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A young girl seventeen years of age,
named'Bertha'Olsen, who has been employed
as a domestic in St. Louis, has been
missing since the 25th. She is described as
rather tall, with dark brown eyes, and can
be readily recognized by a strawberry-mark
on her right cheek. Some of her acquaintances
think she has eloped, but her
parents incline to the belief that she has
been kidnaped.
A conductor on the Chicago and Alton
Railroad had a private detective arrested a
few days ago for following him, and the
Justice fined the detective ten dollars.
Nearly one thousand old soldiers of the
Confederate and Union armies were in attendance
at the ex-Confederate reunion
which began at Jefferson City, Mo., on the
28th. - -
N. M. Smith, a Nashville man, a few
days ago received a box of what purported
to be wedding cake by mail. He ate two
pieces and was taken very sick. The cake
was analyzed and found to contain strychnine.
The great Cathedral of Incarnation and
St. Paul's School at Garden City, L.-L,
were pronounced completed on the 29th.
The cathedral has been five years and the
school three years in building. The money,
nearly $3,000,000, has been furnished by the
Stewart estate. The school building is said
to be the finest educational structure in the
world. It will accommodate five hundred
pupils.
The steamer Britannia, under way from
Marseilles to New York, was struck by a
cyclone on tho morning of the 26th. The
sea seemed drawn toward the clouds and
dashed over the vessel, carrying away the
boats and the rails. The lightning seemed
!to jump from the sea to the clouds, and the
wind came from every point of the compass.
The straining steamer was whirled
around like an egg-shell. Daylight turned
to darkness, and there was the greatest
consternation on board. The cyclone vanished
as suddenly as it came, when the
crippled vessel was still capable of making
her port. Not a life was lost.
The recent suit of the negro preacher,
George H. Smith, of Norwich, Conn.,
against a "Washington restauranteur,is likely
to lead to trouble in the Louisville hotels
during the session of the Colored Convention
in that city. The Georgia delegation,
headed by W. A. Pledger, it is said, intend
:to insist upon full equality at the hotels.
The question was freely discussed by the
-delegates at Atlanta a few days ago,
and they were outspoken in their intention
to put up with nothing less than white
men's accommodation. Unless wiser counsels
prevail, there will be occasion for
many more suits for the enforcement of
civil rights after September 24.
The dry goods and grocery store of E.
J. Olds & Co., at Mt. Clemens, Mich., was
burglarized a few nights since by professional
thieves. The safe was blown open
and robbed of twenty-five dollars in cash,
and about $1,000 worth of the more valuable
goods was loaded into a wagon and
driven off.
The fourteenth annual convention of
Fire Underwriters of the Northwest began
at Chicago on the 29th, and was attended
by fully two hundred representatives of
companies doing business in the Northwest,
and in Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee, Kentucky,
Iowa, Wisconsin and Kansas. In
his annual address the President P. M. De-Camp,
of Cincinnati, referred to the financial
results of the organization of a State
Board of Underwriters. He said legislation
in favor of properly-built structures
and competently-constructed fire departments
were the hopes of insurance companies.
High wind and high water prevailed all
along the coast from New York to Atlantic
City on the 29th, and a good deal of damage
was- done. Buildings, which were
thought to be beyond the reach of any sea,
were undermined and battered to pieces by
the heavy surf.
By the fall of a staging at Burden Dock,
at Hudson, N. Y., on the 29th, Patrick
Coughter was fatally, and John Cain,
Frank Walker, Michael Connarick,Michael
Jolly and Michael Sullivan were seriously
injured.
At Atlanta, Ga., a few days ago, Frank
Bures, a colored burglar, was shot dead
by Police Officer Green. They were entering
the station-house, when the negro
furiously assaulted Green with a dirk, inflicting
several wounds. The negro started
to run, when Green shot him.
Henry Cutcher, a Michigan farmer,-with
a fourteen-year-old wife, was poisoned
a few days ago by an inmate of his
house, who had fallen in love with the
young matron. Strychnine was put in
Cutcher's whisky.
An express train on the Philadelphia and
Atlantic Narrow-Gauge was thrown from
the track by a loose switch on the 30th, and
thirty people were injured. Those whose
injuries are serious are E. S. Lippencott,
Ge6rge De Haven, Detective Houghton,
Conductor Lee and Mrs. M. A. Scott, all of
Philadelphia.
