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JOB PRINTING of all descriptions furnished order, and guaranteed, tu more satisfactory at tc Quality. CURRENT TOPICS. trARCIA Gtjtikrke3, Spanish dramatic author, it dead. Tn total public debt, September 1, was $1,841,714,203 67. Paris annually consumes about 86,000,000 pounds of butter.

This season's peanut crop promises to be the largest on record. Tn an nual honey product of Vermont la about 1,000,000 pounds. Thk cash in public Treasury, September 1, was $414,641,953 97. Tbm bean crop of Buffalo County, is estimated at 14,000 bushels. Ton Ochiltree refuses to be a candidate for re-election to Congress.

Anxiety for crops is increasing ia India account of continued drought. Tn shipment oi cattle from Colorado will be unusually large this season. Tn decrease of the public debt during the month of August was $8,542,152 26. Siw England has more seaside resorts than any equal extent of coast in the world. Greece has notified the Powers of her intention to quit the Latin Monetary Union in 1886.

Twxhtt-eight of the anti-Jewish rioters at DubroTitsa, Western Russia, have bean arrested. Tn Austrian post-offices in Bulgaria have been suppressed, and replaced with local offices. A lady was elected School Trustee of Johnstown, N. under the new school lection law. Little girls on summer resort piazsas are getting rich at killing mosquitos at a cent a hundred.

A Kit West turtle on sale at Washington Market, New York, the other day, weighed 460 pounds. Six years ago steel rails sold in this country at $173 per ton. Now they are quoted at $38 or less. Alb-defaulting bank presidents and tashiers go to Canada, and all repentant murderers to heaven. 1 Though the French have destroyed Foo Dhow we shall not be inconsolable as long as chow chow is left us.

Twenty-four postage stamps to each person was the average sale in the United States during the past year. The statute of Admiral Dupont, now being cast in New York city, will be unveiled at Washington in October. A Pittsburg concern makes maple sugar plaster of paris, rice, flour, molasses and a little coloring matter, without any sugar at all. Berlin oculists assert that the dust from the elevated railroads have added Ave per cent, to the profits of their pro. fession.

Tn horsemen of France are beginning to awaken to the fact that the best of their breeding horses are being brought over from America. Wool raising is becoming an important Industry in the Black Hills. A full train recently left Deadwood with 35,000 pounds of this staple commodity. I Recent advices from Liberia state that the country is in a prosperous condition, and that the opportunities for negroes are superior to those in America. At fashionable dinner parties where the fish is Spanish mackerel, lemon Juice in a tiny jar is placed at each plate and is considered best to use instead of any sauce.

Even oranges are now subject to adulteration, some ingenious rascal having in-rented a way of changing ordinary fruit into blood oranges by the introduction of coloring matter. New York is the center of the cigar making trade. She has nearly 4,000 factories, and turns out 1,000,000,000 cigars a year. Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois rank after New York. Times are getting very hard out West.

A farmer's boy of eighteen in Washington Territory became so despondent because he could not raise money enough to go to the circus that he hung himself. Fmi writing on glazed paper will give one or two fair copies without calling in the assistance of a press or water if use is made of a writing solution of three parte of good, jet-black ink and one part of gelatine. Tn United States navy consists of a total of ninety vsix vessels of every kind. Of these fifty-two are in efficient service. The British navy comprises 338 vessels, France has .258, Germany has eighty-six and Russia has 389.

Tn Rev. Dr. Henry M. Scudder, of Chi-sgo, who was for many years a missionary India, expresses the opinion that, "for unmixed wickedness and utter moral depravity no city of Asia could equal Chicago or New York." England receives daily an average of Sf ty to sixty tons of eggs from North Italy. On one day the present season, the aggre-i gate of 130 tons, representing 2,000,000 eggs, was landed at Harwich from this source, and sent on to London by the Great Eastern Railway.

Tn cranberry crop of South Jersey is almost a total failure. Charles S. Brad-dock, of Haddonfleld, one of the mst extensive growers, estimates that about three-fourths of the yield was frosen in th blossom. The season has been, unprofitable So aU fruit and berry growers. One of the Newfoundland dogs brought home from the North by the crew of the Bear, of the Greely relief party, suffered so much from the heat at New York the other day that it deliberately jumped overboard and drowned itself.

Son weeks since an English school teacher boxed a child's ears with some severity. There followed a severe and long-continued headache, and it is not unlikely that the child is injured for Ufa. The medical journals agree as to the very great impropriety of punishing a child in this way, and give the many anatomical and medical reasons against it so clearly that the brutal practice is likely to be lessened. The Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York, rente for $25,000 a year. The Madison Square Theatre rents for $14,000.

What is commonlv known as "Wallack's Theatre" rente for $20,000. The Fourteenth Street Theatre is rented at a low rate, probably at $1,000 a month during the season. The A. T. Stewart estate owns Harrigan and Hart's Theatre, which formerly was a church.

It rents for $15,000 a year. It is said that the Astors get $20,000 a year for the Thalia. Madison Garden, which Bar-aum occupies for his menagerie, cost at least $3,000 a week. A national convention of cattle men has been announced to meet in St Louis, November IT. Avery remarkable sight was recently observed by several persons near the steamship wharf, San Diego, Cat A dog rushed into the bay, came out again immediately, commenced to howl and then went and deliberately committed suicide by ducking his head under water and keeping it there until drowned.

Am ocelet or puma cat has been imported from Brazil for the zoological collection in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, It is of a deep fawn color, with spots and dashes of black and white. The ocelet is said to be one oi the most ferocious of wild animals, equalling the Japanese black panther in that respect. He is absolutely untamable, caring, neither itinaneas nor punish. mm L. GOULD, Publisher.

