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The (jBredo Advance. ,r, . , I lie ( eredo •Advance. An independent weekly paper published — ■ ■ ■ every Thu wlaj: by Hale* of ***„, 1 ni 5 m. X m <1 m. I yr. IMcDOUGAL A MANSFIELD j .1 inf.h — fin# ft mi t* v% 14 .mi |« :jo m * „.*.**» iu <t*> in i.« “ ;»sn i:o <«mi iim rm at I yy. ift® dm ini lino pm I :* .. ...«•*<►** 13•• non »to anon .i.'* u» a to sxw an no coon ceredo, w va fcSMSSU**: : ? Kemilar ad* * rtl»* ni. nt», .*f more tliNti halt —- ■ ■% . * 9 _ _ -— ■■■ ■ ■ "■ ■ ■1 * - — — —— * oi'luwD, «)iiiirti r!v In i Ivnnri lo ■ loint» InlciVMfli. 'TafMtil un«I < ni'iimil \«'M •*. rmii'U'Ut mtviiti m*ni m u|\ .m< < I I »« Ms i » s| ||si «|| i i IO\. -- o":~co}.y:MA OlA ME 1. ( EREDO. WAYNE CO., W. YA ,TilCRSDAY. OCTORKR 15. ISS6. U p | j j ■ ■■■■■>■■■ I _ V in lUJII ' <ni h itti.f Mt I • n * , , * ‘ ————— ——^_ _ t’O :l(T». .1. >\ current torics. Only two children have been born at the White House. It will take three months and $2,000 to mount Jumbo. Land in the city of London proper cost* $15,000,000 and acre. St. Paul gambling houses are being closed by the authorities. Nine-inch water dogs sometimes gush out of Chicago's hydrants. — Ladt Randolph Churc hill !• saM to disapprove of woman suffrage. Thirty American girls are teaching nor mal schools in the Argentine Republic. Artificial honey is made with a ma chine invented by a Wisconsin woman. \N incandescent lamp that requires no vacuum has been patented in Germany. It isj rumored (that Princess Rung, of China, has been converted to Christianity. California is selling grapes by the wagon load at less than the cost of hay or wood. - - - Cowpens, Ga., has three brides, aged respectively thirteen, fourteen and fifteen years. 1 hhee thousand women are connected with the different trades unions of Phila delphia. Farmers in Fayette County, Pa., are ' offering to give away all the apples anyone will take. - Well diggers in Dakota hunt for snfe hills. The wise insects always locate over a vein of water. The Postmaster General has decided that there shall be no special postal deliv eries on Sundays. Av exchange asks: If toabcco is an evil, why does Providence permit such thumping big crops? Edgar Fire Thunder is tho lurid name of a young Indiau blacksmith who is to be sent out from Carlisle. Burlington County, N\ J., is exercised over nn alleged headless ghost seen at the roadside near Ellisdale. Hei.va Lockwood is said to have cleared $2*OOOJJfrom her lecturing tour since she wasn’t elected President. It is officially denied that Germany and Spain have renched an agreement concern* ing the Caroline Islands. /A Philadelphia hatter claims that the heads of Americans are gradually but surely decreasing in si/.e. It is said that a pretty woman marries a homely man simply to give her own beauty the benefit of the contrast,. TnK spire of the Cathedral on Fifth Av enue, New York, is to be carried up to three hundred and fifty feet. There is an increased demand at the Treasury for small currency, which is in terpreted as a sign of business revival. A Montana half-breed who began stock raising with two or three head of cattle a few years ago, recently sold his herd for $92,000. The oldest living ex-member of the Ver morn^Legislsture is Eli Chamberlain, of Albany, <M years old. He served in the se*. sion of 1822. Inquiries are l>eing rnado by a Congres sional committee regarding a statue of La fayette to i»e plao-d i-i Washington at a cost of $00,000. Our Signal Service costs *>1,000 000 n year, and that of Great Britain,with ful ly as many stations and fully as efficient costs only $>.V>,000. The grand jury reported no indictments against the sixteen persons in custody charged with killing Chinese at Rock Springs, Wyoming. It is said that forty-five millions of eg-* are consumed every day in the United Mates. New York City alone consume* 4K),000.000 annually. IT is claimed that the cultivation of crn is bound to be n gr at industry in time. More meat can let pro luce I with an acre of Water than five acrea of land. A Nrw York paper seriously doubts if a pretty woman can lie convicted of murder in the courts of that city, no matter how strong the evidence against her. Tiik Austrian (iovcrtiiri-nt has invited the nations to send delegates to a conference to lie held In Vienna, at the end of October, to establish n standard musical pitch. AMrnicARS of means, and who are am bitious are notified that several old pah,res are for sal- in Italy. Their Impecmtoua owners have no further use for them. A Fur sen musician has succeeded making a piano from musical stone* The flints are suspended by wires from a lo»rd am! are played upon by two other flint*. Thr growing of the sunflower for its Read to feed (a rapid) v fiRcreaiwn< in many I sections of the country. Hnn!low»r seed Is said to be one of the verv best poultry feeds. - Tnr new Penn.viva,,marriage law levies a tax on bridegrooms, and eomp»ls them to answer under oath about. twentv questions as to themselves and intended brides. Tnt hr is a young lady In Orangeburg, H. C., who runs a farm and makes from thirty to forty bales of cotton a year side, other crops. Him doesn't want to marry. Not,ns*ith Maid, the famous trotter which died recently, earned during bet lifetime of twenty-eight and one-third year*, nearly a quarter of a million of dob lara, it ia stated. 1 Arm Is made in France from hop vines and It ia claimed that the file., sscored is the best substitute for rags yet obtained •s it possesses great, length, strength. fl*g’ tbility and delicacy. Tnr President has received an elegant 1 framed photograph of Prince Bismarck. MnilV/ 1 fr°m Pr,BC* Bi'msrrk »-m \ k h" autograph, b will be hung In the President's ch.n, m nr,Rv„rR. the New York builder of mud-mortar infamy, found tb- walls of taa eroTi ,’r‘T"sr,f f,r‘‘ny *°,,rl»l construction, nl Succeeded In digging out only H few K.