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PULLMAN HERALD. ' A WILFORD ALIEN, Publisher. PULLMAN wash". —__— 8 PACIFIC COAST. '! t Highbinders Blackmail Chinese Merchants. NEW MEXICO NEEDS TUTORS. Explorers Find a Mighty Mass of Moving Ice in a Deep Canyon in California. Stingrays are numerous in the surf at (•oronado. Salem has not a public drinking fount ain or a public horse trough. Hush lires have done considerable damage near Victoria, B. C. The first shad ever found in Fraser river was captured the other day. The travel to California this fall and winter promises to !«• very heavy. A large lied of meerschaum of superior quality has been found on Orcas Island, Wash." The Portland postoffice is now in the classified postal service and under the workings of the civil-service law. The Stockton (Gal.) brewery owned by E. Schubert was totally destroyed by tire the other night. The loss is $10,000; in surance, $4,000. There are said to be about forty-live desperate highbinders at l.os Angeles who, gambling being prohibited, black mail Chinese merchants. An outbreak of Indians in Alaska is threatened, growing out of the differ ences between the natives and the man agers of the canneries as to the lishiiiL' grounds and ]>rices of salmon. It has been definitely ascertained that the Southern Pacific is about to build a wharf at a point just north of Santa Monica Canyon and about three and a half miles from Santa Monica. The trouble between the Oregon Pacific Railroad Company and its employes on account of the non-payment of tlie men is assuming a serious aspect. The amount owing the men is about (75,000. The Pacific Mail steamers from San Francisco to Panama and Valparaiso are hereafter to stop at San Diego according to instructions from the Postmaster-Gen eral. So gays a San Diego dispatch. The Carson iNev.i Tribune says: The magnified statements being telegraphed to the Coast papers by the Carson Asso ciated Press correspondent about Pine Nut will do the district more damage than good. The steamer Islander has returned to Victoria, B. C, from the North, and re ports the salmon pack on Naas river and at Alert Bay a total failure. The Skeetia shows up well, but the Northern pack will only be half its usual size. A proposition iias been made that six Southern California counties purchase 1 the patent for the application of hydro cyanic gas to trees affected by scale. The efficacy of the remedy has been success fully demonstrated at Riverside. It is stated now that nearly all of the sixty-five men who were on the I tat a when she was brought back to San Diego are political refugees from Chili, who were glad for a chance to leave [quique. Alkjul one-third have let tlie ship. A convention will be held at Salt Lake City on Septeml>er 15 to consider the reclamation of arid lands of the West and to petition Congress to cede each State and Territory arid land within its borders. California is entitled to thirty delegates. A Yama Indian i* said to have cured himself of a rattlesnake bite by apply to the wound a poultice made of Un common mock orange and by drinking a decoction made from the same plant. (iolondrina is the scientific name oi the mock orange. An agent has been appointed by the Agricultural Department at Washington to travel over the sections in California where the grasshoppers 01 locusts are with a view to ascertain their natural breeding grounds and to, if possible, suggest new remedies. In Washington this year the grain yield per acre will be almost if not •juitt equal to that of 1890 and the acreage sufficiently increased to make the aggre gate much greater, and the demand for h irvesting machinery has been at least -0 per cent, greater this year than ever before. It is Stated at Santa Fe, N. M., that the number of applicants for the posi tion of teacher in that Territory falls far short of the law's requirements, and it is estimated that I>oo outside teachers could find positions by addressing the Superintendent of Education at Santa Fe. Kxplorers have found a mighty mass of moving ice in a deep canyon on (!ray back Mountain, Southern California. The formation is about twenty-live feet thick and sixty feet wide. Immense rocks have lieen pushed from their beds by the moving of the great ice and lie upon top of it. Sun does not reach the ice more than one hour a day. The Yunia Sentinel says: There is no doubt but that the famous talked-of " Lost Pegleg" gold mine can now be found. There will Ik> water for some time to come, and feed for animals will line the banks of the present lakes and streams in the Salton Desert, and parties will thoroughly prospect that section ly ing between Indian wells and Indio. Mrs. George Roberts, a Spiritualist of San Jose, has converted the parlors of her residence into what she terms " the temple of purity and truth." The fur niture and every article of the temple are pure white, and no one will be al lowed to enter unless clad in robes of the same color. The temple is for angels to come and hold communion with man. The difficulty between the Atchison road and its switchmen at Albuquerque, N M has not been remedied, and the strike'eontinues. The company asserts that the demands by the sw itchmen that they be allowed twelve hours pay forte n hours'work, or that another crew be put on-are unjust, and lias refused