A New Orleans grand jury has suggested
in its report to the Court that as a
sanitary measure a crematory be established,
wherein the bodies of those who die of
contagious diseases may be burned.
Before adjourning the Supreme
the Knights of the Golden
Rule adopted a rule granting to the Supreme
Commander and Secretary power
to issue extra death assessments under
certain well-defined restrictions. The
purpose is to prevent delay in cases of
needy beneficiaries,
.Eleanor and May, aged eighteen and
twenty, daughters of Lewis D. Vail,, of
Philadelphia, were drowned while bathing
at Ocean Grove, N. J., a few days ago.
Edward C. Machen, a broker of New
York, ihas been arrested for stealing railroad
bonds worth $8,500 from the office of
William E. Town, a lawyer.
Heinrwh Ganger, alias Heinrich
Machie, a fugitive from justice at
Wurtemburg, was arrested on the
arrival of the Antwerp steamer at New
York on the 30th, on -a. cable dispatch
charging bjbaa with stealing from Widow
Emily Horrf, fit Murrhardt, several hundred
dollars, with watches and jewelry. .
A number, of watches and a quantity of
jewelry were, found on his.person. As the.
case does ibtcome under the extradition'
treaty tb? accused was turned over to the ;
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Sheriff for prosecution on the charge of
bringing stolen articles into the State.
Edward .-F. Joslyn, aged twenty-seven
yearSySbotancPinstantly killed Etta Buck-'
ingnam, agea ms mistress,. in
the corridor of theNotting House, at Elgin,
HI., bn the 30th, and then fired a bullet
through his own brain, dying almost instantly.
Jealousy was the. cause. ;
The Pensacola Board of Health, in view
of no new cases of yellow fever having developed
in the twelve days since the first
was discovered, asks that the quarantine
against that city by other towns be removed.
A Mountain Park conductor
put John Kerrigan off of his train
a few days ago, while it was going at the
rate of thirty miles an hour. Kerrigan
was killed.
Contracts to the amount of $15,000,000
for the construction of new lines have been
awarded by the Board of Trustees of the
Postal Telegraph Company at New York.
Lines of two wires each will be put up
from New York to Washington, and New
York to Boston, Buffalo to Pittsburg,
0.,to Toledo, and Chicago to St.
Louis. Two wires will be added to the
wires already strung between New York
and Chicago. The lines are to be completed,
according to the terms of the contract,
by January 1.
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PERSONAL .4XI POLITICAL.
A commission of. Frenchmen have informed
Mayor Edson, of New York, that
the Statue of Liberty will be ready for
presentation to the city any time after
January 1. His Honor expressed regret at
the lack of' interest in the magnificent,
gift of France, and the slow progress that
is being made in the preparation to receive
it.
A Plaquemine, La., special of the 28th
reports the death there of Captain E. H.
Szalla, who was in ctiarge of the United
States surveying party making a survey pf
Bayou Plaquemine.
The daughters of Joseph Vallequette, a
wealthy pioneer settler of Chicago, have
brought suit to have a conservator appointed
for their father's estate, alleging
that the nuns of the Mercy Hospital are
exerting undue influence to have him leave
his money to the hospital. The father denies
the allegations, and asserts his ability
to take care of his property.
Thomas Brown, jr., member of the New
York Democratic State Committee, on the
29th, directed his attorneys to bring suit
against the New York Times for libel, for
the publication of false statements with
reference to the attendance at a meeting of
the committee. Damages are asked in the
sum of $50,000.
The ruling by which the beer saloons of
St. Louis are allowed to remain open on
Sunday, does not apply to the other towns
of the State. Governor Crittenden is said
to have under consideration the call of an
extra session of the Legislature to either
amend the Downing Sunday law so as to
make it apply to St. Louis, or to prepare
and submit a prohibitory amendment to
the Constitution at the next general election.
The address of the Massachusetts
Republican Committee, recently issued,
says the State has been foully slandered,
for personal and party reasons, by her
Supreme Executive Magistrate and his followers.
