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ESTABLISHED 1869.

-CHABLES HEY WOOD STRATTON.

General Tom Thumb.

Few men have attained the widespread notoriety which is attaohed to •Ue name of General Tom Thumb, who died of apoplexy at liis home at Middleboro, Mass., at half past eight, Sunday, July 15th. With this notoriety, the element of popularity has not been lacking, for he was ever, "hail-fellow-well-met!" and bis genial nature, .gooa stories and open-handed liberality made him an enjoyable companion to men of larger growth.

He was born at Bridgeport, Conn., .January 4ili, 1838. His parents were of •ordinary stature and physique. He was -exceedingly precocious as a child and talked in a most sensible manner at a very early age P. T. Barnmn's etten•tion

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tonhe engaged him ior exhibition at a salary of $3 per week and his expanses, with those of his mother. He became popular at once and was taken to Europe, where he was exhibited to the Queen and members of her court, in her own picture gallery— "through the exertions ot Mr. Everett, the American Minister. In 1875, he went again to Europe, in company with •Cordelia Howard, the child actress Everywhere be went he was admired and petted and extravagant presents •were madeto him from people in all ranks of life, and these gilts were used as an attraction to the regular exhibition.

At this time he was about twenty-four inches high and weighed about sixteen .pounds. His form and. face were perfect in their symmetry, and his naturally winning ways added greatly to the •charm of the songs, dances and imitations with which he entertained an audience.

On his return to America after his 6econd European trip, he met Miss Lavinia Warren, a midget, four years younger than himself, ana after a long and somewhat warmly contested •ravalry between Tom Thumb and Commodore Nutt, the General bore away the -prize, and tbey were married in Grace •Church on Feb. lOtb, 1863.

The announcement that the marriage was to take place was the social event of the time, and though Mr. Barnum offered them $15,000 to postpone the wedding ior a month, the offer was indignantly refused by the much enamoured General

IJis remains, were taken to Bridgeport •for interment.. The three generations before whom he .has exhibited will unite in mourning the loss of the good-hearte i, impulsive genial little man whose name has became a household word.

In his later years it would have been •difficult to recognize the handsome and well proportioned little fellow ef earlier days in the bearded and florid man of large girth to which the General had .grown.

CRIME.

A Hootier Husband Kills His Father-in-Law.

KILLED HIS FATHER-IN-LAW. CINCINNATI, July 23.—At Flora, Ind., -yesterday afternoon Alexis Keyes shot and killed Saul Stewart, Keyes some time ago was compelled to marry •Stewart's daughter, whom he had ruintd and has since abandoned. Stewart sent ior him to discuss the matter and a quarrel ensued during which Stewart and his son assaulted Keyes, whereupon the latter drew a revolver and fired the .-fatal shot.

Dark Deeds.

Dr. Milligan Patohim, or New York, -suicided yesterday. Several police officers are on trial in Chicago for criminal offenses.

Burglars robbed the residence of Governor Foster yesterday, hut only secured $10.

J. T. Brown, Jr.. formerly United States Marshal of Little Rock, Ark., has arrived at the Detroit house of correction, having been convicted of prosecuting fraudulent claims. "William Johnson, who set fire to several houses in Columbu9, Ky., last Saturday, was arrested yesterday and confessed, also implicating Frank Smith and G. Duffy, of the same city. All the parties were jailed.

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A WATERY GRAVE.

By the Breaking of a Wharf Hear Baltimore,

A Crowd of Excursionists is Precipitated in the Water.

Nearly a Hundred Drowned.

A TERRIBLE CALAMITY.

