Ea I aa ~~ The Michigan Legislature has passed a mew and more equitable libel law, ' Little Denmark expends $55,000 yearly for the maintenance of dairy schools, r— Governor Lee says foreign capital will not be solicited to settle Virginia's debt. The Sugar Trust is making a profit of $3,000,000 a month or $36,000,000 a year, Says the New York News: “The most hopeful sign of the times in the political life of this country is the rapid spread of ballot reform.” A movement has been started by the Swiss Government looking to a universal reduction of the hours of labor for em- | ployes in factories and on farms. Brazil has recently celebrated the first anniversary of the abolition law by which she placed herself among the ranks of the non-slave-holding the world. States of in New York worth over #1,000,000 each, forty women and 129 firms, at least one member of which is good for a million, or a total of 294 millionaires in the American metropolis. The population of the city of London most reliable Of these 4,250, is now, according tu the estimates, 4,250,000. 000 people fully 900,000, or something over twenty per cent., are at present in receipt of some form of pauper relief. Sir John Swinburne has discovered that the Portuguese Government has been owing England a trifle of $12,046,205.- 123 1815, and has never yet paid any interest on ever since for value received ything on ac- the little bill—nor given an count, The new eastern express from Berlin to Constantinople, Turkey, is to run once a week, The event is bailed in Berlin as marking an epoch in German railway traveling, Hamburg and Constantinople direct by express train. for it practically connects The Pall Mall Gazette states that many have been induced to go to Buenos Ayres from both England and Ireland, upon the representation that they would re. and houses free. ceive land Instead, however, they have met nothing but misery, want and starvation. The Austrian troops are being armed with what is known the Manlicher rifle. may be inferred from the fact that during as The deadly nature of this weapon target practice recently a soldier acciden. tally received a fami wound froma bullet fired at a miles, distance of two and a hall It is jus just three hundred and fifty-one years since Don Aloar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, the pioneer white man, first entered what is now known as the Territory of Arizona, and yet, as far I can see, writes a correspondent to the New York Obser. ver, the great Eastern public has very little more real knowledge of it now than then. The military forces of England, shout 617,000 armed Of this number rather more than a told, amount to men, third belong to the regular army, which is supported by a first-class army reserve of 52,000; the volunteers have reached a strength of 226 000, but the militia has fallen to 118,000, and only 11,000 Yeo- men mustered for training last year, There are in the civilized world an | average of one deal mute to every 1500 of the population; in other words, there | are at least 1,000,000 of this afflicted class. In the United States theroare 38,. 000, in Great Britain, 20,000; in Ger- many, 25,000; in France, 30,000; in Bweden, 2000; in Norway, 1100; and in Bwitzerland (the country above all others where deafness fs prevalent), 10,000. Until 1886 Maryland was the only Bouthern State, according to the New York Post, which had a bank that was exclusively a savings institution, In 1887 North Carolina was added to the list, asad the next year South Oarolina, Georgia and Louisiana, these four States reporting over 25,000 depositors and nearly $6,000,000 in deposits. ‘Both as a sign of the development of thrift, and as a promoter of the habit,” adds the Post ‘the rise of the savings bank system in the South is heartily wel tomed.” —————————— — Yale Collage may take to herself the eredit of having, at this year's com- mencement, produced a novelty, states the Washington Star. The roll of honor all going from bad to worse in Canada. This is a good year for annexation, and the dominion might just as well make up its mind to the inevitable, Consumption in the German army is greatly dreaded by the authorities, since the recent Parisian Medical Congress pro- nounced that the disease was contagious. Accordingly, the German War Minister has decided that the chest of every sol- If | the chest does not reach a certain breadth, | and does not develop with drill and ath- i dier must be measured once a month. letic exercises, the soldier will be dis- junlified as predisposed to consumption, and likely to infect his comrades, John W. Bardsley was buried in fifteen | different styles in Ivy Cemetery, German- | town, Penn., a few weeksago. The de- | ceased was a prominent citizen of the Quaker City's suburb, and sequired no- | toriety because he introduced the Eng. { lish sparrows into Philadelphia. | sentatives from The services at the house were conducted by At the large delegation of spiritualists. 