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vivas and rockets announce to the
passers that some street or square has cleared
itself of slavery. The excitement among the
slaves is great; nothing is heard among them
but the talk of the freedom they expect to re-
ceive at once, and on the plantations, although
the excitement is less openly displayed, it is
intense.
A RELIGIOUS festival in celebration of the
five hundredth anniversary of the death of
John Wyclilie was inaugurated yesterday in
England.
NAVAL and military expeditions are being
prepared i'll England for the relief of Khar-
toum.
HANLAN, the champion American oarsman.
defeated Laycock, the Australian champion,
by half boat length, i'll match at Sidney,
New South Wales.
THE British ship Syria has been wrecked at
the FIJI Islands Seventy of her passengers,
all coolies, were drowned.
Ten men caught trying to wreck trains in
Mexico were summarily shot by the authori-
ties.
NEWS comes from ST. Johns, N. F., that q
French brig with sixty-two souls on board
has been lost at sea.
FLOODS have greatly damaged property in
Spain and drowned about twenty persons
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LATER NEWS

UNABLE to stand the run upon it resulting
from its paying teller's defalcation of $S5, 900,
the West Side bank, of New York, closed its
doors. This made the third bank that had
failed in New York within fortnight
THOMAS p. GR1NNELL, a New York million
aire, shot himself to death at his residence at
midnight after returning home from his
club
Two express trains collided at Savannah, n
V, with a terrific crash. -Four men were
killed and six others injured, one or two with
probably fatal result
A WARRANT was issued by the United
States commissioner in New York for the ar
rest of John c. Emo the former president of
the Second National bank on the charge of
misapplying to his own use s., 120 coo of the
institutions money. James d. Fish, late
president of the suspended Marine National
bank. and special partner of Grant g. Ward.
was also arrested charged with misappropri-
ating Sli00, 00) of the institutions funds
IGNITION of the oil stored in one of the
largest tanks belonging to the Atlantic Oil
Reanlng company at Philadelphia resulted
in disastrous conflagration Thirty large
tanks filled with oil caught fire, and an esti-
mated damage of 300 001 was inflicted
ADAM Bartender, the defaulting president
OF the Erie PENN Erie County Savings bank,
was removed from his residence to the county
Jail for the purpose of protecting him from
violence at the hands of an indignant crowd
FIVE persons-three men and two children
were killed, and seven othcIs-four women
and three children--were badly injured bv a
boiler explosion in sash and door factory {
Dubuque, Iowa.
MRS. AUGUSTA EDMUNDs, living with her
husband and three little girls in st. Louis. rot
poss, sSion of her husbands razor and cut hcr
own throat and the threats of her three rills
Two of them died almost instantly. One Of
them and the mother were in a critical con.
dition.
The new city of La Plata, the new captal
OF the Argentine province of Buenos Avres.
South America, has been partly inundated bv
the Aver flowing through it. Forty houses
wereSarried away, and the loss of life was
calculated at 100 At the Boca del Riachuelo.
the new port of Buenos Ayres, fourteen craft
of various sizes were wrecked. In the interior
OF the province train for Bahia Blanca was
derailed, causing the death of 500 passengers
and the wounding of ECO more
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A Modest Man.

