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... V tfc* pMMBM of •upprewwil by Sw Frightful Sudden D0ITDE1ISED. H '\ f > T K f T l . j ; P? V»H#-r THX EAST. ? " ElOKT more suits for damages for in- >«l«1i> th* accident on Itoooratfon Day have bee» begun la New York city against <fctn«miun ^ total claims amottnt to fSOO.wa Tffl! Monroe "Seaside Library" Sliding, New York, was almost totally de­ stroyed by fim The loss IF estimated at *40,000. Several firemen narrowly escaped death, ham* been isolated by the flames ou tbe roof and eighth floor of the building-- A considerable sum of money was sub­ scribed in New Yolk at a meeting of Cubans held to aid their brethren now in arms. Gen. Scnache offered to go to the island and di- ' tptct military operation®. ; < HON. GINKRY TWICHELL, well known Huong hout the Union as a railway Presi­ dent «pd Congressman, died at Brookline, if a i-u Eight men entered a furnace at Geddes, N. ¥., to construct a new lining, and were crushed to death by the fall of 100 tona of brick and mortar-- A young Philadelphian was exiled to China fifteen years agoby his parents, to cure him of » passion for a danseuse named Maggie Summerficld. He returned last week with "Aastake of $100,000, and married the girl of ' Ifjs first choice. CHABLES E. UPTOM, President of the defunct City Bank of Rochester, has been sent to the county penitentiary for six' months, under the new criminal code, tor overdrawing his accounts. It will be re­ membered that his oil speculations cost the 1»T»lr $860,000. A prize fight was broken m In a coal town near Wilkesbarre, Pa., by Ajpartv of armed women. .. PATRICK KELLY, a seaman of the brig Julia Blake, died of yellow fever at a hos­ pital near Philadelphia. The vessel is de­ tained at ̂ quarantine. That the first victim ait any American port should die at Phila­ delphia reminds the reader of the fact that l great epidemic of the fever swept the ; Quaker City about 100 years ago. 51 THE extensive works of the Howe ^wing-Machine Company, at Bridgeport, Ob. were nearly destroyed by fire. The company employ about 400 hands, and were turning out about 110 machines per day. The loss on buildings, machinery and •took is about f&SQ, 04); insurance, 9275,0%*.... Oil sand has been struck by a party of pros­ pectors in Pine Creek Valley, a few miles north of Pittsburgh, and it is believed a new oil-field lias been discovered A dispatch from the Crawford Bouse, in the white Mountains, states that there was a fcpavy frost there the other night >>1 ^ M WEST. ;• A RECKXT telegram from Denver MJhs Of the oounty-aeat war in Grand oounty: "Information has been received hare that F. J. Dean, the County Clerk, who was wounded m tne late fight between masked men and the officers of Grand county, is dead. This makes a total of five Urea ftat have gone out of the dreadful feud. Commissioners Webber. Mills and Bay were killed in the straggle, ,*nd Deputy BaerlS Redmond. Sheriff Beyer oomtnitted suicide, presumably because of ms iniJbllity to apprehend the assassins and the adverse criticisms of the press, and Deputy Sheriff Bedmond, one of we masked murderers, is supposed to have been mor­ tally wounded it is still feared that the Hit of the dead is not complete. There re­ mains a bitter feeling between the factions contending tor political supremacy in the <xmnty, and. despite the acoepted appoint­ ment of Commissioners by Gov. Grant, the rSiult of their introduction to otHcial duties is weertain.* The exciting hunt for the Polk teounty Qknira) amcererseaded fai a Ivnching after as., A recent dispatoh from Harlan. Shelby eounty, says that "between 1 and 2 o'clock a. m., a body of men estimated all the way from thirty to 100 in number, went toRar- " lan from the southeast and quietly tied *. fheir: teams on the bank of the river. ; ;The men were led by some one of military experience, as oould readilv be seen by their formation and the precision with which " Ing was done. Marching directly to and in the meantime posting out- they called upon Deputy Watkins for .1 He made some objections, when iy seised him, secured the keys, and pro­ wled to the cell where Hurdy was se­ cured, without trouble. He met his exe­ cutioners calmly at the door, not a muscle wr tremor showing that he had the least fear. A rope was quickly placed around his neck, ind his hands tiea behind. The oell doors were then unlocked and the men quickly formed in line, without disturbance, the prisoner being placed under a strong guard. The fire-alarm soon woke the whole town, and at the same time rang out William Hardy's death warrant Volley after volley #f shots were beard in the direction of Chat- Win's mill, and the crowd which followed the lynchers, after some search, found the dead body of the victim in the river, just be­ low the midge, riddled with bullets, and the marks of a rope upon his neck. The suppo­ sition is that he was thrown from the bridge And at the same time shot" THE Sioux held their anntial sun- at Rosebud agency, 10,000 being present from all parts of the reservation. '•""The Government had given orders to sup- f«ss the barbarous j ractice, but the agents ere powerless. ^ SEVEN passengers in a mixed train on $he Wabash railway were killed near Law- Mo. The passenger car ran off the rails turned completely over. It then broke o pieces, crashing the persons. When ruins were removed no less than seven ~ bodies were found. Several other pas- were seriously injured. A MILES CITY (Montana) dispatch yB a party of masked men proceeded to vfthe county jail, overpowered the jailer and ••«*> jloeked him in one of the cells, and then * '̂seized a man named Rigney, whom they -" * -kjtook about a mile out of town and hanged , w„,„, :* v'jto the projecting end of a tree overacul- " ivert on the railroad track. Rigney had been ' - Jailed the day before for disorderly conduct, and bote the reputation of being a hard cit- j5; ĵ izen, being accused of robbery and other N crimes. I; V _ THE Ward Iron Company, of Niles, "* Ohio, has failed for about $250,000. The broken firm was the whole life of the town, and did general rolling-mill and furnace s. work, employing several hundred men Tte ' caufe is said to be the reduction of orders iC ** ̂ •; • C and inability to sell stock at advantage on a * market. ..Bank of LeadviUe, CoL, failed for nearly 1500, OCft xtfAsw; t . -it't'p A'MBiom WQtiW my thai rivar a* (XMPsmsMt, ̂ 4 to -•I of tfcftpartarwei* MABSH T. PdSt»K, repreaht offleial who robbed tha Tennessae State treasury of several hundred thousands of dollars, was convicted at Nashville for embesalement, and the sentence fixed at twenty yearn 1q the penitentiary,' the full extent Of the law. and the fine assessed was fSMLMQlQ, the amount of his stealing* POUTXCAX. GpK, ItiBT, in