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SPORTING.

5. c. GRIGGs, JR f, of Chicago, has
purchased the schooner yacht Countess
from William Borden.
w. SHOOK, Of the Moseley Harriers,
won the ten-mile amateur championship
race in England, recently, In 50 minutes,
81 3-5 seconds.
IT is reported that J.. I. Case, of
Racine, has purchased the PAGER John
son for S25, COO The horse was Jointly
owned by E. 81. Smith, of Milwaukee,
and G. A. Mather, of Berlin.
A MAN namad Ferry lett Dover at 8
O'Clock on the morning of the 2Sth, on
a floating tricycle., with the intention of
crossing the English Channel. He ar
rived safely at Calais at o'clock P. NJ.
J.. I. CASE, of Racine, has bought the
bay pacing mare GurgIe by Tom Rolf,
paying Sc, 600. She will De put to grass
the rest of the season, for grand re-
entry next year. She is not only fast
side wheeler, but when weighted can
trot close to 2.30.
The Kalamazoo Telegraph states thai
pacing match for S3, 600 a side, best
three II FIVE, mile heats. has been ar
ranged between d. c.. Reeds OF Kala-
mazoo, Fannie Golddust, and Henry
Graves, of Chicago, Black Basenger.
The match is to come off over the Chi
cago track N September.
The regatta for single sculls at
Lake Minnetonka on the 1st inst.
was rowed in heats, Teemer WIN
ming the first IN 21:50, Lee com
ing in second IN 21:58. The second
heat was won by HanlaD, Hosmer sec
ond, Riley third; time 21:3S4. The water
was choppy and a stiff breeze was blow
ing from the southwest. Quartering
across the course. On the I'd INST. Han
Ian won the deciding heat with ease.
RICHARD K. Fox has found an IN
known aud first class pugiiist who IS
eager to fight, providing there is money
10 1t. de has every qualification neces-
sary 10 make a champion. He stands
feet Ii inches ID height and ID condi-
tiCn weighs 1916 pounds, is % years old,
has a stout neck which is set firmly on
broad pair of shoulders, well-mada
loins, long strong arms, muscular pair
OF legs and formidable set OF ''maw-
leys" which resemble set of trip ham
mers.
THE following table shows the stand
ing OF the league clubs at the close of the
games on the Sd inst:
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GENER AL.

From September 1st the transatlantic
mails viii be sent on the steamers making the
best time instead Of regular Lines as now.
c. E. HEATH, of Chieopee, Mass, rode
down Mount Washington on the 11th, from
the Summit House to the Glen, on a tricyele.
The distance is eight miles and the time was
fifty five minutes.
FIFTY distinguished Europeans who are in
the United States by special invitation Of
Rufus Hatch. left New York on the 10th. en-
route to the Yellowstone Park.
AT Baltimore, Nd. recently, Wm. Schmidt
murdered his wife and then sUucided An es-
tate of about IS, COO was left by deceased. As
| the couple had no children the wealth goes to
next of KIN, and the courts are now called upon
| TO decide whether it goes to her relatives or
| his. If he died first it goes to her relatives
| if she died first it goes 10 his. As there Has
| no testimony of this sort before the coroner'-
! Jury, physicians viii have TO show bv the IA
/ tyre OF the wounds which died first.
TIE creditors of c. W. Copeland & Co. boot
and shoe manufacturers who failed recently.
held a meeting at Boston, Mass, on the 9th
The statement of liabilities showed total in.
debtedness Of 81 SOC, with good credits ot
Il. COS. 700.
The schooner " Nellie and Annie supDosef
to be lost. arrived at Chicago on the 9Th.
THE weavers at Woonsocket, r. l., returned
to work on the 9th at the increased ware,
| asked for.
The American life team returned to New
York city on the sth.
HARRIET BISHOP, the first white woman il
St Paul, Mimi, died there on the sth. sh
went there as 8 mission school teacher in Is49
The past three months arms and smnuni
ton to the value of $4,000, 900 have bee,
shipped from Springfield, Mass, via San Fran
cisco 10 China.
ABOUT SIS Cheyenne Indians, some of whom
were engaged in the Custer massacre. left For
Reno, l. T., on the 5th. for their new reserya
ton at the Pine Ridge agency, Dakota.
GAS well was struck at depth Of IT'S feet
IN boring for water at the Waterman chees
factory, near Woodstock, III.
The committees appointed for the entertain
uent Of the G.. A. r. at Denver. Col, durir,
the recent encampment, find bills TO the amour
Of $4,000 and no funds.
BRADLEY BARLOW, president Of the Vernon
National Bank. st. AIbans, and largely inter
ested IN railroads, failed on the 6th.
Brown Bios. & Co., lumber dealers, Detroit
Mich, assigned on the 9th. Liabilities 500
co.,
HERBERT A. SLADE, the Maori giant. wa
badly whipped in fight with soft gloves, b
| John /. Sullivan, IN New York CITY, on the 9Th
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Why He Was Catching Flies.

