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I. VAN SLYKE. Editor and ftiMMw. McHENBT, ILLINOIS. T- . » : • fc#": BfiT:-"-. :sr' Sj. > m* if-tf VEEKLT IEITS REVIEW. _ THE EAST. A- FBTOHTFUL collision occurred In THE Fourth avenue tunnel, New York. A stand­ ing train was run into, two cars tele­ scoped, and one man instantly killed. An­ other passenger has since died of wounds, and eighteen others were seriously injured. .The large Jeans mill of J. L. Edward A Son, at Chester, Pa, was destroyed by lire, ' ?80,000; insurance, 960,000. BY an explosion of gas in a mine at Plymouth, Pa., two men were instantly killed and a third so badly burned that he will probably die- At Pittsburgh a gallery of the Exposition building gave way, in­ juring several people, two very severely, and about the same time a shed just outside the building, on which a large number of people was collected to view the fireworks, oollapsed ar.d injured several persons While the guns of Fort William, off Govern­ or's island, New York harbor, were saluting the French Admiral the premature dis­ charge of a cannon killed one man instantly, and fearfully maimed and lacerated a num­ ber of others The Franklin sugar refinery at Philadelphia was partially destroyed by fire, causing a loss estimated at fl.OUO.OOQ, throwing 1.000 men out of employment THE Chief of Police at Somerville, Mass., threatened the boy employes of the glass-works, who were on a strike for higher wages, that he would compel them to go to school, and thev resumed work in prefer­ ence The factory of Maltby, Stevens & Curtiss, manufacturers of plated and cocoa- ant wares at Birmingham, Conn., was burned. Loss. 150,000... .The wholesale dry- goods house of Wellington Brothers ACo., of Boston, which has been rated at $300,000, made an assignment to three prominent Btftmhant", causing great surprise. FIVE desperate men who recently sobbed the express office at Greenville, Pa., were jailed at Mercer, where thev made their escape by gagging and tohwflng everybody In authority, locking : other prisoners in their cells. THE WEST. 8 GEORGE S. ROUSSEAU, formerly a lieutenant in the United States army, shot irfmnoif through the head at Loredo, where be was employed as a quarantine guard. He was a son of 6en. Lovell H. Rousseau, and •was three years ago dismissed the service for Mllintr Dr/Rivers at Brackett, Texas. A MAN named Porter White shot his at Sedalia, Mo., and then shot himself. Cause, dbmestic trouble White's wife left him a short time ago because he abused her. He shot her through the heart, and she died Instantly. He then shot himself in the right temple, "and lived about two hours Flames swept away $50,000 worth of property at Sosonvilie/CoL THE Spring Meadow distillery, located nme miles north of Milwaukee, owned by William Bergenthal & Co., was damaged by fire to the amount of $50,000. The bonded warehouses and two immense copper worms were saved. * CHRIS DAVIS, a wife-beater, fired the !•» at Detroit, Minn., and perished in the flame* Thomas Fortune, an engineer on the Kansas Central road, while on a curve in tbe woods at low speedy discovered a todd- dbng child on the track. After reversing the •engine and opening the sand-box he leaped out upon the pilot and grabbed the little fellow by the clothes. t THE prizes in the rifle-shooting con- teat between the teams of the Military De­ partments of the Platte, Missouri, Dakota and Texas were awarded by Gen. Sheridan at Fort Leavenworth. Lieut Partello, who has the best record in the world atlong- shooting. . received the first gold medal, and medals were also presented to eleven other competitors. Excellent shoot­ ing has been done by the different teaiM, and marked improvement is visible Five persons entered an old boat to cross the IfQaxni river at South Lebanon, Ohio. Dur­ ing a playful struggle for the possession of the oars the boat capsized and four of the . party were drowned. Their names were Newton and Ella Wallace 'arid Abraham and Belle Lucas.... ; A peries of earthquake shocks, slight in force but distinctly perceptible, was experi- MB. JOHN •€. NEW, acting as Secre­ tary of the Treasury in plaoe of Mr. Folger, made a call for #25 000,000 of extended 5-per­ cent bonds, the ca|l to mature Dec. 2a A CABINET officer writes that Presi­ dent Arthur has been compelled to abandon his Intention to visit Chicago and Milwaukee t-hta fall. THE Secretary of the Navy has re­ ceived the following cable message from Minister Hunt, St Petersburg: "Gilder has arrived here, accompanied by Henry Wilson, of the Jeannette. Both are welL " POLITICAL. SECRETARY FOLGER has appointed a committee to examine and report upon a reorganization of the employee of the cus­ tom aouse at New York. „ . IN the Republican Convention for the Seventh district of South Carolina, held at Charleston, after a bitter struggle which lasted one week, E. W. Mackey, white, was nominated for Congress on the 251st ballot A stormy scene ensued, Jttackey's colored competitors, Lee and Smalls, charging Mack- ev with having secured the nomination by bribery A State Convention of the Anti-Monopolists of Nebraska was held at Hastings, 400 delegates attending. E. P. Ingeraoll, President of the State Farmers' Alliance, was placed in nomination for Governor. A stroncr anti- moTsopoly platform was adopted, denounc­ ing railroad encroachments, asking for a re­ duction of the tariff, and for the adoption of postal savings bank, telegraph and telephone systems. GENERAL. THE business failures of the week ending Sept 33 aggregated 141, aa increase of two over the previous week, and forty- five more than in the corresponding period in 1881. THE United States signal station in the North Atlantic in charge of Lieut Gree­ ley is inaccessible by reason of a large ice barrier which extends from Cape Inglefield to Ross bay. The expedition which sailed July S from St Johns, N. F., with additional supplies for Lieut Greeley's station was un­ able to reach its destination, and as ice had formed four inches thick on the 5th the expedition returned to St Johns to avoid being ice-blocked for the winter. Lieut Greeley and his men, however, are supplied with stores of all kinds sufficient to last two years, and no anxiety is felt con­ cerning: them Capt Rogers, of the steam­ er Leparto, which arrived at New York from Hull, England, reports being in collision in a fog. Sept 21, with the steamer Edam, which foundered. All the Edam's