NEWS OF THE WEEK
—The boiler of a threshing machine
ona farm near Mascoutah, lllinois,
exploded on the morning of the lst,
killing John Plob, the engineer, and
dangerously 1njuring three other men,
—The public debt statement for
June shows a reduction of $16.852,-
725. Total cash in the treasury, $482,-
433,917. During the fiscal year which
ended on June 30th, the principal of
the bunded debt of the United States
decreased $12,911,030.
The coinage of the United States
Mints during June amounted in value
to $4,337.502, including 2,516,000
standard dollars,
—A passenger train on the Cincin-
nati and Muskingum Valley Railroad
was wrecked near Zanesville, Ohio, on
the afternoon of the 30th ult. The bag-
gage car and a combination car were
thrown down an embannkment. Bag-
gage-master Lane was severely iniured.
— Al Uhalham, near JHIiorristown,
New Jersey, John Wilson, who had
gone home drunk the night before, be-
came infuriated at his little daughter
and fired at her with an old shot gun,
but missed his aim. His wife remon-
strating, he shot her dead and then
committed suicide. The couple leave
eight children, three of them under six
years of age. Henry Hamilton, a
wealthy planter, was lynched in Brad-
ley county, Arkansas, on the evening
of the 30th ult, He and a man named
Deberry recently murdered two
brothers named Harris. Deberry es-
caped and Hamilton was released on
bail,
— Charles Scipio and Lizzie Train
were fatally injured by a locomotive
while trying to cross the Long Island
Railroad track in a wagon on 2d.
Michael Donohoe, aged 22 years, and a
seven-year-old boy named Brown, were
drowned while bathing at Bath, Maine,
yn the evening of the 1st. Five fatalities
were reported in Brazil, Indiana, on
the 1st. Burt Claburn, a miner, was
killed by falling slate, and “Ned”
Armstrong, a miner, was Killed by
lightning. George Heacox, a miner,
bad his back broken by a cage in a
mine, and Robert Stewart and Henry
Nolan lost limbs under the cars, sus-
taining fatal injuries. At j
Massachusetts, on the morning of the
2d, Halsey Gains, aged 15 years, haa
his scalp partially torn off and one arm
deeply lacerated by a leopard in one of
Barnum’s cages. The lad climbed up
to the leopard’s cage, and was peeling
nside when animal tried te
him in. He was only saved
efforts of one of the trainers.
—W. H. Cornish, a you
of French Camp, Miss
dered, on the evening of
and his body was burned
George Bryan, Samuel
Monroe Boyd, who were |
a late hour, have been arrested charged
with the crime, Near Selma, Alaba:
mn the 2d two negro children, ©
years old, were
he other's
icion rests on two
years old.
Lue
Springfield,
the
killed,
was
negro
neck
the 4th, about
ts of four ho v
iid niy ti lown out by an explo-
“Mrs. Harrold, an occupant of
hot . was standing in her
loorway and saw two men on the oppo-
site side of the street strike two matches,
ne after the other. One of the men
then beard to say ‘it is time for
us to get away.’
15€8 on
ddenly 1
1868
Ui
WAS .
The next instant the
explosion occurred, Mrs, Harrold was
knocked senseless but soon recovered,
I'he police say that dynamite was used
with malicious intent.”
-John I. Sheahan and
{ufus L. Bishop, at Laurens, South
carolina, on the 4th. Bishop, 1n a
quarrel, on the 2d, called Sheahan a
a thief, accused him of **hiring a negro
to burn the town of Waterloo,” and
threatened to ‘‘shoot his beart out.”
At Caperton, West Virginia, on the
3d, Lolly Robinson, colored, shot and
gllled Charles Williams, also colored,
who had been too intimate with Rob
inson’s wife, Robinson was taken from
the officersby a mob of blacks and
whites and lynched, The lynchers alsc
sought Robinson's wife, but she es-
caped to the mountains,
-Three bothers, named Moffat, aged
respectfully 13, 15 and 17 years, were
drowned on the 4th, while bathing at
Fenelon Falls, Ontario.
A freight train of twenty-Lthree
refrigerator cars containing dressed
beef ran off the track near St. Thomas,
Ontario, on the 4th, Fifteen of the
cars were completely wrecked, and two
tramps stealing a ride were killed,
Two hundred and fifty-six aeaths
were reported in New York on the
3d—the largest number in any one day
since 1876.
At Calrendon, Penna., seven miles
east of Warren, on the Philadelphia
and Erie railroad, a fire started in an
old plaming mill at half-past nine
o'clock on the evening of the 4th.
