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cMrnrg |. VAN SLYKE, Edtttr and Publisher. * IMrHENEY, nxiKOis, 4 WEEKLY NEWS REVIEW. THE EAST. MUSOBAVS, the promoter of the alpaca works at Chieopee, Mass., has swindled bia partners, Anderton and Duna, out of •100,000, and the total losses of the firm will be $225,000. , At Everett, Mass., the Union Stove Com- pany's works burned. Loss. $75,000, K»nt freight trains collided near Cuba, N. Y., wrecking about forty heavily-loaded oars. Otto Bowers, a fireman, waa killed, and Frank Ayere, an engineer, reoeived fatal inju­ ries. The loss is placed at f50,000. It is said that the accident was caused by an engineer falling asleep from overwork Lieut. B. Long Edes and Lieut Lymau Q. Spalding, of the United States navy, were killed by the premature explosion of a torpedo at the torpedo station at Newport, R, I. The bodies of both gentlemen were blownto atoms. Two MEMBEBS of Frawley's gang, which has been the terror of the country in the vicinity of Mechanicsville, N. T., were ar­ rested near that place after a desperate en­ counter, in which about twenty shots were ex­ changed, and during which a Deputy Sheriff, an insurance agent and a depot mas­ ter received some severe wounds ... Francis C. Tease and wife, of Portland, Me., amved in Boston and took rooms in Edin- I boro street A few evenings subsequently » pistol shots were heard in their apartment*, and the wife was found dead and the husband dvmg... .The Empire drill works, at Shorts- ville. near Rochcator, N. Y., valued at 6100.000, were destroyed by lire. About 100 men will be thrown out of employment through the de­ struction of the works. NEW YORK and t he surrounding States i are suffering from the long-continued drought, which is the most severe experienced for many years. Farmers have been compelled to dig their potatoes to save the crop, late potatoes have been entirely ruined, and many fruit and . slmde trees are dying. Weils, cisterns and streams are dried up, and cattle require feed­ ing. Bush fires are raging at many points, and the air is filled with smoke. The loss to the farmers is very great BENJAMIN D. BUTLER, a son of Gen. B. F. Butler, died at the residence of his father, near Gloucester, Mass. The young man was - in his 27th year, and was a general favorit*. He graduated at West Point in 1876. He after­ ward studied law, and was about to enter his father's office this fall. He was his father's favorite son. THE WEST. FIRE in Cleveland destroyed the lumber-yard and planing-mill of Hempy & Co., together with a large number of loaded and empty freight cars. The loss on the planing- mill and lumber is about $60,000; insur<uioe $30,500 A Tombstone (Arizona) dispatch says that Indians attacked the town of Eureka, New Mexico, and killed all the citizens, said to be about seventy in number. THE artesian well at Yankton, the first bored in Dakota, sends 150 gallons per minute to a height of fifty feet from the ground, and pipea will be laid to supply the city. A HORRIBLE tragedy was enacted in Milwaukee the other day. A young fellow named Herman Holden, aged 25, shot and in stantlv killed his stepfather, J. Kramer, and then fired twice at his mother, both balls pro­ ducing mortal wounds. Holden came from St Louis, and, after drinking some, went to the house of his mother and stepfather, with whom he was not on very friendly terms. He picked a quarrel with his mother, who was lying on the bed at the time, shooting her twice, as stated. At this Cramer entered the door, and Holden, turning in his track, shot him, the ball passing clear through the body. He then sa&de his escape. THOMAS H. LOWEBRE, a compositor employed on the. Chicago Tri^nme,was shotd^ad by his landlord, James B. Duncan, a photog­ rapher. The deed originated in charges of criminal intimacy between Lo<eerre ana Mrs. Duncan. The killing was preceded by a furi­ ous fight, in which Duncan's shoulder-blade was broken... .While a party of In­ diana farmers were seining in the Wa­ bash at flaymond's riffle, twenty miles south of Terre Haute, four of them--Henry Berkaw, Marshall Ferrell, Emory Lospie and James Rudisell--were drowned. The bodies of Berkaw and Kudisell have been recovered. ... .The alleged corner on Angnst wheat on the Chicago Board of Trade was cioned out, on the 31st nit., much to the advantage of the so-called Cincinnati clique, who are reported to have made fully $3,000,000 by the operation. The affair was one of the boldest and most successfully manaprd in the h^torv of the Chicago board The town of Sierrav'ille, Cal.. was wi{x*d out of existence, by tire, the loss be­ ing placed at $300,000. WHEN the east-bound express on the Centr.il Pacific road reached Colfax. Cal., two engines and one car were thrown from the track, the rails having been removed by high­ waymen. A fireman and the express messenger, who sprang to the ground, were ordered to keep quiet, but just at that moment the robbers became alarmed and rode off in a wagon, leaving a large in­ voice of marks, powder and tools The Convent of St. Francis, situated about five miles from Manitowoc, Wis., was struck by lightning and entirely destroyed by fire. There were over eighty persons in the builoing, sever­ al of whom were injured in their efforts to es­ cape. Ti;e loss on the building and furniture was $"65,000, with insurance of onlv $5,000..... The receipts of live stock in Chicago for the month were 153,938 cattle, 455,259 hogs, 30,422 sheep and 967 horses. These tieures show an increase over the receipts of August 1880, of 40,779 cattle. 2,935 hogs, 11 872 sheep and ****** horses. Prices of beef cattle are now from BO cents to tl per 100 pounds higher than one year ago, while the difference in hogs is from tl.50 to H.6G The banks of the Illinois river, all the way from Pekin to Peoria, are strewn with dead fish, and gangs of men are employed in bury­ ing them. The cause is believed to be the ref­ use from the glucose works and distilleries of Peoria....An insane man lodging on Clark street in Chicago, sprang from his bed at about 1 o'clock in the morning and •hot David Fagm, a room-mate, and William Springard, a watchman. Making for the side­ walk, he hit Henry Johnson, a negro. Along the Bock Island track he wounded Thomas Kynn, a flagman, and a man named Wolf. 