Dr. Norvin Green, President of the
Western Union Telegraph Company, testified
before the Senate Labor Inquiry Committee
on the 30th. He said there was no
such telegraph service in the world as that
furnished by the Western Union. Every
absorption of a competing company has
been a public benefit. The capitalization
of the Western Union is now only $500 a
mile. It used to be $000. A requirement
that wires shall be put under ground woul T
be a detriment to the public service. Th -
Western Union is constantly buying patents,
but refused the Bell Telephone at
$10,000. It is now" worth $2,000,000.
The Deaf Mutes Convention in session
at New York on the 30th,.decided to raise a
fund for a memorial to Rev. Thomas H.
Gallaudet, founder of the first deaf mute
school in America. Prof. Weeks, of Hartford,
Conn., was appointed Treasurer. It
was decided to hold the next convention at
Washington in August, 1888.
John Devoy, , editor of the Irish Nation,
of New York, has issued an address to the
Irish Nationalists of the United States, in
in view of the recent publications seeking
to fasten upon him some responsibility for
the treachery and escape from punishment
of James McDermott and his confederates,
in which he denounces McDermott as utterly
untrustworthy.
WASHISGTOX 3TOTES.
The investigation into the facts connected
with the loss and subsequent .recovery
of 10,000 National bank notes in the Treasury
Department, shows that the notes had
been canceled, and were useless to any
finder, and that no loss could in any event
have occurred to the Department. The
loss was purely accidental, and no blame
can be justly-attached to any clerk or
of the Treasury.
At a meeting of the World's Arbitration
League in Washington on the 28th, resolutions
were adopted favoring holding of a
World's Exposition of Art and Industry
at the Capital of the United States, in
1892, the fourth centennial discovery of
America, and recommending that there be
held in connection with it a representative
Congress of the Nations, for the discussion
mending the next Congress to some legislation
looking to the successful attainment
of the ends contemplated.
A number of Virginia Read justers and
antBourbon leaders from the South held
a conference in Washington on the 29th.
They are very mysterious, but are understood
to have agreed that if General Arthur
will stand by them they will support
him for the Presidency in 1881.
During the last fiscal year 91,000 applications
for pensions were disposed of by
the Pension Bureau. Commissioner Dudley
says the office handled every case
brought before it. All applications were
passed, rejected, or additional evidence required,
so that no case was left untouched,
of questions affecting the moral and social
relations of the human race. It was also
decided to appoint a committee of seven
members of the league to wait upon the
President, and request him to take into
consideration the propriety of
Inspector Williams, of the postal
muney oraer system, a lew days ago
caused the arrest of Charles F. Heusman,
Postmaster at Marks ville, La., for the alleged
embezzlement of $1,500 in money
order funds. Heusman is held in $5,000
bail.
Commissioner Dudley says he is conducting
an extensive investigation 'into the
subject of pension frauds, and that he is
making very curious discoveries; The-
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Government', has lost very, little by these
operations, most of the losses falling jon
the pensioners. 'Two hundred and twenty
special agents. are now ini.differerit parts of
the country investigating these frauds.
The duties of rthese special agents ar.e both
t)f a dete&tive andjudicial' character.
A Washington dispatch of the 30th, says :
"It is rumored that in an investigation
which will be made shortly in the interest
of the Government there will be some startling
sensational developments as to how
the verdict in the Star-route trial was secured."
FOREIGN.
It has" been discovered that cattle
shipped from Montreal to Liverpool, and
slaughtered there, were infected with
Texan fever.
A serious volcanic eruption has occurred
on the Islaud of Krakatoa, East In
dies. A village has been washed away, the
rivers having overflowed because of the
rush of the sea inland.
O'Donnell, who shot James Carey, the
informer, claims to have done so in self-defense,
using a revolver which Carey had
himself drawn, which he (O'Donnell) took
away from him.
A cable dispatch from London on the
27th, reports the receipt of a telegram announcing
the death of the Queen of Madagascar,
which occurred July 13.
In the trial of James McDermott in Liverpool,
it is in evidence that a card was
found in McDermott's trunk from Conspirator
Featherstone introducing him to
Dalton, another conspirator.
Placards appeared in various quarters
of Paris, on the 28th, inviting citizens to
rally to the support of the Monarchy under.
