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FACTS AND FIGURES.

Connecticut devotes 10000 acres "a
the cultivation of the oyster.
AT a recent sale of Aldernev cattle
IN Frankfort, KY, the bull Wanderer
brought S2,175.
There are now not less than 10. OO6
Cinnamon in British Columbia and the
number is increasing fully 100 per
month by the arrival of ship-loads in
Victoria.
The Nava.o Indians will have n
wool clip this year of over SOO. 600
pounds. The hides and pelts that thew
will handle will amount to about GOO
600 pounds Chicago Times.
Florida constructed more miles of
railroad last year than any other South
ern State except Georgia; and Mt her
present rate of railroad building she
will discount Georgia this year CHI
cago Journal.
The American railroads are worth
almost twice as much as Great Prtain's
railroads and shipping combined. The
British shipping is valued Mt $1,000
100000; British railroads at S.. 700, OO0.-
600; American railroads at Sc. 800, OOO,-
000.-N y Sun.
Texas papers claim that the profits
on cattlc-raising in that State have
averaged 100 per cent. in the past five
years, while in some cases they have
reached 800 per cent, and the claim is
substantiated by an array of statistics
that abundantly prove the case.
According to figures published bv
the Commercial and Financial ChroR-
a S,f
50 will be the greatest ever yet produced
in the South. Ii is estimated at 7,10O,-
600 bales, which is more than 5000
bales larger than that of last year
and half million larger than that of
lSSO-Sl, the largest hitherto recorded.
The first steel rail rolled in Ameri-
ca was rolled at the North Chicago Roll
ing Mill Company's works in Chicago,
May 20, 1860, little over eighteen
years ago. That steel rail cost those
who made it S500,00 in experiments
and outlay, and when it was made there
was nothing to show for the outlay, but
the rail was an established fact. To-
day American steel rails are preferred
to those made in Europe. - Philadelphia
Times.
Something like 100000, 900 is
spent every summer by American tray
elers in Europe, the New York Matt
thinks. The amount spent every sum-
mer at the New Jersey seaside resorts
is by no means insignificant. One paper
estimates that the season receipts from
Long Beach to Long Branch inclusive
are not less than SS,000,0OO, and the
Philadelphia Press thinks $4,000, 900 a
low estimate of the receipts from Long
Branch to Cape May.
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SOUTHERN GLEAN1NGS.



w. w. Ross, in his crop report 70 the
Department of Agriculture at Washington
for August 1, says: Corn, once so promis-
ing, has been injured some by the drought;
especially was this so with the later plant
ing; it is late, and with us this is always
unfavorable. The earlier planted is fair
crop, and considered an average, while the
later planting is cut Off at least one-half;
yet there will be plenty made Is supply all
home demands, as the acreage is large.
Wheat is good average-from
twelve to twenty-seven bushels per acre;
fine and plump grain. Oats is goods some
is threshing as much as eighty bushels per
acre; the grain is well filed and heavy.
Native hay pasture is good. Irish potatoes
very good; sweet not so good-needing
rain. Sorghum about on an average.
Apples and peaches are not good. Grapes
very fine. Cotton, the yield is small; the
early plant is well fruited with hollis and
forms and is now blossoming near the top
and needing rain. The later planted has
but little fruit; it is growing and has done
finely. The crop is at least ten or fifteen
days late, with ten or fifteen per cent. less
acreage. No boil worms to do any harm
are reported vet.
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The total number of deaths in Egypt
on the 9th were 72S, including 100 at Cairo,
% at Rosetta, 100 at GABRIEL, a in Daka-
Itch and 80 in Benz Suef. The British lega-
ton published note refuting newspaper
assertions that the spread of the cholera in
Egypt was caused by British neglect to
establish proper quarantine regulations.
CLEARINGHOUSE exchanges for the
week ended on the 4th show unfavorably
as compared with the week before and with
the corresponding week OF last year.
