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They immediately gave ohase, and mooned ed In driving (hem all ashore, tiw eetneof tlaugbter was wild in the «ztreme, Along the head of the Voe were spread the whales, lashing the waterinto foam in their death straggles, white tat he midst of ttaeMood and foam tiwmei^wMing waist deep in water, wwre goicg from flsb to fish plunging fcaocvinto the monsters' sides. 1 Breoe the conquest of Mexico byEu mpMQ, there has been no cessation of woric ie the gold and silver'mines oi the oootitry. Under Spanish rule, or from MH? to 1821, the valtie of silver produced eimded 10,431,348,SiSf., and that of •0ld 343,842,O65f. Since the indepen 4enee of Mexico, dating from 1821 to 1880, the value of silver extracted amounted to 4,503,891,545f., and that of «old to 247,0iMt,930f. Since 1537 to 1880 the average annual production of gold sad silver has been about 45,300,000f An authority the subject states that it •only repairm an improved method oi extracting the ore to raise Mexico to the Tank Of countries to which the world lookaforits supply of the precious met- Newbrny on the Hudson is to have a oentennlal celebration during the pres wtmAulL Among other' ceremonials will'lwi the laying of a corner-stoue for a memorial monument.' For this work congress appropriated $2&,000 and the i^ate$l#,000, and it now appears that, this money is to be consumed in putting up a plain granite shaft. Newburg is patriotic but she ia not pictorial. Some •sf the residents of that ancient town are aow asking if it costs $35,000 to set up a ^rtone. But the committeemen who •have the matter in charge are discreet. They have probably seen the statue of 'Coster at West Point and the statue of UsMln in Union square, and to avoid thing of that kind will adhere strict ly to plain atone. Hie Belgian authorities have just com pleted an agricultural census of that lit tie kingdom. The total area of Belgium is 11,576 square miles or 7,205,000 acres, equal to 315 of our townships. Of this, •6,000,000 acres are productive, the re mainder being in forest, lielgium is credited with being the most productive agriculturally of any country in the world. The average yield of wheat 27,S bushels tye 25-4 oats 42.4 barley '35.1 buck wheat,24.9 potatoes, 194 bush •els per acre. It will be seen that in most of these the average is more than twice that of Wisconsin. The popula tion of this little area is 5,713,913. There are 300,000" horses, 100,000 muies and asses, 713,800 cows and 600,000 other cat tle, 787,913 sheep 593,813 hogs, 298,000 goats, andnoarly 24,000,000 fowls. Jt is not contended'that the soil of Belgium is naturally more fertilo than that of some other countries, but tbat a system -of high and closer cultivation has made Jshfat' The first to get back of the thirteen ^stationary parties engaged in the work $Ulc observation, was the Austrian band, which reported that all the work laid out that stsition, near Jan Mayen isl and, bad been accomplished. Now comes Lieutenant Bay's American party, which 'has been at Point Barrcw, in extreme North Alaska, for two years past its members announce an equally success fnl expedition. Lieutenant Oreely's iparty. established on Northern Green' Und, are supposed to be now wearily ^making their way south ward across the lice-fields above Smith's sound, and very iprobably suffering the pangs of starv ation, having had no relief whatever since the first establishment of their •dreary post In 1881. The Spitsbergen •observers will -come straggling alone .during this month and next, while a iiew parties will -probably remain until j«BXt summer. It is not probable that .nay of the others will have the expe rience of JLienc. Greely, whose station by.-Sh? the least accessible of the en thirti -tire teen. 111 By tbe first of January next, the Hex- s*Mui Central railway will be completed, thus establishing direct communication between the "hails of the Montezomns" and tLe railway system of the United Statee. Preparations aje already going forward in Mesico, in a quiet way, to xw»memorate the event with rejoicings and festivities in the Mexican capital. It is expected that President Arthur wili toe invited to join with the presi dents Mexico in driving the last spike, that the day. of the opening will be de clared.a national holiday throughout our .sister i^ublic and that of tbe City of Mexico .will be the scene of much re joicing jtnd elaborate festivity. The preparations are not yet advanced far enough to .render it passible for a defi nite programme to be obtained, but it js recommended by the leading Mexi can journals 4hat besides President Arthur and his cabinet,' the governors of the United States be invited, and the event "be made a thoroughly internation al affair. Mexico is more foreign to most •df our people thax even the byways of £psrope, but upon ihe opening afcom jnm&>cation thither it will not be lonj fwfore bur southern neighbors will be jSa/amHitur to the American traveler as plants and peaks of the far west American people and American en .Hipaers have already mode a substantial Congest of Mexico, whiefc will now be rapidly followed up with extensive in Tosds of northeners.. In a yery few y«u«, Aiaerlcaas wiU prabably.bo found there in.svsry walk of life, pnw^ically JltOliOpfdteioj: the. business ft ":W nitbo £oon- PITH OF THE NEWS. Frt'Bi Vs»)ilDgi«a. Last weak closed tbe first quarter of the tdvil service commissiob's first year. The «ommiaslon has teen bud at work all the time. Examinations bave been held at •projMr ii tervals and the results have been oertihed to tbe exeoutive departments when tbey were called for. Two questions still re main unsettled, that as to examination oi apulieants for appointment to the lowest crades. Daring the past three months twelve appointments have been made iu the war department, six in the treasury and twu in the stofflcx department, from lints of applicants famished by tbe eivil service commission. It seesas odd that twice ss many vacancies should bave occurred in the wnr deportment wbere the roll ia com paratively small as in the treasury depart ment. which bss sn large a fore- ot clerks, and in which it has been estimated that three vacancies ocmtr «very week. Chi. Jastice Coleridge arrived at Washing ton on the evening of the 