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•''f wmm #C Mm 1§ *V TsSsrV1' BeS. ,S&Pf »k'l ii HOPE PIONEER. W. *. VAitMsit, Publisher. Hubortpttoa, year....... »lx months.. .$2 00 ..100 HOPE, NOBTH DAKOTA. •$& Western dressed beef has become a Btaple article in all Jeastern markets of any size. It is shipped from western slaughter houses in refrigerator cars and sold to the eastern customer as pure and fresh KB when dressed. Buttermilk, as a beverage in cities, is now as common as beer or whisky, which is Baying a good deal. It is for sate in most saloons, eating houses, &bd taany other places, and its physilogical 'qualities are highly commended. It is not too early in the season to look o«t far the winter fuel. Alter the •experience to which many people in the Northwest have been subjected (in form 'er years, it would seem superfluous to say a word^on this point. But delays may be fraught with danger. Those de pendent upon railroads for transporta tion of ceal or wood, cannot move loo soon in this matter and those who are not may take a world of comfort ia get ting together a big wood-pile for the win ter. The beauty of stringent taxation and Immense revenues is well illustrated by the present condition of Cuba, Consul general, Adam Badeau, says Cuba is rushing toward bankruptcy as fast as possible. The island is taxed to death, *iot only to support its own government, Ibut to meet the financial deficits of Spain. The imports and taxes exceed the in come of the island,—that is, the produc tion of all its industries. There is scarce ly solvent planter on the island and the common people become more and more destitute with every failure. The good people of this great country are not much disturbed by the fluctua tions of stocks in Wall street or the fail ure of a few gamblers in that locality, Sot they know that prosperity abounds 'throughout the nation and cannot be impaired by a few individual misfor tunes. Wall Btreat during the war, aud even up to the resumption of specie payments, had a vast influence «at» the ordinary business of the country, but now people look elsewhere for signs of good and evil. A crash in Wall street does not mean a general break up by any means. The opening of the Northern Pacific to its western termini is not expected to teBult in immediate and remarkable results. It will take some time for the currents of trade to adjust themselves to the new conditions and therefore no sudden changes are expected. It is not yet known what will be theinterchange Ab commodities between the eastern and westward slope of the AllegbanieB, and what will bear transportation charges •"•""from one side to the other. But trade will grow rapidly and with the prospec tive opening of quicker communication with China and Japan, the prospects for tnutual benefits to all concerned are con sidered favorable. A more remarkable season than the present has never been known to the "oldest inhabitant." According to all ftneterological theories^ this should have been a scorching hot/summer. The past winter being extreintely cold, a succea sion-of* equatorial' waves might have Iwen expected to establish the climatic 'equilibrium, or rather a mean annual temperature, which, according to the said authorities, never differ but a few. degrees in many centuries. But here w* are in the decline of August and still no tropical breeze, save some struggling •zephyrs, have made their appearance. It & perhaps not yet too late to wax warm, but it would be haxardous to stake much in the caprice of the weather which prevails throughout this country-. It is an off year. Eastern comment on the cyclone iiot. ror at: Rochester is marked by ooiilmend able frankness in one respect, viz: aii entire absence of knowledge concerning the cause and remedy for these terrible visitations. The papers do not pretend to know anything about the phenomena* save what is given in western journals but they unanimously conclude that the west is a dangerous place to make a home, and that when a cyclone's tail touches St. Louis, St. Paul or Minneapo lis, all previous disasters from the same cause will sink into insignificance. "Some •of the papers think the cyclonic districts of the west will gradually become de populated—but this assumption is a great mistake. The precaution to erect, in cellars or elsewhere "bomb-proofs" .Jfor protection of families, wiil be taken to^jgreater extent than heretofore. For the fiscal year ended on June 30th last the exports and imports of the United States exceeded those of any preceding year in the history of the government but our foreign trade, though increasing, has not kept pace with that of other leading nations. Two years ago the trade of the United States, as represented in exports and imports, was exceeded only by that of Great Britain and France, with an outlook that promised speedily to place us ahead of France, Germany, however, has gone ahead of this country, leaving us fourth on the list. The bulk of our exports consist of agricultural products—cotton,' wheat, corn and provisions—dairy pro ducts and petroleum. The total expor- (tation of these articles last year amount ed to 1594,324,980. A Booming Texan Town. The town of El Paso, Texas, is thus graphically described by, a correspondent theSanl-ranoiBco Bulletin: "ftseems here like '49 and '50 times in San Franoisco and Saoramento, when eveybody wanted something to buy, and every one had something to sell. Business is l'^ly, *^9 town is growing, new boildlugu are going op fpr- stores and offices. Three new rewmMj"6 being built, .adobes are being modem fw-m^d -onstruoted from all n8' B0?e 4# %S Wh whioh are just in. All enlarging their border and build- nig depot*. There are few passengers m^U2i.?nd«0nlr litUe frei«]W ans far! n^nes on all sides of ns and ®lTerybody*6 hand—born sil ver in ohunks, plenty of galena and cop- NEWS' CONDENSED, Washington kjr.fvb so ths Postmaster General Greshaaij in his an nual report, wnl review the question of the government assuming control of the tele graph service of the cottntry. He is con vinced tLat tbe Country is in favor of such action, and it 13 understood tbat he is in favor of the scheme. The ouly danger, he thinks, lies in increasing the offices, but a