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Morning journal and courier., 1883-08-21
Ireland.

COnStabIes Shot by an Orangeman.
 LONDON, Aug. 2O.-At Dromore, County Down, Ireland, to-day, 8 farmer named Renshew shot and severely wounded two constabIes who were attempting to evict him from his tenancy. Renshaw is an Orange man, and it is feared his act will lead to con- sequences more serious than mere resistance to evictions by the constabulary.
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Lightning struck in several other places in that vicinity. A number of telegraph poles were splintered, and large branches wer e torn from trees near the wires.
 In Manchester, Dr. Vails house was struck and the doctor was prostrated, and at last &C., counts unable to speak.
 In Bolton a barn was struck and burned and two cows destroyed.
 In Hartford the stable of Mir. Waterous, the natter, was struck and damaged.
 InGreepwich great damage was done the house of Mr. EaRan. One side>of the house WAS torn ont and Mir. Eagan and MT. James Wyman were much prostrated by the shock.
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Ko Power 1n the COmmIssioners.

RO Power 1n the Comm isstOners.
 WASHINGTON, Aug. 2O.-The first control- Ter of the treasury to day decided that com. missioners of Circuit courts have no authori- ty to appoint persons to serve criminal pro- cess in States where magistrates may make such appointments.
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APsn,,ou a,,or.ev D,...rr.s.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20--Acting Secretary Joslyn to-day acknowledged the letter of the commissioner of pensions recommending that Jenkins A. Fitzgerald be no longer recog- nized as an attorney before the pension office. After reciting that MT. Fitzgerald was suspended from practice and after the notice failed to disprove the charges preferred the Secretary directs that he be disbarred from practice before all the bureaus of the Inter- for department
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cattle commission that the disease had un- doubtediy been imported into this country from England, but did not exist here now. MT. Dodson took occasion to say that there were no quarantine regulations or stations in the United States and this Judge French also emphatically denies and requests that the British minister at Washington shall be in formed that two quarantine stations exist one at Boston, Mass, and the other at Port land, Me, and that the regulations in regard to cattle and their examination are rigidly enforced. The danger to be feared. however, is from Great Britain and not from the Uni ted States.
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Wine From n Royal Cellar.

CHICAGO, Aug. 2O.-The annual festival of the Schwaben-verein in commeuoration of
 the annual agricultural fai< at Cronstadt Wurtemburg, closed to-day. During the af- ternoon thirteen casks of the famous neckar wine, in all 330 gallons. sent by the King of Wurtemburg from his own cellar, was drank by the natives of that province.
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The Last of His Family.

BROOKLYN, Aug. 2O.-t'Denny" Walsh, aged seventy nine. was arrested to-day and sentenced to the penitentiary for three months for stealing pair of shoes. Denny is the last of his family. One of his broth CTS, Buck Walsh, was shot and killed while escaping from Sing Sing and the other, James Walsh, was hanged in Raymond street jail for the murder of Barbara Groenthal.
 EIOpIng With His Employers Daughter.
 BRooKLYN, Aug. 2O.-Louis Woerner, the collector for the Meltzer brewery, has created sensation by disappearing with Mine Meltzer, the daughter of his employer, young lady in her teens. He turned in all his collections on the evening before he de parted and left $199 of .undrawn salary to his credit, although he is said to have drawn & ,OOO from the bank account of another firm for whom he made collections. This his friends do not believe. Mrs. Meltzer is heart-broken as it is believed that the case was not one of elopement pure and simple, but he was forced to the step by the girls condition and that she may be in great dan ger. Mrs. Woerner has abandoned her home. Previous to his elopement he trans ferred his property to his wife.
 Prot ectIen For England's Chief Justice NEW YORK, Aug. 2O.-Tt is understood that the British consul general has had several in- terviews with Inspector Byrnes, of the de- tective force relative to precautions which should be taken by the police to guard Lord Chief Justice Coleridge from possible annoy ance or violence on his arrival here. Inspec- tor Byrnes refuses to say anything whatever on the subject.
 Rhodes Trihfng With Lhe Whirlpool.
 BUFFALO, Aug. 2o.-Captain Rhodes spent to-day at Niagara Falls looking over the ground. He will send through big dog en- cased in his armor tomorrow. The sand bag experiment failed to connect. The po- lice will arrest Rhodes to-morrow.
 Oscar WIlde's New PIay-PrOnOuneed a
 Success by Lawrence Barrett.
 NEW YORK, Aug 2O.-There was an excel lent attendance at all the theatre openings tonight, especially when the sultry weather is considered. Niblo's, where prices have been put down to popular basis, was crowd ed on the reappearance of the Kiralfy Broth CTS in their brilliant ballet spectacle of Ex- celsior, which they have produced at an outlay of $75,OOO Oscar Wilde's new play of Vera, or the Nihilist, was produced at the Union Square in the presence of cultivated audience and was favofably received. Lawrence Barrett says that the English Faesthete is 8 thorough dramatist, surprised if Vera is not success.
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Polo Playedl by Ladies.

