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kjf ""V *•'. n.0t*BU(nt» MomiCK. VM • from there, tnrg fflaindralet would :- l. VitigfitE. Mtw ssi PNMMMT. McHfcl *BY, ILLINOIS T ; ? THE HEWS CONDENSED. , THE EAST. & V" ^ "---- . ,• V,'> f EtOHTEKN members of the Saltation |f „ v, ,r Army were arrested in Bochester for sing- > , t V ing while parading the streets, and they nrent a night in jail Fire at Millerstown, Pa., desiroyed the Schreiber House, Odd Fellows' Hall, Hera Id office, and two stores, the loss reaching $30,Of 0. BKTHXipHKM (Pa.) Iron Company i noonces a redaction of 20 per cent, in the wages of officers and men. Shipley & Wells, iron founders and boiler makers at Bing- hamton, N. Y., will reduce wages 1(J per cent. A Boston dispatch says that nearly all the New England cotton goods manu facturere will shut down for seven or eight weeks. AT Greenpoint, L. I., an explosion of dynamite drove a fourteen-inch bolt through the head of Robert B, Covey, who was working on a wrecked vessel. Farmers mistook the detonation for an earthquake. A NEW YORK firm, Zimmerman & For- shay, shipped 60,000 trade dollars and 100,- •00 Mexican dollars to China last week. REPORTS for last year from forty-two farms in sca'terjd sections of New England show a profit of 8 per cent, on the capital »«•' invested, and it is asserted that in ordinary i, * V' J seasons formmg in that region will pay 12 •v I % it per cent The McGuigan natural gas well iw* a 111 Washington County, Pennsylvania, has , been sold to the Westinghouse gas syndi- s • catefor $200,000... .Tliree masked menen- [l^V "Ms tered the farm-house of Rhody Boyle, near Petrolia, Pa., and forced him to hand over O Y,. , , $13,000 in cash. ' ' * 4,-v *r M* t M •M THE WEST. . .M f_* •-' 'Wf * 'J'- • uiiMi If-" " ~r *" \< i\-y "fi v *" * Z, ? • ̂- 1 -, " r I * * i.r • • "M". ACCORDING to Mr. Baynes, statistical •gent of Dakota, the spring-wheat crop of that Territory will yield 26,000,000 bushels. The grain is of good quality. The Minne­ sota crop is estimated at 44,000,000 bushels. The winter-wheat yield in Nebraska will be from thirty to forty bushels per acre, and the spring-wheat yield from twenty to twenty-five bushels. Bye, oats, corn, and barley prom­ ise well in Nebraska and Minnesota Reports of the condition of the crops in Iowa and Illinois continue favorable. This is espeoially so as to corn. "Wheat will be up to the average. The smaller grains are fair to good. The potato crop has suffered in some localities on account of drouth ... The Health Commissioner at St. Louis officially notifies Surgeon Hamilton that in the suspected case on the steamer Annie P. Silver the child died of summer complaint, that the family have resided in Mexico for more than a year, and that they came to this country seven months ago... .Joan C. Bacha, a millionaire cattle-dealer of Las Vegas, was drugged in Cincinnati, and robbed of $13,000. A TOPKKA (Kan.) dispatch says: "N. A. Adams, of Manhattan, purchased 200 head of Colorado steers at Kansas City last week, and thirty head of them have died with Spanish and Texas fever. One car load was stopped here, and out of that six have died: the others were taken to Manhattan and are quarantined in shipping pens there. Up to 3 o'clock this afternoon twenty-five bid died. People, and especially stockmen, axe greatly ex­ cited. In answer to a telegram, Gov. a seat State Yrterinaiy gtuyeoa to investigate the t rouble Near Greeley. Col., John Shea, a miner, cnt the throat of his wife while she lay sleeping, then stibbed her seven times and himself eight times, and fell dead. Jealousy ... Forty-one buildings, including banks, ho­ tels, stores, saloons, and public offices, were destroyed at Devil's Lake, Dak. The flames swept everything before them. AN investigating committee of cattle men, aocompanied by a special State Commis­ sioner, visited Rankkin, Neb., and discov­ ered that Texas fever, brought in a herd from Texas, caused the death of several head of cattle there, and that some of the stock had been sent to Montana, undoubt­ edly spreading the disease. The sale of meat by butchers at North Platte has been prohibited....J. C. S. Harrison's report as receiver of the Indiana Banking Company coin Is the only member of the Cabinet rNMins at the capital Lieut Sch walks, •f arctic fame, has resigned his oommis- •tan ia the United States army. It is un­ derstood that he will acoept a lucrative po­ sition nnder a foreign government. ,f< A STATEMENT of the Treasurer of the United States shows that the net amount of gold now in the Treasury is about $119,000,000. This shows that there has been a falling off of about $15,000,000 fince the 1st of the month, which is a rapid ap­ proach to the limit of $100,000,000, where the issue of gold certificates must cease, according to Taw... .The total cost of the Greely relief expedition approximates The estimated cost was $5i)U,UU0. X>OLITICA|. GEN. BUTLER lost his hold on the De­ mocracy of Massachusetts, by having his enemies organize the StateCentral Commit­ tee. P. A. Collins was elected Chairman. AT a meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Labor jprty in New York.it was resolved to postpone the proposed con­ vention of the party at Chicago to Sept. 1. This action was taken, it was stated, be­ cause the letters of acceptance of Gen. Butler and Gov. Cleveland have not yet ap­ peared, and in their absence it would be impossible to take intelligent action. THE Prohibitionists are disposed, it is said, to confine themselves to the effort to carry Kansas and Maryland for St. John. If they can obtain a large campaign fund they may extend their operations to other States. The leaders have great reliauce on the generosity of the California Prohibition­ ists... .The national Democratic notitici- tion committee waited upon Gov. Cleveland at the Capitol in Albany on the 29th ult. Col. Vilas, in addressing the nominee, re­ minded him that he was sought out for what reforms he could accomplish as the servant of a free people, from high expecta­ tions created by his record as an adminis­ trator of ability and fidelity. The Governor replied by expressing confidence that the happiness and prosperity of the people lay in the application of Democratic measures to nation tl affairs. THE notification committee of the Na­ tional Democratic Convention went from Albany to Saratoga and officially informed Gov. Hendricks of his nomination for the Vice Presidency. The ceremony took place in a parlor of the Grand Union Hotel, Hon. W. F. Vilas acting as spokesman f.ir the committee. Mr. Bell, Secretary of the committee, read the formal address, to which Mr. Hendricks responded in a five minutes' speech accepting the nomina­ tion. Mr. Hendricks was then introduced to each member of the committee. A gen­ eral handshaking followed, after which the people paid their respects to Mrs. Hen­ dricks, and then quietly dispersed. THE Democratic Congressional Conven­ tion at Columbus, Ohio, nominated the Hon. Joseph H. Outhwaite.f The present Representative from that district is George L. Converse, who was conspicuous for nis opposition to the Morrison tariff bill, at the last session of Congress." His high protective views led to his defeat for a renomiaation Congressman Collins, of Boston, has ac­ cepted the Chairmanship of the Massachu­ setts Democratic Committee... .The Re­ publicans of West Virginia have formed a coalition with the Green backers and ac­ cepted the nomination of Maxwell for Gov­ ernor. CSEXERAI* TBS steamship J. M. Osborne, of Clew- land, which was sunk in Like Superior by the steel steamer Alberta, is said to have lost the mate, the cook, a fireman, and five deck hands. r ENBIGN W. B. e* the stein*-' ship Loch Garry of the Greely relief expe­ dition, furnishes some interesting details of the voyage from the log of his vessel, from which it appears that as they sailed from St. Johns, N. F., northward they were in constant peril. Hundreds of times during the expedition vessel and crew were threat­ ened with destruction by icebergs and fogs. THE balance of trade against this country for the first twenty-nine weeks of 1834 amounts to $74,144.47 Reports from twenty-six of the leading clearing-houses of the United States, outside of New York, show that the aggregate of the clearances for last week was 11.4 per cent, less than the aggregate for the corresponding week of last year. The New York Clearing-House report shows a decrease of 23 per "cent. - K v*»j ?' of Indianapolis is understood to'indicate a J SAIJMON, the Veterinary Surgeon of shortage of $95,611.05, and that he pleads the Department of Agriculture, says he has w ft* •* i? * *HSi' - * > vi- £" it W 'm pleads poverty and inability to make up the short­ age. Harrison was placed under ar­ rest on a charge of embezzlement, Ins bail being fixed at $60,000 Some frightened stockholders in the Bar- num wire-works at Detroit levied on its property to secure advances made, and forced an assignment. The concern em­ ployed 500 men.... The Commercial Bank of Brazil, Ind., has suspended. Its assets are nominally $170,000, and its liabilities $140,'>00, including the entire school fund of Clay County... .Seven horse-thieves were found dangling from trees at the mouth of Musselshell river, in Meagher County, Mon­ tana. . ..Ina freight train collision near Elkhart, Ind., one man was killed and three •eriously injured. JOHN C. MONTGOMEBY, one of the de­ fendants in the Emma Bond outrage case, is about to begin suit against the members of, the Christian County mob who threaten­ ed to hang him, and who actually put a rope around his neck, soon after the outrage for which he was after­ ward tried had been committed.... Mrs. Upmeier, of Cincinnati, undertook to split open a rocket with a hatchet. She and her daughter were fatally injured by the explosion which followed, and two children were fatally hurt Four daugh­ ters of Nathan Miller, residing near Marys- ville. Kan., were killed by lightning while sleeping ...The villnge Of Luning, Nev., except the railroad depot, was destroyed by fire. W. W. CULBEBTSON, a member of Con­ gress from Kentucky, who was stopping at the National Hotel in Washington, fired five shots into his h?ad, inflicting dangerous wounds. The cause is said to have been depression from excessive indulgence in liquor. WHII»E practicing on the Shelbyville (Ind.) track, Miss Nellie Burke, the rider, was thrown from her stallion, Hancock, but not seriously hurt, while, by rushing against a fence, the horse, which was valued at $2,000, was impaled, and died on the spot... The Grand Central Depot at Cincinnati was formally opened last week The building cost $800,000. no doubt that Texas fever is the cause of the recent mortality among Southern cattle arriving in Chicago, and also among some herds in Nebraska, Colorado and Kansas. The disease exists only among Southern cattle. In the South the distemper, though it exists, does not manifest itself, but as the cattle move north, it sometimes assumes a violent form. Dr. Salmon says that there would be no danger from the disease if the cattle were removed north in winter. The disease can be communicated to all native cattle, but it cannot be communicated by them. I JOHN CASWELL & Co., tea meroliants, New York, have failed. John Kimpel, car­ riage manufacturer, St. Louig, has made an assignment, placing his assets at $45,-556, but not stating the amount of liabilities. Wall & Johnson, Milwaukee, druggists, were closed by the Sheriff; and P. M. Hargrave. private banker, at Lampasas, Tex., failed for $40,000. OOKHWAKb, the English Seoratary of the Irish Postoffloe, has been returned for trial on four different charges of immoral and felonious practices... .Mild forms of chol­ era have appeared at St. Petersburg and towns in Russia. SECRETARY FBEUNGHTTTSEW has re­ ceived a report on the cholera epidemic at Toulon and Marseilles from Mr. Mason, Consul at the latter city. Mr. Mason says that the municipal authorities at Mar­ seilles have taken every precaution to pre­ vent nny form of contagion from taking possession of the city. It is well sewered and well paved, the water supply is ex­ cellent, and the sanitary arrangements almost perfect. But the situation of the city on the shores of a tideless and placid sea into which the sewervre enters neutral­ izes the precautions. This is the case not only with Marseilles, but with all Mediter­ ranean ports. Toulon suffers from the same natural sanitary disadvantages, and the municipal authorities there are not as careful as at Marseilles. Consul Mason says there is no doubt that the cholera was imported this time from Snigon, China., to Toulon in a French transport. f The dredg­ ing of the harbor at the time aided material­ ly to spread the epidemic. WHnMMd in th« Cholera- Ravaged Oitim of Southern Franco. * The Infected District! Seeking with Tpr-Burials by the ., night Lantern. * • ADDITIONAL ISEWS. SENATOR MAHONE has secured the dis­ missal from the folding-room at Washing­ ton of Col. W. E. Sims, with whom he had a bitter quarrel in the Republican National Convention, because the latter voted for Blaine. TONS of dead fish, chiefly perch, are daily taken from Fourth Lake, near Madi­ son, Wis., and buried in the sandbanks outside the city. The cause of the mortal­ ity can not be learned. HEAVY rains have damaged hay seriously and caused the potato rot to put in an ap­ pearance in Quebec... .The customs au­ thorities at Montreal raided four wholesale jewelry establishments and seized goods worth $60,000 for undervaluation. MRS. FRANCES STEOALL, a widow, aged 70, who died a few days ago near Monroe, N. C., confessed that she had murdered her hnsland by pouring molten lead into his ear thirty years ago. She refused to say what was the motive of the crime. THE Thetis, Alert, and Bear arrived at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on the 1st inst., where Lieut. Greely was joined by his wife and children, from California, and his mother and brother, from Massachusetts. Secretary Chandler and Gen. Hazen ex­ tended their heartiest congratulations.... The Wantiamaker Company's furniture factory, Howard's Hotel, a planing-mill, lumber yard, and four saloons at Philadelphia were destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $100,0(0 The Delaware and Hudson and Platts burg Dock Company's freight houses at Platts- burg, N. Y., with their contents, two ware­ houses, and a number of loaded freight cars were swept away by fire....By the burning of a building at New York a child perished in the tlames, and four persons were fatally burned. The financial loss is $55,000.... Jay-Eye-See trotted a mile at Providence in 2:10, beating the record of Maud S. THE trial of dynamiters at Warwick, En­ gland, resulted in a sentence of penal servi­ tude for life for John Daly and a term of twenty years for James Egan. McDonnell pleaded guilty to treason-felony, and was released on bail. Daly admitted having buried nitro-glycerine in his garden.... Sixty-five pounds of dynamite were stolen from a magazine hear Glas­ gow, Scotland. The thfetes are not known, and some alarm prevails.... Henri Laube, the German poet and littera­ teur, died at Vieana, aged 78 years.... .A panic prevails at Foo Choo, c'wing to the belief that war between China and France is considered inevitable. ME. THEODORE H. GROWNEY, a civil engineer of San Francisco, who has been employed on the Panama Canal, in an in­ terview published in the San Francisco Chronicle, gives it as his opinion that the work will not be completed under the pres- mai:a.;ement. 1 h > expense will ex-ent FOKE167T. „ THE SOUTH. * ©###» lj. T. DAVIS, of Princess Anne, lid., was shot and instantly killed by I. J. Mills, who had made love to Davis' daugh­ ter against the wishes of her father. HEBUEBT LEITH, one of Stonewall Jack* WW s soldiers, who lost both legs during the war of the rebellion, fatally shot his cousin, John Bawlings, at Leesburg, Va., during a drunken quarrel. Both men have been prosperous farmers. AN association formed in Hamburg has par chased 134,000 acres of land in the cor- Mf of North Carolina, next to Georgia. The agent will compromise with 1,500 Batters, and intends to colonise 2,000 or man Germans on the tract. WASHINflTon, 1 ABTHUB has left Washington A SPECIAL correspondent who has visited Marseilles cables that from what he has seen in that place "no intelligent com­ munity of well-ordered lives and well- managed 6ewer-pipes need have any alarm­ ing fear" of the cholera. The epidemic, he says, prevails only in the poor quarters of the city, where there are no sewers, where fetid water is collected in pools, or flows along the streets, spread­ ing its poisonous breath all round. Thsre were thirty-six deaths from cholera at Mar­ seilles, eleven at Toulon, and thirteen at Aries on the 27th of July... .The French Government will agree to some of England's financial proposals with regard to Egvpt if the law of liquidation is modified and the proposals are limited to a term of two years.... A statue to Robert Burns was unveiled in London by Lord Roseberry. It is situated on the Thames embankment.... The long- looked-for Liberal demonstration at Man­ chester, England, was a great success, about 40,000 people being present. John Bright, the Radical, presided, and made a fiery speech. The counter Tory demonstration sat Hyde Park was a failure. .. .China has :agreed to pay France an indemnity of 20,000,000 francs for the Lang Son affair. The Siberian plague has appeared in China. FTTBTHKB details of the collision of the steamer Laxham with the show that 130 ceed the estimates eight times. Extiava- gance and fraud have characterized the conduct of the work BO far, the contractors have been ruined, and the mortality among the workingnien has been great.... The executions of the week included three young white men at Scottsboio. Ala., for arson; Frank Williams, at Pine Bluff. Ark., for the murder of his wifa; Wilson Stevens, at Edgefield, S. C., for killing a peddler; Frederick Cephas, at Cambridge, Md., for murdering Mrs. Murphy; Alexander Jeffer­ son, in Brooklyn, for taking two lives and terribly wounding a thiid |>er<on; and a negro named Charles Phi lip*, at Hunting­ don, Tens., for the murder of tuiaUtw negro. •' . . Not So Poor After AIL As tlie legend goes, sa^-s the Buffalo E.i%yre8x, a traveler on the old Milford turnpike in Pike County, Pennsylvania, one day after traveling a long way with­ out seeing a human face, stopjjed be­ fore a hut, in front of which a man was making an excavation, in hopes of find­ ing enough earth to make a little gar­ den. The traveler remarked on the ap­ pearance and poverty in that part of the world. "Now, see here, stranger," said the man who was digging ro ks. "I am not so dern poor as you think I am. I don't own but a half acre of this land." THE MARKET. Jtrfefe Spanish ship Gijon show that 130 persons died. The Laxham was struck amidships, and went down twenty minutes after. The pas sengers and crew made their way the best they could to the Gijon, which be­ gan to sink soon after. The ship's boats were not able to hold one-half those on board, and those who were fortunate enough to get in first fought oft with knives those who afterward tried to get in. The scenes were sickening in the extreme... .The notorious Mrs. Weldon has been awarded $5,000 damages by a London jury against the physician Sempley, who recommended that she be confined in lunatic asylum as a person of unsound mind. HESBY M. STAVUCY, the African ex­ plorer, few reached Kngtaad, When b# REEVED H HIS. .. i- LOUK- NEW YOBK. t S OI 5.50 4.50 .'•>3 , .06 .44 16.75 Kxtra WHEAT--XO. i CIUCSKQ. No. 2 lied...... ..... CORN--No. % )AT -- l*o;<K--New Mess............ CHICAGO. I»8SVB.i---<'boi !C to iJrini<: S.ecrs. S.50 ' Goo<l 6.00 (Common to 1-air 4.50 loas 6.60 '•kOo'U--t anty While Winter Ex 8.1* Good to Choice Sprtntr. 4.5'» .ViiEAT-- No a Hpriuc .Hi No. 2 tied Winter no ,OTSN--No. 2 A5 IATS--No. 2 si No. 2 ^3 t.UXEY--No. 2 .fio lUTTKi.--Choice i'reainory IH Ktne Daiiy is ,'iiDEHE--l ull Cream jm hklmxned Flat,.,...... .r.5 Frewh .14 i'0TAT0n---New, per t>rl......... 1.50 Pouk--Mcm 24.2» Laud , ,07 TOLEDO. 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It says: Passing along the narrow and squalid Rue Caisserie, over one-half the shops were seen to be closed at every crossing. From a tenement region on the hill above a stream of fetid water flowed across the street and plunged down a precipitous descent on the other side through dark lanes crowded with towering rookeries swarming below with idle men and children playing in the filthy gutters, the women meanwhile swashing the water about with their brooms, undjr the evident im­ pression that they were cleaning something. Each glimpse of any one of these streets is enough to turn the stomach of any healthy man. The smell through all this quarter, in which dutiuj a space of twenty uHuutss we met three laden hearses, was bad enough, but the smell was indescribably worse when we had driven across town to two of the most afflicted quarters of all Marseilles--Ca- Eelette and the .adjoining quarter, a order to reach them we crossed the old ship canal, which was filled to the brim with reeking water and had its surface thickly covered with garbage and refuse of a decidedly miscel­ laneous and revolting kind. Finally we got on a street known as Toulon road, a wide thoroughfare without a shade-tree. Its gut­ ters ran rivulets of drab-colored water which had overflown from the canal where it was dammed now and then by heaps of rotting vegetables or worse substances, including dead cats and dogs. Four out of every five houses were found closed. Those which re­ mained open were mainly estaminets, where, under dirty awnings and on dirty sidewalks, men and women sat drinking, or were already reduced to stupor by previous drink­ ing, and junk-shops in which filthy people were sorting rotten rags in an unspeakably vile atmosphere. Festering filth was around them, and a tropical sun beat fiercely down upon the scene, blinding (he eyes as its rays were reflected from the White road, across which in the Quartier Capelette courses a stream the size of a main sewer in New York, winding its way uncovered among the houses on its jour­ ney to the sea. The stream was laden with the sewage of the vilest of the Marseilles quarters--Capelette and the adjoining --which have furnished much over one-half of the deaths that have occurred at Marseilles, and it is an interesting fact that the largest pro­ portion of them were Italians. The wharfs all along the water front were found to be crowded with quarantine shipping, most Italian and French, and picturesque sights were the Mediterranean sailors, among whom were many negroes, lying about in the shade. At the beginning nineteen-twentieths of the patients received at the Pharo failed to recover. For the last fortnight matters have so far improved that only two-thirds of those received have died. This excessive mortality at first was largely due to the fact that most cases when received developed into a hopeless condition. The highest rnimner that have been in the hospital at any one time is 110, and the largest number received in any one day is thirty-seven. There are two chief doctors. The treatment, both he:e and at Touta^Aithe first s ages, is twenty drops JBPH% tritli three grains of ether, witnTee in .the mouth to stop the vomiting. In the second stages the patients become Very cold. From ten to fifteen grammes of acetate of ammonia, the snm? quantity of alcohol, and two injections of morphia are given duly. If tha patient can not breathe, artificial respiration of oxygen is pro­ duced and the limb* are rubbed w>th turpentine. Ihe third stage is the offiu. Delay in placing the bodies in the coffins is made necessary by the fact that violent post-mortem action of the limbs takes place, caused by a terrible reaction after death, in which the temperature rises from extreme cold, at dis­ solution to 120 after it. Of many pathetic sights the most painful that I saw 01 curred in the female ward, where one room was mostly occupied by children. A nun held in her arms by an open window a dying babe 18 months old. Its three sisters (the oldest being only 10 years) lay on beds near by their parents, both of whom died the same day, and there was small hope for any of the remaining children save the oldest. A dozen children in all were to be seen here, some of them in a state of recovery. Late at night I drove with my courier outsid e the city to the Cemetery St. Pierre to see the burial of the three patients whom I had observed iu the Pharo hospital in the afternoon. After a brief burial service, intoned by a pale young priest who looked badly scared, tMtee boxes were hurriedly lowered into a trench eight feet deep by twenty feet long, and a goodly quantity o*f lime was shoveled on top. It was a ghastly trench an^l thene was plenty of room for more cofllns. It was a weird and sadden­ ing sight. There stood the tall white houses. The dead still wore their tawdry trinkets, and the whole was lighted up as in a picture by Rembrandt by the fitful glare of three lanterns. Those gaping tienches were big enough to hold their thousands. A concierge showed me a buri 11 permit. Across the face of the docu­ ment was written: "Cholera--urgent,"and there was a requisition^ for some disinfect­ ant. The same correspondent visited Toulon, and thus depicts what he witnessed: If in a sanitary sense the condition of, Marseilles was frightful, that of Toulon struck me as simply murderous. Although Toulon has a background of mountains, the city itself is situated on a flat plain, four feet only above the level of a tideless seo. The con­ sequences arising from imperfect drainage, with a natural want of slope, are that the sawerB have onljr a fall of eighteen inches; so, with a sluggish movement, the filth of the town drops into an almost stag­ nant sea. What is worsa is that at the points where these drains flow they are only covered with piank, and the filth, disgusting to the nose, impresses itself on tha eyes. Yos not only thQn sme 1 but you see the pub­ lic garbage of Toulon. Just fancy people living in this city of quite 80,00i) inhab­ itants without the faintest glimmer of com­ mon sense in regard to common hygiene! Toulon must be inhabited by people who utterly ignore every precaution which health requires. Their habits both in their houses and in the public streets are indescribably filthy. The plain English of it is about this: That it is impossible for people who live on fruit, who drink all kinds of poor fluids, who sleep in dirt and nastiness, who breathe an air polluted by the sewage of the town itself, and rendered doubly poisonous by excreta left by tlie training-ships, to escape cholera. The marvel is that this disease did not find its birlh here years before. Toulon bas always been a center of disease. Small­ pox, when it broke out in Toulon, was always of a malignant type, and more diffi­ cult to stamp out than elsewhere. The 1 atural death rate was invariably high, and ikely to be increased at any time by ab­ normal diseases. A DETROIT telephone got out of order, »n"l the man who was sent to fix it up dis­ covered that a hole. had been punched in Vie instrument by somebody who had inno- ceniy thought he cottld hear better through it that way. DUBINO the last six months there have been sixtj-two suicides in 8n gimelfi Itnac" and Romantle A(li«at«M of tb« Yoonff Duke of Almayaffull. A slim, light-haired man, with deep- set, blue eyes, regular features and a short mustache turned up at the corners of bis mouth, poured out a string of mixed Span sh and Italian oaths as he stood at Ninth and Walnut streets, Philadelphia. He is the bootblack who recentlj decorated that corner with ft red plush ehair on a brass nail-studded throne. A reporter asked wliat the trouble was. "Dees nickel, eet hava ze plug," the liglit-haired man replied, as he gazed moip-nfullv after the retreating figure of a ward politician. The reporter climbed into the arm-cliair. "How came you here ?" "Ah, Senor, ze storce of mr travel he woulda tilla zo book. I first saw ze light where ze olda Moresco Town of Algesiras looka over ze blue water of Gibraltal's Strait toward ze white sun- wasbed walls of Ceuta."' "You express yourself with considera­ ble fluency." •'I ada tii'sta-class edncazione, and a ees a romanza connected wizaze istorie of my a life." "Ho there is in that of a good many foreigners who drift over here. I know an organ grinder who--" "Oh! Senor, spara me," said the Andaiusian, "I am buta ze waif, but I am not what I s--" "None o' that. No Lady of Lyons' business here." "I 'ava ze strange istorie. Ef I 'ada my right I would 'ava ze corona of Duca di Almayaguil ina zo corner of my pocket 'and. Av de ini Alhama," and he buried his lace in his hands. "Even the organ grinder didn't go as far as that," sad the quarter-column Macaulay, sharply. "iiuta it is ze trut'. Ze Rossis of Algesiras are cousins of ze Medina Celland he drew from his bosom a locket with a coat of-arms surmounted by a ducal coronet and the motto: "Semper Lustro." While the reporter examined the relic Rossi remarked: "Weatha too flampa, no taka shina right. But my istorie. 11 Conde Enrico Roesi, of Alguazar, married in 1794 ze daughter pf a simple toreador. A poor girl--se­ cret--a matrimonio segreto--and a soil you understan?" "Go on." "You betta. Ze old Castle proverbo say, 'Ze soonest pelican hea geta ze oystare.' Zay leta no grassa grow on zave feet." "Wasthe secret of your birth known at Algeuras ?" "Oh, yes--leetle streeta boys calla em little Duke--trowa ze mud. After mozrire die her brozaire, a priest, bringa fern up. Wanta me to be a priest like eem; go to seminario; no go; don't like eem--run away to sea--12 years old. Since zen, travel all ze time. Zis (tapping his breast where the locket was hidden) is all zat ze last of the Rossis--Dukes of Almayaguil-- 'as to show of ze lost treasures of 'is 'ouse." "t)uke--Where have yon traveled?" "Oh! (describing an immense circle with his hands;, everyvere--Sea of Mediterraneo--Sea of Adriatico--of Marmora--ze Black Sea. I have stood in ze shadow of St Sophia at Constan- tinopoli and listen to ze roar of ze Rus­ sian guns in ze Balkans. 'Ave touched Cleopatra's Needle--an' stick my "and in Jacob's well at Smyrna. I saw gon­ dola pas balcony where Desdemona listen to Otelle's narrations, an' av watched eruption of Vesuvio across ze Eav of Napoli--ze ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum an' dropa ze tear on Byron's grave at Missolonghi." "When did you c«me to this coun­ try?" "Came to Canada firsta, Siglita ze mountain of Greenlan'pass trn' Behrin' Strait, tru' iceberg an' icefiel' an' into Gulf of San Lorenzo. Stop at Char- lottetown, Prince Edward Islun', Pic- ton, 'Alifax, San Juan, New Bruns' an' Quebec, where fell ze noble Mrmtgom'." "Did your grace see much of Canada ?" "I should smila; Monte Reale, ze Rapid of Lachine, Ottowa, Toronto, Niagara Fall, where ze great Blondin walk a ze rope; Lake Zamplain, One Zouzan lie, down 'Udson to New York, City of Mity Doll; to Filadelfia, where zev 'ave brozerly love and ze bes' beer and bootblaek in ze world; zen to Wash, wiz its imposing Capitol and Pres'<ient Arthur." "With its Capitol and imposing Pres­ ident Arthur?" "Senor, I nevare say a so. From Nova Yorck across ze Gulfa Stream to ze corel islands, ze Bermud, and back to Engl an'; tru' ze Strait of Gibraltar an' ze Mediterraneo, zen tru' ze Canal of Suez to ze Red Sea. where I see il Monte Sinai, famous for Moses and hees parables." "Aren't you getting your Bible sta­ tistics a little mixed ?" "No! no! no! too fly. I pass tru* Strait of Malacca into Indian Ocean and call at Singapore, ze great Indian City of Bombay, ze Celestial Hong Kong, where ze Chinese ladies are so polity to sober foreigner. Ze Fillipine lie, where you get a real Manila smoke. Zen across the Pacific Osh' to Austral­ ia, ze wonder of ze wide, wide worl\ ze lan' of golden visions, ze lan' of corn- beef an'col'mutton. Ze freest lan' in ze worl' for if you 'ave no boots you can go jus' as barefoot as yona please." " You are wasting your time here,'1 said the reporter. The Dnke fcmiled modestly, as with a magnificent wave of his sombrero he transferred a coin to his Vlst pocket. "Not wants altogozaire," he replied.. "Make good xiftg sometime out of Du- dns ov«-r -m(with a significant jerk of his thumb over his right shoulder). "Adioft, Caballoro. Call gain. The First Arrival front Chicago. -• T "So you live in Chicago, eh?" ilfc* served a garrulous old chap from down East somewhere. "I hain't never been out to Chicago, though I've always wanted to. But the fact is, I'm afraid to go there, it is such a wicked town. Down where I live people believe Chicago was twice burned out by the Lord for being so wicked, and that the third time'll do the business in earnest. There's a mighty good story told down in our section 'bout Chicago. 'Spect it's an old yarn with you as 'tis with us, but some of our folks are half-inclined to believe it true. It's al>out a mm that went from the East to buy real estate and settle in the West. He stopped at Chicago and was tempted to settle there. But the first night he went to bed he had a dream. He dreame 1 th%t he settled in Chicago, and after many years died and went to ht aven. He knocked at the golden- gate, when St Peter came out and want­ ed to know who he was. He said he was Mr. Jones, from Chicago. St. Peter | hook his head and said he never heard pi such a piaoe. Jfcrt the man insisted "St* > could see for himself. So 01 Peter sent an angel for the map, and when it came looked it over closely. Finally he paused and remarked: 'Chicago? did you say Chicago? You aro right; here it is. But you must excuse my ignorance, Mr. Jones, because you have the honor of being the first one that ever came from there here."--Chicago Herald. Custom-Hoiise Examining Inspectors at Work. Baggage is landed and deposited in separate piles, according to the initials of the owners' mimes, the proper label having been affixed on the steamer. The places are designated by huge let­ ters on the wall of the slied. If there ore many Smiths aboard, for instance,, there will be a crowded congregation of trunks and owners about S. The examining inspectors are already drawn r up in line across the dock, and nothing passes them without du.e scrutiny. • Wearied travelers, who can leave their matters in the hands of friends, are relieved of further waiting, and after quick search of wraps and valises are allowed to depart in peace. As each individual's baggage is brought togeth­ er, he notifies the staff officer, and hands over his ticket. The officer se­ lects the corresponding declaration, writes the name of an inspector---whom he calls fom the line--upon it, and directs immediate examination. This is usually sufficiently thorough. In­ spectors, through long practice, be­ come involuntary disciples of Lavater, and such expert critics of human na­ ture that they almost intuitively de­ tect attempted fraud. Dutiable articles .not declared assuoh. are brought out, valued by the attendant appraiser, en­ tered with value attached on the dclar- ation, and the owner is obliged to pay the requisite duty to a clerk in attend­ ance ^ for the purpose of receiving it The inspector also signs his name to the declaration. ' The efficiency and courtesy of the Deputy Surveyor, and also of the in­ spectors on the dock, together with the delicate discharge of their not particu­ larly pleasing duties, are worthy of high praise. Exceptions are few and far between. The questions asked about dresses, laces, cloaks, etc., are not inyariably met with precisely truth­ ful rejoinders. To cheat Uncle Sam in revenue matters is regarded as a de­ cidedly venial sin by most cflf his child­ ren, native and adopted. This notion is doubtlesB an unconscious remnant of the free booting ethics of forgotten an­ cestors. It is slowly ' yielding to h'gher and better ideas. Even the wealthiest are not exempt from the smuggling mania. One gen­ tleman. whose name is synonymous with almost fabulous wealth, returning from Europe in company with his wife, was compelled to pay $1,800 in duties on her enormous stock of wearing apparel, which he contended was not dutiable, whether it had or had not been worn. He appealed to the Secretary of the Treasury, who decided against him. He then brought suit within ninety days in tae United States Court. His wife swore that a portion of the whole had been worn in good faith. The duties paid on that portion were re­ funded, while those on the remainder were retained. Smugg.ing is carried on in many wayi, an<l will be carried on- while hu­ man nature continues to be what it is. Foreign retail traders are adept in­ structors in the art of evading the pay­ ment of duties, as anyone who has been in the lace establishment of Des Marets and other merchants of Brus- sele can testify. The ingenuity of in­ spectors is taxed to the utmost to defeat their schemes. Female inspectors are employed to search persons of their own sex who are sent to them, bv the Deputy Surveyor for that purpose. Of these inspectresses there are nine. In 18G6 there were only four. The inspec­ tresses perform their duties, both at Castle Garden and on the docks, in rooms set hpart for such searches. Recitals of their experiences are at once amusing and humiliating to believers in the natural goodness of men. Ger­ man Jews are more addicted to smug­ gling than people of other nationali­ ties, but none are altogether free from vice. Modistes and dress-makers are naturally the most frequent and fla- S;rant offenders. Extra gold watches; ace, silk, linens, wound around the body or limbs; human hair in tou­ pees, wigs, and switches sewn into skirts; new dresses stitched to old ones; silk and lace made up into sever­ al voluminous skirts--are among ordi­ nary discoveries. One unlucky wight, suspected of complicacy in feminine designs, was found to have two sets of point-lace in the crown of his hat-- M. Wheatley, in Harper's Magazine. At the Crazy Quilt Show. "V*. what is a crazy quilt?" "Several thousand rags, my son, col­ lected upon a large frame in the best parlor, with a foolish woman at one end of it--" He hesitated but a moment when a sharp voice remarked: "How is that, Zephaniah ?" And then he added, hastily: "That is, foolish, if she don't know how to put nil those pieces together. The sharp voice belonged to a tall lady with very angular features, who Cast a kind of I-will-see-you-later look Upon the good-natured man, who had 'attempted to solve the quilt question, and then turned to the reporter, who was taking notes, with the remark: "I have four quilts here, sir, and I hope you will give them a favorable mention. They required a great deal of work." "YOB," chimed in the good-natured man, "She worked twenty-three months ,pn one of 'em." "You are a brute. Zephaniah!" and then the tall lady sailed off majesitcally, dragging the inquisitive boy along, while Zephaniah followed in her wake. --Chicago Herald. His Flame. : "Young man, you have been coming to my house almost every night during the whole winter, and now all at once you become cool, and hardly speak to my daughter. What does all this mean? Explain yourself 1" The young man hesitated, and finally said, in a scared-sort of a way: \ "I--I came to your house during the winter, because--" "Young man, if you love my daugh­ ter, come out and say so." "I oame because--because 1 had no stove in my room, and I wanted to get warm." "You ean just go to--to where it is hot without a stove," and the young man picked himself up out on the side­ walk.-- Texan Siftings. THK Chinese are meeting with suc- oees in Merced County, California, in their cultivation of opium popp .̂ >"" ks , , , .£.4 timtAmitT DocyoK, IT IS said that dusting finely poi derm chlorate of potassium on t|ie suy face of ulcers and ulcerating epithelio mat̂ relieves pain and promotes heat* ing, by changing the character of the morbid processes. The surlace should be cleansed and the powder dusted thickly on twice a day. DB. HALEY, in on Australian Medical Journal, claims that minimum dese* of iodide of potassium are of great servioe in frontal headache. A two-grain dose dissolved in half a wineglass of water will often cure a dull headache which is situated over the eyebrow.. The ae- tion of the drug is quite rapid. • ^BOY'. a£ec* 10 years and a half, died! in Washington, D. C., after long suffer* ing from a swelling of the abdomen, which defied diagnosis. The small in- testiues contained twenty large plum stones, a copper cent, a nickle, a tooth, two buttons, and other foreign sub­ stances. The liver was enlarged. IT IS bad practice to probe a pene­ trating wound produced by a missile entering either the abdominal or tho­ racic cavity. After ascertaining to i certainty that a cavity of the- trunk has been entered, stop all probing at once and hermetically seal the wound and leave the rest to nature. Exclude the atmosphere, and then the chances of* storation will be largely increased. OLD Dr. Hunter used to say, when w couldn't discover the cause of a man's sickness: "We'll try this and we'll trr that. We'll shoot into the tree, and if anything falls, well apd good." "Aye,* replied a wag, "I fear this is too com­ monly the case, and in your shooting, into the tree, the first tiling that gen] erally falls is the patient" And the wag was not very far from the truth. PREVENTIVE MEDICINE IN CHINA.---Il is recorded that on a certain occasioi the Emperor of China inquired of Sii George Stanton about the manner in, which physicians were paid in England] When he was made to understand wha' the custom was, lie exclaimed, "Car any man in England afford to ba illl Now I have four physicians, and pay all of them a weekly salary; but the ma ment j am sick that salary is stoppeq until I am well again; therefore, mj indisposition is never of long duration.1 RIGHT LIVING VS. DKOGS.--An exl tract irom the biography of the latj Gen. John A. Dix gives an account ol an interview with the eminent Alien, ethy, whom the General had consulted for professional advice. It is gratify] ing to note that the common aanse aj] vice of the illustrious physician, waj taken in a common sense way by thl distinguished patient, and that the n suit was a ripe and robust old age (t. years), of which the dyspeptic youth 01 the General scarcely gave promise After hearing a few words of his pi tient's story, Abernetliy cut him shoi as follows: "Sir, you are pretty fa gone, and the wonder is you are m gone entirely. If you had camsulte, common sense instead of the medicj. faculty, you would probably have beel well years ago. I can say nothing tj you except this: You must take regi lar exercise, as much as you can bet without fatigue, as little medicine a possible, of the simplest kind, and thi only when absolutely necessary, and modest quantity of plain food, of tl quality which you find by experient best to agree with you. No man. nc ever a physician, can prescribe diet fc another. „ 'A stomach is a stomach,' an it is impossible for any one to reasc with safety from his own to that of anl other person. There are a few generc rules which any man of common sens may learn in a week, such as this: Thi rich food, high seasoning, etc., injur ous. I can say no more to you sii you must go and cure yourself." The World's iireat Bills. Russia is in the head of the line bells, some of her manufaciure beir the most famous in the world. It said that in Moscow alone, before tl great lire, there were no fewer than 70(> large bells. One called the Gis which was cast in the sixteenthcentu^ and broken by falling from its suppor and recast in 1654, was so large that I required twenty-fbur men to ring n its weight was estimated at 288,01J pounds. It was suspended from an ixi mense beam at the foot of a bell-towe but it again fell during the fire of Ju« 19, 170(), and was a second time brok^ to fragments, which were used with ditional material in 1732 in cisting t| King of Bells, still to be seen in Mc cow. Some falling timbers in the fi| of 1737 broke a piece from it3 sidl which has never been replaced. Thl bell is estimated to weigh 443,7J pounds; it is nineteen feet, three incl es high, and measure* round the mr gin, sixty feet, nine inoUes. It* valt in metal" alone is estimate I to amaoJ to upward of $300,00J. St. Ivan's, al| in Moscow, is forty feet, nine inches circumference, sixteen and one-h inches thick, and weighs 127,2 pounds. The bells of China rank nc to those of Russia j^in size. In Pel there ar4 seven bells, each of whi< according to Father Le Coniptj weighs 120,000 pounds. The weightl the leading great bells of the woir may be seen in the following: I King of B 41", (Moscow) .443,1 St. i van's (Moscow).... 127.1 P k n . . . . . - - 1 1 ! ' , 1 Vienna «...• .4 ,1 Oimutz (B hem a).... .40,1 R)u"n(Fra c<-) * 8t. Paul s "Bi r Bea* (Westminster) .'<5 .j Montreal .'28 I bt. Pe%rs(ttom ) --Inter Ocean. • The Affection of Mocking Birds. Some years ago, said the old gent man, there was a young physician h^ who was loved by all on account of . gentle, loving disposition. Among more humble but not less devoted mirers was a mocking bird that been born and raised in his gardj The bird took the greatest fancy him, and when he returned home in evening would hop around his tr«j steps and then fly to a tree near by 1 sing for hours at a time. The bird peared to be in an ecstacy of delif whenever the doctor was at hot Finally the yellow fever broke there, and, among others, the doc| was stricken down. He lingered days and then died. On the night fore his death the watchers by his b] side had their attention attracted the mournful, sobbing notes that "doctor's bird," (as they called it) tered through the night. The nj day the doctor died and that night bird was silent. Alter the funera} family opened the rc om to air it, when the bed was drawn aside the : thing seen was the mocking bird lj at the head of the lied, dead. Hoi got there no one knew, but thert was, dead, as though it could not vive one it loved so welL--Hnd\ {Texas) Pont. PAR excellence --a good father.--J • {i,