Great Loss of Life By The Tumbling of a Pier..: .*, BALTIMORE, July 24.—A terrible calamity occured at North Point Tivoli, an excursion resort on the Potapsco, ten miles from tbis city, about 10 o'clock last night, by which many lives were lost, the number being estimated between sixty and seventy. The accident occasioned by the giving way of the outer portion ot the pier "M" upon which several hundred persons had congregated awaiting the boat to return to this city. The locality is in a small bay distant about two miles from North Point light house. It was formerly known as Holley Grove and was the first regular excursion place fitted up near the city about fifteen years ago and was the most popular resort at that time and for several years atterwards. Yesterday an excursion waa given to the Tivoli under the management ot the Mount Royal Beneficial Society, of the Catholic church of Corpus Christi, of which Father Storris is pastor.

The Mount Royal avenue and Mosher street excursion went down on the barge. Cockade City which was towed by the tug Amanda Powell. The barge was formerly an old canal boat, which bad been fitted up with several decks for excursion purposes and used as such for several years. Yesterday she made three trips, the last being made from this city between 6 and 7 o'clock last night and reached the Tivoli before 10 o'clock.

During the day she had taken down about five hundred persons and on her last trip about one hundred. A large number of those who went down during the day had remained intending to return on the last trip. When the barge approached, all those on the shore

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for the end of the wharf which is several hundred feet long and weie closely packed together at the gate, abont 25 feet from the end, impatiently awaiting admittance through the gate. As the barge came alongside and struck the wharf, it suddenly and without warning gave way and a large portion ot the crowd was precipitated into water which is about ten feet deep. Many were able to save themselves by fleeing toward the shore as the outer end ot the

PIER GRUMBLED AND FELL' Darkness added to the confusion and terror and little could be done at once to to rescue the drowning, most of whom were women and children. The first news of the disaster reached this city little after 2 o'clock this morning. When the barge landed at Henderson's wharf, bringing a number of bodies «f the drowned. Up to this hour it is said sixty-one bodies have been recovered.

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BALTIMORE, July 24—Up to noon sixty five bodies had been brought to the city All except tour have been identified.

From Wednesday* Dally.

At 8 a'olook this evening Coroner Morffit began all inquest, at which Father Starr, pastor of the Church of Corpus Christi, was present. Jacob Bonnell testified that he is a special officer at Tivoli. He locked the gates en the wharf about 8 in the evening, by order of the proprietor of the place, to keep the people from getting on the wharf refused some young ladies who wished to return to the grounds through the first gate because he feared the others would get alarmed. The boat reached the wharf between 10 and 11. Witness then opened the gates, and the people rushed through. He begged them to keep back, as the wharf was not of the best. Soon after he hear a crash, ran baek and saw a number of people in the water, and pulled off bis clothes and went into the water and rescued ten or twelve persons, also recovered three dead bodies. Did not consider the wharf secure with such crowds. There were about TOO people on the wharf when it fell, and fully 800 were in the water. Had seen larger crowds on the wharf. The flooring had been repaired this season. The break occurred between ihe two gates, and not where the boat lands. Examined the place where the break occurred, and found the timbers pretty rotten. There were six to eight lights on the wharf, and they burned brightly. Remembers only one pile standing when the wharf broke.

Rev. W. E. Starr was on the pier befere the accident, and sent a messeuger to have the gates oloeed. The lamps on the pier head gave ample light, but the pier was badly lighted the moon also gave good light did not think ore than 230 people could stand on the space where the break occurred bad a full view of the accident and saw the people struggling In the water. Had there been

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rush of people many mere would have been thrown into the water th»ught It a faia estimate to say there were thirteen hundred people en the exoursion. The pier is a mass of patching fretn one end to the other. After the orash found the outer sate epen thought it was closed five minutes before.

The investigation was proceeding at midnight with no probability of concluding for several hours. The testimony of the witnesses already given will doubtless cover all facts that may be brought tO light. •_

MR. L0.