Chinese Gordon, one of the bravest of
modern soldiers has an honorable
hatred publicity, and sensitive shrink
ing from laurels and laudations. An in
cident recorded in the story of his life il
Illustrates these characteristics. He had
sent his journal of the TAPPING war
home from China, mot wishing it to be
seen outside his family A minister in
terested in the rebellion heard of the
manuscript, and was so struck by its con-
tents that he sent it to the press in order
that his colleague might have the benefit
of reading it. Late one evening it so
happened that Gordon inquired about his
journal. lie was told what had occur
red. He arose from the table, left the
house, and posted off to the minister's
residence. Not finding him at home, he
went to the printers, demanded his man
uscript, and gave orders that what copies
had been printed should be destroyed
and the type broken up. What even
tually befell the manuscript is unknown,
but it is certain that no one has seen it !;
in fact, there is every probability of its
having been destroyed. p Cincinnati Sat
urddy Night.
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Previous to the introduction of vac
cinnation 210, 900 people died of small
pox annually in Europe 45, 900 in Great
Britain and Ireland alone. Catin asserts
that of 1000, 900 Indians one-half were
destroyed by smallpox From August,
1871, to August, 1872, 4, 410 deaths &C.
CURED in Philadelphia, the mortality be-
ing one in every five cases. incubation
was introduced into England from the
East by Lady Mary Wortley Montague,
in IVA, and into America by DR.. Boyls
ton, of Boston, in 1921. This process,
which, by the mildness of the attack, was
nearly always protective of the individ-
ual, at the same time propagated the
disease by multiplying the amount OF
virus. Jenner's introduction into Eng
fish practice of vaccination proper-that
is by the incubation with the virus OF
cow-pox, known before his time
among dairymen-has, however, greatly
abridged, not only the destructiveness,
but the prevalence of smallpox. The
theory of vaccination is, in brief, that
the vaccine virus is merely the diluted
virus of common smallpox or varioa. A
vaccinated person in whom the virus
takes" has had a modified smallpox,
and ordinarily is not susceptible to the
malignant, or indeed, any form of the
disease. With most of the zymotic
smallpox, scarlatina, measles,
whooping cough diphtheria, etc.-one
attack, even though not severe, usually
secures immunity for life. No fact is
better established in medicine than that
most persons are, by one good vaccina-
ton, protected for life; also, that vario-
loid-modlfed smallpox occurring in
the vaccinated is seldom fatal, and rarely
produces pits. Nevertheless an unjusti-
fed distrust of vaccination has, within a
few years, done harm in many Localities.
Experience shows that number of
persons. after several years, reacquire
the susceptibility to smallpox. The high
est authorities place the proportion liable
to variolous infection after having been
vaccinated at two and one-third per cent.
Of 10, 600 cases of smallpox in the Lon
don hospitals, in the epidemic of 1870
70, only four presented proof of having
been revaccinatcd. In 1880, in the same
city, the deathrate per million in Lon
don from smallpox was ninety among
the vaccinated against 3. $50 among the
unvaccinated.
In the light of all the facts of medical
experience and practice it is safe and
advisable on the occasion of epidemic
smallpox to repeat the vaccination The
operation is insignificant, without danger
of any moment, and if followed by a
genuine vesice and sore arm, the brief
discomfort may insure permanent immu-
nifty from the dreaded disease. Indian
dp1lS Journal.
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THE NATIONAL GAME,

ROBERT FERGUSON has been engaged as
manager and second basemm of the Allegheny
club
ARTHUR Cummings. the first man to pitc
a curved ball. is pitching for the Waiham
tMass.) club this season
ONE of the ways of advertising the St
Louis games is IA boy attired in Il PLAYERS suit
ON horseback carrying banner through the
streets of the city.
The boys of Brown University had bon
lire on the campus after Il recent victory. and
President Robinson and the professors con
graduated them.
JACK HUMPHREYS, catcher for the Wash
mgtonS, graduated last year from Cornell
nlvclsity, and was one OF Phi Betas kappas
chosen from the class of 1>S3
NEARLY 5000 persons witnessed the first
season championship game between the New
Works and the champion BostonS. in New
ork. The former club Won by score of :
to |.
THE first thirteen-inning game Of the season
was between the Fort Wayne and Bay City
teams at Fort Wayne. The first eleycn-innng
game between League mines was PLAYED 10y the
Cmragos and Bostons, resulting in victory
for the latter.
The Chairman Of the Republican State
committee of Pennsylvania, whose name is
Cooper, caught for the printers nine recently
IN game against nine tobaccunistS. \ foul
TIP ON the nose made him unprcsentahlc 10
political caucuses for some time
At the close of the fourth week of the league
championship campaign the record of the
eight contending clubs was as follows:
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NEWSY GLEANINGS.

