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AT Winona, Minn on the 4th inst,
Charles Bohn shot his wife, inflicting a seri-
Gus though not fatal wound, and then shot
himself through the temple, dying in short
time. Jealousy.
On the night of the 1st inst, woman
named Mrs. Welliden Van Voorhees,, deserted
and left destitute by her husband, poisoned
herself and three children, and then set fire
TO the house, at Wilton, Wis. The flames
were extinguised and the bodies recovered.
Mrs. STEPHEN MAY, of Mechanics
vile. \. Y, threw her four children into q
creek and followed herself, on the Sd inst.
The alarm was given and the woman and one
child were saved.
OWEN WRIGHT, colored, who bEutally
outraged a white married lady month ago,
near Crawford, Ala, was taken from the
lsll, on the I'd inst, by party of 100 citi-
zens, who carried him TO the woods, and, il
is said, burned him. His victim fully iden-
tilted him.
A DEADwooD coach was stopped and
robbed about three miles from Cheyenne,
Wy, on the 30th nit On the lst INST, de.
taehment of United States soldiers succeed.
ed in capturing the Williams and they are
now lodged in jail.
OK the night of the 3oth ult the
house of Burgoyne FRITZ, wealthy farmer
living near Terre Haute, lnd., was discov-
ed to he on FIRE, The house was consumed
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FOREIGN.

A DECREE just issued in Cuba declares
all estates ruined during the war and in the
way of obstruction, free from contributions
for five years. Also every new estate and
all new property acquired in central and
oriental departments, all industries and
commerce in those departments newly es-
tabilshed, will be exempt three years. All
female cattle imported with the exclusive
object of raising stock will be duty free two
years.
HENRY NORFOLK has been convicted
of the murder of his wife i'll Arundel
county, Maryland, on May %.
CAPE Town advices of Oct, 16 an
nounces that the governor has deposed
kreli, chief of Galekas, and annexed his ter
ritory. kreli sues for peace.
A BERLIN special announces that Wis
count De Gontaurt Biron, ambassador of
France to Germany has resigned. 1t is re-
ported that he is TO succeed Duke De Cazes
as minister OF foreign affairs.
A SPECIAL from Alexandria says the
king of Abyssinia again threatens to invade
Egypt with 10000 men.
THE ship D. W. Chapman from New
York for Bremen, went ashore at Nieuwe
Dieppe and became a total loss. Crew
saved. Two hundred barrels of petroleum
toated ashore.
THE Republque Francaise says: "The
crisis must be terminated, or we shall be
drawn into that most terrible of catastro-
phes-civil war"
BENDS cotton mill, at Oldham, Eng,
containing 10000 spindles, was destroyed by
fire.
THE queen has pardoned Alice Rhodes,
and commuted the sentence of the other
Penge prisoners to Imprisonment Tor life.
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THE EAST.

JESSE PoMEROY, the boy-murderer
serving life sentence in Charlestown
Mass, penitentiary, attempted to escape on
the night Of the 4th inst, by removing the
stones from the wall of his cell.
EIGHTY-NINE vessels sailed from the
port of New York, last week, with consign.
ments of grain.
T.. II. HAYWOOD, known As leader OF
tne Free Lovers in Massachusetts,, has been
arrested on charge of circulating obscene
literature.
THE creditors of Augustin Daily, the
new New York theatre manager, have con-
sented TO the renewal of his notes for three.
six and nine months.
VAN NANDYKE has been found guilty
OF the murder of his wife, near Ogdensburg.
IN June last and sentenced to be hanged
December 81.
JAMES BRowN, of the firm of Brown
Bros, bankers, New York city, died on the
lst inst, aged ST..
AT Grace Church, New York, on the
3lst ult, the Rev. Samuel Isaac Joseph
Schenchawasky, ID. D., was consecrated
bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church
OF Shanghai, with jurisdiction over the
entire Chinese empire
IHE striking cigar makers held mass
meeting at Cooper Institute, n. y, on the
night OF the 30th ult. 1t is estimated that
ten or twelve thousand workmen were pres
ent. The meeting was very orderly.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK,
DEATH OF SENATOR NORTON.

