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air, and, as he afterward stated
Thought at first it was q bundle OF
rags" On second thought it occurred
to him that some one might have been
walking on the track. He stopped the
train, and with the rest of the crew
hurried back to the spot where the
collision occurred. Lying on the
ground, at the distance of 10 feet be-
low the road-bed, was the body of a
girl She was unconscious, and 1t was
at first supposed dead. a hurried ex-
animation showed that she was still
alive. She was taken up and carried
to her home by Coal and Iron Police
man James Wolfe and others. There
she revived, and her condition but
short time subsequent to the accident
gave her familyoopes that she might
not have been fatally injured Med
ical attendance was summoned, ALL a
careful examination proved that no
bones had been broken, and, strange to
relate, the girl was enabled yesterday to
move about as If her experience had
been of the most ordinary character.
Those who witnessed the manner IN
which she was thrown consider her es-
cape from instant death little less than
miraculous, and cannot understand how
she escaped without any broken bones.
Another strange feature of the accident
is the fate of the basket which she was
carrying when struck. As mentioned,
it contained lot of crockery and $160.
20. When opened it was found that
but one plate out Of dozen had been
broken. The money was intact. When
the girl regained consciousness her
first exclamation was, whats the mat
ter, what's the matter, what's the mat
teri" Until informed of the fact she
was unaware that she had been struck
bY locomotive
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CHICAGO Aug 6. -Flour--Demand fair mar
ket firm; spring common to choice, 4.OOa6.O0;
Minnesota, 42O96.5O; patents, 6.5Oa77S; win
ter wheat, 5.75a1 90. Wheat--Actve firm and
higher unsettled and irregular; No. Chicago
spring, 1.2l2441.22 for seller cash and August;
I16h@116S for seller September l,163s@
1.16 "A for seller October; .14l4d l4H for seller
the year; sales at I2l76@1,22 for seller August;
.l64d1.171s for seller September; ll6G .l6A
for seller October, No. 3 Chicago spring, lO5@
I.091a; rejected, 7607S; Corn Higher, under
ale hot weather and strong pressure to buy adj
vanced 2d3c; 539s a53X for seller cash; 531s for
seller August; 5149s for seller September; STAG
So for seller October 90 for seller the year. sales
DIS a a for seller August; 5335 a5S1a for seller
September; So a551s for seller October, rejected
471a. 0ats-Demand fair; prices higher; unset
tied at IS for seller cash; 1874 for seller August;
3316 for seller September, 1874 for seller October;
sales 34a33} for seller August and September.
3d. a34 for seller October. Rye--Strong and
higher at 50; Barley Easier at 92. Flax seed
Moderately active and higher, at ll71a Pork
steady and in fair demand at 1900 for seller cash;
lS.00al005 for seller September: 1900 for seller
October. Lard-Unsettled and generally higher;
l1.40all. As for seller cash; so for sell
Ter September and October. The "Drovers Jour
Ial" reports: Hogs-Receipts, l,7O0 shipments,
$500; steady but weaker; mixed packing 6.OOa
CAS-; light, 62Oa66O; choice heavy, 6.50a6 80.
Cattle Receipts 400; shipments $780, good
stock active and firmer; good to choice, 5a6.00
one lot at GAO; common to fair shipping, Aba
5.25; all half fat and rough stock dull native
butchers, 2 25d $50 stockers and feeders, 2.50a
a4.OO thorough Texans. 29Od325. Sheep
Receipts, 900 steady; better local inquiry; com
mon to medium; 3OOa3.6O; good to choice, 4.OOa
A IN
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TELEGRAPHIC.
Condensed for Convenient and
Ready Reading.
WASHINGTON.