to counsel a settlement. Kew men will fill the positions. Full returns of the election in I tab show hat the Liberals have twelve men. 600 to 3,000. THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. I Naval I.ieuienaiil in I ound to Be Color Blind, .m.l is Retired. The proceedings of the court-martial , ippointed to try Colonel Compton of the Fourth Cavalry at Walla Walla have been received at the War Department, md will l>e forwarded to the President [is soon as they have been reviewed by the Judge Advocate General. Lieutenant .1. Meigs of the navy, who was recently found to be color blind by the navy promotion bureau and ordered before the retiring board on this account, was found to have this defect by the re tiring; board. His case was sent to the President with the recommendation that he be retired. The President has Ordered him placed on the retired list. A statement prepared at the Treasury Department shows that the total circula tion August 1 was $1,500,033,812, being a net decrease since .Inly 1 of $-14,74:!. The principal changes in circulation were a decrease of $5,124,010 in trohl certificates $3,220,913 in treasury notes and $5,900, --000 in currency certificates. The circu lation of gold coin decreased *44:'>,7 <.t4. The amount of money and bullion in the treasury Angust 1 was $685,275,424, a net increase of $!t(X),7l"> since July 1. It has been decided to amend the ad vertisements calling for bids for Pacific Coast service ho as to make San Diego a port of call going and returning on the route from San Francisco to Panama. touching besides at Ma/.atlan, San Bias ami other points. Steamers of the San Francisco and Valparaiso line will also stop at San Diego, touching besides at Panama, I'.uena Ventura, Guyaquilla, Callao and [quique. Revised copies of the advertisement are now being sent out from the Postollice Department. Acting Secretary Chandler has ren dered a decision in the case of Harnish against Wallace on appeal from the find ing of the local land office at Sacamento, which will materially change the prac- I tice of the department as to agricultural entries which are subsequently found to be mineral in character. The acting Secretary holds that "in order V) defeat an agricultural entry on the ground of the mineral character of the land it must be shown that mineral was known to exist at the time of the entry. Hereto fore the practice lias been to cancel agri cultural entries where mineral was dis- ] covered at anytime prior to the issuance of a patent. CABLEGRAMS. The Whole Southern Part of China Said to lie in Tiirnioi 1. Mosquitoes have appeared in Paris. Cholera is still spreading in Abyssinia. Geneva is celebrating the 600 th anni versary of I he Swiss confederation. . Memorials are pouring into the French Senate against the proposed tariff on food supplies. Parnell warns Dillon and O'Brien that they are following a dangerous course in trusting ( i lads tone. The French Minister at Washington has been appointed Minister to Spain, to take the place of M. Cambon. The Commander-in-chief bus issued orders for the closing of all Orange lodges existing in the British army. Rumors of battles and absence of any information from Emm Pasha have caused alarm and axietyfor his safety. Dr. Kinder, the famous Berlin special ist on rheumatism, has gone to Stam boul to relieve tiie Sultan of his ai 1 incuts. | It is now asserted that the British gen eral election will take place in Novem ber, ls'.i_\ about the time of our Presi dential election. Tlie new war ship* now being built in j France for the Chilian government will lie BUpplied with electric blowers for purposes of ventilation. The whole southern portion of China is in turmoil, and armed bands of plun derers make business almost impossible. Foreign residents are apprehensive of an attack on them. There is a rumor in Europe that the Czar has already approved and the Min isters have signed the draft of the treaty brought to lliisHia by Admiral Gervaieof the Fieueii squadron. Tile Kmsian government has deter mined to build a second Russian chinch in Paris. An imperial grant of $lttt),OOU has been made, and the work will lie commenced at the end of this year. The Hamburg papers declare that the German steamer lines have nothing to fear from the projected American lines, which are considered altogether too cost ly to become dangerous competitors. The Arbiter Zeilung, the Berlin Social ist organ, contains an article advocating i resort to perjury by Socialists in polit ical trials and declaring that such a course is praiseworthy when it tends to serve t he interests of the people. For presents to distribute in England Emperor William carried a large iron safe tilled with snuff Ikincs, cigarette cases, pins and tings; but, large as his stock was. hi- had to buy several thou sand pounds' worth in addition in Lon don. A dispatch from Rome says that France and the Vatican have entered into an agreement by which France undertakes to help the Vatican in its financial em barrassment, and the Vatican binds it self to support the Republic at home and abroad. The British Consul at Foo Chow tele graphs to the British foreign office that there is no truth in the report that riots are imminent there. He says that Euro peans in Foo Chow are adequately pro tected by the Chinese officials and for