m pnbliahod »nt» view, unites with Dorsey in an attack upon the late President Garfield, charging him with perfidy in permitting the prosecution of the alleged star-route frauds. CONGRESSMAN WASHBURN, of Minne­ sota, says that Minnesota will present the name of William Windom again at the next Presidential convention. Oov. CRITTENDEN, of Missouri, sent letter to the 8t Louis PoUoe Board de­ claring that as the Downing High license law had been declared constitutional by the Supreme Court, the law must and snail be enforced Sunset Cox makes the an­ nouncement that he will retire from poll- tics if he is beaten for Speaker of the next House. WHILE in the East, recently, Gov. Foster, of Ohio, was interviewed to the effect that Judge Hoadley's nomination for Governor had cost him $50 000, and on this subject quite a correspondence has since been carried on. Judge Hoadley addressed note to Gov. Foster, asking him to give his authority for tee statement Foster replied that he said it was alleged that Hoaoley had so admitted, half the sum beinjr paid duiinar the convention. Foster added that the delegates from Cincinnati openly sold their votes, and it would be well for Hoadley to state what the nomination cost him Hoadley then telegraphed to Foster: "I repeat the statement Is false on all its parts Now produce your informant and let me confront him." THE Georgia House of Representa­ tives has unseated D. P. Proctor (white) from Camden county and seated Anthony Wilson (colored) in his place by a vote of 87 to 6L Wilson has been in two previous Leg- islaturea There are two other negroes in the House THE Massachusetts Senate accepted the report of the majority of the committee on the Tewksbury Almshouse affairs with­ out a word of debate, by a strong party vote. It refused, a so, by a party vote, TO admit the House bill to regulate the disposal of bodies of paupera. This finishes all the Tewksbury business as far as the Legislat­ ure is concerned. WASHINGTON. THB disbursing officers of the nation* al banks and sub-treasuries have been in­ structed to refuse payment on any check drawn by a Paymaster of the United States artity in payment for services to the officer or enlisted man, unless the period covered by the payment is stated in such check. This action is taken in compliance with the request of the Secretary of War. ANOTHER circular has been is-, sued by Commissioner McFarland, of the General Land Office, to Registers and Receivers of United States Land Of­ fices and special agents calling their at­ tention to the unlawful inclosure of public lands, and dire&ng them to promptly report the number and extent of all such oases with necessary corroborative evidence that they may be transmitted to the Department of Justice.... The Secretary of the Treasury received I4.4C0 conscience money from an "unknown debtor." W.N. Jeffers, a Commodore ih the navy, died last week in Washington. M. A. DAUPHIN, of the Louisiana Lottery Company, has entered suit in the District of Columbia courts, through his attorneys, against Walter Q. Gresham, Post­ master General, for tUOO,UOO damages, ana-, tained by his order forbidding the use of the mails to them....The distillers who have not been able to escape the' payment GRAVJS8. University, commit- a55aftSto3gSK5S°-ttfc,̂ ort*a'tM MisroRTtntKS are showering upon poor Egypt It is now reported that leprosy has appeared a few miles to the southward of Damietta, and is spreading rapidly. dsvuest has also appeared among the omn herds, and is playing havoo among the bo­ vine* CARP IN AX MCCABB, on receiving a delegation of the clergy, condemned as false teachers those who asserted that the Pope, in issuing his late circular, was ex­ ceeding his legitimate sphere of authority or had been influenced by secular motives. Those disobeying the circular, he said, in­ curred the guilt of heresy... .Mr. Gladstone annonnoed in the British House tff Commons that he would not press consideration of the agreement for a second Suez canal, and that England would not use her temporary ad­ vantages in Egypt to invade the rights of others. ADVICES from Durban relative to the death of Cetewayo state that all his wives and many of his chiefs were also killed.... Information has been reoeived at the Vati­ can that the Catholic clergy of America will follow the recent instructions of the Pope in regard to Parnell and his followeni Yearly Ei, f ^ - ' of tax by the exportation of ^distilted spirits are understood to be making another for­ midable combination to endeavor to induce the next Congress to enact a law extending the bonded period. SECRETARY FOLOER has called in the remainder of the 3%-per-cent bonds, the amount being about 131,000,000, Interest will cease Nov. 1 next. < GENERAL. , ! ^ . THZ Grand Army rennian, at L>en- ver, was largely attended, and the veterans had an enjoyable time, Reports showed that the organizatlonhadgained 65,768mem­ bers, embracing 971 posts during the last year. The Soldiers' and Sailors' reunion at Columbus, Ohio, attracted over 80,000 stran­ gers to the city. Speeches were made by R. B. Hayes, Charles Foster, Gen. Noyes, and Judges .Hoadley and Foraker. Over 20.000 were present at a public reception in front of the Capitol building. Several hun­ dred of John Morgan's Confederate raiders held a reunion on the estate of Henry Clay, near Lexington, Ky.. in tents furnished by the War Department. Morgan's daughter was present Gens. Preston and Duke de­ livered addresses. THE situation of the great telegraph operators' strike was about as follows on the 2t;th of July: The American Rapid Tel­ egraph Companv agreed with the Brother­ hood of Telegraphers to ad vance salaries 10 per cent, mak THE SOUTH. > < FOUB HUNDRED AND FIFTY employes of plfc *he Birminghan (Ala.) rolling-mills struck fs'.' *1 .T-. against a reduction of their wages, and also | s • „ "» induced the puddlers at the Bnerfield Iron f̂: Works to strike V9 S THE 16-year-old son of John Morris, > 7 of Park oounty. Ark., was bitten by a rabid ,•!