p. e ) '
AN EXCITING STAGE,
Lois of Interest in To-day's Game
Between the Chicagos and the
Home Team.
TO BE A FIGHT FOR FIRST PLACE.
A Patron of the National Game
Few Free Suggestions About
Local Club.
Gives a
the
DEATH OF THE JAP, THE WEESTLER,
The New Tort and IVnnsvlranla Lcagne in Titrable
General Sporting Sews of the Day.
YESTERDAY'S ASSOCIATION GAMES.
St. Louis 8 Cincinnati. O
Lonlsille . ........11 Colainbns. .......... 5
The fact that to-day the Chicago team
will begin their last series in Pittsburg this
year reminds baseball patrons that the sea
son is fast passing away. Aiid just at this
Mage ot the National League pennant race
no team's visit here could be more interest
ing than that of Chicago. Two contests
will be earnestly noted to-day by all ad
mirers of the national game, viz: tliat be
tween New York and Boston, and the game
at Exposition Park this afternoon. The
fact that the Chicago team are at the top of
the list and the local sluggers are at the
bottom is no guarantee that the taileuders
will have no show for victory to-day, De
causc the unexpected turns np oftener in
baseball than in anything else. Our slug
gel's arc just about contraryenough to brace
up and knock the Western leaders from
their perch. But there is one consolation
lor Anson, and that is his team cannot well
drop lower than second to-day because
either Bostoit-or New York will lose a game
if one is played.
SURE TO BE INTKEKSTIXf.
At any rate to-day's game at Exposition
Park will be an interesting one because of
the closeness of the pennant struggle.
Our sluggers are home again. Manager
JIcGunnigle Is far from being completely
discouraged at the showing of his team. Ho
confidently believes that he can make the
team a winning one by making a few more
changes. Sonic of these changes may be
.made this week but on this point the man
ager 1 mum until he has had a talk with the
directors. Besides until something definite
Irom Frank Ward is received tho proposed
changes cannot be decided on. But Manager
JIcGunnigle Is certain tbat one or two new
llayen will be engaged this week. He
thinks he has secured a good man in Cork
hill but many people think different.
There is a notion prevaling to tho effect
thnt H union Is to be released. Some of the
official of the club deny this, bnt If there
1 any intention at all to dispense with the
cx-manager the dlreotors would do well to
consider the matter carefully before taking
nny action; and so would Manager McGun
nigle. If each member of the team had
played his part as we'l as Hanlon has played
his the team would never have been near
lat place and to say that he is a disturbing
clement is nonsense.
A VERY POPULAR PLAYER.
He is a good player and a popular one, and
thoe are two very important eesentials.
The truth is that very many men will bo
tried in the outtlold before Ilanlon's equal is
found, take him all in all.
But the greatest efforts of Manngcr Mc
Uvnnigle and the directors are being made
toward securing a third baseman. A good
man is expected this week. Regarding
Mayer there is nothing to add to what ap
peared in yesterday'sDisrATcu on that point,
and Manager MciJunnigle has nothing to
add to his statement which was published in
thi6 paper yesterday. He may have some
thing new to report to-dav.
It is likely that Galvin and Hutchinson
ill be the two pitchers in the local game to
day, although Manager MciJunnigle may
change his mind and put King in.
SATUBDAY'S BALL GAMES.
The League.
At rnilailclphia-
Pbilailclpliia 0 000130004
Pittsburg 0 000100102
Hatterles Esper, Thornton and Clemente; Bald
win and Miller.
At BrooUrn
Brookhn .0 010010002
Chicago 1 1000210 1 6
Batteries Lovett andDailey; Gumbertand Mer
ritt. At New York
New orfc I 0100000 14
Cincinnati 0 0100030 04
luttcries Busle and Buckler; lllilnes and Kee
nau. The Association.
St. Louis, 7: Cincinnati. 3. Washington,
Athletics. 6. "Louisville. 7; Columbus, 8.
To-Daj's Leagno Schedule.
Chicago at Pimhurg.
Boston at N cw York.
Cloveland at Cincinnati.
Brooklyn atPhiladelphla.
Sunday Association Games.
AtSt- Louis
Ft. Louis 1 00040 r. 0 1 8
Cincinnati 0 0 0 0 0 0 no 0 o
summary Hlts-St. Louis. 13: Cincinnati 5
Batteries Hettger. Boyle and Darling; Dwyer "and
Kelly.
At Louisville
Louisville 1 2 0 2 0 0 1 S-ll
Columbus. 0 0 0 03 0 S
SCMMARy-Bauerles-MtcHnand Cahl'll: Dolan
and Donahue. Hits-Lcnun Ille, 14; Columbus, 7.
Lrrors Louisville. 0: .-Columbus, 3. Game called
on account of darkness v.uw
The Association Hecord.
Boston 67
M. LoulSj,;..; m
Baltlnior . 55
Athletic si
i r.c.,
31 .swIColnmbus
37 .Wl.'Cinclnnatl ...
39 .MS Louisville ...
SS ..MB1 Washington .
w. t. r.c.
4S S3 .-ITS
43 57 .430
3H 9 341
30 64 .319
To-Day's Association Games.
timore at Boston. Athletics at Washington.
A FEW SUGGESTIONS.
An Admirer of Pittsburg's Team Gives a
Little Free Advice.
Sporting Editor of the Dispatch:
As the Western Association seems likely to giro
up the ghost and as the Pittsburg team is still do
ing as badly as e er, a word about some good play
ers in that association n ould seem In place.
Ward, ofMlnneapolis. leads that learn at the bat
and has done so eter since he has been m lth the
team. He is a great "get there" man and would
lie an ln aluable addition to Pittsburg. As he was
and is considered a far better batter than bhugart,
Pltlsburgerscan havean laeaof hisnorth. liyn,
of the same team, is also a great batter, and would
be a good addition. His battlug average to date Is
.325. Ward's Is .34i: Burkctt. of Lincoln, still
keeps up his last year's record m lth tile New York
team and is a very hard hitter, a fine fielder and
not a poor pltcner. Batting, .321. Pickett, of
Kansas City, Is also batting very hard and ou!d
fill a big hole at third base to perfection. Batting.
.32).
t.ood pitchers are rather scarce. Inks is occa
sionally good, but very wild. Klllen, of Minne
apolis. ho formerly lived about Pittsburg, is one
of the best, (.illiland, of Denver, formerly of Mc
KeesiKirt. alsoshowsup'ttell Both are left handed.
Kiilen has good pecd and good command, while
Uilllland nas great speed with fair command only.
Duties, of Milwaukee, is a man worth looking
after. Fred bmlth. of Milwaukee. Is a good man.
1 think there are no catchers In the Western Asso-
lallon that would Improve on the present staff at
Pittsburg.
German, of the Buflalo, N. Y., team is probably
:is good a pitcher as there is in any minor league.
I'uppy, oi Meadvllle. Is very promising indeed.
