b }* ~The forest fires in Wisconsin co- tinue and the Superior region is repor- ted ‘*well burnt over.” Fresh fires are ‘raging along the Upper Chippewa. Around Green Bay the damage is heavy but the greatest loss is in the Oconto district. The village of Deperetoo, », few miles south of Fort Howard, I 4 suffered greatly. On the 9th a co ,q, gration broke out there which der’ 4,v0q 51 buildings, including & chu',oh and several stores, ~The Geddes & Ber! cana Mill, in Secret Canyon, Nevad® ‘was burned on the 16th, Loss $.00000. The dry goods store of C. 8, Parsons, in Bur- lington, Iowa, "sas partially burned on the 15th. Las $60,000, fully insured. The residence of Antonio Martinez, north of Baltimore, was destroyed by fire on ‘he 16th, with its contents caus- ing a loss of $25,000. The building was owned by Isaac S. George, and was valued at $15,000, The two and three-story brick buildings at 204x210 Elizabeth street, New York, used by the Brush Electric Light Company as a lighting station for a district cover- ing two miles, were burned on the 16th, The entire district lighted from the tation was in darkness on the 16th The loss 1s estimated at from $70,000 to $80,000, —A boiler in the carpenter shop of Periner & Webster, in Ashland, Wis- consin, burst on the 16th, Five per- sons were killed and two wounded, There was a lack of water in the boiler. -—An attempt was made to wreck 2 train on the Wilmington and Northern Railroad, near Lenape station, on the 15th, by placing two heavy logs across the track at a curve nn a high embank- ment. A freight train running very slow ran into the obstruction, and the engine was thrown from the track. at Spring Lake on the 15th and was drowned in water less than three feet deep. Vivian M. Shaw, of Morristown, New Jersey, was drowned at the same place. Tobroff Peterson, and two women, Christina Fenders and Chnistena Han- sen, all Swedes, were drowned in Rari- tan bay, on the 16th, They were out rowing and the boat capsized. —A wind storm, accompanied by torrencs of rain aud a brilliant display of electricity, visited Chicago on the 16th. A large brick building in course of erection and a new frame house were blown down. A number of chim- neys were destroyed. ~—A heavy wind and rain storm visi- ted the vicinity of Aberdeen, Dakota, on the 16th, and swept over a fifty mile radius, doing more damage than any previous storm. At Newark persons were killed and one fatally in- jfured, Among the victims were the wife and child of John Oakes, Mrs, Waite, The names th persons were not asce Felix Broussard, of lL.ouisiana, threw herself on the 16th, and was killed, a widow and 39 vears old, been a sufferer for a number of years from neuralgia, and was also a som nambulist, It is supposed that she was In a sorrnambulic state at the time of the occurrence. The storm in Marion County, West Virginia. on 16th, was very severe. Dunkard Mill Run rose suddenly and the entire family of John Souderly, consisting of his wife and four children, were drowned. four ol Ol “© rtained, New under She was She had the ~—Colonel Ceci Vv alentine, Hackettstown, New Jersey, died at the Toronto General Hospital on the 15th. He went to Toronto with the Knights of Pythias, and to several persons said he was commissioned by the United States Government to visit Canada and investigate the fishery dispute. The cause of death issaid to be the burst of a blood vessel, — A courier arrived at Fort Hua- chuca, Arizona, on the 15th, with de- spatches from Lieutenant Richards, dated Baquechi, Mexico, in which he said Indians ambushed and killed John O'Brien, John Thompson and B. Hatcher, and wounded two men named Floyd and McLean. ~The dead body of Miss Lou Mab- bitt, who was abducted a week from her home, near Young America, Indiana, by Amos Green, has been found near Lafayette. The girl's head was beaten in, as though with a club. Green is still at large. Mr. Davis, Sta- tion Agent of the Ohio and Mississippi Rallroad at Huron Station, Ohio, was murdered by a tramp on the 