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GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

The National Mercantile Travellers Asso
citation meets at Cincinnati to-day. The
chief object OF the meeting is to create in.
fluence in favor OF legal measures to pro.
tcct tho rights OF travelling statesmen in the
South and West.
Murray and Greene, the Providence pu.
glists, who attempted to fight ut Coney
Island, met yesterday morning and fought
twcnty.four rounds, resulting in victory
for Murray. Greene was terribly punished.
The first lot Of new oats on the St. Louis
market, received from Texas, sold at auc.
ton yesterday at IS cents in bulk, and ISL
cents in sacks.
Mrs. Scoville reports that yesterdays
mail brought in over six hundred sigma.
lures for her petition in behalf OF her
brother, assassin Guiteau.
The death OF Ex-Governor Dsuuison, OF
Ohio, is looked for ut any hour. The alb
sent members Of his family haze been sum.
moned to his bedside.
The exercises attending graduating day
ut the West Point Military Academy tool,
place yesterday.
The baseball games yesterday resulted as
follows: afetropolitans, 5; Philadelphia, T.
-Bostons, 10; Clevelautls, 4-Chicaso, 3;
Providence, 9-Detroits, Z; Worcestcrs, s.
Eclipse, $; Allegheny, Troy, O.; Buirllo,l
J.Levinc. S. Crons.ine aud NJ. Tatncr,
tobacco dealers at Nashville, failed ycster-
day for $4,000.
AMinneapolis dispatch states that Bishou
Fos' steadily improves, and is now con-
valescent. The tissues OF The s!!ruuken
leg are renewing and it is believed tha. Ills
recovery will be complete. 4
Owing to the illness OF juror the hear
ing in the Watkins mill burning case, at
Toledo, ~ was adjourned yesterday until
Thursday.
After seven weeks idlencss at a loss OF
$4,000, one-hali OF the men who struck Tor
an advance oi fifteen per cent, returned 10
work yesterday Mt an advance OF five and
ten per cent ut tho McCammons piano iac.
tory, Albany, NY.
Successful observation of the Wells
comet was made Mt Durlcy oh.
serra'ory, Albany, New York, yes.
tcr.lay, ut the meridian transit. The
most interesting fact asccrtaincd is that
this couIct has real nucleus.
Forest fires are raging southwest OF Mill
vile, Wisconsin, and destroyed the
entire logging camp OF +. D. Lind
sny. Tho fire is sweeping toward
liewittville aud that village and Hewitt's
mills will undoubtedly be destroyed. Cat.
lie have been burned. The entire populu.
ton has turned out to fight the fire. No es.
innate Of the loss can be made, but it will
be very large. -
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An old physician, retired from practice
having had placed III his hands by on East
lndia missionary the formula OF a simple
vegetable remedy for the speedy and pcr,
mancnt cure OF Consumption, bronchitis,
Cniarrlt, Astitma, and ail Throat and Lung
Affections, also 4 positive and radical cure
for Nervous Debility and NIL Nervous Com.
plants, after having tested its wonderful
curative powers in thousands OF eases. has
felt i is duty 10 make Unknown to his suffer.
ing. fellows. .Actuated by this motive and n
desire to relieve ha,nan suffering, will send
Tree OF charge TO all whn desire il, this recipe,
II German, French or English, with full
directions ~ 10 Tor preparing and using Sent by
paper, W. a.. NoYEs 40 T'ower's Hiort
Rethester u Y .aM.l.. 4 g !. - :. J -1N"'',
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VIII Stny In the Woods.

Special Dispatch to the lntellgeucer.
MonGASTowS, June l2.-The election
Saturday, Oh the question OF subscribing
Sl50,000 TO the West Virginia & pennsyl-
yania railroad, resulted in 4 defeat Of the
subscription by about thirty votes. The
vote in Morganiown was decidedly in IA.
yor OF the subscription, the vote standing
five hundred and eighty.Gve for to thir
teen against. The backwoods districts did
the business. ...
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Unreasonable FSninS.

