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THE IOWA VOTER. J. 0. BABKES, Publisher* i i tW "CfOXVILLE, IOWA. General News Summary. WMhinyton News. A Washington dispatch of the 14th says the Secretary of the Treasury, latctljc night before, (lent, by a special mes««Tig^r, to (Collector Ar thur of the, port of New York, an order for the Immediate removal of neurly one hundred cus toms officers, nomc of the occupying respon sible places, on charges of fruud and corrup tion, and thut the dismissal of another lot of {dishonest officers was expected In a few day*. in recent letter Ireasurer Hpinne.r says: *'Tlie resumption of specie payment has been, and I think will continue to le, put off until tbe time when the balance of trade shall he in our favor. When that time arrives rcsump tion will he catty. In truth it will, from that cause, come of it* own accord." The return* of the Agricultural Depart ment for the 1st of August indicate a general «ud somewhat marked improvement in the Condition and promise of the cotton crop Irincc the 1st of July. The average condition on July 1, wan 85.5 on August 1, ttl.8. The (iovernrnent examination into the Wa iwasset. disaster wan begun at the Treasury Jjepartment In Washington on the 15th. A "Washington special of that date says eighty two bodies hud been recovered from and about fin wreck, and It wan Imlleved that at leant two hundred persons were on board at the time of the disaster. The Secretary of the Treasury baa tailed a circular giving notice that the principal and accrued interest of the five-twenty bonds MJ low designated will he paid ut the Lnited Wtatcp Treasury, Washington, on and after the 10th of November next, and that Interest will Cease from that day. Hoth numbers specified of bonds called In are Inclusive, and are Uuown •s the third scries, under the act of February 185, I WW, dated May 1, lHti',2, as follows: ('oupon Bonds-—-$50, Nos. 'S,!'01 to 10,'J00 l100, NOH. ',20,(WO to 10,750 IVK), Nos. 10,701 o ftO.HOO $1,000, Nos. iW.OOl to Total, Bl'i (KM) 000 Itegihtercd Bonds—$50, Nos. I.»UI to 1,875 §100, Nos. «,.'i0l to 10,:MK $VH, NOS. 5,701 to U.IOO, #1,000, Nos. 2-1,:M to 'A000 $5,000, NOH. 7,501 to 7,000 *10,000, NOH. 9,881 to 10, 100. 'total, $'.',000,000. Grand total, $ 15,000, 000. United Htaten securlllcs forwarded for re Clcmption should tie. addressed to the loan di vision of the Secretary'* office, mid all register ed bonds should be assigned to the bccictary jf the Treasury for redemption. The Attorney-General lias rccommcnded to the ('resident that pardons t« granted to S. Hood, of Houth Carolina, and Adolphus I)u prlest and (ieorgc Holland, of North Carolina, who arc serving out. terms In the Albany l'eu ttentiary for Ku-Klux outrage*. A rceent Washington dispatch says a num IHT of letters had been received from (Junker luid other friend* of the Iudiun peace policy throughout the country, asking clemency in behalf of tin Modoc Indians lately on trial for the murder of General Canby. Many of these letters raise 1 lit question that the trial of the offenders was illegal under the decision of the tiuprcuie Court lit the. Milligan case lliateivil Courts being In existence, a military tribunal had no jurisdiction Another question raised S* thut General Cunby was killed while in ue tlon as a I'eaee Commissioner, uud not as an iifllcei of the army In war. These questions iwill come directly before the President for his Foreign Intelligence* A T.rmdon dispatch of the 14th says It was gtntcd upon the highest authority that the ()ouiit l)e riiambord had announced his reso lution to acccpt the constitution for France prepared by members of the Right of the As sembly and himself, and will rule both by the will of God and the will of the people." .A proclamation of a monarchy would he made In about six weeks. On tlie. 14th the ('arllsts began their long threatened attack on licrga. Mix hours after their batteries opened tire the city was burning )n several places. At an Opposition caucus held at Ottawa, Ontario, on the evening of the 14th, at which there was tt full attendance of Reformers, res olution!* were passed condemning the action taken by the Crown lu proroguing the Cana dian I'lirliamcut. The Xrnlh Herman OauiU (Berlin) of the flfith emphatically denies ft late report in American papers of an Interview with I'linee jUisniaick, In which he is made to say that he Would extirpate the Idea of God and substitute that of the HUite. It declares that lilsmarek never used such language or advocated such sentiment. A Vienna telegram of tlio 15th states that (grand diplomas of honor had been awarded to Americans, as follows: To the United Htaten tiovi riiment for display of cotton and pro ducts to the National liureau of Education to the Mute of Massachusetts to the city of JJoston, and to Smithsonian Institute, Wash ington. The latter four are for excellence iin method* and progress of education and IH'hools. Dispatches of the 15th from various places In Germany statu that tbecbolera waa increas ing in virulence. The Spanish ("orter. han approved of the bill calling for 50,000 of the reserves, so that the C.'arlist.s