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* 'f* "V**"" ̂ - h***̂ .'tf * mss^mmmsA 3*«,¥S wg fflmwdcafa 1. VAN SLYKE. EM* rarf PaMisiier. McHENRY, ILLINOIS. JAMES WALKER, •who died in Union- town, Ohio, recently, was a miser, and had accumulated about. $20,000, which he had invested in United States bonds to escape taxation. In summer his , _ principal food was clover leaves and . bran, and in winter he spent most of his ,,, time in bed and lived on raw corn- meal. ' - •- IK the old times in New England the town paid the minister's salary. The minister had $400 a year and some per­ quisites, among them thirty cords of wood. He usually picked out the rich­ est girl in town and married her, and * had the homestead, and when his ^father-in-law died he usually left him « cider mill and a distillery. ST. AUGUSTINE, Florida, is to havte the largest hotel in the South, 600 by * 400 feet, and costing $4,000,000. It •will be built in strictly Moorish archi­ tecture, of coquina, ground and mixed with cement, and will be ready for next l}' »• winter's business. A garden and foun- »tains will occupy its interior court, and . ' -an orange grove is to be planted on one , • part of the roof. p , -- I , n (IF , THE bell that hangs in the steeple of ..the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, of Lebanon, Ohio, was made in Malaga, Spain, in 1832, and weighs 322 pounds. During the political troubles in Sp:mrfdoubtful if he ever excelled it in his later work. Longfellow had an extraor­ dinary preparation for his duties as professor, having passed three years in Europe before he took his place at Bowdoin, and two more in travel before he assumed his duties at Harvard. He was 22 years of age when he ac­ cepted the first of these positions, and- 28 when he entered upon the other. "in 1835-6-7 the Spanish Government suppressed all the convents and confis­ cated their property. About one hun­ dred convent bells were shipped to New York and sold at auction. This is one of that number. The auctioneer's bill and receipt are dated February 27, 1838- • ALEXANDER G. DRAKE, a. colored car­ penter of Louisville, is coming into prominence as a temperance revivalist. He is 59 years old, an ex-slave, and is said to be doing good. His plan of work is to secure signers to a pledge which binds them for three months, a year, or for life, as they way elect. The pledge is unique, and reads: "I do sincerely hope that if I drink beer or whisky until (date named here), without being considered sick, that bad luck may be mine the remainder of my life, so help me God." do I feel the shame of the wanton destruc­ tion of our singing birds to fowl the de­ mandsof a barbaric vanity." . IT is estimated-by insurance com­ panies that in the United States last year dwelling-houses were burned at the rate of one every hour, -with an average loss of $1,396. Barns and stables, fifty per week. Country stores, three per day, with a loss of $110,000 per week. Ten hotels burn weekly, with a loss per year of $4,000,000. Every other day a lumber-yard goes up in smoke, each representing $20,000. Forty-four cotton factories, the loss in each case being $28,000; forty-thrpe woolen mills at $25,000 each, and forty- two chemical works at $27,000 each, were destroyed by fire last year. Forty- two boot and shoe factories were con­ sumed, the loss being $17,000 each. Theaters were lapped up by the flames at the rate of five per month, average loss $19,000. Only about half as many court-houses were destroyed, the cost of each being about $20,000. MR. LONGFELLOW'S first salary M a professor at Bowdoin College was $800, and the corporation at first declined to dignify the position with any higher title than that of instructor. When he was called to Harvard University, it was at a salary of $1,500. He wrote his first poem at the age of 13, and there was not much in it to indicate precocity, or to afford promise of the future that was afterward realized: Bryant, it will be remembered, wrote "Tlianatopsis" when he was 18 years old, and it is IN the new House of Commons there are seventy-five members who own more than 3,000 acres of land each, with a rental value of more than $15.- 000 a year. Out of the above number there are two who own 100,090 acres, and three others more than 50,000 acres, and the possessions of seventeen of them exceed lO.OOO acres each. As re­ gards rentals, Sir John Bamsden is at the head with near a million c« dollars per annum, followed by Sir John St. Aubyn with near $500,000. Four other rentals exceed $150,000, The rentals of twenty-eight members range from $50,000 to $150,000. A LOCISVILLE newspaper complains of the street-car manners of the ladies of that town, and says that they keep cars waiting while they kiss and bid each other good-bve. This instance is related; "Two ladies on the sidewalk hailed a car, and the driver stopped, supposing they wanted to get aboard. But they had simply seen a female ac­ quaintance on the car, and, calling her out to the doorstep of" the car, the ladies kissed, passed the compliments of the day, gossiped awhile, and then the two ladies walked back to the side­ walk. the lady inside resumed her seat, and the astonished driver whipped up his mules, to the great relief of the im­ patient passengers." BISHOP SPALDING, of Peoria, coines next to Archbishop Ryan in point of eloquence, and has most of the pulpit characteristics of the Philadelphia prel­ ate. He is a great society man, too, resembling Mgr. Capel in social abilities. Many wealthy converts to the Catholic Church trace their first leaning toward Catholicism to their meeting with Bishop Spalding. He has a happy faculty of evangelizing while engaged in social conversation; of combining points on Catholic dogma with comments. on the weather; of letting the channel of political talk open into that of religion in such a delicate and insensible way that all the