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mm tgfftaiafaakr J. VAN SLYKE. Editor and Publisher. BICHENRY, ILLINOIS. THE salary of the infant King at Spain is $1,250,000 a year. . • . / IT is calculated that there is properly ' kilned at $50,000,000 at tbe bottom of ike Atlantic. • • " . v . - ".THERE are rufns neat (Jfttttfp, Cft*., tke foundation wails of which can be traced for two miles, indicating the ex­ igence of a large town in the locality in bygone times. • ^ IN New Zealand a Mormon conven­ tion has just closed its sittings, at ivbich ii was officially reported that there are 8,000 Mormons in that colony, and that 500 converts were made during the i^aat . ytar. : - - ; jWitirtAM SPBAOCE, the famons ex- United States Senator, the famous boy statesman the famous War Governor, the famous husband of Kate Chans •Sprague, is now Chief of Police at JSfarragansett Pier. PBOF. BUBT WILDER, of Cornell, is looking a collection of brains. He "wants brains, other people's. He is eenecially desirous tl^t editors should leave their brains to him when they go Into the obituary department. Great eplendid brains are what Prof. Wilder is after now, hence this appeal to the editors. "ONE of Horace Greeley's nephews is %.barber in a little town in Warren CSpunty, Pennsylvania. In personal ap­ pearance he is not unlike his distin­ guished uncle. He thinks Horace might also have become a great barber if he had not got switched off in an­ other direction when he was young and immature. TTHE discoveries made by Stanley •bow that the Nile is the longest river fa the world, being at least 4,100 miles in length. Were the Mississippi re­ garded merely as a tributary to the Missouri, as some geographers contend, the latter stream would surpass the African water-course, having a length of 4,500 miles. DEPUTY JAILER JOHN BUSKS, form­ erly one of the wealthiest lumbermen near Ashland, Wis., dropped deud in a ohair just as he opened the jail door to takeout a squad of prisoner?. Tho prisoners, many of them held for seri­ ous offenses, thought Burns was retire- ing, and made no effort to escapc. When the jailer entered half an hour later the dead deputy was still guard­ ing the prisoners. £>R. CARL LUMHOLTZ, a NORWEGIAN scientist who was sent out to Australia several years ago by the University of Christiana for purposes of exploration, stated recently in a lecture in San Fran­ cisco that there were, by estimate, fully tw<j hundred thousand natives in Aus­ tralia when thq whites first settled there, but now there are not over thirty Ihousa-nd, and they are fast disappear­ ing before the withering blast of civil­ ization. They are the most degraded and primitive people on earth. . .SOME little time ago a writer sent an : article to a magazine with the following explanatory note: "I know that you probably have several thousand articles on hand, many of them by well-known writers, while I am entirely unknown. Bat I venture to hope that you will look at my article at once, first, because be made a regular army post, and no 000. It will be of handsome design, the exteiior being a series of square columns and beautifully polished stone. The carving will be ornate. All parts of the building will be made of the pro­ ducts of Colorado's mines, the owners in all the counties of the State having sent in their choicest and richest speci­ mens. In the interior will be seen every variety of mineral production frota stone and coal to pure gold, the value of which will be at least $750,000. It is intended to be a permanent ex­ hibit, open every day the year round, and its originators dosire to have the choicest specimens of mineral wealth from every State in the Union repre­ sented side by sid^ with the resources Of Colorado. Building-stone, marble, and granite are also desired. The building will be lighted by 3,000 incan­ descent eloctnc lights. It is the inten­ tion to reproduce this in duplicate of design and brilliancy of decoration aud display, but somewhat reduced in size, as the Colorado mineral exhibit for tho World's Fair in Chicago, in 1892. INTENSE bitterness prevails at Trieste against the American Government, in consequence of the latter'* determina­ tion to put an end to the immunities -and privileges which the ancient city of Tergeste, founded by the Roman Em­ peror Vespasian, has enjoyed since the year A. D. 1719, when it was first de­ clared an Imperial Free Port, and ex­ empt from the payment of national taxes. On June 20, 1891 Trieste will be reduced to tho level of an ordinary seaport city of the Empire, and its com­ mercial prosperity will receive a blow that will probably prove mortals The action of the Austrian Government in the matter is mainly due to the influ­ ence of Hungary, which has spent vast sums in the construction of the quays and docks at Fiume, and wliich is naturally jealous of the extraordinary privileges enjoyed by her rival Hitherto Trieste has monopolized al­ most the entire shipping trade of the dual Empire, its annual imports and exports exceeding $150,000;000. Un­ fortunately, however, it has for many years past had the reputation of being the most disloyal city ip the Empire. Irrendentism prevails among all classes of its inhabitants, who lose no oppor­ tunity of manifesting their ardent love for everything Italian and their deep- rooted aversion for Austria. This, doubtless, has greatly contributed to bring about the Government's decision to rescind its ancient charter. Preventing an Explosion. , Picatinny Powder Depot near Dover, N. J., which cost nearly $500,000, is the chief