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if I 1. THE NEWS CONDENSED. XIIE EAST. Aw urn which ornamented the roof of a building on West Twenty-third street, Now York, was dislodged by the flapping of a It fell to the sidewalk, killing a man engaged in examining colored lithographs on a bulletin board. A Pond, of Mew York, engaged in the South American trade, have failed.

The liabilities ore placed $250,000. Fob the murder of his father, Joseph Sarver, aged 18, was hanged at Fa. Michael Murray, whose sanity was questioned, was executed at Ebensburg, leaving a letter slating that persons who had the power of witchcraft exercised a pell over him, which prompted him to commit the murder. Brattleborc. Vt, a car of a mixed train left the track, dragging four other cars, including a pas senger coach, down a steep embankment.

Two or three persona were fatally and number slightly injured. A boiler explo sion in Witters' brewery at Elisabeth. N. fired the building, which, with its contents and an adjoining grocery, was destroyed. the Joss reaching OIHJ.

Two men are said to have been killed. At Pittsburgh, Abel Smith ex tensive glass works, a machine shop, and five frame dwellings were consumed bv a fire. The loss is placed at $200,000. The A. T.

Stearns Lumber Company's property at Neponset, was burned, the loss reaching- $240,000. William Funda A Son's planing mill at Syracuse, N. was destroyed. 0 the fair grounds at Erie, one of file pole props holding a balloon fell when the aeronaut, Oscar Hunt, had ascended, killing one person outright and badly crush-- ing a number of others, and resulting in a panic Hunt descended into the lake. and was drowning when rescued.

In a Brooklyn' court a senienee of three and one-half years in the penitentiary was passed upon a handsome woman of 20 years named Larrabee, known to the pohes as a professional burglar. She has already served two terms in A Connecticut farmer named Daniel Shngnee has fallen in lore with the fair thief, and begged permission to marry her. Flakes destroyed the Buckingham Hotel at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, sixty guests having barely time to escape their lives. A force of marines from the navy yard rendered all the aid possible-. The loss is estimated nt $140,000 The directors of the New York Central Road, at a special meeting authorized the issue of $15,000,000 debenture bonds to run twenty rears at 5 per cent Commo dore Thomas S.

Fillebrown, commander of the New York Navy Yard, died of heart danng thief made way with a gold bar from No. 102 Broadway, New York, valued at $597. He was closely fol-" lowed, but made good his escape. Dispatches from Allegany county. New York, and the Pennsylvania line tell of a terrible cyclone.

At Shongo, eight miles south of Wellsville, the town was destroyed and four persons were killed. In Buffalo the wind was forty-four miles per nour, and consideraoie damage was done. Great damage was inflicted at Alton, many houses being demolished and several v-Tsons injured. The injury to farm property along the track of the storm is very great. THE TTEST.

In Dakota and Northern Minnesota the farmers have determined not to go into the wheat-raising business as extensively as heretofore. Many of them will take to the cattle business as more profitable. The uncertain seasons, the low price of the cereal, and the high freights are the causes which have led to this determination. Near Albert Lea, three men went out in a sailboat, which soon capsized. The heaviest man retained hold of the craft, while the others swam ashore for assist- ance.

One of the lntter gave out before reaching land and perished, and the man by the boat becoming exhausted was also The Illinois liquor-Dealers' Association passed resolutions in favor of a general license and pledging its members to use all legitimate means for the repeal of certain objectionable features of the dramshop act. States Senator Nes-mith has been placed in an insane asylum at Portland, Oregon. An accident to the engine of a Chicago and Alton passenger-bain compelled it to Mop between Paducah Junction and Cayuga, 111,, and a man was sent back to flag a freight following after, but did not go far enough. The freight crashed into the stationary passenger, throwing two passengers oft the track and setting them on fire, they being consumed with the engine, baggage, and fifteen freight A heavy rain and thunder storm prevailed at the time, but the passengers miraculously escaped. The cashier of the First Nationah Bank at Las Vegas, New Mexico, heard robbers tunneling under the vault.

He immediately placed guards around the building. A few hours afterward the masonry of the vault gave way. A Mexican descended into the cellar to invest gate and shot one of the would-be burglirs dead. He proved to be one of the masons who had built the vault. Frederick 8.

Nichols, the chief editor of the Memphis (Tenn.) Daily Avalanche, died very suddenly at Davenport, Iowa, of paralysis of the brain Gillie Leigh, a member of the British Parliament, lost his life in the Big Horn Mountains of Wyoming, where he became separated from a hunting party. His body was found at the base of a precipice "Jim" Bosey, a sporting man who retired in an intoxicated Condition the pre- vious night, threw himself from a third-story window of an Indianapolis hotel, receiving fatal Three cases of Texas fever were discovered among native milch cows at Manhattan, but the latter are incapable of transmitting the disease Wisconsin's tobacco -crop Jhis year will aggregate 22,500,000 pounds, and will bring the growers about $2.000,000 A stroke of lightning nt Elmwood, killed a babe lying asleep between its parents, leaving the latter unharmed. The managers of the Soldiers' homes closed their examination of western points for a new institution by a visit to Leavenworth, where the scenery, atmosphere, drainage, and water supply seemed to make a lasting impression. Gen. Franklin is understood to have committed himself in favor of the site.

JU8TICK Field has ruled at San Fran- Cisco that Congress intended by the act of 1884 to exclude parol evidence, thus shutting out Chinamen who left this country previous to the act of 1882.. Wilton, a wealthy young lady of New York, was frozen to death in a snowstorm on Long's Peak, in Colorado. She abcend-ed the mountain with a guide, but the storm coming on he went for assistance, and when he returned found her dead. Father Stack has begun anew snit at Philadelphia to compel Bishop O'Haia to reinstate him in his priestly offices. The contest involved has been going on for more than twelve years Leavenworth, has been selected as the location of the new Western branch of the National Soldiers' Home.