VOL. XVii-NO. 43. Denied to toe Interests of to Democratic Party and EATON. OHIO, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1884.

the Collection of Local and General News tmimt TEKMS, $1.50 Per Annum, in Advance. WHOLE NUMBER 906. HENRY'S EXECUTION Interesting Talk With Sergeant Fredericks, of the Greely Expedition. of the Greely Expedition. Who Did the Shooting---Deplorable Condition of the Survivors.

Indianapolis, September 6 Ser geant Julius R. Fredericks, of the Greely polar expedition, is here visiting his brother. In conversation with some friends to-day he said his normal Weight was 152 pounds, but weighed Only 108 when rescued. Referring to the reports which Charge himself and Long with selfishness, and a determination on their part to live, whatever became of the rest of the party, he" said: "It is a lie from the word go," said Fredericks, "So, too is the statement that there Were two factions in the Greely party, I never saw a party so united and harmonious as was the Greely party. The only man who ever disobeyed an order was shot.

This was Henrv, as you know." "So far as I know," he said, "there is no foundation for the charge. It might have been that there was some can nibalism, but if there was it resulted in instant deathj-for the stomachs of the men were in no condition to take such food. To speak definitely, I myself saw no instance of cannibalism." "Did vou see Henry shot?" was asked. "I did. Theft of food supplies was proven against him in several instances, and four or five times be promised to reform.

We demanded his life of Greely, but Greely was chicken-hearted or, rather, too big hearted and begged him off. All the time Henry kept in good physical condition, coming out in the spring as sleek as he was in the winter. One day I saw him take food from a man without arms or legs, and from another who was drawing his last breath, I upbraided him for his conduct, but he was indifferent, and afterwards to another boasted that he was able to take care of himself. The party became a unit against him and demanded that Greely should issue a death warrant, or allow it to proceed without. Greely finally consented, and the order was secretly Now, mind you, 'Henry was as supple as ever, and if be had known that an order for his death had been issued he would have killed us all, for we were so weak that we could not defend ourselves, and could barely walk with a gun.

Three guns were loaded, I can't tell who loaded them, two with balls, the other with a blank 'cartridge. The three were placed on the ground, and an equal number of men detailed to take them up for the execution." "Who were the three men was further asked. "That 1 dislike to say, but I can't see, either, that any harm is done by revealing it. Brainerd and Long and myself were the three. We didn't know who loaded the gun with a blank cartridge.

Nobody knew the man who loaded the gun. We were then ordered to proceed to the execution. We found Henry down on the coast and alone, about one hundred and fifty yards away, in the very act of collecting sealskins which were designed for the subsistence of the the entire party. Henry did not know that we were about to kill him, but he knew that he had been warned time and again that he would be killed if he persisted in appropriating the food of the party. We walked to within twenty yards of him, and the ranking man said: 'Henry, we are now compelled to carry out our The order to fire was given, and the man dropped dead.

There was no missing him at that range, and the aim from each of the two men, whoever they were who carried bullets in their guns, was fatal. Henry did not say a word Delore or after we shot. When the sound of the relief-boat whistle was beard, I refused to believe my senses. I said it was the whistling of the wind in the muzzle of my rifle, and pointed out to Long that the gun.was lying to windward. But he refused to be satisfied, and went to the hilltop.

I believe from the bottom of my heart he never would have returned if the boats bad not really been there, for he was tottering with weakness, and it is absurd to think of his having game and food lying away in safety. We could neither shave nor wear a long beard. To shave would have caused onr faces to chap to pieces. Wearing a beard caused a solid sheet of ice to form over the face. You see the sealskin clothes were air-tight, and all the vapors from the body escaped at the neck and frosted upon touching anything.

They would soon catch and solidify instantly on a beard. I never changed clothes from August 7, 1883, to June 23, 1884, and all this time never washed. It might be interesting to note. that we suffered as much from thirst as from hunger. There was no water except as we got it from melting snow and ice, and to do this we had the wood six or eight arm loads of a whaleboat to melt water throughout the entire winter.

We had no other tires." COAL MINE SINKS. COAL MINE SINKS. Two Hundred and Fifty Acres Sink Five Feet on the Surface, Closing the Enterprise Feet on the Surface, Closing the Enterprise Half a Million. Wilkesbarre, September 5. The Enterprise Mine, at Port Bowkley, owned and operated by Andrew Langdon, of Buffalo, was this morning the scene of the most extensive cave which has occurred in this region for years.

Nearly one hundred acres of ground settled from four to six feet The Lehigh Valley Railroad tracks sank five feet, and traffic was stopped for some hours. The air in the mine was driven with the violence of an explosion and forced its way out of the shaft, almost totally wrecking the inside workings. The ground was covered with seams and cracks for several hundred leet, ana nve nouses belonging to the miners were wrecked. The mine is ruined, and now full of gas. Water from the river and an abnndoned working near by is pouring through fissures in the frroend.

The mules in the mine were saved. Five hundred persons are thrown out of emplovment. The owner of the mine refused $309,000 last week for his interesr in the coal leir. A second fall took place this evening, which now embraces fully 250 acres, extending from the Susquehanna River up the hill to the fanhouse of the mine, a distance of half a mile. The fall of rock this evening is thought enormous.

Before all the mules could be rescued six were killed. Even it the mine is not flooded, it will be at least a year before it can be put in working order again. The loss will reach fully half a million. A Huge Tomato Vine. MuNCTE, September 6.

Ira Turner, of this city, bus a tomato-vine which is nine feet high and still growing. It bears handsome tomatoes, and promises to reach ten feet high before frost. Fatal Railroad Accident. Wheeling, W. September 6.

The regular passenger train on the Baltimore ft Ohio Road, leaving here at 9 o'clock this morning, ran over a cow at Beliton, east of here, at 10:40, and was completely derailed, The train was composed of baggage, smok ing, passenger and sleeping cars, every one of which left the track. The engine ran down an embankment several feet in height, but did not upset. Wm. Johnson, engineer, did not leave his post, and was but slightly hurt. Wm.