and Republican insurgents may lie iput down. A Madrid telegram of the 15th says Cartagena was preparing for along strug gle. All males above sixteen years of age hud Iteen enrolled. The streets were ulinost dc iBorted, and shops were closed. The insur gents were Issuing paper money. Hix hundred French Imperialists met at Chisclburst, England, oil the 15th, and cclc ibratcd the fete day of the late Kniperor. l'rinee Louis Napoleon made u speech, lu the course of which he said: "Plant nig myself as au ex ilic near the tomb of the Kniperor, I represent Ibis teachings, which may be siitmimrlr.ed in tlie motto, 'Govern for the people by the peo ple.' The I'l inee was loudly cheered. Intelligence has been received that Paraguay, Uracil and the Argentine Republic have signed ft treaty of peace. The health of the Emperor William is re fMjrtcd to be precarious. A Berlin correspond ent suys his death is one of the events for Which it is well to be prepared. A Madrid dispatch of the 17th saystba In surgents of Cartagena bad released and armed ,800 convicts. The Madrid Epoca of the 18th alleges that JbeFrench lie Govcr"uient was secretly favoring operations of the (Jurlists in order to fltrungthen the cause of the Count do Clium %ord. A dispatch from C'nrliot sources on the *»th states that the French Government had ifcken the initiatory step towards recogui/.ing *e Carl Is ts as belligerents, having Issued or ders permitting the trunslt of arms and muni sons of war between the two jilfiw iiwo i In tbe south of France. Charles Frederick August William, Duke of Brunswick, Germany, died recently, of apo plexy, aged I'M years. By his will he leaves tbe whole, of his landed and personal estate to the city of Geneva. A Vienna special of the 19th says: "The distribution of the prizes was a very tame af fair. There were only about 3,000 jiereong prexfjit. Archduke Charles Louis made a congratulatory address on the successful ter mination of the Exposition, after which the list of successful comjmtltors was read." A battle was fought, on the 18th, between a force of Carl is ts and three columns of Spanish Republicans, in which the former were vic torious. The engagement occurred In the open country tetwecri the towns of IJerga and Caserns. A cable telegram of the 18th says tbat so far thl« month twenty newspapers in the French provinces bad been suppressed by the (iovern rnent. A portion of a passenger train going East over the Great Western (Canada) Railway, plunged into the Welland Canal on the 19th, the draw-bridge being open. Fortunately no lives were lost. The International Patent Right* Congress recently in session at Vienna, adopted resolu tions to the effect that only the inventor him self or his legal successors shall obtain a patent the granting of a patent cannot be re fused to foreigners the duration of a patent for an invention to be for fifteen years, or for a shorter term, with the option of extending it to that period the complete publication of a patent to tie obligatory the expense of grant ing n patent to be. established on a moderate but progressive scale a specification of all patents In force must be accessible to the pub lic. The EUt. The seventh annual reunion of the Army of the Cumberland will be held In Pittsburgh on the 17th and 18th of September. H. 8. Cox has been nominated by the Demo crats of the Hixth New fork Congressional District for the vacancy caused by tlie death of the lion. James lirooks. Gold in New York on the 18th closed at ii r,yt. The Massachusetts Republican State Central Committee have decided to change the time of holding the Htate Convention at Worcester to September IOlli, as the ball waa engaged from the 17th to the 'J4th. J. (.'. Abbott, General Deputy of the I'atrons of Husbandry, who has been engaged for some time past in organizing Grangcx throughout New England, addressed a public meeting at Huston, on the. evening of the 10th, on the ob jects of the. Order, and then established u Grange In thut city. Rev. Gardiner Spring, for sixty-three years the pastor of the Brick Chureh (Presbyterian) congregation, in New York City, died at Ills residence in that city oil the lllth, aged 89 years. Mrs. Schmidt, of Long Island City, has pleaded guilty to an indictment which chargcs her with attempting to strangle to death a child that hud been placed in Iter care, and for whose maintenance she was paid $10 a month. The sentence Imposed was $1£5 fine and six mont lis imprisonment. Tbe New York Republican State Convention has been called to meet at Utlca on Wednes day, September 24, to nominate candidates for State ofllcers, The Wert. A Harvest Home picnic was hald at Cliaton, III., on the 14th, Hiid was largely attended by the farmers of DcVVitt and adjoining counties. Addresses were delivered by Governor licvu Idge, Ex-Governor Palmer, (Jeneral J, C. Black, and others. A widow woman, the daughter of (Ieorgc Stevenson, residing near Elkader, Iowa, the other day poured oil on u tire she had just lighted, when an explosion followed, setting her clothes on tire and burning her so severely that she died the same night in great agony. (iencrul Rosner, in