He Is Goinjj Into the Cattle Business. St. Louis, July 23—Advices trom the Indian Teritory say the result of the recent leasing by the Arapahoes and Chy ennes of the western portion of their reservation for grazing purposes is likely to revolutionize the en»ire Indian question. The rental is nearly $463,000 per annum, payable semi-annually in cash and cattle, The first payment was made a few days ago at the agency, every man, woman and child in tribes named receiving five silver dollars. In connection with this lease the Indians have started in the cattle business themselves and have this week taken the initial step. They have some eight hundred head of cows and heifers with twenty-five blooded bulls on the range north of the Cheyenne Agency. The U. S. government will aid the Indians in this enterprise, the interior department having consented to invest as much in cattle as the Indians themselves and turn them into the c( mmon herd. For this purpose Congress will be asked to appropriate fifty or one hundred thousand dollars. With the number of cattle now in their possession, and with the number to be contributed by the government, ana the lease of the grazing lands, the Indians calculate that at the end of ten years, when the grass lease expires, their herd will be worth $3,000,000. This will be a practical solution of the Indian question so far as the Arapohoes and Chevennes are concerned, as it will make the tribes self supporting. The enterprise is warmly endorsed by Secretary Teller, Commissioner of Indian Affairs Price, United States Agent Hunt and others.

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The Sioux Indians Indulge in Their Annual Sun Dance.

CHICAGO, July 25.—The Times Rosebud ageucy, Dakota, special says: The annual sun dance of the Sioux Indians occurred yesterday afternoon at their camp near that agency, about 1,000 savages being present from all parts of the reservation, and a number of white visitors. Fifteen warriors entered for the dance, having fasted 4 days before entering upon it. The bodies of all these were fiightfully lacerated, according to the usages of the tribe, attesting the game qualities of the participants. It is probable this is the last time these cruelities will be permitted as an effort will be made to have the Government inter diet the barbarous practice.

A LIGHTNING STRIKE.

The Strange Find of Texas Stockmen GALVESTON, TEXAS, July 23.—A News Lampasas special says: A carriage containing the skeletons of three grown persons and two children, sitting bolt upright as if in life, was found under a large tree near the road in Slano county. The tree was shattered by lightning It is supposed the carriage sought shelter under the tree and was struck, killing the horses and Inmates. The weather beaten appearance of the carriage and trimmings look as If it was done a year or tws age. In a snail trunk was a letter addressed "James G. Chamberlin, London, England." The remains were found by stookmen driving eattle and reported at once to the authorities. The parties are supposed to have been tourists. They spot where they were found is very secluded and fa" from any habitation.

A StRIOUS STORM

A Good Many Lives Lost By an Elemental Strife. ST. PAUL, July 23—Later advices of Saturday's storm indicates that its track was one to two miles wide aud crossed Blue Earth, Waseca, Steel, Dodge, Olmstead ana Wabasha counties. The most serious damage occurred in the villages of Easots, Owatonna and Elgin. At Elgin three persons were seriously injured. Near Mantorville there were nine serious casualities. By the overturning of a passenger train near Owatona 34 persons sustained injuries ot more or less serious nature Near Hitchcock Mr.Geisinger aud moth, er were killed, and Mrs. Bowles was killed near Redfield. NearHaron, Dakota, it is reported, nine persons were killed and fifty wounded.

A NEW gas pipe is being connected with the Beach Block, the old one. being too small to furnish gas enough to supply the demand.

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His Telegraph ttompany Still Fightng th® Operator*. ir nJl A in i^nrfJ

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NEW YORK, July 35—A week of strike has passed and the peaceable disposition and orderly conduct of the strikers has called out universal commendation. They have made many fiiends among the general public and in business circles. In private conversation they talk very decidedly and positively of their expectations and seem to have no intention of wavering. Their determination is the subject of comment and even at the executive offices the greatest surprise is expressed that tbey should, in view ot the situation, be determined to hold out. It can't be said that to outward appearances the understanding between ihe company and its operators or the brotherhood committee is any better than it was a week ago. It is generally conceded that the telegraph business is being done with lair*".promptness and correctness. Many aggravating delays occur, however, which are not fully explained bv theuntavorable condition of the weather for the last three days.

