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death of Mono and James Ballard, brother* of Jack Ballard, who bad just been sen* years' imp; Spencer last brought in fenced killing I. VAN SI tfSWSOOKD ent for TOE EAST. ' Tax first nee between the yachts Pari­ sian and the Genesta, which was sailed on ;l|te 14th inst. over what is known as the inside course of the New York Yacht Clnb, length of thirtv-eigbt miles, was won by _Jjbe former in G: 04:30. The English cuttea ^ Wasbeaten by a little more than a mile, lad crossed the line in 6:10:30. The event excited great interest throughout the coan- |>ry and in.England. PRINCE, the champion bicyclist, was de­ feated at Blossburg, Pa., by John Brooks a twenty-mile race... .Fire in a double tenement house in East Eighty-firet street, Kew York, created a panic among tbe hundred inmates: but all eso&ped either by |be stairways or fire-ladders, except a "Woman and her babe, who fell down an atir-shaft in the roof, both being instantly felled. 5 A PHILADELPHIA dispatch says the peek's business in iron and steels has been tmusuftlly large, but it is impossible to give exact figures. Rail buyers are crowding orders in for small lots, and prices are very irm at $29. It is uncertain at present whether large orders will be placed for delivery at $30 after Jan. 1, be- . csuse of the doubts expressed by large buyers as to the ability of the syndicate to hold these prices. Seven bar mills have resumed work during the week, and a large amount of business is earning to hand for it for prompt and de­ layed delivery... .Rev. James G. Townsend, • prominent Methodist clergyman of Buf- fflo, has resign his pulpit because he can not longer adhere to the doctrine of eternal punishment. Claire Virginia Cramer, a niece of General Grant, and Alphonse Bern hard, a Paris journalist, were married Y«tk last week. *d escape . recaptured . .The Gulf, West­ ern Texas'and Pacific Railway has been absorbed into the Southern Pacific system. THE mill buildings and 6,000,000 feet of lumber, owned by the Southern Pump Company, at Nashville, Tenn., were burned, entailing a loss of $200,000, with $100,000 insurance. VTXKIAKSOTON dispatch: "Representative Warner, of Ohio, is in the city talking sil­ ver to the President and Cabinet. He ex- presses the opinion that Congress will piss a compromise bill during the coming ses­ sion, but admits that the lines are drawn M finely as ever, both by the silver advocate! and their enemies." THE WEST. 'THE Jennings County Bank, located at Hbrth Vernon. Ind., owned by C. E. Cook, wake an assignment on account of having iaade large purchases of fraudulent Indiana township bonds. Fears are entertained that other banks and private individuals will also be forced to suspend from the «me cause A freight train on the Cin­ cinnati, Indianapolis, St Louis and Chicago Railroad separated on a Steep grade near Guilford. Ind., flhe rear section afterward telescoping that attached to the engine. Nine tramps were imprisoned in a car of oate, and three of them were suffocated. .At Cincinnati Frank Berte struck William Hazard a pow­ erful blow with his fist, killing him instant­ ly. The men were laborers, and the murder grew oat of a quarrel between them a few days before. Capt. A. E. Goodrich. President of the Goodrich Transportation Company, died •'"at his residence in Chicago, aged 5» years. '....Mary L. Shepherd, 14 years old. was arrested at Dodgeville, Wis., while trying fo dispose of a team of horses she had ftalen. Her home is in Webster City, Iowa. IN a cellar in Chinatown, San Francisco, file Coroner found a mass of human skulls find bones, partly covered with flesh, in the Hast stages of putrefaction: and in adjoin­ ing rooms a number of Chinese were dis­ covered boiling bones and scraping and icking them in boxes for shipment to " ina. The cellar contained, it is believed, remains of 300 bodies, which had been olen from cemeteries throughout the State. The bones and strips of skin were pgo packed and labeled that the remains could be easily claimed by relatives in ; China. While being taken to the morgue |ome of the boxes fell to the street, expos­ ing their ghastly contents, and caus­ ing intense excitement among the foeople, who trod the bones un- ivjper foot in their indignation.... * An application of the Atlantic and Pacific Jlailroad Company for an indemnity grant lo odd sections of land along a line recently purchased from the Southern Pacific Com­ pany has been denied, on the ground that Ihe road was not completed within the pre­ scribed time... .Will A. Kearney, a promi- iient young attorney of Logansport, Ind., , "is in jail at that city on a charge of horse stealing. The sons of several wealthy citizens v$f Celina, O., have been arrested for burg- V fcries recently committed in that town.... :$leports from fifty-nine towns in Wiscon- Eegarding tbe result of the license elec-show that fifty-two towns adopted the license, thirty-six voted for $200, and one town adopted the $350 rate... .Hugh JtfcHenry and Howard Pearce have been fndicted at Independence, Mo., for the ecent train robbery on the Chicago and Iton Railroad Suit has been begun at Moines, Iowa, contesting the will of le late Father Brazil, a popular Catholic stor, who left $250,000 worth of real es- ite to the church. The relatives allege itet the time of making the will the Bev. r. Brazil was insane. ' A DECISION by United States Judge Brewer, that 27,000 acres of land held by ihe Kansas Southern Railroad are legally a part of the public domain, has caused wild excitement in Southern Kansas. Farmers are flocking to Woodson and Greenwood Counties and are staking off claims, and Some are building shanties and breaking the sod. In many instances even land en­ tered by college script has been taken pos­ session of... .Mines at Ishpeming, Mich., which have been idle six