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Washington.

The secretary of the treasury has received
a telegram from Captain Healy, command
ing the United States revenue steamer Cor
win, announcing his arrival at San Francisco
from the Arctic ocean with thirty wrecked
whalemen, fifteen prisoners from the schot ner
Adele, and five destitute miners. The Corwin
reached within eight miles of Point Barrow,
where navigation was dangerous and difficult
on account of ice, which, together with the
crowded condition of the vessel, made her re-
turn to San Francisco almost imperative.
A FEW days ago the japanese envoy ex-
traordinary and minister plenipotentaiy to
the United States, r. Kuki, arrived in Wash
ington from San Francisco. He was accom-
panied by Mime. Kuki, Miss Kuki and his
secretary, K-Meta-Ki.
The director of the mint estimates the
amount of gold and silver coin in the United
States on October /, 1854, to have been
Sol5, 100000. OF this amount $55s. COO 900
was in gold, SIS, 900, 900 in standard silver
and 5000, 900 in subsidiary silver. This is
gain from October ], 1885, of SIS. 600. 600:
tl3,OOOOOO being gold coin and 81, C01, 900
silver
The removal of the appliances for electric
lighting in the capitol shows that the build
ing is in most untidy condition, ON account
OF the billions of insects which the brilliancy
of the electric light attracted, and whose
skeletons are either hanging on the walls, held
last by death grip, or are
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Scenes at Antwerp.

The lace shops of Antwerp are the
mo st tempting corners of the city.
Words cannot describe he delicacies of
the points" and the absurdly small
prices asked for these exquisite fabrics.
Black silks, too, are wonderfully beauti-
full, but they wear forever and do not af-
lord one the delight of purchasing a new
toilet every year. OF the pictures, muse
ums and churches, enough has been said
and written by tourists for thirty years
but the Plantin- Moretus, that most
unique of museums, has had but four
years of public existence, and few tour
lists have awakened up to the wonderful
treasures gathered there. Christopher
Plantin and his wife, Jeanne Riorire,
the founders OF the family, were in 1850
bookbinders and linen diapers. At last
he added printing to his trade, and soon
succeeded in gaining the entire right of
printing breyiaries and sacred books.
Philip III. became his protector, his chill
dren married into the wealthy Moretus
family, some became distinguished pro-
fessors in the universities of Europe.
others stood at the head of the book
trade in Paris, Leyden, and London.
conscience and labor" their motto,
won for them great wealth. AS centuries
rolled on they rose to noble rank, but
never neglected their business. Their
wonderful shop and printing presses sent
out the best painted and illustrated
books. Michael Angelo, Rafael, Rubens,
Van Dyck, painters and culptors of
every school, were employed to furnish
illustration, engravings, and etchings
for their publications. These, with orlgi-
nal letters and receipts signed by these
artists, were carefully kept, and works
of art and the family portraits painted
by the most noted artists of the Flemish
school adorned their walls. San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
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South and West.

MISSOURI Republicans who are opposed to
the fusonists held a State convention at
Macon and nominated a full ticket, headed by
Adon Guitar for governor.
A NOTICE was issued from the Headquarters
OF the national Prohibition party at Chicago,
calling upon the people of the country to OBJ
serve October 20 as day of fasting and
prayer.
IN collision between two trains near
Omasa, Neb., an engineer and fireman were
Instantly killed, and another fireman had both
legs cut off.
AN indianapolis dispatch says that a widow
of Parker's Landing, Penn, advertised for a
correspondent about a year ago. and
the advertisement was answered by
colored barber of indianapolis,
who represented himself to be a
white doctor. Finally the parties
were married by telegraph. The widow
proceeded to Indianapolis, and deceived
by the light-colored appearance of
her husband, lived with him some time,
setting him up in business Recently she
learned he was neither white nor a doctor,
and the trouble which followed led to the
arrest of both parties.
A HORRIBLE crime has been brought to
Light at Troy. Ind. by the finding of the
headless body OF woman iii cistern on the
farm of Peter Backer. The body was recog-
nized as that of Mrs Stiwell Hindershot,
who resided on farm fourteen miles back Of
Troy. Her husband and two sons were ar
rested for the crime. The elder son was taken
out of Jail by mob and hanged, but not be-
fore he had confessed that he and his father
had murdered the mother because she would
not sign away the farm, to which she had a
deed.
CHARLES w. BUTLER, one Of the most
noted criminals in Ohio, the son of a wealthy
physician in Columbus, was hanged in Co
lumbia City, Ind, for the murder of Abbie
Butler, his young wife, in Pierceton, Ind, on
September 20, 1888. Butler escaped from tho
jail in Columbia City and was at liberty for
some days His trial occupied nearly a
month. All that wealth and influence could
do was done to save him from the gallows.
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NEWSY GLEANINGS.

BOUNTY is paid for dead grasshoppers In
Mexico
THERE are more drunken women than men
In London.
THERE are over 275,OOO school teachers in
this country.
THERE are twentysix Methodist churches
In Atlanta, Ga.
SIXTY-FIyE thousand clergymen are preach
ing christianity in the United States.
LEPRosY among the Chinese population of
British Columbia is causing great alarm.
OSTRICH farms have started in Mexico
Those In Florida and California were failure.
THERE are l $780, 900 cattle roaming over
the ranges of Colorado, valued at $40, 900,
000
AN American circus is said to have just
taken in 900 in four performances in two
days in Toronto Canada.
PARIS has just taken census 1t shows a
population of 2, 239,93S of whom 10 7S9 are
English and 5,9o7 Americans
The past has been an unfavorable season
Tor Western horse thieves. Thirty seven of
them have already been strung up by the
yigilants in Montana.
DURING the first seven months of the pres
emit year $62, SOC, O0J worth of property was
destroyed by fire; 500 900 more than dur
Ing the same period last year.
THERE are $40 Young Mems Christian as
socatlons in the country, with total mem
bership OF los, 1877 They own eighty build
ings and real estate in all worth $685. 900.
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC

REMINYE, when last heard from was fd-
ding around Honolulu.
Miss JOHNSON, late of Kentucky, is the
latest opera dubutante in Paris
MEDEA will be the first play in which Ris-
tori Will appear in America during the com
ing tour.
SARDoU first wrote DORA p" then Fedora"
and now he has named his new drama,
"Theodora.n
AN American boy only eight years old has
been admitted to the Paris conservatoire to
learn piano playing.
PAULINE LUCIA, the prima donna, has
been public singer for twenty-f five years.
and is now forty-four years old
JOSEPH JEFFERSON says: zone of the great
est needs of the American stage at the pres
ent is young, talented and attractive women
VERDI, the composer, is seventy-three years
OF age lie has snow white hair and mus
tache. He has written and published l2s
operas.
KING OSCAR, of Sweden, has, in his Office
as president of the academy of music in Stock
holm, delivered musical lectures on different
occasions.
NINE. LUCIA, Mime Patti and Miss Clara
Louise Kellogg, it is said, are each to cele
brate their twenty-tifth anniversary on tho
stage this fall
WHEN Patti used TO sing at the Tuilleries
concerts she received 5000 each time, Nilsson
received $40, Mime. Carvalho and Mr. Faure
500 each, Capoul sl2O, and Marie Rose
800
MORE than $50 theatrical, musical, operatic
and minstrel companies are now on the road
OF the 25O troupes that have organized this
year, l65 are regular theatrical companies,
thlrty-hve are concert companies, twenty
hive variety, twenty operate and ten are de
voted to burnt cork.
THERE is much difference in the cost of
singers In Europe and America, as will be
noted in the fact that Nine. Materna, one of
the grandest prima donnas ON the lyric stage
is engaged 10 sing the coming season at the
Imperial opera, Vienna, at $500 "a night, while
Nilsson, with fading voice, demands 81, 500
night in Now York.
FRANK CHANFRAU, the actor who died of
apopleXy at Jersey City recently, was born
IN New York sixty years ago, early became a
member of the volunteer fire department, and
learned the trade OF ship carpenter. He had
taste for thaatricals, and Joined a C lmpany
of amatuer actors He was capital mimic,
and initiated Forest to perfection.
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LATER NEWS