timtf he seems to- avoid discus­ sion of church matters. AN ornithologist who recently rode in a Madison avenue car, New York City, tells Science that "The car con­ tained thirteen women, of whom eleven wore birds, as follows: (1) heads and wings of tlir&e European starlings; (2) an entire bird (species unknown) of foreign origin; (3) seven warblers, representing four species; (4) a large tern; (5) the heads and wings of three shore-larks; (6) the wings of seven shore-larks and grass-finches; (7) one- hali of a gallinule; (8) a small tern; (9) a tu: -tie-dove; (10) a vireo and a yellow- breasted chat; (11) ostrich plumes." In a short time there will not be a plumage bird left alive in North Amer­ ica, or perhaps Europe; and their exter­ mination must be charged to woman's wicked vanity. DR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES takes a deep interest in the movement to pro­ tect birds from slaughter. "I n-m my­ self," he says, "more than tolerant of the somewhat intrusive intimacy of the English sparrow. No other birds out­ side of the barnyard let me come so near them--not even the pigeons. But still more am I indebted to the gulls and " ducks, who, during a large part of the year, are daily visitors to the estuary of th? Charles, on which I look from mv library windows. I wish they could be protected by law, and if law eannot or will not do it, that public opinion would come between tliem and their murderers. Not leas, certainly, ON the marriage of Princess Beatrice the women of the city of Bristol resolved to make a wedding present to Her Royal Highness, and it was decided that the article should be such as might represent the art life in the manufac­ tures of the city, and should consist of a marriage chest and a piece of em­ broidery. The gift is now ready for presentation. The panels of the chest represent the return of Queen Eliza­ beth from an entertainment in Bristol in 1574; a carved representation of Henry VII. presenting his sword to the Mayor of Bristol: the departure of Se­ bastian Cabot from Bristol on his voy­ age of discovery, and the initials of Beatrice and Battonbero-- The chest is three feet four inches long, two feet two inches broad, and three feet four inches high, and is the work of Mr. Trapnell, who designed and manufac­ tured the beautiful wedding casket pre­ sented to the Princess of Wales twenty- three years ago. HON. HANNIBAL HAMLIN is said by the Lewiston' Journal to be an in­ veterate and invincible player of "high- low-jack. " "Almost everv afternoon, in his long-tailed coat, with his necktie carelessly knotted, and his thick, wavy hair bristling from his head like the Circassian^ girl's, the esteemed and venerable statesman site down amid the luxurious velvets and bronzes, the rare paintings and engravings, the royal Worcester vases, and all the glitter and richness of the Tarratine Club, and lighting another cigar as soon as onQ burns low, pursues his favorite amuse­ ment till the shadows are thick. In his game Mr. Hamlin often unites the dar­ ing of youth with the cau+ion of old age. He begs less frequently than any other player in the club, and it is fun to see the promptness with which he saves his jacks. He apparently takes many risks, but seems to have an in­ tuition as to where the cards lie, and seldom loses. They don't get his lead away from him very often. He is pretty sure to count all there is in his hand." Love. Love is cheap, and I enjoy it. It is another name for godliness. It is the only modern swindle easily forgiven. It is the ingredient that greases the saw of life. - Some people are not constituted to love anything, and I reallv pitv them as much as I do a spoilt child. They .were made in vain. If constitutional, love would not be any more of a virtue than the itch; but that's just it--it requires more or less self-denial and some charity to succeed. There is the common-sense love; the kind that, when its lavished affections are not reciprocated, apparently, throws up the claim and makes love to the younger sister. "Love at first sight" is generally about as long-lived as a bottle of gin­ ger-pop with the cork out. It is all right enough for poets; but when you get down to common life I advise a sec­ ond look. There-is a species of love that never comes out of its hole, and is of no more use in adversity than a pump handle in the Sahara Desert. For relieving the pain of the unfortunate it is about as much account as a weak poultice. Transient love, when the object of adoration is away, is like a bottle of cologne water--pull the cork and in a few days the best part of it is gone. Such natures love for the time being just as pullet hens lay small eggs--be­ cause they can't help it. Young love lives at least twenty-four months each year: but as it is natural for young people, if the object is worthy of love, loving it a good deal won't hurt either of them, for in youth love is gen­ erally as harmless as spruce gum, and has no more care for the futjire than a last year's grasshojiper. And I never vet knew young lovers to caret for the substantial of life. • Bonbons and oranges are generally good enough for them. The pork and beans of everyday life knocks all the romance out of the affair.