Horn, fireman, jumped, and was run over and actually cut into mincemeat. The passengers were all bruised, but none hurt seriously. The Cholera Plague in Naples. Naples, September 6. Two hundred fresh cases of cholera were reported here in the past twenty-four hours.

The num. ber. of deaths to-day shows a decrease compared with the previous day. An effort has been made to procure a supply oi meats, the stock in the city being ex hausted. During the past twenty-four horn's, in Italy, the new cases of cholera numbered 293, and deaths 158.

The epidemic in the province of Genoa is con fined to Spezia and vicinity. One hundred and sixty eight of the fresh cases and 69 deaths reported as a uove were in the city Naples alone. The prefect at Reeeio has been summoned to Rome in consequenoe of demonstrations at snax avisos. PROBABLE FRATRICIDE. A Chicago Merchant Found Shot Through the Brain, Suspicion to His Brother.

Chicago, September 5. William Downie, a member of the Board at Tradei was found dead in the basement of his house, in Ita Salle Avenue, to-night, with a bullet-hole in the left temple. He was alone in the house at the time of the occurrence. From the fact that the aee was powder-burnt and the hair scorched, it wag at first supposed to be a case of suicide, but closer examination of the position and direction of the wound, and the fact that no weapon could be found, led to the conclusion that it was murder. He had a brother, Charles J.

Downie, with whom he had frequent altercations with regard to the undivided estate left tbeih by their niothefj these troubles leading to a separation yesterday after an unusually stormy scene, and an attempt by Charles to brain his brother with- an axe. This, with the fact that Charles once shot at William, led to the suspicion that it was a case of frat ricide. Ihe police arrested Charles on the way from the city to his suburban home, and found on his person a revolver With one chamber empty. Infected Rags. Washington, September 6.

The Treas ury Department received a letter to-day from Dr. Hill, United States Health Officer at London) asserting that the importation Of rags into this country from England is fraught with great danger. Smallpox, he says, is and has been for some time prevalent in London, where quantities of rags are collected and shipped to America, and large quantities of continental rags are forwarded to London for shipment to American ports. These rags undergo no process of disinfection previous to exportation and are Verv likeiv agents tn honvev infection Of cholera or small-pox if collected in infected localities. Twenty-three bales of rags were recently shipped" to New York by "Lydian Monarch," upon representation that they had not lieen collected in any infected district, but investigation showed thev came from Dunkirk, Prstii, ulir cholera had just broken out.

Large quan tities ul continental rags are now being forwarded to America by Wall Hull, a more port to shiD from than eiti.tr Liverpool or London. The Cholera in Italy. Rome, September 5, A royal decree has been issued suspending from official duties all prefects and syndics who instituted arbitrary local measures against cholera, or permitted such measures tu be instituted. The Pope has sent $2,000 to Naples to be distributed among sufferers from cholera. The populace of Naples are now exciting themselves with the ab surd suspicion that an Archbishop is in complicity with physicians to poison them.

At Spezia, during the past twenty-lour hours, there were twenty-seven fresh cases and seven deaths. In the past twentv-four hours there were 122 fresh cases and 37 deaths at Naples. The official bulletin shows the ravages of cholera in the last twenty-four hours as follows: JNew cases, 144; deaths, 12a. Cannibalism at Sea. London, September 6.

The German bark Montezuma, Captain Simonson, from Punta Arenas, has arrived at Falmouth with three men belonging to the yacht Mignonette, foundered on the way from Southampton to Sydney. They report that when the vessel went down they and a boy, all on board, took to a small boat, without provisions or water. For nineteen days they drifted about, when the boy died. The others fed on his and were enabled to bold out five days longer, when the Montezuma rescued them in a horrible condition. The three men were placed under arrest by order of the Board of Trade.

The death of the boy will be investigated. Diminutive Emigrants. New York, September 5. Two little girls were landed in Castle Garden from the steamer Republic this afternoon, and attracted considerable attention because of two large tags which were tied to their dresses. On one of these tags was written the following: "This gi-1 is named Mary olingsby.

She goes to Urbana, where her father awaits her. See that she gets through safely." The girls are nine and ten years old respectively. They were for- warned to-night. A Strange Deformity. New Philadelphia, September 6.

Mrs. McMillen, of Waynesburg, is stopping at the Sherman House, this place, with her little four-year-old child, which is greatly deformed. 1 he bodv of the child is the size and form of any other child of its age, but the head is two feet nine inches in circumference and weighs forty pounds. The child seems healthy, and physicians say it is the only case of the kind on record, and they are unable to account for the strange formation. Vessel Lost.

With All Hands. St. Johns. N. September 6.

A dis patch this morning from Trepassey reports a destructive southeast gale Monday on tne west coast, luesaav morning an unknown vessel was lost, with all hands, at St. Shotts. Seven bodies were washed ashore. St. John, N.

September 5. The schooner Lilly, of Buern, capsized in a gale Monday, and all hands perished. Pleuro-Pneumonia in Ohio. Dayton, September 6. Pleuro-pneu- monia has broken out among Jersey cattle in Miami County.

Dr. Salmon, who has been investigating the progress of the disease, also discovered it in herds at Dayton. The State Board of Agriculture has decided it is useless with the means at their command to attempt to destroy the diseased animals in any one herd, when there are others left to disseminate it. Germany in West Africa. Cape Town, September 6.

The commander of the. German gunboat Wolf has taken formal possession, in the name of the German Empire, of all the west coast of Africa between the eighteenth and twenty-sixth degrees of south latitude, with the single exception, of Walfish Bay, annexed to the British possessions a few weeks ago by the authorities of Cape Colony. Disasters at Sea. St. John's, N.