NEWPORT, Aug. 2O.-Tns first polo game by ladies was played at the rink this eyen- ineEand proved to be the hit of the season. The game was between Providence and New port and was won by the latter, three out o4 five. A subsequent exhibition game was also won bv Newport. Thursday evening 8 game will be played between the Newports and Salems for six gold championship med a &
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Michigan.
A Cold Flooded Wife Murder.

Cold Flooded Wife Murder.
 DETROIT, Aug. 2o.-Last evening shortly after the ferry steamer Hope for Windsor had left the wharf, L. Phipps, Detroit bartender, shot his wife, killing her instant ly. He was overpowered by the passengers and delivered to the Windsor authorities.
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More of the Strikers Left.

C1NoINNATI, Aug. 2O.-Western Union off, cials estimate this morning that sixty of the strikers will not be needed now, their places having been filled. This includes both main and branch offices Of these sixty twenty one are probably first-class and the re- mainder second and third class. All who applied for readmission were willing to take pledge renouncing the brotherhood.
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MEXICO.

Deaths Prem the Mexican ChOlera. MATAdoRAs, Aug. 2o.-News has been re. ceived here that 160 persons have died with the cholera in little towns of San Deonesce and Oaxaca in the past month. The disease is not the Asiatic cholera, but the local disease which exists in Mexico every aummer.
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ACanoe Cruise in the East.

G1ENs FALLS, Aug 2o.-Mr. L. R. Stod- dard will sail from the Knickerbocker Canoe Club House, Eighty-sixth street, New York, on Wednesday morning at sunrise on his eastern cruise. He will be accompanied by Mir. Oblenis of Albany.
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THE WEST.
OhiOo
Caused By Jsalousy.

ATragedy Caused By Jealousy.
 CINCINNATI, Aug 20.-At noon to-day Burt Shieble shot and killed Jose Stubb and then killed himself at Mrs. Kirk's house on George street. The house has disreputable name and the tragedy is Said to have been the result of jealousy.
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Utah.
AEnrfous Cloud Rurat.

SALT LAKE C1TY, Aug. 20.-A cloud burst at the head of the canyon yesterday, and the roaring torrents swept away Jones Co.'s lumber mill and dwelling. A number of settlers fled to the hills and saved their lives.
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suicide in Ten Inches of Water.

PROVIDENCE, Aug. 20.-Ebenezer Marsh, seventy-nine years of age, took his life this morning by drowning. He had been i'll for 8 long time with chronic ailment and was often heard to remark that he should not be here long as there was nothing worth living for. He arose at o'clock today and as usual Jeff the house intending to take his customary exercise. He was found at II o'clock head downward in 8 well near by. The suicide had evidently jumped down the twenty.two feet well head first as there was wound on tho top of his head. There was not unore than ten inches of water in the we'll. but as the head WAS forced below the surface drowning ensued- The deceased leaves five grown up children. g son and 8 daughter in this city, @ daughter in Milford, Mass.. and two sons in Chicago.
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FOR RENEs s4 TENEMENT Of rooms, second floor, 120 Eif Liberty street, SIC; rooms, opposite E. Mall .N leys store. s. auIS St EDW. VALLEY.
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Honor ortoJuaee R,.ah,s msmorv