passengers and crew, save the third and assistant engineers, were saved. A BLOOMINGTON (HI.) paper an­ nounces the approaching nuptials of Senator David Davis, in November, to a Miss Annie Green, daughter of a wealthy and promi­ nent, citizen of Fayetteville, N. C., and who is the Democratic candidate for Congress from that district His intended bride is described as a beautiful and accomplished voung lady about 25 years of age French intluence is actively opposing % reciprocity treaty between Mexico and the United States. • MEXICO has just made provision for the succession in the event of the death or removal of the Presidentof the republic. By a constitutional amendment just adopted the succession falls upon the Senator who presicV-d over the Senate during the month prece«iing the vacancy, and should the Sen­ ate not be in session the President of the Permanent Committee, alternately a Sen­ ator and a Deputy, succeeds to the Presi­ dency, instead of the Chief Justice, as here­ tofore. ' FOREIGN. THE President of the last Servian Skuptschina has been arrested for (complic­ ity in the forgeries of requisitions during the war Patrick Walsh was executed at Gahvay, Ireland, for murder. He protested on the gallows that he was the victim of per­ jury Snow-storms and avalanches have ruined the crops in sections of Switzerland. The Exhibition Building at Sydney, in New^^uthiWrJe^ was ̂ totally destroyed by THE two heroes of the Egyptian cam­ paign, Gen. Wolseley and Admiral Seymour, are to be raised to the Peerage in recogni­ tion by the British Government of their dis­ tinguished services The shocking destruc­ tion of a school-house, together with its inmates, including both grown persons and children, is reported from the town of Grodno, the capital of one of the govern­ mental departments of Russia. 1 , . A hardware ^nced at St. Louis and a number of localities j dealer used the cellar of the house for to Illinois on the 27th of September. Beyond j 'Coring powder.^ in which he secretly con- the usual sensations incident to the oeciila- j tlon of the earth's surface no harm was I done Mr. Dyniewicz, the editor of a' j Polish newspaper in Chicago, shot and in- • atantly killed a tramp who invaded his premises. . • THE SOUTH. ' The Cleveland family of six persons, • residing at Nashville, Tenn., were poisoned /• ; *" by an insane daughter putting strychnine in the coffee. Mr. Cleveland died from the effects, and another daughter lies in a dan- ferous condition At Hot Springs, Ark., * t Charles Matthews, editor of the J/ontH, was (i ehot four times and killed in an affrav with " V CoL 8. W. Fordyce, Vice PreslueaHfof the St. C Louis and Texas Narrow Gauge roilxftad, and f .... C©L Rugpr, one of the proprietors of the Arl- " ' ***.«rton Hotel It is not known whether 1 ' #Ordyce or Rugg fired the fatal shot The . j,., trouble grew out of a bitter newspaper con­ troversy over local affairs At Searcy. Ark., •' an editor got into a personal difficulty . . ... "With the Methodist Presiding Eider of the district over the prohibition question, - and the Gospel man proved to be the hardest hitter, as he knocked down the journalist, and had to be pulled off by bystanders.... Jack Chapman, colored, was hanged at Belle- • Rosier Parish, La., for the murder of o John Wilson, colored, on Oct 2, lbSl... .The United States Court at Fort Smith, Ark., in-- •BteasedOklahoma Payne and his followers. . .. i ,A FIRE in the business quarter of I!. ^Ftort Smith, Ark., burned property of the ••timated value of |75,UuO. V ,... • I* a bank at Baltimore bonds to the I ^§lue of 112 000 were "sneaked" from a clerk t ^ Who was cutting off coupons, and the rob- . 1 Itery was «o cleverly contrived that the loss ;v -- l«oniM was not discovered until after J-'-- k®4* lapsed, during which the thieves had ample opportunity to get Oevond pursuit....Three strange "men en­ teral the jewelry store of Cook.* Sons, Lou, •8Wlle, K.V-, looked over some goodp on the ptvteune of making a purchase, and, without • v so, lefi. The proprietors soon discov­ ered t>i:jt the shop had neen robbed of stock •• valued at 15,OOU Or live convicts who at­ tempted to escape from the Huntsville - XTexas) I'£nit ni»iary by crawling through a ' * 'he gtrafds killed one, wounded an- •j. * • <pwier at d captured two. A HE: ' iious gathering at Ham^tcn Cro^s-Roads, in Virginia, was the scene of a , double tragedy. The Baptist Association was holdin? its annual meeting, attended by • Very large crowd of men, women and chil- dren^and amonar a number of wild and reck­ less young fellows wh.i had gone to the meeting two became involved in a quarrel .• and rj dujl with pistols in the mid«t of the throng was t he result The worshipers were seized with a panic and rushed for a place of ' several women and children being : 5®rown down and trampled, on in the eou- < fusion, while the duelists kept on blazinjr » " " •'•ray at each other until both had received mortal wounds, one through the neck and the other in the back. ' AT Palmyra, N. Y., fifteen years ago, % serious quarrel occurred between George • 'Mollenbeck and William Stratton. They rf,-;' • " Jjet again the other day at Canijo pass. f c > ' , , s l e x a s , a n d f o u g h t a d u e l i n a d a r k e n e d jfe):'S'. . ^ loom, Stratton being killed. ^ ;f, At Heathsville, Va., a mill/jam was f ' 11-1, aarried away by a flood, and the water swept Sk '.; 1 } 4own upon the house of a Mr. Bush drown- wife and five children. £ WASHINGTON. " fl 5 A- WASHINGTON telegram says:• I ;* , Ipey's friends say that Ben Butler has been (; '^retained to defend the Dorseys in the next ' j; ftar-route trial. Senator Jones^f Nevada, % „ "ixpresses the opinion that at the next trial fgll • , wie chief conspirators would be convicted. We said the administration is thoroughly in pmitooonvict 'V t ' PARTY CONVENTIONS. Synopsis of the Doings of • ̂ Few of Them. ? i Mantim «f iMitei, Etc. ' H*W TOIUT DEMOCBAM Tbe Democrats of New York fetid their State Convention at Syraoose. Rufus W. Peckham was made temporary President A Committee on Credentials was made up by the selection of a member from each Con­ gressional district Lester B. Faulkner was chosen aacjpermanent Chairman. A Committee on Contested Seats listened to arguments by representatives of the various Democratic organizations of New York city, and reported in favor of admitting thirty-eight members of the County Democracv, twenty-four from