cliargc of the railway survey of the Stanley Yellowstone expedition, has reported thut he finds the new route of access to Western Dakota, from the Missouri to the Yellowstone River, entirely practicable and satisfactory, it being greatly superior to those of former days. Tbe distance, 205 miles, Is twenty-one miles shorter than the survey of 1871. The grades are moderate. The Direct ors of the ('oinpany have accepted the new line rccommcnded by (jeneral Rosscr, from Bismarck, the present cud of tbe track, to tbe Yellowstone crossing. An Oshkush (Wis.) special of tbe 16th says J. N. Iloiigluu, ('resident of the Wlnnrbngo County Convention of the Patrons of Hus bandry, had published a card denying the truth of the statement that nineteen Granges in the county had agreed to hold their wheat until a rise in the price took place. It is said the Grange* took no action on the subject,and indignantly deny any desire or attempt to or ganize a corner on wheat. A horrible accidcnt occurred on the Chicago, Alton A St. Louis Railroad, a few miles from Chicago, on the night the Kith. It seems the St. Louis fast express train, which left liicngo at nine o'clock in the evening, was met by a coal train about two und a half miles north of Lcmout, both trains running at full speed, when u fearful collision ensued. Both engines were completely wrecked, and the smoking-car of the express train was thrown utop of the engine of the coal train, and the steam passed in upon the passengers through a scam that was made in the bottom of the car. Eleven persons, all of whom were in the smoking-car, were killed, uud forty othen* severely Injured, many of them fatully. A Des Moines dispatch of the. Ititli suys an ofllcial statement shows that the number of Granges in Iowa was 1,750. The number in the United States on the 19th of July was 5,000, with a total membership of 250,000. Mrs. Ellen McKinncy, of Chicago, lu order to hurry up the tire, poured kerosene oil from a can into the stove.. Both herself and her lit tle girl, aged four years, were fearfully, and probably fatully, burned. The numlier of killed and wounded by the recent railroad accident near Chicago, as re ported on the 19th, was llfty-one. The dead, up to that date, were: ''"plain .lohn W. Smith, Warden of tbe Illinois stale I'enllciiiijiry J. W. lHcurv. Piircliii*iin Aifenl of the 11111«in state I'cnlleiiilury Captain William l.cttle, Hpritintlcld, 111. (to^cr J. limns. Thomas Morton, (Jeorp' Trendel, (icorye Renter and Conrad WYbhcr, Chicago James O'Neill, Juliet Theodore Slen^r, Texas Jacob ('mulct, Ostikosh, Win. N. lilvelbliss, Sprinjrllcld, 111. Ja cob Lanser, Jollit, 111. William Davis, tin man of coal traiii: .loscpli H. Michic. Jackson, Teun. John Mctzler, Jolict, Drukeiiian of coal train and a man supposed, by papers found ou htm, to bo Thomas K. Pollard. Of the wounded uiive on the 19th it was thought all but A. C. lllckman, of Chicago, and Frank Bridges, flremau of the pabseuycr engine, would recover. Leading physicians have Informed the Jmr tml that, with tbe exception of a district of a few blocks in the extreme southwestern por tiou of the city, there is no cholera in Chicago, and that tbe cases that have occurred In the district referred to were not Asiatic cholera, but of a sporadic character. It is further as serted that the general health of the city shows a tjettcr average than the corresponding sea sons of the past few years. It is reported that In a small house near La Cygne, Kan., during the night of the 17th, two women and two children wej-e consumed and all are believed to have been murdered, arid the bouse fired, by the husband of one of the victims, named Kellar. J. Puffenbergcr, the engineer of the coal train which caused the recent terrible collision on the Chicago Alton Railroad, was under arrest in Chicago on the 19th. Edward Beane, the conductor of the coal train, who resides in Jolict, had not yet been arrested, although efforts were being made to discover his where abouts. Puffenberger seeks to throw all tbe blame for the collision on the conductor, alleging tbat his (Puffenberger's) watch was fifty minutes slow, and that he was not aware of this fact. By tbe rules of the Company, when the orders for the running of trains are violated, tlie engineer is equally responsible with the conductor of the train violating tbe regulations. Beane was said to have been at fii-t home the day after the accident, in a half crimed condition. It is said that after the ncci di'ut he was observed running up and down the track, begging some one to shoot him. At a meeting held at Beloit, Wis., ou the 19th, the Southern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois Agricultural Association organized, electing the Hon. II. N. Davis, President 8. J. Goodwin, Esq., Chief Marshal Henry F. Jfobart, Secretary and Treasurer eleven Vice Presidents, and eight Superintendents of De partments. The first fair of the Association will be held Friday, September 5, upon the grounds of the Beloit Driving Park Associa tion. Mayor Medill, of Chicago, and family have gone on a trip to Europe. Alderman L. L. Bond is acting Mayor of thecity in