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[HE NEWS IN BRIEF. BAST. *ere twenty eases of heat prostration yorlJ and Brooklyn on Wednesday, four .j(0gan,of West Point, has been ac by the court-martial and returned to MmaiWP RTan was tlu'v ijutment v* installed on the "^jof the Roman Catholic see of Phil- fcjbc22d, the failures throughout tliccoun ®rthc past seven days were 210, as against I week ^uossibility of the Union Pacific and Chi ^Ungtonand Quincr entering into an is strongly hinted. en were smothered by gas while at »to put out a lire in a coal mine on gt Shamokin, Pa. bodies have been recovered from the Limine at Buck Kidge, Shamokin, Pa., j0I^jfcnoiv directed to extinguishing gpr York City on Friday Lena Stive, ^18, f"8 prot«llIy fatally shot lv Joseph lllso 18, and a rejected suitor. Tliey were it« in childhood. Henderson, who killed Policeman New York city two years ago, was CTin A captured by the police tu Tuesday (lobbing a drunken man. fitrike occurred on the 20tli in the office of jfeff York Commercial Advertiser against (ion of wages. The paper made its ap- afttr great difficulty. iAngusta, Mc., on the 20th, all the proper |tb« Sprairuc Manufacturing company was lit suction. What fifteen years ago cost 12,000,000 realized about ?200,000. to tbc absence of the president the «of the First National bank of Albion Expended by order of the board of directors *T»a examination can be had into its (ToilWednesday Judico Bartlelf, of New York ^granted ail attachment against the p.mp- 1 of John P. Dickinson, the defaulting rof the Wall street bank, for the recov of 1150,000. A Newport dispatch to the Providence Jour IL jgys: The secretary of the navy has de Rflffii-od to make an effort to have the Talla yow raised. He is to be addressed at Wood iJl before Monday next. file Stnoley, of Fort Plain, N. Y., finished Ffte 167th day of her fast on the 25th. She is fiwdous an converses with her family. She Ejita no nourishment and desires none, and Bows no drink of any kind. dispatch from Rochester, X. Y., of the 20th, i»p it is reported that seven boys, Fred Tay •g Tom Taylor, E. Judson, J. Bunn, Edward M. R- Garrett and Will Ford, were Bwned at Albion by a boat capsizing. 1 F«nk Superintendent I'ainc reports the con MUMof the Wall street bank as follows: As tute, actual value, $1,120,Sod liabilities, $1, 8: deficiency, $485,474. On this report |fte attorney-general begau suit for a receiver. The New York Labor convention met in llSkt, on the 12th. A resolution was adopted Ifrmnding the passage of a law prohibiting |fte giving of work by contract or otherwise, ttlie purchase of articles required by the nent Qr state to or from employers who fenploj other than union men. i: Dr. Naglc, rcgittrar of the 'bureau of vital latatistics, Thursday received from the "navv de- a certified copy of Lieut. Greek's re- !port on the execution of Private Henry. On Authority of this report the record in the itarean is changed to read, instead of starva iHon, "Shot by order of Lieut. Greely." The vault of the First National Bank of 'Albion, N. Y., will probably not be open for three or four days. Bank Examiner Williams l.k positive depositors will all be paid in full. I Williams states that no authentic list of the de fjosifors will be given out until he knows where ftte bank stands. County Treasurer Wall has ibuat 12,000 in county and trust funds in the bant Two freight trains collided Friday afternoon it Die west yard of the Pennsylvania railway at Columbia, Pa. A caboose and gondola car of Ijkc freight train and an engine and four cars pbfthe rear train, the latter tilled with sheep and hogs, were smashed. The wreck caught Sre and. was consumed. Upwards of 800 ani riulj were killed, only fifty escaping. No tinman lives were sacrificed. Superintendent Smith, of New York City, of the Bankers' and Merchants' Telegraph com- paoy, says of the report that the company is embarrassed to such an extent that it was un able to pay the wages of employes, that the company has changed its pay day from the end of each week to the end of each month. This, he supposed, caused the rumor. The em ployes will be paid in a few days. At the session of the state Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of New York the grand master recommended funerals at night. He said less money ought to be spent on the dead and more on the living, lie declared that Odd Fellow ship was decreasing in New York city so rap idly that it was almost unknown to polite socicty, and rccenmiended changing the meet log places of some of the lodges from tenement louses and saloons, where they now arc. Ei-8enator Thomas Grady, of New York, to tendered Chairman Manning his resigna tion as member of the Democratic state com mittee. Gradv says: It is but fair that I should that this action is entirely personal on my part, and does not in any way involve the or ganization to those representatives I am in debted for membership in the eommittce. I kave communicated inv determination in this respect to the chairman of the Tammany hall delegation to the last state convention. On the Kid inst., at Montpelier, Vt, Clark W. Sanders went Into toe shop of Blanchard Bros., pur tlttsed a revolver, put three cartridges in it, •ud proceeded to the store of Danivl Carr. The latter was at his desk, when Sanders fired three times at him, one bullet taking effect in the *wk and two others in the body. Carr died in a few minutes. The cause of the shooting was jealously by Sanders of his wife. The mur dered man was 60 years old. He left no fairt Uj. At Jackson, Mich., on the night of the 23rd, While temporarily insane, Thomas Murphy, a Peaceful and respected citizen, killed his wife bj stabbing her with a pair of shears. Early to the morning he awakened his wife and told her that burglars were in the house. She said ®o, there were none, but he jumped up, grabbed a pair of sharp-pointed shears, ruslicd t® the door and began to talk loudly to the im agined intruders. His wife, suspecting some thing wrong with her husband, approached M®, touched him on the shoulder, and asked Mis to return to bed. At this Murphy turned fnrious'y OD-his unprotected wife and stabbed her several times in the breast and neck, sever ing the arteries. Her two sons and daughters Op stairs heard her erics and rushed down, 'only to fin,Uheir mother dead. lie has lived happily with hi.-, wife for twenty-five years and kind and affectionate to his family. WEST AND SOUTH. Roswell W. Horr, of Michigan, on the 19th, nominated for Congress by the Republi- Of the Eighth district. Ex-Gov. Hendricks has accepted an in flation to be present at the opening of the "eoria fair, September 15. A reward of $1,000 has been offered for the ®Tegt of any or all parties engaged in the late ®M«ocrc of the Mormon elders in Lewis •"nnty, Tenn. John C. Waters died at St. Vincents hospital, tianapolis, on Monday, aged 43. He was ®f of the Fenias organization, having sue- te®ded James Stephens as center. Charles Ryan, of Galena, 111., son of John a wealthy pork packer, had his right arm "jjoken below the elbow, being struck by a ball while batting in a game of base pJOmas F. Barbee, of Carroll, was nomi "•tol for Congress by the Democrats of the Iowa district, at LeMars, on Wedncs- .