Louis Philippe II. The placards were destroyed
by the police.
The Court-martial trying soldiers at Alexandria
who participated in the massacres
last year, has sentenced thirteen culprits,
charged with having organized the
massacres, to be hanged opposite the police
station, and two to fourteen years' and six
to five years' penal service.
Among other interesting scraps found by
the' English in the possession of James McDermott
was a good-bye card from
Rossa, upon which he wrote: "Tell
the boys over there that I will do my utmost
to help destroy the common enemy."
The treaty between France and Tonquin
has been signed. It provides for a French
Protectorate over Tonquin and Annam.
The French will insure safety to trade by
expelling the "Black Flags."
Volcanoes have destroyed the towns of
Anjer,Tjiringine and Telokbelong, in Java,
and four thousand lives have been lost.
The Island of Seron was completely inundated
and every soul perished.
Bismarck's organ, the North German
Gazette, claims to have done a service in
the cause of peace by its warning of what
would result from systematic agitation in
France with the object of exciting hate
against Germany.
The volcanic eruptions in the East Indies
grow more fearful with each day's advices.
It is now estimated that seventy-five thousand
persons have lost their lives. The
entire Karding range of mountains, extending
along the coast in a semi-circle for
sixty-five miles, have sunk into the sea.
One populous town within twenty miles of
Batavia has been swept away. A tract of
country fifty miles square, extending north
from Point Capercion, containing two 'villages
and many country people, has been
allwallowea up. A bed of solid ice of enormous
size was emitted from one of the
craters and carried along in the flood of
molten lava. The dispatch says it is supposed
this ice had formed the crest of
some vast subterranean lake. The Strait
of Sunda has become dangerous to navigation,
new islands have arisen and the coastline
is changed. Sixteen volcanoes appeared
between the site where the Island
of Krahatoa formerly stood and the Sibisie
Island. A portion of Bantam is an ashy
desert. Cattle are starving, and the peo
ple are in despair.
LATER, TEWS.
A combination has been formed in New
York for the advancement of stocks which
has the appearance of being the strongest
ever known on Wall street. It is composed
of the Gould party, Mr. John Jacob Astor,
and, possibly, Mr. Vanderbilt.
Esau Smith, colored, was hanged at St.
Joseph, La., on the 31st for a murder committed
eight years ago. He was sentenced
to hang in 1875, but broke jail and was
only recently captured.
A sudden storm on the Newfoundland
Coast on the 31stcaught a great number of
fishermen far out from land, and not less
than eighty were drowned. Their dories
were turned upside down and wreckage
strewn in every direction. Many dories
were swept by the waves from the vessels'
decks. Ten schooners were wrecked and
others damaged.
It has developed that Helena Dreihorst,
a well-educated young lady of Wheeling,
W. Va., who was trying to support herself,
has suffered so severely from hunger and
privation that she has become insane.
Texas fever has broken out among the
cows of a Detroit dairy. A herd of forty-one
steers bought by a Genessee County
farmer has also been infected. Several of
the animals have died.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
have purchased the Pennsylvania and
Martin's Creek charter, and will immediately
build to the heart of the slate region.
Judgments have been rendered against
the Bethlehem Iron Company, of Pennsylvania,
by former employes for amounts
deducted from their wages at the end of
each month in payment of bills incurred at
the company's store. Similar actions will
be brought against other corporations.
The drouth in Eastern New England has
continued so long that farmers have been
obliged to take their stock from the pastures
and feed them on winter hay.
The vicar of Stratford-upon-Avon has
signified his willingness to allow the remains
of Shakspeare to be exhumed. The
object is to compare the skull of the poet
with the busts and portraits of him.
A pair of swindlers have been held for
trial in New York for collecting $3,000 in
subscriptions "for a man dying with "consumption
and whose family were starving."
Eleven hundred assisted Irish paupers
were recently landed in Canada and are
being sent across into the States from different
points by stealth. Quite a number
have been sent back to Canada from Buffalo.
Billy Madden, Mitchell's backer and
trainer, has declared the Mitchell-Slade
fight off on account of the opposition of
the authorities.