tbe absence of Mr. Medill. The Coroner's Jury in the case of the reccnt collision on the Chicago St St. Louis Railroad, near Chicago, after a patient investigation and the examination of a large number of wit nesses, have rendered a decision that the vic tims of the disaster catne to their deaths from extensive scalds and the Inhaling of steam on the occasion of the collision: "and we the jury find from the evidence that said collision was caused by the criminal carelessness of Edward Beane, conductor, and Joshua Puffenberger, engineer of said coal train No. 2ft, in violation of the rules and regulations of said railroad company, governing the movement of trains on said railroad." Tbe company lias offered a reward of $1,000 for the apprehension of Beane. Some of the evidence goes to show that Beane was intoxicated on the night of the accident, while it is claimed by some tbat lie is subjcct to fits of insaaity. Kellar, the murderer of his wife and Mrs. Boyd and the two children near Twin Springs, Kansas, was arrested and locked up in jail at Lu Cygne. On the 19th a party of four hun dred to live hundred men assembled at the Jail and demanded that the Sheriff should de liver the prisoner to them. The Sheriff refused them admittance to the jail, but was over come, and it was discovered that the prisoner was not in the building, as lie had been pre viously removed to escape the inob. The Sheriff was threatened with death unless the place of couccalinent was told. All authority was put down, and the Sheriff told tbe place where the prisoner had been taken to. Kellar wthen searched for and found eight miles east of La Cygne, and was taken back to the town. The crowd was appealed to in behalf of law and order, and a committee of twelve was appointed to de cide whether Kellar should be hung or held for trial. The vote was seven for hanging, and the crowd proceeded delilierateiy to exe cute the verdict. Boyd, the husband and father of the murdered family, put the noose on Kellar's neck, and the wagon oil which the prisoner stood was driven from under him, and the wretched man was thus executed. No doubt existed as to Kellar's guilt. All the lynchers were undisguised citizens of the neighborhood and county, some of them the wealthiest and best residents. The Booth. In response to a communication from citi zens of Monroe us to the proper course to be pursued regarding Louisiana affairs, John McEuery bus written a letter advising a State Convention In December, and the ap pointment of a committee to appeal to Congress. Fannie Hush (colored), convicted of the murder of an Infant child in Harrison county, Kentucky, has been seiitcuced to be hanged ou the 14th of November. It Is stated that the mother and her children were starving, and the mother, half cra/.cd, drowned one tbat she might provide for the rest. •Icffeison Davis addressed the Southern His torical Convention, ut White Sulphur Springs, Va., a few days ago. In speaking of the late war he said: We have been more cheated than conquered by tbe declarations of the Federal President, Congress and Generals, for there never could have been a surrender had we an ticipated what followed, and we would to day have been free." A resolution was adopted tlmt President Grant be requested to permit the Secretary of this Society to examine all papers and archives of the Government cap tured by the Federal forces from the Confed erates during the war, and to make copies of fiucli of them us he may think fit. The Recent Railroad Horrw* The Chicago Tribmtt of the lHth gives the following statement concerning the recent horrible accident ou the Chicago, Alton & St. Louis Railroad: The train consisted of a locomotive, a bag gage-cur, a smoking-car, two coaches, and two sleeping-cars. The cars were well filled, par ticularly the smoking-car. The train was due at Willow Station at 9:55, and was on time. It is not usual for this train to stop at that station, but on this occasion it was necessary, in order to take on a sleeping-car which was brought from St. Louis by the train which left that city in the morning. The train started from Willow Station, ac cording to the best evidence, ten minutes be hind, and. as it is customary on this road to make up lost time, undoubtedly the rate of speed was somewhat accelerated. The con ductor and engineer knew thwy were to pass a coal train at l.cmont. seven miles distant, but unhappily that train did not wait, as it should have done, but came on toward the passenger train, expecting to make Willow Station, it was a race for life. The conductor and en gineer of the coal train knew that the passen ger train, laden w itli precious lives, was In front, and if they did not reach a switch by a certain time a collision was inevitable. Both trains were rushing toward destruction. On they Hew over the iron way through the darkness, the speed increasing at every revo lution of the wheels. The passengers in the sleeping-cars were preparing to retire, or hud already doue so. Those in the coaches wire looking forward to reaching their destination, where expectant families awaited their coming. The suspicion of danger never