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AN INDIAN UPRISING. 1 I I Colorado Vtes I'lider Chief Col-1 orow On the Warpath. Several Skirmishes, and State Mil- j itary Ordered Out. Chief Colorow, a noted Ute Indian Chief, | recently abandoned his reservation in Colo- ' rado, and gathering a band of about eighty followers went on the warpath. The cattlemen and ranch owner's were greatly alarmed, and a force of about sixty men under Sheriff Kendall went in pursuit of the Utes. Many of the ranches and exposed residences were HimV ruw unailtS flpeinCT tO the nearest towns A Meeker (Col.) dispatch says: The citizens of Garfield county are all wrought to the highest point of excitement j over the fact that the whole White River country is swarming with Indians, and that an attack by them is imminent in all of the ranches lying away from Meeker. The first intelligence of the serious turn of j affairs was obtained bv a correspondent near j the Milk River trail, about eight miles above I Meeker, where he overtook Dan Van Cleef, ! the Adjutant General's courier, returning j from the Martin ranch, twenty miles away, j and from him obtained the following: "I left Glen Wood Springs on Sunday morning at twenty minutes past ten o'clock and rode down Grand Elk Crock, striking ud the Rifle and going over an old Ute trail to Meeker, where I arrived just seven hours and fifty-five minutes from the time of starting. At Meeker I gave the despatch sent by General West to Commissioner Gregory, who employed Commissioner McNeill to carry the reply. The people of Meeker were very much excited, and the long absence of Kendall caused great anxiety. I remained at Meeker until seven o'clock last nicht. beinsr undecided as to the best j route to take to find Kendall. Senator Eddy came in at seven o'clock from his ranch on Axial Basin and reported that Sheriff Kendall and fourteen men were at Frank Martin's ranch on Milk River, within half a r mile of Thornburg battle-field. He said that some of. Kendall's men had deserted him. "As soon as I heard this I immediately saddled my hoi-Si and started for Martin's ranch, which is twenty miles northwest of Meeker. I reached there at 10 o'clock and * found Kendal'. He was in good spirits and was accompanied by only fourteen men. He said that thirty-five men had left him at Williams' Fork, the day before, mid that he had two skirmishes i with the Indians,one on Saturday and one on Sunday. The fight on Saturday resulted, he believed,in the wounding of two Indians. One white man had his horse shot from under liini. The two parties encamped within a couple of miles of each otha- all night. On Sunday morning the Indians again came up anU opened fire. This drew the Sheriffs party out from the hills toward "Williams River. "The fight continued for about an hour. One Indian fell from his horse, and Kendall thinks it was Eeny, the outlaw son of Colorow. It is certain, however, that one T"'linn wlinovnr hw WAS. droiinsd from his horse dead. He was also saiil by Alfred Corkel to be Eeny, he having sold Eeny a . horse as a racer last summer. The Indians then numbered about sixty, and Kendall's force was abont the same number. The Indians were only part of the band, and old Colorow was not with them. They were headed by Eeny. Just after this thirty-five men in the Kendall posse became dissatisfied with his ir.anagement and left him. The Indians had then drawn off into the hills. Thirtyfive men left Kendall's camp and went down North Fork. White and Kendall and fourteen men remained in camp. When the thirty-five, beaded by Phil Foote, had gone about a m le, Indians followed them cTo-ely and fired at them. They took the Foote outfit for the whole party. Sheriff Kendall, attracted by shots, gathered his men and rode after them. He closed in hahinri t.hft Indians and ooened fire, and the I Utes immediately cut out from pursuit and went under cover in the hills." From best .information at hand it looks as if the aj peal of Colorow to the young bucks at the agencies bad been successful, and that he has obtained as many more warriors as he numbered in his original band. This will make his force amount to about two hundred Indians. They are divided into three groups, and will probably occupy a day in getiing together. Colorow is supposed to be in the hills between Meeker and William's Fork; Eeny's wing Ls on Milk River, and the third party, composing the reinforcements, are on Bear River. Colorow is not going back to the reservation, and his attitude means fight. In response to despatches Governor Adams ordered out cavalry companies from Denver, Colorado Springs, Canyon City, Leadville and Asher. The orders to all these companies were to start for the front at once to , assist Sheriff Kendall in serving his civil ' rak-- processs. Governor Adams telegraphed to General Crook at Omaha that the situation was becoming serious, and ho urged that steps be taken by the War Department to protect the settlers. The Governor's dispatch to the General detailed the situation, and stated that the State of Colorado would see that Sheriff Kendall's processes were served. LATER NEWS. TiiK Pennsylvania Republican State convention at Harrisburg nominated William B. Hart for State Treasurer and Henry W. Williams for Judge of the Supreme Court. The platform adopted denounces the present National Administration, endorses Mr. Blaine's candidacy for the presidential nomination, and declares in favor of protection to home industries. Rev. Daxiel Curry, D. D., LL. D., one of the most prominent Methodists in Amer*? n /love mm of liic hr*mo in Npw ! .JVtt, UlCU a> ion uuijo wev UW ..?U ... ..... York, aged seventy-nine years. The official returns of the Kentucky election give Buckner for Governor 17,015 plurality over Bradio}-. The largest raft of pine logs ever towed in the world has reached Bay City, Mich., from Au Train. It contains 80,003,000 fe^t, and is valued at $1,000,000. A cloud-burst on the upper Rickaree and Republican Rivers, in Nebraska, entirely swept away two new bridges, and a great many cattle caught in the canyons by the sudden rise were drowned. An extra force of Treasury clerks has bean at work making out checks for the prepayment of interest oil $">0,000,003 of bonds. Krnit'opiuc h?v<j uiivod in Phil.l. delphia for defrauding the Government. \ Two Boston ha-kmen named Bean, and a sister, who is the wife of a member of the Springfield Fire Department, have been notified that they are joint heirs to a fortune of *10,000,000 left by Thomas Bean, who recently died at Boaham, Texas. Four fatal accidents to Alpine tourists are reported from Zurich, Switzeran 1, making eighteen deaths in the Alps within a month. A cyclone has ravaged a great part of the South of France. In thj Department of Aude a number of houses were destroyed and several persons were killed. The cholera is fast decreasing everywhere in Southern Europe. A kkjht has occurred in Africa between j Tippo Tib's Arab slave traders and Basako natives, in which 10) Arabs were killed. Under the new Irish Crimes Act three persons have been sentenced at Limerick?two to six months' imprisonment and one to four I months?for resisting the Sheriff. Stanley, the African explorer, is reported in a dispatch received at the office of the French Secretary of Foreign Affairs to have been deserted by his escort and killed by the j natives. Kobe, Kuma ami Yeddo, a famous family = -* r u..T York I d ilfJUUTO; pu^5 U*J1U11^UJ? w %* - v.. - ? family, have all died since the hot season began. Their loss is a notable one in fancy dog j circles, as two of theiu have been centres of i observation at the last three bench shows,and J Kolie, for which #1,5'J0 has be:n refused, was ! laden wi'.b prizes he hod taken at various tiroes. NEWS SUMMAKY Eastern and Middle States. The Boston yacht Volunteer won the Boston Herald $1,00*1 cup in the Marblchoad race for the Eastern Yacht Club. A kike at Pittsburg. Fa., destroyed two fine nine-story buildings, the Dispatch newspaper office anil other nronertv. causing an esti mated loss of $500,000. The mysterious disappearance of Emit Sehoenberg, associated with John F. Betz, the millionaire brewer of Philadelphia, in various enterprises, has been accounted for by the latter's assertion that the missing man has forged his name and the names of other parties to the tune of about $oU0,000. The Thistle, the Scotch cutter which is to represent Great Britain in the coming international yacht race, arrived at New York a few days ago after a voyage of twenty-one days. Ax express train near South Norwalk, Conn., struck a wagon containing Eben Van Hoosear, his wife, daughter and grandson. All four were instantly killed. John R. Dunn, a New York broker, has been arrested and lodged in jail in default of $100,000 bail on a charge of l?eing an accomnlice in the robbery of $150,000 from the Slanhattan Bank by its paying teller, Scott, two years ago. Scott escaped to London.and from there sends on a full confession. South nncl West. A water tank burst near Norway, Mich., killing six workmen and badly injuring six others. Another successful train robbery has 03 curred on the Southern Pacific road,this time at Pafago. a small station east of Tucson, ArT),.> rrartrr /wnuictod of four men. who rifled the Wells,&Fargo & Co.'s express safe of more than $10,000. A wind and hail storm damaged nearly every building in Renville, Minn. A woman was instantly killed and a man fatally injured. Later returns increased the number of killed by the wreck of the train near Chatsworth. 111., to more than 170. There is also alarge list of wounded. U.vited States Senator Riddleberger was committed to jail and fined ?2>by Judge Newman at Woodstock, Va., for contempt of court. A placard had been paraded on the street reflecting on the Judge in a case in which Senator Riddleberger was interested. The entire business poi-tion of Ran Fran Cisco was shaken by an explosion of tlie liianc Powder Works at West Berkely. six miles away. One Chinaman was killed and four white men and six Chinamen seriously injured. Holmes Pcryeak was hanged at Prince George Court House, Va., for killing his wife by poison. Charles Apfel shot his wife fatally and then committed suicide in New Orleans. Frank Wilson was hanged at Prescott, Arizona, for a double murder. Ex-Uxited States Skntator sargeaxt, of California, is dead. He was born in -Massachusetts in 1827, was several times a Representative in Congress, and served in the Senate from 1S73 to 187U. Adoi.ph Zenxeke, editor of the New Orleans Mascot, was shot while ejecting from his office a young man who had called to demand the retraction of an alleged gross libel. Zenneke's partner was shot dead some months ago. Chief Colorow, with about ninety Ute Indians, has gone on the warpath in Colorado. At last accounts a sheriff's posse of 104 men was in hot pursuit, and a fight was imminent. Prairie fires have caused heavy damage in the vicinity of Mexico, Mo. Three men?C. "\V. O'Neil, D. Holzmann and John Hackett?while traveling from Thompson Falls, Montana, to the Cceur d'Alene (Dakotai mines on horseback were set upon by masked highwaymen and robbed of $4,(KK). ? Mrs. Hebbert, an inmate of a Joliet (111.) hospital, has been in a trance condition for seven months. The doctoi-s are unable to restore her to consciousness. Senator Riddleberoer was released from jail at Woodstock, Ya? on Tuts.lay, three doctors certifying that his physical condition was such as to render confinement dangerous. Washington. Charges of violation of the Civil Service law. made against Postmaster Harrity, of Philadelphia, some time ago have been declared unfounded by the Civil Service Commission after an investigation. A bulletin issued by the Signal Service Office states that the recent copious rains in the drought-afllictcd West came too late to cause marked improvement in the already injured crops. The* weather has ben generally favorable for all crops in the States on the Atlantic coast, from Georgia northward to New England. The Navy Department has received Admiral Luce's request to be relieved of his command of the North Atlantic Squadron. The Navy Department's rebuke of the Amiral's action in the Canadian fishery troubles led to his request to be relieved. Contracts for tho building of five new naval vessels?three cruisers and two gunboats?have been awarded. Their cost will aggregate over $5,(Ki0,000. The President has appointed William Pardons, of Hartford, Conn., a special agent to allot lands in severalty to the Indians on tho Uiuatilla reservation in Oregon. Cnnnnm * T a %M a is lini- fVio racfA. r??.VIV?<l Ant iJ.A .U^V IV uuo VI u< i u? V4JV IV*7VVration to the national domain of the inderanity lands granted to the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company. The Assoc iation of Official Agricultural Chemists, which is composed of one delegate from each of the agricultural stations and colleges in the country and from other bodies exercising official control of fertilizers and agricultural products, has Leon in session at the Agricultural Department. Foreign. Prince Ferdinand has taken the oath of office and ascended the throne of Bulgaria. The Belgian Ministry has resigned. A TORNADO in tne VlCIIUyj Ui France, has caused loss of life anil property, r The fisheries of Newfoundland, as well as the crops, have failed, and over 50,000 persons on the Island are in destitute circumstances. THEY OWE $17,000,000. Tlie Firm "Which Tried to Control the B. and O. Goes Under. Henry S. Ives & C\, the New York brokers who recently paid a large sum for the future right to buy a controlling interest in the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad from President Garrett, failed to raise the purchase money, an I l avo suspended, their liabilities being estimated at ^17,0.M?,(hH?. Of this huge sum about $5,000,000 is due to mainder is in stocks and securities belonging to various railroad corporations and "used" by the suspended firm. Henry S. Ives, tho senior member, is a young man under thirty years of age. The announcement of the failure was received with great cheering in the New York .Stock Exchange, because the condition of the firm's affairs h id lor weeks been a great drawback to a steady market. 100 YEARS OLD. Mns. Tripiiexa Beyans, of Danbury, Conn., is now in the 103dyear of her age. Mrs. Jake Ryder, of Orrington, Me., was 10:5 veal's old in January, and is yet able to belp herself. Mrs. Magdalkxa Boggs, of Milton, Ind., is nearly 10-1 years old, in fair health, but weak in memory. Mrs. IIui.da Nelson, of Fort Ann, Washington County, was 100 years of age on July 4. She has been a widow thirty-six years. Mrs. Douglas, of Omaha, Neb., has just celebrated her centennial birthday. She is well preserve ! and has an excellent memory, but h?-r eyesight is failing. Uncle Billy Whitney, of Norwood, N. n So i io vmrc nlrl Hh has cut a third set of teeth. He married at thirty-three, and when liis wife died she was 101 years old. Whl-v miv a ^nvill nf New Preston. Conn., celebrated her 10!ith birthday the children of the town gave her a set of books, ami filty of her family and descendants dined with her. liETSEy Sarc.kant, of Canterbury, N. H., has enjoyed 100 years of single blessedness, and is not yet ready to marry. Her mind is vigorous, and she still attends to h.jr household duties. ! JUMPED THE TRACK. A Baltimore and Ohio Train l Crashes into a Signal Tower. I ??? , The Engineer Killed and Many Passengers Injured. i A Washington (D. C.) dispatch of We lnesday says: Another so-called "accident" on j the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, within the city limits of Washington, at an early hour this morning, caused the death of one person, the piobable fatal wounding of two others, and injuries more or less serious to sixteen or eighteen more. Train No. 4, the St. Lonis, Chicago, and Cincinnati express from the West, due in Washington at 6:30, came thundering into the city over the Metropolitan branch at 6:30, and at the curve, nearly a mile I away from the " Y/' began whistI ling "down brakes." For some reason I the brakes were not put down. The air | I brakes, it was said, did "not work, and the eni gineer began blowing his distress whistle for the brakemen to put on the regular brakes. Either the brakemen did not heed the signal or it was not given in time to be of use. for the train, flying at a frightful rate, came thundering on toward the sharp curve at the Y. On the south side of the Y, in the little corner made by the intersection of the tracks, was the railroad signal tower, a brick structure three 9tories high, where railroad men arc employed to regulate the signals and the switches. When the tram turned the sharn curve of the Y. the cars be hind the engine flew the track and smashed into the signal tower, and in an instant there was a wreck, which for confusion has seldom been equaled in railroad annals. The engine was dragged from the track, and, ploughing through the dirt and mud a distance of WO feet, rolled completely over. There it lay, giving forth its steam and hot water in great jets. The steam ploughed up the dirt and covered the house in front of the engine with a fine layer of yellow mud that looked like a fresh coat of paint. The steam and water were blown through the house, and some of the inmates were badly scalded. Near the engine lay Hamilton Brosius, the engineer, crushed and dying, and his fireman with several bones broken. But behind the engine was a scene of panic and confusion. One car was crushed and nearlv buried under the tracks and timbers of the demolished building. Two sleeping coaches and one passenger coach remained on the track. The mail car, the express car, and the baggage car were rolled over and their sides were crushed. The roof of one car protruded from the ruins of the building. In the signal tower, on the upper floor or observatory, William Baxter, the railroad signal man, was at work when the disaster happened. On the ground floor Joseph Healey, a young man employed by ' the railroad company, was engaged cleaning lamps. Baxter, it appears, realized the impending danger in time. He gave a shout to Healey, and then leaj>ed from the tower to the ground. He broke his arm in the fall and was badly shaken up, but escaped more serious injury. Healey, below, however, was buried in the ruins of the house. When he was disinterred it was found that the timbers had fallen so as to protect him from the tons of brick and mortar above him. He was badly frightened and bruised and blinded by the lini3 and plaster. The disaster at once created intense excitement. A fire alarm was sounded, which quickly brought the firemen and the police to the scene. Ambulances were hurriedly sent for and a corps of physicians came, summoned from every direction. Firemen, policemen, railroad men and residents went to work with coats off to clear out the debris. Many injured passengers were removed and taken to neighboring houses or drug stores, or to the Wrxifole In u-nv oicrhfxmn Or t.WAnf.V UW(??..=. *" j ? J people were got out of the wreck, some of them only slightly injured, others with bones broken and bodies badly bruised and cut. THE LABOR WORLD, Maror Roche, of Chicago, is a practical machinist. ^ The State of New Jersey has five factory inspectors. Ok the thirty-eight States in the Union fifteen have labor bureaus. The eight pin factories in New England produce tit?20,<X)U,0U0 pins a year. In England the yearly production ot pins is set at 4,GUj,UU0,UU0. George Baer, a Pittsburg mill-lmnd, has invented a device for drawing the coke ovens, which is expected to perform the work of twenty men. Corliss, the great engine builder, made no attempt at invention until he was thirtyfive years old. His first effort in this line was a machine for sewing shoes, which was a failure. The total capital invested in 1877 in tho fourteen Southern States is greater by $97,574,500, than during 188!!. Alabama 6hows the largest in.Tease, with Tennessee second. Jackson, Tenn., with a population of 10,0(K>, and in the cotton belt, hiis subscribed $ IKS,?25 in cush, and will donate a site from three to live acres of land toward securing a J100,000 cotton mill. General Master Workman Powderly holds that a Knight of Labor is a Knight no matter what his color or previous condition of servitude, and that he is entitled to all tho privileges of the order, Powdered glass is largely taking the place of sand in the manufacture of sandpaper. It is readily pulverized l>y heating it reu noc and throwing it into water, the finishing being done in an iron mortar. , The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers met in Atlanta, Ga., recently. The delegates were welcomed by Governor Gordon and Mayor Cooper. Chief Arthur made an address on the object and nature of the Order. A pa per beer bottle is to be the next achievement in the bottle line. Ink, paints, oils and certain acids have for some time pa-t been put in paj>er bottles, which do not break or freeze so readily as those made of glass. The various "brotherhoods*' of organized Ifthor?such as the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, the Brotherhood of Painter* and I Decorators, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen?all give reports of unusual prosperity in their ranks this year. The English co-operatives have a bank whose transactions amo'int to $&?,();?.),00.) a year. They have 1.4IKJ stores an J do a business of #150,(1)0,0.111 a year. Th"ir !)00,0(KI members receive an annual profit of $>15,0.K).0:>0. Their profits during the past twentyfour years have been $50,00;t,l'0J. A dispatch from Reading, Pen 11., says that the Knights of Labor have arrived at an amicable understanding with the Phila lelphia and Reading Railroad Company in re| ganl to the ttist for co!or-blin Iness. The I Knigl.ts are to be allowed the privilege of | having representatives present when examinations are made and to see that they are fairly conducted. FREAKS OF LIGHTNING. Frances Fewetx, of Yorkville, S. C., was struck by lightning while washing, anil has permanently lost her bearing. J. W. Gardner, of Yorkville, !s. u., was i killed while standing between two trees that were simultaneously struck by lightning. I The wife of Harvey Fletcher, of Lowell, Vt., was killed by lightning a< she lay in bed . beside him, while he was in nowise injured. Twenty-seven sheep were huddled under a tree on the Bennett Point farm, Queen , Anne's County, M l., when lightning struck j it, and every one was killed. Near Lebanon, Tenn., lightning struck a i church in which services were going on. The whole congregation felt the shock, many being thrown to the floor, and one, Mrs. Reese Davidson, was fatally injured, j Lightning rods were no protection to E. J. | Cable's house at Washington, Conn. A bolt ripped off the clap-boards, tore out the windows and flun-c them on the lawn, wrenched doors from th.'ir hinges and hurled them i across the rooms, tore off the plaster in every room, set the sideboard on fire, bored big holes in milk pails, shattered dishes, ruined the water pipe, and knocked the clock and lamps off the mantel, and yet no person in the house was in the least injured, except in feelings. Dil Ellis, an American lady, is physician to the Queen of Corea. She has apartments in the royal palace at Seoul, and receives a yearly salary which is equal to 118,000. SET FREE BY FBIENDS, A United States Senator Sent to Jail l'or Contempt of Court. United States Senator Riddleberger, sentenced on Friday, at Woodstock, Va., by Judge Newman, of the County Court to pay a fine of and be imprisoned for five days for contempt of court, was released from jail the next day by a crowd. The jailer made but slight resistance. The circumstances leading up to the arrest of Senator Riddleberger are related as follows by an eye witness: On Thursday W. W. Jones was tried for larceny and the jury found that he was insane. Jones was a client of Senator Riddleberger and the verdict made the Senator angry. He was accused of writing a placard and giving a boy #2 to haul Jonas up and down the town, the latter displaying the placard meanwhile, which had written on it: "Verdict?BillJones not guilty, but Insane. Jury Insane, lawyers Insane, court Insane in tbemifn. ' The noise occasioned by this display dis1 ?1 1: ~e luruni me urui uvuiiiga vi i/iic wut v mvu *** session, ana the Commonwealth's Attorney, J. C. Baker, had the Judge issue an order for Senator Riddleherger to appear l>efore Judge Newman and show cause why he should not be fined and imprisoned for ridiculing the judge and jury and disturbing the court. At 5 o'clock Senator Riddleherger appeared before the court and defended himself. He sa d that Judge Newman had no jurisdiction in the case, which the Judge denied and asked Senator Riddleherger to sit down until the evidence could be taken to prove that ho (the Seuator) was the one w ho instigated the ridicule, and then hi- said the court would hear argument. Senator Riddleberger would not sit down and the court fined him Sii. The Senator defied the court and said: "This court shall not send me to jail." Judge Newman then told the sheriff to take the Senator to jail for five days. Senator Riddleberger said he would like to see the man who could take him to jail. Sheriff Whitman at once arrested the Senator and locked him up. This action caused much excitement and Saturday morning at 2 o'clock a guard of 100 men, supposed to be from Edinburg, the Senator's home, scaled the walls of the jail yard and took the Senator out on ladders. T) i/1 /-J InVv/.f/yAt' n rvri/io '1 Am f lia ucnaivi iiiuuicuvi ^vi aj/|/vui tn vii vnc streets of Woodstock Sunday evening. It is probably the first time in the history of this country that a United States Senator ever occupied a prison cell on a charge of crime or misdemeanor. On Tuasday Senator Riddleberger was released by order of Judge Newman. Three physicians testified that the Senator was in poor health. GAVE HER DP. Canada Releases the American Gnhnnvini> Ppt'k i II <5. The American schooner J. G. H. Perkins, | seized at Souris, Prince Edwards Island, has been unconditionally released, but the Dominion Government has instituted proceedings against Captain McDonald for $'2,000. Captain McDonald will contest the suit and bring an action himself against the government, claiming damages for illegal detention. The schooner Perkins, of Northhaven, Me., was seized at Souris, on the charge of shipping men and buying provisions inside the three mile limit. The Dominion Government has virtually thrown up the case, though an effort to give this a serious aspect has been made by the captain being held in $2,000. The authorities felt they could not prove their charges, based as they were on tne unreasonable statement of those who originated A' 1 ?fMAA fViA LviUAnnor tnein, anu r.ney ruaui>cn kj un uic?.uwuv.. at the same time endeavoring to put a bold face on matters and persuade the captain that there was really no doubt of his guilt by holding him in heavy bail. The scheme, says a Halifax dispatch, is too transparent to hold water, and Captain McDonald nas expressed his intention to institute an action for damages against the government for the schooner's illegal detention. The Perkins was seized just one week ago, and the time lost by the unwarranted act might have proved very valuable to Captain McDonald, who has been a heavy sufferer recently through business misfortunes. The men who were, as it was alleged, unlawfully shipped by the Perkins, were discharged from the schooner, and have been called upon to give security to the authorities that they will not embark on a similar venture in future. Captain McDonald's plan of evading the customs laws and the fishery treaty in taking im*ii mi hoard outside the limit may now be expected to be repeated oftener in the future. A schooner shipping men in this manner, no matter where th:>y come from, is perfectly secure from molestation. The first hope of the authorities was that they could prove the Perkins to have been inside the three mile line, but this hope was soon dispelled, and then up went the sponge. The early release of the schooner was confidently anticipated by Consul General Phelan and was mentioned in the Herald dispatches as very probable. , It is considered that Captain McDonald has good grounds for his action for damages, and it is not like!}" he is moving in that direction witnout proper counsel. | ^ ?m i-1 THE NATIONAL GAME. . Weidmax, the Detroit pitchcr, has been released to the Metropolitans. Brouthers, of the Detroits, is the first i League player to m:ike 100 runs. Memphis, it is said, plays with more dash i and vim than any other b'euthern club. It is thought that Brooklyn will go in to some extent for young blood next season. Morrill, of the Bostons, has made eleven home runs and nine three-base rs this season. Six double plays, thres by each club, were the feature of a recent Louisville-Cleveland game. On their last trip East the Cincinnati players received $2.50 each every time they won | two games in any one city,and the club treus- i tiry wasn't much depleted. From the way minor leagues are going to < pieces it looks as if players will have to come ! down in their salary demands next year or there will be no small associations. The struggle this year for the League championship pennant is closer than in any ' previous season. The Detroits, Chicagos, Bos- i tons and New Yorks are quite close in the race. ( When* Horace Phillips, on behalf of the I Pittsburgh Club, in the winter of 1SS5, paid somewhere about $(>,000 for the whole Columbus team, the price was thought to be , enormous. Now one player alone will bring , more than was paid for the whole Columbus team. While in Chicago recently Manager Hart of the Milwaukee Base Ball Club secured the Chicago Club for a trip to San Francisco and other cities on the Pacific slojx} next winter, where the League champions and St. Louis Browns will play a series of exhibition games during the months of December, January, February, and early part of March. tiie national league. Won. ITon. Detroit r?l 31 I Boston 45 30 Pittsburgh....83 4* | Now York....40 38 Philadelphia. .4-1 ."Jit | Indianapolis...'Sj ;h Chicago 4'J 32 | Washington...32 44 THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Won. Lost. Won. Lost. St. Louis (57 24 | Baltimore 4!) 38 Brooklyn 45 45 | Cincinnati....52 43 Louisville 53 40 I Athletic 41 49 Metropolitan..32 50 | Cleveland 23 CO THE INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE. Won. Lost. Won. Lott. Newark 44 2(5 Syracuse 41 27 Rochester ,3f? .'io Binghamton. .25 42 Toronto 41 28 Hamilton 41 31 Buffalo 50 29 Jersey City...33 35 Scranton. 11 30 Wilkesbarre.,18 54 SOUTHERN LEAGUE. ttt? r~.i TTon. Lout. New Orleans.45 24 Charleston..41 25 Nashville 4:5 24 Birmingham 7 81 Memphis 43 25 Tlio Noshvile Club having disbanded, a now series with four clubs has opened. Julian F. Mru.s of Saranae, Mich., was for rlriinlrpnnpos nnrl 6weetlieart broke off her engagement with him. He claims that the arrest was unjust, and has brought ruit against the town for f20,000 damages ft r the alienation of the girl's affections. FOOD FOE THE FLAMES. , Heavy Damage Wrought By a Fire in Pittsburg. Great damage has been done at Pittsburg! S Penn.,by the most disastrous fire known there in years. Shortly before 10 o'clock p. M. 1 smoke was seen issuing from the rear of Masonic Hall on Fifth avenue. An j alarm was quickly sounded and the fire department responded promptly, but before they ^arrived the rear por- ' tion of the building was burning. In a ! short time the flames spread to Hamilton's nine-story building adjoining and by 11 o'clock ( had reached such proportions thai the en- l tire fire department of the city was called , out. At 11.45 Smith & Friday's building, an- . other nine-story structure, caught fire and J I in ten minutes more the Dispatch building ' [ adjoining was in flames. Residents and , owners of property for a half mile around i * were compelled to go on their roofs and | extinguish the sparks with buckets of water. ( On Virgin alley, in the rear of the Masonic v Hall, a number of tenement-houses were des- ; 4 troyed and twelve families rendered home- | less. The damage was estimated at .&M),- t 000. , c I A GANG OF_ASSASSItfS. Sixty Persons Murdered and Plun- t b uurcu lit oua ? ???. A gang of murderers has just been arrested | ? at Pirot, in Servia, Their victims during the t past two years number sixty. Disguised as t gendarmes, the assassins pretended to arrest * travelers for various offenses, and then robbed 1 and killed them. A deputy of the Prefect of Pirot was the J first person arrested for complicity in the J crimes. It is believed that political motives ? led to the commission of some of the mur- ' ders. 8 Two French newspaper men and Prince c Alexander's groom were among the victims, t An official committee of inquiry has been dis- 6 patched to Pirot. DDnMTxrrwp prnpr p c jl xbv/jju.j.xljjx.1 a x uvx xjxji Dr. John Frederick Bridge is the most famous organist in England. Miss Della Beck, of Apollo, Penn., weighs 408 pounds. She is only sixteen yea it , old. c Several Cabinet members have already ( agreed to join the President in his Western trip. t Co.vgressmen-elect Rice, of Minnesota, ' and Hare, of Texas, are veterans of the 4 Mexican war. k Robert Bonner's fortune is now estimated 1 at $2,750,000, and he says it is mainly the result of advertising. Robert J. Bordette is already announced among the speakers for the annual Baptist \ Conference at Indianapolis-in November. , The Rev. Father Swemberg, who officiated j at the hanging of Henry Wiggins,at Palatka, Fia., recently, has attendod 113 excutions. ? James. S. Richardson, of New Orleans, 1 the largest cotton planter in the world, has i this year ;J8,000 acies in cotton and 7,000 acres in corn. General Longstreet lives in a farm house on the summit of a ridge in North Georgia, , His fortune is small but comfortable. He is \ a grape grower. Miss Scsan B. Anthony will spend , October in Kansas, holding an equal suffrage , ? .... 4i? i??l,o CUnveiiMUll ao iuc Iiumc ui cavu vi tuu " j Congressmen of that State. Powell ond Foraker, the Republican and Democratic candidates for Governor in Ohio, were classmates at college, were both soldiers and are still warm personal friends. J Charles T. Stewart is the leading cattle j man of Iowa. He owns 30,000 head of cattle, i and his name signed to a check for $1,500,000 would be honored. Mr. Stewart is a quiet young man and abhors politics. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes begins to feel worn and weary with overwork, and fears a general breaking down of his system. He makes few visits and is husbanding his strength, passing most of his time quietly among his Dooks. SENATOR-ELECT JJAXIEL, 01 \ irglllia, mu add another to the list of lame men in the Sonate. He uses crutches, owing to a misshapen limb. Despite his disability, however, he served in the late war as AdjutantGeneral of Ewell's division. Jefferson" Davis and Thomas L. Clingman, of North Carolina, are the only ex- ' Senators now living of all the Southern members of that body, who, in 1861, were expelled from the United States Senate for having left their seats and gon? over to the Confederacy. THE SUMMER RESORTS. "White Mountain travel improves day by Jay. Gettysburg is becoming quite a summer resort. Many seaside resorts report thieves uncomfortably active. A very busy resort is Gnrfield Beach, on Great Salt Lake, Utah. All sorts, kinds and conditions of people are gathered at Saratoga. 1 There is now quite a round of dinner parties and "high teas" at Newport Among the social lions at the Isle of Shoals ( are a number of literary celebrities. A deer park is among the latest projects about to be consummated in the Catskills. , Big bouquets of mignonette are carried by the young women at tne summer resort hops, j An enterprising woman ut Cottage City has opened a dairy school and "teaches ladies how to milk." I Forty well-known families at Newport, 1 usually leaders in social festivities, are in 1 deep mourning. i The transportation managers say that pleasure travel this summer has been larger than ever in their exj>erience. Prettiest girls of the South and stateliest old ladies are to be seen at the White Sulpur Springs. Va., which is now at its very fashionable best. , Paul Smith's, in the Adirondack*, where President Cleveland stopped, is crowded. The people there live out of doors, and visit the hotels for eating and sleeping purposes. As increase in the crowd of spectators at , evening parade at West Point is to be noted, to which rows of handsome equipages make an effective background. Long Island resorts, almost without exception, are doing better than last year, and ; some of "f.liem, notably the long-neglected Hamptons, are becomine fashionuble. NEWSY GLEANINGS. England has about 30.000 blind people. Tiik late Sylvanu3 Cobb wrote 103 serial stories. I T Ix seven years a Michigan farmer has had J seven horses killed by lightning. Thk travel of sight-seers to Alaska is ' f greater than ever before known. 1 piiTATOns were baked in the ground at Albion, Mich., so intense was the heat. j Thk valuation of Scott county, Kansas, two years ago was $2,(XX). This year it is p $!I1(I,(KK). g A boy only three years of age was put into I jail in St. Augustine, Fla., for stealing four I plums from a garden. 1; The Texas cattle trail is now practically \ closed. Hereafter Texas cattle will be sold C on the ranges and shipped North by mil. I ^ Rev. H. A. Yocxg, ft Methodist minister , of Sutton Falls, Out., has just been blessed by r an addition to his family of a fourth set of i i twins. Over 1,000 telegraph poles of one line in p China have been pulled down by the people, j; Mho say the telegraph is a diabolical q European artifice. j C A syndic ate of New York and Pittsburc 1 capitalists bave purchased 100,000 acres of fine valuable lands in South Carolina and ? Georgia for ?1,000,000. I y The Supreme Court of Minnesota has dis? ' I charged a prisoner wno was convicted by a I jury partly composed of women, on the ground that women cannot legally act as F jurors. j X There are in Arkansas 10S spring localities ? containing 459 individual springs, of which ; five only bave been properly analyzed. The ? number of springs us?d as resorts is twenty- * four. . * . * * " IN FOREIGN LANDS. 1 tome Events of Importance in I Othftr Countries. i Notable Victory for the Followers of Gladstone. An election in the Norwich division of Cheshire, England, to fill the vacancy caused >y the death of Mr. R. Verdin, Liberal-Unionst has resulted in another victory for the xladstonians. The vote stood: Mr. J. T. Jrumer, Gladstonian, 5,112; Lord Henry Jrosvener, Liberal-Unionst, 3,!)S3. In the last election, when the LiberalJnionist candidate was successful, the vote vasas follows: R. VerJin,Liberal-Unionist, ,416; J. T. Brunner, Home Kuier, 3,ho?. The result of the election is a crushing blow o the Tories, who were confident that they TOUld retain the seat At their clubs the tews was received with consternation. Home tule clubs and centres were correspondingly lated. A week ago tho London Standard (Tory) aid that the issue would be atrial of strength inder peculiarly significant circumstances, ind pointed out that, though Mr. Brunner vasa large local employer, his opponent,who s a son of the Duke of Westminster, was a ne.nber of an t)ld Cheshire family that had >een seated in the county for centuries and lad special claims upon the support of every inionist. Mr. Brunner, the newly elected member, oade an address to the electors of his district, n the course of his remarks he said: "You lave won a victory for Mr. Gladstone and or Ireland. The issue between the classes ind the masses has been made absolutely Ipnr for the first time. The simiifioance of his message of peace to Ireland it is impos- I ible to overrate." A despatch from Dublin says that the Naionalists there are jubilant over the Gladtonian victory in Cheshire. They declare hat the Government cannot proclaim the National League in the face of a defeat which :omp!etely changes the political situation. 70,000 Cholera Victims. A despatch from Simla, India, states that he medical returns show that TO,000 persons lied from cholera in the Northwest Provinces limntr .Tnno nml .Tnlv Many new cases of cholera and numerous leaths are reported in Malta daily. A Rome dispat:-h gives the following as he cholera returns lor one day: Naples, 8 lew cases and tJ deaths; Palermo, 7 cases and 1 deaths; Catania, .17 cases and tt deaths; Syracuse, 5 easts and 3 deaths; at other places, 93 cas?s and 40 deaths. Fire Destroys 1,000 Houses. A great conflagration raged the other day n Scutari, opposite Constantinople. A hi h tvind prevailed and the flames spread rapidly, rhe fire was not extinguished till after 1,001) tiouses and two churches had b?en destroyed, rwo women and achild wero burned to death, rhousands of persons are homeless. The Sultan has donated $15,000 for the sufferers ind has appointed a relief committee. Preparing Against Eviction. The tenants on the Ponsonbv estate in Ire land have engaged a civil engine :-r to supervise the construction of works of defense in preparation for expected evictions. Barri:ades are being erecte I and trenches and irains made, and in case of emergency the farms will be flooded from a bog. Big Crops Promised in Europe. The crop reports received in London by tho New York World Bureau say that the yield ot wheat in Great Britain will be above the average. In France and Italy a decided increase over last year's crop is expected. MUSICAL AND DBAMATIC. George Francis Train was offered $1,000 for thirty lectures and declined. Carl Zerrahn, the orchestral conductor. praises Southern chorus singing. Mrs. Langtry will appear in London September 27 in "Antony and Cleopatra." Rubinstein is composing an opera to be produced by the new National Russian Opera Company at St. Petersburg. Cappa's Seventh Regiment Band, of New York City, will make a concert tour of the oiaies, Deginnmg in uctooer. It is stated that the Buffalo Bill "Wild West" has never shown to less than 18,000 persona a performance in London. Sarah Bernhardt has been coining money in London. Her receipts have averaged over ?2,500 for each performance. Yee Phan Lee, the Celestial who wedded a New Haven heiress some weeks ago, has become a lecturer. His subject is China. The financial failure of the National Opera Company appears to have been complete. The sum of $00,000 is due to 280 singers and dancers. Buffalo Bill intends to give a fall season in i'aris ana a winter season in me uonseum i in Rome. His European engagements extend over three years. Edouard Audran, the composer of the "Mascotte," is at work on a fantastic opera, "Mohammed's Paradise," which is to be first performed at Brussels. In composing comic operas Sir Arthur Sullivan often works from noon till daylight the next morning without a break. Sir. n;)Kn,.f iiciiolltr wai'Itc frnm 11 P U tn '2 rtP 3 a. m. Alice Dunning Lingard is coming back to America next season to star in '"Sister Mary," one of the plays which Mr. Wallack had some thoughts "of prolucing in New York last season. Miss Edith Little hales, [of Hamilton, Ontario, is the phenomenal violin player of Canada. So marke.1 are her capabilities in this respsct that she is to be sent over to Leipsic for two yeai-s. The elder Charles Dickens twenty years ago began his reading tour of this country, ind it ended at Steinway Hall, New York :ity, April SO, 1S<W. His son will give his Irst reading in America at Chickefing Hall )n October 25. THE MARKETS. new york. 33 Jeef, good to prime 1XA ;alves, com'n to prime 4 (d> 5 Jheep 4 @ 4W jimbs & 7% loirs?Live 41, 5^3 Dressed J/*1J/s "lour?Ex. St., good to fancy 4 25 @ 4 3o West, good to choice 3 15 ($ 3 80 Vhcat?No. 2 lied ? @ 80}< lye?State 52 @ 56 Jarley?State W @ ?? Jam?Ungraded Mixed.... 49)? jats? White State :{7,'-g? 38 Mixed Western SO @ 33 jay?He.i. to prime WO (<$ 5)5 Jtraw?No. 1, liyo OJ __ t*5 jard?City Steain 0 (i? @ 7 10 Jutter?State Cieamery 25 @ 26 Dairy 18 (sS 23 West. I:n. Creamery 16 @ 20 Factory 13 @ 17ja 'beese?State Factory 1114? I'-'-i fil-inw 8 (<t 1?*V Western 7 @ !ggs?State and Penn 17 @ 17Jj BUFFALO. iteers?Western 3 50 @ 4 00 Iheep?Good to Choice 4 (?) @4 50 /liIIus??>t?u?ru u u./ {uj u logs?Good to Choice Yorks 5 00 @ 5 20 'lour 4 75 (g 5 15 Vhent?No. 1 #>2 5orn?No. 2, Mixed ? tf? 45 )nts?No. 2, Mixed 30 (<i 80K 5ar!e)'?Stat3 ?>4 (<S Co BOSTON. Jsef?Good to choice ? ;?(<? 13 r?~.. t;,-? hi/.-.vi i; XVqO v Northern Dressed.... 'ork?Ex. Prime, per bbl... 12 00 (<t I'Z 50 'lour?Spring Wheat pat's.. 4 75 (di 4 !K) u; v, V< ihi .? 'Uiu? )als?Extra Whit-o ? ft' 37}? Lye? .State 60 @ 65 WATERTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET. teef? Dre.sse l weight '? @ Iheen?Live weight 4%<a! 5 >amb? 0 0 7 logs?Northern &%(& 1 I'll I f,A DEI-I'lII A. ^lour?Penn.extra family... 3 00 (a 3 23 I Vbeat?No. 2. Ked 70>.^c<2) 80 'orn?State Yellow 50 ($ 52 )ats M ixe 1 32 @ 32>? tvo?Mate ? @ 53 j {utter Creamery Extra... 24 <g 25 i Cheese?N. Y. Fall Cr jam.. 1 l}j@ 12}^ * ' 1 AN OLD LULLABY. glH "Hush, mv dear, lie still and slumber;* IHI Sweet the words that murmured low -^Hj In this twilight hour comc floating, From the days of long ago; ~ When, by loving arms enfolded, Gathered to a loving breast, "Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber," MH Lulled me to my quiet rest. 8H| Sweetly now the words come stealing To my weary heart and brain, Ml Soothing all my care and sadness, |^H With their old familiar strain. Almost I to-night could fancy, H Softly sung above my neaa? n "Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber, H Holy angels guard thy bed." hH Soon shall life's long day be ended, HH Soon the eventime shall come; Cleansed from sin, and freed from sorrow, |HD God shall take my spirit home, BM And His messenger so sweetly flfl To this weary .frame shall say? j^B "Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber, ' Till the resarrection day." flfl ?E. M. Griffith, tn New York Obser mil am) mM.-? Always seedy?The fig. It takes a sober man to walk a tight A morning call?"Charle9, get up and Bl light the fire."?Tid-Bits. H8 The point of the hornet is generally well given, if not well taken.?ZrarpwVBJ There is one household article thatap- H pears to have escaped the dccoratmg crazd ?the washtub. ?Syracuse Herald. , -. The man who is seeking to elude the detectives is not much troubled by hot weather. He keeps himself shady. A barber walked into the City Hall the other morning and declared his intention to pay his pole tax.?Pretzels National. The bank cashier of the period doe not seem to think anything less than half a million worthy of his steal.?Life. Betwixt the hen and an incenDiary you inquire The dif rence? Why, one sets on eggs, ? The other sets on fire. ? Vonkers Gazettee. J Royal blood flows in the veins of the Siam princes; nevertheless they are not half as well connected as were the Siamesetwins. Three years' undisturbed possession of; a setter dog will destroy the veracity of the best man in America.?Macon (Oa.) *' Telegraph. A Burlington girl is learning to play tho*' cornet, and her "admirers speak of hera#^' the fairest flower that blows."? linqton Free Press "aSS 4 * I! i.i 1 A writer on puiuium cuvuumj "It's the little leaks that tell." Yes, in deed; a little leak will give you away ai- fl fast as an overgrown onion.?Statesman,wM Fair Phyllis made a pretty cake, H To please her papa's palate; H Her parents put it on a stake, B And used it for a mallet. ?I hiladelphia Xews. "There is change in everything," ser- : monized Mrs. Dorcas. "Ye9," assented I old Dorcas; change in every thing except - I in the tramp's pocket."?Epoch. H Their loved confess'd, when ecstaCy was o'er, I And they had partially returned to reason,. "rinrlirnr. said he.''hast ever loved beforef "Well, no.'' she answer'd?"that is,not this season 1" ?Tid-Bits. "Humph!" grumbled the clock, "XT don't know of any one who is harder " worked than I am?twenty-four hours a^day year in and year out." * And then itstruck.?Jewelry News. "What is life and no loving," she tenderly J sighed As her head on his shoulder she laid; "What is love and no living," he sadly 'A replied. -' &! As he thought of his board-bill unpaid. A yacht under full sail went ashore on-- ' the rocks on the Maine coast ine ocner m day. The captain explained it all by ? saying that if he had had a reef in huisails lie should not have had a reef under his keel.?Boston Pod. >? '$ A seedy farmer in old Md. Moved West and took up some Prd., Where he prospered so well That he sent back to tell ^ How at last he had lighted in Fd, ?Pittsburg Chronicle. "How to write a check" is one of the* ? thincs treated of in a neat little pamphlet I issued. That sort of information will hardly fill a long-felt want up to the | brim. No special learning is required to [ write a check. "How to get a check cashed" would make far more interesting: reading.?Pittsburg Bulletin. It was midnight and an impassioned lover in an uptown drawing room kneelea at the feet of his heart's choice and exclaimed: "Gertie, I will do anything izt this world to make you happy." "Do you mean it, George?" "I do, I do, M darling." "Then for heaven's sake gb home and let me go to bed."?New Or? leans Picayune. China's Great Wall. General J. H. Wilson reports the Great Wall of China in fine condition where examined it, though ruinous in parts. "It * is from twenty-five to thirty feet high, fifteen to twenty feet thic k, and rivetted outside and in with cut granite masoniy laid in regular courscs with an excellent . mortar of lime and sand. It is surmounted by a parapet or battlement of gray burned brick eighteen or twenty inches thick. The inside of the wall is made of earth and loose stone, well rammed in. Every 200 or :J00yards there is a flanking turret thirty-five or forty " feet high, projecting bcyoud and overlooking the face of the wall in both directions, and near each turret is a stona -x i,r.f thfi walla SliURWV It'iHIillg uvi>? to a door opening upon the ground ia the rear. The most astonishing thing about it is, however, that it climbs straight up the steepest and most rugged mountain sides, courses along their summits, descends into gorges and ravines, and, rising again, skirts the fare of almost inaccessible crags, crosses rivers, valleys and plains in endless succession from on? end of the Empire to the other?from tlu- seashore on the Gult of Pc-Chee-Lee -1 to the desert wastes of Turkestan. It is almost .impossible to conceive of ite capture except through treachcry or gross neglect on the part of those whose duty it should be to defend it. It is laid out in total defiance of the rules of military engineering, and yet the walls are so solid and inaccessible, and the gates so well arranged and defended, that it would puzzle a modern army with a first-class sie<jfe train to get through it, if any effort whatever -were made for its defense, New York Observer. A Gourd Turned Into a Shoe. A curious experiment has been tried with a gourd. After removing all the properties bnt the fibre, this has been lasted and stiffened into the semblance of a shoe. The sole, which is of leather, is stitched on with a waxed-thread sewing machine. The top is bound with -in- n /IrtvLr/tt* /iaIoi* Hf />nnrco enrh Mi XV W1 a Utunvi - w x v.vv*?*jvj wuva* an article could not be put to any practical use; it merely shows what art'can do.?S'toe and Leather Reporter.