A iiABOB party of lumber-yard laborers at Michigan City, sprang into the ferry-boat, and broke the supporting chain, the result being the drowning of two or more persons. IncENDIABrES in Cleveland fired the lumber-yard of the Saw Mill Company, causing a logs of $20,000. One firm, which received a threatening letter, has employed twenty-men to guard its premises. Two large buildings in Superior street were set afire, but the were quick- i ly extinguished One freight train "crushed into another near Dunlnp, 111. Michael lladignn, the engineer, was killed.

stock car full of cattle was destroyed by a fire ensuing. Wren, dealer in dry goods at Springfield. Ohio, failed, with liabilities of assets. $15,000 Ehler A sash and blind factory and MoCracken's tile works at Cincinnati were damaged $30,000 by fire Only the light- est boat can navigate the Ohio Biver at Cincinnati, where the water is sixty-eight feet lower than in February lost rim south. At Haysville, Capt E.

1. John-on surprised ilaj. Edwin Henry and shot him dead. This is -the result of a scandal a year ago at Indianapolis, when Johnson's wife committed suioide, confessing previously, in letters to her husband, that she had been seduced by Henry. From that time Johnson has been on Henry's track, but at last has had his revenge.

H. James, Assistant United States Engineer on the Upper Cape Fear River works in North Carolina, committed suicide last week. A tramp who assaulted a child at Shel-byville, 'was within six hours sentenced to a term in the penitentiary The Chinese Government has applied for 3,000 square feet of space in the Mew Orleans Exposition. At Meadville, mod surrounded the Franklin County Jail, took out four prisoners and hanged them to trees in the yard. Two of the victims were charged with murder and the others with outrage and arson, respectively.

our other prisoners were not molested, but the lynchers left word that they would return if the County Judge did not dispose of them at the next term of court. Thb Georgia Capitol Commission award ed the contract for the building to a Toledo firm for $862,765. The material will be limestone from the Bedford quarries in In Mr. John W. Garrett, President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, died nt Deer Park, after a lingering illness.

He was in his 65ih year. Tee bodies of George Faustrick and Annie Manlor, strangers in the vicinity, were found near Dallas, lying side by side. them lay a revolver, two chambers empty. Near by was found a note: "As we cannot be united in life, we will be in death. WASIIl-GT03l.

Thb gold reserve in the United States Treasury is $129,000,000, or about more than it was two weeks ago. W. Q. Gresham has resigned the Postmaster Generalship and entered upon his duties as Secretary of the Treasury. Mr.

Coon, one of the assistant secretaries, was designated as next in authority. Frank Hatton becomes acting Postmaster General for ten days. It is still asserted that either Hngh McColloch or George S. Boutwell will shortly take the Treasury portfolio, and that Gresham will be appointed to the Circuit bench at Chicago, leaving Hattori to be Postmaster General. It is reported that Judge Gresham will succeed Justioe Bradley on the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States in a few months.

POLITICAL. Mb. Blaine had an enthusiastic reception in Philadelphia. of people called at the rooms of the Union League Club to shake hands with him. In the evening he reviewed a large political parade.

The fireworks display was stopped after three bombs had been exploded, some of the blazing, fragments falling and burning many persons. Thb Butlerites of Massachusetts met in convention at Worcester. Over 1,500 delegates were present and all Were enthusiastio for Butler and the Butler platform and party. The following candidates were nominated, all of them by acclamation and amid enthusiastio cheering: Governor, Maj. M.

J. McCaffertv, Associate Justice of the Bos ton Police Court; Lieutenant Governor, Col. John F. Marsh, of Springfield; Secre tary of State, Col. John Sweeney, of Lawrence; Treasurer, Nathaniel S.

Cush- mg, of Middleboro: Auditor, Israel W. An drews, of Danvers; Attorney General, Vol. Thomas W. Clark, of Boston. Gen.

But ler was present and made a characteristic speech. Texas Republicans nominated a State ticket at Dallas. Judge A. B. Norton is the candidate for Governor.

Arras a session of nearly twenty-four hours, the Republican State Convention of South Carolina nominated a ticket headed by D. T. Corbin for Governor, each al ternate nominee being Gen. Butler has engaged a special train to carry himself and Senator Grady about Ohio and Michigan during the week beginning Oct. 4 It is expected that 800, UUU votes will be polled in Ohio ai the October election.

Thb Wisconsin brewers, it is said, refuse to contribute money for the election of the Democratic State ticket, but are working for Cleveland State councils of the American Political Alliance have been or dered to make up electoral tickets for Ells worth and Waterman Ihe isutlentes ol New York City have nominated Hugh J. Grant for Mayor. The Democratic Con gressional dead-lock in the Second Wiscon sin District was ended by the nomination of Gen. Br igg on the 150th ballot. Thomas S.

JvdLb, a 'Montreal Justice of the Peace, has been arrested on the charge of cbtaining from G. A. Borland under fa'se pre'enses giving a mortcaee on Tjronertv he did not own. Bnrland and Judnh were friends and belonged to th3 "first nv.lies" of Canadian city. Dickson, an icsurance agent at Montreal, has absconded, leaving numerous creditors.

Alfrf.I) G. Isaacson, of Montreal, has absconded, and is a defaulter for a large amount, the funds having been intrusted to him for investment. students of the Collegiate Institute at St. Catharines, Ont, were drowned in the canal near Port Dal-housie. Neab Pickering Station, Ont, a broken frog threw three coaches and a special car of an express train down a 25-foot em bankment, the cars turning over a couple of times, and the special catching fire and being consumed.

Rain was pouring in tor rents at the time, and tho shrieks and groans of the travelers multiplied the horror of the occasion. Nobody was killed, but a dozen were injured, some painfully. The financial loss is paid to be $100,000. At St Boniface, Manitoba, fire swept away Sutherland's extensive saw-mill and sufficient lumber to make the total loss $60,000. Canadian ranchmen complain that the Piegan chiefs demand 10 cents on every head of cattle passing through their territory from Montana to Manitoba, and en force it by shooting sufficient stock to equal toe tax.

Leigh, who recently perished in Big Horn Mountains, was heir to Stanley Abbev, one of the finest estates in England. A brother of the deceased, now visiting in San Francisco, is next in succession The schooner Golden Rule capsized off Michigan Island. Lake Superior, and two persons perished Caceres, the Peruvian revolutionary leader, is a fugitive, and the country is resuming a peaceful condition. Replies to the circular proposing a re daction of the pig-iron production have been tabulated and put in shape for ready refer ence. The number of firms agreeing to restrict are as follows: Vermont, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, 23; Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Ohio, 24: Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, Wisconsin, Texas, Colorado, 1.