crossed the mindsofany, w hen suddenly, with out aniomcut'tf warning, not even a whistle, the two trains were locked in an embrace of death, and in one terrible moment wives were made widows, children became fatherless, mourn ing wao sent to the threshold of many happy homes, and sorrow that can never be eradi cated pierced many hearts. There were three concussions—first, when the engines met and were destroyed second, when the baggage car struck and was smashed into frag ments and third, when the smoking-car collided and leaped in the air, alight ing on the fractured boiler of the freight engine. The remains of the passenger train engine were thrown from the track, toward the east, and so were the rums of the bairgage ear. Then came the smoking-car on too of the boiler. The forepart of this car was burst open by the force with which it ktruek, the hind wheels remaining on the track, and there it stood at an angle of thirty degrees, the passengers imprisoned in t*e broken iron and wood, while the deadly ftearn came up with terrific force from the boiler below, scalding those whom it touched, instantly peel log off the skin, and causing the most excru ciating agony. One moment was sufficient to cause death, but many were there several min utes before being extricated. They breathed the burning atmosphere. One breath was fa tal, the inner surface of the chest and lungs being fearfully scorched. As soon as they recovered from the first shock, the passengers iri the two coaches and in the clecping-cars, who were uninjured, did all they could to rescue the sufferers. The cause of the accident was the inexcusa ble foolhardincss of the conductor of the freight train in leaving l.cmont when he know that it was u matter of life and death, that it was a mere chance if lie could reach a switch in time, that it was his duty to remain there until the passenger train, which had the right of way, was safely by, and that any way lie had no right to run any risk or take any chances. Mr. Huston, station-agent at Lc morit, entreated him not to leave the station. and so uneasy was Mr. Huston when he did leave, that he listened uutil he heard the con cussion, and th.-n be went to work to secure the necessary aid. The night was dark, the sky cloudy, the waning moon shed no light, the stars were visible overhead, hut a thick fog covered the surface of the earth, and lights could not be seen for any great distance. That made no difference, however. With the same reckless management of the freight train the accident might have occurred in the full blaze of noon day. There would be nothing to prevent it. A curve in the road hid the trains from each other, and the engineers could do nothing to stop their engines. In this case nothing seems to have been attempted. There was no Rafferty there, by a deed of heroism to lighten this gloomy tale. Buried la a Hand Storm in Colorado* A correspondent of the Pueblo People, writing from Fort (Jarland under date of July 24, tells tine following story: "Last Monday, two Mexican boys, Jesus Maria ant! Juan de la Cruz Lim liustero, wen taking a herd of 700 sheep across the sand hills of the 'Lomas del Arreno' about twenty-four miles northerly from Fort Garland. The sand hills ex tend out into the San Luis Valley about fifteen miles, opposite tiie MOKCO Pass. "The herders undertook to make a short cut across the bills, instead of going around, as directed by their father. At first everything moved gaily the boys, and she«p, and dogs only sank a few inches in the light, white sand, and they thought how foolish it was of old fogies to go around twenty miles, when it was only four across, but before they got half across, one of those sudden storms arose up came a gentle breeze, the breeze be came wind, and tbe wind an awful liur ricane the sand moved about in blinding clouds, hills changed to holes, and every hole was a seething caldron. "The poor boys struggled hard to avert theirdoom, and Jesus Maria managed, ly drawing his scrape over his head, and keeping his feet, and climbing as tha tmntkteiled up around him, to survive tbe tornado but bis younger brother, Juan de la Cruz, succumbed to th- suffocating blast, and, as a ship goes down at sea, so sank the brave boy surrounded by bis bleating sheep and whining dogs and when the storm ceased, as suddenly as it had commenced, little Jesus found him self all alone,with quiet mounds of glis tening sand all around him, and not a trace of the cruel storm nor a wreck of the sad disaster could lie seen. "He hurried home, where he arrived the next day, and told bis tale of terror. Tbe whole plaza turned out to search for the lost body, and to dig out tbe missing •lieep. Up to the succeeding afternoon they had recovered over 400 sheep, most of them being found about six feet below tbe surface, and the natives from neighboring plazas had llocked to the scene, and were busily engaged digging out sheep, Baving the wool and feasting on mutton." Incidents and Accidents* —Edward Snyder, of Millport, Pa., was recently atabbeu to the heart by electricity as neatly as a dirk would have done it. —The keeper of the town farm in Peacham, Vt., is