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WASHINGTON NOTES.

The official estimates required for the
postal service for the next fiscal year aggregate
sc6,55l 900. The estimated total postal reve-
nues will fall short of supplying this sum by
s., 1907, $40.
1t is stated from Washington that the
decision of Attorney General Devens overriding
former decision of his, in which he now decides
that banks, in making up their statements for
taxation, may deduct the amount invested in
United States bonds, including premium az well
as face value, is exciting much discussion at
the Treasury Department This decision will
probably have the effect to take at least 81, 900,
coo out of the treasury.
Postmaster General Key has returned
to Washington from his protracted visit to the
Pacific coast
The House Committee on Appropria-
commence the preparation of the general ap-
preparation bills
1t is stated in Washington dispatch
that the report that our authorities intend to
make strong objection to the settlement reached
on the fishery award is confirmed. 1t is
claimed that our fishermen have been forcbly
deprived of rights which they possessed under
the treaty, and the settlement made does not
take any of these things into account"
Attorney General Devens telegraphs
as follows to the District Attorney of South
Carolina: 81 want no trafiicking or guaran-
tees, but judicial investigation of outrages
alleged TO have been committed upon an unof-
fendinp reonle in the exercise of their rights a.
citizens of the United States" This telegram
was sent in reply to propositions made on be-
half of parties in that State who are charged
with violating the law regulating the exercise of
the elective franchise.
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MISCELLANEOUS oLEANINas.

A st. Louis paper reports that Samuel
J. Tilden will shortly wed noted belle of that
city.
A large vessel built for the Russian
Government by Messrs. Cramp 4 Sons, has
just been launched at Philadelphia.
A national convention of those inter
ested in the building of narrow gauge railroads
has Just been held in Cincinnati. The dele
gates, some sixty in number, engaged in an ex-
tremely interesting interchange of views re-
specting the best methods of operating the mar
row. gauge system of railroads.
Henry w. Tyler, well-known des-
perado of Parkersburg, W. Va, shot and killed
his wife, and then put bullet through his own
head, dying a few minutes after. He is sup
posed to have been under the influence of
liquor at the time.
The steamship City of Houston, from
New York for Galveston, Texas, foundered off
Frying Pan shoals, during the recent terrific
gale. The passengers and crew were rescued,
and landed at Fernandina, Fla. The steamer
Gen. Barnes, from Savannah for New York, was
lost in the same storm. Fortunately, as in the
case of the City of Houston, her passengers and
crew were all saved
The schooner Florence, of the How
gate expedition, which had been almost given
up as lost, has turned up safely.
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A HindOO's Feat.

Among the hill tribes of the Anglo
Indian frontier, cunning is quite as
highly esteemed as personal prowess,
and there is ample foundation for the
native proverb that 1t is easier to find
snow in summer than to outwit Khy-
beree." But even these masters of
stratagem occasionally meet their match,
as the following adventure, told in the
words of it's hero, Hindoo trader, suf-
ticiently shows: when / started to
go from Peshawur TO Herat, knew that
l couldn't expect to pass the mountains
without meeting robber or two, and
made my preparations accordingly. 1
laid out all my money in several large
diamonds, which 1 bound round my
head in soiled rag, made to look like
the bandage of wound. Then put
on the raggedest clothes could get,
and loaded donkey with loaves of
spiced bread, such as the mountaineers
like, putting a good dose of opium in
every loaf, and away went, driving my
beast before me. 1t wasn't long before
l fell in with half a dozen quorum
saugs' (brigands), who never troubled
themselves about me, seeing what a
miserable object 1 looked, but flew at
once upon the bread and devoured it
all. The opium was not long of pro-
ducing it's effect, and, as soon as they
were all asleep, took what money they
had, packed all their weapons and the
best of their clothes upon my donkey,
and went on my way. But L can tell
you, Sahib, took good care never to
travel that road again."
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Languages Of Finger.Rings.

In case of gentleman wishing to
marry-hterally lin the market" with
his heart-he wears plain or chased
gold ring upon the first finger of the
left or heart hand. When success at
tends his suit, and he is actually en-
gagged, the ring passes on to the third
finger If, however, the gentleman de-
sires to tell the fair ones that he not
only is not "in the MARKET" but that he
does not design to marry at all, he wears
the signet upon his little finger, and all
the ladies may understand that he is
out of their reach. With the fair sex
"the laws of the ring" are: A plain or
chased gold ring on the little finger of
the right hand implies not engaged"
or, in plain words, "ready for proposals,
sealed or otherwise" When engaged
the ring passes to the third finger of the
right hand. When married the third
finger of the left hand receives it. If
the fair one proposes to defy all siege to
her heart, she places the rings on her
first and fourth finger, one on each
like two charms, to keep away the temp
ter. 1t is somewhat singular that this
latter disposition of rings is very rare.
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Fatal Mesmerism.

