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A London Trick.

An umbrella trick has been intro
duced by London thieves. The operator
enters jewelers. store with an umbrella
in his hand, having pulled down the silk
covering, without securely fastening it,
so that its folds hang around the handle
and form an open-mouthed net. Into
the bag thus opened it is not difficult to
jerk ring or two, or even a larger ar
ticle, which will fall into it without the
slightest sound. If the shopman misses
the treasure thus abstracted, he will run|
after his customer, and, as q matter of
course, the other will protest innocence
A search will ensue, at the end of which
the owner of the umbrella will be struck
by bright thought, and will himself
bring to light the desired object, apol
ogizing in the blsndest way, aud max
ing merry over joke which has Sc
nearly, as he says, assumed "a seriou1
character,
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The Louisiana Subcommittee.

The sub committee of the Potter Commit
tee metin Parlor p, st. Charles Hotel, New Or
leans, on the 18th. Ex-Gov. Packard made a
long statement, covering the whole ground
OF the election, the canvassing of the
votes, and his own contest with
Nichols for the Governorship. He
holds that his own title was as
good as that of President Hayes. and that
had he been recognized by the President he
could have maintained his position even
without the use of Federal troops. He was
under the impression Mt the time that the
Harlan Mcveagh Commission were inimical
to his interests, and used their influence to
break up the Packard Legislature, but had
no knowledge of any improper methods be-
ing used.
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FOREIGN.

The Berlin Peace Congress have agreed
upon the boundaries of Bulgaria as follows:
The frontier of Northern Bulgaria to be
fixed at the Balkans. The Turks are to
have the right of fortifying the Balkan pass--
es and TO garrison the fortified places.
Sophia and yarna are to be included in Bull
garia. The Turks are to retain Burgas.
The northern frontier of Montenegro and
the boundaries of Servia are to be restricted,
those countries to receive compensation on
the south. The new province south of the
Balkans is to be named Eastern Roumelia.
Russia is allowed nine months in which to
withdraw her troops from Eastern Roumelia
and Bulgaria.
Four children of John Ronleau were burn
Quebec, n few nights ago.
Queen Mercedes, the Young wife Of King
Alfonso of Spain, died on the 26th. She was
only Is, and had been but few months
married.
The Austrian occupation of Bosnia and
Herzegovina, in the interests Of peace, has
been settled upon by the Congress, Turkey
protesting. The independence of Servia is
not to be recognized until the Servian Jews
are relieved from their present disabilities.
1t is provided that the Governor CT Roume-
liza is to be Christian, appointed by the
Porte with the approval Of the Powers.
The Sultan of Morocco is dead.
The Congress has decided to cede to Rus
sia that portion of Bessarabia which she
lost in 1856, extending from the Pruth to
the Kilia Valley. The Congress also decid-
ed TO transfer the Dobrudscha to Rou-
mania. The frontier Of the new territory is
to be advanced so as to run from the neigh
borhood of Silistria, without including that
town, TO Mangalia, on the Black Sea. Rou-
mania will thus acquire n fertile tract of
country, and be established on both banks
of the Danube. The Congress has recog-
nized the independence Of Roumania and
Montenegro.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-07-06
Odds and Ends.

What is really needed is five-cent
cigar that will consume its own smoke.
-Courier-Jonrnal.
-"Age and wedlock bring man to
his night-cap," remarked the philoso-
pher when his wife inquired why he
chewed cardamom seeds in bed.-OH
City Derrick.
A reduction has been made by land
lords in Paris. Two wooden toothpicSs
are now sold for three francs, and the
price of board is now only advanced on
newcomers once in "a hours. s. Boston
Commercial Rulietta.
Wisconsin has three legged baby
"a natural result, we take il, of the re-
cent Indian scare in that State, In these
emergencies, particularly in view of the
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-07-06
Foreign Notes.