'The lunatic was caught Some of his victims •re dangerously wounded, aud one ot two will probably die. THE SOUTH. A HOUSE burned on John A. Smith's farm, near Booneville, Miss., and three colored children were baked to coals John C. Alex- • andec's house burned at Carter's Creek Station, Tenn., and five colored children were cremated. ... .Gov. Hawkins, of Tennessee, on the 29th nit, addret-sed to the Governors of all the States and Territories a circular suggesting that in the event of the death of President Garfield proclamations be issued requesting the suspen­ sion of all secular business and the gen­ eral; holding of funeral and memorial serv­ ices upon a uniform ; day and date..... A Galveston (Texas) telegram says "the city .. of Piano is in ashes. Fifty-one buildings were burned in two hours. Every business house is destroyed with the exception of a saloon and a lumber-yard. Total lose. &100,000 ; insurance, #20,000." The easterly gale caused a loss of about $140,000 at Charleston, 8. C. Thomas P. Lesesne, son of Chancellor Lesesne, was •wept from the sea-wall at the battery and drowned. Three colored persons at Sullivan's island were drowned. ONE of the jmost destructive biorms which ever visited the South Atlantic coast pre­ vailed there. The loss of life and property is The wind blew over Savannah, Ga., at the rate of forty miles an hour, unroofing houses, sweeping the sea into houses along the wharves, ana playing havoc with shade and JI An iufirmary was wrecked, 5* tf1® patients barely escaped. Many of them were badly bruised. Sailing -craft in Savannah bav suffered badlv, and many persons on board perished. The loss of fare among the colored people on the rice plan­ tations and along the river and bay is reported to have been very great. All the peoplo on one of the islands in the river perished. At Port Boyai, Beaufort and other points along the South Carolina coast hundreds of persons are be­ lieved to have perished, and millions of dollars' wortli ot' property was washed away... Some miscreant, by opening a switch Sunday •;* m0n, at Faraudale, on the East Tennessee, r Virginia and Georgia railroad, caused a freight to ran into a construction train whioh had been side-tracked. The engine was wrecfted, and the engineer aud fireman fatally injured The uee of sulphur water in the boiler of Hon* ry Moodv's saw-mil), at Canipbollsijille, Ky., caused an explosion which tilled tig.Engineer, Henrv Games, and moltfclly ujJHIfed Jack; Fletcher and Sam Cook. \ ; £! DISPATCHES from Charleston, SaVan- nhh. and other points along the Soath AUamio coaht, indicate even a greater loss of life and property in the recent gale than had been pre­ viously reported. Each sailing craft coming to port brings news of death and disaster. The Ions of life will bo in the neighborhood of 200. The property loss cannot yet be estimated.... The boiler of a large sawmill exploded in Wal­ ton county, Ga., killing H. O. Perry and W. H. Hammed, owners, and two employes The fall of a wall in Hanover Btreet, Baltimore, killed three colored laborers and seriously in­ jured two others. DR. HARWELL, of Fitzpatrick'S Sta­ tion, Ala., was for the fourth time caught in the act of attempting to chloroform a lady in the house where he boarded, by pushing sat­ urated cotton through A hole in the floor, and on attempting to escape was shot dead. Alexander Mosely, for many years editor of the Richmond (Ya.) Whig, is dead. A TELEGRAM from Little Bock, Ark., says : " The worst feeling imaginable still pre­ vails at Center Point, Howard county, between blacks and whites. Several riots have already occurred, attended with loss of life. Ou Mon­ day a well-to-do negro named Anderson Smith appeared in town, got intoxicated, and waa roughly bandied by two white men. Next day lie* returned with a squad of thirty orforty negroes, and this force was met by a body of white men on tho outskirts of the town. A regular battle occurred. The negroes were driven into a barn, and after several hours re­ treated to the woods. Several were killed. Center Point is off from the telegraph line, and particulars are meager. Colored people have repeatedly threatened to burn the town, which is guarded day and night" - fiBNEBAX. <«. BELLEVILLE, Out., rejoices in the pos­ session of a Chief of Police, Mr. McKinnon, who is the champion hammer-thrower in America. He recently threw a heavy hammer ninety-eight feet three inches, and a light one 121 feet ten inohes. This is said to be better than any record ever made in America. THE Standard Coal and Iron Company, which has been incorporated At Columbus, Ohio, states its capital at $75,000,000. Among its leaders are Oliver Ames and William P. Hunt, of Boston, and Samnel Thomas, of Co­ lumbus, It is said that the company intends to secure all the property in the Hocking valley region which can be purchased at reasonable figures Persons who had in contemplation a trip to Europe this summer had better prepare to go in a sailing vessel, or paddle over in a canoe. The following manifesto issued 14 by order of the Central Committee, Chicago,"" explains itself : " Americans and all frieuds of Ireland are hereby warned against embarking upon any vessel flying the British flag after Thurs­ day, Sept 1. Many may reach their destina­ tion, but none are sa/e." THB steamship Hudson, on her trip from New Orleans to New York, received the officer? and crew of the ship Sandusky, bound from Pensacola to Liverpool The ship had been wrecked in a gale which lasted three days, and tho crew were taken from the upper rigging after being sev­ enty-eight hours _ without food.--The Captain and crew of the schooner Lucy Wheatley, from Jacksonville, Fla., to Balti­ more, were taken from their vessel, which was in a sinking condition, by the steamship Chal- mette, from New Orleans, and carried to New York. The shipwrecked marines had been forn days without food and water. REPORTS from various parts of the Province of Ontario indicate that the contin­ ued drought has affected the crops very injuri­ ously, and caused great inconvenience to farm­ ers and others. Pastures are parched, root crops are endangered and dairy product* are much diminished. Streams and wells are dried up, and farmers are obliged to drive their cat­ tle for miles for water. Bush fires are fre­ quent, and are causiag much damage Capt Stone has returned to Cincinnati with Maud S., and announces that she will not appear in public agaiu this season... ..The Mu­ tual Union Telegraph Company mil com­ mence business in October with 25,000 miles of wire. RCFUS HATCH says that the receipts of wheat at the four principal winter-wheat points --St Louis, Toledo, Indianapolis and Detroit --are only 40 per cent of what they were last year. He infers from this fact that the wheat crop of this year is onlv about 40 per cent, of what it was last year. Mr. Hatch thinks that no such calamity as the short crop of this year has been experienced in the United States for twenty-live years A clergyman of Dayton, Ohio, writes to the autheiities of liichmondj