eign gunboats. The fresh decision of the Kussian gov ernment concerning its policy toward the .lews debars the children of Hebrews not having the right of sojourn in Rus sia, or residents of any Russian district without a permit, from admission to the middle or higher schools. M. Ribot informed the Secretary of the Chinese legation at Paris that, if the measures adopted by the Chinese govern ment for the protection of foreign mis sionaries had no better effect in the fu ture than in the past, the European powers would arrange for a joint inter vention to protect tlie lives and property of their citizens in China. According to the "Annual of the French Army for 1891" the standing army will contain next years7o,6o3men, and will show an increase over this year of \Vl\ officers, 7.41S men and 1,018 horses. The annual g; ves the total nam ber of officers, doctors and other officials of officers' rank :>s 75,000. The esti mated expenditure for the army next year is* KM ,000,000. The report of the head of the Royal Hospital for Consumptives at Ventnor, Isle of Wight, says of Koch's remedy : " I firmly believe that Koch's discovery will soon emerge from the temporary disfavor into which from a singularly un fortunate train of circumstances it has fallen; that it has therapeutic properties as valuable as they are unique, and that it only requires to l>e employed with due emotion under certain easily ascertained conditions to receive the recognition it deserves as an invaluable and essential part of the treatment of pulmonary tu berculosis.'' EASTERN ITEMS. " I Louisiana Has Only 110 , Paupers. i . I i INDIANS ARE CONVERTED. ] i t A Cleveland Nationalist Club Makes a Peculiar Demand on Behalf ' i of the Indigent, • • i < Brooklyn Italians want an Italian in ' the Board of Education. New York brewers are fined $5 for ' drinking non-union beer. ! The United States census reports only 110 paapera in Louisiana. Boston unions will test their right to . hold meetings in the park. Over |150,000 have been raised for the ■ Grant monument in New York. i New York poatoflice employes have heen ordered to seize all German lottery > tickets. ' . Two hundred vessels have already b 'en ' engaged to transport grain from Atlantic ports to Europe. A census bulletin gives the namber of inmates in almshouses in New York at a ' little over 10,000. It is estimated that Philadelphia is de populated over one-half on Sundays during the bummer. i Daring the last fiscal year 535j49f] im- : migrants arrived at our ports, an increase i of 104,277 over the preceding year. ; The Illinois Central has placed orders for twenty-two locomotives in anticipa tion of increased World's Fair traffic. The Supreme Court of Minnesota has decided that the Salvation Army has a ; right to make all the noise it wants to. Laboring men throughout Tennessee will join with the miners in an effort to | secure the repeal of the convict lease law. Under a new law in Georgia when a doctor is convicted of drunkenness he can no longer practice medicine in that State. The great Minnesota trust, formed in IS7!> to boom that State, has dissolved after selling 350,000 acres of land and colonizing i.5 1,000 people. Mrs. President Harrison insisted that the new carpets, tapestries and refittings I of the White House should be the work i of American manufacturers. Reports from all the grain country show that there wiil shortly be the most unprecedented demand for cars that has, been experienced for a long time. The Chicago and Grand Trunk rail way of Canada has lifted the boycott against the Chicago and Alton road. This is believed by some to be the begin ning of the end. A bill has passed the Legislature in Georgia prohibiting the sale of spiritous or malt liqu >rs within a radius of three miles from any church or school outside of an incorporated city. The Continental Loan Company of Newburyport, Mas^., .haijjissigned. The cipital stock of thJ comp my is given at $1,000,000. Oiliees': were located at I'.os ton, New York and Denver. A New York steamship Agent saysthat so far 7,000 people sailed for I-'.rope every week since May 1. The totaLtw^ ■' bt!V would reach 10.i.000, and :?J,Ootsr. j,'"-, will go before the season cii': The Spanish reci procity- 1 reat y and the ■ i diplomatic correspondence pertaining | thereto have been made public, the President issuing a proclamation an- Donncing the full text of the treaty. The Franklin Club, a Nationalist eon ! cern at Cleveland, demands that the city shall assume control of all vacant lands within its limits and cultivate cabbages and potatoes to be given to the poor. Oklahoma Territory has not proved to lie a land flowing with milk and honey. The wheat crop was a failure, and the people are hard up for cash. The corn ; crop is looking well, and may help them out. Archbishop Ireland, who visited Com missioner Morgan of Indian Affairs, re ceive.) ample and positive assurance of his disposition and intention to treat the Catholic Indian schools with equity and generosity. The Secretary of the Treasury declines | to make a ruling on the importation of skilled workmen for tin plate mills, and I refers a St. Louis querist to the fifth sec tion of the alien contract lab >r law as a rule of guidance. Assistant Secretary Nettleton has an- I thorized the Col w;tor of Customs at As