Hoe cholera prevails in the western part of
New Jersey and parts of Pennsylvania.
AT an address delivered to large gather
ing of prohibtionists in Philadelphia, Cover
nor St John, the Prohibition candidate for
President, declared that he was in the field TO
stay.
SERIES of fires, supposed to be of ince n
diary origin, have destroyed great deal of
mining property in the now noted Hooking
valley, Ohio Nearly all the mines where
the recent labor troubles occurred were
fired, and an immense amount of damage
, was incurred.
A CROWD of colored men overpowered the
Jail guard at Rolling Fork, Miss, took out
Dock Martin, u colored murderer, and hanged
him from bridge.
The town of Liberty, county seat of Bed
ford county, Va, has lost almost its entire
business portion by fire. Twenty-one bust
ness houses were consumed and the aggre-
gate loss is put at $4,000.
A BOAT with forty Europeans and Eeyp-
tians accompanied by five negroes and three
Servants grounded at Salamat, Egypt. The
Arab sheilhs offered hospitality to the party
and enticed them to their houses, where they
massacred all but fourteen of them who were
taken prisoners. A messenger confirms the
report of Colonel Stewards murder
by Arabs, and says that the only survivors of
the party are four black slaves. All the Eu-
ropeans, including M. Nicola, the Greek con-
sui, were killed
ELEVEN pupils Of the school of agriculture
at Bordeaux, France, have died from the
effects of eating mushrooms gathered in a
wood near the school
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

Dom PEDRO, Emperor of Brazil will soon
go on two years trip to Japan and China,
LIEUTENANT GREELY's health is slowly
improving Early in November he goes to
Washington.
PRINCE EDWARD, son of the Prince Of
Wales, will travel i'll Canada and the United
States next year.
MISS MoLLE GARFIELD, aged seventeen,
daughter of President Garfield, is to become
a student at Vassar college.
Mr.. BERGH says he is in possession of wills
bequeathing 100000 to the society for the
prevention of cruelty to animals
SITTING BULL has an enormous head. He
wears No. "a hat, larger than Daniel
Webster. He receives a salary during his
present engagement-S20Oa month.
Miss MARY Z. GARRETT, of Baltimore,
age twenty eight, is said to be the wealthest
unmarried lady in this country. he in
herits one-third of her fathers enormous for
tune.
WILLIAM Ii. VANDERBILT and his sons,
says New York dispatch in the Cincinnati
Enquirer, have lost nearly ST. 900 900 the
past few years in ill-timed speculations of va
rious kinds.
JUSTICE MILLER is said to be distinguished
from his brethren of the Supreme Court of
the United States by being the only member
who habitually wears 'swalow-tailedn coat
and good-natured smile.
ONE of the originators of the electric tele-
graph in England was Edward Davy, who
now, at the age of eighty years, is practising
medicine and surgery in small town in the
colony Of Victoria, Australia
KAISER WILHELM. Of Germany, is having
constructed for his own use a coach the entire
upper portion of which will be of glass, so
that he will be able to see everything about
him without fatigue or exposure to the
weather.
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THE PUBLIC DOMAIN.
Annual Report from the General
Land Office-Sales and Receipts.

