The Osage County Chronicle from Burlingame, Kansas • Page 1

ill yts. CURItEN-T TOPICS. i 1.11. Retchns received at the Agricultural Department at Washington show that the winter wheat crop, already safely harvested, is the largest produced, in this country for many years. The spring wheat is also in excellent condition, and an unprecedented yield is anticinatd 0itifg A Good Indian Story.

1 i il i 1 A party of ffve amateur huntsmen, says the Sacramento Record-Union, left the city yesterday for the mountains, to be gone about a month, and anolher party of Jour returned home day before yesterday. The latter had Intended to stay out longer, but the Indians in their vicinity began to grow exceedingly saucy, and to make demands for small things in a tone which, it was thought, indicated that they might, if provoked, help themselves, and the hunters therefore broke camp, intending to stop awhile at a point nearer home, but after they ot mt th back track they, came through without much delay. Speaking of the party tell a funny story of their main camp. One hot day one BURLING AME, KANSAS, AUGUST 9, 1877. I ESTABLISHED 1863.

The cotfon prospects are also more favorable than last year at this time, the prouuet now being estimated at upwards of 4,500,000 bales. The wheat crop of last year was Hi) bushels. This year it will be more 1 nan 325,000,000 bushels. The average Export for lire years has lieen 6" 1 ,500,000 bushels. The largest amount ever tdiippi-d jn year was bushels.

Of this year's not less than bushels be' sent abroad. Another important circumstance in connection with our own al.imd.iht harvest the reduced puMiucuon oi houthern Russia, resulting from the disturbed condition of affairs in the countries adjacent to the Black Sea. Recent special reports from Smi hern Russia report the estimated crop of the present season at less than one-half that of former years. Russia has hithcrtobcen our only jrreat rival in the Knglish wheat market. Before 172 Russia shipped almost as much wheat to the markets of the world as the I'nited States.

-ear the Russian supply was only one-third as great as that of the United States, and for the present year it is shown by official communications that the proportion of Russian wheat will bo much less. It is shown by official reports that the wheat crop in California for the present season is small, so that, the estimated surplus of bushels will Ik: produced east of the Rocky Hon. W.I). Kki.lkv, of Pennsylvania, has written a letter upon the financial question, which has found its way into print, and of which the following is tin; pith: The importunee of the money iiuest iou ran not he exasperated, as it is related to the interests of every member of Hoeicty, and the people have no just appro-bensioii of it subtle but all-controlling j. fluence.

The policy inherited bv the present A tl niii) 1:1 1 ion from those of 'reideiits Johnson und (Jrant, and which Secretary Miurinan is enforcing it the zeal of olio who is not only convinced of the cor-rcctnoK his views, hut is fanatical In his faith, wili, I predict without hesitancy or doubt, if persisted In until the Nt of pi iduce, not resumption of specie payments, us ho l.elieves, lmt bankruptcy so wide and ivueral, and want and suffering so ttciite and flmost universal, as to result in tinancial and social anarchy. PitKsi i knt Vaxdkimui.t, of the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, has issued a circular, stating that of tho employees of that company less than 500 struck, and no injury was done to property. In recognition of their fealty, he directs that divided ratably, according to their positions on the pay-roll, among all employes engaged in operating the road, lie says no men, who in time of trial embarrass the company, can remain in or re-eutcr its service, and adds that the pay will increased the moment business justifies it. Tiik entire foreign trade of this country for the fiscal year ending 1 is found to have bVcn in gold values against the previous year. The following table fchows the chief results for the last two vmi: I 1 1 1 1 I Kxports I'XCCSS 1 ports.

S7; (1. Total. Kxcess hi exports The net exportation of specie for the twoyears amounts to about against a production for the two years of of bullion. At Springfield, 111., on the Judge Treat sentenced L'u rioters to H0 days' rontinrnvent each in jail, for interfering with the trains of the Indianapolis, Rloomington and Western Railway, a company in the hands of a receiver appointed by the Tinted States Court. The were arrested at Urban Champaign County, and taken to Springfield for examination.

Judge Drummond, at Chicago, also sentenced eight Peoria rioters to the County two of the ji Homers inr ninr ninnllK atiit in mainder for two months, all to pay a fine of $50 or remain imprisoned until the fine is paid. Gf.n. Howard's forces have started for Missoula, Montana, with the intention of striking Joseph's band in the rear. The troops at Missoula are requested to hold Joseph until he can come up. Gen.

Howard thinks that the capture of the enemy is certain, providing the Montana troops can check their advance. Heu Majesty's steamers Flamingo and Condor have been ordered to the Danube to protect British interests and assert Great Britain's treaty right to maintain two gunboats on the Danube. They will be accompanied to the Black Sea by the iron-clads Shannon and Agincourt, to support them should their passage be opposed. The Ohio Republican State Convention was held at Cleveland on the 1st. Hon.

James A. GarGeld was chosen to preside. The following ticket was nominated: Governor, W. H. West; Lieutenant-Govercor, Ferd.

Voegler; Supreme Judge, AV. W. Johnson Attorney-General, George K. Nast Clerk of "Supreme Court," wight Crowell; School Commissioner, T. Lukens; Board of Public Works.

A. W. Luckev TheVdatform adonted heartilr endorse the Administration of President Hayes The plank demands the ro-monetiiation of. silver and the makiug of both gold knd silver." legal-tender for the payment of all dets, except whereb otherwise specifically provided by law." Thk. Mississippi Democratic State met at Jackson on the 1st GovvStone was nominated for Govern.

or on the tenth ballot." The resolutions adopted pledge the party to fidelity to tbe Constitution of the -United States, home" rule," and the preservation of State Governments, with all their reserved and guaranteed rights unimpaired no interference by the military power with the freedom of elections and with the civil and political rights of the 1 a a a a BY W. F. CHALFANT.I citizens of tho United States; protection of the equal rights of all classes, and no discrimination on account of race, color, previous condition of servitude or A resolution in favor of Government aid to the Texas Pacific Railroad, so far as it can be extended without violation of the Constitution of the Uuited States, or departing from established usages of the Government," was also adopted. Senator Lamar made a speech warmly approving President Hayes's policy, so far as it affected the South. Tim following taldo gives a view of all the elections to be held this year, with the date of the election and the officers to be chosen State.

Kentuck Hlifornia. Vermont Maine low II Ohii Louisiana. Election lag. tltllrer. 6....

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ticket. Nov. u.sctts Minnesota Nov. Mississippi Nevada New Jersey Nov. New York Nov.

South Carolina. Nov. Nov. Texas Nov. Virginia Nov.

IV Nov. The public debt statement for August shows cash in Treasury, coin, currency, .17,972,14 special deposits, total, Debt, less cash in the Treasury, Decrease in debt during July, By the burning of a large cigar-box manufactory, corner of Eighth Street and Broadway, Cincinnati, on the Od, number of lives were lost. The fire broke out in the cellar, and extended so rapidly through the upper floors that number of the employees, who were mostly girls, were unable to escape. Some succeeded in getting upon the roofs of adjoining buildings and thence to the ground. The names of the killed are: Mary Xurre, aged 20; Josephine Bry, 18; Mena Keube, 10; Anna Patger, Henry Magg, 1(1; Frank Stordeur, 20.

Stordeur lost his life in attempting to save the lives of others, he having bravely rushed into the burning building, fm which he was unable to make his escape. The schooner Florence sailed from New London, on the 1st, for the Arctic Ocean, under command of Captain Tyson. The Florence will establish Captain Ilowgate's Polar colony at point on the coast, or on the north side of Cumberland Island, and then store the supplies, on which the main exploring expedition, which sails in July, S7, under Capt. II. W.

How-gate, of the United States Army, is to subsist. The Florence is of 50 tons burthen, is provisioned for one and amply supplied with equipments. PERSONAL, AND POLITICAL. Senator Doksev, of Arkansas, owns ranche in Colfax County, New Mexico, ami intends to, spend several weeks there this summer. The death is announced of Prof Zoepll, of the T'niversity of Heidelberg, where lie occupied the chair of German Law for forty years.

His works on the subject are highly appreciated iu Germany. Wooimt LL and Clallin have sailed for Europe. Schuyler Crosby has received in Italy the first -class medal of the United States Government for his gallant conduct in saving several lives from the wreck of the Mohawk yacht- hint year. Juixjk Taft, of Ohio, has authorized the announcement that he will, under no circumstances, accept a nomination for Governor tli Is year. Hi law business demands his exclusive attention.

JosErn Woodruff, Secretary of the of South Carolina, was arrested at Philadelphia, on the 27th, on a requisition of Gov. Hampton. The charge against him are forgery and larceny. Henry W. Hilliard, of Georgia, has been appointed Minister to Brazil, rice James It.

Partridge, of Maryland. Hilliard, previous to the late civil war, was Representative in Congress from Montgomery. The Wallachian and Bulgarian troops re accused by the Turks of committing the most horrible atrocities upon prisoners as well ns n-combatants, and the Sultan has reipiested the Queen to use her influence with the Czar to put a stop to these outrages. Hon. JosKrn Segar, of Virginia, has been appointed Arbitrator on the part of the United States bi fore the United States and Spanish virtue of the agreement of the two Governments for the settlement of certain claims of citizens of this country on account of wrongs and injuries committed by Spanish authorities in Cuba.

Governor Notes, VJnited States Minister to France, sailed for his post in the steamship Illinois, on the 31st. Dr. James Bryce, of Edinburgh, the eminent geologist, was killed in the Highlands recently while in the pursuit of his favorite science. He started off alone, hammer in hand, and his body was found, two hours afterwards, at the foot of a precipice, dreadfully crushed. Rev.

B. A. Stcrbs of Madison County, while on his way to preach, on the 22d was killed by a tree falling on him. Mr. J.

Clark Mills, the eminent sculplor, has recently made casts of 64 Indi an Chiefs confined In the Government fort at St. Augustine, Florida. They are to be deposited in the Ethnological Department of tbe Smithsonian Institution at Washington uluuur OL iew lOrK, has cut short his European trip and started home, the political complications in the Empire State being of snca a nature, it is inti mated, to require his personal attention. The Governor of New York has pardoned Frank "Walworth, sentenced to the State Prison for life for the murder of his father in 1873. The ground for pardon is insanity.

A number of Eastern papers having impugned the judicial integrity of Judge John F. Dillon, of the United States Circuit Court, for his action in the foreclosure suit of the Central Kail road of Iowa, the counsel lot ail parties to the suit have united hi a statement that they believe his decisions in the case referred to have been made with perfect honesty and purity of motives, and that nothing therein can be found which ought in the least to reflect upon his Judf did integrity. I NO. 84.1 The United States Grand Jury at Portland, Oregon, have indicted W. H.

X. Stiles for perjury in the Grover invetdiga-tion case, and he was committed to jail in default of bail. Stiles gave the most damaging testimony in regard to the payment of money by Grover to secure Ids elee tion. Two other witnesses have also been indicted for perjury in the same case. Mr.

James McDonald, editor of the Scotsman, and Scotch Agricultural Commissioner, is now on a visit to this country, his mission being to inquire into the capacity of the United States to supply the old country with cheap beef. Mr. H. II. Hosoke, one of Chicago's best known citizens, has gone into bankruptcy, with liabilities of secured, and unsecured.

The Hight Honorable George Warl Hunt, First Lord of the British Admiralty, is duad. The bulls and bears of "Wall Street were thrown into a state of great excitement, on the L'd, by a rumor that day Gould, the eminent financier, had been knocked down and otherwise maltreated by Maj. A. Selover, a friend of Jim Keene, the Cali-fornian. Maj.

Selover, in explanation of his misconduct, said: I helped Gould at one time out of the tightest place he ever was In, and 1 told him if ever I found him deceiving rue I would thrash him, and I have done it. He tried to make me sell stocks when he was buying, and in doing so tried to overreach me. I told him I would thrash him, and I have kept my word, even if he could not keep his." Gould's injuries were not serious. President Hayes will leave Washington on the 13th for Bennington, Vermont, to take part in the celebration there on the Kith. He will remain in Xew England one week.

The remains of the late Gen. Custer have been deposited in a vault at Pough-keepsie, X. until fall, and will then be transported to West Point. The remains of five of Custer's comrades Capt. Custer, Capt.

Yates, and Limits. A. E.Smith, D. Mcintosh and James Calhoun were interred with fitting obsequies at Fort Leavenworth on the 0d. P.

T. Barxum has been lecturing for the National Temperance League in England, Itev. Xewman Hall presiding. The lecturer said he stopped the use of stimulants in 1847, and for 20 years he had not had an ache or a pain, though he was now John F. Murphy, a well known sporting man of New York and San Francisco, committed suicide in a gambling-house in the former city on the Losses in business and at faro, together with some dilliculty about a woman, one or all, are said to have been the cause.

William B. Ouden, first Mayor of Chicago and first President of the Union Pacific ltailroad, died in New York City on the The President has been formally invited to Nashville by the Aldermen of that city. Henry Sidney Everett has been appointed Secretary of Legation at Germany. Mr. Ben.

DeBar, the well known comedian and manager, is now lying at his home in St. Louis, stricken with paralysis, accompanied by softening of the brain, and, alt hough his physicians say that be may partially recover from the attack, he will probably never again be able to appear upon the stage. JrixiK West, the Republican candidate for Governor of Ohio, is said to have been the first choice of President Hayes for that position. Wade Hampton, colored, who was once a slave of Gov. "Wade Hampton, is lecturing in Southorn Indiana on the Condition of the South." Field-Marshal Steinmetz died suddenly at the baths at Landeek, Silesia, of heart disease, on the 3d.

TELEGRAPHIC NOTES. Near Camden, on Sunday, the 20th, the family of Frederick Windeall went to church, leaving alone in the house a woman named Mrs. Honk, a widow. On their return Mrs. Honk was found lying on the floor dead, with her throat cut from ear to ear.

Search made for the murderer resulted in the discovery of a man named Henry Miller, suspended from a beam in the stable, dead. Miller was employed on Winde's farm, and it is believed that while intoxicated he attempted to outrage Mrs. Hmik, and fearing the consequences of discovery murdered her and then killed himself. The masons of London have struck work for a reduction of hours and increase of wages. The Loekhaven (Pa.) Bank has suspended.

Herbert Blanchard, of Savoy, was ordered to discontinue his visits to the daughter of Mr. E. Trask. On Sunday the 2i'th he met Mr. Trask in church and shot him which he fatally wounded Mr.

Trask's son, and fired thrwe ineffectual shots at the young lady herself. The dwelling-house of John Ortwine, two miles southwest of Frankfort Station, "Will County, 111., was entirely destroyed by tire on the night of the 30th ult. The family consisted of 11 persons, eight of whom escaped. Mr. Ortwlne's father, aged his middle-aged and demented sister, and a 10-year-old son were burned to death.

The remains of Dr. C. F. AVinslow were cremated at Salt Lake, Utah, on the 31st, in accordance with the request of deceased as embodied in his will. The pro cess occupied about three hours.

The heart had been taken out and sent to his birth place. The ashes are to be sent to the grave of his wife, near Boston. The Charter Oak Life Insurance Com pany, of Hartford, has been reorganized and resumed business. The Austrian Ministry have authorized Count Andrassy to mobilize three army corps. At Curdsville, Buckingham County, on the 2Cth Robert Auld, son of Hon.

Robert Auld, of Richmond, shot and fatally wounded his cousin, a young man named William Sanders. The difficulty grew out of a message which young Sanders bore from his father, Albert Sanders, re questing Auld to keep away from his house and daughters. Auld is a very wild youth, and has been the hero of many violent esca pades in various parts of the South and AVest, with whose Jails he is not unfamuiar, He is under arrest. In accordance with the request of Gen. Crook, permission has been granted for a delegation of Sioux to visit AVashington for the purpose of having an interv iew with offi cials of the Interior Department.

The army-worm has appeared in cot ton fields in Xorthern Mississippi. The St. Louis, Fort Scott and Colorado Railroad Company was organized at a meeting of delegates held at Fort Scott Kansas, on the 2d. The First National Bank of George-tow, Colorado, Wm. Cushman, President, closed its doors on the 30th.

Its liabilities en deposits are $103,000, with assets consid erably in excess, it is claimed. The imme tb track. Fortunately the pilot of the lo-motive threw off the obstructions and no damage was done. The strike at Fort AVayne, terminated on the 2d. At Paterson, X.

two striking silk em ployees, women, have been sent to jail for assaulting another woman, who had returned to work. Six of the East St. Louis strikers were tried before the United States Circuit Court at Springfield, 111., on the 4th, and sentenced to 90 days each in the County Jail. Twelve additional companies of United States troops arrived at Wilkesbarre, on the 5th. The condition of affairs in the mining region was considered very critical, and the whole section was virtually under martial law.

The Future Stock Fields. The subjugation of the Sioux Indians opens up to occupancy the finest stock ranges of the continent, and the enterprising stock raisers of the country have already moved toward utilizing them. Montana, the now settled portion of it, is admitted to be the best stock range at present occupied, and the ranchmen there all agree that the unsettled portions of the eastern part of the territory, that is, tha main Yellowstone A'alley, the Rosebud, Big Horn, and Clark's Fork Aalleys, are altogether superior as grazing ranges to the Madison and Gallatin Valleys, i which thousands of head of cattle are being subsisted. Many Montana ranchmen have moved over and located ranches on the Yellowstone, and some on the Rosebud and Clark's Fork. These advancing settlements to the eastward are rapidly moving this way, and will shortly reach the advanced settlements to the westward from the Black Hills.

AVe believe that by this time next year it will be possible to set out on horseback from Deadwood City and travel to the Yellowstone River, stopping at a ranch every night. The greater portion of the intervening country is pastoral in character, with here and there some agricultural districts. It will in a few years be thivkly settled, and be covered with all the embellishments of civilization. Black Hills rioneer. A Tliree-year-old Heroine.

A remarkable feat was performed by the little 3-year-old daughter of Mr and Mrs. Frank Smith, of Pelican, Minn, and niece of Mr. and Mrs. S. M.

AA'ood-worth, of Audubon. AVhile Mrs. AVood- worth was on a visit to her sister one night, Mrs. Smith was taken alarmingly ill. Mr.

Smith was away from home at the time, and no one near the houe to render assistance save Mrs. AVoodworth and the child. Mrs. AVoodworth could not leave, so she called little Angie and asked to go to tho house of a neighbor, three-quarters of a mile distant, and summon assistance. The child did as directed in an incredibly short space of time, and upon her return with the neighbor it was found necessary to summon a physician.

It was now nearly dark, and a storm brewing; yet this brave little heroine ajain took the road and went to the nearest neighbor's house, a distance of one and a quarter miles, in the opposite direction from her first trip, where she found a man to go for a physician. Ere her return to her home the storm had so increased as to render her progress very slow, and the vivid and constant lightning might well have stricken terror into the heart of many an older pedestrian yet this child bravely and faithfully per formed her mission and returned home in safety. Audulion (Minn.) Journal. A Good Fi.sli Mr. AVilliam Todd was fishing with a trot-line in the Tennessee River.

After catching several fish he went home, leaving his line out. The eame evening he went back to take it up, but it was nowhere to be seen, and he supposed it lost forever. A few days after, Mr. Elkins was going down the river and discovered the lloat of a line about a mile below where Mr. Todd was fishing.

He and some friends who were in the boat started to take up the line, but on reaching the hook they found on it, instead of a supposed log, a hideous monster, which so frightened them that they dropped it, but concluded to tow it down Pine Bluff. They pulled it out on reaching there, and found it to be a nondescript fish or alligator. It was dead but had not bitten at the bait. The hook had caught in its body in several places, and in struggling to get free it had gotten the line around its head and drowned. In trying to get away it had dragged a 40-pound sinker over a mile.

The cieature weighed about 150 pounds, and was six feet seven inches in length, and had a nose like a hog and a forked tongue. It is supposed to be either a species of sea shark, alligator, or alligator gar, and had probably strayed from the Lower Mississippi waters. Evans villc Courier. "Saratogy." The other afternoon a frog catcher from the city came across two bootblacks in camp on the river-bank near the liirht-house. Their tent was com posed of old coffee-sacks sewed together, and was just large enough to keep the sun off a spot three feet square.

The lads were boiling potatoes in an old wash-dish and frying a very thin fish on a piece of sheet iron. They had an old oyster-ean to drink out of, a bed made of weeds, and a dead cow was lying in the marsh not over a hundred feet away. are we doin' here?" indig nantly reptied one of the lads when questioned. "AVhy, we is out on our summer trip, and having the bulliest time in the world. The cocoanut is all erone and the crackers eaten up, but we've got fish and taters left, and you kin tell the boys in town that we shan't come back till we've recuperated right up to a hundred and fifty pounds apiece.

We hain't on the Saratogy lay, we hain't, but we are after real old solid comfort." Detroit Free Press. Women in tlie Chicago Riot. AVomen first came to the front as faro pant rioters vesterdav. The taste of blood which the men had had in the early part of the day seemed to have in flamed the women. The night before last there were a few, half crazed with liquor and smarting under their real or fancied wrongs, who were bold enough to yell for pillage.

Yesterday there was ripening of this sentiment, and the result was an Amazofiisn outbreak in the afternoon. In the neighborhood of AVest Twenty-second and Fisk Street? there are a number of planing-mills, sash, door and blind factories and lum ber yards. Just northeast of this are the homes of many of the most restive of the rioters. These men run down in a few minutes to Halstcd Street through alleys, open back-yards, and disappear as suddenly in the event of an attack from the police. The men were glutted with their encounters of the forenoon.

Now was the women's opportunity, and they at once began to improve it. Hundreds of those Amazons conjrresated in the vicinity of Twentieth and Fisk Streets. The nearest factory from that corner was the Goss l'hillips place. The crowd rapidly increased. AA'omen with babies in arms joined the enraged female rioters.

The streets were flutter ing with calico of all shades and shapes. Hundreds were bareheaded, their disheveled locks streaming in the wind. Many were shoeless. Some were young, scarcely women in age, and not at all in appearance. Dresses were tucked up round the waists.

Open busts were as common as a barber's chair. Brawny, sun-burnt arms brandished clubs. Knotty hands held rocks and sticks and wooden blocks. Female yells, shrill as a curlew's cry, filled the air. Tin-swarthy features of tbe Bohemian women were nior horrible to look on in that scene than their men in the Halsted Street riots.

The unsexed mob of female incendiaries rushed to the fence and yards of Goss Phillips's Manufacturing Company. The consternation which this attack created extended to Twenty-second Street, at that hour very quiet. A crowd of men gathered on Fisk Street to witness this curious repetition of the scenes of the Parisian commune. The fence surrounding the yard gave way and was carried off" by the petticoated plunderers in their unbridled rage. There was fear for a little while that the Amazonian army would continue their depredations.

AVord was dispatched to the Ilinman Street Station, and a force of officers under Lieut. A'esey pushed down to the corner of the contest. The women hissed as they saw the blue-coats march along. Some of I he less valorous took to their heels incontinently. Some developed into wonderful athletes, and ditches were danced over as though they were the Hour of some popular ball-room.

Others stood their ground. A shower of missiles greeted the boys as they came smiling along, left front into line. One woman pitched a couple of blocks at the heads of the officers, and then moved on to attend to her family duties. The men were weak in the strength and forcefulness of their language compared with these wretches. Profanity the must foul rolled easily oil their tongues with horrid ghbuess, ex pressions were made use of that brought the blood mantling to the check of the worst-hardened men in the crowd of spectators.

It was awful. cverai snots were fired, by whom it was not known. he police soon restored order, and drove the women back and finally scattered them. This most disgraceful of occurrences is the most disgusting reve lation that has yet deepened the shades the already too black record of riot and villainy, which for nearly a week has disgraced the fair name of Chicago. Chicago Liter-Ocean.

Boy's Composition on Ilabics. There are four or five different kinds of babies. There is the big baby, the little baby, the white baby and the poo dle dog, and there is the baby elephant. Most of these babies was born in a boarding-house, 'cept the baby ele phant; I think he was born on a railroad train, 'cause he alius carries his trunk with him. A white baby is pootier nor a ele phant baby, but he can't eat so much hay.

All the babies what I have ever seen were born very young, 'specially tbe gal babies, and they can't none of them talk the United States language. My father had I mean my mother had a baby once. It was not an elephant baby; it was a little white baby; it corned one day when there was no body home it was a funny looking fellow, just like a lobster. I asked my father was it a boy or a girl, and he say he don't know whether he was a father or mother. This little baby has got two legs, just like a monkey.

His name is Mariah. He don't look like my father nor my mother, but he looks just like my Uncle Tom 'cause the little baby ain't got no hair on his head. One day I asked my nele Tom what was the reason he ain't got no hair and the little baby ain't got no hair. He says he don't know, 'cept that the little baby was born so, and he was a married man. One day I palled a feather ont of the old rooster's tail and I stuck it up the babv's nose and it tickled him so be al most died.

It was only a little bit of a feather, and I don't see what he wanted to make such a fuss about it for. My mother said I ought'er be ashamed of myself and I didn't get no bread on my butter for morn a weeK. I think I'd rather be a girl not a boy, 'cause when a girl gets a whipping she gets it on her fingers, but when a boy gets a licking be gets it all over. I don't like babies very much any how. 'cause they make so much noise I never knew but one quiet baby and he died.

iroy Budget. diate cause of the failure was the personal embarrassment of the President. An entire family, consisting of Lewis Spencer and his four children two girls and two boys living in Clark County, Missouri, were murdered on the night of the The crime was no doubt committed for money, as Spencer had in his possession belonging to the Township, of which he was Trustee. The weapons used were an ax and a pitchfork. Xo trace of the murderer has been discovered.

A shooting affair occurred at Ogalalla, a stock-shipping point, on the 1st, which resulted in the instant death of Wm. Campbell and the wounding of X. E. Gas-mann, Win. Butler, M.

Hinton and A. May, all Texas Oasmann. It is believed that all the wounded men will recover. An unusually horrible accident occurred at Pittsburgh on the 3d. Seven men were engaged in lining the furnace at the Lacy Furnace Company's work, and were on a scaffold which was suspended by ropes.

In some manner the ropes parted, and the scaffold fell, precipitating the men into the bottom of the furnace, which was nearly red-hot, the tires having been drawn only the previous day. Julius Hardin and Michael Cnssick were taken out dead, and the others were so badly burned that they were uot expected to live. The 1st of August, "Emancipation Day," was celebrated by the colored people in many cities and towns throughout the country. Two men, named Lewis and Bailey, have been arrested upon suspicion of being the murderers of the Spencer family, in Clark County, on the night of the 2d. Lewis was Spencer's brother-in-law.

The Poor-house at Simcoe, was burned on the night of the 4th, and 17 of the inmates perished in the flames. Four thcrs were badly burned. On the 31t ult. Indians made a raid on Muerto Springs, a stage-driver, named Henry Dill, and run off 12 head of mules. Hannah Dunn, aged 9, was fatally burned at Anderson, on the night of the 3d, while kindling a tire with coal oil.

She died the next morning. WAR NEWS. A dispatch from Sistova, 29th, says an important engagement was fought Sunday near Rustchuck between the Czaroviteh and Ahmed Eyoub Pasha. The Turkish corps was defeated with a loss of 30 guns, 10 standards anil 8,000 prisoners. Ahmed Eyoub's army is stated to be completely routed.

The Russians will probably at once resume the offensive and follow up their advantages. The Russians made another determined attack upon the Turkish forces in front of Plevna, on the Utlth, and succeeded in driving them from their positions. The Turks subsequently rallied and recaptured all their lost ground, inflicting great punishment upon their opponents. The light lasted two days. The Russian losses are eslimat-ted at some 8,000 killed and 20,000 wounded.

The Turkish losses were comparatively small, on account of their occupying intrenched positions. The Russians were awaiting reinforcements on the 1st, with the intention of making another onslaught. The London News, in its detailed narrative of the battle of Plevna, gives the Russian forces as 32,000 infantry, 00 field guns and three brigades of cavalry. It says this defeat makes the Russian hold in Bulgaria extremely precarious, and must compel the withdrawal of troops from some other point, where they are nearly as badly needed, to beat the Turks at Plevna. Heaten they must be, and that speedily, if the Russian army is not forthwith to retire ingloriously into the principalities.

In consequence of the recent serious reverses of the Russian army, the Czar has ordered the whole Imperial Guard to pro- ecd to Bulgaria. An order has also been ssued, directing army corps not yet mobil ized to furnish a division each to the fight ng army, to be at once dispatched to the Danube. THE GREAT STRIKE. Robert A. Ammon, the man who headed he Pittsburgh strike, and was known as the P.oss," was arrested on the 30th.

together with several of his principal abettors. The railroad men at Seranton, work on the 30th, but the miners still held out. At a meeting held at AVilkesbarre. miners pteugeu themselves to continue he strike and stop pumps until 23 per cent. advance was conceded.

The strike on the Texas Pacific Road ter minated on the 30th, the company having rreed to accede to the demands of the men. The strikers at Kansas City resumed work on the 30th. The strikers on the Pittsburgh, Fort AVayne and Chicago Road, at a meeting held on the 1st, at Fort Wayne, decided by a small majority to resume work, the company having promised that no man shall be lischarged on account of participating in the strike. A Xashville dispatch of the 1st says: Th strike on the St. Louis and Southeastern Road has collapsed, and trains will run as usual to-morrow.

The engineers express a wunngness io resume work, though no con cessions have been made to them. The strikers on the Lake Shore Road still held out at Cleveland and Collinwood, on the 1st, and prevented the running of all freight trains. The striking miners and railroad opera tives at Seranton, on the 1st, undertook to close up a number of iron-works, among the rest that of the Dickson Manufacturing Companv. Mavor McKune went to tbe scene and endeavored to persuade the rioters to disperse, but they pounced upon him in a most threatening manner, and but for the interposition of Father Dunn, he would probably have been killed. As it wa, he escaped with a double fracture of the Jaw.

Meanwhile Mr. AV. AV. Seranton, manager of the Dickson AVorks, put nimseii at toe head or about 40 of the Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company's private police, and when the mob came along and commenced firing stones and other missiles at them, they opened fire upon the mob with rifles and revolvers, killing lour and wounding seven or eight others. This effectually dispersed the crowd for the time being, and meanwhile the Governor, at the request of the 3Iayor, dispatched a force of State militia to fcicranton to preserve the peace.

The greatest alarm existed, and places of business were generally closed up for fear of being cleaned out by the mob. Gov. Hartranft, with about 2,000 State militia, arrived at Seranton on the morning" of the 2d. The movement of the troops was attended with great difficulties, the tracks being torn up in many places and the road blockaded. The rioters attacked the train near Plymouth, but were routed by the soldiers without a shot being fired, and a number of the mob were captured.

Gov. Hartranft established his headquarters at Kingston, opposite AVilkesbarre. The strike on the Lake Shore Road at Cleveland was terminated on the 2d by a compromise between the company and the employees, lne Diocsaae mere lsiea ii days. An attempt was made near Granville, O. on the morning of the 2d, to ditch an ex press train on the Pan-handle Road, by fastening some ties and an iron rail across STATE XEAVS.

The following teachers have been in attendance at the Xonnal Institute, which closed Au 2: S. C. Merritt, G. II. Griggs, II.

A. Miller, P. Griggs, J. Oi Butler, J. G.

Binder, G. M. Stone, F. E. Hayes, Jennie Griggs, Susie Troutman, Josie Trouttnan Jennie Mood, Jennie Tipton, Kate Ilukel, Mattie Booth, llattie McCoy, Ilattie Bowman, Eva Sawyer, Dmsa Hewitt, L.

M. Ramsey, Mary Greer, Xettie MiUs, Lucy Randall, Xellie Johnson, Xellie Prouty, Mattie Couch, Abbey Twist, Sadie Searle, Laura Spring, Carrie Ilolcomb, Minnie AVorley, II. AY. Bur-dick, C. R.

Sperry, Alice Spear, 3Iattie Greer, Ella Spencer, Ada Peck, A. M. Stocking, A. X. Gordon Jac.

AVelehans, Kate Topping, Mary AVood, O. Ilolcomb, Josiah Gordon, whoe post-otfice addresses are To-peka; II. L. Landu, Imogene Hyde, Lucy Johnson, Aggie Patteron, Clara Hale, Xora Kistler, Maggie Teter, Mattie Owen, Gussie Morrow, Nannie Burgess, Mattie AA'ard, James Moody, C. A Sexton, Perry Kofoed, II.

H. Frisbee, North Topeka; Geo. D. Par-rish, Dollie Morris, Ella Goodell, Ella Par-rish, Dollie Campbell, Anna Hopkins, Te-cumseh; Theodore Reed, Martha Graham, Minnie Reed, Mary Graham, Big Springs; S. A.

Oliver, AV. G. Gilbert, II. Shoemaker, Rossvillej A. II.

AVetherbee, J. M. Howard, AVakarusa; J. C. AA'ilkerson, Xannie Garret, Mefiden; AV.

H. McCay, Pauline; Xellie Simmerwcll, Auburn; Maggie Evans, Lizzie Boyd, Kingsville; Effie AVood, AVavcIand; David Davis, Clara Minkler, Dover; C. A. Corey, Plowboy; B. F.

Rice, Cope, Jackson County; F. A. Thomson, Melvern, Osage County. Total, 88. The state Historical Society received the other day the present of a newspaper, contributed by Mrs.

Elizabeth Carter, the first white woman born in Kansas. The paper is Xo. 11, of A'olume 1, of the Kansas Freeman, dated Topeka City, Kansas, AVednesday, January ft, 1856, E. C. K.

Garvy, editor and proprietor. It is printed on but one side, and is a six-column sheet. Four and a half columns are tilled with a speech by the proprietor, defining his views of Kansas politics, and giving his support to the following ticket: The Free State Anti-Abolition Ticket For Governor, AV. Y. Roberts; Lieuten-aut-Governor, M.

J. Parrott; Secretary of State, C. K. Holliday; Auditor, AA R. Griffith; Treasurer, E.

C. K. Garvey; Attorney-General, II. Miles Moore; Judges of the Supreme Court, George AV. Smith, S.

AV. Johnston, J. A. ATakefield Reporter of the Supreme Court, S. B.

McKensie; Clerk of the Supreme Court, S. B. Floyd; State Printer li. G. Elliott; Representative in Congress, Mark AV.

Delahay. Besides the leading article referred to there are a few short editorials. Mrs. Carter was born at the Shawnee Baptist Mission, in Johnson County. Is the judgment of the fruit-growers of the State the Red June and Red Astrachan stand at the head of the list of summer apples.

Maiden's Blush is the favorite autumn apple; AVinesap, the favorite winter. Hale's Early is the favorite peach and Crawford's Early next. Of pears the Bartlett has the preference. The Concord is emphati cally the leading grape. The Murells and the Duke families are also favorites, the former taking the lead.

Of raspberries, Doolittle's Black Cap and Miami or mammoth Cluster stand at the head of the list; blackberries, Kittatinny and Lawtou; cur rants, AA'hite and lied Dutch; gooseberries, Houghton's Seedling; of strawberries, AVil-son's Albany takes the lead in nearly every instance, of plums, the AVild Goose, Dam son, Miner and Lombard are recommended by nearly all fruit-growers. Kansas has become the great prairie live stock market of the world, the number of buyers from afar being unprecedently large this year, and giving an impetus to the cattle business that can not but speedily show its fruits. The wonderfully rank and rich growth of grasses and abundant water this season have brought the condition of the stock to the very highest standard, the rul-ingpriccs showing corresponding improvement. There are now upwards of 100,000 head of cattle in the immediate vicinity of Dodge City, some of the herds running high into the thousands. There is a single herd numbering 40,000, another 21,000, another of 17,1 nn) and several of 5,000 or thereabouts.

One day lately sales were made of no less than head. The Texas drives to Dodge this year will run close to 200,000 head. The following exhibit of Kansas products for 1x77 is taken from the report of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture for the months of April, May, and June, 1S77: KANSAS CHOP EXHIBIT FOR 1S76. Xo. of Value of Arret.

Protlni. 75S.KO0 IW.fiTt I.44-2.0M Promts. Winter wheat, 11,73 live. 3.444. 1S9 Spring wheat rti 2.120, 19,2 1 7.332 S2 jwrlev l.iW.Wl Oats Buckwheat Irish potatoes 5.254.4U9 Sweet :d7.3'.0 Sorghum, KaI 1,732,474 Taster beans, 223.10 Cotton, 9s Flax, lbs Hemp, Bbs 1.324,773 Tobacco, 1ls .1.412 50,000 2.241 15,713 21.212 945 50,138 1.450 1,002 121AM 10, 4.973 548,306 10,211 000 lo.sa 79,032 2,074,204 202.402 839,147 21,191 15,979 017,437 79,200 77,432 452.524 1,237,5 129,093 6S.754 2,103,000 It room corn tt 1 1 ,234 IS 1 Hungarian, tons.

222.574 10,207 Timothy, tons tons l'rairie hay, tons Timothy, pasture, acres." Clover pasture, acres Blue-grass pasture, acres Prairie pasture under fence, Total 5,035,07 The next table that will naturally Interest the reader is the one that shows the number of farm animals for 187C, a summary of wnich is here given KANSAS LIVE STOCK EXHIBIT FOR 1S76. Xumber. 214,311 20,421 227,274 473,350 143.902 330,355 Valttt. Horses Mules and asses. Milch cows Other cattle Sheep Swine 2,517.700 2.042.S40 Total $35,655,298 Making the grand total of tbe crop and live stock product for 1876, $81,257,219.20.

AVhen to the foregoing is added tbe value of the product of our coal and lead mines, our fruit crops, our dairies, poultry, eggs, and many other articles that can not well be embodied in statistics, it will be seen that Kansas, with a population of three-quarters of a million, has about as substantial a backing as any of the mining States. A cobrespoxdext of the Topeka Com monicealth writes as follows: On Friday, tha 27th, about 4 o'clock In tbe afternoon, a dark, angry-looking cloud rose suddenly In the west, and moving with great velocity swept across the country from the Saline as far south as we have been able to hear from. pouring out its watery contents in bounti ful effusions. Directly in the track pursued by the severest portion of the cloud, gen tleman by tbe name of P. Barnett, lately from Nebraska, but originally from Ala bama, had only the day before selected a claim on the headwaters of Cole Creek, and erected a temporary booth, into which he had moved his family.

During the preva lenee of the storm the booth was struck by lightning, instantly killing the mother and three children and severely stunning the father and the remaining three, who, up to this writing, (10 a. m. Saturday, SSib), have not yet fully recovered. a of them went to a creek not far distant to have a bath, taking" with him his rifle. He had removed his garments down to his red the bank of the stream, when he Beard the brush cracking, and, thinking perhaps the noise, by a deer or other large animal, he deployed 'himself as a skirmisher and cautiously began investigating.

He had uot long to wait, for a moment later lie observed a figure dodging from tree to tree, rifle in hand, and evidently watching him. It flashed through his mind that he was being followed by an Indian bent on mischief, and his heart rose to his throat so that he could almost taste it as thoughts of home, forced themselves upon him. He determined that he would fight to the last, however, and, braced by this determination, advanced upon the nemy. The latter was evidently not prepared for such tactics, for he retreated, faster and faster, and finally threw down his gun and ran. The Sac-ramentan, fearing that this was only a piece of strategy to lead him into an ambush, returned to the creek, donned his garments and hurried to the camp.

There he found a member of the party who had just come in from hunting relating to the other two members how ho also had experienced trouble with Indians, one of whom he said followed him two or three miles, and he had only escaped from him by striking him over the head with his gun. This, he went on to say, broke tbe slock in two, the barrel flew into the chaparral, and he did not deem it worth while to wait and search for it, when the Indians might attack the camp at any moment. The man who had been to the creek began to feel a suspicion that two members of that hunting party had been making fools of themselves, and he quietly inquired: "AVhat did he look "Look like! You've heard of them being called red devils well, this fellow wa one of them! He was stripped right to the skin, and was bare-beaded, and had painted himself just as red as blood. You needn't laugh; 't wasn't any thing to laugh at." It was almost too cruel to say any thing about the red flannel underclothes and the throwing of the gun away, but it had to be told, and the boys have had a good, thing on free drinks ever since. Alive, Yet Official ly Dead.

An illustration of tbe injury which, under the French laws, may be inflicted upon an innocent man by the loss of his certificate of birth is allowed in the case of Alfred Loichot, who, at the age of 21, left Montbcliard, his native place, to serve his time in the army. At the expiration of his period of servico he did not his parents having in the meanwhile died return to Montbcliard, but followed his trade as a watchmaker iu various places. A short time back, having become engaged to be married, he determined to go there and obtain the necessary papers, but on applying at the Mayor's otlice, lie was told that it would be useless giving him his cer- ificate of birth, as in the archive was ontained the certificate of his death at the Toulon galleys, in 1871. Loichot found, upon further inquiry, that all his former acquaintances believed that ho had been condemned to penal servitude for murder, and had died at the galleys, and he failed to understand how the error could have arisen until he remembered that while in garrison at Besancon his money, watch and papers had been stolen. The thief had availed himself the papers to pass himself off as Alfred Loichot, and, having committed some fresh offenses, was sent to tho galleys.

He died while undergoing his term of imprisonment, and hence arose the mistake. Alfred ixichot has been compelled to apply to the civil tribunal at Toulon for a correction of the error, anil lor me removal nw ikuuu ihmu the death register, and the judgment in which sentence was passed upon the usurper of his name. Pall Mall OaztUc. The Morrisitcs. I'p on the mountain side, between Mill Creek and Russell Caeek, there live a colony representing about seventy persons, who are commonly called Mormons.

They are an oftshoot from the Mormon Church. Their first prophet was one Morris, who was killed by the old-fashioned Mormons years ago. Tho most noticeable peculiarity about them is that the men never cut their hair, and some of them look as though they never washed or combed their long locks. The head of the colony is a fine-looking man by the name of VV. II.

Davis, who has a son now about 5 years old that is claimed to the second Christ. But little is known of this sect by our peo ple, as they live in a lot of houses built close together, and do not neighbor much with the settlers around them. Walla Walla Union. Colonial Itelios. There lies in the Stone near Church Flat, four stone anchors, which are supposed to have been cast there when the British first landed oa Carolina soil.

These four 6tone anchors are square, and weigh about 500 pounds each. An iron is run through the stone and riveted at the bottom, and at the top are fastened iron rings for the purpose of making them fast to a vessel. On the stones are cut the coat of arms of Great Britain. These four stones are separated from each other not more than twenty-five feet. A gentleman from this city came across them the othei day, and made an effort to raise one, bu: without effect, as it was too deeply im bedded in mud.

Charleaton (8. Cl Journal. A Pilatka (Florida) preacher was driven out of his pulpit recently, during a sermon, by 'mosquitoes,.