£ The nomination was made on the firet ionnai ballot. T. Rigslcy, of St. Louis, has resigned Wsistant general frclgXt agency of the road to take the commissionership of Wabash and Burlington pool at Chicago, i. Lcroy p. Walker, first secretary In Jet Davis' Confederate cabinet, and who the order fe* firing on Fort Sumpter, died Vwoe In Huntsville, Aid,, on Friday after ifrfeMllness. A. V. Raleigh, a conductor of a freight train on the M. and B. railway, was killed on Satur day morning near Lumber City, Ga., by Eli Taylor, a negro. Taylor took the swamps, be ing pursued by dogs. Miss Dora Buck, of Lincoln, Neb., on Thurs day last mailed to Greenwood cemctcry authori ties papers establishing her relationship with Private Henry and authorizing the coroner to take up the remains. Frank T. Campbell, of Newton, Io., on the 19th, was nominated by acclamation for Con gress in the Sixth district. A challenge has been sent to Gen. J. B. Weaver, his opponent, discuss the political issues of the day. At a Democratic primary held at New Haven, Ky., on Saturday last, James Johnson shot and killed John Bartlcy, and seriously wounded his sou Joseph Bartley. An old feud. Bartley is farmer Johnson is a nephew of ex-Go v. Johnson. Thomas Campbell, a traveling salesman for a St. Louis millinery house, whose parents re side at Chariton lo., 6ulcidcd by jumping from a raft into the Mississippi at Burliugton, Io., on Friday morning. He was a young man and unmarried. The state commissioners of the New Orleans exposition have decided to supplement the $5,000 appropriated Iowa from the national fund by raising §30,000 on notes and bonds, anticipating a reimbursement from the next Legislature. John Howard, an old citizen, was mobbed and shot to death Saturday night near Lang ford's Cauro, Tex. He was accused of burn ing a thresher, and when lynched was in the custody of officers en route to the Tamposac jail for safe keeping. A telegram from the sheriiT of Keokuk coun ty, Iowa, was received at the executive office on Friday morning, asking for military aid to assist in suppressing a serious riot reported to be in progress at the What Cheer coal mines. The affair was quelled with slight difficulty. At G'.encoe, Minn., on Wednesday the Dem ocrats of the Third district nominated Ignatius Donnelly tor Congress. Immediately after wards the People's party met and nominated Donnelly. On Tuesday he received the nomin ation by the fanners' convention of the district. The Chicago Journal's Des Moines, Io., special says: A disease which has marked symptoms of cholera has appeared In ccntral Van Buren county. The local physicians pro nounce it gray flux. Thirty-two eases are re ported, one-fourth of which have proved fatal. On the 19th at Wabash, Ind., Senator Yor hces opened the Democratic campaign by ad dressing 2,000 people on the plank iu the Re publican state platform favoring a constitu tional or national convention. The demonstra tion was enthusiastic and many Germans were present. Judge Hoffmann, of the United States Dis trict Court of California, has rendered a decis ion in the habeas corpus case of Shong Foon, who left the state two months after the Chinese restriction act of May (, 1882, went into opera tion, and failed to obtain a return certificate. The court holds that he cannot re-enter the country. Advices from Kalamazoo, Mich., state that Mrs. Linslev is under arrest at South Haven charged with causing the death of a little 2 year-old child by brutal treatment. The child did not readily respond to something thu woman wished it to say whereupon she jammed it in a tub of water and otherwise ill-treated it, causing death. The reunion at Chicago of the veteran soldiers and sailors of the northwest, commenced on Tuesday. The camp is located on the lake park. It is cxpected 15,000 to 20,000 people will be present. The features of the reunion will include prize drilling and a sham battle, in which the National Guard of Illinois will take part. The general superintendent of the Cincin nati, Washington and Baltimore railway has gathered information concerning the condition of crops along his line of road, which reaches across the southern part of Ohio. The reports agree that the corn crop will not exceed ten bushels per aera. Potatoes iu many places arc not sufficient for home consumption. A meeting of the creditors of James A. Stone & Co., large coal operators in Pittsburg, has been arranged, and will be held in a few days, when it is thought the extension asked for will be granted. The liabilities ar« in the neighborhood of $300,000 assets estimated .at over $500,000. The embarrassment was caused by general depression in the coal trade. In the Third congressional district conven tion, held at Columbus, Neb., on Wednesday, Geo. W. E. Dorsey was nominated on :lie fourth ballot after a long and bitter fight. In the Second district the same day, the Republi cans on the first ballot, nominated James Laird for Congress by a vote of 89 against 52 for Mr. Francis, of York. A. L. Burr, of Harlan coun ty, was nominated for Presidential elector. Gov. Begole, of Michigan, on the 20th, was nominated for another term by the Grecnback ers, aided by the Democrats. The officers on the state tickct assigned by the eonfcrence are as follows: Lieutenant-governor, Matthew Maynard secretary of state, Win. II. Shakes peare treasurer, James Blaire auditor, Geo. P. Sanford state board of education, Rev. Christian Vanderver. A joint list of Presi dential electors was chosen, six of which were reenbaekers and seven Democrats. The Chicago Dally News' Streator, 111., spe cial of the 21st says: A Sunday-school excur sion train, consisting of fifteen heavily loaded cars, left here this morning. When nearing its destination at Kankakee, aud was crossing the Illinois Ccntral track, the fourth coach was run Into by a train on the other road. James Penn was killed and about a dozen more or less seriously hurt. Two or three will proba bly die. The engineer of the Illinois Ceutral train claims that his brakes refused to work. The late forest fires in Michigan which start ed on the nlank road and crossed to the East Tawas road, have done great damage to crops, burning standing grain, hay In stacks, baking potatoes in the irround and burning a number of miles of farm fenccs. Farm buildings hare been burned in many places, and timber lands are burning. The wet marshes and cedar swamps are dried up. It is reported an old lady was suffocated while trying to escape. It is estimated 5,000 acres have been laid waste. Henry Mahler, Oscar RadcllITe, Mr». Pease, Mrs. Slater and Mrs. Parher, who were the. os tensible managers of the Home for God's Or phaus, in Chicago, were all bound over to the grand jury on Saturday, for ill-treatment of young children left in their charge. The testi mony of four young inmates tended to show that a large number of babies died in the asy lum, apparently through want of care. The court looked upon the managers of the institu tion as belonging to a dangerous class of relig ious fanatics. WASHINGTON. The sixteenth annual reunion of the society of the Army of the Cumberland, of which Lieut-Gen. Sheridan is president, will be held at Rochester, New York, September 17 and IS. Instructions hare been forwarded lo Com mandcr Schley, of the Greely relief expedition, to discharge all enlisted men under his com mand who wish to leave the service. The ves sels composing the fleet will remain in commis sion in New York until further orders. It was understood at the treasury department that the proposed call for $10,000,000 bonds would be issued the early part of this week. The total reserve in the treasury at present is $146,500,000. The gold reserve which steadily increased last week, is to-day about $120, 000,000. Free delivery servi^r will be established at the following postoffices October 1: Elgin 111., 5 carriers LaCrosse, Wis., 5 carriers Dccatur, Ills., 5 carriers San Jose, Cal., 5 car riers Sioux City, Io., 4 carriers Sedalia, Mo., 5 carriers Fort Worth, Tex., 5 carriers Eau Claire, Wis., 5 carriers. Indian agent MeGillycuddy, of Pine Rldgc Agency, in a letter to the commissioner of In dian affairs, says that a son of No-Water re cently attempted to take the agent's life. An article in a cheap publication saying the Iu dians had aright to kill McGillycuddy caused the Indian to make the attempt. He was ar rested and held subject to order of the Indian officer. Assistant Land Commissioner Harrison will go to Dakota early next month to straighten out the fraudulent surreys made in that terri tory. Persons with whom the government contracted some years since to make surveys of public lands in Dakota made returns of plats without really making surveys, and numerous complaints have arisen in consequence. Assistant Secretary of the Interior Joslyn lias refused the request of a number of men on mwfmm wJ^rti,•-'*l"'v, pp Oklahoma lands, Indian territory, to remain till they can move their stock without loss to themselves. The order to the army to move all persons on the lands in violation of the law, the assistant secretary says, will be carried out! He further says the cattle men went into the territory without permission and must suffer the consequences. SPORTING-. The Turf, Field and Farm says Bonner paid Vanderbilt $50,000 for Maud S. If Jay-Evc-Sce beats the time of Maud S then Bonner will put the mare in training aud give a public free ex hibition of speed. FOREIGN. Chas. Bradlaugli, M. P., will deliver a series lectures in America iu October and Novem ber. Odo William Leopold Russell (Baron of Ampthill), British ambassador to Berlin, died on