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IIEW YORK, July 25—General Eckert being shown a Chicago dispatch stating tbat Dr. Green was reported to have cabled him to concede the demands ot the strikers, said at once and emphatically that not only has no such dispatch been received, but that Dr. Green had in his last cablegram expressed diameterically opposill sentiment. ^j

.GOULD AND ECKERT.

A Stormy Interview Between the Wall Street Man and the Acting President.

New York Special: To-day the trouble culminated in an angry interview between Mr. Jay Gould and General Thomas T. Eckert, acting president of the company. The interview came about accidentally when the two men met in a corridor of the Western Union building this morning, and a trustworthy informant states it began by Mr. Gould asking, in atone tbat indicated both chagrin and anger, "Mr. Eckert, when is tbis thing going to stop It is costing me money in Wall street, and we are losing thousands by the hour here."

General Eckert appeared to be taken by surprise, and began to explain that business was moving along in the opera-ting-room, when he was interrupted by Mr. Gould with the interjected remark: "Yes, it's moving along—like a freight train."

General Eckert attempted a reply, but was again cut short by Mr. Gould, who is reported to have said: •'General Eokert, I did not want to say tbat you area fool or a knave, but what can I think Either you did not know the situation well enough to keep us posted, or else 1 must think you have been playing double."

There was an ugly look upon the faces of both the men at tbis juncture, but their further talk was lost to the public by General Eckert leading Mr. Gould into the President's elegant office and closing and locking the door. The hand-somely-dressed colored servitor, who generally attends in the president's room even during very confidential interviews came out,very hurriedly a moment later, and as he arranged his swatlaw-tail coat and white necktie, remarked casually, '•It looks squally in there fo' de boss."

Press Comment

The New York World say9: "In business circles and at the exchanges the interruption of the telegraph business is causing serious inconvenience and loss Loud complaints were made yesterday at the Cot on and Produce Exchanges, and the Board of Trade suggested the submission of the differences between the companies and the employes to a board of arbitration composed of three operators, three directors of the telegraph companies and the presidents oi the National Board of Trade, The Chicago Board of Trade and the New York Board of Trade and Transportation. Tbis proposition is timely, inasmiuh as it looks tuwards a compromise and settlement. But it would be better still if the employers and employes could meet together immediately in a spirit of conciliation and harmony and agree upon a settlement directly among themselves. The telegraph companies can afford to be liberal. The operators ought to be anxious to return to work. They may have means at present to support themselves without work, but the money must come out of labor's pocket in one shape or another and is a dead loss. Let each side show moderation, good feeling and a sense that a common interest binds them together, and a satisfactory result will soon be reached. Settle it, settle it."

HOW IT MAY BE OF BENEFIT. Philadelphia Press: July 24.—If they ghall continue in their present course

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and demonstrate the possibility of conducting a great strike, numbering thousands of men, wlthoat resorting to lawless means or Infringing upon the rights of individuals and corporations, their movement will have accomplished a lasting good, no matter what its result so far as it cenoerns the question of wages.

The New York Times says: "The pressure upon the telegraph oompanies from within and from without, to yield te the demand of the operators, grows daily harder to resist. The Western Union company is losing $200,000 a day by the strike, and the public Is rapidly losing

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atience with it. It is a good time toi Jay Gould to lay the blame on bis wicked partners, rebuke them and come out as the operator's friend."

Post-Dispatch: If the telegraph stiike continues every first-class newspaper office will have, to lay in a stock of homing pigeons.

WANTS TBttt SIGNAL TO GO OUT. Post-Dispatch: A telegraph operator confined in the penitentiary at Leavenworth has sent a message to the manager of the strike asking for the signal. He says he wants to "go out." This piece of wholly unexpeoted humor will atone for all the distress and suffering occasioned by the strike,

MORGAN'S MEN.