The decree has been issued in Pesth that
any who are found guilty, under martial
law, of engasrinc: in the riots urninst t.im
Jews, shall be executed in three hours after
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FATAL EXPLOSION.
the Steamer Rlverdale Blown Up la New,
York Harbor Four .Persons Known, to
Have Been Killed, and Many Others
Wore Badly Injured.
New York, 29.. f
Several persons were killed and the river
steamer Riverdale sunk by a boiler explosion
Tuesday afternoon. The boat, which
ran between New York and Haverstraw, on
the Hudson, left her dock' at the foot of
Harrison street, North River, at 4 "o'clock,
and steamed rapidly up the stream. She
was' to have touched at' the foot of 23d
street for-more- passengers, and' course'
was laid about three hundred yards from
the New Tork sliore. When between
Twelth and Thirteenth streets her boilers
exploded with terrific force, killing three
persons and wounding eight others. After
the explosion the boat drifted up to the
foot of Sixteenth street and there sank.
The explosion was seen by a few rivermen
and tug crews who were watching the boat
when the accident occurred.
There was a loud report, the smoke
stack, pilot-house and the body of a. man
were seen flying through the air, and then
clouds of escaping steam hid the wreck
fiom view. People along the shore went
to the steamer in row-boats and tugs, and
the police were instantly informed of the
accident. The office of charities and corrections
was notified by telephone, and all
the city ambulances were sent to the foot
of Sixteenth street The wildest and
most exaggerated reports were circulated,
and the number of killed and
wounded was, placed at upwards of one
hundred. The river front in the vicinity
where the explosion occurred was thronged
with people, and while but few of the scores
said to have been killed were brought
ashore, it was averred that dozens had been
drowned. There were about fifty passengers
on the Riverdale when she left the
Harrison street landing, and a majority of
them were on the after-deck.
As soon as the explosion occurred a scene
of the wildest confusion followed. The
Captain, J. P. Smith, who was uninjured,
rushed to the after part of the boat and told
the half frantic passengers that if they would
only keep quiet for a few moments they
would all be rescued. The steamer was
observed to be settling forward and it was
evident that a hole had been torn in her
bottom and that she would sink. The gangplank
was run out into the river and half a
dozen men jumped upon it, sinking it below
the surface of the water. They were quickiy
transferred to the numerous row boats,
which by this time had reached the wreck.
The tug Zophar Mills was one of the first
boats to run alongside the Riverdale and she
took on board the greater number of the
passengers.
The body of a man, apparently about
seventy years of age, was found crushed between
the rail and a pile of debris on the
forward deck. He had evidently ben instantly
killed. The body was not identified.
The body of an elderly lady, subsequently
Identified as Mrs. Charles Sisson, of New
York, was also taken from the forward
deck.
Fireman Charles Dyraes was hurled by
the force of the explosion through the side
of the boat and out into the water. He was
horribly scalded, and when picked up his
skin peeled in shreds from his head, neck
and arms. He was conscious and his sufferings
were intense. He was taken to the
New York Hospital and it is believed he
will die.
Pilot Nelson Magee was hurled thirty
feet from the pilot-house into the river, and
when he was picked up it was found that
both his legs wore broken.
John Salair, the mate, stood almost directly
over the boiler when it exploded. He
was thrown into the river and sustained a
simple fracture of the thteh.
Howard Gardner, of Williamsburg, who
was on his way to Yonkers to conduct a revival
meeting, was badly scalded, and it is
feared that he will not recover.
William H. Henry, aged eighteen, an
jiler, was scalded, but his injuries are nol
serious.
Thomas Saul, of Brooklyn, a passenger,
was scalded about the neck and feet, but ii
is thought he will recover.
Edward Tallman, the engineer, was severely,
but jiot fatally, scalded.
The following is a list of the killed :
Mrs. Charles Sisson, aged sixty-eight yeara
Tarrytown; Thomas Gregg-, sixty years, 6J6
Water street; an unknown man; Mr. Charles
Sisson, who was on the boat with his wife, ii
missing-, and is undoubtedly dead.
