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Cruelty of the Afghans.
New York Times.

One of the most singular incidents of
the British defeat at Maiwand, in At
ghanistan, has just transpired, and if
the details of it were only known it
might be shown that tragedy has been
enacted full of the deepest touches OF
pathos. Some Sepoys, who were cap
tured and taken to Herat after the bat
tie in which Ayoob Khan defeated Gen
eral Burrows with heavy slaughter,
have by some means managed to
escape from Ayoobs citadel and reach
the British frontier How they
could have travelled along the line of
territory that stretches between Herat
and Quetta, the capital of the Khan of
Khelat's dominions, without being muir
dered or captured by the hostile trib ss
who swarm i'll the country, is difficult
to imagine; but in all probability they
were Mussulmans, and III that case they
would be able to claim some hospitality
from the Afghans, who are much more
liable to be affected by the claims of
Northumberland than they are
by the distinctions of nation
British authorities at Quetta is TO the
eHSCJ InaJ lOur DTltlSn SOlultTb VINO
were captured at Maiwand have been
sold into slavery by their captors. What
the suferings of these slaves are can
not be even imagined, because the AT
ghans are brutal to degree with re-
spect to aliens whom they have taken
in battle. If they save q life, it is only
from whim, that they may put it to
prolonged torture, and these four men
are probably now undergoing miseries
to which death itself would be COM
parative relief When DIR. Bellew en-
tered Afghanistan twenty years ago, in
connection with an Embassy to the
Amer, he met man who was pointed
out to him as a British captive, who
had been taken in the war of 1S39-42.
The man resembled beast more than
a Christian human being. He had al
most forgotten his own language, and
the little he mad left of it he dared not
speak, so terrified was he of his Afghan
masters. Bellew says the case was
singularly pathetic, and in it alone the
world may gain some idea of the fate
of the four white slaves who are now
reported to be alive in the capital Of
We tern Afghanistan.
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Chicago m ara e.

CmcAso, Oct S.--Flour- Steady and active
lower and unsettled; No. 2 Chicago spring
1871 for seller cash and seller October; l.47 q
bid for seller November; l.423S bid for seller
December; No. 3 Chicago spring, l.24. Corn
Unsettled, active weak and lower; No. 2, 6314
for soller October; 633s bid for seller Novem-
Der; 65s. bid for seller December; 7lH for
seller May rejected 6l1z. Oats Unsettled and
lower; 46H for seller cash; 46Aa 46% for seller
October; ASK for seller November; ASK for
seller December; 493S for seller May. Rye
Dull and lower, Ito. for seller cash and octo-
Der, 1.l211 for seller November: lie for seller
December. Barley-Dull weak and lower; ! IL
for seller November. Pork-Actiye but lower;
1925 for seller cash; IS.l0alS.1j for sell
err October; 1s.lOG18.l2h for seller Noyem-
for seller the year. I9.204l92 for seller jan
Lard Active but lower; HIS for seller cash
and seller October; 11.82H q llS5 for seller
November; II 97K a 1900 for seller December
1I.70G1l.75 for seller the year; l230al2.321z
for seller January The "Drovers' Journal
reposts Hogs Receipts $4,000; shipments, :
700; lower; mixed packing, 6.0OG6.5O; light,
G30a6.60; choice heavy, 6s0a7. 20. Cattle
Receipts, 5000; shipments, 5O00i firm and in
good demand; 6.5Oa6.7j; good to choice ship
ping, $4,000. sheep-Recepts, 500, ship
ments, 1907 strong and higher; common to
fair westerns, 3.OO94.0 good to choice, scasce
4jOa :. 90.
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in India is extensively carried on IN
but two special tracts of territory; on
the fertile tablelands of Central India,
which corresponds to the old Kingdom
of Nalwa, and where its cultivation is
free, the duty being collected as the
opium passes through Bombay; and in
the valley of the Ganges, around Patna
and Benares, where the cultivation is a
strict Government monopoly. Through
out the rest of India it is absolutely
prohibited. In Bengal number Of
cultivators agree to SOW certain guam
tity of land with poppy, and, as in
other Indian industries, a pecuniary
advance is made TO them before they
commence operations, which is bal
anced when the opium is delivered to
the agencies. The opium is purchased
by the Government at fixed rates ac-
cording to the quality, and the man
ufacture into opium is Government
monopoly. The profit is enormous. In
1S7S-79, 81 200 chests of opium were
exported from India to China, of the
value Of s13,000 900, of which 1900
600 represented the net profit to the
Indian Government. At the beginning
of the century the annual exports bare
w reached 2 500 chests.
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A Very Strange story About Guiteau