CHICAGO, jane IA Springfield, Ills,
special says: Saturday nights rain ex-
tended over several counties in this vicin.
ity and must have done much damage to
the growing crops. The streams nil over
flowed nnd several washouts occurred on
railroads, but all are repaired now. On
the Wabash road, twenty miles east oi
here, 800 feet OF track was washed away,
Three aud one.,ali inches OF rain fell il,
the twenty-five hours ending at 10 o'clock
yesterday. tE.a7' ~ IA. 4 .757.1 80
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ST. Louis, Mo-, June 10 "a special from
Jackson, Miss, to the Post.Dispaich, says:
deoree Beckett, a negro, attempted to
Outrage the seven ycar old daughter OF a
man named Arknew, in Monroe county,
yesterday. a party OF citizens with shot
guns and bloodhounds, started in
pursuit OF tho brute, and he was
run down near the Tom Bigbee river. He
refused to surrender and lelied his pur.
suers, who opened fire OH him, woundinc
him seriously. Hc was then taken 10 iail
and q guard placed over him. AT night a
crowd Of men overpowered the Juilor,
broke into Beckctt's cell, dragged him out
and hanged him 10 tue limb Of u tree.
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WASHINGTON NEWS.
COLONEL eEN's BUSINESS rRlp.
Whathe Thinks OF the Prospects Of tho West vlr.
\ Elnla and PsunsJlvanla ltAiiroad Secretary
Weeks on tho TariG CommlaAl0uarx.
Gulteau'a Spiritual Adviser. 81

Special Dispatch to the ln,elIgenccr. .t.
WASHINGTON, June t2.-Congressman
Wilson and his colleague Mr.. Kenna rc'
turned 10 Washington today. Mr.. Wilson
has been gone week working up the In
tercsts OF tho West Virginia 4 pennsyl.
vania Railroad Company In Monongalm
county. lie says tho road will bo sixty
miles in length, running through II rlcl,
agricultural country, and opening up one
OF the most fertile valleys in Amer
lea, where tho shipment Of cattle
will be large. Tho limo is also prodigiously
rich in veins Of bituminous coal. Harrison
county voted sl5o,OoO, slariontounty $780,
900, but he is afraid Monongalia will not
give her quota. There is no doubt, however,
but what the road will DO constructed,
unless the recent strikes consequent Oh the
pamlyzation OF business enterprises
should produce q panicky feeling. But the
crop prospects are good. The return Of
gold from Europe will bo large and he
anticipates no scarcity OF money. Col.
Wilson said that he did no political work
while gone rs hts fences lie lit another dis
frick .., .I..,...0r.
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makes IN impnlcnt assault upon tho re.
liglon OF Goh, for religion Is OF God, not
country. next wrote letter concerning
tho male branch Of the league, giving a
partial history Of II and its doctrines. say.
ing tho women could not DO associated viii,
1t. Then they said | had no right 10 speak
and tiiat they would siake off tho whole
lot Of English, Italian md Scotcl, priests,
ana further at the sumo meeting began tho
organization. .of another picnic, with tho
plnin fhct before tho public OF The last wears
iunus being still unaccounted for. My
uoclfine was that ono scandal shonld DO
clearcu up before another one began.
WHEN they talk OF interference with
citizenship, reply that spiritual welfare
anu rights ol country are separate. No
government on tho ince OF tho earth has
tho right to question the thoughts within
my breast. When the editor Of the Caiio.
&c Telegraph discusses tho question OF the
advisabilhy OF the bull OF excommuuica.
ton, on the strength OF his paper bciug the
organ Of Archbishop Purcell, the editor is
An Extremely Juvenile Young Man,
md tho Archbishop, who is nov feeble in
intellect and body, has no responsibility in
this matter. Catholic newspapers have said
with ono voice that some local cause must
exist for taking this step. have taken the
sumo ground with Archbishop Croke, md
have encouraged the women to do charita.
bic Offices, aud become altnoncrs for the
funds Of the Land League to assist the dis.
trcssed and cvictcd. Now II the Cleveland
League were organized for the same pur.
pose rs In Ireland, and llad no bad local
association 1t would not have been con.
demned; but joining with men whose &C.
tlonss arc notoriously uncatholic, 1t could
not bnt incur tho Episcopal displeasure,
II tho members OF the League had sought
to aid ireland, and Ireland nlone. they
would have met with words OF encourage
ment and sympathy" -
so lar rs known to Bishop Gilmourthcr
IS Dut one woman on the East Side who
has had any part with these Learues, md
she has come TO the Bishop and Voluntarily
given up her fellowship with them, As 10
MISS Rowland, who, on the strength of
th's trouble, has risen to such prominence,
the Bishop, SO he says, was unaware Of her
very existence, and from the placid ex-
preston OIL his face and the merry twinkle
in his eye, his nights will not be rendered
s!eepless by her actions. At the close OF
the interview the Bishop leaned forward
and said "There is but one solution TO
this question; they must all yield"
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Cmry JrsricE MAyE, Of West Alexan'
10, il alluded to in one OF the Chicago
,nDcrs as the marrying man par excellence
dihe civilized world. a man who hns
,;4l Two thousand matrimonial knots las
no rival even in the divorce business OF
illnt rity
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TIE fruit crop prospects Of Belmont
county averages MS follows; Apples, Al;
,esrs, a. peaches, &; srapes,'sl. Jefferson
averages, apples, 80: peaches, {; grapes, y.
The general average improves as you 60
north in Ohio. For instance, in Ashtabula
iti,eo for apples, 100 for pears, % for
peaches, aud lOl for grapes. The average
10, ,hewhoIe State stands, apples, GO; pears,
70. ncsrhe. IS, and grapeS, 50,
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r,eycw York publie has very little con-
e,t,nre in a nlly in the price oil oil, and
ays that the present accumulation Of stock
:rIdocIiue In price has occurred In the
iareoi 4 remarkable increase in co.'sump'
,;o,,,o,h nj home md abroad.
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Outside Of Sew York. ~ 39l Gl
Columbus and Portland are not included

