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Storm in Ohio and Indiana,
CINCINNATI, August ia severe
storm of wind, hail, thunder and rain,
unrooflng houses and doing other
damage, passed over Richmond, Ind.
and franklin, Ohio, yesterday even-
ing.
Tennessee Press Party at Baltimore.
BALTIMORE, August 1.-THE Ten.
Dessee editorial party was received
here this morning by the city authOri-
ties. To-day they will visit the pub
lie institutions Of the city and take an
excursion down the bay.
A Congressman in Luck.
CHICAGO, August 17.-Hon. Burton
G. Cook, representative In Congress !
from the Sixth district of Illinois, has
accepted the position Of Co lectOr of
the Northwestern railroad. He has
not yet concluded to resign his seat in
Congress, but if he does it will be pre-
vlOus to the first Of September.
The Druggists in Arms.
NEW YORK, August ia firm of
wholesale druggists yesterday took
measures to have the legality of Com
missioner PleasOntOn's decision con-
cerning the stamp duty on packing
foreign perfumery tested in the courts.
Importers claim that the ruling of
PieasOnton conflicts with his prede-
cessors and cannot be sustained by
law.
Another Railroad in for It.
BANGOR, ME-, August 1.-THE
COroner's inquest in the case of the
Maine Central railroad disaster was
concluded to day, and verdict given
that ThOs. Gallagher came to his
death on the 9th of August by the
breaking down of a bridge; that on
examination it shows the timbers to
be very rotten; that the railroad com.
| mlssiODers made an examination of
the bridget in 1870, 0,and ag sin in connec.
tion with the superintendent of bridges
employed by the road, on the Sth of
June, 1871, both of which failed to
discover any defects; that thorough
examination would have detected
rottenness in the timbers.
Heat in and Health of New York.
NEW YORK, August Yesterday
was considered the hottest day of the
season. Eeven deaths from the ex-
cessive heat are reported. The appre
tensions as to the approach Of the
cholera are becoming less alarming in
view OF the measures which are being
taken for its prevention. The opinions
of leading physicians are being sought
on the subject, but in g search made
yesterday, but two out of ten leading
doctors were found, the others beng
out Of town. One said that we rarely
escape an epidemic here when it pre-
walls in England and France. The
Brooklyn authorities say there is not
the least danger of cholera or yellow
fever reaching that city this year, and
they have made no preparations be-
yOnd keeping the streets clean.
The New Jersey Pharmaceutical AssOcla-
tion.
LONG BRANCH, August 1.-THE
New Jersey Pharmaceutical Associa-
ton held special meeting last even
ing at the Continental hotel; there
was nearly seventy members from all
parts of the State present. The COM
mittee appointed at the last meeting
of the Association presented report
containing draft of proposed law
to regulate the practice of pharmacy
and prevent the adulteratiOn OF drugs
and medicines, which was highly sp-
proved and adopted.
A petition, signed by the leading
physicians of the State to the Legis-
lature to pass the foregoing bill, was
presented and ordered to be sent in
with other documents, after which
the meeting adjourned.
Arkansas.
LITTLE Rock, August 1.-THE Ku-
Klux outrage reported at Gold Creek,
Conway county, is said to have
grown out Of the following circum.
stances. A negro named June Reed,
who keeps a water tank on the Fort
Smith railroad, had hired little girl,
an orphan, to assist his wife in her
work. A travelling preacher saw the
girl at the house of a neighbor, learned
that she was an orphan and lived with
would leave there he would get her a
good home in q white family. She
returned home and told the negro.
The latter Immediately went in search
of the preacher, and, on finding him,
cursed and alb .4Sed the preacher at a
terrible rate. That night several
masked parties went to the house of
the negro and fired several shots into
it, without doing any particular dam
sge. The next day the negro came to
the city with his family.
Grain Statistics.
New YORK, August 1.-THE ex-
ports of breadstuffs to Europe for the
week ending last night are as follows:
Total shipments of wheat to Europe,
All, ,577 bushels, (42,792 bushels less
than last week.; Liverpool, 362,622
bushels; London, 73, SOL bushels; Bris-
toI, II, ,249; Penarth road for orders,
7443 bushels; Bremen, 1895 bushels;
Havre, 77l5 bushels. Total ship
ments OF corn to Europe, 4l0, ,s86 BUSH
els, IA, 997 bushels more than last
week.; Liverpool, 1877 ,020 bushels;
Bristol, 39, ,48O bushels; Glasgow, 25,-
041 bushels; Belfast, 25,642 bushels;
Penarth road for orders, 25,714 BUSH
els; Cork, for orders, 104, 428 bushels;
Bremen, 1894 bushels; Hsvre, 81 ,SS7
bushels; Rotterdam, $3.50 bushels.
Total shipments of flour, 5412 barrels,
CABS barrels less than last week.;
Liverpool, 300 barrels; London, 400
barrels; Bristol, 2010 barrels; Glasgow,
702 barrels. Cheese, 67,306 pOunGs;
bacon, 1777 pounds; lard, 75H pounds;
beef, 125 barrels; pork, so barrelsi tai
low, 1893 pounds; butter, 1855 pounds.
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