Va., thathe'uuited in marriage an estimable lady and Morton, the bigamist, the latter giving the name of Lieut. Gov. Miller, of Minnesota. This is the fifteenth matrimonial victim of the prisoner An application is before the Do­ minion Government for a charter for a telo- graph system throughout Canada in harmony with the Mutual Union, With a capital of $1,000,000. H4 •HC i WASHINGTON. A LETTER has been received at Wash ington from Capt Hooper, of the United States steamer Corwin, sent into the Arctic seas in search of the Jeannette. stating that he had heard nothing of tbat vessel on the Siberian coast, that he had discovered an island near Cape Serdze and had victualed for the winter, if he found that he had to be out so long. MB. GRINNELL, the American Consul at Bremen, reports to Secretary Blaine that during the first six months of the present year 1,290,000 bushels of American corn had been imported into Germany. Mr. Griunell says a much larger quantity will be imported during the luht six months of the year, aud that there is no doubt that the amount will continue to increase, as the Germans have come to recc®- nize corn as an excellent food. MUTILATION of silver coins is the sub­ ject of a circular issued by the Secretary of the Treasury. In it he intimates that Government officials may refuse to take such coins at their | face valne, but may purchase them by weight as bullion. Congress will be asked next session to make a law declaring the utterance of tau- | tilated coins illegal. | FOLLOWING is the regular public debt i statement, issued on the 1st inat: Six per cent, bond*, extended .if 17B,05f>,150 Five per cents, extended 40<),<;31.9.JU Five per cent, bonds ' 21,304,000 Four and oue-lialf per cents . 25I»,!I'KP,IK>O ... 738,79:i,4'XJ 644,'.>00 :.. 14,000,000 with only 9300, the amount allowed by the statute. TJCB setting of course 230 on the Washington monument has been finished, mak­ ing a net addition t6 the height of the monn- ' meat 8ir.ee the work of continuation was re- Huoaed ol t ighty feet. The Just four courses, eaeh weighing about 170 tons, have been laid at the rate of a course ev< ry two days* The irons work and machinery will now be shifted, when the work of laying the stone will bo prosecuted to course 250, when it will be necessary to make another shipment There are 100 stonecutters at work, and it is probable that before the work closes for the eaapon the monument will haV» r*aabed a height of 260 feet POLITICAL. , ON the fiftieth ballot, the Republicans ot Chautauqua and Cattaraugus counties. New York, nominated Norman M. Allen to succeed Loren B» Sessions as Btato Senator. GEN. GRANT says there is no truth in the newspaper stories that he has had frequent consultations and conferences with VtcefPresi- dent Arthur and other public men in New York in reference to political contingencies at Wash­ ington growing out of President Garfield's dan­ gerous condition. He says he has met Gen. Arthur only onoe since the at­ tempt on the President's life, and then no one but the Vice President and he were present. Tho ex-President says that no person is more concerned than Gen. Arthur at President Garfield's dangerous condition.... The New York Republicans will bold their State Convention Oct. 5. V ., : tOBEIfill. THB Bank of England refuse I to sell gold bars for transmission to this country, but does all that can be legally demanded in the way of meeting the demands on it for British coin. It has reduced tho^price of French coins. Imperials and Napoleons--the former to $19.79 per ounce, the latter to $18.37 per ounce. The demand for gold by American shippers sur­ prises the European bankers It is reported from Tunis that the Frenchcamp at Hammanei was attacked by several thousand Arabs, wl»o were repulsed with heavy loxs. A MALICIOUS scoundrel removed some rails from the railroad track between Frejus and Agay/ Franco, and as the train for Nice came along the eugine and four baggage cars were thrown from tho track upon the rocks on the seacoast. The engineer aud firenup Jvere both killed, and nine persons, hiehthng two ladies, were severely injured.... The recent heavy rains throughout Ireland have caused great damage to the crops. -This will be a bad year for the Irish landlords to have the rents which they are to collect fixed. The tenants who have leases, and who do not come under the . operation of the act, will have a hard time The ill-feeling between Spain an£ France, caused by the refusal of the latter to compen­ sate the Saida sufferers, continues. A Madrid journal demands the recall of the Spanish Minister at Paris Prayers for the -recover? of President Garfield were offered up in the Evangelical churches throughout England. COUNT BASCHKOFF and Gen. Jadcreff, two noted Pan-Slavonic Russian politicians, have just published a pamphlet on the condi­ tion of Russia, the substance of which was submitted to the Czar before his father's death. The pamphlet admits that widespread dis­ satisfaction exists in Russia, and advocates some kind of popular administration. Its publication at this time is apparently for the purpose of showing the world what the Czar might do if the Nihilists would let him.... Bradiaugli has issued a manifesto to the English people in the shape of an address to his Northampton constituents. He announces his intention to go to the House of Commons again next session, and he asks the English peo­ ple to protect him against unlawful violence The entire Radical party of the French Cham­ ber of Deputies is demanding that Gambetta shall accept the Premiership, which it is under­ stood that President Grevy will offer him.... fifteen Socialists have been expelled from Berlin for laboring for the eleooon of Herr Bebel to the Reichstag. BBXTON, the Irish Land-Leaguer, ad­ dressed a meeting at Dublin, and said that as long as the Emergency Committee existed there would be no peace in Ireland. He also repeated that the Land League would not dis­ band until landlordism was destroyed. ̂ Other speakers have talked in a similar strain since the passage of the Land act. The Union mail steamer Teuton, which arrived at Cape Town on the 28th ult, after landing some of her passengers and embarking others, pro­ ceeded on her voyage to AJgoa bay, on the Soath African coast She was driven on tho rocks at Quoin point on the 3lBt inst, and of 200 souls on board only twenty- seven made their escape Emperor William of Germany was on horseback three hours the other day at Berlin, during the annual inspec­ tion of tiie army. He has quite recovered from his illness.. ..In event of a military disturbance in Egypt the Sultan of Turkey proposes to use his authority as Suzerain