Wisconsin State Journal from Madison, Wisconsin • 1

WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL, MADISON, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 18, 1882. NO. 310. Rooms. Our Troublesome Wards.

The War in Ejrypt, MISERY IN ARAB I 'B CAMP. Alexandria. Aue. 18. Arabi Pasha is VOLUME ggptttLSUTE PAPER.

Political aw" A 5 Bmbcr or ue ivon. enters Donnaa B. Eaton, its hed advocates of r1 rT Assessments. La open, eg fta mor3 remark- frr Dlindin? V. lU rM'aC i Jfc- iiottroni conae- ut inia- ft aboliBrraigD.

ia the namacf that -wrong to This luroisJ I'll i IUri)lU3 uia it tvi in. datiV Andrew Jackson's in andf ra ivnh ite politic! par. 1 lie IIt evir smc. i 'J 3 IftUCl wuro ui uia illustrated by noting tha prorreM already mace ry clvu la fifteen hunarea ad giltv-tiTtf secuiw uJ' lbTi. there ona -Mi sit hundred and seventy-eight I i the New York custotl house, deforce assessments, jtfegreid an! savagery cf partisans, i h-irdlv more public attention than tl! slguebtenci; many nogs, i M'c f( Ua pa.

four years, net on 3 rc- hti beea made ia ths.t oince cr la in ti.e ew lor pott orace, wuuuu In ll LniteJ States Bcnaic, ci wbica lour year asro, member prepare! to there wm not a speak for civil aer- vaereforia, ths Pcndelton biil, embody t- true principle refom aal con i iciaic- aasi'sameDU, bn just beea ap-I provf.l ty a coainiittee composed of both rvtits Withia two years, mora thaa I tcirv rttorra associationa, extending t) nearly a' I parti of the unioa hare beea rmcJ, which no mpport that bill. But I nhile thoughtful citirens ara organizing u'aln -t tbe spoils ryteca, and the larger i the bet journaliita of their party, 1 alino the whole literery ani rtJligioci are denouncing that fystem, "Mr. Hutitrt'l an hi conpreBHionBl committee fcivt- chosen the time for forcing t. mt arbitrary, insulting ani deprad- pi: that pysteta upon public "Their mistake and misfortune In a thht they hate counted on the intluenca cf utaga without corn-) prchfndicfctbs aienibcancecf its arraign- I cict To show thst ha is net instigate -r partisan motitea ia denouncing tha I the committee, -which they claim, I us their i be ia tha interest rf ih' Henublicaa party, -hoe domi- nkhc is threatened by corrupting tha UUi.t-bcx, the author cf the nrticla irvs ii a foot-note thut he btn votei with I thht pnrty from iu oripia, and that ha feels deep si intern ia its prosperity that he is all tfcs more anxious li arertthe dtirir' threattnirj it froia this committee. lie cl.arg" Democratic bull-dozinj i at i iiiicz lissue-baliou, be claims, dots I jtutif extortion froia clerks ani ovy-yar I workmen.

He eiaminea ani answers Mr.HubbcH'B arguments ia Juatlfi cationof assessments, ani while be claims ibit pirtit-5 are loeTitable, and -wlthia I proper sphere, useful; that they iotid money for legltimata purposes, be i I ni C3 party -which is faithful t3 its prin. i cipi-s and gives tha peopla worthy men 1 1 rroSce ani a rood administration, will 1 tr i spptr.1 tj its members ia vaia for tha I monry ally needed. Machine manage. Bii-iii enauunr i politics ts a 1 frora tie public i mriit enabling manipulators to monopo. buainesa, to extor money servants, to speud it cor rurtly an I to deprive the people of fre aoni action iu its conventions, In made worthy citizens refuse to trust party leaders with money.

Tbe article is long and to some extett disioinu 1 and desultory, and do abstract nut 1 unreasocabio length couli do it full justice. It is unnecessarily denunciatory bu and it presents so strong a ca ocain Mr. Uubbell ani his "voluc. that gentlemaa is upcoto plead to its strong in- and iustify himself and his scum, ii i.e caa. The tot il amoucl of property save 1 by tt Li ft-bavins bnricc, from Beptemrxr 'ssl.

April 27, 18tt2, was $1,700,823, He tot number cf lives saved wfs the whols cort of maintaining 't rvice, the past year, was bet a tfce Ne-flf Jersey coast alone tha proPtr. rescued amounted to $350,823, ls live a were alsa saved betweea r-i Llock ani Capa May. With such '''Un In-for how "Trvprfitl it ii tbu.t ia order to pty the sarlmea a nth it is necessary to po3tpons 1 cf soma of the lifa-savinjr until the middle of fccptember, cut down the appro- iU.VJVU. Why, the stations i Ol tK Jersey and to -tbux about $750,000 tomalntaia lure, 1 Wheaconprets $20,000,000 to the fr'Ud' il is meannef uc mu. Proper support to the avc.omn hshfi mnrh trr i milt- Niiriiiirr more encourage- orsc all.thc vear iK-mocratic frauds a in Ik.