--Jud Lafagan, in the Chicago Ledger. . A GIRL in Illinois found life a burden because she had two warts on her hand, so she drowned herself. There was something appropriate in seeking a wart-ery grave. tIFE AT WEST POINT. How 41M Sons of Orrat M»-n Aro Tn>M- Tlw < ourU-Aliiii»!. ^ If a ptire democracy exists on earth it is at the Military Academy. When the son of a distinguished man comes there he is put tlirougli his paces just to get out of him any possible snobbishness he may have. It is told that when Gen. (then President) Grant went up to West Point to see his son, Fred Grant, the first thing that met his eye was poor Fred toiling along with a big bucket of water in each hand, it being his duty according to the cadet code, as the last comer has to bring all the water his room-mates might require. Gen. Grant's grim face relaxed into a broad smile as Fred hurried past him with a nod, afraid of his life to be caught lag- *ging a moment. Senator Logan's son, Manning Logan, got--and deserved-- some hard lines. He went to the acad­ emy about the time his fatlver was nom­ inated for Vice President, and exhib­ ited considerable elation and a high silk hat. He was promptly relieved of both. A squad of third-class men seized him one night, perched him upon the man­ telpiece, turned a coal-scuttle over his head, put a water bucket on that, sur­ mounted by a cavalry helmet, with tbe high hat crowning the edifice. Thus accoutred, he was made to sing "I'm getting a big 1K>V now" until he pleaded for mercy. This was not wholly ef­ fectual. though, and a day or two after­ ward a tall and ferocious-looking first- class man went up to him and told him that Mr. Augustin Daly. t*f Daly's Theater, had commissioned him--the first-class man--to find a young man of histrionic ability who was capable of taking the leading part in a play he was about to prodivc, called "The Good Samaritan." Seeing in Mr. Logan in: dications of a high order of talent, he would take him to the barracks and give him his first rehearsal. Ten min­ utes later little Logan, completely ter­ rorized, was sitting in the first-class man's room sewing the missing buttons on a dilapidated jacket, while its owner assured him that he was bound to make a great hit as the Good Samaritan. The courts-martial are very funny,and it is sometimes hard for the judges to keep their countenances in the faces of the culprits. Once there was a young­ ster who had been so perfectly outra­ geous that he knew he would be fired out at the approaching examination, so he determined to have one grand blow­ out before he left. On the grounds was an old disused shed of some kind, aud in it young hopeful piled all the . shav­ ings, rags, and everything else com­ bustible he could get, and one fine night he set a match to it and had a magnificent bonfire of his own. - Of course suspicion pointed to him, and a court of inquiry was organized to inves­ tigate the outrage. Gen. Thayer was superintendent and Col. Fry command­ ant of cadets. When the. prisoner was called up for examination before the court, composed of officers of high rank, imposing in the majesty of the law, he was asked to state what he knew alxmt the fire. "I--I don't know anything myself but what is hearsay testimony, and you won't admit that," he replied. "The court does not desire your views on hearsay testimony," severely re­ marked the prosecutor. "You are di­ rected to state what may have come to your knowledge regarding the affair." "Well, but," objected the culprit, "I don't know anything about it, and what I heard I won't believe." "The court, sir," thundered the officer, "has not inquired into your be­ lief. You will immediately state what you heard/' "But--but--you won't believe me, either." By that time the court was 'in a rage. "Goon, sir," roared several officers together. "Well, they do say," stammered the cadet diffidently, "that Gen. Thayer got the shavings and old Fry set her afire!"-- Washington letter i\i Chi­ cago Newa. Memory and Nutrition. The editor of Herald and Health, in discussing the subject of^Memory and Nutrition," gives an interesting reminis­ cence of Agassiz. He savs: Memory is also, to a large extent, de pendent upon a perfect circulation pf the blood in the brain. The following case illustrates the effects of impeded circu­ lation of the blood on the memory, and is also a very interesting account of the workings of the mind in sleep, as given by Mrs. Agassiz in the life of her hus band. "He (Agassiz) had been for two weeks striving to decipher the somewhat ob­ scure impression of a fossil fish on the- stone slab in which it was preserved. Weary and perplex* d, he put his work aside at last, and tried to dismiss it from his mind. Shortly after, lie one night awoke, persuaded that while asleep he had seen his fish with all the missing features perfectly restored. But when he tried to hold and make fast the image, it escaped him. Never­ theless, he went early to the Jardin des Plantes, thinking that cri lookin anew at the impression he should see something which would put him on the track of his vision. In vain; the blurred record was as blank as ever. The next night he saw the fish again, but with no satisfactory result. When he awoke it disappeared from his memory as before. Hoping that the same experi­ ence might be repeated on the third night, he placed a pencil and paper be­ side his bed before going to sleep. Ac­ cordingly, toward morning the fish reappeared in his dream, confusedly, at first, but, at last, with such distinctness that he had no longer any doubt as to its zoological character. Still half dreaming, in perfect darkness, he traced these characters on the sheet of paper at the bedside. In the morning he was surprised to see in his nocturnal sketch features which he thought it im­ possible the fossil itself should reveal. He hastened to the Jardin des Plantes, and, with his drawing as a guide, succeeded in chiseling away the surface of the stone under which portions of the fish proved to be hidden. When wholly exposed, it corresponded with his dream and his drawing, and he succeeded in classifying it with ease. He often spoke of this as a good illustration of the well- known fact that when the body is at rest the tired brain will do the work it re­ fuse*! before."