the 24th. A Berlin dispatch of the 25th says that Prin ccss Victoria, wife of Prince William, of Prus sia, is alarmingly ill with scarlet fever. Three Abyssinian envoys arrived in London on the 19th. Among the gifts from King .John to the Queen were an elephant and a large mon key. Seventeen workingtnen were suffocated on Tuesday at Brays, Fi ance, owing to an accident iu an underground canal intended to connect the rivers Oise and Aisuc in which they were employed. A dispatch to the London Times savs: T/.eng Li Yamen professes to lie prepared for war, although they are secretly hoping to in volve the neutral powers in a quarrel respect ing treaty ports. A dispatch to the London Times from IYkin says that France has reduced the indemnity demanded by China to 200,000,000 francs. The French minister lias been ordered to withdraw if payment is refused. A Pekin dispatch of the 21st says: The French consul lowered his flag at 1 o'clock to av. The interests of French subjects are en trusted to the Russian minister. China abso lutely refuses to admit the French claims. An act of German aggression is reported at Bageida, on the gold coast of West Africa, here the British have a treaty with the natives. It is said the German man of war Moerve re •cntly visited that town. The crew landed and cmoved the British flag aud hoisted that of Germany. The tenth annual conference of the Young Men's Christian association of the world con vened in Berlin on Wednesday. The opening exercises lasted two hours, after which Count Bernstorff, president of the Berlin committee the Young Men's Christian association, de livered an address of welcamc. Iu Dublin on the 20th, at a meeting of the Irish National league Mr. Harrington read a cable message from Patrick Eagan expressing the support of the American league iu the cause of Ireland. Sullivan expressed the pride and pleasure of Ireland at the election of Eagan to the presidency of the American league. Official returns for crops iu Austro-IIungary show that wheat is a little over the average yield and the quality fluctuating. Rye Is below the average, but of good quality. Barley and oats are excellent. The maize yield is medium. Wheat available for export, Ji,000,000 metric hundred weight corn, 4,000,000 and oats, 2,000,000. A dispatch from Shanghai dated Aug. 19th, says: Eseng Sung Tang aud Shutzung Chin, Chinese plenipotentiaries, leave Shanghai in accordance with instructions from Pekin. There arii no prospects of settling the difficulty with France. Thirty-five members of the board of censors have presented a memorial to the emperor opposing the conditions offered by the French and strongly urging hostilities. It is reported that the emperor has decided to de clare war. POLITICAL ITEMS. It is asserted that Col. Vilas will not receive the Democratic nomination for governor of Wisconsin. Independent Republicans in Milwaukee have forwarded a call to Hon. Carl Schurz to ad dress a public meeting in that city. Gen. Logan will speak in Madison, Wis., the 3d of September. The Wisconsin Repub lican state convention will be held there the same day. Henry Clay Dean, who is visiting Gen. Geo. W. Jones, ex-United States Senator at Dubu que, will be given a public reception before he leaves. W. F. Vilas, of Wisconsin, M. M. Ham, of Iowa, P. II. Kelly, of St. Paul, S. Corning Judd, of Illinois, A. II. Brown, of Indiana, and I). M. Dickinson, of Michigan, have been appointed a sub-committee to take charge of the Democratic campaign in the northwest, with headquarters at Chicago. THE WAR IN CHINA. Dostruction of the Arsenal at Foo Chow by the French. The Effect of the War in Commer cial Circles. VIENNA, Aug. 25.— A special from Shanghai says: The arsenal at Foo Chow is iu ruius. Eighteen hundrcd workmen are out of em ployment. The arsenal co-1 42,000,000 francs, and the arms and ammunition destroyed 140, 000,000. LONDON, Aug. 25.—The Telegraph's finan cial article says: The war between France and China has led to an increase in busiuess at the Lloyds and 10 to 15 per cent, were paid on essels laden with munitions of war for China. Prospects are strong that representations will be midc by England, Germany aud America to Prime Minister Ferry in relation to treaty ports in the Chinese empire, although it is iiot be lieved the French will really attempt a block ade. LONDON, Aug. 25.—Semi-official advices from China report that during the bombard ment of Foo Chow French officer of high rank was killed. Only three Chinese gunboats were destroyed. LONDON, Aug. 25.—A Foo Chow dispateli of yesterday says: During the engagement one of the French irou-c'ads was struck and badly damaged. She will repair during the night. The French will recommence tiring at 3 o'clock to-aiorrow morning. LONDON, Aug. 25.—'The Times' Hong Kong dispatch says: The Chinese, who are wholly unprepared"for war, denounce the malpr.ietice of provincial governors, and will hold them answerable for any collapse of the national de fenses. The French arc elated at the Chinese pugnacity, because it will conduce to protract ed Hostilities, in which ease only the capture of Pekin will effectually cud war. Nisrlit traffic on the Canton river is prohibited. There is an enormous decrease'iu stocks and the impurt trade generally is paralyzed. A WATERY GRAVE. Loss of the United States Steam ship Tallapoosa and Several Lives. COTTAUB CITY, Mass., Aug. 32.—The Unit ed States steamship Tallapoosa sank off here last night. The survivors are at Wood's Hall. She collided with a three-mast schooner. She lies with the main mast and top of her smoke stack out of water. It is stated two lives were lost. BOSTON, Aug. 22.—The facts of the sinking of the Tallapoosa are as follows: The Talla poosa, with 140 men and officers, bound for Newport to take on board Secretary Chandler at 11 o'clock last night, during a thick fog, three miles northeast'of Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard, was struck on the bow by the schooner James R. Lowell, of "Bath, Capt. Reed, from Baltimore for Port laud with a cargo of coal. Her side was crushed in and she sank in ten minutes in ten fathoms of water. As she west down her whistle was blown as a signal of distress and heard by the steamer Gtate City, which came up immediately, and with the schooner Mary A. Hood, which was in the vicinity rescued the crew with the exception of the surgeon and one man said to be missing. IP! IOWA REPUBLICANS Meet in State Convention and Nominate a Number of Can didates. The Republican state convention met in Des Moines on Wednesday. The convention was called to order by chair man Donnan, who, without ccremony, intro duced Rev. J. B. Stewart, D. D., of the Central Presbyterian church, to open the convention with prayer. J. 1'. Dolliver, of Fort Dodge, was made temporary chairman. Major Dou nan named as temporary secretary, Hon. J. Fred Myers, aud as assistants, M. F. Stuekey, of Decatur county E. D. Chassel, of Mitchell, and A. W. May, of Allamakee, and the conven tion ratified the selections. The committee on permanent organization was made by Senator Hutehison and was as follows: Permanent Chairman—Hon. S. M. Clark of Keokuk. Permanent Secretary—Hon. J. Fred Myers. Assistant Secretaries—M. F. Stuekey, Dcca tur county, E. D. Chasell, Mitchell county A. W. May, Allamakee countv. Rcad'iug Secretary—Dr. £. R. Hutcbins, of Polk countv. Gen. W. T. Sherman bciug a guest in the eitv, he was tendered a seat in the convention. While a resolution was being offered, sud denly there was loud cheering near the door opening on the platform, and it ran through the audience like au electric shock that Gen. Sherman was coming on the stage. This proved to be true, aud there was such a scene as he advanced and was introduced to the chairman as seldom ever occurs in a deliberative body. Men in all parts of the house rose to their feet and yelled and cheered, waved their hats and cheered again. It was the tribute of hundreds of old soldiers, and of citizens too, paid to a mau who is almost worshipped in this country. After a brief address by the old hero, the con vention proceeded to liomiuate a state ticket, which is as follows: Secretary of state, Frank D. Jackson, of But ler county. Treasurer of state, V. P. Twombly, of Vail Buren county. Auditor o"f state, J. L. Brown, of Lucas county. Attomcv-general, Gen. A. J. Baker, of Ap panoose countv. Judge of the supreme court, Judge J. H. Rothrock, of Linn county. In each instance the gentlemen receiving the majority of the votes afterward received the unanimous nomination at the hands of the con vention. On motion the district electors were named on call of the districts aud the names reported were elected. The following is the list of DISTORT Iil.KlTOIiS: 1—D. J. Palmer, Washington county. 