AAOAVr S0 S O0Se 9AAcAA's HASAAOEys WASHINGTON, Aug. 2o.-The Secretary of State has issued an order closing the State department tomorrow. the day of the funer- al of Hon. Jeremiah s. Black, out ofrespect and directing that the building be draped for thirty days as further mark of respect. Similar action was taken by the Department of Justice
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Only the Best Men Taken Back in the
 ap Wests
 CHICAGO, Aug. 20.-The total number of operators who have applied to the Western Union for positions since the strike is 3s3 Of these only 56 have been accepted, which fills all the vacancies at present. Only the best men are engaged. The striking delivery clerks are left out in the cold. At St. Louis and Milwaukee the vacancies have all been filled and the Kansas City force was made up yesterday.
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MARYLAND.
The Last Message of a Suicide

The Last Message of a Suicide
 BALTIMORE, Aug. 2O.-The body of Major w. T. Howell, late of the United States army, was found floating in the Patapsco river near Locust Point to-day. It is thought that he committed suicide He was divorced from his wife some time ago and 8 memo randum was found in his pocket in regard to her which says: ''For my uncalled for re- tirement from the army am partly indebted to my wife, who showed her preference for
 other men and her conduct, especially when in her drunken tantrams, made her notorious
 in army circles This, together with the
 outrageous conduct of her sister, whom with
 her two children I permitted to remain with
 us has made my life unendurable." The de-
 ceased was about forty years of age.
 A Brave EngIneer-He Sticks to His Post While Terribly Scalaed and Prevents Q Serious Disaster.
 BALTIMORE, Aug 2O.-While the Parkton accommodation train on the Northern Gen. tral railroad due here at 9:15 o'clock tonight was going down grade along high ridge several miles this side of Parkton boiler f1ue exploded with great violence. John Bowen, the fireman, was shoveling coal into the furnace and was blown amid scalding steam and. flaming coal out of the
 cab into the rear of the tank, from which he ! rolled over the side to the ground down a twenty foot embankment. Marshall Dunn the engineer, was terribly scalded, but stuck ] to his post till he could apply the air brakes, when he fell from the cab insensible. The
 sudden stopping of the train threw nearly all
 the passengers out of their seats. The bodies
 of the engineer and fireman were picked up
 burned beyond recognition. Another engi neer was procured and the train arrived here l two hours late. But for the bravery of the engineer the train, which was running at the l rate of forty-five miles an hour, would have l dashed into the express ahead and terri ] ble disaster would have occurred. The grade is so heavy that an empty car once ! broke loose at Parkton and ran alone to Bal timore, making thirty.fve miles in twenty five minutes
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FOR RENT,
For Rent i'm southington

For Rent in SouthingtOn.
 % very good chance for 8 person to keep
 boarders, nine good sized rooms M . on the best turing industries especially the splendid new Britannia shop, now nearly completed, on the same block; rent $i2 per month plenty of water, good cellar, etc. Also fine chance for good shoemaker well situated rent $5 per month There is one party already engaged in the business who is anxious to have another good man with him. Address for few days H. l.,
 Hu21 Ct this oMzce.
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sugar1n the hawaiian Islands.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 20.-The commission which recently visited the Hawaiian Islands with view to making report on the manu- facture of sugar imported into the United States are expected to send the result of their investigation to the Treasury department not later than Wednesday. All the members are now in New York engaged in the prepara- tion of the report, but the matter will not be acted upon until the return of Secretary Fol ger.
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MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS

NEW YORK, Aug. 2o.-Arrived, the Holland from London.
 Qusenstown-Arrived, the Baltic from New York. Hamburg Arrived, the Westphalia from New York. VorL
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Mean bar., 2a.sss amean temp, TAT; mean humid ity, 827
 inches. Max. velocity of windS 13 miles. FOB AUGUST 20. 1882: Mean bar., 30.263; mean temp, 63.3; mean humid 55.3. Max. temp, 76; min. temp, AS. ,. Fl. SHERMAN, sergt g. 0. D. s. A.
 Eterm signals have reference only to approaching high w1ndA Approaching high northwesterly winds are indicated by red and white flags combined
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FOR RENTs
 j44s FIVE rooms No. A Spring street; Ave rooms iiH in Hellers block, gas, water and water closet MIU on same floor; i've rooms No. Lewis street, Fair Haven; three rooms No. 445 State street a house containing nine rooms, with all modern im- provements, No. 26 Gill street. Inquire of ivYl II
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THE AGoN1Es OF BILIOUS CoL1c.