MENTOR, O., Sept. 21.-The Rev. w
B. Hendryx, pastor of the Disciple
Church at Mentor, said that in the
midst of the campaign year ago Gen
eral Garfelds family received intima-
tions from Chicago of his being in dan
ger. Being demonstrated with for not
being more cautious, Garfield replied
to Hendryx: II did not seek nomina-
ton, and the Lord will protect me if it
is His will" Hendryx then said that
one very dark night during the cam
paign, after the family had retired, a
knock was heard, and Garfield went to
the door. A man there said another
man in buggy outside, fully six rods
away, in darkness, wanted him to come
out to see him. 'He is welcome in, but
cannot go out there" This ended
the interview. When Guiteau's por-
trait reached Mentor after the shoot
ing, several persons recognized it as a
suspicious looking face they had seen
several times in the village. His last
words on leaving Mentor, said Hen
dryx, were so bold that we feared for
him. He was thoroughly in earnest to
oppose Mormonism and carry out the
principles of his Inauguration. The
baser clements of society saw in him
an uncompromising enemy. and he has
fallen victim to his boldness of speech.
These things show that the people of
Mentor had fear of some trouble be-
falling President Garfield From the
very beginning this fear was also the
measure of their love, which was shown
in their attendance at his hOusa TODAY
with words of tenderness for the strick-
en- family, especially the two youngest
Garfield boys, who felt their fathers
death keenly, and would not be COM
forted for long time.
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WHOLESOME FOOD.
The Issue Between White and Brown
bread.

The earliest agitator in the matter,
saws a writer in the Nineteelth Century.
observed two years ago, when travelling
in Sicily, that the laboring classes there
live healthily and work well upon a
vegetable diet, the staple article ofwhich
is bread made of well-ground wheat
meal. Nor are the Sicilians by any
means the only people so supported.
1.-THE Hindoos of the Northwestern
Provinces can walk fifty or sixty miles
day with no other food than 'chapat-
ties, made of the whole meal, with a
little 'ghee, or Galam butter" Turk
ish and Arab porters capable of carry
ing burdens of from 400 to 600 pounds,
live on bread only, with the occasional
addition of fruits and vegetables. The
Spartans and Romans of old time lived
their vigorous lives on bread made of
wheaton meal. In Northern, as well as
Southern climates, we find the same
thing. In Russia, Sweden, Scotland,
and elsewhere, the poor live chiefly on
bread, always made from some whole
meal-wheat, oats, or rye-and the
seasantry, of whatever climate, SO fed,
always compare favorably with our
South English poor, who, in conditions
ofindigence precluding them from OBJ
tanning sufficient meat food, starve, if
not to death, at least into sickness, on
the white bread it is our modern En-
glish habit to prefer. White bread
alone will not support animal life.
Bread made of the whole grain will.
The experiment has been tried In
France by Magendie. Dogs were the
subjects of the trial, and every care was
taken to equalize all the other condi-
tions-to proportion the quantity of
food given in each case to the weight
of the animal experimental upon, and
so forth. At the end of forty days the
dogs fed solely on white bread died.
The dogs fed on bread of the whole
grain remained vigorous, healthy and
we'll nourished. Whether an originally
healthy human being, if fed solely on
white bread for forty days, would like
wise die at the end of that time, re-
mains, of course, a question. The ten
acity of life exhibited by Magendie's
dogs will not evidently bear comparison
with that of the scarcely yet forgotten
forty days wonder-Dr. Tanner. Nor
is it by any means asserted that any given
man or any given child would certainly
remain in vigorous health for an indef-
mite length of time if fed solely on
wheat-meal bread. Not single piece
of strong evidence has been produced,
however, to show that he would not;
and in the only case in which whole
meal bread has been tried with any
persistency or ON any considerable scale
among us-to wit, in jails-facts go to
show such bread to be an excellent and
wholesome substitute for more costly
forms of nutritious food.
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. Two New York Vice Presidents
New York Letter in Rochester Democrat

