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ORAW FOKDVILLR. GBORQIA-
SCMMARY OF CONGRESS.
S"inu
r • The Senate i*sk« 1 the House bill fixing t.h«
StensrfsftaglaaB postage wtaghing three ounces
on newspapers
l****** SSST^moer^id vS a hJj UW. ^5
toJTaxtoX thi tW
1 newspaper limit ounces....Tbo of weight
for ooerent postage to four
bill passed the Henate with this amendment
.Kills were passed providing for th© col
, . divorce;
lection of etatistn* of marriage and
l<r the represeion of the opium traffic; head- to es
tabLMh a forest reservation on the
•watom of the Missouri river and Clark’i
Forks of the Columbia river.
A bill was
tog a reward of WOO,000 to any person who
h w fo“ r » ^^ting mi
Mtmai leave of absence with jxiy to letter
carriers; granting a pension to the widow of
G< jicml Judw-ii Kili«tri(dr; to regulate the
payrrien
Hauac
Mr. Buckner Introduced a bill to amend the
Hational banking laws Mr. Hutchins in
troduced a bill amending the act authorizing
ed and panted. bill to prevent the
The House fiorwvl the un
lawliil ooeiipancy of the public lands. It pro
lnbftet Um inelosure of any public land when
the ts-rson or corporation making tlie incioe
un nas no claim or iviior of title to the land;
lust makes it lawful for any imrson to tear
down or demolish any such tnelosuro when it
fncludiw more than 100 acres.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Koweix hn* mad© upward of $80,600 out
’ ri| tbe various walking match©* be has en
* terod.
W. W. Corcoran, the Washington President banker,
fens shaken hands with ©very except
w- Washington.
SENATOR Palmer, of Michigan, has the
tejrotation of giving tho most elaborate din
Herein Jamv.h Washington. lit: full blooded NoxfPerce _
bens, a tho
Indian, is in the East making addresses on
Wrongs of hjs race, lie siwuks English well,
itWjy WV W, Sik)pl”nt. Corooran, , who founded a home
who live in it are his guests.
General Ham ( ahkv is to travel over
Main© this summer and urge the wiofition of
ixsrrisnftSr 1 "'" 14 *"”
Ex-HbURKTABV ElIHI! B. Wambburnk ex
poets this summer to carry out a long-cber
ished Uinnmh purpose old of making a carriage tour
(ixfonl county, Me.
Paris, Marshal McMahon months live* very quietly In in
with a few every summer
his chateau near Anton, whore he has a large
coUoetion of Irish relics and curiosities.
tUsrus^^sA ga fiHrssis
ppCMK^i before a committee of tho hoUM of
lords against the proponed ship txinal between
ftiwi Manmwtcr.
pxviv Davib apfwar* jn public in a fuU
■white Insmi laid n black slouch hat, and
claims tigrtwiBee lie left hto way teat in tho
,<hkmnte to mingle in tho turmoils of the busy
world he lnu loot exactly 100 pounds.
S»U<>vk!inor Stanford, of California,
jSbJfiJj W^HrvAn'. 141 ifeX, .... " „i V’ifn
well Sfito'.-, m he is worth more than
^ao.UUU.OWi. ,
musical and dramatic.
Mme. Modjeska will summer in i'eland,
i, jMit. house EDWIN in Heaton. Booth is now otabllshed iu hi*
new
Jenny English Lind's girl named oldest Hamell. sen has just married
(m
JdHN MgCuLLOOUH, it is said, lias made
over $80,000 the pix«ent season.
Fanny Davenport has cleared $80,000 with
“Fedora” during the joist season.
Mrs. Langtry has invested ♦97,010, earned
iu Atfiericu, in Now Y ork real estate
Mlijc. Nevada, the Western priiua donna,
. now iui'iyis. sends all her fit aid gifts to the
* 1 ’ATTt is sn id to have t he most unique “crazy
quilt” handsome. tu existence, ” ll is pronounced “Awfully
There are eiglitv p«siplc on the stage iu
“Tb^ Pulse «( N«" York..’ It rp<|Uiros t e uuly
spaftal stage lmnds to werk ths soviery
The hnd Madisou Square tiuvitro (New York)
I>A$ us mmiv as twenty companies on tho
abort rood at one time, including forth regular aud
season ventures. *
^\.X'^d' “ , Ha^fc«n.n!ribl Uttw,ml *1
This th*r» thiv>> “Silver _. King
com|*anitw; year next uiv theie will t»o but two,
season
This >oar there are four “Lights o' London’
companies; next year there w ill lie hutoue.