Shortly afterwards flames issued from
the Weaver Hotel, owned by John
Mahoney. The lire swept through the
frame structures of the little town
until twenty acres were burned over,
and the only bullding of any conse-
quence saved was the railroad depot,
About 1100 people were made home-
less. The charred body of a man, sup-
posed to be a hack driver named Sulli-
van, was found in the ruins of the
Weaver Hotel, Mahoney was arrested
on the 5th, in the woods, six miles from
Clarendon, and lodged in the jail at
Warren to answer the charge of incen-
diarism, **Public rumor at Clarendon
says that two weeks ago when liquor
licenses were refused to all applicants
shot
killed
was not reversed in two weeks.”
~Charles Van Aernam and
Emma Churchill were killed by a rail-
road train while crossing the Delaware
and Hudson track im a carrlage, near
Kknowersville, New York, on the even-
ing of the 4th, Van Aernam had been
warned of the tramn’s approach. Law-
rence O'Connell,
of Port Jervis, New York, was killed
by a railroad train at Wilson’s Park,
on the 4th. A mall train and a local
passenger on the Maine Central Rall-
road collided near Gardiner on
afternoon of the 5th, Both engines
were wrecked and the mall tender was
telescoped into the postal car. Two
train hands and a lady passenger were
severely injured. An oil car on the
Pennsylvania Railroad was thrown
sion on the 4th and set on fire, Three
oll cars, three cars loaded with flour
and a cabin car were burned, causing a
loss of about $20,000,
o-
10 years of age,
New York
She leit a note
Christina Krelg,
committed suicide in
the evening of the 4th,
saying her husband had driven her to
the act. John Garrish, an engineer on
the Erie Railway, committed suicide
near ort Jervis on the 4th, His wife
is in an Insane asylum,
—John TFeistbenner stabbed
Orkner, in Chicago, on the evening «
the 3d, and Orkner died on
ing of the 5th from his wound,
benner, realizing the
discovery of the 1 committed
suicide as soon as h 1 of his vice
tim's death, The tive of Ul
der is a myster
— Mrs. Alt
to death at Lewistown Anna. ,
afternoon of the I pouring
coal oil fire, Some
hot embers remaining ignited the
and exploded the can in her haad.
onl
Y.
in Aa stove lo start a
il
Oli
—_A ion occurred on the even-
ing of the 4th, on
Shore and Western Railroad, near Bes-
semer, Michigan, by which 1
Tangney, a passenger, and severa
employes of the road were dangerously
injured. The limited express was being
a
i
COIS
followed switch engine, when
break passenger engine
» collision,
a stop
cause
in the
oy +
and t
Dass
Nashville
Two women
’» wd
]
were
Mis.
and a
the
th
namedad
one
Tw 0
’
gual 8h
ywer under a tres
, on the 4th,
Several olhe
110 SOU
were Killed
Ir person
»
: ~
were stunned,
—Henton Miller, Treas
county, Indiana, d
days ago, and 18 ;
His predecessor
and now in t
WAS accompa
young wife, wi
A Year ago,
fami
Billi
oa
¥ Ol Chili
— 1 he loss
Weber malt |
estimated at
110.0% i).
n Allegheny
rested on
“had a slight d
At least twe
ported in th
Terntory, within two
Marengo, Crawford county
on the evening of Jd, a
oceurred between a band of gula
» known as the ‘White Caps,”
and two brothers, John and Sherman
Naushee, The “White had
determined to whip John because he
had caused the wife of a Justice
named Town to separate from
husband. In the fight that
sued, Sherman Naushee was
ably fatally shot and John
beaten with clubs until he was
for dead. The Naushees were power-
ful men, and it is sald that several
White Caps were killed and wounded,
At Jonesboro’, Arkansas on the 5th,
an nnkpown man, supposed to be an
escaped lunatic, got off a train, and
walking up to a small crowd of people
drew a revolver and fired three shots,
kilhing one man and fatally wounding
another, In Litchfield, Kentucky, at
one o'clock on the morning of the Oth
W. RB. May, a distiller and
keeper, was called from his bed
man who sald he wanted a quart of
whiskey. May went Into the place
with the man. *"An assassin was sta-
tioned in front of the building and as
soon as the light fell on May's face he
discharged a load of buckshot into his
head killing him instantly, Subsequent
Was al
i
tnuraers
e Choclaw
ive
s
Al
Indiana,
'
the conflict
fey ©
tors
Caps”
prob-
derer is James M. Lynch, formerly a
young lawyer at this place, but who
has been a fugitive for several months,
May cowhiding him last Christmas
after a difficulty over a lewd woman.”
