it will be readily conceived that the equilibrium

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On the borders of the lake when shrubs are growing, they become encrusted with crystal ized salt, resembling branches of coral or white rock candy. Some of these aie very beautiful.

THERl IS HO AJRMAL LIFE

in the lake, except an inflnitssimally small animaleule like a wiggletail, to which the naturalists have given a very long name, which I have lorgotten, as I have no faculty for remembering names of sesquipedalian length for little creatures only the hundredth part of the s'zo of a gnat.

Efforts have been made to propagate fish, oysters etc., in the lake, but without success. They all die. The mean depth of the lake is some twenty feet, and in its'deepest places it is not over sixty feet. There are no crafts navigating it but, a few years ago, John W. Young, a son of the late prophet, built a pretty good sized steam boat, which he called

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maintained by the rapid evaporation in this high altitude, there being such a vast surface exposed to the rays of the sun. Large as this great inland sea now is, it is evident that it was many times larger in some remote geological era, ana that it once covered the whole of this great valley, stretching from the Wasatch Ranee of mountains on the east to the Oquirrh range on the south and west. All around on the sides ot these mountains can be seen, several hundred feet above the level of the lake, a horizontal bench or water mark, plainly indicating that this was once the earface of the lake The surface of the Great Salt Lake is more than four thousana feet above the level of the Pacific ocean, with which, geologists suppose once communicated to the north, along the Snake river and Columbia rivet regions.

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much larger proportion than is contained in the water of tbe ocean. Sa\t for domestic use is obtained by boiling and skimming the water. A large quantity of crude salt is obtained by evaporation, the low lands being inundated, and then cut off from the lake by dams, when, the water is allowed to stand until it evaporates, leaving a stratum of salt on the ground. The crude salt obtained in this way is used in immense quantities in this and tbe other territories as a flax in smelting lead, silver and other ores. In the South* era part of Utah ,'here are great banks or mountains of salt.

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for excursion parties on the lake. It is tied up now at the bathing plaee, and is used as a boarding house. But persons

desirous of an excursion can hire a sail boat. While at the lake we had a cool and invigorating breeze from the north, which made it very comfortable. We startea back to the city at 2f.

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found it quite warm as we approached the city and again crossed over Jordan .1 into the City of the Saints. It was very 1" curious to witness tbe wilderness A flowers and fruits and blossoming lucem of this western Granada,—and then to lift the eyes and see the clear-cut and rugged peaks of the mountains, hooded it a no S j, in ./Yours truly,

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Officer O'Reilly's Close Shave.

About half past 11 o'clock last night as Merchant Policeman Joseph O'Reilly who was patroling his beat on north Eleventh street, his attention was attracted by tbe loud barking of the dog at Mrs Heminway's residence,corner of Seventh 't and Chestnut. Entering the yard trom Ches*nut street he walked around 1 the left wing of the building and was just turning the corner when he was startled by the report of a pistol, the fiaah of which depicted the outline of a man about fifteen feet from him in tbe darkness. The man then turned and ran, O'Reilly giving immediate pursuit, but the former being the fleetest runner he made good his jsszape, though not before the officer had fired two snots at him in return without any noticeable effect. It was not until about this time that O'Reilly examined to find out whether the shot by the would-be-burg-lar, firea at him, had taken effect, when, he saw the lining of his coat to be on fire from the ball which passed through his coat witbin half an inch ot his body. Mrs. Heminway says she had been watching the man working at the window shutters endeavoring in vain to effect an entranoe, Joe thinks his assailant was a colored man though he is •not certain.

iElam's Woond.

RICHMOND, VA., July 2.—Information this morning from Lieuteuant-Governor Lewis' residence in Rockingham County, where Mr. Elam was taken after being wounded, is that the wound is much more aggravated than first reported and that Elam's condition is critical. The ball struck near the right hip, passed inward and downward through the body and lodged in the left thigh, passing in its course very near the bladder. The ball was extracted last evening.

Hew Wheat.

ST. LOUIS, June 29.—About five their—sand bushels of new wheat Trom Tennesree, Kentucky, Illinois and Missouri ar-

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ived here to-day. It is about equal to number 3 and some of it sold at one dollar. "-.iT''!

MR. W, H. FISK thinks of removing his stone works from Pennsylvania to Terre Haute. He thinks most of the material he wants can be obtained here and the remainder can be shipped in the rough cheaper than the manufactured stone pumps. He thinks this a fl ret class location for the manufacture of sewer pipe, well walls, etc.

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