Columbus and Portland are not included
in tho totals. 59 4HS6 - lsTIT
The statement this week, though unsat-
istactory in many..respec,s, in others shows
III Improvement. The aggregate clearings
in twenty.six cities for the past week we're
sl,0s6, l30,5Ss, against only SSlO,o72,57l
in the same cities the previous week, Il
must be borne in mind, however, that this
comparison is instituted between the wee|;
OF the six business days just closed and the
previous week Of only five. As compared
with the corresponding week last year,
though the percentage OF decrease is
larger, it is still much. smaller 1tban It
was the previous week. While business
has improved somewhat in tho East and
the percentage OF decrease has been reduc.
cd in a number OF eastern cities in the
West per contra the depression IN bust.
ness has seemingly increased, this fall
ing of being reflected in the clearings at
those points. The aggregate percentage Of
decrease this week as compared with the
corresponding week last year was is per
cont against decrease Of 3l.4 per cent iast
week, and one Of 40.2 per cent tho pre-.
viouS week, 'iF. F., l!Si5 ~ - \
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conoEs, N. W June lo,-Fivo weavers
went to work in the mills today under 4
~ per cent reduction. Great excitement
prevails. Three thousand strikers gath
cred about the gates and threatened to kill
inc secceders. The entire police force is on
guard. 5l5r'B5 ia. - : -, =. : :
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o,,.,o, ,6e 1;VI" informs tho Washing.
~ o'"r Correspondent Of the New York Post
,na ,,,a, ,na lr,siIent is too fond of pleasure.
,Ia; ". IL, rsaa,kei that the bolt in Penn.
.,Is,ri, ia very serious affair. g.
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Mothers! n Otl,crsI! SIothcrn,