properly conducted civil service should do away with any trouble.' Postmasters commissioned: Iowa Mrs. Mary A. Masterson, Qonkllug Dakota: Alburt Buss. Si. Lawrence. Postoffices es tablished—Dakota: Stetson, Jerauld county. Minnesota Lake Wilson, Murray county. PostofBce name changed—Wisconsin: To ker Creek, Dane coumy, to Toker. Star Eerviee established—Wisconsin: Weston to Dawnsville six times a week Durand to Eaugalle and back, six times a week. Dorman D. Baton, speaking Of the "non partisan character of the wora of the civil service Commission, instanced a case in Newark, if. J., where the postmaster, hav ing two vacancies to fill, appointed the per sons standing highest en the list certified by the eommis&oe, and both appointees were Democrats. He hears of similar cases from VaHous points. The relegation to internal revenue viol lectors in the respective d!stlicts to decide what are ui«?d!cin&i preparations and what compottnd liquors have exposed comrnis Mjner Evans to a Storm of protests on the part of attorneys Here, who are deprived of much business by this order. A private letter to an army E£cer in Washington states that under no considera tion will Gen. Hancock accept the com mand of the Army of the West, to succeed Qen. Sheridan. The friends of Gen. Sobo field believe that he will be detailed fot the post. The Washington Star says it is rumored that an investigation will be made shortly in tho interest of tbe government, and there will be some startling and sensational devel opments ab to how the verdict in the star route trial was securud. Lieut. Robertson, of the First Dinted States cavalry, charged With duplicating pay accounts, pleaded guilty at Vancouver, but denied lie had fraudulent intentions. Tbe court martial reserved sentence until this week. The August decrease in public delH was $6,691,951. ItAlLIiOAD UMB LINGS. A deed ftf Conveyance from the Minne apolis & Northwestern Bailroad company to the St. Paul, Minneapolis it Manitoba Rail way company, being a transfer of the line from Minneapolis to St. Cloud, a distance of sixty-three and a half miles, with right ot way, depot grounds, etb., lor the sum of $1, 832,700 25, was tiled with the secretary of 11 ate recently, as was also a deed of transfer tor nominal consideration of the Casselton anch railroad to the Sc. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba company. The latter road is being constructed from Everest, by lh« fray of Casselton, Blanchard and MayVilie to the international line at A Mint on the north line of Pembina Sounty, in Dakota Terri tory. upon which $408,807.59 has already I'eetl eipended for construction. General Freight Agent Bird, of the Chi cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway, states that the railway companies to whom the requests of the millers haVe been pre sented had decided th. they would not make concesstobis ih the matter of rates that Were 8 CheSired by the Minneapolis mil- lew, Who had a conference with the rail road men in this city a few week* ago, the millers are now allowed to accompany grain in transit, Mr-. Bitd Stated, and this was all the privi!«ge that would be granted them, ^he Northern Pacific Railroad company has issued its first through freight t&ritt. tt quotes rates, per 100 poll«ds to PoHlabd as follows: From St Paul, DultartuMinneup 1 First ^laes, 65 45: second olafift, thii'd class, fourth class, $2. 38 t) ass A, $210 class B, $1.85 class C, $1. «0 class !, 35. towing to trouble between the Des Moines os Fort Dodge railroad and the Minneapo lis & St. Louis, the latter trains Only run to Angus, and no connection is made frith Des Moines. The trouble will probably be adjusted, and tnrough trains resumed in a lew days. Fond du Lac, Amboy •& Peoria railway has fallen to the possession of the Chicago, Milwaukee St. Patil company. There are only thirty ailles of track running froin .Bond da Lac to Iron Eidge, Wis. EXE UAL, NEWS ^GOSSIP. Dulutfc d&patc'h: A party of 250 Iceland ers tfc'me in on the United States Empire on the morning of the 30th inst., and after remaining in Duluth all day left for the vicinity of Crookston, Polk county, wbere they will settle. They are about as cleanly V-l'°f ^^igl-ants as have paid Duluth a visit. The party attracted considerable at tention on the streets. The head-dress of the women was especially peculiar. It con sisted of a piece of black cloth, to which was attached a large tassel, which dangled by tbe side of the face. It affords absolute ly no protection to the head. There was patternntty °f StyleS'1111 01 beiDg 0f a similar Oysterwen in New York promise a large crop. A new kind of oyster, small, and re sembling in its roundness and plumpness the English native, baa recently been re ceived at Fulton Market from Pequomic •Bridge, Conn., where, instead of being planted on the ground, they grow onBtakes, to which ihey adhere. They average a peck to each stake, but as yet are very scarce. I A business meeting of the Free Thinkers association or Rochester elected the lollow ing: President Dr. T. L. Brown of Bine bampton treasurer, William T. Bell Col. Thomas B. Hill, cashier of the city bank of Leadville, has commenced a libel suit against the Denver Republican, for $K,00° damages on account of a libelous article which stated that Col. Hill is insane The ex-president of the bank C. O. Howell" is said to have inspired the article to retal late for a suit to recover $69,000 of bank funds. At Brenham, Tex., Thomas Hoxsie, aged twenty-one, Bon of Dr. Hoxsie, while pas sing on horseback through oceof the princi pal streets, carrying a donble-barreled shot gun, was shot dead off his horse by William Lestard, about the same *g«. The voune men had a personal difficutJy. The largest walnut log thatjever cam Yorfe p|ah'6 liiaii'Afictuter, has, eloped with -Edith Griswold, the 19. year old 'dailghteir.' of Wiltiam Griswold. Fisher leaves a wifoand three children. The Western Union offices at St. Paul ^fas onfthe 30^h., the scene pf a small cy clone. It took the form of letters, of dis missal, and the victims were Manager Wil Bon nnd Chief Operator Taloett. The citizens of Montgomery, Minn., con tributed their nnte toward tlce Rochester sufferers, by sending to Mayor Whitten a draft for $40. aeenfc for Sf 5ecordinK secretary A. B. Stebbins Oanistio, Steuben county corresponding secretary, H. L. Green ofSalomanca. 