N en ell. I think, should he given at least two w eeks'
trial at third. In his league he was unapproacha
ble as a batter and fielder, and his work certainly
gave promise of a bright luture. Keilly has proven
himself unable to fill the hole at third satlsfactor
ll. so gic Newell a cliance.
"I belii e that If Hanlon was off the team alto
g ther that IcsJousy would soon die nut, and then,
with Judicious changes, Pittsburg might hare a
winning learn. Let the team be somew hat as fol
lows: Catchers. Mack. Ml'lerandBerger; pitchers,
lialtln. Baldwin, King. Killenand. German. Gll
liland or I'uppv; first base. Beckley; second,
Itierhaucr: third. Newell or Pickett; short 6top,
Miugart; left lield. Miller, when not catching, and
Burkett: center. Ward; right. Urn. If Carroll
keeps up his good work he might be retained. Han
lon has certamlv been doing good work at the bat
lately, hut if harmony In the team Is the price of
keeping him. he Is too dear. He cannot now and
never could handle a grounder, and a single to his
lield Is almost always good for two bases, as along
with his fumbling he is unable to throw.
Willi a team as I mentioned above, there would
lie three fielders whocould occasionally keep a man
from scoring on a fly to the ncld, who conld Sell,
hit -thrtnll bard and run the tmses well.
A a man who Is interested in tho work of the
Pittsburg team, who has made a studv of baseball
lui pleasure for a number of years, audwhoknuws
almost every player In the League, Association.
Western Association and Eastern Association,
offer these suggestions. "V ours truly.
New Yohk, August 13. T. B. J.
ANOTHER LEAGUE IN TBOTJBLE.
Tlio Xew Tork and Pennsylvania May Col
lapse Before the "Week Is Ended.
ISFBCIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.!
Bradford, Aug. 1C It is pretty nearly set
tled tbat the Bradford baseball club is dis
banded. Since Pitcher Shearon was taken
tinder the National agreement by Cleveland
the clnb has lost its lead in the New Tork
and Pennsylvania League race. There has
been considerable dissatisfaction among the
players and the team is crippled generally,
bain McBride, manager and proprietor, has
not been making any money out of the team
lately, and says he is about tired of keeping
it afloat.
Added to this is the fact that the Mendvllle
team refuses to stay in the League, and as
llii-club is scheduled to play here to-morrow,
but -nill not show up, the long-looked
lor orisls in the New York and Pennsylvania
League has arrived. The withdrawal of
these two teams will certainly result in
breaking the League np.
DEATH OF THE JAP.
IHa'sada Sorakichi, the Well-Known Wrest
ler, Dies of Consumption in New York.
New York, Aug. 16. Matsada Sorakichi,
the noted Japanese w restler, died suddenly
in the parlor of the Nippon Club at 4 o'clock
( Saturday afternoon. For the past three
months the "Jap," as he w as known all over
the country, had been sufiering from con
sumption. For a while he was a patient at
St. Vincent's Hospital. Recently lie has
lh ed in a Japanese boarding house in West
T eitty-lifth street. The Japanese club, the
Nippon, is directly opposite, at No. 227 West"
Tu cut -fifth street Of late Matsada has
ben without money, but his friends at the
club saw that he did not i ant for anything.
He has been in the habit of strolling about
West Twenty-fifth street. Saturday nlter
noon he talked out, but was too weak to go
far. He crossed over to the club rooms nud
Hit dow n in a chair in the pallor. In a few
moments he fainted and did not recover. A
doctor w as summoned, but the wrestler died
before his arrival. Saturday night the body
was removed to the undertaking establish
ment of John Iloth, at 524 Sixth avenue. The
lnneral will take place to-morrow afternoon
and the remains will be interred in Wood
lawn Cemetery.
The "Jap" came to this country abont
eight years ago. He was 32 years old at the
time of his death. His birthplace was Shi
nano, Japan. In appearance he was of me
dium height, but of powerful build, and his
suouiaers were magnmcentiy aeveiopea.
Ile was intelligent in manners and didn't
dissipate in any way. A few years ago tho
"Jap1' married a young woman of this city,
with whom he did not live happily. They
did not live together very long.
When Matsada was a youth in his own
country he had as a teacher the celebrated
Japanese wrestler, Isesagaha. In Japan
Matsada was considered a third-rate wrest
ler, but in this country he stood in the front
ranks. He wrestled with all tho first-class
men throughout the country. His friends
say that ho failed in strength ever .since
Evan Lewis, "The Strangler," wrestled him
and broke his ankle.
An Easy Victory at Cricket.
The cricket match played at Pleasant Val
ley on Saturday between the Gleushaw and
Allegheny clubs, resulted in an easy victory
for the visitors by 43 runs to2S. The chief
scorers for the Gleushaw team were: J.
Sansom, 11; B. Brealley, 7, and W. Hanne
gin, 7. For tho home team: A. E. Vicker
inan made C not out: A. Goldly, 5. and N.
Broadbent, 4. Wickets were taken for Glcn
shaw thu-: Sanom. S; Conley, 2, and
Jones, 1. G. Broadbent took 7 wickets, II.
Fowler 2 vi ickcts, and N. Broadbent
1 wicket for Allegheny. A match is being
arranged between Alleghony and Brnshton
and between Glenshaw and "McDonald.
Broke the Record.
CnicAoo, Aug. 16 The American record
for ten miles was broken yesterday in the
annual road race of tho Illinois 'Cycling
Club. The three competitors for the time
medals were Tuttle, Knisley and Gray. The
two latter started together at 15 seconds
from scratch, and finished with Knisley in
the lead in 31:09, Gray's front wheel being
less than two feet behind that of Knisley'j?,
nnd both breaking the American record for
ten miles, which was 30:11. Tuttle got off
the course, aud thus lost all chance for
third. The safeties carried off all honors.
The first ten men to finish rode them.
General Sporting Notes.
Ayso v Is confident of his team winning the pen
nant. THE Alliance team defeated the Niles team Sat
urday by 13 to 2.
To-day's game at Exposition Park ought to be
an Interesting one.
THK .1. Visncrs heat the Frankstown Echoes. Joy's
to 3 Saturday. Cunningham pitched a grci.tr game
for the winners.
THE Our Bov play at Greensburg to-day. O'Nell
and Brvee ill be the battery andSinlih and Cope
land lor Greensburg.
Keadeb There are tennis Courts In connection
w ith the Allegheny Athletic Association. Apply
to O. D. Thompson, Fourth avenue.
The Our Boj s are 'jfoud In their praise of the
treatment received t the hands or the Johnstown
management wher; on their visit to that city.
The backer of. Grant White win meet David
Sheehanat this office this evening relative to the
securing of a track for the White and Sheehan
race. .
3liyi Cushixg, who Is lending hand each day to
getJack McAulifle in condition for his fight with
Austin Gibbons, Is anxious for a go himself with
"any one at 125 pounds.
Just whv D. D. Withers, the sage of Brookdalc,
does not name his many youngsters is hard to tell.