THE Russian army costs Slj0,0O0,0 900 year
to maintain.
IL Mexico, wreckers of railway trains are
shot as soon as captured.
IL Louisiana bog $50, or sugar cane refuse.
being converted into a valuable article of
paper.
a PEACH grower in Michigan lost 1890
peach trees by placing too much salt about
the roots
More than 3js, OO) skunk skins were used in
his country last season. each valued at fifty
cents to &l.2).
IT is estimGted that the expectation of wheat
from South Australia in 1854, will amount to
100000 bushels.
A MAN living near Wynne station Phillips
county Texas, was recently stung to death
by buifalo-Gnats,
No rain has fallen on the line of the Texas
Pacific railroad, west of the Colorado river,
since last August.
MORE than 100000 has been invested in
'HIthern manufacturing enterprises during
go last four months.
,vERAL new counties have been formed in
kentucky ON the Dakota plan, to boom towI-
sites and create offices.
THE total number of separate farms in the
United States is 4.UlO U0O.and their aggregate
value is SO, 600, oOo,t0J.
TwENrY-oNE years ago there were twelve
women doctors i'll the United States. Now
there are So and more coming
MASON COUNTY, w. Va, has found the
richest tin mine in the world, and thou
sands are tlocllins to the place,
DARMsTADT is declared to be the dullest
capital in the world 1t has immensely wide
streets, in which Il human being is rarely to
be seen.
THE total cut of logs in the headwaters of
the Mississippi tins season is estimated at 81
OO,0VO feet, making stock in hand Of 5cS,
100000 feet
TENNESSEE has 800, O0l dogs. At one dollar
month for food alone is S3,00l,0lO year,
not to speak of the damage they nhict upor
the sheep industry.
CATTLE-BBEEDERs' associations in the vari.
Gus States and Territories are in favor of
national cattle convention to be held at st.
Louis during November next
president JUSTUs THORNER. of the Cincin.
natl Union club, is not only Il cultivated singer,
having good tenor veice, but has tried his
hand successfully at composition. One of his
earliest songs Is sleep Wei, Sweet Angel
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A SUBCOMMITTEE of the House committee
on naval affairs has reported bill providing
for the Appropriation of 100000 for the re-
lief of the officers and crews of the United
States sloop-of-war Cumberland and the
United States steamer Monitor, engaged in
action with the Confederate steamer Merl'imac
in Hampton Roads on March and 8, 1862.
THE state department has received word
from our minister in Mexico that the Mexican
government appropriated 100000 for the
purpose of taking part in the Worlds Indus
trial and Cotton Exposition at New Orleans
next December.
AT meeting of the House committee on
military affairs, Representative Slocum was
instructed to report favorably his bill Drovid-
ing that honorably discharged soldiers or
sailors shall be preferred for appointment to
civil offices when they are found to possess
the necessary business capacity.
A STATUE of Martin Luther was unveiled
in Washington, few days since, before a
great throng. Supreme Court Justice Miller
presided and the opening Grafton was de-
hvered by Senator Conger, of Michigan.
THE House committee ON agriculture de
cidcd to report adversely a resolution appro-
pl1atlng S!5,OO) for the purchase of seeds for
distribution among the sufferers by the over
flow of the Mississippi river and its tribu-
taries.
A MORTGAGE by General Grant to William
II. Vanderbilt, on the generals two houses in
Washington, has been filed. The mortgage
is to secure the sum of $4,000, loaned to
Grant by Vanderbilt
THE House committee on pensions agreed
to report favorably a bill providing for the
payment of a pension of $40 per month to the
widow of Captain De Long.
THE secretary of the treasury has issued
the 1.Sth call for the REDEMPTION of bonds,
The call IS for 500 0,000 three per cent bonds
issued under the act of Congress approved
July II, 1882. Notice was given that the
principal and accrued interest would be paid
at the treasury of the United States ON June
80 1881, and that the interest ON the bonds
would cease ON that day.
GEORGE II. LEWIS opened n banking and
brokers Office in Washington year ago and
was remarkably successful, many government
officials putting their surplus cash with him
Tor investment. a few days ago Lewis disap-
peared, and his customers are cut about $780,
600.
THE report of the Senate committee on
postoilices and pos roads, prepared by Sena-
tor liill, on the subject OF the postal telegraph
has been finally adopted TIE committee is APP
parently in favor of building n government
me, and sets forth the advantages of such a
project.
Mr.. CoRCORAN. the Washington philan-
throplst, has asked Congress to erect a monu-
ment to Pierre LEnfant. the French engineer
who lad out the city of Washington.
GENERAL SHERIDAN advocates the concen-
tratlon ul The greater part of the army 10 GER
tam central posts, from which troops can
easily be sent wherever they are needed.
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FIVE EXECUTIONS.
Five Men Hanged on the Same Day
in Various Parts of the Country.

