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t of villagers attended flw auo- N. Y., at which Horace is sold. One bid wu SSMinte mm acres, and It StitstssrSas- -*£&£"srsgssi KS&k&i&P bekmgtag toMlchael at Stroedabnrg, Fe. was de- brto* »• leas is estimated at tin wwrtd lyttwaam. Tint Ifewark (N. J.) JSt>ening News pubUfces two letters from the abductors of ttttie Charlie Bow, written NOT. 23 and 24. l»fi (ttoyw In which thochlld wassplrtted »jft4srssrws£W ̂ . „ 'the ITdladelphia detectives. n* kAfcned-e* bytheJfewtls that the evi- jrf thtHMtn wss unknowntoMr. I or Ida friends, and »ptevsntod,ina tin ntsra of tin child to bis .At • nhMorila »theater in , Mew York, abridge gave Several persons were (hi Long bland, Mar Hunter's Point train* came in ool- were killed and Ml wounded Grnber, Hoooes ft Co., bat have suspend- SMITH & Co.'s large school and oountix -̂room furniture factory, st Boston, was burned, entailing a km of #75,000-- Hugh Hatting* proprietor qt the New York Ctommnrfaf Idwrtwr, died at Monmouth Beacfc,M. J., aged63yeara MB. COIXDTS, a student in Lehigh (Mnnltf, a* Bethlehem, Pa., was visited party of sophomores the other , to escape them, jumped from r cjghtoua feet to the ground, j the Sonesof hia leg WTWC^T- rothsrseverehrturies....& J. Tildensnd rfloaHhal e yacht race on the Hudson ftMfc The Atlanta ia not allowed to carry i of steam, but the Yo­ gi pttt on 110 pounds ; Gould WBR« A CHICAGO to|iaioUe< tbelltb mat. soys: "Bepertssstetae weak ofJaok Frost the whole, it would Ithodasaage wmaght isnot at firs* believed. In hi lowlands suffered _ --*• ----at fta higher ground W% J»3r. Jfat <*»>- :flMRp IBM OQQt ZTOm fll0- IcMi te wUn SiMM ttd JMmtfta seed wssplwrtojaaft wbhfreafr hMtetyoameto fromHhgMns and sadbdtfvey the tgie crop ha»Mt been in- la eartata districts of Wis- has beeh tamed ̂aid ta * ** " «ep Is States from aalest otwith tbeformerone, Tn reconunendations of the anil, ia tbe oases of Naval Oadeta, m*U0> Archibald ChaftflUB,; aadFtaakba MoeU< tried on charges of hssliig. thatthsy betMe-i araasfinflunsaft and MB-- -dhtttNtag them were Issii, from tbe Navy Depertoent A WABBKOVOM tdflgnn of the 18th art says "Additional telsgtaphic repeats frsati State Agents ofthe ^ r̂icnlietnl̂ pet cent, the -- *m of iOOllCO acre probably keepjthe totaf yield Hbelowl, 0U0,WM00 bushels. The total for last year was l,OW,000i,000 bushels, so the decrease will not, he an. he serious enough to cause a short supply. TweSecretaryof the Interior, in a deettton just rendered, holds that a pre­ emption settlement, initiated and filed tn rl faith, ia a bar to a timber entry wrier act of June $, ltRSL for the Atapoeal of timber lands in oertain States and inWash- ington Territory. He holds that where a settler Alleges that he haa filed htsjtooiar̂ tton of intention to become a cttisen and fails for a time to secure roeord evidence of the fact, such evtdenoe, when prorated, may be filed at any time before final dis­ posal of the land, and when filed ia con­ clusive as to bis quaUfieatkNM » # ®re- emptor with respect to citisenship. FOLmCAL : .:3.V MB. DIODTOOIF, Chairman of the Bepublican State Committee of Virginia, states that Mahone is organizing colored clubs, giving members a ticket for 20 cents far each meeting attended, payable on elec­ tion day. Mr. Desendorf has complained to Postmaster General Gresham that the post- office officials as well aa the Revenue Col­ lectors are constantly engaged in the can- volunteers to Join Oneof Ws tatiabesays. the i: '*«, report cot' ta llmr Yojk and tmnai iMtettt Meofthe gwwhit btidM tne markets here annr- on. O» the Board of Trade com oentr above the cloabig quota- lOf Saturday, aad dined firmly with iaqprovement partially maintained" . HlEXBT Blb88ING, a steamboat engi- aeer of St Louis, residing at Na 1,451 Cam Avemm, has for years been extremely jeal- onaafhfswfta He darted her in a horrible maaaww wfth a razorfatally shot and oat iwf linilhis, W. g l̂SetoMm, and then ESFAGG'TIAGGJU FtrajrtSt ftal desteoyeda furnlture toan- SSt3f'a stair-bnfldlag wrta^stoMl'TÎ • total leas wiU reach •SQ.OOO.̂ .On the McLain iandx,in Elbert ooun ,̂ GoL, the otherevente,ef̂ tf̂ banken cowboys had •daMato%ht, in vAhdk three were killed and three aarionaly wounded AT a ooimeil at the Flathead meaer, hdd with the Indians by Senator Yert and Delegate M l̂anis, Chief flharios made %. mosttavroadve speech. Hhstaamedujton hto hat anddeolarod that h» woalldMver go upon s teaervattom alive, but would take tothenkdnc He asld his bands were free from Ow bloed of white mea Senator Teat £ •KR,£!J5£S',Sl £ . to Washington with Agent Ronan and diaonak the matter.... 