toria, Or., to admit free of duty into Grays Harbor the steel rails, recovered from the British ship Abercorn, which stranded January, ISSB. About $13,00 >,000 of tlie P.. per cent. Iwnda have been presented to the Treas ury Department for continuance at 2 |rer cent., and about $8,000,000 have already been examined and the proper measures taken to issue the new bonds. Secretary Tracy has finally decided to award the contract for building cruiser No. 13 to Cramp & Sons of Philadelphia. although the Bath Iron Works of M me were the lowest bidders. The Bath com pany could not complete the contract in I time. The first account of Lawyer William M. Smith, assignee of the Bank of Amer ica of Philadelphia, has been filed, and possesses the unique feature of showing a yield of 10 per cent, to the depositors : of a concern which was believed to be a total wreck. The long-talkod-of project of enlarg ing the Erie Canal to a basis of twenty foot navigation, at a coat of probably $1 "-,0,000,000, is again receiving much at | tention from lake men, and will proba j bly be brought before Congress at the next opportunity. The relative cost of nickel steel plates as compared with pure steel will he studied by the Naval Department, and if satisfactory terms can be made, the former armor will be adopted in thecon- I etruction of the armored cruiser New York and cruiser No. 2. Frank Porter, a half-breed, and Mrs. j IK'inpsey of Stillwater, Minn., for the ; past three months have been working among theChippawa Indians on the res ■ ervation at Vermillion Lake, and have ! converted nearly all to Christianity. A few days ago the Indians gathered all of j their idols in a big pile and burned them. District United States Judge Ham mond at Memphis, Term., has handed ; down his decision in the now famous i case of R. M. King, the Seventh-Day I Adventist, who was convicted years ago I of Sabbath-breaking by plowing on Sun day. The Judge rules that, if a man has set Sunday apart in due form by his | law for rest, it must be obeyed as man's law, if not as God's law. He added the conviction was under a Tennessee law, and it was not the province of the Fed- | ! eral Court to review the case. - ri^.ot)NAL MENTION. \ Some An.-iini Spanish Cannon" to Be Exhibited at the World* I'alr. The> *~~~~ banker in the world is a • lady—*T-(-tr,'h Powers, aged 99, senior partner^ Ger. Powers & Sons, Lauaen berg. i - * XliUlSf». JohiVj- 'an 's the only remaining United Senator who sat in that body during Hannibal Hamlin's term in its chair. l Since he was ejected from the Jersey Lily's heart Frederick Gebhard is said to have ejected her cattle from his Cali fornia ranch. Mrs. Amelie Rives Chanler does not figure in j he will of her late uncle, Fran cis R. Rives, who left an estate valued at $3,000,< 00. Empress Frederick is fascinated by the genius of H. Rider Haggard, and by way of returning the compliment he has ded icated hU last book to her. Daniel Bandmann, an actor well known in Europe and America, is a familiar i. figure on the streets of Sacramento, sell ing milk from his locally famous Hoi- | | stein dairy. M. Chiretie, the Director of the The- ( atre Francaise, I'aris, has invited Mrs. McKee and Mrs. Russell Harrison to visit interesting parts of the playhouse i not open to the general public. Gladstones best portrait is the one ' which Sir Everett Millais painted thirty years ago. It is now owned by Sir « Charles Tennant, who bought it of the Duke of Westminster for $15,000. Since his return to Italy Signor Sal vini lias turned his attention to play < writing, and one of his productions will j be given in this country next season by his gifted son, Alexander Salvini. The accident which befell Henry M. , Stanley iri!3witzerland was not as serious as reported. It was his left ankle joint . that was fractured. The pain has ceased, and the patient is progressing favorably. Princess Helene of Montenegro, who , may some day be the Czarina, for she is reported to be the allotted bride of the heir apparent to the Russian throne, is said to be the prettiest royal girl in East- , crn Europe. The discussion between Huxley and Gladstone over the miracle of the herd of swine is enlivened by the grand old man's very l>est controversial efforts. There is nothing that Gladstone won't discuss save himself. : Secretary Foster says the story that ' there is any misunderstanding between Assistant Secretary Nettleton and Com missioner Owen or himself is absolutely untrue. There is talk of Mr. Nettleton ! resigning for business reasons. Rev. Phillips Brooks is said to be the ' fastest speaker in the world. Verbatim ' reporters, who timed him, found that he ■ speaks on an average 21 words a min ute. Stammering in his youth is ac countable for his remarkable haste in speech. The Prince of Ronmania is anxious to get married,- and wants a royal wife. He has no heart to give, for that already be longs to Mile. Vacaresco. The Duke of Edinburgh wiil not consent that his daughter Marie, aged 10, should wed this princeling. General Aycardi, Governor of Panama, has given permission to the World's Co lumbian Exposition to remove from the old fortress at Puerto Bello on the Isth mus of l'anama some old Spanish can non, which date back very nearly to the time of Columbus. Prof. Koch has not resigned his official positions on account