Reunion of the Survivors of John Morgan's Force. LEXINGTON, KY., July 25.—The reunion of John Morgan's Confederate command is now in progress here. Several hundred members of that notable force are now in eamp on part of the estate of Henry Clay, in tents furnished by the War Department. Jefferson Davis was invited, but sent a letter saying ill health prevented hi^: from attempting the fatigue of so long a journey or the excitement of so joyous an occasion. He oontinued: "The name of your association is eloquently commemorative of daring deeds performed, of great suffering borne and of barbarous indignities inflicted on men who bravely struggled in an unequal combat to vindicate the rights their fathers left them." A daughter nt John Morgan is among the guests also a Mr. Tiffany, who was federal postmaster at Camp Chase. Addresses were made yesterday by Frank Waters, General Prestos, General Duke, ex-Governor McCreary, General John S. Williams and others. At night M. H. Jones, of Richmond, Va., gave a lecture on "Boys in Gray." reunion continues to-day.

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Strike Ilotea.

Fifteen branch offices of the American Rapid company in Philadelphia are closed. All business is now conducted at the main office, which is deserted by •all except the manager and two female cvpe-writers. At the offioe of Baltimore & Ohio company the same state of affairs exists. All the operators are on a strike except the chief, who says business is at a standstill.

A pistol ball was fired through a window of the Western Union telegraph office at Atlanta, Ga., yesterday, shivering a large plate glass and striking Receiving Clerk Witt just above the hip. The ball was spent, however, and the injury is not serious. The range of the ball indicates that it came from an upstairs room of the "Markham," a hotel across the street. Witt withdrew from the brotherhood of telegraphists the day before the strike.

A large number of the members of the New York Produce Exchange have signed a petition to the board of managers asking them to request the telegraph companies whose employes are now on a strike to consider the present condition of affairs and take steps to put an end to the strike, which was working such serious injury to the business interests of the country.

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Virginia Democrats.

LYNCHBUBG, VA., July 25.—The Democratic state convention met in the opera house at noon, with Corbin Rey nolds presiding as temporary chairman. Every county in the state was fully represented, and the opera house was scarcely large enough to accommodate the convention. After a temporary or ganization recess was taken until 3 p. M.

A Big Bequest.

PBOVIDBXCB, July 25.—It is understood that the late Henry L. Kendall, of this city, has made a bequest of $600,000 to the public library.

ANew Telephone Line.

BATLIMOBE, July 35—Telephonic communication between Baltimore and Washington was iormally opened to the public to-day by the iine of Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co.

East Lost Creek Items

Wheat harvest is about over in this part of the couutry Won't somebody inform the neighbors who Snobs is The singing school of the Marion school house last Saturday night, was a failure on account of the rain-^—Mr. Alt Swalls has bought a fine new top buggy. Young ladies take warning betore it Is everlastingly too late There is a young cattle dealer in this vicinity who says he wants to marry. Snobs would advise him to advertise in the GAZETTE Some of our granger friends seem to think our social o.lnb is a snide, but I would like to inform them that I am well acquainted with all the boys and I know it is gotten up by as well respected young men as there is in our part ot the country and if anybody has anything to say about the boys, let them say it to Snob?. MB. SNOBS.

Sugar Creek News.

The members of the West Vigo Congregational church held asocial on Saturday evening. Tbe church Was crowded and a very pleasant evening was passed, lasting until an unusually late hour for such an entertainment.

W. W. Goodman's health, his many friends will be sorry to learn, is still quite delicate.

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I CHOLERA PASHA.

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His Disastrous Raid Up the Valley ot! the tfile.

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:•&}$$ Jl* IKSPECTIKO VESSELS. LONDON. July 2-5—Bills of health given to vessels leaving London to day, declare $ that no cholera exists here. Mitchell, American .Vice Consul and acting Consul General, has appointed physicians to inspect all vessels going to America.

QUARANTINE.

LONDON, July 25 .—It is reported that $ quarantine has been forced at Dover and Leith against vessels arriving from ports infected with cholera. V'-rt ""JT

DEATH RECOBD.