8am uel R. P. Putrarn of New York city was chosen chairman ef tbe executive committee. Reports from the Vermillion-Lake Indi an reservation say tbat the establishment of the government school there, for which teachers were first secured this year, is proving to be a great good. The school has between twenty and thirty pupils, and most ot them are said to be making good pro- 9 in to New York lies in Elizabeth street. N. Y. Jt came from Perlgeans, iu the French -Jjrenees, is nine feet in diameter, twenty an?L Lln„Sir^pounds. mfere?ce' cwe've aDa feet long anu Veighs 28, U00 Lis worth $2- out iu veneering, $5,000. The appointment under the civil ser inat Chicago was made on the 31st. ff's SBssssisawm Charles S. ^jsher, the well known New fi*-kt ft. Si At the meeting of the directors of the Keely Motor company on the night of the 28th, the announcement was made that the monster engine was Completed, and would be run ob or before Sept. 15. 8amnel Logan, who for months has been Bnspected of having stolen $12,000 from the American Express company at Winnipeg, has convinced New York detectives that h@ is not the man. den, Dan SicktfeS BOm^lathed df hiB neiieii bor, Mrs. ttali, to the kew, Vork health departtafeht for ifcblppibg her carpets so that tbe dust felefr into bis rooibs. He lost the 'case. Dr. Dorman B. Saton seems to hold that personal appeals for campaign funds do not violate uivil service rules unless an account is stated. In a clam-opening match at Oceanport, N. J., Henry W. Herbert wab the winner, opening 500 clams in 35i minutes. Chicago reports a great and continued in crease in east-bound shipments. Those of last week aggregated 87 540 tons. Col. Uges is justly indignant over slander ous charges that he is a wile deserter. THE CHIMIN A t. RtiCORD. Sabry j. lioedecker, a prominent young businessman of Redbud, III., has left for parts unknown, accompanied by tbe wife Mr. Meyer, a tinner. Boedecker ownes about $6,000 to different persons. Mrs. Meyer left three email ohildren'frithout fottd, their father being at frork in Bt. Louis. J. A. tteilfy, frhb was murdered laBt freek at Stevens Point, Wis., was buried 011 the 25tli inst by his brother,Thomas Reilly, of Austin, Minn. The latter is now gath ering data with tbe view of investigating the affair on his own account-. Sx-Paymaster Wasson, now of the Kan sas (Jenitentiary, bas been detailed for out Side work, and pettions to be allowed to cover h's numbered penitemtary pauts with overalls. CASUALTIES OF THE IVJEEK. The dry kiln of the Duluth Lumber Cou pany atttuluth washurnedon the 29th. The building contained a large quantity of lath shingles and pickets, which were undergo ing the drying process. The exact amount ot it could not be ascertained, but its es timated between $5,000 and $10,000. The building was erected one year ago, at a cost of $15,000, no that tlY6 total loss will foot up to btstttfefeh $20,000 and $26,000. fife in Petersburg, Ind., destroyed prop erty valued at $60,000. Insurance, $45,000. Principal losers are Fogan & Adams, druss the JPresB-Republican, newspaper Miss Frank, millinery Hammond & Parker dry goods Burnett & Sen, dry goods E1* ward & Ware drugs Citizen's State bank: T. C. Hammond & Son, dry gc'ods* Bett meyerdo Young, hardware Moses Ffcank dry goods' H. C. Gordon, printing. A man engaged as trimmer in the Valley company's mill, at Eau Claire, named F. Webber, was killed by a flying pieoe oi board striking him in tho abdomen. His fatiifer lives at Osage, Iowa. The depot at Blunt,Dak., was blown down on the uight of the 31st, iPHMSQNJt It A fcfLi VIIS. •jr v^y t^Sfc&'nlb ^s/eWentation was made at FOV't Gaeiiiijg on the 29th it st. It will be refafembered that, at the request of Gov. Caines Lawson, captain in the Twenty-fifth infantry, tl. *$E .•"T*^:-,^- V".!:-'»^.V"-"'^S5!iv^»v--*. |J•.VX.'V- a. A., was detailed to be present at the eh campments of the state toilittft at NewUlm and White Beat last month be-jehtly, tt J?6615]? of New Ulm, tieuts Fa'.lfe, and Lieut, the Second regiment, andOapt. Mcriarthy, of the fern met Light ca red, at Col. Laweon's .'A mrfers at Fort Seel hnK and Capt. MqCaWby, on behalf of tbe officers present at the New ulm encampment, presented. him with a beautiful and costly 'fiel.d-glas^, ap'propri ately inscribed. The COIOUQ] acknowleiged the unexpected testimonial fittingly. Milwaukee Special: Grace Courtland,-tbe Witch of Wall strept," who horsewhipped young Jones a few.weeks ago for traducing hei oaughter, has commenced an action against her divoraed husband M. B. Davis He|ler Bros. & Co., foi- $1,500 alimony, which she alleges is due ber. Mrs. Courtland was divorced from Davis in 1873, tje courts awarded her $1 500 which she alleges is still unpaid. Miss Mazie, her daughter, whose name was un pleasantly connected with that of Jones, is now in Milwaukee. Bret Herte resides at St. John's Wood London, with the chancellor of the Belgian legation, Mr. Vanderveldt, a cultivated man Whose wile seriously set herself to work to tfi &kese genius she had a high idea. MrB. Sutte lives in this country upon her husband's consular salary, not bei'ig able to provide the hon ditions to decoy his fancy forth. Mrs. Vanderveldt has ten bhildren, is herself of literary inclination and is fine at re partee. Mr. Hitchcock, of Omaha, SOB of late United States Senator Hitchcock, and Miss Jessie Crounze, daughter ot ex-congressman Loreneo Crounze, were married at the resi de»°e of the bride's parer at Fort Calhoun, v". baPPy Palr will enjoy a bridal tour to Europe. Hon. John Rice, member of assembly from Erie county, N. Y„ and a prominent republican politician, died su the1ufeoftreliLib.bUi,ding 'denlv of heart-disease at Buffalo. Gen. Miegs, who sprained his ankle recent ly stepping down from a plinth in the great 58 reCOTeriD« Seeing a familiar name 11 0f hau knigbts aV8a?t.FraPci?co Mrs- A-L-Williams lound a brother ehe bad not seen for forty-two years. FOi, VIGK NEfVS MOTES. At Ihe meeting of the Irish National league Duvitt, 8exton and Parnell were present. Parnell in his speech referred to the success of the eflorts in the