Those declining to restrict are: New Y'ork, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Alabama, Ohio, Wisconsin, 1. A suit for $50,009 has been brought on account of the drowning of Mrs. E. R. Beach in the City of Columbus disaster Bill Bellmont, a Toronto barkeeper, working for $8 a week, is heir to $100,000 by the death of his father in London.

FOREIGN. There were 435 new cases of cholera in Italy and 265 deaths on the 23d of September. In the city of Naples there were 152 deaths. There were but nine new cases in the Alicante and Tarragona districts of Spain, though there were fourteen deaths. It is reported that a section of the Mayo Irish Nationalists' meeting at Balla decided to nominate Capt.

Boycott and John William Nally as candidates for Parliament in their county. Capt. Boycott was once the most execrated man in Ireland the word boycotting is derived from his name; Nally is now in jail, serving a long term of imprisonment for conspiracy to murder. The candidature of either would be farcical. M.

Ebensburg, proprietor of the Hotel 'Splendide at Paris, hns fled to Brazil, his defalcations resecing rte naa a wife and family, kept three miMressss, and deserted with a fourth Li Hung Chang, the leader of the peace party in China, has been reinstated in. the office which he formerly held. This may be taken as a step toward peace with France. It is stated that Nubar Pasha, the Egyptian Premier, will make but a formal acknowledgment of the protest of France, Austria, Russia, and Germany against the suspension of the Egyptian sinking fund The prevalence of cholera will prevent the Papal Consistory assembling at Rome until Archbishop Ryan, of Philadelphia, has been granted a special rescript, however, so that he may attend the Baltimore conference with all the authority that the pallium confers. corporation of Limerick, by a vote of 18 to 2, resolved not to provide for the payment of the special tax, even when reduced by the Lord Lieutenant Patrick Egan cabled from Nebraska his approval of their decision.

Deaths in Europe from cholera thus far number 14,132, of which 7,974 were in Italy, 5,798 in France, and 360 in En glish detectives, in anticipation of mischief by dynamiters, are keeping a close watch on suspicions characters in London The Mackey-Bennett Cable Company is making lavish preparations lor the beginning ol operations, and a war in cable rates is ex pected Prince Albeit Victor Chiistian Edward, eldest son of the Prince of Wales, will be of age next January, and Parlia ment will he asked to vote an allowance of $50,000 a year. The Radicals will op pose the grant Cairo dispatches state that Wolseley has started for the front Gladstone- has returned from his tour in Scotland. Christine Nilsson was thrown from her cab, in London, and sustained some severe injuries to the left knee and right hand Minister Lowell is to de- liver'an oration at the opening of the medi cal institute at Birmingham American visitors are hurrying home a month earlier than they otherwise would, on account of the coming election. ADDITIONAL fETf. Acting Postmaster General Hatton has Issued an order that on and after October 1, all postoffices of the first-class and their stations or branch offices shall be kept open to the publio for the issue and payment of money orders and for tne receipt of matter intended for registration and the delivery of registered matter until 8 p.

every day, except Sundays and legal holidays. A case involving the citizenship of a Chinese boy born In the United States and his consequent right to return to this country after a visit to China, was argued in the United Ssates Court at San Francisco. Judge Field decided that the boy was a citizen. Judge Sawyer differed, in order that the case might be taken to the Supreme Court. There seems to be a regularly organ ized gang bent upon the destruction of Cleve land, Ohio, by fire.

A dispatch from that city says: The twelfth incendiary fire in Cleveland within forty-eight hours was started in the lumber of the Cleveland Sawmill Lumber Company, In the heart of- the great lum ber district on "The A strong wind carried the flames eastward through the yard, destroying a million feet of lumber and about fifty feet of trestle of the Connotton Valley Railway, cutting off trains from access to the depot. The fire was here checked with a loss of $20,000. Purdy McNeil, one of the largest lumber firms in the city, received an anonymous letter from Chicago, warning them that their stock would be in ashes before many days. The Thomas Manning machine shops received a similar warning, and both n-ms have taken precautions accordingly. The ex citement is general and hardly a resident of Cleveland but feels apprehensive for the safe.

ty of his property. Beplies to the circular proposing the restriction of the pig iron production have been tabulated and put in shape for ready reference. The number of firms agreeing to the restriction are as follows: Maine, Ver mont, New York, New Jersey, Penn sylvania, 23; Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Ohio, 24; Indiana, Illi nois, Missouri, Michigan, Wisconsin, Texas, 1, and Colorado 1. The declining districts are: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Alabama, Ohio, 6, and -Wisconsin 1. By direction of the President, Briga dier General Wilson A.

Miles has been detailed as a member of the court martial appointed to meet in Washington for the trial of Judge Advocate I. O. Swayne. A Denver special says: Miss C. Welton, of New York City, was frozen to death on Long's Peak.

She had been spending the summer In Colorado, and for the past two weeks was In Estes Park. She went to Mr. Lamb, the guide on Long's Peak, and arranged for ascending the peak. She made the ascent safely with Lamb. While coming down, they encountered a fierce snow storm, and the lady was thoroughly chilled.

Lamb assisted her as best he could until after 8 o'clock. when her strength failed and he carried her half a mile. Bis strength then gave out In the dark and on their rough, rocky trail. He then Informed her their only safety rested in him going seven miles further to his father's house for aid. At 10 o'clock he left her alone and nearly frozen on the bleak montain side, and returned with his father at 4 o'clock in the morning only to find Mies Welton dead.

Miss Welton was highly cultured and refined, a great lover of nature, and very self-reliant. "While a number of the cadets of the East Florida Military College were bathing in the lake at Orange Park, Florida, a pet bear broke his chain and rushing into the water attacked the bathers. William Jeffries, aged IT, was unable to extricate himself from the bear's cl i -lies, end was hugged to death. About 100 feet of 'the trestle over Lake near New Orleans, was destroyed by fire. The acting Secretary of the Treasury has accepted the offer of Charles H.

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7 6.75 .25 4.25 4.7 5 00 6.50 6.75 4.75 OHIO STATE NEWS. Tom Barton shot his brother-in-law, AL Btratler, at Corning. John B. McClanahan, an old pioneer, died In Winchester, aged eighty-six. At Springfield, John Porter accldently shot and killed Elmer Bunyan.