GERMAN men-of-war in American
waters have been ordered to take on only
enough picked pork to last during the
voyage home. Bismarck hates the Ameri-
can hog.
A STRIKE of railroad telegraph opera
tors was ordered on the 9th on the eastern
division Of the Wabash. But few of the
men obeyed the summons so far as could
be learned. Other lines were to be called
out each day during the week. Strikes on
some of the Eastern roads occurred on the
same day.
A CHILD was taken alive from the
ruins of Casamiciola, Italy, the other day,
having been imprisoned seven days. Nine
have since died in the Naples hospitals.
The United States Consul-General at
Matamoras, Mex, has protested against
the New Orleans quarantine enforced
against that port.
FRANK w. SMITH, General Secretary
of the Railroad Y. NJ. c. A., is going TO
place national flag on each of the 1900
graves of Union soldiers at Andersonville
Brown Bros. & Co., Detroit (Mich.)
lumber dealers, have failed for 100000
The troops engaged in the recent in
surrection at Badajos, Spain, numbered 100.
They were joined by 400 civilians.
The police dispersed a Socialist Con-
gress at Ravenna, Italy, few days ago
JARRARD, the New Jersey alb
sconding Treasurer, has been arrested in
Canada.
Two American fishermen got astray
from fishing vessel on the Grand Banks
and landed at Trepassey, Canada, the other
day after being five days and nights with
out food or water.
FORTY-oNE Cubans liberated from
Spanish prisons arrived in Havana a few
days ago.
W. hoNDhLD POioOuo NClc
at grand banquet which closed three
weeks session of the Point Chautauqua
IN. " Baptist Union few days ago.
In smuggling match in Madison
Square Garden, New York, the other day,
Sullivan knocked Slade over the ropes, de-
feating him in three rounds.
HOMESTEAD entries in Dakota for
the year ended June 80 covered 3,267,227
acres.
The Treasury Department has paid
out nearly one million dollars on account
of pensions since the 1st inst. th
SEVEN THOUSAND Pennsylvanians
participated on the 9th in grand celebra-
ton of the 10th anniversary of the battle
of Bushy Run, which was fought thirty
miles from Pittsburgh.
The Vermont National Bank of St
Adams has failed.
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MISCELLANEOUS,

GOVERNOR BLACKBURN has pardoned
David Ferguson, the defaulting collector
of Louisville, KY, who has been in the
Penitentiary only since February. Thede-
felt was over 100000 t..V wv
OFFICERS of the Santa Fe Railroad
estimate the average yield of wheat in Kan
sas at twenty bushels per acre. Many fields
of oats have exceeded ninety bushels per
acre. A large gain will be made ON the
corn crop of last year.
The total receipts of customs for the
month of July was $4,000, 29O, against Sl9,-
$780, 37 for the same month last year. This
shows an increase of $685. 53 for the first
month under the new tariff law. i
The Acting Postmaster-G General has
approved the design for a new four-cent
postage stamp. The stamp will bear a bust
engraving of Andrew johnson. a
A REVENUE cutter intercepted yell
low-fever stricken Norwegian bark off Mo-
bile, Ala, the other day and sent her to
Ship Island. ''
EXCITEMENT over the result of the
recent Jewish trials in Hungary ran so
high that the troops had to be called out
on the 9th to preserve order. r. a.
The saloon-keepers at st. Louis, Mo-,
were not unanimous ON the Sunday law
question on the 9TH. Some of them closed
and some did not. The police it was said
would send several hundred more of them
to court. ........ sd, ..,.... .
THERE were forty-nine deaths from
yellow-fever at Havana, Cuba, during the
week ended on the 4th. .-.....