17th, Mr. Davis was endeavoring to put the tramp out of the station when he re- ceived a fatal stab, The tramp was caught, taken to a neighboring tree and hanged by citizens. During an altercation in Chicago on the 16th, Frank Packard hit Dr, F, LI. Trow- bridge with his fist, and knocked him down. He died in a few minutes, 1t is supposed from heart disease, superin- duced by Packard’s blow. —Several attempts were made by miscreants in Chicago on the 17th to wreck trains on the Rock Island and Lake Shore Railroads. Detectives are abt work and several arrests have been made. The police of South Chicago found a bomb on the track of the Lake Shore road near the depot in the after- noor., It was of gas pipe, 18 inches long. both ends being plugged with wood. It was taken to the lake shore and exploded. — Benjamin Johnson and W. C. Fin- ley were killed by Dr, Lister, near Cay- uga, Mississippi, on the 14th, They bad attacked the doctor, and Finley cut him in the arm and breast with a knire, Dr. Lister was tried on the 16th, and discharged on the ground that he had acted in self-defence, ~ Unfavorable reports are being re- ceived from every part of Eastern Texas respecting cotton, which, owing either to rains or extreme hot weather, is siding fia forms rapidly. If this continues long it will destroy the top crop, which will reduce the yield at least one-third, ~The business portion of Tulare, California, was destroyed by fire on the 16th. Loss, $260,000, insurance light. The fire was of incendiary n. —The steamboat Sylvan ran into a row boat containing four men on the Tid, vo the E st River. Thos. Muy. of i ng + jumped overboard and was drowne 4° “The others clung to the wreck an’, were picked up. —A J mpateh from Duluth says the steam’ at Queen of the Lake, the only boat ,, Take Vermilion, has been DV’ med and is a total loss. She was "sed as a pleasure boat, and was nearly new. She was valued at $40,000, —The Democratic State Convention of Pennsylvania, was called to order in Harrisburg on the 18th by Chalir- man Hensel of the State Committee. Mortimer F. Elliott was chosen perma- nent chairman. The nominees were: For Governor, Chauncey F. Black; Lieutenant Governor, Robert B. Rick. etts; Secretary of Internal Affairs, J. Simpson Africa; Auditor General, Wm, J. Brennan, and Congressman-at-Large, Maxwell Stevenson. The platform re- affirms the Chicago platform of 1884; favors a just and fair revision of the revenue laws; endorses the adminis- trations of President Cleveland and Governor Pattison; desires the abroga- tion of all laws that do not bear equally upon capital and labor; and the preven- tion of hiring out conviet labor; favors | arbitration extended and enforced, and | a suitable apprenticeship act for the pur- | pose of creating a better class of arti- { sans and mechanics; the prohibition of { the employment of children under 14 | years In workshops or factories, and | the strict enforcement | lating tolpluck-me-stores and store ord- ers; declares that personal estate should be made to pay its just share of taxa- | tion, —A despatch from Mason, Ne- braska, says Eroch Young was shot and Killed by a man nawed Vinson in Rotten Valley on the 17th, Young was endeavoring to serve a summons on Vinson in a legal proceeding stop him from cultivating a certain piece of land about which there was a dispute, “Dock” Stevens and “Burt” { Pierce had a fight on a train between | Huson and Shoals, Indiana, oa the { 17th, One used brass knuckies, the other a knife. Both were mortally injured. Information has been re- ceived at Fort Smith, Arkansas, of a | tragedy in the Cherokee Nation, ten miles above Webber's Falls, Lock Langley and Thomas Monroe had a quarrel about some stock breaking into a field, On the 15th Monroe and his family started for church, They were overtaken by Langley, who was armed with a double-barreled shot Arter some words Langley shot killed Monroe eldest Allen. This crime 4 Jurisdiction of Nellie Barry was drowned tal v #4 ' lake, Lonnectict to gun, and and