A AYorCKSTrR (inn is building a special
car for liiou Rouoieault, which will luxvin
tnodutc lus entire company of twenty-five
nersous. flStigliter and give Mr. iloucicault and kis
.wch h state room.
M akv AMiFtteoN is mnkmg anev.xignwtcr
hi ttovMon L in the British provinces than she did
in uidoix At Manchester, for instance, she
ever tetoro k,Km'n , \l^that ,
r *..Sgou O. ARLES thc M.T.REH, sUg, He the sav- ,ui/e-tighter, he w,mts ,o is
r 1 U JJ:
flgh Im "n.\ to tU.' trout, so to ©(Hoik. His
he will do iu England tills summer.
I
twknty-onk infants dead.
., Owl* Tvre I.rll 1» Hi*’ THemt• Kaiabllwhrd hr
’ ' ‘ ‘
the yard of tbe —7T Nivison Home, in Ham
Id
Tlie home was starteil by Miss Hymen the 8.
Niviaon in January last. Circulars were sent
ont S, tting forth the I'unv scs of phUaBthiry. the home,
ix a mkri twwnty-three balnea haw© been re
Ah numlw only alive,
reived, ana of that two are
Nothing was known of this until two or three
dava ago. when Kxra M Hunt. Secretary the
investigation, State Board of Health of New Jersey, n.a.U an
and dtecovorod that th,- children
Sk'gi&'zsssu had received no medical attention and had
teg Of tlie l'icaa, and children an inquest died w as from held The
- verdict was that the neg
I'Lct and improper treatment.
"Nothing eoitkl be done with Miss Nivison,
. except t ©proceed against her for violation of
the burial law*. It is s*i>j the infanta were
luoetlv the children of wealthy women.
The yellow fever may be spread by
the livelv mosquito, says Dr. Carlos Fin
iav, <ff liawuia.
MEXICO.
A gentleman who ha* been to Mexico, and
knows all about what sort of people live there,
urs that it was th# greatest misfortune that
the recent cyclone in that country was not at,
tended by any mentionable loss of We.
lower mean summer temperature thantl^tof
the prese nt, and a are re r "K ‘ ,l
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earth.
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m» VOG* OLD WHKD!
A woman who attempted to get off a Miclii
gan avenue oar and ran against a man smoking
» dgK 0 n the platform gave him a withering
. _ij.
“Sir! doesn t that . . sign . read. ., No .mokimr?' smoka gV ”
<Tfes’nm, but doesn’t the one inside raad:
^> fare entering the oar?’ ”
tt , yonr on
Lands __, hut , h g t. » .e„ !
. ’
gasped. ‘Here—put this nickel in for me and
go on pufBng yonr old weed !”
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Pl:FF MEKKEKH ’
A country editor urges his brethren to
“bounce the puff-seekers.” This would be a
|t< . p jn the right direction, and the next move,
ment wonld be to give all the “bonorables” and
“colonels” a long and peaceful rest. A gontle
rnan is sufficiently honored by the olrlfashioned
title of “Mr.” The puffery and snobbery com
?—-»-“■■rr try press; many city dailies bear 4 •*“? their full
lharc of the blame. If all tho distinguished
military heroes, all the rare and radiant belles
of tbe “beautiful and accomplished” type, all
the “able and eloquent" orators, and “bril¬
liant" statesmen and patriots who crowd the
columns of the country newspapers could be
gathered into one company, they wonld form
an assemblage so distinguished as to throw all
the famous soldiers, sages and beauties of the
world’s history into oblivion. But the evil al¬
luded to is too ridiculous for serious discussion.
It iB not a part of journalism, but merely ono
of its blemishes.
CREMATION.
Southern Asia, the original home of crema
tion| iB a i BO the region where it is celebrated
with the greatest pomp and splendor. In Siam
«>“•« any , famons man is . cremated, , , a magiufi
cently dcoorated building is erected specially
for the occasion, and vimt sums are expended
in making the whole spectacle as georgeous as
mation of the late Regent of Siam may serve as
a fair specimen of tliose customary on suoh
occasions. Immediately upon his death, in
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vast urn of costly material, several yards in
height, wliieh was placed in a largo room open
in upon lll( , courtyard of his palace, which
flowing into the river that
traverses the capital. Bands of native priests^
relieving each other in turn, kept repeating
prayers night and dav in the death chamber,
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decorations worn by the dead man in his life
time. Twelve months after his death the urn
Rn( j ^ content* were carried in Btate to a kind
q£ ** cre4UM j for the purpose, where the
cremation was performed . in , the presence of
thousands of spectators, including the King
himself and his entire court. ,
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Following arc some points about tho little
locomotive built at Oil City, Fa., tlie umallvst
engine in tho world, being but eight inches
w-w*.w* counting ten ©>”.* hours “•>-?•». day
Three years, an a ■
labor, have been devoted to its construction.