2 leading spiritualist. grave Ie Nae nearly all the secret ducational re- -1884 9138 of 15.000,- 00 children in the Russian Empire at- 1 ie latest ¢ port only 1,466 'nded schools. About ninety per cent. therefore, of young Russia receive no in- struction In sixty governments » school for secondary in- n to every 18,000 boys and 22,- cent. of to attend a public dated. For Is is even Only sixty-three per ny age rnificar ificant. The schoolmaster said to be abroad in Russia received by the ¢ the other day, It that this That a big fee Ohio Secretary of if the report states the truth. ap- pears, says the Chicago Times, officer's fee for filing and copying and certifying the charter of an incorporated a certain per cent. company is : al stock. In this : comj 34 agers of the cinnati Leng napolis, 8 Walter A. himself by carrying by Congressman Mas the say on prog goed Chicago to the Mississippi. The note. . ff aside of eature of the essay is that, vork and most project which Chicage ants national aid to help her cons “As the work of an eighteen-year-old boy,” comments the San Francisco Chronicle, *“it reflects credit on the public-school training of Chicago.” The more the project for increasing tallabl ur ¢ area is discussed the more it. Louis © heret strange lobe Dessiis. f it appears, ave ore be on eral, that so done in that di Fifty wears ago Ellet urged on Congress to construct reservoir dams the noted engineer Charles at the headwaters of the Ohio, to regu- | late the navigation of that river, prevent. ing floods and insuring sufficient water | for the dry months, Now J. W. Pow. ell's project is to take an arid region 300 miles wide and 1000 miles long, reaching from British Columbia to Mexico, and by | similar reservoirs, or lakes, to make it | The French have | | habitable and fertile. recently reclaimed, by similar means, 2,000,000 of waste acres. | of the last fifty years has been railroads, | but roads cannot reclaim deserts. passion of the next fifty must and will be artificial lakes, reservoirs and govern. mental irrigation. A few years hence, asserts the New Orleans Pieayune, no street cars in New York city will be drawn by horses, The bill allowing street railways to use any motive power they please, under certain restrictions, has become a law, and the Third avenue line will immediately adopt the cable system, which will give a gain of sbout one trip a day for each car. Elegant new cars will be built and will be lighted by electricity. The present drivers will be made gripmen and their wages will be increased. There will be vastly loss dirt in the streets, and formid- able piles of refuse at stables will accu. mulate no more, The serious objection to the cable system is that the conduits are apt to become sewers on a small senle, The Chicago Times sags: Things are | lepre- | fifteen secret societies | | were present at the funeral, as well as a | - - * ox : The New York World finds 125 men i communication west of there socicties held cere- | The passion | The | ANOTHER FLOOD. Johnstown, Aiken and Fonda, N. Y., Swept by a Deluge. Two Dams Burst With Fatal and Destructive Results, a — A dispatch from Troy, N. Y,, says: Re- ports have reached here that threo big dams were washed away near Jobnstown, N, Y,, and that a crowd of people on a bridge was | away and several people were All the wires were down at the carried drowned, communicate with Johnstown, A telephones from Johnstown sald the town | Myers, in Pittsburg, and then conpitted sul- was in total darkness, and nine bridges were washed away. The electric light plant has been washed away: also the three skin mills at Gloversville, One body had been recov- ered. The water was threo feet deep in the town | of Fonda, At midnight the rain