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Killed by a Fall 'The Buffalo Courier of the ath says that 'the residents in the neighborhood of the inter beetion of Canal and Commercial streets, 'Butlitlo, were quite startled Saturday evening, :about half-past eight o'clock, by the sudden crash of a falling wooden awning over the grout of Diebold s store. Upon repairing . to the spot they found the body of,,a man- lying in the midst of the wreck, who,' upon exam ination, proved to be quite dead. :It seems that a man named Thomas Hines, a boatman Arho lived in Rome, while in an intoxicated condition, fell asleep on the window-sill of the Large brick building over Diebold's store,_ . and 'while in this unconscious state, felt ont; - alight- - Ing On the awning as above stated.. The force *with which he struck must have been great, is the awning was completely shattered; and the unfortunate man was instantly *killed Mimes was a young man, but we are unable to $1311 , y whether married or single. —A California paper says: "Rufus Long, a Xnonte doaler, cut . his wind-pipe with a razor :it Ely. There was a woman at the bottom. 7 :it must have been a mighty big wind-pitie, or t small woman at the bottom of it.—Ex. —M. Albert Wolf, ono of the most brilliant 'writers on the staff of the Paris Figaro, is a :Prussian, and has retired to Interlachen, until alle AVM' shall be over. THE WAR IN EUROPE Napoleon and! tile Prince Imperial Ems: Ong Paris•.-The Secret Treaty—iluz. sling the Press—ltegeney oft ue Empress; roepsßioldlng. Florreftpfindence-ofther-Phihr:ETrninc-Bullettnl PARIS, Friday, July / , /,1870.—The Emperor and the Prince Imperial; with Print , : Na poleon, left St. Cloud yesterday - morning at 10 o'clock for Metz, where their arrival Ims been since announced and a proclamation pub lii-hed to the army. The party did not pass through Paris or along the Boulevards7tlS - is expected, but took the circular railroad and avoided the town. The consequence was that there were no popular demonstrations, and we missed the curious spectacle of a Napoleon 111. and a Bonaparte being conducted through the streets of his Capital by his faithful sub jects singing the iffir,seillaiBe ! It is' very for tiiriatelhat thepeOrile Or the 02.* gait kiioic only the first verse of the famous revolutionary hctnn. Some or the following stanzas contain allusions which are hardly suited to royal or imperial cars. In the public recitations which hav'e taken Place at the theatres and else_ where - , - all - suelloflensive-expressions-as those which relate to the death of kings and other t 3 rants have, of course, peen carefully ex p;: aged. SIS The publication of the Franco-Prussian treaty has made a prodigiiins noise here ; and though no one believes that the document is absolutely authentic in the sense that it was drawn up and approved by both governments as the accepted basis of future action, vet most people do suspect and believe that there is "something in it:'' anti that some such arrangements entered Into those "imirvatiei," the ./o?m,u/ Offieie/ itself admits to have ' taken place Laween the two governments. In fact,._ people suspect that these two big bullies would hate been only too glad to patch up their own differences and come to an understanding between themselves, at the xpense of their smaller neighbors, if they --enrild only egret= aboutl'ernts.--Tinfwe-oreTstill in the dark on the subject, and especially with _r-gard to the main-point-of whether the .pro-- pr,s(d contlition in the- draft treaty came from France or Prussia._ Who is Guilty. Chestnut St. France says they emanated from. Bismarck l-imself." But front Berlin-it is asserted that ILe document which has been published is in lic hand-writing of M. Benedetti. The latter Minister is said to . be already disarace for not hating sooner made known to . the Due de (tram - int Bre despatch which he (Benedetti: himself wroteto Nr: de La Valette, in March, 1-s4i9. and on-which-the Dnke !having found it out himself) bases hisalki: -- gation that Prussia -it that time pledged her word of honor never t o sanction the-candidature of Prince Leopold- If. in addition to the above /ap,us, 3r. .Rene torti has so far committed himself and hisgov ernment as to reduce to writing, in his own let al. such a document as the one in question, and then allow it to get out of his possession. it must be confessed that French diplomacy has been sadly at fault. The newspaper; here are furious at being muzzled." The Fiyaro publishes sensation articles headed " The Law of Silence." full of abuse of K. 011ivier, his new press-law and his circulars