The fact that General Arthur is the
most recent vice president elected from
the state of New York recalls the mem
DRY and character of the first One
point of similarity holds in this paral-
lel-their clerical parentage. Aaron
Burr was the son of Presbyterian
preacher, while Arthur's father was
prominent in the Baptist ministry.
we'll rem ember the latter as a man of
both robust body and mind He stood
six feet high and was well proportional,
and yet, Notwithstanding his great
strength and physical development, he
was mild and gentle to an extreme.
He was teacher as well as preacher,
and seemed indeed best adapted to the
aforementioned Office. | remem Der
hearing an address which he delivered
on this subject and was so impressed
with the freshness and power of his
views that it led to some personal in
quiries. He told me that ne had al
mays loved TO teach, and had been to a
greater or less degree in that service
since boyhood. Indeed" said he,
"when | was a mere boy they called
me the wee schail master, and | have
been at it ever since" He published
several books which indicated his pecu-
liar love of research, and one of these,
arthur on Names" is a work of per-
manent value. To return to our paral-
lei, our first and last vice presidents
We're lawyers, and were residents of the
city of New York. Had Jefferson
been removed by death Burr would
have become president, and his evi
destiny would have been escaped. AL
his bad luck, indeed, occurred aftel
he was nearly through the vice presi.
dency.
Another point of similarity is found
| in the fact that both were widowers
Had Burr reached the white house
Theodosia would have been its tempo
rary mistress. Burr had then been a
widower five years, and was DESTROYS
of marriage. His daughter joined in
this desire, for she knew how lonely
her father must be after her union
with Aston. The latter deprived Burr
of his best support-the society of q
| heightened daughter-and when thus
bereaved he became the victim of evil
| influences. Theodosia was married a
month previous to her fathers entrance
iuto the vice presidency, and having
witnessed this gratifying ceremony she
accompanied her husband to his south.
cru home The next time she met heI
father he was mere refugee who
sought her hospitality, being crushed
by public vengeance awakened by the
death of Hamilton. Tho first New
York vice president, indeed, was the
most remarkable political wreck in
American history, and hence his
name will always hold an unenviable
distinction. He was the only one Of
our vice presidents who was an avowed
duelist, and though that was one of the
sins of the age, it really seems strange
that so tragic an affair should have oc-
Cured while he was holding the second
office in the gift of the people--thus
leaving the vice presidency stained
with blood
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FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

BY the caving of the Means tunnel, at
Grayson. KY, ten convict laborers were
killed. and five injured.
THIRTY-sIx buildings in the village of
Pulaski, n. Y, were swept away by fire.
The loss is placed at 100000, on which
there is insurance of half that amount.
A FIRE at Cobourg, Ont, destroyed the
grocery houses of Brent and Sutherland
and Mulholland's hardware store, the loss
being 100000.
THE steamer Dell Queen was swept
over the dam at Kibourn City, Wss., Oct.
9th, and four men were drowned.
THERE appears to be new trouble with
the Indians at the San Carlos agency, A.
t., for which Agent Tiffany alleges the
military are RESPONSIBLE.
A FIRE at Warren, Pa, caused a loss of
$4,000 Among the twelve buildings de-
stroyed were Clarke's planning mill and
Ellsworth & Johnson's grist mill.
"PINK-EYR" has made its appearance in
Oshkosh, Wis. among a lot of horses
shipped from Ohio last week. No other
cases are reported.
THE Roman Catholic College at st.
Therese, near Montreal, was destroyed by
fire oct Z, the loss being placed at $500,
| UDU. HTSe HuHuTcu StuuSulS WSIS III db
tendance.
Two of the party who lynched the Nc
| Donald brothers at Menominee, Mich,
bave been committed to Jail on the finding
of the coroner's jury, and five others are
being sought for by officers.
JMAEs LITTLE, a conductor on the Santa
Fe road, was killed by two Mexicans in
his house at Las Lunas, New Mexico.
| He managed to shoot both of his assail-
| ants, and they were jailed. Thirteen
kpife-wouUds were found on his body
AN Erie oil train of fifty cars caught
fire at the crossing of the Delaware river,
near Port Jervis, n. Y Fifteen cars in
the rear were cut loose and drawn back
across the bridge, where the tanks ex-
| ploded and burned out, melting even the
| telegraph wires.
| A REMARKABLE disease has appeared
| in Platte county, Missouri, which is de-
scribed by some as the black smallpox,
and by Others as the original black scourge.
Its victims rot before death, and instances
are given of their bodies falling to pieces
| while being prepared for burial.
| A soUTH-BoUND train OH the Louisville
| & Nashville railroad jumped the track at
| Dolive Station, Ala, Octorer 9th, and the
| cars were thrown over. Gen. John M.
| Dunn, of the interior department, and a
circus agent were bruised. A colored
tramp who was stealing a ride was killed.
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FOREIGN.

