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ILLINOIS, NEWS RECORD. oY- - >• of tlie Eventful Happen­ ing! ot a Week, sa Reported by Telegirph. Commercial, and tataMll Hews, Fires, Accidents Crim«i Suicides, Etc., Etc. ? BAD FOR BOULANGER , &R Uic Duel Between Floquet and Boalanger the Latter I* Seriously Wounded. The insult offered to M. Floqnet by : Ami. Boulanger resulted in a dnel, in «JMch the latter was serkraMy wonnded. 3Rm two men met at Conrit Dillon's estate •A Neuilly- 8nr-Seine, not far from Paris, •i£0 o'clock in the morning. The weapons *sod were swords, and the duel was fierce­ ly fought, (Jen. Boulanger tried hard to kSl M. Floqnet, and threw himself upon V" "t>RIlCE MINISTER K,OQVTT. enc onnter both men were slightly wonnd- «d, but refused to stop. When the fight­ ing was renewed for the third time, Gen. Bonlanger made a lunge at M. Floquet's left breast, bat only slightly touched the mark. Gen. Boolanger then received a wound in the throat which put an end to the encounter. The wound is a severe one, but on ac- eettnt of hemorrhage the doctors are un­ able to deride whether it is likely to prove serious. Mr. Floqnet received •cratches on his hand, che6t. and foot. X. Floqnet in the evening presided at the travelling of a statne to Gambetta. In his speech he extolled the patriotic firm- jmss which Gambetta had shown during the war with Germany, and the invincible Ohergy with which he afterward foiled the reactionary coalition against the Republic. A MISSOURI HANGING. X. Rider Expiates His Crime Upoathe Scaffold. George M. Kideb was hanged at Mar­ shall, Mo., for the murder of B. P. Tal- lant. He exhibited a wonderful amount of courage and nerve to the last moment. The drop fell at 11:01 a. m., and Rider was pronounced dead in twenty-four min- aies. The crime for which Rider waa executed oc­ curred on the night of July as, 1855. about nine­ teen miles north of Marshall, Ho., near the house ot Tollant. It Was about9 o'clock at ni ht. Tal- lant was returning home and was met by Rider ana killed with a wiotgun. Rider was arrested the following day on suspicion and while the officers were returning with him he escaped, remaining lit a cornfield until the evening of the next day. when he gave himself tip to the author ties. There werenbwitnesaesto the killing. Rider claimed tfcatTallant had been intimate with hie (Rider'si wile; that when upbraided about it Tall ant nwhod at him with an uplifted ax, and that the killing was done in self-defense. The case was triad twioe. Rider •was 44 years old. He en­ tered the.Confederate army at Hie age of lo and participated In a number of battles in Missouri and Arkansas. He served under both Generals Hkwlhy and Mannaduke. He married a widow aaaned WoOlsey at Springfield, Mo. They sep­ arated, and about six yeirs ago he inarried a Mrs. Moore, Rider is credited with killing a man named Dolan at Bocky Comfort, Mo., in 1K76. Both Rider and Tallant were among the most prominent farmers of southwest Missouri. On Tuesday last Rider professed conversion to re­ ligion, and since then has prayed and sung every day with leading church people. He protested .Jjg tbmt he killed Tallant in ' •* THE BATTER^ 1,' * %tt Standing of the Promlattit Ml Clnba. annexed table shows the relative Wnding of the clubs competing for the championship of the associations named: League. Won. Lost.! Western. Hew York.. Boston. America*. Won. Lost. I Interstate. Won.Last. Brooklyn 45 St. Louis ..39 Athletic ........S7 Cincinnati .38 Baltimore 30 LouisviJle. 28 4tt»*«la»d 21 Kansas City 19 21 Davenport 35 21 feoria ....34 25 Terre Haute 22 SB BloosUngten W 33 42 41 41 and at the time of 1>ia had in possession a shipping bill «fja car-load of cattle he had stolen froth William Kmitfc, of Rockwell. ^1»ea questioned as to the theft he finally acknowledged his guilt, and gave evidence which lea to the arrest of an entire gang of cattle-thieves who have been infesting the westtp part of j Mi^Ros* of" New JewevT Arthur Sewai lown, Northern Kansas and Eastern Ne * braska. He gave as his immediate *c minted the following named lis the campaign committee: L. Scott of Pennsylvania, Chair- irtan; Arthur P. Gorman of Maryland, Matt W. Rausom of Koith Carolina. CaJ- vin S. Brice of Ohio, John S. Barbour of Virginia, Hermann Oeliichs of New York BOULANGER complice in the transaction one W. J Wright, who for several years has circu­ lated between Marehalltown, Creston and Sheffield. A decision of more than ordinary im­ portance and involving a new point nnder the prohibitory liqnor law of Iowa has been rendered by Judge Phelps, of the District Court at Burlington, the salient points being: Two years ago a saloon-keeper wfao-e place of business was enjoined as a nuisance, appealed to the Iowa Supreme Court, and after filing a supersedeas bonl continued the traffic. The injunction w.<s sustained and the saloon-keeper again gavo bond, carried his caaa to the Unite I 8. ates Supreme Court, where it is not 11' ely to be reached for a year or two yet. Recently pro­ ceedings were brought to have him arretted and fined for oontempt of court in continuing the illegal traffic, not withstand! g the injcnction. His defease was that, pen ing tbs decision of the Federal Court, the injunction did not apply, but the I>istrict Court now d cides tb*t the in­ junction must stand, and that the saloon nur olose. The saloon-keeper at once dosed up, stnd of Hanm, and Krekine M. rheij*«£oi^ note. -i V ' ;* RAILWAYS. , The Railway " Age, in ita last ierae, says: During the first half of 18P8, including several months of winter weather, over 3.30J miles of new track have bwn laid. This is on.y about 400 miles less then the amount reported for tbe first half of 1087. It lacks less than 300 miles of equaling the entire mileage laid in 1H8.5. und is only 500 miles short of fhe total new mileage of 1884. These figures certainly do not bear out the predietious made so freely at the openiug of the year that the extraordin iry railway build­ ing of 1887 would l>e followed by an almost, if not quite, complete stoppage of new construc­ tion. The Burlington Company is having ft hard time to make both euds meet. Its statement of net earnings for the month of May, which came to light recently, showed' a decrease 6f $803,000, and for the first five months of 1888 Iho loss compared with the corresponding period last year nsto.mdinj? totil of !?4,194.-. .. ,... , leaches the others will follow suit, as they admit tb^t | 171. Never in the history of Western rail- «„ -.i »v._ i._-.. i-„„ roads has such r. disastious record l>eeu further resistance to tbe law is useless. Mrs. Norton, who eloped from St. Louis with Henry Moore, refuses to m- turn to her husband. She charges Norton with cruelty. Mis. Moore has returned to St. Louis, and is prostrated with grief made by a big railroad corporation in so 1 short a* time. Less than a year ago the Burlington Company was reported to be I the strongest corporation of its kind in the j country. It paid the highest rate of divi­ dends and its securities commanded larger , » ' Qt .A . 