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LOS ANGELES TUXES SATURDAY. AUGUST 2d, 18U1. IFOUNDED READ THE Michigan law, but it is mighty poor A COAST DEFENDER. at cents a pound. The liber will be spun for the first time in America at II THE STORMY EAST.

EVERY MORNING 4. 1S31.1 THE YEAR. TIfllES BUILDISQ Flrt and Broadway. anot.f:s PoaTOFrio as snooNn-OLAss mattk11 "THE LAND AND ITS The "Midsummer Harvest Number" of TnE Times a 20-page sheet will be issued on the 5th of September. It will aim to show the industrial condition of Southern California in 1891, by describing the Agricultural and horticultural results achieved in seven southern counties.

The information which this issue is to contain has been gathered by our own special representatives from the fields and orchaids of the Sunny South, and will be found correct, comprehensive and trustworthy. The descriptions are graphic and have about them a flavor of the soil and its products which will make them telling. The work is now well in band. Printing will be begun on next Tuesday, September 1, and a large edition will be issued. We think the forthcoming number will be the best ever emitted from The Times press, and when disseminated will do the country more good than aDy pre ceding edition.

Details and further information will be found in the special announcement appearing elsewhere this morniDg. FANTASTIC TRICKS OF NATURE. Capt. Koy of the steamship Pythian, which arrived in New York recently from Japan, reports having witnessed several striking phenomena during his voyage, -there were several meteoric showers on the Atlantic, and each of the meteorites looked as large as Jupi ter ordinarily appears. At least a dozen left in the sky bright flashes that lasted from ten to twelve seconds.

Some were so luminous that they lit up the shjp like electric lights. The rain of stars seemed to be from the direction of the Great Bear and took a southerly and southeasterly course. Out from Gibraltar, on August 1, there were heavy squalls, followed by an electric storm. The tip of every yardarm and mast was adorned with globes of electric fire. They jumped from point to point, ran up and down the rigging, glided along the stays, and played such fantastic tricks as might have delighted the heart of Fuck.

Such electric disturbances on sea and land, although not common, have nevertheless been reported many times, and are well authenticated. Almost every old salt has had an experience with them from once to a score of times in the course of his life. What bearing these electric freaks have upon meteorology whether electricity operates us the underlying cause of storms; whether it is a mere concomitant of atmospheric disturbances, or a resultant; what bearing it has on such phenomena in the heavens as Capt. Boy witnessed. are matters of which the scientific world knows but little.

The subject of sunspotB and the direct magneto-electrio sympathy which seems to exist between our earth and the sun, and probably the entire solar system, opens a vast field of inquiry which the most profound have as yet only gleaned over. We believe that hitherto the science of meteorology has paid too little attention to electricity as a moving force in the universe. It has studied wind and water currents, and has figured out cyclonic curves to the last refinement of algebraic equations, but, as to the origin of all these natural disturbances, it has but little to offer except thermo-dynamics the principle that within certain limits beat expands and cold contracts all bodies of matter. Some day it may be demonstrated that the principle or force which we know aa electricity is the motive power of the universe. AN ORGANIZATION ERS.

OF EMPLOY Driven to the wall by the exactions of labor unions and exasperated be' yond endurance by strikes and boy cotts, the manufacturers and employ ers of San Francisco have at last formed a protective organization. The final steps to start the movement were taken last Tuesday, when about three hundred representative industrial men of the city met in the rooms of the local Board of Trade. a. report was received irom a provisory committee setting forth the purposes of the organization, the necessity for its existence, a plan of operations and a declaration of principles. In accordance with this report, which was adopted, it was decided that the organization should embrace as wide a territory as possible without being too cumbersome to be effectively handled.

It is therefore recommended that the association shall extend its jurisdiction over the whole of this State, and that it shall form treaties of alliance with similar associations in other States' if such treaties are found to be desirable or necessary. All classes of employ ers are to be admitted, because all are alike assailed by the unions. Extraor dinary powers are to be vested in a board of directors. The declaration of principles is as follows: This association is formed to Dromote the manufacturing interests of the Pacific Coast, Its policy is not dictated by a spirit of aggression, but it shall be the earnest en deavor of its members to prevent frtctioD and to peacefully settle all disputes that may arise between employers aud employee. We have no wish to Interfere with the Indisputable right of labor to organize, but we believe that the organization and the federation of labor comnel the and the federation of employers of labor, to the end that neither Dartv uhall tpmm th other to overstep the bounds of right, reason anil justice.

We believe that the arbitrary spirit shown by the unions in the absence of any effective restraining power, and tint fntnn.nt strikes and boycott which have in consequence prevailed in this community, are dangerous to Its industries, and this asso DEC. NN I)In ATT 1) AA NN A A TT AAA A A B8SS UU NN VDD 1TTT II MM MM I II UtIMM It BSSS EE SPECIAL! FEATURES, FOR Sunday, Aug. 30,1891. T71REDA EONADAYi or In the Footllirhts' are and Shadows. Continuation of jsmma v.

StterldOB story or the stage, niENT LIFE IN COLORADO. A pleasing gaetua mountains. A HILL'S COLUMN; abounding, as usual, In pungent criticism. WAKEMAN'S WALKS, journalist in England. WOMAN AND HOME, with bouaowives.

The pedostrlan E. A. talks rvn BOYS AND GIRLS. Good reading for them. rTIHE PAUNTERER.

familiar toDics. Familiar talks on JDITOHIALS on current subjeoti. mHE STAGE. A record of the amusement JL world. TAT SERMONS.

Sunday reading- for the J. i I lorlous. ART AND ARTI-TS. Much that is of in torev in itsthetic spheres. SOCIETY.

People who are "in the swim' on land and sea. A NlMAL STORIES. Curious things about urttuuiua. rpHE CITY'S NEWS. Happenings about uome.

rpELEGRAPHIC TIDINGS. By the Asso- cinted Press, the greatest news-atheror in iiiu worm. M1SCELLANV, POETRY, HUMOR, ETC. The usual variety. Remember, sixteen pages in the Sundat Times.

ciation is formed to check these growing evils. We recognize the right of labor to organize in its own defense, or to ameliorate its conditions, and we as employers will not trespass on that right, by refusing employment to any one because belonging to such an organization, but we reserve to ourselves the right to decide as to whom we shall or whom wo shall not employ. The constitution provides for the usual officers, to be elected annually, and a board of eleven directors. Referring to -strikes and boycotts, the constitution contains the following: Whereas, strikes and boycotts are Inimical to the bust interests of both emDl ov ers and employes, it, is provided that in case of a strike or a boycott in anv of the differ ent trades represented in this association wnicn cannot be settled by the trade involved in such difficulty. It shall be the dutv of the board of directors to investigate the trouble and act as an arbitration committee, with full power to make any recommendations advisable or necessary.

After the adoption of the report of the Provisory Committee and the proposed constitution, J. B. Merguire, Os car Lewis', W. L. Palmer, J.

C. Bued, E. U. Herrick and George C. Perkins spoke in favor of organization and of its advantages.

The following board of directors was then elected: E. M. Herrick. S. Nickelsburg, Oucar Lewis, A.

Eollins, W. N. Miller. J. B.

Stetson. George H. Fuller, Henry Bingham and W. L. Merry.

Thus is launched au organization calculated to stem the tide of blab labor agitation that has done so much to injure individual and general interests in this State, and has filched a good many more dollars from working people than it has taken from the well-to-do and wealthy. Without some such check placed upon the machinations of the jaw-bone brigade, the industrial interests of California were bound to suffer severely. Already several manufacturing concerns in and about San Francisco have been forced to the alternative of quitting business or moving to the East, and one at least has accepted the latter. Without doubt similar organizations will be formed in other portions of the State to cooperate with the central body at San Francisco. The declaration of principles is broad enough for all to unite upon, and any self-respecting American citizen could hardly ask less.

It is simply a live-and-let-live platform which the labor unions will be obliged to accept when their organization is met with one of equal stamina and more equity. FALL OF VALPARAISO. Authentic news has been received from the Chilean capital, by way of Washington, that Balmaceda's army has sustained a serious reverse and that the city has fallen into the hands of the insurgents or Congressional party. It is stated that the city was taken possession of for the purpose of preserving its order, of course by the American, French, English and Ger man admirals, while another dispatch says that Gen. Canto's (insurgent) army was marching in.