Tammany and ten from Irving Hall The report was adopted unanimously ainid vociferous applause. A resolution from the State Committee was adopted, recom­ mending that in the future ail primary elec­ tions shall be held by election districts for the election of delegates to the convention in the city of New York, under thrf auspices and direction of the State Committee, until etich time as the various factions in that city may agree as to the proper mode of electing delegates. Seven names were men­ tioned for Governor, the first ballot result­ ing in 98 votes for Gen. Slocum, 97 for Hon. R. P. Flower, and 66 for GroVer Cleveland. The second ballot gave Flower and Slosum 123 each, and Cleveland 71. The Tammany delegates then changed to Cleveland, who irp« nominated on the fourth ballot, after a pceae of the greatest disorder. David B. Hill, Mayor of Elmira, was placed on the ticket for Lieutenant Governor, William C. Rugei for Judge of the Court of Appeals, and Gen. Henry W. Slocum for Congressman-aC-Ji'̂ rge. A platform was adopted, which arraigns tbe Republican party for its gift of lands to rail­ road jobbers; arraigns the Republican ma­ jority in Congress for failing to reduce taxa-* lion, and favors such tariff as shall best serve the interests of all classes. It condemns the River and Harbor bill, and declares that in nominating the Secre­ tary of the Treasury for Governor "we see the alarming power of the Government to control State elections;" holds the Repub­ lican administration responsible for unre­ dressed wrongs upon our foreign-born citi- sens; charges the Republican party in the State with having refused to renominate its Governor because he dared to use the veto power against the demands of the danger­ ous moneyed element of the State; favorc the local pelf-government of cities; favors the passage of general laws providing for security against frauds at elections; declares that all monopolies and corporations should be held sub­ ject to the laws of the States, and that corporate property should pay a fair pro­ portion of public burdens. It supports the constitutional amendments in favor of free canals, reaffirms the policy of the Democracy that labor shall be hela free, ancT condemns convict labor; declares that labor shall have the same right as capital to com­ bine for its own protection, and declares that the Government, State and national should be restored to the condition it was in during the primitive days of the republic. COLORADO DEMOCBAT8. The Colorado Democratic Convention as­ sembled at Denver and named the following ticket: Governor, James B. Grant; Lieu­ tenant Governor, John R Powers; Judge of the Supreme Court, Vincent D. Markham; Secretary of State, F; J. Johnson; State Treasurer, Dennis Sullivan; Coq^ressman- Ht-Large, S. J. Wallace. The resolutions declare that reform'in the civil service is ab­ solutely necessary, and personal merit ahould alone be the criterion by which the bestowal and tenure of office are determined 'The spoils system and the assessment of public servants for political purposes is de­ nounced. The remnant of the public do­ main ghall be reserved elelusively for act- settlers as homesteads; the sinking of artesian wells and the construction of reser­ voirs in arid portions of the public do­ main under appropriations by Congress is asked; the remouetization. of silver Is commended; condemns such un­ necessary aha oppressive taxation a* results in an annual surplus' of over #150,000,(XX); the present tariff is une­ qual aud oppressive, favoring certain inter­ ests and localities; the main purpose of a tariff should be for revenue and not for the special protection of any class of per­ sons, industries or manufacturers; con­ demns as cowardly and evasive the recent action of Congress in attempting to delegate the performance of a duty respecting the tariff to a packed and itinerant commission. ducted a contraband traffic. While lie was moving about incautiously in this place with a liprht the powder wes ignited and the whole building was blown into the air. The num­ ber of persons killed was not at last accounts accurately known, but many disiigui^d corpses and mangled limbs ana fragments of bodies have been taken from the ruins. TOWARD the end of the year there Tjjill be held in Dublin a great Irish National Convention to review the position and con­ dition of the country. Delegates to the con­ vention will be elected by the people.... Premier Gladstone has informed a corre­ spondent that he is powerless to interfere with the proselyting work of the Mormons, as their converts go with them without com­ pulsion In the barony of Erris, Ireland, fifty families have recent-iy been evicted by tbe military and police, and the peasantry have been ordered not to shelter the unfortunates... .Six more men, mostly released "suspects," have been arrested 'in connection with the murder of the Heddys brothers at Lough Mask A Chinese imperial decree orders that the father of the King of Corea be kept for life under guard at Pas Tin? Fu Fried- rich Woehler, the eminent German chemist and Director of the chemical institute at Gottingen, is dead. THE soldiers of the Salvation Army from London who have invaded Calcutta met with hard usage at the outset Their campaign ended almost before it began, as' the natives became very much excited over the efforts to bring about their conversion to the Christian religion, and to avert a riot the authorities found it necessary to arrest three of the Salvation contingent The small­ pox is increasing- at Ca[ie Town, South Africa, to a fearful extent Already there have been 2,000 cases, and the streets are.de­ serted and business in at a standstill Ger­ many, it is asserted, will be favorable to Great Britain in the settlement of the Egyp­ tian question. DECREES have been decided upon by the Egyptian Cabinet providing for the trial and punishment of persons engaged in rebel­ lion against the authority of the Khedive. A large reduction of the case? to be considered will I>e made by the granttog of amnesty to all officers of and below the rank of Captain who served with A ralii Pasha, excepting those participating in the riots or who joined the army subsequent to the t>eginning of the campaign. A special commission is to be created for the trial of both civilians and military, and two courts lmrtial will be convened as ^auxiliary tribunals at Cairo and Alexandria respectively An incipient revolution was nipped in the bud by the execution o: two Nicara^uans, one of whom captured an American schoon­ er, seized the city of Grevtown, and declared himself "Chief of the 'Provisional Govern­ ment of the Atlantic Count." The Ameri­ can filly Arunza, owned by Lorillard, won the Great K as tern Handicap at Newmarket, beatinf: Hornpipe six lengths. The betting before the start was twenty to one against Aranza v THE ASIA DISASTER. HAXDSOMI; and costly buttons are a great feature of v. alking dresses and traveling costumes, and, as they can be tvanslerred from one dress to another, they are: .really not extravagant pur­ chases in .the end. Tortoise-shell but­ tons, with crests or monograms in gold, enameled buttons in Mauresque or r iorentine styles, are effective, and look well on bottle-green, Havane, or prune- eGiored dresses. Wooden and horn buttons-are also worn, and small round French gold buttons--"grelots"--with rough surfaces, are plentifully used on bodices, cuffs and pockets. Jet mosaic buttons, with monograms inlaid in jet on colored grounds and a jet border, are thoroughly elegant. lo«t our oara when •TplAoe--a hrttftable last I saw of the we left the bodies of jonald and three other which we first landed, icaptar) night we alept on VaatMfMhig we again got into dur boat and rowed until, in despair, we gmre up. We went ashore again, laid down •ad alept Then tbe Indian came alongf and we engaged him to talng us here. ' we eapebced) to . plaoe. TOw* wa» Dodiea. I know i John (Savage, John men on the wand ABDHTONAL NEWS. MM Morn don's Story. In the Coroner's investigation at Parry Sound, Miss Christy Ann Morrison, the only lady survivor of the wreck of the steaqier Asia, testified as follows: I got up on Thursday morning feeling very seasick. It was pretty rough all the morn­ ing. I think that about 11 o'clock the first intimation I had of danger was from the noise made by the horses. Tasked the mate if there was any danger. He said they had already thrown off the horses, and would throw off what freight they could. I then went back to my berth, and the boat rolled so much to one side that I got a life-pre­ server and put it on. Half an hour, possibly, had elapsed between the first idea I had or danger and my putting on the life-preserver. After putting ou the life-preserver I sat by the cabin-door until the water came into the c-abin. Then by catching hold of the cabin- door and railing I managed to get on the upper deck of all The t>o;it then s-emed to be settling down, one side being much the undermost. The life-boat happened to be close to where I got to. I lowered myself into the water, and the Captain caught me and held me from sinking till the mate came and helped me into the boat At that time there were twelve in the boat I did not know any in the boat except the first mate and a Miss Mc-Nab, my room-mate. A number of people from the other boats came into our boat. The reason why they came into our boat was that they upset The reason why they upset' was the rouj#i- ,uess of the sea. They did not seem over­ crowded One reason that they upset was that they had not a sufficient number of oars. One of the other boats had one, an­ other had not any, ours had two. The rea­ son I know they had so few oars was that they came alongside of our boat and asked the Captain if we had any to spare. I did not see any person left on board tbe steamer after we left the ship's side. The boats ran along together for a little, then the other two up­ set They upset three times. Every time they righted a few were missing. The third time I did not see any one clinging to them at all 1 only saw two boats beside our own. Six of the passengers of the two boats came into ours. About twenty minutes afterward our boat capsized. Sue righted I held ou to the ro/es, or life-lines going round the boat, so that when she righted I was in again. After we righted I heard some one say three were gone. We then sailed or drifted before the storm. Our boat capsized three times. Each time, some were missing. I did not notice any one to be hurt on the boat's right­ ing except the mate, who had got a scratch below his eye. After our nuinl>er was re­ duced to seven the boat did not capsize any more. It was because the storm moderated that we ceased to capsize. The last capsize took piace shortly before dark. Before dark the mate said he saw land, and after dark we saw a lighthouse which the mate said was Eying Inlet light When we saw the light aJl cheered up considerable, but soon after one of the strangers died, name un­ known. The only members of the crew that I knew in our boat were the Captain and mate. After the stranger died two others died almost immediately together. They just seemed to perish. They'did not seem to have sustained any internal injury. I did not hear them complain of any injury. About midnight the mate succumbed, and about ten minutes after him the Captain died. The person I have called the mate was named John McDonald, who was a second cousin of mine. The person I have called Captain was named John Savage Captain of the steamer Asia. At the time they dind the sea was quite calm, and the wind was moderate. Shortly after daybreak I and Mr. Tinkis landed. The bodies were still in the boat After landing we dre<* the boat on shore and walked along a piece, and, finding we could net walk, we returned to the boat, and Mr. Tinkis took the bodies out of the boat and laid them on the island. We then got into the boat again, and rowed along with an oar WEN. SHERMAN, acting as Secretary of War, has accepted the resignation of George Stoneman as Colonel on the retired list, atte* thirty-six years of service. Stone- man is the Democratic candidate for Gov­ ernor of California, and has a large income from his farm in that State Ten million acres of land In Northern Dakota, with­ drawn from settlement by Secretary Schurz because of claims urged by the Turtle mountain Indians, have been reopened for settlement by Secretary Teller, who decides that the Indian claims are invalid. GEORGE AMES, a grandson of the late Bishop and nephew of Senator Booth, became insane on his way from Washington to Indi­ anapolis. Having locked himself in his room for two days without food, it was deemed time to send him to a private asylum. He sprang past the landlord of a hotel at Rich­ mond, Iijd., and threw himself from a third- story window, alighting . head first on the' stone pavement, and there in lit­ tle hope of his reeovery The Flat­ head Indians -of Northwestern Mon­ tana have agreed to permit the Northern Pacific railroad to build a line through their reservation for a compensation of $£1,000. The distance is fifty-three miles, and the width of the strip granted is 200 feet... .Two strangers opened the jewelry case of C. Os- kamp in the Cincinnati-Exposition, and cool­ ly walked off with .