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fever at Memphis on the 31st ult Nine new
cases were reported.

fever at Memphis on the 3lst ult Nine new
cases were reported.
The international and Great North.
ern railroad of Texas was recently sold at
auction at Austin, Texas, for 100000. 1t
was bid in by George Sealey, Of Galveston, rep
resenting Kennedy & Sloan, of New York, trus-
tees for the bondholders
There were four deaths from yellow
fever and seventeen new cases of the disease at
Memphis on the LIST inst At New Orleans there
was one death, but no new cases.
For the forty-eight hours ending on
the evening Of Aug. 8 there were 26 new cases
of fever and eight deaths at Memphis. For
the week ending on that date there were &c
deaths from the disease, against "a deaths
from the same cause on the preceding week.
Most of the fatal cases were in last years
haunts OF the disease, and many cases are
known to have originated from infected bed
Ding and clothing. One young lady had been
attacked eight miles in the country, in house
where the fever existed last year. She had not
oeen to the city for month, and had been in
no way exposed to the infection. One man in
the city had died from second attack of the
disease rare occurrence.
In the lower house of the Georgia
Legislature articles Of impeachment have been
preferred against Comptroller General Gold
smith. The charges are that he has been en-
gagged or abetting in a ring that has obtained
possession of hundreds of thousands of acres
of wild lands by the payment of defaulted
taxes: that he has withheld the money from the
treasury longer than he was authorized to do,
and that he tried to bride member to sign a
report by having him offered $3.50 and a suit of
clothes. The trial will proceed at once.
An attempt was made at New Or
leans, the other day, to assassinate Gen.
Badger, Collector of the port. The would be
assassin was an employe in the Postoffice in
that city.
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Remarkable Frontier Tragedy.

The particulars of an unfortunate af-
fair caused by love, jealousy and re-
venge, which occurred at Pine Ridge
Agency day before yesterday, have just
reached this place. It appears that two
brothers named Billy and Johnny Pro-
vost, employed at the agency, the former
as stock superintendent, became enam-
ored of beautiful Indian girl named
Soettewa Uittle Bird, daughter of
Eagle Wing, sub-chief in Red Clouds
band of Sioux. Before giving his con-
sent, as is the custom among India1!s,
Eagle Wing demanded a horse as the
price of his daughters hand in mar
riage. e.re f...4 -.r
Billy Provost, not having a horse to
give, consulted an Indian, who gave
him horse as his own, which in reality
belonged to man named Clement Ber
nard, who, unknown to him, was also
suing for the affections of the dusky
maiden. Following the Indians advice,
he took the animal and delivered it to
Eagle Wing, and was about to take his
prize when Bernard appeared on the
scene, claiming his property and put
ting stop to further ceremonies. Pro
vost, after finding out that he had been
deceived, and being elected from the.
lodge by the chief, seized with grief
and remorse, placed pistol to his head
and blew his brains out.
John Provost, the Interpreter, on
learning of his brothers suicide, sought
out the Indian who betrayed him and
Bernard, his rival, intending to kill
them. Finding both in the Agents
Office. he deliberately and without warn
ing opened fire on them, killing Ber-
nard. Several Mexicans, countrymen
of the murdered man, surrounded the
murderer and would have lynched him
had it not been for the prompt action
Of DR.. Me- illicuddy, the Indian Agent,
who sent him under guard of Indian
soldiers to the military guard house at
Camp Sheridan, where he now awaits
the action of the civil authorities
Fort Robinson (Neb.) Cor. Chicago
Times.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