September 6 A fresh crop of disasters during the late storms is reported to-day from Labrador. The Valeria, Challenge, Isabella and Jessie, with cargoes, are total wrecks at Nawtook Bay and Rania. One vessel was lost at Mariner's Island, and three of the crew perished. Knights of Labor Grand Officers. Philadelphia, September 6.

The General Assembly of Knights of Labor reelected T. V. Powderlv, ex-Mayor of Scran-ton, Grand Master Workman; Frederick Turner, Grand Secretary, and George Kufus, Grand Treasurer. Another Expedition to the North. Copenhagen-, September 6.

Another Danish polar expedition ilf start for the frozen north next summer, proceeding by the way of Franz Josef Land. It will be Under the leadership of Messrs. Hovjaard and Gamel. Chance for the Cholera. New York, September 5.

Collector Robertson has a communication from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury author-izing him to allow such cau goes of rags aa are now afloat to land, providing they do not come from districts infected with cholera. Rags shipped subsequent to th recent order win not permitted to RED RUIN. Disastrous Conflagration at Cleveland, Ohio. Ohio. Entailing a Loss of More Than Two Million Towns Called Upon to Aid in Suppressing the Flames.

Cleveland, September 7. The most destructive fire in the history of Cleveland broke out this evening at 7 o'clock in the lumber yard of Woods, Perry ft on the flats. The flames spread with alarming rapidity, devouring everything in their course, and at this hour, 1 a. a triangular spot, one-third of a mile wide at its base, and one-third of a mile in length, is covered with coals and ruins. The fire is by no means under control, and before morning as much more damage maybe done as has already been accomplished.

There was intense excitement throughout the city, and at one time it was fsared'the fire would exceed all bounds and invade the business center of the city, from which it Was removed only two streets and the river. It jumped the river, but was soon checked in that direction. very steamer in the citv.and additional ones from Akron and Erie. are now throwing water on the ruins. The intense heat drove back the Bremen.

and three engines becoming surrounded bad to be thrown into the river to save them, A whirlwind, induced by the heated air, swept over the burnt district, throwing large timbers two hundred feet into the air. A sheet of flame has been driven clear through to Scranton Avenue, and a lumber pile in Woods, Story ft yard is now on fire. Klint's lumber and planing-mills are now on fire, and Davidson ft House's pianing-mill is enveloped in flames, without the slightest possibility of saving it. The wind has changed, and (s now blowing from the river. This unquestionably saves all the business portion of the' city sfnd jeopardized all the great manufacturies On the flats.

At eleven o'clock the heat had driven the firemen from the New York, Pennsylvania Ohio freight depot, and the structure is on fire in fifty places. Nearly all the freight' was removed to cars, and most of it will be saved, as the cars are now being pulled out. The Variety Iron Works are in flames, and will be a total loss. All that is left of the extensive mills and lumber-yard of Porter ft Barrett are charred piles of lumber. The city is as light as day.

Fifty thousand are viewing the great conflagration, be air is full of sparks, and a fire has just broken out Up town by reason of sparks falling on a roof. A large force of men are engaged in throwing lumber into the river in order to save the Seneca street bridge, The heat is terrible. Two firemen on the roof of the-freight depot were overcome and rolled off the roof, injuring both severely. Two engines have arrived from Youngs' town and Painesville. At twelve o'clock the bells rung the riot alarm, calling out the Fifth Regiment, who are now on duty assisting the police.

The fire has been stopped at the west, after destroying Eynon ft Sons machine shop. The heat has induced counter currents, and the flames are now driving furiously eastward. Rhodes ft coal-yards are now on Are and will be a total loss. September 8 a. m.

The fire is now under control. The flames eat their way into the yards of Hubbel and Westover, destroying about $10,000 worth of property. The burnt district covers about one hundred acres. The largest lumber yards and planing mills in the West were located on these flats. Woods, Perry ft King ft Clint, Davidson ft House, Variety Iron-works, sustain a total loss.

The origin of the fire is incendiary. The loss to the lumber interest, together with the interruption of business, it is thought will reach nearly $2,500,000. The lumbermen were all heavily insured. At three o'clock the fire is still burning brightly, but fully under control. Oh! Foolish Man! Cape Girardeau, September 7.

A man named Renson, living at Arbor, nineteen miles south-west of here, hearing anqiseinbis apple orchard last night, went to the door and fired his gun. At daylight he found be bad killed a mule belonging to a neighbor named Thomas. At nine o'clock this morning, after consultation with his daughter, they concluded it was a penitentiary offense, and, fearing the disgrace, he reloaded his single-barrel shot-gun, went out in the orchard, and lying down with his head against a tree, be placed the muzzle of the gun in his mouth, and touching the trigger with a stick blew the whole top of his head off. Plague-Stricken Naples. Naples, September7.

The situation here is serious. During the past twenty-four hours nearly three hundred-fresh cases of cholera were reported, but the mortality is only thirty per cent, of those attacked. A Swede, who withholds his name, offered 70,000 lire in aid of victims. The minister of Agriculture and Commerce has requested the Bank of Naples to advance the municipality 250,000 lire for the relief of the poor. Hooked in Mouth by the Cow.

New Philadelphia, O. September 7. The bright little son of Edward Stineburgh, living at Lockport, one-half mile south oi here, had terrible mishap yesterday while driving home the cows. One of the cows hooked him, the horn catching in the lad's month, tearing the flesh in a horrible manner. The boy is still aliv, but it was a narrow escape from instant death.

Privateering Advocated. Paris, September 7. Gabriel Charmes, In an article in the Revue Litteraire et Politique advocates privateering to crush England's naval power. He holds up Captain Semmes as a model for the future naval heroes of France. He says a score nf Alabansas would suffice to annihilate England's colonial and commereia 1 power.

Frosts in the Northwest. St. Paul, September 7. Winnipeg (Manitoba) report slight frosts at various points on the Canadian Pacific Sunday morning. Lowest temperature 31s above.