--Exchange. Jere. Black's Wft. His wit was always ready. Once, when the youngest judge in the State, he went to hold court in a neighboring county, where the leader of the bar was an old man named Chambers, gray in the law and jealous of his professional dignity. In the trial of the very first cause the young Judge had occasion to differ sharply with the old lawyer on a question of practice. It hurtthe old man's feelings, and some of the other lawyers explained it so to the Judge during the noon receas that he undertook to aaiooth the ruffled feather. So when court met again he expressed from the bench his regret that what he had perhaps bluntly said had been taken hard by Mr. Chambers, and closed with the apt quotation from "Othello:" "Haply I am black, and have not those soft parts of conversation whioh chainberers have." ___ ,J| •• .. Most great men are lovers of boolta. Fenelon said: "If all the crowns of the kingdoms of Europe were laid at my feet in exchange for mv books, I would Spurn them all." Macaulav said of his books: "These are old friends that are never seen with new faces, who are the same in wealth and in povertv, in glory and obscurity. Plato is never sullen; Cervantes is never petulant. Demos­ thenes never comes unseasonably. Dante never stays too long. No differ­ ence of political opinion can ever alien­ ate Cicero." - "The late Mark Pattison, Rector of Lincoln," savs the New York Tribune, "had a human fondness *or his books. Nothing annoyed him w> much as to hear one of them fall; and dusting them, which he reduced to a science, seemed to give him real pleasure. In his illness the sight of his favorites de­ pressed him greatly. 'Ah,' he would say, 'I am to leave my books,' and sometimes, 'They have been more to me than my friends.' He would ask for them one aftrr another, till he was liter­ ally covered almost to his shoulders as he lay, and the floor around him was strewn with them. He used to say the sight of the l>ooks was necessary to him at his work; and once reading liow Schiller always kept "rotten apples' in his study because their scvivt was bene­ ficial to him, lie pointed to some shelves above his head where he kept his oldest aud most prized editions, and said. 'They are my rotten apples.' It should be the ambition of every young man and woman to 1 ave a good library. For youthful readers who are l>eginning the collection of books a few rules may not be amiss: 1. Set apart a regular weekly or monthly sum for books, and spend that aud that only. 2. Devote a portion of your money to books of reference. 3. Never purchase a worthless book, nor an infidel work, nor a poor edition. 4. Buy the best. Plutarch said: "We ought to regard books as we do sweet meats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly tp respect the wholesomest." 5. Where there is a choice, buy small books rather than large ones. "Books that yon can carry to the fire and hold readily in the hand are the most useful after all," was the conclusion of Samuel Johnson. 6. Do not buy too many books of one class. " 7. Do not buy sets of an author until you have a fair library and plenty of money. 8. Take one monthly magazine and one or two weekly religious papers. 9. Make a catalogue of your books. 10. Ift each book write your name, the date of the purchase, aud the price paid. 11. Have a blank-book in which to put all particulars in reference to loans. 12. "liead what, you buy, and buy only what you will read." » „ The Morality Market. liCt us no more contend nor blame Each other, blamed enough ols3whe*», bttt Btrive * Tn offices of love, how wo may !i|»htpt» Ear;]] other's burthen, in our share of woe. --Milton. We wonder how it really would work if every one were to make' a positive re­ solve that he would each and every dav of his life do one act of practical kind­ ness to some one. Wliyi there would be so much kind­ ness in the market that we should soon hear a howl of "overproduction!" and men would be scooting along the streets to find some one to be kind to. Smith would rush up to Brown and exclaim with great agitation: "My dear boy, can't I do you some kindness?" "No, my dear fellow, I am long on kindness myself--been hunting for the last two hours to find some one to serve." "Dear! dear! how very vexatious; don't know what I shall do. Can't we swan acts of benevolence ?" "Well, I really don't see how it would be practicable, because if we exchange there will be no benevolence." "That's true--but, upon my life. I don't see our way out of the difficulty; and Lliave solemnly pledged myself to one disinterested kindly deed per day. "• --Texan Sifting*. _ 3he Clasped. "I want to ask your advice about a novel I am writing." she confidentially remarked to a Woodward avenue book­ seller. "I shall be happy to give it." "The hero of my story is wounded by Indians and comes home with his arm in a sling." » "That's good." "My heroine meets him with great joy, and he clasps her in his arms." "Perfectly proper. I'd do it mvself." "Yes, but don't you see one <&£ his arms is in a sl'ng? How could he clasp?" "That's so. And yet he must come home wounded?" "He must." "And she must be clasped?" "She ought to be." "Yes, that's so, but you must look out for the critics. How would it do to have her clasp him?" "Wouldn't it look immodest?" "Not under the circumstances, and you can add a foot-note that the joy of see­ ing him carried her off her balance for a moment. Yes, let her clasp and take the consequences. If you get the right kind of covers on a book you needn't care much about what is inside." "Yerv well, iny heroine shall clasp; I thank you; good day."--Detroit Free Press. Dumas on an Interview "You are a quadroon, I believe, Mr. Dumas ?" began an enterprising inter­ viewer. "I am, sir," replied Mr. Dumas. "And your father?" "My father wa3 a mulatto." "And vour grandfather, what was he?" "A negro," growled the father of French historical fiction, beginning to wax restless under this straightforward catechism. • "And might I presume to inquirer what your great-grandfather was?" "An ape, sir," thundered the author of "Monte Cristo," springing to his feet; "my pedigree begins where yours ends."