months, are about to resume operations, with a force of two hundred men. AT the annual meeting of the Lumber Manufacturers' Association of the North­ west, held in Chicago, Mr. A. G. Van Bchaick, of that city, was re-elected Presi­ dent, and resolutions were adopted favor* ing a curtailment of 20 per cent, in the production for next year. The con­ vention adjourned to meet in Chicago on the third Wednesday in April, 1886. In the De Mores trial at Bismarck, Dakota, Prosecuting Attorney Long accused the presiding judge of sympathy with the de­ fendant, and was sent to jail for contempt of court... .It is believed at St. Paul that an announcement will soon be made that the Burlington has secured control of the St. Paul and Duluth Road....The plans ' for the Garfield monument at Cleveland are now completed. rourncii* SESTATOK SABIX, of Minnesota, In an interview at Washington, is reported ae saying: I believe the President, as I hare frequently stated publicly, is thoroughly honest, and <le- sires to give the country a good administration, and onKQt to have a fair and unlettered op­ portunity to do so. It is conceded that he has the rieht to appoint hts polit cal sym­ pathizers to office, and 1 will vote to confirm them when they are shown to be tit for the places to which they are se­ lected--where they are appointed in fair po­ litical grounds, without detriment to the public interests, and without .'mirchint; tt)e reputation of the Republican officials who have preceded them. But where it is shown that Republicans have been removed to the damage of the public service, and upon false chartres which have in­ jured their good name, I shall do my part to secure for them the fullest opportunity for investigation. THE President, says a Washington dis­ patch, has at last filled the office of post­ master at Augusta, Me., by the appoint­ ment of Lemuel B. Fowler. There has been a very active controversy over this office, Colonel Morton, editor of the Democratic paper at Augusta, having been a prominent and persistent candidate, backed by the Democratic committee and other prominent leaders of the partv in the Stnte. It is understood that Mr. Blaine re­ quested President Cleveland not to ap- Eoint Morton, because he was offensive to im. THE President has appointed the follow­ ing named Presidential Postmasters: Ed­ ward H. Thayer, at Clinton, Iowa, vice Charles Pell, resigned; Henry Williams, at Frederick. JIcL, vice Charles W. Miller, resigned; J. Henry Bowers, at Chico, Cal., vice James M. Onnsby, suspended; Russell T. Dobson, at Bowling Green, Ohio, vice John D. Bowler, suspended; James Murray, at Fremont. Neb., vice H. O. Payne, resigned: William H. Evans, at Princeton, vice E. R. Pinney, suspended; John Crull, at Marietta, Pa., vice G. H. Etla, suspended. and it is announced that the Anglo-Turk­ ish joint occupation of Egypt has been lice at renew the s ing Ae peril 'jj>a»$fritap.'s refusal te ae- oKed fair Great Britain is istnfai tefluenoe. J. .The po- _ have bees-ordered to it Measure* in force dur- wken Nihilism was most Texas, says: "Tne principle of woman's rights sustained an ignoble defeat here after a heroic onslaught. Three maiden sisters named Cash, of mature years, reside on a street that is being repaired and graded. They objected to any work being done in front of their premises, as thev had no voice in ordering the improvement. This afternoon, while the street boss and his laborers were at work in front of the Cash residence, the three maiden sisters came out and assaulted the workmen with rocks, putting over a dozen brawny men to flight.' The City Marshal and two policemen then essayed to protect tbe men while they re­ turned to work, but the irate sisters were equal to the emergency, for this time they eallied forth with two old pistols and a garden hoe. The ehival ric Marshal and his aids hastily retreated before the foe, and again the workmen were severely pelt­ ed with rocks.and fled. Calling re-enforce- ments, the Marshal rallied his men and finally captured the Amazons and lauded them in the calaboose, where they are pass­ ing to-night singing hymns." A DESPERATE shooting took place a which resulted in gEIKill. THE world-renowned Jumbo is dead. After having traveled countless miles over both the old and new world; after escaping all the dangers of travel by land, lake, and ocean; after passing 6afely through the different climates from the torrid to the frigid zone, from Mexico to Winnipeg, the greatest liviug wonder of the elephant tr be has died the ignominious death of being run over by a freight train. The ac­ cident occurred at St. Thomas, Ont., and the circumstances are thus related in a dis­ patch from that point: Jumbo, along with the other animals,was taken from the circus tent and removed to the Lon­ don and Port Stanley Railway station, where the care were ready to receive them. .Turnbound the baby elephant, who always "chummed" tocether, were taken by their keeper from the main track of the Air Line to the London and 1'ort Stanley Railway track, where the cars were beine loaded. As the two elephants were beinsr led across the track to the cars a special freight train came up behind them along the Air-Line track, which is straight for a consid­ erable distance. It is supposed that Jumlio first discovered the danger himself, as he aave a few loud, dismal sounds which startled every one for some distance. The shoumen rushed from the ground, being well aware that some­ thing was wrong. The men in charge of the ele­ phants soon became aware of the danger, bat the only way of escape was to rush along the track to a crossing and then leave the track be­ fore the engine should reach them. Jumbo did his best to get there, but failed. When a short distance lrom the crossing the engine struck the pair, threw the baby elephant to one side, breaking its leg, and forced