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THE jSTEW ERA. and she was burned so badly that she died in a few hours. While carelessly handling a revolver, John Montgomery, a young married man, living near Lawrenceville, shot himself through the body. The ball entered just above the heart, inflicting a serious and probably fatal wound. Miss Virginia Hicks, a young lady of Wyandotte, Indian Territory, was riding a very spirited horse, and was thrown from the saddle.

She struck on her head, and a high tortoise-shell comb which was in her hair was driven clear to the brain, producing almost instant death. A 9-year-old son of John Miller, near White Bear, during the absence of his parents, took dotvn a shot-gun and, supposing it unloaded, pointed at a little brother of 4 years, and discharged it, the charge entering the stomach, causing death in two hours. Among new industries recently introduced in France is the expressing of oil from grape seeds. It is stated that at least five pounds of oil can be obtained from every 500 pouBds of seed. The oil extracted, from the grape seed is of a light color, odorless, and of a mild flavor.

At Bettsville, Mary Ruggles, aged 11 years, while playing with two other little girls, accidentally stepped on a parlor match, igniting fcer clothing. In her terror she ran to the street, enveloped in flames. Neighbors soon tore the clothing from her, but she was burned terribly, and died in a few hours. A 5-year-old son of Henry Bol-gan of Mankato, while playing in an unoccupied house with other children, jumped through a window, and a scarf which he wore about his neck casght on a hook and hung him. The children ran to the house and gave the alarm, but so much time elapsed that when released he was apparently dead.

By extraordinary efforts on the part of the mother life was finally restored. Foreign Notes. A St. Petersburg letter declares that the heads of the secret poliGe have discovered that three-fourths of their men are in league with the Nihilists. By the birth of a daughter to the first notions of infidelity from these ministers, having sucked in the poison and discarded the antidote.

An English newspaper cites an instance of the starvings" as well as livings" in the Church of England. The case is that of a 44 living for which the Bishop of Truro wishes to find a self-denying clergyman. It is situated in a healthful part of Cornwall in moorland surrounded by beautiful country; the value of the living is $175 a year, with two acres of glebe. The population of the parish is 34, and the area 843 acres, but there is no parsonage or church. There is a good deal of suggestion in this paragraph A State superintendent who had made during a long term of office, hundreds of visits to ungraded country schools, declared that he never once saw a teacher conducting a recitation without a texi-book in hand that he seldom saw either teacher or pupils at the blackboard that he never saw a school-globe actually in use that he never saw a teacher give an object-lesson; that he never heard a lesson on morals or manners that he never saw but one school-cabinet; that he never saw a reading-class trained to stand erect and hold a book properly that he never heard a teacher give a lesson in local geography that classes, when asked to point north, uniformly pointed upward to the zenith that he never heard a spelling lesson dictated in which the teacher did not mispronounce one or more words and that he never found a school where the pupils had been trained to write a letter, either of business or friendship." Science and Industry The acreage of the cotton crop in Western Texas is 50 per cent, greater this year than it was last.

Putting up "caviare" made from sturgeon spawn is an important industry at Menominee, Mich. The most of this "eaviare" is shipped to Germany. Glue is made of the clippings of hide3, horns and hoofs, washed in lime water, boiled, skimmed, strained, evaporated, cooled in molds, cut into slices and dried upon nets. The Chemiker-Zeitung states that wall papers, in imitation of silk, are manufactured at Asehaffburg, djed in the mass, and afterward printed by means of the cvlinder machine. The KANSAS NEWS.

The State Medical Association met at Atchison on the 13th, 250 members being present. An address of welcome wu made by Hon. B. P. "Wagfcener, and It was responded to by Dr.

C. C. Furley of Wichita. The annual address was delivered by Dr. J.

Sinks of Leavenworth. Among other business to be transacted, a Board of Medical Examiners Is to be appointed under the provisions of the law regulating the practice of medicine passed at the last session of the Legislature. On the 11th, Joseph Blanchard and James Campbell were arrested at Leavenworth on suspicion of being the murderers of the farmer, Chas. Caldwell, on the night of the 9th. A barx belonging to Mrs.

William Bell, a widow lady of Lawrence, was bwrned the night of the 11th, with Its entire contents, consisting of valuable horses, cows and swine, and some household furniture which was being stored therein. The fire was caused by a lad of 6 years experimenting with parlor matches. No Insurance. The central branch of the Union Pacific Railroad was completed to Cawker City, 204 miles west of Atchison, on the 12th. Through trains will commence running at once.