by sending 10,000 troops and a fleet to that country. ADDITIONAL MEWS. GEN. M. H. AVEBY, well known throughout the oil region, where he operated the first pipe-line, died at Geneva, N. Y. He commanded a brigade under Gen. Stieri- dan. Ex-Congressman Hendrick B. Wright died at his home at Wilkesbarre, Pa. REPORTS received from the most of the Western States show that the number of hogs is one-quarter less than last year, and they are of small size and in poor condition. There is not the usual number of pigs, and there is a'deficiency of food with which to fatten them for market Duucan, tho man who killed the printer Lowerre, at Chicago, has since died of the wounds received hi the affray. HENRY LAWSON, colored, was hanged at Chattanooga, Tenn. Five thousand persons were present A OAF of only thirty-five miles remains to be filled on the Canada Pacific road to con­ nect Winnipeg with Lake Superior A tract of 3,000 acres of forest, near Rockport, Ont, has been destroyed by fire, and the St. Law­ rence river is nearly ur.navigable from smoke. A PABTX of Cork Fenians engaged in raiding for arms came upon a police patrol. A fight ensued, during which several shots were exchanged. Three raiders and some of the policemen were wounded. A farmer's son, who strayed in the vicinity of the combatants, while in an intoxicated state were mortally wouuded The Governor of Als ice-I^orraine has exiled from Strasbourg two workmen who were agitating Socir.hun in the province. ',' PRESIDENT GARFIELD. Fonr ncr cent. Ixmdn. Refunding certificate* Navy pension funa 34(1^741,076 9^628,000 Total coin bonde Matimd debt. J/fpal tenders $ ) '«rti fieateg of deposit... Gold and (silver certifi­ cates <2,979,330 Fractional currency 9,098,554 Total without Interest. Total debt Total Interest Cash in treasury $1,<103,342,800 14,1»8,055 4M,U3,U«) .1:4,043,9*5,330 .. 12,853,026 .. 240,498,788 Debt leea cash In treasury... Decrease during AiigUKt Decrease since June30, 1881... Current llabilitlea-- Interest due and unpaid. .J Debt on which interest haa ceased.... Interest thereon. Gold and silver certificates United States notes held for redemption of certificates of deposit. Cash balance available Aug. 1,1881.... Total.... Available Cash in treasury . ,816,339,567 14,1*1.221 24,259,244 2,426,370 14,198/65 800,948. 62,979,230 0,625,000 150,408,575 ...4 340,498,788 • 240,49 ,̂788 Bonds issued to Pacific railway compan­ ies, Interest payable m lawful money, principal outstanding $ 64,623,512 Interest accrued and not yet paid 446,239 Interest paid by United States. 61,467,272 Interett repaid by companies- Interest repaid oy transportation of malls 14,441,719 By cash payments of 5 per cent, of nst earnings...... 656,190 Balance of interest paid by the United Btatss 86.370,363 CAPT. HOWGATE, whose stealings from the United States amounted to about $500,000, is nowhere to be found, and it is believed that he has fled from the country in company with his mistress, leaving his bondsmen to settle with the United States Government. The sad­ dest thing about tiie whole affair, perhaps, is the fact that Howgate leaves his poor wife A Great Singer's Meanness. >. Between Patti and her sister Carlcjtta, as the world knows, there is undyiiig hatred. The last mentioned is a great artist and a woman of great heart. She is really loved by many in her career, and when u dreadful operation Was .per­ formed on her in Paris two years' ligd the whole world sent messages, letters and dispatches, all of anxious inquiry, but from the sister whose arms had proffered many a childish embrace there came not one word of love or sympathy. All the while that Carlotta Patti was in the hospital with the good sisters of St. Joseph, Adelina waa at the Hott)l du Kliin, and during fourteen anxious days, while hovering between life and death, an own sister, she never sent word to know how she was, and said, vhen asked to come and witness the operation and join in the sacraments taken with the family before the chloroform was given, that "She did not care wjiether she lived or died, and not to annoy her any more." Mme. Strakosch did not dare tell Carlotta the real truth, and the poor invalid believed until she was quite out of danger that an old feud had been healed over, and that a favorite sister had scarcely left her bedside during so terrible a trial.--London letter. THB boot period is the dividing line between babyhood and boyhood. Before the boots, one is trampled upon by com­ rades, and stuck with pins, and we walk •with an air of apology for the fact that we are born at ail. liobust school­ fellows strike us across the cheek, and when we turn toward them they cry, " Who are you looking at ?" or, what is worse than possible insult, we have somebody chuck U*. lUkkc.the chiu «ud call as "BubI" WASHINGTON. Aug. 30. The favorable symptoms In the President's oondltfcn which manifested Ihemeelvtes day continued all day yesterday and up morning. His pulse an<l temperature 8 decided improvement , the dandular aw reduood considerably, and the wound scnted a healthy appearance. patient took more than the amount of nourishment, which he ap­ peared to astiimiluto without difficulty. The stomach is in good condition,'1 and all the indi­ cations point to continued improvement. J. he physicians, who had nearly lost hope, are once more almost conlklent. A slight incision in the gland was t attended with favorable re­ sults. The bullet-wound continues to heal, and the swollen gland has diminished. The administration of stimulants vo the patient has been discontinued. Heretofore there has been administered in each enemata four drams of whisky mixed with the yelks of eggs. The physicians felt at the time liquor was first given in large doses that it was absolutely necessary that his system should be quickly stimulated. The President's mental faculties are clear, and, acting with his improved condition, aid the work of recovery. While recognizing that the President is still in a dangerous condi­ tion, Dr. Bliss said he felt no hesita­ tion in baying ho thought the chances now are m favor of hfe recovery. Dr. Bliss says that the ball is moving deeper into the cavitv of the pelvis, probably in the direction of the rectum. This downward move- itaent he regards as a rather favorable circnm- stance. The ball, he says, will have to betaken out sometime, and can be taken from that part of the body toward which it is going as easier it least as it could be taken from its original lo­ cation. Dr. Agnew does not believe that the President has lost as much weight as Secretary Blaine's telegram to Minister Lowell represented laflt week. Dr. Bliss agrees with Dr. Agnew, and adds that