Jumbo to the earth and pushed him along the track until his body threw the engine off into the ditch. As soon as an examination could be made it was seen that Jumbo eoul 1 not recover, there being deep gashes in his flanks, and his feet and legs very badiy smashed. When he died, Matthew Scott, his keeper, who had been with him twenty-one years, threw himself on his body and wept bitterly. THE Panama Star and Herald an­ nounces that the first section of the Panama Canal will be opened next month. This section is six miles long, and covers but one-eighth of the distance which it is necessary to build in order to complete communication between the two seasl It has cost $90,000,000, and has not been beeet with the great difficulties that will be encountered in the construction of the remainder... .The Society of the Army of the Cumberland held its seven­ teenth annual reunion in Grand Rapids, Mich. There were about 500 members of the society in attendance, among them most of the officers, including General P. H. Sheridan, the President of the society; General Cist, the Secretary; General Ful­ ton, the Treasurer; General Muzzy, who will delivered the oration; General Morgan, General Poe, General Barnett, Colonel Shoemaker, General Innes, Colo­ nel Fox» General.Ciltche*on, General Heury Stone, General Pierce, and General Swayne. • AT the convention of the National Tan­ ners and Hide and Leather Dealers' Asso­ ciation in Chicago, resolutions were passed favoring the creation of a National Riilroad Commission, and the passage by Congress of a bankrupt law. The convention ad­ journed to meet at Boston on the first Wednesday of September, 1886 Gen. Sheridan was elected President of the Society of the Army of the Cumber­ land, in session at Grand Rapids, Michigan. The next meeting will be held at Washington. The ninth annual reunion of the Army of West Virginia was held at Portsmouth, Ohio, Gen. R. B. Hayes presiding Three men living at South Lancaster, Ontario, were shipwrecked on Lake St. Frances by the capsizing of their yacht. Two of them died from ex posure and the other floated ashore on the bottom of the overturned boat in such an exhausted condition that his life is despaired of. ...The Cincinnati Price Current places the corn crop of the country this year at 1,990,000,000 bushels, 195,000,000 in excess of last year's yield. •amfant.... Frederick Kiel, the eminent Geman composer, is dead. MB. GLADSTONE'S manifesto, whieh takes the form lit an address to his con­ stituents of Midlothian, has been issued. He eharges the arrears of legislation to Tory obstruction: claims creoit for the Afghan settlement: advocates a withdrawal from Egypt at the earliest moment that honor permits; and admits the commission of serious errors of judgment at a great cost of treasure and precious liv.es in the Houdnn. lie snvs: "Our responsibility for OW mistakes cannot be questioned." H»f?<wes the primogeniture and entails, MMwMBeiitu on the growing dissatisfac­ tion with the church establishment and the House of Lords. He trusts in the solu­ tion of the Irish question without embit­ tered ^ivil strife, and, referring presumably to Parnell, remarks: "I believe history and posterity will consign to disgrace the name ami memory of every man, on which­ ever side of the channel he dwells, who, having power to promote peace and friend­ ship, uses it for strife and enmity," v-'-< • "i-i'v. JDD1TI0XAL NEWS. ' - i • i PBOCEEDINGS in the nature of a quo warranto have been instituted by the Me- Henry party against the President and Di­ rectors of the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad to compel them to show by what right they hold their offices.... The Genesit won the Commodore Douglas cup in the yacht race at New York, Ihe Gray­ ling securing the cup offered by James Gordon Bennett.. . .The extensive manu­ factory of the Smith American Organ Com­ pany, at Boston, was destroyed by fire, en­ tailing heavy losses. THE tobacco crop in Virginia and North Carolina is said to bo a failure, and a drought of long duration has "fired" the plant badly. . Nicholas Snowdea, colored, in jail at Ellicott City, Md., on a charge of assaulting a child, was taken out and hanged by men of his own race.... The streets of Galveston, Tex., says a dispatch from that city, are submerged, the result of heavy rains, which have fallen almost incessantly since Sept. 1, the rain-gauge since that date indicating a fall of neaily eighteen inches--one-third of the average total for a year. THE Government Directors of tbe Union Pacific, after investigation, report that the condition of affairs at Bock Springs, Wy. T , the scene of the recent massacre of Chinese, is such as to jeopardize Ihe Gov­ ernment s interests, and suggests prompt interference by the military. Gen. McCook is on the ground, under orders to give strict protection to the Chinese Consuls, who are making investigations. The Consuls claim that twenty-five Chinamen ha^aeen killed, and that not a single American-bom citi­ zen participated in the rioting. A Bismarck (Dak.) dispatch says: "The prairie fires now raging in this region are the most disastrous ever experienced. The flames have swept across the country over one hundred miles east, and the damage is beyond estimate. In many cases the dwell­ ings and barns of farmers have been de­ stroyed, and grain and stacks are all ablaze. Passengers on incoming trains state that the prairies for miles present a scene of destruction. A woman living near Steele, sixty miles east of this city, was fatally injured by inhaling the flames while endeavoring to escape. Prairie fires have also been raging west of the Missouri River, and much damage is reported from that section."