of the failure of tu berculine or Kochism, but he ause he is on the point (^accepting a new office — that of Direc u\_of the Institute of In vV****"'*^*'^ <n''- iiich I,as bei n orf.in hij.rli .. .ctuui^l —ts" govCTnmentAJi<3 I ' f James T. Plowman of Baltimore has sent a collection of religious poems to ernor Fifer of Illinois, and aks that 1,000,000 copies be printed and circu lated free at the World's Fair. He asks that the Fair be kept, open on Sundays, wii'c'i shall be devoted to the Singing of his hymns. When 'r. Talmage appeared in In dianapolis the other day iie was not rec ognized, though he is well known there. The absence of his famous '"mutton- I chop*' side whipkers disguised him ef fectually, find it took some time for the pjople about the hotel to discover that the tall man with the clean-shaven, ruddy face was Brooklyn's divine. Miss Pho-be Cou/.ins wishes it under stood by the free millions of Americans who have been moved by her woes that she is in St. l^ouis for rest anil recrea tion ; that she has not given up the light, and that wheH she speaks again the i World's Fair management will think that a Kan-as cyclone has blown over from the wide and windy expanses of the West. Dr. Harry Crookshank, Director-Gen eral of Egyptian prisons, will marry Miss Emma Walraven Comfort, the only child of Major Samuel Comfort of the Standard <>i| Company. Crookshank brings with him a marvelous necklace as a wedding present from the Khedive, composed of amethysts, cornelian and other stones taken from the tomb of an Egyptian Princess and made into the imitation of a necklace worn by Queen Aab Horep, 1700 B.C. CRIME AND CRIMINALS. An Epitome of tlie II«-l>«lniii:til:tl Doinga *tf Ili Kxceeilinxly Wickwl. The Collector for the Prussian State military iv the government of Marien werder has absconded with several hun dred thousand marks belonging to the lottery funds. Henry E. Barlow, a Chicago letter car rier and a G. A. R. man, has confessed to system at'sally stealing money from letter? on his route. He has a wife and live children. The timely arrival of the police pre vented the lynching of fourteen year-old George Rippetein at .New York city. He had been tormenting Poles by pulling their whiskers. C. W. Breedlove and Charles N. Wil son, indicted for the murder of Sailor Brown of the Charleston, have pleaded not guilty. They have given bonds, and will apply for a change of venue. The amount taken by Svlverter Young, defaulting cashier of the Newport News and Mississippi Valley railroad, is esti mated by his bondsmen to be $125,000. A reward of $1,010 is offered for his ar rest. In the trial of Mrs. Gilmer at Abing ton, Va.,forthekiliingof her paramour's wife and plotting the death of her h'is band, the prisoner told in detail how the work was done, and during the exami nation burst into tears several times. Isaac Sawtelle, who was convicted of enticing his brother into New Hamp shire, by representing that his little daughter was ill and intercepting and murdering him on the way to inherit his property must hung, the Supreme Court refusing a new trial. Henry Guenther, a prosperous gar dener of Dayton, O , is uii'er arrest, i charged with murdering his third wife. A chemical analysis of her stomach i shows strong traces of arsenic. Guen- ; ther married the woman to avoid pay- : ment of $5,000, which a jury had award- : ed her for seduction. FOREIGN NEWS. : The Recall of Baron Fava , Reg-retted by Italy. ; < PRINTERS SENT TO SIBERIA. ' t t France Will Return Russian Flags j Captured by the French in the Crimean War. '. i Vesuvius is again in eruption. Russia talks of running the drag , stores. The reports from the Iceland fishing fleet are favorable. | About GOO destitute Jews are arriving i at Hamburg daily. The Italian government is said to re- | gret having recalled Bar^n Fava i The Sultan of Turkey is suffering seri ously with an abscess in the thigh. | The German government is reconsid- 1 ering the reduction of duties on grain. Forty-five compositors were Bent to . Siberia for working on a Nihilist paper, i Patti says she will not accept less tlian $5,000 for each performance she appears < in. i Forgeries on the Deutsche bank at Berlin to a large amount have been dis- ■ covered. i Sarah Bernhardt has again changed the color of her hair. She is now a pro nounced brunette. t The Turkish authorities are throwing : every possible difficulty in the way of Hebrew immigration to Palestine. , The worsted spinners of Germany I have combined in view of the dulln as of the market to reduce their output. The final budget of the German Em pire for the years 1890-1 shows a surplus of 15,148,2>)] marks over the estimates. < French drummers are to be excluded from Alsace-Lorraine, and the French ' speak of shutting German drummers out of France. Advices from Allahabad say that 500 Russi in explorers are at work extending Russian influence among the inhabitants of the Pamir plateau. ; The Queen of England and the Queen of Italy have exchanged telegrams of congratulation on the visit of the Prince of Naples to England. ; Uritish army authorities are seriously alarmed by the information that Social istic literature is being widely distrib uted among the enlisted men. It is announced that the Pope is Strongly in favor of the present form of government in France, and thu he op poses all schemes tending to monarch ical ascendency. The Paris Municipal Council has voted in favor of the construction of under ground railways in preference to elevated or viaduct structures as a means of rapid transit in that. city. The Munich court photographer, Reit mar, famous for his likenesses of ac tresses, has heen drowned in om- of the Bavarian lake-, together with two fisher men who were wit li him. Until recently the phylloxera has s|iared:tfie Champagne cotintrv. but at lait.it liHs appeared, and the 27,ti0 I land pnojirietors in that district are now- in a ,syu^Lieat« for luiitnal pro ei-tion., j >Tire f ,We«levan ■■•rcn-.