Sinking of a Tract of Land in Trigg County, Kentucky. CHICAGO, August 3. A Times speciat from Evansville, Ind. referring the sinking of land in Trigg county, Ky., since the earth- quake of Monday night, says: From a gentleman who has just arrived from Hopkinsville, the following particulars were obtained. He says that the coun- try about the scene 18 low and swampy and almost inaccessible in places, save by old, beaten paths. Much of 1t wild and contains large, dense woods, Golden Pound is a mere hamlet contain- ing two ‘lements of negroes, who eke out a ring by working on several large farms owned by non-r ‘ ' t, about to 18 sel wgidents, : +1 + 1s «Q 4 1 © O'CIOCK, Several the earth tremble, but erfous had occurred tremor, and, after gos- went bed. Uy LO 11 F aa t uye ive, 14 lark isa ified darkies haf Oki On roved. tmar whi 1 dead from if Henry estrove id oad bridge away. 1 Pike , Berks Daniel Wonsitier, near ’ Montgomery county, Penna., were con- sumed by lightning on the 31st ult. Loss $10,000, two ring exciter iL } the Port Uctorara er, at was Aaron Yeager in ; county, and Hoppenville the evening of Grim’s lam, cov Boyer- Ove acres, nei town, bur y ] + t ii . urss f +’ teen fee 1st hing In Its pe annecticut, on | wrecked dwelling, wcman on the road, and Loat and the uit. a killed a young made a mar the iver totally blind. A young woman named han. 18 years of age, was Killed by lightning while standing in a yard dur- sin at Yates Centre, Kansas, he evening of the 31st ult, During storm at Hadensville, Ken- afternoon of th colored persons-—Solomon nowden, Moses Watkins and Alice ross -—took shelter from a thunder storm under a tree, and all were killed by lightning. A telegram from Easton says that about twenly houses in Northampton county, Penna., and sight In Warren county, New Jersey, were damaged by lightning on the 51st ult, Many cellars in Easton were flooded, and the damage to streets and pavements by washouts is estimated at £12,000, ~The public debt statement for July, issued on the 1st shows a reduc- tion of $4 844 804. Total cash in the Treasury, $456,304,361. - John Beali, aged 13 years, who has been in jail at Eaton, Ohlo, for six weeks, on suspicion of having mur- dered his mother, has confessed the crime, On June 13th his father took his sister to town, leaving him with his mother. While they were alone in the farm house Le shot her twice and then nearly beheaded her with an axe. He gave an alarm to the neighbors, saying three tramps killed his mother while hie was asleep, and he awakened in time to see them leave with a waleh and some money. The watch has since been found in a vault, where the boy admits he threw it. No motive can be as- signed for ls crime, except anger at some favoritism he supposed was shown to his sister. During an eman- cipation celebration in Nicodemus, on on the & 29th three \ 1st, ono Grabam kansas, on the several fights occurred, in which man was killed and another mortally injured. The man killed by- stander, not a participant. occurred between whites a on an excursion steamer, man, kentucky, on the men were whom died on the At Tuscola, | Mrs, James Hoyne trampled to death by was trying to front yard. -—QOne of tl most ever known in Derks over Stroudsburg on the 1st. were fl In storia fi vivid were seen, each followed | of thunder, and immed wards Christ Luthera from the town, was discovered to be on fire. The historic building was cou- School county, Wis A severely wou 1st, Illinois, on the lst was gored and a mad oull which she dr Ye of her storms passed 1e terrible Many yoded, flashes il organ i 2 Wis £1 t and YOAars ag mite expl Governor r fires were pul Janeway & u YY OFKS ring of a 24, ng Henry of Minneapolis, Pont Peter I, Crarrison, I'wo others y injured. juake shocks were {ol portions of Alabama, Ten- ssouri, Indiana and 1llinois, at Nashville was felt It sl 1 the po p members of a 3 n portion of city.!' At the vibrations lasted five