11M l«ty; arrived safety at * Port­ land. Cfce., having g<«e the wtele length of the Northern iaciiicronte. The citizens of Portland atrove to outdo the demonstra­ tions of the krng line of towns through whidtthe party had named--D. I* Payne and other offioers of the Oklahoma Com­ pany were arrested last week at Wichita, Kan., on complaint of the United States Attorney, X 8 Hollowell, who has grown weary of the eoat and trouble of keeping theaa men out of Indian Territory. e A. B. SUMXK, PoHtmaster at Wind- aot; QflUo, haa been held to bail in Cleve^uid for pagring |8 worth of postage-stamps far com, thereby increasing his salary by en- laaftnghls cpmmiasions. ...A dWQdVui one bo^r mid a double outfit of heads, legs, and Sa2d ent*red WENDELL PHILLIPS denies that he has become dissatisfied with the methods and administration of Gov. Batter Blaine denies the remarks recently credited to him, viz: That Butler would again be elected Governor of Massachusetts, and later win the Presidential contest for the Democrat*. Mr. Blaine says the reverse of tbb are tbe xiews which he holds. A BILL for the incorporation of the Southern Pacific Company Is pending in the New Hampshire Legislature. The scheme of the parties interested is a consolidation of all the railroad aad steamboat lines ln Texas and Louisiana, the aggregate capital of vrtdidk would exoeed IKt'flCO.lO.1, and own, beside, 6,000,000 acres of Texas lands. Got. Butler, of Massachusetts, has ap­ pointed to a Police Judgeship at Charles- town, a colored man named Edwin G. Walker THB New Jersey Democrats, in con­ vention at Trenton, nominated Leon Abbott for Governor, but tbe friends of Andrew Albright declared in the convention that they would bolt the ticket Excerpts .from, the ittatiorm: The people, should only be taoBBtteomwon arils aueulirtelT for the frugal conduct of their public aBalrs; not one cent for surplus, and no unnecessary taxation. We favor the entire abolition of the present system of internal taxation, the nursery of spoils and in- fttsnfers, a menace to the freedom of' eleflttons, the source of the greatest proptfOn, and an intolerable and un- cassairy burden upon the tixpayett. We insist that the public lands thall De reserved t*n If i, |U to actual settlers, not anothor acre for snb- dflaTfiat the dignity of uneiictt !Ab6r shall.be defended, and also th* tights of American citizens abroad and at home We favor tariff for revenue, limited to the necessary expenditure of the Government, ana so adjusted as to give protection and encouragement to home productive industry and labor, without producing or fostering monopolies. THE National Union League has per­ fected arrangements for giving addresses in the South on political and educational questions. Prominent Northern men will betthe speakers. CHEN1KAL SINCE the 1st of Jannary 146,481 packages of dry goods were exported from New York, a larger quantity than was ever sent abroad before in the same period Laiae. fihiPiaents of French gold are daily HJLBBY HILL, the stakeholder in the jfjtchsB-IBade contest, has issued an oltt- matrim that the men must fight Oct. 23 at a point within 100 miles from New Orieana THB 200th anniversary of the victory of King John Sobieeld, tbe last independent ruler of Poland, over the mighty Turkish army besieging Vienna Sept 12,1G83. was celebrated this year in that city b;r a grand tomhUgfat procession and display of lire- work*. It 1b estimated that i0U,0U) persons were assembled. ' At Cracow and Lemberg the day was celebrated with enthusiasm. On this side of the water the day was ob­ served in an appropriate manner by the Polish citizens, b Chicago 5,000 Poles pa­ raded, and there were also imposing dem­ onstrations in New York, Philadelphia and Milwaukee... .John Roach, the Chester ship­ builder. was again before the Senate Com­ mittee on Education and Labor last week. Much of hia time was given to corrections and denials of reports of his previous test! Protected ship AT A oolored oelebration in Beaufort ttNBt* & a, bailed ahrimpSv.were freely Three negroes have died from gMtregfote, and eeven an ast emoted to • )£* °* "foniSt a iiaoad. Ya. The dlfiicultv was amlsaof 1& The dm<raTty ?£ J--;• v** V? ®T* after a miaa on both sides. ^Ehjdpadly toy {rfatol did not figure Inthe * A YOVHO man called for a glass @1 ••da water in New Orleans. The derk re- The customer said the glass WSffl te clerk denied it The customer ***** dhrk ahog, in Frsnoh. A And J After a combat with rapiers ty-seven minutes one «rtiw im** -mm nd the mpf was "honorably* terminated masked men forcibly en *5*d thS Yell County tail »t Danville, Ark. i?* ̂**ii 152f>d'took to n bridge and hong ̂them from the oenter- rjwoss-beam. Coker was accused of ^ato ambuscade the Sheriff's party - outlaws several wjsaiM ago, inwnich two men wece killed, wodwas aooused of harborteg the out- A OBSAT storm ia reported on the <W«th Atisnttc coast Off the o{ , ||p%iapB|baathe wind blew at the rate of ®m hour, and thirteen f̂r̂ u.':;,Lfe tn busi- - ̂ i8mtth- caiued a ?*- insurance. 