was falling in tor. | rising waters | rents and the noise of the could be heard through the dense blackness of the night. The flood was assuming a terrible aspect, and mills and sheds were | being swept away in the walters Information received at Saratoga, N mad sweep of Y. ur telephone from Amsterdam stated that a | big washout at Alken, threo miles from there, had torn up 400 fest of track and cut off all that the washout was caused by the breaking of the dam at Johnstown, N. ¥Y., aud many casualties were advanced as possibilities Whether the accident was caused by the breaking of the dam or a cloudburgt was not known Amsterdam reports an excesdingly heavy rainstorm in that section just before com munication was cut off. Alke York Central and a creek v water power 0 several the place, The socident is ) acter, involving extensive loss A serious character was given to the story by indefinite rumors that there had beens conse erable loss of life News from Schenectady, N. Y., says a cloudburst washed away the Central Fail road ng about five miles west of Amster dam The wreck of the freight train which all four tracks the morning Lad been cleared and delayed trains move when oe of them were ight in uge. A second blockade occurred m serious than the first, The Fouda, Johastown & Gloversville Rail road loses seven or eight bridges. There was another bridge crossing the creck, and on it viewing the flood, were thirty or fort; } The torrent with increased power bridge from its foundations, hurling tt into the flood, It was impossible to sscert the number saved but it was believed that many perished At Fonda the Central Hudson Rally bridge was carried away almost bodily, ing with it the telegraph wire, nm" is on the New which furnishes mills raps through one of the mv char. m ire blocked in the dal re an ¥ tax Additional Particulars, Py a strange coincidence, at a tow same name, under almost sane sgancs he wild scenes of the flood of Conemaugh have been repeated Another mud dam ha apother resevoir has be another flood bas been Even the i ridge plays a fatal part ln this secon sory Nothing is lacking in the similitude the loss of life and property. The clouds came together 3 , &t five o'clock In the y met they burst and an oomn of wate i from them, Added to the waters the dass it bad washed away, it sant a flood throug the little valley of the Cayadutta Boventy-five persons washed away; cight persons were killed nmetse amount stroved: all milroad trafl pended The names of the victi Albert L. Coakley, aged forty-eight, glove maker: Charles Freer, aged sixty, a well known resident: Willie Myers, aged sixtes employed at glovemaking: IL. R D Bimumons aod forty-five, paint and hard ware merchant. Btedwell 1. Bert, aged fifteen, amnployed in Artisiansd' glove facts Unknown man found in stream af Fo Unidentified woman and child The two clouds were seen at § o'clock to circle around each other for a few min utes and then swoop together with a deaf oniing crmah of thunder. The plac where they met f= a half barren knoll, theres miles and a half northeast of Johns town, Persons who were watching the phenomenon say it was like a dam burst in the sky or as though the bottom had fallen out of an aerial reservoir The water came down not in drops or sheets, but fell in a mass lke a solid body At the knoll it drove trees into the earth, flattened out a space clear of vegetation and left other evidences of a groat pressure Then peo ie began tO come out of their bouses and to wonder at the storm and at the sien of little creek, which rum through the town, supplying water power to a number of mills and factories. They gathered on the bridges st Main, Market and Perry streets, and watched the Sood The lumber floated down and carried away the Bridge street bridge, and then all this floated down and carried off the big twee tracked irom railroad bridge bo low. The singletrack bridge went next There was tremendous excitement when the bri wentdown., Then Levi Stephenson's lumber yard and planing mill was cleared out. Sashes and blinds, boards and scantlings were swept away. There was a Mg erowd on the Perry stroet bridge. This bridge tx of stone, a siz gle arch of stone, and is twenty feet long and fifteen foot wide, people were all over the but most of them were crowded against the stone soping on the eastern looking intently at the