THE AGONIES OF BILIOUS COLIC, THE INDRscRIBABLE PANGs OF CHRONIC INDI- GEsTIoN. THE DEBILITY AND MENTAL sTUPoR RESULTING FROM A OOSTIvE HABIT, MAY BE CERTAINLY AVOIDED BY REGULATING THE sYs- ITEM WITH THAT AGREEABLE AND REFRESHING STANDARD PREPARATION, TAI ANTS SELTZER APERIENT. PROCURABLE AT ALL DRUGGISTs . au2l tu, thu. sat 2w
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-09-27
Depth OF IN Pacific Ocean.

The popular belief as to the compar-
ative shall0wress Of the Pacific ocean
may have to be modified by recent
soundings made with what is known
as Sir William YBsmpson's steel wire,
and which show v,iat along the entire
coast of California depth of 1000
fathoms or more is reached within a
distance Of 20 to 20 miles westward
from the shores, the greater part of
this fall occurring in the last 10 to 50
miles. At 100 miles west OF San
Francisco the bottom is found to be
1000 fathoms deep. The bed of the
ocean continues to a depth greater
than 1900 fathoms until the Sand
wich Islands are reached, the greatest
depth-3,000 fathoms-is at distance
Of about 400 miles east of Honolulu,
The great depth is maintained until
about 80 miles of Honolulu; at fifty
miles from that place the depth is
1900 fathoms.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-09-27

At the suggestion of Secretary Lin
coin Adjutant General Drum has set
q force of clerks at work on the records
of the late war, with an eye to getting
out and collecting facts with reference
to the circumstances and conditions
attendant in getting volunteers to-
gether. He says that while there is
no prospect of war it may some time
be desirable to utilize past experience
in getting a large volunteer army to-
gether as quickly as possible, and it
Is easy now to get the facts together,
while old soldiers are in the govern
ment service. He wants to put mat
ters In such shape that printed in
structions can be put on the way to
all governors within o days time af-
ter it becomes necessary to call for
troops.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-09-27

The Skeleton of o Giant.

SHELBYvILLE, Ind, Aug. 28.-Geo.
Arnold, a farm hand in the employ of
Franklin Booth, who lives Is miles
west of this city, has made a discov-
cry which has excited widespread in
terest in this county. The object of
this interest is the skeleton of what
was once a man of gigantic prepor-
tions, which was uncovered in a
gravel pit on the Booth farm. The
skeleton was found in sitting pos
ture, facing east, and about six feet
beneath the surface. Some of the
bones were badly broken by the cav
ing of the bank, but the skull and
some of the large bones were taken
out intact, and from them may easily
be realized the gigantic stature of the
being to whom they once gave sup
port. The measurement of the skull
from front to rear, by rule passing
through the eye socket to the back of
the head, shows 1t to have been about
16 inches deep, while the breadth of
the inferior maxillary was 81 inches,
showing that the brain must have
weighed from four and one-half to
five pounds. Careful measurement of
other bones establish the fact that the
man, when alive, was not less than
nine feet in height and large in pro-
portion. From the appearance of the
teeth, which are very large, and do
not show the slightest sign of decay,
although they are worn down almost
to the bones of the jaw, the man could
not have been less than 100 years old
when he died, and perhaps much
older. The bones of the lower Jaw are
very large and thick, showing an ex-
tent of muscular development in that
organ, which is far beyond anything
of the present day. Steps have been
taken to have casts made of the bones.
They will be placed in the state geo.
logical collection.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-09-27

While some workmen were en-
gagged in digging foundation in st.
Louis they discovered an underground
cavern, whose walls and ceilings were
braced with timbers evidently Of great
age. The floor was of solid rock, and
along the smooth surface the party of
explorers proceeded in a straight line
east for about fifty feet. Here they
came to an angle and followed another
line of the cave, which pointed toward
Carr street. Beyond the turn was an
other smaller opening which they en-
tered and walked on for some distance,
when they came to another turning
point north. This turning was about
seventy feet long, and at the end of
that distance the cave again turned
east. In their explorations the party
came upon several relics, undoubtedly
of historical value. Among other
things they found an Indian bow, a
f1int-lock in a small brass or copper
box, and also fine parchment dOcu-
ment, neatly folded and written partly
in French and partly in Spanish.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-09-27