The Texas & St. Louis Narrow-gauge
Railroad began business on the 9TH with an
nnbroken track from Cairo, ILL.,, TO Gates
vile, Tex. in 4i.rit iH@ ~ yfa'.A 800
VANDERBILT it is said will spend half
a million in hotels andcottages at Bedford
He intends to make 1t the Saratoga 81
CHARLES W.ICIEMESfs, shoe Iihan,t-
facturer of Dover, N. H., has failed for
half million in consequence of the recent
failure of Shaw & Bros, at Boston.
IT is now claimed that it will proba-
ebly require an international sanitary COM
mission to determine whether or not the
plague in Egypt is cholera or not, ,stf ID,
LIEUTENANT-COLONE ILGEs, who
was court-martialed recently for duplicat,
ing his pay accounts, has been ordeftdi 60
his post to await sentence, which it was
surmised would not be severe. giAt 4
ONE HUNDRED and ten. British .sol-
diers had died of cholera in Egypt up to
the 9th inst. Jules Avonssolm, professor
OF organic chemistry, would leave Paris
for Egypt to study the features of the
cholera epidemic, The plague had appeared
at Beyrout. Gladstone, the British Premier,
stated that the epidemic seriously impeded
reorganization in Egypt and would delay
the withdrawal Of the troops.
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WIT AND WISDOM.

"A man who invests money in the
glue business is very apt to get stuck.
Rochester Post. aa...
If you are really determined to ex-
pand your chest the best way TO do it is
to carry larger heart. i'u
The consciousness of wrong-doinq
is to the soul what forgotten peg in q
boot is to the foot You can't be happy
unless you do something about it.-M
\. Erdnli1er
"A Mandan man, whose wife knocked
him out of bed in rage and bunged his
eyes, tells his friends that he is suffering
from intiammatory room-mate-sm.
Chicago Times.
=" Your composition" said an Aus
tin school-teacher to johnny Fizzletop.
sis the worst in the lot. You begin bv
putting no period at the end OF the last
sentence. "-Ieras SDtfngS.
1t is all very well for man to be-
lieve that the earth revolves on its axis,
but when he becomes thoroughly con-
WINGED that he is himself the axis the
less you have to do with him the better.
NJ Y. Herald. H u,t
-"Ma!" screamed little boy on
Lexington avenue yesterday, 81 amt
going to play with Tommy Miller any
more. Amt going to play with
who?" Tommy Miller" ''Why?'
Cause he won't play with me. IN
Y. Ne1oS. if iit'h
college students don't please as ta-
BILE walters. When you call one mis-
cradle jackass for spilling the soup
down your back and giving you salt
cellar filled with sugar, he of course
can't answer back, as it is against the
rules OF the hotel, but he can Say some
thing to another waiter in Greek which
You can't understand, but which You
feet sure is horrible abuse of yourself,
and it's awful maddeniRg. fS
The density of ice differs very much
with the longitude. Now, ten pounds
of ice in Burlington, Ia, is about three
feet square; in Cincinnati it is about the
size of soap-box; in Pittsburgh it is as
big as stoye-pipe hat; III Philadelphia
1t has to be put in the ice-chest directly
from the wagon, or it will melt away
before you can run into the house with
it. and in New York, if you ask dealer
for ten pounds of ice, he laughs in a
hollow manner and says he never heard
of such a thing. You take fifty pounds
or nothing, and then he weighs it on q
letter-scale.- burlington Hato@eye.a
There is nothing in this world that
pays such large dividends as cheerful
ness. We are apt to forget that we are
not by nature intended to be Swapping
turtles. Grumbling is the one thing
which, as the countryman said. we
"ortent' to do, and Therefore it is the
one thing we take most delight in do
ing, Life would be swecter and bright
er lor you II you would speak this little
piece to yourself every morning: s
Whistle and hoe, sing MS you go.
Shorten the row by the songs you know. Il
hot temper makes many enemies.
Seither WORD nor a stone once let GO
can be called back.-M Y. Herald.
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IN dispute over game of faro. at
Denver, Colo, gambler named vasey shot
Frank Rose, a well-known restaurateur,
to death few days ago.