18th, and was met st the depot by Attorney General Brew«ter and a committee of the Bar association. He was given a reception at the house of Secretary Frelioghuygen. Among those present were President Arthur, Secretaries Folder, Teller, Lineotn, Postmaster General Gresbam, At torney General Brewster, Juitics Miller. Bradley, Harlan, atebford, Gary, Mat thews and Wood of tbtt supreme oourt, vhe British, Japanese, and Portuguese ministers and Swedish chance d'affairts The remains o( Dr. Charles S. Blumenth al of New York arrived at Washington, and was at once taken to Lo Hoyae's furnace and cremated. The body was accompanied by a Knlehis Templar escort from the Mary commaijaery ot Pailaiielpbia, ot which the deceased was past-commander. The ashes will be sent to Carlisle, Pa., for burial. Valne of exports ot breadstuff*, Septem ber, 1883. $16,099,260, against (24,662.000 the same time in 1882 For nine months ending Sept. 80, 188S $130 430 436, aeni .st $134,937,8U9 same period in 1882. SS KallrouU JSews Items. The general Ireigbt agents on the roads in the traffic association had a meeting at Chicago, and agreed upon a number ol changes in rates. Anew winter tariff, on Northwestern business, was also adopted, a.«d will go into effect Nov.inber 1. Tbe rates are about the same as those in force last winter.. Tbe Bnll Mountain branch e' the North ern Pacific, instead.ot starting from Billings, will diverge from a point some twenty miles further esst. The ohange has been made to avoid crumbling bluffs, which have already caused the company mncb trouble. Railroad earnings far the second week of October: Nor'hem Pact So. $295,100 an in crease «f $112,400 Northwestern, $692,300, an increase ol $53,900. A few ban ancisco merchants havt promised 100,000 tons of freight next year to the Northern Pacific. Tbe Cnmiual Xtecord. C. Botbamby of Harvey county started thiee weeks ago, from his farm near Newton, Kans., with 2,000 sheep, overland through Indian territory for Texas. He was accom panied by a woman named Nellie 0. Bailey, the ex-banker's wile at Sedgwick city. Botbamby hired William Dodson to help drive. Quite recently Bothamby was shot by himself or somebody else, and buried south of Skeleton rancbe. The woman and man kept right on with the sheep aud teams. C. W. Holiister, Halted states mar shal at Coldwaier, KauB bearing the facts, follewed them, arrested and brought them back to Wichita, Kansas. Tho affair has every appearance ot a dark and bloody deed. George Still wagner inN York tbe 16th. was sentenced to twelve years and six months at hard labor. He was the leader of a gang of roughs who assaulted and rob bed passengers at the Roc It way railro.d train last August. His mother ell to the floor in a faint while his wife and ster screamed. His mother was carried to a private room aad a doctor sent (or. The women all wore moutning for the death of the culprit's father. He was hur aied off to State's prison half an hour after sentence. 4 The criminal courts in Washington have been trying a gang of three card monte swindlers, as a preliminary to the trial ot the dishonest detectives dismissed last spring- The witnesses for the defense have been these very discharged detectives. The significant point of tbe trial of the week is the fact that this combination of three-card monte men had, with the connivance of the detectives, made over $300,000 in a few years from the guileless strangers visiting the na tional oapital. Winona Special:—A decided sensation was created in conrt circles and en the streets by the revelatisn made by County Attorney Fiizpatrick before the jnry in tbe case of George K. Losey, the alleged notori ous forger, jail breaker etc., tbat the forged note, together with all papers ic the case in tbe county attorney's office, had been sto'en on tbe 13th |nst„ thereby destroying the all-important evidence ot Losey's guilt. On the night of the 11th inst., Augustus Sawlts, treasurer of the order of railway conductors, and Charles Achtenacht, con ductor on the Missouri Pacific, were robbed at the muzzles of cocked revolvers, by tour highwaymen, on Kew river bridge, between Kansas City anu Wyandotte. Sawles was reUeved of a $200 watch and $700 funds of the order. The robbers escaped. Jam®s L. Davidson, a prominent and wealthy farmer of Cottage Grove, Wis., ar rested last month, charged with assault with intent to commit rape, on the complaint of Mrs. Marie K. Kratt, one of the defendant's tenants, pleaded guilty to simple assault. The latter part of the charge being difficult to jxove, it was not pressed. Davidson was fined $100 and costs,. amounting in all to $164. At Glendive, Mont., Sheriff Taylor en deavored to quiet three drnnken cowboys, when he was set nponasd beaten. In the me lee Claytoo Whitcomb,an Englishman about to locate here, wss kilted. A freight con ductor was also shot in the ankle. One of the cowboys was captured and lodged in jail. The other two escaped. Henry Kyle, an eighteen-year-old negro boy, feloniou- ly assaulted the five-year-old child1 oi Matthew Alday, near Spring Creek, Ga., but was apprehended before he accom plished his vurpoae and turned over to a couple of bailiffs for conveyance for safe keeping. A band of mounted masked men overtook them on the gallop, took Kyle and shot htm dead. In a dispute in the European hotel in Du buque, recently, John A hern struck the bar keeper, a cripple, a Geerge Ruchle, with a bebr glass, ir.dieting itijurlfs from which he tiea Boon alter. Aberc was arrested and is now in jail. He is only twenty-five years old, atd has recently become heir to con siderable property. Charles Brouton, better known as Col. Boutou, has been arrested in New York for offering two $1,000 bonds for sale in Wall street. Inspector Byrnes identified the bonds as among thjse stolen from Philadel phia on the niglit of Oct. 1. At Fa-go, D, T., a man named Anders O. Hellman tried to shoot his wife and boy. He fired several shots, but being drunk he missed them and they escaped to the neigh bors unharmed. Hellman was arrested. The parties live near Portland. A young man named Fuhr was driven into a barn at Dennison, Ohio, by his infu rjate3 nncle and threatened by the bran dishing of a Knife. Fuhr drew a revolver and shot his assailant dead, after which he gave himself up to tee