A party Of twenty-four engineers,
with q complete outfit, passed through
town on Thursday, August 18TH, says
the Yakima City Signal, on their way
to the centre Of the Cascade mount
aims whore they will make definite
location Of the great tunnel through
the central range. The party was In
charge Of ]. Scurry. Another party
is on its way here and will go forward
to the same point. The business Of
the second party will be to cross-sec-
ton and finish up the work. The tun-
mel to be constructed will be from six
teen to eighteen thousand feet in
length and will cost about two million
dollars.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-09-27

A New York Tribune Paris cable
says: At Royan, on the Gironde
river, there was q scene perhaps un-
precedented in the annals of balloon
ing. M. Gratien, we'll known areo-
naut, was about to make an ascent in
a hot-air balloon called "La Nidauvil-
lais." Mile Albertine, the heroine of
several balloon ascensions, was seated
in the car, and M. Gratien was hold
ing in his right hand a coil of rope
tied to one of the cords that served to
hold the balloon. The balloon unex-
pectedly broke loose, and the cord,
unrolling itself with lightning rapid
ity, caught in a sort of running knot
around the first and second fingers of
Gratien's right hand. Gratien was
Immediately whisked off into the air
600 meters high. In vain he tried to
haul himself up on the cord and loop
it over his arm, but after frantic ef-
forts he became exhausted and hung
on the end of the cord suspended only
by his two fingers, and suffering ex-
crutiating agony, owing to the Jerks
of the balloon: The cord cut like
and in that situaIIOn Sia,,s. - !.
ried distance of nearly four miles.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-09-27
The report Of the commissioner of

The report Of the commissioner Of
immigration for the state OF New
York shows that 39,374 emierants
landed at the port Of New York from
August 3rd, 1852, to June 30th, 1883,
inclusive. The largest number landed
In one menth, $3.50, was IL May, 1883,
and the smallest, lS4S, In January the
same year. The duty imposed by the
board on returning paupers and per-
sons unable to take care Of themselves
TO the ports whence they came, has
been carefully exercised, and large
number Of undesirable persons have
been sent hack.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-09-27

Yet, it will do very we'll to talk
about such things, but you cannot
learn an Englishman to say "horse"
without discarding the letter "h'-
but you can learn by experience that
Swayue's Pills beat everything for
the Cure Of liver complaint, bilious
ness, dyspepsia, fevers, sick headache,
jaundice, dropsy, constipation, cpl
lepsy and female irregularities. Keep
. box Of them In the house at all
times.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-09-27

The women OF Boston seem to be
losing what little interest they at first
took In the inestimable "rfght' to
vote. Only forty Of them have thus
far this year come forward to be as
sessed for poll tax.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-09-27

An editor in Chicago recently or
dered pair OF trousers from the tailor.
On trying them on they proved to be
several inches too long. 1t being late
on Saturday night the tailor shop was
closed, and the editor took them to
his wife and asked her to cut them off
and hem thin over. The good lady,
whose dinner had, perhaps, disagreed
with her, brusquely refused. The
same result followed an application to
the wife's sister and the eldest daugh
ter. But before bedtime the wife, re-
lenting, took the pants, and cutting
off six inches from the legs hemmed
them up nicely and restored them to
the closet. Half an hour later her
daughter, taken with conjunction for
the unfilial conduct, took the trousers,
and cutting off six inches, hemmed
and replaced them. Finally the sister
in-law felt the pangs of conscience,
and she too performed an additional
surgical operation on the garment.
When the editor appeared at break
fast on Sunday the family thought a
Highland chieftain had arrived.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1883-09-27

A correspondent of the Yamhill Re
porter, writing from Lafayette says:
That the year is fruitful is proven by
the fact that reports from thirty-five
farmers give an average yield of
thirty-one and half bushels to the
acre of wheat sown before the lst of
April. Later sown wheat is yet to
hear from, with any certainty. The
lowest yield l hear Of is thirteen
bushels to the acre; next comes nine
teen; all others range from twenty
three to forty-three, and one, a small
piece that weathsred the frost, had
sixty-one and a half bushels to the
acre. One fact is plainly to be observed
that the California seed has made the
best yield in quantity and quality and
plumpness Of grain. The early grain
Is all cut aud nearly all threshed, and
farmers are beginning on the late, so
we may confidently expect that the
close OF the month will very nearly
see the close Of harvest.