At daylight a light drizzling rain set in, averting all possible damage, thougbfunder any circumstances the injury has been light, as harvesting is about over. Fatal Accident to a Circus Train. Nashville, September 7. The first section of a train carrying Doris' cir. us, while backing tojday on the Glasgow branch of the Louisville and Nashville Road, ran off the track, and eight cars were ditched.

One man was killed outright, and eight others badly hurt. Particulars and names are not ascertainable. The swell" handkerchief now has a picture of a well-known actress in one corner. "You would be surprised to see how many of these we sell," said a Chatham street dealer. "It has become a craze among the young men to have the picture of their "girls on the corner of their handkerchiefs.

A gentleman brings us the picture of his adored. It is photographed on a plate, and then put through the same process by which the illustrated papers transfer their pictures. It is done at a verv small cosf'iV. Y. Graphic.

A correspondent of the Boston Qlobe gives the following cure for catarrh: "Take about a pint of warm water, add one or two teaspoonfuls of fluid extract of witch-hazel and twenty or thirty drops of tincture of myrrh. Put the mixture in a rubber douche in an elevated position, place the nozzle oi the tube in the nostrils alternately say for fifteen minutes, and the specilic gravitv of the fluid will do the work. Use twice a day." It is predicted that the volume of telegraph business in the country will be lully doubled within the next live years. STATE NEWS ITEMS. Try thirteen-year-old daughter of Jacob Hnnklegin attempting to rescue her little, brother from the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad track at Snyder's Station, one mile east of Enon, was herself struck by the east-bound passei.er train of the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis Railroad, breaking both arms and collar bone.

It is thought she will recover. The other night near Columbus, John Lewis, a Wealthy dairyman, was shot and killed by Unknown parties. In Cincinnati a few nights since, Matt Williams, aged twenty -one, was shot dead by Geo. Gilbert, aged twenty-one, both colored, in Alf. Turner's dive, as the result of a quarrel over a woman named Alice Porter.

The Columbus Boot and Shoe Company assigned, with $70,000 liabilities. Detective Norms was arrested at Nel-sonville charged with stealing a revolver. The coal mines at New Straitsville are closed for one year on account of the strike. Jesse P. Brush, one of the New Lexington Guards on duty at Longstreth mines, was accidentally shot by a comrade and wounded in the thigh.

The mines of the Ohio Central Coal Company have been ordered closed by the receiver, owing to the unsettled condition sf trade, and will not be opened again till the mining rate has been definitely estab-iKed. at Miliersburg, Thomas Harlan recovered judgment against the Trustees of Washington Township, for the balance of a bounty of $60 due him for enlisting in the late war to the credit of that township. A number of similar suits will be brought against other townships. Hiram B. Wilson, lumber dealer, of Cleveland, visiting at his brother's, in Johnstown, drowned himself in Fine Lake.

He was partially deranged. A Man named Mead, of Carrollton, was assaulted by two men, at Canton, the other evening, and robbed of 1 ,200. The robbers escaped. Fred. Gbktnkk shot and killed Maggie Seeling in Columbus because she did not take kindly to his attentions.

There are eighty-four life-prisoner 6 in the Ohio Penitentiary. Timothy Reed, seventeen years old, shot himself in the abdomen while hunting ducks at the Lewiston Reservoir, near Belief ontaine. He died almost instantly. Chas. Hickman, living on John Eaull's farm, near Mexico, Seneca County, was killed in a strange manner.

He was hauling a load of stone along the road between McCutchenville and Sycamore, and in crossing a bridge it gave way, precipitating him into the creek below, one of the large stones striking him on the back of the neck, crushing his skull and killing him instantly. The bridge is an old one, with a span of fifty feet, but was in constant use, a load of stone haying passed over it but a few moments previous to the accident. IN the (northwestern part of Belmont, southern part of Harrison and northern part of Guernsey Counties, sheep are dying by hundreds from scarcity of grass, due to drought and grasshoppers. Sheep formerly held at Jo a head can now be bought at $1. The Ohio State Fair at Columbus closed on the 6th.

The attendance was very good, and the fair was a success in every respect. The aggregate of entries was in excess of last year. John Graham suicided in the Hamilton County jail. John McColxodgm, aged forty-five, an old resident of Cuyahoga Falls, was instantly killed a few day ago by a Pittsburg, Cleveland and Toledo express train about two miles north of Akron. McCullough was standing with flis wagon on the track watching a passing train on the Cleveland, Akron and Columbus road, about twenty-five rods distant, when he was struck.

His neck was broken. His five-year-old son was also in the wagon, and suffered a fracture of the skull, but will probably recover. Secretary W. I. Chamberlain has completed his tabulations from the returns of the township correspondents and tha August crop report of the Ohio Board of Agriculture, and gives the following figures and estimates: For wheat, oats and barley they are based on returns of actual threshing up to August 18 by some 3,000 machines.

For other crops they are based on estimates made by 1,122 regular township correspondents. The estimates are in percentages, campared with full average crop or condition of growth Wheat Acres threshed, bushels from the same, yield per.acre, bushels; total bushels at same rate, quality, 101 per cent. This is our largest crop except I860, which was 48,640,000 bushels. The July 1st estimate was 36,187,000, but it is yielding better than was anticipated. Oats Acres threshed, bushels from same, yield per acre, 31.2; total bushels at same rate, 23,893,963.

Barley Acres threshed, bushels, yield per acre, 27.6; total at same rate, Condition of other crops (percent.) Rye, 92; corn, 79; buckwheat, 60; potatoes, 61; tobacco, 62; sorghum, 66; clover seed, 48; apples, 68; grapes, 65; pastures, 59. Stock-hogs; condition, 84 ditto, number, 76 per cent. Drought has been general and quite severe twice during the sum mer for about four weeks each time, ending the first time with generally rains from July 23 to July 28, and by fairly general local showers from August 22 to August 28. The July drought was most severe in Northern and Eastern Ohio, while the August drought was most severe in Central and Southern Ohio. Pastures are very short of feed for stock.

The quality of the wheat is the best ever threshed in Ohio. The years coming nearest to this year's yield of wheat is as fol lows: Years. Yield Bushels. 1S78 M.iis.'is:! 1879 M80 4SJMUJSJ 1881 1882 42,112,403 A singular and mysterious attempt to kill took place at Covington, the other night, near Rendville. Some unknown -arty fired a load of mixed shot into the neck and back of M.

Gibney, a fireman on the Ohio Central. Dr. Holcom has taken several buckshot from the man's body, and says that thsy are not al I out yet. Gibney is not mortally hurt, and refuses to talk about the affair. The Union Advocate is the title of a new weekly paper started at Columbus in the interests of organized labor.

David P. Boyer is the editor. Jim Hayden, who killed Mike Morgan in Cincinnati, is sentenced to the penitentiary 'or six years. Sam Bailet, a negro blacksmith at Alliance, charged with complicity in the Reese murder, had a bearing in the Probate Court at Canton, which resulted in his being committed to await th action of the grand jury. Adjutant W.

B. Anderson, of the Fourth Regiment, O. N. has received an h-jn-ortvble discbarge from the Adjutant General of tbe State. The above figures relate to Ohio exclu sively.

For tbe entire country, the yield will be about 600,000,000 bushels, ratfaei above a full average crop. THE NOISES OF THE NIGHT. The watchful dog howls to n-reet the moon Dene er ne gets a peep, I hear him as I vainly try to snatch a wink of sleeo. Borne reveller without a key is hammering at the door; I really think that slumber now will visit me no more; And pussies prowl upon the tiles, fhey caterwaul and no-ht: terrible, indeed, we find the Noises of the nignc. Borne mysteries are on a spree, and sing a horrid song; A newsboy screeches latest news that's certain to uo wrong; A cart goes lumbering by the door, it's full of iron rods.

rm certain, by the noise it makes; but, bang it, wnat the oaasr For sleep is quite Impossible, although the window itrht. So utterly distracting are the Noises of the Murnt. They're beating carpets, I declare, at night, a gnastiy ireaa; A nd no that loose old chimney-pot, of cofi rse, begins to creak; A cab stops at my neighbor's house, and loud they bang tbe door. Which wakes me when I'd just begun my most harmonious snore; It's hard upon a nervous man to wake up in a fright. But what can one expect with all the Noises of tbe Night.

And, ere the morning light has dawned, the lively cocks and hens Emerge "as fresh as paint," I know, from out adiacent pens; And then the loud Infernal crow from that old Chanticleer Comes, banishing all further sleep, upon my tortured ear; I could not slumber until late, I'm roused at earliest lio-ht who will rid the fevered brain of tbe Noises Punch. LIVING ON A SMALL SALARY. Thrift and Comfort of a Brooklyn Clerk and His Cozy Home in a Flat and His Cozy Home in a Flat $300 on a Salary of $1,000 for the Frugal. A smiling little opened the door of a plainly furnished sitting-room at the top of the second flight of stairs and ushered two men into the apartment with the regal courtesy of a housekeeper conscious of her own merits. It was about six o' clock p.

and through a doorway leading into the dining-room could be seen a white-robed table temptingly set for dinner. "I thought I heard you coming," the little woman said, placing one hand affectionately upon the arm of the tallest of the two gentlemen, while she pleasantly acknowledged an introduction to the other. "My wife always listens for me at dinner time," said the tall man in an explanatory tone to his male companion. "Yes, and I can always tell your step," was the little lady's reply. A few other remarks of a dome-tic character were interchanged, and the young couple, with their guest, sat down to dinner feeling cheerful as well as hungry.

The husband was the clerk whom the wealthy merchant, Mr. described as "a man who supports himself, wife, and child on less than 1 a year," and the guest was the writer who gave the reader of the Times a few weeks ago on account of how a man with a family can live in New York on a year, "You observe," said the husband, as he struck his earring knife on the steel preparatory to attacking a modest roast of beef which his wife placed before him, "that although we have but little beyond the bare necessities of life, we manage to live comfortably and hap- niltr "Yes, indeed, we are happy." interjected the wife, removing her kitchen apron and taking her seat behind a steaming coffee-pot. "We have good health, all we want to eat, drink, and wear, and our baby is the prettiest and cutest baby in the world. I don't s-ee what more anybody can want to make them happy. "Do you take milk in your coffee?" "If you please," said the newspaper man.

"Just look around you and you will see what a good wife can accompli remarked the husband, as he passed to his guest a plate containing a nice cut of beef, a couple of boiled potatoes, and a liberal portion of green peas. "All of the decorations of this room, including the rug, the window-curtains and even that expensive-looking buffet in the corner are the handiwork of Mrs. K. When you get an insight into her genius for improvising household articles you will not think it strange that we manage to lay by $200 or $'M0 each year out of my salary of $1,000. With a few bits of carabrie and pine board she can till a room full of stylish and useful furniture.

She can make a dollar go farther "Now, Edward, interrupted the wife, with a pretty affectation of reproof, "the gentleman did not come here to listen to your praise of myself. He desires, as 1 understand it. the plain facts of how we manage to live within our small income. I can tell him in a very few words just how it is." "Very well; go ahead," replied the subdued husband, helping himself to another potato. "My husband, as you know, gets a salary of $1,000 per year," said the little lady, turning with animation toward the newspaper man.

"He gets his pay once a month, and he brings home $8 and a few cents. When we were married we made up our minds so to live as to be able to put something in the bank each month, and We have not yet failed to do so. We figured that our $1,000 a year gave us about $2.73 a day, and we based all of our estimates of expenses on that. Both of us have lived in Brooklyn most of our lives, and we concluded to stay here. Of course, this Hat is a great way from the bridge and the ferries about two and a naif miles, isn't it, Edward? but the neighborhood is quiet, respectable and healthful.