SENATOR MORTON died at Indianapo.
lis, Ind, on the 1st inst. For several DAYS
previous the Senator seemed to be gradu.
ally sinking, and his family and friends had
prepared for the worst. On the 1st inst, he
rested the greater portion OF the day in q
sitting posture, but grew constantly weaker,
and at five O'Clock he exclaimed "I am
dying; am worn OUT These were his last
words.
Oliver p. Morton was born in Wayne
county, indiana, August 4, 1928; was edu-
Gated at the Miami University; studied law
and came to the bar in lS47 in 1852 he was
elected Circuit Judge of the Fifth Judicial
circuit of Indiana; in 1856 he was nomi-
nateT by the PspuhLcans foI the Office o.
Governor of Indiana but defeated; in 1860
ne was elected Lieutenant-Governor of
Indiana, and in 1861, on the transfer of
Governor III. ;. Lane to the Senate, he
assumed the office OF Governor and held it
four years; in 1864 he was elected Governor
for a second term; in 1865, on account of
his having been stricken with paralysis, he
visited Europe in the hope of improving his
health, but returned III 1866, and in spite
OF continued i'll health resumed his execu-
tive duties. In June, 1866, he delivered a
political speech while seated in his chair,
which created much enthusiasm in the
state, and of which more than million
copies We're published in pamphlet form !;
and on the subsequent meeting of the Legis-
lature IN January, 1867, he was elected by q
remarkable vote Senator in Congress for
the term ending in 1873, and was reelected
for the succeeding term, which expires
in 1879.
His remains were buried in Crown Hill
Cemetery on the 9Th inst, with imposing
military and civil honors.
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WASHINGTON.

A BILL has been introduced in the
House providing for the establishment of
postal savings banks. Deposits to he re-
ceived as low as 25 cents, the account not to
exceed 500.
The committee on expenditures in the
naval department, called upon the secretary
OF the navy on the Sd inst, and informed
him OF their purpose to make thorough in
vestigation of the accounts of the depart
ment under the administration of Secretary
Robeson, and especially into the transfer of
funds appropriated for the pay of the navy
into other channels.
THE silver bill, as agreed upon by the
House committee on banking and currency,
provides that there shall be coined at the
several mints of the United States, silver
dollars of the weight of 4121Z grains troy, of
standard silver, as provided in the act OF
January, Is 1887, which coin, together with
al silver dollars heretofore coined by the
inited States of alike weight and fineness,
shall be legal tender for all debts and dues,
public and private, except when otherwise
provided by contract, and any owner of sill
yer bullion may deposit the same at any
United States coinage mint. or assay office,
to be coined into such dollars for his benefit,
upon the same terms and conditions as gold
+ bullion is deposited for coinage under ex.
/ istiAg laws.
! THE senate committee on patents met
on the 1st inst, and voted to recommend sp
preparations OF s45, 900 for the restoration Of
such models which passed through the fire
/ in the patent Office, as can be repaired.
/ FOLLOWING is the Senate special com
mittee to consider the subject Of ascertain
/ ing and declaring the vote for President snd
I Nice-President of the United States: Messrs
Edmunds, Conkling, Howe, Mcmillan
Teller, Davis, of Illinois, Bayard, Thurman
| and Morgan of Alabama.
THE committee on naval affairs have
agreed TO report in favor of Immediately
/ paying arrears due naval officers.
THE President, on the Both ult., nomi
mated John Walsh, OF Phils,, for the Eng
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MISCELLANEOUS.

IN Boston, on the 9th inst, J. S. Nc
Farland, Chas A. Barry, Geo. A. Rodgers,
VIM. Horner and Adde f. Ward were held
in 81 900 bail each, charged with conspiracy
to blackmail DIR. Howard by a story OF
seduction and abortion.
GEN. GRANT received at Paris, on the
9TH inst, Madame MacMahon and son, De
Tallyrand Perigord and Admiral Picquel
Dez Touches, minister of marine.
THE funeral of Henry Meigs, the
great railroad builder, took place at Lima,
Peru, and was an imposing affair. Two hun
dred coaches and 10000 people were in the
procession. The coffin was carried by the
populace tor half mile. His will makes no
direct statement of the amount Of his prop
ertv, buthe bequeathes all his property, after
the payment OF his debts, TO his children,
who are enjoined to carry on the works he
begun.
THE examination of the players of the
Louisville Base Ball club for alleged crook.
edness, was conducted by first-cass law.
Yer. 1t resulted III the expulsion of A. II
Nichols, James A. Devlin, Geo. w. Hall and
Wm. Craver. Hall, Devlin and Nichols
confessed IL having received brises for sell
ling games.
AMERICAN missionaries in the famine
district in India, call on their country-men
to send relief for the multitudes of men
women and children who are diving around
| them.
EX-MAYoR 4. OAKEY HALL returned
to New York from his foreign tour on the
| 1st inst. He denies that ring troubles had
anything to do with his absence.
THE grand jury of Allegheny county
Pa, issued subpoena to Gov. Hartranft or
| the 31st ult He refused to appear and testify
! in the case of Gen. Pearson, charged with
murder, and give his reasons in letter tc
| the court
THE funeral of the late Gen. Forres
took place at Memphis, Tenn, on the 3ls
ult., with military and civil honors.
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MANITOWOC
DRY DOCK.