THE fund for Mrs. Garfield now amounts
to $15j, 0S6.95. John Jacob Aston, through
his son, subscribed &, 900.
The treasury officials at Washington an
ticipate a heavy drain on the national cof-
fers between now and the middle of De-
tOber.
FoRTY-THREE postmasters at presiden-
tial offices have thus far failed to render
their quarterly reports in time, and are
liable to punishment of peeuniary ma
ture.
IT is believed that if the president pro-
crosses as well during the next three
weeks as at present, he will be able to be
moved from the white house. All his
symptoms continue to be favorable
THE national board of trade has been
persuaded by Register Bruce to re-estab-
lish the quarantine station at Nicksburg.
Ii will be placed a mile lower down the
river. on an Island free from malaria.
Col THOMPSON, superintendent OF the
railway mail-service, asserts that the
| United States postal authorities do not
use Canadian pouches in Transporting do
mestic mails, but that the Canadians use
ours for that purpose.
| A STATE Department official at Wash
| ington, in a recent interview, said that if
| the NihiIist. Leo Hartmann. now in New
! York. is wanted by the Russian Govern
ment for assassination, he will be surren-
dered by the United States authorities.
On the recommendation of Congressman
Jones, of Texas, President Hayes pardon
ed notorious highway rObber, named
Ham White, who had been sentenced to
| life imprisonment in the West Virginia
penitentiary. From the day of his re-
lease White has been plundering the
mails in the southwest. He has finally
been Jailed in Colorado. and bids fair to
return to prison.
IT appears now that the forty three
! post-masters who were reported as not
| having complied with the instructions of
the post master general in not sending in
their reports for the last quarter of the ifs
cal year did really send in their reports,
but, not having pasted the label directed
by the post Office department on the envel-
ope, the reports were mislaid.
COMMISSIONER RAUM has written his
| annual letter to the Secretary of the Treas
ury, reviewing the condition of the reve-
hue service. 1t shows that in the last fiscal
year $l35, 225 902 were collected and paid
into the treasury. The amount collected
during FIVE years of Commissioner Raum's
administration aggregates 1902 80, 787,
the entire amount of which has been paid
into the treasury.
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FOREIGN.

THE O'Donohue, member of parlia ment
for Tralee, is bankrupt.
JAMES CLARK, of Paisley, Scotland, the
Oldest member of the famous thread firm,
is dead.
THE Transvaal convention has been
signed. and the government of that terri
tory will be transferred to The Beers.
THE porte has appointed commission
derstanding with bondholders,
Four HUNDRED laborers in the city of
Cork have been led to strike by the APP
peals of the agricultural workers.
SPAIN demonstrates with France in re-
gard to the plundering of the Spanish
vice consulate at the capture of Siax.
The chief of police of Rome has been
dismissed for neglect of duty on the occa-
sion of the riots over the remains of the
pope.
CAPTAIN GENERAL BLANCo will place an
ensign and fifty men on a devastated plan
tation at Destino, Cuba, ard expects to
establish further military colonies.
Az old gentleman Of Ballydehob, Ire
land. who recently obtained an eiectment
decree against laborer, was fatally shot
the other day, and his drivers hat riddled
with bullets.
AT Paso del Norte, Mexico, Governor
Terrazas drove a silver spike into the first
rail ever laid from American to Mexican
soil, and the first locomotive to cross the
Rio Grande, passed over. Governor Ter
razas was escorted by a company of Mexi-
can infantry and the city council. The
Mexican Central road was represented by
Superintendent Geo. I. Anthony.
SHEIK MAHMoUD, who was arrested at
Constantinople by the French consul, and
on whose person was found documents re-
vealing the existence of vast Moslem
conspiracy against the French in Africa,
has been taken aboard French man-of-
war, and will be sent to Paris for trial.
PATRICK T. HICKIE, young Irishman
of London, has been convicted of threat
ening t. kill Secretary Forster unless he
released he Irish prisoners and resigned
bis off The ariict was accompanied
by recommendation to mercy, and the
counsel for the crown announced that Mr..
Forster desired that the sentence be the
lightest consistent with justice.
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A Richmond Romance.


About two months ego young lady,
who has always novel in the best cir
Giles of Richmond society, CHANGED to
read in the Hart ford UiTchmGn an adj
vertisement in which widower in
Ohio wished to secure the services of a
governess to take charge of his little
girl, about six or eight years of age.
Being dependent upon her mother, a
widow in very moderate circumstances,
the young lady, who is a very pretty
blonde, and who has a high-minded,
noble character, determined to make
application for the position with the
hope Of gaining an independent hvell-
hood and of assisting her mother. She
accordingly visited her pastor, a we'll
known clergyman of the city, and also
distinguished jurist here, and obtain
ed from them letters of recommends
ton, which she forwarded to the wild
over with her application. The high
character of the gentleman, as well as
the cordial and beautiful manner in
which they expressed their entire in
dorsation of the young lady's capabili-
ties and beauties of character, had such
great weight with the widower that
disgarding the great number of appli-
cations with which he was beset, he
came on to Richmond, satisfied that
there he would find the lady he desired.
He called upon her and had several
satisfactory interviews; indeed, they
were satisfactory to such degree that
upon the gentleman's departure for
the north the early part of last week
the aforementioned clergyman was as
tonished to receive a note from him
announcing that he had determined
not to take the lady he had recon-
mended for governess, but that he de-
sired to secure his services in making
| her his wife. In few days thereafter
| he returned to Richmond, and the
would-be governess was married to the
gentleman from Ohio on Wednesday
afternoon last at o'clock. The cere-
mony was quietly performed by the
clergyman who had been IN part IN
strumental in bringing the pair togeth-
er, only the immediate family and one
or two friends being present. The
groom is about fifty-five wears of age,
is gentleman of means, and Is repre-
scented as of fine appearance As a
weddinggift he settled upon his newly
made bride the handsome sum OF $780,
600. The bride, it may be stated, IS
highly connected and is cousin Of
one of the most n ted and fascinating
bellies that Richmond has known In
this generation. The bridal party left
on the p. m. train the same day for
Niagara and an extended trip north
and west, and in the fall viii sall for
Europe, where they will permanently
reside.
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oils, John and Thomas Carney were killed
by street-ear driver named William ii.
Collier, on the ground that they attempted
to rob him. Collier surrendered himself.
A KING. ex-Marshal of Marion, Ala,
while entering his gate, had six shots
fred at him. His body was riddled with
the bullets. His death was instantaneous.
Six negroes were arrested.
THE Mescalero Apaches who left their
reservation have crossed the Rio Grande
near San jose They killed two herders
and miner near San Marcial, and fred
upon party of thirty-six Mexicans and
Americans who went in pursuit of them.
THOMAS MoNTooTH, one of the most au-
dacious moonshiners in Arkansas, pleaded
guilty when arraigned at Little Rock, and
was sentenced to one year Of hard labor in
the Detroit house of correction, and to
pay fine of 81 900 and costs.
WILLIAM HARTLEY, Chicago thief now
confined in the peuitentiary in Brooklyn.
has for week abstained from food, and
threatens to starve himself to death, but
the prison officials will administer nutri-
ment by force.
AT McKeesport, Pa, in an attempt to
recover some stolen goods, Mr.. Mcclure
a hardware merchant, was shot dead by the
thieves, an officer was fatally wounded, and
two others seriously. About hundred
persons are in pursuit of the murderers.
IT is believed at Little Rock that the
Perry county troubles will soon be adjust
ed. James A. Isom and w. S. Payton
have been arrested for the murder of Ed
itor Matthews, but claim to be able to
prove their innocence The Jail is guard
ed by militia.
JAMES BURGESS, who eloped from ESSEX
vile, Mich, with the wife and child of
John Waite, two years ago, has been run
down at Lynchburg, Va, where he was
doing a thriving business in groceries.
Tee lady died last June. Burgess will be
brought back to Michigan for trial
MRS E. RUBIN, of Fort Wayne, the
widow of rabbi, shot at Dr. g. T. Brue-
bach, prominent German physician, but
missed him and was disarmed by her son.
The cause was her objection to a Christian
son-in- law, but the doctor has since mar
ried her daughter, the widow of Joseph
LindmaD.
LOUIS LEBLANC, a convict in the peni-
Tertiary near Montreal, spent fourteen
days in cutting hole through three
feet wall into an empty cell, using bit of
iron from his bed. He then descended 10
the ground floor and jumped through a
window to the yard where he scaled a
twenty-fve-feet wall with scantling torn
from shed.
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Stacking Wheat