EUGENE, on her recent visit to Paris,
is said to have executed a will in favor of
Prince Victor, and urged him to devote
his mind to the imperial cause.
THE discomfort of the peasants in south
ern Russia is evidenced by the prevalence
of incendiary fires.
ONE of the directors of the exploded
national bank of Luxembourg has been
arrested at Rotterdam.
DIPHTHRRIA is causing terrible mortal
ity in the province of Orel, Russia, where
IL per cent OF the cases prove fatal.
AMONG those who sailed from Queens
town Oct I, for New York were Dillon,
Egan, O'Connor, and Redpath.
IT was on the request of the Gillian
minister that the German government
seized the vessels Socrates and Diogenes,
under construction at kiel.
THE Bank of France is said to have al
most exhausted its stock of ten and twenty
franc pieces, but holds nearly all the five
franc coinage in the republic.
An Irish landlord, named Bingham, was
fred at bv man disguised In female
clothing, who escaped. A girl riding on
a iauniing-car with the intended victim
was wounded.
AN Irish farmer, named Leary, living
on the estate of Lord Kenmore, near
Baltimore, was fatally shot by band OF
armed men, who warned him not to pay
rent.
THE manager of The Panama canal
states that twelve hundred men are en-
ployed in excavations, and that quarter
of a million dollars has already been ex-
pended.
In the hope of checking the expectation
of gold to the United States, the Imperial
Bank of Germany raised its discount rate
to 81 per cent, and the Bank OF England
threatens TO advance ) per cent. to-day.
Gendarmes guard the national bank OF
luxembourg, which has been forced into
liquidation by the government. Its pub
lie liabilities are 100000 francs, while
100000 francs of its notes are held By
working people.
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Blaine's Acceptance.

The Philadelphia Press publishes the
the tender of the state portfolio. 1T is
as follows:
Ny Dear Gdrfeld-Your generous in
vitation to enter your cabinet as secre-
tary of state, has been under considera-
ton for more than three weeks.
Though it had really never occurred to
my mind, until at our late conference,
when you presented it with such CO.
gent arguments in its favor and with
such warmth of personal friendship.
In view of your kind offer | know that
an early answer is desirable, and have
waited only long enough to consider
the subject in all its bearings, and to
make up my mind definitely and con-
clusively. / now say to you, in
the same cordial spirit In
which you have invited me,
that / accept the position. 1t is no af
fectation for me that | make this de-
cision not for the honor of promotion
it gave me in public services; / think |
can be useful to the country, to the
party, useful to years Of the govern
ment. | am influenced somewhat,
perhaps, by the shower of letters have
received urging me to accept. In con-
quence of the unauthorized newspaper
reports you have been pleased to offer
me the place. While | have received
these letters from all sections of the
union | have been pleased, and even
surprised at the cordial and widely ex-
terded feeling in my favor through
out New England, where | had ex-
pected to encounter local jealousy,
and perhaps rival aspirations in
our relation. / shall give all that /
am, and all that / can hope to be. free
" and joyfully to your service. You
need no pledge of my loyalty in heart
and in act. / should be false to myself
did I not prove true both to the great
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A Quaker Wedding.