officers. Hntehlnson, Binrmons. McOnrty and La plerre, notortous btnglats, have been ar rested at Montreal and $!8,'000 worth of stolen good belonging to Hodgson, Sum mer A Co., wholesale dry goods recovered. Wyatt Ames, who killed Smdes Blanx while resisting arrest at Little Bock recently as caught on the 15th. and at tempting to escape, was riddled with bul lets. Hev. John O.Nobles of Freehold, N. J., hss been indicted by the grand Jury for embtzzlement. For what amount and from whom are facts not yst male public. Dini. 1 Brlsbois, cashier of the Missouri Paclflo at 8t. Joseph, Mo.,committed suicide on being fonnd $1,000 short in bis accounts. Tbe body of Bernard McCabe of Minne apolis is found near Waver.y, Ha wss beaten to death Sep. 16. I,. G. Medley, a "magnetic," was jsiled at Jsmestawn, N. Y., for practicing without a diploma. From Over the Ocean. A coolie mob made a desperate attack on forei residents and corporations and sea men at Canton, on Sept. 11. As the steam er Hankow was leaving the wharf a China man fell into the water and was drowned. The m-b accured the watchman ol throw ing him overboard. Unable to wreak ven genance on tbe officers ot the vessel, tbey marched in a body to town, set fire tn the building of Thomas. Rowe, Sciith Co the residence of W. Sanders imperial cus toms examiner Howell, deputy commis sioner oi customs, Dr. Wales oi the custom house, Eev. randy and several others. The consuls fearing the attack would be come general, hauled down their flags and dispatched a boat to Hong Kong lor assist ance, all foreigners seeking shelter abosrd the veBseisio the port. Roger A Pryor, of the American ceunsel gained ior tbe defense of O'Donnell, the slayer of Carey, arrived in Loiidon on the 18th inBt. He was met by A. M. 8ullivan, 'he prisoner's leading counsel, and Mr. Guy, his solicitor. Immediately after sup per that evening tbe three lawyers had a lone consultation, at which Mr. Pryor bad detailed to him all tbe steps so far taken by the defense. Mr. Prvor expressed himself as more than satisfied with tbe strength of the prisoner's Ci«e en the plea of self-de fense. London Cable: Sir Stafford Northcote's visit to Ulster is universally regarded as a huge personal and litical plunder. The Freeman's Jonrnal charges him with re sponsibility lor tbe sacking ol a convent and the death of a nun. Northcote has been friehtened by tbis and onslaughts into a partial retreat, and has written a clumsy apology for tbe attack on the convent. H* mildly depreciates Orange processiens and eagerly seizes on the opportunity oi eulo gizing t£e Catholic church. Anthony Trollope's autobiography met an enthusiastic reception in London. At thirty he wrote his first novel tor but fifty readers. Tbe second failed. The third won $'22,000. and he earned that sum annually for twelve years. Avsst concourse of ptople assemblei at tbe laying ol the corner stone, by the czar and czirina of tbe newoburch to be erected in St. Petersburg over tbe spot where Alex ander II. was killed. Moody and Sankey |have to be protected by the Cork police. Miscellaneous Matters. The register of the land office at Iuluth has received crders from Washington to withdraw from sale the lands of tbe North ern Pacific in tbe odd sections in tbe forty mile idemnity limits. These lands have been advertised for sale, and the sale was to have bean on tbe 18th of tbe present month but this subsequent order takes them ont ot market. At a term of the circuit court at Hardin, Calhoun county, ill., one of the graduates of the St. Louis Eclectic Medical college was found guilty of practicing without li cense, in violation of the Illinois medical practice act. The state board of health re fused to recognize his diploma from the St. Louis eclectic as the basis for a necessary license. A number of naval officers of bisrh rank have been ordered to duty on the United States steamer Hartford, now at Panama, to form a court martial in the case ot Med ical Inspector D. Kennedy, against whom charges ol drunkenness on duty has been preferred. It is stated that the Mexican government has negotiated a loan for $10,000,000 with Americans and Germans bonds to be taken at 85 cents on the dollar,bearing 9 per cent, interest. An sgent for the completion of New York the arrangement will leave for in a few days. Eight more writs have been iraued on be half of depositors egainst Lawrence Brain erd, president oi the St. Albans Trust com pany, based upon charges oi misappropria tion of funds Belonging to others. Brain erd was arrested but gave ball of $10,000. A. J. Brigel & Co., of Cincinnati sae R* Harris, one oi their traveling men, for $523, the amount of a bill of goo sold by Har ris, on credit, to an Indiana merchant, whom Harris represented to be good pay, when such has not proved to be the case. The Livingston Enterprise is authority for the statement that Maj. Conger has ap plied for an appropriation of $150,000 for the improvement of the roads in the Yel loA-Btone National park. A banquet has been tendered by (he citi zens of Cincinnati, Ohio, to the army of tbe Cumberland at its coming leuninn, to be held in that city on the 24th and 23th inst. There are $70,000,000 in fine houses along jPjfth avenue, yielding $1,000,000 in taxes. The World prints owner's names and as sessments, showing great undervaluation. Miss Bennett of West Fork, Iowa, was asked her lull name the other day to put on a marriage lioense. She gave it as Iowa Dakota Minnesota Bennett. Tho individual deposits of the Helena First National bank amount to $2,064,365. Its profits for the last twelve months were $108,000.. •I Edwin G. Walker. Butler's colored judge sues the boston Post for libel, in saying tbat he was onco convicted for being drunk. Garfield, Ps., is deserted. A year ago $3,000,000 was invested in oil properties there. Alder Bros. & Newbonlers of New. York have failed. Liabilities estimated at $300. 000. Florida's orange crop at latest accounts is 102,000,000. Last year's was but f0,000, 000. The well known orgau building firm of 8. R. Warren & Son of Toronto have failed. The crop of Florida oranges is estimated at 102,000,000 boxes. Chicago has 287 miles of paved streets. Casualties of the Week. Pittsburg, Pa., 8pecial—The largest land slide ever known in this section occurred this afternoon on the Baltimore & Ohio road, about half a mile from the city. Over 3o0. cubic yards of rock from a cliff above the railroad fell with a terribln crash. A train filled with passengers had just passed, and tbe MeKeesport accommodation was not 500 feet after when the crash came. Great damage is done to the road bed, and all tratfio is suspended. At Watersburg, Conn.,there was an alarm of fire at the F.lm street school during the morning session, and 600 children rushed 1One headlong down stairs in a panic. Many were knocked down and trampled upon. girl's collar bone was broken, and an- 'mm & other had her eyes bsdly cut. A third was found insensible, and hat sastained internal injuries. Many others were bruised. The fir- caught ft. the waste paper room, nev tbe furnace, but was easily subdued. Charles Waterman of Auburn, Dak-., was thrown from a wigou and received injurie from which be died. Henry Slebert was smothered to death in a bin of flaxseed at the Minneapolis Linseed oil comprny's lactory. Personal Mention. Edward Earll and William V. Cox, Uni ted states delegates to the international fish eries exhibition, announce tbe following awards: The jury awarded 48 gold, 47 sil ver and 29 broMe medals,24 diplomas and 7 soec* pr zes to United states exhibitors. The United slates fish committee received 18 gold mednis. Oiber gold medtls were given the Unit)d Mates national museum, thn United states lig. bouse board and the United states signal service. A gold medal was also iven, among other citizens of the United states, to Prol. D-vidS. Jordan ot the Indiana uni^rsity, Bloomiugton, for works on ichthyology. Belcher on Butler: Butler is an spoca ly ptic vision, with ten horns and as many eyes. Tnere is but one Gen. Butler in all tbe world. There is no other man like him, and when he was cast the model was eltber lost or destroyed. Butler, unlike his democ tio confreres, is original and courageous. Personally and privately, Butter is a good man. He is an honest map, a charitable man, a kindly man. I don't believe tbat he ever turned a deaf ear to a tale of distress, or ever let misery go unassisted. Gen. Roger A. Pryor sent the following cable to Patrick Ford of New York: The tumor tbat I have advised ngatnst further subscriptions for 'O'Donnel's defense is ut terly nntrue. Friends of the prisoner mnst he on their guard aeainst malicious reports. Money is much needed to defray the ex penses of witnesses from distant parts, and tor other necessary outlays. Wo are fight ing to postpone the trial to the middle oi November. Sedgwick Bice, son of ex-mayor Hice, passed his examination satisfactorily belore tbe army board at Fortress Monroe and is now commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Twenty-second infantry, Gen. Stan ley's regiment, with the headquarters at Santa Fe. To he an officer of tbe army has long been Lieut. Rice's fondest dreaui and all who know congratulate him on its real ization. Lillian Spencer, the actress, whose rea son was Slid to have become dethroned while playing the part of Cora in Article 47 at Atlanta, Ga recently, arrived at ber home at Ellsworth, Pa. She has fully re covered and will join her company next week. When Hamilton Fish's daughter was married recently, at Elizabeth, N. J., to Mr. Rosevelt of England, she entered the cburch weoring the $50,000 of diamonds given her by the groom and carrying her ungloved hand a prayer boo Mrs. Boniface, the well known actress, the widow of the late Georgs C. Boniface, died at North 6c!tuate on tbe 12ih. She made ber first appearance at the age of eighteen years in Rochester as Mrs. St. Clair in Un cle TOM'S Cabin. Mrs. Fannie Sprague, widow of Amasa and molber of Ex-Gov. William Sprague, died al Groton Conn., on the 12th inst., aged nearly eighty-four years. Edward Hunter, the head bishop of the Mormon church, and one of the oldest members of tbe church, died at Salt Lake on the 17cb inst, aged ninety years. George Head, formerly of Rochester and later of Fergus Falls, died ou the 4th, at Hamilton, Bermuda Islands, whither he had gone for health. Capt. Robert T. Emmett of the army, a grand nephew ol the Irish patriot, was married tbe 11th, in New York, to Miss Helen Phelps. A few gentlamen have contributed £6,000 to pay the preliminary expenses of a six month's mission of Moody and Sankey at Islington. J. J. Headley, a contracting carpenter of St. Paul, has mysteriously disappeared with money ot other people advanced ou con tracts. Benton papers are authority ior the state ment that Col. Guido Ilges will practice law in tbat city. Alfred Anstell, six years old, of Atlanta, Ga., owns $150,000. At majority he will bave $550,000. Sessions, the New been acquitted of the York legislator has charge of bribery. Lyman Trumbull says the negro's rights are safe as ev. r. Two Burglars Shoot Bach Other. John Irving and John Walsh two widely known burglars, shot and killed each oth er in Shang Draper's saloon et New York, on the mornisg of the 16th. Tne ponce story is that John Irving and "Jack the Mick" were in Draper's saloon shortly be fore 5 o'clock that morning. Both were filled with liquor. Tbey quarrelled about some rascality iu which they were mutually interested. They became noisy, and Billy Porter entered and tried to stop the row. His interference roused their tempers to fury, and both whipped out revoiv rs and fireil at close quarters. Every one in the room sought cover, as the double report rang out. The shotj were fired at the same instant and with like effect. Irving fell dead with "Johnny tbe Mick's" bullet in bis brain, and the Mick fell shot through the heart. Neither lived long enough 10 breathe twice. After theshets "Billy', Sor ter and tfoegan^ ran into the street, but tbe reports of the putols were heard by the po lice and Porter was arretted. Every p».rson suspected being in the saloon at tbe time the shooting was arrested. John Irving is of Palchen avenue, Brooalyn, burelary no toriety, and Jack Walsb alias "Jack the Mick," was of his accomplices in the rob bery. Jack was in the Ruppert's bank mes senger robbery two years ago. Bank officers and police rejoice that two of the boldest bank burglars to rea-iily removtd eaci other. "Glorious, glorious new?," said Superin tendent Walling, and rubbed his hands in high gfce when informed of the affair upon reaching Us office. Inspector Byrne added the only regret was that Porter was not counted among the victims. Latest Northwestern Inventions. The following patents have been issued: Gustave Abrams, Still waier, Minn., regis ter W. Andrus, Keokuk, Iowa, brick ma chine James E. Baker, Madison, Wis. balanced side vulvc Warren Beckwith Geneva i-nko, Wis., wagon and gate Wal ter K. Berry, Swede Point, Iowa, car coup ling Frank Bierce, Chicago, grain convey er Jacob Braunwalder, Milwaukee, Wis., valve gear for steam engines Joseph P. Bullock, Milwaukee, Wis., gram binder Edward nrke, Bernard. Iowa, substitute for crank motion John A. Chisholm. Sauk Center, Minn., snow plow Willard A. Clarke, Stillwater, Minn., assignor to Northwestern Manu facturing and Car company, traction engine Francis M. Gomstock and G. Q. Adams, Keokuk, Iowa fenc? William Hanson, Mount {Pleasant, Iowa, tile ditching ma chine, John W. Hilliar-1, Hawlev, Minn., automatic feed regulator for grinding mills Olof Jansson, West Sweden. Wis., pocket inkstand John Phillips, Boone,Iowa, snow plow u. W. Pittman, Keokuk, Iowa, wrench August Scbwibger Milwaukee, Wis., stove hook Phillip Smith, Prairie City, Iowa, wsg and gate Levi Taylor, Osceola, owa gas machine Jessie Waston and R. I. Hit?, LsporteCity, Iowa, machine S'': for making battel Alfred C. Weaver, Lake City, Minn., machine for oleaning bottleB-, Bei.jamin G. Wright, Osceola, Iowa, wall paper hanger. Items of Interest. Tn Switzerland, during tbe snmmei just passed, lightning was known to strike in vineyards and still all the vines several hundred in number, within a large circular space, the severity of the shock being most plainly marked in the center of the circle. An Ohio river exjtain, who for alone time was en aged in dodging U. 8. marshals from pun WJ port, finally tied up for good, saying he was tired of run ning a floating debt. Goritz, wliere the remains of the Comte de Chambord are interred, is a small town of 12,000 inhabitants, pic turesquely situated on the Isonzo, about two hours by rail from Trieste. The Franciscan monastery ol Castagnaviz?.s is built on a hill outside the toivn. It was there that or. Nov. 12. 1S3C, the remains of Charles X. were laid to rest. Lucy Hooper writes from Paris thai there are literally no first-class pictures by certain famous artists to be obtained at any price it that city. A masterpiece by Meissonier, Diaz, Daubigny, or Ros peau cannot be procured for love oi money. Their best works are all in the United States. "If European purchasers wish to buy fine modern paintings they must go to America for them," she re ports a Parisian dealer as saying.."They had an exhibition called that of One Hundred Masterpieces during the past summer. I could have gotten up a finer one in Kew York." Vermont is delighted with Gen. Hook er's law, under which the state govern ment is supported entirely by a tax up on the gross earnings of corpora ions. The Culvier Club of Cincinnati will at any time pay $100 to the person catching with hook and line a black bass weigh ing seven pounds. A vessel of special and ingenious de sign is being prepared for Stanley's use in Africa. It will be propelled by a stern paddlewheel, and the hull will be arranged in such a manner that it can be readily subdivided into a number of sections, each being floatable and pro vided with fittings for receiving lour large v,'heels. These wheels can'be at tached to each section wirle afloat, so that it can be drawn out of the water for transport overland without difficulty. *2ach of the subdivisions of the hull forms, when fitted with tho wheels, a complete wagon of itself, capable of carrying the machinery of the steamer, meri'handise, stores, etc. It is to bo completed by the end of this year, and will be tested afloat under steam on the Thames. The Lee Association of Mobile ask for $10,000 for a monument to the Raphael Semmes. A Mexican planter employed 200 men to kill locusts for him. Their wages amounted to $200.38, and they killed 317,000 of the insects. The testimony taken at the Rose Am bler inquest will make, when tran scribed, more than 3,000 folios. John Carling was fixing a freight car of the New Je.-sey Central Road at Phil adelphia, when the train started ahead and the car wheels run over his breast, leaving the marks of their passage on bis manly bosom. Except tha, there is nothing tne maiter with Mr. Carling, as he is attending to business as usual. The car weighed 18,000 pounds. Many sensible people think children should be at least six years old before starting to school. American scientific associations are said to be behind the European in two respects: First, in the financial condi tion, second, in the prest*nce of the re spectable gentleman who writes inter minable essays on scientific ^subjects of which be knows nothing excent from current literature. Printer's type and engravers' block* are now made from celluloid. Newspapers are not sold in France by news boys, but by elderly women whe are established on the principal streets in fanciful sentry boxes. About four miles from Savannah a ne gro has taken up his iiahitation in a gum tree near the road. One morning! recently another colored man was pass ing when he beard some one sneeze, and looking around could not discover any one until he lifted up his head, when to his utter astonishment he saw a colored man draw in his form up in a large gum tree amid clothes which re sembled a bed. The bed is mado ol moss and old clothes, tied on the branch es of the tree in order to give him a firm support. Old pieces of blanket and bed clothes are so arranged that the party can lie down with perfect ease, swayed by the wind. Changes in the Army Department. Washington Special:—As a result of the further deliberatisn on the subject and in accordance with the preferences of Gen. Hancock and other officers, it has to-day been decided tbat Hancock shall remain in command of the division of the Atlantic with headquarters at New York, and that Gen. 8chotield shall take command of the division of the Mis souri, with headquarters at Chicago, and Oen. Pope will succeed the last named in command of the Pacific division with headquarters at 8an Fran cisco. Brig. Gen. Argur suc ceeds Maj Gen. Pope in command of the department, with headquarters