That Balmaceda's army was beaten in the final battle appears to be the fact from the latest reports receivea; dut mat he has capitulated, or will capitulate, to his adversary is not so certain. He had a powerful force under his command, and, unless ib ncuu iu pieces in me last engage' uieui, iia is buu ame to make- a stand and continue the struggle. The war is not yet over, and further news will be looked for with deep interest by the peopie or tne united States. A MEAN DISCRIMINATION. A recent decision of the Supreme Court of Michigan is to tho effect that, in that State, a wife's earnings belong to her husband, and she cannot collect wages from her employer by a suit in her own name.

Thus, women who work for wages are placed in the position of minors or vassals. As we commonly term it, "They cannot call their souls their own." SuDDOsinrr the case of a woman with a drunken, vagabond of a husband. She is forced to work for the support of herself and children. According to this decision, the husband has a perfect right to call on the employer Saturday afternoon and collect bis wife's wages and sauan- der the money as he sees fit Indeed if the employer should be so indiscreet as to pay her wages to the woman who earned the money, he takes great chances of having the law consider it no discharge of tha debt, and oblige him to pay it to the husband. th proper claimant.

Thhj may be good North American justice. What a lot ot the jurists of this country need most is to be born again the next time -with a little more common sense and a little less reverence for hair-splitting legal quibbles. HEPORTS from San Francisco con cerning the cable-electric railway con test, now going on there among the principals on both Bides, show that no agreement has been reached although two conferences have been held be tween the Fair-Crank people on the one side and the McDonald-Sherman people on the other. There are multitude of complications surround ing the affairs of both companies, and however anxious the parties In inter est may be to settle matters, it is not so easily done. But in the end the heaviest financial battalions will gala the battle.

GENERAL DESTRUCTION. Cloud- bursts and General Phenom ena. Los Angeles, Aug. 25. To the Editor of The Times.

Why should you and other journalists discuss what the Government ourht to do about tha omiuu xjun.a ana us connection wnn kJ I the ocean? Or aoeculate as to the changes to be produced by anything on auiornia climater xuere nave been two or three years of phenomenal developments, and the physical changes win go on regardless ot the discussion. It would be just as well to call on the Weather Bureau to regulate the cv clones, cloudbursts, earthquakes, mam- moui nan, and the hot and cold waves. It never seems to strike the minds of the un satisnea that all these occurrences are sent for a purpose in these days, which surely precede by a mere decade or two tne culmination of the disas trous calamities foretold in the proph ecies. Ihey are sent as warnings of the vast similar events, types on a small scale of those that are to come. The mind that can reflect must under stand that a slight osculation of the earth's axis '(which Piovidence can cause in a tingle second just as easily as to send the earth quake or the tornado,) wouldmake a beria of this whole Coast iu a day.

and locate the tropics at the North and South Poles. The power was demonstrated last week tuat mis Coast had a torrid heat ot 110 to ll-P, while during the same days in tae interior, as far east as Iowa, it was freezing on the 22d of August. Is it not clear that all mis means something? Cloud-bursts have been known mauv years in spe cial localities, but in the past sixty days they have prevailed every where from the Atlantic to the Pacific. from the lakes to the gulf, and also in Europe. Why? Can anybody fathom me purpose other than the indication given as to what destruction may be let loose universally, if the moment arrives which has been foretold? The crops throughout Europe show 300,000,000 bushels of gram short, aud lamine imminent -ill many localities.

The Union can supply 200,000,000, aud that would avert distress exoeot in the large enhancement of values. which poor people can ill-afford it that was the only trouble. But there are thousands ot localities where even all the efforts of a government cannot succeed in reaching in time to give re lief, wnen tne stock of breadstuffs ia actually exhausted. All Europe is in arms, and anv dav may cause the collision. There will probably jbe 25,000.000 soldiers in conflict besides me countless numbers who may be brought in if the strife extends to Africa and Asia, Is all this for no purpose? Snouid it not strike the mind that physicai phenomena produced by a god are, not within the purview of directing control by either editors or correspondents, and that the time wasted in such discussions might be far more profitably employed in trying to understand what the clearly points out to the reader who win search diligently with the wish to obtain lucid and positive ex planations? Yours truly, Blanton Duncan.

Teaching a Girl to Swim. lLad.es' Home In deep water, uuder the care of an experienced person, a young girl may be taught to swim in a much shorter time than by practicing in shallow streams. A rope can be fastened around her breast in, such a manner that it will neither tighten nor un loose, and if courageous enough, she can, tuus prepared, plunge in head first, lhe teacher will show her the proper way to use the arms, and, find-, ing herself protected by the rope, she win ieei more raith the exertion made. The aid of the hand is, however, far better than this, as it can be relinquished insensibly. The best method of teach.

ing on this plan is for, a good swimmer to carry the learner in the arms into the water until breast high, laying her nearly flat upon it, and supporting her uy piacmg one band under the chest, at the same time giving instructions as to the proper motion of hands, arms and feet. In a few days the band may be gradually withdrawn and the girl swimmer able to do without it. There are ever so many Unlike Punch's, they begin after the act is signed, sealed and delivered, and you are a fair swimmer. The most important piece of negative advice is: Don't lose your presenoe of mind. With that you are mistress of the situation, and.

other things not overwhelmingly against you, cau reach land again. City Sportsman and Game Laws. IChroniole-I The issue between the vineyardists and the city sportsmen has been sharply made in Southern California. With the former it is a clear case of no raisins or no quail, while the latter want the quail and do not care whether there are any raisins or not. The grape-growers who have had experience and know that quail are their worst enemies are determined to appeal to what is Known as the "poor man's law" a shotgun in defense of their property, while the city sportsmen declare they will establish guards and prosecute any man who dares shoot quail outof season.

When some gaunt, grizzled old farmer, with a bored-out musket loaded with a double handful of shot, looms up in front of one of these dudish guards, it may be opined 'that the quail will be left to do their own guarding. The Economy of the fcffyptlans. I Harper's Bazar. A curious illustration of the domestic economy of the Egyptians-has been met with in the unwinding of bandages of the mummies. Although whole webs of fine cloth have been most frequently used, in other cases the bandages are fragmentary, and have seams, darn and patches.

Old napkins are used, old skirts, pieces of something that may have beeu a shirt: and once a piece of cloth was found with aa armnote In it, with seam and gusset and band finely stitched by fingers themselves long since crumbled and their dust blown to the four winds. a A H. in of of in of me California cotton mills this after noon, ana me product will be placed uu Piuiuiuon at me mechanics' fair, 42 Tr uas jl jttAMuibco, Aug. ex periment of great importance to ramie culture was conducted at the California Cotton Mills in East Oakland this evening. It was the first experiment oi uie Kina ever attempted in this country.

It consisted in making an article of commerce out of the raw ramie plant-fibre by what Is known as the "dry process," or by a treat ment the same as mta and nemp are subjected to. The ex periment was a success so far as it went, but owing to the lateness of the hour was not completed. Sev enty-five pounds of raw fiber from iiaggin-s rancn at itaxersneia was used, and when the mill shut down it had gone through the successive stages of carding, combing and spinning, and was wound upon small bobbins in the shape of coarse twine ready for the weaving machine. The experiment was conducted Dy w. li.

Murry. Hu perintendent ot Bamie Culture in this State. The experiments will be com pleted by manufacturing the ramie into cloth. An Indian Murderer. Santa Rosa, Aug.

28. Deputy Sheriff Toombs returned to the Coast this morning with an Indian named Jack York, in custody. York killed a son of old Tehama, chief of one of the original and strongest tribes in this part of the State, at Stony Point last March, Rward Offered by the Governor. Sacramento, Aug. 28.

Gov. Mark. bam this afternoon offered a reward of $250 for the arrest of Healy or Haley, one of the men who in May last robbed and murdered Robert Allen. THE KACING SEASON. MORE RECORDS LOWERED ATTHE INDEPENDENCE TRACK.

Direct Paces a Mile In 3:09 1-4-Thn Day at Garfield Park and Hawthorne Guttsnburg Races. Qj Teleoravh to The Times. Independence (Iowa,) Aug 28. By the Associated Press. The track was fast today.

Monbraro (2:211) was sent to beat the two-year-old stallion record (2:20) held by Regal Wilkes and made it in 2:20. The first quarter was made in 33i, the half in 1:11, the third quarter in the mile in 2:20. Direct went to beat his pacing record He made the mile in 2:091. The quarters were: 31, 1:03, 1:45, 2:091. Direct has a trotting record of 2:181.

Trotting, 2:17 class, $500: Charleston won in three straight heats, Vic sec ond, Olive third, Junement fourth; best time Two-year-olds, $1000: Vassar won both heats, Bert Oliver second. Mona Kiriz third; time 2:331. Trotting. 2:20 class, $5000: Labasco won, iiounie wiimore second, Gillette third; time furseor $1500: Dolly Wilkes won. Bonnie Mack second, KcKegan third, Ben Davis fourth; best time 2:171.

Garfield and Hawthorne Events. Chicago, Aug. 28. Hawthorne races: Mile: Lew Carlisle won. Justice second, Gilford third; time 1:541.

Five furlongs. Engarita won, Powers second, Xantippe third; time 1:091. Six furlongs: Speculation won, Lemon Blossom second, Donovan third; time 1:24. Six furlongs: Kuth won, McMurtrv second, Horace third; time 1:231. Mile: Uooa Bye won, Hydy second.

uueenie iroworiage tnira; time me uarneia ram races were run on a lumpy track. Six furlongs: Nellie O. won. Bill Nve second, Altair 1:23, Mile and 70 yards: Osborn won. Joe Woolman second, Ira E.

Bride third; time Mile: Burt Jordan won, Abby sec ond, Florence slaughter third; time 1:55. Mile and 70 yards: Crab Cider won. joe uarter second, ljiniitngow third; time Eleven-sixteenths of a mile: Hema- tilla won. Maggie Lebus second, Van- clause third; time lao. Mile: Silverado won.

Unman sec ond, Annie third; time 1:521. Guttenbergr Races. 'Guttenberg, Aug. 28, The track was medium. Six furlongs: Miss Belle won, Little Fred second, Faral third; time 1:18.

Five furlongs: Adalgiaa won. Bis marck second, Wigwam third; time 1:061. Mile: Donahue won. Kenwood sec ond, Langford third; time 1:48. Seven lunongs: Lithbert won.

Fern- wood second, Glideaway third; time 1:36. Six and a half furlongs: Dixie won. Ballston second, Puzzle third; time Mile and a quarter: Kimberly won, Theodosius second, McAuley third; time 1:17. Entries for the Futurity. New York, Aug.

28. The entries for the Futurity stakes are: Lamplighter, See Jay Jay, Yorkville Belle, Anna B. Lavish, 115 each; Triangle, 112; Silver Fox, Fairplay, 108 each; Sir Matthew, Tammany, 127 each; Bashford, Lew Weir. Newton, each 118; His Highness, 130; Merry Monarch, 122; Dagonet. 108; Lester, Charade, 113 each; Maid of Atbol filly, King Cadmus, 108 each.

The Bar Association. Boston, Aug. 28. The- Ameri-can Bar Association adopted the raport of the special committee on uniform State laws, recommending the passage by each State and by Congress for the Territories of act similar to the acts passed by the States ot New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey and Delaware, for the promotion of uniform State laws. Judge John F.

Dillon of New York city was elected president. The secretary and treasurer were reelected. The report of the committee on award, recommending that two medals be struck off, one for the Earl of Sel-borne and the other for Hon. David Dudley Field, was adopted. A quest to Washington, Aug.

28. Postmaster-General Wanamaker has sent a personally-signed letter to the postmaster at each county seat throughout the United States, asking him for the public good, at his own expense, to make personal(visit to each postoilloe in his county' and make a detailed report upon the condition and needs ot the service, etc The Monterey will Soon be Completed. (Japtnreof an Indian Who Murdered au Old Chief's Son. Some Successful Experiments Jiie Ramie with 1 no Crap Crop Light In Fresno, but Heavy (n San Bernardino and San Diego Counties. By Telegraph to Hie Times.

San Francisco, Aug. 23. py the Associated Press.l Henry T. Scott of the union Iron works in an interview in the Post this afternoon concerning the progress of construction of the coast-defense vessel Monterey, which was launched the 28th of April, during President Harrison's visit to this Coast, said: "We are getting the machinery of the Monterey into place as quickly as possible. The boilers are set, anda one engine is in position and the other two are now on the dock ready to put in position.

Everything will be ready for her trial trip in Octo ber, and if we are not delayed by failure of the Government to send out armor, the vessel will be completed and ready to be turned over long before the date provided for in the contract. It is time we were receiving the armor- plate, and if it does not come along very soon, work win have to be delayed to await its arrival. 'Cruiser No. 6 is getting along nlcelv. and although we aie making rapid progress, it is impossible to state how suuu bub win vo lauueneu.

i i i THE GRAPE CROP, It Is Reported Very Light In Several Counties. San Francisco, Aug. 28. By the Associated Press. The PoBt iu an article concerning the grape crop says: "The situation is not very promising for the wine and raisin-makers of the State.

The first hot spell, when the fruit was young and barely formed, checked its growth and it has been de veloping very slowly ever since, partic ularly in the central counties, and whereas, they should have had foggy and moist wneatner it has been dry and followed by another severe hot spell. The consequence is that in some sections the grapes are very small. poorly developed and late. Unless be fore the close of the ripening season they have damp weather or a good shower of ram, the product will be very far below the usual average. Napa county vineyards for the past ten days nave been buttering tor lack of rain, all of which indicates a ma terially reoucea grape crop ana wine yield.

in Merced ana resno counties the yield will be fair. There is every indi cation in this quarter that the outlook tor brandies is all right, and it may be stated that one of the largest firms in this city has applied for a gauger, and will begin distillation of brandy Satur day next. The damage to raisin crop in Fresno ana northern counties nas been esti mated at anywhere irom ao to 25 per cent, lhe greatest falling otx be the foothill districts, where the industry is still in its in fancy. The result is estimated by one of the best informed men in Fresno county who says that the product there will be about the same as last year, which was in the neighborhood of UU0 boxes. In the Riverside seotion the damage was Blight, and latest reports from San Diego are that the crop is in excellent condition.

It is the general opinion in all the raisin-growing sections that there will be a considerably smaller percentage of layers and more of loose raisins and ordinary grades. Prices are still un settled and buyers and growers do not have harmonious ideas on the subject. They will probably range in the neighborhood of 6 cents for layers in the sweat-box. AT THE FAIRS. Racingr at Cbico Today's Programme at Petaluma.

Chico, Aug. 28. By the Associated Press. At the races today there was Rood attendance. First race, running, li miles dash: Wild Oats woo, Dave Douglass second; time 1:58.

Second race, trotting: McEinney won in three straight heats; best time 2:33. Third race, trotting, special: Dan Thomas won in three straight heats; best time 2:24. Petaluma, Aug. 28. The unfin ished special trotting, race, postponed from yesterday, was won by Harry Mac, be winning the last two heats in and 2:322.

The second race had four starters. Gen. Blucher won the first heat in and the second heat in 2:31. Sunset won the third heat in 2:29. Blucher won the fourth heat and race in 2:33.

The last race was won by Maud in three straight beats; best time 2:27. There will be a special pacing race tomorrow for Princess Alice, Hummer, Gold Medal and Aluna; also a 2:27 trot for Millie Wilkes. Maud Ned Lock and Flora G. There will also be the diatrict four-year-old trot, and Stam-boul will be sent an exhibition mile. THE RAH IE INDUSTRY.

Report on Some Successful Ex- parlments. San Francisco, Aug. 28. By the Associated Press. In report to Special Agent Dodge, in charge of the fiber investigation at Washington, W.

Murray, superintendent of ramie culture for California, Superintendent Rutherford of the California Cotton Mills at Oakland, and L. C. McAfee, agent for Kern County Land Company, give results of experiments with the 'decorticating ramie machine con ducted at Baker8field Two hundred and seventy pounds of dry stalks were put through the machine three runs', consuming a total ninety-one and a half min utes, including about fifteen minutes lost in freeing the fibre from the rollers. The result was7U pounds dry ramie fiber. The second cleaning of 28 pounds of this fiber was made seven minutes wun me result oi pounds of fiber of better quality.

The 270 pounds of stock was the product a quarter of an acre only half planted. Superintendent Rutherford estimates the value of the fiber as it leaves the machine decorticated once a Cloud-bursts and Floods New York. in Two Lives Lost and Much Dnmaffo Done in the Northern Comities. Traffic on Several Railways Stopped by Washouts. Hurricane Visits Newark, N.J.-Several Persons Injured-Buildings Demolished and Much Minor Damage Done.

By Tclearavh to The Times. i Berlin (N. Aug. the Associated Presa.J a cloud burst over this town and the town of Petersburg last night, followed by a flood that did damage unparallelled in this vicinity. Had the cloud burst after the people had gone to bed, the loss of life would have been awful.

As it was, the wife of Thomas Taylor was drowned and James Smith was found dead standing in mud up to his neck, horribly mangled. The Lebanon Springs railroad between here and Petersburg is washed out in half a dozen places. A large railroad bridge is also gone, besides a number of houses wrecked and crops destroyed. Part of the village of Petersburg lying near Little Hoosick was completely wrecked. A score of residences and workshops were washed from their foundations, and a large quantity of personal property destroyed.

The loss in that village will not be "less than $25,000. The loss in crops will be a very serious matter to farmers. A GENERAL DELUGE. Troy, (N. Aug.

28. The whole eastern part of Rensselaer county was deluged by a cloud-burst last evening. Three dams were washed out at Land Lake. Damage of $100,000 was done to the mills and several houses were washed away. At Smart's paper-mill in this city one end of the mill was torn out, the bridge carried away, and damage to about $10,000 was done.

Bridges all along the stream are torn trom their fastenings, and it is be lieved tne damage will reach 500,000. in the vicinity of Lebanon SDringa Railroad the storm was equally exten sive, and at Berlin houses were washed away and two persons drowned. iravel on the Springs Rail-. road is completely interrupted by the washout, and it is feared cannot be re sumed within weeks. The Hudson and lloosic rivers are very high, and in the vicinity of Hoosio Falls many bridges were swept away and roads ruined by the overflowing mountain streams.

A man named Mechesnev was drowned at Pastenkill. trains blockaded. New burgh (N. Aug. 28.

Ow ing to the blockade on the New York Central track near Albany, caused by a washout, through trains on that road ran over the West Shore today. HUDSON UN. 1., Aug. 28. Thirteen trains were laid up here this morning, delayed by a washout ten miles below Albany.

All northbound trains were sent out over the Hudson branch of the Boston and Albany Railroad. Fva work trains are making repairs. Travel is delayed by reason of an acci dent caused by a cloud-burst. A JERSEY Bulldlngrs Wrecked and Several Persons Injured at Newark. Newark (N.

Aug. 28. By the Associated Press. A hurricane swept over the lower part of the city this afternoon, covering a space about a mile and a quarter long and an eighth of a mile wide. Great damage was done to property, and several persons were painfully injured by flying d6bris, but no fatalities are yet reported, It struck first the corner of Bowery and Lexington streets, whore the root of a three-story building was torn off and carried down the street.

On Oliver street an untenanted three-story brick building, formerly used as a factory, was completely demolished and the adjoining were badly damaged. Tin roofs seemed to be its special prey and a number of them, together with sky lights, are lying about the streets and dangling from telegraph wires. Bowery and Gross streets are strewn with debris. FILLED WITH LEAD. Fatal Ending- of a Feud batween Farmers.

Omaha Aug. 28. By the Associated Press. A Doniphan special to the Bee says that this morning C. A.

Schultz shot and mortally wounded J. P. Farr. Both men are prominent farmers with lands adjoining. The men have had trouble for some time, and this morning Schultz, who had been drinking heavily for the past few days, told his family that he would never again eat, sleep or drink until he had killed Farr.

He cleaned his shotgun, loaded it with shot, bullets and chunks of lead; then going to Farr's place he walked up to within fifty feet of the latter, who was working in a field, and shot him. Farr will die. Schultz surrendered to the authorities. TARIFF PICTURES, Now York Press.1 It will surprise a good many people to learn that the United States surpasses free-trade England in national wealth. The gross wealth of England now amounts to about (40,000,000,000.

The national wealth of Hits country is at least $71,000,000,000. We were poorer than England until protection built us up. Bartlett Mineral Water. thas no equal. H.

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Eagle, of Arkansas, is another politician who ia blessed with a smart wife. She taught him how to read and to write and then made him Gov ernor. The Phoenix Republican claims that a house in that town was recently set fire to by some accidental focusing of the sun's rays upon it. And yet they talk about their summer climate! The Sacramento Record-Union says that the proposed State Immigration Convention called by the Real-estate Exchange of San Francisco is in reality a hostile movement against the State Board of Trade. It is a serious charge laid at the doors of the Cherokee-atrip boomers, that they set fire to the grass in order to take revenge on the cattle men.

They may find that their prairie fire burns both ways at one. Of the 2000 orphaned children cared for by the Good Templars1 Orphan Asylum at Vallejo, only fifty were children of Good Templars, And now the managers want 15000 to carry on their work, and they ought to have it. The Sacramento swimming-baths have been open only about a fortnight, and 108 bathing-suits and a gross of towels have already been stolen. And the Legislature isn't in session either. Evidently cleanliness has not very much to do with godliness in Sacramento.

The San Jose Board of Trade has put up a "suggestion box" so tHat every citizen who has an idea about something or other can easily give it an airing before the board without taking the trouble to attend a meeting. Down this way the suggestion boxes are mostly in the columns of the newspapers. About the biggest idiot at present on earth, says the Astonan, is the Assistant Attorney-General of the United States. His name is James N. Tyner, and under date of July SO, he decides that newspapers "cannot be carried outside of the mails by private express or otherwise." But it is done every day by newspaper publishers who have routes of special delivery extending all over the country.

What does Mr. Tyner propose to do about it? Senator Fair has gone into electric railroading. He has acquired an electric road in Los Angeles by some sort of deal, and now it is stated that a company, of which he is the backer, will liivest saw fioo in converting Stockton's mule car roads into electric roads. Stockton is a cood town, and is coing to be a better one. rOak- Dourteen dollars to a cent offered iaai ir.

senator atr puts monev into the Stockton roads it will not be by the same process tnrougn which he "went into" electric traffic in Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Herald has learned that the supposed establishment of tin manufactories in the United States is a delusion and a humbug, because the establishments now operated are few and small, and it is strongly surmised that they import their sheets instead of rolling them. Well, almost anv be ginniag is better than'none at all, and if the infant industry is properly nursea, pronaDiy it will roll its own sheets by and by, and din them. too. You can't expect anything to begin at me wig ena not even a tin horn, The San Francisco Chronicle thinks it is late in the day for the Spanish raisin-packers to bestir themselves in the tight with California growers.

-me iact wnich they will learn to their cost," says the Chronicle, "is that the average Californian raisin is better Wan the average Spanish article. The men wno nanale the imported product in iiew orn may attempt to cut prices lor a season, put they cannot depreci me rates ror any length of time. With lower railroad rates, which will come just, as soon as mere is a competing uveuttua ruroaa, our raisin-growers will be in still better condition to carry on the war." "CniNESE Secret Societies" is the subject of a paper by Frederick Boyle in the forthcoming September number of Harper's Magazine. "This subject;" says the writer, '-is not only curious; from day to day it may become most gravely pressing. The secret societies of China are innumerable, and although the very great majority have do concern with public affairs, since most of them are persecuted, not one, perhaps, is friendly to the government.

But the great leagues are furiously hostile. Expulsion of the Tartar, and, as we should say, 'China for the Chi-nee' are their passwords and motto. Tha recent outrages upon Christian missionaries in China are directly traceable to these societies." The people of California have had an op-portunlty to form some ideas of their own concerning the operation of Chi nese secret societies, and, in the main. mey are not very favorable either, ideas,.