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.