4 « ° , UtSIlUb HUU lib Btfl.urilica luuiiuttuucu idiicoi ^ tome iri^ prices than any similar paper on the New "J* 2l|St. Paul ..83 15 "J* 23 Dea Moines... ..28 18 ...36 25 Kanaaa City... ..»5 22 ...» 31 Omaha ..24 . 22 ...ao 31 Chicago . .24 25 ...82 & Milwaukee.... ..23 27 ...23 M Minneapolis... ..18 31 ...21 41 Sioux City.... .. 3 7 1 THE FISHERY TREATY. •Senator Opposed to Its Ratification "--The Amendment to the Poctoffice Bill. Mb. Dolph addressed the Senate in opposi­ tion to the fisheries treaty, on the 18th. He as­ serted that it was proposed by the pending t»aty to surrender the American position con­ cerning bays and harbors and tbe American claim to reciprocal commercial privileges, and tOpurchase commercial privileges for American fishermen with the annual remission of Arties to the amount of £1.000,1)00. The Buufie bill appropriating $50,000 for a pub- lie building at Wabasha, Minn., was reported to the Senate. The Senate passed bills authorizing the building of a bridge at Wabasha, Minn., and appropriating $'203,00(1 for a branch Soldiers' Home in Grant County, Indiana. A bill wag introduced to provide for the construction of the I/ake Borgue outlet to improve the low-water naviga­ tion of the Mississippi river. The subsidy emestion gave rise to an extended debate in the House, the mat. er being brought up by the re- I».t of tbe conferrees on the postoffice appropri­ ation bill of a continued disagreement on the Senate "subsidy umend'tient." The other Senate aJUendiuerts to the bill were agreed to by the House, and a motion was made to concur In the •absidy amendment with an amendment reducing the appropriation from $800,000 to *450,000, including China, Japan, the Sandwich Islands, and the West Indies in the prcpised arrangement, and providing that American ships Currying the mail shall be al­ lowed four times the rate of compensation they " now receive. Pending the debate the House took arecess until 8 o'clock. At its evening session the House passed twenty-four private pension f fjsf' "ff.ludiug one grunting a peaaiett to "*qnfc» or "John." /> EAST. ?< T , fits. Sheridan has at last reached' big >•::§<&*8» «t Nonquit, Mass., where he is •ow pleasantly located. The trip waa net particularly fatiguing, though he was •omewhat exhausted. Mrs. Sheridan, who is at the General's side, is much re­ joiced over the successful termination of •ne journey, and with the doctors' hopes for the recovery of her husband. The «ottage is pleasantly located, and was attingly decorated in honor of the coming * Of the distinguished patient. Hundreds of Pe°ple were present when the boat anchored, to Welcome the General. Gen- Svo^bl"^118 8®neral con^tion is quite Edwabd AiiOKzo Deacons was v tanged at Boehester, N. Y. His neck was broken by the fall. He was exe- coted for^the murder of Mrs. Ada Stone mt East Rochester on the evenintr of An<r •16, 1887. The husband of the victim ypon returning home, found the dead " »o^y of his wife in the cellar, with a four-sack drawn tightly around her neck »he was murdered because she refused . ;. jPeaoons food. . m* ,•&'« l/V'- w&K, M The cattle-th:ef, A.X. Hunt, alma , > JbU, arrested at McGregor, Iowa, . ' b : ^ i!s& Philadelphia. Alice Kei/l.t, a woman well known in Ottumwa, Iowa, engaged a horse and buggy at one of the city livery stables. Nothing more was seen of her until the next morning, when the team was found in the outskirts of the city, nnd about thirty feet distant from it was discovered the body of the woman with her throat out from ear to ear. The mnrdeied woman was well known in Detroit and other Michigan cities, where, it is charged, she pursued the questionable calling of black­ mailing prominent citizens. Fire broke out in a saw-mill on the East Side at Alpena, Mich., and spread so rapidly that it was sooa beyond control. All the buildings for a space of three blocks wide and half a mile long were consumed, causing a loss of about $300,- 000. Fifteen hundred people are home­ less and many are seriously hurt. Mrs. McLain was so badly* burned that she will die. Hie excitement was intense. Ebekezeb Stanoard, the Youngstown murderer, who killed his Sweetheart, Alice Hancock, early in 1887, was hang­ ed in the penitentiary annex, at Co- lumbns, Ohio, at 1 o'clock in the morn­ ing. He played his accordion before going on the scaffold, and appeared to be at his ease, talking a great deal, and meeting, his fate with more nerve than many supposed he would. The crime for which he suf­ fered was a brutal one, the pretty young girl being shot from behind, and all on account of jealousy. Stangard had two trials, and his case had gone through all the higher conrts. He claimed to be temporarily insane <at the time of the shooting. . . SOUTHS The marble and stone works e/ Peter & Bttrghard, in Louisville, Ky., were burned out, causing a loss of $40,000, chiefly by damage to marble; insurance/ $15,000. J At Nicholasville, Ky., Ed Sparks,<hot Charles Myers, inflicting a fatal^ound. The great rise in the Monongahela Kiver and other near streams, and the general freshets throughout a vast terri­ tory of which Pittsburg, Pa., is on the bor­ der, are almost without parallel in that portion of the country. The great flood of 1884 has been equaled in many districts and surpassed in a few. The rushing waters wiped out property worth probably over f2,000,000, and there has been loss of life as well. Millions of feet of lum­ ber, scores of coal craft, fences, barns, and buildings of every description have been whirling down on the crest of the mad torrent. Hundreds of people have been driven from their homes. At every point between Greensboro (100 miles north of Pittsburg) and Pittsburg the lowlands are under water, and people have deserted their homes for the bare hills. In the vi­ cinity of Wheeling, West Virginia, the flood was the greatest ever known, and hundreds of families are homeless. Some days ago a negro, William Smith, committed a felonious assault on a respectable lady of Pulaski County, Vir­ ginia, of which she has since died. The feeling of the people in the neighborhood where the diabolical crime was commit­ ted has been of such a character that it was thought best to take the fiend to Lynchburg for safe keeping. Last night the Sheriff was overpowered and the prisoner taken to the woods, where they banged him to p tree and riddled his body with Dullets. A TEBBiBiiE accident has occurred on the Virginia Midland Bailroad. The through southern train that left Alex­ andria, Va., at night, went through a trestle between Orange Court House and Barboursville, killing eight persons and wounding upwards of thirty, some severe- The engine had passed