SUBTERRANEAN telegraphs have been
proved in Germany better than serial.
The conductibility of the buried wire
which has been in use between Berlin
and Halle for year has increased,
instead of decreasing, as is usually the
case in aerial wires. The line is composed
of seven thin copper wires twisted togeth-
er so as TO form a single conductor, and
encased in India-rubber. Similar lines
have been begun or are projected between
Berlin and Cologne, Frankfort, Stras-
burg, Hamburg, kiel, Breslau and
Konigsberg. The trenches in which the
wires are buried or excavated bya steam
machine, which, after placing the wire
in position, fills up the trench
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milwaukee,.

MILWAUKEE, November SIS 90 p. ri
Flour-But little progress was made in this
market to-day. For desirable grades there
was fair local inquiry, with prices nom.
inally unchanged, ranging from s5.50@600.
Good shipping spring extras were quotable
at s5.00@5.3715; common extras S4.75@5.00
Wheat-Active and higher; No. 1 cash sold
at S1.104@1.10A; No. hard at S1.1312@
Lisa; No. at $1.0S@1 1.0S1{; No. seller
November at sl.0534@s1. .O61l; December
at S1.044@1.052s; No. cash at 81 0234@
1.03A. Corn-Quiet but firm at 431zc for
No. 2. Oats-Firm at 24L5c cash. Rye
Steady and firm at soc . Barley-In fair de
mand at 62 &c for No. 2 cash; No. at 45 1zc
Provisions-Steady; mess pork at s13.2;
cash. Lard-Firm at SIZE. Hogs-Quiet
but steady at S4.55@4.s0.
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with everything in it. The corpse of his
daughter Rosa, aged 19 years, was found in
the ruins with her head, arms and legs
burned of, but with enough evidence to
show that the girls throat was cut, and a
deep wound made in her side. She had also
been, smothered in a carpet, so that her
trunk was not much burned. One Sylvanus
Burnham, discarded lover, is suspected of
being the criminal, as he is missing
WM. WIENERs convicted at St. Louis,
Mo-, for the murder of 4. V. Lawrence in a
saloon, on the 10Th of January last was SEN
fenced to be hung on Friday, December II.
JOHN II. GEoRGER, Cicero, Ind,
sewing machine man, has been arrested for
forgery to the amount of $4,000.
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Chicago.

CHICAGO, November 81 80 P. NJ
for cash S1.0534 for seller November; 1.0496
for seller the year. Corn-Firm; 1896 for
cash; 425sc for seller November. Oats
Easy; 24s4c for cash; 241Ec for seller No
vember. Rye-At sac. Barley-At 591zc.
Pork-Easier for cash; options higher; $500
for cash; $l2.50@12.55 for seller the year.
Lard-Firmer; $50 Tor cash; $S.05 for seller
the year. Whisky-Easier; s1.06 asked no
bids. Hogs-Receip.s, IL 900 head, active
and strong; light at si.55@4.65; heavy mixed
packing. si.60@4.S0; shipping, s4.S5@510
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THE MARKETS,
New York.

NEW YORK, November SIS 90 p M.-Cot-
ton-Quiet and unchanged. Flour-Quiet; !;
receipts, 26,000 bbls; sales, 10000 bbls ;
prices unchanged. Wheat-Shade stronger
but quiet; receipts, 357 900 bus; sales, 1t, 900
bus; $1.30 for No. 2 winter red December.
Rye-Firm at 77@7Sc. Corn-E@1c bet
ter; receipts, $4,000 bus; sales, $4,000 bus
at 60H@61 nc. Barley-Dull. Oats-Steady
receipts, $4,000 bus; sales, p 900 bus; prices
unchanged. Pork-Steady and unchanged.
Lard-Firm at SS.6211. Whisky-AtS 81 90 4
@l.10. Petroleum-Crude, unchanged; re-
fined at 1880.
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iish mission. Mr.. Walsh is well known as
the president OF the board of finance of the
late centennial exhibition.
REPRESENTATIVE HUNTER, of Indi-
ana, has introduced bill authorizing an ex-
pedition TO the Arctic seas. The bill EN-.
braces the Howgate plan.
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Ancient Titbits.

In ancient times there were certain
dishes much affected by epicures that
would hardly find favor among us of the
preseng day. The flesh of dogs was eat
en- By the Greeks and Romans, and Hip
pocrates tells US that it was light and
wholesome food 1t was served up in
variety of ways at their feasts. Immor-
tai Caesar may have passed his plate
second time for another piece of that
dog and Cicero may have supped upon
it served up hot after hard day in the
Roman courts. Another delicaey which
the Latin Fathers considered particularly
toothsome was a certain grub or worm,
which they fattened with -four. The
commoner people used to indulge in fried
scorpions drenched in oil; not very ap-
petizing dish acconding to our present
standard of tastes, but one that the con-
sumers relished and thrived upon.
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FOREIGN.

LONDON, November 5.-l2 80 P. M.-Liv-
erpool wheat market opens quiet. Wheat
firmly held. Floating cargoes unaltered;
on passage rather easier. Mark Lane quiet.
Good cargoes of mixed American corn, of
coast, 3os- English country market quiet.
French firm.
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DR.. R. B. COLE, of San Francisco,
boasts of an interesting relic in the shape
of an onyx snuff box, lined with gold,
and bearing on the lid wonderful mo-
sale, representing miniature landscape,
three inches long and an inch and half
wide, and consisting of 5000 pieces of
stone. The box is said to have been
presented by the Empress Josephine 20
her surgeon, whose grandson in Paris
gave it to the present owner,
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Col ROBERT g. INGERsoLL, of Illinois
will remove To Washington this winter
to practice law.
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WEDNESDAY October 81 --Rills were

Introduced to remove all restrictions regarding the
enlistment of coored citizens in the army: TO pro-
vide Tor the examination OF claimants for pensions
and Tor the appointment OF examining surgeons.
Also petition praying congress take action in re-
gard TO the Freedmen's Savings and Trust Co, so
After short executive session the senate adjourned
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XLVth CONGRESS-..EXTRA SESSION
Senate.

TUESDAY, October 30.-A resolution
was introduced requesting the president ii not N
compatible with public interest to transmit 10 the
Senate statement OF the appropriations and expen-
sions from March 1, 1889, TO June 80 1876. Agreed
to.---..A bill was introduced and referred to pay
over TO Texas the residue of s coo Oo0 reserved Tor
the Satisfaction OF bat portion Of the public debt of
the late republic of Texas Tor which duties on i'm
ports Of said republic specially pledged being he
balance remaining after the payment Of such debt :
pellng invasions etcA resolution authoriZtng
the presiding ofhcer to appoint select committee
on the subject Of ascertaining and declaring the re-
suit oi the election for president and vice president
oi the United States was agreed Adjourned.
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TUESDAY, October 30 III" commit
tee on appropriations to-day CONSIDERED the appro
priations for the army. 1t is understood the bill
VIII be reported within two days......The committee
on ways and means was also organized and had re-
ferred various subjects embraced in the Presidents
message and will report to the house tomorrow.
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DEBT STATEMENT.

The October statement of the public debt
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WEDNESDAY. October 31.-Paners
Senate.

THURSDAY, November 1.-The Vice
President appointed Withers member of the board
of regents of the Smithsonian Institute. Senator
Morton's desk marked by bouquet of white
flowers, and the chaplain offered q prayer for the
dying senator. ..... A memorial OF the Kansas City
board of trade, favorng the repeal of the specie
sumption act and reconciliation of silver and
resolution OF the st. Louis Merchants Exchange
favoring the repeal of the bankrupt law were re-
ferred The senate then went into executive
sion, and when the doors were reopened adjourned.
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SATURDAY, November 3.-PrIce asked
leave offer a resolution providing for the remone
tization OF silver. Objected to-. Consideration
was resumed OF the bill for the repeal Of part Of
the resumption act. After discussion to the pro-
posed terms for the management and consideration
making il the special order for Tuesday next and
until Thursday Nov. 15, when the previous ques-
as he regarded the bill assault upon the
tonal credit. The remainder of the morning hour
was used up voting on the motion to adjourn, and
the bill went over till the next morning hour
Bills were introduced and referred; For the
reconciliation of silver. and the recoinage of the
standard silver dollar; amending the constitution
SO as to elect President and Vice President by di-
vote of ne people Adjourned
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kell in member from Kansas Bills
were introduced: To aid the building of q narrow
guage road from tidewater to St. Louis and Chicago
authorizing the secretary of the treasury to pay
owners the value of cotton and tobacco seized by
the government since April TO- 1865. Ewing call
ed up his motion to reconsider the vote OF yester
day recommittins TO the committee on banking and
currency the hill to repeal the third section OF the
resumption act After considerable discussion the
motion reconsider carried .. A resolution to
adjourn TO allow members to go home ana
vote, defeated....A resolution to end the extra
session on the 2Sth OF November referred.....
The house then went into committee of the whole
on the state OF the union. ....Ad journed
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-07-19