2—W. A. Foster, Scott. 3—Daniel Kerr, Grundy. 4—John Mcllugh, Howard. 5—O. 11. Mills, Tama.' (1—II. J. Vail. Mahaska. 7—John A. Storv, Adair. 8—W. II. Tedfoi-d, Wnvnc. 9—I)r. J. I). Holmes, Audubon. 10—.1. S. Kelso, Ilardin. 11—I). Carr Early, Sac. l'ltlCSIDENTlAl". EI.ECTOltS AT I.AUOE. Col. W. F. Sapp, of Pottawattamie, aud John VauValkcnlmrg, of Lee. TrlE STATE COMMITTEE. The State Central committee met at the close the convention, at the rooms in the Morgan house. It was organized bv the lection of of Hon. W. P. Wolf, of Cedar ounty, as chairman. No other business was transacted and the committee adjourned to meet on September 4th iu I)cs Moiues. The Athletic Girl of the Period. Clara Belle in St. Louis l'ost-Dis patc-h: "Conn ri lit up," was the message sent per maid by an intimate friend to me, in response to the card I had delivered to the menial. On get ting into the dear girl's boudoir the scene astonished me. She was taking physical exercise in the most indus trious manner. Her costume was suf ficiently untrummeling for the purpose, She was hot and breathless with the unaccustomed exertion, for she is a lazy thing at ordinary times. "You'll excuse me if I don't stop," she said, "because I have got lo keep it up for an hour. "What on earth are you doing?" I asked. "Haven't, breath to tell you now," she replied: "wait till I'm done, and then I'll explain." So she resumed operations, and they were funnily peculiar. Siie would stand erect, with her knees well back, her feet about three inches apart, and the Loes turned slightly outward. Then she raised herself until her heels were clear of the floor, and her weight res'ed entirely on the balls of her feet. Thus she lifted and lowered until she could'nt possibly do it again. "Now, Clara Belle," she said, throw ing herself on a lounge to rest a little, "I'll inform you that 1 haven'tgone daft, but am pursuing a systematic course of exercise. I have weight enough, you know, but my tlesh is awfully flabby and ridiculously distributed. Confidentially, my dear, I haven't any calves worth mentioning. I went to my physician and frankly stated the case. He told me that if I took the right sort of exercise, and enough of it, I would develop muscle sullieient for strength and symmetry. I am simplv following his directions this morning.'' Rising on your toes that way is go ing to make your calves shaplier?" "Yes, that's part of the movement that developes the muscles of the back of the calf. Here's what I do for the front." She stood up as before, bent the knees as fast as she could without al lowing her heels to rise from the floor, repeating the operation many times. The lirst day at it," she said, "made my limbs still" and sore, but 1 :im getting used to it now." "And what's the effect?" "First rate. What I'm bound to produce, as being ri^ht for my height, is thirteen inches round the calf. I learn that those are the figures for a leg that is thirty inches in length." THE MARKETS. CHICAGO, August 25. LIVE STOCK. F,xport Steers $ 50 Common to choice steers 85 Inferior to good cows Stockers and feeders HOGS—Rough packing Ci No effort was made to save personal effects. The men were transferred to the steamer Gate City. The men reached here this evening, Capt. Merry remaining with a few seamen at Wood's Hall. Onlv two men were known to be lost, Surgeon C. K. Block and a colored man named George Foster. Some of Secretary Chandler's personal ellectswere on board when she sank. A spiritual mind has something of the nature of the sensitive plant. "I shall smart if I touch this or that." There is a holy shrinking away from evil CccWs Remains. Coat sacques for babies are made of white cloth lined with quilted blue satin, and trimmed with collar, cuffs, and pockets of white plush. Colored canton flannel is to be used for serviceable house dresses for little girls. A kilt skirt and loose blouse is the most appropriate model for such a dress. Cows Sheep WHEAT CORN-'-Shelled. Ear Old New OATS BARLEY FLAX SEED POTATOES BUTTER—Dairy.. EGGS—Fresh TALLOW—No. 1 7 00 {id 6 25 4 10 4 50 (w 6 25 6 65 2 15 3 25 5 SO 6 30 Packing and shipping Light Skips 5 GO (id 55 4 50 (tb 5 40 SHEEP— Inferior t* fair 100 pounds 2 25 (fb 3 00 Medium to extra it 00 (5) 4 25 Lambs per head 100 @300 PROVISIONS. BUTTER—Creamery 18 20 Good to choice dairy 12 16 EGGS—Fresh 12 (r0 14 FI (d 6 25 4 25 6 75 2 75 90 50 29 50 55 Best low grades 2 25 GRAIN—Wheat, No. 2 Corn, No. 2 Oats, No. 2 Rye, No. 2 Barley, No. 2 Sioux CITY, August 26. LIVE STOCK— Hogs by wagon Steers Grease WOOL HIDES—Green Cured Dry Calf HAY—Ton 4 7o (t 4 25 S 2 75 3 25 V§ 60 (5)5 1*1 8. C. P. Co W 5 At Peace. And I said, "She is dead I could not brook, Again on that marvelous face to look." But they took my hand and they led me in, And left alone with my nearest kin. Once again alone in that silent place, My beautiful dead and I, face to face. And I could not speak and I could not stir, But 1 stood and with love I looked on her. With love, and with rapture, and straugc sur prise I looked on the Hps and the close-shut eyes On the perfect rest and the calm content, And the happiness th?re In her features blent And thin white hands that had wrought so much, Now nerveless to kisses or fevered touch. My beautiful dead who had known the strife, The pain and the sorrow, that we call Life. Who had never falte.cd beneath her cross, Nor murmured when loss followed swift on loss And the srnlle that sweetened her lips away Lay light on her blessed mouth that day. I smoothed from her hair a silver thread, And I wept, but I could not think her dead. I felt with a wonder too deep for speech, She could tell what only the angels teach, And over licr mouth I leaned my car, Lest there might be something I should not lirar, Then out from the silence between us stole A message thi»t readied to my inmost soul: "Why weep you to-day who have wejt before That the road was rough I must journey o'er? Why mourn that my lips cau answer not When anguish and sorrow arc both forgot? Behold, all my life I have longed for rest— Yea, e'n when I held you oi. my breast. And, now that I lie in a breathless sleep, Insteai of rejoicing, you 6igh aud weep. My dearest I know that you would not break, If you could, my slumber, and have me wake For, though life was full of things that bless, I have never till now known happiness, Then I dried my tears, aud with lifted head I left my mother, the beautiful dead. —[James Henry Beuscl. UNDER THE MAGNOLIAS. The moonlight shining down through the tree-tops made delicate filigree pat terns on the soft green sward. The summer air was thick with the odor of roses and honey-suckle, mingled with the sweets of apple and cherry blos soms and the subtle scent of the aspens. On the little veranda—this light and odorous night—stood two persons in the Hush and beauty of perfect morning life. The young man wore straps across the loyal blue of his uniform, his pulse thrilling with wild ambition to raise higher in the Union army, his fine head thrown back as his powerful lungs in haled the distilling sweetness of the night. His form, his manner, sug gested the lithe and matchless war horse eagerly scenting the fray. With a strange blending of love and abstracted thought he held the hand of his companion in his own. And Bessie Armstrong's was not one of those long, soft, white dands of which the average girl is so pitifully proud because of its nerveless and idle beauty. Of Bessie it could not be said that she was one of our Father's lilies—that "toil not, neither do they spin"—for she believed that (iod gave every faculty and mem ber for use in this world. Ah! never a talent of hers would lie useless, let what trouble or distress that might come upon her. Her face was not strictly beautiful, but it had a character and energy—a Hashing, changeful expression that would hold an irresistible charm when mere beauty had faded and departed like a withered rose. "Be careful, Will," she was saying, "and do not think that because you have not been wounded that you can not be. There are but a very few charmed lives on the battlefield. Do nothing rash, and. as much as possible, restrain Richard. He was always head strong and hard to guide." 