accused of kicking a lit tle boy to death, and has left for parts un known. —A runaway horse, in Oshkosh, Wis., the other day, jumped clear over a lum ber wagon, and knocked a farmer's wife out. She was but little injured. —Two bulls belonging to Michael Duffle, of Daviess County, Ind., had a fight, and the vanquished one was so dis gusted tbat he plunged into a pond of water and drowned himself. —While Noah Content was walking along the beach at Long Branch, the other evening, the umbrella which he carried in his hand was struck by lightning, and shattered in threads he escaped injury, and was content. —A young man named Moses Polton, living near Hillsboro, O., was on his way to be married, when he was struck by lightning and instantly killed. Two years ago his brother was thrown from nis iiorse and killed while going to marry the same lady. —A few evenings ago a number of boys were jumping from an elevated sidewalk in Chicago, when one of them leaped upon the stump of a burned tree, a sharp point upon which entered his abdomen, and in flicted a frightful and, probably fatal, wound. —A man and wife (names not given) were found dead in bed, a few clays ago, at their home in Mount Vernon, Ind., hav ing died of cholera. When discovered, their only child, two years old, was clam bering over their dead bodies, in a vain attempt to awake them. —In Clay County, Mo., a few days since, Mr. H. W. Roberts started homeward from Newell with a reaper on his wagon, and when six miles from that place his team ran away, throwing him from the wagon, part of the load falling upon him, dislo cating his ueck and producing death. —A woman, named Ryan, one of a party recently gathering huckleberries near Lock Haven, Pa., was attacked by a huge panther, and managed not only to ward off the attack, but actually killed the beast with a pine knot. Miss Bryan is the lion (or lioness) of the neighbor hood, as she deserves to be. —On a recent evening, Mr. Phillip Streeter, a man about seventy years old, and one of the oldest Qerman residents of New Berlin, Wis., went down into his well with a rake in search of something that dropped into it, and by so doing the rake pulled out a stone near the bottom and the well caved in on him, burying him in about four or five feet of water, thirty-five feet below the surface. —On a recent Sunday, at Tunkhan nock, Pa., Sidney Major shot and killed in his garden a hawk which had been preying upon his chickens. Oscar Mills, who lived next door, was walking in his garden at the time, and three buckshot passed the hawk and struck him in the heart, killing him instantly. Mills^ was an Assistant Engineer in the United States Navy, and was awaiting orders at the time of his death. —A frightened boy named Wilkins, of Clemensville Corners, Wis., jumped from a fence as a mower went by, striking one leg in front of the sickle, which cut it ofi at one clip just above the ankle. The foot being gone, the leg dropped down still farther, and was nearly taken off a second time, about two inches above the first cut, before the horses could be stop ped. At last accounts, it was feared he could not recover. —A man, named William Oerhel, living in Chicago, had a temarkable escape from death recently during a fit of "somnambu lism," a disease of which he is a frequent victim. Rising from his bed, lie went to the window of a room on the third floor of his house, and tried to climb thence to the roof. Hishold was not good, however, and lie fell a distance of nearly forty feet Ut the wooden sidewalk, several planks of which were smashed by tjie collision, but, strange to say, all the injuries he received consisted of a few bruises. —On a reccnt Saturday evening as the rain on 1he Sabula, Ackley & Dakota Railroad rounded a sharp curve, just east of Brown's Station, in Clinton County, Mo., the engineer discovered a girl lying on the track, not 200 feet distant. He im mediately whistled "down brakes," but before the train could be stopped the en gine and the forward trucks of the bag gage-car had passed over her, severing both limbs from her body and otherwise fearfully mangling her. The girl proved to be the daughter of Mr. Brown, for whom the station had been named. She was subject to fits, and was returning home from the field where she had been with a lunch for the hands employed by her father. —The Newark (N. J.) Daily, of a recent date, tells the following story, which, in tragic: interest, exceeds that of the man who burned his barn to get rid of the rats that infested it: "In Monmouth County, last week, a fire was started in a field to burn out a nest of yellow-jackets. It, however, got beyond control, and raged with terrible fury. Every one that could was out to fight the fire. Relays of men were needed, for the strong men wilted down with their fearful labors. Night and day they fought the flames which lapped up the green fields, and came in a burning nearness to the dwellings. The precious rain came to their relief, and for the first time in five days and four nights the people of the neighborhood felt they were getting the foul fiend down. Proba bly not less than two hundred acres of woodland are burned down, even beneath tbe very roots of the trees. 