THEY belong in Massillon-at least
the tender one does, and though their
skin is of a darkened hue, they were
as loving and innocent a pair as ever
felt the rapture of moonlight picnic
at the lake. A few nights since they
stood lingeringlv on both sides of the
gate, as though naturally reluctant to
part, and yet afraid to stay.
"Ambrosius," said she, "we may
nevah, nevah meet agin, deah."
"And whafoah dose distractin'
phases Of youah speech, me own ba-
nana?'
"Cuz, Brosius, cuz de ole man, my
crewel guv'ner says you lacks de re-
qwesite mount oh sand and den"-
What else, deah Lindy, cof it up
Pm heerin' you"
Well, if / mus'-de lightness oil
yure salry, dat bodders him; if you
kin git s'uatiOn on de k'nal SO as tC
keep lie guv'ner sort o. luxOuris, you
know, oh den we'd he de happies' i'm
de lam fo' shuah."
"I'll steer de mules to-morrer, deah,
an de ole man shall hab all de joy
ments dat dis life kin 'preciate."
And they leaned toward each other,
and when their soft lips met, it seem.
ed as though two oysters shells had
come tOgether.-[S Stark Co. Dem.
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HOW INDIANS CLIMB TREES.

In South America even the weakest
woman may be not uncommonly seen
plucking the fruit at the tree tops.
If the bark is SO smooth aud slippery
that they can not go up by climbing
they use other means. They make a
hoop of wild vines, and putting their
feet inside they use it as support in
climbing. The negro of the west
coast of Africa makes large hoop
around the tree, and gets inside it,and
jerks it up the tree with his hands, a
little at a time, drawing his legs up
after it. The Tahitian boys tie their
feet together, four or five inches apart,
with piece of palm bark, and with
the aid of this fetter 60 up the cocoa
palms to gather nuts. The native wo-
men of Australia climb the gum trees
after opossums; where the bark is
rough they chop holes with hatchet,
then one throws about the tree rope
twice as long as will 60 around it,puts
her hatchet on her cropped head, and,
placing her feet against the tree and
grasping the rope with her hands, she
bitches it up by jerks, and pulls her
self up the enormous trunk almost as
fast as a man will climb ladder.
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AN AWKWARD BLUNDER,

The little suites of rooms at the Ma
tional Hotel at Washington open up
on little halls. uniform in appearance,
connected by long corridors, and are
all furnished alike. One night Sena-
tor Mangum, of North Carolina, then
President pro tempore of the Senate,
dignified gentleman of the old
school, had just returned from par
ty, when Governor Upham, Senator
from Vermont, came in without any
ceremony and took seat. The two
chartered away on politics, the wealth
er, the social amusements, ETC., until
the clock on the mantle struck one.
"Really, Governor Upham," said Man.
gum IL am always pleased to see you,
but 1 really, believe it is getting very
late" 81 have thought so for some
time," replied Upham, but he made
no movement. Providently the half
hour sounded, and Mangum remark
ed 81 thought, Governor Upham,
that you had decided to go to bed,
sir!" $50 had, Mr. President" ans
wered the VermOnter, but he did not
bulge. Mangum stared at him in
amazement, and at last plainly said :
"But why don't you go to your room,
Governor Upham? 1t will soon be
two O'Clock !" "My room. Mr.. Presi-
dent! Why this is my room, and l
have been waiiing for two hours
past" Mangum sprang TO his feet,
looked into the sleeping room adja-
cent, and found that he was III Up
hams room instead of his own.
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THE SOULS PROGRESS.

The spirit or soul of man knows it,
self to be capable, We will not say of
unlimited, but of continued progress
and development However vigor-
Gus the tree or animal may be, it soon
reaches the point when it can grow no
more. The time comes when the
tree has borne all the leaves and fruit
and buds which can bear, when its
vital force is exhausted, and it is no
more. The animal may have done its
best, it may have reached high con-
dition of strength and beauty, but
when its limit is reached it can grow
no more. With the soul of man as
living and thinking power it is far
otherwise; he has never exhausted
himself. When the man of science