--New York Times. A CLERGYMAN meeting an inebriated neighbor, exclaimed, "Drank again, Wilkins!"--to which Wilkins, in a semi- confidential tone, responded, "Sho am I, paxaonJ" MOT LOUIS. Deputies Fire Into a Crowd of Strikers ... The Enraged Strikers Barely He- strained from Securing Bloody :. Yengeanceg 1 0m . k . Governor le Scenes of Excitement Oglesby Orders Out Eight Com- - s panies of Militia. ?i,,f Louis (Mo.) dispatch.] > The first blood to be spilled as a result of the railroad troubles in East St. Louis was shed there at 3 <?clock this afternoon, when a group of Sheriff Ropteqnet's depu­ ties, sworn( in and armed this morning to take the places of his regular men, who had been sent back to Belleville last night, fired into the crowd" of strikers and specta­ tors who had gathered near the Cahokia Creek bridge, and killed five persons, while two are mortally bounded and others badly hurt. The killed are: Pat Driscol, employe of the water-works; Oscar Washington, a painter; John Bohman, a water- works laborer, not a striker; C. E. Thompson; unknown man, shot at the bridge approach; Mrs. John Pfeiffer; Maj. Ryehhianu. The day opened with but little prospect of serious trouble, although some of the strikers intimated that the roads would find it less easy to run trains than they an­ ticipated, and early in the morning the yards presented an animated scene. Switch engines were running backward aud for­ ward making up trains; the platform men were busy loading and unloading freight, and trains were arriving and departing without any interference. This condition of affairs continued until noon, and it was thought that the day would pass without any demonstration by tho strikers. At that hour, however, 'the tronble which afterward grew to such alarming propor­ tions begun. A number of strikers, without apparently having formed any prei-oncerted plan, congregated at the relay depot and began a discussion of the general situation. As time passed their number was augmented until the original knot of men increased to fully two hundred. The discussion became animated and the crowd more demonstrative until 6oine one proposed that'they go to the Louisville and Nashville yards and drive out the men em­ ployed there. The cry of "On to the Nashville yards" was caught up, and the crowd advanced. As they proceeded their numbers again in­ creased, some joining the mob sitnply as spectators, while others were in full sym­ pathy with the movement, until from three to four hundred were advancing toward the yards. Arriving there they swarmed into the yards and persuaded the men at work to de- Bert their posts. The crowd remained in the yards lor some time, and, although con­ siderable excitement prevailed, no violence was resorted to. Just at this time, however, a Louisville A Nashville freight train was slowly pass­ ing, guarded by eight Deputy Sheriffs, armed with Winchester riiles. In the meantime crowds of men, women, and chil­ dren had congregated on Broadway, where tho Louisville and Naslivillo tracks cross the street, and also upon the Broadway bridge, which spans Cahokia Creek, and in the open space to the east. Just as the train reached the Broadway crossing the trouble began. The crowd on the bridge began to yell and jeer at tho officers, and it is asserted that stones were thrown, which struck two or three of them, while it is also said that a pistol was discharged. At once the deputies opened fire upon the crowd with their Winchesters, ana a scene of the wildest terror and excitement followed. Mrs. John Pfeiffer, a middle aged woman, who was returning home from a shopping expedition with her hus­ band, stepped on the bridge just as the first Bhot was tired aud almost immediately fell mortally wounded, a rifle ball passing cleau through her body. She died within an hour. In the crowd were quite a number of women and small boys who begau to scream, and a stampede iu all directions followed. Tho deputies emptied their Winchesters aud continued to fire their re­ volvers. Pat Driscoll, a Wabusli section hand, and John Bonner, a coal miner, neilher of them a striker, were the next to fall, aud died on the bridge. Maj. llych- maun, a rolling mill employe, iu no way connected with the strike, was shot in the head aud shoulder, and has since died, aud a young girl named Kleinmaitn was wounded. The greatest excitement immediately pre vailed, and pandemonium reigned. The crowd fled iu every direction, and the depu­ ties, realizing how fearful was the result of their fire, sought means of escape by rush­ ing for the bridge, with a view of lleeing to this city. At the approach, and just at the bridge tower on the east side, they were met by Mayor Joyce, City Clerk Canty, aud a third man. who sci/.ed the deputies' guus aud endeavored to turn them back. One of the deputies, iu his terror, fired upon the trio, killing a man named C. E. Thomp­ son. who stood between Joyce and Canty. Some shots were fired by the remaining deputies at the approaching strikers, and all started for the bridge. The scene on tho bridge was one of the wildest confusion. Coal teams aud other teams with wagons were galloping west­ ward, and their drivers shouting to all pe­ destrians and teamsters to run back. Women and men on foot were running toward the ••ity, and waving back all they met, while immediately behind came the deputies,pur­ sued by the vanguard of the crowd from East St. Louis. One of tho frightened guards threw his gun into the river, while another hid his weapon in a wagou that was in full retreat. On arriving in this city the deputies went at once to the Chestnut Street Police Sta­ tion, where, after stating the facts, they surrendered to the Sergeant in charge, and were taken to the Four Courts, where they were placed in custody. Their names are P. G. Hewlett, John Hogue, Sam Jones, John F. Williams, (J. Luster. Stewart Mar«< tin, George Marnell, and W. F. Laird. Some of the deputies who