to the law officers of the Crown call ing on them to enforce it strictly. A great many other journals are protesting vehemently against the -ame measures, and some are for combining together to publish no news from the frontier at all, either official or unofficial, and to take no notice either of defeat or vic tories. Ib:WS to be furnished by the Govern ment certainly promises to be meagre enough. There is to be a news-oftice opened at the Ministry of the Interior. Each of the Paris journals is r• invited" to " accredit one of its staff to this °dice, which "will he open from 8 A. M. till midnight." and will communicate " all the official news" as it arrives. Will it communicate "all" the news which arrives ? I have great doubts myself of the fact, and so apparently have the journals and the public. But, at any rate, by this means a beautiful " uniformity" of intelligence will be secured, and the public mind will not be harassed by contradictory statements' The state of siege has been Ileelaretl in the Departments (Atli° Moselle and the Haut and II:is-Rhin, and woe be to the unfortunate news-monger who shall henceforth be caught in those parts " without a pass from Roderic He must stand the chance, or meeting with rough treatment. The Empress, as you will 1E0;1' learnt, is ap pointed Regent, to act according to instruc. ions entered in the Book of State, iu accord ance with the Napoleonic traditions of the First Empire. Before leaving, the Emperor wrote to the National Guard of Paris to say that be " trusted to its patriotism and devotion o maintain order in the capital, and watch over the safety of the Einpre." I suspect the patriotism and devotion" spoken of will 'l.:Tend largely upon the tidings to be published hy the news-office at the Ministry of the Inte rior. The opinion is universal that Napoleon lights for his crown. The news of the evacuation of Rome by the French troops is spoken of as authentic by the semi-official press, but is not yet confirmed in: the official journals. The ultramontane and religious journals are furious at the sup 'position. Theyni»ces says that "all Catholics will be deeply wounded," and that to entrust Rome to the Italian ,government is a "detesta ble mockery." threatens, France with the direct vengeance of Heaven if she sacrifices Rome to Italy. Many persons here helieVe that'as soon as ever the French troops have quitted Rome Garibaldi will appear once •• more upon the scene of, his former exploits. Skirmishing. It would be useless for me to repeat here the aecounts of the two or three petty encounters • and affairs between advanced posts of which you will have already beard. But all present ' intelligence goes to show that some time „will most probably yet elapse before anything Se rious takes place. The Prussians are said to have almost disappeared from the frontier, LETTER MORI PARIS. The Secret Treaty. Ylozzling• the Pre Scanty News JR.* geney of the Empress The Evacuation of Rome I.IIIJESDAY, AUGUST 11,1870. and are evidently not disposed to be the at tacking party. The French array will have to go in search of them ; and to cross such a river aS the Rhine and traverse such a country as that between Coblentz and Mayenee, and advance into the very jaws of the German qUadrilaterah are not operations to he done in Ths first battalions of the fiord(' mf,bile mare_bed_to_thosailway station..4:e4crday_urt_ their way for the camp of Chalons, where they are to he_ massed arid exercised; They are composed chiefly of young men (Fut of stores and offices. Their brand new uniforms sat very awkwardly upon them, and they had a very undisciplined and, I thought, not very willing look. Wheitenrolled they were taught, to look upon the duties required from them as " mere matter of form," and now they sud denly find them converted into a very unpleas ant reality. . [By Cablp.) THE' LIIPEBIAL IMBECILE. Napoleon Blind to Him own. Incompeteu . IN Determined to Benda (lie loinniond.in.elbler of the Army. LoNpo.X, Wednesday, August 10—Evening. —The latest " oilicial 4 despatch, dated Metz, August 9, evening, states that the Emperor went that morning to the headquarters of Marshal Bazaine, who resumed command of the troops -" concentrated-at - Metz,'-' -This- is an indirect way of contradicting 'the rumor that Marshal Bazaine was to be made Gene ralissimo of the whole Army of the Rhine. • The Emperor is blind. to his own incom petency, and, disregarding the, i r iatversalbut, try against it. will cling to the chief command of the army until another defeat exhausts the national patience. He gives out that he never will return to Paris alive, unless as a eon lierer.