Mesmerism is fatal fun sometimes, as a
recent occurrence at st. Johnsbury, Vt,
proves. Prof" Carpenter delivered a
mesmeric lecture there, and employed
one Peter Bibeau to practically illustrate
his powers. In the course of the ex-
periments Bibeau was taken violently
i'll. The professor was arrested on an
action of trespass, and damages laid at
$500. He settled with the man for $75,
and left for fresh fields of mesmeric en-
terprise. Bibeau, however, died, and an
autopsy showed him to have been the
victim of inflammation of the bowels,
induced, doubtless, 10y his freaks under
mesmeric influence.
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POLITICAL POINTS.

The Tammany Democrats of New
York city have nominated Augustus Scbell foi
Mayor In opposition to him the anti-Tam-
manyites and Republicans are supporting Ed
ward Cooper, Democrat, son of Peter Cooper.
At the recent election in Indina the
Democrats polled ~, $50 votes, the Republicans
1908, and the Greenbackers 39,l56. Demo
cratic plurality, 1874.
Secretary of State Evarts went over
to New York, the other day, and made talk on
the finances in Cooper Institute
The President and Secretary Sher-
man attended the Cumberland tMd) Fair last
week, and delivered brief addresses on the
financial situation.
Official vote Of Iowa for Secretary OF
State, at the October election: Hull, Republican,
l'4,5O3; Farusworth, Democrat and Green
hacker, l25,ll4 Hulls majority, 9,Ssa
To M interviewer Postmaster Gen
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Let Girls BE Taught to Swim.

Among the few survivors from the
terrible wreck of the Princess Alice are
three members of the same family-Mr.
Thorpe, of the Old Kent road, IL years
of age; his sister, Miss Thorpe who is
brother, mere boy of 8. All these owe
their lives to the fact that they were
able to swim.
The boys, it would seem, were some
how separated from their sister. They
were both picked up by the same boat,
and were, when it helped them from
their perilous position, swimming side
by side. The sister, who was older than
either, achieved her own safety. She
struck boldly out, and, in spite of the
incumbrance of her garments, the force
of the tide, the darkness of the night.
and the danger to which she cannot but
have been subjected by the frantic
efforts of those who were struggling
around her in the water to catch and
cling to any object within their grasp,
succeeded in reaching the bank.
The exploit she accomplished is. il
we consider it, almost marvellous. The
tide was rushing swiftly down; the wa
ter must have been cold and benumbing;
the night, as We know, was dark and
foggy; there were round about her all
the horrors of the scene; the "last fare
well y was rising from river to sky; in
the water the strugglers were graphing,
in their last agony, each with each and
yet, through all these horrors, she fought
her way with a calm, quiet confidence
which men who have stood under fire
and confronted death in other and even
more sudden shapes might well envy
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Corn.StaIk Sugar..How to Make II.

Prof. Collier of the Agricultural De-
partment ut Washington, gives the fol-
lowing directions for making sugar
from corn-stalks:
/. Heat the freshly-expressed juice of
the cane, sorghum, or maize in copper
or timed iron vessel to temperature.
as shown by thermometer suspended
SO that the mercury bulb is immersed in
the juice, of $50 deg. Fahrenheit, equal
to 80 deg. centigrade.
2. After the juice has been heated to
1876 deg. Fahrenheit, add and stir into
it one fluid ounce of cream of lime to
each gallon of juice, or from five to
seven pounds (pints) to each hundred
gallons of juice.
3. After adding and stirring in the
cream of lime, heat the juice rapidly to
the boiling point.
1. When it begins TO boil, shut of the
heat or remove the vessel containing
the juice from the fire, and as soon as
the sediment begins to settle, draw off
with siphon the clear liquid from the
top until at least nine-tenths of the
whole quantity of Juice has been thus
removed, leaving thick, muddy sedi-
ment at the bottom.
). Sweep out with broom the muddy
sediment into bag, filter, and add the
filtrate as it passes through the filterer
to the clear liquid siphoned off
6. To the clear liquid thus obtained
in sections fourth and fifth, which
should be allowed to cool to a temper
allure of $50 deg. Fahrenheit equal to
66 deg. centrigrade) and not lower,
there is now added of solution b one
fluid ounce to each gallon of juice, or
from five to seven pints each 100 gal
Ions of Juice. At least enough of solu-
ton b is to be added to completely
neutralize the lime in the Juice, and to
determine this point slip of blue lit
mus paper is dipped into the solution,
when, if enough of solution B has been
added, the blue color will be changed to
red. (Solution b is one of the invent
or's chemical preparations.)
Z. Evaporate rapidly, skimming from
time to time any scum which appears
upon the surface, and adding solution
Il In small quantities if the boiling juice
will not turn the blue litmus paper red.
s. When the thermometer in the boil
ing juice indicates temperature of 236
deg. equal to 112 deg. centigrade) the
strip should be withdrawn from the
fire, and it should he kept to crystalline
in room of about so deg. Fahrenheit
equal to ~ deg. centigrade). To facili-
tate disqualification, few grains of gran
ulated sugar may be added to the cool
ing syrup when it has reached the tenn
perature 100 deg. Fahrenheit equal to
80 deg. centigrade).
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DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
East.

1t is believed that the little vessel
Florence, commanded by Capt Tyson, which
recently returned from the Arctic regions and
touched at Newfoundland. en- route for New
London, CT, has been lost at sea, together with
all on board, consisting of thirteen persons.
Nothing has been heard of the vessel since she
left Newfoundland, several weeks ago.
A storm of frightful violence passed
ever large part of the Atlantic seaboard on
the morning of Oct %, doing vast amount of
damage to property, and causing no inconsider-
able loss of life Philadelphia seems to have
been the chief sufferer, where property valued
at over 81 100000 was destroyed, several per-
sons killed, and large number wounded
Something like a thousand dwellings were
unroofed, scores of churches damaged
more or less, the Pennsylvania railroad left in
ruins, aad the whole waterfront of the city
submerged. Great damage was done in other
places in Pennsylvania; and in Washington and
Albany, in fact all along the track of the gale,
the effects were most disastrous The hurri-
cane originated in the West Indies
The storm that passed over Pennsyl-
vania and New York, playing such wild havoc
in Philadelphia, was even more destructive on
water than on land. Eight vessels were sunk
and twenty-five damaged in the harbor of
Philadelphia, while all along the Delaware river
innumerable wrecks mark the track of the
gale. An oyster fleet, bound up the river,
was scattered like chaff, nearly every vessel be-
ng either sunk o. driven ashore and several
lives lost On Chesapeake bay the storm was
the severest experienced for years, and many
vessels were driven ashore. The steamer Ex-
press foundered at the mouth of the Potomac
and fifteen lives were lost Along the Atlantic
coast the wind attained velocity of eighty to
ninety miles an hour, and for over hundred
miles the coast is dotted with wrecks.
The most stupendous bank robbery
that has startled the country for many a day
occurred in New York city on the morning of
Sunday, Oct "a. Between and o'clock of
that morning masked burglars entered the
Manhattan Savings Bank building, at the cor
ner of Broadway and Blocker street, and, after
Handwriting the janitor, made him. under
threats Of instant death, reveal the combination
of the safe to them and deliver up the
keys of the bank. They then pro
ceeded to rifle the vault Of nearly everything IL
contained, consisting of about s3,OOO,OOO in
cash, securities and jewelry. The property
lost, nearly all Of which stands in the banks
name, and is therefore not negotiable, consists
almost entirely of United States bonds and local
securities only s11 600 in cash being secured
by the robbers
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fear, as she would not be harmed. The
handouts We're removed from her by
Officer kennedy, who VAS FIRST TO ar
rive. She was too terrified to notice
closely the mems clothes or appearance.
1t is thought that from the depositors'
boxes the burglars got not less than
81 100000 in bonds and securities.
About forty boxes were rifed. Out
of the S3,500,000 but ST., 600 in cash
was obtained.
Following is list of the stolen securi-
ties: United States 5s of 1881, regis
tered, eight of $4,000 each, Nos. 165,
1876, 643 to GAG, 1877 and 1888; ten of
$4,000, Nos 13, 4S6 to 1895, inclusive /;
total, 100000.
United States 6s of 1881, registered,
twenty of $4,000 each, Nos. 9,276 to
1926, inclusive; total, 100000.
United States 1910 bonds. registered,
sixty of $4,000 each, Nos. S,744 to 3,763,
and 1903 to 1892, inclusive; total,
100000.
United States per cents, registered,
thirty of $4,000 each, Nos. 1871 to
1000, inclusive; total, 100000.
United States 5-20s of July, 1865,
$4,000; twenty-six of $500, Nos. $780,
067, S2,144, so, l45, S4,903, S5,O46, 5,107,
S6,OS0, S6,943, S7,475, S9,707, S972S,
9O,319, 90,419, 93,043, 93,170, 94,577,
97,92S, 1888, $3.50, 99,S76, 1O1,11O,
102,792, 102,90S, 103,42l, 1O5,099 and
1O6,030; twenty-five of $1,000, Nos.
152,410, 152,411, 1896, 154, 40, 49,
S44, 161 ,662, 163,159, 165,120, 165.167,
166,794, 166,S21, 1904, l69,747. ILL.,
959, 1888, 1884, 173,O52, 173,7S4,
1875, 1852, 17S,050, 184,791, 1877
141, 1914, 439, 194,597, 194,742, 199,67S,
202, 291, 300, 1897, 2O7 O95, Dos, 1863, 2OS,-
746, 20S, 1913, 209,419 and 210686.
Thirty-five thousand dollars, New
York State sinking fund gold Is, regis
tered. No. 80.
Thirty thousand dollars, New York
City Central Park fund stock, certifi-
ate No. 724, registered.
Twenty-Five thousand seven hundred
dollars, New York County Court House
stock, No. 2.
Six per cents, registered certificates,
No. 4, $4,000; certificate No. %, $685.
900; certificate No. "a, $1,000; certiti-
cate No. 30, $4,000; certificate, No. 80,
$95, 00S total, 100000
New York city accumulated per
cent. bonds, registered, two of 100000
each, Nos. l and 2, due 1886. One of
$4,000, No. /, due 1887.
New York city improvement stock Z
per cent, registered, ten certificates of
$4,000 each, No. to 10 inclusive; to-
tai, 100000.
New York city revenue bond, regis
tered, 100000.
Yonkers city 7per cent. bonds, rs
of $1,000 each, Nos. 233 to 242, 251 to
27S, 28l to 80, 81 to $40, and 81 to
$50, all inclusive, $l1S,000.
Brooklyn city water-loan coupon
bonds, twenty-five of $1,000 each, Nos.
2,167 to 2,191, inclusive, $4,000.
East Charleston bonds, fifty of 81 600,
Nos q to rs, inclusive, $4,000.
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Foreign Commerce Of Mexico.

BY recent mail from Mexico later
advices have been received relating to
the foreign commerce of that country.
According to data furnished by the
Mexican Treasury Department, the
total export from Mexico during the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1877, was
$2S, 1854, 756, and the total amount of du-
ties received on imports was $9,429,951.
No statement of imports into Mexico
for that year has yet been made by the
Mexican authorities. As the average
rate of duties on imports under the ex-
listing Mexican tariff has been officially
stated as 43 per cent, with about 49,
100000 entering free of duty, the total
foreign Imports into Mexico from all
countries during the last year are there
fore estimated, from the amount of du-
ties collected, to have been about
SCI 100000, the statements that have
recently been made in this country
that foreign imports into Mexico
amount to s75,000,000 per annum prove
to be very wild exaggerations. 1t is
not probable that the total foreign COM
merce of that country, both imports
and exports, and including the contra
band trade, now exceeds about $65, 000,-
600 per annum.-WdshingtOn tele-
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NEWS OF the WEEK.
FOREIGN NEWS.

Prosecutions have been commenced
by tho French Government against a number
of persons who attempted to hold Socialistic
congress. They are charged with having CORE
spondence with foreign Communists.
The British have postponed their in
vasion of Afghanistan until spring
Count Schouvaloff is to succeed
Gortschakoff as Prime Minister TO Russia.
About 100 negroes have been put to
death in Santa Cruz, but the rebelious spirit
remains, and the island is practically ruined
The damage to property from the deviltry of
the blacks is estimated at s3,000000
A dispatch from Alexandria, Egypt.
says Sthe inundation from the Dametta branch
of the Nile is advancing. 1t now covers 12o
square miles, Twenty villages have been sub
merged, and from 600 to |, 900 lives lost"
The cable announces the death of
Cardinal Cullen, Archbishop of Dublin He
had been suffering from delicate health ever
since his return from Rome, where he attended
the conclave last February. Heart disease was
the immediate cause of his death.
A cable dispatch states that affairs
near Constantinople are more and more assuming
the same semi-hostile phase az before the meet
ing of the Berlin congress. Turkish troops
have been moved into positions vacated by the
Russians, and the earthworks are being repaired
and armed before Constantinople and Gallipolis.
The Turks are arranging to increase their
forces, and are summoning half-pay officers to
active duty A special committee for the de-
Of fba itol ,ad OF t,a
Seraskerate"
The persons on trial in Paris for con-
nection with the Socialist Congress have been
condemned to various penalties of fine and i'm
prisonment for six months or more except two
women, who were acquitted
Alfonso, the young Spanish mon
arch, while driving through the streets of
Madrid, few days ago, was fired upon by a
Socialist assassin named Juan Moncasi The
aim of the assassin was bad, however, and
the King escaped without injury. Moncasi
was promptly arrested.
Bulgaria is threatened with a serious
religious war;
The Clyde (Scotland) iron-workers
are on a strike against the ~ per cent reduc-
lion of their wages. The iron workers number
10000.
1t is believed the call for $4,000 per
share will exhaust the means of the smaller
shareholders of the City of Glasgow Bank, and
throw the burden of the assessment upon the
few wealthy
Baker Pasha has undertaken to COM
plete the Notifications of Constantinople within
two months. The Sultan has ordered Osman
Pasha and the Minister of War to give him the
most ample assistance.
Juan Moncasi, who attempted to shoot
King Alfonso, when arraigned in Madrid was
asked, "What was your object in leaving your
home on the Mediterranean and coming to the
sapital?" to which he replied, deiantly, Il came
here to kill the King!"
The Bulgarian instruction is continu-
ally increasing in proportions, and Turkey
charges Russia with secretly fomenting these
uprisings.
Several places recently evacuated by
the Russians in Roumelia have been re-occupied
IN force and fresh Russian levies are constantly
arriving at Adrianople.
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EBEN w. KEyEs, of Denver, made his
wife the legal owner of all his property,
so that it might be out of the reach of
his creditors. The wife separated from
him after a quarrel, and refused to sur
render dollar to him. He committed
suicide.
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her. The incident serves again to show
how important, and, indeed, good, il
would be ii the girls as well as boys
were taught to swim.-London Stand
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eral Key expressed the opinion that the Repub7
|licans of the Pacific coast are in favor Of ,nomi
mating Gen. Grant for President in 1880, and
that If nominated he will certainly DO elected |"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1878-06-13
SKETCHES OF DISTINGUISHED
CITIZENS,

This is a very old town, and has num-
bered among its citizens some names
very distinguished.
When Albert Gallatin came out to this
country he brought with him a number
of Frenchmen, the son of one of them,
John Bouvier, compiled law dictionary,
which has become the standard author
ity with the legal profession. John Bou.
vier commenced his dictionary here in
Uniontown in 1878, and was twenty
years in finishing it. He was admitted
to the bar in FsYette county in 1918, and
edited the Genius Of Liberty for many
years. His daughter, Hannah Bouvier,
wrote text book now used in many OF
the schools of astronomy.
Daniel Sturgeon, an ex-United States
Senator, who was in the Senate with Bu-
chanan, is still living here, His son, DR..
Sturgeon, is a candidate for Assembly.
The ghosts of greatness are all around
you here. Albert Gallatin, Hugh Henry
Breckenridge, John Bouvier, John L.
Dawson, Daniel Sturgeon, Andy Stewart,
and last but not least, Henry Clay Dean;
he Of Iowa, with the voluble tongue and
curious expression. Dean used to de-
light getting on the stump with such a
man as Judge Black, and then outyell
him. The crowd generally left the fine
reasoner to listen to Deans not always
too pure wit. Perhaps that was a pecu-
liarity Of Democratic crowds, and /
ought not to tell it, but then few Repub-
licsns will see it.
Uniontown is an old Indian trail, and
the neighborhood is rich with the his
tory Of the early settlement of our State.
Washington fought his first battle with.
in nine miles of this place, and the great
Gen. Braddock returned to dust on a
hill near the town. / feel too much dis
turbed by the surrounding crowd of liv-
ing generals to 60 back and muse over
the dead BraddoCk, whose history it
seems to me, must be forever new and
interesting, so l win postpone that for
another time.-PihS. Post. Cor.