*J^*bre"*h “• Tur harp os-d by Tom Moore I, owned rnn 7’.^, , ,Ch‘W*' factor of the rhlladelphia lflt0rr. Into whose posses,on it came by bequest. Ta* 'ncreasiog masculinity of English Kiri, »• atopic for many I*omlon Tavist. In dress, talk and manners it is the fssh m» with daughters of wealth and refine ment, to l>e as much like their i,Mk iewrum will ajiow, h#'r braW'*r» •• IN' ETERNITY. Death of Cardinal John MoCloskey I •'areful Close of n Kruitf il lire — |||„ Career. Nkw York, October 10. Cardinal Me Ci"*k«y did at ten minute* to one o’clock tins morning. Vicar General Preston, Father Daubrvs* hu I meniliers of the Car* dinal’a household were at hi* liedside. He died without a struggle. Hews* unable to recognise his most intin.ate friends when Ur. Keyes called at half-past three o clock iu the afternoon. He b“ ame uti conscious at four o’clock, and to remained uutil his death. MIS I'AREKIi. f ordinal Mo< loskey wa* born In Brooklyn in 1*1'). He was sent to the t hurt'll school. 'n ^ ork i tty, where he wt> <li*t|n gulsbcd a. an apt rfholar, until he was fltt.-.l for Mount m. Mar* . Collie. Maryland. At college he showed all those trult* of char aeter that -ll-tnigul-b-.l him In Rfter life. He was a Slow, iudu&li.nim student; po« Hcs.i.t n clear, logical mind, and mastered every obstacle in his course. He wn* gradu atid In the college course with distinction, and immediately cnteicd upon the theologi cal course tn the same Institution. On Jau uar\ l*. |gu. in hi* twenty-fifth tear, hi* wa* ordained to the priesthood in old St. Patrick's • athcdml In Mott street. New York |.\ Hishop Uut.ol* The Itlshop had taken a wartn interest in the promising young student, nnd sugxeste.l that ho study abroad for a time. In accordance with this advice, Father MeCloskcy went tn Home, where he atlcnd.-d lectun** for two years. 1 hen he spent h year in France 1'pon his return to America he became pii.tot of St. Jeisonh s Church. In lul Hishop IliiKhes. who had just founded St .lohn « Colloge. eonlbam, recognizing the flue scholarship or *i°,pastorol ht. Joscph s.mnde Father Met .loskey President of that iii.tltutlou. lie remained ut St.John's a short time and then returned to Ills old pastoral dm ge. on November SI. 1*4:1. Father MH'loskei was appointed < <.adjutor to llishop Hughes, tin the loth day of March. 1*44. Ju*t ten )car* alter his ordination, the voting priest again stood at ihe altar tn Si Patrick's, to be or dalricd to the Kpiscnnate. Three years later Hishop MH'loskei became First Itlshop of Albany on the dli lslon of the diocese of New • ork. I*or seventeen years he admin stcrod the affairs of the Albany diocese. Ilis ex ecutive ability was markedly shown In the splendid Organization of thn-hiirch through out the Interior of the stuto f'hurchr- or < alliedrals were erected In all the towns nnd cities, charitable work* were organized every when-, and the church as a religious and so cial institution made It* power tell on all aides. The building up of tin Trov Theologi cal Seminary whs another labor of love w ith the Itlshop. Archbishop Hughes u fnf t<> Ru. rope In company with Thiirlow Weed on hia Patriotic mission for the (lot eminent, wher* in- did service In securing |thc noiiintervcii ti< of foreign powers in l.cliulf of the South In his absence llishop Met'loskey ■dnifnistored the affairs‘of the diocese wit h tact and wisdom, tin thefith ol May. 1WM, just thirty years alter hi* ordination to the priesthood, and twenty years Htne he w as nrdnim <| lii.hop, John Met'loskey uu* mad.* Arfh blshopof New York. The history of his nd nil ill At ration of the war h)i!h>m a repetition of that a* llishop «.f a t.anv, I lu* «ame nlnllty for organization was felt in churches, schools, and charities. To the building of the great cutlx-dr.il In New fork, from its Inception to It. completion, he gave devoted and unwearied attention. To tlx- building fund he Viih (lu.um from hi* private purse, nnd soup- of the largest snli M ript.ona eiuiie from his pcr.onul friond*. • larch l,», |s.r,, eleven years utter hi was Mimic Vrelibfshop. thirty-two year* from the time lu- wit. made llisfiep. forty-two year* from the time Ip* was crdulucd priest, the cable flushed across the ocean a hrfoi nu-s sage to John Met loskey, congratulating Mm oil hi. election that day by the IVinsistorv helil til the Vatican a* n « urdltial of the « hltrohof Itonie. Hist ar-liiuiliite w it* marked t*\ few important events. He was u member <>! the College of <11011111!* that electfd a atieve.sor to Plus IX.. ami the dedication of the new Mt. Put nek's ( utliedrul hIso marked nis n<l 111 inlet rut loti. Riotous Strpft Car Employes. St. Ian ts. Mo., October ft. About noon 1I< street railway strikers bogan to assem ble in knot* in various parts of the city nn*l things presented on ominous appear ntiee. First a riot occurred on Chouteau - avenue road and .--vi-ral curs were lumped into tlx* glitter, and th* driveis and con - finct irs were severely handled. Next n big emwd of strikers attiick"d several cars of the t nion liejiot line on the Twellth str-ef Bridge, within 11 -tpuire of the K'uir ( ourtfi nn«l Ihn jKilirit t‘ rs. rho driver* and conductors were bndlv beaten. one conductor being ren dered insensible. The rioters were )n such ft hurrv to tip over the cars that the pas senger* wcr» not nllowe I time to get out 01 them, nnd two ladles w ere badly bruised on the I w'elftb street bridge while leaping from 3 enr which the strikers I id already tilted in the air. At three o’clock a riot occurred on Htoddard avenue. One of the enrsof the I nion lb-pot line was coming up fne avenue In charge of Policemen •Griffith an<l Hannon, and when n nr Hickory »tre«t it was sur rounded bv some llftv men, who t>«gan to cut the harness