failed to es­ cape with those who fled to this city were chased by the crowd into the freight ware­ house and offices of the Louisville and Nashville. The warehouse was surrounded by an immense crowd, who hooted and yelled and urged the men to attack the stronghold and drive the deputies out. Men went among the crowds urging others to procure arms and- shoot all the deputies fthey could find. Some of the deputies, watching their opportunity, slipped out and worked their way among the freight-cars unobserved, A Louisvillo and Nashville freight-car backed down alongside the platform and took away tho others to a placu of safety. Two were sighted by the strikers who had procured arms aud were chased under the bridge. One of them was caught and beaten to death by the mob; another was reported to have been shot as he was escaping under the approach to the bridge. The other deputies escaped unharmed. A few of the more violent strikers, after arming themselves, announced their inten­ tion of attacking the deputies on guard at the Ohio & Mississippi yards, and advanc­ ed in that direction. When near the yards they were met by several deputies and fired upon. One of their number is said to have been killed. The Sheriff made haste to wire Gov. Oglesby the state of affairs, announcing that he was unable to preserve the peace, and invoking the aid of the State troops. The Governor immediately returned answer that he had ordered eight companies of faiiitia to Itaa scene of tip distorbaaoa. NEARLY 100 VICTIMS. Farther Particulars of the Ter- « yU>lo Cyclone in Centii&, : > Minnesota. ̂ A Wedding Party at Rice's Sta­ tion Broken Up by Whirlwind. Tea cf the Number Killed and NearJ All of the Remainder In* jared. fSt. Cloud (Mfnn.1 special.1! So far from being exaggerated, it is certain that the first reports of tlio horrible work of the cyclone ilid not reach the full measure of the calamity. It is now known that fifty-eight peo­ ple have been killed, viz., thirteen at St. Cloud, thirty-three at Saflk liapiils, and twolva on the road to Mice's. At least one hundred more are still on the list of injured, and some, it is cer­ tain, willonlv be removed from that list to be added to the roll of the dead. It is not St. Cloud which has suffered most terribly. Here the death of thirteen i e iple is bad enough ; but the tale that Hnuk Itapids hns to tell is mimeusur- ablymvldir. Perhaps that of Kice's is saddest of all. Here the outskirts of tho city only were struck. The \ ery core and heart of Suuk Kap- lds was torn out. All of that portion of the village of St. Cloud northwest of tho bridge presents a scene of al> IIKat total obliteration. Where yesterday were the scenes of active business, to-dav horror and total destruction reign supreme. The tine pas­ senger and freight depot of the Northern Pacific Railroad lies piled up, a liu(.e mass of giound> up lumber. The schoolhoiise was rent into the finest pieces imaginable by the destroyer, and, like all buildings in the line of the storm, is far beyond repair. Fortunately school had 1 een adjourned for vacation last Friday, and no one was in the building at the time. The Court House is a conglomeration of building material fully ten feet deep, which is being rap­ idly cli ared away by. the workmen. Nearly all the records are saved intact in the vaults, ex­ cept a few that were lying loose in the building nnd in use at the time the cyclone passed through. It was here that the County Auditor r.nd Register of Deeds were killed while work­ ing at their post of dutv. Judge of Probate Beaujiv received a wound upon his skull in the fall of this building, but he will probably live. Sauk Rapids in a sickening sight. The dwell­ ing houses are strewn in extreme confusion, and their owners are unable to distinguish the material that yesterday- made up their peaceful h. lues. The pen is powerless to paint a picture that would give the render a perfect idea of the con­ dition of affairs. Men are here who have lost every dollar's worth of proijerty that they owned, nnd. added to this affliction, many of them have to boar the load of grief caused by the calami­ tous death of dear friends or relatives. The rumor of tho destruction of a wedding party neur l'.ice Station, on the Northern Pacific Konil, provi s too true. The party was assembled at the residence of John Shulz, a farmer, to cele­ brate the wedding of his daughter Mamie, and the ceremony was performed about 1 o'clock by Raw C,st.ivus Smith. The afternoon was spent in social enjoyment, and at 4 o'clock the purtv, only a few guests having departed, gathered about the wedding feast. It was a happy party of nenilv forty people celebrating the bridal festivities of the favorite daughter of the house. The cyclone came, nnd in the space of five minutes tlie house was converted into kind­ ling-wood, and scattered all over the fann. The nuptial viands were distributed over several acres, anil of the happy party of a few minutes before ten were corpses aud many oth­ ers injured, several of whom will die. There was not a building left in which the few sur­ vivors could not caro for those not past help. Tho bridegroom was killed outright, but the bride was only injured. The neighbors who had escaped the fury of the cyclone came to the rescue, and the bodies of the dead were taken to the school house at ltice Station Was there ever a more miserable, irore appalling, picture of tho sudden approach of death in the midst of life and happiness? Farmers from the north­ west part of the county tell almost incredible stories of finding remnants of buildings on their property twenty miles distant from the city, and portions' of organs and pianos have been picked up fifteen miles from the city and brought in as curiosities. The prairie for miles northwest of the track of the cyclone is full of pieces of plank driven a foot or more into the ground, whijh gives a limited idea of