torrent There were about forty thn wnt Go arch Keune ex pear Johnstown afternoon, As wary ry a a : the s b story skin mill on the southern bridge was tottering. The mill did not fall, but ita foundations were loosenad. The same impulse that shook the mill smashed Stewart's leather mill nosr by, and a mass timbers and trove went smashin " enst- bridge. in, its coping taken off, opt clear across the bridge, a little after 8 o'clock. Half on the bridge were thrown into stream. There were awful cries of “For God's sake help ma.” we. thy nearly gERIIES BE °F A NATIONAL GAS TRUST, Gigantic Scheme to Furnish Cheap Gas All Over the United States, : | August time of writing, and it was impossible to | | Eleanor It was rumored | persons on the | bridge. Buddenly there was a ory, and it against | “1 | i uiiting the and the di " THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Eastern and Middle States, Dr. Warens, who committed suicide in New York city, left a long, circumstantial and sclentifie account of his sensations dure {ng the two days he tried to kill himself with morphine and cocaine, Waite Charles W. Carrath, a well-known druggist of Malden, Mass, and F. H, Miller, a prominent Boston broker, were out shoot- ing, Carrath's rifle was accidentally dis. charged, the bali entering Miller's neck, and killing him instantiy. Truex men, each of whom had slain a woman, were sentenced in the Court of General Besslons in New York city to be exe cuted on the gallows, {colored}, James Nolan and Patrick Packen ham, The sentence was fixed for Friday 23. They will be hanged together, Rican Lewis, a plasterer, fatally shot Mrs. Elmira Moseby and her sister, Emeline cide. The cause of the tragedy was known. The parties were all colored, Ruope Istaxn's Legislature met in extra session to enact a law to regulate the liquor traflie, Beveral Hoense bills were introduced. Eresox H. WiLriaus, of Colbrook, N, H., has left for parts unknown, une $580.000, Bome of the securities left behind were thought to have forged signatures. Joux Kerry, convicted of the murder of O'Bhea, near Geneva, N, Y., November 6, 1888 has been hanged at Canandaizua, N. Y. 8. I. M. Barrow, the distinguished York corporation lawyer, dropped des from heart failure at his home, “Elsinore” near Glen Cove, Long and, N. % Jonux Morvasey and James ( rosby were killed at a raliway crossing in Newark, N. J Miss Avy CROCKER, 8 nies wher, the Central Pacific Hallway mag- and the divoresd wife of BB. Porter Ashe, the well known turf was married y New York eity to Henrs nerican Excl Ange 1 Fy of Charles Cr Gillig, of the worth bet w oon huyikill rruare and bi rred ody fight on the SHOrars Oot alington re rep banc] 1s Was South and West Min was visited by little village of { REIERG 8 wWinastaorm and o village was more or fren were killed 1 nd ana Junie Hit n-keeper named Parks at Agn Vrancis NTER was of m San f in the breast an on were killed in Chicago by Hing ns trestle in the power he use of the Milwankeo Avenue Cable Baliway Gusraal Winiiaw Methodist annals as died a Tow days ag fXlY years when the Civil fo than the law Kansas, Hlinoks Pennsylvania 1 Ret and Willie Wis dy \ WIYRERT whned whi { Wyoming ro sulted in the choice of thirty-six RKepullicans, wxteen Democrats and threes Independents The Convention will mest Beptesuber 2. Tha desire fur State government is general Gustave, John and Emil Ph of Chicago, were drowned at Kilbourn, Wis, while trving in 8 rowboat A sraont shook of Charleston, 8, C Tur prisefighter arrested at Nashville, Tent requisition from Governor Mississippi, but Immediately writ of habeas corpus Ati vik y Fun the Gam earthquake was felt in John L on a telegraph Lowry of released on a A crLoupsURsT occurred on the Sante Fa road a few miles above Albuquerque, New Mexico. The tracks for several miles were washed awsy and two bridges are gone, Steel rails were twisted into all kinds of shapes C.. for the murder of The eight-year old at Charlotte, N liceman John Pierce son of Pierce witnessed the execution of his | father's murderer Eosvsn Rox, Congressman from years old, Tux Chippewa commission was successful at Red Lake and the Indians cede the greater | portion of thelr reservation. Tag “green midge” has appeared in myri- ads around Palmyra, Wie, destroying every. thing infested by the insect. Whale acres of stato vines are dead from their