$12,000 worth of dia­ monds. FROM some unknown cause an explo­ sion occurred in an ammunition train at the Cairo (Egypt) railway depot, shells burst­ ing at intervals of thirty seconds for a long period, killing a number of people, demolish­ ing the station, flaring the cars and destroy­ ing military stores in large quantities... .A farmer in Tipperary, named Hickey, has been murdered for paying his rent, or for defending men employed in gathering crops on the farm of an evicted tenant ... Prince Ibrahim telegraphed to Arabi Pasha, on the announcement of an alleged Egyptian victory, that he hoped at the next feast of Bairam Englishmen would be sacrificed in­ stead of sheep A dispatch from Bucha­ rest states that Russian officials at Kilia, near the mouth of the Danube, are taking soundings, notwithstanding the re­ monstrance of tne International Commission. The Russian Government also has arranged that the Russians shall perform police duty instead of the employes of the commission. In consequence of these infringements a meetiner of the commission has been sum­ moned. The construction of 300 Berdan torpedoes is ordered to be hastened. All other work at the arsenal gives plaoe to the manufacture of torpedoes. AT a meeting of leading citizens of Massachusetts, over which President Seelye presided, resolutions were adopted favoring a constitutional amendment to prohibit the manufacture or sale of liquors. A contribution of $1,000 was taken up for campaign purposes. A Washington dispatch says that at a meeting of the Women's National Labor League Mra Myra Clark Gaines became a member and made a speech, in which she announced that her membership would be an active one. She expressesj./jpmions as to woman's right to labor an" to vote of a radical character, and said she expected to give twenty years to the work in hand, if it took so long to secure the ballot to women. MELISSA POWER and Addie Johnsoii fought at New Orleans with butcher knives about a young man. Melissa was stabbed td the heart, and it is thought Addie will die. ... .At a political meeting at Lancaster, S. C., which was addressed by Col. Cash, a diffi­ culty arose between a 'negro and a white man, and in the riot which followed three colored men were killed and many wounded. A FIRE at Philadelphia destroyed the Market street, valued at 950,000....The Trustee appointed by the court at Phila­ delphia in the Keeley motor case says the machine will be completed by December, when patents will be applied for. THERE were twenty-eight deaths from cholera in one day at Uxtla, a town of 5,000 inhabitants in'the State of Cheapas, Mexico. Great alarm prevails in the infected region, and measures have been taken to prevent a further spreac^o^to^epidemic^^ Disastrous Storm in the East. A drought of several weeks' duration in the East terminated witjfi one of the heaviest rainfalls recorded in the last forty years. Reports are printed from New York city, Poughkeepsie, Newburg and Port Jervis, in New York; Paterson, Bordentown and Plain- field, in New Jersey; Raleigh, in North Caro­ lina. and elsewhere, all placing the rainfall at five Inches -as a minimum, and in One instance (Paterson) giving fourteen inches as the depth of water which fell within forty-eight hours. At Plainfield, N. J., a, bridge gave way, throwing a crowd of sight­ seers in the water, all of whom, it is proba­ ble, were fished out, as no bodies were found. The loss of life is small, as human beings very generally come in out of the wet, but the railroad companies are heavy losers. The points mentioned as having sustained heavy losses by the tremen­ dous rain-fall and the rapid rise of rivers which immediately followed include, in New Jersey, Paterson, Princeton. Trenton, Hobo- ken, Hackensack, Bordentown, Plainfield and New Brunswick, while from Waterbnry, Conn., Philadelphia, and Fredericks­ burg, Va, reports are received of great destruction and damage. Bridges, dams and trestles were carried off, and washouts on railroads numerous. In some towns the water was up to the show­ cases in stores, and railway cars were sub­ merged to the windows. Many residences were washed away, and the damage to mills and crops by the overflow is almost incalcu­ lable. Frightfhl Railway Accident. A dispatch from Lancaster, Ky., says: As the first of three special trains conveying Sells Bros.' show from Richmond was com­ ing around the curve, 800 yards from Paipt Lick, at 3:30 a. m, the fourth car from the engine, from some unknown cause, jumped the track and rolled down the embankment, followed by the balance of the train in its rear, consisting of fifteen car& The cars were loaded principally by the luggage of the company, tableaux 'wagons, electric light machine, and a cage contain­ ing the tiger. Several attaches of the circus were scat­ tered along the train, and the destruction to both life and property was fearful. • Three men were instantly killed, three probably fatally wounded, and teven or eight wounded. The cage containing the tiger was burst open, the fierce animal turned out, creating much consternation, every one being afraid to go near it unti i daylight, when the door was ope net!, and the tiger, which was crouching near by, crept bauk into his prison and was secured. The electric light and tableaux wagons were completely destroyed. THERE is a curious geographical fact in connection with the Kootenai river. Its course is in the shape of a horse­ shoe. It rises in British Columbia, runs into the Enited States, and waters a vast region, and then circles back to the land of its birth, and empties into the Columbia in British territoiy. Dur­ ing its course it passes within half a mile of Columbia, and a canal of that distance over a grassy prairie would save it a course of five hundred miles before reaching its goal. A CHEERFUL face, says the German- town Tfilc'irnplc, is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather. To make a sick man think he is dying, all that is necessary is to look half dead yourself. Hope and despair are (us catching as cu­ taneous complaints. Always look sun­ shiny, therefore, whet&er joW feel BO OX not. I DUEL III THE BARK. A Thrilling Romance from ft . ̂ Mining Camp. Texa* l'.