A despatch to the Times says the *•, number of deaths from cholera at Man* surah yesterday was 13 at Chibin, 113 I Zitteh, 23 Mehallet, 43 Ghizeb, 95 Tactah, 16 284 deaths occurred at Cairo within 12 hours. ^. vj -[yf

A COMMISSION TO EGYPT-

PARIS, July 25.—The govercment hate introduced in the chamber of deputiesand demanded urgency there, for a credit" of fifty thousand franoes for paying the-1 expenses of the scientific commission which it is proposed to send to Egypt, to investigate the cholera epidemic. A. paper has been read by Flauret, before & the academy of sciences, in which the writer says of the cholera in Egypt that I his previous experience shows that the rapidity ot the decrease of the disease is always in accordance with the rapidity $ of its spread.

LONDON, July 25—A dispatch to the Centra] News states that 558 deaths from cholera occured in Cairo during the last twenty-four hours. _____ s**?.-

-f isiw•'•" —'W' r-m I MMirifmii. Nothing is more curious than the face:: that dying as one of a crowd seems to be mora terrible to a man than simply dying his own individual death. Un—* questionably there seems to be no kind. of death more dreaded by men than-1 death either from sudden catastrophes —like that of the King theatre at Vienna, and that on the Clyde, for instance—or from pestilence. No doubt it is perfectlyr true that death cannot be shared in the same sense in which a peril or a pleasure can be shared you cannot, in all probability, be conscious of the strength ot companionship after life begins to flicker low, nor are there above one or twe„ people in the world with whom most men would eovet the sense of companionship in such a moment as that of! death. Still, it is somewhat curious that death on a grand soale always seems to be more terrible, even to the separate individuals, than the ordinary death by units. Of course, terror is very catching, and, therefore, the terror of a crowd *. always enhances the terror of the iodi- •:*& vidual. But though that explains the supreme agony of a sinking ship or a| burning theatre, it does not in the least explain tbe additional dread of death# which plague seems to inspire in individuals, for between the inhabitants of a plague-stricken city there is always very much less aotive sympathy thanf there was before the pestilence appeared, and it is rather through tbe$ growth of mutual repulsion than through} the heightening of a common sympathy that the influeace of pestilence is chiefly, felt. As a fact, very few patient stricken^ with ordinary disease who are told that* death is inevitable, show any panio at all, while the pertectly healthy man,* surrounded by pestilence, is too often oonsamed with a terror which renders! bim absolutely unlit for the discharge oftv his duties.—[London Bpeotator.

IN INDIA.

LONDON, July 23.—A serious outbreak^ of cholera is expeoted at Bombav, a»'tbere were 87 sporadic cases of the disease there during the last week.i. Quarantine against arrivals from intected and suspected ports has been re-( newed. Advices from Egypt state tbat in addition te the outbreak of cholera at the town of Taris Eown, eight miles southwest of Damietta, leprosy has appeared there and is spreading rapidly neither doctors nor medicines are at*Faris Kour.

The report of deaths Sunday from cholera is as follows, at Damietta. 17 at Man Sourch, 10 Samenoud. 23 Fantab, 17 Chobar, i7 Chibin, 33: at nine* other places 78. There were 295 deaths I lrom the disease at Cairo during the| same time.

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Returns ot mortality from tbe cholera? in Egypt differ widely. A dispatch to Reuters Telegram Co., states the number of deaths at Cairo and suburbs in 24 hours ending this morninsr, was 427 Ghizeb, 68 Chibin, 150:. Tbe English Government will dispatch 12 doctors who are experts in cholera to Egypt to-mor-. row.

Death of General Ord.

HAVANA, July 23.—Gen. E. O. C. Ord,of tife United States Army, who took passage cn the steamer City ot Washington at Vera Cruz from New .York and was taken with yellow fever, compelling his removal to the shore, while Jthe vessel was here, died last night at 7 o'cloc*.

Carey.

DUBLIN,July 25—The Irish Times says James Carey, the informer has arrived at one of the colonies.

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