to eight seconds, the movement being from south to north, and people in the west. | he city were awakened from juring Stab gS were slight Ts ” the 24 in nessec, The shock ¥ § 1s & ar 1 : 1 MM ook some articles ce headquarters * 12.37 A. a table 11 woke u the easter Bt “A re company in Juls 9 ' .vansville, Ind InoOrs felt. AtJ a rumbling tures were Cairo, 1h geconds and many clocks were pped. | A vibration from south to north was | followed by a tremor of twelve seconds duration, - A fire at Evansville, Indiana, on | the morning of the 3d, destroyed the Armstrong Company's lumber yard, with 2,000,000 feet of lumber; Arm- strong’s saw-mill, stables ana two dwellings and the lumber yard of John A. Reitze’s Son, with 5,000,000 feet of lumber; fifteen cars of grain on the Peoria, Decatur, and Evansville Rail. | road, and a large warehouse containing | tobacco, grain and general merchan- | disse, The total loss is estimated at $200,000, on which there is about £100,000 insurance, Incendiarism is suspected. W. J. Hill's box factory, a | juantity of timber in Joln’s lumber yard, and a dwelling adjoining the box factory, In Chicago, were Lurned on the 34, Loss $30,000; partly insured. A fire in Montreal on the evening of the 3d destroyed a number of buildings in 8t. Jean Baptiste Ward, making about 50 families homeless, Most of | the buildings were wooden. The loss | is istimated at $100,000, «Much damage was done vicinity of Elmira, storm on the afternoon of the 2d. Trees were uprooted, window glass was smashed, and the crops were ru- ined. The total damage is estimated at $20,000, A severe storm passed over Louisville on the morning of the ana, three tre~ mesboro, linols, sound was heard and pic- from walls, Atl nois, the tremors lasied thirty | stom were Were } is BlLAKEN 1 tl in the New York, by a 21. Rain fell hail stones covered ferry wharf was boat blown over the rive Several sunk; several houses and five y were Injured by ni . i washout occurred Ii tailroad, near Ma hie 2d, a long ng fry feet of it swepl away. Near Homer, Michigan, ternoon of the 2d, George Durton, ag wi streets. A away and the other barges the swept the coal to side of were were unroofed, light- OO! (sreent evening ol damaged ¢ busetts, on t trestle be on Lhe killed his and coi an elect 31 years, being jealous, wounded lis mother-in-law mitted suicide, There wa fight in Mahchester, Kentucky, on 1st, growing out of a dispute over i which A. J. Hocke It is reported that killed and Two colored man was also body thrown int whites were wot a colored 1x ley Leland, als the latle: 'enna, oO a creek, other inded, Fra rhe nA pects qd to the burst ment | Douglass, morning of n at Day 1 % cats d daughter of Henry other and a me ment © * erts and burned its m ber of the Third Reg of Psthias, who was her, the excitement Werster { ars of ze, fe bridge and broke his neck, Jack Slater 1 Peler Gaffney were killed on the 4th by a falling wall while making an excavi t S hanna, [Penua Thomas ( vears, a Chicagoan, afternoon of the 4th, fell from a fourth- window of the Windsor Hotel through a skylight and landed on the first floor of the Evening Wisconsin office adjoining, He believed injured, He was drunk RON an on a (que- Atperon, ti on ne to be at the is time, ~A sudden wind storm, covering a the ten them tlew down a building in one of were working, Eight of slightly wnjured, but Peter Gaf- and his fifteen-year-old son, who mixing mortar outside, sustained fatal injuries, — Fires in the Manhattan and Chane nahan townships, near Joilet, Illinois, have burned over hundreds of acres of pasture, stubble and woodland, The creeks in that region are all dry, Fore fires have been raging along the line of the Green Bay, Winona and 8°, Paul Railroad, In Wisconsin, Thou sands of dollars’ worth of valuable tim- ber has been destroyed near Merrillon Junetion, and at Lynn a saw mill was destroyed. Tae fires were checked on the 4th, by rain. «, B. Richold, couvicteld