- • A fttspateh frOm Dallas, Texl^ BaysriTie. Evening Utiles publishes a letter from Car- rizo pass, 600 miles west of .Dallas, giving an account of a hostile meeting between two miners in the Pecos Mining Company's camp, twenty miles north of the Mexican border, last Monday night. The duelists were George Hollenbeck and William Stratton, New Yorkers, born and raised near Palmyra; they were of rich descent of the early Hollanders, They were educated at Cambridge; the former graduated as a lawyer and the lat­ ter as a physician. They came out of col­ lege about the same time of Lincoln's first call for volunteers to suppress the Southern rebellion. They enlisted and went through the war, serving in CoL Gordon's One Hun­ dred and Forty-fourth New York regiment. At the close of the war they returned home, but, finding professional pursuits too tame for them, they concluded to go West. Before they left home a difficulty arose between them which was prevented from ending in bloodshed by the interposition of mutual friends. Before they had a chance to meet again Stratton sought his fortune in the far West. He wandered to California, where he went to work as a miner. Hollenbeck went in the same direction, but stopped at Colo­ rado, where he also becamc a miner. Thev never heard of each other after this. They have since followed the business of mining, but have never become as rich as they at first expected. A few days ago they met in the Pecos mining camp and recognized each other. The school and social polish had been rubbed off by Ifae trials ana hardships incident to life in the mining camps. Hol­ lenbeck was overjoyed to meet Stratton, who repelled him and said they, would settle that little unfinished difficulty which arose between them at their last meeting. Hollenbeck said he had for­ gotten all about the difficulty referred to, and entertained no ill-feelings whatever against him. Stratton insisted on a settle­ ment according to the coda Hollenbeck said if nothing short of that would do he would accommodate him. Accordingly arrangements were consummated for a dueL They were to fight with pistols in a dark room Each man was to announce ready, after which a third party was to count three, when they were to fire. The room was as dark as Egypt. They went into it and announced ready from opposite corners. "One, two, three," and Stratton fired Stratton fired a second shot, but the only response from Hollenbeck was a groan. Stratton, believ­ ing he had wounded Hollenbeck, fired a third shot in the direction of the groaning. The report of a pistol came from a corner directly opposite from where the groan ap­ peared to proceed from and Stratton fell No more shots being exchanged the miners opened the room and entered. A light re­ vealed the fact that Stratton had been killed, while Hollenbeck was unhurt. Hollenbeck is a ventriloquist, and, on entering the room, took his stand in a diagonal corner from his adversary, and, to make him be­ lieve he was in the opposite corner, threw his voice in that quarter of the room, where the bullets from his adversary's pistol harm­ lessly buried themselves in the walL It had been so long since they had seen each other that Hollenbeck's ventriloquism had en­ tirely escaped the memory of Stratton. The affair ha« caused a great (leal of excitement through the camp; but, as anything is palled fair in such business, no fault is found by the miners with the strategy employed by Hollenbeck. A BORDER BATTLE. Desperate Fight Between Two / Bands of Cowboys. Several of the Contestants Ktted at the First Fire, ̂ A recent dispatch from Denver siays: The" particulars of a strange duel between cow­ boys have just reached here. George How­ ard, owner of a herd of 3,000 cattle, and John Kelly, owner of a herd of 4,000, were driving in company from Arizona east. North of Trinidad, CoL, on the plains the two herds were to separate, Howard to take the old Santa Fe trail to Kansas City, and Kelly to drive north to Denver. On the way an accidental exchange of cattle had beeb made, and Howard insisted on having his stock, but was unwilling to deliver Kel­ ly's. It was agreed to settle the matter in a battle between six picked men of each party. Accordingly the twelve men ranged them­ selves on horseback, the two sides fifty feet •apart, and at a signal from the employers tHe fight began. At the first fire four men were instantly killed. George L. Ester, of Kelly's party, was shot through the breast One of Howard s men fell with a ball through his head, and two others of the same party were shot through the hearts. Dismayed, the How­ ard party, with the exception of their em­ ployer, fled to their camp. Kelly then rode up to Howard and proposed that they fight it out. Howard declined, saying that he un­ derstood the matter to be settled according to the terms of the battle made beforehand. This settled the matter. An equal exchange of the mixed cattle was made. The dead were buried by the men of both herds, and the two drovers and those in charge separat­ ed for their different destinations. Kelly ar­ rived here to-night en route East, and it was from his lips the story was had. THE WAR IN E6YPT, j A dispatch from Alexandria says that property in that city valued at £1,000,000 will be confiscated to Indemnify sufferers by the massacre. Damietta surrendered on the 22d of September. All rebel officers at Ramleh below the rank of Colonel have been released. The English have abandoned the works erected at Port Said. The Princes Ibrahim, IIamid and Kamil, who signed the petition asking far the deposition of the Khe­ dive last May, called at the palace in Cairo, but were ordered to leave at once. The Khedive has issued a manifesto de­ claring England has great interests in Egypt, both in regard to finances and traffic through the Suez canal; that for the protection of those interests she was compelled to inter­ fere, but that she has no intention of annex­ ing the country. The Khedive announces he has authorized Gen. Wolseley to represent him in restoring order and punishing rebels. All loyal Egyptians are called upon to ren­ der Wolseley every assistance. Any one re­ fusing will lie treated as a rebel. It would appear that a gendarmerie for Egypt is al­ ready being organized in