Are you disturbed Mt night and broken Of
your rest by sick child suffering mud crying
With the exeruciating pain Of cutting teeth
Il M 50; go az once and get bottle Of Mrs
the poor little sufferer Observation-Disclosures
upon 1t; there Is no mistake about'it, There
is not u mother on earth who has ever used
it,twho will not tell you at once tina, it will
regulate the bowels, mud give rest to The
mother and relief and health to tho child,
operhtins like magic. i 1t Is perfectly safe q
use In MI cases, aud pleasant 10 the taste, and
Is the prescription OF zone of the Oldest besi
female physicians% and nuKcs In the United
States. ssid everywhere. 225 ceuts a bottle
liS z 5tIi IA { Nwrawr
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VIII Ite

PirTsBunGl1, Pa, June lae-The Weeden.
Slaloney prize fight will not take place to.
morrow morning, owing to the vigilance OF
the authorities. It will probably be fought
within the next iorty.eight hours.
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THE CLEARING HOUSES.

slight improvement In tho East and a
Depression or isu~lmcss In the West.
BosToS, Mass, June l2.-Erom the Post:
The following table shows the total gross
exchanges ut twenty.six leading clearing
houses in the United States. Twenty-Five
for week ending June 10th and one louis.
ville) for week ending June Sth; -
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,,,orn,yo 10 the Sleubcyille Ga:d'e
=, M I,., evening, UrplesraiT will have 20 del
,..',os "' 'n's from fylmou, county, Col. poorma''
,sorl ,lollinvsworth j. -.
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FIRE RECORD.

Bosros, Mass, June Pa large four
story brick building, facing Wareham3
street aud extending through TO PIimptonS
street, burned this morning. Loss, s65,0OO;5
partly insured. & 3ii53
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Qhe q',tell:igtnffr
--=.:.. ., and y fourteenth street.
Y63r miles Of niirond are now In pro-
" Yum Iowa than my Other state.
r,u,,,r. Of brcadstuils continue at about
.,S;nl ,hv volume Of last ycar, and ex'
a.., ,",co,top at II little over onc'halt'

;. !. .ajJ that prices at the most popular
so, y 4" ,rsorts will bc from twenty-five to
sn" sSa'"'. ,..r cent. higher than they were last
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Joseph Weeks, OF the Pittsburgh Iron
Age, said tonight that he believed work;
ingman should DO OIL the Tariff Commits.
sion in the person Of Mr.. jarrett, Of the
Amalgamated Association, aud that
all members Of tho Commission
should be practical men. lie approved
OF the appointment Of Oliver and Kenner,
but secuted the idea OF putin. on such n
man as David A. Wells. As 10 Porter, he
did not think much OF his appointment, or
any mere sta.isticiun, ''as figures will sonlc-
times ljc,"
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Wctt VIrril,in SfntfcrN,

West virginia Matters.
Judge stealy, Of Tyler county; West
Virginia. is in the city. aa
W. r. Logan, Mayor OF Martinsburg,
and J. Nelson Wisner, Postmaster ut the
same place, are also here.
The following postmastcrs have been
commissioned in West Virginia: Wm. G..
Mcknight, at Stone Cliff, and Charles B.
Harold, ut Glin,m's Landing.
The star service, on the route from Gau-
Icy bridge to Kanawhn Falls station, is
discontinued from June 10Th. .n
MnwhIsh Acntlu,cntnlity.
DR.. Hicks, OF the Tabernacle Conerega-
tional Church here, who has taken spiritual
charge OF the assassin Guiteau, ventures
no opinion US to his sanity or insanity,
but is convinced that the man has
never felt the slightest remorse for
his crime, and that he sincerely
believes he was carrying ont a divine pur-
pose in taking the Presidents life. Ii he
could feel remorse for his act it would be
the beginning OF repentance, and would ut
once explode the theory OF insanity and
vindicate the theory Of moral depravity,
DR., Hicks will visit theprisoner at frequent
intervals between now and the day
Of the execution, and will be with
him on the scaflold. He thinks Christians
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s; s. s. cures Pimples Boils, or any di,eu,e
arising from impure blood. III :.
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Cumberland Mfncrs' strike,

z CUMBERLAND, MD., June l2.-Last night
hand bills printed in German were mys.
teriously distributed inside the Police line
at Eckhart. They are addressedt to new min.
ersand signed by knights Of Laborand set
forth the cause Of tho present struggle be.
tween the companies and miners in this re.
gion, and ask tho new men 10 cease work
and join the strikers, when iheyEwill be
cared ior. &
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NAPLES, juno IA procession Of l0,:8
Ooo people, including Garibaldi's veterans
marched to the Municipal Palace Yesterday
and presented the Syndic with a marble
tablet from the Neopolitnns in memory OF
Guribaldi - I'd li- f1iq
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EruaaIIy Assaulted,

INV YORK, Mar. 30 Justice Kilbreth Was
on the bench st the Jtli ,rion Market Police
Court yesterday when woman of middle age
ard OF matroAly appearance appeared IS COM
plsinant tg.iDst two young meo. whom she
charged With tha preparation Of q NOR s.rous
crime. Her s1idkvit SO. forth the following
facts: Hsr name i. Mrs. Ecse Lyman. She is
thirty five yasIs of ogo md O widow. Her resi-
CONGO is at Peekskil. shs WAS waiting for her
brother, who had gone 10 a neiehboring store
O. bslf.past stvsn o'clock Tre:dsy evening;
while standing at Eleventh hvonua. b,tween 80 Ii
ard 4lth strests. she WIS laid hold OF by ton.
young men, Ell stcsngers TO her. Before she
ha1 time to recover from here surprise the lush.
cd her acro;s tho avenue, holding her fast ard
preventing her screaming. Hsvlr 6 reached The
pier they threw hes down. ehs resieted their
violence with all her strength tut the woman
was no match for her 9en6iah ss,a.lants. Despite
their efforts to choke aue g:g her. and thereby
prevent.s postibleout cry. she mans gsd 70 scream
for holp. A night Waterman named William
Leonard heard her cries ard ran to har rescue
The four miscrean!s then took flight. As q
matter of course she was too much exhausted to
be able to 6 to the police station without assst
ance. Once there che wss properly cared for,
and Captain Waebburno immediately sent out
special officers on the care. Later in the even
ing policeman Fradericks trreeted two young
rcusls, who were fully idetiHed by Mrs. Lyman
IS two CT ths wrctches who toe King leading
part 10 the assault
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Nothing in q small way is 80 gratifying as lie
Iumor that Mr.. Rsur, the CemmiEti oner Of
Internal Revenue. is TO be removed. as it has
been discovered that he has been playing o
double part, snd that while lately protesting 10
always been stslwart, he was Sherman man
oil through the Chicago convention, and or
gsnizsd and managed the Sherman boom ia the
South, previous to that convention. Nothing is
better known than the fact that ever since Mr.
Raum has held his present posiii IN the prescrib-
ed duties of his suboriinates have boon almost
equally divided between those Ct election and
revenue sgeIts and that these of tie former
have bsen Defined mott import Mt. Mr..
Raum doesn't deny that he is emphticslly
q politician. and when :witttd with being debt.
payer. under The Hayes and repudiatcr under
the present administration, boldly avowed that
politician couldn't afforded TO be consistent
Why he has been retained so long is whist puz.
zlss most people, inssmuch as..during the poiti-
cal campaign in Virginia he WIS gully of de.
ib;rste and ptristen: infrsction of the United
States statue. prohibiting under heavy penal.
ties employees of the Government from ssse ,ir z
AMI collecting money from other employees for
election purposes.
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Horrible Disaster