... .A boat containing Louis Bleyer, of Milwaukee, and Win Kittmuel- ler, of Philadelphia, capsized in Lake Mus­ kegon, Rittmueiler beinsr drowned... .John Sharp, a Bishop of the Mormon Church and a Director of the Union Pacific Bail- road, was fined $300 at Salt Lake City for illegal cohabitation.... Hostile Indians have committed five murders in the Mogol- lon Mountains, New Mexico, during the past week. BUSINESS failures throughoat the coun­ try for the week aggregated 178 for the United States and Canada, as against 203 forthe week previous aud 1G5 for the week before that, liradntiect'* says "no gain in the recently reported improvement in trade circles is reported by the special telegrams. In most directions the full measure of the movement is maintained; that is all. From Western centers comes the word that the interior purchases are as heavy as previously. At Detroit it is re­ ported that losses sustained in the first half of the year's trade in dry goods have been made good alrendy by increased sales. is noticeable, however, that at no im­ portant trade center East or W est have dis­ count rates or ca'.l-loan rates advanced. There has been a noteworthy gain in the employment of surplus funds, but bankers appear ^ thus far to have been anxious to employ their idle capital at the lowest rates, nria, to­ gether with the continued indisposition on the part of railway managers to cease rate- cutting, with the somewhat squally railway tariff outlook among the granger lines, and with the heaviness of wh at and anthracite coal, aud the average of business failures from week to week, constitute the salient features of the trade situation. Iron is slightly firmer, and in better demand. Prices are unchanged. There is no pros­ pect of any boom."... .Silver medils will be bestowed by the Canadian Government on troops engaged in suppressing the Northwestern rebellion THE Pterin) PURITAN. Flying Ibrtogh the Briny Billows, Ihe Gattamtly Outsails the Genesta. VOBEBCFFLB A MADRID dispatch 6ays that, unless Spain consents to an arbitration of the Car­ olines question, Germany will invite the European powers and the United States to a conference, either at Paris or Vienna, for the purpose of agreeing upon principles to govern territorial acquisitions in the 1'acific. A disagreement is reported between Bismarck nnd the Crown Prince relative to the Carolines affair. Cholera is prevailing at Nagasaki, Osaka, and other places in Japan. The epidemic is spreading in Italy and Southern France, but in Spain a steady abatement of its rav ages is reported.... At a meetiug of 800 Spaniards at Marseilles resolutions were adopted praising the energy of Spain in re eistinq German nggression, and a fund was raised for a sword for Gen. Salamanca. SIB HENRY DKUMMOND WOLFF'S mis fioa to Constantinople has proved a failure .80 ffl THE MARKETS. NEW YORK. BEEVES. |4.S0 HOGS &00 WHEAT--NO. L White............. .91 No. 2Red.......... .tin CORN--NO. 2 OATS--White....: .36 POKK--Mess 10.00 CHICAGO. BEEVES--Choice to Prime Steers. 8.75 Good Shipping 6.<i0 Common 8.73 HOGS 4.25 FLOUR--Fancy Red Winter Ex.. ft.oo Prime to Choloe Spring. 8.75 WHEAT--No. 2 Spring «> CORN--No. a.. .43 OATS--No. 2 25 BYE--No. 2 .55 BAULEY--No. 2 , .70 BurTEit--Choice Creamery.,..,. .20 Fine Dairy ...^ ^17 CHEESE--Fall Cream, new....... .10 lart Skimmed, new... .01 Eor.s--Frosh. .14 POTATOES--New, per bu .35 POKK--Mesa .... 8.50 MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No. 4. Cousi--No. 2. OATK--NO. 2 »...> KYE--No. 1 Pome--Mesa.... * TOL.EDU. WHEAT--No. 2 Red CORN--NO. 2 OATS--No. 2. ST. 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IIoos...,..,. 8fUU)F.. ..v<. / 3' A 6.50 © 5.50 <4 .98 <I!L .95 & .49V6 & .43 @10.50 <§ 6.25 ® 5.50 4.50 & 4.75* & 5.28 & 4.25 m .81 & .44 ©I .27 i<i .57 & .73 & .22 .19 .10)4 & .05 .15 <9 .40 & 9.00 .45 .23 & .55 A *25 .81 ,4A .26 .57 & 8.75 .87 .44 .25 .90 .44 .24 9.00 .88 .45 .25 .88 .45 ,2T 0 .91 & .43 .25 & 9.50 & & & .57 & *4SDFFAiSK*r .90 .47 .27 .59 6.00 & 9.10 @ 5.00 & .87 & .47 '4 .34 @10.50 <3 6.00 <G .89 (<? .4* & .26 9 6.00 (?.» 5.50 4.50 <$ 4.75 & 4.25 & 6.00 & 4.76 & 3.50 3.50 * .85 .46 .32 10.00 4.00 .87 .42 .24 5.50 5.00 4.00 4.25 3.50 5.50 4.50 8.00 The Aaerioa's Chip Hobfy Won in Most Bonubitable YaoMng H on Record. •eesion of the deoided at Mew York on the Kith inst., by the Puritan beating the Geuesta over the long ooutwe bv 1 minute 38 seconds; cor­ rected time. The race is said to have been the closest ever contested; the Genesta leading for nearly three-fourths of the dis­ tance, and being 2 minutes £ seconds ahead.at the outer mark. The wind was fresh at the start, and increased toward the finish to -half a gale, resulting in a lumpy sea. A New York dispatch says of the great noe: The cup won by the America more than 1 a generation ago was never in such peril as to-day. Ita possession has been often challenged ami warmly contested, but never before has Greut Britain sent a champion so hard to vanquish. Had it not been far the building of the Yankee^ yacht and the Ruling of thei Yankee skipper we might have been compelled to yield the trophy •jwhich we hare so often defended, and always with lhdch greater ease than to-day. when for the first time American yachts have had to bend their sails in competition with an antagonist to be feared in any weetherl There never was such a race in jQnerican waters. There probably never was sailed before, in the history of yatching, a race iu which the^m^el# hung tantalizingly before two famous rivals un­ til the very end of a long fifty-mile course. No boat but the Puritan could have saved the day; none but the Genesta could have made victory 8b dubious. It * was a grand race from the moment that the fieet-winged racers crossed the imaginary line until the . whistles blow and the guns belched forth their welcoming to the returning conqueror. The yachts looked grand as they dashed across the liue. Both weie taken in tow by the tugs Scandinavian and Luckenbach and cast oft at their