ami make other demon - st rations. The officei * • w i>-* ordered the rn< n to desist, but thev pnid no attention to th* command, *0'l assaulted th* officers w -th sth-kfi and reck. Hannon wn* struck *' ill a rock, nnd firifflth n ni knock-.1 dow n bv a limn imrnnd John Haney, While the in• ter -i n heatin'; Oriffitii, llaunon drew hi* revolver and shot him In th* bend, kill ing him. ll.e l-odv of Ilaney wa* taken to ttic morgue, and Hannon went to head quarters an I reported the afT-ilr. and wna placed in arrest. Illicit Still Captured 'rTT.ir««l»AiMW, Pa., Ortohar ft. In Al* fr» I. Susquehanna Countv, on Ttteadny, tha |.H* a *»f Wtephen T'fTany w n« raided bv Iiorersmtnt nlUcey*, and a (omplatw di» titlarv. with two thou*nnd gallon* of eon* ti t ii .J spirits, was li*oor< rm| a*<d «»ir# I. i: fT« n v »«■ nrravtad yeetarday* W. ( Handler, of Olbtoo, in the .nine count v, a •>a.«.rt U< • j,er. wa* nr rented a* an a ir«,. a -rv. and four hundred gallon* of spirit* f'-imd in hi* |>la>a. Tha operation* of the uioonnhlnera barn l-eeii very egtenidre for a t w ye r* i.aet. * It I* expected that other nrt> *‘n will follow. A Boy G’niind to Pieces. M«?a»..xix, Pa., Oetober 0. M tha l^uka Piddles breaker to*day a l*o||»h boy em plot atl n* a elate pinker ml**»d hi* footing and fall headlong Into a liox in whlrh ware *'*' Hlv revolving a pair of "monkey” ro|. l«r« „«ef| |n pfm,,nr|n(r ,hf sma!|er «lite. of roal. Itefore tha machine- y ronld be atop* I"' hi* t»ody we* ground to pier **. Divorce Refused Both. fovrymp, >f H., October 0. — In tharro*s action* for divorce lef* «»n fe»r rga p Uowe'l. the wail known advertising agai t. arid hia wife, nf l.aneaoter, f 'alef .ln.fir-.. I toe of the Supreme Court, ha* rend* red bi« derision, refusing to grant the applies tlon to either party. Two Blasted lives. TVim lAMsposT. I’*.. October n,-*Kome weeks t\A<> Ciarenrn Clark, formerly a wealthy druggist, committed suicide. and y***ter«.ay alfernoon hi* wife took opium j •ccl died, Mr*. Clark '*«• amemtier of one ol tha most respectable farniib-a In thi* Hfata, end formerly lived In Wilkeahsrre, where she wp a general favorite In society Diseased Horses Shot, Tr*cr»i.A, Iru, Ottolwr x Mlandar* amour/ horse* has made it* npfwwrance it* tld* vomitv. the Ntaw Veterinary Mur gr. *• made an examination of the home n(T< rti d wt'h that di*>-a*e, AM hi* hors-* were WVofdlBgty shnt BLACK CHOLERA. ' Hailing ' e .rl supposol to Have Brought II llirr Fri in s,.n|n. Halifax. N. S., Oi-tober *. Huntsville, a lifle fishing hamlet of at>out two thou sand |>«>o]do, located forty mile* from hme by rail, has been suffering from the "black cholera' apparently in its worst form the past six w ok*. It so ms that Captain Hunter, who commands the Ashing -mack Kiirn Ann, was taken suddenly and tnyste r; usly ill in the latter days of August. Hi. malady puzzled the Tillage phv.icians sorely. They had two consultations, but did not fully make upthefr minds what the disease was until after Captain liun tei's death, which occurred within forty eight hours of the time he was taker il'. Half an hour after he died 1 Hunter’s body began to turn, and in a short time was a dnrk-blm- all over. Thou a bur riblo odor came from the corpse. By this time the doctors agreed that "black rh >! era" had lieeu his fatal trouble. Notw ith standing this, however, they did not want to communicate their discovery to the townspeople for fear It would (frighten them too hndiv. It Was ouly a few dnv« le,fore Mrs. Hunter nndt her daughter, I’heebe, were taken sick and died suddenly. Then it was that the people first heard of Captain Hunter’s death. His body hail been buried quietly by the Chysiciaus liefore any of the neiglitiors new even that he was at home. •Vft, r the death of the other members of the family it was decided to conceal the pn sence of the black cholera for fear that the Ashing vessels w hich cruise the Bay of Fundy nnd frequently put in through Miners* Bay to Huntsville for a haven, , *ud the trade would be driven elsewhere. So it was that the disease w as allowed to | feed and spread until now a case has ap 1 peared at Windsor, a large town nearer ] this city, and this afternoon it was rumored that otic had been reported in Halifax itself. | There have been thirty-two deaths from j the “black cholera’’ iti llautsville since i September 1, and it is feared that it has been conveyed away toother points by the [ Ashing craft, just ns Captain Hunter took I it there. Where lie cot it nobody has any idea except the half-witted mate, from j whom it isos gleaned ti at the Captain had been aboard a rakish Spanish craft Just I from its home |iort. There is no doubt that I the number of cases is rapidly increasing, 1 and thut the disease will commit terrible ravages on the W«« tern I’eninsula unl< ss | radical means a re taken to stump it out. ! 1 he people of that section are very hard ; *<> deal with in nay such trouble, 1 for they do not undeistand the value of I sanitary restrictions, nnd will take every possible m-nns to evade them. The form I of the disease is tend I le. It is alw avs In* | t • | in lortj -eight hours, and frequently on j the same day. Almost tuuiedintely after I deatli the tx>dy turns black, emits n horri ble -t< nch, nnd has to « buried at once. I here is considerable a in felt all along the peninsula among people int-lllg«nt j enough to understand the horrible mnlndy. _ - Send no Messages from Trains. Milwaukee, October H.