-i- held -t I/m --don f alluding to tlie Dilkp case, has :idbpt«d! resolutions protesting against th«x introduction into puhlic life of men I convicted of flagrant immorality. The Holy See has jus) appointed an extraordinary commission of Cardinals to reorganize Catholic missions. The in • |iiirv of this commission will, it is said, extend over the whole apostolic WOrid. A prize of $4,000 has heen offered by the government of the Dutch East In dies for the lie^t and most economical methocl of packing salt in sma ! Itoxes so as to kei-p ir, dry lor at least two years. There will be held in Genoa in 1892 an Italian-American exposition, to which the King of Italy has consented to his patronage, and for which he allows the use of his name as honorary ['resi dent. The F.nglish Parliament v* about to pass a hill authorizing any one Magis trate to order a youth under KJ years of age to he whipped by a policeman if he stole an apple from a tree or played at pitch and loss. OlHcial inquiry in England has re sulted in a disclosure of systematic frauds on the part of Jewish emigrants from Russia to enable the Jews to evade the payment of the £10 levied on each permit to land. The great French engineer is not long for this world. M. de Leaeeps is a vt^ry sick and feeble old man. and his pl.ysi eians are doubtful if he has Ihe vitality needed to enable him to pull through. lie is 87 years old. It is reported that France as a mark of friendship for Russia will largely reduce the tarill' on Russian products and will impose a prohibitory duty on Indian corn in order to encourage the importa tion of Russian corn. The Theosophical constitution as re vised amalgamates the American, Eng lish and European sections. LadyCaith- ■ ness, in virtue of her millions as well a3 her enthusiasm succeeds Mme. Blavat- < sky as lli_'b Priestess. President Carnot has intimated that France will return tho Bags captured by French troops during the Crimean war from the Russian church at Eupatoria which have since heen deposited in the church of Notre Dame in Paris. The German ship builders, whose wel fare is a great object of solicitude to their government, are pointing with pride to the fact that their latest creation, the ' Fnerst Bismarck, burns 2KO tons of coal daily, against 335 tons for the City of Paris, and yet steams faster than the fa mous flier does. I Dr. Thaimn of Dusseldorf has issued ' a report to the effect that he has man aged i y the Koch system to bring aliout ' a complete card in 40 per cent, of the ' cases of tuberculosis which he has (rented, and satisfactory results occurred ' in 45 per cent, of the other cases treated ] by the same system. Some of the small shopkeepers of Paris ' have appealed to the Pope for protection i from the big concerns that are driving them out of the trade. They ask his • Holiness to formulate some plan for ap- ' plying the law of justice and charity to ' the freedom of trad" and competition so ! that the little dealers can live in the ! presence of the great. President Hyppolite of Ilayti has au- I thonzed the publication of" the eorre- 1 spondence between llavti and Secretary < Blame, Minister Doagbwa and Admiral ( Gherardi upon the subject of the Mole I t St. Nicholas. This correspondence is i now in press in New York, and is to be t issued in pamphlet form and distributed t broadcast iv this country and in Europe, I MISCELLANEOUS. The Canndiau Pmilic A Intiidoim 11-» Vnii ilerbilt Alliance to Hew York. The American Consul is sick with yel low fever at Vera Cruz. The yellow fever at Vera Cruz is ex tending to the ships in the harbor. The wheat crop of the Dominion of Canada is estimated at .V>,100,000 bush els. M. E'ffel will make a proposition to the World's Fair directory to build a tower. The Western Union pays $25.00 rental for its Tenth and Chestnut streets build ing in Philadelphia. The Missouri river is cuttintr the banks ] near Kansas City and endangering the I .Missouri Pacific tracks. The periodical report of a threatened uprising in Mexico against the Diaz gov ernment is again in circulation. The city of Vera Cruz, .Mexico, has negotiated a loan of 1,0(M,000 redeem able in forty years at (i per cent. All the New York papers th-it pub lished an account of the recent execution by electricity are to be indicted There is talk of a convention of all the historical s..ci-tie- to decide where the remains of Columbus are interred. Constant raiii3 have caused a reap pearance of the cotton worm in Ala bama, and the entire crop is in danger. According to Sheriffs' reports to the Adjutant-lieneral no fewer than SMUI murderers are roaming at large in Texas. All the records of the City Treasurer's