at Leaven worth. The official order making the above changes was promulgated at the war depart ment this afternoon. Gen. Sherman will, on Nov. 1, repair to his home in St. Louis and await his retirement. The general will be attended prior to his retirement by those of his aid-de-camp whom he may designate to the adjutant general. Maj. Gen. Hancock was oflVrtd the command of tbe division of ibe Missouri, but declined, pre'erring to re tain his present command. His letter of de clination was received at the war depart ment to-f'ay. Brig. Gen. R. S. Mackenzie will succeed Gen. Augur in command of the department of Texas. The department ol tb« south has been consolidathd with the department of the east, Maj. Geu. Hancock in command. More Eastern Karinquake Horrors. Much damage to property and threat loss of life has been caused by earthquakes be tween CLesme, Asia Miiior, tr-d the south ern roast of the gulf or Smyrna. All the vil lages in that region were destroyed. It is believed that upward of 1,000 persons per ished. The survivors of the disaster are suffering frightful privations. Complete panic prevails. Mo"t oi the houses collapsed al the first shock, burying their inmate*. The people who escaped b'came panic stricken and sought the fields, where many are still huddle! together In a starving con dition aBd suffering from cold. Help for the Ptricfcen people is going forward from Smyrna. The porte has issued a notire sta tins that 20.000 people are homeless and pleading for immediate assistance. A gov ernment commission will start as soon as possible to aid the local officials. The re port tbat 1 000persons perished isconfirmcd. The shocks completely destroyed six vil lages and seriously damaged many others. New York will have a colored Catholic priest. He is being educated in Rome. •sm&k IMS&S. A. SURPRISING DECISION. The United States upreme Court Pro liouuces the Civil liigflits Act Unconstitutional. DECISION OF TUB SUPBEME COUBT. WASHINGTON, OO 15.—A moat important deoision rendered by the supreme couri of tho United States was that in tbe livo eased cjm mouly known as the civil right casos, w..it'll were submitted to the court oil printed aigti meuis about a year ago. Tho titles of, th^tse ca*cs aud S.ateB from whioh they come are as follows: No. 1. United Siatos against Murry Stanley. From United 8talescircuitcourt, district of Kansas. No. •!. United States atfuinst Hiicliael Ityan. From United States circuit court, district ot Can- '"Nofa. United States airalnst Samuel Nichols. From Uul.ed Stales circuit court. Western district jf Missouri. ,. No. lili. United States against Dauiel D. Siuele tou. From United States circuit court, Southern lietrict lit N' Vorit. No. '28. lliciiard A. Robinson and Wife against Ttie Jl. mollis & Charleston Kaiiroad Company, from United tiiatos circuit court, disirict et 'lou- "^llte'se cases were all based oa the first aad socotid sections of the civil rights act of 1875, aud were respectively prosecutions undor that act for not admitting certaiu colored persons 10 equal accommodations and privileges in inns or hotels, iu railroad cars aud iu theaiers. Tho defense set up, in every case, the alleged uu soustitutionaiiiy of the law. The flint aud sec ond sections of the act, which were pans di rectly in controversy, are as follows: Kitst— All persona within the jurisdiction of tho United Stales shall be entitled to tne tuil and tana! aujoyment of accommodations, advantages, tare «n.i pirvileces at inns, public conveyances on land md water, theaters and other pmces oi amusement, 'ii-dect only to conditions and limitations esiao lished by law, aud applicable ali.o to cl.izons of •very race aud color, regardless of any previous condition of servitude. bocoud—Anv parson who violates the Q-st section iball bo liable to forleil i?fUU tor each offense, to bo recoVf-red in civil action, and also to a penal, st from 41500 to $ 1,000 tine, or inipriaonm.-ut from thirty (lays to a year, to bo eufoiced in criminal pros aouiious. Kxclusive jurisdicii«»nis Kiveu tootle dis trict and circuit courta of the United States in cases »risini! under tne law. The rlghis aud ptivdeires claimed by, and denied to col ored people iu those acts, wore fud and equal •icrommodatious iu hotels, in ladies" cars on rail road trains, and in oresa circles In theaters. Th« Lourt, iu a long and carefuliy-ureparcd opiniou by Justice Bradley, Holds: First—That centres* had no constitution 1 au thority to pass Uiu sections in question, under either me Thirteenth or fourteenth ameudmeut to tho constitution. Second—That ihe Fourteenth amendment is pro hibitory upon the Btatos only, aud that legislation relerred to thorein as to be adopted by concr.-ss for enforcing that amjudm^nt i» not direct legislation on a matter respecting which States are prohibited from making or enforcing oer taln laws ordering certain actB, but is corrective. Legislation necessary or proper for counter acting and redressing the effects of such law or laws that in forbidding States, for exam ple, to deprive any person of their liberty or proin-r.y without duo process of law, and giving conxni.s power to enforce proldbition. it was notintei.Jed to give congress power to provide du-j process of law for the protection of life, liborty, and property, which wou.d embraco almost all scojocts of legislation, but to provide modes of redress for counteracting the operation and effect oi State laws obnoxious to prohibition. Third—That tbe thirteenth amendment gives no power to congress to pass the sections referred to hecauso that amendment rotates only to slavery and involnutary servitude which it abolished and Rives congress power to pass laws for its enforce ment. Tnat this power ouly extends to the subject tnstterofthe amendment itself namely, slavery and'involuntarv servitude and necessary incideuts aud con.cquences those conditions that it has nothing to do with different races or color, hut refers to slavery. Tho legal equality of diflerent races, aud classes ot citizens tBing provided for in tbe fourteenth amendment, which prohibits State3 from doing anything to interfere with such equal ity that it is no infringement on tne thirteenth amendmeut to retuse to any person equal accom modations and privileges in an inn or place of pub lic entertainment however it may be a violaion of his legal rights thai it imposes upon hitn no badge of slavery or iuvo uutary servitude, winch is simpiy soma sort of subjecton of one person to another and incapacity incidental thereto, such as Inability to hold property, to mako contracts, to he parties in court, c., and that if the original civil rights act, which abolished theso incapacities, might lie suuportod by tbe thirteenth amendment, it does not therefore follow that the act of 1873 can bo supported by tu Fourth—That this decision affects only the valid ity of the law iu the States, and not in the Territo ries or District ot Columbia, wbere tho legislative power of cungress is unlimited, aud it does not un dertake to decide what congress might or inignt not do under the power to regulate commerce with foreign nations aud amongst the several Slates, the law not lining drawn with anv such powor. F.tth—That, therefure. It is the opinion of tin court that tho first and secoud sections of the act ot March 1, 1875, ontitlod "An act to protect all ci:i lieus in their civil and legal rlguts." are unconstitu tional, and judgment should be rendered upon in diciments accordingly. At the conclusion of tho loading of Justice Bradley's opinion, which occupied more than »n hour, Justice Harlan said, under ordinary circumstances and in an ordinary case, lie should he-itate to set up his individual opiuion iu opposition to that of his eight colleagues, but view of what ho tiioaght the pooplo of this country wished to accomplish, what they tried to accomplish and that thev believed tliey had accomplished by menus of this legisla tion, he mnst express his dissent from tho op nion of tho court. He had not had tuie Biuce hearing tnat opinion to prepare a state, meut of his grounds of dissent, but he shoulfl prepare aud file one as soon as possiblo, aud iu the meautime desired to put upon record this expression of his individual judgment. Wiscotihin's Fraudulent Ijantl Sales. Mudison, Wis 8pecial There is a secret bdlic among prominent gentlemen here that the declaration by the state land com missioners that they will execute no patents npon the 22,000 acres of land sold in this city upon the 4th ult., owicn to the f.ct that purchasers are supposed to liavp formed a pool, thereby deirauding tho state, will brine a horuet's nest about their ears. In telligent men maintain that lumbermen had a ripht to associate themselves togeth er at the sale, and not bid agaiust each oth er, in 80 far us their action did not proh it othent from bidding bat the attorney general holds that, if any alliance was formed, the sale can be set aside on the ground of fraud. It is known that there are, some among the purchasers who will be gl«d to have the matter drop, for politi cal reasons, bn majority of them, it is thought, will fight if: and, as their wealth is almost unlimited, extensive litigation is looked for. Bankfj Short on Bonds. The last bond seems to have hit little bank prettily heavily. The controller of the cur rency has urged bankers to buy 4s for a year, but they took tbe chances and many of them will have difficulty in finding the new bonds now. Its estimated at the treas ury department that not over $100,800,000 of tbe 4s can be bought at any price now, the rest having been secured by the banks, by trust companies and by foreigners. Of the first call for 3 per cent?, tbe bonds were ound to be held by 180 of tbe banks as se curity for circulation. The amount was $4,078,000. Of the second call, lor $15, 000,0-.0, made last week, 114 hanks are found to be interested to tbe extent of $8,332,000. It will thus be seen that of tbe $30,000,000 called so far of the 3 per cents, the bauks will have to surrender $12,430,000 worth. This will no doubt stimulate the interest in tbe question of at to do to supply a besis of circulation for the banks. The objection made to Controller Knox's proposition to take English consols, that iu case of war Ibe British government would repudiate the se curities, is not considered tenable in reason at the treasury. Action of Waves on Alarine Ma sonry. Tho power of sea waves in breaking up heavy masses of masonry has been remarkably attested in the case of the breakwaters at Wick,.on the coast of England. The height of the wave at this place was several times measured or es timated, tbe result being about forty-two feet from crest to hollow, and stones of eight and ten tons weight were by euoh waves carried from the parapet to the top of the breakwaters. T:iis Iud to the con struction of tho ontward extremity of the breakwater by depositing three coursesof one-hundred-ton blocks ofston on the rubble basoasa foundation for three courses larpe flat stones, sur mounted by a monoliihol cemented rnl ble built on the spot tbe end of the breakwaters was thus, in substance, monolith weighing upward 01 eiuLt hun dred tons, being al»oui twentv-siv by for tv-flve feet and eleven feet in thickness, cemented to tho rubble mass below. But even tbis huge monolithic structure surcumbed to the force of the waves, being slewed around by successive strokes, until it was finally removed and deposited—a body nearly fourteen hun dred tons—inside of the pier, withou breaking. Beauty in Man and Woman. "In well proportioned figures it is usual to find the length of tho body from head to foot to lie about eight times the length of the face," says au uptowu ar tist. 'The length of the hand bears a certaiu prodortion to the forearm, and this to the arm from the elboiv to the shoulder. The foot is in length shorter than the log from the ankle to tbe knee joint, and this is shorter than the leg from the knoe to the hip. An idea ol the proportion which the limbs bear tc each other may be inferred from the following numbers, which appertain to afigure measuring from five to ten inches, from hand to loot: From ground tc ankle, two inches and seven-eighths from ankle to knee, eighteen inches Irotu knee to hip, nineteen an two eiiihtlis from hip to collar bene, sixteen and six-eighths: from collar bone to top of head, thirteen and one-eighth length of foot, irom heel to too, ten and live eighths haul, finger-end to wrist-joint, eight and three eights wrist-jo nt. to elbow-joint, ten inch es elbow to shoulders, twelve inches." Taking along sti'.'k or Alpenstock, tbat some pedestrian bad abandoned in a corner of the yard, tli artist continued: you wish to testyour own symmetry, here's a good method Cut this stick to exactly your own length. Then murk it olf into iwenty-four euual parts. Num ber one should mark about tho unkle joint irom the bottom of your foot, num ber seven the knee, thirteon tho hip. twenty the shoulder and iwenty-foui the top of the head. The length ol yout foot should be simewhere between three Hnd four parts, from yonr mid dle finger's end to wrist joint three parts, to elbow six and one-hall and to shoulder ten. The female head is small er than tho male head: There can be no settled or lixed measurements em ployed to decide what should bo the width or heigth of the figure or of the limb. In the male figure the circum ference of the chest should be grpatei than that of the lions or aoout the hips, while in the female this order iB nearly reven-ed."—Clara Belle, in Cincinnati Enquirer. LATE MARKET EEP0I1T. MINNEAPOLIS. WimAT—This market showed considernuit activity at tho close yesterday, and price wers stronger all round. Thero was some inquiry for No. 1 hard at tfl.OJ spot, an advaace of .'/.c, and $1,021-1 was offered for Novembor. For Decem ber No. 1 bald in ".000 bu lotu, $1.03 was freely offered, but sellers did not seem inclined to let go. Tbe same was offered for Novembor In similar lots. Holders asked lc more for futures. No. 1 Northern was wanted at !)lc Decembor, and l)Ur, was offered for spot. There was a very lair aruonnt of business done in samples at a wido ranee. Tr. c.-irs of frozen wheat wero sold at 81c, and one e^.i No. 1 r-gular By sample at 'Jrtc. Three cars Cony—1 ho market was steady at former qnota tions: -IT'-^c for ?so. Ovrs—Thero was some inqlfty for oats at 0O1 for No. 2 white, aud 29c for No. a mixed. Holden asked about lc more on both crailes. B&KI.E7—Unchanged at 58c for No. 2 eitr» Ko. :i. 48«5oc No. and rejected, :"•!.}c„ sample. Thero were offoriu^a at a liulo above iiuotations. sr. 1'iVL,. IiEAT—This market showed flrtnnoss yobterday under such influences as export buyluc. a mom liberal output at tho primaries and reported dam auo by frast. There were some buying orders in hand at the priceB of the previous day, tut sellei would not moet them. It wee noted that miller, were purcliasins with some show of conDdcuce. having orders for trade supplies of flour at price which will permit them to urlnd as the wheat market now stands. Ki-ceipts wore fifteen cars, and shipments twenty cars. The lake markets were stagnant most of tho day. and prioos ruled lower. Specuiaiorsdid not appear to fluil as much en couragement In cable advices as on Wednesday, allhoujn it is admitted tliat considerable e.port movement has begun. Local quotations show that he bidding for May1 delivery of No. i. hard was lc hiRber. Spot, Octo ber. November aud year wero ill 1 bid 93c tor No 2 lmrd for No. 1: SBcior No. 2. l'l.our.—Trade in this product is moving aloni ut a steady pace. Thero are no features to record. It shares the uncertainties of the wheat market, but millers think there is a tendency to cet aboro the depression. The ranee of the market as fol lows: Patents, Oranee Blossom, $6.75: lied Cross strslihts, (I: Capitol, family. Si.50 Haker-' XXXX, if 50 in barrels, 25cextra outsidebranditl •J Vrr,l)c per bbl less, according to quality low irrades. *2©2.r0. Itye flour, $3 75 Mr bbt. (traham, if'-LOO per bbl. CORN—No. 2 was 480 nsked for snot. October and November 47c year 47o bid and 4!c asked year: rejected,44c. OATS—1'he ouly transaction reoorded wax a sale of 1 car coudemned at 27c. Tho bids for No mined were 27c spot and October 26c asked for October, November and year Bl^c bid and :i"c asked for May 2Gc bid for No. 3 mi*od 28c b'd for No. 2 white: 27c bid for No. 3. CBfCApo MA'tKET-Fiour, quiet and unchanced. Wheat, dull, weak and lower: 01G«!)1 Sin October 2'4^«2^c November: iUft91«c DewmbJr: •JOisOoV: January #1.02M'1.02!i(o May No 2 spring, OWU-Sic: No. :t spring. «lJ4c? in roil winter, '.WfatMUac. Corn, weak and lower: .'.At cash: 47ifl^47'4c October and November: dbc December 15 •n'tf-lOc year 4S a(a.i51-0 Jau tmry .tS'ttMB^c May. Oats, doll and w^Sk' o^c?, ""L1 0c,ol'"r ft* u' No. 1 Northern bronght Of-jc. aud December sold tt tCic. with transit. Among the salea were 1 c,r sample at 01c f. o. b. aud 1 car sample at tfta market closed steady and tirm. FI-OUR—Quotations: Patents, 40:straights. $5ffl V.|u: first baiters', $-l.bt»t!r'.0. JO second bakers', *4 50M4.80: best low grades, red doji, $l.G0i?2. The Bostou market is re ported us follows: llest patents, S7.:{l("17.4.V strai"lits, S 80 .'lj.90: first bakers', *j.7r(«'5.!)0: dog, If'J.TOvitI! SO, in sacks. 'J ho market i. liiirlv active and low grades are in good uomand. but price!" are not jrrowiui: better. Several heavy sales have been ninde this week, but at low rates. 2SH®28Hc November -S -sc December 27:Uc year: Ml 4irf31V: Way. Kie, steady at 55V. Usrley, firmer at t',2,-. i'lax seed, higher at $1.34 «. f.,rk. ouiot an.) £10 jno("fVinS-CbOctober: nD''ei[I: 10.50 cash: S10 10(310.41) !jlO.35(»ll0.37t.j No io'^ #1(,-rH212r7L- D-cember $10.15^ *10.72^10.75 January: aril' ,'o^t• i" -V, L",d'iu fa demand '-'fe'-'O cnth end October: S7.20.S7.22io Decern- 1mv- Z'" :i£r ileRr: ^'•2"e«7-27!'. Jan usrj. S,.d2'3@7..10 1'cbruary. Hulk moats, in fait demand sbDnldors, ¥1.50 short rib* SO.Do! uuvubiikcu, v„ui-vvnrjttt, iu fair domnmf advanced sAc for October: ailvauced i«c for Nov lfavC'l Vwn '°d 1|iU,ror,January NovemW- *7 o", barlty"40.000bu^sr*0 When a man fe declined 'ic foi ataj. torn, in good demand di-dino*1 ytc lot November declined 'sc year. Oats, irregular anil le'f rk "'1 ,p" 'H0 for October: decll^c-U advanced lie for year and May. Pork, in fair demaud: $10.45 October $10 U7'.' November: Si'.o.M year $10.05 Jsnuirv La d' rauced "f"r 'i'1-'1'"year, for October ad vanced ..ji, for November, January and l"1 lieceipts—Flour, lii.000 bbis wheat, rv- '2«o!llibn™i i7 00°,,n: oa:ii' Flo'uf n1?5'' ,, isy.000 bn: ,'uu0 •a'- nWiuP. Bhipmcnts- wbeat, tar1ey?71,Sbo0tu: 38,000 bu: coru. 00 bu Cl.ooo bu: tlir demand. lunl" *"-40 cash 01 bWs: wvZ' "•J"51'- 20,00u 8'00°-bb!s:bu: dr ops $1 out of his pock- mftke'r,uch loses a time but button wortU 5 ceuts he goes on like a ms.im^ sr Ssfe.,