king Humbert of Italy and Carl
baldi's son Menotti are intimate friends.
The estimated value of the works
of art contributed to the Paris Interna-
tional Exhibition by England is ST.
10000.
The Italian Government has decid-
ed tc hold an exhibition at Rome in
1881, beginning February 1, and ending
June 80. French papers think that the
late date of closing will afford strangers
excellent opportunities for catching ma
larial fever.
According to the latest returns, the
cultivated land of France is divided
into 100000 properties. Five millions
are under six acres. Belgium has a like
subdivision of property. In Ireland,
on the other hand, ITO owners hold
more than one-fifth of the soil.
The best picture in the American
department of the Paris Exposition art
gallery-a portrait of Miss Emily
Schaumberg, of Philadelphia-has been
withdrawn, because it was hung beside
the picture of a fast woman very much
decollette-below-smoking a cigarette
and slipping at glass of champagne.
l.
was much impressed with the beauties
of Baden-Baden, where he spent a week.
He has altered but little in personal ap-
years ago. He has the same thin waxed
mustache, but conforms so far to Euro
pean customs as 10 wear Partisan frock-
coat and blue eyeglasses.
The birth of an Anglo American
boy of distinguished parentage is an
nounced in London. Master Vernon
Robert Harcourt is the first born of Sir
William and Lady Harcourt, his father
being English by some hundreds of years
of honorable descent, and his mother
American, in virtue of being daughter
of the late United States Minister to
England, the illustrious historian Mot
ley.
On the subject of dissipation, there
| is wide distinction between the work.
ing classes of London and Paris. In
London the gin shop is the resort of
men, women and children. There are
no such dens in Paris. l went out a
few days ago to eat American waffies at
little French cafe. 1t was in a crowd
ed French quarter, where the work peo-
pie lived and labored, and both the cafe
and customers were as clean and order
ly as if they had been on the Boulevard
Italien. The streets and the gardens
are the resorts of the Paris poor in good,
and the cafes never, even in bad wealth,
er; and noticed when sat in the lit
tie restaurant refer to, that those who
came to buy refreshments always took
light wines, and that there we're no wo-
men patrons at the bar.-FOrney.
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killed. The Governor asks for arms and
authority to organize troops.
Tanbaigo, Bannock Indian, was hanged
at Boise City, Idaho, on the 2Sth, for the
murder of a white man.
Gen. Bradley's command have gone into
camp ON the Little Missouri River, about
20 miles from Deadwood.
James c. Slocum was arrested at Quincy,
ILL.,, on the 9th ult., charged with bigamy.
Slocum some months ago went to Hannibal,
Mo-, and, representing himself as a capital
list, ingratiated himself into the good graces
Of the citizens generally, and especially of
Mrs. Ada Quealey, widow of the late John
j. A. Quealey, Representative in the State
Legislature, to whom he was married on the
18th. A few days afterward Slocum slid
out, taking with him all the jewelry and
other portable property belonging to wife
No. that he could lay hands on, amount
ing in value to some 81 800. His arrest was
made through the efforts of his Eastern
wife.
Judge Sidney Breese, of the Illinois
Supreme Court, died suddenly at Pinckney-
vile on the 9th. He was IS years Of age,
widely known and universally respected.
Allen Phillips and wife were struck dead
" Willie EStuIuluS lOpthtt
Kansas, to their farm, few miles distant,
during a thunderstorm on the 1st. The
lightning struck sycamore tree under
which theywere passing, and, attracted by
the steel on an umbrella that Mrs. Phillips
was carrying, passed down the handle and
directly through the bodies of both persons
and thence to the earth. Their team was
found, after the accident, some so rods
away, with the bodies lying in the wagon.
Two express packages, containing S21 900,
were stolen from the American Express
Company's wagon at Painesville, o., on the
1st. No clew to the thief.
One Of gang Of burglars arrested at
Bucyrus, o., the other day, turns out to be
n young woman In male attire. She says she
discarded the habiliments of her sex five
years ago, but refuses to give her real name.
Later advices from Gen. Howard's COM
mand indicate that the hostile Bannocks, in
stead of retreating to their mountain fast
ness, have gone northward to join other dis
affected tribes in Oregon and Washington
Territory. A dispatch from Baker City,
Oregon, 1st, says that the hostiles are pour
ing into John Day Valley, apparently being
pursued by the military, supposed to be a
portion of Howard's forces.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-07-06
Science and Industry.