deposit of Uncle Sam's war powder. The ceilings are low, of cor­ rugated iron, laid on wrought iron trusses, forming low attics above. The interiors--floors, walls, ceilings, iron door-frames and supporting iron pillars --are all sheathed with ygllow pine. All the magazines are protected from lightning in a most thorough manner, by means of a net wptk of conductors on lofty poles carrying cables and form­ ing a continuous circuit above and around the entire building. No human being is permitted to enter the build­ ing unless barefooted or with rubber over his boots or shoes. The barrels of powder are taken into the magazine on rubber-covered skids or on trucks with rubber-tired wheels. About 1,250,000 pounds of powder, chiefly of an experi­ mental variety, and 6,000,000 of the to­ tal of 9,000,000 pounds of niter now pos­ sessed by the United States, are stored in this magnificent depot for the Atlan­ tic seaboard. And yet there is but one keeper and three or four laborers to protect these, under certain conditions, priceless properties. The depot should person except under proper authority, should be allowed to enter the place. As it is at present, some rampant socialist or luminous crank could blow up the whole affair. Bis First Visit, Don't You Rnow. A Chicago lawyer, who recently re­ turned from a voyage across the* At­ lantic, tells this: "One of the voyagers back was a young man from one of the universities of England. He was the most thor­ oughly book-posted young man I ever saw. And he knew his own country as well. He was a delightful companion so long as he confined himself to his books and his country. But about everything else he was so remarkably verdant that he was as interesting as he was in his conversations about those which he did Itnow. As we neared New York Harbor there was the usual anxiety on the part of Americans on board and the usual curiosity on the part of those who were coming over for the first time. I was walking the deck one morning waiting to get a glimpse of my own country. The young Briton joined me, and in the mo3t serious manner said: w 'Who is this man I hear them talk­ ing so much about for the last few hours--Sandy Hook, I think, they call him ? He must be a great man in America, yet from his name ^should say he was a Scotchman.'"--Chicago Tribune. . Across tlie Usina'a Country. Mr. Bockhill's successful journey across a hitherto unexplored region in the country of the Llamas appears to have been attended with no little peril. in noo v i._ i am t. i His servants were more often in chains 4,201 tr»v^.jthMO„t<>t ,hem aDi Mr 3,786, antiquities 1,062 and theology i himself only escaped death by a series it is on a fresh topic, and is concisely pat; secondly, because it is not folded but sent to you between two pieces of pasteboard; and thirdly, because it is typewritten." The article was promptly accepted, and appeared in two months. A 9-MONTHS-OLD child of John Chap­ man, of Delmar, Tioga County, Pa., lied recently under peculiarly distress­ ing circumstances. The little one was having a very troublesome time in cut­ ting its teeth. The father, thinking to ' relieve its sufferings, attempted to lance the child's gnms. He used a common jack-knife and performed a very bun­ gling operation, cutting deeply into the gams. He was enable to stop the flow of blood anil summoned a physician. He, too, was powerless to stop the flow of the life current, and the child Ipreathed its last three days later. THERE is said to be a growing de­ mand among the working classes of Liverpool for books of technology. The report of the Lyceum Library shows that fiction is still far in the lead in popular favor. The number of works of this class circulated last year was 40,566, while the classics found only 251 readers, and books relating to lan­ guages 230. Works on the drama found no more than 305 readers. Poetry is nearly three times as popular, for there were 854 readers in the section. 9Fhe larger figures after fiction are 1,02a CHINESE students are by no means models of decorum. At a recent ex­ amination at Hasgchow, the young men were so boisterous, climbing on the ex­ aminer's table and fighting tooth and nail for each othei's essays, that* the high provincial authorities ordered the examiner to stop proceedings and ciose the hall. On another occasion the students crowded around a district magistrate who was takiilfe down their names as they entered the provincial capital for examination. Those who had got behind him inked his official robes and singed his peacock's feather. The hien was jnst turning around to shout at them, when his form was pulled from under him and he found himself suddenly seated on the ground, while the students dispersed with a shout of derisive laughter. Tax mineral palace now befBgefeqted §B Pueblo, CoL, will cost aboat $250,- of fortunate chances, so determined were the agents of the Llamas to frus­ trate any attempt to explore the mys­ teriously and jealously guarded district between Silnifu and Tatsienlu, in the province of Derge. Manager Wiet, Vicar apostolic of Thibet, pronounces the feat of crossing without an escort the immense steppes in that land of grass, where the habitations of men are more to be dreaded than the solitude, as the most difficult and dangerous that has been accomplished in Asia during the present century. The district is described as teeming with natural riches, and Mr. Kockhill is stated to have mapped Out a route of prime im­ portance for commerce. -- London News. AMONG all the virtues humility is pre-eminent. It is the safest because it is always an anchor; and that man may be truly said to live the most con­ tented in his calling who strives to live within the compass of it. "THE only way to prevent wfaat'a past," said Mrs. Muidoon, "is to pat a stop to it before it l&ppena. AFFAIRS I If ILLINOIS. ITEMS GATHER ED PROM VAR!~ : •£;£' OUS SOURCES. Wtwt Ow tttlghbon A re Dola of General and I*ocal Interest -- Car­ riages an<l Death*-.VccWeul* and Crimea --Personal Pointers. --Chicago Inter Ocean: The Hon. James Herrington, of Geneva, Kane County, who died there t'.e other day, was ono of the sturdy Democrats of Illinois. His party, which he served almost con- tinnoasly for nearly half A century, loses by his death one of i s rao^t vigor­ ous and vigilant members nnd managers. It ia not withont its lesion that the death of Mr. Herrington follows so closely th.it of tho Hon. James H. Miller, the Speaker of the Thirty-sixth General Assembly. The question naturally suggested bv the decease of these tiro men. so different from one another in mental characteris­ tics, and yet EO aiike in point of promi­ nence and power, is, wherein lay their influence in pnblic affairs? The•_ answer reveals the difference betweei the most of the city legislative districts of Illi­ nois and the country districts. In very many c ises the country, when it finds a public servant whom it wants, elects and re-elects him; it sent tho late Senator Whiting to the General Assembly for some sixteen years; it sent Senator W. J. Campbell there until he declined any louger to be a candidate; it has re-elected Senators Evans and Foliar a number of tildes; "Tom" Merr tt's career is well known, and the whole gamut might be run to illustrate this in a greater or less degree. In all of Cook County there are few members of the General Assembly whose constituencies have been as par­ tial as those of Senator Crawford and Senator Humphrey. The result is that the city of Chicago, represented so often by new and, naturally, inexperienced men, finds itself rarely represented by men of the ability and striding of Senators Thomas, Gibbs, Crawford, Humphrey, and Eckhart, while many of the country districts take strong pos tions from the very opening hoars of the session. In the next General Assembly the familiar faces of Miller, Herrington, Ha nei and Meiritt will be greatly missed, all bat the last named having passed away. --Secretary Garrard, of the Depart­ ment of Agriculture, i* authority for tife statement that the precipitation for tbe last thirty days in Soathera and Central' Illinois has been far below the average for this season of ths ye*r. nnd the tem­ perature has been oorresponding'y ex­ cessive for the same period. The effect oh the corn crop ha* not as yet been damaging to any extent worth mention­ ing. Owing to the fact t iat the crop as a rale, is in a much better state of cnlti- vation than usual for' the first week in July, although the growth is not quite up to the average to this d*te, the damage is confined entirely to uplands where the soil is thin. On the bottom lands along tbe Mississippi and Wabash tbe prospect is fully up to the average, and if the rain that fell throughout Central Illinois recently was general thera is no danger of the corn crop suffering farther from drought during July. --A tragic episode of the race-course is thtis recorded by the Chicago Herald: Coming down the home stretch in the Drexel stakes at Washington Park, with the goal of victory tn sight nnd $3,000 awaiting the horse reaching it first, J ockey J ohn Abbas bent over Norretto's neck to rush her to the front. A misstep by the California filly sent her to the ground with terrific force, and Abbas was thrown headlong from her back. So great was the momentum of the racer's furious flight toward the finish that she rolled over and over, and as the boy lay in her path crushed out his life beneath her weight. The animal soon regained footing, and the mangled form of the rider was tenderly carried to the stables of Tucker <fc Cherry. where four surgeons pronounced him fatally injured. An hour later, without regaining conscious­ ness, young Abbas died amidst the only surroundings his short but excitingca-eer had known. --Summary of the weakly crop bulletin of the Illinois Weather Service: The temperature of the last weak has bean above tho normal throughout tho State. At tbe central office. Sjnlugflelfl, th« exoetq for the vroek wn,8 38 degrees. Tho amount of 'sunshine reported was above a seasonable average. An average amount of prrni jiitntion wm r»rnrt«| In the counties o? McHent y, De KalH ana Rich­ land ; in the other counties from which reports were received tho amount of minfall wag below a seasonable average Extracts from observers' rei>ort8: Chaui) alfin Connty --Favorable for com; too hot for oats ; wheat all bftrvestod. B&in badly needed ; no lain fell during week. C!ark--Oats p,x>r. Woatiijr sseslkmt for haying. No ram fell. Cole--Conditions generally favorable. Rain­ fall, .23 of an inch. l>e Kalb--Hcports are that the rye crop in not worth cutting; it headed out niceK-. but nothing in Uio heed*; oats down and tangled. lUtiulaU, .91 o: an inch. Kul o:i--Crops doing well; wheat about har­ vested; hay is being cut. Rainfall, ..Vj of aa inch. Hamilton--Oats beta? cut; quality poor, wboat harvested: grain plump. Meadows fair. Rainfall. .31 of a:i inch. Marshall--Some farmers fear that excessive heat has injured oats; corn excellent; ailerons promising. Rainfall, .*> inch. McHeury--Corn has made rapid growth the laot week, but it Is uneven and weed v; cui&lva- Uon in progress; termers cutting hay. Rain­ fall, 1,12 inches. Pike--The last week lms Been very favorable to clover hay, although the rain of th-> week did not do it any good. Moftt farmers liavo put off •wheat cutting to get in liav. Rainfall, .T, inch. Logan--Wheat will do better than was ex­ pected. Corn fine. Mcliean--Corn in excellent condition. Perry--Three weeks without rain, with an intensely burning sun, has about evaporated all the moisture near the surface, and all vege­ tation is aqgfering greatly for rain. Veiy l'ttle oats will be cut here--riot worth it. Corn af­ fected unfavorably. Richland--Wheat harvest ftntbhad. Oat* al­ most a failure. Com looking well. Rainfall .»•' of an inch. Randolph--Wheat about all cut and stacked. Other crops suffering for rain. Rainfall .J7 inch. ^aujjanion--Corn excellent. Whuat will yield generally better than was anticipated June 1. Ba;' - -----infall .53 inch. Scott--Very dry. Corn and grass rain. Wheat being harvested. needing --Chicago dispatch: Many people have no doubt been nnder the impression that the Cronin case would never reaeh the Supreme Court. Others have been of the opinion that the attorneys have not been satisfied in a pecuniary sense. This Attorney Forrest declares to be wholly wrong. They 4tave not as yet filed the abstract of evidence fn the Su­ preme Court at Ottawa. They have three volumes of evidence completed, and dnring the summer Mr. Forrest will prepare a brief on the ease. The rea­ sons for not presenting the case at the last term of the Supreme Court are, it Is said, wholly private, but the case will certainly be eubmitted at the October term. --Bloomington has sscure l, by a sub­ script on of the Emerson «!fc Fisher cmriage factory, of Cincinnati, which will give employment to 150 men. --Near Quincy, Peter AMheide. a farm­ er, hid his arm cutoff near the shoulder and Med to death. -- Farmers of Fayette County report --Chicago Tribune: The preliminaries are completed, the funds subscribed, the practical work will now begin. The new University of Chictgo will soon be counted among the great educational in­ stitutions of the country. Prof. Harper, of Yale, is to be made President. The institution is to be open to both sexes on equal terms. The President and two- thirds of the trustees must be Baptists. This is the extent to which religion en­ ters into the college, as the school is to be purely of a literary and scientific character. Nearly $1,200,000 has been pledged to the institution, the site has been purchased, and articles of incor­ poration filed. --The Illinois State Dairymen's Asso­ ciation will meet at the Sherman House, in Chicago, Juno 16, together with repre­ sentatives from other State associations, to arrange plans for their exhibit at the World's Fair. --It is reported that arrangements have been made for piping natural gas front Ohio into Ohicago. --Clinton Traxler, of Fayette County, was kicked by a colt and killed. --Chicago takes second place among the cities of the United States, beating Philadelphia nearly 50,000. The esti­ mates for the two cities, based on almost complete reports of the enumerators, give Chicago 1,086,000 and Philadelphia 1,040,000. Chicago will now turn its at­ tention to New York. It is now only about 600,000 behind the Eastern me­ tropolis, and nearly everybody in Chicago believes that ten years more will bring their plucky and growing city very near the first place. --Tbe population of Sangamon County, according to the census, is 58,794. The population in 1880 was 52,S94. Outside of Springfield there has been a gain of only about one thousand. --Salem dispatch: An original-pack- age establishment has been opened up in this city. No undne excitement resulted, as it was known several days ago that it would be opened. There have been no licensed saloons here for more than two years, and while many of the citizens Would welcome saloons many of them are not enthoaiastio over an original-paokage bouse. that the roots of the growing com rtra al­ ready badly burnt from the heat and drought, and unless ra n comes within the next week the crop will be entirely ruined. --New York Tribune: It is claimed for Chicago that, in proportion to its popu­ lation, it has more benevolent societies than any other city in the world; that the percentage of its dependent classes is less than in any other gre*at citr; that there are only two other eitiea in the country as well supplied with Sunday- schools, and, finally, that its Newberry Free Library starts with a fund of $3,000,000, the largest ev^r'given a free •library. 1' Besides this lihrafy tfo late Mr: Crerar left msre than $1,000,000 for an­ other, and, in addition, the city library has an income of nearly $100,000 from taxation. The eity appropriates one- third of its revenue to the public schools, and during the past year its eitizeui raised $475,000 for the Chicago Uni­ versity and $800,000 for the Lake Forest University. The McCormicks have given nearly $1,000,000 for theological educa­ tion, and not long a?o Mr. Moody easily raised $250,000 in Chicago for his train­ ing school. In vi£w of all this it might possibly be advisable for humorists to stop mannfactnring squibs about Ghica- cago's pork and lard. She is a city of which all Americans, New-Yorkec* in­ cluded, can justly feel proud, --Chicago Daily New. The Pasteur Institute in Chicsgo was opened a few days ago. Dr. A. Lagorio, the manager, gave audience to a number of persons early in the day, including several well- known physicians. Three patients were examined and treated, two of them being inoculated. It was not claimed that the dogs which inflicted the bites were af­ fected with rabies, and the operations were a mere matter of precaution. Dr. Lagorio does not believe in shooting dogs that bite. On the contrary, he would have the animils securely chained until it can be ascertained if they are mad. The process of inoculation is almost as sim­ ple and as painless as vaccination. The institution opens nnder flattering aus­ pices, and the promise is that it will be a pronounced success. The virus used is taken from the spinal cord of rabbits. When tbe virus is prepared for use the greatest possible care is exercised. ^The physicians who witnessed the day's opera, tions were prononnced in approving the arrangements for safety. --The following are the receipts of the Chicago postoffice for the three years ending June 30, 1890: 1388, $2,470,439.11; 1889, $2,784,304.51; It90, $3,126,838.12. The increase of 1889 over 1888 is $313,- 865.40; that of 1890 over 1889, $342,533.61, and the receipts of the present year over­ react! those of 1888 to the extent of $656,399.01. --Mrs. Bose Stillwill, aged 37, was burned to death at JBloomington. She was doing some cleaning in a dark room with kerosene, and struck a match to see how far the work had progressed. She was quickly enveloped in flames and died a few bours afterward. --The first prize in the oratorical con­ test at the Illinois State Normal School at Bloomington was won by J. F. Wid- son. His subject was "Savonarola;" the second prize was won by John H. Cox; subject, "The Black Napoleon.* --State Entomologist S. A. Forbes has made a report of examinations relative to the habits of the Hessian fly. He finds that these flies damage the wheat by con­ cealing themselves in the bloom and by sapping the roots. They sometimes have four broods a year. Early plowing and the burning of stubble Immediately at the conclusion of harvest are thought to be the only means of ridding the fields of the pest. --Congressmen Adams and Tayler, of Chicago, have both received a renomiifea- tion at the hands of their Republican constituents. LAID WAST UIIY WIND. NORTH DAKOTA AND M {M3TA. VISITED G|R TORNADO. r*nr» Struck by tbe Storm and Great Oreat Damage Hone--A Mother and Her Seven Children Perish* St. Paul dispatch: A report is cur­ rent here that tho town of Fargo, N. D., was completely swept away by a cyclone this morning, and that Moorhead, which lies in Minnesota, across the lied river from Fargo, was also slightly damaged. Of eourse, If the repdrt is true, there must have been groat loss of life at Far­ go, and all indications tend to confirm the reports. A railroad man who ar­ rived from that vicinity this mornine says a terrific windstorm prevailed there this morning, and that several trains »were btowu from tho tracks. All wires to Fargo are down, and tho Western Union officials report that about two miles of telegraph wires near Fargo have blown down. West of Fargo they sav worse conditions exist, aud that miles and miles of wires aud pole3 are down. The last reports received by the signal service from Fargo were at 7 p. m. {Sunday, and they show a low barome­ ter, temperature of MO degrees, and a wind volocity of six miles per hour, good condition for a storm. From Mapleton in the west, Buttville in the south, Muskoda In the east, and Villernon in the north, the country has been swept by a terrible tornado. Fargo was the center ot the storm. The stifling, ominous calm of midnight gave warning of the approach ot the storm, and the city was awake and as well pro- pared as possible for the worst. The storm came just alter 2 o'clock and lasted for thirty-five min­ utes, during which time nearly every large building In tho city was unroofed or otherwise damaged. The heavens seemed one mass of tlaine, and the thun­ der was appalling. The wind came first in heavy gusts, every oue of which seemed to carry off a roof, finally set­ tling into a steady sweep that grew fiercer as the time went by. In the In­ tervals between the thunder bursts could be heard on every side the -crash of falling buildings, flying reofs aud tho smashing of glass tn windows. Great chimneys were torn from brick build­ ings and hurled in every direction. There was not a building in Fargo but lost glass, from the heaviest plate down. Women and children shrieked as they ran about in the darkness, and men stood helplessly about with blanched faces, unable to movo liaad or foot to protect their property. For thirty minutes t ie storm raged, then slowly passed off toward the north­ west. Half an hour later daylight dawned and soon tne entire scene of de» ^rastation was brought to view. As if in mockery, tho only tall bwildlng left standing was that devoted to the signal service, whore a wind gauge showed the volocity of the storm to have beon elghfcy-two miles. The scene about the city was terrible. The streets were choked up with debris of all kinds. Tho wife of Captain J. W. McCarthy and her seven children were caught and crushed in a cellar. Whou the storm approached Mrs. McCarthy gathered the children and( took them into tho cellar for safety. A moment later the house was lifted up and dashed down upon the devoted band. Tho seven children were crushed out of all sem­ blance of humanity. For three hours the mother was pinned down with broken limbs and crushed body, but help came too late to save her. These aloue were the deaths, though there wore several injured. Milwaukee (Wis.) dispatch: Advices received at the Chicago, Milwaukee & St, Paul offices from their apent at Fargo are to the effect tnat the town is pretty well wiped out. Several peo­ ple were killed and a number Injured. A Northern Pacific train was blown from the track A St Paul (Minn.) dispatch says: The Western Union office In this city bw been unable to get Fargo or Moorhead, Minn., which is located across the Red river from there. Their wires aro down for some distance in all directions from Fargo, and nothing definite can be learned from them at the pres­ ent time. It is probable that a special train will start soon for the scene of tho disaster, but it could not reach there before midnight at the earliest The condition of the wires would also great­ ly delay the speedy receipt ot deiinlto news. * General Passenger Agent C. S. Fee, of the Northern Pacific, has the follow­ ing telegram from Jamestown, N. D.: "About 2 a. m. a severe storm struck the Dakota division. No. 1 was blown from the track at the Fargo shops. The roof was blown off the depot at Maple- ton. One of the elevators at Dalrymple moved off its foundation, Tho elevator at Edmunds on the Jamestown & Northern was struck by lightning and burned. Cars were blown out on the main track at Buttsville on tho Fargo & Southwestern branch. , "No. 1 has not been abandoned west of Fargo. No. 7 and No. 4 are being held by No. 1. Have sent woridng out­ fit to Fargo. Will take six hours to make track passable there. Main line is clear aside from this. Will give you particulars later, as wires are all down." Mr. Fee says that if any oue on the train had been killed or Injured it would certainly have been mentioned. KILLED BY THE CHEYENNES. D- W, Spalding of Chamberlain, 8. IX, Thought to Have Been Murdered* Chamberlain (S. D.) dispatch: Sever­ al days ago D. W. Spalding, cleric of the courts for this county, accompanied by an Indian boy named Nogay, left here for the interior of the reservation for the purpose of prospecting for coal. Intense excitement was caused in this city to-day by the report brought here by Indians that'Mr. Spalding and his companion had been killed by In­ dians. Agent Anderson at once sent out a strong posse of Indian police for the purpose of investigating the matter. Mr. Spalding intended to go West eighty or ninety miles, and it is believed that he may have run across a party of Cheyennes from Pino Ridge on their way to join their brethern in Montana. He has been in this country over twenty years, and is probabiv better acquainted than any other white mau. Fish Secures s Stay. Auburn (N. Y.) dispatch:* Warden Durstan has been served with a notice of appeal, wiiich serves as an order to stay the proceedings in the case of Frank Fish, the Canandaigua murderer who Is under sentence of death by elec­ tricity and the time for whose execu­ tion was originally fixed for the week beginning July 12. The motion for a new trial, which was denied by tho Su­ preme court, will again come up and the proceedings will now be In the form of a test of tho constitutionality of the law. Small Deceits. Untruthfulness, in any form it mar take, is a most dangerous vice; it is, in fact, a symptom of a deep-seated moral disease that may develop until it gets beyond the healer's art What is usu­ ally considered the most innocent kind of deceit, that which has its origin in love for others and a desire to save them from pain or annoj ance, maycatrv A'ith it grave consequences. In Ibsen's play or story of "Nora" «f striking example is given of habitnal deception of u hus­ band by his doll-like wife. She would tell him little untruths almost instinct- ively, preteudiug to herself that it was done to save him from annoyance, but really from the most selfish motives. Whether the author iutended to do so or not he has pictured a woman false at heart. The little lies she toli| her hus­ band, the forgery she committed for selfish purposes with oool disregard of the welfare of other people, her fear of being "found out" by her husband, and her final heartless desertion of home and children, all point to a deep-seated moral disease, inherited, it may be, of which the smaller developments of un­ truthfulness were only symptoms, Ibsen and some ot his radical admirers try to represent Nora as an abused heroine, and to defend her determina­ tion to desert husband and children that bhe might educate herself AS a woman should be educated to think for herself and be self-reliant. But they start with a bad case. Even a spoiled child, a doll-like wife, without worldly ex­ perience and dependent upon a willful husband, need not be morally unsound. Assuming that there could be such a case as that of Nora, the primary fault was not with social customs or her en­ vironments, but in the woman herself. She was utterly selfish, and used "her small deceits to secretly gratify her tastes and passions. She remained sel­ fish to the end, moreover, sacrificing her family to her desire to "educate herself." There has beeu much dis­ cussion as to the moral lessons ot Ibsen's stories, which are special, objects of admiration by the advocates of women's rights aud women's indi­ viduality. But whatever the author may have meant to do, he has given the world a striking and disagreeable pic­ ture of a moraily diseased young wo­ man, whose petty lying in the first act, playful and innocuous though it ap­ peared to be, was the sure symptom of the selfishness disclosed in the last There are intimations all through the play or story of the doctrine of heredity, apparently introduced to excuse Nora to the reader. But her vice was one of. developmeut as well as of inheritance, as it is in most case*. The inheritance is probably at most a tendency to be selfish and to seek self-gratification by means of deceit. It may be combated as tendencies to physical disease are, and it may be overcome. Its develop­ ment depends upou habit. Lying is a very seduotive liabi\ It may, for a time at least, save one from punishment for other offense's or neglect of duty. Every time a lie is told that has this result encouragement is given for further recourse to this shield and pm- tection. The habit becomes estab­ lished. The victim lives a life of hypo* crisy and deceit. He ceases to be a true man in anything. His first im­ pulse is to lie, and he dees so some* times unnecessarily, as one might say. or when the truth would better have served even his selfish interests. To conceal one falsehood he must tell a dozen others, which in their turn de- maud deceitfhl explanation*. The whole moral nature Is undermined by such a habit It has its root in selfish­ ness, and represents only one form of dishonesty.^ Its victim is prepared at last to commit almost any crime that promises to gratify his selfish nature when occasion and opportunity tempt him. The possible consequences of the habit can scarcely be overdrawn, hence the importance of inculcating a real love of truth in the young and an ab­ horrence of everv kind of deceit, how­ ever harmless it may appear to be. Particularly to be guarded against is the untruthfulness that seems to be justified by a good motive, such as love for another. Critically examined, it will generally be found to«have its root in selfishness, whioh is the incentive to nearly all wrong-doing. -- Baltimore Sun. A Strange Inspiration. A New Yorker famons in the'world of letters awoke one night from a sound sleep. So far as he knew he had not been dreaming. He composed himself again and was sinking into slumber when there came into his mind, as though out of the darkness, two lines of verse, rhythmical, but senseless. They kept him awake, and after a time two lines more, equally smooth and ab­ surd, presented theqCselvee to Ins con­ sciousness. It seemed to him as though seme one were dictating nonsensical doggerel to him from the shadows of the night. Unable to sleep he arose and went down-stairs to his library. He sat quiet in the darkness for awhile, hoping that he would fall asloep in his chair. But a second verse, perfect 10 form but absurd in meaning, came into hid mind, and then a third and fonrth. Lighting a lamp he took up a pen and wrote down rapidly the lines that had come to him. As he wrote new verses fell from his pen, and when he had fin­ ished his task a poem of eight stanzas lay before him. He was surprised to find that, taken in their entirety, the verses were far from meaningless. He at once put the poem iu an en­ velope and directed it to a publishing firm. Placing it among other letters to be mailed by a servant in the morning, he!|returned to bed and at once fell asleep. Upon awaking he was uncer­ tain whether he had dreamed of writ­ ing a poem or had really transcribed one. As his letters had been posted he had no means of deciding the ques­ tion. His uncertainty was pleasantly relieved tho next day, however, by the receipt of a handsome check from his publishers and a letter praising his pcem. The peculiarity of this case, which makes it very different from the celebrated instance of, Coleridge and liia»j)oem of "Kublau Khan" lies in the fact that the author had been dreaming. He awoke from what *-eemed to him a dead sleep and found that his imagina­ tion had produced, without conscious effort on his part, a perfect poem.-- Xeic York World. A REVISED SILVER BIL1 TWK GQNFERREES AGREE SUBSTITUTE. * ' % tfhe Amended Measure. It Is llelieTm^/' * Mill Snecee<l In Hanging Both Bnuinhat,? of Congresit-ProTliilnnt of the Hub«tilnt| :l a® Afr^eil Upon. Washington dispatch: I* Tj, going to pass a law for tlie free coin? . i'-; age of the silver product in th#, ^ United States. That is what the con#" • '<£ * promise bill reported to the Sen at# 3 by Mr. Sherman says. The stiver meit^ --, v* have got practically everything theg, want except unlimited coinage of th£ world's product. The conservative Coor,.*" gressnien are fairly sutisiied. They think, in view of the strong silver sen- t ment, they have done well to get s . stop short of outright free coinage. Th® House conferees yielded, as evervbodf knew thev would, tlie bullion redemp< tion clause and agreed that the coin certificates should be legal tender an! that the product taken up every month should be *.50«),000 ounces instead of $4,500.0«i0, The Senate yielded freo. coinage. The compromise bill reported, is elaborate, and some of the sllvcftr? Senators In view of Sherman's hani in its make-up Want to think of it over night to make sure that there isn't something dangerous In its provision* which would nulify the n!«in object «f the bill. But In part the language H* that of Senator Teller's own measures. All but three or four Republican Sena­ tors signed the agreement to support the bill, circulated by Senator Mandefv' son, an original free coinage man. Ift tho House a large number of Republi­ can members did the same. Some dj|» cllned to commit themselves to a wr^ ten agreement, but stated that the pro­ visions met with their approval. Then is now little question that the Senate will adopt tfeo report and that the House will follow. The substitute provides that the Sec* retary of the Treasury shall purchase from time to time silver bullion to th< aggregate amount of 4.500.000 ounces, or so much thereof as may be offered in each mouth at the market price thereof, not exceeding SI for 371 25-100 grains m pure silver. The treasury notes issued in payment for the bullion shall be rfK' deem able in coin and shall be a legil tender In payment of all debts, publte and private, except where otherwise e»» presslv stipulated in the contract, arid shall be receivable for customs, taxeft;. and all public dues. Upon the domaiw of the holder of the treasury notes the Secretary of the Treasury shall, under ;» such regulations as "he may prescribe, redeem such notes In gold or silver coin at hisalscretion, it bring the estab» lished policy of the United States lo maintain the two metals on a parity with each other upon the present legfcj ratio, or such ratio as may be provided by law. .. . ; The Secretary of the. Treasury shall %ach month coin 000,000 ounces ot the silver bullion purchased under the provisions of the act into standard sil­ ver dollars until tbe first day of July, 1891, and after that time he shall coin of the silver bullion purchased under the provisions of the act as muches may be uecessary to provide for the dcmptlon of tho Treasury notes. • The present law is reoealed. Tke last section provides for covering into the Treasury tho fund held for the re­ demption of national bank circulation^ A \ % VANCE'S JL SCA&.P* The HorUt Carolina Senator ir«r*e« |gf Farmers of ma State. Raleigh (N. C.) dispatch: A few daft ago, in an open letter to Elias Carf, president of the North Carolina Farie- ers' alliance, Senator Vance said tie* should not support tbe snb-treasury bill. The official organ of the alliance to-day in a leading editorial attacks Vance. It says: 0 "Senator Vance may have underesti­ mated'the strength of the alliahcf,, Men livirtg right here In the State have* done this. He may think he may iflr nore Its demands, but he will find It' contains more than one-third of the> backbone of the State. Senator Vanoet. , is a brainy man, but we contend that the. thousands of alliance men in NortH Carolina know a thing or twa lie would have us believe that he know* more than the hundred of intelligent farmers from twenty-three States whgt met in St. Louis last Decenftieih The fat^aoM of North Caroling*:- pay Senator ^ ance. It is his business to work, for them. Whether the mc-ai? ures are constitutional or not lie should do It, aud if the bill is not in propc# shape he should have gone to work an^b put it in shape. If he is not willing serve the ^people- we want to know it. 4 We can not* afford to pay men and thee allow them to put up their brains, against the entire State. The moral <df : itall.Uths: We must go back to th# old way of electing farmers to Congre^jft and the United States Senate. It be­ comes more and more apparent thsii , those we call our friends ere our en# mies. Begin this year. Delays are dangerous." . : WAR CLOUDS IN THE NORTH. Ov< From Far and Near. |BR annual convention of tho Atikeri^ can flint-glass workers is in session at ( Baltimore, Md. | DAVID NKT.SOX, m wealthy stock buyer of Bellevue. Mich., committed'. ' suicide while-temporarily insane. The Stwry Not True. Senior Partner--Is it true, Barge, that?our Cincinnati agefnt has fled with all the cash in his pos.-essioo and taking the keys of the safe and store? Junior Partner--Oh, no, it isn't nearly as bad as that. Senior Partner---Your words take a big load off my mind. Junior Partner--Not the report of his having taken all the keys is wholly untrue. , He left some of the keys. Humored Rapture with England the llehrtag Sea Question. Washington dispatch: Rumors «it war clouds in the far Northwest arte current, and created a flutter eft both ends of the capitol. It is said that negotiations between Minister Pauncefote and the State department for a settlement of tho seal difficulty have been broken off bv the British rep­ resentative, who declined to negotiate further when he learned that the American revenue cut* ters carried orders to capture British J| poachers with force if necessarv. Thi# ? puts a serious aspect upon tne situation. for without doubt the British cruis^*;^s| ers in the Pacific have orders to prof tect British vessels against insult an<| Interference. There is much con-' cern in Washington about the outcoma 7 j of the difficulty. British men-of-war- are assembling in the north Pacific / ^ waters, where United States* revenue: cutters are patrolling under sealed orders carried to their captains last week. Sir Julian Pauncefote, in an interview in regard to the published statement, said: "There is absolutely not tht slightest truth or even the remotest, foundation for the story." He said that not only were the negotiations be- : tween Secretary Blaine and himself stilt In progress, but that all indication! pointed to a satisfactory and amicabl* ; adjustment of the difficulty, and he did not know of the slightest impediment; to a Speedy solution of the problem. ' Condensed News Notes. IMPORTANT changes are soon to b« made among the government employe* in Lower California. NKW wheat has appeared tn market at Marshall, 111., the opening price be* ing T5 cents per bushel. The Louisviilo Southern railroad stockholders voted to lease Its propert} to the East Tennessee, Virginia UM Georgia road. This gives the latter lief entrance into Louisville. WIIX KKXT of Knowt'Te, Tonn., sho? his mistress, Lizzie Watcher, and the* MOST men resolve to enjoy life, bat J himself. Both wore dead wHiieu found •••"'•hw*•»»*«* !Z2t eolvedt--Mortimer Collins. | a widow and thrfee little chitdren peaet • less. i k