Staten Island anchor­ age. At 6 o'clock the race was over, and the America's cup was still retained on this side of the Atlantic. In speaking of the race ex-Commodore Smith, who has seen every important race for the last thirty years, said: "It was the grandest race ever seen in the world, and if the Puritan had been properly handled she would have beaten the cutter more yet." Another correspondent says; It/was a handsome triumph. It is all the more cause for exultation that the races were so fairly sailed that no cause for complaint can be.made-bgr tfce defeated Englishmen. Sir Riebftrd Sntton and his crew took>their de­ feat in a becoming manned-. Indeed, the conduct of the managers of the Genesta during the time they have been her® has shown 'that they are gentlemen in the best sense of the word. Tbe victory of the Puritan shows that the English lave yet •omething to learn from the Yankees in the line of navial architecture. They are obsti* nate, however, and our yachtsmen seed not be surprised if the Britons do notgive up the effort to get the cup. They "have atF> other crack yacht, the Galatea, which may be in onr waters before lopg and make another trial for the trophy. , The Genesta was regarded as the best all around" boat in the British fleets of last season. She won her first race in a fresh whole-Bail breeze, beating the Vau- duara two minutes and fifty-five seconds. In her third race she beat the fastest two- sticker in British waters, in a fresh wind and a nasty jump of the sea. In her fourth race she beat, in a light wind, the fastest light-weather boat in England. In another race she won with the wind unsteady, varying from a lower-sail breeze to a flat calm. s She came to American waters with a picked and disciplined crew, a model for yachtsmen, and with an unsurpassed rec­ ord. She has been beaten in light wind and strong wind. She has been beaten by vessel built by Americans to illustrate the American idea of fast-sailing craft, and the America's cup, won in 1851, will remain in America. ___________ THE KXY^X. CRAFT. faH.SUTTMlBMtT. The Genesta. The Genesta, owned by Sir Richard S*tt6n, fca* had a Considerable hieasure of euccess, though she was frequently beaten by other English boats in match races on the coast of England, before concluding to try to recover the Queen's Cup. Her fdeeigner, Mr. IJeavor Webb, accompanied her to this country. The Genesta was built at Partick-on-the-Clyde, in May, 1884. Her dimensions are 90 feet over all, 81 feet on the water line, IS feet extra beam. 11 feet 9 inches depth of hold, and 13 feet 6 inches draught of water. Her register is of 81 tons, and she is enrolled 11K the Thames Royal Yacht Squadron. She made a quick passage to this country, proving herself a good sailer, but in no case before the great race did she fully exhibit her abilities, bbchakicau A MED ink for markim is sot attacked by ids, c»n Jm CMCKCM The Puritan. A Yankee boat--built ia Boston, by Boston men for Boston parties--the white flyer Puritan, is especially the pride of New Englanders. She was built by George Lawley of South Boston, is 93 feet over all, 80 feet water line, 23 feet beam, 8 feet 2 inch draught. The qualities of the Puritan were tested by three races with the Priscflla, built also for the purpose of racing the Genesta. Of three trial races the Puritan won two, and was selected as the champion of American yachting interests in the contest with the Genesta. STATISTICS show that the population.of Ire'and has decreased 3,200,COO in forty- five years. PETER THE GREAT'S boots are exhibited M curiosities at SI, Petersburg. . l--Wn.to through fine linen. M^ki art formed on cloth -with this liquid by means of a quill, and are fixed aftefc ^*ve be001®© dry by pressing the cll>th on the other side with a hot iron. MR. LAWS, of Newcastle, England, has submitted to tbe Tyne Port sani­ tary authorities a scheme for a floating infectious diseases hospital of novel construction. He proposes to float the hospital upon pontoons ten feet apart, with a platform of iron and timber four feet above high-water level. There are to be three large wards, with ten beds each. The wards are to be made of wood, with a double skin, and the roof is to be of zinc or wood. There is to be space on the platform for the future erection of the administration blpck. The estimated cost is $20,000. * , THE English. billion--a million jmil- lions--has set Sir Henry Bessemer'cal­ culating. """"He that a Million seconds have not elapsed since the world began, as they would reckon 31,668 years, 17 days, 22 hours, 45 minr utes, 5 seconds. A chain of a billion sovereigns would pass 736 times around the globe, or, lying side by side, each in contact with its neighbor, would form about the earth a golden zone twenty- six feet six inches wide. This same chain, were it stretched out straight, would make a line a fraction over 18,- 328,455 miles in extent. For measur­ ing height, Sir Henry chose for a unit a single sheet of paper about 1-333 of an inch in thickness. A billion of these thin sheets, pressed out flal^ and piled vertically upon each other, would make an altitude of 48,348 mfles. A NEW process for the manufacture of steel is attracting lunch "attention among manufacturers because it prom­ ises to successfully compete with the Bessemer process. It is called the Cl»J®-Griflith process, and fourteen pllMrtS have (already been 'liieeilsed. The work of the puddlera i« done by ma­ chinery. The product ft a steel very low in carbon, which can te worked and welded as well as the softest iron. One great advantage claimed is that it Vill utilize the high phosphorus ore of the Lake Superior region at better prices. It is also claimed that this new system will check the importation of ores, as ores high in phosphorus, which have heretofore been of no value, will be available. Puddling will be