safely over most of • the trestle when the smoker, mail, baggage, and ex­ press cars went down with a great crash, dragging down the engine and ten­ der and two ̂ passenger coaches. Two sleepers remained on the trestle. The engine went down pilot-end foremost, thns communicating no fire to the wreck. The dead and some of the wounded were taken to Orange, while the more serionsly hurt were taken to Charlottesville and placed in the Cottage Hospital, hotels, and homes of friends. The killed are: C. Cox, of Alexandria; H. T. Whitting- ton, of Greensboro, N. C.; F. C. Bright- well, of Prospect, Prince Edward County, Va; and five unknown. The principal county officer* (all col­ ored) at Marion, Ark., were escorted to trains by white men, given tickets, and warned never to return. The County Judge fled the previous night, and the County Clerk was given twenty-four hours to arrange his books. The dispatch avers that the county has been under negro rule since 1870, and that as prominent white men had been warned to leave, the white citizens undertook to assume control of affairs. Tbe negroes in the county out- nuniber the whites seven to one. J. V. Carpenter, a Notary Public of New Orleans, has disappeared and left behind a large nu&ber of persons who are anxious to ascertain his whereabouts. All his clients have not been heard from, and it is believed that the money placed in bis hands and unaccounted for will reach $50,000. It is thought that he has gone to Mexico. j York Stock Exchange. Since the begin­ ning of 1^88 its dividend rate has been reduced from 8 to 4 per cent., and even the 4 per cent, has not been earned by many hundred thousand dollars. The causes of the Burlington's unfortunate condition are short ctops last year, re­ duced rates, and the great engineers' strike, which cost the company enormovs- ly ami is not entirely settled yet. FOREIGN.^ Tirte London Pall Malt ddzeite pub­ lishes the following sensational story from Berlin, which has been denied later, although it appears to have some basis: The Friedrichskron Palace at Potsdam, where Dowager Empress Victoria is living, is in all but name a prison, and the ex-Empress is virtually tuider arrest. In any case she is receiving scant consideration from the men now in power. It is presumed that the object is to bring influence to be«* upon her Majesty which will lain* her to surrender her husband's paper*. GENERAL^ A petition Has been filed in the Dis­ trict Court at Omaha, Neb., by Frances C. Cleveland. Benjamin Folsom, N. B. Folsom, and ten other heirs of the late John B. Folsom for the parti­ tion of their several interests in fifty lots in the city of Omaha, forming part of the Folsom estate. The property is valued at several hundred thousand dollars. The petition, in the course of a very long and elaborate statement of the case, explains that "the plaintiff, Frances C. Cleveland, is the same person as Frances C. Folsom, named as one of the devisees in said will, she having since the date thereof inter­ married with one Grover Cleveland." Fob the week ending July 7 the weather conditions, as sent out from Washington, were generally favorable for all growing crops throughout all the agricultural re­ gions east of the Bocky Mountains. The report says: A decided improvement is reported in the wheat, corn, and cotton regions in tbe central val­ leys. The weather has been especially favorable to cotton in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Alabama. The high temperature dur­ ing the past week in the corn regions has greatly improved the condition of that crop. Improvements are re­ ported in the conditions of the tobacco and corn crops of Kentucky. Reports from Minnesota and Dakota state that the weather conditions have been very favorable, all crops growing finely and promise an abundaut harvest. Harvesting of wheat iB in progress as far north as New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and northern poHione of Ohio and Indiana, and a good yield is reported in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Reports from Michigan show that tbe weather has been favor­ able for all crops. While Edward Tobias and William Wertzel, aged about 18, were out hunting, they became separated and Tobias sat down on a stump to await Wertzel's ar­ rival. Wertzel, coming up from behind, discovered Tobias' black wool' cap above the stump. Supposing it was a wood- chuck, he fired, the ball causing almost instant death. The executive committee of the National, party has issued the following call: A national convention of th>» American party will be held in Washington on the 14th of August, IfcS-i, for the purpose of nominating candidates for Prasiden and Vice President, Slid for tbe transaction of such oth r business as may prop­ erly come before that bodv. Delegates not ex­ ceeding two from e 'eh Congressional district, each Territory, and the DiB rict of Columbia, and from each State at large, bearing credentials from any American o ganization, association, club, order, or society, whoso object s are in ac­ cord with the principles of the American party, will be admitted to seats in the convention, Isaac Sharp, Chairman. ~ A. J. Boteb, Secretary. Among the county and territorial authorities there is much wonderment about an applicant who wishes to become a citizen of the United States. The case is that of Lieut. Col. Leslie Smith, com­ manding the post at Fort Maginnis, Mon­ tana, who for thirty years has been an officer of the United States army, draw­ ing the pay and emoluments of his various grades, and who will be retired with the pay and rank of a colonel in the United States army next May. He has never been entitled to the right of suffrage. Such a case must be the only one'of its kind known in the United States army. MARKETREPORTS. CBilauO. Cattle--Choice to Prime Hteeri.1 5.50 5.00 4.U0 5.60 8.G0 Good Common......,,.. Hoos--Shipping tirades Fhkep Wheat-No. 14 Red Corn--NO. 2 Oa-18-- No. a „ Baulk*--No. 3 Butter--Choice Creamery....... Fine Dairy Cheese--Full Creavu, flat Eoos--Fresh jt Potatoes--New, per brl Pork--Mesa MILWAUKEE. Wheat--Cash Coiin--bio. 3. ... ....... OAT«-Na2Whit;::::::::::K::: Rye--No. 1 Baulk v--No.* a. Pork--Mees TOLEDO. •Wheat--Cash. Corn--Cash ;»,V Oats--Cash Clover Seed _ ST. LOUIS. Wheat--No. 2...... ;,... .48 <g .18 <$ .10 & .OW & .14 B.'A) 13.86 0 «.35 ® 5.75 <3 S.06 id 5.8» & 4.50 >3^ .49 .50 .10 .16 .0854 .14ht <0 & 2,it> @13.13 .55 .58 1»M & Esnlting Debate with tho Prime Kin- it l«Ur--Centurod by tlte 1 * Deputies. Prospects of a Duel Between M. tulangep and M. Floquet. fPS'iSg Boulanger proposed tha dissolution of the Chamber. His proposition was rejected. Gen. Boulanger thereupon resigned his seat. G(|p. Boulanger, in his speech proposing the dissolution, said that such a course waa imper­ ative, and that elections ought to be held before the celebration of the centennary ot the revolu­ tion of 1789. Tho co ntry demanded the insti­ tution of new safeguards "to secure the Republic from the attacks of its adversaries, against which it was powerless. The Chamber of Depu­ ties was falling into rain and decay and the country was trembling with emo­ tion. The Monarchists we*® watch­ ing tbe Republic, expectant of its death agony. 