From the London Graphlc.
Marriage is contracted among the
members of the Society of Friends with
as little ceremony as all their other re-
ligious duties are performed. The young
people, having fallen in love and OBJ
tanned the consent of their parents to
the proposed union, give notice to the
Ecclesiastical Council, who make the
needful inquiries, and publish a form
of banns at the following Sunday meet
ing to ascertain if there be any valid
objection to the marriage. After these
preliminaries the bride and bride
groom, with their relatives aud friends,
attend one of the ordinary week day
devotional meetings, at which the sol
emn contract is completed without any
formal ritual, there being no clergyman
and no ring.
Without parson or priest at the table they stand
And the bridegroom says-holding his bride by
the hand
Il John, take Friend Margaret here for my wife,
To be loving and faithful while God gives US
life
No VOWS to the simple sweet promise lend force,
Yet who ever heard Of Quaker divorced
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trust you confde to me, and to your
own personal and political fortunes in
the present and the future Your adj
ministration must be made eminently
successful and strong in the confidence
and pride of the people; not at all d.
recting its energies for reelection, and
yet compelling that result by the logic
of events. and by the imperious neces-
sites of the situation, to that most de-
sirable consummation. / feel that next
to yourself, can possibly contribute as
much influence as any other one man.
| say this not from egotism or vain
glory, but merely as deduction
from plain analysis of the political
forces which have been at work in the
country for five years past and which
have been significantly shown in the
two great national conventions. lac
cept it as one of the happiest circum-
stances connected with this affair that,
allying my political fortunes with yours,
or rather for a time merging mine IN
yours, my heart goes with my head,
and | carry to you not only political
support, but also personal and devoted
friendship. | can but regard it as
somewhat remarkable that two men
of the same age, entering congress at
the same time, influenced by the same
aims, and cherishing the same ambi-
tons, should never for single moment
in Is years of close intimacy have had
a misunderstanding or GOODNESS, and
that our friendship has steadily
grown with our growth, and
strengthened with our strength. 1t is
this fact that has led me to the con-
clusion embodied in this letter, for
however much, my dear Garfield, In
might admire you as a statesman. |
would not enter your cabinet, if / did
not believe in you as man, and love
you as a friend Always faithfully
yours,
(Signed) JAMES g. BLAINE.
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CRIME.


IT. BRANCH, discussing agent of the
American Transfer company at Bradford,
Pa, has been arrested in Toronto fer the
em5ezzlement of $4,000.
FRANK FOSTER, prominent young bust
ness man of Marion, o.. while standing in
the door of a store, Oct. Z, was deliber-
ately killed by Orrin Depugh.
Orro FRREsE, of Aurora, H., was muir
dered on Main street, at midnight. Satur-
day, by Thomas 0leson, Swede, IL years
of age The affair grew out of badinage
between two squads. The Jail was sur
rounded BY large and excited crowd all
the forenoon, and the prisoner was sent TO
the county Jail at Geneva to avert a
lynching.
WHILE Buffalo Bill. accompanied by
his wife and daughter, was walking to his
hotel in Council Bluffs from the opera
house, Monday evening, an unknown man
rode up and fred three shots at him from
a revolver j. T. Benedict, demented
saloon-keepr, was discovered to be the
assailant. and has beed held in 81 900 to
answer.
THE recent massacre of railway EN-
ployes by Arabs at Wadzergha, Tunis, was
prompted by the wholesale destruction of
olive forests and vineyards which General
Sabatier deemed necessary, The station
master was burned alive. The ten work
men killed were Maltese and Italians. A
thorough investigation is being made by
the English and Italian council.
II. b. CHAPLIN & Co., of New York
have secured an order from court in that
city restraining John w. and f. n. Ham
lin, of Chicago, from harrassing them
by groundless litigation in other states"
The trouble arises out CT the settlement
of the affairs of the old firm of Hamiin,
Hale Il Co., of which Clahin & Co. were
hackers. Judge Lawrence in rendering
his decision. referred to suit brought by
the Hamlins against Clafiin in Illinois,
tuted in good faith, and that its sole OBJ
ject was to vex the New York house.
TED FRANKS, the jailer at Bloomington,
Ill.,, was shot through the heart on the 4th
inst, by a horse thief named Chas. Pierce.
Other prisoners seized the murderer and
took the revolver from him. Within nine
ty minutes a crowd of five thousand per-
sons surrounded the Jail, the iron doors
were soon forced, and Pierce was dragged
out TO a locust tree at the corner of Market
and Centre streets, and strung up. The
shrieks of the villain could be heard
above the cheers of the crowd. 1t was
expected that Patsy Devine, the assassin
of Aaron Goodfellow, who occupied the
cell next to Pierce, would meet the same
fate, but he was spared. His being grant
ed new trial by the supreme court was
the melting cause of the lynching.