done away with, and considerable labor will be displaced. The reports of manu­ facturers are favorable, many declaring that it is superior to anything which has yet been discovered in the iron line. A GOOD enamel coating for cast iron, wrought iron, or steel, one that will not eraok on being subjected to moderate changes of temperature, has long been a desideratum. In the case of an opaque, enamel being required, as, for instance, a basis for vitrified photographs, about eight parts of oxide of tin are to be added. About 125 parts, by weight, of ordinary flint-glass fragments, twenty parts of carbonate of soda, and twelve parts of boracic acid are melted to­ gether, and the fused mass poured out on some cold surface, as of stone or metal. When this has sufficiently cooled off it is pulverized, and a mixture made of the powder together with silicate of soda 50° R. With this sub­ stance the metal is glazed and heated in a muffle or other furnace until it is fused. This is said to prove an effec­ tive application for the- purpose as compared with other methods, and at least possesses the advantage of sim­ plicity. A Way to Preserve Small Fruits. Now that the small fruits are becom­ ing more abundant, preserving will be tbe order of the day. Housekeepers who dislike the tedious old-time fashion of clarifying sugar,and boiling the fruit, will appreciate the two following reci­ pes, no fire being needed in their pre­ paration. The first is for "tufcti frutti," and has been repeatedly testedf ith un­ varying success. The second is from an English correspondent: . 1. Put one quart of wlrite preserving $randy of arrac. de Batavia into a two- fallOQ stone jar that has a tightly-fit­ ting top. Then, for every pound of fruit in prime condition and perfectly dry which ycu put in the brandy or •trac, use three-quarters of a pound of granulated sugar; stir every day so that the sugar will be dissolved, using a clean wo&len spoon kept for the pur­ pose. Every sort of fruit may be used, beginning with strawberries and end­ ing with plums. Be sure and have (U> least one pound of black cherries, as they make the color of the preserves very rich. Strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, apricots, cherries (sweet and sour), peaches, plums, are all used, ^nd, if you like, currants and grapes. Plums and grapes should be peeled and seeded, apricots and peaches peeled and cut in quarters or eighths, or dice; cherries also must be seeded. The jar must be kept in a cool, dry place, and the daily stirring must never be for­ gotten, for that is the secret of success. Yon may use as much of one sort of fruit as you like, and it may be put in from day to day, just as you happen to have it. Half the quantity of spirits may be used. The preserve will be ready for use within a week after the last fruit is put in, and will keep for a number of months. We have found it good eight months after making. 2. Take some pure white vinegar and mix with it granulated sugar until a syrup is formed, quite free from acid­ ity. Pour this syrup into earthen jars and put in it good, perfectly ripe fruit, gathered in dry weather. Cover the ?rs tightly and put them in a dry place. he contents will keep for six or eight months, and the flavor of the fruit will be excellent. Giving and Taking. Infancy is the only time when it is natural or right to be wholly recipient. Between this time and full maturity, giving and trking should be wisely alternated, until one becomes as essen­ tial to the happiness as the other. It is not kindness, but cruelty, to neglect this training in responsibility, to allow youth quietly to appropriate everything and contribute nothing. It is simply a training in selfishness, which quickly bears ingratitude as one of its chief fruits. Children who are honored by their parents' confidence, and accus­ tomed to add their quota of assistance, and to bear their share of self-sacritice whenever the good of the family re­ quires it, will rarely be guilty of in­ gratitude. They are not opposed to, but in quick sympathy with their parents, noi because they are gifted with specially sympathetic natures, or are in any way superior to ordinary young people, but simply because they have been made sharers with their parents in the care and hopes, the re­ sponsibilities and labora of the family. AWFUL BUTCHERY. Six Hundred P«rawian Soldiers lactam olutionista. ' m-The town Captured After it and Desperate fsigspp Conflict. [Panama dtepatcta.1 The latest advices from Lima give details of the battle at Canta on the 13th ult On the morning of that day a detachment of Government troops occupying the town of Canta, sixty miles from Lima, in the val­ ley running parallel to that of the Bimac. was surprised by a division of Gen. Caceres' army, and after a sharp action of several hours was forced to fly in disorder. The Government troops operating against Canta were 350 men of the line, with one Gatling gun, 50 cavalrymen, an^50 mount­ ed gensdiirmes, the whole force being com­ manded by Col. Torres. Canta had been occupied for several days, tbe montoneros or irregular revolu­ tionary forces retiring on the approach of this detachment. On Friday evening news arrived of the approach of a considerable division of the enemy, and upon Col. Bus- tamente's advance it was decided to defend the town. On Saturday at 7 a. m. the hills inclos­ ing Canta were occupied by the enemy, ap­ parently 1,500 or 2,000 strong, and with about 200 cavalry. The-'latter were sta­ tioned at the outlets of the valley leading toward the coast and to the interior, so that from the first the Government forces were effectually corraled. CoL Torres had placed his men in the barracks, situated in the principal square of the town, having also small outlying squads behind some of the walls in the suburbs. Caceres' artillery, four small field- pieces, opened