the patient has not reached the dan* gerous limit oi emaciation. A man, he adds, can lose two-fifths of his weight without en­ dangering his Iffe. „ As hope ret urn P , 'more* i s learned in detail of (& terrible anxiety of last Friday. It appears that the surgeonn, after the alarming symptoms of the morning, decided that it was useless to longer continue the struggle, aud two of their number were salected to wait on Mrs. Gar­ field and inform her that medical science could do no more, and that she. must prepare for the worst. The intervie^JWtUch oociuVe<| between the6e surgoois and Mrs. Garfield ^11. if reports are true, be regarded as one of the most dramatic incidents in this ex­ traordinary aase. Capt. Henry Marshal, of this JJifcUicIt a frietid of the President and his family, says that Mrs. jQarfield heard the news with groat com­ posure, and that, smothering her emotion, she arose and : "Gentlemen, you shall not give him it|r. ^ He is not going to die„ He jm going to live. I feel, I know it. Go back to your post, every one of you, and leave it not un­ til every remedy is exhausted--until death itself has set its seal upon him--for I will not believe he is dying. Go back and do what you, can. You cannot do more, but do not give nf>. I am his wife, and 1 say that we will not give up until the end itself is upon us." Mrs. Garfield has never surrendered more than a moment" or two at a time to her grief, and then she has retired to her room, and after a brief absence has returned to her post of duty at the Presi­ dent's bedside. ^ WASHINGTON, Aug. 81. Vhe President is no better and he is no worse. He remains upon the dead level, where, ene of hii physicians said last night that they hoped he would not remain many dayJ. They, of course, hope and are confident that, when a change does come, it will be for the better, but this confidence is not as strong as might lie desired. The situation is still one of un­ certainty, and there are a few pessimists who fear that the prospects are not as good for his recovery as they seem to be. Another in­ cision was made in the parotid gland, which resulted satisfactorily and perceptibly decreased the swelling. The wound remains unchanged. There was a slight rise in the pulse, due to this incision. The patient took his nourishment, consisting of koumiss, milk porridge, and beef tea, quite freely and with appareut relish. He ate a small piece of milk-toast. His stomach continues healthy, and the physicians seem to be rather confident that there will be no more trouble from that source. The condition of the wonnd is healthy. The fact that the ball has chanraiUte position and is moving lower down irf oaMdmd a favorable feature of the case by the surgeons, and by some is supposed to account for the rally made a few days ago. That the President is feeling better and his mental faculties are clear ate considered signs of improvement. The police yesterday arrested another "crank"atthe White Honse gate. It was a poor colored man, manifestly insane. He was bent upon the sanguinary misfion of killing every man who was not a Garfield man, and had a long tin can into which he proposed to place their heads. He was arrested without resistance. Dealers in nostrums which they claim will be of benefit to the President are very numerous here, and Secretary Blaine is visited by so many of them that it has become necessary to station a policeman in citizen's clothes near his house to relieve him from the annoyance to which he is subject at all times of the day and night Some of the^e persons are so persistent lhat it is necessary to remove them bv the ixilice. The assassin, Guiteau, has written another letter to Disirict Attorney Corkhill, in whioh he claims protection from the mob. At the conclusion of his letter he plain­ ly Shows that ho is well acquainted with the President's condition, for he says : ' • While the President is in this pre- carious condition, I have confidence in no one. Hook to you. See tfiat I am securely pro­ tected." The wretch has also indicated a de­ sire to marry some wealthy Christian lady of good family. -• About 100 letters a day are received at the White House, addressed either to Mr. or Mrs. Garfield. During the early stages of the President's illness the letters were mostly to him. Now they are generally ad­ dressed to Mrs. Garfield, and express * the writers' sympathy with her. Most of them bear the evidence of being written by persons of in­ ferior attainments, but at the same time they testify to the genuine sentiment of the people in their distress. WASHINGTON, Sept 1. The President's condition during the past twenty-four hours has been highly favorable. Ho rested quietly, slept well, and for longer periods of time than for several days, His temperature and pulse showed decided signs of improvement the pulse falling as low as 95 --lower than at any time since the 8th of August He took rather more than the usual quantity of liquid nourishment, tfnd swallowed the juice of a . piece of beefsteak which ho chewed. His wound looks healthy, and the condition of tho parotid gland is :ts good as could be expected. The plmiciaim fed greatly encouraged at the de­ cided improvement In the patients general con­ dition. Lai.t night tho fever was less than on, any night siuce he was wounded, and his tem­ perature wus about normal. The most hopeful symptom seems to be the improvement of the President's appetite and the excellent condition of his stomach. Tho parotid gland wnfl found to have another opening iolo tho; mouth, and its %ppearance showed I hilt it tfas rapidly ciirtilEtRliing in size, 'l'lie wound was discharging more freely and the granulating process is proceeding favorably. The Prtsident is anxious to leave the White House, and the physicians will, as soon an he is able to move, send him either to Long Branch by rail, or for a trip down the river oU the Tallapoosa. The patient begihu to express- disappointment at being unable to kejep his engagements for September. i One of the attending physicians rtays tpefft^h- lic has been deceived as to the. President's eru­ dition at tie time lie was womidecL • Afttlie time he was slibt his physical condition was had. He was like a grass-fed horse. He had been suffering from dyspepsia, hemorrhoids, and had borne an operation for fistula on the lower bowels. This, with the groat mental strain and the anxiety oil account of his wife's MUCH*, had run him down so tuat his physio,', 1 condition wan very unfavorable to meet the shock and subsequent treatment for a gun-shot wound. His loss of flegl* has been overstated, and cannot bo more than forty pounds. Guiti-au wrote a letter to District Attorney