1 8 felt that its safety demanded a re- sion" of the Constitution. He did not doubt (hat the patriotism of the Deputief was on a level with their sense of duty. He would do his duty by demanding the passage of a resolution that the Chambers, being convinced of the ne­ cessity for fresh elections, ask President Car- not for a dissolution. Premier Floquet reproached Gen. Boulanger for relying for support upon the Right. He said it was not for a man like Gen. Boulauger, who was always absent from the « hamber, to judge of its legislative labors or criticibe hard-workiug members. What had Gen. Boulanger done? Geu. Boulanger--I mads an appeal to th# country. M. Floquet--The country answered yon in the Charente election. Mr. Spain (Bonapartist Deputy for Charente) --The country unanimously pronounced through me for revision. M. Floquet--We have never reeognized yon as one of us. You are a lingering sacristan in the ante-chambers of Princes. Your photographs come from Germany, where your interests lie. Gen. Boulanger--M. Floquet's speech is only the utterance of a badly educated school usher, I tell him now, as I told him amid the noise, that ho impudently lies. After a scene of excitement the President of the Chamber Baid that before applying censure he would allow Gen. Boulanger to speak. Gen. Boulanger asked if censure was to be ap­ plied to M. Floquet or himself. The President--It was you that first attacked tbe Sp saker. The last woids you uttered make it neoess try to apply a severe rule. Gen. Boulanger pretested against a regime which did not respect the liberty of the tribune. He said that in view of tha President's decision be would resign his seat. The General there­ upon left the Chamber, followed by his partisans. A vote of censure on Gen. Boulanger «aa adopted. It is reported that in consequence of the occur­ rences in the Chamber of Deputies Gen. Bonlan­ ger and M. Floquet will fight a duel. When Gen. Boulanger left the Chamber of Deputies the crowd outside shouted: "A has Boulanger," "Down with the dictator," "Duck him," and groaned and hissed tbe General vigor­ ously. lOnly a few faint cheers were raised. Gen. Boulan'er intends to contest successively the Departments of Bordogne, Loiret. Ardeche, an i the Nord. WAS SHERIDAN DEAD? Thi. 4wW (Crisis in the 'LJUImm When Hope Ha4 Vanished. •'•PS A Washington dispatch rehearses for the first time in print the details of Gen. Sheridan's apparent death when vclence itself could not have told that he had not passed away. There had been several sinking spells and hemorrhages of the bowels, which so exhausted the patient that he pus sad into unconsciousness, and during this period was the supreme moment when physicians, wife, brother, and friends all be­ lieved that the brave soldiier's struggles were at last ended--that death had indeed come as a perhaps happy release. There was abso­ lutely no pulse or respiration. The firm jaw had dropped and the eyes had opened and were glased, tbe nose was pinched with that awful .79 & .80 .57 (ft .50 @i3.4a>$ : ;V.8S & .80 .40 & .49!$ .81 4.15 & 4.2S Corn--No. •i.... Oats--No. 2...., Rye BARLE7 Pork--Mess... POLITICS. The Republican National Coounittee lias elected M. S. Quay of Pennsylvania Chairman, and J. K. Fassett of New York Secretary. They were also appointed to hold the same offices on the Executive Committee. The Executive Committee has been chosen as follows: M. H. De Young of California, Samuel Fessenden of Connecticut, George K. Davis of Illi­ nois, John C. Newof Indiana, J. 8. Clark- son of Iowa, W. C. Goodloe o( Kentucky, J. Manchester Haynes of Maine, Garrett A. Hobart of New Jersey, A. L. Conger of Ohio. x Hoh. W ibid am H/Barxum, the Chair­ man of the National Democratic Commit* ..S&i NEW YOBK. .79-4® .33J4«S .55 ® .80 .83 .40 .34 .50 ,85 <£14.37$ 14.75 #.00 #.00 * S.03 .91 .50 f s.oo 5.7S <9 4.50 <9 .92 & M M Cattuc 4,70 & 0.15 Hoos. 5.50 & 6.25 Kukkp.... 8.25 & 5.50 Whkat--No. 2 Red .8> Colts --No. 2 .CC>5((5 .56?4 Oath--White ,".40 W .47 Pork--New Mess 14.75 @15,25 DETROIT. Cattlb Hogs.... Sh kef Wheat--No. 1 White Corn--No. it YeJiow. Oats--No. it Mixed INDIANAPOLIS. Cattle Hoos Shkkf Lamm BUFF LO. CattCB Boos Hhsw Wheat--No. 1 Whits Com*--No. 8 ., EABT LIBBftTY. Cattls--Prims 5.75 < Fair. 4 . 2 5 • • , Coiumon..4.20 Hoes.. C.03 Sbcm* ....... J.....;.o...'..fe.uu Lamm 4,00 COM Work of tho Senate and House of Rap* . reaentatives. TnsHovsaof Hepresentatlves spent the day jh committee of tbe whole on the taritf bill ou the 7th inat.. the pending amendment offered bv Mr. Cannon of Illinois to tha augar schedule. Mr. Keuev announced himself to be a Republican, devoted to tbe doctrines of Lis party and to the utterances of its national convention. He was a protectionist, and believed that tin system of proteo'.ive duties had developed the country to itB present industrial position was essential to the maintenance of that position. He h ul been surprised to hear the gentleman from Illinois <Mr. Cannon) make an assault upon the platform recentlr - •"-- ~ party. He defend* ' regard to sugar and Mr. Cannon, of Illinois, said Mr. Kelley had seen proper to arraign the amendment and his (Mr. Cannons) position as unrepublican if not unpatriotic. If the gentleman was cor­ rect about this matter, if t je Chicago conven­ tion meant what it said, and if Mr. Kelley alone of sixty million people had the rigbt <o construe the platform, thon lie (Mr. Cannon) must get off it. He had no leelings save those of friendli- ness toward the gentleman from Pennsylvania, but ' be gentleman could not ask hini to ait still and listen to*him place the party to whloh tbey both belonged in a pos.tion which, to his mind, it did not oceupy. , Mr. Cullom's bill to amend the inter-staty act was passed by the Senate the 9th, With an amendment gividg to the United States Circuit and District Courts jurisdiction of violations of any provisions of the act, upon the petition of any person or firm, with power to issue a peremptory writ of mandamus. Other amend­ ments, of which notice had been given --to extend the provisions of the act to express, sleeping-car, and stock- car companies and regarding discriminating between tho Paciilc coast and Denver--were Withdrawn in order not to retard the passage o' the b 11, but notice was given that they would be brought up at tbe next session. An amend­ ment offered by Mr. George, prohibiting car- , riei s from trans portin • Kooda for any shipper in a car or vehicle ownod by such shippar, un­ less they charged exactly the same ra es