984,000 I Arkansas renre««nt the cotton ' *»i«»ed by jSe continued diy t some oounties scarcely half a (IS made Sontbern Arkansas is r smssely from the drought. The vef Mea not affect the oorn crop ly, it being matured in most WAMKOfGTOX. OTOIT telegram: "Postmaster 1 only Cabinet officer in Washington any pottfenftf the summer, has a t to eatt to the attention of the fi to 44Kto probable of FostMptec* will be prevl mony. Protected chips, free lsnd and free transportation to the land were prescribed ss the cure of all industrial ilia Yellow fever has become epidemic at lo, Guaymaa, and Vasatlan, There were sixteen deaths at Ouaymas last week, and six soldiers expired from black vomit m one day at Hermoslllo. People are fleeing, from the pestilence. The disease la also aptesding at Peniaacola. THE relief steamer Yantic has reached St Johns, N. P., without tidings of Lieut Greely or any of hia party. The Yantic brought Cant Pike and the crew of the £?"*£?• T®"lel WM crushed by ice on ue 28d of July and sunk. Capt Pike aad bfa party were exposed in boats for thirlgr-flae days and nighta VOIBUM. BUMIAX agents, supposed to be solitary officers, ate crossing into Bulgaria. Advioes to Î mdon papers aay Russia is de­ termined to depose Prince Alexander and plaoe an arent of its own on the throne, and fewJflL®.*1? ooalitfcms even with Nlhllista It is aiso reported that the rela­ tions between Germany and TTrasria axe growing cold, and that the latter is forming an army north of the Pruth. Boumania's deriro to join the triple «IM«-- is considered to be Austria and Germany's answer to Russia's designs on Bulgaria -- - it, aft* sr i meetings in Irelandhave Ifrrtmre*ho celebrated the qnatr«- tit 'W*M Lather's birth on the IMAUH' RA^FWRANOU THRIW^SI on Lather's ttfs in various ~l7th«rs wws tin the w ot Paris clatoi to ha^ -hj At Jakoborae^>%nailih, seldtats aâ aagŝ acsjsr*' JJUMMOHAL mWL - THB business failnres in the United States for the week ending Sept. 15 num­ bered 186--six less than the preceding week, and a decrease of three wiien com­ pared with oarxe^onding period in (S8"'.--In a very comprehensive state­ ment embracing replies from seventy-five lead ng mercantile and manufacturing cities of the Union, BradttreeCt shows that the manufacturing Industries of the United states fire enjoying • -bettor business tban might have Doen sappotsd It appears that with the exception of a few lines of industry orders ate being reoeived ! v menufacturers quite up to the standard of former yeats, and in many branches In thereof On the whine, the Indus­ tries appear to be moderately well em­ ployed, though at narrow margins of profit Orders are small, but frequent, and prom­ ise to continue in good number. This la a healthful condition at least r-Dnn's Com­ mercial Agency reports business throughout the country generally satisfactory, and the fall trade Is quietly. progressing, with a large volume of tales in most all s spies--A New Itorkrtelegwn reports that "the dry- troods. men hare done a hotter business Tiie speculatora' tkjbupation returned with the Series of froste^aad the bank clearings grew.laiger In opusejaenoa? THE Dakota Constitutional Ccmven- tion has resolved to make the name of the new State South Dakota, in deference to the protest of t̂ Ftd ̂meetlng. Woman snf- frage wis rejected by 9fitomL Duaqva the game of base-bell yester­ day between the Wabash Club and the North Manchester nine, at Wabash, Ind, Charles McConnell, who was playing second- base for the latter team, was run into by Ring, Captain of the Wabash nine and fa­ tally Hp-- ̂ WwltoA --iih'O storm at Hartford, Dah ,̂ the house of Her­ man Dries was sittook by lightning. J(r. lirieswaseoauiiigdawnstaira with a &-yesr- old child in Us arms at the time, and both were killed His wife and two other children were badly ftnnnOd, but will reotfver In the desanetto^of a small residence at Appleton, wl«., a woman and two of her five rhiidrea wete hotriMy bonied." One! of the chil" " " " bank of VittgeraM A Wilton: aad took #4,OCO from th ,̂cafe. A GREAT not occurred At e coal-mine on the Upper Leblgh, near Hazelton, Pa. A fight began between constables and roughs A woman and a little girl were killed by'stray bullets. Feveral officers and anetnber.oC-toughs'Wtere wonnded in- the liediabthelrte Idoaoain Mlllville, Pa, with their throats cut from ear to ear. . They had been d£ad about a week.... .A fire in Brooklyn destroyed the felt-hat works of W. A. Boylin % Co., and the straw-hat factory ot Charles E. Everett The total loss is «i6o,ooa DUBIHO the recent Canton outbreak one French, two German, ten English and one American house were burned. Pla­ cards were posted throughout the city, applauding the work of the mob, and at T resent the situation is serious for the European colony. The Consuls ' hold the Viceroy responsible for the destruction of property, aa he failed to send troops at the first intimation of the outbreak... .The French forces and tbe Black Flags; bad