The Queen City Suspender Company signed. Assets 22,300. 1 abilities 26,000. At Portsmouth, Postmaster L. C.

Damarin was stricken with paralysis on the street. Buchman Cincinnati wholesale clothiers, assigned. Assets, liabilities, $375,000. Henry Conden, carpenter at the Wellston Machine Shops, got his hand fearfully lacerat ed with a buzz saw. D.

N. Gardner, of Clevaland, police clerk for several years, made an attempt to kill his wife and himself with a revolver, but neither Is dead. At Shawnee, as Jenkin Walters was being raised out of a well, the rope broke, letting him fall a distance of seventeen feet, break ing his left thigh and otherwise injuring him. Charles Zimmerman, a young man resid ing near Van Lue, accidentally shot himself In the head wilh a gun while climbing over fence. He only lived a few minutes after be ing shot.

Rev. Alonzo Wilcox, of Cleveland, while taking a train at the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio depot for Sharon, was caught by a gang of crooks and robbed of $50 and twenty railroad passes. A Mrs. Parker, of Corning, threw a stove-Uf ter at a chicken, but missed the fowl, and struck her little 3 year-old child oh the head. fracturing the sull, so the doctor says, but probably not fatally.

The Chesapt-ake and Ohio Canal Company and the Great Falls Manufacturing Company have sued the United Stales for $1,000,000 damages, expected to be caused by the pro posed extension of the Washington aqueduct. Sydney Smith, a young married man and breakeman in the Pan-Handle Bailroad yards, at Newaik, met with a terrible accident. In making a running switch he attempted to cut a car loose and fell, the wheels passing over his right arm, necessitating amputation at the shoulder. At Alliance, the other morning. General Beaver was relieved of an unknown amount of money.

Major McKinley lost about $100 in the same way, and 8. C. Bowman, Mayor of Massillon, had his pocket-book, containing $680 in prommif sory notes and a sum of mon ey, taken. Rev. J.

Lall, of Galena, shot a rattle-snake from tbe limb of a tree, forty feet above the ground, that was four feet nine Inches long. thirty Inches in circumference, and had twen ty-six rattles perhaps the largest rattle-snake on record. It had a squirrel partly swallowed when shot. Mrs. Rebecca Steel was Instantly killed at Orrville, by being run over by the engine of an express train on the Wheeling and Lake Erie Road.

The body was shockingly mutilated. She started to walk across the track, and did not notice the approach of the train. She was a widow, and 73 years old. While Mr. W.

R. Saltsman, one of tbe prominent citizens of Upper Sandusky, was speeding his horse along Eighth street, the animal suddenly shied to one side and threw Mr. Saltaman out of the buggy, striking on his head and shoulder. He was rendered insensi ble, and his injuries are of a serious nature, The will of Charles W. West gives to the Old Men's Home, in Cincinnati, to the Widow's Home, Children's Home, Cincinnati Orphan Asylum, Catholic Orphans, Cummins- Ville, $10,000 each; Sisters of good Shepherd and Little Sisters of the Poor.

$5,000 each. Tbe bulk of the estate is divided among the chil dren of his brothers and sisters. William jelloway, a wealthy farmer and stock man living near Brownstown, suffered a heavy loss by robbery. He had been absent from home a few days, and upon returning found that burglars had been before him. A small Iron safe had been torn open and $2,700 In bonds, $500 in currency and a lot of valuable deeds and other document stolen.

A young lady, Miss Ellen Morris by name, stopped at the Edwards House in Athens recently en route from Kansas to join her father, Mr. Joseph Morris, living near Chauncey, Ohio. This young lady, when an infant, was clandestinely spirited away from her home, and her whereabouts have since remained mystery until fortuitous circumstance recent- ly brought to her a knowledge of her history and the habitation of her only surviving parents. Rev. D.

jj. Waugh, a prominent minister of Alliance, while preaching to the congrega tion of the Westminster Presbyterian Church, was taken suddenly ill, and fell to the floor of the pulpit Insensible. A number of the con gregation rushed to his assistance, and suc ceeded, after a time, in restoring him to cod. sclousness, when he was removed to his home, His sudden Indisposition is attributable to overexertion, he being in feeble health for some time past. Alfred Hopkins, late Captain in the United States Navy, died at his residence in Cleve land, from the effect of on overdose of chlo ral, taken to alleviate sufferings.

Until two years ago deceased was Captain in the Navy, but was dismissed from the service by a Court Martial for an alleged breach of disci pline. Steps were immediately taken to reinstate him, and a bill for his relief passed the House. Congress -adjourned before the Sen ate could take action. William Tannery, Bernard Donahoe, George Williams, August Campbell, Daniel James, Charles Haseny, Horace Schaefe, Albert Bunner, Sanford Hastings, and James Hastings were arrested at Sandusky, charged with burglary, it being alleged they are members of a gang that have been raiding homes and stores hereabouts for several months. Considerable stolen property was found in their, possession.

All pleaded not guilty, and were jailed in pefault of bail. A Cincinnati correspondent, under date of September 24th, writes: "The police force of this city have not been paid for eleven weeks. Mayor Stephens says that the force, lamentably small at least, is becoming demoralized. Many of the officers have found it difficult to get credit for such a long period, and some of them have been compelled to sell their vouchers for pay to money sharks at a ruinous rate of discount. The mayor realizes the situation and was trying Tuesday to get money to pay the police." A Belial re correspondent thus writes: While most of the farmers of this county are complaining bitterly of the drouth being so long continued, it is like finding an oasis in a desert to strike a tiller of the soil who boasts of his yield, but this township has tbe man-One of the Township Trustees, Maurice Lares, dug thirty-seven bushels of potatoes from a planting of thirty-two pounds, and has exhibited in two or three store windows samples that weigh from a pound ten ounces to a pound and four ounces.

He claims it to be the largest yield ever produced In the county. An Urbana correspondent writes: The disease of pleuro-pneumonia that has become prevelant among the Jersey cattle and caused so much alarm to dealers In fancy cattle, has broken out in the herd of C. B. Dye, of Nay, who is one of the largest dealers In Jersey cattle in Ohio. He lost one of the finest bulls that was ever imported to this country a week or two ago, and on Friday seven more of his herd were killed and a post-mortem examination held.

The examination was held under the immediate supervision of Dr. Salmon, U. 8. Veterinary Surgeon, of Washington; Dr. Kerr, of Urbana; Dr.

Butler, of Piqua; Dr. Smith, of Pleasant Hill, and several other doctors. After a careful examination of the mat ter it was pronounced by those in consulta tion that It was chronio pleuro-pneumonia. These seven head have been isolated from the balance of Mr. Dye's herd, and is Is hoped that the fatal disease will be kept from the balance of his large and fine herd.

The stockholders of the Cleveland, Youngs town and Pittsburgh Railway held their annual meeting in Alliance. The fol lowing officials and Board of Directors were elected: President, H. W. Ford; Vice President, W. R.

Bergholz; Treasurer, L. L. Lam-born; Secretary, J. M. Ferguson; Board of Directors, E.

W. Gray, S. Hartzell, L. L. Lam-born, B.

W. Randall, and A. W. Coates, of al liance, and L. M.

Lawson, H. W. Ford, W. R. Berghols, and J.

M. Ferguson, of New York. Mobile, Alabama, nas thirty churches of all sects. One of the finest churches In the South is the Catholio Cathedral. It is yet unfinished, though work has been going; en for forty years.

v. THE YENDETTA AT KAPLES. A Universal Custom that Has the Support ol Long Aces of Practice. A foreign visitor to Naples, who glances through, the police Teports in one the local papers, will form a poor opinion of the security of the'eity. He will read, among other things, that on an average, fromour to five persons are found stabbed in the streets, and that those of the victims, who are still living, almost without exception, declare that they are unable to -supply any information with respect to their assailants.

This is in itself startling, but when he learns that neither the kil -ed, nor the wounded, has been robbed of a penny, his surprise will increase, and he will, not improbably, arrive at the conclusion, that the town is invested by a band of miscreants, who take a pleasure in murder, and look upon stabbing as a legitimate form Jf sport. The fact is these crimes have all their origin in the vendetta, and that the lips of the-suflerers are sealed by a sense of honor not more perverse than that which would prevent any eentleman from reporting the name of the opponent, by whom he had been wonnded in a duel. The vendetta in Naples is not the wild and reckless vengance, which foreigners usually suppose, but vengance reduced to rule, and recognized by publio opinion. The vendetta is the dnel of the lazzaroni and any peasant or fisherman, who shrinks from entering upon one, when cause is given, is treat ed witn as much contempt bv Ins equals, as a German officer would be, if he refused a challenge. This explains a fact that nas always puzzled strangers.

When a man has been stabbed the sympathy of the populace is almost invariably on the side of the assailant, whom they consider the probable victim of an unjust and cruel law. The act of which he has been guilty is no crime in their eyes. They know that his life would have been rendered in tolerable, if he had not committed it. and that now, the only prospect before bun, a lie be discovered, is death, or lifelong ignominy. In the old dars the brigands were constantly recruited by men, who had such a misfortune.

and who fled to the mountains to es cape the gallows. Vendetta may be incurred in a num ber of dinerent ways, when a roan has been slain, or a woman seduced, the duty of revenging the act, falls upon the nearest male relative, though if he be advanced in years, it will probably be undertaken by a younger kinsman, In these cases, punishment follows as a matter of course, and no warning need be given, ihe worst of personal suits, is a remark casting obloquy on parent, especially on a dea 1 mother. Merely to curse her soul, is compara tively harmless, and even an illusion to her past life, need not be taken amiss. 1 here are a number of Neapolitan ex pressions which strangers rarely hear. as they are only used for the purpose of provocation, and which, with very armerent meaning, nave the same weight which such terms as liar or cow ard would have, if addressed to a Con tinental officer.

A blow from a master or an acknowledged superior, is rarely seriously resented from an equal it is said that one given with a stick, may be forgiven, while one with the hand, must be avenged. It is difficult, how ever, to obtain accurate information as to this, and to several other points in tne lazzaroni code of honor. as soon as a man feels himself ag grieved, he must give fair notice to his enemy even if he intends to avenge the insult on the spot, he must allow his opponent time to unclasp his knife. Nor is this alL There is a strange consideration and courtesy for others, in these not-blooded beggars. A crime of violence is rarely ever com mitted in the house of a friend, or a tavern, as this would cause the host unpleasantness.

When the young men quarrel over their wine, they do not fly at once at each other's throats: thev talk and gesticulate fiercely, bo that a stranger would think that a free fight may begin at any moment. While the noise lasts there is no danger as soon as the matter grows serious, those con cerned become quiet, and drop away in groups to settle their differences where nobody but themselves will have to bear the consequencea A warning of vendetta may be given in so many words, but this is rarely done except in private, as, if the threat were known, the danger of the victor would be increased. The language of signs, which every Neapolitan of the lower class knows, is generally made use of, and) the gesture most commonly employed, is made by pressing the fore finger and thumb together in snch way as to leave a narrow space between them, which is supposed to typify the Hole, tne challenger hopes to make in his adversary body. In Maples, too, men still bite their thumbs, as thjy did in tbe days of fciamson and Uregory, ana tms is not an expression of con tempt, but a declaration of war. This gesture, however, has fallen a cood deal out of use of late, as it is apt to attract attention, and it is said to be discour aged by the camorra.

When the warning has once been given and understood, the claims of honor are satisfied. From thenceforth each opponent is free to guard his own life and attempt that of his adversary, as bent he can. He may lurk in dark and lonely corners and stab in the back, without shame. This, which seems to an Englishman the foulest spot in the vendetta, has certainly been spreading of late years, since the vigilance of the police has rendered a fair combat almost impossible, and cunning and se crecy are the only arts by which the victor can hope to escape. In the old days, when an offense was slight, a fair combat with knives, which ended in a scratch, is said to hav9 been thought as satisfactory by tbe lazzaroni, as it still is by the journalists of Paris, though the fiercer kind of vendetta has always existed in the South.

Yet, even when it assumes the wildest form, there are considerations that stay the hand of the avenger. London baturday lievww, A Triple Bond. Since the new sceince of reading character by the handwriting has come in it is even said that the care taken of the nails affects the handwriting. The long, almond-shaped nail is a great sup port to the middle linger, which guides the pen. One can hardly imagine a person with short, stubby finger nails, which are covered with skin, vriting the long graceful -bnglisii band which so delights the recipients of the note from a grande dame.