ravages and armers are burning their grain fields, —— Pinar AsstsTANT POSTMASTER-GRENERA Crankson returned to Washington after an absence of about tom days, the grantee pore | thom of which was spent in a yachting cruise i in Chesapeake Bay. HBrorerany Rusk took an impo t ap In the work of reorganization of the Depar ment of A ttare, He established a new dividon charged with the Imporsan dut: 3 Tur President has appointed Thomas V. to be Collector of Customs for the They wera John Lewis | | the per i partment, will hereafter be entitled to thirty | days’ leave of absence cach year, | ditional appointments | be Pay Director in the {| toms for the Port of Paducah, Ky | Customs leaving | debts to neighbors and friends amounting to | | To be Collectorsof Interns] Revenue | along the Nile for the purpose © | fugitives who are flesing before the advance Sullivan was | Wa Wsnpixa ron, colored, has been hanged oe | the i Fourth District, of Minnesota, died recently | at White Bear, Minn. He was seventy-one | intendent of Indian ¥ehools, has wecirea we appointment of bis wife as Bpecial Indian Agent, at a compensation of $0 per day and EXPEnso, Tue President made the following ad- ditional appointments: To be Consuls of the United States: Emmons Clark, of New York, at Havre, France; Archibald J, Satnp- son, of Colorado, st Acapulco; Roswell G, | . : | held: of Columbia, for | | the port of Trieste and all other ports in the | {| Austrian dominions, Horr, of Michigan, at Valparaiso; James F, Hartigan, of the District vened to meat Monday, November 4. Preston Harmison has Nephtali Guerrero Lorrain as Consul-General | of Chill in the United Btatos. Usxper a decision of Secretary Tracy the diem employes of the Navy De Tug President made the following sd Frank C, Crosby, to Navy; John W, Cobbs, of Kentucky, to be Surveyor of Cus Alexan- der McMaster, of New York. to be Bupervis- ing Inspector of Bleam Vessels for the Ninth District (Buffalo, N.Y T2 be Collectors of Henry H. Lyman, of New York, for the District of Oswego, WN. Y.: Robert Hancock, Jr., of North Carolina, for the Dis trict of Pamlico, K. C.; John F. Horr, of Florida, for the District of Key West, Fla, Prank £. Orcutt, of Mmachusetts, for the Third District of Massechusetts; Willlam H. Ga- biriel of Ohio, for the Eighteenth District of Ohio; John Bteckete, of Michigan, for the Fourth District of Mi Exrenon WiLLIAY, of Germany, narrowly escaped being killed by a plece of falling glacier in Norway FOUR TROUSBAND weavers at Jasgerndorf, Austria, have struck work A TREATY has been sig and Germany at Herlir the sane lines a United Sts ord between Jansas i on ry of Tur Shah of Per his way to Londo diamonds to distr Tae From passed an A PARBENGE train near Ci sons were killed i cident was due lo the man Tux river Indus ® its banks, and the adjncent ten feet of water Forty drowned at Larkhana Tux Egyptians have ox Egypt, in which vicinity the Dervis The Bhaggiohs, wik diy, killed thirty Dervishes in og prt at Berra and eleven Dervish ers were killed by the Egyptian Tur International Mutes convened in Paris were from the United Deaf relentless Canada, Belgium key, Austria and Spais A PORCH wishes fron the m longed, and in the fig the dervishes 1} Tar Germans | East Comst of Ly assault THE WAR IR EGYPT. Advancing Terrible Slaughter of the Dervishes § thats Ar many wosnen and boys, italian woman Marietta was brought from by Nadel Jumi There wera ns and two priests still alive at Khartouus, The dervishes loft Don- da with S600 men and six guns Nad-«l- Jumi hoped to reach Bimbaa without fight- ing. On the march many died and deserted, while many others were kilied, Colonel Wode- house, in command of the British and Egyp- tian troops, estimates the dervish killed at pac {] in depots The Government is forming supporting Cavacalo, Kordofan, of the dervishes. Many tribal sheikhs are tendering their services to the Government. ee ———B——————— PROMINENT PEOPLE. Presioesy Hanrisox is very fond of fish, Queex Victoria bas reigned fifty-one Years Mrissoxies, the French painter, was man ried recently JULIAXY HAWTHORNE tv-nine novels GoveEnr=or FoRagen three years old Tux Prince of Wales is quite a successful breeder of cattle Gexenatl. BOULAXGER the United States has produced twen of Okio, is forty thinks of visiting Henamaxx, the magician, has his life in | sured for S80 