The injured are:
Nelson Magee, Haverstraw, pilot; Edward
Tallman. engineer; Henry Mosner, Peekskdl,
porter; John Sa air, mate; William H. Henry,
oiler; rlhomas Saul, Brooklyn; Howard Gardner,
YonKers; James Clark, 86 Goerch street;
W. B. Chapman, Yonkeri; Dennis Egan, 80S
West Twelfth street; George A. Dymes. fireman,
Haverstraw; James Tobin, Yonkers;
Israel Lazarus, Ii Mott street
The dead were taken to the morgue and
the injured to St Vincent's and the Ne
York hospitals.
The engineer was about entering the engine-room
to slow up, as another steamboat
was at their landing, when an ominous rumble
was heard proceeding from the boiler,
and in a moment the terrible explosion occurred,
blowing out the entire inside of the
vessel, and leaving only the helpless, sinking
hull. The force of the explosion was
downward, apparently, the rapidity with
which the vessel sank showing that the bottom
had been blown out The river was
strewn with wreckage cabin doors, beams,
boards and furniture floating .about and
proving the force of the explosion.
Accounts of the manner of the explosion
differ. Those on the boat- agree that it was
sudden and entirely without warning. A
policeman, who had been a boiler-maker,
and who was standing at the foot of Bloom-field
street, declares that his attention was
attracted by the sound of escaping ste.im.
Looking out on the river he saw the Rier-dale
going up stream, partly enveloped in
steam, that escaped with a loud roar from
her side. He saw people rush from the
lower tQ the upper deck and make ready to
throw themselves in the river. The next
moment the explosion came.
The steam yachts of Jay Gould and E. S.
Jaffrey were lying at the foot of Twenty-third
street Both Gould and Jaffrey had
just gone ashore when the accident occurred.
Upon hearing the explosion they
immediately turned about, and, putting out
to the scene of the wreck in their gigs,
ordered their yachts to follow without
Both engaged in the work of giving
aid wherever needed with great zeal. When
their yachts appeared all who were in si&hl
in the water had been picked up.
The New Postage Stamps.
Washington, Aug. 2&.
The Post-office Department has selected
as the color for the new four-cent or double
rate stamps a shade of green somewhat-darker
than that in which the present three-cent
stomp is printed. As the three-cent
stamps will be retired from circulation, no
errors are likely to arise from the similarity
in the co'or. The new stamp bears the profile
of Andrew Jackson. The distribution
of the new two-cent stamps will benin September
1, and it is believed everything will
be in readiness for the change October 1.
There are 127 steamers engaged in the.
passenger service.
?TflE COMMONWEALTH.
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Miss Maggie Bateman, aged nineteen,
daughter 'of Wm. Bateman, a prominent
and respected 'farmer of, Mason County,,
shot herself through the body a few days
ago with suicidal intent. Her mother and
elder sister had gone away from home, and
her father and brother were in the barn.'
hanging tobacco, leaving only her and her
younger sister in the house. She told her
little sister that she would go into the adjoining
room to dress, and in a few minutes
a 'shot was, heard. When her father
caine in she was kneeling on the floor, with
one hand? pressed to" her head', and exclaimed,
"Father!" She was perfectly
conscious. They found her clothing powder
burnt and a large bullet-hole in her left
side, just beneath the last rib. It is thought
impossible for her to live, as the weapon
used was a large old-fashioned powder and
ball pistol, and she had placed it close to
her side. She would give no reason for- her
rash act and none is known. She has been
suffering with her head of late, and she
may have done it in a fit of insanity, but
she will not talk about it, though she is
perfectly rational.
Governor Blackburn, on the 24th, pardoned.
Frost Rose-, sent to the penitentiary
from Bourbon County for ten years for attempted
rape; Amos Brown, sent from
Fayette for five years for horse stealing;
Carl Miller, sent from Franklin for two
years for grand larceny; Thos. Mayford,
sent from Jefferson for two years for housebreaking,
and Silas Hatchett, sent from
Henderson for one year for obtaining a
beef-steak under false pretenses.
A passenger train from Nashville to
Louisville came in collision with the rear
of a freight train at Lebanon Junction,
about twenty-five miles from Louisville a
few days ago. The freight train was heavily
loaded and the engine recoiled, telescoping
the tender and baggage-car. No passengers
were injured, but engineer Clarence B
Gifford was badly crushed and will probably
die. Fireman Kidd also received
serious injuries.