'Behold bow great a matter a little fire kindleth'—a conflagration from the careless destruction of a wasp's nest." —An acre of strawberries, well handled, should produce a net profit of $300, over and above the cost of production and the necessary expense of marketing. The commissions are ten per cent. There have been instances where $500 has been cleared from an acre, and in one case over $1,000. But these instances are rare. The crop was grown on a small area, and the best of culture was applied. —Recently, at Baltimore, Md., while Mrs. Augusta Rosenthal was carrying her little boy up stairs, a tin oil lamp held in her hand exploded, and burned herself and child so frightfully that they both died shortly afterward. Her husband was severely, if not dangerously burned also, while endeavoring to extinguish the flames. —To help a man who won't help him self is to help him to his ruin. SEVERAL Iowa towns prohibit Ute Bale of newspapers on Sunday. VINEGAR HITTERS THE GREATEST YET. —A few doses stir ihe life-current slug gishness departs, pain vanishes, and after continued use of the remedy the whole body glows with a new energy and a new being. Purge the blood and every organ will perform its function perfectly. The stomach will be no longer tortured with I iygpej is in the lungs will be free from ConKumption, the liver active, the heart healthy, the brain clear, the nerves braced, and the mind elastic. Use the "VINEGAR BITTERS,"and purge your blood. Whether t!.e disease be Fever, (Sontiumptiori, Dytt pepxi't. Affection (if the Liver or Kidtwya, Dropxy. Catirrh, Kheuinatitm, Gout, or painx and ttchm nf any kind, attack it in its stronghold, the blood—the fountain of life—and it will soon surrender and aban don the outposts. To do this you must have the "VINEGAR BITTERS there is no complaint to which the human system is liable, that will not yield to its influ ence, and there are thousands which no other remedial agent w ill remove. 4 OUR Readers should be careful to noticethat PROCTER FE GAMIU.E'S 8TAMI* is upon the liars of their MOTTLKI (.KKMAN 8OAI, as all good articles are imitated, and this Soap being so popular, other manufacturers have copied their stamp. AT this ?eagon of the year cramps and pains in the stomach and bowels, dysentery, diar rhea. etc., are quite common, and should be checked at once. ah AimIqiic Liuimeut is the best article that can be used in all such cases, and should be kept In every family. Used internally. ASK for Prusslng's Cider Vinegar and TAKE no other Warranted to preserve Pickle*. Cholera and Puin-Klller. PEBHT DAVIS' PAIN KII.LER.—This oapM* alleled preparation is ree ivin^ more testi monials of its wonderful tllkuiev in removing pains, than any other medicine e\er offered to 1 the public. And these testimonials come from persons of every degree of intelligence, and every rank of life. Physicians of the first re- i sjiectahility, and perfectly conversant with the nature of diseases and remedies, recommend this as one of the most effectual in their line of preparations for t:.e cure of Cholera Cholera Morbus and kindred bowel trouUee now so common amontr the people. IN HOT WEATHBB an attack of IHarrhea, or in. deed anv complaint of the Bowels, rapidly ex hausts the system, aud renders the necessity «f prompt treatment imperative in all such cases Dr. Javne's Carminative Balsam is an effectual remedy, actm- quickly and curing thoroughly. L8VNN OLR,,,,'R "AN-V MIIMCINB.—*an/ord« Juwr Inptuoraw a purely Vegetable ('miuirdr and uUlK ,f°r "tipaiiou I- Mllty Sick Stomach and Bowels. Ask your Druggists for it. Beicart qf inulaUotm. xor persons were recently taken ill at Pittsburgh from eating smokrt whitefish. THIRTY-TOIIEE GREAT harm and discomfort is caused by use of purgatives which gripe and rack the system. Parvmx' Purgative J'ilia are free from all impure matter, and are mild and health-giving in their operation. SEE advertisement of Ferry Hal|| a 1«JI^ collegiate institute, Lake Forest, II!. THE SCIENCE OF HEALTH for SEPTA®. ber is an unusually good number, with facts tad information which, if acted ou, would render it worth more to every reader than a year's subscrip. Uon. There are, among others, articles on Obe dience and Health "How Long May We Live-»» "Practical Temperance Experience iu Water Care "Disease and its Treatment Doctors arid Malt Liquors." In Seasonable Dishes,•' have instructions for the preparation and use «f tomatoes in various ways peaches, pears, plum^ melons, etc. how to remove frnit stains canning corn description of a distilling stove, etc. This magazine Is published at the low price of two dol lars a year, or offered for six months on Ifrial. fop $1.00. Address S. R. WELLS, Publisher, 389 Broad way, New York. Thirty Y«»n' Kxperleami w€ au f|| Vunc. Mas. WIXSLOW'S SOOTHING SYRrp ts the prescrip tion of one of the best Female Physicians and Nuritj In the Cnlted States, and has been used for thirty years with never-failing safety and success by mill ions of mothers and children, from the feeble infant of one week old to the adult. It corrects acidity