—c. H. Haskin* returned from n trip to New York, where be went to make arrangements for experi ment* in railroad teleghnpy in thi* city. Tie *e experiments, which hove been in contemplation for several months, will t<ik« place bet ween moving car* over the Chleago. Milwaukee and Ht. Paul rail road, und w ill be conducted by rhoumi A. Kilison, the uo'ed inventor, nnd Mr. Gllllln u<l, the chief e Ire. Iricisn of the Bril Telephone Company. Mr. Haskins said ton reporter to-dav that ■ Mr. Edison has recently been woi k(ng on in* invention for telegraphing between moving train*, and has perfected it *o that nil that will be necessary in the way of preparation will Ik* to fasten hi* appliance* to the interior of the car* between which it is designed to have telegraphic communi cation. Experiment* w ill be ma ie thi* week on an Eastern railroad, and the ex periment* will he made in Milwaukee m the conr»e of ten day*. Street Can Wrecked. St. UiriH. October A.- - About 4 .Tv r. m. a crowd congregated between Seventh and Eighth, on Pine street., and commenced unhitching the horses from the c*;» of the Union depot line. Alter thi* wa* accom plished lhey tursrv) a car crosswise of the track, ano then harking another amt another up the hill, flushed them rapidly dow n hill until they would strike the cross wise car. Thi* wo* continued until sev.-n car-* vre^-e j,ffer| up together, creating n Complete barricade. A tremendous crowd gathered qnickly, and a fight was started in which an unknown "scab” was stahlied w itli a clasp knife. Jjy this time the police w ere on the gronnd, nnd after Sending the wounded men to the dispenaorv disp.rs.-d the crowd. Heveral nrre*t« were made iwit the matter is *o confused it i* hard to say who did the stabbing. Tba cars upon the embargoed line* were all withdrawn at *• o clock, nnd no attempt wa* made to ruu cur* to-night. Death After a Fast of Fifty-Day-. Bvp.ai i hk. I*. Y., Octoier «, Mr*. Ve ronica Bull, who performed a remarkable fast in this city, died this morning. H»r fast h«gnn on August ID. fifty-nine day* nKO, and since that time she did not touch n morsel of solid food, living entirely upon wnfer. in which annul uuantlties r,f mor phme were dissolved. When she first <|«. dine to partake of food weighed HO pounds. As she lay upon a couch this morning her bone* neatly protruded through the skin, which lav ia wrinkles, and her eye* were terribly sunken. Hime trie death of h<*r husband, eight years ago. in *n insfift# npvluni, b#*f rviirvf wan if* fected. A post-mortem examination wu* held thia afternoon. Small Coii a. WssRianr .v. Otrtoler!».- Some time ago •he coinage of ftve-cent pieces and f>*nnie* was suspended because the Treasury t ad on hand sioul In the coins, Com plainta are reaching the Treasury of the «carcitv of these minor coins. Thev can *»e obtained here orlat the various «ub Treasuries in exchange for lawfnl money. The express charge*, however, must i>* lionr* liy those receiv,ng the com* Thia charge In pa-t explain* the scarcity. Bait a in Madagascar. I’ARta. ftcfol.er 9 -The War Office re. ceived a dispatch to-day, dated Tamatave, from Admiral Miot, commander of the French forces in Madagascar, stating that th* French and Hova* had an indecisive fi.nt on th» 2«th of Keptemle-r at I'as-an- | cmva Hay. The Pren'-h lost twenty-one killed and w ,ntided, and the Hova* two hundred. The French fleet has blockaded the port of Natainandry. Admiral Mid ha* proceeded to Majnng. A Wrsk* Failure*. Nrw York, October ». The btisimaa failures occurring throughout th* country I during tire last aeven davs, as reported to ! K. O. Hun At Co., numler: For the ( niterI | Htatea, 1*5; for Canada, ■/.*: or a total of i •^•7. as against J*K !ast week end IK*, the week previous. The im-re*** |* in the !*a- ! cific and Western States. 1 Civil Rights Decision Nyw ark, N. J.. ftetoier s in the fir- I cult Court to- lav. Judge Itepiic held that I under the Civil Kigiits law a bot*d-k.c|..• * not obliged to admit colored permiw tv j the oosimnn d.ning-room FOREIGN NEWS. Tlir**e ThoitMtnil ItcrtUhes KlUr-l In Itnttle. Part*. October A dispat. li from I iiippopoli* to'the #*v* the Mn\’>r ha* rate,| placard* to In> ptMlnl through out the city announcing that, in view of the » i»hf» of the Foreign Atnl>a**ndor* to 1 urkev, the Sultan h*s accepted the union of Bulgaria nud Honutelia, under the mie of Primx« Alexander. lit:i.oKape. October 7. King Milan, at a meeting .if the Cli imberof Deputies Tester dav. ileclar* il lh.it in the » vent of the union let \ve.-n Bulgaria and Hmimelia being rec ognize.) by the Power*. Scrvia would fight unlea* her demand* for an extenaion of ter ritory were granted. t aiHo, (k-toiler 7. -Official advices h«Tt ! I- hi r. reived from Ha* Alula, the coin- I mander of the Al>v«*inia expedition marching to the rel «f’ of the beleagureil garrison at Ki-saln. to the • (Tact that aftei a severe battle the \l>vssinian* defeated a i*rK** force of l>ertri*he* under O man Digna, end that three thousand Dervish** wen* killed in ih<* encounter. The Abys sinian General I* now rapid!) advancing on Kanaaln. Hert.lx, October 7.—Germany ha* dia t«atciied a note to th'* Court of Spain, re jecting Spain's claim to the Carolines. Terrible Experience at Sen. Nrw Vonk, October 7. Captain Onngllo and thirteen officera nnd e-nmen of the wrecked Italian bark Tallaniano arrived here yc»t«rdoy nu tlie Herman lark fAttiisn and Angmdn. by which they were rescued about 750 miles east of Snivtv Hook on Sep. tain her 25. Captain Oangtib said vest rdav at tlie Italian Consul’* office: *'\Vo were fortv-eicht days out from IVnsncoln. bound to Port filasgow, Ragland, and on Septum Iter i! the bark sprung n leak. We managed to keep the vessel comparatively free from « nter for fonr <’av«. tin il we wera rnmht in a revolving hurricane or cyclone. The out burnt a of wind were frightful, ami came from nil itoint* of the compass. Tlie sen rose pi a fearful height, to that we were n,,t only in danger of having our musts twist* <1 out, hut feared thnt we should he swamped In' tlie sens, Tlie leak in creased. and for forty-eight hours the men worked at the pumps t«» keep the v. s •*‘l afloat, while the unbroken volumes of *< ns swept the length of the deck, threat ^Jtlng to carry everything before them. Finally the gale broke, but our vessel was in a Minkin condition and onr only hope was in living rescued. The bark Ixttiisn and Augusta was sighted about !