We pay $20 a month for this Hat, and we I rent out the front parlor for $8 a month. ii iuii onngs our rent aown to viz a month, or about forty cents a day. The landlord pays the water bill for the whole building, and as we do not burn gas we have no gas bills. The oil that we burn costs us thirty cents a month in the winter, and, of course, much less than that in the summer. I do my own housework, and therefore we save the servant's wages and what the servant would waste.

As for fuel, we use ten tons of coal a year, the av erage cost of which last year was about a ton, brought into the building. That makes seventeen or eighteen cents a day." "Tell him about the provisions," said the husband, with a chuckle. "I am coming to that part of the story," said the little woman, with a threatening glance at her husband. Then addressing herself to the silent guest, she said: "Edward makes a great deal of fun about my buying the provisions for our table, because 1 will never let cost ot what we eat go above a certain amount each week. If we have an extra good dinner one day we practice a little self-denial for the rest of the wck.

Some days we do not eat any tfutter, other days we go without milk, and in warm weather we onlv have meat once fn fonr or five day. How much do you think it costs me a week to supply our table? Please give a rough guess." about twelve or fourteen dollars," promptly answered the newspaper man, making what he thought was a low estimate. "I spend four dollars a week, and no more, for provisions," replied Mrs. with an emphatic toss of the head. This dinner to-day is extra, because we have company, but 1 shall not allow it to increase the aggregate cost of onr food for the week.

"That's so, she groaned Edward. "To-morrow there will be nothing bnt herrings, soda crackers and cold water on the table." "I resent that imputation," said the young wife, laughingly. "Edward knows that we always have plenty oi good, wholesome food. In fact," we are obliged to have it. for both he and I exercise a great deal each day, and then our baby is two years old, and she has a ravenous appetite.

I know that to persons who have kept house it will seem almost incredible that a family of three can be well fed on sixty cents worth of food each day. We could not fet along on what sixty cents would uy if I should purchase my supplies from day to day. But I go to market, sometimes twice a week and sometimes once a week, and buy enough to last two or three days or a week, as the case may be. Flour 1 buy by the bag, and sugar ten or twenty pounds at a time. I make my own bread, cakes and pastry, and I have learned how to dress up fancy little dishes out of the simplest kind of fare.

We have ham quite often. One ham will last us a long while, yet we do not get tired of it, because there are a dozen different ways of preparing it for tbe table. Whenever I buy a roast of beef we have it in many different forms. I can get a good roast-at my butcher's for one dollar, and that will last ns three or four days. We will have from that single piece a meal oi roast beef, a meal of stewed meat with potatoes, a platter of cold meat with pickles, and perhaps some good beei son p.

We eat a good deal of oatmeal, cracked wheat, hominy and rice. Such food is not only nourishing, but it costs but little, and can be served in a great variety of ways. Fried hominy and sirup' or rice pudding makes a very nice dessert By the way, I shall ask yoni opinion of some of my rice pudding as soon as you have finished your beef and potatoes." The pudding was served a few minutes afterward, and it was truly a delicious compound.of rice and egg and sugared frosting. "Now let me do a sum in addition," said the husband, taking out his pencil, after the meal was over. "My wife says that we pay forty cents a day for rent, sixty cents a day for provisions, eighteen cents day for fuel and about one cent a day for oil; that makes just one dollar and nineteen cents.

Is there anything elseP" yes," exclaimed the wife, "there is Kate, the washerwoman I pay her one dollar and twenty-five cents a week, which is about eighteen cents a day." "Well, that brings our necessary expenses, not including clothing, up to a day," continued the young man, putting on a thoughtful air. My salary, as you say, is about $2.73 a day. i.ast year we saved nearly $270, which is a tride more than seventy-three cents a day. Take that out and it leaves us just about $2 a day to live on. We have already accounted for $1.37.

What be comes of the rest?" "We spent about $150 for clothinz last year, suggested the wife. "ou had that 2o suit and your summer suit which cost $10, and 1 had a dress and my new cloak, which, with what the baby had to have, and shoes and hats for all of us brought the whole amount up to nearly $150." "That makes about forty cents a dav to be added to the $1.37, making in all $1.78 of our $2. There is twelve cents a day or a little over $43 yet to be accounted for. That, I suppose we can put down for incidentals. Ibe young wife nodded her head affirmatively, and the newspaper man, asked, with some surprise, whether it was possible that the $13 would coverj a whole year's expenses for two persons in car-fare, amusements, lunches' in New York.

etc. said Mrs. R. eagerly, "but we don't have any such expenses. It is very seldom that my husband or myself has occasion to take a street-car-I walk to market and back; it is not very far, and Edward always walks to and from his place of business.

His daily expenses are just two cents one cent for crossing- tbe bridge in the morning and one cent for coming back at night." "But it is two miles and a half from your house to the bridge," exclaimed tne newspaper man. "That is nothing," interposed Ed ward. I walk it twice a day, rain or shine, and I enjoy it. It is the only physical exercise that I have. It is but a short distance from the New York end of the bridge to the store, which is in the ary-goods district, as you know I take my lunch with me." "Don't you ever go to places of "Once in a great while my wife and I spend money for such things, but not very often.

Wo cannot afford it, and we both had much rather put the money thus spent into books and stay at nome and read. By the way, there i i a little item we left out of our calculation. We pay fiftyscents a month for tbe privilege of drawing books from a circulating library. That takes six dollars out of the forty-three dollars that was not accounted for. iortunately for my wife, she had a great many ac quaintances in Brooklyn, and she had all of the social recreation that she had time to take.

She and I both agree, however, that it is our duty to save at least as much as we do. A young man with a small salary and a family on his li T. 1 1 a runs (rrnQt lnalr In aiunmnff all that he earns. Suppose he should have along nt of sickness. What a plight his family would be in! They would, in a short time, become subjects for the charity of the neighbors.

of that for me, if you please. I would rather deny myself unnecessary comforts and have the consciousness that if anything should happen to me, my wife and child would have a little something to fall back upon. "Do your employers allow you vsMsation each year? "No. In such large houses as one I am with there are too man clems to make the vacation plan feasible Only the heads of departments are ranted leaves of absence with pay. If should want to go away for a week this summer I might possibly get per mission to go, as ousiness is ratner dull," but I would lose my week's pay." if.

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San Francisco CaU. A young Christian Chinamen who is earning twenty-five dollars a month at the Island of Tahiti devotes twenty dol lars of it to the purchase ot tracts ana leaflets for distribution among his countrymen. in a church near Chicago the mem bers of the congregation have constantly before their eyes this motto, inscribed on one of the walls: "I am only one, bnt I am one; I cannot do everything, but I can do something; wnat i can do i ought to do, ana wnat I ought to do, by the grace of God I will do. Chicago Journal. At the Congregational Club of New York Dr.

Clapp said, among other evils of the present, one was the building of too costly churches. "Better build fifty churches for the poor than one $500,000 temple. I do not believe the Lord cares whether a church cost $10,000 or $500,000, but I do believe he cares whether there fs one church or fifty churches. H. Y.

Times. Encrland has a DODulation of 000,000, and sends 5,000 students to her two great universities. Scotland has a population of 4,003,000, and has 4,500 university students. Germany has a population of 48,000,000 and has 22,500 in her universities. The New England States have a population of 4,110,000, and have 4,000 in their colleges and universities.

Chicago Herald. The Yale men are still of the opin ion that the createst triumnh of the year achieved by their college was when tne champions of tbe blue came in at New London four whole lengths ahead of Harvard in the great boat-race. We may expect next year that in both colleges boating will be the study that will engage tbe chief attention of the students. What time they have left they may condescend to spend on Latin. and (jreek and such comparatively use less matter.

-V. Y. Exatnner. In 1881 the averaze income of male teachers in Vermont was $7.44 a week. while in 1884, under the inSrtence of a benign and progressive civilization, it has risen to $8.58.

The female teachers in 1881 were paid $4.21 a week, which sum has been increased to $5.01 in 1884. It is also stated that the number of schools and teacher has very con siderably decreased within the period a statement that is not at all surpris ing. It is evident that New England needs some reform in her educational policy at home, before claiming the privilege of holding herself up as a shining exemplar to the rest of the country. Current. I he London Tablet says: The ordi nary expenses of the Holy See may be put down at about 5,000,000 francs, and certain other expenses mav bring the total up to nearly 7,000,000." Formerly the Holy Father drew from the States of the Church an annnal civil list of 3,210,000 francs, which was employed in the maintenance of his court, of the Cardinals residing in Curia, of the personnel of the Punciatures, the various congregations, etc.

That is the reason why the Italian Government offered fius Ia. the annual Mate income oi 3,200,000 francs. Since the seizure of the Papal States many other expenses. which formerly were met by other means, have to be undertaken by the Pope's civil list Leo moreover, spends about 500,000 francs in alms each year. PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

A- teacher defined conscience "at something within yon that tells you when you have done wrong." "I had it once, spoke up a young tow-neaa oi six summers; "but they bad to send for the doctor. Bridtret "Wot's the most genteel thing for a lady as is a lady to carry in the street Nora?" Cook "Sure, thin, some prefers a three-volume hook; but 1 prefers a roll of music, mesill, quite careless and aisy like." It is true, generally soeakinsr, that nothing is impossible with God; but it is very nearly if not quite impossible for God to make a man so perfect as many a fellow thinks he is or rather tries' to make others believe him to be. Borton Transcript. There comes a time in every little girl's life when she is seized with a longing to cook. And there comes a time in every big girl's life when she is seized with a longing to hire somebody else to cook.

It comes after she gets married. Detroit Post. Some strolling thespians were once playing in a country town. Their propertiei. were not kept in very systematic order, for when the hero of Shakespeare's drama exclaimed.

"Is that a dagger that I see before me?" a shrill voice responded from the "Hies," "No, sir; its the putty knife. The dagger's lost" Exchange. In the midst of a loud hum and buzz of a social gathering one day this week an impudent fellow suddenly called ont: "Now, let's all stop, catch our breaths and go on ahead fc the rest of the evening telling nothing but truthful stories and things." The company grew dumb and soon dispersed. Too much was required of them. The Review.

"My son," asked a proud father, after the usual greetings upon the young man's return home from college, "have you a microscope among your traps?" "A microscope dad," replied the astonished youth. "Yes, my son; you have been fh college, you know, four years, and I thought if yon had a microscope bandy I should like to see how much you had learned." Dumlev had accompanied a friend home to dinner and, as they seated themselves at the table, the hostess remarked: "I trust that you will make allowances, Mr. Dumlev. My girl left me this morning very unexpectedly, and I was com pel Md to cook the dinnei myself." certainly, my dear madam, certainly," responded Dumley, with much manner; "I can put up with anything." N. Y.

Graphic. Stings And Bites. An old woodsman of Australia, who used to catch snakes for pastime, says that a raw onion bruised and applied as soon as possible to the wound is a certain cure for the bite of all the venomous serpents of that country except the death adder, which be admits is so poisonous, and its poison is so quick in acting, that there is no known remedy for it That the onion is a specific -for the sting of poisonous insects of all kinds has long been known to the writer of this paragraph, who, when a boy, invariably carried one on expeditions with companions against hornets' nests, etc. It was found that the application of onion juice would instantly allay the pain caused by the stinging of hornets, yellow-jackets, waepe, bees, etc Washington Star..