of larceny and awaiting the action of the Court of Appeals on a petition for a new trial, ferer the morning of { ith, for the second Lim He released three colored pris. oners, two of them convicted of theft, nd f murder. ] and The latter bigs Lat ona accused « Hort BIC shi0oOLing Ie OI morning of himself t by head of emuployment for A sixtl atiempt 0 burn } / New n of the 1] third floor in he Demokral, Nong hrough the out the Ye York, 441 ith 10 1. i h and Ror ceverl, W est expected to { New Yor a Serious A, BLUE] wrtained, hy and two or missing. Th In man, and {wo upk covered, right, C ten have George Cart nown been —The St. James and E stern Hotels, in Dunkirk, New York. were burned on the evening of the 41h 0), There 18 DO Insurance st. James Hotel, while that on Fastern Hotel is smal’, Flour Mills, in Nashville, were burned on the morning of the 5.h., Loss, $45 - 000: surance, $32,000, The W. F. Washburne Dass and Iron Works, in Yonkers, New York, was damaged by fire on the morning of extent of $20,000, +» the the The New Era 0 Manhattan, Illinois, on the 4th, was got under control, but broke out afresh in another place, and swept over thousand acres. One stroyed. ‘‘In tome places the flame was from twenty to thirty feet high, and the running blaze an average of ten feet high. The fire went faster than a man could run,” Everybody turned out to fight the fire, which was finally subdued near Matteson, Near Etna, 'enna., on the evening of the 4th, Mrs, Owen Hade leit her four little children in the house while she took he: husband's supper to him at a furnace, about a mile distant. Dur ing ber nbsence the eldest child, Ed- ward, aged B years, * took the oll can and poured the fluid in the stove, as he had often seen his mother doing she started a fire,” An explos lowed, and the four d with t irs ru hen fol in Jia ere Le burn } Tl month ot Lin Ler Lure Cover. “a Are Near Ind YVolmor arranged a dey whenever a thief entered nis yard, 4 weight would drop upon On the of the J wakened by the thief refused to stop, lit The latter { LITA IH 4 anapoiis, evening 3 pwlarm, { was fount man, ntmed Sarah Ot diz UUW y EXITesS Hopk been niversit ected ar Phi mo imnember losoph THE MARKETS, Som Peel city fam bi... Hams. .ooivvvns . Prime Mess, new, Sides smoked Shouiders sanox ed do 1n salt, smoked He ean Lard Westeras bis Lard Joos. cove. FLOUR West, and Pa. sap, Pa, Family Miho Cel... Pal, Wm Rye Fioar, Wheat No, | Kye.... No, ¢ a CER EEEE Beas Mackerel, large 18...... cera ned NO, 2 BhOPE., vv sovsnes Herring, 1lab..covosvionss SUGAR Powdered... oveves Granniated,... QORIGO. 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The sturgeon {| and a fish of six ye: i A big sturgeon yi unds, A Yankee bi ts wt verge ¥ sturgeon 215 ! 5 scalp actually d perience of this countrs The Northern nos use of « The 5 is less afiscled # s L 1 ‘ * $s Lae peo) i truth, there are scents wor cocoanut oil, From the 1 ment-using habits of the ital to comes the frequent reference (0 anoint ing mn the Bible, as Aaron, the high priest; as also Mary Magdalene’s alabaster box, Iossibly supple hand-joints of all the Oriental people have received their faculty of bending backward from their versal use of olla. Oil plays a conspicuous part in the Hindoo worship. Also the Chris. tian Catholic Church ny annu- ally blesses its *'h Orler of the i un assemt holy oils. ———— Treasury Department, Tho rogues’ gallery of the treasury department includes photographs of over 3.000 counterfeit muke and “shovers.” The subjects vary in age all the way from fourteen lo seventy, and represent every nationality, even the Chinese. There are several of the latter nalionality, and it is not surpris- ing, as those mild-eyes pagans are considered the most expert imitators in the world, There is nothing so sweet as a duty, and all the best pleasures a life come in the wake of duties dove.
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