• a. m. Inst T uesday nnd she answered our signal of distress. At noon she wo* only nlxitit two hundred feet from us, but the weather w as so rough o* to attempt to lower n small boat would is* dangerous, nnd ns our only alternative w as to attempt to rescue ntir »i Ives, we put off In our long Isist and in a few moments wore on deck of the Herman bark. Our own vessel « as a perfect n reck, and wii only kept afloat bv her cargo ol lumttcr. Cost of General Gr«' t's Funeral. Pmi.MtKi.VRu, Octet** — At the second day’s session of the National t'onveutinn ol Funeral Birectors Hut President prevented Steuben Merritt, of New*Y*»rk,*who buried Henernl Urnnf. Mr. Merritt made an ad dress on the beauties of tlie undertaking business. l|c sni I there had been much talk nl.ntit ht* I III for tlie Hrant Intiernl. People said it w as iSVh'XSi.but the sum reallv was just $M,1IKI. ami he had not Itren in i vat, tootigh the bill baa I.a atidite*! and ten’ to Washington. At. the afternoon session officers were elected fot the ensuing venr ns follows: Prvsi lent. II Sam*..II, Of Pittsburgh : Vice-Presidents, F hrsw ell, of Ainliaimi: John H. Netvm n, ol Brooklyn; J, II Mcfntvre, of Ontario: Horace B. Knowles, of Provid* nee; B. A Buxter, of Illinois; Secretary, A. It. per ngo, of Illinois; Corresponding Secretary. I. H. Rol»ert*, of Betroit; Treasurer, ('has A. Miller, of ( iuclnnati. The convention adjourned to meet at (Tev-iaud on the | second Wednesday of September, l**i>. An Extraordinary CalT-Stf alinq fase. W atkrixxj, I a., Oct ole r 7 The lawsuit , known as the "Jones Countv calf cns*t” ! bn* I>‘>en concluded. It was an action 1 br..M .-hl l>v Robert Johnson against R, V ! Miller nml six other defendants for 110,000 1 for malicious prosecution in a alf-stealing | case. The case has been before thy court* I since 1*77. ami has been tried five times, i and each time, except ne, the plaintiff re ceived a verdict running from Sfl.OtW t*. SjiJWXb The jury In this instance hare >* warded .*7,1 XS). The costs, attorneys’ fees nml « xpeii»«>* entailed upon nil parties to , I he litigation growing out of the theft, of • the calve*, is estimated ut over .VJfl/KX), an*l j ‘•eveial prosperous farnors have bean r«-n dne*l bankrupt, whilu the calve* in t*s first place wfere not worth over *50. Greatest Day Pittfbu qh Ever Saw PlTTHWi'aoH. October 7. Tul* has l—n biggest .lay in Pittsburgh’* history, I marking the com potion and opening of the j l»nvi* Island Ii.m, th* k'niitenetlon of i " hie), was begun I., »h» I*. M. fb>v. rnmenf | o>Vcn vears ago, and which coat £1.000,000. ! Fifty thousand strangers are here from nnr»»ft'l to witn*»«< th* r#TPinr>f)l^f. A pro rf" -i ,n of fifty «f. -amboal*. golly decked VI Ith flag* and streamers left the Monon gaheln wharf for the dam. [Hiring the j oel-bratioti to-day, l.v th- premature dis I '-barge of a- anoon, John Kail.ramni-r for 1 Mattery ft, had lr<th crm« t'-rn from hi* sh eilders, and is fatal v Injured. M ** i Mary M.-nlh-m standing n«ir l.v bail her I bip broken by th flvin-g ram ro»l. Reqardinq Bounty Money WasHIvOTOSt. October *. Acting Xerre. I 'ary Comptroller McMahon hns made a ntong that bounty cart not be allowed in the case of auy volunteer soidier who en!l*ted after April SO, 1*15. miles* upon proof derived from the r-oor-Is that notice of the t-lagr-»ni of the Provoat Marshal i fleperal to all officer* In r-unmin'l In the insurrectionary Mtates, dated April ‘JJ IWI5. directing that no bounties be allowed -<r paid for any volunteer* enlisted after that date, was actoally not. rec dyed at the t lace of enlistment. A large nnmi-r of colored volunteer troops enroll--I in th* Southern States about April '*>. |#K.Y are affected bv Ihii decision. Monster Fire in London I/OSIki*, f trtoher ®. \ fire lir-ik* out at fire o’clock this morning in the Charter Housebuildings, a row of thirteen eight story war-houses, on AI l*rgafe -tre-t. |n n few hoor* the whole of the buildings, in cluding their cont nts, weraaimoat totally 1-stroyad, 1ft- oriqm of th • fir# is nn* known. The row was most y occupied hr fancy rood* deabr* 'urriera, toy .tore* and printing of||c*s, f »n« ),»„* *„ mim4j m fir* I nildlnga. Tli . in it-ition w.i* ih onlv one that -sc* p#d being I aimed com pletely out. It was Madly damage.*, but at’VfeVflilsr’’ *,b" rstiiaated Funeral of a F fManthrop-at. f»aoo,y, o- tol-r Til# funeral of th* Karl of HbaftsMury took place to-day. Religions scrvic-a over the remain* were conducted at W estminster A’ l—v. Hup* drrds of poor people a ood outside the ab* in*V in a drencbino rain during the entire serveea, i-elng unable to g. t inn. «b* sacred -dlflcc, so den*e wa* th# crowd wtn-h gather. <| to pat their last mark of respect t». the rot.ie t-hilanthropi-t. A large nnml-r of shoeblacks with crap* on ! 'heir arm*, and tunny -.tier l«»vs who hud »>e. n 1-ncflt-d bv the .hardafdc n.-ts of the depurt-d Fr.rl. *! .. I in line with tl.e elite in r»,c abt v Th. - r<U-r« ~ ere very isnore-sive, NATl'RAL NAS. It* Fatal Work In a Pennsylvania Town. three Men It nmol In a Pit rii* riesH Teela Off In l.tiinfr ng I lake* Pirrakraon Pa., October II.- By an #* pb<«ion of natural ga< in a pit at Godfrey A' Clark*’* paper factory, Tarentum, I’n., ihi* afternoon. thr«e men Geo. Headln, William Garlich and Hamu-l Thomson ~ ,r**re seriously and prol,ahly 'fatally Injured. The accident was caused by a leakage in the pipes, which filled every crev ice in the pit with the odorless gas. 1 tie men not bring aware of the pres ence .»f the gam. went down into the pit to oil toe pump. Inking with them a small letup. \s soon rs thev reached the bottom tne gn* ignited from the lamp and in ait instant the pit was filled with a I clrhing sheet of flams. The report was uot loud and the Are waa out almost as amide lv i s U cam«. but It left the thr«* men lying on their backs, ter ribly burned nlxmt the face, aims and limbs. They were removed to lh~ir home*, wh<r« an examination of their Injuries showed them all: o l»e in a serious condition, ih'« flesh falling off their h dies iu large fln';r*. They are resting quite easy to night. but it is f« are I they inhaled the gas. In which case death is almost inevitable, BLOWN UP. f but*! tier It, the Kr» „f Hell Gale. shat, tered hy K«|i|,sites. Nxw York, October 10.—Two hundred and eighty pounds of dynamite ami rend rock «rr« 1‘schnrgod und r Hood Rock, In He|| Gnfe, to-day, and Flood Ruck Is no mere. It w as n very successful operation from start to finish. It drew crowds to every available point of view, such ',l* new rarely seen, even in N« v» York. Th* waters around were gav with hundred* of era ft of every kind Hint flouts in these parts. Men of science took oservations from a score of vantage wilds, photographers took insvautansotis i’>ws, and hundreds of engineers from all rls of the i’( nutrv witnessed th** explo on and marvel, d nt the magnitude of the vent. The work has been in progress for • ne yearn. \<‘int, October II.- A large nuin T of people visited the scene of y<st*-r ay’s ex pH.slon nt Hell Gate to-dnv. and irriwd off mementoes of the occasion. Tao nrthsru end of the rs**f still »,r„. -cts from the wntvr at high tide, ut the officer in eh rge declare* lie explosion a complete success. He mvi hat the projecting portion is so hot ey •ombed w ith Assure* that It will fall to pii'i**** when op* ratines are liegun for its • tiioval. Io a casual observer, however, • **fi*'**nr^ I*'tact. If any further blasting hall l«* accessary, the system of surface 'net* will be resorted t*.. A Husband's Tfrrib'e Mistake CitsTTAJtoooA, October II.—A shocking >ge<ly occurred las* night at l.lvingst. n, la, Mr. Win. Eastland, a prominent clti ii, w as nwakened during the night by a >l*e ne.r his premises. Having been •nrned that his house would he burned, •• suspected that the • fTort would be made' ltd hastily sent hi* wife and child to the rii while he laid in waiting for the |q. udinrie*. Nearly nn hour pns* <1 and no >timl was heard. His wife, fearing he had i t with foul plnv, returned to the house, .mi w u4 tutm« 1*»*n f«»r one* of th** in< <*n<iitt • ie* by her husband, who shot her ss sho approached, causing her instant d ath.’ A Fa’h'r’s Unnatural Crime. I’rirA, N. October II.—A horrible cr.ine which wn* committed last February ban just corns to light. I'nfrirk R. Bren nan. of this city, is the father of four ohild r* n, the oldest of whom Is a girl of eight Mrs. Brennan I* nn Inmate of the lunatic asylum. Last February Brennan went to hi* daughter’s room ami forced her toyf Id l« ins inhuman desires. The girl, fearing the wrnth of her father, kept the awful *.». cret. tin February ifci of this year she gns'e birth to a Ixtv, who I* now' alive. Brennan was arrested yesterday, ami wn* arraigned and held to await the aclior of the grand jury. Submerged by a T>d»l Wave. HsvasvaM. October II. A strong north coat gain which has been blowing all 'lay caused a tidal ware in the Mavannah Kiver at noon, and another at 10 o'clock (•"-night. Ta* rice plantation* are ail sun* merged. The banks nr* bixllv broken and the crop '* all under water. The bets Is es timated at from sixty lu seventy-five per cent. Hutchinson Island, opposite Hevan nah, i» inundated, nQd nil of the reside ts • nine over to fhn rlty«t night. The rice crop alon ir tbo ft seech- and Nntilln Rivers 4 also damaged, ai d many fb bl* will Ije a fotal loas. Heavy Safa Burglary Vs ***«. Mich., October II The *t .re of .bdm It. Hue binder, at Frankcnniuth, Saginaw CVm» tv. was »tit»r«l Iasi night by burglars, who Mew <,pen the *af« and carried aw«y jfco.’i in money. and t|„vm U orders and draft* on New Yorlt, Chicago, artd ftetroIt to a large sum. Not satisfied with this, they stole » valuable span Of ho) imi, n I left th-lr own worn o»it aiiirnsl In lt« place. Jfo clu* haa le eii discovered to the toirgI rs. Hiielnnger owns a store and flouring mill, hi* budd ings being isolated, and there tuning no | watchman. Husbard and Wife killed by the Cara. fLirros, Mr.., October l| Vatba Mama Central Hsl’road “Flying Vankee“e*pre** passed through here a* k l.*i p. m., v*st*r day, it struck a carriage containing Mr. and Mr*. Horace (hewlw in, returning from slxipping Boib worn killed mstaotlv. The horse was thrown a sir-nt distance. The woman’* body w as hurled a dst* ce ,,( one hundred and forty (n,, phfc y„;tl..i* hava a family of five small ' hfldrv.^ Vessel Riven Up for lo*t, I'lfir.Apyf-eniA. fjetoher It. frreat *nv lety »• felt for the safety of t-h» Mwed<*h l<ark Prims, Captain Hoim, which saded from Hull. Raglan I. on July in. for this port, and |( la feared that she fotjridsned, • nd all on board have fe»e,i lost. Hhe b«d' ; a cargo of eigh1 hundred tons of chslk i tsma.gned to parties at this port, and bad a crew of inlrterri men on I oard. ff*-r •■“.•• 4 have v v,.n he, ip f. r *„st. as she is now ninety-threw day* <rat. we* — A aomewhat remarkable r.milt from a of lightning occurred near l»e«-r Lodge, M I’., where fourteen hundred vhecp were gr.t/tiig. with a herder in charge The a h and report appeared almud in^tantaneon*. and we e terrific, I he herder and hor4n were both knocked to the ground, and when th« herder recovered and looke«t around it *eemed to him the entire dork waa down Seven *heep eeie killed throughout the band bj the rtavh. and two of them w. re two hundred y*rdt apart New A»rtkw**t SOUTHERN NEWS GLEANINGS. A Ratai. accident occurred during a lx»l loou u.-u-*usiou at Union City, T*nu. Prof. P. F. Johnson, of FranirUlp Ind., mad* two sure* s«r«i| Motntioiu and attMnptcl it AtAin. The uontlioo WAS successful, llllt n th* descent th* balloon fell into th* top "f a large troe, Johnson jumped when twenty feet alioveth* tree, an<l caught on a lintls which hrok*, precipitating him over fifty feet to the ground. His l»*dy " fearfully lacerated, hi* right leg b*»il»g broke in two places, and he can not re* cover. At a meeting of the Tennessee t'oufer* • m e of the Methodist Church South at t olunibia, Teun., the other dav, the matter of changing the name of tli«* church »o as to eliminate the word South bv using the plain term Methodist Kpiscopal t'hurcli carif up unex|t*rtrdly, and failed, after a shat p and short debate, by a vote of 175 to Pf- Kiillr, J. It. MeFcrnn, Pr. Young, M in. (ireeu and others debating th* quc*> tion fr<un th*'ir standpoints, all of whom were in th* ins in in oppoaftlr.n to th* change. It. was then submitted whether the name .should be #o changed ns to read: ‘'Methodist Kpiscopal Church of America.” I his also met with repulse, ami so far as this conference in concerned this question is now at rest, ami w ill be so rc|H>rtcd at Richmond, \ a., general confsrencs In Mar next. Kach conference must act on th* question, and the general conference will decide according to majority. GlintN. Pxut'RM, colored, was hanged at Augusta, Ark., In the presence of over three thousan<I persons, for murdering his paramour, Mollio Hank*. Inst ..'niltsr, in Woodruff County. On the scaffold lie made a full confession, that h* murdered tier because she refined to in trry him, not haring haen legally divorced from her bus band. J. E. Munoix, of llainhridg.-, tin., nm seised the other day with a sn.-er.ing spell which, the Columbus L'si/t/irer-.Vim any*, lasted for eleven hours. A vakwrr named Spin1:* was shot and instantly killed by John Patton, one of his tenants, near Hilling, Texas. A iiiscati ’it from Home announces that Very Itev. |». J guigly, Vicar '(Jeneral of the Dioces i of Charleston. M. C., hns lieen appointed Romcstic Prelate, with the title of Mnusignor. This is the llrxt priest in tbs Month so honored. • Twk.vtt-two of the aenomplloas In the <yn hing of Culbreath, in K Igetlel I Coun ty. N. (’..were lodged in Jail the other day. Th" rein lining throe are detained tempo rarily by sickness. TitR Supreme Court, hns granted a writ of error iti the famous Cluverius murder ossa. A writv attached to a pole in the court house vsrd at Cleveland, Tonn., wan cut down by the county authorities, pulling th-> gable suds off two trams stars build ings to which the other eud was fastened, md the mass carried a wooden swmng with P. Percy M-.irguins, a small boy, was directly under the mass of material, ami narrowly escaped death by being near a coal oil tank, which supported it nliove the pavement. At Bristol, Teiim, .fere Smith, a colored yard baud, was run ov»r by a switch »u gineon tlie Norfolk A Western Road, and his body cut ill two. Mikh Lii.mr Boss, a beautiful girl of seventeen, was to have Itnsrrbd Jacob W- alherlngton, aged sixty-six. th* other morning, at Valdosta, tin. The fnbrrlage iiud been arranged by her parents. An tionr before the hour named Lillie Hod from homo in her bridal dre,* and at, a ucighteir's house met Jesse Hardee, a former sweet heart. They went in a carriage h> the of* Mc'-of a magistrate and were married. They then returned to the bride's house in time t*» meet tile guests who 'bad assembled to ■re Weathering ton’s marriage. Mr Weath* erlugton took the afTair coolly, but declined to stay to the feast. The girl’s parents for gave her, and all is now serene, A won of masked meti took Mrs. Cross and two‘laughters of III-fame from iheir home at Blue Kidge, Blount f'ounty.Tenn., tarred and feathered them, whipped the woman half to death and burned her bouse with ail Its contents. I HR other day at the terminus of the Kansas mid Coif Shore line near Lufkin, Tex.,sixty convicts working on the mad made a desperate break for liberty Just as they bad finished their supper. With deaf ening veils they started up m a body si»| rushed for the uetghbo lug wood*. Ooards opened lire on them with deadly effect. The latest report says that twenty-live of them were killed or wounded, The first Otl>* w i re in one large body, snd the guard* simply emptied their repenting r>fl‘-s and small srm* Into the moving mess, Tiik other evening, as Herman f>n»ntli«-r, aged forty, and his srm l/siis, aged six te«fl, w.-r« crossing the Union Railroad tracks, near Bay View, Md., their w-ugoti ws* struck. Th# young man was kilid outright, end the phv*iclan pronounces hi** father's cnso hopeless. 1 '.‘-f«.'i*nni<-r* ere truck gardeners, end reside near Herring Bun, In Baltimore County. r T. BmiTW, of Kivmvlil*, W V»., fell from the conati action from on the F.t M 4 !’• K. H.. on which bo * a* riding, and waa fa tally Injured,living hut a abort.time after th* accident, ffe waa caoght under the wh« la and terriMy mangled, a log and both arm < being cut off. Ifn wan about forty yearn «f age. and leaven a ftynllv. *n white child han ever teen Imrti la t'relghton'a Inland, which la aitnated neat Hronnwlek, f»a., ami ambracaa about I,UK, a»-rea, though people have lived th*re for th« pant |0«> yearn or more. I iik Mo<ith»rn Ha«* Bail league for n«-vt year will eornprln* elute at ^anhvllle, At lanta. Augunfa, M-iiij.trin, Mavantiah and « harlnton. f'olumbon. Macon. Birming ham and Chattanooga are dropped, not b- ing at.t* to nuntatn go-xl dub*. Tmk movement of Northerner* on Florida h.'m begun. !»n. Itrooan, an eeouotnical member of t ie Oeorg • I. v*lat«re from Fannin Comity, waiki from home to Atlanta, a diatance of eighty mile*, and ha ia over neventy yearn old. F<>c« venerable brother* HlgbV»w*r, of I.afrange, fta., with an aggregate ago ol bfM vema, have among th m thirty-four children, am tv-on- grandchildren and twt great-grandchildren. Tmk bent yravedigger in V’irginia in riarn rd McNamara ami tn •• ighry-three year* ohl. He ban buried over 7 <**> perno.o. |{« gath-m then. in. PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL. —W <»rth, the Parisian dressmaker, »»yi hr Ion' * forty thousand dollars a year through bad debts. tienernl (Srnnt’s burial at Riverside Park has roused the extension th rle-r of a street railway.—A’. )*. Urraki. --Count Tolstoi, the celebrated Rus sian statesman and port, who has kept nihilism at bay since the assassination of the late Ktnperor. has twen dn hired incurably insane and placed tu a luna tic asylum. Frank llappcttslvcrgcr, the de-' signer of the (iarliehl Monument in San h ran cisco, has I teen p -ented bv admirers in that city w th a gold medal liearmg in lias relief upon its fare a portrait of (iarliehl. Rev. I ir. Aaron Wood, of the North west Indiana Mitihodim ('onfcrruc. hi* asked to Im plneed on the super.inu nted hat, after -ixt\-three vears of min isterial service, lie is now a white haired veteran of eighty-three years William Kirk, of Porn. \\ \ » . has lived a jolly life for a century, lie lo\ es to dam e, enn kick higher than Ins head, has been married twice, and ja the father of twenty-four children, including four twins. I'htlail< Iplmt I'l’t ss. (icorge \\ Matcliett. a blind man in Iml anamdis, cla ms to he the oldest printer in the I'nltrd States, lie is eighty years old, and for sixty-four years has ... a journeyman printer, and in tlint line has visited every Stale III the l nii hi except i Irngon, besides many of the Territories. /tittumafio* Us Journal. (tencral Luring, writing of tSmiaral (•rant’s visit to the Sphvnx, hi Kgvpt, a “Finding(irant looking intently into t lie fane of the enormous Sphinx near by. seventy feet high and extend Ing baek one hundred and forty, and In fore pan 1 lifts feet in froiit. 1 said ’AVi*11, tienernl. what, do you think of it r* He replied; *|t looks ns if it had kept on thinking through all eternity without talking much.’ ” Mrs. Moody, an old lady living within nine miles of Rockmart, Pauld ing < ’omits .*ii . is now at tin* ads im ed age of seventy years, and. strange to say. lias never seen a train. She has been married tsvlee, the first time to Mr. Rose, and a fesv years ago dee deifr that she wanted to visit a railroad sta tion in order to see “just one railroad engine,’’ but. unfortunatly she became crippled by some means, so much so that she now lias to use crutches in order to get about, and consequently Im* no hopes iiosv of ever accomplish ing her long felt, desire. Chv\amt Ttrncn. I'he poet Whittier, in his letter of remembrance to l»r. O. W Holme* on attaining hie seventv-*i\th birthday, writ*-- ••My father tinod t«» tof'a poor innocent in hi* neighborhood who, whenever lie met. him, would fall t«» laughing, crying and dancing. *‘l can't hidn it, sir. I can't help it. I'm so glad that you and I are alive!” And I. like tie- poor fellow, can’t help tell lug thee Mint I am glad time and I are alive glad that thy hand Inis lost ii(fthing of Its cunning and thy pen in •till busy. And I nay, in tin- wArdn of Solomon of old liejoiee, O voting man, in thy youth, and lei thy heart, elmer thee fn the day* of thv youth;’ tint don’t exult over thy senior* who have not found the elixir of life and are growing old and ‘past their UMcful ness. * ’’ “A LITTLE NONSENSE.” I’he militni of the different States, while they may he good soldiers, arc known as N. Tirna Siftint/a. I sit tie Tommy wa having bin hair combed, and grumbled "Why, Tommy, you oughtn't to make on-li a fuss. I don’t when my hair in combed.” -‘Yi-*, Imf your hair ain't hitched to your head.” ■ Kjrr.hnnyr. A three-year-old lilt)** girl was taught to done In-r evening prayer, dining the temporary absence her father, with -’and please watch over my papa.” ft sounded very nweet, hut the mother'* amusement ntnv be imagined when <he added, ■ 'ajid you better keep mi eve on mamma, too. ,V Y. Him A Norristown anglor bought a new l>o<ik entitled " Kly Hods and H’ly I aekle. ’ ami absorbed the contents from preface to tini*. Then he w*-nt fishing with lifty dollars' worth ot tackle and emne home with fifty cent* worth of fish purchased from a bare fwih'il boy with a ten cent ft-hing-rial and * sore finger. — Xm’fmtnuitt IlcrtttU. --•■That''* the way every day.” an grily exclaimed a man an lie hoarded a •lx o’clock Walnut Kill* ears with hi wife, “What’s that?” *bc impi r«d “Why. the eno* are alwavs full about going-bo me time. “Just like tin men. she replied •wcei-lyt mid in grabbed at. a strati, stepped on an old woman s Wm-s, and remained *j|etit. , I rk'i me/ »/f 7Vin.r/<T. Hearing a not** at. night Jon** de aeend* with a lighted candle ami dl « <>ver* a burglar cMcaping with a full rack. * * 11»• I lo !*' be eric*, "ouiiifi hack, you'" "Kb. whaf?” return* th<* bur glur "th, ye*, the *ilv«r candled ick Permit, me,” He take* it from tin hand of the naloniehed ./one* and pal• if. into hi* bag "Ten thou*and thank-*. Have I forgotten an'.thing *h«P" Lott'fon TU-mt*. — Beware the awfnl under-toe. Little Jim Twite* A «»ilfl llunirr crab M»k-4 A emit I I ben lw>ih go I town below oh: How many earelc** lather* know The <J*f>|fer of an imdrr tori <*■ San Frnnnimo Co ft. —Cuatomer (Indignantly) Se#» here, vou rc *wiiull(*<l rue! You *aid theft chicken wa* young, and it.'* tough a leather! Young woman (pertly) Can yon gu*w* how old I am!* Cu*torner (bewildered) Fh what1* Well | *houhl *ay •(ixii-en. Young woman l triumph inti ) Ju*d •*.\t4*«n! You wouldn't caf) me old. would you? 'Veil. I raned thn! chicken m\*e!f. an«l I ;,n*>w that ' -m t moro than half ab old « I am!— PHittuUiptu t Call.