—TrilM/te. The New Minimtry. Another despatch from the same source says: "The incoming Ministyy is immeasurably worse than the outgoing. Its appointment is a reckless defiance to public opinion, and I do not believe it will laiit a., week unless a great victory should be gained by the French.which is not at all upon the cards. This population is in no moodlo be rifled by the Cassaignae and Jerome David clique, and the garrison of Paris is not strong enough and not united oiough to put down any popular rising. The National Guard, as they sit - at the tables in front ofthacafes, say openly_that_all he Generals who have brought France to her present state, and above all the General-Com manditig-in-Chief, Must be changed. Accord 7 isg to the latest news the Emperor has riot re signed hithself to giving up the pernicious ultimata' against which all France clamors." illy Man..] The -Latest Appeci. of Affairs. Order prevails in Paris, and - the people are cviiicntly becoming more-amtmore united in , lefence of their country. The fact, however, !hat the Prince Imperial has been sent to Lr,nri n, and`that tire - Empress's - - jewels have been sent with him, betrays the distrust of the Intmc which eNisls in the inner Imperial cir les. 5? - , As an indication of the unanimity which prevails iu Paris in regard to the prosecution ~f the war, it is worth while to notice that Deputy E eratry, one of the most inflexible of all the "Irreconcilables,” has brought forward a proposition in the C;0,7,s Lc!ris./dhf feir an ox traordinary levy— of troops. It would I.robably he as much as any- Deputy's life was worth to propose the relin quishment of the struggle at this stage. The asi.iitaiiCeS which Lave reacted us from one or two bitterly prejudiced sources, that this war was unpopular in France, are put to confusion almost every hour by the news ss hich comes from Pans. The Provinces as well as the capital are overflowing with en- Ihusiasm. Everywhere the people are crying, irus b, Prusse—a very easy thing tb cry, idit a very difficult thing to accomplish. Position and P.trength of the French Forces at the scene of Hostilities. The Coiritrice dp.l Ems r),;:t of yesterday , iontained a, special despatch from its Paris ..orrespondent, 'dated 'the tith inst., in which The following report is male: Gen. Fr2ssard's 'corps has entirely rallied under the walls of Metz. Contrary to the reports of the enemy Failly's corps has not been engaged, but is also within the entrenched camp of Metz. fly the addition of the Third Corps under ;en. de Caen. Gen. Bazaine has now under Lis immediate orders at Metz. 150,1100 men. The Eighth Corps, or Imperial Guard, is i' clielion from Meiz to Nancy, while at Nancy there is part of the Fourth Corps under Gen. Ladmirault. Marshal MacMahon has at Saverne, where he was instructed to stop, the remains of the First and Seventh Corps, num bering about 50,000 men. The Sixth Corps, under Marshal Canrobert, has arrived at !liiilons ready to enter the -theatre of hostili ties. All these form an army of 330,0011 men, , NehlSiVe of the Garde Mobile, which has commenced to enter Lorraine. ,'Phis report is xeeedingly reassuring under the circum- -lances. Victor llttroa on the War and 'Woman's Duty. Victor Hugo has addressed • the ladies of Guernsey as follows:. Lad : Again some , men have condemned a part of the human race to death, and a desper ate war has commenced. This is neither a war f liberty or of duty, but a war of caprice. Two peoples are about to destroy each other tor the pleasure - of :two prince.s . .7While thinkers are perfecting civilization, kings are perfect dig war. This will be a, frightful one. Some are annimmced—a gun that will kill 12men : a cannon that will kill 1,000. It is no longer the pure and free waters of the great Alps that. are to How in torrents into the Phine, but human blood. Mothers, sisters, daughters, wives, shall weep. Von are all about to go in mourning; some because of their own troubles ; the rest because of the misfortunes of the others. Ladies—what carnage ! what a conflict must follow the meeting of these, unfortunate com batants ! Allow me to address you a prayer. Since the ignorant forget that they are brothers, be their sisters : come to their aid, and make lint. All the old linen of our houses which is of no use can save the lives of the wounded.ft be fine to have all the women of this island employed in this fraternal work: it will be a glorious example - and a great benefit. Men ilo evil ; let you women supply the remedy ; and since on this earth there are had angels, let_ you be the good ones. If you resolve