office at Philadelphia are missing, and another official sensation is o:i the tapis. An official in the Treasury Department says the banks in California are in a bet ter condition than those in other States. The window-glass manufacturers in Pennsylvania and their employers can not agree on wages and a strike is prob able. A German syndicate is trying to pnr chase large tracts of coffee and rubber producing lands in the State of Chiapas, Mexico. The Ford City Plate-Glass Works at Pittsburg, which are the largest in the United State?, will return to the use of coal as fuel. The Sioux Indian Commission has se cured the consent of the Ogallas for the withdrawal of 800 Cheveimes from Pine j Ridge agency. The dispute over the will of Samuel .1. Tilden, it is said, has been amicably set tled. Fifty per cenr. is to go to the city and 50 per cent, to the heirs. Postmaster-General Wanamaker ■is trying to arrange for a fast fortnightly mail service between San Francisco and Australia by way of New Zealand. Never before at the West Point Mili- i tary Academy has as much building been going on as this year. Twenty-eight buildings, including a gymnasium, are under way. The St. Louis Glulie-Democrat, which haa made a thorough canvass of the cot- j ton outlook in eight States, announces that the present indications point to the ; largest yield on record. The Canadian Pacific his apparently abandoned its Vanderhilt alliance to New Yorri. It is now sending the most of its traffic vi.i the Ontario and West ern, its old connection. .lay Gould and o'her New York capi talists, who say they have $25,000,000 to put into such a scheme, it is stated, will build an elevated railroad in Chicago, connecting the west mid south t-id'S. A protest ha been made by delepati s of the Musical Protective Union at New York against the admission to t his coun try of a ballet troupe now about leavinu Kurope uftd r the nianagetn'ent of Wal ter D.imrosch. The Dominion government has re lea-ed seven American tishins; vessels captured hythe Dream within the three mile limit. There was a heavy fog at the time, and the law, it is believed, was unwittingly infringed. The New York Press gives currency to the report that Secretary Noble has placed his resignation in the President's hand . but has consented to remain in oliice until Minister Lintoln retires, when he will go to the court of St. James. The railroads are anxious to know how it is the Pullman Company makes so much money and they get so little commission. A bill in equity has been tiled in Chicago against the company by the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul. The State of .lalisco, Mexico, has been in great financial difficulties since the accession of General Galvin to the Gov ernorship. He is said to be closing the schools and favoring all kinds of gam bling. The State is also overrun by bri gands. The St. Paul office of the (ireat North ern has been gathering statistics of grain grown alo' g the line. Reports from ,'!(i| points show that before January 1 the road will have to convey 45.000,000 bush els of wheat. The great Red river crop is immense. Miss Marguerite Hainm of liar Har bor, who sent the famous dispatch to a Mew Yoik journal declaring Mr. Blame to be in the hist Btages of disease, lias instituted a suit for $50,000 asrainst the Boston Herald, who called her an adven turess, a prevaricator and consorter with disreputable characters. Acting Secretary Chandler lias re versed the action of the Commissioner of the general land olli<-e in the ease of the United States against the Pu>'et bound Mill Company of Seattle, and di rects that a intent issue under section 7 of the act of March 3, 18"1. Th s action practically decides forty-four similar cases in the same district. SPORTING NOTES. T.-.l l'rit.li:,r.l to Fll,t Fitnl..,. sons if Inducements are Ofl'ered. Ted Pritchard lias announced that he will come to America to fight Fitzsim mons before the club .hat will allow him expenses and put up the largest purse The Billy Murphy-Giiflb fight, which was to have occurred in Sydney July 6 was postponed a week to await the ai "v■ vof ilvan ' who was expected there By steamer Alameda it is learned that Joe ( hoynaki o San Francisco defeated Owen Sulhvan in a round and a Kin Melbourne July 22. Choynski had agree to knock Sulhvan out in fight round' for a purse of $5:)0. uunus The steamer Alameda from Australia brings news of another escapade . t v. ,^ L. Sullivan. One day while Uw steam" was l,etween Honolulu and Sa ,o a S, |7 vanmoseat II a. m. and commencedlt", imb.be recly By sup per timi ho hil 'Imposed of thirty-ei.jht bottles ofporter and was uproariously drunk rl • I.avwan.sJr,leredth^bar tlsh,uT w ;; 1 While the e.ghty or more p aßße ,°'*'!; «ere at supper Sullivan madVhta^™ pearance, and strongly protested toVa" tain I lay wards a.ainst l^inj le Hved in a heap. He was seized, bound tik7.n to his stateroom and locked up. lit ,> ta-ned no liuor during P the pa * FARMANDGARDEN Column of Very Useful Information. HINTS TO HOUSEKEEPERS. People Who Are Subject to Giddiness or Faintness Should Not Bathe —Etc. In choosing meat select that of ■ fine, smooth grain and of a bright-red color and while f ; 11 . If |>ork is voun<_'. the lean will break on being pitched; the fat will be while, Bofl and palpy. Delicate-colored