S013, s boat she {0 Wis | whom August 3d whi the remains of i James O'Neill in-law, Margaret feared i | O'Neill said he had been in this coun- few days, and that ife who proceeded him, after from him, 18th fire destroye ).'8 tin shop, the South } . He came i Traf- fard & ( Florida railway depot, Paramore’s livery stable, the Lakeview Hotel, Rand's warehouse and several small buildings in Sand- ford, Florida. Loss $65,000: insurance $11,000, —A despatch fram Quebec says it is reported that all the cattle 10 Levis Quarantine will be at ence killed to prevent the spread of contagious pleuro- pneumonia. The herds are owned by Andrew Allen, Dr, Craik and A. Dawes of Montreal; Senator Cochrane. of Compton, and 8S, J, Hill, of St. Paul. [he cost of the herds foot up $200,000, { =-An accident occurred on the Nar- | row Guage Railroad near Brattleboro, Yermont, on the 18th, A bridge over | the West river, sixty feet above the { water, broke under the weight of | & mixed tran, and the cars went down | with the structure. Two men were i killed, and seven injured, | —Levi Killian was killed at Jarrett s { brickyard, near Ephrata, Penna.. on { the 18th, by a cave-in. A boiler, used to generate steam for a threshing machine engine, near Vermontville, | Michigan, exploded on the 17th, killing E, Darrow and Leonard Garringer. The carpet firm of Judson & Co., of Chicago, confessed judgment on the 18th, on notes aggregating $72,000, The holders are the Kensington Na- tional Bank, of Philadelphia, $32,762; Eighth National Bank, of phia, $27,578; Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Bank, of Philadelphia, and the Mer- chants’ National Bank of Philadelphia, $4230, ~The lewiston Steam Mill Com- pany of Lewiston, Maine, has made an assignment, Liabilities, $167,800, of which $58,000 is contingent, $45,000 of the same being paper of C. F. Wil- liams and Russell, Sheen & Co,, of Boston. The personal property of the company is estimated at $60,000, No estimate is made of the value of the other property. ~(George Snelling, Treasurer of the Lowell Bleactery, in Boston, was ar- rested on the 18th, charged with em- bezzling $40,000 of the company’s funds, He was placed under $50,000 bonds, ~-Giraham successfully navigated the whirlpool rapids at Niagara Falls on the 19th with his head protruding from the barrel. James Scott, a fish. erman, of Lewiston, attempted to swim the whirlpool rapids In a cork suit, His dead body was picked up at Lewiston one hour later, ~Louws Hilbert was stabbed and killed by William Watkins, in the Aurora Distillery, at Aurora, Indiana, on the 10th, Watkins was arrested, but shortly afterward was taken from Jail and hanged to the shafting in the distillery. Watkins bad demanded time from Hilbert, which the latter re- fused, Robert Harmon, colored, beat his wife to death on the 10th, at their home near Prosperity, South Carolina. ~The Acting Comptroller of the Currency on the 190th authorized the First National Bank of Worthington, Minnesota, to begin business with a capital of $75,000, ~The Acting Secretary of the Treas- ury, on the 19th, issued a call for $15,- 000,000 ot the three per cent. loan of 1882, It will mature October 1st. — Wm, H., League, 15 years old, was at the house of relatives In Baltimore on the 10th, and while playing said he was tired of life. He walked into a shed and shot himself in the head. The wouad is thought to be mortal, ~Four masked men entered the house uf Farmer Willlam Manning, in Shenango Township, Pa., on the 19th, and at the point of a revolver compelled him to surrender $3,000, which he had collected the day before, —A verdict of guilty of murder, with the penalty of death, was rendered | against all the Anarchist prisoners in { Chicago on the 20th, except | who was given fifteen years’ imprison- | ment, —Willlam P. i rested on the | having embezzled $1500 belonging to | the Western ! Toronto, Canada. served on him for the recovery of the money. William E. Levering, a young man, collection clerk for Wilson, Col- ston & Co,, bankers of Baltimore. was arrested on the the charge of failing to account for £1500 collected, Levering has prominently c¢ nected with a leading church. =Uth on &1 been Ql “I'he Chicago police on the 20th, found two bombs on the tracks of the Lake Shore Company at the stock yards, They were about as large and neatly as round as a base ball, —A despatch from Nogales, Ari- zona, says: News has been received of of the town of Bare, the destruction 15th, 700, The place had a population of Not a house was left standing. No estimate of the damage or loss of life 18 given. Mrs. Beach, her and another lady, went to river at Dallas, Texas, on the 19th to bathe. When t reached the river they found a man sitting on the bank, and allowed the boy to go in bathin but did themselves, The boy got beyon when the mother plunged in torescue him. Her nef the man 1441? Laviae son, the hey » » Ez \ nog £0 1 1 his depth, struggles were ffect on the mother Wal, and the WIS Als varried ng drowned before While rus Del fy bank went 1 and Is by ti iy $ “gy ie Currert and SOTL. Liiree bel could reach them fre in Wilming 19th, J iWare Ww nd died Di ck Age i Lwelve omunicall } besisrs £1 Has eel Lo of water $e 4 LWO feel hit the street Al last accounts was subsiding. bave from Sabine Pass, Texas, 8 is covered with water two feet, —- A Ore, SIX persons are 1 to berry drowned, Elmira, New ok, who was 1 5 $s |! Hacks bank, and who from P. 4 he Cook & despatch Y says: Elbert president of t Oi Havana, New York, me age embezzled all the inds of the bank, went to Ayres, where he was joined and four daughters. A named Gluck, from inmate of the family, shot and killed My, Cook, i daughter, Thankful. Gluck then beat Mrs. Cook on the head with the butt of the pistol until wis insensible, and then committed suicide by chloroform. It sane, SOtLe » wig id } i ava jaive fi Buenos by his wife young mag Indianapolis, Juls and an 1+} 11th, also his (311 on she taking ‘8 supposed he was in . ~ Isaac and Solomon D. Frank, deal. ers in caltie, at West Point, Mont. gomery county, Pa. have failed, with Liabilities, so far as known, about $13 .- 000; assets, about $4000, The members of the firm have been missing since Lhe 17th, ~The assignment of 8, R. Payson, {| which was filed 1n Boston on the 20th, | as against liabilities of $350 000, and personal property. -The business failures a total of 167 la<t week, The | States and Canada, | «The Weymouth Iron i (nail manufacturers), with Boston and plant iu Weymouth, Massa. chusetts, stopped payment and manu facture on the 20th. caused by losses Company water lron Company. cate of the condition of the company was as follows: Assets—Real Estate, $70,000; machinery, $30,000; cash and debts receivable, $43 205; stock, mater. ial, ete, $121,967: profit and loss, $42,170. Total, #312342, Liabilities ~ Capital stock, $150,000; debts, $162, - 342. Total, $312,842. HE (a few weeks after marriage) ** Now, in making that improvement in our house, we might use to advantage a part of that $20,000 you sald you were going to give me after the wed- ding,” BShe—'‘Well, dear, as soon as you place the $60,000 you told me you had in the bank to my credit, as you promised me you would, I'll give you a third of it.” It Is never too late with us so long as we are still aware of our faults and bear them impatiently; so long as noble aspirations, eager for conquest, stir CONGRESSMEN'S HABITS, Senators and Representatives Who Indulge in Smoking, Chewing or Snufling. I was surprised one day in the White House to see Senator Edmunds take out a package of fine cut chewing to- bacco and put a good-sized quid into his mouth, I thought that must be due to the order said to have been is- sued by the President prohibiting smoking in the White House. But was a fiction, Smoking goes on in the White House the same as ever, due to the force of habit that Mr. Ed. munds took out his tobacco pouch, as be is an inveterate chewer. three hundred and twenty-five members of the House only a few stain wholly