*', • <' < cur, and ten days afterward died of hydro- ' » ' Phobia. His sufferings are described as . , frightful, and in his delirium he frothed at } tike mouth, barkedlike a dog, and snapped 'iwfi « at those who administered to his wants.... >, » John W. Bhipp, of Nashville, on being as- •' to a room in a hotel at St Augustine, - Fla., gave the bedding an examination. '.',f \ is • Under a pillow he found a pocket-book. containing I• >1.000, which proved to be :the >tf \ property of W. J. Green, a hanker from •...», utica, N. Y. t'/ , ' Ex-Gov. THOMAS SWANN, of Mary- ,V; land, died at his estate, near Leesburg, Va. . t tfhe Governor was a Bepresentative from ' '5 Baltimore tn the Forty-second, Forty-third, 'i-i i Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Congresses, and during the latter was Chairman of «the Committee on Foreign Affairs-. He ti was at one time President of the Balti- Bailroad Company.... the dead bodies of mow a*| Ohio Bs A carriage containing three grown persons ai Ihree grown persons and two children was recently fatrad *m*der a lightning-struck tree in a septnded locality in Texas. They are supposed' to have been a party of English tourists who took ref­ uge under the tree during a thun­ der-storm, an# were killed by lightning-- Memphis, Tenn., was visited by a destruc- i ttve fire Property to the amount of 9200,- 000was destroyed. Insurance, |15'J,00(X eight hours in the daytime or seven hours at night a day's work, and pay extra for Sunday service. The Boar a of Directors of the Mer­ chants' Exchange of St Louis passed resolu­ tions requesting the telegraph companies to provide better facilities for the transaction of businessL Emile Hertz, of London, brought suit in Chicago against the Western Union Company, claiming #10,000 dam­ ages for a refusal to accept a cable message without conditions as to delay. The strikers at Boston re­ solved to ask the Executive Committee to order out the operators employed by the Associated Press. At Philadelphia, C. E. Fuller began five civil suits against the Western Union Telegraph Company for re-: fusing to transmit messages for him under the ordinary printed conditions. Similar suits were brought in several cities against the same company. ANOTHER army scandal, it is said, will soon be uncovered to the public view. A Mr. Norton, of Wheeling, W. Va, claims that an officer high in rank has duplicated his accounts to the extent of fll,u 0, and that he holds 93,000 of the paper. He has tried to get something at the department for his papers, but will probably get noth­ ing. THE spectacle of the daughter of a former Vice President of the United States and wife of a Minister to Russia begging assistance of strangers in an endeavor to reach the National capital with a view to entering a charitable institution, is a some­ what unusual one, but such an event occurred in Wheeling, Va, the other day. FOREIGN. , THE ravages of the cholera in Egypt are spreading to an alarming degree. At Cairo, between the hours of 8 a. a and tS p. m. of July 22. there were 481 deaths from the disease. There were in the same period tWrwr^wree at Mansourah, ninety-three at Shirbin, and over 150 deaths in other Egyp­ tian towns. All efforts to confine the plague have so far proved unavailing. All busi­ ness and agriculture are suspended. The Sanitary Commission has decided thafr. all passengers must undergo a medical exam­ ination before leaving Egypt * The disease is very sudden in its effects. People fre­ quently fail dead in the streets. The epidemic is spreading northward as well as southward. Europeans at Alexandria have made the un­ pleasant discovery that the drinking-water canal connects in the cemetery with the place where corpses are washed. A CAIRO dispatch says the Sanitary Commission there will establish three addi­ tional hospitals and organize an ambulance corps. The Khedive and his ministers nave gone to the Infected region. Eight hundred inhabitants of Bulak are in tents, surrounded by a cordon, and dying of famine. One death among the British troops is reported.... The English Government has dispatched twelve physicians, who are experts in chol­ era, to Egypt A serious outbreak of cholera is reported at Bombay, in India. Several cases of the disease are reported by cor-, respondents of New York papers to have. ADDITIONAL NEWS. SECRETARY FOLOER has issu&L strin­ gent regulations, addressed to the Collectors of Ports, showing that he, at least, is awake to the responsibilities now devolving on of­ ficers cf the Government in the hour of the country's danger from outside infection. Cargoes which are considered dangerous to the public health are to be kept away from American wharves at all hazards....Col. O. M. Poe. an aid to Gen. Sherman, has been ordered to Detroit to succeed the late Maj. Farquhar, in charge of harbor improve­ ments. THE Democrats of Minnehaha coun­ ty, D. T., have passed resolutions opposing a division of the Territory, but favoring its admission av a State at the earliest date it can be legally accomplished....The Massa­ chusetts Legislature has adjourned sine die, after the longest session on recoi d-- days. MRS. F. A. SEAGER, of Cleveland, once a popular teacher in the public schools, was killed while passing under a railroad- car at the foot of Hanover street, in that city. Her leg was completely severed at the hip, and rolled into the river through a hole in the dock The Hon. James Wilson, who has recently traveled extensively through Iowa, gives a glowing account of the crops in that State. THERE were 168 failures in the United States reported to BradBtreets during the week ending July 28, six more than the pre- ceediag week, and forty-six more than the corresponding week of 1882....Hon. Mont­ gomery Blair died last week at Silver Springs, Md., ased 70 years. He graduated at West Point, but soon resigned to practice law in Si. Louis, where he rose to a Judge- shin. He removed to Maryland in 1852, and and was Postmaster General under Lincoln. SADLER & NEWMAN, wholesale deal­ ers in clothing, Philadelphia, have made an assj[gnment liabilities, 922,000....D. Boilers k Co., manufacturers of shoes in Philadel­ phia. offer to compromise with creditors at zT> cents on the dollar. Liabilities, 988,000; assets, 000 Gilbert Brothers & Mc- Fadden, lumber dealers, Portland, Me., have failed. Liabilities 9^0,000:assets, $100,000.... Under a Sj ecial law of New Jersey, thirty- six young Italian bootblacks, belonging to a padroue, were arrested at Atlantic City and ordered to change their vocation, as none of them are 18 years of age On account of having granted the telegraphers 10 per cent, more wages, the Ameri­ can Bapid Company of New York has raised it rates 300 per cent.... An expresi train approaching Mount Joy, Pa., ikiUed a man isnrt two women who attempted to drive across the track after the engineer had blown the whistle to warn them... .Suits have been instituted against the patrons of a private-letter express com­ pany at New York for violation of the United States Postal law. IT is reported by telegraph from Con­ stantinople that Germany has refused to conclude a treaty admitting Turkey to the triple alliance, but has promised assistance should the Porte appeal for aid or protec­ tion. It is stated in a dispatch from Zan­ zibar that the Royal Geographical Society's expedition to Lake Victoria was compelled to retreat when in latitude 3:05 north, longitude 81) east, in consequence of the hostile demonstrations of the