Pdenta claim to iwi ve tv.riy1- Thii year tbey herea uW8 of lba iegia. iiHc Vhev hai but ail i fcs 4 orei maa iiav8 6 Trowing tne '3 lnili. i i i "i li a iu .1 I 'I "IIU ID1 ttnt in 1L -hia. but the 'U tie prohibitory Historical ia ia European Gossip. BRITISH PARLIAMENT ADJOURNS TO OCTO- Bta.

London, Aug. 18. The Houses ef Lords and Commons have both adjourned to the 24th of October. ARCTIC 8TJRVTVOR8. Washington, Aug.

18 The navv d. partment to-day, received the following cable from St Petersburg Berry. Melville, and DartT arrived tht. Ainratair All well. The Berry mentioned, ia Robert M.

Berry, who was in command of the Rodgers at the time of her loss. The party is expected to arrive home in about three weeks. WHOLESALE MURDER, IN IRELAND. London, Aug. 18.

A man named Jovee and his entire family were murdered, last evening, in their own house, near Coagin, County Galway. The familv conaiated of Joyce, wife, mother and daughter. They were urea at ana Killed by a party of men. Two boys were also wounded. It ia believed in the locality that the Joyces gave information relative to the murder of the baliffs of Lord Ardilonna, whose bodies were found bound together in Lake Con-gin.

Casualties. FEARFULLY BURNED. Chicago, Aug. 18. Last night at a lata hour, a ladle containing molten metal was upset at the North Chicago rolling mills, frightfully burning John Rubeckv.

John Quinn and Patiick McConley the nrst two probably fatally. KILLED ON THE TRACK. Oconomowoc, Aug. taAs the west ward bound passenger train was passing L.aKesioe station, vesterdsy afternoon. Jack Richardson, a laborer, reaid ine at Hartland, jumped from the train and was instantly killed.

Richardson was intoxi cated. DROWNED WHILE DRUNK. Pittsburgh, Aug. 18. A ChrenicU special from Shaver's Station, Pa, says that six Italian laborers, employed on the Pittsburg N.

Y. railway, while intoxi-cated, went out in a skiff last night and when the boat was in the middle of the river, it capsized and three of tbe occupants were drowned. The others succeeded in reaching the shore in safety. The names of the unfortunate men are not known. Political.

CONGRESSIONAL NOMINATIONS. Winamac, Aug. 18. The Republi cans or the lUth congressional district have renomlnation Mark S. Demott.

Fremont, Ohio. Aug. 18. The Green- backers of the 10th congressional district, at Clyde, nominated II. J.

Rhodes. Des Moines, Aug. 18.r-The Democrats of the 7th congressional district nomin ated Maj. U. T.

Gilpen. Gillett, the Green. back candidate, only got 17 out of 76 votes. Sedaua, Aug. 18.

The Demo crats of this district, to-day, nominated John Cosgrove for congressman, on the 80th ballot Stimulants and Tobacco. The opinions of medical men as to the use of stimulants as an auxiliary to intellectual work are, says Mr. Arthur Reade in Let Monde, too diverse to have much effect upon the habits of men of letters. IlUr U1CJ 111 UlUvAl he says, as to tobacco. That tobacco ia a poison is certain; so are many things used, not only in medicine, but in food.

The influence of tobacco on brainwork has been the subject of interminable controversy, and the question has occupied all classes of society. One argument is that smoke helps men to think (to dream, rather), and it is asserted thst the journalist smokes in writing, the man of science in solving a problem, the artist in painting, the clergyman -in composing bis sermon; that, in fact, every man great in science, in literature, in arts, climbs the ladder of fame with a pipe or a cigar in bis mouth. Tennyson has composed, it is aid, his sweetest idylls under the influence of nicotine. Carl vie has taught the world philosophy, Not the young only have these ideas. According to Andrew, Moltke is a great snufftaker, and it was due to snufi that Napoleon was so pitilessly expelled from Belgium.

Mr. John C. Murray, in his volume on smoking, undertakes to show when it is dangerous, neutral or beneficial to smoke. He claims that Raleigh, Milton, Dryden, Newton, Steel, Addison, Swift, Ccfngreve, Bolingbroke, Pope, Johnson, Byron, Burns, Scott, Campbell, Moore, Dickens, spoke, wrote and sang under the influence of coffee, that plant of mystic power. But for those who have recourse to tobacco, he adds, their genius is generally by a lightning-flash or a meteor, involving too great mental tension, likely to drag reason from her throne and plunge it in the night of chaos.

Another medical authority says that a moderate use of tobacco is as necessary to the brain-worker as moderation in the use of alcohol. On the other hand, the adversaries of tobacco regard the idea that smoking helps sound thought as a most mischievous delusion; they maintain, on the contrary, that it renders men incapable of intellectual labors. Tobacco leads to physical and mental indolence. Mr. Reade considers that the use of stimulants is a subject which should be examined in the light of the experience of poets, artists, journalists, men of science, authors, in Europe and America.

M. 1'Abbe Molgno makes the following remarks, in reply to Mr. Arthur Reade's questions: "Though I cannot offer myself as an example, because my temperament ia too exceptional, my experience msy have some degree of usefulness. I have pub-llshed already a hundred and fifty volumes, small and great; I scarcely ever leave my work-table I never take walking exercise; yet I hare not experienced any trace of headache, or brain-weariness, or constipation, or any form of urinary trouble, etc, etc. Never, in order to work, or to obtain my full clearness of mind, have I had occasion to take recourse to stimulants, or coffee, or alcohol, or tobacco, on the contrary, in my case, stimulants excite abormal vibrations in the brain, unfavorable to iu prompt and steady action." The Only Ohio.

Joke. On oar way to Cincinnati the fat passenger flattens his face against tha glasa, and, looking out into the gloom, says: This is Morrow If it waanT fear this town, there are thousands of men in Ohio who would never make a joke. But as it is, every day, several men in every station on the line of thkandacon necung roads, come in and say to the ticket agent, I want a ticket to-morrow that Is, I want a ticket to Morrow to-day I want to go to Morrow this afternoon Nine times oat of ten, and oftener, he does not want a ticket. He has probably never been, and never will be, in Morrow in all his life, but be wants to say his joke and he says it That is why the town was so named: There ia ono man in Xenia has said It coo times a year far the past eleven years, and he doesn't know, to save his never-dyim? soul, he couldn't tell to-day. whether Morrow' porth or south cf Xexd." MorainiijpsLtcliea Condensed.

A fira at Cambria, Wis yesterday, de-stroyei Jno. Sills' aalooa, Kelley's grocery ani dry goods store, Empter's liar, nets shop, the Union House and bank building. Contents mostly saved; lots $13,000. A. Jecks, maa with family, ani of good origin, of North Evanston, IUn took poinoi ani died last night Ha sail to ba a forger.

Tha atata tura feat will ba held ia Oreea Bay, comraencin Saturday. Tha national board of health do not think that tha yellow fever now prevalent tha Rio Grande region ii epidemic, cr likely to be. New England's long-continued drouth has beea brekea by a general and heavy rain. Th3 western distillers held a business meeting ia Chicago, yesterday. They passed a resolution favoring the enforcement cf bun day-observance laws and a judicious license law, and opposing tbe policy cf tha saloon mea ia uniting with ona of the political parties for the pro-teotioa of their interests.

Chandler having concluded his argument tor the defense, yesterday. In th vtcr routa cases, IUUs begaa for the prosecution, and is continuing to-dsy. Yesterday, Secretary Lincola appointed 200 clerks and a number cf messengers and watenraea for service in connection ith pension casts, provide 1 for ia the legislative, executive and judicial appro- priatioa bill. Of tbe appointees, three are from Wisconsin. There ara still 150 appointments of like character to ba made.

Tha inhabitants of the Mexican pro vince or bonora are being raided by Apacbtd. Over ona hundred jo pi a hava beea killed by them ia the vicinity of Uru3, withia the latt month. Yesterday, weavers were at work ia tha Harmony mills, at Cohoes, N. at tha reduced waees. Forty more were ex- pectei to-day.

Monday will be the de cisive day. If tha present force of opera tives is added to ia considerable numbers, tha leaders of the strike will abandon tha straggle. Ntna hundred brewers ani liquor deal ers or lilwaaaeo termed a Wisconsin Protective Association, last night; it will opposa the prohibitionists at every tura and defend members from prosecutions growing out of infractions of temperance laws. Branches will bo formed through, out tha state. The funeral cf tha late Senator Ben Hill was held at Atlanta, yesterday.

Busi. ness wss suspended and the city draped A mars meeting was held in the evening to adort resolutions of sorrow. Alex. H. Stephens, who was passing through At lanta, wss serenaded, but refused to speak, because cf the death cf Hill A fire at Wadsworth, Ala destroyed $25,000 worth cf lumber Alfred Guthrie, one cf the early settlers of Chicago, died in that city yesterday.

His father was the discoverer of chloro form and tha inventor of percunaioa pow. der. Two masked men entered the house of the Gilchrist brothers et Charleston, Sara toga county, N. Y-, bound and gagged tha brothers and their sister, and with evident knowid(ro of tbe premises went to the bed, lifted up tbe tick, and found the key 13 the safe, taking therefrom money ani securities to tbe amount of $150,000. During tbe struggle ia binding th3 brothers ona of then stabbed one of tha robbers with a two-lined fork, one of the tines breaking olf in his body.

The sister soon liberated herself oa tha robbers leaving, released her brothers, who gave the aiarra, and tbe robbers were traced to a point where it is thought they took a freight train oa the New York Central railroad. The Buffalo ball club beat the Bostoa nina6tol, the Chicago beat the Troy nine 7 to 4, the Cleveland beat the Worcester nine 13 to 10, ani tha Providence beat the Detroit nine 1 to 0 ia eightee i innings, the longest game on record in the league. Commissioner Fink has issued a call for a meeting of the joict executive committee on Aug. 22. The committee will consider the establishment of differential rates.

Trouble exists between the white and colored laborers oa the line of the Mem phis and Kansas City railway, ani tha white men finally have succeeded in intimidating the negroes from work. The company notified Governor Churchill, of Arkansas, who at once ordered the sheriif nf the countv in which the trouble ex- ists tr protect the colored workmen Twentv-one new cases and three deaths from yellow fever are reported from Brownsville but few new cases and eight deaths ara reported from Matamoras. A burning coal-mlna ha burst out into a blaza fifty feet high, threatening a great destructioa of property, near Cumberland, Md. Oa Wednesday night a lynching party was organized at Evansville, Ind to go to tha jail of a neighboring county and take out George LenhaTtand attempt to torture from him a confessioa of the mur dcr cf the WeJbcr family, for which ha is held. Failing to secure an engine and coach to take.

them to the scene cf their proposed operations, dissensions arose, their ardor abated, and they separated as quietly as tbey had assembled. The apinners cf Weetomas mill. Fa Mita. nave struca. a nuinocr a I.

A Wt A-- "1 the striking Cumberland, miners went to work, vesterdsy, at the operators terms. Italians from New York are taxing ine places cf the striking longshoremea at a A. Boston. Tha Harmony mills a'-naers Cohoes, New York, are iearing to fine work elsewhere. Xmwithmtndinir tbe avowals of both partiss to the Pittsburgh iroa strike to tha newlog S.

Tha mill. 9 it.AU MlanMl tn make all necessary repair, and improvements, anu are now approaching read I nets icr tne nr- option of work. sumpt Albert Jenks, the absconding real-eatata agent cf Chicago, committed suicide at Evanston, yesterday, by taking morphine. Six smugglers, with pack-moles, en-camped at Bowie, Arizona, were drowned by a cloud-burst, At Socorro, eighty miles south cf albu-qnerque, N. Jnaa Elverad, a gambler, was taken from jail by a mob and lynched, for outraging the person cf a li-year-old girl.

F0KKI05. Tha palace cf Count Andraecy at Vienna was burglarized yesterday, and all the count's orders taken, together with many objects of art and antiquity. The Prince of Wales and Princess Alexandra have started for the continent. Tha coronatioa of tbe czar is announced to taka place October 1st at Moscow. A meeting presided over by Lord Mayer Dawsoa was held at the mansicn-houaa, Dublin, yesterday, for the purpose of starting a fund for the aid cf evicted tenants.

An inclosure cf 20 was received from Grey. The statement of the fact elicited cheers for Grey, and cries cf "Down with Dawson." In the house cf ta reply to the remarks made by Irish members, William Johnson, at. torney general for Ireland, stated the de tails cf the composition of the jury, with a view to rebut the accusation ot drunk enness, adding that, as the charges were now before parliament, they would be investigated. It is probable Ithat Parnell, Sexton, and Joha Redmond, M. will visit Ameri ca to work up public opinion in favor cf Ireland.

It is probable that Davitt, in stead cf going to Australia, will remain ia America for the same purpose. Davitt regards the Irish situatioa as critical. Tha intention of the British government to restore Cetewayo to his kingdom causes consternation at D'Urban. Great care will be taken to have aa understanding with the chiefs. Ths rains which, the past two days, have been falling pretty generally throughout New England, are hailed as a godsend to the people of that region.

They break a drouth that has been more serious and widespread thaa any wlthia the recollection of man, in the New England states. I a every one of tbe six the story is the same. No rain other thaa local showers, low water ia rivers and ponds, dry wells and springs, and uni- versEl injary to corn, potatoes and late summer and fall fruits. From tbe SL Croix on the east to Lake Champlain oa the west, ani from the Canada border to Long Island sound, there had been no con siderable raia reported during the past four weeks, exefpt ia two cr three local i tits. Tbe hay crop, harvested before the dry weather set in, is larger than usual, whila -wheat and oats did not suner seriously.

The pasturage. however, especially in New Hampshire, was nearly dead, when the raia came. Massachusetts suffered tbe most; her apple crop is ruined, berries cooked oa the bushes, vegetable gardens wilted down. In Rhode Island, the whortleberry crop is but about one-half, and the prica has gone up flftv per cent. Vermont's apple crop, usually worth half a million dollars, is destroyed more thaa one-half.

New Hampshire's apple croo will be one-third of aa averaee and her peach crop but one-tenth. Ia Maine, there is an enormous acreage of potatoes, but the crop has been spoiled fifty per cent; the lumber interest of Maine suffers aevereiy, for the water is so low in many of the rivers that the mills are stopped. The foreet fires near Sandwich, in southeastern Massachusetts, were a direct resultant of the drouth. Even after the flames had passed through the standing timber, thick, tinder-like turf remained smoldering for days, and, with tbe recurrence of high wind, the blaze was all ready to buret forth again with renewed vigor. The fire burned over some twenty square miles, and was only finally extin guished by the steady and continuous raia of Wednesday and Thursday of this week.

Acxx)itDrN3 to Mr. Eaton, Daniel Webster, secretary of state under Presi dent Harrison, and by his instruction, ia 1641, declared that the payment cf contri butions 0 assessments oa salaries, or official compensation for party or elec tion purposes will be regarded by him as causa for removal. Gen. Dix, whea post master ia New York, refused to allow his subordinates and clerks to be assessed. President Hayes declared the practice cf assessing salaries as highly demoralizing and a grots injustice, and President Gar-fiield wss net behind him in his denunciation.

Tha system seemed to flourish bett under Buchanan, and there seems to hava beea no discouragement cf it by that distinguished official. This Rochester Pott Erprat thus sug- ta a new word, to meet a long felt -want: Ve Mk adipnUon to prmtt catoin-tMwinr vtev word into the laDtmace. ltta ttUpfumt. Tbe na of inch phrt. aa "telephonic eommontcation," telephonic meaaage, utwa hf and tha tike, aeania a littla ciara-r and a eingrte word men-tea-haa become a detideratoin We nbmit tet-ephense" aa a word properly made from tha w-hle which will convenient'? nr hnrrriBtF Deech.

lta formation ft analogona to 'Ueiesra," the termination la both caeca repreeentins the reaait of tbe verb a action. Tana 'no telegraph" la to wrtte from a distance. and a -t eierra.ro te inn wruica uvw 1 be new word "telepbeme" la tmiiarly nrue. A rtrocer has beea deviae-J for rnaiing wood out of common wheat straw, the method being described as follows: Ordinary straw board is taken, such as is usually manufacture 1 at any paper mill; and aa many sheets are need aa to make the thickness of wood desired. Theso sheet ara passed throcgU a chemical solution which softens up the fibre and completely saturates it Tht whole is then named throuch a succession cf rol lers, dried and hardened durinsr tha pae- mmrrfy nniuthad bv which treat- meE cornea out of hootherendof tha JKto thtt i.Jutoii tb.t th.

1 katMMiliKf In 4tm chemical piypaU-, tnUmjn ana renae. 1 a very he fire, PRORPECTITE OUTBREAK AT FINK SI DOE Omaha. Aug. 18. Dispatches received at the military headquarters in this city to-day show that there ia serious trouble between the Sioux at the Pine Ridge Agency and their agent, V.

T. McGilli-cuddy. Red Cloud and the other chiefs have notified McGillicuddy that if he is not removed by Oct. 15 they will break out and thev have also notified the secretary of the interior and the post and department commanders of this threat. A telegram from Col.

V. Sumner, commanding Fort Robinson, sixiy-flve miles from Pine Ridge, state? that he received this-morning a letter signed by fifty-two chiefs and head men indicating wide spread dissatisfaction at Pine Ridge. The Indians look to Gen. Crook for relief, and ask Col. Sumner to inform him that they have given the interior department sixty days within which time they expect some action to be taken, otherwise trouble will ensue.

There are over 7,000 Indians at Pine Ridge Agency, and 800 at Spotted Tail Agency eighty miles distant About 100 miles weat there are 2,500 Crows, who are uaeasy and off their reservation have been killing cattle. There are also some Cheyennea among the Sioux, as well as some warriors from Bitting Bull's band. It is claimed that if the Sioux break out they and their allies can muster between 4,000 and 5,000 well mounted and equipped warriors. Gen. Crook has had much to do with the Sioux and they nearly all respect him and have unbounded confidence in him.

He has fougnt them often and has made terms of peace with them, and it is not unlikely that before he leaves for Arizona he will be sent amonz them as a special commissioner, to listen to their requests. This, it is thought, will result in quieting them, and averting the threatened trouble. Red Cloud, however, has no love for Crook or McGillicuddy. Crook in 1876 deposed him from the government chieftainship of the Sioux nation, and promoted Spotted Tall to that position. Crook also dis armed and dismounted his band.

Red Cloud in 1880 was deposed from the position of chief of his own band for bad conduct by McGillicuddy, and harbors hard feeling on that account and has worked up the general feeling. McGilli cuddy has sn excellent reputation as an agent nd is a man of good judgment and long experience, lie has been an army surgeon, and has also served in the engineer corps with Crook in all his Sioux campaigns. It is predicted by officers here that the difficulty must be adjusted or an Indian war will result Gen. Crook who is In Baltimore, is expected here Aug. 23, and intends to leave for Arizonia early in September Improving the Mississippi.

New York. Aue. 18. The Mississippi river commission, consisting ot Gen. Gil- more, president; Gen.

C. B. Comstock, Major Suter, Judge Taylor. Prof. Mitch ell, Maj.

Harron and Capt James B. Eads, nas been in session since Monday. The whole sum at the disposal of the commis sion for the Mississippi river is $5,150, 000. Tbe commission determined to recommend tbe approximate allotment of $4,123,000, which is for the improvement oi tne river below Uairo, in the followin manner: For the continuation of wor at Plennen Point -sixty miles above Memphis, for the continuation of work in progress sixty miles above Vicksburg at Lake Providence. $700,000: for work at New Madrid, seventy miles below Cairo, f8UU.u0V, lor work near Mempbis, and for the continuation of work in the harbor of Memphis, for various harbor works in addition to balances now available, $123 000 for repairs of levees by the stoppage of existing gaps, 000.

The sum of $100,000 was left una! loled for contingencies. Tbe commission decided work should begin on the east bank of the river some miles above the mouth of the Yazoo, and should continue upward. The commission recommend that $800,000 raised by local authorities bo applied in such way as to secure in connection with the work done by the government a continuity of the lines of levees rrom below, upward. With this end in view the commission, in making the allotment took into consideration the work likely to be done by local authorities. Tbe work at Plennen Point and Lake Providence'consista principally of narrowing tbe stream so as to increase the rapidity of the current and prevent the formation of sandbars, which have a tendency to shift the channel.

One of the proposed projects is to prevent by embankment the flow of the waters of the Mississippi through the Atchefalaya river. Logging Interests. Milwaukee, Aug. 18. It is said that there is pine enough on the Ontonagon river.

Lake Superior region, to keep one mill running, at the rate or a year, for 120 years, or 3,000,000,000 feet on the river. While the pine trees of our northern states are being so industriously utilized, many operators are bethinking them selves of the future, and supplement pres ent operations with purchases of pine lands in the south. A recent move of this description was made by an' Apple-ton, syndicate, composed of Messrs. Wharton, Goff, Warn bold, Freeman, Hammond, Miltimore and Wlthee, who have bought 85,600 acres of pine land in Alabama, estimated to have on it 000 of standing timber of good quality. Mr.

lltles, of rittsneld, YV recently bought of Mead Ripley, of Oshkosh, several thousand acres of land, mostly on the east fork of Black river and on YeMow river, in Wood county, the consideration being $100,000. II ilea Ward also bought pine, hard-wood and other property at Pittsfleld and vicinity, for which they paid $25,000. Chicago News. GRAIN DEFLECTING FROM CHICAGO. Chicago, Aug.

18. The TribuM says that through the shortsighted policy of tbe roads leading from Chicago to Missouri valley points, in advancing grain freights, very little grain is coming this way, but is taking the cheaper barge line to the sea, from Missouri and Kansas. THE DISTILLERS. The Western Distillers' Association have appointed an executive committee and adopted resolutions favoring the enforcement of laws for the observance of the Sabbath, a well-digested license law with a high figure for each license granted, and opposing any conflict with either political partv. The sentiment of the distillers at tending the meeting is very strong against taking political action.

11. B. Miller was elected president Further business of the association will be transacted at a meeting to be held in Indianapolis, tbe date of which has as yet not been fixed. The Harvest, EFFECT ON CHICAGO 'CHANGE. Chicago, Aug.

18. Prices on 'Change are all higher. There was an advance on wheat of Jc corn oats Jfc pork 10c, and lard 25c Crop reports, though numerous, give little additional information. Where threahisg has been done, predictions are fully justified as to the yield, except in Michigan, where the turn-out is below anticipations. Corn is picking np rapidly.

said to be negotiating for his escape, in case such becomes necessary, to the resl-dence of a fanatical Mohammedan dig on tne borders or Tripoli. A deserter from his forces gives a graphic description of the misery prevailing in the reoei camp, wnere the wounded are crawling about with their sufferinirs unheeded. They prssent a sadjpicture of distress and neglect Some of these poor creatures are said to have been shot by their com rades to free them from their aeonv. Many Egyptians are compelled against their will to fight opinion of wolseley's actions. London, Aug.

18. The Standard says that Gen. Wolseley's parading was for an ostensible purpose, and may have been the best way of concealing his real inten tions. Before now the enemy has been deceived by means oC the press. The Standard further says that the ironclads mya increase tbe deception by the bom bardment or the forts, and at night a fleet of transports may steam back to Alexandria again and disembark the troops and iue enure xiriusu iorce iau upon Ara oi rasna's depleted entrenchments in front of Ramleh.

It is almost certain that the reports of the landing at Aboukir are spread to throw dust in the eyes of Arabi rasna. The Time is quite silent in regard to Gen. wolseley's Intentions. iheiYrtr draws attention to the fact that when Gen. Wolselev wrote the first edition of the Soldiers' Pocketbook he regarded special correspondents as the modern curses of the army in the field.

Subsequent events no doubt induced him to modify his views, but hot to such ex. tent that he would be likely to take them into nis connuence witnout reserve. RUSSIA MOVING ON TURKET. London, Aug. 18.

A dispatch to the i irom tot Petersburg says it is believed at Erzeroum, Armenia, that Russia is about to occupy the whole of Asia Minor, to the Bosphorua. Owing to the undefended state of that part of Turkey, the Russians could easily do this without mucn niooosned. A dispatch to the Daily Teleffrayh from Paris says that it is no secret that Russia is concentrating a formidable army in the Caucassus. The army, it is estimated, win pumber or 78,000 man. St.

Petersburg, Aug. 18. The gov ernment officially denies the reports of tne relative concentration oi troops in the uaucassus. important movements. Alexandria, Aug.

1811:20 A. M. A division of the Guards and the Six teenth regiment is now embarking. The Gordon and Cameron Highlanders are going to Ramleh to form the nucleus of a Highland brigade under General Allison the fleet and transports are getting up steam. They will sail with sealed orders.

THE EXPEDITON EMBARKED. Alexandria. Aue. 18. The whole ex pedition is on board ship, ready to start in tbe morning, its destination is still uncertain.

A GERMAN CLAIM. Berlin, Aug. 18 The Germans who suffered loss by the bombardment of Alexandria, have petitioned the German government to claim compensation for their loss. Washington New. A PUFF FOR LINCOLN.

VV AnrNOTfw. Aiiir. 1H. "Vnnnff mn for war, old men for counsel" is probably a very good adage for times of rebellion but In these piping times of peace it might be paraphrased "young men for work, old men for watering places." This may pass for good sense in view of the condition of public affairs in Washington The cabinet has its single representative here in the person of "the young secre tary," Mr. Lincoln.

That this official is able to carry on the iroverument so to speak, while his colleagues are all away is complimentary to his vitror and ambl tion. The allurements of a summer vaca tion, with the thermometer at 90 odd and everybody else setting the example of ab sence, have been put aside and Secretary Lincoln may be seen at the war depart ment all day and at his residence at night card at work. It is no mere phrase to say hard at work, Tor the athletic secretary sits in bis shirt-sleeves, with his collar off, his muscular proportions well displayed and the perspiration glistening on his forehead as he works. It the recording angel lets fal a tear, he Is imitated by Secretary Lincoln who must sometimes moisten his officis correspondence with a drop of perspiration. In the mesntime, where is the rest of the government? The president is at Newport Secretary Frelinghuysen, being his jidut Achate for the nonce, Secretary Teller is in Colorado, Postmaster Genera Howe in Wisconsin, Secretary Folger in New York state, Attorney General Brew ster at Long Branch, Secretary Chandler off on a cruise, and the lesser officials dis tributed over mountain and seashore wherever it is cool and comfortable.

Their official anxieties are pigeonholed for fur ther reference when tbe weather mod erates or are turned over to Secretary Lincoln to act on in their absence. FOX RIVER IMPROVEMENTS, A board of officers of the engineer corps, consisting of Lieut. Col. David C. Hous ton.

Maj. Henry M. Robert and Maj. Wm II. II.

Beauregard, has been appointed to meet at Oshkosh, to consider and re port upon matters provided for In the river and harbor bill, concerning the channe of the Lower Fox river, between Lake Winnebago and the upper government dam at Appleton, and to the dams at Menasha and Appleton. The board of officers of tbe engineer corps appointed in 1880 will reconvene at St Paul and re consider their former report and recom mend any change, in design or dimen sions, of the dam at the mouth of Lake Winnebigashish, on the Mississippi river Mat. Alex. McKenzie is detailed as a mem ber of the board, in lieu of Maj. Lyder eke, not now available.

Strike Notes. DRIVER BOTS AT PLYMOUTH, pa. Wilkesbarre, Pa, Aug. 18 At noon the driver bovs and runners, connected with the Lehfffh Western at Ply mouth, announced that they had resolved tr intn thn on the strike in the citv. It now looks as though the strike would become general among the driver boys and runners connected with tnis company.

A NEW FEATURE, AT PITTSBURG H. Pittsburgh, Aug. 18. It is reported upon what is considered reliable author! tv. that one of the lodges of tbe Amalga mated Association, in the 12th ward, held a meeting last evening, and, after a very heated discussion, passed a resolution to submit the old scale to the manufacturera for their signatures; provided that the nresident of the lodee would give hISCOn sent It is not known what his decision will be.

but if the report is true it wil have an important bearing on the strike, The Week's Failures. New York, Aug. lb. The iailnres during tbe past 7 days, as reported to New York number Wo and are thus distributed Eastern states, 16; western states 23; southern states 16; middle states 20; Pacific states and territories 10; New York City and Brooklyn 5. DI1VILISII DI1R1ILERS.

In Pennsylvania Tby Attempt to Destroy timsm Train. In llilwaukec, a Train wrccksr la Convicted. Inpending Sioux Outbreak, at Pine Irsproveraenta of Lliiaiatippl and For Riven. A Zsons Oatalogno of Otartlixic Orimes. The British About to Swallow Up Arabi Pasha.

Wholesale Murder in County Galway, Ireland. Criminal. AS ATTEMPT TO WRECK AN RXCURSIOJV TRAIN. PrrrsBURO, Aug. 18.

One of the most dastardly and cold blooded attempts to wreck attain was made last night, at first trestle this side of the Alliquippi station oa the Pittsburg Lake Erie road. At Alliquippi Station there was a picnic, wnicn was attended by l.UUU or more wo men and children, filling some half do.ea coaches. On the the return from Alliquippi, the train was going at a rapid rate; just before entering the first trestle, ihe engineer discovered a large beam lay. mg across the trac.K ana tne discovery was made just in time to enable him to stop the train. Had his attention beea attracted in another direction, but for a moment before he saw beam, the train would have been precipitated to the ground, a distance of 40 feet and with the precipitation there would have been a terrible loss of life.

Who put the beam on the track or the motive that tempted the fiends to engage in such aa attempt at wholesale murder is unknown. There can be no doubt but the beam laid across the track for the express purpose for wrecking that particular train. The ex-citement produced by the discovery, among passengers, was so great that for the remainder of tha trip there vu much. less joy thaa there had been. Ihe railroad authorities have offered a reward of $500 for information which will lead to the detection of the would-be train wreckers.

CROOKED RAILROAD MEN. La Cro68e, Aug. 18. Three employes of the Chicago, Milwaukee St Paul Railway Comoanv are under arrest here. charged with a new scheme of crooked ness.

The arrests have been kept secret until now that the last of the number has been captured at Hastings. Two are brakemen and one is Night Yardmaster Kahler, or the upper yard. Monday, Kahler put a tramping laborer into a car fcr twenty-five cents, and told one of hii pals to bleed him lor more money on the train. Ihe laborer, JUichaei Murray, en tered the freight car, fell asleep and was robbed by brakeman Riley. He awoke during tbe operation, squealed, and.

was ordered off the train at the bridge. In complying he fell twenty feet, and was seriously injured. He is now la the coun ty jail under medical treatment. Ycster-dsy the gang got $3.50 out of two negroes, quarreled over Its division, and were given away by the watchman. The business, though small, has been long continued and profitable.

THE ANT A Fft SCRIP CASES. Yankton, Aug. 18. Wm. D.

Russell was found guilty by the jury, of conspiracy in the oanta re scrip cases, but tbe verdtct adds a conntcting clause that they cannot determine whether the pasting, or writing, on the bogus certifi cate was done before or after they were executed or signed. The defense claim a new trial on this verdict Tbe trial of Cameron and Carpenter has been put over until the winter term. TRAIN WRECKER FOUND GDILTT. Milwaukee, Aug. 18.

William John son. the train-wrecker, was found guilty by the jury and will receive from one to ten years' imprisonment at nam taoor. HEAVY SENTENCE. FOR AN EMBEZZLER. Reading.

Pa Aug. 18. Adam M. Dun dore, the defaulting ex-county treasurer, pleaded guilty to the indictment charging him with the embezzlement or state funds, and sentence has been imposed, as follows: That the prisoner be sentenced to three years separate and solitary confinement and hard labor in the Bourkes county jail; that he pay the county's prosecution; that he make restitution of the 19.000 stolen, and that he stand commit ted until the sentence is complied with. The score or so of other indictments were laid aside for subsequent action.

ANOTHER ROBBER PUNISHED. Bobton. Aue. 18 Arthur A. Noyes, who robbed Lewis, Coleman Co.

of dry goods, etc, amounting to nearly $18,000, has been sentenced to ten years in cue state prison one day in solitary confine ment and the balance at hard labor. RTARTilxa AFFRAY ON A LAKE STEAMER. Milwaukee? Auir. 18. James Gordon, of Kenosha, a colored deckhand on the steamer City of Milwaukee, was fatally Mtnbbed in the abdoman with a large hntrhr knlf.

bv Wm. Jackaon, one of the crew of the steamer. The stabbing th t-Miilt of a auarrel over a money transaction. Jacksoa escaped after the arrival of the steamer at this port Obituary. TWO WISCONSIN PIONEERS.

Portaqe. Auir. ia Hugh McFarlane An rvf th oldest settlers in Wisconsin anri man hiihlv respected, died at his home in Arliorton. He was a member cf the assembly in early days. He was mt Kl John's EoiscoDsJ church by the Masons, of which lodge he was a memoer, una bwu'K' Piwimie.

18. David Doe, an old resident of this place, after suffering IT er iMrtwrn reanc died at m. bo'ed 71 Tears. Fnneral from lb8 rctid.Dce, this afternoon..