Five men were hanged the other day in
various parts of the country as follows:
John NJ. Keithen (coloredl, at Way Gross,
Ga, for the murder of his cousin in the heat
of passion
Lloyd l.. Majors at Oakland, Cal. for partici-
patton in a double murder perpetrated in
Santa Clara county. The victims We're VIII
liam +. Renowden a rancher, living in a lone
" spot, and reported to have some $1,000
hidden about his cabin, and his friend Archi-
bald Mcintyre, both aged men. ajors kept
drinking saloon few miles from Renodcn's
His associates in the crime were Joseph
Jewell and John Showers. The former was
hanged last September, and the latter was
condemned to life imprisonment.
Laban Stevens one of the three murderers
Of Anderson Lackey, at Waverly, Ohio. The
other two murderers were hung last Feb
ruary. The object of the crime was robbery.
Leonidas johnson, (colored) at McDonough,
Ga, for assaulting white wopan.
Charles Clarke, at Little Valley, n. Y,
for the murder of his wife
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC,

MRS. LANGTRY is playing in San Francisco.
GEORGE SWEET, the popular baritone died
lately in Chicago.
MISS TERRY will not support Irving in his
tall engagement in this country.
BARLEY CAMPBELLs successful play, "Mv
Partner, proved failure in London
j. II. PALsER is asking managers eighty-five
per cent for the Irving combination for next
season.
Miss LILLIAN OLCoTT a Brooklyn aspirant
Tor Jullets balcony, will tempt fate as a star
next season.
DION BoUcIcAULT calculates that there are
in the United States 25j2 theatres, worth
Sl15,0 0,000.
HOWARD P TAYLOR rises to remark that he,
and not David Belasco wrote ''Mav Bios
son." the latest Madison square success.
Next.
SIG. ITALo CAMPANNI has engaged the New
York academy of music for IL, It September
and October to give ballets in the Italian
fashion.
THERE are eighty people on the stage in
The Pulse of New York Madison Square
theatre. 1t requires twenty special stage
hands to work the scenery
MASTER AUGUSTUS VICTOR BENHAM known
so taVOrably few years ago as the marvel
Gus boy pianist. Will return from Europe next
TALL and give some concerts. 1t is said that lie
has improved wonderfully.
An empty theatre is to most people one of
the dismalest Of spectacleS. The king of Bavaria
differs from the rest of the world in this re
spect. AT the state performances in the ROYAL
theatre no one-not even the intendant of
these houses-is permitted to he present: his
majesty has the house to himself
A GERMAN journal relates that a celebrated
musical director conducted the Funeral
March from the "Eroicon in black kids
and ba a -. ,,,J
gray gloves during the remainder of the pro.
gramme. This gave rise to n suggestion that
III future he conduct the Pastoral SYM
phony in knee breeches, round straw hat
with colored ribbons, shepherds crook in
stead of baton; Memberships Scotch SWIM
phony in a checked plaid and bare knees.
Raits symphony, In the summer in
light linen jacket, etc
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South and West.