to do so, and commence, in a short time you will have a considerable quantity of lint. We shall then make two equal parts, and shall send one to France and the other to Prussia. An African Changarnier Asks for a Cow- mission. I From the London Times.l . The. French papers state that the Emir Abd el-Kad6r has addressed the following letter to the Minister of War: "Praise be to God. To the very valiant Marshal of France, Minister of War: Excellency—We have learnt 'by the voice of fame that France is about to make her powder speak. against her enemies, the Prussians (whotn may God,. confound); and that your,very powerful Emperor Napoleon ill. (upon ' - whom may Heaven • shower its bounties) has. determined to place in the front ranks of his bravo soldiers the sons of French Africa, , who has fought against • the 'French would be.the last of believers if he did .not in this coming war place himself at the service of his adopted country ; his tried sabre claims the honor of being among the first to march p,l{ against the Prussians. The Emir Abri-el- Kader, therefore, begs your Excellency to lay his humble petition at the foot of the glorious throne of Napoleon 111. (to whom may God grant victory.). From the servant of God, Abd-el:Kader, Ben Maid 114.cigp Brous.sa, 6 Radii et Mani of the year of the ...gira,.1237:" . The French Regeney...Napoleou'rt De cree Appointing the Empress Regent. The following is the text of the decree of the Emperor, conferring on the Empress the title -Equi-pPWere-of-Regent-: ..„ "Napoleon, by the Grace of God and the na tional will, Emp . eror of the French, to all whom these presents may concern, greeting: Wishing to give to our well-beloved consort, the ElClffesN, a proof of the confidence which we have in her; and having the.intention to place ourselves at the bead of the army, we• have resolved to confer, and do hereby-. confer on the Empress the title of Regent. to exer cise the functions of that charge as soon as we shall have left our • capital, in con formity with our instructions and orders, as we shall have given them in the general direc tions of the service which we shall have es tablished, and which will be transcribed on the book of the State. Our intention is to ,communicate to our Ministers the said orders andinstructions,.and that in no case the • Em press can depart from their rigor, in the exer cise of her functions of Regent. We destre that the Empress shall preside in our name over the Council of M inisters. We do not, how ever, intent! thatt he Emmess-Regent shall au thorize by b e r signature the promulgation ofany law other than those now pending before the - Senate, the :Legislative - M(ly, and the Council of State, referring ou that subject to the orders and instructions above-mentioned ; we order our Keeper of the Seals, Minister of Justice and Public Worship, to communicate .the pre sent letters-patent .to - the Senate, which will inscribe them on its hooks, and publish them in the /iv ertii t ac s Lois. Given at the Palace of the Ttiileries, this Mad day of July. 1870.NAtso.E0s. Countersigned] EMI I. E Gt.t.tvir.n, Minister of Justice. THE PRINSIAN RING A Monarch of M en---4 Magnificent Front. [From the London Times.] There was a gleam of helmeted heads and plumes and of orders and uniforms around the Queen as the train passed on, acrd sonic) said, There is the King," and others said, It is the CroWn Prince . ," but the glimpse was iratasieut.-and the clouds of dust, which fol lowed in our track on:this most dusty of rail roads put all in eclipse. In another libur or so we wen in Berlin, and emerged into streets with meal ill plain clothesprOen - eilirig iu some sort of military order, with small escorts of soldierty, to the railway station. Many of these wore decorations medals, t•i bands and en , sses—which spoke of service in i s 3ehleswig-Holstein and in Bohemia. They were sober, orderly - men, quiet, unexcited,. and perhaps all the more anximisto. fight--- hard - to end been called away so suddenly from hearth and home—men mostly •of twenty-live and -- up t‘ rads, several in each band belonging ap parently to the well-to-do bouefroisie or better dass of artisans. Large cavalcades of horses in better spirits were led off in fours in the 111 E. (11TeCtiOD. Detachments of troops were passing all.day down the Lime-tree walk, and at fi o'clock the King drove through the streets to the station in a Prussian tirosky, and was received with uncovered heads and a buzzing sort of sup pressed cheer as he passed. He " looked every inch a king," plumed and helmeted in strictest ',Mier tunic—a real of the days when kings led