It is Insinuated that laziness is tho reason, but the
proverbial tnterprise in mo-traclng matters of the
Admiral Rous of the American turf hardly sus
tains the allegation.
The bookmakers nowadays "plug"' Father Bill
Daly's horses since his trainer, Wheeler, left him.
Recently the elder Lamley met Wheeler and said in
dogs since vou left. I'm tralnln'
a plaintive tone: uoipn, ine sudics gone to tne
fn Jimmy's
tralnin', 'n Bill's tralnln'."
THE situation in the West is badly mixed and it
may not be cleared for several days. Plot and
counter plot are the order of the day. The Asso
ciation is aiming at tw o things first. U strengthen
Itselfand, second, to destroy the Western Associa
tion, and thus to hurt the League.
MK Matthew, the Junior Champion winner. Is
a racj--looking brown colt by sir Modred out of
Kmhroiderv. lie has a good middle piece and
wonderful shoulders, but Is a irine light quartered.
His action Is perfection, and be effectively
snuehliei the general opinion that he is faint
hearted bv standing a terrific drive for a furlong in
the rare. 'Barnes rode with great vim and gotevcry
ounce out ot bis mount.
Jon v Daly, the trotting horse trainer, has some
goodones iuhlscharge. Of hlsfouror fheAoung
ones bv Alc.tntara, the most promising is'tbe3--war-old
Porcelain, dam Ilka, by Smuggler, 2:15 2-5.
The youngster i entered at Poughkeepsie in the
Colt"--takes, to be trotted at the end of till month.
The G-v car-old black mare Dark Secret, by Earlv
Bird, fn Dalv's stable, looks like making a strong
bid.lorthc2:30Ilst. as she Is trotting miles In her
w ork close to that mark. Another good green one
i-t the brown marc Rosewood. She showed a mile
yesterday In 2:31. hair In 1:14.
Hl'ck" Ewiko may coach from the bench,
Mcdunnlgle may play solos on Ms tin whistle,
and Tom Lofhis may deliver orders and dance a
jig In a moment of excitement, and yet they are as
angels beside that Individual who appears peri
odically in the grand sland, and In aloud, parrot
like volco snouts words of encouragement (r) to the
home plav ers, taunts the umpire on his decisions,
and, alter disgusting to an unutterable degree those
around him, attempts, after the game, to Instruct
the reporters what to write, and in what language
to "roast" the umpire. Boston Herald.
ME. WOLFE'S FUNEBAL.
The Remains Will Tte Buried To-Day at
His Native Town.
Lr.wisr.URG, Pa., Aug. 1C The sudden
death of Hon. Charles S. Wolfe has cast a
deep gloom over this, his native town. He
wa.s on speaking terms with every roan,
woman and child in the place." The remains,
dressed in a black suit, lie in a massive
casket In the parlor of the pretty home.
Telegrams of condolence have been received
from Governor Pattison, Hon. Chauncey F.
Black and others.
The arrangements for the funeral are in
chargs of Andrew A. Leiser, who has been
Mr. "Wolfe's law partner for the past ten
j ears. The funeral will take place Monday
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. The remains will
lie in state at the Baptist Churoh, and after
the services will be interred in the family
plot in the Lewisburg cemetery, ixovernor
Pattison is expected to be at the
funeral. The pallbearers will be Judge J.
C. Bucher, J. Merrill Linn, Hon. Alfred
Haves, Hon. Horace B. Glover, D. Bright
Mifler, J. Thompson Baker, George Barron
Miller and John P. Duncan, all members of
the Union County Bar. At 1 o'clock there
will be a meeting in the Court House, at
which addresses will be delivered by visit
ing members of the bar. Business will be
suspended here during the entire day.
Ocean Steamships.
Steamer Where From. Destination.
Bourgogne Havre New York.
British Princess Liverpool Philadelphia.
Alaska Liverpool New York.
Spain London New York.
Arizona. ....Liverpool New -York. .
THE
WEDGED IAT THE ICE.
The First Intelligence From
American Exploring Party.
the
NARROW ESCAPE OF A SCIENTIST.
Grip, the Fashionable Malady, Prevailing
Among the Exquimaux.
A DEMAND FOR TEOCSERS IN TRADE
Piiiladelpata, Aug. 16. The first news
from the latest American Arctic exploring
expedition was made public in the shape of
a newspaper letter to-day. The corre
spondence is dated God Haven, Island of
Biscu, Greenland, and contains the follow
ing: On June 25 the Arctic exploring steamer
Kite, with the Peary and Academy of Nat
ural Sciences Greenland expeditions, fmind
herself firmly "wedged in the field of ice at
the entrance to the Straits of Belle Isle,
Newfoundland. After making a fruitless
effort to force the passage on the Newfound
land side, Captain Pike determined to cross
over to the Labrador shore and ram the ice
there. Four days were spent in the ice al
together. It was a period of hard work.
For hours the Kite rammed the iee in a way
that would have sent a craft less stout to
the bottom.
As we were about to start on a trip to
Labrador on the date named, a white-bearded
fisherman came to the Kite after medicine
for his sick daughter. He told us that half
the population along the straits were down
with the grip. Dr. Keelygave him a pre
scription and he departed, feeliug very
grateful, and taking with him our last mail.
We had the cold comfort of learning from
him that if we had reached the straits a day
sooner we could have got through perfectly
well, as they were then clear of ice. So
miichice as there was then is unusual for
this time of year. He also said there had
been no southward bound tide through the
straits lor two days. A tide was due that
ought to clear things.
HUGE BLOCKS OF ICE.
Captain Pike took all this in, hitched his
trousers, pulled bis cap over his starboard
eye, climbed on the bridge and gave the
order to go ahead quarter speed. We soon
began crunching into it. Blocks of ice as
big as bouses and lots stood in in our way,
white as the driven snow. What misery
would be relieved by even one of them in
some tenement district in Philadelphia or
New York. The solid prow of the Kite, a
massoi timber five feet thick, pounded into
these One moment she would riseon the
floe and smash through it. and the next she
would hit it a glancing blow, and, stagger
ing for a moment, swerve as on a pivot.
After making a mile in this way the
skipper varied the monotony of the work
by tying fast to a good sized floe for a fresh
supply of water. The watch on deck,
headed bv the second mate, attacked the ice
with axes, and sailors, scientists and lub
bers warmed their limbs and cooled their
finger tips in carrying armfuls and dump
ing it over the rails on to the decks. It
was then transferrrd to the tank and the
steam turned on, and soon we had 700 more
gallons aboard. That steam pipe seems to,
hold a good deal of oil, for the ice" water
bore a distinct flavor of blubber.
Lookouts on the mast head agreed on the
impossibility of making the passage of the
straits iat present. We began to calculate
tbat the Belle Isle route to Greenland
wasn't what Mr. Peary had cracked.it up to
be, and that if we had taken Captain Pike's
advice and skirted the east coast of New
foundland we should have been north of
this point already.
SCIENTISTS DBESSED LIKE PIRATES.
Just before sunset someone sighted a seal
100 yards aft. A wild panic followed the
announcement. This was the only minute
during the day when the deckhadn t looked
like an arsenal, and all hands made a dive
below for weapons. The seal cranned ins
neck and gazed at us with unfeigned aston
ishment. No doubt. heJi(L never before
seen a party ofThiladelphia scientists
dressed 'like Malay pirates. Gibson and
LiJtlghes appeared with their guns and fired
simultaneously, botli exclaiming, "well
match for the skin." One bullet hit the
ocean north and the other south of the
mark, and the seal giving what seemed to
be a pitying smile vanished into the brine.
He and a comrade appeared, some min
utes later, well out of range, and they
ridiculed us till sunset. When all was
over Dr. Cooke made his appearance, armed
to the teeth. He had dived below with the
others, but the doctor has an idea that
nothing is done well by real explorers
unless they do it in costume, and he had
stayed below to put on a toboggan suit, his
ideal of a seal hunter's outfit.
Dr. Cooke has a fine assortment of Sara
toga trunks containing varieties of costume
enough to clothe a comic opera company en
gaged in the production of a nautical piece.
When the transportation becomes a little
harder it is strongly suspected that Mr.
Peary will feed these clothes to the polar
bears, and that a certain young physician
will weep some hot weeps at the loss of his
dress suits.
ALL WEAR ICE GOGGLES.
All hands put on their ice goggles. The
effect on the face is to make it more hideous
than before. Professional scarecrows weren't
in it with us. But they were necessary, for
the glare of the bright sun on the white sur
face was more thau our eyes could stand.
There was a temperature "of 60 degrees in
the sun and 38 degrees in the shade, and the
surface of the water (it was probably fresh
on top) froze slightly over night It was
noticed and put down as an interesting psy
chological fact that on donning tbe glasses
the wearer at once felt colder than before.
This, it was agreed, was due to the mental
impression of a cloudy day created by the
smoked glass. As it is colder in cloudy
weather than in bright, the imagination re
sponded with a chill.
We were on the verge of an exciting in
cident to-day. Messrs. Peary and Mengel
and Dr. Cook'e, armedwith boat hooks, set
out over the ice for a small berg aground
some three miles away. When they had
made their first mile we saw them drop
something on the way.
It was Mr. Mengel. We made out with
long-range glasses that this inexperienced
aud pious youth had tumbled in. He was
hauled out by the slack of the trousers and
dumped on an ice cake to dry, with orders
to remain where he was until the explorers
returned. They would then lead him home
by the hand. 1'oor Mengel, when the others
got out of range, found himself adrift on an
ice cake, wondering, as the preachers ex
press it, what he should do to be saved.
Presently a thick fog began to bank up
behind the berg and move in the direction
of the ship. It looked as if the two parties
would be belogged. Peary and Cooke hast
ened on their way back just as a Mengel re
lief party, consisting of two sailors, witty
ice hooks, were starting out from the ship
to bring him in. ,
HIS FIRST SIN.
Mentrcl is a well-meaning but unsophisti
cated chaser of animalcule from Beading.
Pa., the limits of which borough he left for
the first time when he said his prayers,
donned the uniform of a'brigand and hired
a district messenger in Brooklyn to steer
him to the good ship Kite. On his return
he knelt on the deck and shouted a hymn of
gratitude at his deliverance. He was next
dried in the engine room and hurled in his
bunk, where Dr. Keely poured hot rum
punches into him.
"My first sin, doctor," he murmured as
he felt the warm alcohol sizzling in his
veins. Tne young man was more frightened
than hurt. At one stage of the proceedings
Mrs. Peary was getting ready to go to his
succor.
A seal was sighted at daybreak Wednes
day, June 17, 30 feet from the ship, but
there was no one around! to shoot him. That
is an experience that is begiuning to be
rather a "chestnut." "When the huntsmen
are around the game isn't, and when the
game is there no one else is. A shark was.
PITTSBURG DISPATCH,
seen yesterday and Professor Heilorin, the
only man on board without a gun, found
some bear tracks on the floe.
After turning in last night we had a good
old-fashioned Christmas snowstorn that
awoke recollections of yule logs and other
things. We could have played snowball
this morning. At 10:45 A, m. we started
crashing ahead again for some imaginary
clear water to the north. The Kite lurched
and cavorted so that writing was hard work.
Perhaps that is all the better, as it doubt
less saved the public a good deal of un
necessary autobiography. A fisherman
takes the mail ashore, but we have been cut
off from all communication for two days.
Gibson has fashioned a sharp hook with the
engineer's blacksmith outfit. Thresher
sharks are said to abound here.
NOT SO VERY COLD.
Behind the line of mountains we get an
occasional glimpse of the huge ice cap
which covers the country. It is the weight
of this mass squeezing itself out between
the mountains that forms the glacier. Lit
tle fleets of bergs float slowly from the
Frederickshaab on their way down to the
Newfoundland waters to block up the
straits of Belle Isle and get in the way
of the Atlantic liners. "When wedged in
among the ice of Belle Isle it was very
much colder than it is now in latitude
04 degrees. Overcoats are qnite unneces
sary. The sun is very warm, although
there are millions of tons of ice piled up on
the land within ten miles of us. Captain
Pie wore a straw and little else one summer
and he meant to come up with the same
equipment this trip, but he could find no
straw hat shop in New York, he says.
The bug catchers from the Academy have
diverted their thoughts from birds and fish
and are vigorously at work dipping up sea
weed, ol winch large quantities float past
us. It looks very much like the ordinary sea
weed of commerce, sucli as one procures at
Coney Island. Dr. Buck has his microscope
on the taffrail and each inch of weed is gone
over for sign of animal life. Dr. Sharp
makes a specialty of tape worms and para
sites and every living thing we get is
yanked open for specimens. When we
were catching codfish he was busy with his
dissecting knife. Each cod was alive with
the worms, but they did not seem to dis
turb the serenity "of the fish's life. Dr.
Mengel has developed a wonderful appetite
lately, and this atternoon Prof. Sharp was
detected looking hungrily at him withhis
specimen knife ground down to a fine point.
We are beginning to find a certain amount
of sameness in the food. Dr. Keely laid in
a stock of canned tomatoes at Sydney and
are such a welcome addition to the diet list
that the expedition mades a pig of itself at
the table when they appear. The culinary
department of the ship, which gets np about
4 o'clock in the morning, is generally
stowed in its bunk by 9 at night and then
three or four festive souls take forcible pos
session of the cooks' galley, and hold it
against all comers.
THE LAST SUNSET.
It is our last sunset to-night. Peary's
party will not see the sun set for three
months. We who stick to the Kite will
have continual daylight until the end of
August. It seems strange to go to bed in
broad sunshine and food like Welsh rarebits
feels out of place at that time. Hot toddy
will lose much of its charm.
All the Ksnuimaux who came aboard
brought with them handkerchiefs or bags
containing articles for sale. These consisted
for the most part of moccasins and tobacco
pouches made out of the skin of the hair
seal. There were also sealskin breeches
and jumpers, but not of a first-class kind.
as there have been three whaling steamers
from Dundee here this season which have
taken nearly everything purchasable left by
the Danish officials. Very attractive little
kayaks are made by the Esquimaux con
taining a miniature whaling and sealing
outfit. These retail at about $1 ip'fn cash,
or about 25 cents' wortli of wl or linen
shirts. Cash is at a discount iiere, one of
the tew places in the world where it is.
They prefer merchandise.'
Trousers are the article in greatest de
mand. Skin breeches are too w arm for the
summer and the natives don t get very
much cloth A first they declined to take
any other currency than trousers, and they
JK0.2M have nothing with a hole or patch in
it. It mattered not how old or shabby it
was as long as it was reasouably thick and
unperforated. Tobacco and knives we had
always understood were invaluable here,
but we could do nothing with them, as this
is a trading post and is well supplied.
CLEVEE C0PPEES.
Thief Taken by Electricity in a Lawyer's
Office.
New York, Aug. 16. Some time ago
John Townshend, a lawyer, whose oflice is
on the third floor of the Bennett building in
Nassau street, lost a key to his safe, and
since then from time to time small sums of
money have been missing from the outer
compartment which that- key would open.
He reported these facts to the police, and
yesterday Detective Sergeants McCloskcy
and Lyman succeeded in capturing the
thief.
They accomplished it by making an elec
trical connection between the safe door and
Block's hat store on the ground floor.
About 5 o'clock last evening the alarm went
off, and the waiting detectives who hurried
upstairs found Otto Thunstrom, the janitor
ot the building, helping himself to some
marked notes that had been left on purpose
for the possessor of the open sesame to the
safe.
Thunstrom lives at 101 Sands street,
Brooklyn. He owned up to having found
the'key and helped himself to money from
the sate until he had got altogether about
?180. He will be taken to court to-day.
HYDROPHOBIA 0B EPILEPSY 1
If George Cntter Hag Rabies It Must Be
From a Cat Bite.
Kingston, N. Y., Aug. 10. George Cut
ter, a carpenter employed by the West
Shore Railroad Company, was attacked
while at work on Wednesday with what his
fellow employes supposed was an epileptic
fit. Dr. Van Wyck was summoned and
Cutter was removed to his home, where he
soon showed signs of improvement. Toward
evening, however, be was seized with an
other attack, and last night he had an
other. He was very violent and drove his
wife and other persons from the room and
locked the door. An officer was summoned,
and when he arrived Cutter seemed more
composed.
Cutter drank some water without trouble,
but shortly afterward he was taken with
violent convulsions. He barks like a dog,
bites the pillows and bed clothing and acts
as if he would bite persons .who might go
near him. Many who have seen Cutter are
of the opinion that he is suffering from hy
drophobia. He says tbat several years ago he was bit
ten by a cat, but never by a dog.
A DOG THAT CHEWS GLASS.
It Was Made Frantic, Being Locked Up in
a Thunder Storm.
Allentown, Pa, Aug. 16. Last night
"Fritz," an Allentowu fire dog, chewed up
a large part of two window sashes, glass
and all, in his efforts to relcase himself from
a saloon keeper's kitchen during a thunder
storm.
TEE FIEE EECOED.
Saraxao Lake Club House, 17 miles from
Saranac Lake Village, N. Y., burned yester
day. Seventy-five guests lost nearly all
their personal cnects. Origin of tho fire un
known. Fire early yesterday morning, at Des
Jlolnes, destroyed France Gaskell's Bot
tling Works, Including all the machinery,'
fixtures and six horses. Tho loss is esti
mated at over $20,000. No insurance.
Near Carlisle. Saturday night, fire de
stroyed the barn, with all this year's crops,
belonging to Samuel Kinsport, near Mt.
Holly. Loss, $2,000; fully insured. The
nritriri is known to have been incendlarv.
owing to suspicious persons being seen run
ning from tho place before the fixe broke out.
MONDAY, AUGUST 17,
S1LYER. nr POLITICS.
Senator Stewart Tells What the Bull
ion Producers "Want.
A SECTIONAL, NOT A PARTY ISSUE.
The Perpetual Conflict Between the Debtor
and Creditor Classes,
OXE COMPEOMISE THAT IS OFFERED
Enoji a staff coisnKSPOXDEXT.i
New York, Aug. 16. "Wall street fur
nishes the sinews of war for the national
Democracy," said a well-known Pennsylva
nia politician and operator on the street.
AVe were in the Cafe Savarin. "The bulk
of all the money raised for national cam
paign purposes," he continued, "comes
from within 1,000 feet of where we stand.
Do you realize all that means? It means
that the National Democratic Convention
will not' adopt a free silver plank in the
platform. The silver issue will not be
joined as between the two contending forces
in '02. That is my judgment,"
Here is food for political thought. This
very well informed authority further de
clared that the next Democratic State Con
vention in Pennsylvania would probably be
satisfied with the silver plank that was re
jected by the Ohio Convention, the declara
tion in favor of placing gold and silver on a
parity, which means an increase of the
bullion value of the silver coined. There
are other prominent monied men here who
think it possible that both the Republican
and Democratic National Conventions will
accept such a compromise and thus take the
whole question out of the contest. This
w ould appear to be a rather roseate view of
the matter. The paternity of the thought
is clearly indicated.
NOT AN EASY QUESTION.
This financial question is not likely to be
so easily disposed of. The plain truth of
the matter is, shorn of all side issues, in
the question of the national currency we
have an irrepressible and perpetual conflict
between the debtor and creditor classes.
The one desires plenty and therefore cheap
money, the other wants money scarce and
dear. Those who have no occasion to cither
borrow or lend are affected only by the un
certainty as to which of the" two former
classes shall prevail. There you have, gen
erally speaking, the primary and principal
causes underlying all financial agitation.
They correspond to the fundamental differ
ences between capita) and labor capital
seeking labor at the lowest possible price,
labor demanding the highest possible price
it can obtain. From a reasonably liberal
point of view there is no special honesty or
dishonesty, no distinctly perceptible right
or wrong in cither case, or on either side.
Such charges and assumptions are of no
foundation in truth. Buying as cheaply as
possible and selling as dearly as possible is
the mainspring of all trade. It holds as
good in regard to silver and gold bullion as
in potatoes and scrap iron. It has been
considered legitimate from Joseph of the
impregnable virtue and picturesque coat
who cornered the grain market for Pharoah,
down to "Old Hutch." There isn't any
thing more mysterious or dishonest in the
fluctuations and manipulation of the stock
market and speculations in specie than
there is in other branches of trade. All
rest on the same foundation, namely: Put
the prices as low as possible when you want
to buy and put them as high as possible
when you want to sell.
A TILT WITH STEWART.
I met Senator Stewart at the Hoffman
the other day and aked him about this.
The Senator holds the spokes of this silver
wheel inside ot the political wheel and
turns out silver sparks by the column. He
said:
"The people believe that the present fin
ancial distress in the commercial world is
caused by contraction occasioned by the
destruction of one-half of the metallic
money. They think that it was unjust
to double the "value of the property ot the
possessors of fixed capital at (he expense of
the producers of wealth. They protest
against the reduction of the value of farms
and farm products one-half, while the obli
gations of contracts arc nominally the same.
but in reality increased more than 100 per
cent."
"But Senator," said I, recovering from
this vigorous speech, "would your silver
producers and speculators be satisfied with
free coinage with the proviso that nothing
but American silver coin shall be increased
to the ratio of value of gold coin?" He re
plied: SCARCITY OF MONEY.
"In 1873 there were 57,500,000,000 of real
money (gold and silver coin) in the world,
in which all other money credits were re
deemable. By the demonetization of silver
fully half of that money was rejected.
There is now of real money in the world,
accordine to the cold standard, as reported
bv the Director of the Mint, only 53,727,
000,000." "Do you people want the remonetization
of silver at its present bullion value per
dollar, 412)4 grains, or would it be all right
brought to a parity with gold? The Sena
tor answered:
"The question whether the gold standard
and contraction, or the restoration of silver,
shall be the policy of this country must be
determined before confidence can be re
stored or the agitation stopped. If the pos
sessors of fixed capital prefer agitation, dis
cord aud final bankruptcy or repudiation to
the remonetization of silver, let them be re
sponsible for the consequences. The fact
that there is not enough gold for use as
money is undeniable. The paramount ques
tion "is, how to supply the deficiency.
Shall it be done by the restoration of the
money 'of the Constitution in conformity
with immemorial usage, or by fiat money,
the volume to be regulated by law? One
or the other is inevitable.- But stop the ag
itation you cannot while every producer in
the land is writhing under the cruel grasp
of the iron hand of contraction. Themoney
question will be an issue in everv political
campaign and in every session of Congress
until the Gold Trust is forced to yield to the
demand ot the people lor a reasonable sup
ply of money to meet the legitimate re
quirements of business."
WHERE THEY ARE INTERESTED.
In other words, neither Senator Stewart
nor the silver producers and silver agitators
lie represents, want free coinage upon any
other but the present basis. If a silver dol
lar is to cost just as much as a gold dollar
and each buys just the same, they care
nothing specially about free coinage, be
cause in that case free coinage would neither
open up a high-priced market for their sil
ver bullion nor materially increase the
volume of the national currency. Now,
there is nothing necessarily dishonest about
this when you size up the situation fairly.
It is only when men parade patriotism in
order to cover operations in the market that
they may be reasonably suspected and
even then it is possible that real patriotism
may run neck and neck alongside of a man's
financial speculations. It is trade, gentle
men, trade, remember.
Now- don't be surprised before long if
you find the other fellow putting up gold
higher and higher and making money
scarcer and dearer still. That is just wha't
they who represent the creditor class are
now advocating and doing, and will, continue
to advocate and do by every means at their
command. It is to their interest to do so.
The operation is smeared all over with
'patriotic humbug about an honest dollar
and a statue currency auu circulating
medium of the world, and all that sort of
thing; but at the bottom it is simply trade,
gentlemen, trade. Your money changer
hasn't materially changed in moral scruples
since Christ upset his tables in the temple.,
Heis nomoreapttoconsider the sufferings of
the indebted poor when making money ir dear
than is U1U nuicn or any uiucr grain specu
fW
'1891.
lator when putting up the price of flour.
We all remember
TlE FAMOUS BLACK FRIDAY
and know how much patriotism had to do
with putting gold up and the paper cur
rency of the Government and the people
down at every critical juncture of the war.
Ave fenowjust how much patrioticfirejbums
in the breast of the men who have squeezed
52 or S3 out of this people for every single
dollar loaned the Government in its strug
gle for existence. It is trade, gentlemen,
trade pure and simple.
Carefully and always bearing in mind
these underlying motives and fundamental
causes that govern the operations of the
financial world it will come easier for you
to arrive at correct political conclusions; at
least it will soften political disappoint
ments. It may not enable you to distin
guish a demagogue from a statesman, or a
simple trader from a wise political econ
omist, but you will at least realize that all
men who prate about the finances are not
necessarily either statesman or wise econ
omists. It doesn't matter much which side
you are on just now; it is as profitable in
politics as it is in other things to know
upon what footing the other side stands.
If you should reach the conclusion,finally,
that the interests of the majority of the
people of this country and therefore the
general welfare of the country itselflie
somewhere between these two extremes you
will be pretty nearly correct. C. T. M.
THE GEAVE OF MILES STAHDISH.
The Bones of the Fighting; Pilcrlm He Be
tween Those of His Daughters.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Miss Caroline B. Hall lives at Hall's
Corner, in South Duxbury, Mass., and is a
lineal descendant of Miles Standish in the
seventh generation. Miss Hall related in
1887 that her mother was told by Captain
Benjamin Prior at some time previous to
1858 where the bones of the fighting Pil
grim laid. Mrs. Hall, a daughter of Olive
Standish, felt interested and made a
memorandum at the time, reading as fol
lows: "Miles Standish 1660 the first was Buried
in the old graueyard, too three Comer Stone
to nis grave.
The words"the first" leave no doubt asto
which Standish is meant. The three-cornered
stones marking the grave were easily
found, but showed marks of resetting. This
had been done a short time before by a man
in charge of the cemetery.
In 1887 the matter was brought before the
public and interest enough excited to cause
the Rural Improvement Society to get per
mission to open the graves, for there were
indications of -four in the neighborhood of
the stones. In April, 1887, a committee, of
which Fred B. Knapp, formerly of Harvard
University, was chairman, made two
excavations of the graves marked by the
stones.
Close by this was a second ancient grave
on the same line as the others. When
opened the bones of a man about 5 feet 6 or
7 inches in height were disclosed. He was
plainly much older than the woman, as the
single tooth found showed much wear.
Near the skull was a small quantity of hair,
rather short nnd quite white, though
stained a little by the earth. Various
writers speak of Standish as a short man,
though by what authority is not known.
On Saturday August 1, last, Mr. Fred B.
Knapp, Rev. E. J. V. Hiuginn, C. B.
Wheeler and others made further excava
tions and found on the other side of the
body of the old man the remains of a young
woman, over 25 years of age and probably
not over 30. The teeth were white and per
fect, a little irregular, but all there, and the
edges of the incisors but little worn. The
hands were crossed and bound together with
homespun cloth white with a very fine
blue stripe. The bandage was probably to
keep the limbs in place when the body was
carried by the pallbearers. Some of the
Coffin was still in place; the knots had de
cayed, but the top, bottom and one side
were comparatively whole.
Finding the skeleton ot a young woman on
either side of the old man's bones is a
strong link in the evidence of the grave
being that of Captain Standish, for his will
directed that he "be laid as neare as con
veniently may be to my two deare daugh
ters, Lora Standish, my daughter, andMary
Standish my daughter-in-law." The will
refers to his "dear loving wife, Barbara,"-as
still living.
GEBHAN IN ENGLISH LETTEBS.
The Roman Type Is Becoming Popular
Even in the Fatherland.
Strange to say, the agitatioa""in favor of
Roman as against Gothic type is gaining
ground more rapidly among the Germans in
Germany than among Germans in America,
says Christian Hieler in the St, Louis Globe
Dcmocrat. I get several periodicals from
Germany, and those of the medical and sci
entific order are nearly all printed in Roman
characters. After a few hours's practice the
German who doesn't know a word of En
glish can read "English printed German
easily, and after a week or two he will ad
mit that the change is a decided improve
ment on the old plan. No nation on the
face of the earth is so subject to myopia or
short sightedness as the Teutonic, and this
is because when reading in even a moderate
light the bewildering fine lines of German
type compel the paper or book to be held
so near tne eyes.
But for Bismarck's' strong opposition
Gothic type would have been well nigh
banished before this, and the Iron Chancel
lor's opposition was dictated solely by his
intense patriotism, amounting almost to
idolatry. A simple instance of this may be
given in the case of the German for the wofd
envelope. At first a Germanized form of
the French word was used, but Bismarck in
sisted on a longer and more strictly German
name, meaning letter coverer. A man who
will prefer an awkward compound to a terse,
brief name can not easily be brought to see
the advantages of a change from the type his
ancestors used.
USE OF SEASONED FOOD.
A St. Louis Doctor Says Most of the Condi
ments Contain Poison.
There are a great many people in StLouis
who use neither salt, pepper nor any other
condiment in their victuals, and the tasto
for unseasoned food is growing, says Dr.
Belle S. Robinson in the Fort-Dispatch. The
desire for strong condiments is just as un
natural as the craving for tobacco or ardent
spirits, and if the results are not so pro
nounced the reason must be looked for in
the fact that the elements composing most
spices are not so deadly as those entering
into the two articles mentioned.
Pepper, nutmeg and allspice all contain
poisonous principles, and people would be
much healthier without using these season
ings. But unseasoned food, to bepalatable,
must be of the best quality. A taint in
flesh, age in vegetables can he concealed by
the liberal use of condiments, but will be
instantly detected when they are absent.
AN HIST0BIC TEAPOT.
In
It Was Brewed the Last , Cap Which
Passed Marie Antoinette's Lips.
A battered and worn little teapot is
highly prized by Mrs. Mary L. Washing
ton, of St. Louis. From it Marie Antoin
ette drank her last cup of tea. Mrs. Wash
ington says: "During ihe revolution in
France and San Domingo many French
emigrants came to Philadelphia. 3Ime.
DeVivias rented a house from my grand
father and boarded a few unfortunates from
France, and among them a lady who was in
the temple with Marie Antoinette, and she
gave the following history of the teapot.
" 'On being notified of the sentence passed
upon her, the Queen at once wrote a letter
to some royal friend and then drank her
last cup oi tea on earth and was beheaded
at 6 o'clock. She gave as a remembrance
the teapot and a pair of earrings to her
faithful friend, Mme. DeVivias. It was
presented by Mme. de Aivias during her
last illness to my grandfather, aiid he in
turn willed it to my mother, who left it to
me.'"
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THE EOYAL JIADMM.
A Wild French Story Showing How
the Eaiser Hurt His Knee.
HE ATTEMPTED TO TURN CAPTAIN.
In Trying to Throw Overboard an Officer He
Met the Accident-' '
HE PREACHES A SERMON ON THE DECE
Paris, Aug. 16. The Paris Eclair, which
is not given to sensationalism, prints the
following story as confirmed by unques
tioned authority: On the night following
the departure of the Imperial yacht Hohen
zollcrn from England, the crew was
beaten to quarters and was surprised
to find the quarter deck brilliantly illumin
ated. An altar had been erected on the deck
bearing the Old and New Testaments, and
the Kaisar stood by wearing a white chasu
ble with a crozier in his hand and a black
and white mitre on his head.
He read the most war-like passages from
the Testaments and invited the crew to re
spond. He then preached a long sermon on
the duty of sovereigns to their people, the
whole service lasting irom 11 P. M. to 2 a.
31. The crew was then piped below.
THE EJirEROR TURNS CAPTAIN.
At 5 A. 31. the Kaiser appeared on the
bridge in the uniform of a high admiral,
looking extremely haggard and, addressing
the commander, said: "Sir, retire to your
cabin, I shall take charge."
The commander replied: "Sire, permit
me to observe that we are in a dangerous
passage and that it is advisable for Your
Majesty's safety, as well as for that of the
crew, that a sailor remain in command."
The Emperor responded, "Nevermind;
God will inspire me."
The commander bowed and retired. The
second officer remaining, the Emperor
angrily bade him retire, the officer respect
fully protesting.
The Emperor then said, "You resist,
wretched creature; you trouble the spirit
of God which is in me. This is the ven
geance of God upon you," dealing the offi
cer a heavy blow in the cheek.
HOW HIS KNEE was hurt.
The officer turned crimson, but remained
until the Emperor seized him by the throat
and tried to throw him overboard. In the
struggle that followed the Emperor fell
and broke his knee cap. The sailors
'Watched the scene, paralyzed with fear.
The occurrence was one tnat can t Deiorgot
ten. The Emperor howled with pain. His
eyes started from their sockets. He foamed
at the mouth. He swore terribly, and,
in fact, displayed all the symptoms
of madness. The officers, after a
brief consultation, carried him into
a cabin padded with mattresses. Nobody
was admitted except the doctor and the
Empress. Men were necessary to help re
strain him until his leg was bandaged and a
straightjacket was put upon him. The crisis
lasted three days.
THE SOCIALIST C0NGBESS BEGINS.
Many Trades Union Delegations From Eng
land Heady for the Fray.
Brussels, Aug. 16. The International
Labor Congress, or as it is now called, the
International Socialist Workmen's Con
gress, opened here to-day. Mrs. Aveling
and numerous other trade union delegates
are in attendance, despite the fact that but
few English delegates were expected.
The Belgain delegates, Vericken and Vol
ders, delivered addresses in which they
heartily welcomed all the delegates to Brus
sels and urged the union 01 an tne social
istic sects.
GEEMANY SEDUCES THE INCOME. TAX.
Distress Arising; From the llussian Ukase
Prohibiting Bye Exports.
Berlin, Aug. 16. It is reported that the
Government will reduce the income tax on
certain classes in order to alleviate the dis
tress arising from the Russian rye prohibi
tion. It is believed here that the ukiwc li be
rescinded in October. The St. Petersburg
Journal declares that the Czar for a long
time resisted the advice that such an ukase
should be issued.