'I will remember, Bessie and I am glad to see how coolly you take Dick's going. Why, I expected hysterics at least," and he smiled down upon her. •Hysterics arc useless when we meet the inevitable. Will, I have learned that. Besides, the shock to my mother is so great that I have lo be cheerful and appear not to care—that is not much." "Brave little woman!" he answered, "you would make a line soldier if onl" you could enlist." "Oh, Will!" and her clear voice trembled, "I might not enlist, but then have I not been drafted into the ser vice for do they not also serve who watch and wait? Sometimes, Will, in my lonely monotonous vigils, I envy the soldier in active service. He knows all the time how the tide of battle turns, while we at home, in sickening sus pense, knt(W nothing, and dread every foreboding sound." At this moment a buoyant whistle came sharply cutting through the per fumed stillness. Bessie shivered. "It is Dick," she said. "Yes," returned her companion and we have only twenty minutes more ere we must run to the station." "Wait a moment," said she, "until I toll mother." "Are you going Bessie? I don't like to have you out alone." "I have no fears you know that I do not believe that I am alone," was her trusting reply, as with hat and shawl on, she walked down the path, holding, on the one side, her only brother's hand, and on the other that of her promised husband. She would never forget that June night. Tearful faees were grouped to gether in the station men and women were running up breathless from all directions for the solemn panting of a heavily laden incoming train could be distinctly heard. Hundreds and hun dreds g®ing down to their deaths as thousands had gone before. You know how it all looked. eo'ntnxron or niystmccr rfififtrs- iiinr lvUy-'^n one broad veranda of a southern mond is quietly working for (lie support along the Dakota Central. Raymond is at Huron this week in the interests of his deferred bootn into prominency on the delcgateship, and there are many who be lieve that Me'lette will throw his strength to Raymond at the convention. Raymond cannot carry a county in South Dakota on a straight, direct issue, but it is feared the occasional surface indications about sup porting local candidates are in the interest ot Raymond and North Dakota. From present indications there will be enough instructed delegates in the Pierre conven tion to select, a man from South Dakota, and it is confidently expectcd that Judge Gilford will receive the strongest follow ^SSa^tccro!^. f^dfttgJronL central IIOGH-Butellers stock 5 75 SHEEP.—Choice 4 00 FLOUR—Patents iter's house three or four persons sitting in seemingly idle and aim conversation. eautiful magnolia trees rise in pic isquo beauty around the house, and can tell by the adjacent huts—like rgrown beehives swarming with dusty brood—in what consists the ies of Don Sebastain. His affable iners to the "boys in blue" conlirm it is said of his union sympathies. as you look sharply beyond this utiful only daughter of his, you will mrpriscd to recognize Capt. Willard ne and Lieut. Dick Armstrong. Chancing that way while on some bassy for thpir general, a few weeks vious to the time of which wo tell in view of the general reputation Sebastian in those parts, they sought needed rest and refreshment for mselves and their steeds. 'his was the commencement of the spell which Isabel Sebastian threw around our heroes. Beautiful as a dream, with those peculiar soft brown eyes that betrayed no remote creole blood in the family her soft, bell-toned voice, her figure, graceful and pliant as th a panther, and the subtle intangible majrnetism of her manner, would take captive every susceptible, untaught na ture. Such as she had won kingdoms and glory from men before. While she dallied with both, her most witching smiles and most seductive manners were lavished upon Lieut. Armstrong rather than upon the re ticent captain. The—corps was quartered for the time just near Sebastian's, awaiting marching orders. Just now was one of those ominous pauses in this desper ate game, when the officers on both sides were inactive and striving hard to anticipate what the other side would do. Armstrong, being a favorite with both the officers and men, found no difficulty in getting passes to go to the plantation and Capt. Willara Stone, being in the colonel's confidence, quite as ofton followed up to Sebastian's. Had ho forgotten Bessie, the true, brave little woman who had said she was drafted into the service, and whose tireless zeal sent box after box supplies to the hospitals and who never drank a draught of cool water but that her thoughts went lirst to our men? Matters remained this way for days and weeks, the soldiers restless under anxious inactivity but tlicy were not long to wait. One evening Armstrong went earlier than usual to the trysting place of the siren. By the merest chance of Provi dence Captain Stone had heard of the appointment—"Under the magnolias at D, alone, entirely free from intru sion." True to the hour the union soldier and the southern beauty met at the ap pointed place. A more brilliant moonlight this than the one of which wc told you at first, for two reasons: the moon was nearer full, and it shone in a southern skv. All Isabel's soft wiles wen witnessed all his wild sudden passion of affection was revealed, for the camp was full of rumors, and he was to make a short tarry, and this might be their last meeting. "Oh, the cruel, cruel, war that tears us from our idols! And the danger, Dick—dear Dick—tell me over again just how the forces are stationed that I may know which way to listen for the dreadful news of danger." And then Armstrong explained that Kosccrans had only just discovered the meaning of Bragg's movement that if Bragg got Hiudmau's division into the pass before their own corps could get through there, Kosccrans' army could be beaten in detail. The cam]) was al ready broken, and they were to march at midnight. "Oh, Isabel!" thought the embodied mind in the magnolia branches, "how many union soldiers have you kissed to their death before, fair deceiver!" He watched young Armstrong move away and was about to descend from his perch, whun lie was startled to see Isabel returning to the spot in com pany with a tall, bearded stranger. As this man came into full view, Cap tain Stone was not in the least surprised to recognize a Confederate officer. His position—all the lime critical and to a degree painful—became complete agony before this new party left. He heard the whole plan how already the union colonels had received counter manding orders from superiors not to break camp that night, which would give Hindman's division time to secure tlie pass, and then, with a part of the union forces on one side of Lookout Mountain and a part on the other, it would be easy to demoralize the whole and secure a great victory for the Con federates. It was midnight before the general took his departure, when descending and taking, a by-path through the grounds on his way to the camp our hero moved away. As he trod firmly but lightly along the familiar way, in turning an angle he was disconcerted to find himself, without warning, in the presence of Miss Sebastian, who, somehow, lin gered unaccountably in the moonlight. Her maid l'hillis, a long bit in the rear, followed her mistress' steps. To Isabel's quick, suspicious ques tion, "You here, Captain Willard?" he offered no excuse, for he felt that an excuse would be unavailing so he only touched his hat, bowed and passed on. The quick, involuntary spring that she made toward hiin was instantly: but it betrayed lo him that her wit had divined that the betrayer would be be trayed—it was "diamond cut dia mond." Hastening back to camp he hurriedly sought the colonel's headquarters and detailed the particulars of the affair. The cam]) was immediately aroused, the sentinels called in, and orders given for a rapid, forced march. In two short hours the corps was on the move to occupy the pass, if possible, before it should be in the hands of the enemy. In the early morning the soldiers were passing Sebastian's plantations. The main body had long passed over the mountain rise, a few sick or wounded soldiers were straggling in the rear not without the color-bearers, though —and lastly came Captain Willard, who. detailed to send some dispatches for reinforcements lo the south, was now spurring on to overtake the main body. As he passed an outlying group of trees that bordered the grounds around the mansion, a sudden report of a rifle from the clump of bushes caused the horse to shy so suddenly sidewise that Willard, taken oil' Jiis guard, was thrown from his saddle, the momen tary catching of one of his feet in the stirrups threatening a fatal accident, but the strap broke and he landed un hurt. His amazement and disgust can be imagined as he rose to his feet to await the return of his horse, which in a mo ment would be captured by the soldiers, to discover Isabel Sebastian and her dusty maid crouched iu the shrubbery, the discharged rille in front of her. "Miss Isabel!"' he exclaimed, with involuntary politeness, carrying his hand to his head, from which his hat had fallen, "I am happy to rise un harmed." "Which is unsuflerable good fortune for a spy." "Recrimination comes not well from traitor's lips,Miss Sebastian and when a woman acts such parts as these, what are we to expect from the chivalry of the south? Good morning." Captain Willard Stone had suspected the southern beauty from the lirst. lie imparled his thoughts to the colonel, who all along had doubted Sebastian's lo3ralty, and he was allowed to watch the turn of a flairs. /ou know he over heard the ap pointed meeting under the magnolias, and arriving lirst, being light and agile, he sccreted himself with the result we have shown. Dick Armstrong took the lesson which he had learned to heart. Never a soft eye could win his attention again for lie realized how nearly lie had be trayed innocent blood. He never mentioned his love affair.nor did Willard ever refer to it only Dick told his sister once that Williard had, at one-time during the war, saved him from the sin of a great crime. Then came a soft September evening near the close of the war. The air was laden with the ripeness of the harvest time. The harvest moon had lisld her round disk at, or near, the same point for nights, evidently to illuminate one of the few pleasant incidents of the war. Crowds were hurrying to the station. Again the train came in bearing the shattered banners and the more tattered remains of the Maine regiment of volunteers. Under the trumpet-flowers of the old porch Bessie gave her hand into the clasp of Brigadier-General Stone, and not far behind him came Dick. The active imagination may now close this story—a wedding in high life—with symbal and song and feast ing. Fruit Bating In America. Springfield Republican: The con sumption of frflit must be increasing prodigiously in this country, and is un doubtedly improving the national health. In addition to the enormous consumption of berries and small fruits which has grown up lh the last twenty years, there is a vast consumption of apples, oranges and grapes and im ported pine apples and bananas. There were teceived at New York for the year ending with March, 155 car goes by sail and 113 by steamer of bananas alone, and immense numbers are received at other ports. During the same time 48 cargoes of pineapples and 22,000 barrels by steamer were re ceived New York. These fruits with those raised on our own soil, are rap idly supplanting the traditional pie, doughnuts and other pastries of the American table, and take the place of the wine and beer that are deemed in dispensible to a continental dinner. The Amcricjans probably consume more fruit than any other hi people. lighly civilized Philadelphia Modesty. Summer peculiarities are iu order, said a Philadelphia acquaintance to me: "My dear fellow, you really will be surprised to sec how distinctly and charmingly reserved the girls of our city arc. I don't know whether or not it's the influence of Quakerism, but anyhow there is a general refinement about Philadelphia femininity that you don't lind anywhere else in America. Boston is at the tip top for culture of the intellectual sort, no doubt but when it conies to what may be desci-ibed as the physical expression of intense education, we Philadelphians are away ahead of 'em all just you wait and sec for yourself." We were on our way from Newport, where some of the fashionable doings of New York belles had somewhat dis pleased my friend, to Cape May, where we were to lind Philadelphians in a majority. Well, readers kind, the de scendants of Quakeresses were there in plenty. Do you know the outward characteristics of them? They are slim brunettes, as a rule, rather hollow chested, and with meagre faces, made pretty by small, regular features. They are seldom beautiful, anil rarely ugly, because they strike the medium level of weakness. They assume a demurcness that impresses the untu tored observer as inately genuine. But they can't ever again fool me with it. I'll tell you why. "Now show me what you regard as a type of the Philadelphia girl," I said. "There is one," was the reply, and a representative of all the points I have mentioned was pointed out. She wore while muslin and sat in the pose of languishment. The still'breeze which came in through the window of the hotel parlor blew the hem of her dress u]) so that the tip of her shoe was visi ble. She hastily covered the bit of leather. "Don't you notice how instinctively modest she is?" whispered my friend. Next day we went to the beach to see what was being done in "the finest surf in the world." Out from a bath house came the same girl who had been set forth to me as a typical Phila dclphian. I may say, without offensive identification, thatshe was the daughter of a widely honored professional man. She wore a costume of gray flannel, cut in a trim, neat style, and composed of the usual tunic and trousers. But, bless my heart, her feet and legs were bare, absolutely bare, clear up to within two inches of her kneepans. "How about her instinctive modesty now?" I exclaimed. "You don't see a thing incompatible with it," her champion retorted. "She wears a rig that is best suited to the requirements of bathing. I assure you that she is quite unconscious of the slightest guile." "Clong!" said I. "Here she comes past us. Look at the texture of her skin. Study the suialluess of her feet. There isn't a blemish. Her shins are as fine in complexi^h as many a girl's face, and I wouldn't be sur prised to see them blush for themselves if they belonged to a New Yorker. There isn't a corn or bunion to mar her pedal perfection. The out lines of her feet on the sand are ideal. Ilcr toes are not a Chinese lady's clump of distortion, but lie in separate natur alness, as though no shoe had ever encased them. Now, sis, do you ask me for one brief instant to believe that she isn't fully aware of her good luck footwards? And that sins wouldn't keep herself covered down there if she did't suppose that the nuidity would be charming? Ah! you can't Philadelphia me." METKOPOL. Go to School. From the Hawcye Blade: The sum mer season is fast passing and the school boy and girl who are enjoying their vacation must soon get to work again. It is also nearing the time when the public schools aud colleges are making ready for their next sea son's work, and the students who are pursuing a college course are making ready for their yearly work. It should be the disposition of all, both young men and girls, to think of the import ance of an education, and if you are not already engaged in a course of study, make every effort to start in this fall with the determination of securing an education. There arc but few, if any, who would not like to have a good education, but what puzzles them is how to get it. So many think no opportunity is offered them, conse quently they give the matter but little thought. Now this is a mistaken idea. If you do not sec the opportunity make one for yourself. That is something any one can do if they only have flic disposition. If tliey want an education and are determined to have it, they can get it. It must be remembered that those standing the very highest in educational matters as well as in politics, once were very poor and so cured their education by their own efforts. It is not necessary to call at tention to these facts for every school child knows them. Profit by what others liav# done and don't let another college year pass without attending at least six months of the year. There are many young men and girls in col lege who board themselves, their tuition being their greatest expense. When you have gone a few terms you may be able to make enough teaching in the summer to go to school on during the fall, winter and summer. It may be up-hill work, having to deprive your sfclf of many pleasures for the time being, but life will be a different lesson. If you have a good education you need not fear for employment. Every month that you attend school makes that many more opportunities for you in life. Gen. Butler's Admirers. New York Sun: The nomination of Gen Butler will bring out two new classes of Independents, The bolters against Blaine who arc going to sup port Cleveland have hitherto laid claim to the name of Independent Republi cans but there are a good many Re publicans who admire Gen. Butler, and who will be likely to prefer him to the Republican candidate. These men arc truly Independent, and have as good a right as the Cleveland Republi cans to be called Independent Republi cans. Perhaps they will be content to be called Butler Republicans. A But ler Republican wants vigor, ability and courage in a public man, and wants honesty also. It is a good name enough. Then there is anew class of Inde pendents, the Independent Democrats It may take a good while to count these. They are good Democrats, but not unit-rule Democrats or Cleveland Democrats. They are not content, they have ample cause not to be con tent, with the regular Democratic can didate. Between Mongrel, half-heart ed, half-Republican Democracy, and pure, resolute Jacksonian Democracy, they prefer the latter by a very large majority. Between an accident boost ed into prominence and a man of ex perienced talent they want the latter. Between a private life darkened by scandal and a private life pdre and blameless, their instinct and their judgment prompt them to choose the latter. They are Independent Democrats, independent of party dictation, and re solved to assert their Democracy by voting for the most truly Democratic candidate in the field, l'here will be found among them a great company of men who work with their hands. They are not proud, and perhaps the name of Butler Democrats will be good enough for them. This new development of indepen dence cannot fail to be interesting es pecially to Mr. Blaine and Mr. vicve- THE FIGHTING COWBOY. Life on the Plains, Where a Rifle is One's Best Friend. Tlie Struggles a Party Had With Ulood thirsty and Thlovlug Indians. From the New York World: Benja min A. Robinson, son of Dr. Morton Robinson of No. 217 Mulberry street, Newark, N. J., went to New Mexico four years ago and became a cowboy. He is 22 years old, weighs 195 pounds and is feet 4 inches in height. With his cousin, Geo. P. Robinson, an old cowboy, two more cousins and Sam Todd and Jerry l'earse, veteran cattle men, he herded cattle over a range 350 miles long and 100 miles wide. There were over 100,000 head of cattle on that range. Robinson and his party sold out to the Prairie Cattle company in 1882, and went overland with a pair of mules to Colorado. They settled on a range in La Platte county, near Durango. Last month lit! wrote to his father that tlicUtc Indians had broken from their reservation and were driv ing the cowboys from the range, and that he had volunteered to light the redskins. He was in Durango, lie wrote, when the news of the outbreak was fetched there oil Jul}' C, last, by two boys, aged erspectively 8 and 10 years. They were sons of Mr. Wilson, of Wilson, Carlisle & Johnson, who own a large ranch in La Platte county, near the Utah line. On July 3 the Utes put on their war-paint, attacked the ranch, drove off the cattle, and one of their number was killed by one of Wilson's men. Hie Indians then attacked the cowboys, wounded Adolph Tush and Charles Cook, and had live of their own men killed and a number wounded. But thev killed eleven horses of the whites, stampeded 100 horses, drove the cow boys from the camp, burned the outfits and took away all the provisions and stores. They had 17,000 head of cattle at their mercy. Wilson's boys rode twenty-nine hours without food or rest, and arrived in Durango exhausted. Col. Hall, commandant at Fort Lewis, twelve miles from Durango, sent a com pany of cavalry to drive the Indians back to their reservation and Robinson and his chum went along. Last week his father received from him a letter dated at Dolores, the last postofHce sta tion in the wild country. He said he collected a force of cowboys at Duran go and proceeded to Maneus, a small post village near the cattle range, where a number of cowboys joined the party. At Dolores the force of cow boy volunteers was increased to forty two, all of wnora were well-armed and mounted. The Utes had lied over the Blue mountains into the Indian terri tory, and the avengers followed the trail for seven days and nights to Utah, where the savages took refuge. "I have returned from the fight all right," Robinson wrote. "After we found the Indians the light, lasted four teen hours by the watch. They had fortified themselves on top of a nearly round mesa, the cap rack being from twenty-live to thirty feet high, with just one small gap to go through. AVe were sixteen days on the road, and at the least calculation have ridden 550 miles, averaging thirty-five miles a day, which is very good traveling for the soldiers who wen with us. In the outfit there were eighty soldiers and forty-two cow boys, which made quite a string strung out in single file. "We followed close on the trail of the Indians for eight days, and when we ran on them they had stopped and were waiting for us. They had select ed their position well. Ten men be hind the rocks could have stood-off a thousand. Half of the outfits lives were saved by the daring of two men who lost their lives. One was a govern ment scout and the other was a cow boy. AVe had pushed the Indians hard the day before and night, and in the night they laid a trap for us. They had pushed ahead while we were rest ing our lVorses and waiting for the mwon to come up, and had taken up the strong position I have described. AVe had a high hill to climb, and before wc could get down they woiild have killed half of our outfit, if those two brave men had not gone ahead to look at the trail to see if our jack mules could go over it. AAlien within fifty yards of where the Indians were con cealed they opened fire upon the brave men, wounding one and killing the other outright. All that the one who was killed said when he fell was, "'Oh boys oh, boys!' The other- man said not a word, but he rolled in behind a bluff below the top one, so that the In dians could not see him, and laid there all day. "There were about forty In dians iu the bunch, and during the day they were joined by more. There were some ringleader white men in the bunch and they would call out to us: •Oh, boys! oh, boys!' and 'dome up, you and bring the soldiers!" I tell you what, the bullets Hew hot and lively for a while. There were about seven of u.«r cowboys in the range with our horses. 1 had forgotten all about danger, and not standing iu the open, about 450 yards from the yelling red devils, shouting the best I knew how. I was getting the bullets in pretty close to their heads, as they were to me, and 1 could hear the ping, ping of the bullets as they passed my head. Some of the boys hollered to mc to get my horses under cover or the Indians would kill them, and you bet I got them out in a hurry. The balls came close enough for me to feel the heat of them on the side of my face, and one threw the dirt all over me. Another ball struck between my feet above the knees and went sailing off a humming. "AVe were fighting now mostly for the two men they had within range on the rock, for we did not know then but that both were alive, and we kept them covered so that the Indians could not get to them to scalp them. But the red devils got the poor fellows in spite of all wc could do, and it made our blood boil and nerves tingle with hot anger to hear their triumphant yells and the cheers of the renegade whites, curse them. AVe could not get to the poor, brave fellows in the rocks, on account of the hjjl, which was sure death to the man who attempted to ascend it. Well, wc fought there all dav and part of the night, and then we had to leave after several attempts to draw them from cover. They had us in a dry canyon, and when we got out we were nearly dead for water, for we had been over thirty hours under fire without a drop of water to quench our thirst. Wc feel satisfied that the wounded man killed three or four In dians, if not more, for just at dusk, when the Indians came down after his scalp, we heard him fire twelve rounds from his six-shooter at short range. He was a good shot, and was revenged. The soldiers were the most scared lot of men I ever saw. It was* nearly a panic with them. But, after all, it was a fearful hot purgatory in that canyon under the. fire of a concealed and treacherous foe. "Wc got back here considerably the worse for wear, for we had suffered severe hardships and privations, loss of sleep, with only one meal in thirty six hours, were thirty hours without water, and then had the hard ride up and down the mountains. It will not be safe in this country for some time not before spring, anyway—for the sct llers are on the war-path as well as the Indians. The latter got away with 150 head of horses, a number of saddles, guns and blankets, a quantity of am munition, burned two wagons, a cabin, killed a lot of horses and got off with about 2,500 weight bf flour and other grub. The settlers say they will kill every Indian they see, and I know the cowmen nevef fail to keep their vows^ of vengeance." 2s*,. F^LLi FASHION NOTES. ftww. .- From* advance proof sheets expressly furnished us for publication by Lo^Js A. Godey, Philadelphia All walking dresses are made to reach the ankle only. Some of the newest handkerchiefs arc ruffled and tucked. Duchess and Escurial lace arc worn more than any other. Tan alligator skin slippers arc popu a in a Plain cloth dresses, of blue, green and brown are in fashion. Black lace ruffles add ipuch to tlie effect of a black silk dress. favorite AArhite and bronze satin are combinations for evening dresses. Applique ornaments are among the rich trimmings for dresses and cloaks. Embroidered crepe-de-chine is tho ii handsomest material for evening wear, Pearl bead necklaces are pretty to wear with square-cut evening dresses. J1'' The newest earrings are in tlie design i'i of a dagger with a diamond ou tho fc point. Outlining in fancy work is now very popular for shams, tidies and bureau covers. Bows of bright ribbon are worn by young ladies at the belt over dark silk dresses. Tailor-made cloth dresses are gjj trimmed with bands of tan leather or alligator skin. Braiding and ornaments made' of 'e£ braid are loth used extensively for cloth dress trimmings. stft® The natural hues of flowers have never been more admirably depicted than on the new brocaded silks. Black velvet Spanish waists are worn with dresses of any color in silk and woollen fabrics for home toilettes. Boufiante drapery is confined to evening and liou.se dresses. Street dresses are generally made tight fit ting. The fancy for Japanese fans is de clining, while the artistic work in Chi nese, French and Vienna stylos, remains popular. RIFLE CONTESTS. The Wimbledon Style of Shooting not Calculated to Prove Effective on the Battle Field. London special correspondence, Aug. 1: The rifle shooting annual camp at AVimbledon, at which some $75,000 are given in prizes, is now in full bla.st, arid has received its usual money support in the way of prizes but, in common with all nowaday institutions, even this must submit to the ordeal of pub lic opinion and close scrutiny. Eng land would gladly have welcomed her American brethren as competitors, but this year at least we are denied the participation. In reference to these contests, the public is beginning to be impressed with the fact that an enor mous amount of time, money and skill is expended by the volunteers through out the country to enable them to send to AVimbledon annually as represen tatives men capable of making the re markable scores now daily recorded. These crack shots have learned how to contend with the difficulties of a treacherous wind and a constantly varying light, in defiance of which they are enabled, shot after shot, successive ly to strike the bullseye, but the idea forces itself on the mind, is shooting as practiced at these prize meetings really a useful training for war? The volun teer fires at an absolutely ascertained distance, at a large, immovable mark, painted white to make it conspicuous, with a large black spot iu its center, still further to attract the eye. By means of an ingenius little instrument called the "vernier," the marksman is able to calculate exactly the amount of elevation to give his rilie and in what ever position lie may fire, he is encum bered with the great coat and water bottle, haversack, belts and ammuni tion, which we would be required to carry on active practice in the fieid. No restriction as to length of time in aiming is placed upon him he may, and he frequently does, take minutes over cach shot. AVe are beginning to realize that the AVimbledon style of shooting is not calculated to raise the volunteers to such a pitch of proficien cy as to Hinder the force really effect ive against an expert enemy in tho field of actual war. Men wlie have had training in Africa against the Boers say emphatically that the system is radically wrong, and that we must revise it. All the noble trophies, near ly all the vast money prizes, go, not to develop real fighting marksmanship, but to encourage proficiency in the mere rudiments of the use of the rill«. No doubt the skill thus exhibited is marvelous, but if the steady hand and eyes, the good judgment and iron n6rve which each AVinbledon shot unites in his own person were exercised in moro difficult and more varied competitions, the value of Wimbledon as a school of arms would be increased a thousand fold. AVe must alter all this and that quickly. Men must be induced to en ter into competitions at moving objccts of a size and color likely to be encoun tered on a battlc-lield so, also, they must be brought to study the art of judging distances accurately by in augurating a series of contests at un known distances limit the time allow ed for cach shot to a few seconds (for in the smoke of action opportunities .for the long deliberate aim now in vogue can never occur) above all, disturb the complacency of the quasi professional marksmen who, while able to hit a target 6x12 feet at 1,000 yards, cannot touch a moving, life-size figure at 100 yards distance. It is a curious commentary on our system of instructions to watch the shooting at the number on those targets 3nd to ob serve the steadiness with which the crack shots of the volunteer guard con tinually miss the mark. This will all soon be altered. PLEURO-PNEUMONIA. Report of Dr. Salmon Relative to the Outbreak in IllinoiB. WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—-Dr. Salmon, of .the agricultural department, has mude a report to Col. Carman, acting commlselouer, upou tlie outbreak of pleuro-pncumonfa among Jor 6cy cattle In Illinois. Ho said, In part, this la the most serious outbreak tliat has occurred for along time, and unless prompt action Is taken to «tamp It out the Jersey cattle Interest iu the west will be ruined and pleuro-pnuu monla be beyond control. Several of the flnftst herds in the state are now Infcctcd. Ono nfilleted animal In a herd examined to-day is worth $1,500. Some other animals In the«6 bents are worth more than that, and two of tho herds contain over forty head each. Dr. Salmon further gays: Tho state authori ties have agreed to co-operate with the govern ment In exterminating the disease. A4Ltng Commissioner Carman has telegraphed lilm to take all the means deemed necessary, and to the full extent authorised by law. Offlcetg at the agricultural department say this Is the nrst time plcnro-pneumonia has appeared In the west They will make every effort to prevent the spread of the disease.' Dr. 8almon, with four of five assistants, Is at present engage') In trvlng to discover parts of the country from which tho cattle were originally shipped. Nebraska State Fair. 1 *s ... The most ample preparations are making for the Nebraska State Fair, which begins at Omaha on the 5th of September. Our Omaha neighbors are always to thy»4orofront, and in fair matters nevdi^flllow themselves to be' left. They are raakUjg extraordinary, preparations with th«fr buildings and grounds, in order that this may be the great year in Nebraska's staje exposi tion. The fields of the state are smll ing with wealth all oVer, there are cat*. tie on more than ten thousand hill#/ and the people in all parts _of that great commonwealth are giving their best energies- to make such a display as this great mass of agricultural wealth justifies