as were charged to other shippers, wai also withdrawn on Mr. Cullom s promise that the matter should be considered at next session. Senitor Blair from the Senate Education Committee re­ ported favorably the proposition to ' submit to the people of the several States a constitutional amendment to prohibit the liquor traffic in tha United States. The tariff debate in the House got rather warm at times. Mr. Cannon's amend­ ment offered Friday was rejected by a vote of 37 to 108. Mr. Fuller (Iowa) offered an amendment, which was defeated, placing all sugar and mo­ lasses on the free list. The day was occupied in discussing various amendments. Mr. Hoab, of Massachusetts, addressed this Senate in opposition to the fisheries treaty on the 10th inst. He severely criticised the treaty, and attacked the President, the Secretary of State, and all concerned in its.negotiation. Mr. Vest introduced a bill to prevent the evasion of the law recently passed by the Senate, prohibit­ ing use of the "bad debt" envelopes in the mails. He explained that the intent of that, measure was being evaded tyy collection agencies, who now used a transparent envelope, tnat showed the inclosuro legibly. The .House devoted the day, In committee of the whole, to the tariff bill, and Mr. Nutting's amendment, restoring the existing duty on starch, was rejected. In discussing the rice section, Mr. Elliott, of South Carolina, said the Republicans, having nomin­ ated a Chinese President, were ready to sacri­ fice the colored labor of tho South by allowing free importation of rico from China. Mr. Warner, of Missouri, offered an amendment fixing the rico duty at Vt cent per pouud, and said rice should be free; that rice growers made !$33 per acre, while wheat growers made Sl'2 and corn growers £10. He said that the Mills bill was in tho interest of the rice and sugar raiders of the South as against tho corn and wheat farmers of the North and West. On motion of Mr. McMillin, of Tennes­ see, the duty on rice flour and rice meal was fixed at 15 per cent, ad valorem. A motion to increase the duty on raisins was lost. Motions to res ore exutiir; duties on peanuts, cotton thread, yarns and cotton cloth were made and rejected. On motion of Mr. McMillin an amend­ ment was adopted fixing the rate of duty oa flax, hackled, known as dressed lina,' at 910 per ton.. Amotion to restore existing duties on flax,' hemp and jute yarns was lost. The conference report on the postoffice ap­ propriation bill was presented to the Senate the Ilth. The item for postoffice clerks for unusual business is fixed at $25,000 instead of $50,000. Tbe item for rent, light and fuel in third-class offices is retained, with a proviso that no eon- tract for rent for such postotfices shall be fair more than a year. Tbe postage on sesas is fixed at 1 cent for every two ounces. On the amendment known as the subsidv clause the conference committee was unable to agree. The House resumed consi leration of the tariff bill and occupied tho day in its discussion. At the evenirg session the House passed the bill for taking tbe eleventh and subsequent cen­ suses, after adding amendments increasing tha pay of messengers and watchmen from $400 to 4000 a year, and providing that preference be gh en to honorably discharged soldiers and sail­ ors in appointing enumerator*. There was an extended political debate in tha Senate tbe 12th over a motion to print extra copies of tho Pension Committee's report on seven vetoed pension bills. The House adopted the resolution providing for a special committee to investigate alleged evasions of the contract- labor law. The debate in tbe House on the free-wool clause of the tariff bill was rather tame, tbe Republican speakers generally arguing that free wool would destroy the wool-growiug industry of the country, while the Democrats denied that it would reduce the price of wool and claimed that it would secure cheaper clothes. After a long and rambling discussion, which touched upon almost everything except the tariff, including Southern elections, the committee rose and the House took a recess till 8 o'clock. The House .failed to accomplish anything at its evening ses-. sion, as the flrxt pension bill brought up was ob­ jected to, and after a call of the House and two {^effectual roll-calls tbe House adjourned. 4.50 6.00 $.&) 4.00 4.50 fc.SW 4.25 .03 & •51&@ @ 4.00 & 6.C0 & 5.00 & 5 JO & 5.25 © 6.00 6.00 .94 .MM & 6.03 6.50 " @4.45 & 6.90 4.75 m 6.00 pressure which seemingly can only come from aeath'B cold fingers. Father Chapelle had administered the last riteB of the church. He stood beside the bedside, and his experi­ enced eye, familiar with death in all its forms, noted the sure signs of dissolution, •t last ho turned awav, after making the Sign of tho cross over the" placid forehead, and went down to the ante-room, where Cols. K» 1- kMCg and Blount and <ien. McFeely were waiting. Holding up his hands he said: "All is over." Meanwhile the watchers by the bedside were pre­ paring to arrange tho body in death, except that Dr. O Reilly was still applying every deviee that science, and even desperate chance, could suggest. He had opened the nightgown, and applying his ear to the heart, could detect no flutter of pulsation. He had noted all the marks of death, but persevered. Mrs. Sher­ idan was kneeling in prayer for the departed soul. iThe physician seized tho galvanic bat­ tery. One electrode he placed at the base of tbe neck, the other upon tha inner side of the left thigh. The current generated, ho has sine 3 said, wan, sufficient to have instantly killed a man in stalwart health. There was yet no sign of life. The physician then resorted to hypodermic injections of brandy. The min­ utes passed slowly, and five were count­ ed. The watchful ear was again at the heart. There was a feeble beat; then hardly n rceptibla respiration. Then the eyes opened and Mrs. iftriirMn" arose from her knees and bent over her husband. Ttiero was a complete intelligence in the look be gave her, and it seemed as if the miracle of 1,8 K) years before had been repeated and the dead had come hack to life. Fecnaps it had been. Science, still uncertain of its capa­ bilities and possibilities, does not venture to say. DEATH OF HIRAM SIBLEY. Clots of a Long au«i Usetal Csnor-BrMT Sketch of the Man. Hiram Sibley died recently at his home on East avenue, Rochester, N. Y. Hiram Nibl'.y was in tbe ffid year of bis age when he died, htiving been bora in North Adams, Mukh , Feb. lt-07. While he was a youth his parents mov« d to New York. They were too poor to give Hiram the advantages of liberal education, but they gave him a start, and his nat­ ural ambition and aptitude supplied the rest. He had mechanical genius, and while still a young man became the master of five different trades. In 1851 he organized the New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegram Company, having first bought the House patents. Three years later the Sibley syndicate leased the lines of the Lake Erie Telegraph Company, and outof these two organizations grew the Western Union Telegraph Company, Mr. S.bley being its first Many years a- o Mr. Sibley started in the seed business in Rochester, N. Y., and soon after Es­ tablished a branch in Chicago. He was the owner of imm nse farms in New York and Illi­ nois, and tbe Sibley seed warehouse in Chicago, on Morth Clark street, near the bridge, is one of thwJjWBost in the world. Sibley ilisd worth savi eraf millions of dolUife. He IsaVeFtwo chlkSea --a sob and a daughter, both grown. The Swallowing Power of Snakes. "Colonel, I have recently read a story in the newspaper about a boa con­ strictor swallowing a horse. Is that a possible thing, or is it merely a news­ paper yarn?" • "Weil," replied ho, "I took particular pains once to look up a story ol that kind, and I will give you the result of my researches. I was traveling in South America, and having read that in the immediate vicinity an immense boa had swallowed a horse, I went out of my way to ascertain the facts from the most trustworthy authorities. It seems that the Governor of one of the interior dis­ tricts of Brazil had turned his favorite riding horse into the field to graze. When wanted he was nowhere to be found. In this district boas grow to be forty feet long, and after diligent search for several days one of these immense reptiles was found hanging in the crotch of a tree in a half dormant state, where be had been left by the rapidly reced­ ing waters of the stream. The snake was killed and two horses were attached to the carcass, and it was dragged into the open country. On being opened, the bones of a horse somewhat broken and the partially digested flesh were found. The head of the horse was uninjured, and was identified as the one belong­ ing to the Governor. George Gardiner, M. D., F. L. 8., in his travels in the interior of Brazil, treataof this immense snake, and gives fuller details of this particular incident. I made full in­ quiries myself of the parties who saw it, and when at Pernambuco I went into the museum there and saw the skin of this snake, which was thirty-seven feet long and •which has been preserved as a "curiosity. It was rolled up and made a package as big as a flour barrel. -But," said the Colonel, taking up a medium- sized bottle, "this story of a boa swal­ lowing the horse does not seem so won­ derful in the light of what I am now about to show you. Here is a small, ordinary water snake which I captured in Prospect Park and which I have pre­ served in alcohol. It looks to be about as big around as a slate pencil, but that frog which is preserved in the same bottle was taken from the inside of the snake. The power of distention -in snakes is something wonderful, and seems incredible to those who are not familiar with the subject."--Brooklyn Eagle. , The Kaked Truth. this an undressed rehearsal, Jack?" asked Minnie, at the "Land, no," replied Uncle gluing his face to the opera- „ "The tmdress rehearsal is when they have their 'clothes on.-~&olwt j. JBurdette. "In Uncle opera. Jack, glass Moore, Who Fled with Manager Nor­ ton's Erring Hife, Arrested *r Grand Larceny. The Woman Breaks Down, and Her In- jtt*e4 Hwfcand Thinks ^ . r Is Unsound. [Topeka (Kan.) special dispatch.] Henry W. Moore, ex-managing editor of tin St. Louis Po*t-I>ixpatch, and Mr*. John W. Nor­ ton, were arrested at the Oopeloud Hot <1, in this city, tills afternoon, July 9, where thev had ne­ utered as W. H. Meson . nd wife, Philadelphia. The arrest was made by Chief of Police Carter in response to a telegram from the Ghlf of Polie* of St. Louis direct ng that they be arretted oc the change of grand larceny. They were in tb°lr room at tbe Copelavd when the Chi«f of Police nnd his deputy arrive 1 with tha warrant. The nfficerB were admitted to the room, and be­ fore any conversation had been had. with­ out questioning them as to their Identity, the warrauts were read to them, <harging them with grand larceny. "You are now in my cus­ tody," Baid the officer, "and you may aooompany me to the county jail, where we will take good care of you until parties from St. Louis arrive." No sooner had the warrant bean read than Mrs. Norton broke into team, and cried bitterly. Moore placed bis arm about her, and attempted to console her, but she continued to sob for sev­ eral moment*. Moore then appealed to the >flk-er not to take them to Jail, and • said: "It will break her heart.• The Chief at first declared thftjy^jp .must go, but finally coqfea^ iU+at * "M . • 11 ' .» * \ MRS. NORTON. thev might remain in their room at the hotel under surveilapce of an officer. This had tbe effect of quieting Mrs. Norton. Then she began to ridicule the idea of their arrest on the charge of grand larceny. "All we took," sho said, "waa §3,500, which was my own money, ana my jewelry. I do not see whaf. he (Norton) expects to make out of this. I would have gone into his house Friday night, but he threatened my life. I do not want to die yet. He said he would kill me. Friends came out of the house and said be w^s flourishing a butcher knife." "I tell you what I would like to do," said Moore. "I would like to go right back to St. Louis and f.ice whatever music there is. We can prove that no money was s olen." "But he will kill me," said Mrs. Norton. "You can put liim under bonds," volunteered Officer Gardiner; "he has threatened your life." "Officer," said Moore, "you see our valises; von see we have touched nothing. That is my rachel" (pointing to one 011 the bed). "And this mine," said Mrs. Norton (taking up the other one), "and what it contains is mine." . Mr. Moore then inquired where he could em­ ploy a good attorney. The names of several were neutioned, and at Mr. Moore's request an officer was at once dispatched for Judge Henry Keller, vho soon arrived and consulted privately with 1 he runaways. Moore did not have as much to say about tne escapade as Mrs. Norton. When tbe officer inquired what led to the elopement he said be hud nothing to say Q.t this time. He was somewhat nervous, and acted like a man who had either been foiled in a {>lot, or regretted what he had done, and had ost' heart to carry it to consummation. He said the charges against him and Mrs. Norton were unfounded. They brought nothing belong­ ing to others away with them. They had not r>' ;/.. ,'iMS. NOSTOIT. • S40,0(jt( ; ne •washed they had ®l6,(Wl,"' Since he came here he and his companion bad gone about the city much the same as any strangers visit­ ing the city would, promenading the public streets and riding on the street enrs. Mrs. Norton moved uneasily about tbe room at first, sitting in a chair, then going to abed, where abe fumbled with bits of laces, gloves, a fan and other trinkets of female adornment. Sho