Science and Industry.
According to Liebig there ought to
be IL 0 and to Reichardt 1871 per cent.
of solids in good milk.
"A Vermonter has put floating
saw-mill on Lake Champlain, and does
a good business at his stopping-places
on the coast.
Three fourths of the lieorice manu-
factured in the United States is said to
be prepared in New Jersey. Spain and
Asia Minor furnish the root.
"A new mineral, to which the name
rhabdophane is given, has been discov-
cred among some specimens of English
blende. 1t contains no zinc or sulphur.
Prairie du Chen, Wis, is proud of
its magnificent artesian well, $50 feet
deep and flowing 100000 gallons a
day, from which the city receives its
water supply.
Herr Ferdinand Noll, of Branden-
burg, has invented and presented to the
International Postal Congress, now sit
ting at Paris, a clock which runs on the
decimal system, with 20 hours in day,
100 minutes in an hour, and so seconds
in a minute.
A large portion of the area of the
Bahama Islands is devoted to the culti-
vation of pineapples. As many as l.
500, 900 of the fruit have been collected
from single acre at one crop. The
pineapples of New Providence are supe-
rior to any other variety, and often at
tain an enormous size.
The experiments with the new
modes of using the electric light have
not proved altogether satisfactory.
Many encouraging trials have been
made in France, but the recent attempt
to light up the space in front OF the
Bank of England, London, was fail
ure, and there have as yet been no mark
ed successes in this country.
Among the many devices for the
utilization of sewage, that of convert
ing it into cement is not the least Curl
Gus, and it has actually been put into
practice at Burnley, in England. The
town sewage rams into settling tanks,
being mixed on the way with Slime
cream" After settling the sludge is
dried, and finally packed in kilns and
burned, no other fuel being necessary
than lust sufficient coal and shavings to
set it alight. Clement clinkers" are
the result; and these ground into coarse
powder make the cement, which is sala'
Bile as Portland or other hydraulic &C.
ment. Either Portland or Roman ce
ment, or agricultural lime, is produced,
according to the quantity of lime EN-
ployed.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-07-06

of Iowa have erected Miss Phoebe W.
Sudlow, present Superintendent of the
Davenport City Schools, Professor of
English literature, with a salary of ST.
700 year. She is said to be thorough
ly competent, and in justice to her sex,
if not in obedience to her own wishes,
should accept the honor without hesita.
ton.
The University of London having
obtained its charter for admitting wom-
en- to degrees, University College at
once takes the step for which it has been
steadily preparing during the last ten
years, and next October classes in all
subjects of instruction within the Facul-
ties of Arts and Laws and of Science
will be open to both male and female
students, who will be taught in some
classes together and in others separate
ly.
DR.. Scudder says that the Oriental
nations will never become converted to
Christianity until the women first be-
come Christians, and he says that the
women can be converted only by the
personal agency of women who go there
from Christian countries. Hindoo
women will not listen to male mission
aries. DR.. Scudder was in India for
over 90 years.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-07-06
Haps and Mishaps.


Louis Nier, aged IA, of Warsaw,
Ind, was killed by falling from
freight-train on which he was stealing
a ride.
"A 5-year-old daughter of VIM. Wat
son, of London, o., was fatally scalded
by falling into a tub of hot water.
WIN. F. Wilson, of Ossian, Ind,
swallowed dose of strychnine, sup
posing it to be morphine. He died in
20 minutes.
"A 2-year old child of James Nor
ton, a farmer living near Sidney, O.,
wandered upon the railroad track near
its home and was run over and killed.
A little boy named Max Brown, of
Mount Gilead, o., was seriously burned
by an explosion of flask of gunpow-
der, with which he was playing near the
fire.
&C. B. Cook, of Cynthiana, KY, was
severely wounded by the accidental dis
charge of self-cocking pistol while
taking some clothing from a bureau
drawer.
The 9-year-old son of VIM. Gard
ner, of Lafayette, Ind, was seriously
wounded by the discharge of pistol in
the hands of sister two years younger.
Robert Wright, prominent citi-
zen of Louisa County, Va, was killed
by stroke of lightning while standing
in front of his house. Every vestige Of
clothing was stripped from his body.
John Gardiner, engineer of porta-
bic saw-mill near Allensville, Vinton
County, o., was fatally injured by the
breaking of the belt while the engine
was running at high rate of speed.
james Coagan, sailor, aged 32,
for a wager of Is cents, tooke dive in
to the river at New Orleans, from the
fore top, sail yard of the ship Wyoming.
His body was not recovered.
3-year-old child named Hembling,
at Grand Rapids, Mich, got hold of a
bottle of benzine, which it split over its
clothes, and approaching too near the
fire its clothing ignited, burning the
poor child fatally.
frankie Allen, st. Paul, (Minn. }
boy of years, was strangled to death
by large carpet-tack he swallowed,
while trying to initiate the workman he
had noticed holding tacks in his mouth
IS he laid the carpet.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-07-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Personal and Literary.