There is no question but that It is a
great deal better for the farmer to stack
his wheat and let it go through the uni
versal sweat before threshing, than it is
to thresh out of the shocks and let the
wheat sweat in the bin. 1t is a law of
nature that wheat will sweat. The only
time when wheat should be threshed out
of the shock, is when it is to be immedi-
ately sold and delivered at once. Then
those who purchase the grain can take
the risk of the liability of the damage
which is caused by the heating process
in the bin. Then, again, wheat that is
we'll stacked for the matter of six or
eight weeks before it is threshed, will
weigh more to the bushel than when
threshed out of the shock.
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DIR. HAMIL TON, the famous New
York surgeon, says that DIR. Bliss has
had more experience in treating gun
shot wounds similar to the presidents,
known to the profession rs wounds in
the great cavities" than any other
surgeon in either the United States or
Europe. While in charge Of the Ar
morv Square Hospital at Washington
during the war, DIR. Bliss had or the
average for four years from one to tif-
teen new cases a day of gunshot
wounds in the great cavities, all Of
them more or less ike the presidents
and some of them precisely like 1t;
and his success in treating them was
very great. He had also nearly all the
eases of compound fractures OF the
thigh and other despel ate wounds that
we're brought from other hospitasand
battle-felds to Washington.
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The ea-Serpent in a New Place
From the Toronto (Canadal Globe.


The latest "sea-serpent" story comes
from Lake Simcoe, and is told by Mr..
Allan G. Canava, Dominion Land
Surveyor, in letter to his uncle, Mr..
Charles Gibbs, of this city. Mr.. Canava
has been employed lately in examin-
ing toe waters of Lakes SimcOe and
Couchiching and the marshes adjoining.
A day or two ago he was engaged in ex-
aiming the swamps bordering on Lake
Simcoe, on the boundary of the town.
ships between South Orilla and Orc.
They were in boat, and were moving
slowly along, when their attention was
attracte by peculiar putting sound
similar to that produced by the escape
of steam from the exhaus: pipe of an
engine. Mr. Canava remarked that he
thought that was strange place TO
have mill, upon which his compan-
ion reioined that the sound came from
the cars on the railway. But it seems
both gentlemen were wide of the m ark
for in few seconds they saw emerge
from the rushes an extraordinary crea-
ture. having a head - large as an adult
human being, and body resembling a
serpent and increasing in thickness
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downward. It seemed frightened and
made a peculiar putting sound like a
small engine. After going out into deep
water it stopped for short time, and
with the cessation of locomotion there
was an END of the putting noise alrea-
dy referred to. MIR. Canava and his
companion propelled the boat forward
a short distance to have better view
of the creature, upon which the putting
recommended more vigorously than be-
FIRE, and it moved off at the rate of
about fifteen miles an hour. 1t carried
its head about three feet out of water
as it went. The above is the strangest
of the many strange stories recently
told about sea-serpents, but as the re-
otter of it is, Mr.. Gibbs says, trustwor-
thy, there is no reasonable ground for
Withholding its publication in the alb
sence of any other objection than that
it is somewhat strange tale.
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ON THE FARM.

BOOSTERS growing,
Cattle lowing,
Watch dogs baying,
Horses neighing,
PeaeOcks in plumes of splendor screaming.
In the morning,
At the dawning,
Rising early,
Reaping barley,
The master regulating teaInng.
Oxen feeding,
Weather needing.
Bright or hazy,
Milking Daisy,
Queen of the field, pride of the dairy.
Then comes Iight-faee,
Then comes Blight face,
Then Blackberry,
And Red Cherry,
The milkmaid, meadow fairy.
Ripe fruit tumblng,
Farmers grumbling,
Corn unfolding,
Women scolding
And disappointed maidens ''pOuting.7
When the creams off,
Sending teams off
To the cheese-press;
The milk weighs less,
But there may be brook trout m.
All the night time
Brings the bright time,
When harsh noises
And loud voices
Are drowneii in deep seas of slumber.
The whip poorwill
VIII not be still:
She's appealing,
Without feeling,
For stripes for poor will" without number
In thickets hid
The katydid
Wakes to tell us
She is jealous;
1t may be fiction, of fiirtations
of some c0quette,
Who, when she met
Sweet Katy fair,
Out in the air,
Said some soft things with palpitations.
Geo. W. Bmgay, in Temperance Banner
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A Young WOman's Adventure with ia
Locomotive.
Pottsville pa Miners Journal.