JAMES GORDON BENNETT has returned
to American soil and Newport.
ATTORNEY GENERAL DEvENs will
spend most of. the summer in Washing
ton.
Hon. ELIHU WAsHBURNE is, with his
family, spending the summer at st. Al
bans, Vt. -
VICE PRESIDENT WHEELER will visit
Colorado this summer for the benefit of
his health.
SENATOR ZAcHARIAH CHANDLER has
been made an LII. D. by Hillsdale
(Mich.) College.
MR.. LoNGFELLow is very courteous
to pilgrims, literary Or journalistic, who
call on him at Cambria ge.
SECRETARY McCRARY will remain at
the national capital all summer, and 90
to Iowa about the 1st Of October.
SENATOR BLAIR, newly-elected from
New Hampshire, is man 45 years old,
tall and slender. and wearing chin
whiskers.
SENATOR HANNIBAL HAMLIN never puts
on gloves in the winter time, but saves
them to protect his hands from the sun
in summer.
MARK TWAIN has realized more
money from his play, "The Gilded
Age" than did Shakespeare from all of
his dramas.
IT is said that Mr.. Booth and Mr..
Jefferson will confne their theatrical
labors to four cities next season New
York, Boston. Philadelphia and Chi
cago.
VIM. M. TWEED's heirs are unable to
secure that $4,000 insurance held on his
life. His running away to Spain with
out giving the insurance companies
notice is the cause of the forfeit.
Gov. ALLEN once told friend that
the hardest duty he had to perform, as
Governor of Ohio, was to say "no" to
women and children who appealed to
him to exercise the pardoning power.
Mr.. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, on his
first visit to his newly-arrived nephew,
the first child of his sister, now Mrs.
Isaac Bell, laid in the cradle of the in
FAINT 100 United States bonds of $1,000
each as christening gift.
A GRANDSON of Henry Clay, who
bears his name, is the Prosecuting At
torney of the City Court Of Louisville,
Ky. The other day he assaulted re-
porter, who had made comments upon
his official conduct, and was fined 1876
for the ofense.
SENATORS SAUNDERS, of Nebraska,
and Salisbury, of Delaware, are the
same ege-62; Senators Harris, of Ten
nessee, and Johnston, of Virginia, are
81; while Senators Sharon, of Virginia,
and Withers, of Virginia, have lived So
years. > 4" ...s f..
The late Baron Lionel de Rothschild
left his family in comparative comfort,
his estate being estimated at $50,00O,-
600. It is said that there are thirteen
Jews in Shoreditch, London, who are
worth over a million sterling each.
One of these is an old clo' peddler, who
follows his vocation.
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MISCELLANEOUS GLRANIN0s.

Recent deaths: Hon. Bland Ballard,
United States District Judge for Kentucky.
aged 60; Judge Isaac c. Collins, a prominent
lawyer of Cincinnati; B. F. Fitch, a leading
merchant of Louisville, Ky.
Geo.,P. Rowell & Co., in the Am,eri-
can Newspaper Reporter for July, show that
the whole number of newspapers in the United
States has increased since January of the cur
rent year from S,7O3 to 9153. New papers
abound in the Territories. Suspensions have
for several years.
The New York Herald dominates
ex-President Grant for Minister to England.
Seven days, eight hours and eight
ever made by an ocean steamer. The Arizona
which arrived at Queenstown, Ireland, from
New York, on the 29th of July, is the craft that
carries the ribbon
Miss Hugel, aged Is years, and her
sister, aged years, were drowned in the St
Lawrence river, at Brockvills, Canada, while
bathing. II.
The New York HeToId's Washington
correspondent telegraphs that the progress of
events in the political world of Mexico during
the ensuing few months will be well worth
watching Indeed, some very important news
may be expected from that country at any mo-
ment According to the tenor of advices re-
ceived by officials in the War Department from
army officers and others on the Texas frontier,
who have been closely observing tie develop
ment Of matters in our sister republic, a for
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Or1ena's Trip to the Country,

The country never looked so beautiful to me
as it does this summer. I hardly think the diff
ference lies in the country, for nature is the
same from year to year; grand, glorious. mag
niticent ever. 1t may be that this new guise of
beauty was the offspring of too much brick
and mortar. and gray pavements, for never was
I kept within doors for so long season as
when wrestling with disease during the buoy
ANT, jovial spring.
But somehow the broad prairies seem to have
gained deeper charm, and the shadowy aisles
of the groves a more regal beauty since my
last visit to their kingly haunts. Atany rate, as
l steamed away from the smoky walls and
dusty streets of the city, I seemed to gain
fresh strength in the fragrant breeze
that came dancing across the meadows, toying
with the nodding grass and lodging in and out
amid the dark green foliage of the luxuriant
corn, that one could almost see grow and thrive
beneath the fervent heat.
And the flowers seemed to throw kisses at us
as we rushed past them, or drew slowly up at
the quiet stations along the route Close
crested naples firted their thick foliage almost
In our faces, and feathery elms tossed us their
genial welcomes, swayiDg and nodding in the
fresh, spicy breeze, inviting the admiration that
was not slow in its advance
My three weeks stay in the country has been
ffraught with memories that will never fade.
Flowers, birds and vegetation accorded me the
choicest welcome, for the first lifted their
shining petals to meet my caresses, the second
caroled their songs from the shadowy foliage
above me, and the last hung out its abundance
of fruit for my acceptance. And [ may as well
say here that I partook bountifully of the gift,
for had only to stretch out my hand and
pluck the luscious fruitage that everywhere
gave me greeting
= My hostess is the mistress of small dairy,
and takes delight in the reputation she has
earned for making gilt-edged butter. Her
"hege lord" is a model husbandman, taking
all the work of butter-making Off her hands,
save keeping the paraphernalia in trim. If we
had more such men in the world there would
be fewer cadaverous, prematurely- old house
wives in existence. do not see why more
people who live in cities do not send
directly to the butter makers for their
supply, instead of trusting to the market at
hand. 1t comes SO fresh and palatable from
the farmers cellar, and with less COST besides
That has always been our method of procuring
butter. tt# ,i~ 'ttft
DeKalb is only sixty miles from here, and
nearly every morning sees a tub of delicious
butter on its way to the commission house,
cool and sweet when it starts from the cellar,
and probably not deprecated in value when it
leaves the house on Water street and finds its
way to the grocery; but there, amid the odors
that exhale from all sorts of merchandise and
produce, it must eventually lose Its delicious
flavor. 1t has been treat to me, this visit to
the blessed country. ORLENA.
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THE RAILROAD REST.
Railway Construction in 1SIarked Tn
crease in the Gross hgs.


crease in the Gross Ess.
from the New York
The condition of the RAIDS of the
country, as exhibited in pages of
Poor's Manual of the RAIDS of the
United States" just issuer the cur.
rent year, is decidedly eneging. and
furnishes good reason f,e STRONG
tone of the stock mark SIN ouT
present number" says the,duction.
we are able for the first for sew.
eral years to report verSded re-.
covery of the railway int of the
country from its recent, ex0gly de-
pressed condition. Durlhe wear
ending Dec. 81, 1873, 2,ailes OF
new line were opened, the mileage
in operation in the Uniteates at
that date being S1,S41 mileihe con.
struction of these routes hal n been
entered upon with renewed itv and
spirit, and is likely to contii As not
one-half of our public dor is VET
occupied, it is fair to assumat moi
one-half of our future railro,ileaee
has been built. Its constrn VII
proceed rapidly till we have ileaoe
exceeding twice its presentlt.
There have been cucted
in the United States since great
crash in 1878, and within a ID of
five syears, 1868 miles ofroad
In the same time the increassonu-
lation in the country haS1aled
fully 100000. The greate.t of
this increase has been in theeme
Western and in the mining S and
Territories. A correspondingand
has been created for the pro of
manufacturing and CONNER in
dustries of the Eastern Statesbor
is in fact more productive in new
States and Territories than in der
States. With the general recoEit-
messed on every hand, and witen-
ormous balance of trade with on
countries in our favor, there srv
reason to believe that the counnd
particularly it's railroads, is ng
upon a career of unwonted PROS"
The gross earnings of all thds
whose operations have been rcd
are stated at $490,1O3,361, st
472,909,271 for 1877, an incref
ST., l94,099, or 81 per cent. for thr.
This increase has been wholly in II
earnings, the passenger earnings
ing slight decrease as compare1
1877. Notwithstanding the deere
transportation charges the eal
from freight increased $17,761,5
~ per cent, as compared with
The increase has been confined
Western States. The freight ear
of the New England States show
cline of So, 232 ,349, or 9.9 per cent.
1877; of the Middle States an inc
OF $2,019,420, or "a per cent; in
Southern States an increase of 81,
002, or SIS per cent, while in the Y
ern States there is an increase of
019,318, or 81 per cent, and in the Pa
States a gain of 1851, 145, or over
per cent. as compared with 1877.
Pacific railroads show falling OF
$7S9,647 in freight earnings.
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the gloomy winter. 1t is no,;o,, - mo
until a thing is wanted re- Po soc,,,.; v"
The seeds of Cineraria arloooIo .Ga
very beautiful greenhousents u ," hoSt
sown in July and Augusta soo9s Dea'
very fine no covering wha Is T nooaa ad0 {
take pot or box and fill A-tb; rJef Ecu
broken crooks, over that t5,ab s;f. iula :
the soil, and clean sand aboaf IT, 80 )
are sown upon the sand, .overed ID SCI sa1o
p pon1 vi srass unai s5Inlinalen give air
inch high, pot off singly intll-sized T not a.
The green fly is great enen these nl anti
o'Ie may oe eAtermlnated ,co smoke.
!, one Oh tne prettlesu httl9ts for white
t yaEon ne Is tne browaiila. eeds, if sow
o ors all" a9 ieAt montn, VIII grey freely AM
HINsDALE, Dupage Co.. Ill.
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DOMESTIC INTELLIGENUx.
Hast.

Prescott g. Pillsbury, cashier of the
Lawrence (Mass.) National Bank, is defaulter
to the amount Of $4,000. Pillsbury took the
banks funds to speculate in mining stocks and
lost
A sad accident happened to an ex-
cursion party on the st. Lawrence river, at
Clayton, N. Y, one day last week. The party,
numbering about $50 persons, boarded the
steam yachts Harrington and Josephine, with a
view to visiting Kingston, Ont, and other
points. AS the Josephine was slower boat
than the Harrington, it was proposed to lash
the two boats, and thus keep the party
together. AS soon as this was done, they
proceeded on their journey, but had not gone
forty rods when it was found the stays were
not properly adjusted, and the Josephine
commenced taking water. Without lessening
the speed, an effort was made to loosen the
stays. The bow line was let out till the Jose
phine had swung around sideways, when it
caught in a knot and she capsized and sunk in
eighty feet of water in half minute As the
boat tipped over every one on board fell into
the water, and many were drawn down as the
boat sunk. Five ladies were drowned. Great
blame is attached to the Captains of both boats
for their mismanagement and lack of judgment.
Lightning struck the large Vesta Oil
Works, at Pittsburgh. Pa, and the entire estab-
hshment, containing nine immense tanks of
oil, was destroyed. Loss estimated at $780,
600. ~" q -.@@tt .e.,..,x....,
Two persons were drowned while
bathing at Atlantic City, N. Y, last week. ege
West. @re,. .As - < >ys
John Kranz, of East Pennington,
Polk county, Wis, drove into a lake with six
children in his wagon to water his horses The
horses, becoming frightened, ran into deep
water, the wagon was upset, and Kranz and five
of the children were drowned. One boy es
capped by swimming. The eldest child was a.
girl of IT,
A Dubuque dispatch says: GA disease
akin to cholera is ravaging Center Point, Linn
county, this State. Fully twenty persons have
died from the effects during the past thirteen
days, and an equal number are Frustrated by
it. The disease is alsoraging in Walker, a little
town seven miles from Center Point several
deaths having occurred there. An order for
forty collins was received from Center Point to-
day by Dubuque undertaken The physicians
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Horticulture.

Of all the various avocations in life there are
none which call for more forethought than
those of the farmer and gardener. Upon the
plans formed in winter and executed in the
spring depend the bounteous harvest or the
Scarcely had our seeds been sowns for the
flowers of June than we were reminded that
after the gorgeous display in our outdoor gar
dens there would come time when all the
brilliant ANIMALS would pass away, and then
something is wanted to cheer our homes during
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A Baby Accidentally Hangs Itself

A child about 1 year old, VIII,
parents reside near Pembroke Sprin
Cedar creek, accidentally hanged its
a few days ago. The child had be
left on bed while it's parents were {
in the garden. On returning th
found the child hanging behind t
bed. It had fallen or attempted to S
off the bed, when its head caught |
tween the railing and the wall. It "
dead when found.-She,aa1adoah ~
Herald.
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| In nearly thirty years of experiment.
ing and careful culture Mr.. Bull, at Con-
cord, has raised $4,000 seedlings of
grapes, from which he has saved twenty
two vines worth keeping, and he has a
descendant of the Concord which ripens
as early as the 25th of August.
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POLITICAL POINTS.

Republican State Conventions have
been called in Nebraska for Oct. 1, in Mime
sofa Sept. 2, and in Massachusetts Sept 16. 4
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COLORADO editors think that to wat
the great American desert is a grand
and more necessary work than to pier
the Isthmus of Panama.
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Bonds issued to the Pacific Railroad
Companies, interest payable in law
full money: Principal outstanding. s. 64,62351
Interest accrued and not yet paid. 323 IL
Interest paid by the United States. 1912, 45
Interest repaid by transportation of
mails, etc. ................ 12,5se,o5
Balance of interest paid by the United
States. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 31,116,39
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WASHINGTON NOTES.