Herman Linde, the Shakspearean
reader, will play Othello and other
characters next season under the man.
agement of Mr.. Strakosch.
james r. Randall, who wrote " Ma
ryland, my Maryland" is now 80 years
old, and editor of the Augusta (Ga.)
Chronicle and Constitationalist He
was Captain in the Confederate army
during the war.
Mr.. George Nicholson and Mrs. E.
j. Holbrook, proprietors of the New
Orleans PtcGyuae, were recently mar
ried. The lady is we'll known in litera-
ry circles under the nom dc plume of
Pearl Rivers.
old Mr.. Lowell, the author of some
of the most successful plays of 80 years
ago, is dead. He wrote " Wife's Sc
cret" for Charles Kean, "Look Before
you Leap" for Ben Webster, Loves
Sacrifice" for Charles Kemble, and
THE Provost of Burgess" for Macready.
He died at the ripe old age of IA.
Gen. James Grant Wilson, at whose
residence the poet Bryant happened to
have his fatal fall, is about to turn the
accident to good account by writing I"
biographical memoir" to float new
edition of Mr.. Bryant's Library of
Poetry and Song" The EUening Post
makes this announcement the text for
some pungent remarks on biographical
penny-a-lining.
The venerable Richard Henry
Dana, now in his 91st year, is the last
survivor of that brotherhood of poets,
Bryant, Dana, Sprague, PierreponL and
Iy Is,
able to read without glasses, and his
mental faculties are still vigorous. He
was much saddened by the death of Mr..
Bryant, with whom he has been inti-
innate for more than half a century.
The author of "Father Tom and
the Pope" a stout, sporting Irish priest,
has been made Sir Samuel Ferguson,
O. c., Ii. D., Deputy Keeper of the
Irish Records, for a poem which ap-
peared in BIackDood, entitled "The
Widows Cloak" and expressing Vic
toria's dominion over India. The au-
thor has been comparatively unknown
to renown before, though he is the
best exponent of ancient Irish literature
in English, is distinguished archaeolo-
gist, and is withal one of the kindest
and most genial of men.
BRYANT.
Room for out Poet in the immortal choirl
His soul is passing; as the morning breaks,
He to the dawn of perfect day awakes:
The Master Bards await him with desire
Present his singing robes, his golden Tyre,
And the vast portal with their welcome
quakesi
Now have they crowned him--he their Joy
partakesi
Kindled to new life by seraphic fire.
The day is breaking over sea and land;
The sun may shine forth, but light more
grand
That heightened, and yet softened Natures
face
Has disappeared: in shadow now we stand.
Bereaved, while gazing upward to the place
That presence late illumed, its path to trace.
-Eli.abeth c. Kinney, ir ". Y. Tribune.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-07-06

IN view Of the urgent demand for troops
for service on the plains, orders have been
issued to the various recruiting officers to
hasten, as far as practicable, enlistmentS, in
order to bring up the numerical force of the
army to $4,000 men, the aggregate number
authorized by law. By direction Of the Sec
retsry of War, regiments in the Indian coun-
try, engaged in active operations, are to be
increased to the maximum strength, while
such regiments as are retained on garrison
duty at the various seacoastfortiications are
to be reduced below the minimum.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-07-06

--Gauze and etfect-a thin undershirt
and Wheeling Leader.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-07-06
EAST AND SOUTHEAST.

