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repealed in the majority of cases, and
they now extend q general invitation to
trade, and there they have life in trade,
while here you have tied up your market
and are driving commerce from your
doors. These laws will certainly drive
many CONNIE cial men from your market.
Your railroads and yOur hotels will lose
their trade, which, if you take figures fol
it, makes an item worth looking at. For
illustration, at least l, 500 men come here
in a commercial capacity during a year.
There are more, but we illustrate with this
number. Your present laws will keep
1000 of these men away. See figures.
Fares from Louisville to Nash,
vile and return, l, GOO men at
S15......................... 10, 600. 90
Hotel bills will average three
days, at 81 per day, $l2,
1000 men. en.......................... 1900. 90
Sundry expenses each man will
average 81 per day, three
days, I, GOO......................... 1900 90
Total. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS $50, ,OOO. 90
This evil could be remedied by passing
laws classifying the trade; distinguishing
jobbing and wholesale trade from the small
trade, compel commercial agents to So
liCit from the first named classes.
Hoping l have done no harm in as
suming to address you thus, l am, very
respectfully, A COMMERCIAL MAN.
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TIE cotton crop now arriving al the
cotton ports of the South, promises 10
he the iarges, since the famous one of
1896
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A MEMPHIS coroner complains that a
vagrant goat eats up his morning papers
every day, as soon as the carriers leaves
them.
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MEMPHIS,
Spring Races-Fourth Day-AIIie
Hunt Beats the FaVOrIte.

Hunt Beats the FaVOrites
MEMPHIS, April 2S.-The first race,
Jockey Club Purse, $500; dash of a mile
and half; free for all ages; four entries,
was won by Bayonet beating Ida Girls
som, Mamie Douglas and Jim Hinton in
the same order. Time, 2:479.
The second race, free handicap; dash
of two miles, for purse of $500; free
for all, was won by Barney Williams by
a head, beating Morgan Scout and Taugle-
foot. Time, 3:47I. The first mile was
run in 1:47.
Third race, Club Purse $3.50; mile
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Time, 14S2; 149. In this race Ban
quet was the favorite and the contest was
very close Inthe former rae esthe fsvorites
won. The attendance to-day was the
largest ever assembled on this course,
the weather being delightful. The track
is still little hesvy.
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The cotton seed product of the Missis-
sippi Valley, if manufactured into Oil,
would be worth $40, 100000.
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SOUTH AMERICA

Revolution i'm t;uafemaIaAEIec.t
In Chiii-EXpecied Troubles In
Peru.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, July 26.-Work
on the Honduras Inter-Oceanic Railroad
has been resumed.
The news from Gustemala is that the
revOlutionists are in possession of the
Capital. President Cerna has been de-
feated and has fled. Gen. Grandes is
Provisional President.
Euroeiurez has been elected President
of Chill, through the exertions of the
priests.
The Calloa adYices are to the 18th of
July. The Peruvian Government has
ordered the dis.rmiug of the feet, as a
precsution against any trouble during the
coming election. The inhabitants were
much excited. Il was rumored that
Prado had bribed the fleet to aid him in
landing a large force in Calloa harbor,
The English ship Champion OF the Seas
was considerably damaged by fire in
Calloa harbor.
San SalyadOr-ReIigIOu Liberty.
The government of San Salvador has
made contract with one Buerm, an
American, TO construct 3 railroad from
the capital to Libertad.
The Liberals of San Salvador are try
ing to carry the coming elections, with
the object of passing bill guaranteeing
religious liberty. The clergy are making
desperate resistance, determined If pos
bic to retain power among the people.
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PapaI congratulations.
GREAT BRITAIN.
The Goodwood Meeting.