sunjects to battle. What a tine ohl head and front it ! Ihestarrrp_ofilmparator i.. them already,- and it would not surprise one very much to h•arn that in an hour of stress that old man, NN ith his piercing blue eye and ,ipeu brow,and line lip, curved under his massive white moustache, would cut the Gordian knot of a eonstitution with a swift, sure sword. Cer tainly he is not the sort of man one would like to worry fy)ront popti/o in a watering-lace. And then he has a faith: he believes," and be is sure that. H 4 in whom he believes has placed his cause beyond the reach of human harm. It is observed. »evertheles,;, that the King is not in his usual joyous spirits. He speaks with devout confidence, and trusts in the justice of his quarrel ; but his Majesty is grave. The Crown Prince, too. seems, it is said, to feel the influence of the tremendous events which are impending, and surely if the designs of Prussia were warlike the royal family can not have regarded them with favor or have lru•iicipated in the desire for a conflict which '.roses them so much anxiety. although they do not express any apprehensions as to the ultimate result. National Union—Trent "Beyond the The Kifig of Prussia issued the following proclamation July 27, evening: lin theoccasion of the approaching struggle for the honor and independence of Germany, I have received from the communes, the cor p,,ratimis and private uerSons of all classes of he Fatherland, and from all the circles of its children, even from beyond the seas, so large a numher of_nianitstations uf devotedness I hat. I feel compelled to proclaim loudly that Accord, and to add my thanks and the :-sui allot?, that I respond to that fidelity of my 4.; vrinan people by my unalterable steadfast ness. The love for the common country. the unanimous ulyriing of the German races and of its princes, has set aside and reconciled all ,liilerences and discord. Germany, more cited than ever, will tind that factas in righter • gliatantee.that thb war will bring a uni do peace, and that from the bloody seed v ill spring a blessed harvest for liberty and ,crinan union. The New French llinistry We publish upon an inside page a sketch of the new French Premier. Following we give brief sketches of other prominent members of the cabinet : Prince floury do In Tour il'Aiivergne, Minister or Foreign Affairs. This Minister is descended from one of the most ancient and distinguished families of France, dating back from Alfred, created Count of Auvergne by Charles the simple, Bing of France, during the latter part of the ninth century. Many of the members were lanums as statesmen or soldiers, and the entire line has held a prominent position in France ft,r nearly 1,000 vears, The genealogical his t of this family is a most interesting one. Tim subject of this sketch, Prince Henri ;odfrey Bernard Alphonse, is the chief of the bratch of Lauraquais, into which the house has :verged, and is now known by the title of Prirce de la Tour Auvergne-Laurnquids. He was born at Paris on the 2:3'd of October, 1823, his lather being Prince Charles Melchior Phil lip. Bernard. - At the time of the coup (VOW iu 1852 he WaiV a, young man of twenty-nine years of age, and was' distinguished for his abilities, Al iplematio, and otherwise. - By pyoofiptly_M*l:g s:: 6.11i65i on to .the empire he Was received into Alie TaVer.Of 'the Emperor Napoleon, and after the lapse of a few years was named Senator of France, hold ing that position with credit. In August, 1851, ho married to Emilie Celeste de Moutetilt des - Iles, bY• whom Milled one child;'a boy; born in June, 1852. His wife died at Florence on the Bth of • March, 107, and he has 'not mar ried again:. . _ • Before 1803 Prince do la Tour trAuvergne held uo special diplomatic position under the empire, althongh helrecpeuthr took an fictive ,part in the: political affairs'Of Prance, On the 13th of Otitober cif that year, however, he was appointed Ambassador' Extraordinary and libuiSter Plenipotentiary to the Court. Of St. .c :~ beus.~~ James,an 1 in the December following arrived iu Luntion and presented his credentials. Mince then he has held this distinguished po sition with marked ability. In all of the measures in which the French government Las taken part since his appointment he has been an active agent. To the ntlibe of 11IiniSter of Foreign Affairs he brings much experi ence, and will doubtless administer the duties of his'office with as much skill and;tact asany of his predecessors. Bigault-De Genoa Minister of Mu. The newly-appointed Minister of Marine is an admiral of the imperial navy. He was horn at Rochefort, on the 12th of April, in the year 1807, and admitted to the naval school of France in 1825. He entered the navy in 1830, was captain of a fidgate in 1841, a member of the Admiralty in Paris in 1853, and-Rear. - Ad , aural of the naval brigade operating against Sebastapol in 1854. In the year 1856 he was despatched to command the fleet in the China sea. 9 and there co-operated • with the. British' at the cap ture of Canton in 1857. He was, promoted ( ; rand Officer of the Legion . of Honor in 1855, and created Senator in 1860. In the month of Jamiary, 1862 ' he took command of the squad ron 'in the Mediterranean; and was 'ndmed a(b miral January 27. 1864. He was Minister of Marine in 1867. The Admiral has paid much attention to the development of the French iron-clad .fleet, and is a practical as well as a scientific officer. He is a writer as well as a navigator, and has edited some two or three popular works in Paris. - Baron Jerome David, Minister of Pub- lie Works. This eminent statesman was born in Rome, June 30, 1822. He was appointed a Captain soon afterjoining the:army,•and as poon.as he engaged in political life lie :was Speedily elected Mayor of Langon, and member of the General Council for the canton of St. Sympho den. He has occupied the position - of member of the Cop L , Vhilallf for the Department of the Gironde since 1859, and has been a Vice President of the Corps for several years. luseph Brame, Blinister of kulalle Iu struction. JoSeph Brame, for a long time favorably known in French political circles, was born at Lille, January 4th, 1808, and was elected a member of the General Council for the Coun cil of Czyooing. Ho was called to be a member of the Coro Legislatif of the Department du Nord in IM7, and proving an acceptable rep tentative to his constituency was reelected in 186:;, and again in 1869. He has since achieved a de: , erved reputation as the authorof "L'Emi gration des lades." Napoleon's Predictions. 1n 1839 Napoleon wrote a remarkable work, Le.,4 Nupotet . mb•mws, in which he' gave a prophetic glance at the future wars of Europe. He said: " One nation is urged on against another, and the one is employed to accomplish the subjection of the other. : The:Freneh i liberate flit; Italians from the yoke of Austria, Ger many and lsnglantl, rennin_ neutral, for_what do they care about the Austrians in Italy ? 'I hat is -the first war. When the power of Austria is hfolien,' then comes the turn of neutral Germany and-Prussia,—without Ads tria,but with the aid of the Italians." That is the second war: by which the Ger, man question, the Rhine and Danish question; the Scheldt alluvium •fitevtion=tliat orporation of I3elgiuni and Holland in France—will be solved. The third war will he directed against England. The object or pretext will be to free the oppressed nationali ties,..the_lrish and Scotch, as well as the colo- Mes, from the English rule-to break the power of England on sea, and to dismember Great Britain. Whatever Power can dispose of ships‘of-war must help. Then the great Western Empire of ti,e Napoleon dynasty I e complete, and the other half of the world, the Eastern Empire, is Russia, against which, after she has been the ally and the auxiliary, the last war will be declared." . The second of these wars has begun. Are the rest to follow ? The first Napoleon said that in fifty years Europe would he Republican or Cossack. Prophets are apt to hurry things. The French soldiers going to the front call the Germans Cossacks. The end of this war may be the union of France and Germany—of all Western Europe—against Russia, or Eastern Europe and Asia. In these complications Ame rica is scarcely mentioned. MURDER IN ERIE COI:WTI' A Mon Poisoned by His Daughter's Para- moor. • [From the Eri.• Dispatch, Aug. t ., th. J Yesterday afternoon vague rumors of a ter rible affair at Walnirt Creek reached us, but it was not until late last evening that anything definite was known here. The following are the facts: Louis Hartman (brother of Peter Hartman the gunsmith, of this city), a farmer, about forty-five years of age, lived at Walnut Creek, about four and a half miles southeast of the city. He was a widower and had daughter between thirteen and fourteen years old. but as large as most girls several: years older. Charles Gottlieb Kraenger,. a young Mall about twenty-two years of ago, worked for Michael Kribehel, a noghber or Hartman's. It - was more than suspected that•Kritenger was on terms of crinfinaddlitiniacy With Hart man's girl, and became the subject of neigh borhood talk. On Sunday night. Kraenger and the girl had been in the barn about nine o'clock and then went to the 'house. Her father was then in bed. Some of the neigh bors came to the house to rout young Kraen ger out.,.lit were deceived fry the,girl as to his whereabouts, and While they were up-stairs, she let hiM out from where he had been hiding behind the pantry door. Yesterday morning he was there at about half-past seven o'clock and stayed about the premises. That is all that knoWit until the girl's father, Louis lartman, was discovered to be dead, ou the porch, between eleven and twelve o'clock. The supposition, based upon subsequent facts, and given previous to the examination or the corpse by the snrgeon, is that either Kraenger, or the girl at his request, had given Mr. Hart man a drink from a bottle furnished by Kraut ger. The girl denies knowing anything of it. Kraeuger offered to treat John Roemer and Joseph Hensler from a bottle he had, and gave the bottle to Roemer. .Hensler declined and told Roemer to hand the bottle back. He did so, and Kraenger spirted some of the contents at Hensler. It struck him on the right side of his face and a little fell on his breast. His right eye is burned out, and the place on his breast has the flesh burned to a crisp. The girl got a little on her dress; and it burned holes-wherever it touched. The neighborhood was • soon aroused, and one man named Schimpf drew a bead on liraenger with hiS gun, but some woman prevented him from shooting. FATAL' ACCIDENT. . A Illatt Drowned off the Nottth- of : the Braudyntob—llis Body Not Itocovered. LaSt Saturday at noon the Sloop Dexter, with a bay party aboard, left Philadelphia. On Sunday last, at half-past ono in the morn ing, as she was lying off the mouth of the Brandywine, John IVicAtee, one of the party, fell overboard. and was drowned. Deceased was a single man, about 33 years old, five feet six inches high; of sandy complexion, with moustache:and goatee, and pock-marked. On . hia - left 'arm was picked a crucifix and his Whole . liarne. All etibrts to recover his body have been so far unavailing. Should it be die- covered, the finder will confer a favor by re porting the fact to the Chief of relief:4-11W- Mint/ten COMMerciet. PRICE 'THREE CEN rs. FACTS'AND FANCIES. —Anna Dickinson's friends deny that she ever planned, or thought of planning, a joint leciure tour with Olive Logan. . --,A..swarm of bees settled on a Man in Illi nois and settled him. , —An Indiana girl took.her father's horse to aid her elopement, and was arrested for steal ing the animal by her grieved parent. --A floating match is the latest Long Branch_ nonsense. The winner lay on his back threo hours and forty minutes. —Eight cents is tile regular fee of a " regu ar Chinese doctor. —"Wild Bill has been again killed by' an Omaha paper. —A Frenchman has invented a machine to bitch on a gas-burner, that will do washing, cooking, ironing and many other things. It is about two Bridget-power. ' • " —An lowa man aptly advertises F " Kero sene and coffins." —Parisian ladies carry summer muffs of lace and pertumery.• ' —lf you are ever invited to breakfaqt with Queen Victoria remember that Rye P. AL is her hour. '' ' • —Ubicago tells of luscious large baked mos quitoes on ber eating-house tables, and Jersey is dying of envy. —Pressed for time—Egyptian mummies.— X. O. T inies. —A man in New York is glad that his silver wedding - is - over as . he had - to *return thanics for-two hundred and six ice-pitchers. —A gentleman at Scranton lest his-nose by trying to look into a room where he was- not wanted. =An - inventor of a "machine - to facilitate marriages" has sent a model to the Patent (db.ce at Washington. country paper had a heading in its war neas, " The Bombardment of Harmer." It was written " Hanover," but the compositor has a girl by the name' f Thinner. —An !indignant htisband at Richmond drO*6 an intruder to the top Of the house, where he had the choice of stepping out of the window, or looking into a six-shooter just entering the door. He jumped. —A Pittsburgh magistr- ' de, -who is -also an undertaker, dispenses justice in his wareroom, with the parties seated on coiling. —Charles Black, who murdered a man and his wife in Mississippi, was identified and ar-;- rested in Indiana by means of a tax receipt: This should serve as a warning to all murder; OrB not-to-pay-tbeir taxes, —Rev. Olympia Brown wrestled with the Apostle Paul in the recent Woman Stitfragn_ Convention at Saratega. voluble of the orators, and was relied on to fill up all the intervals. —One hot night, recently, the sleeping-cak on.a train gave a:stuldea lureh,-and.threw the occupant of an upper berth into the aiSle:FllS companion