rk>lno('r̂ a foes and teak thirty prison fern, who were beheaded at once.... A Paris dispatolr aays that at a meeting Of the French Cabinet,' Chslleawl-Lscoar stated that negotiation* with the Chinese Embassa­ dor were progressing favorably. The Min­ isters decioea in fsrer of a conciliatory pol­ icy, but indorsed the forwarding of rein­ forcements toTohjuin. LIEUT. GABLIKGTON, in charge of the Greyly relief expedition, is criticised for not having landed stores before lrt ventured on a cruise which was likely to end in disas­ ter to his vessel lieut Danenhower and Capt Tyson have volunteered to lead expeditions again into the polar regions to Greely's rescue Mrs. Giroux, of East Templeton, Ont, locked her two children in the house while she went to milk her cow, and when she re­ turned found the building in flames. Tbe little ones were burned to ashes.... A train of ten cara, loaded with canned om, has left Portland, Me., for Portland, Ore., on a special fast schedule. It fta conspicuously lettjged t»rataa?t attention on the wag, . fkB MAHUffr" At a Montana, ple«n?AsI music, address, end •hosiith* •siyT^sfc *9HpEPO VPSOIHr wm IthahebdeC tihe •~tj n» sisnsci, we 'mada tfteoneiiln ̂ Hon. W. lt ivaAs, taken of the tooir last spike drivsTMnni the crowd j'She flail oetemonles ĵpî dMftie TT" J i K|niii nlOTtnr fffMf' e was tapped by . WIIA a suver etan IDavis, teem end the SfW". Pnaldentof The final Mowi lme glw bytt C. Dafia, Assistant flniinili l*Mjeii<f«ir Agemb of the road, who drovM»e |H| mike on the open­ ing of tbe Mdflli IMI sjfike was oon- nected by Hilm|||ili wife New rode, end the blows wsro flps heard throughout the length of the ttfT History ai qaa\Meedt frwa Its In caption Aitiiotwh the ̂ was the first pssl Pacific ridlHied ras the first jnesMctedaoioss the contlnwat, it has proTea4||Mrttobe completed in the United BtatesT îl 18»B. slmostfifty years sgo.tbe newwipK ef the oountry "* BafodaiiropoifiBntobuildataUwsiy New Y« bia river, advancedj the jNdfsf seemed to wouM ct that crowd 1 will _ railway vrtiidi Ten years aft inteaby the < Mr. A New. York, Congress f fromthel of tke cossl HIS ] gnlnt of miles on whole lehg rityot Us wldch was bang for _ _ railway from mouth of the Oohim- the ha Its nature, be hooempUahed. Many plea toofcpartln tb»dl»> rad the atttr™ end Mwiitf ie newqmper worid, ̂ id oompledon «C the great hra advocated, question was first pre- ofthe country, In » merchant of • pcoposttlon to a rallroeA Michigan to th? month tivec, on the Pacific ified aptovMonfera dles ln width--thirty of-we line--for the MA" After the matn- was embodied In a Mil to CongTeea,%ber» It -eats, and In 1M7 Mr. ~ t* for tfae~imqiOBe ef EiSlfSte 'S'SKfSS.'SS fionereoonaneadlng Congress t»ito erableactlonlni vnni wtooni peadadhla ̂ retire from the time fsilure nised as to advantages fat respect to ols- praim r̂toA î _ - - NKW YOBJL BKCVXS Boos PLO<m--£upeifinc WmiT-8a i White... N«. 2 Bsd. COCK--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 Ti.H.li. f.V. Pona--Mess T.i»n " CBICAOO. * BacvRs-Good to Vsagr Stscss. Common to nir Hoos. Fioua--Fancy White Winter Ex. GoodtoCbofoeBpr'cix, WHXAT- -No. 3 ftKiUk No. 2 BaiWl period of nearly forty, years has elapsed, under the titie of the Hortbon Paoific ralf- "Sim I, ISfti and 18S5, anexpedltlon ofof- ficers and men undettneleenerwIHp of Isaac 1. Stevens, Govemo* of Washington TpbA- tory, who was commissioned by tbe United Btates Government, made an exploration ef the country lying between the forty-seventh and tony-ninth parallels of bHmK to de­ termine the practicability ef a> rente for a rallroed from the groat lakes and the U] Mlasledept to the watenr̂ T Paget's soi The soope of the enloinrtlen * among other data, thechaiacterl Interaiedlate regiona, then veryindBflnit»ly known, * or vriudljr nnbnown, ss to their adaptability to sgttcnltorfci pursuits, their Vrater supplies, tMtr mlneial, timber aad other resources, andthslr condltiona in gen­ eral for the maintenance of a civiliied and ptogtesalve populetlOik. l%e official report of the expedition confirmed the truly-na- ttmMl . character of pooh an enterprise as UidNtnthern Pa2ific,lmmriit pnftnlnently mto view its advantages iu t fences as a ita greater proximity between grea? water . lines, Its proximity to Europe,: and tbe lacv uiat it was much the shortest and moft direct rente between >Aaia and Europe. It ; also established the jbbt tfial by the Northern route were the easiest gradients, the least end fewest engi­ neering diflicultiei, and that there eo îsted abundk^e of wdod, water and materials (Of oonstructton. With respect to the gen­ eral resources of tbe coantries to be trav­ ersed by the proposed line, for the support of a compact population, the elaborate re­ ports of the expedition presented the strongest confirmatory {roofs. Except at the crossings of tbe mountain ranges the entire route was found to