fire from the hill at Huay- chullani at half-past 7, aud in a few moments the tiring became general. The enemy descended the hills and at­ tempted to enter the( town, but were re­ peatedly driven back. For two hours the positions of the combatants were unaltered, the fire being all the time very heavy. At midday the defenders of the place slackened their lire, for their ammunition was rapidly becoming exhausted, and for an hour they received without reply the volleys of the attacking } arty. At 2 o'clock a desperate effort wns made to drive the rebels from the town, which they had then entered, at the point of the bayonet. This failed, and then the defeat was accomplished. The fight was hand to hand in the streets, no quarter being given, and the most dread­ ful scenes of carnage occurred. Houses where some of the defeated soldiers had taken refuge were broken open aud all found within murdered'without distinction of age, sex, or character, and then were burned. A few of the most determined of the Gov­ ernment cavalrymen, headed by Colonel Pachas, cut their way through their oppo­ nent and made good their escape. Col. Bustamente, to whose counsel the defeat was due, seeing that all was lost, blew his brains out on the field of action. Col. Torres escaped early in the fight, and the Government has named unother officer to command the decimated "Caga- marica." Of tbe five hundred or six hundred men engaged on the Government side, probably two hundred escaped by flying to the mountains or following Pachas. They are still coming in in parties of two or three. Very few prisoners were taken, for, as has been stated, no quarter was given. The Ciiceiists were commanded by Col. Morales B rnmdas, nnd it is stated that Caceres with his stall' arrived at Canta the day after the battle. The losses of the revolutionary forces are not known. From the fact that the Cagamarica battalion wns decidedly tho finest in the Government service the partisans of Caceres here are jubilant over his success. The 5,000 soldiers in garrison ftt Lima are not at all affected by the re­ verse, aud their officers -are confident of their loyalty in case of an attack on the city. Energetic precautionary measures are being taken. The church towers are occupied to-night by strong de­ tachments of riflemen, and the Prefect has issued a notice ottering a reward of from 50 to 1,000 soles to any one who may de­ nounce the existence of conspiracies or aid the police in their efforts. The Government forces have been with­ drawn from Cliosica, and are now stationed at Santa Clara, fifteen miles nearer to Lima. Nothing positive is known regarding the whereabouts of Caceres. MAHONE'S MADNESS. H« Attempts to Cowhide a Conpto of Young Virginian* and Hat a Kjuprow Escape from Ruing Stabbed!. [Washington telegram. I Senator Mahone has a son, Butler Ma- hone, who is just a bit too wild sometimes to suit the Senator's fancy. Butler consorts with a number of young men at his home at Petersburg, and his father thinks they are to blame for Butler's delinquen­ cies. Holding this view, Senator Mahone armed himself with a cowhide and started out Saturday afternoon, accompanied by his noon friend. Captain Asa Kogers, to give the young men a lesson. On the street opposite the rooms of the Petersburg Club he found Butler with Messrs. Alexander Donnan, Jr., and Thomas Hunter. Striding up to them with flashing eyes, the Senator addressed Mr. Hunter in clear, shrill tones: "You are Mr. Hunter, are you not?" "I am, 6ir," politely replied Mr. Hunter, entirely unsuspicious of the Senator's mission. "Then you have been leading my son Butler astray," shrieked the Senator, "and I have come here to cowhide you," and with this the General brandished a leather whip over Mr. Hunter's head. "Take him away, Butler," cried Mr. Hunter, "or there will be a row." This little "as;tie" threw the Senator off his guard for a moment, and when he re­ covered himself *it was Mr. Donnan to whom he spoke. "This is Mr. Alex. Don­ nan, is it not?" he queried. "Yes," was the reply. "Then, sir. you are a -- and the profane epi­ thets poured forth with wonderful volubility and rapidity from the Senators lips. Donnan turned to Butler Mahone and said: "Butler, your father says I am leading you off. Does he speak the truth! "No," replied Butler, "he is mistaken; nobody can lead me off." This enraged the Senator, and he rushed at Mr. Donnan, cursed him most fearfully, and cracked his eowhide near him, saying: "You_~77" scoundrel. I intend to cowhide you within an inch of yonr life." Then Mr. Donnan, who could no longer stand the denunciation, produced a pen­ knife, advanced upon the Senator, caught him by his flowing beard, and, thwisting the knife in his face, defied him to utter another word of abuse or to move his horsewhip. The Senator made a move­ ment as if to renew the assault In another moment he would have been stabbed, for the knife was almost at his throat, when Capt. Asa Rogers rushed between the com­ batants and prevented what might have been f fatal affair. , | Fracture! Their Skulls. [Eugene City (Oregon) special.] Mrs. S. M. Yoren, wife of the proprietor of the Register, and Mrs. Thompson, her mother, while out riding to-day, were thrown from their dog-cart. The skulls of both women were fractured. Both are unconscious, and there is no hope of their recovery. EDWABD EVERETT HA-LE' thinks newB- paper men should eat five meals a day. SAVANNAH, Ga., biis put up $2,000,000 worth of buildings this season. ILLINOIS STATE NEWS. --Nine psjjnn n» escaped frem jail at Marshall. " --T^ft death is announced of fCaptain A. E. Goe&ich, the pioneer of lake naviga­ tion, at bfl residence, in Chicago. --The iiemuneimting Elevated Railway Company, of Chicago, has been incor­ porated, with a capital stook of $2,000,000. --George Williams shot and killed John Elckup at French