Gorkhili yesterday, vxpros&ing great regret that he did not kill tho president in the Ver­ mont Aveimt: church wi^:u ho went there for that purpose. The villain says he is sorry the President suffers go ilitnh, out a great deal more sorry that the President is not dead. WASINOTOS, Sept 2. The President has not improved much in the last twenty-fom- hoars. He held his own, how. ever, the physieinns say, and although, he did not gain strength enough to help himself, he looked better, his voice was stronger, and he talked more. The condition of the wound did not improve, and the physicians think it will not until the gland is better. The patient chewed a piece of chicken yesterday and swal­ lowed the" jnioe; h« also shallowed the juioe flf a piece of beefsteak, and ,took a little oyster soup in addition to the usual amount of liquid nourishment. Tbe fluctuations of the patient's pulse are attributed to weakness. When he grows weary or his wound is dressed there is an immediate rise in' tho pulse. The question of the President's Kfeiov&l was discussed by tho physioi^ns yes ter­ ete v, but no action was determined on. 1 ii< re is one disquieting feature of the case whioh accounts possibly for this high tempera­ ture, and that is, that the stomaoh is not its work, the food does not ns».i::Klate, aud there is consequently no in­ crease m strength. It is said that the members ef the Cabinet have several times discussed the feasibility of calling upon Vice President Arthur to attend to executive business until the President re­ covers, but no one is yet ready to advise this step. WASHINGTON, Sept. 3. The President gained slightly yesterday. His symptoms last night were somewhat more favorable than on the previous night, and through the day his pnlse was less frequent and moro steady than it had been the day be­ fore., 'He relished his food rather better than at any time since his re- lapse. Tho patient is still very weak. Tho parotid gland continues to suppurate and has not yet commenced to heal, and the wound has not Improved much. The most hopeful symp­ toms are tho patient's growing appetite, the healthy condition of his stomach, and the readiness with which the food be partakes of is assimilated. Yesterday he took some soup, aud chewed a piece, of stewed squirrel, and asked for more, but it was not deemed well to accede to his request The patient evinces a great desire to be removed from the capital, and, though the physicians do not think it safe to comply with his wishes in that matti-r just at present, they are free to say that as soon as it can be safely done they will adyise his removal, probably to Long Branch. - PACTS FOB THE CURIOTFO. THE average height of a man from 81 to 40 years old is given at 5.52 feet; oi a woman of the same age, 5.18. A MAN breathes about eighteen times a minute, and uses 3,000 cubic feet, or about 375 hogsheads of air per hour. THERE are more than 500 separate ' muscles in the human body, and an equal number of nerves and blood­ vessels.. • • • i H EAOR perspiratory duct is one-fourth df an iilch in length, which will make the aggregate length of the whole about nine miles. THE water on the outside of a goblet at- cold water is produced by the air 'coining in contact with the glass and condensing, leaving the moisture it con* tained upon the surface of the glass. IT ia paid that sea-urchins are so tena­ cious of life that on opening one of them it is no uncommon circumstance to observe the several, parts of tha broken shell move off in a different di­ rections. IT has been ascertained thatout of 1,500 salmon eggs, in tho ordinary course of nature, only one produces a mature sal­ mon. If all the eggs laid were to pro­ dded salmon, the ocean in half a century would be a moving mass of salmon. THE analeps, a viviparous fish of the rivers of Eastern Asia, has a singular kind of eye. The ball of each eye is divided horizontally into two hemis­ pheres by a membranous band, and eac& half is a perfect organ of vision; tiie two upper halves are long-sighted, and the two lower halves near-sighted. TAKING 1,000 well-to-do persons and another 1,000 of poor persons, after five years there remained alive »i the pros­ perous 943, of the poor only 655; after 50 years there remained of the prosper­ ous 557, of the poor 283 ; at 70 years of age there remained 235 of the pros­ perous, and of the poor 65. The aver- erage length of life among the well-to- do was 50 years, and among the poor 32 y«ars. ONE of the greatest wonders of Egypt, the wonderland, was the Labyrinth, an immense mass of buildings, mentioned by Herodotus as the palaces built for the twelve Kings. This great work con­ tained 3,000 chambers, half above and half below the ground, beside immense halls, courts, corridors, gardens, etc. The roofs were wholly of stone, and the walls covered with sculpture. This mass of buddings covered something like forty acres of ground. THE lake that has the highest eleva­ tion of any in the world is Green lake, in Colorado. Its surface is 10,252 feet above the level oi the sea. Pine forests surround it, and. eternal snows deck the neighboring mountain tops. One of these, Gray's peak, has an altitude of 14,341 feet. The water of Green lake is clear as crystal, and large rock masses and a petrified forest are distinctly visible at the bottom. The branches of the trees are of dazzling whiteness, as though cut in marble. Salmon and trout swim among them. In places the lake is 200 feet deep. •BXBON wrote "The Corsair" in ten days, at. the rate of 200 lines a day ; Lope de Vega wrote 300 dramas in 100 days; Voltaire composed " Zaire" in three weeks and "Olympic"in six days; Dryden wrote iiis " Ode to St. Cecelia" at one sitting, and Mrs. Browning's "The Lady Geraldine's Courtship" was the work of twelve hours. Shak- speare, Dickens, Wordsworth and Moore, on the other hand, were slow workers. Hepworth Dixon rewrote his " Two Queens" eight times, and King- lake's " Eothen" was rewritten five or bix times. THE FAMILY DOCTOR. NERVOUS HEADACHE.--Dr. (Ehlschla- ger, of Danzig, says that he has found salicylate of sodium to be a remedy of great value in the treatment of nervous headache, especially if given in a dose oione gramme (gr. xv) in the beginning of an attacks It usually produces drowsiness, and after a few hours patient wakes up refreshed and free from pain. It, however, often fails to produce this effect in cases dependent on anaemia. HOT WATEB FOB THB HEAET.