LONDON, July &c. = The Goodwood
meeting commenced yesterday and con-
tinues until Friday. The great event of
to-day was the race for the Goodwo0d
stakes handicap. Fourteen horses started
and the result was as follows:
Tsraban, by Rstaplan, out of Waisma. I
Colt, by Wanda, out of Lady Hunger
ford, 3 years id............................
Tbe well-known jockey, Fordhsm, rode
the simmer.
The Canadian volunteers, who recently
came TO England TO compete for prizes at
the Wimbledon rifle meeting, and some of
whom have been winners, have been en-
tertained with dejeuner given by the
English officers. They will soon return
home.
Hen. Andrew Johnson Expected i'm
Paris.
Arrangements are beingmade in Paris to
welcome Hon. Andrew johnson, ex Pres
ident of the United States, who is ex-
pected there at al early day.
brazilian Visitors.
The Emperor and Empress of Brazil
today paid visit to the sbip-building
yard of John Laird.
The Fenians.
4 discovery of concealed arms has
been made at Liverpool, which are in
some way connected with Fenianism.
Chas. james Mathews, distinguished
comedian died at the age of sixty seven.
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the first and only line yet bonded under
the act of July ID, 1870, for immediate
transportation of merchandise TO the West
in bond without sppraisement or exami-
nation al the port of arrival.
Pension FOrgor.
r. 81. Bullock, notorious forger who
escaped from Rockford. Illinois, week
ago, was arrested yesterday at the PEN
sion Bureau, where he appeared and
claimed about years pension due him.
The kentucky Claims.
The decision of the Treasury Depart
ment in the Kentucky war indemnity
claims has been further delayed, by reason
of the representatives of that State desir-
ing to make additional statements con-
cerning the subject before final action.
Killed i'm the Brooklyn Whisky
Riots.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has offered q reward of $1,000 for the
delivery of the murderer of the Assistant
Assessor, Clinton Gilbert, in the recent
raid on the Brooklyn Illicit distillers.
Cost of Advertising.
The amount paid for advertising and
negotiating the new loan, up to June 80,
not including the cost of paper or the
work of engraving and printing in the
Bureau at Washington, is 1914, sos.
HuIIing Cotton Seed.
The Commissioner of Patents h as ex-
tended patent of Alfred Monnier, of
Philadelphia, for the manufacture of
a,,lr,b,.r;o acid and of VIM Moo of
Philadelphia, for a machine for hulling
cotton seed.
The Missing Cabinet.
There are now in Washington three
members of the cabinet, Secretaries Bout
well and Delano and Attorney General
Alderman. Secretary Robson is expected
to return tomorrow, and Secretary Bel
KNAPP in few days. Secretary Delano
returned to Washington this morning.
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BRITISH AMERICA.

Orange Procession at Winnepeg-
Troubles among tho Indians,
TORONTO, July 26.--WinEepeg dates of
the 18th July are received. The first
Orange procession ever seen in the North
west marched through the streets Of Win
nepeg on that day. They had banners
and wore the regslia of the order, but bad
no band. About 100 members mustered.
About 600 emigrsnts had arrived. TDe
great bulk of the new arrivals had gone
TO the kortsge and Rat Creek districts,
where they are thickly settled.
A band of Red Lake Indians recently
arrived, and are watching their chance,
near Portage, to attack the Sioux, who
have been living there for few years
past.
Destructive Fires In New RTunsVyiCk
ST. JOHN, N. B., July 26.-Very de-
structiye fires have occurred at Freder-
ton, N. 3. Some fourteen or fifteen
buildings, nearly all of which were &C.
cupied for the sale of ship stores were
burned. TIE loss 10 insurance COM
panies is estimated at $50, The
actual loss is nearly four times that sum.
International Boat Race.
HALIFAX, N. s., July 26.-The steam
ship North American from Liverpool has
arrived. The Tyne crew, consisting of
Renforth, Perry, Bright and Chambers,
are among the passengers. They brought
with them new race boat. The crew
will proceed by rail tomorrow To ST.
Johns.
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OHIO.
The Lake shore Gamblers.


CLEVELAND, o., July 26.-The stock
holders meeting of the Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern Railroad will be held
in this city tomorrow for the transaction
of important business pertaining to the
road. 1t is understood that the main Oh
jects of the meeting are to decide the
question of providing for the immediate
construction of q second track from Buff
falo to Toledo, by the issue of sufficient
amount of stock, and the declaration of q
stock dividend. 1t is believed both pur-
poses will absorb the SO, 000,O 900 of stock
which the company have the power TO is
sue.
Thurman and Mcclellan Buy An
other Railroad.
The Ohio portion Of the Atlantic and
Great Western Railroad was sold at the
Courthouse at Akron this afternoon by
Hon. Reuben Hitchcock to Hon. 4. G.
Thurman, Gen. George B. Mcclellan and
w. B. Duncan, trustee, for 81, 435, 800.
There were no other bids and no ether
railroad men present.
ALRbor Reform Failure.
COLUMBUS, O., July 26 "A Labor Re
form State Convention was held here TO-
day, but the attendance was 50 small that
nothing was done, not even State ticket
nominated.
The sunday War in Cincinnati.
CINCINNATI, July 26.-The campaign
on the repeal of the Sunday laws prom
Uses to be active. The organization of
German societies that propose to wage
war against the Sunday laws, number
twenty nine organizations, having a
membership of seven thousand, princi-
pally men. They have appointed three
from each society to circulate petitions.
On the other hand petitions to the
Common Council are circulating by the
Sunday-isw men 10 all parts of the city.
Tomorrow the Evangelical ministers
have meeting toAake action.
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FOREIGN.
Dreadful Details of the Famine
in Persia.
Deaths Average 800 Daily.
Women and Children Killed
for Food.
Ravages of Yellow Fever In
Brazil.
PERSIA
Horrible Famtne-EatIne Dead.txh

Horrible EamIne-Eatine Dead.tgh
LONDON, July 26. - The English
Consul at Tabriz announces that
he has received and will forward
to his government, the most heart-ren-
dering details of the famine in Persia.
Special dispatches from Constantinople
says the famine in Persia is causing
dreadful havoc. Deaths in the province
of Khorsssan average three hundred
daily, and 80 great is the distress that
the dead bodies of the victims are de-
Voured by the surviving men. Women
and children are in some cases killed to
render the supply of food abundant.
The plague has also appeared among the
Persians, and the Turkish government
has been compelled by the exigency of
the situation TO draw q sanitary Gordon
along the border of its dominions.
HONG KoEG, July %. Via London,
26.-Disturbsnces have occurred in Can
ton ard British gunboat has been dis
patched there for the protection of Eng
lish and other foreign residents in that
place.
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ST. LOUIS.
Terrible Railroad Collision.
Ten Men Killed and a Dozen
Manned.
Two Engines and Several Cars De
mOlished.

Two Engines and Several Cars De
molished.
ST.. LOUIS, July ga terrible railroad
accident occurred at 6:l5 last evening, on
the Toledo and Wabash Railroad, sixteen
miles from this city and two miles this
side of Edwardsyille, Illinois. a freight
train OF SO cars loaded with grain, going
South at great speed, colided with a
gravel train, on which were a number of
laborers returning home from their work.
Of these six were killed outright, and four
others so severely injured that but little
hope is entertained OF their recovery. OF
the other men on the construction train
fully one half were more or less injured,
some of them quite seriously, although
with the exception of the four mentioned
none are believed to be fatally hurt.
The track was not cleared at late
hour last night, and express trains trans
ferred their passengers at the scene of
the wreck. The collision occurred on q
short curve, and neither engineer was
aware that another train was on the track
until it was too late to prevent the catss-
trophe. The engineers and firemen from
both locomotives jumped off in time to
save their lives. Both engines and.
large number OF cars were demolished.
The names of the killed and wounded are
not yet ascertained.
James Stack, stone mason, working on
locks at Keokuk, Iowa. was fatally in
jured yesterday by part of a derrick fall
ing on him.
VIM. Basnom, while working on his
farm in Dallas county, in this State, last
Friday, was shot and instantly killed by
some unknown persons. His body was
riddled with buckshot. 1t is supposed
the shooting grew out of some old war
difficulty.
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HOW WE HEAR AND SEE.

Hemboldtz, the best living authority
on the subject of sound, says that, con-
nected with the acoustic nerve, are three
thousand strained microscopic fbres,
called "Corte's organ, and that it isprob-
able that every sound that reaches the
ear sets those chords in vibration that are
alphabetically tuned TO it, just as svoice
viii set in vibration those chords OF 9
piano that are stretched to produce the
the same tone. These different vibra-
tons are recognized by the mind BY its
connection with the nerve and brain
A similar mechanism probably exists In
the eye. The rstina of the eye, which IS
the extremity of the optic nerve, is Gov
cred with exceedingly minute bedies called
''rods and cones" These, it is probable,
have the faculty of vibrating under dif-
ferent influences. The red light is pro-
6ueed by vibrations of about four hun
drei and thirty quadrillions Of waves
per second. 1t may set in vibration any
''rods and cones" that are tuned TO such
q vibration, while those that are sympa.
theuc TO the seven hundred and sixty
auadrillions of waves of violet light
will be set in motion thereby. This sug-
gests that, Just as ears differ in their
sensitiyeness-sOme hearing shrill voice
that is utterly inaudible to others, whose
nerve chords are not attuRed TO them, 30
it may be in light The arrangement of
the ''rods and cones" msy differ in differ
ert persons. And 50 it is. IL is famil-
lar fact that some persons are color
blind" They cannot distinguish red.
That is, their ''rods and cones have not
the right length or elasticity to yibrate
sympathetically with q waYe-length as
large as those at the end of q spectrum
And it is fact that some others Can see
col0rs in the ultraviolet end of the spec
trum to some distance beyond what is
visible to most.
Now if we were to extend this vsria-
ton a little. we may suppose that some
animals may be able TO distinguish 80
light, by their differently constructed
ewes, q vibration that is quite iDsensible
to ours. II would require as sligata
change in the eye to make the dark heat
rays visible Us is the difference between
the eyes of q man who csn see only from
the violet Of the spectrum to the orange
and the eyes of him who can see also tae
red. In fact, the prominent eyes OF inc
yn0lluqks. al the utterly dslk deptas OF
mid cce4n. may be useful, for Gngh- We
trr,gw. in seeing BY mssns OF rays OF
b.at Of y low temperature. Eytn the
modified heats of the currents of IhIrty-
two degrees Fahrenheit may give these
animals abundant use for theis eyes
\ Journal of Microscope.
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MAINE,
A New Railroad g. rab at the Federal


A New Railroad g. rab at the Federal
Treasury.
PORTLAND, Mr., July pa railroad
meeting was called to act in the interest
CT Senator Hamlin's bill, which contem-
plates aid from the government in the
building of a great grain transporting
railroad from Chicago to Portland, met
here to-day. Governor Perham WAS
chosen as Chairman.
Senator Hamlin addressed the meeting,
saying he came for private conference,
not TO make a speech, and it was his part
to obtain, not to give information. He
favored railroads to the West, but op
posed gigantic monopolies.
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BRAZIL.
Ravages of Yellow Fever-Eycry
stranger in Para Dead.

Ravages of Yellow FeVer-Eyery
Stranger Ina Para Dead.
NEW YORK, July ga private letter
received by last steamer from all Ame1i-
can resident at Para, Brazil, dated July 4,
says The yellow fever has assumed a very
malignant form at Psri; nearly every
stranger in this city has died. The Eng
fish Consul died few days ago, and l
hear Today that bis wife is dying. Drs.
Lamar, Watcher, Guaderas and LaBas,
and ali the other Brazilian physicians are
losing nearly all their patients with yell
low fever All strangers are liable to
take the fever in Para, and nearly every
Portuguese who emigrated to Para in the
last six or eight months, has died. Sew
eraI steamers which lately arrived st New
York from Psrs, have zen qusrantined
in the lower bay, the last steamer from
Rio was permitted to reach her dock
though she had touched at Para,
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MASSACHUSETTS.
Ben Butler as q Temperance
Candidate.
A ssThin'' ueetings

NACchkhSs
Boston, July ga thinly attended
mass meeting of the temperance alliances
met to-day. The merits of several can
didates for Governor were discussed.
Rev. DR.. Marvin said he had talked with
Gen. Butler, and who would soon publish
a manifesto, wherein he would plant
himself firmly on the prohibitory plat
form, and in case of his nomination and
election, if Boston cast her vote against
him, he would make the city as hot for
rum sellers as he made New Orleans for
rebels. There was disposition to en-
dorse him on the spot, but it was finally
decided to await his written pledge.
Discharged under she ExtraditiOn
Benz. Allstall, who was arrested for
the alleged robbery of the Dominion
Bank of Toronto, was discharged this
morning, as under the extradition treaty
he could not be held. Frederick Rignor,
who was arrested with him, was held for
having burglsrous tools in his possession
and not being able to prove that he had
no connection with the robbery.
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Condensed TELEGRAMS.