~ Philip Ziegler, a young man, died
in Cineinnatl on the evening of the Gth,
from swallowing carbolic acid, His
mother gave him a tablespoonful of
the acid, mistaking it for medicine pre-
scribed by a physician,
~-An express train on the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Railroad ran off the
track at Leon, Kentucky. on the
morning of the 6th, and all the cars,
except a sleeper, were thrown nto a
ditch, Two train men and six passen-
gers were injured, the train hands
dangerously.
Mrs, Henry Underhill was killed
and Miss Maude Blye fatally injured
by being struck by a train while try-
ing to drive across the railroad track
near ClLarlotte, Michigan, on the even.
ing of the bth,
-~Terrifiec thunder storms prevailed
on the Gih, along the Lower Hudson
Valley, Trees and houses were struck
by lightning, basements and cellars
were flooded and washouts were re-
i ported on the West Shore and I udson
| River Railroads. The temperature
fell 23 degrees at Poughkeepsie in three
{ hours, The heaviest storms prevailed
between that point and Poughkeepsie;
north of Poughkeepsie they were light,
Several buildings in Queens and Buf-
{ folk counties, New York, were, on the
6th, damaged by lightning,
William Dennis, aged 17 years,
was killed by lightning while working
on an ore bank at Plymouth, Penna.,
on the 6th.
—A telegram from Paducah, Ky.,
reports that in 1873, while J. Hamp
Swift was Sheriff of Calloway county,
Kentucky, his accounts were found to
be $3,000 short. He thought a deputy
bad robbed him. In making good the
{ deficiency he was bankrupted, and has
| since supported his family as a day
laborer, Recently, his wife was sent
i Lo an msane asylum, and in her raving
| told of money hidden in a smoke house,
{ Investigation revealed $3200 1m green-
| backs, It is thought she concealed the
| money in one ot her attacks, ‘The
discovery not only set the ex-Sheriff on
his feet, but cleared his reputation
suspicion.”
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of
of the 6th
wire connected
he dynamite cartridges
~On the e
| ning struck
veuning
the
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| holes drilled for blasting at
t aq
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ueduct,
new aq New Yor}
elr premature explosion
north and
inel, and Ki
| Stranker,
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south headings o1
ill laborer
the t
just been
| 8lon took otherwise
life would been large.
with the
tthe top of the shaft when e lig
During a storm on
teri y
y
INN
| was disconnecte
i ning struck
even or
ng of the
{dry
t4 Are
OL, Led
timber ti
| near Reading,
SU0 acres
On
tohtnt
wULLILE
{ Hundreds
washed o
severe wii
Jacksonvi
noon of
Baptist
bulldings were «
life is reported,
owing ught
' tho central and nortl
State and in Dakot Ps
well, The country around Perham,
| Minnesota, is suffering from a plague
of locusts, Everything iscovered with
| them, and they have utterly devoured
| thousands of acres of vegetation,
are doing
— Matthew Kennedy. the principal
| in the fur robbery at Cleveland, Ohlo,
jis said 10 be mn custody in Lansing,
ichigan.
| Near Wilmington, North Caro.
| lina, on the morning of the 7th, Alfred
| Soyke, a farm hand, shot and Killed a
| man named Mills, superintendent of
| the farm, who had discharged him the
| day before. Clel, McElroy and Alex-
ander Renich, horse trainers of Leb.
anon, Kentucky, having quarrelled,
each resolved to kill the other on sight.
They met on the 6th, and McElroy,
who was armed with a double-barreled
shot gun, killed his antagonist,
| ==NSummer cLoera is more prevalent
| in Montreal this season Lhan for many
| years, and the moriahily mwong chil
| dren is alarming.
William Bowman and his sister.
{ in-law, Miss Eunice McKinney, were
{killed by lightning while standing
{under a tree during a thunder storm
at Palestine, Texas, on the evening of
the 7th. Lynn Cooper, 16 years of age,
was accidently killed in Broome county,
New York, on the evening of the 7th,
by the discharge of a pistol he was
bandling. John D. Van Gorden, 60
years of age, was stung by a bee on the
wrizt at Dingman’s Ferry, Penna., on
the morning of the 6th, and died
shortly after. Jennie Dunbam, aged
19, and ber nephew, aged 11 years,
were drowned on the 5th at Rockland,
Massachusetts, by the upsetting of a
boat. John Short and James Huckiski
were fatally injured on the afternoon
or the 8th by the explosion of a boiler
in the Excelsior mine at Oskaloosa,
lowa., A telegraph pole at a street
corner in New York, which was eaten
away at the base, fell on the 8th, kill.