silk should never be laid away in white paper, an the chloride of lime used in bleaching the paper often drawi out the color. People who are snbiect to attacks of giddiness or faintners, and those who suffer from palpitation and other senm of discomfort at the heart, should not bathe. I.its of sorip which are too Small to lx> used should he carefully liid aside for laundry days when they can he melted up to add to the wash h lilt r instead of scraping np a new bar of soap. Butter in small quantities may lie i made by stirring the cr»*« m in a bowl ; and this is done every day by some (rood housekeepers, who i>re'er butl«-r made of sweet cream and are williiits to perform this extra lal>or that they may have il fresh daily. When decanters and cirafes lwvome • o discolored inside that shot "r fine enn\i will not cleanse them, till the bottle with linelv ehopp. d potato skins, cork ti-rhtly and let the bottle stand for thre* days, when the skins will ferment. Turn out and rinse. The bottle will be as bright and clenn as when new. When yon feel the pricking pain on the eyelid that announces the coming of a sty, use as an application very strong black tea. or simply the tea leaves moist ened with a little water, put in a small bag of muslin and laid over the eyelid. Moisten again hs it dries. This, if used before the sty gets well nnder way, will generally drive it away. Opening the window in front of a stove will stop a smokingchimiipy. The smok ing is sometimes caused by an insntii cient supply of air. Oftentimes simply fanning the tire vigorously will stop the smoking. Nothing is more annoying than a smoking chimney. Two openings ! in the same Hue will cause thi« trouble; i therefore, it ia necessary to make sep arate tines for every tire. A tree above ; the chimney may stop the draft ; this can be remedied only by cutting down the tree. Dueon of I nderfeedlnr. Underfeeding ruins more livestock in the West than overfeeding. Grave as ; is the objection to pampered breeding animals, yet where there is one K'ast ruined by an exce-sof heating there are a dozen well-bred ones suffered to lap-e into a state of hopeless degeneracy i'va failnre in the case of young stock to keep them growing or by neglecting to provide a sutlii ient ration to support breeding animals against the taxes of nature. Feed the younsters generously on proper food stutts, and when tfierare matured, if of the right fetamp.jthey will not rrqnire extra care. Prof, ftanborn argues that there is even more in feed than in breed, and the facts are n.it all against him. Whatever is worth keep ing at all in the way of farm stock is worth keeping well. Treatment of ISntter. Achurner in Rural Lije hold* tha< granulated butter can be washed and cooled to a better advantage if the water is allowed to percolate through tb« mass, of butter while the churn i- at rest. To revolve it, he holds, lias the tendency to mass the grannies ere the chilling effect of the water has taken away some of the adhesive naureof the globules. We think he is sound up to a certain point; that is, practice his method until he is sure the whole mass is cold enough to keep it in granules—then they can he washed thoroughly without adhering to each other. After so much is secured the right temperature to pack can beo'> tained by usin<r water warm enough to raise the mass in a few minutes toalxnit .r><; in snmmer ami li) in winter. Work for Ruin; IV. >s. It is so often necessary to work over hours in pleasant, weather thai when a rainy day come- in summer the farmer may prolitablv devote it partly to intel lectual iu.provement. lie can at least then take time toestimafeoirefnlly what needs to he done and plan as to the liest way of doing it. This will require study and prove the. best possible intellectual exercise. It at least requires as much exeeu ive ability to keep everything mi a large farm in order and" working smoothly as it do s to manage a manu facturing or commercial business. Compelling Stock to Bal r<...«1. Animals can possibly he wintered or Kept at other seasons on food that con tains barely enough nutrition to sustain life Bat whenever this is the fact no profit ne. d be expected from stock thus fed. All the advantage to the farmer from feeding stock comes from feeding more than is needed for barely retaining the same condition. There must 1,,, in crease either of Hesh. milk or wo.,i l,e fore there can be any profit, and this re quires generally good feeding. Cuttiiijr Ti,,,,,t1.y T..., Karly. matllei' timothy is in bloom its lien makes the hay dusty when cut. It is best possibly to cut when the stock bursts into head l>efor« blossoming; but, if the grass cann well be cut then, defer the cutting until the blossom falls. The hay w .11 then be at least not injurious, anil its deficiende* can be made up with lib eral rations of oats or other grain. Tettlas the Cow*. fhe Farm Journal says a New York werv his herd in one. year by truing ole/nnA a," l 1 *&*»* «'f the ,>oor herd 11'", wll»K»iittl.. better his new nSJdain'goVper 11 fUII W Unfortunate. p^^f P^dkJ you see the £™ cc o Wales while you was in Eu »^aa' did ye talk with Mm? sojrrl^'"ll' but the crowd *" *»Wg he d^dnWu^-De lllares t' s . ablest S^~^^^krat is en riverorVrf "'HlOr Ule i<:e of a '««« by resnirfr, f<>r U distance the buhh g °? a'nSt the ice "**- ■*«