NJoHN WALL, Chicago, (Ill.) police
man who shot the wrong man in fight,
committed suicide in that city few days
ago.
FELTCITAs MEJIA, the famous bull
fighter of the City of Mexico, was killed
the other day in the arena by a bull which
twice tossed him in the air.
FRANK GIRToN, of indianapolis, Ind,
disappeared some days ago. His wife
dreamed the other night that she saw his
body in White River, and sure enough
there they found it. s.
AT Bryantsville, KY, four negroes
were fatally shot in an election fight on the
9th. Several other persons, white and col
ored, were injured.
AT Fort Wayne, Ind, Emanuel
Fox was killed by an officer the other day
while attempting to escape from custody
A FIRE in Post street, San Francisco,
Cal, the other morning destroyed almost
an entire block. Thirty buildings were
burned to the ground, among them the
Winter Garden Theater and Druids' Hall.
The losses were estimated at over $200, 900,
with insurance Of less than half that
amount.
SABATo ALEXANDER, an Italian
murderer, attempted to commit suicide the
other day by cutting hisnthroat while on
the way to the prison after sentence at
Easton, Pa. -ro
A MAN supposed to be Frank A.
Dixon, from some small town in Illinois,
jumped from the ferry-boat Edwardsville
at st. Louis, Mo-, a few days ago and was
drowned.
RECENT anti-Jewish riots at Ekater-
inoslav, Russia, are reported to have cost
one hundred lives.
FOUR expert car-thieves, who were
operating along the line of the Iron Noun
tain Road as wood-choppers, have been
landed in the Arkansas Penitentiary.
AT the Dakan mine, near Harrisburg,
Alaska, recently, three Indians killed a
whisky-seller named Rennie. Citizens
were aroused, but before they could appre-
bend the Indians they had killed Major
Owens, formerly of the United States army.
Finally two of the Indians were captured
and hanged, and the next day the chiefs
delivered up the third Indian, and he was
promptly hanged.
NINE persons were recently drowned
in Lincolnshire, Eng, by the upsetting of
a boat.
BY the burning out of the Wright
Braid Manufacturing Company at Law
renee, Mass, the other day, $150,000 worth
of property was destroyed and one hun
dred and sixty operatives were thrown out
of employment.
FIFTY-NINE persons were recently
poisoned by eating ice-cream at festival
in Camden, S, c.
JOHN SIMMONS, a merchant living
near Norfolk, Va, shot and killed his wife
and himself a few days ago.
THREE men were killed by a recent
boiler explosion at Ogemaw, Mich.
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CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

FIRE at Danbury, Conn. the other
night destroyed the Dexter hat factory and
contents, valued at 100000. At McGregor,
Iowa, a block of buildings was swept away
and ten firms, in various lines, lost $35 900.
AT Yale, in British Columbia, $50
cases of giant powder exploded the other
day, breaking all the windows in town.
No one was killed.
THERE had been no rain for two
months In British Columbia up to the I'd
inst. Forest fires were raging extern
sively.
WILLIAM SMITH, Baltimore md. J
shop-keeper, having had a difficulty with
his wife, the other day killed her and then
committed suicide.
A PowDER-MILL explosion at Angou-
leme, France, the other day killed six per
sons and injured several others. The
damage to property was million francs.
A YOUNG Swede, said to be an ille-
Ultimate son of the King of Sweden, com,
mitted suicide in the Lutheran Church at
Englewood, a suburb of Chicago, H., a
few days ago. tsl.l 49, )
CHARLES HENRY LEE, colored, was
hanged at Richmond, Va, on the Sd for
the murder of Daniel Miller, another col
ored man, in Henrico County. ~ ga ~.
AT Midlothian, Tex, on the Sd a
tornado destroyed hotel and injured
many people. Portions of New York and
Pennsylvania were also swept by storm
the same day, doing much damage to crops
and telegraph wires. ftFt
Mrs. GEORGE A REssEUR committed
suicide at indianapolis, Ind, the othar day
by casting herself from window. She was
insane.
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paraslngly OF him to third person. "You
have been misinformed, SIR replied the
young man, Il hope that | know better
lhah 10 refer to person Of your advanced
age as pig. '--RJelester PoSt-Express.
A paper Steamboat is soon to be launche
on ne Ohio River. They'd better not make
II 81 Dieting paper if they want any river
left -, B'rhagt0a Hauktye
An Ohio man'publishts a card denying the
accusation that he is temperance man.
People have very little TO to do cast such slurs
upon an Ohio man.-Allanta Constitution.
A New Mexico editor speaks of bein5 fol-
!oweG BY long centipede and joj olate.
ire Jpiolate probably wanted something
cage N1r,.,
1t is claimed that new and original
version OF the ten commandments has been
discovered. Unless it permits man to bear
false witness in case of swapping horses, it
My adapted for use in these progressive
dsys.-Lo".H citizen.
Considerable activity is noticeable Jus.
now about churches that have been closed
during the summer. Contribution boxes are
being polished up and-and other matters at
tended TO preparatory to the rush of minis
tiers from abroad.-H0chester POST Erpress.
Ill gettlng ulsgustcd with everything
and everybody" exclaimed Brown, peevish-
~. "Whereeveri 30, there is fraud" 81
can't say that you do yourself an injustice, re-
marked Fogg "but where is the need of you
being so ingenious? The utteraucc of self
evident truth is only waste of words, my
boy, only waste Of words. "-Bost0n Tran.
script.
Little Mary, who was very much inter-
ested In studyirg ''the laws of health" since
school hecan, had been asking Mr.. Rather all
sorts OF questions about diseases and their
remedies. Now, papa" she continued, IF
you neglect bad cold you lay foundation
Tor the consumption, don't you?' Yes"
answered her father, and consump-
lives arc thin and pale, arm they !"
Whist other si1ns are there in-wel, in
quick consumption, papa; queried the child,
Five minutes for refreshments, posted in
abroad stations responded r. The ex-
animation closed, Boston Courier.
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The Planets in septic n, Der.

The Providence Journors astronomer
says that Mercury is the only planet that
appears as evening star during all the month
oil September, although Venus is an evening
star after the goth and Uranus until the
10Th. On the goth Venus is in superior
conjunction with the sun, and is for a time
lost 10 sight in its rays. After superior con.
lunction, she passes from the suns western
to his eastern side, and becomes evening
star. FOR month or two she will b. hidden
IN the suubeams, but in November sharp
eyes VIII PICK her up as small brilliant
str, snihing IN Tue western twilight for
snort Time alter sunset. She will he superb
In the winter evenings as She oscilatus on
ner invisible Chain toward clongltion, and
me midsummer Of another year will make
its advent before, re,racipr her stems coward
the sun, Sic comes again 10 the Inferior CON
junction.
Uranus is evening star until the 10Th.
when he joins the morning star reversing
me roll That Venus plays during the MONTH
On the 18th, at 7 O'Clock in the evening. he
is in conjunction with the sun. After con
Junction lie appears on the western side Of
| the sun and becomes morning star. All the
| outer planets Of the system are then on the
sun western side, ana all travelling with
varying speed toward opposition in the
following order; Neptune heads the list,
| fisihg ABOUT half.past eight O'Clock Saturn
follows an hour later; Mars appears shortly
before midnight; Jupiter takes his turn at
one o'clock. Uranus is too close to the sun II,
TO be of any account.
| Saturn, on the %, at three O'clock in the
morning, is in quadrature with the sun, The
second oil the great planets to reach this
tlhlc-hlafk IN his path, the halfway house il
us progress from conjunction to opposition
ne Is iast becoming an object of exceeding
interest 10 observers, for he may be seel
ABOVE Inc horizon early enough in the even
ing 10 make 1t necessary for the observer L
encroa1h on the'hours devoted to slecp TO
a sight at his serene and softly-shining lace
lie may be found in the vicinity of TIN
vicinity OF the Pleiades and Aldebaran, M,
VIII DC readily recognized by the color o
pnic soid mat distinguishes him from III
other planets. Beautiful as is his prcscn
appearance, he will increase in size ant
oiiiliahcy until the last of November wher
nc rcaches the eliminating point in the pres
ent year.