PottsvIile pal Miners journal
One of the narrowest escapes from
death perhaps on record was made on
the Philadelphia & Reading railroad on
Saturday. A girl named Mary eleven
slime, Is years of age, living near Lor-
berry junction, had been sent to
Pinegrove by members of the family,
who worked at the colliery Of Miller,
Graeff & Co, for their pay. She made
the trip to Pinegroye in safety and OBJ
tanned the pay, which amounted to
$50. %. This money she placed in a
basket which already contained a guam
tity of crockery. On the return trip
she took the railroad instead of the
pike. When short distance from Lor
berry junction, unaware ofany impend-
ing danger, she was struck by the loco
motive of Conductor Tracy's train.
She was thrown into the air as high as
the smoke-stack of the engine, and
struck the ground at the base ofan en-
bankment Is feet In height. The en-
gineer was unaware of the collision
until he saw the girl thrown high in the
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The New Comet,

From the New Y Ork Tribune,
Schaberle's comet, which is just be-
ginning to make itself visible to the
naked eye, will soon attract as much
popular interest as it has already awak-
ened in astronomical circles. Prof.
Chandler, Jr., of the Harvard observa-
tory, was as usual first in the field with
the elements of the new wapderer, and
his figures appear to have been even
more than usually correct. Comparing
them with the results obtained by Prof.
Stone of Cincinnati, and the computers
at Dun Echt observatory, Scotland, for
both of which we are indebted to the
courtesy of the editor of The Science
Observer, it will be seen how well the
three sets of elements agree. This
agreement is the more remarkable
when it is remembered how short a
time the comet has been telescopically
visible, and how easily he results are
affected under such circumstances by
minute errors of observation. AS to
the identity of the comet, nothing has
yet been definitely settled. Prof. Stone
thinks it is a return of the comet OF
1887. Swift detects in the elements
some resemblance to those of the first
comet of 1898 and the second comet of
1770 Prof. Chandler thinks the orbit
bears no special likeness to that of any
known comet, while in a brief letter,
which we publish to-day, Mr.. Me1ri-
man calls attention to the close similar
ity of Schaberles comet and those of
the third comet of 1922. But all are
agreed that the new visitor is certain
to be prominent and handsome, al
though it may not rival that three-tailed
comet which appeared the year before
the Norman conquest of England, or
Halley's comet in 1456, which so terri
fed Pope Calixtus III, that he ordered
the church bells to be rung daily at
noon, and extra Ave Marias TO be re-
peated by everybody.
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The source of vitality.

1t is from the blood that the body derives Vi
tally, since not only does the blood contain the
elements of muscular and nervous tissue and bone,
but upon its outgo through its many channels and
refux to the heart. existence itself depends. If
then this vital feeder and motor be deficient in
nourishing constituents, the body loses strength
anu weight, aud health languishes. Ia order to
enrich the blood, and thus Impsrt fresh vigor to
an enteebled system, stimulate tagging digestion
with the national inyigorant. Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters which by infusing energy into the opera
tons If the stomach, promotes, nay insures thor
ough digestion and assimilation and consequent
nutrition gain in appetite, vlgor and flesh,
and digestive tranquility is invariably found %
follow course Of this deservedly popular tonic,
which is moreover a reliable preventive of mal4r-
IL Farnrs
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ruins

TIE probabilities are that those who
buy apples this year will have to pay
well for them, The crop is light every
where, and particularly 50 at the west.
Michigan will have about half crop,
Iowa and Missouri ditto, while Illinois
is estimated 1T two-thirds below her
average. Harvest apples are now SELL
ing in st. I.uIis at 81 and $3.50 per bar
rel, which is extremely high. Farmers
will have to lay by stock of small
fruits, of which there seems to be q
plentiful supply, and among these
there are none more healthful than
cranberries. \ later apple report may
prove NOR encouraging, but the pres
ent outlook Is certainly not very cheer
mo
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MILWAUKEE,, Aug. 6-Flour.-Quiet and un-
changed. Wheat-Excited and advancing; No.
hard, nominal; No. /, nominal; No. hard NOM
inal; No. 2, LIS; l.I74 for seller August; 1.l5A
for seller September; 1.1j3s for seller October
I15% for seller November; l.l57s for seller Deem
Der; No. 3, O5; No. 4, nominal; rejected, nominal
Corn-Scarce and wanted; No. 2, 52S Oats
Higher; No ., 40 Rye-Steady; No. /, s3Qs}4
Barley-Higher; No 3, 756754.
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GRADING has been commenced on
the Eureka and Colorado river railroad,
in Nevada, under the recent sale to the
Denver and Rio Grande line, to con-
meet at some point in Utah, near Iron
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GEN. MERRITT, ex-collector of New
York, who has been appointed consul
general at London, win not leave for
his post until some time during the
latter part of this month. He will take
a trip west before going abroad.