ap­ peared to be sad and half sorry that she Lai committed the rash act. Indeed, the conduct of both partie3 warranted the belief that they regretted their departure from St. Ijpuis, al­ though Mr. Moore tried to appear jolly, und wanted to leave tbe impression that he was un­ disturbed, and tbat love, not he, is to blame. He spoke bitterlyrtjf the St. Louis papers, and said he had read their idiotic fiction with pitying delight. The stories about; his debts in St. Louis worried him considerably, and he was «iiore anxious that charges relating to them liould be denied first of all. As to the conse­ quences of what they had done, he was resigned. A St. Louis telegram states that Norton has nothing but pity for his erring wife, but for his false friend his hate is implacable. It has leaked out 1 hat Moore borrowed about $1,5J0 from h:s friends during the past two weeks, and many of bis associates on the Pott-Dispatch are on the list. Mr. Norton iioa retained Judge Laughlin of St. Louis as his'attorney, and hereafter he will be guided by legal advice. Judge Laughlin has gone to Topeka, accompanied by Mrs. Caswell, an old friena of the Nortons, who had a great deal of influence over the erring woman. Mrs.. $ 4W EDITOR MOOMCe Caswell will endeavor to pertuade Mrs. Norton to return to St. Louii. Moore wiU be brought- ba -k by officers. The arrest of Moore and Mrs. Norton has in­ tensified public interest in the elopement sensa­ tion, and what will develop when the now noto­ rious pair return to St. Louis is awaited with tbe keenest anxiety. There are many who believe a tragic chapter will bo added to the affair, but the close friends of tho betrayed husband discredit such tumors. When Mr, Norton first discovered that tbe couple had disappeared he was in­ clined to let them go their way mithout making sn 1 effort to arrest them, b#t tlie advice of friends and the discovery that he had been made the victim of a conspiracy to rob him of bo b his wife and money by a number of per- fcons. associates of l>oth Moore and himself, 1 d him t < change his mind. Mr. Norton w as seen at theGraud Opera House by a lvporter. He had been reading teltjrmu* of s riupcthv from fi lends all over thj country. He is feeling much better physically, but tuur.ot resign himself to his family sorrow. When «J- ludlug 10 his wife he spoke of her in kind, pity­ ing U rms. He believes sho has been more binned a+iuiiKt than sinning. He sees her as U10 inno­ cent tool of a gang of conspirators. Mr. Norton said that he would prosecute "the gang" and make them disgorge their ill-gotten gains. While Mr. Norton has been robbed of all his ready chbIi, his financial standing isliot im­ paired in the least. He will continue his theat­ rical business if his health does nat fall. John A. IMII011, editor-in-ehiaf of the Putt-Dirvntch, print s an editorial paragraph referring to the vil­ lainy of Moore, and expressing regret that Moore bod ever been connected with the paper. Tnder tbe laws of Missouri Moore is li&Ua toa,Av* years' term in the penitentiary. The Bight Kind of Physleians. '£-• Flossie (aged f)--Bobby, why do they call ministers doctors? ; Bobby (a lad of considerable infor- «mution)-->-,C,p8 they oaake .folka hett>er> --Epoch ms Doetftrs Charge the Fax qpteiatfst Mfp Trickery or Holding Him Responsible for Unier Death--A Big feudal Stirred Up. \ ______ , r * [London special telegram.] The greatest medical scandal of the ag«| has teen stirred up regarding the malady and treatment of the late Emperor William* of Germany. The German doctors' re-r ports on the ease have been made imblic ̂ and Sir Morell Mackenzie gets such a,' raking as will satisfy his most bitter ene­ mies, The reports are supplied by the* German Foreign Office in London. The| firet in that of Professor Gerhardt, of Ber­ lin, which is as follows: ^ I firat examined the vocal cords ot the tbea CrownfHnee on March 6, 1817. Tha swelling was destroyed by galvanic eautery, and the* ( rewn Prince fett his health restored. He then, went to Rmi. From the first Professor Oer-.% • hardt says behad doubts oa to whether the*- PTowth waa a Mnign ana. however,- that after a fortnight spent rt SmTthaPrincor , would have thoroughly recovered, or tbe jpetura of tho swelling would prove It to ba maJJgnaut. Reports from£mr were not good, andthedoc- aa well 1 tors, with the Crown Prince, aa i pair themselves, wished to take a*th<r specialist. Dr. Oerhardt then'eaUMp t̂mun noon Wegner, explained the gravity of the ease, together with Dr. 8chroedsr aorleed auminc a specialist in throat diseases. The Crown Prihce was at Ems till May 15, and then tco» swelling was larger than before, and his voiced hoarser. Dr. Oerhardt feared the case wculil • prove to be one of cancer. On being informed; '-K ^hat swelling had reappeared the imperial pat . ij I t l e n t d ; s i r e d t h a t i t s h o u l d a g a i n b e r e m o v e d b y 5 % cauiery. Dr. Gerhardt hesitated, desiring tta#^ a surgeon be called in, and Dr. Bergmann wa#'» summoned. He examined the throat aud at»;l:M once declared that the opening of the larynx waa '• J neoessary for the extirpation of the swelling. Ati -'M tbls consultation Dr. Mackensie was named a«P ̂ a specialist. Dr. Bergmann and Dr. Gerhardts. i. consented to his being called in, the latter r»4< marking that tbe evidences were so clear thatk no person conversant with laryngoscopy&1 ex-^i*' tl animations could doubt their significance. On May 18 there was a consultation at which Drl. Von Lauer, Tobold, Wegner, Schroe er/, B<rt.mann, and Garhacdt were present, and them Dr. Tobold examined jkhelar tnx and declared-- i these doctors only being present--that it was a,< • % case of cancer. The other doctors agreed to ihi*j v opinion nn nimoualy, declaring the op "ing or. the larynx necessary. Mayao all the pre? ara-t • tione were in readiness for the operation, wlaitbk" i was to take place the ne> t morning. On the>. • i same evening Dr. Mackensie saw the patient the first time and declared it was not- a case ut . " • cancer, the whole appearance ot the swelling was not cancerous, and he should oppose any operation as long as the swelling was not shewnf. ' ;;| to be cancerous by a microscopical exanrno- \ Hon. The German doctors consented to delay". the operation. The next morning Dr. Macken-' > zie removed a email piece or tissue, whiclii was submitted to Dr. Virchow. who saUi the disease might be pachydermia laryngitis^ ^ But there was no proof ihit the piece was taken* from the swelling, aa that did not appear to havqf been injured. Di". Mackenzie then tried > o ve- move another piece for examination. "I saw him," Bays Dr. Gerhardt, "take the forceps froira his breast pocket and'insert them in the patient's throat, and he withdrew them without obtaining. >?i the piece he wanted. I examined the patient's l| throat immediately after, aud found marked, -S redness on both vocal chords. The right chord | was bloody. On the edge of the right chord, just "1 about tbe centor, there was a dark red swell-' I ing, projecting to tbe glottis. We went to a Mackenzie's room and told him he seemed t» have seized the right vocal chord instead o: v J| tbe diseased one on the left and pinched it. Her .4 replied that it was 1 ossible." r'rom this mo-^ J mtnt the patient became voiceless, and so re- j 1 mained till July 8. Another consultation wasi' / J held on May 25, when Dr. Bergmann and Dr, ' Tobold convinced themselves that the riglitt- . : vocal chord had been injured, and, according^"i<§ to the report of Dr. Laudgraf, it was not heale^T., ' 1 till June 27. In the meantime Dr. Mackenzie %J ha^ assured the patient's family that he couldl cure him without an operation from the out* side. When pressed to explain his schemed S- he told the doctors, and his statement c was taken down by Dr. Wegner, thatv " : | he would remove the swelling by means of?Z'$ sha p forceps, or would resort to galvanic cau» " S| tery. He was in favor of the first method. Ail Dr. Mackenzie repeated his opinion at the»:':,» "is subsequent consultation on May C. At this con-. > 1 sulfation it was agreed that Sir Morell shoulcf Si remove the swelling with a red hot wire or for-:5' r: ;;| cepa, as he asserted he could do, and that th» ; ~s| voice would be restored. Dr. Mackenzie declared , on that occasion that he regarded the swelling aa 1 a benignant growth. Dr. Gerhardt held that it -^f was impossible to remove the growth from tha . outside through tbe mouth, but Sir Morell eaicf/ j he would continue to operate in that manner «lf»v3I another portion extracted was declared to be ma^. lignant or till the swelling Increased. Dr. Berg- :: -:1 matin's report is voluminous. In conclusion her Says: \ "After the last consulation we had entirely lostt. tbe confidence in l)r. Mackenzie which induce*} us to call bim in. We were brought to th b, in» the firet place, by his manipulation of tha. larynx, which did not afford us a guarantee thatk he had really reached the growth with his in* strumente, aud not by chance Bome other epott in the interior of the larynx, as, for example, thty seriously affected right rocal chord; and, in the* stcond place, through the wholly arbitaiy esti­ mate of Virchow's opinion, as well as by his en* • deavor to shift tbe responsibility from himself ' to the pat ologist. In tha third place we wef» influenced by the manner m which the press obtained the details of the illness." The reports of Drs. Bergmann, Landrraf andl Schroeder are chiefly corroborative of Prof -seor? Gerhardt's report, and all tend to show that Dr_ Mackenzie's management was wrong through­ out. Mr. Mackenzie has not yet decided what formi his reply will take, nor, in fact, whether he will make any reply at all beyond the emphatio dec- ? 1 oration that the statements concerning himself are a tissue of falsehood. Tne details to be made> J public in bis contemplated book will, it is said,: - m demonstrate the incapacity of Drs. Bergmann || and Baumann so conclusively.as to irretrievably fa ruin their professional reputations. Though de- termined on publishing this work for the benefit) : i of medicine at large, he had decided, through consideration for tna rival physicians, uporj postponing its publication until after their death. Whether be will maintain his charitable resolu­ tion under tbe circumstances is a question. He will be influenced in his decision as to whether or not he shall reply categoric ally to the Germao doctors by tbe will of tbe Empress Victoria, wbe. is anxious tbat her husband's memory sliouldt be left in peace, and would dislike any prolonged discussion as to his malady. The friends of Sir Morell Mackenzie are high- ly indi riant. They Bay tils charges are prompted;-- by professional jealousy, and reply with a de-H; Ifree of vigor exceeding that of the Germans. It is flatly asserted fear Instance, ihat Bergmann appeared at the consultat on preceding an oper-* " ation in a state of Intoxication so apparent at to call for an observation from the Empress.. Again, it is declared that once in changing the canula Dr. Bergmann so grossly blundered a*»- to miss the tracnea, and forced the metal ub into tbe flesh of th < nock. This blunder wae discovered bv tbe English doctors present, Dr. -Bergmann did not have another opportunity 0$ attempting to instrt the canula, although aftei his mistake be devised the plan of inserting first into tbe trachea a robber tube, which f hou'd act as a guide. The metal canula passed) over it and the rubber tube wm tuen withdrawn, ft is pla n 1 bat the last is not yet heard of the Emperor's case, and that piofessioual rivalr> will bring about revelations as interesting t« the publi. as to the medical fraternity. CROP REPORT FOR JUX.Y. Condition of Winter Wheat Advanced--' Spring Promising? a Large Yield. Following is a summary of the Jolj, crop report issued by the National Agri­ cultural jDepartment: Tte general average of crops la as follows. Cotton, 80.7 ; winter wheat, 78.8; spring wheat, 96.9; com. 93; oats, 95.2; barley, 01; winter rye, 95.1; spring rye, 96.8 • tobacco, manufacturing v leaf, 89. Cottoa is later than usual in every State „ Winter wheat has been harvested in the Foutl' and yielded below expectations in the Carolina* Georgia and Alabama. It has improved slightly in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. A; marked improvement is noted in Michigan. Be * ports from the Pacific coast are also more favor * able. Kpriftg wheat has improved in a large por­ tion of the breadth seeded and promises & large yield, minus possible future drawbacks. Tilt area of corn, as reported, has increased over j per cent , making the breadth nearly YG.OOO.OOt • acre p. Tht rj has been much replanting in wet districts, from non-gennination and from de­ struction by worms. Tho stand is now moder­ ately good, and the eroj) is growing finely. A preliminary investigation of the area of manu­ facturing leaf tobacco makes an increase of 18 pe* cent, over the greatly reduced crop' of last year. There is an increase of 4 per cent, in the area oi;\v potatoes. The condition averages 95.7. The Eu­ ropean report for July makes tho wheat crop late and unpromising throughout Europe, Ktissia ex­ cepted. The rye crop will be short in Central Europe. IK many respects sheep consume what ? the rest of the stock leave in tbe pastures, ami during the winter they can be kept principally on rougkings, rather than < grain, and by planting ahead a large sup­ ply can be secured ot small expense. A nice flock of sheep'upon tbe farm may l.e : considered in much the same light as th© ? poultry. A great part of their living they will pick up, while what wtj are ob^ed " to feed them during the winter is a wall - item as xegards the per eenfc'-of proAt tfeafc ; may be fecued. • '•