It is said that poetf and people with imagination are apt to have long taper fingers and beautiful nnsrer nails. They have a handwriting in which the lonsr ni- strokes and down-strokes cut into the lines above and beneath them. The heads of their capital letters are large. The handwriting shows ardor and im pulse. When it has a markedly downward movement this handwriting shows a tendency to melancholy.

An apitnde for criticism is shown amongst people who bite their nails. Thev are and severe, uncharitable and bitter. They write a small, cramped and illegi ble hand. Ho we ver, there may be eood- natured critics, men with versitility of comprehension. They would have small but well-shaped nails, and their handwriting would be somewhat angular.

showing penetration and finesse. The nails, of a musician are, of course to be observed, although the piano sometimes injures them. The great musicians have a sloping handwriting. There is. however, an ecentricity peculiar to the handwriting of executive musicians, as witnessed in that of Beethoven.

The fingernails of mathematicians are apt to be square, not beautiful. The handwriting of snch persons shows a quiet movement of the pen. The lines are straight with paper, the up-strokes and the down-strokes are short, while the capitals are small and angular. Diplomacy has a long, supple hand, and a long, beautifully kept, slender fingernail. But the handwriting of a diplomatist is not apt to be clear; it always looks like a snake gliding away.

There are no clear, gigantio capitals like John Hancock's none of the fine curves suggestive of generosity and expansion all is compressed and impenetrable. Certain inflexible natures express themselves both by finger nails and by the handwriting both are blunt and determined. The Chinese have such long finger nails that one might almost write with the ends of them. The tenacity of tho Chinese nail, which does not break, shows that they have more lime in their bones than we of a different race. At one time, when good Queen Anne bit her fingernails, it was the fashion for all the English aristocracy to bite theirs; and in these days the English fingernail was not what it is now.

Fashion exerts a potent influence on man, savage or civilized. The Botecudes of Brazil and the Hydalis of Queen Charlotte's Island insert a wooden or ivory plug under the lip of their women, causinG a hideous deformity that resembles a shelf overhanging tbe chin. The fashionable women of to-day wear a bustle that is almost as deforming. Hater's Bazar. A California Pioneer.

A traveler passing over a California mountain road, on horseback, observed a long, slim, seedy, limber looking individual layiDg the foundation of a log cabin so high on the mountain side that it looked as though it could only be reached by the aid of a block and tackle or a balloon. The traveler's curiosity was excited, and for enlightenment he accosted the seedy-looking individual as follows "What are you doing up there, my friend setting up opposition to the Lick Observatory?" "Wall, nofzactly, but if I could get a cock-eyed crane like you for a telescope rest I would. I've taken up a ranch here, and I'm making the necessary improvements "But you can't raise anything up there, not even mountain sheep nnless yon sit them up to trees or dig holes for them to stand in. Why, you're in danger yourself if you should fall off tout ranch you would break your neck." "Yon jnst go 'long stranger, I know my biz. This is property, isn't it, you gro-grained old idiot "Yes." "Ill have to pay taxes oc it, won't you old kittle-stomached pyramid?" "Yes," meekly replied the traveler.

"And I can't sit on a jury unless I'm a property holder and a tax prayer, you old sugar-coated, bowlegged scorpion, can "I believe that's the law." "Very well, them, you old bald-headed boaconstrictor, if I can get on a jury or two and can sell out, I can make more money than any old gangle-shanked, lantern-jawed son-of-a-dog-churn like you can running around the country sticking your diabolical smelling machine into other people's business. I'm a pioneer, I am." And the traveler went on in a brown ashes of roses study. Carl PreUels Weekly. The American Pine Supply. In the United States the problem that hai long agitated Europe has begun to present itself, and the question, "From whence are the American people to procure their future supply of construction timber?" is constantly being asked by the dealers of this republic.

The question may readily be answered. The tall mountain ranges of Mexico are covered nearly to their summits with a growth of excellent white and pitch pine. The tops of the innumerable foot hills are also garnished with grand pine forests. The same may also be said of the five Central American republics. As the traveler recedes from the coast, at about filty miles from the ocean, the lands which gradually slope npward present an almost temperate flora to the eyes of the astonished beholder, while many pleasing contrasts may be for instance, the larch, poplar and sycamore flourish beside the tamarind and frondose ceiba.

The oak and the laurel mingle their branches with those of the nispero and the zapote, while the same fertile soil gives life to the cypress and the cherry, the apple and the banana, the plum and tbe coffee trees. At an altitude of 2,500 fcftt above the sea the pine and. other coniferse first appear; at an elevation of 6,000 this genus attains its greatest size, but at the heighth of 8,000 it assume a stunted and dwarfed appearance. New Orleans Times-Democrat. Witty.

Dr. Holmes does not save his bright th ugh ts for print and the public, but is often as witty while chatting with one or two friends as was ever the An- tdcrat or Professor of the Breakfast- Table. A young physician once asked him for a suitable motto. "Small fevers crratefnllv received." was Ilia wittv rn- I spouse. He was complaining in a com- ical way to a lady of the minute por- tion of honey that was given to him at a hotel at tea.

"A mere trifle, the work of a very young bee in an idle half hour." they give you no comb, doctor she laughingly inquired. "Possibly one tooth, madam Several of the now famous writers and lecturers of Boston were speaking of their lecture experiences, when the subject of pay was brought up. Each man of the company was certain that he had received the smallest sum. But Dr. Holmes made a climax by saying, "Listen, gentleman.

I had engaged to give a lecture lor sfro. After it was over, a grave-looking deacon came to me and said, 'Mr. Holmes, we agreed to give you 5, but your talk wasn't jnst what we expected, and I guess that tew-fifty will dew. Dr. Holmes uses a gold pen that he has written with through his entire professional career.