Ox the morning of the 14th, a horrible murder was committed at Easton, a small town 12 miles from Leavenworth. Two ladies living at Easton started to walk to.the city on the morning mentioned, and when about half a mile from their homes, the deceased, Mrs. Castello, said to her companion that something told her that she had better return home, as she had a presentiment that all was not right, she having left five small children in the house. She started back and her companion continued her Journey to the city and returned home the same afternoon on the train. Upon her arrival the children of Mrs.

Castello met her at the depot and inquired for their mother. She told them of their mother leaving her as stated above, and they in reply said that she had not reached home. A party at once started out in search of her, and after two hour her body was found by her two daughters, aged 15 and 17, in a small creek near the railroad track with her skull crushed in and other marks of violence on her body. From all appearances she was first ravished and then murdered aqd her body dragged to the creek and thrown in. The deed was probably committed by a tramp or tramps, as the country is filled with them.

A large body of men started in search of the villains. For the week ending May 10 the following post-office changes were make in this State: Established Ackley, Ottawa County, Mrs. Matilda Edwards, Postmistress; Allen Springs, Lane, William A. Swarthout, Seeing Stonewall Jackson. Mr.

A. C. Redwood, in one of his Johnny Reb papers, in Scribner for June, gives this description of an incident within the Confederate lines. He says It was tho end of a bleak November day; the fires of railway ties, extending in a long line either way as far as the eye could follow, made still more neutral by contrast with their ruddy light the dun-gray fields of stubble, and the woods in which the gorgeous panoply of the earlier season was paling into russet and ashy tones. The work was over and we were waiting with some impatience for the order to take up the line of march back to camp for the evening air struck chilly through our threadbare and tattered jackets, and we had eaten nothing since early morning.

Moreover, a wud rumor hail spread abroad that an issue of fresh pork awaited our return, and though the long habit of expecting nothing good until it came secured us against any serious disappointment, there wero not wanting tender memories of "short" biscuit to raise our anticipations higher than we cared to own. Thus preoccupied, we are fain to refer a distant cheering further down the line to tidings of the coming rations, and we gather by the roadside in order to get off the more promptly when our turn shall arrive. The sound grows more and more distinct every moment, and now, far down the road some moving object can just be discerned in a cloud of dust which travels rapidly our way. Nearer and nearer it comes louder and more enthusiastic ring the shouts, and now we make out in the dust the figure of a single horseman, 9 with a clump of others trailing off into obscurity behind him Jackson is coming! A moment more, and he is here, going at almost top-speed his hat is off his hair blown back from his broad white forehead his eyes dancing and his cheeks aglow with excitement, and the ru9h of Keen air. And now the cheers grow deafening and ragged hats are swung more wildly still as the men of the Foot Cavalry recognize their leader.

The cavalcade passes like a whirlwind and disappears in the dust up the road, cheered to the very last lagging courier of the escort for we are in good humor now with ourselves and all the world. And as we step briskly out upon our homeward march, the air feels fresh and invigorating, and the miles seem shorter than they were in the morning even the beloved biscuit is of minor consequence, and the promised pork pales beside the thought which t3. D. IXGEUSOLL, Editor and Proprietor. VALLEY FALLS, KANSAS.

ITEMS OF INTEREST Personal and Literary. Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines proposes to found a great library. It will probably be located in New Orleans. Sam Small, the Old Si" of the Atlanta Constitution, is writing a book about the "Fighting Alstons of Halifax" and the Cox-Alston case.

The German Empress Augusta has offered a prize for the best treatise on diphtheria that shall be published within a year. Mr. Froude is parent of the last curious blunder, and in his new book on Csesar speaks of that General as returning with the light of twenty victories blazing round his bayonets." The late Mrs. Sarah Josepha Hale was active in many excellent public undertakings. She had much to do with the completion of the Bunker Hill Monument for 30 years she labored to have Thanksgiving Day made a National holiday; and she greatly influenced her old friend, Matthew Vassar, in the organization of Vassar College.

Paul Morphy is harmlessly insane. He denies that he knows any thing about ches3, imagines that he is a great lawyer, and that he was defrauded in the settlement of his father's estate. He is living quietly at New Orleans, promenades Canal Street daily, and if any acquaintance rashly gives him a chance, rehearses the long story of his wroDgs. He is well cared for by his friends. The late Mr.

McGahan, the London Netus correspondent who first directed attention to the Bulgarian atrocities, is being all but canonized by the Bulgarian natives in gratitude for his fearless services to them. They are about to hold high religious services in his memory on the anniversary of his death, and Prof. Muller of the St. Petersburg University is about to write his biography for distribution among the Slavonic race. Mark Twain, when asked why he hasn't written a book on England, says I couldn't get any fun out of England.

It too grave a country. And its gravity soaks into the stranger, and make3 him a3 serious as every body else. When I was there I couldn't seem to think of any thing but deep problems of government, taxe3, free-trade, finance and every night I went to bed drunk with statistics. I could have written a million books, but my publisher would have hired the common hangman to burn them." Edwin Booth wrote a private letter from Chicago to a friend in Richmond, just after the attempt to assassinate him, in which he said: "Your very kind and welcome letter of congratulation reached me in due time, but the nervous shock (referring to the shooting) has been so severe to both Mrs. Booth and myself that we have been unable to do much more than play nurse to each other since the event.

The poor tool that committed the outrage is in safe keeping, and I hope he will be confined in an asylum for tho rest of his life. He is a dangerous lunatic nothing more." School and Churcli. The General Assembly of the Pres byterian Church, South, met at Louisville, on the 15th. Rev. Joseph Wilson of Wilmington, N.

was elected Moderator. The Presbyterian General Assembly met in annual session at Saratoga, N. on the 15th. Rev. Dr.

Henry H. Jessup, of the Syrian Mission, was elected Moderator. The forth-ninth General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church met at Memphis, on the 15th. Rev. J.

L. Grider, Bowling Green, was elected Moderator. The Canon of Derry Cathedral in England has written a book, in which he asserts that "the divine right of episcopacy has always been, and always will be, an open question in the Church of England." The Congregational Church at Ionia, has been withont a pastor for several months. The officers of the church take their turn at reading sermons from newspapers, and the people like this plan so well that they contemplate continuing it permanently, and calling no minister. The tea ladies who are County School Superintendents in Illinois have managed the financial part of iheir business particularly well.

Not one cent of the large sums over which they had supervision has en lost, either through dishonesty or ignorance of business. those male educators who opposed the law making women eligible to this office now pronounce their work a success, after the five years experience. The Northwestern University at iEvanston, 111., is one of the great training schools where young men are educated for the Methodist ministry. It is in pecuniary trouble. From an aggregate of $34,000 a year of professors' salaries there has been a cutting down of one-half, and even the reduced salaries are now largely in arrears.

En-deavors are now on foot for relief, with hope of success. Mr. Spurgeon sounds a warning note against the habit, becoming too common in many pulpits, of prominently describing the theories of unbelievers. He doe3 not think it necessary in giving a guest wholesome food to accompany it with a dose of poison, and declares many joung men have got their i'rinces Charlotte of baxe-Meiningen, Queen Victoria becomes a great-grandmother, before she has attained the age of 60. When the Duke of Connaught was married his Royal mother forbade the bridesmaids to wear high-heeied boots or puii-DacK aresses.

victoria, it seems, is about as sensible as though she were not a Queen. The Nuova Gazette de Palermo an nounces that the authorities are preparing a biography of more than 4,000 brigands living in with short notices on their friends and associates. These gentlemen all belong to the dreaded "Mafia," and many are said to occupy high positions in the State. The Prince of Wales was so tickled with the rifle shooting of Dr. Carver, the American, before his august presence recently, that he sent him a letter of compliment, accompanied by a gold horse-shoe scarf-pin, studded with diamonds, and having in the center the Prince's feathers, with minute colored precious stones in the band of the coronet.

In the best Parisian society of late the power to read with grace, meaning and intelligence has been much studied. Many capable professional readers are employed in families. Indeed, reading threatens to replace the classic piano in the programme of the feminine education of the future. Paris has, too, a reading society, composed of shopkeepers and clerks, who every year have a grand public meeting for the interpretation of literary masterpieces. Odds and Ends.

What is more deserving of our sympathy than a young man with 15 cents in his pocket, a girl on each arm, and seven ice-cream signs in sight? The Bolivian army has been much embarrassed by the detention of its baggage train, but they've got a fire going under the mule now, and it is thought he will start. Boston Post. "Why," asked a governess of her little charge, 44 do we pray God to give U3 our daily bread? Why don't we ask for four days, or five days, or a week?" 44 Because we want it fresh," replied the ingenuous child. The unblushing assurance that leads the hen of 20 summers to enter market as a spring chicken compels the belief th nothing but the inexorable difficulties attending the exploit prevents her from appearing in the guise of a fresh laid egg. Boston Transcript.

maiden sweet, with delicate feet, Tripping tho fair fields over. What do you seek by the gurgling: creek. And amid the dewv clover? Why, mister," she said, you don't know beansi I'm a-gatherin' yaller dock for greens." A person is known by the position he occupies. The man who trudges around the saw-dust arena, amid the thumping of drums and the sounding of brass, is a hero while he who plods hi3 weary way along the dusty thorough fare, beseechingly asking for work, is a tramp. Waterloo Observer.

An old Dutchman who keeps a beer saloon on Sacramento Street has his third wife, and being asked for his views of matrimony, replied: 44 Veil, den, you see de first time I marries for love dat vas goot den I marries for beauty dat vas goot, top, about as goot as de first but dis time I marries for monish, and dis is petter as poth!" San Francisco Golden Era. paper is made of cellulose. It has a decided silky appearance and feel, and the effect is pronounced pleasing. The designs are executed in darker shades of the ground color. The latest triumph of French chemistry is the extract of color from red cabbage by boiling and maceration and pressure.

The Cauline is a deep violet. From this, by various additions, other colors are formed, as in the case of aniline. They are perfectly harmless, of exquisite bloom for dyeing and perfection itself for the artist. A German inventer proposes to make boots that will never wear out. He mixes with a water-proof glue a suitable quantity of clean quartz sand, which is spread on the thin leather sole employed as a foundation.

These quartz soles are said to be flexible and almost indestructible, while they enable the wearer to walk safely over slippery roads. Straw board lumber which can hardly be detected from hard wood lumber, exhibited at Oshkosh, by S. H. Hamilton, of Bushnell, 111., is attract ing much attention among lumber men. The process of manufacture, as explain ed by Mr.

Hamilton, is as follows: Or dinary straw board, such as is manufactured at any paper mill, is employed for this purpose. As many sheets are taken as are required to make the thick ness of lumber desired. These sheets are passed through a chemical solution which thoroughly softens up the fiber and completely saturates it. The whole is then passed through a succession of rollers, dried and hardened during the passage, as well as polished, and comes out of the other end of the machine hard, dry lumber, ready for use. Mr.

Hamilton claims that the chemical properties hardening in the fiber entirely prevent water-soaking and render the lumber combustible only in a very hot fire. The hardened finish on the outside also makes it impervious to water. It is also susceptible of a very fine polish. Haps and Mishaps. Mis3 Minnie Hoskins, aged 16, who resided near Greenville, was burned to death in a field while burning cornstalks.

John Mo ran and John Durnell, two young men, while engaged in plowing near redencksburg, were struck by lightning and instanily killed. An infant child of Hugh Edwards, on a farm four miles from Iowa CitVt Iowa, was so badly gored by a cow that it died. Elmer Kimball and Lee Guerrin, two Lewisville (Ind.) boys, were fool ing wiiu revolver, wnen lc was uis-charged, shooting Kimball in the mouth. His injuries fortunately were not fatal. A goose attacked a little grandson of Michael Wilson, a farmer living near Washington, Iowa, scaring the lad into convulsions, from which he never recovered, dying a short time af Frankie Browning, 5-year-old son of Mr.

Eugene Browning of Blooming-ton, 111., fell on a case-knife which he had in his hand and cut his throat, almost completely severing the windpipe. There was no hope of saving his life. Miss Minich, living near Castine, Darke County, while out in the yard washing some clothing, accidentally got too near a fire built for the purpose of heating water. Her clothing took fire Postmaster; Blaise ville, Wallace, John Blaise; California, Lane, Edwin Bell; Carmi, Pratt, William L. Potter; Concord, Sumner, John F.Seaman; Eminence, Smith, William H.

Pounds; Jackson, Decatur, William Tennast; Pearslette, Meade, Addison Bennett. Name changed Ferguson, Franklin County, toLe Loup. Postmasters appointed Beman, Morris County, W. W. Merritt; Cerro Gordo, Jewett, John S.

Turner; Eagle Creek, Rooks, George R. Dock enhall; Esbon, Jewell, Mrs. Margaret E. Walters; Gettysburgh.Graham, H. E.Mitchell; Ilolton, Ellis, Harvey M.

Hallock; Ila-ton, Jewell, Martin Regan; Joy, Lyon, lien- ry J. Ever; Lenora, Norton, Erwell J. Bur-well; Linn, Washington, F. K.Fisk; Macks-ville, Mack; Oberlin, Decatur, John B. Ditchcock; Timber Mills, Labette, John F.

Weakley. On the road leading to Eudora Ferry, Douglas County, on the 15th, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Ward were en route with their son, a lad 8 years old, from Carroll County, to Colorado Springs.

They were driving a spirited pair of horses attached to a buggy. The boy asked to ride on a wagon, which also accompanied the outfit, and was soon after missed. The father returned and found the boy loitering at the ferry, and took his whip from the carriage and alighted to chastise the youth, leaving Mrs. Ward to hold the horses. The animals took fright at the first blow of the whip, and ran with the lady, who is in delicate health, nearly miies.

As soon as they could be stopped it was found that Mrs. Ward had become Insane from fright. The State Board of Education Is to hold an examination of candidates for State certificates and diplomas, in the State University Building, at Lawrence, on the 17th, 18ih, 19th and 20th days of June. The examination will consist of both written and oral exercises, and will be conducted in accordance with a programme of exercises, and under regulations prepared by the State Allen B. Lemmen.

TnE following commissions were issued by the Governor up to the 15th Notaries Public J. K. Fisher, Atchison County; Geo. A. Colton, Miami; Ed.

W. Waynant, Marshall; C. C. Olney, Ottawa; Chas. F.

Coffin, Crawford; Howard H. Gilchrist, Fsrd: W. A. Atchison, Woodson; A. G.

Whitney, Saline. Justice of the Peace H. Main, Center Township, Marion uountyf vice Geo. W. Tipton, resigned.

Two men, named Miller, father and son, have been arrested on suspicion of being the murderers of Mrs. Castello, at Easton, on the 14th. Several others have been arrested, and the Sheriff has been notified of the appearance of various other suspicious-looking parties at different points: Maktix Carter, an old and highly respected citizen of Reno County, came to his death a few days ago by the sudden caving of a well which he with others was digging. Kansas City Markets. Kansas Crrr.

May 20. Beeves Native Steers, sales at Native Cows, 3ua.w. 1,09 Sales at J2.8083.S5. Whfat No. 2 1.021.92: No.

3, 96c. Corntfo. 2 mixed, 30X8 31c; rejected 27 xc Oats No. 1.32c Rye No.2. 36 40C Butter Choice, 8g9o; Cheese Fresh Kansas, prime, 5XQ6XC, Choice Illinois.

7Kc gjrs-candled, 39Xo dozen. Poultry Lire X2.0022.73; Turkeys, each 50075c fills us that we have seen Jackson: And we got the pork besides Greenland Courtship. When the Danish missionaries had secured the confidence of the Green-landers marriage was made a religious ceremony. Formerly the man married the woman as the Romans did the Sabine women, by force. One of the missionaries writing in his journal describes the present style of courtship as follows: The suitor coming to the missionary said, I should like to have a wife." 44 Whom asks the missionary.

The man names the woman. 44 Hast thou spoken to her?" Sometimes the man will answer, 44 Yes; she is not unwilling, but thou knowest womankind." More frequently the answer is 44 No." 44 Why, not?" 44 It is difficult; girls are prudish. Thou must speak to her." The missionary summons the girl, and after a little conversation says: 44 1 think it time to have thee married." 44 1 won't marry." "What a pity! I had a suitor for thee." 44 Whom?" The missionary names the man who has sought his aid. 44 He is good for nothing. I won't have him." 44 But," replies the missionary, 44 he is a good provider; he throws his harpoon with skill and loves thee." Though listening to his praise with evident pleasure the girl answers, 44 1 won't have him." 44 Well, I won't force thee.

I shall soon find a wife for such a clever fellow." The missionary remains silent as though he understood her 44 no" to havo ended the matter. At last with a sigh she whispers: 44 Just as thou wilt have it, missionary." 44 No," replies the clergyman, 44 as thou wilt; I'll not persuade thee." Then, with a deep groan, comes 44 yes," and the matter is settled. A young Jewish lady, of a rich and respected family, was recently on the point of being married, near Colngne, in Germany, when a peasant woman entered and forbade the ceremony. She said that twenty years before she had been the nurse of the child now supposed to be the bride, but had accidentally rolled over upon it and smothered it while sleeping. Fearing punishment, she substituted her own infant, and allowed it subsequently to be taken from -her.

44 Of course I am much obliged for the education and rearing the child has received," said the woman, 44 but you can understand that as a good Christian I could never allow my daughter to be married to a Jew." George H. Stuart of Philadelphia, after ten years of suspension from the reformed Presbyterian Church for communing with other denominations and singing hymns, has been restored to membership by an order of thft Penn sylvania Supreme. Court..