A WELSH BAILB0AD COLLISION.
Fifteen
Persons Injured and
Some of
Them "Will Die.
London, Aug. 16. There was a serious
railway accident in Wales last night. A
passenger train crashed into a volunteer
special which was stationary on the track
at a point between Point-y-Pridd and
Cardiff
Fifteen persons were injured and some of
them so seriously that they will probably
die.
FBENCH WHEAT CB0P DEFICIENCY.
The Customs Surtax Ordered to Be
Sns-
pended One Year at Least.
Paris, Aug. 16. The French wheat crop
is estimated at 90,000,000 hectolitres, leav
ing a deficit of 32,000,000 hectolitres. The
customs surtax on wheat will therefore be
suspended for one year.
The Iloly Coat at ArgentniL
Paris, Aug. 16. An examination of the
Holy Coat at Argentuil to-day attracted
crowds of pilgrims.
A female tramp at Parsons, Kan., be
came intensely abusive the other day and
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temperature.
Comparative Temperature.
PrrrsBCBO, Aug. 16. The UnitedStates Weather
Bureau officer In this city furnishes the following:
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TEMPERATURE AN't) BAINFALL.
Mavlninm temp 60 Mean tern 63
.Minimum temp CI Rainfall
Range 17
RIVER NEWS AND NOTES.
LonlSTllle Items The Stage of Water and
Movements of Boats.
CSPECIAI. TELEGRAMS TO THE DISPATCH.
LOUISVILLE. Aug. 16. Business dull. Weather
cloudy. At -o'clock the river was falling, with 3
feet on the falls, 5 feet 2 inches in the canal and 9
feet below. The Blr Sandy went to Cincinnati to
dav. The New Sherly will be placed In the Cincin
nati and Madison trade to-morrow, and the Biff
Kanawha will resume her place In the Carrollton
trade.
"What Upper Gauges Show.
3IOP.GANTOWX River 4 feet 4 Inches and falling.
Cloudy. Thermometer 79" at 5 P. M.
BROWNSVILLE River 4 feet 11 inches and rising.
Clear. Thermometer 76 at 4 P. M.
Wabres River 0.7 feet and falling. Clear and
warm.
The News From Below.
Cicikkati River 8 feet 6 inches and falling.
Weather cloudy and hot.
MEMrms River marks II feet on gauge, a fall of
2-10 In 24 hours. Arrtved-Clty of Vicksburg.
Natchez; City of Monroe, St. Louis; Buckeye
State. Cincinnati ; Oakland. New Orleans: II. M.
lloxle. Cairo; Kate Adams. Arkansas City. De
parted City of Vicksburg. St. Louis; City of Mon
roe. New Orleans: Buckeye State. Cincinnati; Oak
laud, Cairo: 11. M. lloxle. New Orleans.
VICKSBCHO KlTer fell 4-10 feet. Passed np
Belle or Memphis, St. Louis. Arrived-Clty of
Cairo. She leaves for Natchez at 1 A. M. Monilav.
NewORLEASS Partly cloudy and warm. De
partedHenry Lowrey. St. Louis.
Wheeling Blver4 feet 3 inches and stationary.
Departed Courier. Parkersburg; Batchelor. Cin
cinnati; Keystone State. Pittsburg; Lizzie Bay,
Pittsburg; Allen, Pittsburg. Clear.
Cairo Arrived Arkansas City. Natchez. De
partedArkansas City. St. Louis; Gllmore. New
Orleans; Friable. Mempnls. Hirer 12.7 feet and
falling. Clear and hot.
Gossip of the Wharves.
The water In tho harbor now stands at E feet; be
low the, dam, 4 feet 3 Inches.
The Keystone State was expected from Cincin
nati last night, bit will return to-night.
There was little niorement on the wharf yester
day. The excursion boats relieved the monotony
somewhat, both the Mayflower and the Gusky tak
ing out large crowds of excursionists.
The II. K. Bedford arrived with a fair trip from
Wheeling yesterdar. about 4 o'clock. She will
leave to-day, at 12 o'clock. On her up trip she was
compelled to tie up at Liverpool for seven hours on
account of fog.
PITTSBUEG IN EIGHTH PLACE.
The Weekly Statement of the Business of
the Bin; Clearing Houses.
Boston, Aug. 16. The following table,
compiled from dispatches to the Post from
the Clearing- Houses of the cities named,
shows the gross exchanges for last week
with rates per cent of increase or decrease
as against the amounts of corresponding
week in 1890. Week ending August 15,
1891:
Inc. Dec.
New Tork J331.4.11.87S .... 33.0
Boston 77.0H.SI7 .... 10.9
Chicago 79.730,000 4.4 ....
Phil-idelphia 52.452.4i .... 10.0
St. LoltU 1,019.931 11.1 ....
!?an Francisco 18,9,JG,a.18 .... 7.5
Baltimore 13.913.fVl 3.S ....
Pittsburg 11.292,0) .... 16.0
Cincinnati IO.WjI.&'jO 2.8
Buffalo 7.787,604 4.7
Kansas Cltr 7.6M.5nr, .... 21.0
New Orleans 5.621,643 .... 5.2
Louisville 5.551,937 .... 20.4
Minneapolis 5,188.676 2.4
Milwaukee 5,575,000 .... 15.'
Providence 4.30,000 .... 6.9
Detroit 8,u3,7X7 8.01
Cleveland 4.944.462 .... 12.3
Omaha 3.5.13.091 .... 28.6
Denver 4.044,863 .... 14.9
St. Paul 4.200,080 8.2 ....
Indianapolis 3.449,574 75.5
Galveston 3.117.578 239.7
Columbus 2.781,900 14.9
Memphis 1.ZB.8U5 .... 46.3
Dnluth 1,87412 .... 13.4
Dallas....". 1.185.608 20.3 ....
Hartford l.M39S .... 11.6
Richmond 2.23S.JS8 4.2 ....
Nashrllle L69D.482 .... 28.6
Portland. Ore 1,790.358 7.2
Salt Lake City 1,783.900 9.9 ....
Washington 1,592,7. 9.7 ....
St. Joseph 1,196,493 .... 22.1
Peoria 1,314.982 .... 8.0
Rochester 1.264.033 e.8 ....
New Haven 1.319,782 6.5
Worcester 1,074,549 6.8
Portland. Me 1.411.710 1.8 ....
Montreal. Can 9.518.6b0 8.7 ....
Halifax. N. S 1.314.0W 1.6 ....
Houston 2.9-J5.300
Toronto, Can 4.82S.155
Sixty cities 940.2-a.rjO . 16.1
Outstdeof New York 403,827,330 .... 5.0
Not Included In totals.
In comparison with the previous week
the total exchanges increased ?.'9,98J,541, or
6 per cent, and outside of New York the
exchanges increased 44,111,187, or 9.9 per
cent.
There is a remarkable change in prog
ress in the nature of European animals in
troduced into Austialia. They are learning
to climb troos in their new home.
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