It has been reju- venat a little, but it is the same pen that wrote "The Height of the Ridicu lous" andThe One-Hoss Shay." Literary fcharpshooting. Drawing-social types is a species of literary diversion that has its attendant quicksands. If there is any vitality in the sketch at all a personality is sure to be suggested, and thereby follows friction, silent or suppressed, as mav be. If the supposed victim is a person of tact he will never expres his suspicions, however active they may bo if, on the other hand, lie is impelled by temperament toward sharp corners he will find them in abundance. But it is more than an even question.

after whether this style of writing is really very high art whether it is not to literature a little what the tricks of a clown are to amusements some thing at which the crowd will laugh, but which never vet edified or improve! anybody. And the writer who has any realization of tbe higher privilege of his calling would-rather sacrifice this transient flash of flame, however bril liant, than deliberately to wound the sensibilities of any individual. Personal peculiarities, except when generalized, are hardly fair targets for literary shartshooters. Lilian Whiting's Letter. The world is a picnic to whioh every one takes his basket.to carry back what- ever he can grasp.

i The Music of the Orient. Certain European musical scholars are at present engaged in the very difficult study of the music of the Asiatic races. From the earliest time, music has played a large part in the recreations 'festivals and religions of the East but hitherto, no genins has arisen to interpret the music of the East for the music-lovers of the West-It is clear that the Orientals are proud of their songs, end their instrumental harmonies. At the same time, they have undisguised contempt for that which is imported among them from Europe. It is related that a late Sultan of Turkey hired a French band to play music in Tiis seraglio.

They discoursed the airs of Bethoven and Strauss, but these invariably put the Sultan to sleep. One day he heard the music ans tuning their instruments, which made the wildest discord. He cried out delightedly, "I like that tune; let the dogs play that again." To the Western ear, the music of Hindoostan, of Egypt, and of China, is most inharmonious and discordant. It consists of a loud and discordant jumble of shrill sounds. It is strange to a European, to see how rapt the Hindoos become in the music of their nautch-dances.

They seem to be lulled into softest reverie by the jangling noise of the music of their Brahminic temple worship. This shows that in the quality of harmony, at least to European ears, the Orientals are sadly lacking in skill. But in one respect the Eastern musicians appear to be superior to the more civilized composers. They have a finer, keener, and quicker ear than the Europeans. It is said that the Hindoos, Persians, Arabs, and Malays constantly use demi-semitones, which is only one-half tire smallest interval recognized in modern music, in their everyday music.

This is rarely done in Europe, and it is known to be a difficult feat in' the music schools of Germany and Italy. There is, no doubt, such a thing as a common language in music There are certain Mogul ballads, which are as intensly enjoyed by the turbaned Bengalese at Calcutta, as by their English fellow-citizens. But it is yet true that so complicated is the written expression of Oriental music, that no European hand has yet been found, able to transcribe it for European use. The "notation" (writing) of Arab music is peculiarity curious and difficult. A page of it presents tbe appearance of an oblong rectangle, divided by seven colored lines into eight spaces and in these spaces are written seven tones and seventeen one-third tones.

From snch a score as this the travelers through Egypt and Arabia, see the musicians twanging out strange and wild tunes, to which the natives listen, with absorbed delight. A large part of the music of the East is traditional, and has been handed down from month to month, from remote periods. The Hindoos are said to have sixteen thousand epic songs. They call the intervals and notes by the grandiloquent names of "kings" and "queens," and eaoh air of song is named after some historic or mythical prince or princess. Sometimes the notes of music are called after the cries of animals, as "the peacock" "the scream," "the roar of the tiger," or "the trumpet of the elephant" The musical instruments of the East are as curious and complicated as the music itself.

They consist most often of stringed instruments of various fantastic forms and shapes. Some of them have wandered westward. No doubt the guitar, and its kindred instruments, came originally from the Asiatic races. But the more scientific and effective instruments are the inventions of the Europeans. An oriental orchestra has but a poor variety of sound at its disposal, compared with the great orchestras of Strauss, or Theodore Thomas.

Youth's Companion. What Is Wanted. In the olden times, there would really have been more excuse for living without a home than at present, for the life was so much simpler, the spiritual needs were much narrower, that one really required little else in a home than good eating and sleeping. what else do yon want?" inquires some plethoric papa, whose stomach is always the least satisfied part of Irs be ing, or some fashionable- mamma, whose breakfast caps and soriees are so absorbing that she has no time for butch- I ers and takers, and children's story books. want? In the What else does one first place, a quiet corner far away from gossip and prying eyes, where one's own individuality can grow and develop without fear of hostile criticism, and where one can sometimes enjoy a quiet moment, untroubled with one's children or one's friends.

And in the second place, a spot where the children of the household can keep their little hearts yonng and not grow too soon in the wisdom of the world. Most Americans do not have homes they merely have places to stay, where the father reads his paper, the mother plys the sewing machine, and the children make molasses candy or have an nnal birthday parties. ient the idea of a heart center, where love is cherished, thoughts are fostered and morals expanded, is apparently unheard of in their philosophy. Materfamilias goes to church on Sunday without any idea that she is leaving the holiest temple behind her, of which she is high priestess, and if yon should dissect her brain yon would find that in the corner devoted to "necessities," the strata of clothes, cooks, sewing girls and roast turkey, fill up all but the smallest crevice conscientiously set aside for reb'g-ions belief and church membership. Mary Ford, in Kansas City Journal.

The Broadway of Bangkok. It is quite a relief to turn from these horrible lantasies wmcn look more frightful still in the ehostlv dimness that enwonnds them to the fresh air UU K1UI 1W U9 DUUOiiiUg hU.b otiviiu bile crowning treat of our morning's work. For now comes the ascent of the pago da itself, to the farthest accessible point. The stair is so deep and slippery, that I feel as if scaling the Great Pyramid once more. But a view from the highest platform would well repay a much greater exertion.

All along either bank of the wide, smooth stream, which amply deserves the name of "Mother of Waters" (Menam), there start up from the dark foliage of the tropical crest the peaked roofs of bamboo huts, and the white walls of stately houses, and spear-pointed pinnacles of Buddhist shrines, and the gold-green roofs of Siamese temples. Boats of all sizes from the tiny canoe paddled by the doll-faced woman with a basket-work hat, to the gilded barge with the gilded flag and white elephant of Siam fluttering at her stern, flit like fire-flies over the mighty river, which is the Broadway of Bangkok, as the creeks and canals are her side streets and beyond, far as the eye can read a shadowy perspective of tin green rice fields, tangled thickets, stately cocoa-palms, slim, graceful are-cas, pillared banyans, shooting down innumerable suckers into the earth from their vast spreading boughs, plumy fan-palms, tall, tapering bamboos, and broad-leafed bananas, without order and without end. David Ker in September Manhattan. Afteb money, ennui makes more marriages than love. Jtomainviile.

TJ3SH0D H0BSES. Some years ago I had favorite horse which was constant source of trouble and expense from falling lame. Not being fully, satisfied with the reasons given for this lameness by the horse-shoer and veterinary surgeon, I concluded to look into the matter myself, being a physician. From the structure of the horse's foot I could see no reason for this unusual tenderness, but a study of the uses of the different parts, and observations of the way they were treated in shoeing, led me to the conviction that shoeing caused all the trouble. Still I was not snre that this could be dispensed with.

Chance, how ever, threw in my way an account of Mr. Bansom's horses in England, which are never shod. He has many hundreds of them, engaged in all kinds work, bnt none of them ever wear ahoe, and they never suffer in consequence. On the contrary, they are almost ear tirely free from those foot troubles te-. which all shod horses seem liable.

I also learned that in Brazil horses afe never shod, though they are constantly used to the ronghest possible work, ever mountains strewn with sharp rocks-i A friend also told me that his father in Switzerland had a fine Arabian horse, which was constantly used in their rough mountain roads, and was never shod and never lame. This determined me to try the experiment on my own horse. So I had. the shoes removed, and kept him for three; -weeks in the field, and then began to use him on the road. At first he seemed to feel strange, picking his way, as it were; but soon he began to step out as usual, and in a month he went over anything in his way, not only as well but better than he ever did when shod.

I purposely took him over the roughest 1laees I could find, and especially new- macadamized roads, bnt never had -the slightest trouble wilh him. From that time on he never went lame nor had any trouble whatever with his feet, -nor did he ever stumbe or slip. In -fact whenever in future the roads were slippery from ice he was always taken in preference to any horse with turned up shoes for they would slip sometimes, bnt he never did. If any one will study the struotnre of a horse's foot he will see why he would not slip when his feet are left to take their natural development. The frog of a horse's foot is simply a soft elastic cushion, which receives the foree of the blow when the foot strikes the': ground, and saves it from all jars.

Naturally the frog protrudes beyond the hard horny part for this very purpose. But the horse-shoer, from ignorance pares off this frog, and so lets the force of the blow come on the comparatively hard, horny part, made still more unyielding by the iron plate nailed to it. Every time, then, that the foot strikes the ground a violent jar strikes from the foot all np the leg with a most injurious effect upon the bones and muscles, and especially upon the -joints. From this constant concussion -come most if not all the worst evils that affect the feet and legs of horses. Let a man receive a blow as with a hammer upon the sole of his foot every step he takes and he will realize the truth of -this.

But, in addition to this constant concussion, the iron shoe is hurtful in other ways. In winter it keeps the foot constantly cold, and the nails carry the cold up to the quick, or vital part, which nature herself has striven to defend by covering it with the dense hoof. The point of every nail really baa the same effect on the soft vital part immediately above it as if all the hoof bad been pared down to that point. And this very nailing, I feel assured, is itself the cause of many of the worst -troubles to the horse's hoof. Let any one imagine the effect of the hammer blows given to tbe loot when these nails are driven in.

The whole limb is literally shocked by them, and the surfaces of the bones in the joints, where they come together, are bruised and made abnormally sensitive. Sitting aside the not nnfrequent occurrence of a nail being driven into the quick, the act of shoeing mnst always be an injury, and the shoe itself an eviL The result of abandoning the practice of shoeing my own animal was all I could wish. I saved some twenty dollars a year in shoeing, and as much more in farrier's bills, while my horse -never went lame and never slipped. I had him in constant nse for fonr years, when he died from old age. His hoofs were like lumps of black ebony, and after the first three months, when the hurtful effects of past shoeing were overcome, they never cracked or broke.

and lwftT rew f8 wore mem away, aii uiu was done vo them was to pass a file around the edge now and then, to keep them round, as we pare our nails. New York Evening Post. Beauty. Whatever in this life is productive of pure and unalloyed happiness must perforce be good for us, must ennoble our nature, lift us higher and take us further toward a better life. And so we should be grateful that we live in an age when so much of beauty is everywhere ready for our enjeyment.

Lejt us open our eyes to our surroundings, and learn to trace the handiwork of Deity in all the beauty that strews our pathway. Whether it comes to us in the face or form of our fellow in their natural grace, their accomplish-'men ta, or the good they say or do; in the great works of nature, the lovely flower, the songs of birds, the glorious livery of the vegetable world, or the delicate coloring in the heavens above jus; in the grand heaving of old ocean's bosom or the calm, smooth surface of some sparkling lake in the deeds of charity or the soothing words that 'come from the hearts of those who love their fellow men in the sweet smile of baby-life, the trustful confidence and innocent purity of childhood, the as- -pirations of youth, or the "calm sunset of a useful life" all are full of beauty if our minds and hearts can only realize it While there is beauty to be found in all the varying forms on earth, not all of us are endowed by nature or gifted by education with the power to discern and enjoy it. In seeking for that which is valuless or unattainable, we often pass unnoticed the lovliest forms of earth's rich treasury, and fail to discover beauty because we have not learned the way to seek it All the volumes ever written would not contain a tithe of the myriad beauties that cluster around our path, and richly blest is he who seeks and finds even a few of them. Those are the true philosophers who see only the lovliest aspects of everything, and leave the less pleasant pictures with but a passing glance-; to whom the bright side of humanity or nature is ever hitherward, and who, while they are in the shadow of the passing cloud, can think only of its "silver lining." If we seek the good and beautiful we shall surely find them. Wise are they who surround themselves with an atmosphere of gladness and of beauty, and cull the sweet flowers of goodness so ready to their hand.

Seeking only, for that which is good and beautiful and true, with hearts full of love and kindness to all God's creatures, and -hands ever ready to help those-' who need, the usefuln-Ks of be -apparent in our lives and as the "golden sunlight" shines upon and gladdens all things, so will the beauty in our living irradiate our homes, while the 1iva1v 11 ty Vi fif ArTnt.iftn Anil iMVklnAU inw tt all writ nmA within itm rays.T-ii. ju jueers, in me current, T-V--t.