--In a letter to The Lancet, Dr. A. Pi records the following observation : states that in Paris he saw a case in which, under the inhalation of chloro­ form, the heart ceased to beat, and arti­ ficial respiration for ten minutes failed to restore circulation, when l)r. Labbe fend him. He puts out their eyes by dipped alaxge cloth in bodmfe water J pouring hot tallow into their ears. Sev- and applied it to,the region of the heart, with the result of immediately restoring the leaves is fatal to the horse, as we have just seen, ^phe flowers have pro- _ dueed death in those who carelessly picked and at * tliem. The branches, divested of their bark and used as ' skewer.-, have poisoned the meat roasted on tfcem, ar.d killed seven of the twelve yeo]|« WIJIQ partook of it." V JJ •><*. v , , r . . » ** 9mm King. King is rapidly growing mad. He cute off the noses of those who take snuff, and the lips of those who smoke. The other day a man went to salute^ Ras Aloula. In saluting him his tobac­ co box dropped out. lias Aloula struck, him with his sword, and his people, finished him. The King is hated mora' than Theodore was. Cruel to a degree, he does not, however, take life. He cuts, off the feet and hands of people who of the action bf that organ. To CURE CORNS.--Soak the feet for one-half hour in a solution of soda, and pare the corns as closely as possible; then apply aplaster of the following in­ gredients: Take of purified ammonia and yellow wax each two ounces and acetate of copper six drains ; melt the first two ingredients together, and after removing them from the fire add the acetate of copper just as they grow cold ; spread the ointment on a piece of soft leather or linen and place it 6ft the corn, removing it in two weeks. THE following remedy for the bite of", a mad dog is recommended by one who t as been bitten feix times, and in every instance cured himself, he claims, by this method : Put a pound of salt in a quart of water, and luvthe the wound thoroughly for about an hour; then bind dampened salt upon it, letting it remain an hour or so. This simple remedy is said by the author to be a sure cum We have ap personal knowl­ edge of its value. TAKING! Coii>. --It may be comforting to hear that we need not take cold if we do not want to; that taking cold de­ pends mainly on the will. A very high medical authority so declares, and adds that wo know very little of the forms of disease, even the commonest. Cold taking seems to bd> the result of a suffi­ cient impression of cold to reduce the vital energies of nerve centers presiding over the functions of special organs. It is easy to see then why a fit of sneez-, ing rouses the centers, enabling tliem to resume work and avoid evil conse­ quences.--Exchange. SANITARY HINTS.--It is easier to keep one's health than toregaiDrat when dftce lost. And yet on this point how care­ less atid Negligent some people are. Here are a few rules vftiieli will com­ mend themselves at,once to every one's cOmfuoti sense, and need but to be re­ called to be more generally observed. Never lean with the back upon anything that is cold. Never begin a journey till the breakfast has been eaten. Never • take warm drinks and then immediately go out into the cold air. Keep the back, especially between the shoulder blades, well covered, and the1 chest also well protected. In sleeping in a cold room, establish the habit of breathing through the nose, and never with the mouth open. Never go; to. bed with cold or damp feet; always warm by a tire ten or fifteen minutes before going to bed, era! persons came to me to tell me this. I remonstrated with the King againsti his edict forcing men to befcome Chris­ tian from Mussulman. He said they wished it. I also remonstrated about the tobacco edict, but it was of no use. ppe eftn travel without the King's, order, if he is a foreigner. You can buy nothing without the King's order; no» one will shelter you without his order-- in fact no more complete despotism could exist. It cannot last, for the* King will go on from one madness to. another. Orders were given that no one was to approach me; nor was I to apeak to atiy. The officer who con- /(JiV}t?d m«- to the King, the second in command to Aloula, met his uncle and cousin in chains, and durst not ask why they were chained. The King is a man of some 45 years, a sour, ill-favored looking being. He never looks you in the face, but when you look away he glares at you like a tiger. He never- smiles; his look, always changing, is one of thorough suspicion. Hated aud hat­ ing all, I can imagine no more unhappy man. Avaricious above all his people, who do not lack his quality, his idea of a. free port is that steamers will arrive from the powers of Europe with presents for him, to which he will reply by sending a letter with the lion seal, saying: "Yon are my brother, my mother, etc. How are you?" * * * You know I have seen many peoples, but I have never met with a more fierce, Savage set than these. The peasantry are good enough. The King says he can beat united Europe, except liussia. All the great men do not want a war with Egypt, and the King fears it when sober, for he drinks to excess at night. He talks like the Old Testament. He is of the strictest sect ofjthe Pharisees--drunk over night, at dawn he is up reading the Psalms. He never would miss a prayer-meeting, and would have a Bible as big as a port­ manteau if he were in England. No- women are allowed within 300 yards of his palace--his hut, I should say. He has one legitimate son--Has Afya Salam --and one illegitimate. Two sons of Theodore are with him.--Fforn Gor­ don's Book on " Central Afriid." • i t - Trnth in Pleasure. Men have been said to be sincere is their pleasures, bnt this is only that the tastes and habits of men are more easily discernible in pleasure than in business. The want of truth is as great a hindrance to the one as to the other. Indeed, there is so much insincerity and form- After exercise of any kind never ride in 1 ality in the pleasurable department of an open carriage or near the window of a car lor a moment, for it is dangerous to health and even to life. When hoarse, speak as little as possible until it is re human life, especially in social pleasure, that instead of a bloom there is a slime upon it, which deadens and corrupts the thing. One of the most comieal sights covered from, as the voice may be per- i to' superior beings must be to see two i A Conductor's Printing Office. It appears that German railway con­ ductors are made happy by the addition to their equipment of a paper-mill and printing oflice, the invention of a Berlin engineer, to be hung around the neck, which, according to an exchange, is to completely manufacture passenger tick­ ets before the eyes of the wondering public. The apparatus is said to be somewhat complicated in construction, but its manipulation is as simple as its working is correct, for, should