Commissioner Mcfarland of the general
land office, has submitted to the secretary OF
the interior his report of the operations OF
that office for the fiscal year ended June 80,
1884, of which the following is an abstract:
The sales entries and selections of public
lands embraced 70, S34, OH acres and of In.
dian lands sos, 129 acres, making total of
1881 10 acres-an increase over the year
1888 of S,10l,137 acres, and over the year
1892 of ID, 222 ,0O3 acres.
The receipts from disposals of public lands
were 81 $40 1913, from sales of Indian land,
$685., 1877 a total of sl2, no, 100, being an in
crease over the year 1888 Of 81 ora, 1854, and
an increase over the year 1889 of s., 1872, $50,
| to which is to be added sl0,275 received for
certified copies of records, making the tot al
receipts for the year Sl2, 7S9, 405.
The report says that pending congressional
action upon forfeiture of certain railroad
grants it has been deemed proper to suspend
the issue of patents in all cases where this
question was involved i'll pending legislation
In concluding his report the commissioner
says: ''The time is near at hand when there
will be no public lands to invite settlement or
afford citizens of the country an opportunity
to secure cheap homes. Meanwhile vast
stretches of uncultivated lands are every
where observable, title to which has been
acquired by evasions of law. The numerous
methods of disposal now existing and the lax
ity of precautionary provisions against mis-
appropriation are resulting in a waste OF
the public domain, without the compen-
sation attendant upon small ownerships
for actual settlement The time
has fully arrived when wastefulness should
cease, and that portion still remaining should
be economical for the use of actual settlers
only. An act reserving the public lands, ex-
cept mineral and timber reserves for entry
under the homestead law, with amendments
to prevent evasion of its wise restrictions,
would be a measure meeting this ends
The commissioner points out the necessity
for the immediate adoption of some meas
ure by which the natural forests may be
preserved at the head waters of important
rivers and their tributaries, and in such
other situations where their preserva-
ton is expedient for climatic effect and other
reasons Of utility. He says there is no good
reason why lands worth from $25 to 500 per
acre for timber should be sold for 81. % and
2.5O per acre, as at present, and he favors
the withdrawal from sale or entry under ex-
isting laws of all the distinctly timber lands
Of the United States until an examination
and appraisement of them can be made.
After examination permanent timber reserves
should be established where deemed desirable
and provision made for the sale at not less
than appraised value Of the remainder.
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THE NATIONAL GAME,

THE baseball catcher will shortly go into
retirement to grow new o.Dp of fingers.
THERE were eight 10 games in the League
and American association respectively this
season.
PROVIDENCE won the championship of the
League in 1879, and has been second three
times and third once.
The salary list of the three largest baseball
associations in the country aggregate between
$780, 900 and $G0J,000.
NEW YORK has the two men who are paid
more for playing ball than any others in the
world. They are Ward and Ewing, and each
receives little over 5000 for the present
season.
THE Providence directors have voted to
present every one of the players of the club
with an order for an elegant suit of winter
clothing and an overcoat upon their return
from the West.
THE following players, now in League
clubs, took part in the professional champion
ship campaign of 1874: Anson O'Rourke,
White, Eggler, Start, Sutton, Force, Hines,
Burdock and Manning. Those in American
clubs this season who were in the champion
ship campaign of 1874 are as follows: Mat
thews, York, Nelson, Gerhardt, Remsen, Bat
tin, Fulmer, Farrar, Barnie, Mack, Snyder
and Bond.
JOHN KELLY, the umpire, tells of one in
stance in which Goldsmith, while pitching
for the Chicagos, struck out four of the bat
tiers in the last inning, and yet his club lost
the game in that inning, ID to H. Flint
muffed three of the four strike-outs On a
par with this is an incident of late game
between the Baltimores and the Metropoh-
tans, when three of the latter's men made
base hits in one inning, and not one got to
second base, all three having been thrown out
trying to steal the base
al me end OF The twenty-fourth week the
record OF the League clubs in the champion
ship race was follows the season being
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piled up in heaps all over the
recesses of the roof. There are
myriads of May flies, beetles, crickets, ear
wigs, dragon flies, grasshoppers, caddis flies,
honey bees, wasps, ants hornets, butterflies,
moths, cicadas, froghoppers, plant lice, water
beetles, whirliggs, shippers, horned midgets,
gnats, mosquitoes, and every species of insec.
toria knowlrto the surrounding swamps and
woods of Washington.
OCTOBER returns to the department of ag-
riculture indicate a generally good condition
of the crops The general average for corn
Is ninety-three The wheat crop will exceed
that OF last year by about 100, 1905, 900
bushels
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The total volume of money in this
country may be set down at $500, O0O,-
600 in paper, $500, 600, 900 in gold and
$3.50, 900, 900 in silver.
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Pennsylvania avenue, from the treas
ury building to the capitol, Washington,
is 100 feet wide, and almost as smooth
as an ice pond.
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In the American Association race, the
championship has been won by the Metro
politans, of New York The record of the
twelve American Association clubs at the
End of the twenty-fourth week was as
follows:
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9poutlng. cutterng, Roofing and Job
Work promptly attended 20. Call ana
Examine stock and pviccs.
Oct 8. ~. mQS. ERNY-
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t~@r14 &1I-
ibid 700 ~ su0>r extreme hnnee,
~ thirstfv w>s asked o. : Kentuoky
(oI0nei who hai been relating some sol.
IL stories about himself.
WELL he replied. II never suffered
wh>t might BE- called extreme hunger
bus no man knows how a endure The
aToniee Of thirst better than I 10.
- remember the time WE'LL" h. con-
tinued retro<pectively. ~ w>e on . fish,
inr excursion and became lost In The
>v>H}s' fHr th~ea dsvs not = drop pass
- ny lips. ny heightened absence
fia@ii> caused alarm and . parfv was
cont out IN search Of me. They found
mo living In an unconscious condition on
The bank N . little trout stream. and Il
was hours before any hopes or saving
me we're entertained
~Wss he trout stream dryfS asked
. ~ The Interested listncv.
~Drvf certainly not. How could !
eafch ish n the stream was dry17
-Wei. | don't zee how you could suffer
iron, thirst with : stream Of water close
q hand.r
"Wsfer close a hand ~ repeated the
Kentucky Colonel And what has wa
Ter gos 20 do with : man being thirsty ~
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The rage for hot water drinking he
struck congress. and very hard. too.
yuef adjoining the members lobby or the
House d : toilet room. with ! marble
fountain IN me center. which runs both
hot and cold water. There D NAV zee
q almost any hour IN the day grave law
makers absorbing sfeamiug goblets Of
water hot . they can he swallowed. and
evidently enjoyed "What do they drink
4 for r was asked Of the sable attendant
q The fountain. who dances attendance
upon The absorbing statesmen.
Everything Was the reply. tfrom H.
digestion down 70 consumption. It's y
great cure. ! can tell you. or AZ least thev
think it i. and that's III the ssme.7
How many or them drink II r.
About dfty, 1 would think ; The num-
oer = getting larger every day
There are All sorts Of excuses given
5cr this startling use Of water a. 4 eon-
gres>ional beverage. The most treatment
however. u that or Indigestion. Manv|
members Who have tried II for I consid-
cradle length Of time. express Themselves
- satisfied OF the value OF the remedy.
and aid that they now prefer II q I bev-
sraxe % the iced water with which fbev
formerly courted indigestion and death,
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A. : microscopic exhibition ~ Boston
IaieIy the etirg OF : honey bee wac
thrown upon the screen. ne po;nt Of
which Vas 90 sharp ss 20 Be hardly d;s-
z'nKuiehshle. At the same time the fin-
est N me nne needles VS. shown under
tee same power Or the microscope. and
me = Of the needle measured Eve
Inches across Said the exhibitor. 4God
can make : fine point, hut man cannot
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Harrison township Trustee Notice

NOTICE = hereby given that the IN.
dsr.iened Trustee OF HARRISON town.
snip. will attend 70 the business ~ NV
township q bic home, east Of Harsviile,
81 Saturday Of each week. ana persons
= On thss day.
One-hsif cfthe Township Library II a
fexrison Norgsn's, q Ludlow. and one
nsIf a. John AuieHberxer's shop. fl
HsysviIle. Parties wanting books nav
Ct them q either place.
THOMAS r. HoPE. Trustee
10y ON. Is63--y- HARRISON II.
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Boone township Trusteas Nofjce

NOTICE q hereby given that The an
der.Igned. Trustee or Roone town.
snip. viii attend n his ofice Il 81 resi-.
ocnce o. every first and ND SATURDAYS
- every month % a.iend to the town
mp bussness, ann persons having busi-
49, wi,n the township are expected to
present 4 ~ those DAYS.
l6e Township Library Il kept Il the
more q Adam Rudolph, iii Portersville.
Were persons can obtain hooks any day.
CHkIsTlAS RuDoLPH,
10y ", i5s3. Trustees Boone n.