Europe, as a party of enrolled men have started from Geneva. Their pay is from 150 to 800 francs per month, and French and Italians are ineli­ gible. British troops dismounted the guns at Ghemileh, and the people have resumed their ordinary vocations, It is generally be­ lieved in Egypt that no rebels will be exe­ cuted, but that they will be banished and their property confiscated. The Khedive has offered tne British Consul General the grand cross of the order of OsmanlL Egypt is now again entirely under the au­ thority of the Khedive. Accompanied by his Ministers, he was escorted by the Bengal^ Lancers to the railway station at Alexandria, to the music of the Egyptian national an­ them, and left for Cairo on the 25th of September. Arriving at Cairo they were re­ ceived by the Duke of Connaught and Gen. Wolseley, and driven through crowded streets to Ghogireh Palace. Abdellal Pasha, Suleiman Bey and others were sent to Cairo under military guard. It is learned that Arabi Pasha declined the ser­ vices of French, German and Russian officers. He is hearcUy-Borry he fought the English, as they have shown such magnanimity to the prisoners and wounded. He thinks- all the notables and prominent men .connected with the rebellion should be sent out of the country. A jreueral amnesty will be decreed by the Khedive, except to about six persons connected with the Alexandria massacre. Baker Pasha will effect the reorganization tof the Egyptian army. ing men, do nothing but praise. Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay. It is a fact that most writers, except sour and unsuccessful ones, get tired of finding fault at about a time when they are beginning to grow old. At 30 we are all trying to cut our names in big letters upon the walls of the tenement of life; ^ twenty years later we have carved it, or shut up our jack-knives. Then we are ready to help others and care less to hiisder any, because no­ body's elbows are in our way. - U > A Dollar's Worth of Knowhdgi > A seedy-looking individual in winter clothing walked into a beer saloon on Third avenue last summer. He called for a glass of "German milk," and as the froth shoved its way to the top, he remarked to the bar-tender: "This is a good summer for flies, and I am glad of it." The bar-tender eyed the stranger for a few seconds, and replied: "Yaas,'tis a good summer for flies, but why should you be glad?"' "I make my living out of flies," ans­ wered the funny looking man; "I'm the man who can bring flies to life after they have been drowned." The beer juggler had his opinion about the cus­ tomers "He's a trifle off;" he ex- , claimed, addressing several young men who displayed big shirt collars, and were talking abont base-ball matches. The "fly" resuseitator became angry because his abilities had been laughed at. "Gimme glass of water," he cried, "and I'll show you how quick I ean bring a fly to life after it had been drowned." The glass of water was produced, and the man scooped a fly with a swing of his hand on the bar. The fly was doused in the water. He kept it below the surface with a wooden cigar light­ er. It was fully five minutes before the fly folded its wings and bobbed up to the top to all appearances dead. The stranger picked it up gently and placed it on a table, while a crowd gathered about him. "You all seg," said he, "that that'ere fly is dead. Now watch me bring him to life. Yes, it's a male fly. Male flies are more buoyant in water than female flies, and they are harder to drown. Say, bar-tender, give me some salt." The salt bottle was handed him, and he covered the dead fly with salt and offered to bet a dollar "that the fly would waltz out alive in five minutes." The bet was taken by a young man, and the pile of salt was gazed at intent­ ly by twelve persons. Suddenly there was an upheaval of the salt, and grains were scattered about the table. The apparently dead fly struggled through the covering, paused for a moment on the heap to perform its toilet, and then buzzed towards the lunch counter. The fly resuscitator pocketed the dol­ lar and went out. saying: "Ta, ta. boys, you can get even on some other fellows some other day. Now you know how to bring a drowned flv to life." After his departure several flies were drowned and resuscitated, and the young man who hod paid a dollar for this really old information, went into a neighboring saloon, and was lieatd to say; "I'll bet a dollar that I can drbwn a fly and bring it to life.'" ' "Too late!" replied a lounger, "a tramp just left here after scooping $3 from the boys on that racket."--New York World. Ripe and Sweet. It will not take many years toy bring one to the period of life when men, at least the majority of writing and talk- Literary Problems. Roughly speaking, we may say that in the seventeenth century scarcely any man could make a living out of litera­ ture in England. In the eighteenth many men could make a bare living; in the nineteenth iiany can make a very decent income. Can we say that the supply has improved witli the demand? The trade has undoubtedly increased and multiplied beyond calculation. But if we speak of the art, he would be a bold man who should say that there is any improvement at all. Have we now any work to set beside Shak- "speare, and Spenser arid Bacon, with their minor stars of the great constella­ tion? Is the literature of the present day, setting aside two or three men of genius, who belong rather to the previ­ ous than to this generation, to be com- pared to that of the great epochs ? Is it clearly better"than the comparative dead level* of the end of the last cen­ tury? How many of the living writers under 60 will be read a century hence ? I will not say--for I do not believe-- that literature is really declining, nor maintain, what some people hold, that we may trace here, as elsewhere, the tendency of democracy to substitute a mass of commonplace respectability for a spare growth of more exalted excel­ lence. The problem is far too Complex to be answered in any off-hand formula. But it is at least plain that' the finer growths of the literary vineyard are not multiplied in proportion to the pe­ cuniary manuring of the field. It is said, and I suppose truly, that a successful dramatist at the present day could make aji income at which the mouths of all the inhabitants of Grub street would water. Even in the last century, playwriting was by far the most profitable part of the trade to which an author could turn his hand. Have our plays, then, improved since the days when the sole record of the lives of some of the most popular dra­ matists is due to the extreme difficulty which they experienced in raising a loan of £5? Plays at the present day have perhaps more literary value than is admitted by the persons who are al­ ways declaiming about the decline of the stage. \ This, however, is at least clear that through the seventeenth century the drama represents the highest literary achievements of the first writers of the time; that in the next century there are only some half-dozen piavs which have any claim to be in the first rank of literature, and that in the present century (putting aside plays like the "Cenei" or "Yan Artevelde," not really intended for the stage) thc*e are none. We could hardly apply a more crucial experiment to prove that money-pay­ ments can not secure good literature.