rom TIE DllCaSD 4--Aer-s
A very small boy with tattered straw
hat and barefOoted, was engaged IL a
species of occupation whose nature was
not manifest. La his left hand he held
q tin box, and with his right hard he
was making down ward sweeps With the
earnestness and regularity Of the piston
700 of a steam boat engine. A man said:
Say boy what are you doing tbere?"
The boy did lot look UP 70 see who
his iuferrcgator was His arm merely
went faster 10 its curving sweeps as he
answered laeonically:
'Ketchin' flies"
''Wbat do you do with those tiies?'
The boy ceased his gyratIoEs and
tureed around.
Lock a here" he said, ''yous peo-
pies bother me too much. Ef I tell
you what ] does with these flies, what'll
you gi' me?''
"A nickel, said one. "A dime. said
the man who asked the question, and "a
quarter, sad auother.
'AlI lignr," said tie boy, screwlnR
the top on his box and shifting himself
shout while the flies returned 10 the tor
OF the sign board again; "hit's go, but
yous peoples got to pat the sugar VI
/ first.
They put up" the "sugar" in th'
boys hand. There was quarter, a dlm'
ard nickel, and when the boy was con
! fident that the forty cents was all ther
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PHILADELPHIA, Pa, August THE
short married life OF Frank G. Bangs,
the actor, and Mrs. Alice Singer-La
grove, one Of the daughters of the
sewing machine manufacturer, and
would-b be actress as well, seems to be at
an end. 1t is hardly six weeks since
they were married with all due pomp
and ceremony By the Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher, IN Brooklyn, and
started upon tour of we'd
ding receptions. The first of the
series was at the house of the bride in
Brooklyn, and following it up came
others III Washington, Baltimore and
this city, which were as grand as money
could procure. Mr.. Bangs has taken
the diguified course CT separating him
self from his wife, and she has promptly
entered suit IN the court Of common
pleas In this city to recover from him
$1,000, all alleged to have been
advanced to him prior to the mar
riage with which TO peT debts in
Cured during an unfortunate star
ring tour. The spit is brought here
that an attachment might issue upon the
household furniture OF his sister, Mrs.
Cassidy Y. Johnston, southern lady at
whose house their Philadelphia recep-
ton WAS given. the irate bride claims
that part of the money went to furnish
the house now occupied by the sister
Mrs. Johnston says that none of the
money was spent upon them; that the
wife forced it upon Mr.. Bangs,
wEO at first refused II. She was
jealous from the first of every one
whom he liked. He bad been a
faithful brother to her and almost q
father 10 her children, and the bride no
sooner reached her own home than she
accused him of liking his family more
than her, and found fault with his dog,
even insisting that he should send
him away. The quarrels eliminated
In Bangs leaving the house, coming
to this city for few days, and
then returning 10 the Sturtevaut
House IN New York, where he
wrote her that she could see him there,
but be would not 90 to her. He finally
consented to meet her lawyer at their
home IN Brooklyn, but positively refused
to occupy the same room with her. Il
Is alleged that she is determined upon a
second divorce, and Mr.. Bangs Is as firm
In bis determination not to be ma ie a
subject # w0man's whlms.
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4 Novel Clock.

Eight years ago George q. Hermann,
Of Newport, Il. l., an honest and in
dustrious citizen, matchmaker by trade.
conceived a novel idea ID the shape of
a clocB. He drew frequent designs upon
the white walls of his kitchen, one of
which net the approval of his estimable
wife, who died about four years ago. He
carefully studied the matter, but never
allowed his most intimate friends to
know what he was engaged in doing. lie
devoted his evenings to the task before
him and actually consumed 40 days of
ten hours each 10 perfecting a clock the
like of which cannot be found IN the
world. The finishing touches were added
to the timekeeper a few weeks ago, and
the monument of skill, industry, and
enterprise of az adopted citizen was
shown to his friends, ali of whom had
been ignorant of what he was doing in
secret. The clock has only one move
ment, beating one second at a time, and
from the hand part of the movement all
other hands-eightee IN number-are
connected. The device is furnished with
nine dials, Indicating the time at st. Pc
te1sburg, Newport, New York, San
Francisco, Boston, Geneva, Mecca
(Arabia), Rome, and London. 1t has
tiftJ-three wheels. All the dial hands
are driven by one main movement, which
IS furnished with two main springs, and
calculations have been made to have all
the time indicators run for nine eonse-
cutiee days without winding. They are
eli run by oscillating power-that is to
say, that all the nine movements form
- ILL Ial al, to1
with the pendulum rod. On top of the
pendulum rod IS the pendulum spring on
which the whole clock rests. It Is over
four feet long and about two feet IN
width. The dials aIe set IN a seven
pointed star, dial IN each corner with
the Newport dial in the center. A
Newport dial is also set ID the back, this
being for the special use Of the maker,
who has his clock set IN the window of
his jewelry store on Thames Street. The
main movement is fastened between two
plates as large as the whole star on the
back, and the works can be taken out OF
each clock and cleaned IN a few minutes
without disturbing any OF the others.
The woodwork represents the order OF
dd-Fellowship, of ghich Mr.. Hermann
is a member. The carving OF the bow
and arrows, the shepherds crook, the
bundle of wheat, the three links, etc, is
remarkably well dore. Each part of the
clock, including the woodwork, except
the hands, Is made by Mr.. Hermann,
who. as might be expected, is proud oi
the success of his years of toll and labor.
The clock attracts a deal of attention,
the sidewalk in front of Mr. Hermann
place Of business being repeatedly block
ed with people.
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1NDIASAPoLIs, Ind, August 10.-Ever
since the late failures on the Chicago
board ol trade and the subsequent
breaks IN prices a feeling of uneasiness
has pe-yaded business circles in Indian
apois. This, together with the fact that
a large sum Of money was Withdrawn
from the banks to satisfy the demands
OF brokers for margins, caused strin-
gency In the money market that has cul-
minated IN quiet run on one
or two of the banks. The insti-
tutions most frequently named in
this connection are the First National
and the Indiana Banking Com
pany. Negotiations have been IN pro-
gress 5or several days for the purchase
of a controlling interest in the First Ma
tional, which the Indiana Banking Com
pany Is said to hold, by syndicate COM
posed Of some of the wealthiest men il
the state, including W. G. Depauw. Of
New Albany; John r Reynolds, of 81.
Joseph County; w. II. English and E.
f. Claypool, of this city, and others.
# tnege negotiations are successful and
the money these gentlemen control
placed to the support of the
bank, the present trouble can be
surmoanted without difficulty, and
if the depositors VIII forbear
making a run the stress may be
weatheIed, anyhow. The banks met
all demands yesterday, and announced
that they would open for business as
usual to-day. They have sufficient as
sets to meet all liabilities, it is stated,
but of course they cannot Immediately
be converted into cash. The First Ma
tional, which IS the oldest and which
has always been considered one of the
strongest IN the city, has
capital stock of S400. 600
and deposits Of $4,000, 900.
The Indiana Banking Company has
about 81, ,000,0 900. President Lynch, of
the First National, says that the imme-
diste occasion OF the embarrassment Of
his bank was the withdrawal Of $500,
900 of the states funds by Treasurer
Cooper. One report says the money is
10 be used Ii handling the pork pro-
duct, but this Mr.. Cooper vehemently
denies and says that not a cent OF the
states money Is IN private hands. 9th
er bankers say they had no intimation CT
the Particular difficulties besetting the
two naIAed, and so 60 not apprehend
any serious results from the present
complications.
ISDzASAPoLIs, Ind, August 10
Large crowds gathered around the First
National bank and Indiana Banking
Company an hour before opening time
this morning. At 9:45 the doors of both
banks were still closed. The announce
ment has just been made that they viii
not open for two or three hours. The
directors of the First Natioual with sew
eral Influential capitalists of the state
met at s o'clock this morning and are
still ia session, but nothing has been
made public as to the result of the con-
ference
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ST.. Lc1Ts
The Dog at the Bank Door.

EOu tue E1tNeEtAd
Yesterday morning man passed from
the hall of the Berkshire Life Building
by the side door into the Agricultural
Bank. His dog, an Intelligent collie,
lay down by the door 10 await his mas
ter. The gentleman having transacted
his business. passed thoughtlessly out
at the front door and went home. The
dog was today lying at the side door
awaiting its master, and Lad not moved
from the spot since yesterday morning.
Threats and coaxing bad not availed to
STIR him a step. This morning he vas
fed. and Mr.. Huh said that as long as
he kept bis post be should be carefully
cared for. About / O'Clock this morn
ing Mr.. D. z. Dunbar, a farmer on the
mountain, between Lennox and Rich
mond, appeared at the Agricultural
Bank, and wanted to know ''Where that
dog was?" Just open the side door there,
and you viii find him, said Mr. Ferry
AIR. Dunbar opened the door, and his
dog sprsng upon him, wild with de-
light. He had waited for his master
twenty-eight hours, without stirring
from his place on the cold stone steps.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN.