pass through a succession of fine, arable lands--countries extraordinarily well watered by large rivers, many Important confluents and numerous tributary streams--and covered with a veg- tation which plainly indicated the richly, productive capacity of their soils. Thecu- jnate was A»wn torbe -ualyernUy superior tn the qtialttlefc whWh aspure*bealthntl aawl pleasssft living, geaaially favorable for the production of cropa, and often more pro­ pitious than elsewhere found for tbe growth ef wheat, oats, rye, barley and the vegeta- of tbe and little the pna^meiee Mlasoorl, Kaaaw lmp>o»ewsut la Indicated AA fca ,̂ a i as in Aeg wt ahow e heavy deeHan of for each Total mileage, nalnllns divisions Little Falls and Little oon- of the * • • • • ' » , „ oorn surplus as fellows Dskots»to aeadewefcoi vSs. Junction, Wpah- Moeoow. Idaho JSto with the: miles west of 1 tbe tSidn line of the road, sothet the (kdumUa river to toPugetsound. •ad of across the tremendous barrier of the OaaeiAs mountalna Cotdce first pro­ posed toplaosr the Northern Padfioe loan in Europe, bat his plans to this end were defeated by the breaking out of the Franoo- qamaw mu. He then imt the bonds upon the Ameri- the same means to popu- hehad Bucceeafully em- the great war loans of the Temment In two years' la the spring of ltKQ, he 000 of boras. In 1870, him, tbe com- . its fine, commencing Tinctlon, twenty-three nth. Jay Cooke was thell building a line from 81 Paul to Duluth, and theNorthernPacific bought a half Interest tothetwenty-thiwemileefrom its junction to Duluth. Duluth was an obscure hamlet 1n the forest, Inhabited by hundred people It had no a good one was obtained canal across a oloslntf the Bey of WM^USO begnn, ln extreme Western division of runnliqrfrom the Columbia river » notthwardto Puget sound. U i 1871 the road waa finlshedaoroas Minnesota to the Bed Jttver ef the Meeth. end In lSGMi It was built as far as the Missouri ilv«, where a town wen laid out and named Bia- marok. On the Pacific aide lttS miles of road, between - the -C^olmnbia river and Paget the fall of lb13, a dense fir named TaoomA there were Ma- 585 miles of road sound, were and a terminsl 25 mill , _ , the benea of Jay CookeACa suspended • amomosnbiecrrent, whhdi yesetpttaieda general financial reval- slon, a sudden and ewmaeas contraction of prices and values whtoh haftnotatned inthe cifthe ivmaang.nf I »r aftb i Ainsworth, »7Puy*llni %m^3w . ayallup Territory 210 miles) to Seattle, 1L*' ! main line aad «T4 T6e3!Smce from Portland, dn.to'Snr York, all rail, is 8,288 mile& ' : A TRAGIC S€£IE. Killing qf Carey, HIA liifora Told by an Eye-Witaw. X passenger who traveled in the same steamer as Carey and O'Donnell sends the following aocount of the shooting of the in» The Kinfsuns Castle left Dartmouth for Cape Town July «, with between tigbty a^d. ninety nassengera O'Donnell ana his wife trailed se^nd. Carey and his wt e d aejrtti children third <daaa tbe umiu detfilename ot Power. O'Donnelllsover si* fseiT bas a markedly bbb faoe, tlott wh|sfcsra, dark belr. aad keea «yss, aad is Atronff-looking, though not aay #ay flw»y. % has a strong American eocen ̂ man who bid been sheved, Gat otherwise Qusgre vTbttkine aal a? be ̂ peered at the trielA ̂ Coaa--No. x. OATS--No. %... Bva-No.9.... BABUR--NO. 2. Birnn-Chelee Oteaitiery. Koo»-r-- r- Fresh. Pon--Mew.. B.75 A26 .WW l.MHf 1-0* .mhI @ .ct)4 MH.& eo .24 & M W (f .18H mi.26 MU Law, Lord Chancellor-of le Hoste, the French aeronaut, after eev- «wl attempts, suooeeded in crossing from France to England in a balloon....Tbe Right Hon Hupl Ireland, is dead CHOLERA hangs on well in Egypt, but ite ravages are hardly noticeable after the record so recently made. Europeans complain of the rapidity with which every­ thing in tbe way of sanitary service has been ehendoned by the Egyptians now that their fears have subs.ded A mob of Chinese burned the houses and wharves of several European merchants at Oanton. The foreign residents sought refuge on vessels in the river, and Chinese troops dispersed riot­ ers. Two British gunboats were sent to the scene from Hong Kong '1 be cattle rtlstiaan has spread all ever En- gland, and only American beef can be ob­ tained in some sections Admiral Pierre, who recently returned from command of the French forces in Madagascar, has just died m Paris .Upon suggestion of Clifford Lloyd, the British Government hss decided to form the nucleus of the new Egyptian police from the Irish oonstabolary The Croatian rebellion grows to such im­ portance that the Austrian Minister for Foreign AtKaiie has been forced to send e dispatch to all representatives abroad, in- ii At .S8>£ .8* AIM u.ai & LioHit l.M! Wi it" SuS" .91% ....... Wbut-XO.1 Omm--NO. 2. Oats--No. 2... B*e--Na 2.. A Binn-Ma 2 VOBK--MeSs Whkxt-Nd. aCBsd. COB*--Mixed OATS--No. 2 Rn POBK--Mess LAID.,.. w „ CINCINNATI WHEA*--No. 2 Bed LU @ l.M COBN OAT3 .WH& BME...... M ® .»7 POBK--Mess. 12.60 @12.78 Labo .08 --. „ _ TOLEDO. WHEAT--Na 2 Bed Oobk OAXS--No. a DMTBOIT. Oon*~No. ].... WH^Na,̂ '̂ Oo*W--No. 2 M OAT»--Mixed .26 " . BAST LIBERTY, PA- OMTUh-Bg Hoos.