the terrible force with which they must have been driven by the wind. The freakish disposition of the tornado is evidont in cases where small kitchens were taken from the body of the house and carried hundreds of feet without disturbing the main structure in the least. Pops were found with the scalps torn from their skulls as neatly as could have beeu done t>y the scalpel, and Binall houses are now standing with the chimneys torn off, while larger buildingB but a few rods away were BO badly rent and shattered tnat onlv the cellar remains to show where it stood. The sides of many of the buildings are pierced with heavy splinters that tore a hole through the thick wall only largo enough to protrude like hii|iep <gs. In. the walls of the other buildings holes are noticeable that seem to have beeu made bv cannon ball?. Panels have been torn from tho dixirs, mid, with this exception, the buildings seem to have be-in untouched. In other houses window-panes have been, blown out and the ^ash untouched. The walls of many of the buildings have a blackeifed ap­ pearance us though they had beeu tired and badly smoked. It is estimated that forty fam­ ilies are homeless and in destitute circum­ stances. and relief is badly needed. Th ) sigu "Sauk llapids," on the Manitoba Pepot, and a ensket full of books were found in ltice Station, fifteen miles distant. This shows the terrible jtower of the storm. A box -ear was picked up from the track and blown thrie blocks and dropped into a ravine. The storm extended from Jamestown, Dak., through Minnesota and into Wisconsin, though its most disastrous effects are to be found 111 the tbreo places first named. Yesterday moining nineteen bodies were taken from the ruins and placed in the Lit­ tle Giant Kugine House, where they were ar­ ranged in ghastly rows preparatory to being dressed for the grave. A corps of inon were busily engaged during the day washing the blood from the mutilated laces, and composing as well as possible the dis­ torted features. During the forenoon tho in­ terior of the engine-house presented an appear­ ance that would cause the stoutest man to shudder. Fifteen codins were ranged along the, sides of the room, some of thorn containing the" lifeless remains, the olhtrs waiting for their ghastly tenants. Hon. J. A. Detnetiles, ex-member of the Min­ nesota Legislature, was at his house near (ieorga Lake, not far from tho tiack of the st>rm. He told of the appearance of the cloud "as follows: "It must have formed rapidly and just over the lake, us it was there when I first noticed it. It was very black, and seemed to be constantly in motion. At first I thought it was the smoke from some large tire. It was moving rapidly across the lake when I first saw it. It was flat and oval in shape, with a sort of spiral at each of the extremities-- one extending upward and tho other down­ ward. It was peculiar in appearance, and I watched it closely when it had pussed across the lake, where it seemed to stop. Its movement resembled that of a fan opening and closing, and it remained stationary for somo sec­ onds. Almost instantly it changed. Instead at lying flat it seemed to turn 011 end, and the spirals that had run up from either end formed u part of a big double, spiral. It had a move­ ment that was peculiar, as if there were a com­ motion within it. 1^ rapid, and as soou as tho I '< began mov­ ing ut a tei ' that was some­ what zigza 11 to the ground, and I saw 1 ••'i ruin. Its course after it crov w.e nver was rather sinuous, though hardly as much so as before. It swept across the country, and in five minutes from the time it reached Sauk Rapids the work of deva^ taticu was done." Tlie Storm in Iowa. [Omaha special.] Dispatches from towns in Western Iowa state that the reccnt cyclone was of terrific force, go­ ing at the rate of nearly ninety miles an hour. About fifty dwellings were destroyed between Griswold and Audubon. Nine persons were seriously wounded, one fatally wounded, aud one killed. Several school children were seriously huri, at the school-house at An- dubon. The loss of property between Gris­ wold and Audubon is estimated at S175.00U. Fcnces, barns, dwellings, and everything were laid low in the path of the cyclone. The small loss of life is accounted for by the fact that the cyclone occurre 1 in the daytime, and nearly everyone saw the cloud approaching, and ran to their cyclone cellars, which nearly every fann in that part of Iowa is provided with. Later reports show that the storm ranged from Taylor County north to Pocahontas Countv. Four persons are reported killed, and about twenty-five seriously injured. From fifty to seventy-five dwellings are demolished, and large dairaje done to barns, stock, aud trees. At Wheeler Grove the Mormon Chi:rch and several other buildings were wrecked. In tb% vicinity of Kedford a number of buildings were demolished, one woman was killed, and several, persons injured.. A boy and a girl were taken up oy tho wind and carried a distance of several hundred yards. Botn wero seriously injured. A black, funnel-shaped cloud swooped down upon the vill i;.;e of Knox. The postoflice, and five other buildings which happened to be in the path of the monster, were swept away like chaff. Had it not been for the caves prepared for just such occasions, the loss of life would have been heavy. Other Blown. A cyclone in the region of Aurora, Texas, blew down every house in its nath and injured a dozen or more p joule, two of them fatally. " A tornado wrecked several farm bouses near Wet-i.ore, Kansas. The inmates escaped by fleeing to the cellar. At Schubert, Neb., a hurricane killed one bof and injured two women, one man and a boy. A cyclone in tho neighbordood of Kingnnore, Nodawav County, Mo., blew down a number of bowaes, killed |yur persons and injury^ m 1 ILLINOIS STATE NEW8L •--The street paving now mappedottt cost Decatur over $75,000. --Charles Thomas, of Jfattoca, i«« inher­ ited a dime museum at St. Lonis. --William Close, of llillerabnrg, is 100 ear» old. He was born March 13,1786. ^--3tev» w'. P. Everett, of Quincy, ' nmed pastoral charge ef the ttyptiftt urch in Upper Alton. Telephones have been removed from Pontiac tecause the nnmber of subscriber* was so small as to make the business un­ profitable.;: --A pi» b6m at Athens bas eight wen developed.legs and feet, three ears, and two bodies joined at the floating ribs, but ouly one bead. --The old conrthonse in the pnblic square at Mount Pulaski, where Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A, Douglas used to efcpound '.he law, is nndergoing repairs. --Grant Buffum," son of John Buffnm, Df Rock Island County, was accidental!)' ?hot and killed by Hariy JBrockman, his friend, while the twi Ifere tooKog *itfc a revolver. .V. V --Livingston County at the late election voted down the proposition to build a $10.- 000 monument at Pontiac in honor of the soldiers from that comity who lost their iives in the rebellion. --The entire family of Mrs. Wise, a, widow residing on Sand Prairie, near Ga­ lena, were chloroformed while asleep by burglars, who robbed the bouse of a gold watch, a revolver and about $200 in money. --A resident of-Sandoval follow^ the call­ ings of a doctor, a druggist, an editor, and ji policomaft. He tried to pet appointed postmaster and failed. He is now seeking to be nominated for Highway Commis­ sioner. --The colored men at work at $1.25 pe* dny for the Water-Works Company, at Caiio, laying water-niains, struck for $1.50 per day. A force of white men was put on at $1.50, bnt the colored men were refused at these figures- --Previous to a recent storm an inmate of the Putnam County Asylum was set to digging graves so that**'they might be ready in case any one should die during the rainy weather. The next day the man died and was buried in a grave dug by his own hands. --There is great rejoicing among tobacco- raisers in Jo Daviess County and Southern Wisconsin over the recent favorable pros­ pects for an early movement of the leaf in sheds. Until recently there has been abso­ lutely no demand for leaf tobacco raised in that section. --The Trustees of the University of Illi­ nois haye arranged with their Regent, Dr. S. H. Peafcody, to continue in their service. He had received an earnest call to become the President of tlie Hose Polytechnic Insti­ tute at Terre Haute. Ind., which this action will cause him to decline. --A party of hunters from Decatnr have astonished the residents of Meredosia bj invading the swamps of that locality (tear­ ing a huge mirror to l>e used in shooting ducks. A hunter conceals himself behind the mirror and the ducks pay no attention to him until they are fired npon. --Jasper N. Tlionias, who claims his home is in Hamilton County, walked into a Springfield police station aud gave himself up, stating that he was charged with killicg an unknown man at McLeansboro in August, 1883, aud that ho wanted to be tried tyr the offense and get it off his mind. --Mr. A. E. Whitney, of Franklin Grove, will not allow birds or snakes to be killed on his large farm. In consequence, thou­ sands of blackbirds, garter snakes, and other enemies of insects and small vermin have made their headquarters there, and give hun material aid in preserving his crops. --Judge Hughes, in his charge to the Grand Jury iu the Coles County Circuit Court, directed their attention to several Mat- toon merchants who, during the dull times following the holidays, disposed of some of their surplus stock by raffles, and reminded the jury that in doing so the merchants had plainly violated the law and shonld be in- licted. --Large numbers of farm hands have come into the neighborhood of Monnt Pulaski from Southern Illinois and Indi­ ana. They are called "southdowns" by the natives and are looked upon as disciples of cheap labor, they having been used to work­ ing elsewhere for from $10 to $14 a month. They have l>eeu warned that it will be per­ ilous for them to work for lest than *35 • month hereafter. --An old frame building in Danville which was built as a store-house by Gur- dpu S. Hubbard in 1827, and which was the first structure erected by a white man ia •Vermillion Count}-, is about to be tore down. For some years it was the head­ quarters for the Indian fur trade for many miles around. William Bandy, still living in Danville, was one of Colonel Hubbard's clerks. --Alderman Riley.of Joliet, who has been out of the saloon business about a year, aud who voted always in the Council for low license, surprised the people and amazed his party friends by announcing his espousal of prohibition in one of the even­ ing prints. He has always been a drinking man until quite recently, and has changed from a tadiealVbisky man to a radical pro­ hibitionist. --August 29, 1842, William and Lambert Garvin caught a turtle near Todd's Point, Moultrie County, and cut their initials, "W. G." and "L. G." on its back. Thirty years later, iu 1872, T. J. Yorkley captured the same tuitle, and ndded his initials to the list. Becently it turned up again, alive and well, along the banks of the Okaw. 'Grover Cleveland" was cut iu its back, aud the aged turtle cast again into the water. --The directors and executive committee of the Piasa Bluff Association, the western Chautauqua, met at Alton on Thursday, the 15th insr., to make arrangements for the assembly and camp-meeting of the coming summer. Rev. J. H. Vincent, D. D., ef Plainfield, N. J., the Sunday-school man, will head the list of speakers for the assem­ bly, and Rev.Thowas Harrison, tho evangel­ ist, will have charge of the camp-meeting. The assembly grouuds are within thirty- seven miles of St. Louis, on the Mississippi River, near the mouth of the Illinois Ri*ar. and on the Wabash, St. LOOM aud Pacific Railroad, and are easy of access by river y. •'!,; I C;: •'iS m1