BillyMc Garrahan makes proclamation
of his intention to keep his claim to the Cali
fornia quicksilver mine alive. He proposes to
go to Congress with an appeal from the decision
of Secretary Schurz.
It is announced from Washington
that, sin anticipation of the early reopening of
the North American fishery question, Mr..
Evarts will request that an American naval
vessel be sent to cruise on the in-shore fishing
grounds of the Dominion. Information of re-
cent date has already been obtained to clearly
demonstrate the extravaganza of the award of
the Halifax tribunal The object of the pres
ence of an American vessel is to secure the
latest authoritative information respecting
these fisheries as basis of future negotiations
with Great Britain"
- Following is the statement of coin
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During July there was paid for
arrears Of pensions 1861, 900, which exhausts
the special fund held for the redemption of
fractional currency. The increase of the debt
for the month is $6,0s6,s44, showing there
would have been a decrease of $2,6OS, 255. s. if
no arrears of pensions had been paid.
THE monthly debt statement, issued
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being removed thlther. Five clear and
undisputed cases of yellow fever were
reported at New Orleans on the 29th.
The work of disinfecting the city was being
vigorously prosecuted Three deaths from
yellow fever had occurred in Louisville-an of
them imported-and one had occurred in quar-
antine at St Louis Montgomery, Ala, and
Vicksburg, Miss, have established quarantine
against New Orleans Executive Commit
tee of the National Board of Health has issued
a circular on disinfection. It advises thorough
scrubbing and moist cleansing, to be followed
by the fumes of burning sulphur at the rate of
eighteen ounces per 1000, cubic feet Of space
to be disinfected Tea ~stkfi
There were fourteen new cases of
yellow fever and one death at Memphis on the
Slst ult No additional cases were reported at
New Orleans At Havana, Cuba, for week
ending July 20, there were III deaths from YET
low fever
A dispatch from Lynchburg, Va,
says that John Brown, German, proprietor Of
grocery and bar-room one mile and half
below the city, shot a one-armed man named
Lewis Kidd with revolver Brown then blew,
his own brains out. Both died Instantly
Two young sons of DR.. A. H. S. Boyd,
Of Livingston county, KY, being i'll, their faith
or determined to give them santonine, but
through mistake gave them some poison. In
half an hour they took spasms, and one died
in a half and the other in three-quarters of an
hour.
There were four deaths from yellow
The daily gazette., 1879-06-14
Letter From San Francisco.
,rresrondence oftbe Gazette.

Correspondence OF the Gazette.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 8, 1870.
c. p. JOHNSON, EsQ.-Dedr Sir
The copy of your daily containing my
letter of the 10Th inst. was received to-
day. The "typo" who set up the letter
made several ridiculous mistakes.
The first of the political State Con-
ventions to be held in this State to nomi-
nate candidates for Congress, Governor,
Assembly, Chief Justice and judges
of the several courts, under the new
Constitution is the Workingmen's now
in session. They convened yesterday.
| send you an account of the opening
and report of the President, Dennis
Kearney's address; also, the platform
adopted.
had the pleasure of meeting, yester-
| day, Mr.. S. NJ. Curtis, wife and niece,
Miss Harrie Curtis, of Newark, Della
ware.
They have been spending week or
two in the Yosemite Valley, and will
probably remain on the coast six weeks
or two months, visiting all points of in
terests in this State, in Oregon and prob
ably British Columbia.
Mr.. Richardson, of Richardson q
Robbins, Dover, Delaware, Is also In
the city.
We have already in our market fine
peaches, and for several weeks have hat
strawberries, raspberries, apricots, plums
cherries and currants, the finest eve
saw.
MIR. Francis Murphy the great temper
ance advocate and evangelist has beeI
doing great work here for weeks past
About week ago he prevailed upon IN.
wife to be present at the MONDAY ant
evening meeting to lead the singing, an'
render one or more solos at each meet
ing. Yesterday at the noon meetin!
she sang as a solo at Mr.. Murphey's re
quest ''Prodigal Come Home" and at 1t
close at least half of the immense au
dience were in tears. When she cease
singing, a wreck of a young man aros
with tears streaming down his cheeks
and thanked God he had come to tn
meeting, and asked the prayers OF thos
present for his salvation, and that h
might be permitted, through the grac
of God to return to his Fathers Hous,
and before taking his seat exclaimed
"May our kind Heavenly Father ble'
the dear good lady whose singing ha
melted my stony heart and directed Il
way to "My Fathers House.
Respectfully, W. II. n.