Irish parlia ment to promote tbe laborers' traruwavs and migration act. He said hi believed the day was near when the Irish would gain in lull the programme of measures for which •tlLvT.u41 been '°rmed. Parnell tbanked the Irishmen and Australia for their support of the cause of progress in Ire -j Jf. t.? ,el1 mosl encouraging. He said blty English members of ibe house of commons conceded tbat home rule was necessary for Ireland. O'Shaugbnessy has resigned his seat in commons for Limerick, to take a government office. Parnell, in his speech atthemeetingofth Irish National league, said he could repor tho most encourafing progress of the league movement in America. He said he had been informed tbat they miKht, alter a time lwok for pecuniary assistance from that country which would at leaBt equal the amounts of sums ol money received in times ol urgency. J-l« bad every hope that the migration sc eme would prove success ful, and tbns enable the people to fceeo their promise that they would never again appeal to America for aid against famine. Dispatch from Ko^g says: Uneasiness over the Tonqnin aftirsMs nnabated. Move ments of Chinese troops continue. The French admiral IB watching events closely, and i« in constant telrgrapbic communica tion with the French ambassador at Pekin. French reinforcements are considered inef ficient to at least 1.000. A dispatch from Hanoi says the recent defeat or Gep. Bouet is,generally known and the Chinese^ are greatly elated thereat, which feeling to the downfall of Hue, has in nowise checked, James McDermbtt, charged with having been Connected with thf dynamite conspira cy was brought into court for further exam ation to-day. It was shown that the pus* oner was connected With conspirator Feath erstone, l-efecntly convicted) and that the cal-d of tbe latter) intrbailCing McDeriHot-t to Daltob) anatbef pdnspif&tor, stitched to thb£ollai- ofhia ,drek coat, was found in McDertiiott's bpx. the Standard'a taris dispatoh says the French journala^boast that the treaty of Hue makes the French absolute masters, of tlj'e situation in China.. The French hope, by a naval demonstration at Trentain to convince the Pekin government that furth er resistance to the dictates of France is use less. An encounter has taken place between brigands and polioe near Catanzaro, in the g•icca rovince of the same name, Italy. Chief and a policeman were killed and two policemen were wounded. The vicar of Btanford-upon-Avon bas sig nified his willingness to allow the remains of Shakspeare to be exhumed. The object is to compare the skull of the poet with tbe bust and portrait# of him. the plate on the coffin of Coilnt de Chatn bord is intcribed with the followihg words: "Henry the Fifth by tbe.ferabe bt God, king of Priitlcb chd NaVarre." the duke of Connaught leaves for India November 1, to assume command of the Meerut division. Russia's court will mourn De Ghambord for five days. =^==e—1— tSrgftt at G-reen ftay. the extensiVt saw and planing mills o'f the Anson Eldred Lumber and Manufac turing company, in Fort Howard, with the greater portion of the stock on hand, was totally destroyed by lire at an early hour on the Slst. These mills ware among the most extensive and best equipped of any in the country, all the machinery being the moat costly and latest improved kind. The planing mill and other structures, except ing the saw mill, were erected in Ibe spring of 1879, aDd 5lL° Arrest of r'radnlent Pre-emptors. Deputy United States Marshal Brackett arrived in the city on the 29th, inst., from St., Paui -and soon aitt-r arrested Dr. Wrigglesworth, on a charge of perjury, alleged to have been commits by him when he proved up on pre-emption claims. Wrigglesworth was arrested oome time ago on a charge of violating the pre-emption laws, and this second arrrsi is only the same esse taken from a different standpoint. He was taken before Judge Carey, where he had a preliminary examination and was required to eive bonds in (he sum of $2,000 for appearance at the net term of the United States court at St. Paul. Six pre emptors*—John trischer, Joseph Champ teter, George Cole, Joseph Gherliflous, Samuel Carpenter and Angus Siani—who came in to prove upon their Claims, were also arrested. The attest is for alleged |^PSfg: the latter abotit two years later. Tbe total losB on thtt building, machinery and stock will not be less tban $200,000) While the Aggregate insurance, as ascertained through the local agencietfin Green Bay, amounts to only $65,000. Tbe company consisted of Anson Eldred, his son, Howard Eldred. and two daughters, Elizabeth and Mrs, 3)r. Hrttwii ox Milwau kee. The destfUtetioh of these mills throwB about i{0 ilien out of employment. Another Steamboat Horror. The steamer Riverdale, having on board about fifty passengers bound for Peekskill and intermediate points on the Hudson, blew up on the 28th, in the North river and sink almost immediately after. Accounts ot the numb«'orbitefehcersV*T'b Brom 200 ahd of ty-. killed fttL fen to ''"'o^'by accounts place lie nudibet oi killed at from three to six. Tuere is reason to believe nearly all had a nanco to escape. Among those killed were Mr*. Julia Liason of larr^town, N. ™,Ll88on» ber grandson, W. B. Oba! Thomas Greeg of New York, Job* Or vett, hreinan. 'leiHciyft Wife 6toe Wrttng, .. OattjAob, SpeSiii. le.legtaitt, Aug. 29.—Mrs. B,. Tanner, wite of Henry H. Tanner, a Commercial traveler for John C. West & Co., eloped on Monday with a man supposed to be a former boarder, named Perkins. Mrs. Tan ner is desoribed as a woman who has always been "giddy," and for the past three months has eudoavored to draw her husband's salary, about $oO weekly. Mr. Tanuer objected and ordered tbat ehe-be paid not more tban SiSJO a Week. This inoenBBd the Wife. On Monday lust she sold all the furniture, Valued at $3,000,&nd decamped with a min, leiving her tjVo bhildren with het btother at Noblesville, Ind. Mi*. Taiiner i« it present traveling In Minnesota, but so. far West* Co. have been unable til reaoh him. C3Q- sp'facy tb defrau I the government. It is ruhiored on the street tbat the men the of ficer are after are Morris Tho nas and L. B. Johnson, two prominent pine land men. Pees iTdr ciaini iVgeiits. (Commissioner Dudley will make a strong effort next wintei- to. hAve the law allowing clai,m agents to collect fees in advance re pealed. The effect of the repeal would be to place agents and pensioners on the foot ing occupied before the passage of the law of 1878. Through that law restrictions thrown around attorneys were removed. The consequences to both claimants and the government have been disastrous, inasmuch »s the temptation ofa few dollars in each esse, has led the sharks to scrape the couu ty with & fine tooth comb to drum up ap plicants, without regard to whether tbey bad good claims or not, The effect of this on the government is to load the pension office down with cases necessitating the em ployment of hundreds ot extra clerks. There is thought to be little doubt that congress will readily take this phase of t'.e pension difficulties up, and at least correct existing evils. Sensational Tragedy at Elgin, ill. A sensational tragedy was enacted at Elgin, III., at 3. o'clock on the 30th., at the Notting house. Edward F. .Toslyn, a widower, shot and killed Etta Buckingham, a young woman. Joslyn bad been paying attention to Mibs Buckingham of a nature which created some comment, and be bas lately displayed evidences of fierce jealousy. He attempted to enter her room tbat morn mg, and being denivd admission forced his way :nto her apartment. There was a scuffle, two revolver shots, and the woman fell dead. Joslyn immediately committed suicide with the same weapon. Edward F. Joslyn, ibe main actor in the tragedy, was a nephew of Judge M. L. Joslyn, assistant a tcretary of slate. A sunflower at Hartford, Conn., stands twelve feet high, crowned with between forty and fifty superb yellow blossoms. The stalk measures nine inches in cir cumference, and some of its leaves are eighteen inches in length and sixteen inches across. President W. W. Folwell has contented to resume, for a time at least, the charge of the executive department of the State uni versity. It is a concession made at tbe ur gent solicitation of the r.-gents. The Minneapolis fair, which was a great failure, closed Saturday. FORTY THOUSAND DEAD. Victims of the Terrible Volcanic Eruption and Tidal WITM of tbe Island of Java. The latest advices fro Batayia, the cap ital ef Java, show that the voleanio erup tions in that island are much more serioda than at first indicated. The disturbances began on the Island of Krakatoa, ia the strait of Bunda, abont fifteen miles off tho coast of Java. The first eruptions were oat Saturday night. On Sunday morning the disturb ances had extended beneath the waters ef thb straiti And thgse #efe Aodii boiling and hissing violiintly, while great wavee dashed upon the Javanese shores, and the temper ature jqjf the sea ^ent np naarly 20 deg., even as far away from the original £oini o'f disturbance as Madura. The furious waves yer® lashed into mountains oi foiani as they came rolling in. The threatening rumb lings gradually became more and more dis tinct, and soon the Malia Meru, the largest of the volcanoes of Java, WBB belch' ng forth flames at a very alarming rate. Men, women and children rushed in terror from their tottering dwelling places, filling the air with their shrieks of orror. Hundreds were unable to get ont before the honses fell and were buried beneath great mass* of rooks and mud whioh were piled up where a few horns before all had been peace, happiness and fancied security. With these terrible eruptions came sym pathetic demonstrations from the sea. The overhanging clouds tter* to sur ehafgfid witli electricity that at cine tiiiie OVer fifteen htige waterspouts 'tireresfeen. As the eruptions increased in frequency and violence, the disturbance of the waters sur rounding the barren coast became more and more violent. Here the waves rnshed in with terrific force up the steep, rocky in cline, breaking upon the overhanging drags: rtnd 1-feWedihK faplUly, leaving A lata Sow it at clleihometit tifhen wai abode ti fyll ovei the precibipe and there remain ing quickly hardened by contact with the waters. The European and American quartc was first overwhelmed by rocks, mud and lava fro a the craters, and then the waters came up and swallowed the ruins, leaving nothing to mark the site, and Causing the loss of somewhere in the neigh borhood of 20,000 inhabitants and those who had tried to find a refuge there. Ban tam, onoe a prosperous and flourishing na tive city, but practically abandoned many years ago, Was entirely covered several times by the waters, and thete must hate been from 1.2 )0 to lt500 people drowned. At the laat adviCeiS tU3 eruptions were Still jsontiniiing, Although their, Violence had abated somewhat, and it is feared that the end of the disaster will show it to have been one of the most frightful ever known in the histoiy of volcanic eruption's. Java is an island -In tCu Malayan archi pelago', the principal seat of Dutch power in the East, aud after Sumatra and Borneo, the largejt in the Sunda group. It it, the Java sea and the Indian ocean. The island is 630 miles long by 80 to 86 mites broad, and has an area of 49,t30 sduartt ,The,1 1?ndia traversed thfoughodt iU whole length by two chains of mountains thiokly set with Volcanoes, active and eit height- trom8i(M0 BOILING BEAT AKD SIOKENMO VAPOB8, but the suDerticial consolidation that almost in stantly ensued would prevent any further con tact Tbe fissures tliat opened in this thin crust as it solidified Would emit torrents of vapor, extending high iuto the air and making a tremendous hi.ising and seething sound as if a thousand locomotives were simultane ously letting off steam. Here and there in the lava streams were Innumerable thin olate-like crystals of fe dspar, arranged in trains one behind the other in the direction of the flow of the cur rent, and feldspathio spherioleS were rapidly formed in the vitreous matter, resembling those whioh form in the slag of a glass furnace One of the most singular freaks of th8 eruption was the carrying in the itlidst at the inolten lava of a bed of solid ioe of enormous size, which had been emitted from one of tbe craters, car ried along by the onrrent, and landed on tbe extremity on Point St. Nioholas on the north east corner of tbe island. '1 his bed of ice was surrounded by a thick envelope of sand and scoria, which are such -nonconductors of heat that a rod-hot stream Of lava ruuning over it will not melt snow. It is supposed this ice bad formed the crust of some vast subter ranean lake. About 2 o'clook Monday morn ing the great cloud Budaenly broke into small sections and quicklv vanished. At the same time the most frightful rumblings were heard, and the columns of fire and smoke on the southeast corner of the island ceased to ascend, while the oraters in the other parts of Java seemed to open their fiery throats Btill wider to let out the greatest quan tities of lava, rocks, pumice and ashes yet vomited out The hissing of these beoame so loud as to be almost deafening, and the waves washed up on tho shores to an unprecedented height when daylight came it was seen that an ENORMOUS TBACT O* LAND HAD DISAPPEARED, extending from Point (Japreccin, on the south, to Negery Pafsoreang, on the north, aud west to a low point oovering an exteut of territory about fifty miles square. ID this were situated the villages of Negery and Negery Babawang. Of the people inhabiting these plaoes and the natives scattered sparsely through the forests and on the plains uone escaped a frightful death. This* section of the island was not so densely populated as the other portions, and tbe loss of lifo was comparativeiv small, al though it must have aggregated fully 15,000 souls. Tho entire Candaug range of mount ains, extending along tbe ooast in a semi-oircle for about sixty-five miles, had gone out of sight Tbe waters ot welcome Day, cne Bunda •traits and Pepper bay on the east, and of the Indian ooean on the south bad ruBhed in and formed a great sea of tur bulent waters. Hero and there the peak of a high crater was expoeod for a moment bv the receding of a groat wave, and occasionally a puff of brownish-gray smoke or a slight sbowurof rocks showed that tbe voloanoes still oontiuued iu active sub-aqueous eruption. The debris of the submerged and destroyed build ings was tossed hither and thither over the tu multuoiy. water?—the oulvsign [eft that tbor» bad*once been inh&tuted' lana wbere au was now a was to of water. THE TOWN or TANEBANQ, within twenty-fivo miles of the city of Batavia, was xwept away by the lava streams, and fully half the population, mos ly Javauesj, number ing about 1,800, ptrUlied. At Speelayk, near Point Salcis. the red hot rooks set fife to tlTe houses and swept away all the thickly-sottlod portions or the town. About ten bazaars, belouging to Europeona were destroyed. The destruc tion of property is vorv large, but no lives are known to have been lost The river Jaootra, on tbe batiks of whiob Batavia is situated, was so completely dammod by the lava and debris that its course was ohauged, and from Franon Bastion it flowed down through Tygers strait and joined the waters of the ilver Emerades, swelling that stream tn snob an extent to rise high on the CauariEelslfinking^whioJijtts totally ^Vil- to 12,000 fe&tin -tgr. v, :.- r-_ «i MOM .PI8ASTE0U8 THAK AT FttST BBPOETBD. lvONDON, Special Cablegram, Aug. 29. Fur Uior particulars of the great volcanic eruption in Java, which have just reached London from Batavia show the disaster to have been oven more widespread and more disastrous than re portod yesterday's advioes. At noon Sunday £n! sll00ks *e*e supposed to Mftjfhsd weir greatest height Bnt late tlia aftrtnpon and evening the tfiolfepBe Of ths dieCufbahM e^ddiialy inbire'iaQdi arid islaiiu^ebiij^d .to pe abou.to be completely buried in a mass of tire and sulphurous ashes. At tbe same time onormous waves began to dash with great force upon tbe shores, com ing in some plaoes far up into the interior, and great cliasma opened into tbe earth and threat ened to engulf a large portion of tbe islands, people and buildings. About midnight the most frightful scene of the Whole disturbance took place Suddenly an ehoi'tnoiis liiminotis cloud similar to that Whioh ivaa seen on the Hunting Gnuttlr, .biit much greater in extent formed over the Kindaug rahgo of mountains frbibh Skirt the, southeast boast of the isianjl. The .'cloud gradually .increased- ju size butil it formed ,a, canopy -,of lurid red and whitiBh gray, over a,.wide extent,.,of territory. During.this time tlie eruptions increased and streams of lava poured- incessantly down tbe Sides-.of the mountains into the valleye sweep ing everything before them.- Here and there a stream of lava would enter au arm of ths sea or couie in contact with the waters of a river, then the nearest incandescent lava as it protruded from the great stream would sud denly produce destroyed, and a large number or lives were lost The island of OnSius, five mdes off the inouth of the Tangeran river, and twenty miles east of Batavia, was completely inundated, and the floating dook there was totally destroyed. Cataic, Claps and Tronueuz, islands off the coast of Java whioh disappeared, an ont of sight, and not a vestige of iaeOi i* left Baby and Oheriba islands, off the north oetst bnt small in extent, lost the few honses and in habitants en them. IK BATAVIA this loss has been largely inoreased since the last reports. The roof of the governor's house Was crushed by a mass of heavy mud, and Shree of the retainers were killed. The town bridge was destroyed. The Diamond and Pearl bastions badly, damaged, and the Bussan redoubt was destroyed. On Gayaiiian8 Malibar and Lions, street^ the principal avenues ,df vtUe Mr. jDd MaUrief, the artist of Punch, Kllrid in oiie e^es, while the vidiotl ot ttte other is often affected. A few yeai^ ago he found it almost impossible to draw at all—at least ou the customary small delicate scale, when a friend sug gested that photography might be use fully employed to relieve the strain up on his sight. The result that Mr. de Maurier's pen and ink drawings are now always considerably larger than the impressions which appear in Punch. The drawings are photographed on to the engraver's block, the dimensions beiug reduced in the process the requi site sizes. ijiirioua Suicides: Margruder killed himself in Maryland becadse of gi-ief for his first Wife though he had taken a Beboti'd, tin entirely Worthy one. Marks drowned himself in a Kansas mill-pond, the dam for which he had just built, as TOOT proved lnsufflcIeBt to turn the wheel* Jetrnie Roberts of Petitisylv&tilfi flung herself Into a stfedni Aftei- being a a a $ SMW-.i^rP-.IftueSi.of .Maryland took laudanwn because sliei c'olila hot take money from' her husband's cash drawer. Atkinson of California mentally staked his life on his horse, and forfeited on the conclusion of the race. On Dunham's Bay, Lake George, the Rev. Edward Eggleston (who wrote "The Hoosier Schoolmaster") is said by the Glens Pall Messenger to be building an aft stddio atld librdrjr,. Se flnds hj£ that^rlal In the Siohes. witli which the vi cinity abounds, and, as these are of all sizes, shades and sbapeB, though the natural cleavage leaves their faces even, the outside of the building has the ap pearance of a rough mosaic. At the northeaBt corner the excavations for a foundation uncovered an Indian mound, containing several stone implements ol curious pattren and the crumbling bones of their ancient owner. MisS CdrriB Swain, tile dptr^sBj who is Sdmmerihg at Bagfiort L. was on Saturday tliei means of saying Mrsi J. &. Deanen of Cincinnati) and, her njaid Miss. Warren, from drowning.- .The ladies were at the time enjoying a surf bath, bnt a treacherous undertow swept them off their looting into deep water. They keDt: afloat sufficiently long to attract the attention of Miss Swain, who, although not bathing at the time, plunged into the rolling surf, and, at the risk of her own life, saved both Mrs. Deane and Miss Warren. This makes the seventh life she has Baved this sea son. She rescued four persons at New Haven, one at Newport, and these two at Bayport. William H. Vanderbilt, who has re cently been visiting the White Moun tains, traveled in a special observation car, and on leaving for Saratoga took :mm —•.•.. •,- .' ,-• city, the damage is very great., Fort Aatyoi is. entirely destroyed. The towp pf. Faggot was, severely shaken, and on1y_ra few buildings,, were left standing. The aggregate.. loss of life -.from, the various .elements of,,the terrible disturbances must be fuljly 75,000, but the number of those who .perished pan never, of course, be approximated, A violent Bbock ooourred.in tup island of .Sumatra, Monday forenoon, andJt was.,feared other violent disturbances might follow. ^Middle Island, ten miles off the Javanese coast, and half way between the extreme points of Java and Sumatra, was almost wbolly engulfed in the sea The small Island of Singkle, prob ably originally only a cone blown up by an eruptive paroxysm, bas entirely disappeared. It was uninhabited Personal Matters. Mr. A. Bronson Alcott, the venerable Concord seer, is so changed in appear ance that his friends cannot at first rec ognise him. One day, when the family Mras absent, the nurse cut his long white bait, And a full beard adds to the oddity of his appearance.|He iB wheeled, when oat of doors, in a carriage, and is seen by passers smiling ana gesticulating feebly. hiB own special parlor car. In this trip from the summit of Mt. Washington to the Glen house, in the Glen stage, he beat the record as to time. So ibe months ago Queen IVfarghferitd asked a little girl to knit ber a pair of silk stockings as a birthday gift, and gave her twenty lire to buy the material The tjueeri forgot tile circumstance till her birthday canie, \then she was re minded of it by the arrival of a pair of well-knit stockings and the maker's beBt wishes^ Not to be outdone, Queen Mar gherita sent a pair to her young friend as a return gift, one stocking being full of lire pieces and the other of bonbons. They were accompanied by a little note: "Tell me my dear which you like the best?" A reply reached the palace next day: "Dearest Queen—Both the stock ings have made me shed many bitter tears. Fapa took the one with the/~ion ey and my brother the other." A Senator With Two Troubles. Prom Sergeant-at-arms French's Lecture— "Ten Years About the Senate." Lyman Trumbull was another great lawyer, and a good deal of a statesman. Like Fessenden, a debater rather than an orator. A sharp man, distinguished by great acuteness of discrimination and accuracy of statement and of judgment. Not as strong a man as Fesqendan, but in manv traits like him. There was a time, while Mr. Trumbull was chairman of the senate committee on the judic iary, that Benjamin Butler was chair man of the judiciary committee of the house. It was.during this period that a delegation from one of the southern states visited Washington with a desire to secure '^he impeachment and removal of the federal judge of their state. They interviewed Mr. Butler as to the proba bility of carrying such a measure through that session. "I don't know," was Mr. Butler's reply. am chairman of the judiciary committee of the house. The necessary action can be had here. But Lyman Trumbull is chairman of the senate committee, andJudge Trumbull is troubled with two things, the dyspepsia, which makes time miserable and a conscience which makes him uncertain. In these modern times there may be many otherdbeaides Butler who would sneer at a senator for being caught in Washington with conscience but there must be left some of the old-fashioned people, who in their simplicity, would honor the man all the more. The average temperature In Hie City oi Mexico throughout the year is sixty live degrees, and duritic the hottest months of the year, April and May, the temper ature seldom exceeds eighty-dye de grees. .« S- Acquaintance by 'teiegtapiij Prom the Oleveland Herald. While a reporter was sitting behind tho railing of a large telegraph office, listening to the careless clatter of the instruments, he ventured to ask a youth ful manipulator of lightning if he had been long on the line. The youth straightened up and replied) '"Bout five years." "Must know all the boys on the line?" "Yea, know 'em over the wire, if I don't any other way. Lots of 'em I nev er saw, but when they take hold of the key and begin to call I know who they ir*? There is no more interesting feature of the telegraphic service tban the abil ity, acquired tlirough practice, to'distin guish between the different, operators on a Qne by the manner of tneii ing. A corps of operators,, &aich iamili&r with, his fellow's method of seeding, would, scarcely need to -yvaste time to affix their pffi.ee signature tp their calls, ue office waited .being able to judge what operator was forking the key. No operators in the ii'ty.^.. M come more thoroughly acquaicr-' ted and conversant- with the men on their wiro than those at the head of the great railroad divisions, which extend in almost every direction from the city. The manners of sending of their different men become as familiar to them as does the hand-, writing of bis own bookkeeper to the owner of a bank. "During the conversation given at the opening a flashily-dressed "sub" bent over the table and transacted the busi ness with an air of dignity that would have become a bank clerk. A moment later some office on the line began call ing the mam office, repeating the call a dozen times, without signing. "Answer f-w thei-e," said the opgrdto'f to his assistant. "But ho hasn't signed yet," ventured the new man suspiciously. "Yes, but I know him," explained the operator, and just then the office calling ended up with a torse w." "But can you tell all the operators on tbe line by their method of making a single letter?" "No, not always by a single letter but there are verv lew men ou my wire that I cannot tell before they have written a doiien Words. Just as one learns anoth ers penmanship v. learn each other's manner of sending We bn veto get ac customed to ali the different styiefi: •Some operators start off with a hop-skip a'nd-a-jump gait, and keep it up all through a message of 100 words. An. other will send slowly and steadily, and should ho have 5.000 wnrH« tn tmnomii lis will not increase "his" iTace.~Theu there ftfe.fellortB .who will rush in A Hies* VA ft 1400. UU Jy thnl way, ft ttro able: to bet-wcan.tneraV!, ... .4 .... W-bilo tho rnon wHs delivering himself of the above information, his «tro as keenly fixed on the business of the line] He turnon toward the instrument a mo ment, aud said: "That isn't George working at r" "No," said the youthful assistant, "H was sent down the line yesterday." A moment later he heard another friend in an office in which he knew he was not working. He feacl ed overt1 to the ktiy called up the officui and theil apellfed ohti. ,. •'A}ntthat vnu F——?" '"Es," came back thf answer, sleepilv "been down to see my girl." "I knew it was ," said the opera tor "you can never get rattled on his sending." Operators ilever tire in telling the Wonderful legends of their craft and tbe stories of their skill and achievements. One told yesterday is good ahd vttsftn fblating. It. SW8 durihg the late ^ar, when etei-yjhing wtts, considered stfe picicttls. 4 cpnfederatp general accom panied. by .an expert .m telegraphy, ppened, the door of a little of? (ice on the Mississippi riyer, and placing airevolverto the .operator's .head told him .to- ask '.'M twenty- mUM above, if there were any. gunboats tljere belonging to the government.. The oper ator was a Union man.: He knew, if he received a negative response the con ederates would move upon the "help loss Union town of "M ." But there was no alternative. The other operator was watching him closely. So he called "M aud asked if there were any gunboats in sight. There were none within fifty miles, but something in the operator's manner of sending lt the receiving operator to suspect the truth. So he answered,'"Yes, there are two in the buy, and from my window I tan see the smoke from two others com ing around the head." "M was not molestoaV Thp_ cIterator's sagacity had saved tne town." A REALI NICK GIRJJ, One Of the Kind We IxTe to See ititd $bMlk Pleasantly Abont* Washington Capital I saw a girl come into a street car the other day, though, whe, 1 was ready to bet, made her own dress, and how nice she did look. She was one of those clean, trim girls yon see now and then. She was abont 18 years old, and, to begin with, looked well fed, healthy and strong. She looked as though she had a good sensible mother, at home. Her face and neck and earB and hair were clean—absolutely clean. How seldom yon see that. There was no powder/ no paint on the smooth, rounded cheek or! firm, dimpled chin none on the moist, red' lips none on the shell tinted, but not tdi small ears none on the handsomely. neck—rather broad behind, perhaps, bt. running mighty prettily up into the tightly corded hair. And the hair! It was of lighn chestnut brown and glistened with specks} of poldas the sun shone 6n it, and there wai not a smear of oil or pomatum or cos metic on it, and not a pin to be seen in it, As the girl came in and took her seat she cast an easy, unembarrassed glance around tbe car, from a well-opened gray eye, bright with tne inimitable light of "good oondi tion,"suoha8 you see in seme handsome young athletes who are "in training". There were no tags and ends, fringes, furbe lows or fluttering ribbons about her oloselv fitting hut easy suit of tweed, and, as ane 'drew off one glove to look in her purse for a «nn»ll coin for fare I noticed that the gloves were not new, bnt neither ware they eld they were simply well kept, like the owner's hand, which was a solid hand, with plenty of muscles betw.een the tendons and with strong hut supple fingers. It would have looked equally pretty fashion-' inga pie in a home Jdtchen or folding a bandage in a hospital. It was a hand that suggeeted at the same time womanliness and work, and I was sorry when it found a 5 cent piece and had been relieved. One foot was thrust out a little npon the slats oi the car toor—a foot in akooa walking boot that might have plashed through a rain storm without fear, of damp stocking—an eminently sensible boot on a two and one half foot with a hl*h instep, a small round heel, and a pretty broad tread. Tne girl was a picture from head to loot] as she sat erect, disdaining the support the seat, but devoid of all appearance ci stiffness. Perhaps the whole ouui: to seen, from hat to boots did not coet $50 bt! I have plenty of outfits oosting more tha' ten times er even twenty times that, whit/ did not look one-tenth or even one-tweni eth as well. If onr girls only knew beaut? of mere simplicity, cleanliness a health, and their fascination! There is a great demand for labqjj Washington Territory. ,jf yJ£ ii 9 I