from tobacco. Over ab- half the Southern members both smoke and chew In the Senate thote who tobacco are Beck, Call, Edmunds, Fair, George, Harris, Mi Mor- Vance, Voorhees Whitthorne and Wilson, of Maryland. Nearly all of them Hearst, Jones, Pherson, rill, Saulsbury, smoke al Wilson uses snuff, as does arch,” Brown, of Georgia. Bassett, the venerable door-keeper, uff, and ! {4 iid Firs quantities and fur- he purchases 1t in nishes it to those Senators who use it. Senators Morrill and McPherson do not chew tobacco except in the form of cigars; that is, they cut up cigars for the purpose, and one cigar serves either Mr. Harris plug, from the Senate Mr. of them for several days, form Seen in takes his in the of which he can be occasionally biting off a “chew.” and chewer, but after a severe } and on advice of a physical to have abandoned the use of tox The other Senators who do not use Aldrieh, Colquitt, Dawes, Dolph, Hoar, of Nevada, McMillan, Mille: 1, Pike bacco in any form are Morga wo i Pave CK and Payne, aking any luncheon at the does Evarts only eats +} not smoke twice hysically the most sle * * ie Senate 3 ht $ x havi appelite, old of 1 g ag f his t attending a public tic Mr, Hewitt marked after scanning the bill iyih with the dyspeg is fF +s » tos 3 F $Y > ivy I don't see a: ing On Lhe 1s to which remark od: 1 $1 + 1 LE SO | don’t see any s 4% be . can't ea AE ———— a — THE INTELLIGENCE OF DOGS, Some Remarkable Examples of Ca. nine Sagacity--A Conclusion. s 4 remarkable paper ligence from the pen of a savant appears Monthly, French i+ ¥ RIVOWH Popular Science From its derstood, which is to show a ory generally accepted at the present day, that the dog’s intelligence, how- ever much it may differ from man’s in degree, is the same in kind, Thus he says: “if, while sitting at my table, I say * Will you be 20 good as to bring me my slippers 7* he wil If I say the same thing to my dog, in the same tone and without ular tone of voice, He will understand: ‘Mouston, bring the slippers!’ ‘ Mouston, slippers!’ or * Mouston, bring I' But he will not understand the cool, calm request that is suflicient di- rection to my boy. Provided I make the accustomed gesture, the dog will obey, though I use the wrong word; and he will not obey, though I use the right word, if I speak in an indifferent tone as if to some one behind the scenes,” Now with all respect to the sagacity of this very clever writer, we beg leave to differ with him on the point raised, and with others who hold to the same theory. = Their contention, is that the action of the dog in the case cited and in all similar cases, is the action of an automation or machine, made to run as it is directed without any discourse of reason, That the dog will not understand as the boy does, the ** cool, ealn request,” unless it is accompanied by some gest- what it wanted, we deny. Detroit, which was left on shore, while } bis master was on board a steamboat anchored in the middle of the river. current carries him down a considerable where the steamer soon as the distance below is As { this, he immediately swims back again, i | anchored, dog sees 1 I | and going higher up the shore, the current | Carries time still low the boat, but not so far The third time he sw | strikes out for his master iim for the second ioe beiow 4 i before, ns i | starting at a point river than when he { time, Thus he repeats the several times more, | 4 time to start out a 1 stream 1 han bef anguage, the paseng, ¥ ‘3 t Of hin or than those and its horns are vers Ol RIWAVS easy to distit 1 the species and varieties ng vat ¢ animal iu the O the ie sted as a domest] § iron eS enlal countries Yerv ear times, From there the world, adaplability to 8. In this diversity of surround- diversity spread all over manifesto remarkable a ciimate and ecircum- stance ings. a of breeds has great appeared, such as the Angora goat, the Syrian the goat the Guinea goat of Africa, and many oth- No quadruped, except the has shown such susceptibility of varia- tion. show most markedly in the quality and quantity of the bair, and in the relative abun. dance two coats, the long, silky outer covering and the softer woolly hair beneath it. Goa's are found wild in mountainous countries only; they are very sure-footed on narrow ledges or rocks, and show great strength and alslity in leaping. fer as food the leaves and Lranches of | shrubs and the herbs found on moun- tains to the herbage of the richest pas- tures, Among the Greeks and Romans the goat was sacrificed to Bacchus be- cause of its tendency to injure grape- | vines Ly eating its voung tendrils and | leaves. The goat is not found wild in extreme Northern countries, but when under domestication thrives as well within a shed 1 the Northern district of Scandinavia as in the hottest parts | of Asia and Africa. All the species of the goat are natives of the Old World. The Rocky Mountain goat, so-called, of North America, really belongs to the antelope family, Cashmere goat, ers, dog, differences These of the Bricks of Solid Gold. The Emperor’s throne at San-hai is to have its foundation and pedestal made of gold bricks, and consequently the sub-prefect of Sochow has sent to Pekin 3,000 pieces or gold bricks for the purpose, under the escort of a wel-yuen. The taotai of Tung-chow is Bwiss Acquisitiveness, Everywhere throughout Switzerland the traveler finds people who wish to sell him something, or who continually As he drives throw bunches of wild flowers into his carriage, and then run by its side ex- By the lace, which, with a collection of Swiss chalets, and articles they are very eager t tiny carved 11 il, oF Gi 0 mountain side, he will find a man with At another place a fenced yathway leads Lim that he may enter and get a view of the Black Falls for four cents, When I was at Grindelwald, a if village among the Higher Alps, ] WAY up glacier, In the « ong tunnel had been cu to a fairly large room hew: heart of the glacier, ane went a mountain to tart PALL me whiied Jit vic Wy ' £13021 ‘ Wie tunnel siderable ud thumping corner, and looking there, 1 sa: oid women, each playin t ither, 1 looked srible old of the course I knew that they were and I wondered Ere g£ on tie hey witches rip for my benefit; AIWAYS sat U1} that en iid the Lie effect : fused with blig had found them near After several HTAass, nour ed 3 Lie exce: Though d eye yet s could plainly legs and sucki true mit which 1 ' i age in f one of i ese © +1X feet, and as i ¥ ill ¥ ferred that it 1 shment from the gra became weak and been able to observe suf! ies of the RTAS parts and spex were affected, and urged upon those of the members the impor | the parasite, : WHO possessed InICroscoie8 e making a study of y of A AIAN Days of Grace. Great Britain, Ireland, Bergamo and Vienna, 3 days, Frankfort, out of fair time, 4 days, Leipsic, Naumberg and Augsburg, 5 days. Venice, Amsterdam, Rotter. dam, Middleburg, Antwerp, Cologne, Breslau, Nuremburg and Portugal, 6 days. Dante, 10 days, Hamburg and Stockholm, 12 days, Naples, 8 days; Spain, 14 days; Rome, 15 days; Genoa, 30 days, Leghorn, Milan and some olber places in Italy, no fixed number of days, { Sundays and holidays are included in the respite days at London, Naples, Amsterdam, Rollerdam, Aualwerp, Middleburg, Dantzic, Koningsberg and | France, but not at Venice, Cologne, | Breslau, and Nuremburg. At Ham- burg the day on which the bill or note | falls due makes one of the days of grace, but it is not so elsew aere, Three days’ grace are allowed in North America, at Berlin, and iu Soot land, At Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, and other parts of Brazil, fifteen days, In the United States the three days of grace are reckoned, exclusive of the day on which the note or bill falls due, and inclusive of the last day of grace. Koningsbarg and France, Love is none the less free because it bows in glad obedience at the throne of law, The worth of a state in the long run 18 the worth of the individuals compos. ing it.
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