*.. In 1662, when the Uilbn snd Centre! Pa­ cific Railway Companies ware chartered, a effort was made to obtain a SAC 9 1.SSH 5S:3i taHst?.s cherterfqr the Northern Paclfie ttee. For the time being It failed, out it was again revived In lKM, at tbe time tbe Union and Oeafetel Pacific Companies were ssklng Congress tor legislation subordinating the Government to the first mortgsgee of the t»0 »d by the weU-a°ceftalned facts In theteaeitot Gov. Stevens and Sf °S**i 2* 5* «Mjnpe*ae<LP frleadsof tbe Notttern route egaln oonfi- dentiysengbt the sld and encouragement of the Gfovemment, end, ay act of Congress, approved July 2. INI. a large bedy « cor­ porators were created a body corporate and politic, under the st|ie of the Northern Pa- cifio BaUroad Company, with power to build a railroad from take Superior to Puret sound, on the line of the forty-fifth peraUeL The man who vneeeeded in getting the cherter was Jo^ah Perham, who bad organ­ ised a company, under tbe sanction ef the legislature of Maine, eslled the People's Pacific Bailrosd Company, and had at­ tempted. In 18K?, to obtain the Union Pacific charterfcr his oorptMretlca- Failing In this, he turned his attention- to the Northern rente, end, by promising to ask for no sab- sidy In bonds or money from the Govern­ ment he obtained, in WM, ~n- charter coupled with a land grant just doable In stee that given to the Union and Central Pacific Companies The Northern Pacific grant embraces the alternate sections of landfor twenty miles on each ride of the roedintbe States end for forty miles In the Territories, with an additional ten miles on each side as an indemnity limit, wtthtn of like original grnnt Perham e merchant in Urine, end tbe BoaS l̂Hreetors election of Charles & WltoSt; President; Geeige Stark, Vice President,Samuel Wilkeson, See- retary, and by the . choice also of T ant gmmiropilbsSL & May. 1 Wrjg£^" r̂edten£of healtn^bslgned tbe Presidency of the NorthernPadfio, which he lng the Incumbency of Mr. Wrlghtr ln tJie office of Frorident tbeigeneepl Baaasiel con­ dition of the oountry sndthe difficulties op­ posed to extension into Montana hp <*>n* tinned Indian hottilitteî hadlotw rtndsiei the recommencing of constracqion acro a the cbntinebt lmpractiable. Important re­ newals, improvements and betterments In road-bed tnek, and eqstomeflat of the op­ erated line bad, holrever, Deen made . Alio a branch line had been built sixty-four miles from Qralnerd to a connection r with the cltieo of Bt Paul end MftmeapoMs at Sauk Rapids, and thirty-one miles had been added from Tacoma to Wilkeson, on the Pacific ooast In 187V the oompany had SJ far.recovered its credit that it wasaldeto borrow money to resume oonstructlon operations on a large ecele. It began to baud from the Mirsoart river Westward, and from the Columbia river, In Eastern Washington Territory, near the function of the Ante river, northeast­ wardly toward Lake Pend (TOrellle, in Northern Idaha The oompany did not feel strong enough to put forth any financial scheme for oompleting the entire road, bat only asked for money enough to build two dlvlsbms, which it mortgaged separate!̂ , with tne iaoad nan s attaching to them. In 1880, after lb. Billings hsd succeeded to the Presidency, negotiations were completed with a syndicate of bankers, including the Hew York houses of Winslow, Lanier A Co.. Drexel, Morgan A Ca and August Belmont A Ca, and the London housa of J. & Morgan years, and money thns cecored for com­ pleting the teed across Montana and filllnf. the gap in the track, which then amounted to over 800 mllea. In 1881 a very Important chanM took plane In the management of the Northern Padfie'a affair*. Henry VWard, a Germen »Mrth,wbo oame to this oountry at tbe age IS, and who won considerable reputation as a newsneper correspondent during end efter the avll war, and who had become in­ terested In tsflroad management In Xanaae ae the repreeentative ot large ereets, had gredaeUy obtained control, during tbe six yean folio wing the panic of IMS, of tfcettanspottation lines by extended, so that they represented wbaAfor .anew oountry, was a remarkably-efficient transportation system In 1880 Mr YUlard determined, if possible, to eecureabarmoey of Interests and control bet wetti his OrCgon lines and theKorthern Padfio line, so as to mske the former the western extensions and feeders ef tbe Isttec In 1U81 he organised what was known as the "blind pool* la Mew York, aad obtained within a few weeks from subscriptions over #8,000,109. of money, without dkcMnr the use which be meant to make of this large sum, and without giving any other. se- ourity than his personal teoripta. With Ibis money aad Oth -r means of his own he