suddenly awakening, shouted to Idilaskiog It he - Lad -- thllen from - " hisThed " No," was the reply, " I've just melted and run 0ut.".., —Butler's Dutch. Gap Canal has become :a huge frog pond, and is tilled with the liveliest kind of frogs, whose bind legs find quick sales in the East at big priPes. Halt the resideots in the' comity are"frogging" that pond, and all of them are growing rich. Benjamin is said to be meditating a suit for royalty. —A place called Mountain View, Virginia boasts of corn seventeen feet high. The Cleve laud Herald remarks that such stalks might witi as "low" in a game with Qhio:eorri but would have no show for " high," as the Buck eyes-raise it i3O enty-one feet and over. Lipari. this the Leaven Worth Times says: We believe hey raise very fair corn in Virginia and Ohio, but if it grows no higher than that mentioned above, the less said about it in the newspapers the better. It is not unusual in Kansas to see ears of corn that measure eight feet, and is can only be gathered by the use of ladders, or by cutting the stalks down with an axe, as t hey fell trees in Maine. —Mr. Spurgeon made remarks at the laying of a corner-stone of a Baptist chapel a weaß or two since, in which he said : " It makes me sick at heart to rind out the great seers who have been telling its we are getting near the millennium. It seems to me they are some thing like the Irishman who could foresee backwards. I wish these kings of the earth would sometimes do their own fighting in stead of getting their soldiers to fight for them. It would not be a bad idea if Napoleon and the King of Prussia would come over to England and fight it out. lam quite sure the police would wink at the matter, and for my own part I would be quite willing to hold their coats, and I would cheer each one on, and say flit him hard; I think he deserves it' A FEARFEL TRAGEDY. A Dastardly Murder in Buffalo. The Buffalo co ,, f-c.i' of the Sth says: " Last evening, , about half-past,eight o'clock., news came to the police that a murder had been perpetrated among the denizens of what_ is known by those living across the creek ! as • the island,' which is the neck of laud formed by the Blackwell canal and the bay. Th e inhabitants there are of the lowest class, cut eti from inter-course with their fel low-beings in the city except by ferriage, and outlawed front all the amenities and decencies of Ide by the grossness of their tastes. They live iu filth, and literally from hand to mouth. Even among themselves 'they say of selves: are a hard set,' and even the in habitants of the far-famed 'patch' cannot dis pute the palm o ith them in this respect. The murderer was a young man named -Michael O'Keefe, who i.s, described by those who know him as an utterly desperate char acter, a sort of Ishmael, even among, his neighbors recognized as one to be feared and dreaded, and the victim was an old man named Mahoney, who lives the island,' about opposite to the foot or Indiana street. As soon as the news of the murder was brought to the police station No. 1, which was promptly done, Captain Donahue had the island surrounded, and O'Keefe was arrested by Officers Wolf and Gorman, substantially as detailed in his affidavit below. Our re porter visited the scene of the fatal encounter within an hour after its occurrence, and „at that time the reurikrer was in the custody of the police. The two men were near neigh bors,but one shanty separating their domiciles. Mahoney was about seventy years old, and is reported to have been quiet and inoffensive, except when in liquor. The general Cain-like character of O'Keefe is as we have stated. It appears that the two.were in a saloon of the lowest order, a law steps :from their. houses, kept by a Mrs. Speigel. After going out: a quarrel began, partially the result. of some old grudge,in which Mahoney seemS to have boat .the aggru.sor.. The moving canse,:fieeorditig4o-the-4eSti,- mony `of John Foley . and John A. Patten,. taken last night 'before Superintendent Doyle, bath of Which water Side characters were pres ent at the fray, was a pipe belonging to Ma honey Which O'Keefe had captured; In re drunken way, according to the .testinfony of, these witnesses, the old man imbeeilely at tacked O'Keefe, who appears to have:struck him rather unwillingly. Afterwards the testi mony is that Mahoney followed up O'Keefe, Who struck. him again, knocking him down, and this second 'blow was fatal. The Wily showed nu marks of violence except those which might be produced upon an , man by a blot , / from the list of a, MuSettlitr young man.",
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