ing John McGarry, aged 13 years,
Oscar M. Kelly, a wife marderer,
was taken from the jail at Dalles, Ope.
gon on the morning of the Tth and
lynched, Dr. E. N. North, shot at
Pern. Indiana, on the morning of the
Lhe
8th. Christianson wae taken from
jail on Lhe evening of the 6th by a mob
and lynched.
miner, was shot and killed
Williams at MecDonald’s Penna,
the evening of the 7th, He had
on
to leave her, Benjamin Craig and John
Hill were killed by the latter’s elder
brother, Green B, Hill, in a quarrel
near Tucker, Texas, on the 7th,
~The health officers of Bt, Louls
on the 7th reported that the proprietor
of a dairy who keeps 50 cows and
supplies a large section with milk, has
been serving milk from animals sick
of pleuro-pneumonia, Fifteen
died during the last week and the
others are sick. The inspector de-
stroyed fifty gallons of diseased milk
found on the premises. One
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THE SHAH'S REVENUE
How the Funds for tne Bupport of
Persia's Government are Obiained.
I'ersia is
nothing
either at hi
re;alively rich, for she owes
bankers or bondholders
me or abroad. She has no
to
reserve,
It has been sneeringly said by the Rus.
sians, who wish to belittle in order to
weaken her, that Persia has no national
debt because she has no credit, The
truth of this assertion can only be
proved when the Shah attempts to raise
a loan, which has never yet been done
by the Persian Government, Of course,
if more were spent for internal lm-
provement of if there were less specu-
cattle
the
cated by some Texas
through a pasture where
cows were feeding.
of
~The reports of the inurders
Chinese miners on Snake river,
Idaho, are discredited Portis
Oregon. It is believed there that
bodies found in the water were those
Chinamen accidentally drowned. **
Chinese work bars in Snakeriver
pay 60 to 75 day
} 1
while 8 10 WOrk
in
per
cents
t
wan for
Han
ners were itoprie-
River Mine a
chigan,on the even
a rush of water, whic
i ¥
All
sight Italian m!
le Sturgeon
weape, are gly
WHS A Immewing cal
yderstand
nu ir Lime amor
| unreasonables,
The main token of a strong character
is not to make known every change and
phase in thought and feelihg, but to
resuils,
Anstotie affirms that the true natune
of riches consists in the contented
and employment of the things we have,
rather than lu the possesion of them,
Everybody, no matter how crabbed
and morose, must succumb
se
But the fact remains
to pro-
something 18
larger revenue,
mote material progress,
still annually saved.
The revenues of the Shah come from
many sources, The land, live stock,
customs, excise and mines and fisheries
furnish the chief sources of revenue,
the taxes is
attended with considecable risk. and re-
not unfrequent riots and blo
Regarding some of his
1 nnes t
urope
all very wisely
v1eot Yael « 3 1s
method Rn on i
pearl the Bhi
r example,
than if the tax
justly collected
[AY
them
turned over to |} Crovernment, it
LICH ly impos ible, U
of a given sum
+ can depend, and leaves it
who
n whatever su
vhile the Shal
of
farm
4 833
rpius may ac-
V il
farming. the pe
ii Hng, the j
op
yalem
x . w 5
materially to Lis revenues by the
he receives in coin from the high
he visits from time to time,
of important offices
bidder. Not that he
that
{0 any one
ents
a Lares
in t
highest
awards an office
bids others, but
he sale
to the
who over.
to the one who, of sev-
Even the heathen cannibal loves little
bables,
pecuniary consid-
What these sums are can be
only surmised from general report; but
go 1mmto
the coffers of the Shah in this way is a
fact well assured; indeed it is a prac-
chaff which fills the
tional poets, what is truly valuable
would be to what is useless in the pro-
portion of a mole-hill to a mountain.
The schoolmaster is abroad! And |
trust mote to him, armed with his
primer, than I do to the soldier in full
military array, for upholding and ex.
tending the liberties of his country!
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The Advantages of Secrecy.
Mra. Charles Thompson had got
tired of living in the country and about
the time that Montreal houses break
out into a harmless erysipelas of bills
having the legends, “To l.et.’’ and
“For Sale,” she said to her husband:
“Don’t you think, dear, it would be
well enough for us return to the
city"!
“Yes, Ido, sail Mr, Toomson,
Miss Julia Robertson, Mrs, Thom-
son's pretiy 18-year-old sister, clapped
her hands,
“Good! good!'’ cried she, “Now I
shall have some sort of chance at mati-
nees and the opera again.”
House hunting commenced In good
earnest; but it flagged after the first
edge of enthusiastic enterprise was
worn off, None of the houses suited
exactly. Ms, Teomson declared that
it was of no use wearing out one’s shoe
leather and temper looking for what
couldn't be found. Mr. Tuomson
sajd it was a pity they hadn't found
that out before. Mrs. Thomson said
that. as far as she was concerned, she
would just as soon stay where they
were. Mr, Thomson retorted that any-
thing was better than an indolent
woman, Mrs, Thomson burst into
tears, Mr. Thomson went out of the
room banging the door behind him.
Miss Robertson declared that all men
were brutes, and that she for one never
intended to be married,
“I don't eare,” sobbed Mrs. Thom-
son. “It was all Charley's fault, our
taking this horrid, damp hole.”
Oh, Bee, how can you say so?’ said
Miss Robertson, (Mis. Thomson's bap.
tismal »ppeliation was Beatrix.) **You
were us wild after it as he was.
And." added Bee, inoring the In
wo
terruption, **if we have to live on the
grass under an umbrella I shall make
no further efforts.”
Mr. Thomson said the same thing,
and Miss Robertson was just making
uy her mind to another season in the
country, when Dee came exultingly
back from the city one evening.
“Ch, Julia,” cried she, **1’ve seen
the sweetest little gem of a house!”
“Been house-hunting, eh?” en-
quired Miss Robertson.
“Well—no, not exactly house-hunt-
ing, you know, 1 wouldn’t do that
after Charley's shameful behavior,
ut 1 saw the bill and I went in,
Double parlors and frescoed dining-
room in the rear; hot and cold walter,
gas, range, baths—everything, in short,
and the hall floor laid in those delight.
ful mosaic patterns of tesselated mar-
ble. The neighborhood delightful,
the mountain park handy—"’
“And the rent?’ eagerly demanded
Miss Robertson, with Ler eves like
blue moons,
“Only four hundred a year.”
“Oh, sald Julia, “but isn’
great deal?”
“Not when you consi
in general,
i
after his he
believe
i 1 wives
iB AL
“But
tween husban
iy
Robertson.
ret.’
Mrs, Thomson
[Lobertsd
ii8 tea.
“Well, Julia.”
want.”
1 “ 1 Yr y
Julia looked up
“You haven't taken it,
“No: but 1 sl
“1 wouldn't do
ng Bee,” i
erfy
=i
bail |
were shinmn
! drawing
Shuter Street, as
said she, **
nices. And
gas fixtures go with ti
“Oh; I beg pardon,
sure,” said an elderly la
vanced, **I'm sorry
but"?
Beatrix Thomson looked aghast.
“You have not let the house?’
“Yes, ma'am, I have. A poor lone
woman like me has her own interests
to look to; and the gentleman offered
six hundred a year if I'd sgn the
papers at once, which,” with a reflec-
tive look at ber handkerchief, **1 dia.”
“I told you so,” said Jalia, soto
vice.
Mrs, Thomson rose in great indig-
nation, her voice rising accordingly.
“I really think,” said she, **I should
be justified in placing this matter in
thie hands of the lawyers, and —"’
“Why, Bee, my darling!”
“Charley!”
Toe folding doors slid back and Mrs
Thomson found herself vis-a-vis with
her husband,
“Here's the gent himself,’* said the
ancient female, who sinelied as if she
had stepped out of a dye tub. **Whach
he can explain.”
“You never have taken this house,
Charley!*’ almost shrieked Mre. Thom
son,
“Yes; I have, my dear.”
‘But 1 have offered five hundred for
ii"
“And I have signed a three years’
lease at six hundred,” said the hus
band, somewhat sheepishly:
Miss Robertson burst out laughing.
“80,” said she, “yvour profound se.
crecy has cost you just two hundred
dollars per annum."
Mrs. Thomson began to ery; the el-
derly female looked as if she thought
the Jease might be vitiated by this
matrimonial misundertanding, Julia's
eyes twinkled roguishly.
“Never mind, Dee,” sald Mr. Thom-
son, soothingly, “It's a gem of a
house, anyway, and we'll be as happ
as the day is long in it. 1 only wish {
had confided in you about it.»
“And I wi-wish | hadn't been 80 ob.
siinate and hateful,” whimpered Bee,
“Come,” said Miss Robertson, “let's
ike haste, or we shall lose the last
rain.
the
vid pier ASKER
EK
1 house, and
I'm
ad-
4 11 don
to disappoint you,
Na am.
ly, wi