000, Mus. A. DT. Wrirtxey, George Francis Train's sister RW. Guooes, editor of the Cenfury, gets $20,000 a year for his services Tue Jate General Simon Cameron, Pennsylvania, left a fortune of §1,500,000 ol siderably from inflammatory rheumatism. Taz Earl of Zetland, the new Viceroy of | Ireland, bas an income of over £1000 a day, Caavsery M. Derew, President of the New York Central, has gone to Europe for the sumaner A paveurER of James G. Fair, the 84, 000, 000 Californian, will marry a penniless young Army surgeon, Ture Sultan of Tarkey has 474 carriages, and the cost of attendance, ftting and re pairs is $460,000 a year, Jurrensox Davie has received an offer from a Northern publisher to write a history of the Confederate States, Tuoxas Norrn, the English capitalist, was a poor boiler riveter sy he Years ago. Now be is worth $10,000,000, Tasaovo, who in the musionl world abroad is the most perfect tomor, is over six feet in height and well built. Privo Brswanck, takes mors in recounting the duslling and pied pe de his stodent days than in relating any of his triumphs in the fleld of statexmanship, Jonw Diviox, member of Parliament for East Mayo, Ireland, will scon mil for Amerion, He 0 Denver, Col.. and thenos to Cali and expats to be absent a whole An | Alabama, East o . | Alabama, Bouth, Tux extra session of Congress is to be con | | American Fat Stock, recognized | the writer, i | Calves, common to prime... | 8h Hogs—live......... ALrLex G. THURS AX is again suffering con | — s——— THE FAIRS OF 1889, Where and When the Independent and State Fairs Will be Held. The Prairie Farmer publishes the follow- fing list of independent and State Fairs for 1859, with the dates on which they will be Oct 21- Nov 2 Alabama, Birmingham J Ot 8l-Kov 6 rn. Bufanis Greeneville SPIT . American Dairy Show, Chicago , «Rov 12-2), Chibengo. . ) American Poultry Bhow, Chicag: American Institute, New York. Oot 2 American Horse Bhow, Chicago. Oct J Talo International, Buffalo X.Y As Industrial Ass'n, Torontc Central Canada Fair, Ottawa. ... Pueblo, Me Colorado, . Connecticut, riden Dakota, North, Grand Dakota, Bouth, Ashton Delaware, Dover 5 Detroit Exposition, Detroit Georgia, Macon : Great Central, Hamilton, { Bept & lows, DesMoines Aug 30 Narpit Ilinois, Peoria Bayt anv Indiana, Indianapolis tana Rept 22-28 Inter-State Fair, Elmira, N. Y.... Sept 15- J.B. L. Asn. Trenton, N. J... Bept T3-Oct 4 Kansas, Topeka, f Kentucky, Lexington Louisiana, Bhreveport Maine, Lewiston. ..... Maryland, Pimlico ERT Mass, Horticultural, Bosto i Western, Grand MRS. JOHN TYLER DEAD. Sudden Demise of the First Bride of the White Hogse, ond Va. Exchange mw Williamsburg, Lyon G Mary C srbal tes awnkened ata oer rnin she wished to vi other som, F : liner G, Taylor vod Forest, City Counts i when oalled she sa . he was Six y : 10 save at Bherw and died at 5:1 Mrs. Tyler was ab £5000 ment, Mrs. Tyler ke a Year ANNIHILATED HIS FAMILY, A Religious Maniac Murders Threo Persons and Himself, R. D. Johnson, a well-to-do respectable citizen about fifty years of age, living about four miles northeast of Palouse City, Wash. ington, killed his wife and his son, about fourteen years old, and fatally shot his seven vear-old deughter. He thea killed him- solf, leaving a note stating that be did mot want to live in this sinful world and could not leave it without his family. He added that he first gave them strychnine, but could not bear the sight of their agonies, so he killed them with a revolver. The bodies were not discovered until pext morning. The crime was supposed to be dus to tempor. ary insanity over religion. . Se ———— Sax Srewanr, colored, of Crawford- ville, Ga., drives his cow to a wagon when she goes dry and gives no milk. She makes better time than an ox —————— THE MARKETS, os NEW YORK. ASAE AER LR REN a ADB oo isn vnnsnsss Flour—( City Mill Bx Ryo-State Barley Tworowed State, . Qory--U d Mixed. .... Oate—No, 1 White. . ..ooees Mixed Western. ...... Hay--No. 1 Btraw-lx« ox - SP3BBRZIXTRI.BRIL3B wt > 455888 x eas AAR ARAN Patan... .xu BUFFALO, Steors—Western. .....o.00u0 1 masts] | 2238123 Shape hd EY hun EERE EE EE ati] ! I! gress 2BgzEaesg - whan BOSTON, Pats. °o Jean WERE aS EELS NAMER OE NA WATERTOWN (ans) CATTLE MARKET. g Nehana Sane. s2arst * hans st EEE EEE EEE EE TY ww { SEN Ana anan 4 {is TIE
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