quiet­ ly purchssed a controlling Interest in the • ̂ ii n%« lb • VMAVMM BamISA • • i of Carey's identity was tittA HtuAQeiner as MRkal it Cape ̂ T >wn, when a parafnntph appeared, in a keel newspaper wuS l̂SbSt CdtSf wa* ninjg out to Sefth. Africa by tho nadl and veling um ̂tome otMt name^an his ^o îa---- - - - -- The apnestanre ef this psragrsnh eaased * t̂ pecnlation okt the ship, and happenbtg xb see a print of Carey, fMued by ap English p^per, It was clear that Power wjas the very man. jSnnday wra a lovely sunny day and the rn» of wM* ta<M f fptau aev^Miier'# announoMaatot and to the oonversatton to Ovejr aitd his obrasr; blithe movedrart a muscle, thus showing g< eat self-oominaad OHDonuell said at din- & Stood in view of what followed About a anerter to 4 In. the afternoon OTikm- ntil aaked Carey into the second aaloon ' and they drank together. Tbe drtined man was then standing in the center of tbe saloon, while O'Donnell and hia wife were sitting close to him. No h%h words were heard between them, end the i rst alarm was the sound of a shot earey was shot right thrvjugh the neck. He tnrned as if to make fox bis wife's berth, t'Donnell ahot him twice In the back, hen Caroy fell at the end of tbe aaloon Mra Carey rushed out and threw ' on her huslMnit̂ bat the only words •wnpe, "Sh, Maggie! na riiot!" The i, cime lorwara at once and had rnnell arrested and medical assistance moned l.or the dying men. ie sceî e was one never to be forgotten Carey wailing, her little children cry­ ing about her, Mra O'Donnell with ber arms around her hasbaudTs neck weeping too, while the stewards were rushing around to dd what trey could for the fast-expiring nun. If wasevtdeathecould notlivelong,. and within three-quarters of an hour James '.Carey's corpse was removed to a house on pn anchoring In Algoa bay, Monday, at bttf-past 1 p. m., the Captain went ashore aqd reported to the authorises. ODonneB and the corpse were taken ashore When tbe littie steamer brooght up at the Jetty a crowd of GOO-people had gathered, and a silght cheer was raised as O'Donnell wa'ked firmly up the stage The body of Carey was followed to the Kve by Mrs. Carey and her children, the trict Satgeon, and the Assistant Magis­ trate of PortElbabetb. A rabble of negroes also gathered in the burial-ground. No min­ ister was present and no arrangement was made for religions servioes, bat just as the coffin was lowered into the grjtve the sur­ geon, ttr. Elisor, who for eome time had labored under strong emotion, spoke in a clear and distinct voice as follows: "Friends, in the absence of any official minister, I think it only right that a few words should be said over tue grave of thia poor man. Lrtifrpray.* Everyheidwas immediittaly uncovered, and Dr. xasor osered vp a short rer. iarth was then thrown on tbe tx i " ii ' , u? * " * - - M £"Ui ±iS* -m tdecreaae < The gsneral average < ^SStê r̂ d Atlantic ooa«t« C rtfit a deftcteaciy l* nsml tonwture. rati seed was tern tarrlterr. eoadltion on the let offi points of ralal aad tooLwet, wttlT Sî 1̂ l̂atth recent frosts fortieth paralleL the lnjory In " The * " ss&4 coaslnand Intatylabew Y< fit . tbekes s* » aeeUon, aad _8 ta. •ednped thegenerelarop Mtow Tbe *uoadlttonnf Trbeat slwe h athaatheyleld pf kist yeacvoreloss «f . _.. - yeacvoreloss nt ! >,000bnswria' - i erep-ef eats will be large, the general:- r Ming Ml .v the reported average In cotro ̂ •1 J |̂be September cettob retuzna l6ttlt'D|̂ ' pertinent of Agriculteie aie less favorable- th^ntheeeof August The principal cause ff the injury Is drought, which baa reduced b» tn ltacsa Ia Mcrth CaroUiia aud Vir- Jfinia the tempes store has been too low at light, with etrieae droeght Xhe Onlf Statea report a more or less general preva­ lence ef thr eaterpiliarandbaltwormat nuiny polnta. The? geaoraL average condi­ tio ̂of the cam is reduo^d to State, avenges areasfoUows: Yitglnla. I . WlMtsslsslppL...:W- Nofib Carolina.......18 Loulslsna.............TT South CaroHna 10t53ETT!7.... OeOrria. 70 Arkansas.... . .. .so Fkrlda »a Tennessee M filalsMaa 76 In September, 1819, the general average condition was 85; in 1881 it was 10. It was 82 in the great crop years of ttMO snd 188ft In some oounties the drought oimtinaes; tn others the recent rains caused some im­ provement Bust hss appeased very gen- erslî and Is most threatening ta the driest. NKW EMGIAMD. STOJCMDID SHOW1KO FOB AM. mmeor CaEBBAIA The crop retaras from Maine, New Han^~ shite and Vermont, says a Boston dispatch, shownfalr condition The probable yield of Maine wUl be as follows: Wheat, 713,698 ̂ oats, 161,<18; barley, 9dfi,277; buckwheat, 900,000; and rye, OO^JO bnuela in V«min< grain of alt kinds looks finefr It Is esti­ mated that the yield of the principal ereps will be: Potatoes, 86,003,«0; o«Se, 8,(£h,000; wheat, 81?,aO; eern, ^OM.OOO- barley, 1W,5J0; and buckwheat, 3i0,000' bashela The season hss been favorable for the T rod notion of buttar andohee*e, tiiongb wool will nrobhbly fall below the troage. following Is the estimate: (Snn, 1,825,1551; oets, r,0(2,141; barley, 17,387; wheat, 174 ̂ H»V»<ryy .86,018; and potatoes, WISCONSIN. -J DAMAOB «* tthOST TO OOKN AM) TDBACOQ,. Advices received in Milwaukee from |0 cections of the tobooco region Indicates that about one-third of the crop had been cut before fonts, nnd the rest Is *o seriously hurt that the entire imp will be about one- half. Tuo upper and tender end choicer ^ ives were chiefly destroyed, while the bot- ma were not materially hurt. The frosts were stronger-In .Bock tbea inDane, the 9 Alf in Boston, and was prtoc^wlly ' known for elected Vresldtet In the way,beside ttg titadsnoy tn the laesirtsd in the nbart<r,widwhich irnhiMtiil acrosstbslDsBeuri, at Bismarck. stock of the Northern Padfio Company a was eleoted Its President In September of that year, placing h i friend and former as­ sociate la railroad management In Kansaa and Oregon, Mr. Thomas F. Oakes, In tie Vtoe Presidency as the chief executive of­ ficer of the company. Construction operations went on rapidly duringthe years lwo ̂1881 and 1882 from both ends of the line, and at the beginning Of tbe year 1881 the track remaining to be " was reduced to about SOu miles, grading had been mainly done «ad was at onoe aooeptod on the Carey. ftBHBBAL HOTES. MBTAUIO rad Is 4he oolor of the aserS- oeat stamps. GaoaoiA's maaafaoturedproducts will ag<- gregate almost #5to;000.«lthls year ta aggregate demands of PMladetahla's Councils for appropriations for neat year foot ap at Two susru>waa«»la Lancaster Pa. measr ure remectl«rely forty-eight and forty-nine fnthvt Tit circumfetenoe. Ovma 71,030 California mountain trout rad 500,000 salmon treat have been plaoedin LAe Keuka, N. Y., this season. On RCKDBKO AMD siXTr-«wa bodies of drowned persons were taken from the East river, Brooklyn side, during the year end­ ing July 81,U8& TBS Montana Assessors' Convention voted to assess the roadbed of railways wlrhin the Territory at 04,M.0 a mile and telegraph and telephone lines at 9SU0 a mile fa* body of Joe King. <»eaOftbe rioters who waa hangodoothe 'ilthof Qetober, i ̂ 8 , atEastmaaTtia, and baried t̂qahren, was unearthed recently and found to be petrified. IK a population of 1,800,000 New York City has SUMS real-estatoowners. It fur­ ther apaears that while Che real estate an­ nually inoreases in value the owners become fewer: A RAFT measuring 1,800 feet long, twelve feet deep, end twenty-four Met wld* and consisting of 5,800100* has jes* been towed down in aafeigp tnaK Johl, N. B., to hew afaML aad tbe ether aSTSe £a main SvWonjof the TM**msr Is 8,000 feet «r~ fork, a distance 4S0 a i used in the Fiva slaty. ecntlon of WllUsm Fee, who was 18 ̂at Lyons, N. Y , have sines been a useful psrtin pressing out tbe white psper on whtohalooalnewspei In Akron, Ohio, a fellow who had been un able to vS^mThorse to diaw a Ised mp hUl unfsstened tbe tags from the atagte taee and tied the poor arsataro*s>tidl to.lt Hethen whipped we horse im&theiaAf nant bystauidera interposed. The feBow bad to esospe from the town. I - j M 1 : '-Si proxlmlqhcif the lakes In tbe latter I roving oeneficlal Corn may alro be sum­ marised aa Injured oounttea 0peroent.lathetiB> • • ;•:> + ̂ KANSAS., i a*as tor «» ive It to •be Mr. William Shns, Secretary of tbe Kansse Stat̂ Board o ̂ Agriculture, sends oat the following: This Board Is no way connected with tbe statement purporting tooons from this deoartment, that toe State will produce 3(MH0,<N0bn*hel« of wheat. Oar last esti­ mate of the wheat crop of Kaa*as for 1^8 ii about MiMlOO.OUO bashela, - """* bnshels abort of last year. . la tot estimate, andwe. believe nearly oorxect . DAMAGEBf VBOIT. TWO OOMSSBVATIVB ruaa orwtons AS M «*e;;.V • " liatT. : y%-. ' The New York Herald does aot believe that the Wast em frosts wffi hare ea ap­ preciable etfect upon the growing com crop. "Were every ear of Com in Ittchlgan and Wteomsln," ft says, "rained by frost, the less would be but about 8 per cent of the - entire orop o( the country. The Chicago I%ttr (ktan. thinks "tte damage done to tha corn crop from frost» comparatively alight, and the soare oAthls aocount Is over. There was alittie finnry on the Board of Trade, bat no ocoesion for It, and a few days ot sunshine end wermet westher will bring as good s crop as evet* ^« GENERAL NOTES. Coauss, the eag.ne î aa, is building i#' ̂ gines for thefirat Oulnass cotton-mllL "d, v; IBOM ore of the finest qaality is said have been discovered in Bath county, Ky. Tax colored Masons of Savannah, Oa, ' have omnmenced the erection of a Msscwalc Hall at a oost of $ 0,t00. Ii irTnmiD folks who Urfak the Mf phone is alwa^ato htana% may be daaoribed as victims ef a Bello-clnarioii IT IS strange yet tree, that a much you batter at a knot, when i It out you always leave the knot hole