Village, St Clair County. The cireumstmces go to show that jealousy was the cause of the murder. --The Secretery of the Grant Monument Fund, of New York, sent a brass memorial tablet of Gen. Qrant to the Mayor of . Galena, whieh is to be given place ia the city buildings. --Prof. C. C. Brackett died at his home in Hartsburg, Logan County. The de­ ceased was prominently known throughout the West as a lecturer on phrenology and also an exponent of the pure Greenback doetrine. --Jacob Kecley, a druggist of Bock- bridge, was murdered in his store, where his body was found with a bullet-wound in the chest and another in the arm. There is no clew to the identity of his slayer BOf to the object of the crime. --Chicago fcrain shippers, tired of the loss attending the weighing of grain in cars, are now arranging to weigh it in hoppers. This plan has long obtained in Kansas. After they gather their crops they weigh the "hoppers," and know exactly how much to allow for tare. --At Joliet, Henry Smith and Frank Morris have been rivals for the hand of Miss Annie Turner. As Morris was leav­ ing Miss Turner's residence Monday night, he was met by Smith, who stabbed him several times with a jack-knife, inflicting probably fatal wounds. Smith was arrested. --As the result of a family feud, Thomas Hale, son of Dr. T. F. Hale, cowhided the Hon. A. N. Yancy at Bunker Hill, Wednes­ day morning. Both men drew pistols but Hale "got tbe drop" on his opponent, com­ pelled him to discard his weapon, and then, after giving Yancy a terrible blow in the eye, beat him with a raw-hide. --A row and stabbing affray in which a young fellow, known only as "Missouri Jack," was fatally stabbed, took place in one of the tents of the Chicago, Burlington and Northern Riilroad between East Du­ buque and Galena. The deed was per­ petrated by John Coffee, a notorious criminal of Dubuque, who escaped. --Judge Gresham has decided that an outside association loaning money in Hli- nois was entitled to the legal rate of inter­ est in this State, even though it be greater than th^legal rate in the State where the association was incorporated. An erudite lawyer said that the Judge simply meant that "interest went with the locum loanum." --It takes Chicago contractors to get to the front. The other day at Sprinfield, in the awards for repairing the new State House, Chicaao bidders secured all the contracts but one, nnd that went to New York. Tnis city does not get much from the Legislature, and, therefore, must make a ten-strike on such little matters IM >a half-million contract--Inter Ocean. --There is a row in a Polish church in Chicago. An account of the trouble is published in a card signed by the officers of the organization, including the names of Messrs. Binkowski, Bartcezezrcz, Nowak, Wojtalewron, and Grayryk. We have not read the details, but, judging from the names, have no doubt that it must involve high treason, piracy, and compound com­ minuted murder in the first degree.--In­ dianapolis Journal. --Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Harris, of Chicago, went out for a drive, and when near the water-works the dress of Mrs. Harris was discovered to be on fire. The lady screamed for help, and several employes of the water-works ran to her assistance and ex­ tinguished the flames, but not until she had been severely burned about the lower limbs and on the hands and arms. The lower part of her clothing was burned from her body. The lady was taken home and re­ ceived- medical attendance. Mr. Harris thinks that the fire was caused by a cigar which he was smoking. --At St. Joseph, Aug. 2 last, Mrs. Hiram Pea body died suddenly, and her husband passed away in the same mysterious man­ ner Aug. 17. Two weeks later. Belle Hasty, a domestic in tbe family, 22 years old, ex­ pired with similar symptoms, aud about the same time Cyrus, son of the Peabodys* w is taken suddenly and violently ill. It has developed that young Peabody and Miss Hasty had been engaged, and that the parents of the young man objected to the marriage. It is now believed that Miss Hasty poisoned the Peabodys and then took her own life when she discovered that Cyrus showed no inclination to wed her after his parents' death. - --Miss Ada C. Sweet, who propo s s to turn over the Chicago Pension Agency to her successor, Mrs. Gen. Mul.igan, at an early day, was appoiuted to that office in April. 1874. Prior to that time she had served in the office as secretaiy to her father, Gen. Benjamin J. Sweet, when the latter was Pension A^ent, and as chief clerk under his successor, David Blakely. Since Miss Sweet took charge of the office, and in fact since the consolidation of the four Illinois pension agencies in 1877, the num­ ber of pensioners paid from the Chi­ cago agency has increased from 6.- 000 to over 30,000. The clerical work of the office has correspond- ing'y increased, and there are now about twenty clerks employed in this de­ partment, nearly all of whom are ladies. The annual disbursements since 1878 have amounted to the following totals: 1878, $2,287,858; 1879, £2,338,843; 1880, $5,153,- 359; 1881, $4,677,826; 1882. $5,292,489; 1883, $5,*5H,195; 1884, $5,176,418; 1885, $5,828,407. The annual disbursement on th? navy account now amounts to about $85,000. In an interview Miss Sweet said to a reporter: "You may not believe it, but 1 am happy at the prospect of severing my connectio i with tho office. At the same time the persiste :cy with which ihe Wash­ ington correspondents attribute the change to recent discoveries alleged to have been made in the affairs of this agency is exceed­ ingly annoying. I have no reason to be­ lieve that I might not have continued in office until the expiration of my term if I had not valuntarilv tend red my resignation." - :--< : .3 ---Patrick Welch, a farmer near Monti- eello, eommitted tww«id« by taking arsenic.