The Methodist Church and several adjoin-
1Ith- Loss $4,000.
THE Star Music Hall. London, England,
burned on the 11th. The house was crowded
at the time, but all escaped.
BISHOP LoaUE, of ireland, reports that the
poverty-stricken people in County Donegal
have passed the crisis of their distress and
have been saved from starvation by the con-
tributions Of the generous Irish throughout the
world
A CONVENTION concluded with the German
government on the 9th, provides for the entry
OF the city OF Bremen into the Zollverein.
A FENIAN plot to destroy the Welland Canal
Is said to be Matching in Chicago. The con-
splrators, it Is said, are known. and are being
shadowed by secret agents of the Canadian
government.
Col. BASDoLA. of the Mexican forces, fell a
victim to the hostile Apaches at Basochuca,
Sonora, on the I'd.
RIOTS occurred in Alexandria on the 10th in
consequence of reports that English doctors
were poisoning the natives. The number of
deaths from cholera IN Egypt on the 10th was
795.
4 COLLISION occurred on the 10th between
troops and the populace at Ekaterinoslav. Rus
sla. Over 600 persons were killed.
On the 9th, in Dublin, Featherstone, Deasy.
Flanagan and Dalton we're convicted of con-
spiraey TO murder, and sentenced to penal ser
vitude for life.
PROF. VIM. DINDoRF, critic and phloloeist,
died at London, Eng. on the 9th.
OK the 9th the pope appointed eight bishops
for Portugal. two for France, two for Mexico.
one for Columbia. one for Austrls and eight
for Italy.
The Nhe, in Egypt, suddenly rose on the
9Th, and much damage is expected.
GTLMoUR's steam saw-mill near Hull, Que,
burned on the 9th. Loss 300, 900.
A DEAF, dumb and blind girl named Ada
Bayard, was brutsllly murdered by parties un-
known at Guysboro, n. F., on the 6th.
Rev. SWEET suicided on the steamship Mani
toba, as she neared Quebec, on the 9th.
A SMALL bomb was thrown from passing
carriage into Yernesinsky Prospect at st.
Petersburg, Russia, on the 7lh. No damage
was done.
Two Norwegian barks eolided off Dover.
Eng, on the 7th. One of them sank. carrying
down with her 13 of her crew.
On the 7th, information from Odessa, con-
frmed previous suspicious. and proved that
during the past few years a conspiracy TO run
ashore vessels existed between pilots and
pirates, en- the Straits of kertcb. RUSSIA. Sus-
plc;on was aroused by a number of vessels GO
ing ashore IN calm weather.
JAMES MiCHLERMoTT arrived at London from
New York on the 9Th He was at once arrested
for conspiracy to murder English officials, and
illprisoned-
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negro insurrection. The two candidates
for President are fighting down there. -
care those hills the Jersey High
lands?"
"No; they are the Sierra Nevadas.
''That village to the southwest"
"New Orleans.
Beyond it?"
''The capital of Texas
THAT black thread?'
''The Mississippi River"
1.-The black speck out on the ocean
that crawls along so slowly?"
jay Gould's yacht. The black
specks going by it are sailing vessels"
''Is that Hoboken over to the west?'
''That is Chicago. You viii see
Hoboken away this side"
The reporter looked down over the
caves on the west side of the house and
saw Hoboken directly below.
The landlord had taken his man on q
high pinnacle.
The devil wss showing the reporter
the whole world.
''All these viii give you," said he,
''if you viii only put my name in the
newspaper"
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How the Farm Help We're Tired Out.
From the Boston Globe. ]


The help We get nowadays don't
amount to shucks. Time was when the
help you hired III bayiug time could do
a decent days work, but tbs year
they're wuTs'n ever.
Old Farmer Smith was getting in hay
at his farm in a suburban town, and bad
two CT three new men at work with him.
The old man continued: Tell you
what It is: old as | am | can pack
more hay on to wagon than aEy two
men of the present day can fork up.
Suppose you try ii, old man." sug-
assted ore of the men at tue same time
tipping the wink to his mate on the
opposite side to ''sock il" 70 the old man.
The old fellow ueeded no second invi-
tatioa. With q bound he mounted the
cart, and was stowiug away hay at a
tremendous rate. Up came forkful after
forkful, first on one side and then upon
the other The "Eelp" was putting in
It's best licks and the old man was kept
sduirming around in lively style, much
TO the amusement of all hands
The "help" was rapidly getting tired;
it would never DO to give up aud allow
the old man to come off victorious.
Something must be done az once.
"When I put up heavy forkful on
this side, give him ell you can lift from
the other end, and knock him out" said
oue of the men to the other In an under.
tone.
The plan worked we'll One Of the
men lifted an extraordinary big forkfu
Just putting it upon theedge OF the load,
an. while the old man was leaning ovel
eudeavoriug to get it In place, the felloV
on the other side threw al he could hf
upon the back of the old fellow, which
of course, upset him and gent him sprawl
ing to the ground.
ssHeilo2 what are you down here for?
asked help No. /, endeavorlng as vel
as he could to conceal his merrimenf
Quick as a fash from the old ma
came the answer: CATER more hay2"
This answer tired the helpeompletely
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90 Chicacn Yacht Clnf races hega

THE Chicago Yacht Club races began
on the Sd with the race for first class
schooners, fine club cup. There were
three entries, the Idler and the Count
ess, of Chicago, and the Oriole, of To-
ronto. The course was fifteen miles to
windward and return, to be sailed with
In seven hours or be declared no
race. The Idler was able to sail
closer to the wind than the
others, and turned the stake-boat first.
The Oriole came next. but drifted 50
much as to be compelled to make an ex-
ira tack In order to round the stake
boat, thereby losing much time. The
Idler rounded IN two hours and ffty-five
minutes. On the return home all the
boats were becalned and had lot reached
the harbor at 9 o'clock, so the race was
declared off
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he picked up his box and moved about
foot away so as to get good start on the
crowd. The crowd watched his motions,
and the man who asked what he was do
ing. when he saw the suspicious motion,
said
"Hold Oh, boy, you haven't told me
yet why you catch those flies"
''An right" said the boy, stealthily
pulling another foot of pavement be
tween himself and the crowd, ''Pl tel
you eff you really wants to know why |
ketches them flies. F"
"Yes, yes," answered the crowd In
breath, finally losing patience.
"Well," answered the boy as be pre-
pared to run. ..ketchin flies is only one
part of my business. Ketchin suckers
at forty cents is the other part. L think
1 does best on the suckers, and he dlsap-
peared around the corner.
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RUN DRY.
THE OFFERS OF LEADING IN
BTAE4POLIs BANKS.

This Late Failures on the Chicago Board of
Trade and Elsewhere So UnsettIs the
Bank Business I'm the Metropolis of
Hooaerdom that Several of the Insti-
tusions Are Subjected to Exhausting
RUas''-AH Calls promptly Met Yes
terday with Spirit Of Bravado-The
Firss National Falls to Open This
MoraiBg. Which LIS an Indication that
Its Ceffers Have Been Depleted.
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WILLIAM SEERE fell asleep on the railroad
track with his head resting on the rail. at Erie,
Pa, on the 4th- He waa beheaded.
On the 5th Libbie Andrews was dragged to
death by runaway horse at Mason City, Iowa.
WILLIAM FEES fell from an excursion train at
Wilkesbarre, Pa, on the 9th, and was killed.
FIRE at Worcester, Mass. on the 9th. de-
stroyed property valued at s15, 600.
Or the 4th portable boiler exploded near
Ogemaw, Mich, killing Ira Brand, f. o. Will
let and man whose name is not known.
HORACE LAMBS wire and grist mill burned
on the 9th. Loss $4,000.
The Wright Braid Manufacturing Company
lost $50, 0G0 by fire on the 9Th.
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The Modern Temptation.
From the New YORK World.

An architect and reporter stood on
the roof of a fourteen-story fat. THAT
cluster of houses over there" said the
architect, SIS not Elizabeth, n. J. It
is the CITY Of Mexico. That man on a
mule is a Mexican alcalde. Do you see
that blue line to the north? Baffin's Bay.
Those are the Bermuda Islands. That
little islet to the south is Santo Domingo.
That srnoke you observe comes from q
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ENDS WITH THE HONEYMOON.

Actor, and HIS Bride of Six Weeks
Brought to Sudden CIose-Mrs.
Bangs Sues for Money Advances to the
ActOr-The Latter Leaves the House
and from Appearances a Divorce VIII
SOon Follow.