Four large boilers in the Puddle Mills of
the Chesapeake Nail Works, at Harrisburg,
Pa, exploded on the 25th. The mill was
almost entirely demolished. Chambers
Bowemaster, foreman, was horribly man.
gled and instantly killed. Henry Vies, John
Hess, George Frank and John Helrick were
badly scalded and injured by the flying de-
bris. One of the boilers was carried over the
adjoining mill, 65 feet in height, and landed
In field about $50 feet from the scene of the
explosion. Another was blown through the
top of the mill into brick warehouse. The
third was carried into another warehouse,
badly damaging the building, and the fourth
boiler was entirely torn TO pieces. The loss
is from So 900 to $4,000.
John Finn, James Shea, Hattie Sands and
Mary Welch, Of 0swego, N. Y, were drown
ed at Pleasant Point, Lake Ontario, on the
25th, where they had gone on an excursion
given by the congregation of st. Johns
Church.
Frank Perino, colored, was hanged at Sa-
vannah, Ca, on the 26th, for the murder Of
]. F. Lee, white farmer, in April last. He
acknowledged his guilt.
The annual boat-race between the crews
of Harvard and Yale took place at New Lon
tance, miles; time, 20:44.
Harley Brown, n discharged employee,
has confessed to placing distractions on the
track by which passenger train was wreck
ed near Wilmington, Del, and four persons
killed. He claim that he intended to stop
the train just before it reached the obstruc-
ton, thinking that out of gratitude for his
zeal the company would restore him to his
former position.
President Hayes tookpart in the Wyoming
Centennial celebration at Wilkesbarre, Pa,
on the 4th. He was accompanied by Mrs.
Hayes, Secretary Sherman, Attorney GEN
eral Devens, and others.
Col. Alvah Buckbee, prominent resi-
dent of Elmira, n. Y, on the LIST, shot his
wife and his mother-in-law and then blew
his own brains out, dying instantly. Beth
women were fatally injured.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-07-06

Knoxville, Tenn, has manufactured
ice ut one cent n pound.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-07-06
GENERAL.


In the controversy between Messrs. Hew-
lit and Watterson regarding the course of
the former in reference to the Electoral
Commission, Mr.. Watterson charged Mr..
Hewitt with having withheld from his po-
litical associates in Congress the
knowledge that Mr.. Tilden was
opposed to the appointment of the Commits
sion. Mr. Hewitt denies that he knew Mr..
Tilden disapproved If the Commission. 1t
is said that Mr.. Watterson represents the
views of Mr.. Tilden in this controversy, and
that Mr.. Tilden and Mr.. Hewitt " are out"
Henry A. Parr, who was one Of the Con-
federate naval officers who seized the steam
er Chesapeake during her passage from New
York to Portland, Me-, in 1868, has recently
been arrested in Boston charged with MUIR
der. 1t will be remembered that one of the
engineers who resisted was shot. The ves-
sci was turned ever to the Confederate au-
thorities, and was subsequently retaken by
a Federal gunboat in the British port of La
Have, Nova Scotia. The case was tried be-
fore the Admiralty and the vessel adjudged
a lawful prize. Capt. Braine, who COM
manded the expedition that captured the
Chesapeake, now resides in Chicago. He
was arrested in 1866 and confined in prison
till 1869, when he was pardoned out, his
case never having been tried.
Congressman Acklin has published a card
denouncing as willful lie the attack upon
his character lately given publicity, and re-
lieving Gen. Rosser of the authorship of the
slander. Acklin further says that previous
to and after the pretended occurrence he
had the honor of asking the lady mentioned
to be his wife, which offer she declined, and
that his attentions were continued at his re-
quest.
Gen. McKenzie's late expedition TO Mex
leo was commanded in two columns by Col.
+Shafter and Capt. Young. The latter cross
ed at the mouth Of DEVILS River and march
ed to Buro Mountain, 40 miles in the in
terror, where the great want of water COM
PEELED retreat. The commands join
ed on the headwaters of San Rod
rigo, where Col. Valdez, commanding
the Mexican forces, met them and
demanded their withdrawal from Mexican
territory. He was informed that the COM
mand had no hostility towards Mexico, but
was after thieves and Indians. Col. Nuncio,
who had arrived with additional troops,
stated in general terms that he was obliged
TO obey orders and attack the United States
troops, whereupon some correspondence
passed-but no collision occurred.
The revising Court Martial ordered to ex-
anime the case Of General Fitz John Porter,
is now in session at West Point.
The Treasury statement for July shows
an increase in the debt during June of 81
1881. Total coin bonds, Sl,7s0, 745, $50;
total without interest, S455, 5,s75 COZ; total
debt, 81 ,256, ,205, ,s92. Coin in Treasury, Sl9T,-
4l5,l32. Debt, less cash in Treasury, S2,-
! O35, ,1S6, ,s3l.
Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1878-07-06
Appropriations by Congress for I'm.
pr0vement of Western Rivers.

The following are the sums appropri-
ated in the River and Harbor bill for ex-
penditure on principal Western rivers: