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FOREIGN.

Several deaths from trichiniasis have
occurred at Ermsebcn, Saxony, and $50 per-
sons are afflicted from the same cause.
Avenger O'Donnell has been indicted
at London on Il charge of numbering Carey,
but the trial was postponed TO Nov. .. Food
of the best kind is daily sent TO the prison
from an adjacent tavern. Gen. Roger a.
Pryor, O'Donnelrs American counsel, was an
object of considerable curiosity to the spec
tators in court.
The cholera has reappeared in an
Arab village near Alexandria.
Seventeen Syrian peasants have been
sentenced TO imprisonment for robbing Jews.
A cable dispatch from Constantinople
says that ian earthquake which bids fair to
prove almost as destructive rs the one on the
island Of Ischia occurred on the peninsula
between Chesme, Asia Minor, and Vouria, on
the southern coast of the Gulf of Smyrna.
Six villages were completely destroyed and
many others seriously damaged, while, as
far as can be learned ut present, up
ward of 1000 persons have persisted.
This list includes only those living
III INC UlOTt ucCtSSlDlt nhIIiltts ulOnE the
coast. What damage and what loss of life
has been caused in the interior will not he
known for days. The survivors of the disas-
ter are suffering fearful privations The first
shock seems TO have been felt early in the
morning. This was but light, and no attention
was paid to it. In few minutes IL second
shock occurred. Then the houses, hmsy
structures at best, collapsed. Most of the peo-
pie were sleeping. These were buried under the
ruins Those whose houses were strong man
aged TO escape. In II wild panic they sought
the fields, and could not be persuaded to re-
turn TO the rescue of their less fortunate fell
low townspcoplc, whose cries were pitiful.
Many of them arc still huddled In the fields in
a starving condition and suffering from cold,
but more terrified, by fears of repetition OF
the dreaded shocks. Tho citizens of Smyrna,
who were the first to hear of the disaster
sent help to the stricken people. Hundreds
were rescued from the villages more OF less
wounded
Large sums are being sent from
America to defend Poole, TO bc tried at Dub
lin for murder.
Mr.. Moody has been so roughly re-
ceived by the Cork mob that il has been
found necessary to guard the hall by police
every evening.
Resolutions condemning the Com
mons for refusing Bradlaugh his seat and IA
vorng the abolition of Parliamentary oaths
were adopted with great enthusiasm at the
Leeds conference of prominent English Lib
erals.
London bill-posters refuse to placard
the announcement OF a lecture by Michael
Daytt
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WASHINGTON.

Mr.. Armstrong, the Federal Commits
Pacific lines owe the Government SlO2, 375,-
93, which does not become due until 1895
They are credited with money and transporta-
ton to the amount of 81, 469,202.
At Cabinet meeting last week the
attempt of the Southern Pacific Railroad COM
pany to gobble the Texas Pacific uncarned
and-grand was discussed. The agents of the
Southern Pacific company are understood 10
be very DESTROYS TO have the Attorney Gener-
al pass upon the question.
Comptroller Knox finds that q call
for $4,000, 900 in 3 per cent bonds would
tako at least $1,000, 600 deposited for circua-
ton 10y nincty-six banks and perhaps 100000
600, which would compei the retirement Of
so, 0OO, 900 of national bank currency, unless
other securities could bc obtained.
President Arthur and the members
of the Cabinet received Lord Chief Justice
Coleridgc at the residence Of Secretary Frcl-
inghuysen, in Washington.
Comptroller Knox states that the re-
duction in national bank circulation the
current year will be between $50, 000,0 600 and
500, 900, 600, with the certainty of much more
rapid decrease next year.
Thirteen entries of public land in
Washington Territory have been held for
cancellation ut the General Land Office in
Washington. The frauds extended even to
the notary public, and all the entries were
subsequently transferred TO one person.
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NULL AND VOID.
Civil Rights Law Declared Unconstitu-
tionaI by the United States
Supreme Court.
Being Operative Only in the Territories
and the District of Columbia.
All the Members of the Court Except
Harlan Concur i'm the Decision.

The United States Supreme court (Mr.
Justice Bradley writing the opinion, and Mr.
Justice Harlan only dissesing) has pro-
nounced the sections of the Civil Rights act
according colered.p persons equal privileges i'm
railway cars, hotels and theaters unconstitu-
tional 80 far rs the States of the Union are
concerned. Oscs were brought under the
law TO the highest tribunal from the States of
Kansas, California, Missouri, New York and
Tennessee, and had been under consideration
for year. The complainants were colored
men, and had been denied their rights as the
law defined them in hotels, railroad-cars.
restaurants, Theaters, etc. The court
holds that Congress had no constitutional
authority TO pass the above sections under
either the Thirteenth or Fourteenth amend
ments. AS TO the Territories and the District
of Columbia, the court holds the legislative
power of Congress in the premises is unlimit-
cd. We print below Il summary OF this inn
portant decision, telegraphed from Washing
ton by the Associated Press agent.
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NEWS CONDENSED.
Telegpaphlc Summary.
EASTERN.
EASTERN.

The trial of Senator Sessions at AL
bany N. Y, on charge OF bribery, resulted
I'm jury verdict of acquittal.
w. III. Vanderbilt and Robert Bon
ner came in collision on the race-track at
Fleetwood Park, NY, each driving a fast
horse at full speed. The railway king was
thrown violently TO the earth and his little
sulky reduced to kinding-wood. His in
juries were not serious. The great editor
was more lucky, he and his rig both escaping
damage.
The creditors of Shaw & Brothers,
the Bankrupt tanners of Boston, met to hear
the report of an investigating committee. IL
appears that the insolvents can pay - cents
on the dollar. james b. Foryan, Inspector OF
the Bank of Nova Scotia was made trustee.
Ernst Asten, Postmaster at Minooka,
Pa, has been arrested for tampering with the
mails.
William III. Vanderbilt had miracu-
lous escape from death at New York, the
other day. The great railway magnate drove
his fast team to Fleetwood park, and had
Early Rose put in single racing
buEpH. ilt lu1H NuStitu uAOAlih VIZ
track twice ut rafting pace, and
when the second round was finished,
at the grand stand, he whirled his horse about
and started the other way around the track
He wore blue glasses, and did not see one of
Robert Bonner's fast teams coming straight
at him. a collision occurred, and Wander
bits buggy was wrecked and he thrown
heavily TO the ground He lay motionless
until number of spectators ran to him and
carried him to the porch of the track-house,
where he revived sufficiently TO walk up the
steps and into the reception-room. His in
juries were only slight. Bonner and his team
escaped without damage.
In the case of Loren b. Sessions,
charged with bribery in the New York Sem
atoria contest in 1881 (at the time when
Roscoe Conkling was seeking for II vindica-
tom the jury, after but short time devoted
to deliberation, returned verdict acquitting
him of the charge.
Before the Senate Labor Investi-
eating committee at Boston, Charles T..
Chauncc testified that he had seen the tanned
skins of several women and that the bust
ness had been carried on for at least eighteen
years, but lately has been decreasing. He
Designated the tanneries where the human
''hides" had been perfected, and stated the
proprietors themselves did most OF the work
on them.
Edward Hovey, who murdered Mrs.
Fanny Vermilyea, was executed in the Tombs
at New York. He spent restless night, was
unable to take breakfast, and had TO be sup
ported from his cell TO the galows.
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VIEWS OF CoLoRED LEADERS.
FRED DOUGLAS.


Fred Douglas, when asked what he thought
of the decision, said: at is disheartening,
and regard IL as n step backward. The re-
suit will he mischievous. At the close or the
war and in view Of the services rendered by
coored men, there was II disposition on the
part of the country 10 concede TO them com
plctc citizenship and equal civil Fights in the
use of all public cOnVeyanceS ana lnstlJu-
tons. / regard this decision as part or
the general reaction naturally following in
creased friendship between the North ana
South, which comes of the dying out or the
old controversy on the subject OF slavery.
Nearly all the concessions the col
orcd people have received have been
the result of the antagonism or
the two sections. / do not despair, now
ever, of the ultimate return OF nberaI
spirit toward the colOred people l think the
decision confounds social with civil rights.
Social equality does not result from riding on
the same car with II man or buying GOODS AT
the same store. The decision places the
American people far in the rear OF the
civilized nations of Europe. The decision
is contrary to the Declaration of lndcpen-
dence, the spirit of Christianity, the spirit or
the age. and in violation of the Fourteenth
and Fifteenth amendments. 1t tends TO weaken
the spirit of patriotism which the nation may
need i'm some hour of peril
JOHN NJ LAHGsToN.
Prof John VI. IangstOn, Minister 10 Hayti,
the man who drew, at the request or Charles
sumner, the act of which the two sections
have been declared unconstitutional says;
~ am surprised and deeply disappointed at
the decision, but, in fact, the Civil Rights act
gave us no rights which we did not already
have under the Fourteenth amendment. we
have with or without the act equal rights IN
this country, and the courts of the States
should give them to us. If they do not, then
Congress has power under the amcndnentsto
lcgisate so that they will be compelled 10 do
so. The result, therefor, will be simply to
bring the matter before Congress again.
RICHARD T. GREENER.
Richard Il. Grcencr the well-known coiored
lawyer, speaking of the decision, said; III
is the most starting,decison since the infa-
nous dictum of Chief Justice fancy. my
self would much rather be deprived OF my
political rights than my social ones / can
live without suffrage, j can exist without Of.
fee, but want to have the privilege of trav-
cling from New York 10 California without
fear of being put of cur or denied food and
shelter because have trace of negro blood
in my veins. The civil rights granted by that
law are not only constitutional, but in my
Judgment antedatc the constitution"
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WESTERN.

In his report to the Secretary of the
Interior, Gov. Tritlc, of Arizona, claims for
the Territory n population of $4,000. He asks
that the Chiricahuas now in the mountains be
treated by the army as hostiles.
The boiler of an engine on the Cen
trail railway of Iowa exploded near Oska-
loosa, killing Engineer Bosley and fatally
injuring Conductor Gregory, Fireman
Schultzc and Brakeman Blanchard.
Assignments have been made by the
Norton & Wilder Glass and Paint company OF
st. Louis, whose assets are $4,000.
The murder of Zura Burns, at Lin
coin, H.. begins TO attract attention through
out the country because of its mysterious
character. The victim was engaged TO be
married to Thomas Dukes, of Kewanna, Ind.
She visited Lincoln, where she had previously
resided, put up at "A hotel, called at the Office
of prominent grain merchant with whom
she was coseted for an hour, returned to her
hotel, and two or three hours aftcrward started
toward the depot with sachel in her hand
This was the last seen OF her alive. The dead
body of the hapless girl was discovered day
Lincoln, the throat cut and knife stabs in va
rious parts of her anatomy There were
buggy tracks through the lane leading to the
belief that the murdered girl had been driven
TO that secluded spot by some one with the
deliberate purpose of taking her life. The
testimony at the Coroncr's inquest casts sus-
picion on the grain merchant upon whom Zu-
ia Burns called when she visited Lincoln.
A band of Indians who went hunting
from La Grace, Dakota, overlook herd of
buffalo and slew over $500 head.
Gen. James b. Steadman, Major
General of Volunteers in the War of the Re-
bellion, died at his home in Toledo, Ohio, Of
acute pneumonia, aged 60 years. He was
Chief of the Toledo police, and editor of the
Northern ohio Democrat.
Charles ID. Rhodes, who owns the
stock of n furnace company at Bangor, Mich.
has made an assignment TO Henry d. Oakley,
of Chicago, to cover liabilities of s13O,OOO
Burglars entered Edward McLaugh-
Inns house near Joliet, ILL.,, and beat and
tortured the proprietor and his wife until
they disclosed where $1,000 in gold was con-
WHICH INC IODDcfS secured ana de-
parted.
Capt" David Payne, the adventurer
who has created so much trouble with the
Government authorities by trying TO get
possession of lands in Oklahoma, Indian Ter
ritory, has been indicted by the United States
Grand Jury at Leavenworth, Kan, on the
general charge of conspiracy.
During the year ending June 30,
1883, the Chicago postofice handled l37, OO0, 600
pieces of mail matter, an amount of stuff
only exceeded by the "output" of the Offices
at New York and Philadelphia.
Stephen M. Edgell died in st. Louis
last week. He was one of the original incor-
porators Of the Union Pacific road, and for
thirty-one years was President of the Mis-
souri, Mutual Fire Insurance company. His
daughter is the wife of Austin Corbin, OF
New York.
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IN Bradley's opinion causes some eonsterna-
ton among. hotel and restaurant men, who
imagine 10 Will operate dhastrously TO them.
Tho strong intimatien that the law of Con-
gress Is operative here, while not deciding the
questions pending as 10 sthe district, is con-
strued as authoritative. IL also destroys the
hope OF the clique which is agitating the ques-
ton of suffrage, and opens the new question
az 10 n similar form of Government Tor Utah.
Both of these propositions have had able leg,h
advocates and the decision of to-day Is r.
garded as aifording the a secure legal footir x
for the future. Gen. Ben Harrison, OF lndi-
ana, says he was not much surprised at the
decision OF the Supreme court, and BELIEVED
il good law.
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JUSTICE HARLAN DISSENTS.

At the conclusion of the reading OF Judge
Bradley's opinion, which occupied more than
an hour Justice Harlan said that under ordi-
nary circumstances and in an ordinary case
he should hesitate to set up his individual
opinion i'm opposition TO his eight colleagues.
but, i'm view of what he thought the people of
this country wished to accomplish, what they
tried TO accomplish, and what they believed
they had accomplished 10y means of this legis-
lation, he must express his dissent from the
opinion of the court. He had not time since
hearing that opinion to prepare "a statement
of the grounds of his dissent, but he should
prepare and file one as soon as possible, and
i'm the meantime he desired 10 put upon rec
ord this expression of his individual judg
mont
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escape from his captors and wasriddlcd with
buckshot.
Two freight trains collided near
Cleveland, Tenn, killing three men instantly
and woundlng six others.
A colored man named Campbell was
lynched at Statesville, N. G. In dispute
earlier in the day Campbell had killed one
white man and wounded another.
A Grand Jury at Baltimore has in
vestigated the circumstances attending the
loss of sixty-fve lives mt rotten wharf near
that city three or four months ago, and in
dicted the owner and tho lessee of the
premises for manslaughter.
James Stanley, colored, was executed
at Columbus, Texas for the murder and rob
berry of Robert Strickland, white, aged l6, In
November, 1882. The culprit confessed his
crime, and delivered the following address TO
the crowd of 1000 who witnessed his swinging
OFF: 81 have found my way TO glory. have
repented my sins, and God will send angels
from heaven 70 meet me. | am going
straight home TO glory. Whisky, cards and
women have brought me To this I'm going
home TO heavcn-won't you meet me thereY'
IShouts from the colorcd crowd. Bless
God, we WILL My spirit will be flying
around in glory, and you sinners that drink
whisky, play cards, and attend balls had
better repent and pray, or God will damn
your souls. / forgive my enemies. God
waits for me; wave your lights; | shall have
golden slippers and Il golden ring" Georgia
ShpriTs swung off TAYLOR BRYANT, at Monroe
for criminal assault upon Mrs. Elizabeth v.
Soards, IL white widow, and Margaret Harris,
at Calhoun, for poisoning n white child.
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PUBLIC FEELING.

Washington Telegram to Chicago Herald
The decision is the subject of universal
comment here, and IL is safe to say that no
other decision of the Court since the famous
Cred Scott decision by Chief Justice fancy
has created so much excitement and dis
cussion.
Washington Telegram 10 Chicago Inter ocean,
Tho decision of the Supreme court in the
Civil Rights cases made something OF sensa-
ton here. There are several suits pending I'm
this district, and the reference made TO these
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Near Atlatasa. Asia Minor, houses
and people were swallowed up by the recent
earthquake. Assistance IL urgently needed
in ehivs and the mainland In which latter
district the British Consul reported 1000 per-
sons killed and wounded.
In Madagascar the British naval
authorities are hostile to the French, whose
chief commander is preparing to begin an
attack upon the Hovas.
An explosion occurred at collicry
in wharnclif, Yorkshire, England, and
twenty miners were killed. Five who were
In the shaft escaped with their lives.
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PERSONAL.

ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS constant chum
is "A pug dog.
AMONG n list OF New York mlllionaires
printed in the New York World appears the
name of Ulysses. Grant.
NAPOLEON BLUCHER AINswoRTH rs the
name of n Choctaw Indian, who recently
married a South Carolina girl.
JAMES SULLIVAN, the Mexican railroad
builder, is n short, broad-shouldered, round
faced man, with large eye, intelligent face,
and charming conversational powers.
LABAN III. BLAIR, of Van Vert, pardoned
from the Ohio State prison hast April on con-
dition that he leave the State and keep sober
has leon returned TO prison, as he went back
TO Ohio and got drunk there.
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rage ever perpetrated on the colored race.
Other leading Republican mombcrs of the
Pittsburgh bar hold the same opinion. Mayor
Peterson thinks that the work OF the Repub-
lican party for the last twenty years has been
undone. Postmaster Myler thinks the deci-
sion will work great hardship upon very
many people.
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SOUTHERN.

Wyatt Amcs, who murdered Deputy
Constable plount near Helena. Ark, tried TO
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-10-11

ence-the dusty valley is as silent as
was the Highland pass ere the whis-
tie of Roderick Dhu filed it with the
serried ranks and waving pennons OF
his clansmen. Descending, after
passing several minor springs, you all
at once behold the river boiling up
from the bowels OF tho earth, filing
O large basin in the hills and woods,
and then rolling grandly oceanward.
But the half has not been told; the
water is thepurest spring water, clear
as the very air, revealing every fish
and pebble for many feet below. Its
depth is seldom found less than mid
sides to horse, while it is often TWEEN
ty feet or more. It abounds in fine
black bass (here improperly styled
trout and other fish. 1t affords am
pie power for all sorts of machinery.
It could be used in irrigating the
valley below, and could readily be
conveyed to supply the town with
water. During the driest season 1t
is not often known to fail an iota; on
the contrary, it is said to run strong
er in summer than in winter, ms
it is conjectured, is owing to the melt
ing of the ice and snow at It's 1ar
subterranean source, but where that
is, is yet but conjecture. BE that as
it may. it is certainly an inestimaoie
blessing to thirsty land like Texas
During the coolest days OF winter,
steam as from q boiling cauldron rises
from the surface of the water, as in
smaller springs.
The finest view of the river is to be
had by going on a boat on its upper
waters. The many-colored flowers,
plants and stones ON the bottom give
out from it's crystal depths all the va
rying huos OF the kaleidoscope, form
ing fairy world OF wonders OF in
comparable beauty.
The San Marcos is indeed @ Joy,
glory and blessing forevermore, to al
the lovely region round about.
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to ten miles Of thriving railroad town.
in the midst Of improved farms cb0;as,
lands, beautiful and healthy. can ~
bought at from % to $40 per acre, the h.
prices varying as we'll from circumstance
of the owners as from differences 10
quantity. Space forbids our meption;na
many points in this argument, but Is
our candid judgment, the intell;rsn,
farmer and citizen will find good anS
sufficient reasons why he should ipves,
and locate in Texas, rather than In anv
other state.-Tsnas Products and Pro-.
qreSs.
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mercury ranges higher in New YORK
Civ Roston or St. Paul than in Hous>
ton, Galveston or San Antonio.-l hous-
ton Age.
After considerable thought and OBJ
servation ON the subject. we have come
TO the conclusion that they who go north
at all to escape the hot weather had
better wait till the latter part OF sum-
mcr. The long continuance of the sum
mer heats in Texas. rather than their
excess. is the thing hardest to bear.
The hot. weather here holds, almost
without Abatement. throughout August
and September, while at the North
about the middle of August the nights
at least become cool, frost often prevail
ing. BY leaving here about that time,
therefore, (and there can be nothing
gained by leaving sooner, for it is hotter
there than hers,) you escape some Two
months of hot weather, and return from
the bracing air of northern autumn to
winter here no more severe. In other
words you shorten the Texas summer
two months or more-a great relief.
On the same principle, the best time
to come South is, say in November
The weather is not often severely cold at
the North before that time, and by
coming then you escape its more severe
stages and some two months of the lat
ter end of winter entirely. 1t is true
you can come to this part of Texas in
midsummer with impunity on the score
of health, as we know, but it is an In
iudicious and unnatural time to select
to come; while to come at the beginning
of winter, gives most delightful
change, and you become accustomed to
the climate by natural and pleasant gra'
dations.