the op­ erator uot proceed in the way required by the mechanism, it will not print all the figures and words wanted, but the word "Falsch" (wrong) in the pla6e whtre tiie iault was committed. At the '•Wmfc time this jiortable printer checks the number of tickets issued, so that at any given moment the money in the hands of the conductor can be ctompared with ^the value of the tickets printed tmd taken. . • t The Cat as a Weapon of Defense. A woman of New York kas demon- ^tratpd that cats are goqtTfof something beside catching rats and mice. She was alone in the house with no companion but a huge cat. She heard a burglar at­ tempting to effect an entrance into the b&^ement window.' In lier alarm she seized her petted " Tom," and, poising him carefully from the second-story window, dropped him squarely upon the intruder's neck, where, with a ter­ rific howl, he fastened claws and teeth. Then came another yell, and thief and cat disappeared with lightning rapidity aronnd the corner, the cat on top. TRAVELLER--"How do you brokers manage to undersell the railroad com­ panies?" Scalper--" Veil, you see ve don't got ffo much expenses. Dose rail­ road fellers liaf to keep up the lollin' stock an' pay ze hands. We don't. It's ail elf ar profit wit us 1"--New York (Trdphtd. manently lost, or difficulties of the throat be produced. Merely warm the back by the fire, and never continue keeping the back exposed to heat after it has become comfortably warm. To do otherwise is debilitating. When go­ ing from a warm atmosphere into a cold­ er one, keep the mouth closed so that the air may be warmed by its passage through the nose before it reaches the lungs. Always avoid standing on the ice or snow, or where the person is ex­ posed to a cold wind or draught. Keep the body in motion alter any violent ex­ ercise while cooling off. An observance of these few simple rules will save many a"doctor's bill, and not infrequently life itself. The Seeds ef Disease. Most people think bad smells prolific of infection, and carrion and decaying matter generally to be breeders of dis­ ease. Some are quite satisfied when the foul air is, deodorized, quite uuaware. that tho infective particles may re­ main the same. But ws must not mis­ take here. Our success in battling with epidemics will depend on our getting at the exact truth m the case. Liberia aoon become 4 the grave of every white man that goes there to stay; but the keenest scent detects nothing of malaria ! the edge of the deck, human creatures with elaborate speech and gesture making each other exquis­ itely uncomfortable from civility; the one pressing what he is most anxious that the other should not accept, and the other accepting only from the fear of giving offense by refusal. There is an element of charity in all this, toe, and it will be the business of a just and refined nature to be sincere and considerate at the same time. This will bo better done by enlarging our sympathy so that more | thiugw and people are pleasant to us, than by increasing the civil and conven­ tional part of our nature, so that we are able to do more seeming with greater skill and 'endurance. Heaving the Lead. The Fanny was coming dewn the Mississippi, loaded with pig lead. As she was going over a shoal place the pilot gave the signal to heave the lead. The only man forward at the time was a green Irishman. "Why don't you heave the lead?" " Is it to heave the lead, your Honor? "Whereto?" "Overboard, you blockhead ! " The Irishman snatched up one of the pigs of lead and threw it overboard ;' the mate, in endeavoring to prevent him, lost his balance and fell into the river. The Captain, running to asked: "Why don't you heave the lead, and sing out how much water there is ? " " The lead is heaved, your Honor, and the mate lias gone down to see how much water there •is," responded Pat* p"-. THE MARKETS. in the atmosphere. All may be fra­ grance and beauty where yellow fever is decimating the population. It was the finest parts of Chicago that were ravaged by scarlet fever, while the other parts were almost exempt. Diphtheria has of late years had proportionately more Vic­ tims in the mountainous regions of Mas­ sachusetts* than in Boston and our larger cities. The fact is, infectious diseases come of germs just as truly as the products of our fields come of the seed sown. These germs are almost infinitely small, but their mature plants--they are strictly vegetable--nave the power to multiply at an almost infinite rate. Each disease has it own germ. Small-pox cannot come from typhoid germs ; nor measles from scarlatina; nor yellow fever from cholera--and so universal'v. They must come each from its own . seed, as' mndh so as wheat, corn, the apple, elm or oak. They cannot come without seed, fo/ science knows of no spontaneous „ ^ generation*. But the seeds of hwher H ' <rood soil, and other favor- ' T- » » a » order require good soil, and other favor able conditions. It is equally so with ; tiie seeds of disease. Their choicest soil is tilth, and there is no favoring condi­ tion equal to a depressed state of one's physical system--whether depressed by bad food, impure air, sensual indul­ gence, long-continued anxiety, watching, or undue fasting. f NEW YORK. BF.F.VBM ,» A.... ...". ..$? 28 HOOB..... i'.v.i.lh.- i65 COTTON FLOUR--Stipwflti WHEAT--No. 2 Spring..:....... No. 2 Rod CORN-- Ungraded T.,. Oil*--Mixed SVcsiernj. P© UK--Sean. ,v.!. LAUD t ' i CHICAGO^ <ai2 oo (B, 8 75 12^« 12^ ... 5 25 <3 6 00 ... 1 30 ia 1 35 ... 1 44 @ 1 45 ».. 6ft, (S> 72 L. «i *3 I..I* 7S («U9 50 . . . BEEVES--Choice Graded Stefefs 6 00 ($ 6 50 Cows and Heifers 3 00 W 4 25 • Medium to Fur. j..6 35 Hoos. * w Fl-owit-rFaiicy Wliite Winter Ex... 6i75 Good to Choice Spring Ex. 6 SO WHKAT-~NO. 2Spring 133 Ko.-3 Spring 1 Is CORN--No. 2 61 .3 S ' v - i * 8 («£. & GO U 7 00 an 7 oo tl 00 @ 1 24 <4 I 16 ($ 62 ($ 38 <3 1 04 (<U8 00 11*1 MILWAUKEE. 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The mare died be- - fore assistance could be obtained, and on opening the body the dark-red con­ gested stomach showed the action of ata acrid poison, and inquiry brought tho account of the cropping of the oleander, of the injurious qualities of which the owner waa entirely^ ignorant. _ As this ignorance is very widespread, it may be well to say that all parte of the plant are deadly. A very quantity of _ . . ̂7 25 WHIHT-KO. 1 White 1 34 @ 1 35 CORN--NO. 1 65 G6 OATS--Mixed. 42 @ 43 if. •'y/- 2 ;1° '<$19 75 & 1 38 <3 65 >0RX~-aXAM.... INDIANAPOLIS. WHF.AT--No. fi Bod I 37 CORN--NOW 2 63 0am. ...f> 30 *' EASTP LIBERTY, PA. CATTLE--Best 6 10 <$ 6 50 .ye 00 to 6 00 Common,..CU..\ 4 80 4 75 Hoos o 50 « 7 .aw § «-•»: