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IPCSCNRJ FMAIRTDTNLA If * J. VAN SLYSL. PUBLISHER. r IRY, ILLINOIS. ------H MOSTEJtZURIN CAMPAIGN. [Brave StoanteliiMn, Though Tempo- lljr Defeated, are Neither Conquered • Cast Down. [From the Chicago Tribune.] ie Montenegrin campaign is over, brave mountaineers, after a desper- [resistance, were crushed between the rhelming numbers of the Turkish [ies, led by two of the best Generals ie service, and composed of the very per of the Turkish soldiery. But itenegro is still free. Her warriors still in their mountain fastnesses, the sides of which lie 15,000 Turk- lead. Though driven back to their and crags, they are still uncon- 1, and their ancient enemy, through Itiemand of Austria on the one hand [the straits of the armies in Bulgaria ie other, has withdrawn, and is now irly pursuing its way to the south of (Balkans toco-operate with the forces te quadrilateral. reviewing the campaign from the Jet it will be seen that the Montelie- i, though defeated, have been of im- jtt service to the Russians. At the beginning of the outbreak in Her- |>viu;i, the Montenegrins were in arms ist their old oppressor, and, down ie time when Servia entered the L defeated the Turks in every engage- It. When Bosnia and Herzegovina overrun and Servia sued for peace, snegro would accept no terms from Turk because her claim for territory I not allowed. She wanted the small of level territory to the north that belonged to her. arable land for ner j, pasturage for her flocks, a chance iscend to the plains, instead of be- >ped up on her bleak mountain The Turk refused this demand, the mountaineers refused to lay their arms. When Russia declared rith Turkey, the Turk's first effort crush Montenegro, so that she id not co-operate with the Russian wing as it moved south to turn the tans, which was in the outset sup- Id to be part of the Russian pro- le of operations. The Turks sent |ne army from the south through Al- i, under Mehemet Pasha, and a sec- lown from the north through Bos- under Suleiman Pasha--in all, a of about 60,000 of the best soldiers [e Turkish army, under command of >f the best of their Generals. This srful force the little Montenegrin of 30,000 men has kept employed since the 1st of Apm, and what the Turks accomplished? Monte- is still free. Fifteen thousand cs have been killed and the remnant >,000 is now on a long tedious foot- sh to the south of the Balkans, to re the forces of the quadrilateral, hold the mountain passes against Russians if possible. ie Turks have made many blunders ps campaign, but none so monstrous ie diversion of 60,000 of their best JS to carry on this disastrous Mon- rin campaign. is apparent now that if the Russians jcessful during the present season ji*BnJgfirian campaign, it ib owing to lefection of 60,000 of the best troops ie Turkish service, to waste their |gth for three months against the jnegrin mountain sides, and leave fourth of their number under Mon- rin soil. If the Turks are beaten lis campaign, they deserve it for blunder. If the Russians are suc- il, the Montenegrins deserve to the territory given to them which | have claimed of Turkey, both as a of gallantry and heroism, and as kensation for the great service they rendered Russia. Moody said he was not going until he had transacted his business. Stivers instantly seized him and threw him •gainst the wall of the room and kicked him as he fell. The boy instantly drew a small revolver and fired. The first shot struck Stivers over the left ear and passed through the he<td, coming out on the other side. A second shot entered the chest and struck the lower part of the heart. As Stivers turned to fall Moody fired a third shot, which entered the back and lodged in the very center of the heart. Any one of the shots would .have produced death. Moody had his examining trial and was acquitted.-- Lexington (JCy.) Ptess. ELECTION Armenian Dwellings. correspondent of the London News, riding toward the headquarters of Turkish army on the Soughanlu b, suddenly felt his horse sinking ath him, and in another instant he Bnveloped in a cloud of dust and ;ers. He had fallen through the pf a licpse into an apartment where |ily was breakfasting. An Armenian H from a distance, resembles the of refuse one sees around iron ling works. Here and there a couple pt of dry stone wall and a cave-like lice suggest the possibility of the fence of human dwellings. Between 1 dwellings the spaces are carpeted I elastic layer of dung and offal Ir six feet thick. Huge, ungainly Joes, with bodies like bisons and jre of an octopus, low and moan, ig mid-leg deep irfthe filthy paths, ned men are perched here and Ilike storks on the house-tops--pull- Jieir beards, and giving the whole a Scriptural appearance. Calves, land fowl wander promiscuously the chimney-pots, and now and a dark-eyed, olive-faced woman stealing shyly by, her face half pd from the gaze of the Giaour, and concealed by the folds of her linen ress. The gloomy interior of one j houses or earth-heaps is forty feet Igth, and is divided into two com- lents by a low boarded partition Ifeet high. That next the door is ed to horses and buffaloes--the , space affords accommodation to |ers. A little terrace of beaten earth, ches above the floor, flanks both I of the room. It is covered with rush matting, and constitutes a ./day, a bed by night. Two square |iij the roof admit light and air. A Bully's Fate. jttal shooting affray occurred near lond a day or two since, which is ie respects quite peculiar. It ap- Ithat George Moody, a young son lit Moody, a large property owner Lgston, was set upon by one Tom |s, a big bully, who was discharged ren. Custer's command just before aath of that brilliant but ill-fated [ers abused the youth by pulling pars and slapping his face, boy bore this treatment for time, and finally said, "Tom, I [want to hurt you, but I've had of this." Stivers answered by ig him out of the house. Young States that Are to Tote This Fall. Kentucky will hold the first State election oi\ August 6. A Governor and other State officers and a Legislature will be elected. The main interest cen­ ters in the election of Legislators, who will choose a successor to Senator Mc- Creery, whose term expires in 1879. Of course a Democrat will be elected, and the main issue is whether McCreery will succeed himself. Next follows Vermont, where the people will vote for State of­ ficers on the 4tli of September. On the 10th of the same month Maine will elect State officers and a Legislature. Sept. 5, California will elect a Governor and Legislature. The present Governor, Irwin, Democrat, was elected by a ma­ jority of 435 over both the Republican and Independent parties. The Legisla­ ture to be elected will select a successor to Senator Sargent, whose term expires in 1879. On the second Tuesday in October elections occurr in Ohio and Iowa. In both States Governors and Legislatures are to be chosen. The Legislature elected in the former will also select Stanley Matthews' successor in the United States Senate, although Mat­ thews' term, like that of Sargent, does not expire until 1879. The following table gives a view of all the elections to be held this year : State. Election Day. Offintn. Alabama .Aug. 6. .Legislative. Kentucky......... Aug. 6..Legislative and county, Califoro ia. Sept. 5.. Legislative. Vermont Sept. 5.. Full ticket. Maine Sept. 10..Full ticket. Colorado Oct. 2.. Legislative. Iowa Oct. 2.. Full ticket. Ohio Oct. 2.. Full ticket. Louisiana Nov. 6. .Legislative. Massachusetts Nov. 8.. Full tickct. Minnesota Nov. 0. .Full ticket. Mississippi Nov. 6. .Legislative, Nevada Nov. 6.. Full ticket. New Jersey ..Nov. . Legislative, and county. New York Nov. 6..Legislative and Stete. Pennsylvania Nov. 6. .Legislative. South Carolina. ...Nov. 6. .Legislative. Tennessee Nov. 6. .Full tickct. Texas Nov. 6. .Full ticket. Virginia .Nov. 6..Fall ticket. Wisconsin Nov. 6..Full ticket. The Governors whose terms expire at the close of the present year, and whose successors must, therefore, be elected, are as follows: Iowa, S. J. Kirkwood;* Maine, Selden Connor; Massachusetts, Alexander H. Rice; Minnesota, J. S. Pillsbury; Mississippi, J. M. Stone;* Neveda, L. R. Bradley; Ohio, T. M. Young;* Tennessee, J. D. Porter; Texas, Richard Coke;* Vermont, Horace Fair­ banks; Virginia, J. L. Kemper; Wis­ consin, H. Ludington. The Democrats are printed in italics, making seven Re­ publicans and five Democrats. Those marked with an asterisk have been elected toother positions, or fill vacancies caused by such changes. Gov. Stone occupies the chair made vacant by,the resignation 6f Gov. Ames, and Gov. Young that va­ cated by the President. Senator Kirk­ wood left the executivejoffice of Iowa last March, on being sworn into the United States Senate. So also with the Gov­ ernor of Texas, who is now in the Senate. Strange Railway Accident. Not long since an accident occurred to an express train on the Southeastern line, England. A passenger in the sec­ ond carriage from the engine states that all went well until they arrived within about five miles of Minster, when, the train traveling at express speed of about forty miles an hour, the faintest shock was felt by those in the foremost car­ riages, a slight crash heard, and stones And dust began to fly up around the car­ riage. On looking out of the window, he saw that a horse was being dragged along by the engine; its hindquarters were on the ground, the hind legs on either side of the front left wheel, and the rest of the body was held up by the engine, and being thrust forward in some strange way. The train was gradually brought to a standstill, and upon going to the engine he found the body of a large, powerful black cart horse with the left buffer of the engine driven right into the body, and holding it up apparently at the juncture of the lower rib of the spine. In this attitude the body had been carried by the eugine for about a quarter of a mile. It seems that a man was passing over a level field crossing with a wagon and two horses, when sud­ denly round a sharp and closelv adjacent curve the express train swept upon them; he escaped, but the left buffer of the engine struck the shaft horse, impaled it, and carried it bodily off in the manner described--the right buffer caught the other horse on the flank, killed it in­ stantly, and threw it off the line; the corner of the wagon came in contact with the first carriage of the train, broke one of its panels, and was hurled off the line. It was the opinion of the engine-driver that if the horse, being hit so full by the engine, had not been impaled and car­ ried forward in the way described, or if it had dropped from the buffer on to the line before the train had stopped, the engine would in all probability have been thrown off the track. The Indian Troubles. lie administration looks upon the Indian trouble in the Northwest as con­ stituting just now the most serious ques­ tion with which it has to deal. The latest reports from the seat of war prove what was before known, that the military force now on the Pacific coast is alto­ gether inadequate for the prompt sup­ pression of the present difficulties. To reinforce the United States troops with regulars would involve the transportation of men and material of war across the continent, and before the relief could f each the Pacific coast it might be too late for it to be of any assistance. If matters continue to look as serious as at present in the Northwest it is not im­ possible that the President may call up­ on the States to furnish militia for suppression of the Indian war.-- Wash­ ington Correspondence. A COAL-MINE HORROR. Particulars of the Disaster Near Sharon, Pa., by Which Six Men I*OM their Uvea --Heartrending Scenes. [Sharon (Pa.) Cor. Chicago Times.] About two weeks ago the Brookfleld Coal Company completed a tunnel to their mines. Previous to this the com­ pany had hauled out their coal by mule- power. When the tunnel was in readi­ ness a small locomotive was introduced, but it did not work well with soft coal or coke, and anthracite coal was tried as an experiment. For three trips it proved successful. Then it was observable that the long tunnel was filling with sulphu­ ric gas. At the fourth trip the brake- men were overcome by the noxious gas, and fell to the ground, insensible. The engineer managed to get the locomotive out, and gave the alarm. A large num­ ber of men instantly rushed in to rescue the miners. All were affected, and fell unconscious. This state of affairs con­ tinued until twenty-three men had entered the tunnel. Squads of four were then formed. They entered the tunnel, caught up a miner, and carried him out of the blink, and turned him over to the physicians present, who did all in their power to resuscitate the men. In this way the work went on till thirty uncon­ scious and six dead miners were brought out. The excitement spread to the Cleve­ land shaft and Wood's bank, adjoining. Eight men from these two mines, labor­ ing under the impression that other min­ ers were in the tunnel, rushed in, and all succumbed to the deadly gas. Of these, five were shortly afterwards brought out. insensible and the three others dead. Among the first to enter the tunnel to save his comrades was John JoneB, the mine boss. He had proceeded about a quarter of a mile when he fell, and an hour later was taken out dead. He was 60 years old, and leaves a wife and large family. The scenes that took place as the dead and dying miners were being brought out were agonizing. Mothers and wives, sisters and brothers of the mjners ran around distracted, crying and wringing their hands over the dead bodies of their dear ones. One woman lost her husband and two grown-up sons. Her grief gave vent in shriek after Bliriek, as she alter­ nately embraced her dead. It was a scene that never could be forgotten. The excitement seized upon the crowd, and for the time many acted like lunatics. Grim, coal-black miners huddled together like so many sheep, completely panic- stricken. The engineer of the locomotive, after he had given the alarm, threw up his arms, staggered wildly, and, uttering incoherent words, became insensible. A grief-stricken wife throw herself on the dead body of her husband, rolling over with the corpse tightly clasped in her arms, all the time crying hysterically, and cursing God and every living human bfeing. Three sisters surrounded the body of a beloved brother, and refused to allow the physicians to strip the body, to afford greater facility in their endeavors to revive the spark of life. A majority of the sufferers were men with families, and their untimely death falls with double force upon their poor wives and children. The manner in which most of the victims encountered death, trying to save the lives of their imperiled comrades, speaks volumes in praise of the heroism of the miners. An Arizona Shooting-Match. A letter from Greenwood, Arizona Territory, gives the following account of a characteristic Western affray, result­ ing in the death of three men: " On Friday night Grant Blake and Johnny Baker were killed. It seems that Johnny Baker got drunk, and swore he would kill any man in Smith's saloon. There was a Dr. Foster there, whom Johnny did not like. He kept flourishing the pistol over the doctor's head, saying he was g^ing to kill him. The doctor got up from the table, where he was sitting, and went up the street to his cabin and got a double-barreled shotgun. He came back to the saloon to make Johnny beg his pardon ; so he says. Grant Blake saw him go over to Smith's saloon with the gun and ran after him to take Johnny's part. Arriving there, Blake told the doctor and Johnny to put up their weapons. At this, the doqtor turned on him and shot Grant right through the breast The latter seeing the move­ ment of raising the gun, had almost im­ mediately returned the fire, hitting the doctor between the eyes. After shoot­ ing Grant the doctor turned on Johnuy Baker, and firing the second barrel of his gun landed the charge in Johnny's breast, killing him instantly. Johnny and the doctor fell at the same time. Grant turned around after being hit and had walked half-way across the street to his saloon, when he also dropped. They buried Grant and Johnny on Saturday ; the doctor is not expectea to live." An Adroit Robbery. A very bold and skillful robbery was committed in a New York broker's office the other day. The sales clerk had just token in a check for $3,000 on the Leather Manufacturers' Bank and $2,200 in $100 bills, which he placed on the counter by his side. The part of the counter where the sales clerk stands is partitioned off by an iron railing about three feet high, the iron work being wrought so closely that it would be diffi­ cult for a man to insert one finger be­ tween the rails. The clerk turned to transact some business with the bullion clerk, and a minute later noticed that the money was gone. A square piece of the iron inclosure had been cut off, leav­ ing a space just large enough to admit a hand. There was no clue to the thief. Word was sent to the bank to stop the payment of the check, and thus limit the firm's loss to $2,200 in greenbacks. An examination showed that the piece had been cut or filed off. The thief had car­ ried the piece off with him, and it is be­ lieved that the iron work must have been cut some time ago preparatory to some such robbery, and that the piece was put back in its place to be removed only when an opportunity should arise. An Editor in A rouble. Guido Weiss, editor* of the Berlin Radical journal Die Waage, has been sentenced by the Berlin Court of Appeal to three months' " honorable imprison­ ment " for charging Russia with pursu­ ing a hypocritical and mendacious policy, under the protection of the Three Em­ perors' Alliance. It was in vain that the accused quoted a Prince Bismarck to Hip effect that so-called Three Empertirs' Alliance really not such, but only an agreement to secure mutual consultation in the event of peace being endangered. The court thought that another appeal was open to the accused. London. The population of what iemlled don for 1877 is estimated at 4,286,007, or nearly that of the State of New York, and fully as many as the two States of Illinois and Iowa. This is 1,000,000 more than was given by the census of 1871; a large part of the increase results from annexing suburbs to the metropol­ itan district. An exchange says : " The section embraced in the Regis­ trar's tables, under the name of London, includes parte of three counties, and comprises an area of 122 square miles. The city of London is itself only a small district in the metropolis, just as the " old city " of Philadelphia is but a small section of the consolidated city to­ day. Here the old dividing lines be­ tween the city and surrounding districts have been obliterated, ami are only vaguely remembered by" the present gen­ eration,' but in the metropolis of Lon­ don they are maintained through the ex­ istence of local governments for the dis­ tricts, with special laws and customs inherited from oldeii times. During 1876,153,192 children were born in Lon­ don, and 91,171 persons of all ages died, the annual birth-rate being nearly thirty-six, and the annual death-rate not quite twenty-one and a hajf per 1,000. The death-rate is very low for such a vast city, but great care is taken with the sanitary regulations to keep the public streets in good condition, and to carry off the sewage. Fourteen thou­ sand men, with 6,000 horses, are daily, or rather nightly, employed in cleaning the streets, and their labors are supple­ mented by the work of crossing-sweepers and " street-orderlies," or boys who are employed during the day in collecting manure from the basine8s streets. The streets of London are cleaned by con­ tractors, the work being done at night, and the refuse which cannot be utilized is carried in barges to the mouth of the Thames and dumped into the sea. The outlying districts of London have in­ creased rapidly in population within the last ten or twenty years, rapid transit, elevated and underground railways stim­ ulating the growth ofthe city in'that di­ rection." How Cheap Cigars are Made. The room was low and long, with four windows on the north side. Near one of these windows sat a woman about 40 years old, bunching cigars from a pile of strippiugs close by. At another window were two men finishing the cigars, and in the farther part of the room were two beds and a table, with dishes on it. While the pretended dealer was talking with one of the men iu regard to the cheapness with which it was possible to manufacture cigars, the door opened, and a ragged little girl entered with a dirty canvas bag on her arm, the contents of which she emptied into a barrel near the door. She then sat down and com­ menced to strip tobacco from the pile before mentioned. The man who did the talking was very loquacious, and stated that he couldk sell cigars for about $7 a thousand. He said that the wrappers used jgexagf Western tobacco, while the fiUujginirere sometimes of "much finer quality." To illus­ trate this latter assertion he showed the contents of the barrel to which the little girl liad contributed. It was half filled with a mass of what might be called garbage, culled from the streets, and consisting of scraps of brown paper, cabbage-leaves, and cigar-stumps, some of which were, no doubt, stumps of Havana cigars. The manufacturer then took his customer into another room opening from the stair­ way, where there was a kettle in a brick fireplace, and a plank on which were spread out the gleanings from the barrel, assorted and separated to dry. He showed how the burnt ends of stumps were cut off and the remainder unrolled ; how dried cabbage leaves, boiled with tobacco stems and sumach leaves, could be converted into " very fine tobacco," and closed his explanations by extolling the virtues of the tonka bean, valerian and ammonia, as flavoring extracts.-- New York Tribune. Mistaken for Highwaymen. Senator Spencer, of Alabama, was tak­ en for a highwayman while he was jour­ neying to the Black Hills, late in June. The treasury agent who left Deadwood in the Bismarck stage had been cautioned to take no risks, and if any suspicious persons appeared on the road to "get the drop on them." The messenger, the driver, and another man employed by the company all had rifles close at hand, when four horsemen were espied gallop­ ing down a mountain toward the stage. It was a lonely spot, and the messenger did not like the appearance of the stran­ gers. As the four horsemen drove up and leaped from their saddles, they were covered by three trusty rifles. "Stop! we are honest men!" shouted the stran­ gers. "Throw up your hands, then," cried the messenger; and the squad of four slowly approached under cover of the rifles, and finally convinced the guar­ dian of the national treasure that they ware not public plunderers, night-riders, murderers, but only Senator Spencer and friends.--New York Tribune. Chinese Cheap Labor Played Oat The last of the Chinamen in the em­ ploy of the Beaver Falls Cutlery Works took their departure this mornkig for San Francisco, and the village of Beaver Falls, which a few years ago swarmed with these Joss worshipers, knows them no more. The works mentioned had at one time in their employ between three and four hundred of them, but recently discharged and replaced them with Amer­ ican workmen. The wages paid the lat­ ter are a little higher, but the character of the work turned out is superior, and the corporation seems bettor satisfied, and will rest under less odium than for­ merly. The efforts to Christianize the Chinamen at Beaver Falls was a complete failure. They clung with great tenacity to the religion of their native land.-- Pittsburgh Commercial. THE suits of Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines to obtain possession of her property in New Orleans fill almost the entire cal­ endar of the United States Circuit Court in that city. ^WOMAN'S WEAKNESS. Peddler Who Has H Down fte*.' • [From the Chicago Times.] He was a melancholy, low-spirited kind of man, with no style about hi™ but he bowed politely to the lady of the house who answered his ring at the door, and smiled almost sweetly at the urchin who was tugging at her dress. " Can I sell you a bottle of the Magic­ al Instantaneous Freckle Eliminator?" he asked, producing a bottle from the little black box with leather handles which he had with him. " Don't want any." "It's a splendid article, madam--war­ ranted or money cheerfully refunded. Better try it." "I don't want any, I say." " If you don't think it will work, I can give you the most convincing proofs that you are mistaken." " Go 'long. I haven't any use for it" "I see you haven't got 'em bad." "Got 'em bad! Sir, what do you mean?" " I was saying that you ain't bad yet But don't neglect 'em if you don't want to be as speckled as a duck egg." " Me ! me freckled I Get out with you, you impudent man." "If them ain't freckles on your nose I never saw any." "Take yourself off instantly. Go, I say, or 111 call the police." " Better try the Magical Instantaneous Eliminator before it's too late." Ugh! you nasty--" Here's some of my World-Renowned Simple Subjugator. It'll take the pim­ ples off that boy there so you wouldn't know him in two days." "Police! Police!" "It's too bad, though, that nothing will cure his cross-eyes or turnup nose." "Ugh! you brute. I could ." But she never said what she could, but slammed the door shut with a crash and threw herself on the bed and cried with vexation until dinner-time. "• How crusty and disagreeable some women are," muttered the gentle Elim­ inator man as he passed through the front gate. At the next house the patient sufferer said to the fairy who came to the door: Madam, I am selling the deservedly popular and ever successful Potent Hair Crimping Fluid." "No, I don't want any." " I am also selling the famous Magical Instantaneous Freckle Eliminator, but I saw at once by your very fine complex­ ion that you are not in need of any such article. Let me sell you a bottle of the Hair Crimping Fluid. ' " Well, I don't know." " I can't help smiling to think that the lady next door to you, to whom I tried to sell a bottle of the Eliminator, denied up and down that she's freckled." " Denied that she's freckled ?" "Indeed she did." "Why, she's the freckeldest object I ever saw, and she knows it." " I couldn't help thinking so myself." " She's a vain, stuck-up thing, any­ way." " I dare sny she is. I'm pretty sure I can tell when I meet a real lady. " "How much did you say this is?" "One dollar and a half a bottle, madam." " Well, I guess I'll try a bottle." " If I hadn't failed to catch the first woman on the Eliminator I wouldn't have caught the other on the Crimping Fluid, and, bless thair souls, they're both the same thing," muttered the meek and low-spirited peddler us he passed on. A Man Lives Eighteen Hours with a Broken Neck. A gentleman named Miller, residing at the corner of Park and John streets, Second ward, and aged about 60 years, was engaged in picking cherries at Mr. Pfohl's, near by, and while doing so a limb broke and he fell to the ground, a distance of only ten or twelve feet, strik­ ing on his shoulders and the back of his head. This occurred about 10 o'clock in the morning. Miller was taken to his residence, and Dr. Whedon was called. When the doctor reached the house, and made personal examination, lie found that Miller had suffered a dislocation of the neck at the base of the brain and at the upper part of the spine. He could hear aud understand, but could not speak. Dr. Whedon, on further exam­ ination, found that when the man's head and neck were pulled into the natural po­ sition he could not only understand and bear, but could talk as well. For about two hours the neck remained in its dis­ located condition, and most of the time persons were employed in holding the head and neck in position, his mental faculties being in their natural state. Doctors who visited the house during the afternoon declared that not in the his­ tory of the country has such a case ever happened before. A dressing consisting of bandages and weights was applied to the patient's head to keep the neck ex­ tended. The injured man died about 4 o'clock Sunday morning, and previous to his death he became paralyzed in his right side. He lived eighteen hours with a broken neck!--Syracuse {N. F.) Courier. pickle it in brine, tops and roots, ami consume the result in vast quantities; they dry the tops and roots and feed upon them, and, worst of all, they hang them on poles in the fields to freeze ana thaw all winter, and then consider tU '̂v shriveled remains worth eating. ALL SORTS. f .., _ ;f .,*4^ m GBKENcounty, N. Y., reports444 castiK J f of mumps. THEKE are four Jews in the Parliament VASSA* COLLEGE sends out: graduates this year. A FOND DU LAC Nimrod has twenty skunks this year. WHJTEIIAW REID, editor of the York Tribune, is a bachelor. BOSTON gave very generously to tfal St John sufferers, hergift-fnTnlaaiwMaw ̂ > t ing to $35,000. THE Cincinnati papers say there wijt, • M be more houses built in that eity this - § year than in any other since 1868. x ^ IT is estimated that 2,000,000 buffal. *<•* J hides are awaitinsr shipment from thia ^ ? m Ne#;, A Turkish tteneral's Amusement. A correspondent of the Manchester Examiner found Abdul Kerim, the Turkish Commander-in-Chief, sitting in front of his tent at Shumla, smoking a long amber-mouthed pipe and watching a wrestling match. On the green sward three couples were engaged, their heads bare, their bodies greased and, save a wrapping around the loins, .without clothing. While two of the wrestlers were making guarded approaches, anoth­ er couple were locked in an embrace that was as close as the oil on their skins would admit of; and two more, prone upon the ground, were still clasping each other like writhing serpents. Now and again an attendant sprung forward to throw a few drops of water on one of the couples, or with a dirty cloth to wipe. the perspiration from their faces; and when the round was over an officer pre­ sented to the competitors a few piasters in paper money with the complimenls of the Commander-in-Chief. The Raffish in Japan. The one vegetable which serves all purposes, and seems to be absolutely in­ dispensable to every Japanese, whofcher high or low, is the radish. They have developed it to gigantic proportions, the roots often three feet long and three inches in diameter. The color is always white. They eat it raw with salt; they L V IJ ard serve it as we do toxnips; they are awaiting shipment from thpi* trading posts west of Dallas, Texas. THE demand from foreign markets foi petroleum lias created unusual activity in both the production and export of oit • THE Colt Manufacturing Company, dt Hartford, have received an order for twelve Gatling guns from the British, Government SPORTSMEN may like to know that deer, are so numerous at the head of the AW- ' gator river, in North Carolina, that they destroy the crops. Two MTTLE boys quarreled over a game of marbles in Welden, N. C., and one drew a pistol and killed the other. The oldest was only 9. IT is calculated that about 30,000 men come into the city of London exem morning for business purposes, ana leave in the afternoon or evening. DR. S. WEIR MITCHEMJ says every moving area of rain is girdled by a neu­ ralgic belt 150 miles wide. "I felt it in my bones" is, therefore, simply nature's weather signal. A SCIENTIFIC journal tells us that if all the salt in the sea were taken from it and spread equally over the whole sur­ face of the dry land, it would make a covering 900 feet in depth. A MAN in Santa Clara county, Cal., two weeks ago sawed off a limb of a tree to secure a swarm of bees which had. settled upon it. The branch in falling - knocked him down and killed him. A MAN in Warsaw, Ark., has killed four men on as many different occasions. In each case he proved beyond question that he acted in self-defense, and was acquitted by a jury. He is not often as­ sailed now. GEORGE BEiiii, of Camden, N. J., picked up a roll of bills amounting to some $36, and, instead of advertising for the owner, spent the money. The ownfr prosecuted him, and he was sent to jail for nine mouths. IT has been estimated that $100,000,- 000 worth of property has been con­ sumed in this country by fireworks since 1866; and within the same time 320 persons have been killed and 90,000 wounded by fireworks. FUNERAIJS in Virginia City are gttnear* ally made ostentatious and very expefic •giver Filth** McGfath; a Roman Catlfe- lic priest, said in a sermon that more money was spent there in burying tie dead than for the curing of the sick. BABY is 7 years old, and, walking on the beach, says to his mother, "Mam­ ma, give me a knife; I want to kill the sea." "My child, you are stupid; re­ flect a little. How can the sea be killed?" " Well, then, the Dead sea; what did it die of?" Mrs. SALUE WARD HUNT, the once- fa­ mous belle of Louisville, has placed over the graves of two of her husbands a tombstone with this inscription, " Vene P. Armstrong and Robert P. Hunt, hon­ ored and loved upon earth for deeds that won a home in heaven." TEXAS has fifty wheat-producing coun­ ties, one-fifth of which, if fully cultivat­ ed, would produce 86,000,000 bushels erf grain. It has also (59,120,000 cotton yielding acres, which, if taxed to the ex­ tent of their productiveness, would yield 6,062,000 bales--more than the entire product of the world. A MAN arrived in Buffalo recently who had come a long distance to place his mother in an asylum for lunatics. He went to bed in a hotel saying he had been so nervous about his mother thai, he could not sleep for many nights, and in the morning was found "to have be­ come a maniac himself. THE British Government, in view of the supply of rubber falling short ia South America, is sending young trees to India. The native way of supplying the trade with rubber is wasteful, anl the demand is increasing at an enormous rate. It has been the practice to cut down trees 150 or 200 feet high to secure 100 weight of rubber, and the forests ot rubber trees in Brazil are being de» stroyed. OFFICERS and criminals nave many exciting encounters in Arizona, but few that are more thrilling than that between a Sheriff's party and four stage-robben near Eureka. There was a long chase on horseback, an exchange of about twenty revolver shots, and finally a hard fight with knives. One officer and two robbers were killed, and wounds were numerous. KISSING AWAY A THAR, » Kot what the chemists say they bs, Are pearls--they never grew; They come not from the hollow «M, They conic from heaven in dew I Down in the Indian sea it slips, Through green and briny whirls, Where great shells catch it in tljeir lip®, And kiss it into pearls! If dew can be so beauteous made, Oh, why not tears, icy girl? Why not your tears ? Be not |fluid . I do but kiss a pearl! --Jt. U. Stoddard. A CLOUD-BURST may be a serious thing in the Cheyenne region, where the streams run down from the mountains. Recently there was a sudden and un­ commonly heavy fall of rain there. Al­ most without any warning a wave seven feet high rolled down the Chugwater. A detachment of the Third Cavalry en­ camped near the bank was overwhelmed by the flood. The dry bed of the creek, on which no water had flowed for six years, suddenly became a river fifteem feet deep.