Inc september moon fulls on the 16 H. n
nity-seVen minutes past four o'clock in tn
evening. The new moon of the let is il
conjunction with Uranus on the I'd, and VIII
Mercury on the 3D. The full moon on TN
ION is very near Neptune on the Goth, pass
ihs ~ minutes north. Gu the 21st she Is il
conjunction with Saturn, being degree an,
IA minutes south In some portions of tn
southern hemisphere Saturn is occulted max
iue ms sixth occultation during the year, bu
tnc p'aulllul phenomenon has not once hecl
Nsli from our New England points of ID
servation.
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4 FROSTED COUNTRY,
Corn, nuclwheat. Potatoes and To-
baccO Hurt.

BURLINGTON, Iowa, Sept. 1O.-There was
frost in this part of Iowa Friday and Satur
day nights; no damage is reported.
OMAHA, Sept. l0.-The weather the past
three days has been cool, but the atmosphere
is dry and there is no damage by frost re-
ported In any section of Nebraska.
MARsIIALLTowN, Iowa, Sept. 10-Scvcre
irosts occurred Friday and Saturday MORN
Ing. Leailng farmers think u third of lie
CEN crop is injured in Marshall county.
MILWAUKEE, Wis. Sept. 1O-A heavy frost
occurred IN Milwaukee County last night.
ne corn ON the low grounds was killed and
buckwheat suffered. The whole cucumber
industry is ruined. The llss in the cotton
enterprise is $50 900. At C,dwolls prairie
great damage was done.
LINCOLN, Neb. Sept 10-Therc have been
no frosis IN Southern Nebraska. If fros
holds oil three weeks there will lie a large
crop OF corn,
DAvRNPoRr, Iowa, Sep. lO-Frosts have
Injured the corn in the low lands of this Sec
ton.
ElMiRA, N. V, Sept. 10.-Lcadng deal
lers in leaf tobacco say that the Chemunp
Valley tobacco crop within 10 miles of Ell
MIRA was damaged Il hundred thousand dol
ihls by irosl last night. Corn and buckwheat
were also damaged.
Rock ISLAND, ILL.,, Sept. 10.-The frost
Sunday morning did great damage to low
lanus. Late corn and potatoes were killed.
)n high ground the damage is tritling. If
there is real loss it is on potatoes, us the
corn that has been killed was good only for
| fodder.
STApLRTos L. l., Sept. 1O.-Garden pro-
| u.uo was heavily damaged by frost in Rich
mond county last night.
| Jackson, Mich, Sept 1O.-It is thought
that the heavy frosts Saturday and Sunday
nights almost entirely destroyed the corn
crop of this section.
| DETEolT, Mich, Sept. 10.-Frost was gen.
eral in Michigan last night and was severe
enough to cut down partly grown vegeta.
bl's. 1t injured corn somewhat but it i.
thought not seriously.
WAREHAM, Mass, Sept. 10.-The pro-
tracted drought has caused much havoc
with the great cranberry fields of Cope Cod
On many farms vegetation is 50 far gon,
That 1t can not even by frequent rains bI
revived. Cattle are suffering on account o
poor pasturage.
TOPEKA, Sept. 10.-There has been NJ
frost OF any consequence in Kansas.
BLooNINGroN, III, Sept. 10.-Frost di,
slight damage to corn in this vicinity, ex
cepting in the low places. The dry atmo
sphere saved It,