MEMPHIS, TcDn. March 30-The CipoI-
natl sud New Orleans packet Golden City,
co rouie from Nsw Orleans 10 Cipoione.i, was
burned Q. her wharf this morniug at 4:30
o'clock. Between 80 ard so lives w>re lost,
prir cipally women ead children.
CHICAGO March 30.-Pfivate dispatches
received here regarding the burning of the
steamer Gcdsn City sly that there were %
ives lost.
MEMPHIS, Tern., March 80 The steamer
Golden Guy Of tho Southern Transportation
Ccmpaey's line, when enprosohing the wharf
,his morning. q. 4:S0 O'clock was discovered to
BE- o. fire. The discovery WAS made by second
engineer Albert Kelley Eho imme distely mott
isd CAp!ain Br5c, Pu!cslI. Senior, the pilet
90 watch. Ihs bats boz YES at enc, headed
for the shcrs aud in four minutes afterwards she
tou,hed tho whs,f at tho tcot of Baals st.,
whore tho coal fact is moorsd. A line was
hastily lhowa and made fas. TO one OF the
caal blrges but the current bsipg swift il 5000
parted and tho burning steamer fl,ated on down
the river mass OF fl.mes with many of hor
passengers and crew 90 board who were unable
to reach sbcrc end wero lost.
Tbs Golden CITY left Nsw OiIahus last So.
urlsy co route to CiucEDati. Sho carried q
crew Of abou, CO. She had 90 board 10 ,biu
passengers. Ii Of whom we're ladies'. and there
were chiIdeu. Her cargo c,usistsd Of 300
tors, amopg which Was lot OF ja;e. The fire
is said to haVo crigioa:ed 10 this combuslible
material. Al ooatly ss c &c be ascsrtsiaed there
wsre % Iaaes ca board the i'll f.ted steamer,
bat Two of Whom. so f.r sis k1owe were saved.
1t is es iu,a.od tia. THIRTY i7e lives wore lost
by the disaster, bat at DO present 20 additional
aems Gao b. learned.
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puprrsuED DAILY AND TRI-wEEKIY BY
EncAR SNOWDEN.
THURSDAY EVENING, hARCa a.
Tho G,v,rnor Of New York is es solcitous

The Governor Of New York is as soho'tons
,b,ut secu,ipg thu contirued success q mo
republican pnttg RS tho Vir2l nla rsaoJu'ssfs
are, bat even he, iaten: as he ls upon cttec'loe
that object does no. 20 to the lsrgths tho resd
matters do. for though be PLACES tie othoes al
his disposal whsre they will do the most gooo
"a the marty, still having the Interests OF Ii:
State at heart. betelIs 1ho superlntooaen's Of
the State institutions, that "as experience pro-
notes tn, efficiency Of competent eih0sss !, !;
must bs supposed tina: suoh officers arc 10 h0'u
during good and acceptable SERVICE The re-
ed;os,ors on the contrary. moro Anxious to gain
votes than to rro.ec: Firgioia's INTERESTS re'
move all such officers in order to make places
for their hungry AID mu'ioous followers
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A FENlTENTIARY PRANK.-Cspl. J. Frau!
KILLER, of Falls Church and wife, upon loAv!as
the house OF Dr.. j. B. Gardner. Saturday eyaa
ing after social call did not nd their carrass
where it had bssn loft on the dcc.ors lawn, ,nl
had tho pleasure Of returning homo on !oO;.
Every effoit 10 trace the horse and csrrisps
failed during Saturday night and i! wss net until
Sunday, near noon. tna. they were found in the
pine, nesr Langley. number of miles from
home. Travelling over strange. rough roSd,
away fri M home over and around obstacles The
ordinary horse could not we'll have avoided.
every indication seemed 10 point to tho turiel-
titious use of tho animal bv unknown parties
leaving the same to be found by The owner "a
bes. it might. Gone years ago pranSs oftbis
character Wero common, though usually with
saddle horses that generally CT m hon t. gret!
their masters; but they are no. ssfe and il per-
slated in may bring the perpetratcr TO erief.