There are 585 screws in th© engine. The steam
t<*r; the strokof pump throws but one drop of water
every the head-light is only one-half
an inch in width, seven-eights of an inch high
and three-eights of an inch long. The space
in the lamp is so small that it was almost im*
^ nosaible 881 to get enough oxygen 5 ", ia it to support
the combustion. 7 The & flrw u» kiudlod , © i by > using •
a giU of alcohol, which runs the engine for
half an hour. The stroke of the cylinder is
one inch; • . boie, 6-16; tho throttle lever is but h .
flvc-cighths of an incli long, w ranged with a
thumb-latch and click; the fire-box is seven
eighths of m inch wide and one inch long; the
gmoke-stack , , , and , one-fourth . .. inches . . high
one
xtul five-sixtet ulhs of au inch in diameter; the
steam-dome is nine-sixteenths of an inch iu di
ameter; the driving-wheels are one and one
half inches iu diameter; the front truck-wheels
half an inch, and those of the tender are of the
wiJt its construction ' ,w0im arc ' lu ' , brass, ‘ Ugb ’ solid flX'rVdia silver, gold and
» u ‘*i.
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.mu iv of DIXIE.
On a Saturday night in 1859, when Dan Em.
mett was a member of Bryant's Minstrels, New
i» j 1 . ’ D»n llrvaut came to" him and said: “Dan,
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1 ran t you get up a walk around. 1 i »m«
; famg new and Uvoly for Monday ixiglvt. Dan
went to work, and bv Sunday afternoon he had
Ul . word - commencing "I wish I was in Dixie.’’
1 Ti '* «'V r ^ ioa **’ not ^utbengbutapp.'ared
among the circus people ofjthe N-r h. In the
| early fall, when nipping frost, boys worn* would ovarteke think of
the tented wanderer*, tlie
j b c sln warmth of the South, and the oommon ex
pr L." would be. “Well. I wish I was in
This gave the eateh-ltoe. and the rest
; of tbsteteg rehearsed was original. and highly On Monday —mbA morn
, ing it was
and at night a crowded house caught up the
rcfr »i n and half of them went home singing
Th© song became the rage, and W. W.
j Newcomb’s Buckley'* Mmstrelsand others gave
^ <’f using it. Mr.
AN erlean wrote toEnunctt to secure a copyright,
I but without waiting for a reply, published it
! bT w. p ctfrs . rood, of New
j York, secured n of Tamie Sam „ g, r * but W.r
of copies withcmt . .
lean sold thousands giving
i unl a mekeL Not only was Emmett robbed of
the profit* of his song, but hot the tlie authorship autnorwn P of *x it
was disputed. WiU S. Hays claimed the au-
1 thorship of it. Pond brought the matter
j *— settled the > — authorship; but Dan ’ —»r- reaped no r b«n
! e g; from this tardy justice.
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‘ «il>n HANK. '
. If things keep on in this Country. ...o.t.y
»af. wav to keep money will be to s;xu»d iL
Bank* are failing, th^ aw «Uii« Jffoid atovea
tu which your money is concealed, without re
c i nr :g the wealth, and even if yon hide yonr
I uey in a jug pen, as did an Iowa man, it
takoth nntr.ftgeif wings. and is fled before you
can CODil a e ain - Evt ’ n the latest monc y
«*f* proved A Chicago merchant put
xghty-five dollars into an old shoe, nee e
ning last week, and when he came down to
bn»ine« next morning the shoe was missing,
sssessezxssl
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Hehriifor|h4|hoebelonged to him, and he
lia< L ] disposed of it that morning vV, to a rag picker
“i of4
sa aa also, vings .-inns when bank bank he of of learned the the firm. firm. tnai The The ms oia clerk clerk snoe expected expected was me 5
to be arrested on a charge of defalcation, and
speculating ’’’’fa <fap° sltor B money, ____^ and and
thought soon of lighting out and and U f registering registering ° ”
at some first-class hotel, in order to evade the
detectives, and thus escape punishment. But a
sober second thought induced him to hunt for
the rag picker wKnm whom tie l e ioun , nd , ™ wit v, the e old .*
,lloe ‘ u W* Ba<:lc - Orasping the old shoe with
a firm hold, that defied escape, he jammed his
j down into the toe, found the money, and
the . , ,
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the store, where he proved his hifi innocence innocence of of the the
charge of fraud, defalcation and speculating
with depositor’s money. The ragman, after
kicking himself for several blocks, is now buy
ing up all the old shoes he can, and dissecting
them. An old shoe is no safer than any other
institution for a savings bank.
CALIFORNIA MINING TOWNS.
Ail of the old California mining towns are in
a decayed or decaying condition. In 1850 there
stood an exceedingly lively town known as
Mathenas Creek, a tributary of the Consumnes
which “forty-niners” christened by the pre¬
tentions name of Aurum City. The country
was full of cities in those early days. Besides
Saoramento City, tbe County of Sacramento
had a place towards its eastern line called Prai¬
rie City, which lasted till about 1865, and then
vanished out of sight, since then out of mem'
ory. Folsom was originally called Granite
City, and then Granite, so named by Dr. L.
Bradley, a gentleman whoso enterprise created
the first considerable mining canal in the State*
drawing water from the North Fork of the
Cosumnesto n ,, tbe dry diggings around , mlm a Diamond n;, m nml
and Mud Springs and old Weavertown, on
Weaver Creek. In 1855 the place known as
Mormon “ Island, three miles east of Granite,
large a town as Folsom now is. At p^
ent it is a mere shadow of what it was. In
1851 Aurum City contained a population of
1,200, and that in those days implied at leas'
1,160 active workers in the mines, at an aver
age of $10 to an ounce per day to the worker,
In 1856 Aurum was in the list of decayed town.
and ten years later it had “gone glimmering
amid the things that were.” Even the name
of Mathenas Creek is now extinct, save in E 1
Dorado County, where it constitutes an election
precinct, or did a few years ago, and the Co
sumnes is now the modern substitute for the
ancient Macosuma river. Nobody from 1849 to
1854 callod Plaocrville by any other name than
Hangtown, which it earned at the hands of a
mob and by and by exchanged for itapresent
more euphonious name. Within a raili.us of
1 fifteen miles of of 1850, Coloma not less there than^tij^’/towns, were eirjdig, in
the summer
cities and camps, the largest being H-^gtown,
Diamond Springs, Mud Springs, Geoite town .
Unlontown, Spanish Dry Diggings i.
and WeAvertow: All of ieae.
by orchard* and vineyards.
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THE DYNAMITE EXPLOSIONS.
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The excitement caused by the explosion of
dynamite in Scotland Yard, London, is intense,
in searching outrages. for the fclr person* who committed
the The that more disasters of
S n ^“” rt o™ t ^f' < pollct^ li'is
that a f e been detailed
to guard Jg the public buildings and principal
railway stations, while a number of deteotives
hava l *en placed on duty in the vicinity and of
each of the Cabinet Minister s houses, a
couple are *t the disposal of each Minister to
guard him to and from hi* residence,
Great pressure is being brought to bear on
the Government to offer a reward of £5,000 for
y lt , capture of the pt rsoos who caused theex
plosions and £2,500 for information which will
lead to their arrest. ured
Among Thirteen these person, are five were women. more All or Jes* the wounded in
„„ iu the hospital. Five, including the pofice
uian, are in a precarious condition,
The explosion was most destructive on the
cTvXnVs“house and m the'
;y ar Qff iae j n Paj; jj a u were shattered,
At St. James’s Theatre the explesion sounded
40tb t T w?a y 40Bt ‘ mpcde ' The
audience was finally created quieted. , I great havoc in the
pbe explosions The club will
Junior Carlton Club House. re
main closed several davs. The dvnamite was
carried down the iron steps leading to the
kitchen and cellars. It was placed in the oel
lar under the pathway, with a lighted explosion fuse at
tached. The upward force of the
broke a large hole in the pavement and
wrecked the basement apartments of the club.
Col. Maj.ndfe, the government inspector of
explosives, pronounces the material used in
‘h* explosion to be largely composed of an atlas
j Sus long from au oid stock which had laid for a
t.me m Amertca.^
FATAL FLUI D BI ItsTS.
; * ertou. .o»s o # , _ , rii 1 ,,. iril . nn .
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A cloud burst near A'isalia. California, with
^s mmatek, wnHsting Jf hto
self, wife, mother, Iwo children, and Ik Wris-
110r , . sheep herder. The bodies were fright
, fully mangwd, their clothing hung torn into
1 ahroda^ ^ ^ ^ Qn
O^k. liaar the Nebraska and Colorado line.
^^X^^long.ng' ' «' i. “n The Cok^dJ flood “d
Xebraska w ere drc !ltl was
bv a f!ond burst wh i c j, occurred at a
point near the head of the Cheyenne Indian
frail cary.n. The water came with such force
j j that it swept away everything outfits, ia its all path. Men,
wagens, ramping were car
tied down Hie stream
DROWNING CAS1ALTT.
,
j General Hancock and Ex-Private Secretary
j ^ dispatch that received General at the O. Treasury E. Babcock Depart- and
j ; tnent Levi H. says Lnekey, together -with a gentleman
named hater, have been drowned off the Flor
* i id a roast. Both Babcock and Lnekey were
, p rc5 j() on t Grant s private secretaries Cienerai
Balvock hsA been for some time Ugi.th.nse
time tCvrotm-v of'tli© T^
: torT o{ l tah< his asaisunt at the Wlute
%a .
, h 0 u«n The body of GcUviai lalwck was re-
JjfQlfJ g QF THE WEEK.
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demand Middle Stulra.
Fisk & Hatch, the well-known New York
broker* who foiled during the recent pome,
of ^
a*, old
^nUy ah “roforo/ m fov"r m^tae
praridentiai ticket of 1876.
— South -.awean and West.
between shi’n-d cbi--t«d jsswtgs.wEyKwrsf The cargo and end Wilmington thelLsel the of vessel the steamer and sank. rank. Fayetteville, Wave, Ned Ned Beebe, Beebe, running N. ceil- col- C.,
oredcook; Lucy Graham, (colored), and Em
pie ^ Hill (white), passengers, were drowned.
--? HE Fourth Fourth 0hio Ohio Infantry infantry regiment regiment has has
|xa£E disbaivled on on aeWjunt ort/v ‘‘ ,,nf of ineffidency ^nw. dur
^ lhe Cincinnati Hots.
General O. E. BaScock. formerly private
secretary to President Grant, but of late en
gineer of the Fifth Lighthouse district; Mr.
p. Luckev, Washington, his chief clerk; Mr. Ben. P.
g u ^ r , 0 f D. C.. and a seaman
were drowned in Mosquito Inlet, oil the coast
of Florida while'superintending the work on
the lighthouse now building at that point.
8awe Hates, a colored woman' has been
rentencwl v , death at st Louis.for the murder
of Police Sergeant Jenks.
J. _ „ H. Wendell, an old ,, resident ,__. of . r C . aid- ,,
well. Kansas, m a fit of insanity caused by
wh v’- sll0 81111 kllle<1 ^ ^ e ’ a l th
i w jM ■„ , j iims elf. ,f
r A terrible crime is reported from Kansas.
SSSSS The Anderson
father had met the same fate.
family had knowledge of a crime committed
bv one Lewis Wampler. The two men left the
house ayjUig together. t hat Anderson Vampler had sent returned for the family. alone,
s
TneysCarted in a wagon, and on the way it ia
supposed that Wampler murdered lhe woman
and the four children and fled.
The remains of John Anderson, the sixth
victim of the Pleasonton (Kan.) murder, were
•found concealed in a deserted coal shaft, with
a bullet wound in the head.
An affray among the Indians at the Hose
bud atfency, growing out of the return to the
wagrypron qf CrowDog ; thesIaycr of Spotted
Tad, rtlsulteu m the killing of Chief White
Thundy- and the fatal wounding ot two cdher
Indiadlbythe Crow Dog hail son been and set friends free by of bpotted decision lad. of
a
the United States supreme court.
A train was wrecked , , on a railroad ,, between .
Denison and Gainesville m Texas, and four
teen ]X>reons w ere retried to have been killed
and many others injured.
At the election m Oregon the Republicans ^
-Washington
^ thakflerease debt statement issued
ghowg of lhe public debt during
Decrease May to W|$4,J'08,241.20. of debt since June 30,
88
40
Gold certificate certificates outstanding.... 98,812,260 00
Silver outstanding.. 117,800,001 00
Certificates of (|eposit outstand
HefmSini *11,050,000 291,100 00 00
oerti Ecates....
Legal tenders oi Itetanding ,346,681,016 00
Fractional a curd ency (not mclud
in;; 4 oyed).. t estimated as 6,981,379
lOW or 147,817,660
Cash bal ►ailable
Goves it ildinst receipts in May
jS ,2 ^V‘ Inent 8303,371,413 during May
$229*698*2 expenditures in May
pei against jfeyear. $ .’50,647,190 dm-ing
same
puw: the various United
*#tf)0gold ^Aex pieces, worth worth $2,331,000,
nieces, worth $123,500.
w tos
7 rth So. JOG,
to bd it to Washington
Foreign.
News has been received that a violen
| ’Twelve villages were destroyed, 200 persons
killed and many others injured.
j Sixty persons were injured during an elec
I « J^[ exlcai1 ^ ^ states have °“ aCCOU declared “ ° f war ^
e
Oscar AVh.de, leader of the aesthetes, was
married a few days since in London,
Five persons were killed and atiout thirty
more down injured embankment by the precipitation of a train Eng
land, an near Downton,
Fovrteen of the crew of the l«ri» Confed¬
erate, stranded on the ice flues of Labrador,
have been lost.
Ten suicides occurred in Vienna, the Aus¬
trian capital, in two days.
The False Prophet’s followers in the Sou¬
dan have captured the town of Abu-Hamad.
A fire in London destroyed the East Lon¬
don Aquarium. A number of lions, bears,
jackals and monkeys were burned to death.
A woman who has been arrested at Varan
da, husbands Hungary, confess hundreds s that she of poisone 1 dur¬ four
and also women
ing the j ast two years, A number of ac
unnidics,; were also arrest©<L
MISCELLANEOUS.
—Harvey D. Parker, _ . the proprietor „* of n,« the
Parker House. Boston, and one of the best
: known business men ot that city, is dead. He
was born in Maine in 1805.
j —General Samuel Graham, who, Fifth at regi- the
j breaking out of the war. raised th©
j ment of New York artillery, is dead.
j _Bv tlie foundering of the schooner Annie
Jordon off the Georgia coast, four lives were
| loBt Three of the crew were rescued from a
, ra: ,_
_ A jn , he EaPt ern Penitentiary at
rhtladeiphumundwd a keeper.
^ Kck tttdt A throughout
New State and New England.
—The defaulting casluer of tbe First Nation
al Bank at Monmouth. Ill., was arrested.
-President Riddle's (of the Penn ^k)
! -The trouble between the iron mannfactor
^ the^Amalgamated Association has been
i settled for a year.
| , _pri nr< . Bismarck opposes the pardoning of
Kmzewski, recently convicted at Leipsic of
; . - v t and two persons
| funded in \he county Cork by moonlighters.
—A serious electoral riot occurred in Claus
! enberg, Austria, Monday. of violence, The rioters mending in
dulged in many acts Sixty injured
stone throwing. persons were
J —Twelve villages have been destroyed and
j 200 persons killed by Persian an earthquake Gulf. Theen- on the
l Island of Kishm in the
population of the island is but 5,000.
—The _ Residing _ Bishop . of , the . _ Protestant . . .
Episcopal Church in thelmted States died at
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i —Brigadier General Henry AY. Bonham, of
j the United States of Corps Connecticut of Engineers and is when dead.
jj e was „ native a
bov served as an apprentice State. in the printing
office of a newspaper in that
—j t was estimated that 50.fi t) persons at
tcnde.1 the annual meeting of the Dunkards,
“ar Dayton. Ohio.
lioUers exploded . Mont
-IVo in a sawu-m. m
j ca!al < T c !” n -\ -t^nriiera 1 "” Elcn “ a
—The car of a captive balloon containing and 20
persons became detached at Lille. France,
led 40 metres. I lmt of the occupants of the
-r S£3£
firt at sensation.
_ Irjgh Xatjona!ist meetings were held in
Maud despite of the government prociama-
3 .- s -
been destroyed byfire. The loss will be large.
—There were feTcr thirteen *“■ deaths theweektnded m Hayana
drought throughout England having having is almost been been known known unex
ampled, amnled. no no such such dry dry* season season
for for over over fifteen fifteen year. years.
-The boiler on fhfc dredge Norwalk, lying in
the Harlem River exploded, killing one man
^ —A^ticket agentwhoshot ^Ing another him_elf m t
°n Saturday was *15,000 short,
—The convict who murdered r keeper m the
Eastern penitentiary of Pennsylvania on Sat
urday is now shamming insanity.
—By the sinking of a steamer in the inland
waters of North Carolina three lives were lost.
_Cleveland torrent'of Eollin" Mills two men
lost their lives in a molten metal
from one of the furnaces.
At Quebec. Eno was brought before ths
Court of Q ueen ' s Bench on a writ of habeas
^ After hearing argument of counsel,
tbe Court rendered a decision ordering that
the accused be liberated. Immediately after
wa rd another warrant was served on Eno. and
b
witness McDonald, imprisoned . for
—The
contempt of a New York State Senate invest!
gating committee, has been released by the
Supreme Court.
—During a trial at Troy, N. Y., one of the
jury became insane.
—The banking house of Middleton & Co., of
Washington, closed its doors.
_y post-mortem examination of the brain
of M[g gchweifer, who killed herself and her
children at Albany, revealed no traces of
i insanity,
^ Frenc h Chamber of Deputies, bv a
j vote 395 to 92 , rejected the amendment'of
Bishop Frep;.el to the Army Recruiting bill ex
em p tiu g from military service young men
tralmrl K for tor bdv il0iy orders orderB '
—The dynamite Vienna, explosions in London created
alarm in especially as it has been an
nounced that the dangerous anarchist Schwartz
ha6 left New York for Ans ria, bearing wiih
^ j him a quantity of dynamite.
—Suakim advices state that rumors have
reach ed there that Berber has fallen and that
attack Suakim soon.
In the House Mr. Hiscock of New York
moved to suspend the rules and pass a foil re
peahng the internal revenue taxes on tobacco,
allowing tbe use of alcohol free of tax in the
arts and manufactures, and repealing the tax
on brandy distilled from fruit.
—Tlie East London perished. Aquarium was
many of the animals
—A fire in Liverpool destroyed a
and 8(000 bales of cotton.
—A woman who was arrested at
Hungary, confessed that she had poisoned of
husbands and also a large number number of
during the past two years. A
complices were also arrested.
-The British government has decided not
allow Orange counter demonstrations to
place in Ireland at the same time and place
the Nationalist meetings.
—The authors of the London explosions
said to have escaped from England.
c— The Egyptian rebels are stid to
tured Abu-Hamed.
—Ismail —Ismail Pacha was attacked and berfeu
‘mjsas-
—Ten suicides occurred 1 r- Vienna ii two
days.
—Mr. Vanderbilt has sailed from Liverpool
for New York.
—Extensive fires prevail in the Dismal
Swamp. One fatality is already reported.
—An old man committed suicide over his
daughter's grave, near Birmingham, Ct.
—Tlie boiler of a burning saw mill in Mount
Kisco, Me., exploded, killing one man and in¬
juring another.
—The Mountain House, on Englewood Cliffs,
N. J., which was just ready for guests, loss was
burned on Wednesday morning, with a of
over $ 200 , 000 .
—All the bodies, seven in number, oi the
killed by the fall of a warehouse in Baltimore,
are now recovered.
—The Methodist Conference at Brockville.
Ont., condemn foreign missions as detrimtidal
to home interests.
—The members of the Massachusetts Legis
Jaturc have raised their salaries $150, over the
Governor’s veto.
—Tlie corner stone of the new Episcopal
Cathedral at Albany was laid with becoming
ceremonies.
—President Riddle, of the Penn Bank of
Tittsburg. after swearing to his published for
statement, assigned all his property the
benefit of the bank’s creditors.
—Tlie rebels a gain attacked Suakim. They
succeeded in driving in the pickets, when they
were repulsed by the cavalry, who pursued
them for some distance from the town.
—Precautions have been taken in Australia
against dynamiters.
—A new Atlantic cable is proposed between
Portugal and America.
—The noted Oscar Wilde was married to
Miss Lloyd.
—The Mussulmans of Morocco display a
strong feeling in favor of France.
Repressing the Opium Trade
The hmted Mates Senate passed Mr. Miller s
bill, providing for the execution of article 2 of
vembeyYmO, fe betweenThe sub^L United ‘ from^po States and
op.CteJ?the^cStodunder “ndt^of ting
not more than $500 nor less than $50, or im
prisonment £« of not more than six months nor
than thirty days. No vessel owned and
^
owned or chartered, shall be emitted tobring
^ b, a.,y efthe l mted^tate^and ad
sh f c t am ehaU he subject toa fine equal
^ hje value of the opium.
'
‘ Decreasing the National Debt.
! Treasury The monthly Department debt statement of the issued United from JStattS the
shows a"decrease of $4,763,241 in the public
d«bt during May, aud $91,823,714 during
eleven months of the fiscal year ending May
31. The total debt bow. less cash m the Treas
nry. is $1,459,267,492, and of this amount
$1,244,845,650 is interest-bearing debt The
avail»bie cash balance in the Treasury is
$147,817,661'. a decrease for the month of
nearly $5,000,000.
Won by a Chicago Commandery.—
The contest for the 81,000 prize offered
by the Grand Lodge of Knights of
Pythias for the best drilled uniform
division, . . . off Orleans in
eame m New
presence of 1.500 people. Dearborn
Commanderv of Chicaeo and Tancred of
Coinmbns. Kansas, were the contestants.
Armv officers were chosen judges, and
[Pev awarded the prize to tilt Dearborn
P, .niri«rider r.
THE -JOKER'S BUDGET.
'THAT WE FIND TO SMILE OVER IX
THE HI JIOKOt S PAPERS.
A NATTICAI, DISCOURSE.
jennet st& tos
'“If pa is captain then what are you?”
“Well, I suppose I am the pilot.” the
1 — be
a?,?" Why, the captain ' and pilot are al
*°° kB °"'
A voexo Alexandria miss
Was asked by her beau for a kiss,
Demurely contented
She sweetly assented, exactly like this.
And their lips looked
But her pa intermpted the bliss, sis?”
And said: “Who's this young feller,
And without more ado
The young fellow flew,
And his eyes looked exactly like this.
, A FRIEND TO FELINES.
A gentleman of Detroit, says the
ixra to look house that for
went at a was
ren {. he was accompanied by the Ger
j landlord lamai ra.
Nioe nouse, _ said tne wonld would be 06 ten ten
j . .
. ant; pleasant location, but the rooms
are too small. I couldn’t swing a cat
here !”
| “Vot vas that ?” inquired the land
; j ord
“Booms are cot big enough to swing
a cat in.”
1 “Vot for you vants to sving der eat ?”
, “Why, I might want to, and if I
should, there is not room enough,” said
the American, laughing. sving mine
“I likes not der cat ter
house in,” said the landlord, and went
home.
[ The next day the gentleman who
wanted to rent received a note :
“Mine Fken : I rents my house py a
family mitout cats. Yacob Smitd.”
| THEN HE KISSED HER.
' “Johnnie,” said a Second street girl
to jj er bashful company, as they occn- othei
• d remote enda 0 f the sofa the
night. , , ,, T I see , by the Derrick . . that ,,__. „ a
lady in ^ New Jersey, 104 years old,
I boasts of having been kissed by Wash
ington.” “Yes,” said Johnnie. “I it, too.
saw
“Suppose yon were to become a great
man like Washington.”
“Well,” said Johnnie.
: “And U I were to live to be 104 years
, .
°™_ Well. __., said Johnnie.
I what the Old
j “I couldn t say of yon
lady said of Washington, could I ?
; Then he kissed her. —Oil City Der
\ ! tick. r i 0 i
i STRING ON THE FARM.
: the hop,
, We’ll graft dAtefed the lobster on jayly
^JT htgg we'll
'
tfe < HIM
hat in the autumn colts
We'll prune the climbing sorghum vine,
We’ll dig the ruta baga pear,
The clam shall with the pea entwine,
I And both shall, mingling, blossom there.
The Berkshire goat its wool shall shed,
j The Bantam cow shall feed thoroughbred, on hay,
We ll milk the ducks, ail squirrels lay.
That steal the eggs the
A KINDLY SPIRIT.
'■ “Neverll speak to him . . 1
again, never
said the man in the tweed suit as he shut
j his teeth together,
“Oh, come now, he’s yonr best
; friend,” replied tbe one with the white
plug hat.
“He can’t be. He had a party at his
house and never invited me.
i That proves Ills friendship beyond
question. He bar, invited no less than
twelve of your creditors and he realized
I what your portion would be.”
_
; HOW TO CATCH FISH.
:
t “Boy, how much do you want for
I that string of fish ?” asked amateur
an
fisherman on his way home from a day’s
: gport ’ his price
I Th e ^ named .
” there ’ Now
\ rl ht> fish,” a your money. dexter
i just throw me the and he
Qua ^y caught them. fish, said,
1 , “Talk about catching he
as he pursued his way.
A SAFE PLACE.
First Cincinnatian—“What a fearful
riot that was. I lost several dear friends
in it.”
. Second Cincinnatian—“Were you hurt
y °^ j was wounded while standing
» my Own doorstep, but only slightly.
! Were you hart ?”
“Oh ! not at all. I was in a safe place
while tbe rioting was going 8 oil.”
M"
__
AN ARISTOCRATIC FAMILY.
, Mr.
' “Young Smythe comes from a
fine family, does he not ?”
“Oh, my, yes; one of the most aristo¬
cratic and exclusive in all New York.”
“Is the family of Dutch or English
ancestry, . do , you - , know
.
“I don’t know anything about theil
ancestry. All I know is that old man
Smythe made over a million dollars dur
te-ik. tog the war m government _________ coatraots. « —
Philo. M-vening Call.
j LIFE AMONG THE MORMONS.
“My dear,” said a Mormon wife to her
husband, “I should think that yon
would be ashamed of yourself, flirting
with that Miss B. as you did in church
• to-day.”
“Flirting with her ?” he replied engaged in as¬
tonishment, “why we have been all
f° r more than three months, It’s
over town.’
“Oh. I beg yonr pardon,” said his
wife indifferently. “If you are engaged
to her, I suppose it is all right. When
{ does the happy event occur?”