natives. The expedition is now making an­ other attempt to continue explorations Sir Charles Dilke stated in the British House* of Commons that there is no Asiatic cholera in Europe, and that three suspicious cases in England proved to be simple cholera, of which this year there had not been the or­ dinary average In the Jewish trial at Nyireghyhaza, Hungary, the Public Prose­ cutor said there was no ground for further criminal proceeding against the prisoners A SPECIAL correspondent of the Chi­ cago Herald, sent out to New Mexico to in­ terview Stephen W. Dorsey, telegraphs from Chico Springs, that Dorsey denies that he wrote or inspired the recent long statement which appeared in the New York Nun, and attributes the authorship of the statement to Dana's Washington correspondent Dor­ sey told the correspondent that if he were to expose the campaign of 1^0 something more substantial than the allegations which appeared in the San wou'd be furnished the puolic. He avowed that Indiana was carried by the lavish use of money, that Senator Piatt and Whitelaw Reid know all about the matter, and expressed the opinion that Garfield was more tne fool of his fears than the knave of his desires. Calamities of each oth< occurred at near Baltia Catholic pier, when more than tated into were taken t iiNy«ir0 rony of Botten Pier fry « titojr Throng. ile Drowned- Scenee. -Heart- dly follow upon the haels this year. The latest horror North Point Tlvoli, a resort About £00 members of a party crowded upon the structure gave way and the number were precipl- Of these about eighty _ut dead. The following ao- count of the calamity is taken from the graphic accounts printed in the Chicago papers: THERE are only eight cdses of suicide mentioned in the Bible--Abimelech, Samson, Saul, his armor-bearer, Ahith- ophel, Zimri, Razis and Judas Iscariot. " * • >1" THE MAR&E'fc ?/•' • -V. D HEW KOBK. S R; Beeves I 4-80 <9 6.80 Hotis... #.25 & #.7# PIA>UB--Superfine 8.00 <0 3.NO WHEAT-No. 1 White I.ll <3 1.13 No. 3Bed COBS--No. A 6O&<$ -«I OATH--No. J .*1 <<$ .*1 % Pokk--MCM 18.75 (S16.0J LA"*I> * . 9 ® .OH CHICAGO. BKEVBH--Good to Fancy 8leers.. Cows and Heifers...... Mcmum to Fair Hoas FlOOH-- Kawjy White Winter Ex. (loou 10 Choice SIJI'G Ex. WHEAT--NO. 2 Spring No. 3 hed Winter...... Coax--Na a OATH--No. a KYK--No. a BARLEY--No, A •-••m BUTTEK--Choice Creamery..... EGOS--Fresh u... { PORK--MCM LABD 6.10 4.75 6.50 5.00 5.50 5/25 MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No. 2 COI»i--No. 3.......rfi., QATS--No. 2 RYE--No. i. BAKLEY--No. A., . ' . . . PoliK--Mess hABtK " WHEAT--No. 2 Red COKN--Mixed . OATS--N'o. a... fife i. Pjbk--Mee* LAlto. .U.. _ CINCINNATI. WHEAT--No. 2 Bed om.w.... OATS BYE POJK--MEAT*. LARD "TOLEDO. WHEAT--No. 3 Bed Com.... Fix) ua ...» 1 .w., WHEAT-- «O. 1 White ^ COKN-NO. 3 OATS--Mixed. POBK--Mess. ® (.25 & 5.26 5 5.75 <3! A. 25 6 6.75 ({$ 5.50 l.oi'4® 1.01 % 1.05%C'J 1.06 •5oKi<3J .5J}4 .34 hi IS# " .56>/i<<4 .63 # • '..19 <& 1*. 18.75 . » .56 .65 .20 .15 ~<<$13.H3la 1.04 l.ODg )'J.50J<«# .51 ....... .S3%<£») .84 .52 ('5 .53 1S.75 <gl».S0 , . W4<SH .9 l.OCMc? 1.00K .40 (fg .37 (® .87 ,4(»94C< .47 14. SO @14.75 : . 1.07 @ 1.08 , .61 & .51^ ".36 .66 ,15.90 @10.00 . . 8H 1.10?i@ 1.11 .52 .6294 .35 4.26 1.12 .65 .45 20.50 4.50 1.14 & M @21.00 INDIANAPOLIS. WHEAT--No. 2Bea l.07%@ 1.06 CORN--No. 2 48%(<$ .1* OATS--Mlxea »2h(3 .88 EAST LIBERTY, PA CATTLE--Bert • 6.66 Pair .". 5.15 Common 4.70 5.75 Hoos.. SHEBP. 8. SO & 5.86 & 5.60 & 6.00 # 6.00 & 5.60 In point of"horror and fatality combined, no catastrojj |e has ever been written in the annals of Bl ftlmore that will compare with the awful Id ftof life in the night-covered waters of tl # Patapsco at Tlvoli last even­ ing. A cro' id of .pleasure-seekers, weary atter the sp >rts of the day, were gathered on the what as the barge that was to bear them to t toil homes approached. No thought of I Inger was in their minda With eoaroe a n (bent's warning, the structure gave way, a Id the immense mass of human­ ity was plu ged into the waters, where the darkness nut them out of sight In hundifp of homes last night anxious vnBa, husbands and parents were awaitMf the arrival of tbe excursion­ ists, and thijiaxiety became intense a» the small bouraof the morning came on. At 2:^0 o'clocklfehe barge reached Henderson's wharf, bringing its awful tale of woe, and freighted « nh the forms of twenty-eipht drowned no m, women, and children. The anxiety of die parents gave plaoe to horror aad grief, ttd the friends of the missing grew wild rtth terror. Almost I alt of the excursionists passed the night • wand the biasing fires on the shore, wbe • those who had been rescued from the ¥ tvaa were seeking to dry their dripping (Ivi^iag. The scenes on me grounds di vis* tbe night were indescribable and awf uL Hoe nol<y cries or children and the hoar • shouts of men and the piercing ni lea Of f riof of the women were ss nothing to the terrible silence of the four hours thatf|Hreoeded the dawn, when noth­ ing waa heard but an occasional dull moan or the call of one of those who were watch­ ing by the umre for the bodies of the dead. From wlmt eodld be gleaned from the re­ marks of individual witnesses of the terri­ ble accident it appears that the disaster oo- ourred alvery few minutes after 10:80 o'clock, fhe Wharf did not break; the piles spread Ibe crowd stood in a bunch in the center of the wharf which was but poorly supported underneath by logs and conse­ quently the jarring of the barge when she struck the wharf gave the shock which caused the piles to spread and let down the center of the wharf with its crowd of livinjr beiiurs into the water. The planks were of course unable to support the heavy weight and so supped short off, thus giving rise to the supposition that they had broken. The itevj W. E. Bterr, pastor of Corpus Christ! Roman Catholic Church, was an eye witness of the disaster, and gives a graphic account c! it "There is a long wharf at Tivoii," s lid he, "running out from the shore pe: haps 1,030 feet Near the shore end there ate large gates, which are gener­ ally close L upon the arrival of the boats. Last nlgi b a number of persons, fatigued, and desur ng to obtain advantageous posi­ tions on the boat, Btrolled out upon the wharf before the arrival of the barge, so that at the time she came in eight there were probably between 200 and 800 per­ sons on the-wharf between the gatea I, myself, together with some few oth­ ers, had guned the extreme end of the wharf beyond the boat-gate where the barge made fast Meanwhile both gates had been closed, and the keeper of the one toward myself and tte boat-gate would not allow any one Jo/usa; evidently thinking', poor felloW, tfle^nsire safer on tne outside The people near the boat were