A dispatch from Washington says in
formation has been received that Cataczty,
the Russian Minister, will be recalled.
A freight Car in train on the Cincin-
natl and Louisville Short Line Road
caught fire yesterday morning, near Yeat-
mans Points, it is supposed from q spark
from the engine. Fortunately it was
discovered almost Immediately. The
train ran on side track at WoodsoD, and
the fire was extinguished with bat slight
lOas
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CHICAGO.
Not RcsponsibIe for Bad writing,

Not RcsponsibIe Tor had Writings
CHICAGO, July ga case of great
interest in the mercantile community has
been determined to-day in the Circuit
Court in this city, Judge Williams pre-
siding. The suit by Milwsrd ct al VS..
the Western Union Telegraph Company,
has been pending some four years. In
November, 1866, Milward 3 Co. received
a cipher message from Baltimore in
which the word shun was substituted for
sheen, causing the loss of the purchase of
provisions of over $4,000. The de-
cision rendered by the court absolved the
defendant from all responsibility en- &C
count of the error alleged to have &C.
CURED in the message.
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SPRINGFIELD.


The Fastest Rowing ON Record,
SPRINGFIELD, MASS, July 25.-The
official statement of l.. J. Powers and G.
A. Nichols, of this city, the time-keepers
in the recent University boat race at In
gleside, declares that they have discov-
cred an error of one minute in reckoning
The time for that race. The change thus
effected makes the time of the Agricul,
tural crew 16:46t, the fastest time on re-
cord, by nearly one minute.
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INDIANA.

A Radical State Printer in Trouble.
CINCINNATI, July 26,-Specials received
last night from Indianapolis state that
Richard j. Bright, of the Sentinel, was
yesterday arrested on the charge of pre-
senting false fraudulent accounts as State
Printer and swearing to the same. Bright
declares the prosecution malicious. A
hearing occurs Thursday.
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PENNSYLVANIA,
struck by Lightning.

WHEELING, w. Va, July 26.-During
a severe thunder storm at Washington,
Pa, this evening, Mrs. John Allen was
instantly killed, aad her youngest child
and lady named Elizabeth Wolf badly
stunned, by lightning.
PITTSBURGH, July ga severe thun-
der storm passed over Allegheny City this
afternoon. The lightning struck several
houses, Ding slight damage.
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GLADSTONE advises English railroads to
favor cheap fares. This is good adj
vice. Chesnfares would induce great
deal of travelling for pleasure by parties
who cannot afford the luxury at the pres
ent rates. Like cheap postage, low rail-
road fares would in the end pay hand
somely.
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WATSEKA.

Four of the O'MearR Lynchers Ar
rested.
CHICAGO, July CIV. J. Daniels, of
Gilman, Illinois, one of the principals in
the mob that hung O'Meara at Watseka
some time ago for the murder of his boy,
has been arrested, with three others, by
order of The Governor, for the act. He
has engaged the services of Hon. W. w.
O'Brien, of Peoris, to defend him in the
trial. 1t seems that there is local jeal-
ousy existing between the towns Of Gil
man and Wstseka, and some charge the
citizens of the latter place with the action
of Gov. Palmer In arrestiDg the ringlesders
of the lynching party.
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PATHOLOGICAL.

NEW HAVEN, Conn, July 26.-The
American Philogical Society commenced
its third annual session in this city yester-
day. Chandelier Crosby, of New York,
President of the Society, delivered an
address. Papers on important points
were read by Professors Whitney,
Marsh, Hall, Hadley, and others. In the
evening Il reception will be given in the
Yale Court Gallery.
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SENATOR SPENCER of Alabama does
not abate his opposition to the appoint
ment Of ex-senator Warner, as Collector
at Mobile. He charges Gen. Grant with
dupHcIty, ard says that at the next ses-
sion of Congress he will move to reject
the nomination, and that if the President
is bourd to attempt to run things in Ala
bama ne will find the party pretty well
divided ST the next election.
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CoTToN, according to our regular dis
patches, closed ''excited and higher" but,
rs the quotation for middling remains at
20ic, we. suspect an error in the tele-
graphic oypher. 1t should, perhaps, read
''quiet and unchanged"
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IT is the impression of some at TIE
Treasury Department that Congress will
be urged at its next session to pass bill
authorizing a thirty years five per ceub
loan, to take the place of Boutwelrs
new loan. which has SO utterly failed.