George Boone, colored, aged fourteen,
was thrown from a horse four miles from
Louisville, on the Cane Run Road, a few
days ago, and instantly killed. The animal
took fright at a bicycle. '
Robberies are being committed with
such frequency at Georgetown, Scott
County, that the citizens are becoming
alarmed. No arrests have been made,
though the robberies are of almost nightly
.occurrence.
Mort. Anderson, a'countryman, fatally
stabbed Mike McKinsey, a hostler, at Winchester,
Clark County, a few days ago.
The killing was tho result of a quarrel over
a difference of five cents in the price of a
feed for the former's horse.
Governor Blackburn on the 28th granted
a pardon to William Newell, a young
man whose parents are respectable and
well-to-do people, living in Cincinnati.
Newell left the latter city about a year ago,
and went to Louisville, and was sent to
prison from that city about eight months
ago, for a period of two years, for the alleged
theft of $5.90. He and several other
young men were in a saloon together and
all were intoxicated. One of the party,
missed his pocket-book, and the others
charged Newell with stealing it, and had
him .arrested. Although the pocket-book
was not found on his person,
he was tried and sentenced to prison.
Newell has been at work on the railroad
for the past four months. His pardon was
recommended by Senator Pendleton,
Judge Hoadly, and Archbishop Elder, of
Cincinnati. The Governor also pardoned
Austin Fleetwood, sent to the Penitentiary
from Scott County for life, for the murder
of Constable Melford; David Curtis, sent
from Madison County, for nine years, for
horse stealing; Andrew Jackson, sent
from Fayette County for two years, for
grand larceny; John Robinson, sent from
Pulaski County, for breaking open a railroad
car; John Robinson, sent from Jessamine
for five years, for burglary; Sam
Wilder and Joseph Taylor, and two other
convicts were also pardoned.
Joseph Clarke, a farmer, while returning
from New Hope, in Nelson County, a
few nights ago, was attacked by an un
known assassin and stabbed thirteen times
in the back and shoulders, none of his
wounds, however, being dangerous.
Weekly RcTiew of tle Louisville
Jlarltct.
The receipts for the week were SSO hhds.
against 970 hhds. last week, and CS0 hhds.
in the corresponding week of 1SS2. The
market has been in a very healthy, animated
condition, though there have been
no speculative motives or incitements, and
trade has depended wholly upon legitimate
influences. The requirements of home
manufacturers are increasing again, to
judge from the fact that some of the principal
concerns which have recently held
aloof are again free bidders. The foreign
demand on regie and other account,
has also been active, and the market
has been generally favorable tc
sellers. In Burley tobacco the variou
grades of medium leaf have quite recovered
from the decline previously noticed, ar.
advance of 13 having been manifested.
Good and fine grades have not varied materially.
Fillery and smoking lugs, which
were exempt from the late decline, have
continued firm and about stationary,
though very active. Colory goods maintain
a very good premium. Dark and
heavy tobaccos have been active at very
full prices throughout the week. It is reported
that portions of the Blue-grass region,
and one or two other localities, are
suffering seriously for the want of ram.
The crop generally appears to be doing
very well. We quote now crop tobaccos
as follows :
. Dark chid Heavy. Burlcy.
Trash $j 75 i 00 Si 00 5 00
Common hi!?s -1 23 5 00 5 25 7 00
Medium to jrood lugs. . 6 50 .... 7 25 9 00
Common leaf 6 00 6 75
Medium'to good leaf. . . 7 00 9 00
Fine leaf 10 0013 00 "
Selections U 0017 75
Medium leaf, dark or coarse 7 00 9 00
Common, smooth and bright 10 0012 00
Medium, smooth and bright 14 O016 00
Good, smooth and bright 18 0022 00
Fine and fancy 25 0030 00
A young lady in Delaware was
taken suddenly ill the other day, and a
physician was called in. He gave her
morphia and departed. As she did not
visibly improve another physician was
called, and not having been informed
of the action, of the first, repeated the
dose, and the young lady died. Philadelphia
Press.
In children's fashions one of the
most effective portions of the dress is
the collar. Deep collars of embroidery
or lace are universally worn; the handsomest
of these are made up of fine insertion
of delicate Swiss embroidery and
ruffles to match. N. T. Post.
TOriCS OF THE DAY.
'IThe Connecticut tobacco crop is ox
vcellent, and imported cigars should b&
good and cheap.
California is discovering oil s wells,"
and we may expect a better body and
flavor in the wines from that State,
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Oscar Wilde's great eccentricty is in
the display of ability to make plenty of
money without work. On that point he
is wonderfully and admirably crazy.
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In JersEy City they are cutting down!
a lot of street shade trees that have
been deemed unsafe. Already are tho
tramps there suffering from drouth.
Secretary Chandler's recent visit to
New Hampshire was . a sad one. His
aged mother died soon after his arrival,
and since then his brother took sick and
died.
A registry in Ireland shows a total
return of 5,958,973 of all kilo's of trees.
Extended planting is proposed as a
means of improving the condition of
that country.
The women in Boston seem to be losing
what little interest they at first took
in exercising the "right" of voting.
Only forty of them have thus far this
year come forward to be assessed for a
poll-tax.
The probability is that our country
will have to struggle through next winter
without the presence of Mme. Bernhardt.
But there will be with us other
distinguished foreign ladies who love
America.
A farmer in Orange County, N. y
is running a successful summer boarding
house for city people. He mauled
the first man he heard growling about
the grub, and has had no more trouble
on that score. ,.
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Fresh buttermilk is kept on tap at
many saloon-bars in Phil adeljmia, at a
few in New York, is cooling, refreshing,
wholesome, doesn't intoxicate, is almost
as cheap as water, and the hot-coppered
old topers pronounce it "bully."
To pay war pensions this year a sum
will be required equal to the earnings of
one million laboring men for one hundred
days, according to the figuring of
some illustrative writer. In plain figures,
the amount is $100,000,000.
Senator Allison, of Iowa, is almos
crushed with grief at the tragio death of
his wife, and of course has abandoned
all active political work, but it is believed
that his friends will the more
earnestly work for his re-election.
The annual waste in London smoke ii
estimated at $5,000,000, while the injury
to health and damage to property is incalculable.
It is said there is an expense
every year of over $12,000 to repair iia
damage to the House of Parliament.
The Canadian postage remains at three
cents, but October 1 a tter prepaid two
cents and mailed in United States
will be carried through Canada as before,
letters being carried indiscriminately
by the two postal systems, according
to mutual agreement.
For oysters New Yorkers spend $5,000,-000
yearly, Philadelphia $3,500,000,
and Bostonians $1,750,000. The prospects
for a good crop the coming season
are encouraging. The oyster industry
exceeds in value all the other fishery interests
of the United States.
California chicory is in demand in
Europe for mixing with coffee, drinkers
of this beverage liking the taste it imparts.
The root of the plant, when being
prepared for use, is cut by a machiue
into small square blocks, then placed in
the sun to dry, afterward roasted, and
finally ground in a mill.
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A prominent Berlin newspaper advises
that measures be taken to stop the
outflow of population by emigration to
foreign lands by offering inducements to
the people to stay at home. These inducements
are increased chances of
earning a better living and acquiring a
permanent homestead. . fcV.
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Cases of injury have been reported in
Philadelphia from swallowing metal
hooks used in affixing tags to beef
shipped from the West. They are said
to be more dangerous in form than the
ordinary fish-hook. "This barbed wire,"
says the Ledger, "will have to be ruled
out of meat, just as the millers were obliged
to rule out from their mills grain
that had been bound with wire."
The Providence Journal is of the
opinion that while the Concord School
of Philosophy has been subjected to a
good deal of ridicule from pure flippancy
and ignorance, the prevailing impression
has been that the obscurity of language
in most of the Concord philosophers
has not been so much from the
profundity of the subjects as the lack of
any clear ideas regarding the-a.
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A "writer in the New York World
closes an article on the fashions as follows
: "There is a fresh fashion making
its way among Americans, both at home
and abroad, that is to be deplored the
;making up' of the face and eyes. If all
one hears be true, not a few of the American
guests at the Marlborough fete
gave an exhibition of this fashion, and
one has but to go to Newport, Long
Branch and other resorts to see that an
effort is being made to introduce the use "
of paints and other eosmetiquei. mora,
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freely than before for -v ears." , Lv
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