just walking over the gang-plank when I heard a crash behind me, and saw a dark hole in the wharf and a mass of human beings struggling in the water beneath, while others on tne wharf were pushing and Jostling each other in frantic endeavor to reach a place of safety. Men and women were shrieking and yelling and children crying, while from the dark abyss below the most heart-rending cries were heard, only to end in gurgling sounds as the helpless beings succumbed to the cruel waters. Then ensued a scene of in­ describable confusion. (stools, piles of plank, everything available, were thrown into the water in the midst of the struggling mass, until it became evident that some who might be saved from death by drowning would become victims of the heedlessness of those who, with the best intentions, but very poor judgment, were casting the heavy articles into the water. I, myself, stepped on a parallel wharf,on which there is a small track, and made my way back to the scene of the disaster. I endeavored to calm the tumult but as well might I have tried to stop the earth from revolving on its axis. Those who were safe had suddenly conceived the idea that the boat was unsafe, and refused to go on board. I reasoned and per- snaded, but only a few followed my advice. 1 told them that th; ir friends in the city, as soon as they learned of the accident would mourn them as among the victims, hut my efforts provec fruitless, and when we did start for Baltimore, more than half were left down there." In meantime, efforts to rescue the drown­ ing persons were being made by a few brave young men, and quite a number of ladies and others, who were well-nigh dead, had been brought up and lay dripping on the wharf. When the Cockade City arrived on her second trip, About 9 this morning, she brought with her thirty-live additional bodies, and the re­ mainder of the excursionists who bad re­ mained over night at Tivoii searching for their fiiends. Many were crying bitterly, while the haggard, tear-begnmed faee< of the others showed the intense suffering they had undergone All had lost friends or relatives, many of them more than one. There were parents leading chihlren, sob­ bing as if their hearts would break. As 6oon as the barge arrived, at U o'clock, the bodies were hurried into an empty building on Henderson's wharf, and laid out on the floor, awaiting identification, which was not long coming, as none of the bodies had been in the water long enough to sutler any disfigura­ tion, and were conseqentiy easily recogniza­ ble. 1 he news of the accident had Irought to. the scene nearly every one who had friends on the excursion, livery few min­ utes, as the crowd pas-ed slowly in and out the room viewing the bodies, a piercing shriek and ejaculation of "Oh, my God. would announce that some unfortunate one had been recognized. Young girls and strong men sobbed and cried like children. JUany men and women were hurrying from one person to another, asking if such and such person had been found. The bodies alreudy brought to this city number sixty-six. It is now thought that the loss may reach 10a The picnic grounds where the terrible ca­ lamity occurred is on a small bay about two miles from North Point lighthouse, it was formerly known as Holly Grove, was first fitted up about fifteen years ago, and was the most popular report at that time and for several years afterward. Tlie Coroner held an inquest and at the conclusion of the testimony the jury ren- dered toe following: We the jury find that Louisa Swearer and the others came to their deaths by drown­ ing by the breaking of the bridge at Tivoii on the night of July 23, and that the author­ ities of the place did not use proper care and u> preveLt the ooourro^Bf. • - ' T • • 1 f'!~" /} -'"J BIO THINGS. '* AM oak tree growing on a ranch near Woodland, Cal., was sold the other day for $00, the purchaser to cut it down and re­ move it H. M. BBUCE cut a spruce tree in Rtowe, Vt, which made three logs twelve feet in length and measured 1,400 cubic feet, the butt log containing over 50Q. IN a garden at Bowling Green, Ky., is a bush that bears a large deep red rose, with two perfect small roses in the center which are miniature copies of the big one. A SPOKGE eight leet in circumference and weighing twelve pounds was recently fished up off Key West. When the fishermen saw it through their magnifying glass they could hardly believe their eyes. When they fished It up and measured it they found it to be the largest sponge they had ever seen. Gftpt Webb, the hatm Bwtamsr, Ingulfed inXiigan. Su.MI.toth.R^gWhlripeelWhfl. Attempting to Swim the Rapilli [Buffalo (N. Y.) Telegram.) In 1861 the little steamer Maid of the Mist with three persons on board, ran the rapids of the Niagara passed through the whirlpool itself, and glided into thb quiet water be­ yond. Of the three on board two survived the trip, the only persons who ever went through this fearful channel alive. On July 2S Capt Webb, without oth­ er means of safety than nature had provided him, attempted to swim through the war of waters but failed. His body has not yet been found. For three- quarters of a mile below the Suspension Bridge, runs the whirlpool, the wildest, most tumultuous and dangerous portion of the river. The tremendous pow­ er of the current cannot be realised. Webb could not attempt to swim it--it was simply a question of endurance, whether he could live in the tumultuous wa\e& He was rushed onward with resistless force, and perished in his mad attempt No effort was made to advertise the undertaking beyond sending circulars to the newspapera Not a dozen people in the Falls knew that the ef­ fort was to be made. There was no adver­ tising dodge about it Ihe great swimmer was confident that he could make the trip in safety. He carefully looked over the ground, but he had failed to realize the im­ mensity of the undertaking, and so deliber­ ately commuted suicide. CaDt Webb arrived in Buffalo last night, and stopped at the Genesee. His coming was unheralded, and the fact of his being here was known to but few. Seen by a re­ porter last night, he said he would surely make the attempt Nothing but a desire for notoriety moved him Last June he proposed to swim the rapids, and tried to get the railroads and hotels to make it an object They refused, but the papers kept talking about it, so he determined to make the trial. No one accompanied him save his English manager, Mr. Kyle. Capt Webb did not leave for the falls until noon. Ar­ rived at Niagara he proceeded at once to the Clifton House, where several reporters and others were in waiting. He chatted pleasantly, and expressed great con­ fidence in his powera The hour fixed was 4 o'clock, and about 3 the crowd bade him good by and hastened to secure good posi­ tions for viewing the ioolhardy experiment At no point could a view of the whole length of the rapids be bad. At a few minutes before 4 o'clock Webb ap­ peared at the foot of the bank on the Cana- aiah side, where a skiff was in waiting with the veteran guide, Jack Conway, at the oars. He entered the boat and was pulled into the stream. The Captain was entirely nude Bave for a small breecn clout Conway pulled aa far down as the Maid of the Mist landing but did not dare to proceed further. "All right," said the Captain, "this will do us." "I don't expect ever to see you again," said Conway. "O yes you will," was the pleasant reply. "You don't know me. I am an Englishman " After a few more words Capt Webb stocd up in the bow of the boat and dived head first into the water. Then began the great Struggle for life. It was just 4:20 when the Captain entered the water. A few vigorous strokes and he was fairly in the rapids, going breast on, his form a mere speck, as seen from the great blutr above. He went like an arrow shot from a bow. The first great wave he struck he went under, but in a second appeared way beyond. His efforts to strike out in swimming form were weaker than an infant's against the seething watera The great waves seethed over him occasionally, but he always seemed ready to meet them His great che-t was boldly pushed forward, and occasionally half of the magnificent physique of the reckless adventurer was lifted from the water, but he bravely kept his position through it all and seemed perfectly col­ lected and at home. In a second more the voyager was lost to view behind a project­ ing bank So tbe mad journey went en sately through the upper rapids. He passed then through the lower ones. There the waves dash higher, the water is confined in a narrower space, and the trip is in every way more perilous. How far he went alive no one will ever know. He was seen by many while passing through this* awful sea, but ere then he may have been' dead. His bedy was borne onward, now rising above, now sinking beneath, the whiie-capped wave*. It was seen to enter the whirlpool. The life of the Captain was gone, and not even his body has yet been found. The maelstrom sometimes gives up its dead in a day, sometimes it holds them in its embrace a week, until all semblance of a human being is crushed out in the revolv­ ing waters. Capt Webb looked upon it as a pleasant undertaking. Those who saw him start looked upon it as certain death. SIOUX SUN DANCE. Disgusting Scenes Witnessed at the Rosebud Indian Agency. Shocking Torturing Endured bj Stoical Savage* the [Rosebud Agency (Dakota) Telegram to Chicago Times.! The annual sun dance of the Sioux Indians occurred this afternoon at the ctmp near this agency, about 1,000 Indians toeing pres­ ent from all parts of the reservation and a number of white vlsitora The sun dance is a very ancient custom among the Indians, but which has been growing less severe lately. If an Indian's child or relative be. sick during the year, or if he desires success in some undertaking he may vow that if the child recovers or tne scheme succeeds he will dance or give some of his flesh to the Great Spirit at the next sun dance. The ceremony of cutting the pole ior the center of the dancing circie was performed Satur­ day afternoon, Herpipe, a niece of Standing Bear, wielding the ax, and the charge on the prostrate tree was made by over 1,000 young bucks on ]:onU& On baturdav the brush inclosure was built, and that evening fifteen Indians entered and commenced tneir long dance, having been fasting four days. This afternoon the voluntary torture commenced, three men of­ fering themselves. The medicine-man performed the operation. He made two vertical incisions on each breast with a sharp knife, and pa-sing a stick under the litted flesh fastened the end to a rope de­ pending from the pole. The dancers then workea until they freed themselves by vio­ lently breaking the flesh. Follow-a-Woman broke loose in five minutes, Lives-in-the-Air after ten minutes' exertion, but Poor-I)< g remained tied up for half an boar before he could tear out the thongs from both breasts. They then all rejoined the dance. Several bucks had small pieces of flesh cut from their arms, the amount often being leesened by their squaws offering their arms for part or the lots. The whole was a dread­ ful exhibition of physical endurance and savage barbarity. At 5 o'clock the dance ceased, the participants ha\ing; jumped up and down, blowing their whistles, for fifty hours, without food or water part of the time, in the burning heat of the sun. Home were so completely exhausted as to dance on with their eyes closed, their bodies in spasm This is probably tbe last time these cruelties will be permitted, as a strong etlort is being made by the Government to stop the sun dance. * Orders came to Agents Mc- Gillicuddy and Wright this year to prevent its occurrence, but it was impossibla , OUR MUSEUM OF CURIOSITIES. •jA SNOW-WHITE squirrel was killed at Brazos Bend, Texaa MRS. MAKY TANNER, of Walton county, Ga., wove seven yards of cloth in one day,' made it into two shirts, and went to tea at a neighbor's five miles away. MRS. ABTHUK FORTE, of Wrightsville, Ga, has a hen and partridge sitting on the same nest The partridge is as gentle as the hen and has seventeen eggs, while the hen has only eleven. DB. D. P. HOLLOWAT, of Suinpter, Ga., has a pair of woolen gloves made oy his slsier from wool cut from the horse he rode dur­ ing the war. The horse now ~7 years old, and, the doctor says, is quite wooly. ANGELA CARDELIA, of Nevada, a native of Italy and S8 years old, claims to be the strongest man in the world. He place* the middle finger of his right hand under the foot of a person weighing 209 pounds and lifts him to a table four feet hign. . _• * : Eight Men KiHe4 by Fall of a Blast Furnate Nev Syracuse, New York. Xbe UafcrtTmatee Btiried Beheaft 8ixt? Tentf Weight of Briok and Iron. [Dispatch from Syracuse, N. Y.] A terrible accident occurred at the Onon­ daga Iron Company's blast furnace a west of this city, in Geddes. For several week* the furnace has been unused, it h"*"g out of repair. Joseph Dawson, with agang of men, has been engaged for several days in removing the inner and fire-bricks from the -arch, leaving only the outer course standing. The foreman, considered this course entirely secure. Without the slight­ est warning the arch caved in, burying workmen' beneath it in a mass of bricks, mortar, soot and ashes. An alarm was at once given, and the men at the mill set at work with a will to remove the victims. Inless than an hiwir eight bodies were taken from the rulna Several hundred people were at the scena ?£• <V"*&hfceirg' ""fwlTee wept frantically as the homes were removed. People gath- ered in knots in the village of Geddes or hurried to the scene of the casualty. Busi­ ness was almost entirely suspend ̂ in the village, and the plaoe looked as if stricken by a panic. It was fully five minutes after the collapse before the dust cleared away sufficiently so that the debris could be viewed. The weight of the fallW bricks was so great that they wore fore*! out of the oneninas in the furnace and, crowded Mml'lf. several feet into the space around1 it The gang of eight men were lining the in­ side of the furnace, which is feet in diameter and sixty feet high. A "wall scaf­ fold was across the furnace at hight of eight feet from the ground. It was said by Mr. Gere, manager of the company, that it was known that the lining of the upper part was in a dangerous condition, and that he warned the men before they went in. The fellow-workmen of the dead men said that it was not known that the lining was in a dangerous stata. Without warning the lin­ ing of the upper part gave way, and sixty tons of brick fell upon the men. The sound of the falling mass was muffled by the iron walls and there was no crash. A great cloud of dust blew out from the doors of the fur­ nace, filling the factory. Men knew their fellows were inside that iron tomb, but their eyes were blinded by the olouds of dust, and it was several min­ utes before they could grope their way in­ side the furnace. With hoes and shovels they began work, and after digging near half an hour and throwing out a mass of bricks about four feet deep, they found the bodies. They weie crushed and broken. Their faces were covered with dust, which had settled into the cuts and wounds made by the falling bricks, and their hair and beards were filled with the yellow powder. While the men were busy throwing out tire debris they were frequently Importuned by their friends to leave the place at once, as they were working in imminent danger every minute. Thev paid no heed, but worked on with a wilL More bricks were liable to fall at anv moment The fall of one brick from such a height would kill a man outright The news of the tragedy spread from the blast furnace to the homes of the men who were killed. Women and children wailing and crying hastened to the furnace The limp, shattered bodies were carried out by men whose faces were stern and set and laid on the bare ground. Sobs filled the air as, like so many sacks, tbe bodies were lifted into wagons and driven through the village. At the little cottages women stood with aprons to their eves, and even the little children stopped playing. The excitement among the employes and many outside la­ boring men was intense. The loudest and most open threats were heard to shoot both Manager Gere and the general foreman, who were both present The impreesion pre­ vailed among these excited men that they were criminally negligent in allowing the men to go into the furnace to work in the condition in which it was. The police were called In to quell any disturbance; ;. V.tJ, MOB VENGEANCE A Brutal Convict Driver and One of His Tools Shot to Death. [Telegram from Arkansas City, Ark.] A mob of several hundred men fired -on the steamer Ida Darragh, near Burnett's Landing, wounded an obnoxious convict boss fatally, and killed a negro convict Two weeks ago a young machinist from Clinton, 111, came to this section hunting odd jobs. He secured work repairing gin- houses on a farm near Red Forks While living there he boarded with a Mrs. King. He fell behind in his board, and told the woman that he would send her the sum aa soon as he could raise it > i Just as he was preparing to leave for the •North he was arrested, taken before a magis­ trate, and sentenced to work in the fields for attempting to defraud his landlady. Not working to suit Werner, the man who had charge of the convicts, the young man was whipped by three negro convicts at the boss orders He died from the- effect* of the beating. The Sheriff of Desha county arrested Werner and the three negroes, and was taking them to Arkansas City when the mob fired upon them One of the negroes lumped into the river and was killed by the mob as he was swimming for the shore. Werner fell on the deck with a bullet in his chest A perfect fusil ade was kept up by the men, who followed the steamer down the river for some distance. The lives of the passengers and crew were in great danger. The Sheriff, with the wounded man Werner and two of the ne­ groes, were finally placed aboard the Anchor Line steamer City of New OrleanB and brought .here. 71 LnTLE PEOPLE| ; v;f; BOTH Tom Thumb and his wife professed to be firm believers in Spiritualism. . HALE County, Ala., has a colored dwarf, a girl about 20 years old, who is only three Zeet and three Inches in height "TOM THUMB" weighed nine pounds at his birth, and his sister, who weigned nine and a half pounds, grew to weigh more than 200. CHE-MAH, the Imported midget twenty- eight inches high, weighs twenty-two pounds, and is paid a salary of 9150 a week. DANIEL BURKETT, of Big Creek Gap, East Tennessee, (aid to be 1» years old. weighs only thirty pounds, and is only eighteen incaes high. SEVERAL years ago Tom Thumb erected an imposing shaft, mounted by a life-size statue of himself, in the Mountain Grove cemetery at Bridgeport, Ofc, where he la buried. THE death and funeral of Tom Thumb probably attracted more attention than the obsequies of the mightiest potentate in the universe might have done. A correspond­ ent at Middleboro, Masa, savs: "His married life was truly a happy life. The dwarf couple had more pleasant conjugal relations than the average of grown-up people. His wife knew how to handle him: fhe bad tact, and everything went smoothly. He was a perfect man physically and had mo re strength than the average full-grown man, but his muscles were flabby because he wouldn't ex­ ercise He would at first sit or ride when at leisure, but the riding he didnt like, be- cause wherever he went crowds of boyn fol- lowed him. And he couldn't walk much; it was difficult for him to keep up to an ordi­ nary man, and then there was some usual interfering crowd pointing at and some­ times llbing him So he sat down, smoked, Played billiards, ate, and jnewfat He was always healthy and pleasant TMs sort existence could have but one end. POINTS FOR THE CUSUS|| ̂ WmiJt cleaning a public well at Brown- wood, Texas, the remains of a prisoner, who had mysteriously disappeared fix years ago were found. Shortly After he disap­ peared the water of the well began to taste badly, and some hair and flesh was found in it, but the cause was credited to a pet goat which was at the time. AN Ohio man, aroused out of his slumber* by a burglar, pursued the fellow with a shot­ gun, but did not suoceed in shooting him. Soon the burglar came to a river and plunged in, but, not being a swimmer, he rank and was drowned. And now the Grand Jury has indicted the household for murder in the first degree for not going to the assistance of the drowning main. This is strange, in view of the faot that had he previously shot the burglar nothing would have been done to him. . ay<w«* man from looae a good deal gewip About die- honesty in the tipper aocial c rcles. The disgraced young man waa a Colum­ bia College law-school student and a. member of a family that has large ao­ cial connections. He played the part of a very mean thief, and in his din- grace he receives no sympathy from anyone. The gossip alluded to relatea chiefly to the ha|)it of cheating and Bteali g that seems just aa common in the upper ranks as in the lower ones. There is hardly a club in New York in which there „are hot young men, and some middle-aged ones, whom the members habitually avoid because they are known to be dishonest. They chea*. at cards whenever they can, and wilL even steal anything that can be easily- taken away if they see a good chance to escape detection. There are men, too, who move about in society with a view to picking up unconsidered trifles in the way of watches and jewelry, and. occasionally a pocket-book, or some sma][l article of special value when no one is iooking. Thefts of this _ kind are not often publicly reported, jor the society people don't like it to be, known that there are thieves among their friends, but- they are occurring all the time. In the matter of strict morals it is doubtful if Fifth avenue, with its stylish churches and high-toned social circles, is much better off thaii First avenue, where so- many liquor shops are and the tene­ ments swarm with people who have no- culture at all. This reminds 'me that the papers are again mentioning frequent arrests of women in the large dry goods and fancy goods stores, on suspicion of stealing. Two cases are just reported at Macy's, and in one the woman arrested has- brought a suit for $10,000 damages. There was an arrest at Macy's a few- days ago which excited such indigna­ tion that many women threatened never to go there again, and it is stated that some have kept their word. But if the wrong person is sometimes suspected and even placed under arrest, it doea- not follow, by any means, that the whole detective system in the large stores is outrageous, as it is frequently said to be. Scores of women go tc> these stores daily, solely for the pur­ pose of stealing if they get a chance, and some of the very w6rst thieves of this class are so respectable looking that hardly any one would suspect what they really are. It is necessary to keep a close watch on the crowd of shoppers, in a large store, and it is almost inevit-| able that mistakes shall sometimes be made in the matter of arrests.--New York letter. v The Jews tn Jerusalem. Of the foreign Jews in J erusaleoL division is usually made into Spanish- speaking, or Sephardim, and the Aske- naim, or German speaking Jews. The former, by far the higher and more in­ tellectual, as well as more manly clas& of Israelites, are descendants of the ex­ iles driven out of Spain, about the end of the fifteenth century, by Ferdinand and Isabella, in their zeal to serve the church by the extirpation of heretical That class of men at the time of their expulsion filled high posts at the Span­ ish Court, were well educated and en­ lightened, and some of their traits have descended to posterity. Sephardim may be regarded aa the aristocratic portion, and their pride both of raoe and faith is very great, even under the adverse circumstances of their position, which it must require a strong faith to sustain, when escape from them is so easy, as many of these have both the means and intelligence to emigrate and prosper in other lands. The Askenaim, of Polish or German descent, exhibit more the peculiarities of their Teutonic than Jewish nationali­ ty, for they usually have fair or red hair, blue eyes and fair complexions, while the former more resemble the na­ tive Jew in color of hair and eyes, com­ plexion, and clear-cut, medallion-like features. There may occasionally be seen mo 4 lovely female faces among the Sephardim--faces which recall the memory of a Euth or a Rebekah, a Miriam or a Judith, in soft womanly sweetness of expression, or strong pas­ sion lurking in the depths of dark un­ fathomable eyes. Both men and women usually wear the Eastern dress, and the latter sel­ dom stir from home, fearful of insult, living all of them the lives of the flving- fish, which finds its enemies equally in the water and in the air, since Turk, Arab, and nominal Christian, all deem it a merit to maltreat the ancient deni­ zen of the soil, and the mercy of the Mussulman is his only law.--Sunday Magazine. To Much of § Good Thing. A Bordeaux merchant has an ||$KI mense mastiff, named Lion, which was the wonder of the Paris dog show. A few years ago, as Lion was walking with his master along the quay they met a little dog showing evident symptoms of madness, and followed by an excited crowd, among whom were two sergeants- de ville with drawn swords. Lion, quick as thought, pounced upon the mad dog, seized it by the neck with his capacious jaws, carried it to the water's edge, jumped into the canal, and held it under water until was drowned. On re­ turning to the shore he received quite an ovation, the crowd escorting him home, where hi3 master gave him an ex­ tra feed. The mastiff seemed so de­ lighted at the result of his exploit that when he afterward met any little dogs in the street he seized upon and drown­ ed them in the same, manner, until flnallv, he had to be kept constantly muzzled. Jast Rack from Colleieii, "You have tlie advantage of me," said the cashier, blandly. "You will have to get some one to identify yon." "Identify me? Why, I am your son, just back from college for the summer vacation." May be, may be," answered the cashier, "but my son did not look like a fool, wear a cockney hat, mon- key-tail coat, skin-tight breeches, tooth-pick shoes, nor did he suck cane handles. When my wife returns from , Europe next September you might present your claims to her, and if she decides you are our offspring I shall be happy to bid you an affectionate good- by on your return to college. In the meantime I would suggest that yon earn* your living by hiring yourself out for a tailoi-sign. Good-day, au> -Phila­ delphia News. JUDGE WHITE, at Dallas. Texas, thinks that the great electric stoipns are due to the vast amount of exposed iron. There are 190 miles of railtfhy ! and 200 miles of telegraph wire in the j United States--quite enough, he urges, • to influence natural electricity. I' ...£2.,... J