of the stomach, relieves wind colic, regulates the bow eis, and gives rest, health, and comtort to mother aod child. We believe it to be the Best and Surest Reme dy In the World in all cases of DYSENTERY" and DIAIiKHCE i IN CHILDREN, whether it arises from Teethingor from any other cause. Full directions for using will sccompaHy each bottle. None Genoins unless t!ie fac-simile of CURTIS & PERKINS is on the outside wrapper. SOLD BT ALL MICICIXX DZALZBS. Children Often Look Pale and Sick From no other cause than baving worms In the stom ach. BROWX'S VERMIFUGE COMFITS will destroy Worms without injury to the child, being perfectly WUITB, and free from all coloring or other injurioa* i*®*#dieuts usually used iu worm prefttf tlons. CURTIS & BROWN, Proprietor!, No. 215 Fulton street, New Yolk. Sold by DruggUtt and ChemistI, ant Dtakn Medicines, at TWB.NTY-FIVK CKMTS A BOX. Prepared by to The Household Panacia and Fatally Liniment Is tbe best remedy In the world for the following complaints, viz.: Cramps In the Limbs and Stomach, Pain In the Stomach, Bowels or Side, Rheumatism lu all its forms, Bilious Colic, Neuralgia, Cholera, Oyien tery. Colds, Flesh Wounds,Burns.Soi-e Throat,Spinal Complaints, Sprains and Bruises, Chills and Fever. For Internal and External use. Its operation is not only to relieve the patient,bat entirely remove the cause of the complaint. It pene trates and pervades the whole system, restoring healthy action to all Its parts, and quickening the blood. THE HOTSKHOCD All-Healing. 1 FiiiCU to Purely Vegetable and CURTIS & BROWTF, No. 215 Fulton street, New York. Tot sale by all Druggists. A Disease with a Thousand Symptow, Dyspepsia is the most perplexing of all hnman ailments. Its symptoms are almost infinite in their variety, and the forlorn and despondent vic tims of the disease often fancy themselves tile prey, in turn, of every known malady. This la due, in part, to the close sympathy which exists between the stomach and the brain, and in part, also, to the fact, that any disturbance of the diges tive function necessarily disorders Ihe liver, the bowels and the nervous system, and affects, to some extent, the quality of the blood. A medi cine that, like Hostetter's Bitters, not only tones the stomach but at the same time controls the liver produces u regular habit of body, braces the nerves, purities the fluids and ministers to a mind diseased,"' is therefore the true and only specific for chronic indigestion. Such is the operation of this famous vegetable restorative. It not only cures dyspepsia, but also all concomitants and con sequences. Moreover, it is invaluable as a pre ventlve of Indigestion. No one who chooses to take half a wineglassful of this agreeable appe tizer and stomachic habitually three times a day will ever be troubled with oppression after eating, nausea, sour eructations, or any other indications of a want of viiror in the digestive and a-simita ting organs. The debili y and languor snperin duced by hot weather are "immediately and perma nently relieved by the Hitters, and persons who are constitutionally inclined to look upon life "as through a glass, darkly," will be apl to take brighter and more hopeful view of the situathm under the genial influence of this wholesome Me dicinal stimulant. lake Sliallen one ihbM- stops A IHSK every two days is the way to beraer's Kever mid Auue Antidote. the Chills, iiinl a cine is certain. THE MARKETS. NEW YORK, GKEF CATTLB !IO S -Dressed SlIEKP—Live ('OTTON —Middling FLOl'K—Good to choice WHEAT—No. 2 Chicago CORN—Western Mixed OATS —Western, New ltYE---Western J'OUK—New Mess JJVKU WOOL—Domestic Fleeee A nr. 91,1878. •».») GI1J.60 6.12 v's 7.36 b.Mt Ot .1«X «.« 7.25 1.51 & 1.52 .57 .b» .42 & .9(1 .92 18.2.") 1H.H0 .50 -M'/i CHICAGO. BEEVES—Choice. Good Medium $ 6 40 a 4.80 & 4 50 3.25 8.00 4.t0 4.85 (ft .2-J & .12K@ Butchers' Htock 8tock Cattle HOGS-Live SHEEP—(rood to Choice BUTTER -Choice KC JOS—Fresh FLOUR—White Winter Extra.... Koring Extra $3.(6 5.15 4.78 4.25 4.26 4.90 4.50 .24 .IS 1.00 «.50 1.21* «.?!» & GRAIN—Wheats-Spring No. 2... Corn—No. -A Oats—No. 2 4.50 O 1.21 & .26X .66 Rye—No. -i Barley—No. i, New... PORK-Mess... LARD WOOL— Tub-washed .to & .95 1.00 15.95 .07^,'® .40 & .»•. a jrr & & Fleece, was ied nn washed Pulled in. 00 .08 .50 .42 .88 CINCINNATI. FLOUR—Family, New WHEAT—Red CORN OATS RYK POKK—Meaa LAUD $6.S0 I4.7& 1.28 & l-» .46 .BH fit .41 .70 18.50 16.75 .Ob .06)4 *6 00 6.00 4.40 4.#5 5.50 & 1.44 & ST. LOUIS. BEEF CATTLE—Fair to Choice. HOUS—Live FliOLK—FallXX W tlKAT—No. 2 Red Fall CORN—No. 2 Mixed.. OATS -No. a RYK—No. 2 PORK-New Mess LARD 6.00 1.45 .40 .mi 84 .27 V, a .82 & 18.60 17.00 .OHM® MILWAUKEE. FLOUR—Spring XX $5.86 W liKAT—Spring, No. 1 1.27 & No. SI 1.^3 0 CORN-No. 2 «3'J & OATS -No. 2 #7 & KYE—No. 1 A7 & BARLEY—No.a .88 & I.JWMS 1.28* .40 J7# .88 1.00 CLEVELAND. WHEAT—No. 2 Red $1.81H4® CORN 4M & .59., OATS—No. 1 88 & -8Wi DETROIT. WHEAT—No. 1, New Amber, New CORN-No. 1 OATH .».W 1.41 & l.f£ .49 & -J® ^4i/*a TOLEDO. WHEAT-Amber Mich.. New. Amber, 111. New CORN -Mixed OATS—No. 2 .$1.41 .44 & -4f4 ,80 & BUFFALO. BHEFCATTH HOUS—Live —Live .#4.50 f«.W 4.80 & S.40 4.50 &