-- Corn h ill Magazine. THE flag-ship of Admiral Farragut-- the Hartford--is now on her way to San Francisco. She is to take the place of the Pensacola, the present flag­ ship on the North Pacific station, and as soon as she reaches Panama, where the Pensacola is now stationed, Ad­ miral Balch wilt transfer his flag to her. The historic ship will then sail Jor San Francisco. The Pensacola is to go out of commission, and it is re­ ported is to be condemned as unfit for further service. . EUROPEANS say that Americans, in spite of their republican notions, are at heart as snobbish as anybody, Mfl dear­ ly love a Lord. HOW SJJ5DAY HflfttJIJ) BE fflPEHT. Wtot the mm. »r. Bmrd Crosby Saty#*!."' tWlal<Mt. [From the JtewTork ^Tlmes.1 The Rev. Dr. How&rd "Crosby, was asked to give his views upon the modern New York observance of Sun­ day in visiting the neighboring water­ ing-places. "That is a question," Dr. Crosby re^ ~ plied, "that must be answered by every man himself according to his own con­ science. Different persons have differ­ ent opinions upon the subject, and . were you to ask me my opinion about any of the Commandments, such as 'Thou shalt not kill' 'Thou shalt not steal,' I could easily give it to you, for these are direct commandments to be obeyed. But in the observance of the Sabbath our directions are not so definite. I have Very definite opinions as to how I, personally, should spend Sunday, and I spend it as I believe it to,be right; but I do not assume to direct other people's consciences in the matter. I should not, for instance, own stock in any rail­ road that ran trains on Sunday, nor should I be any way concerned in the direction of such a road. At the same tim^ I should travel on such a road, if it were necessary, without being at all inconsistent, because I should travel for a righteous purpose, that my con­ science told me it was proper. I can make that clear to you by an illustra­ tion. A man might open a road through, his neighbor's lot, and would be & trespass and clearly wrong, Yet if my child were sick and I could reach him quicker by going over that road I should run right across it without com­ mitting any wrong, though the existence of the road in itself was wrong. I do not hesitate to use a railroad car on Sunday in case of necessity, though I think they ought not to run on Sunday. "It is a great thing for New York." Dr. Crosby continued, "to have this re­ lief. Sunday is the only holiday that many people have. How far each indi­ vidual should go in recreation and en­ joyment I could not decide. A great many of the visitors here come to ben­ efit their health, and do benefit it. Others come to enjoy the scene, to pat- • ronise the bars, and to bathe. I could not do this myself; it would be against my own conscience." But there am thousands who ought to have the rec­ reation. I should like «to have all the poor of New York come down here, but . unfortunately, they who need the relief. mest cannot afford to come. The peo-- ple who do come generally do not need it. No man can settle this question for his neighbor. For myself, I keep Sun­ day rather strictly. I never wish to in­ dulge in any of the ordinary avocations of the week. I am particular in my reading, and would not read light liter­ ature on Sunday. This is my chief ob­ jection to the Sunday newspapers. I do not object to them on the ground of the labor being done on Sunday, for I be­ lieve that is done on Saturday- But theyebring into our households a quan­ tity of secular reading, in attractive shape, on Sunday morning, and give our young people reading which is net of a religious character. We onght to give one day in the week, I think, to religious reading!" Tendencies to Barbarism. | More money is spent for tobacco than ;f lor bread; more for spirits than for wine; more for wine than for baths or means of preserving health and increas- lr><T Tri<r«vr K-g. ATOreiaa.; mnra for ftirvnse---o • -o-- ' . nent than for instruction; more for -.heaters than for churches. Actors, singers, dancers, are paid ten times as Much as preachers and teachers are. The popular player who entertains peo­ ple, makes them spasmodically laugh or iry, though he possesses but a thin vein Df genius, enacts the same part contin­ ually, and is not associated with any of ;he means whereby human welfare is promoted, becomes in a year many times richer than the professor who devotes liis life to the acquisition and the diffu­ sion of knowledge, or the philanthro­ pist who spends his soul for his kind. To excite the nerves is a surer way of gaining wealth and reputation than to strengthen the mind. To this extent we are still barbarians; to this extent has civilization failed to lift men and women above their instincts; to this ex­ tent have all noble iufiuences--art, edu-* nation, religion, love of country, love of man, love of God--failed to substitute intellect for inclination. When people who will not give dimes in charity give iollars to witness a foot-race or see a slown, it is pretty good evidence of the supremacy of appetite in the masses of mankind.--O. B. Frothing ham. As insurance company may be com­ pelled by a court of equity to isstle a policy where it has agreed to do so, and that court has power to decree in the same suit that any loss incurred under the policy shall be paid, in the opinion of the tJnited States Circuit Court for Oregon, in Hebert vs. Mutual Life In- imrance Company, decided in July. THE MARKETS. NEW YORK. BlBVBS. 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