SENATORS PENDLEToN, Hampton Butler
Vance and Ransom, and Representatives
Dowd, Evans and Bennett were present at
Charlotte, n. c., where Senator Pendleton
delivered an Grafton on the one hundred and
ninth anniversary of the Declaration of indie
pendence, signed by residents of that neigh
borhood May 20, 1775.
THE late Cyrus II. Mccormick, of Chicago,
left an estate valued at Sl0,000,0O0.
EIGHTEEN boys after playing ball near Har-
rodsburg, KY, started in search of wild
parsnips, but got hold of the deadly hemock
instead. The boys were taken violently ill.
Two of them died almost Immediately, five
were not expected to live, and the others suf-
fered severely.
A WOMAN and her three children were
drowned, and two young men We're injured by
the fall of a bridge across the Scioto river at
Portsmouth, Ohio.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

PORE LEO Kill is in his seventy-fifth year.
DR.. TANNER has not had IA sick day since
his fast in 1870
ex-senator MCDONALD, of Indiana, has
been married three times.
THE Prince of Wales, while in Paris, is
guarded by two special detectives.
EX-MAYOR HENRY l.. PIERCE, of Boston,
is said to he the largest buyer of fancy cattle
in New England.
w H. H. MURRAY c'Adirondackn Muir
ray, the once popular divine, is now keeping
a restaurant in Montreal.
CHEF JUSTICE WAITE, nominally from
Ohio, still owns and occupies in the summer
the homestead that has been in his family for
generations at Lyme, Conn.
JUDGE Holt who tried Fitz-John Porter.
Mrs Surratt and Writ, is a rich and child
less widower, living in handsome retirement
in Washington, and spending his days in his
library.
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FALL OF A BRIDGE.
a Woman and EHcr Three Children
Drowned.

Shortly after II O'Clock A. NJ. a fearful crash
was heard in the direction Of the Scioto river
ut Portsmouth, Ohio, and an immense crowd
Don gathered along the banks of the stream
The large suspension bridge, which was
built about twenty years ago, gave
way, carrying with it into the river
many people who were crossing it. Mrs
Jane Fullwier, with her three children. the
Youngest Il babe of four months, were half
way across the bridge at the time of the az
cdent and all were drowned. Two young men
were slightly injured and three men saved
themselves by swimming to the shore The
bridge, which was built at a cost of SAC, 0Co in
1865. is q total wreck.
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If theatres are educational establish,
ments, Londoners stand a chance of being
over educated, for, in addition to the
lengthy list of metropolitan theatres,
four new ones are in the embryo stage of
architectural plans, and, it is said, three
of them will soon become actual facts in
bricks and mortar.
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THE wife of the Arctic explorer, Mrs Adolf
plus w. Greedy, will leave her home in San
Diego, California, and await news of the re-
lief expedition in Washington She is
woman of remarkable beauty and grace and
strength of character, and has borne her long
and cruel suspense wonderfully.
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There are in the United States thirty
six varieties of oak, thirty-nine of pine
nine of fir, four of hemlock, two of per
simmon, twelve of ash, eighteen of will
low and nine Of poplar.
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The Eastern League record had been
changed materially 10y the disbandment of the
Monumental nine of Baltimore, as will be seen
by the appended record:
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The twelve clubs of the American aSSocia
ton stood as follows at the end of the fourth
weeks play:
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In the college arena the record was as f,
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THE NEWS. .s.,,. I, :.
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NI~e4g5H9fA
THE Senate on the 25th spent the day on the
Legislative App riatton biil and struck out
sheacianbel e6tlng the consolidation Of Gus:
toms distriotsH HE. In the 6Hotseo James, ~R.
Chslmerswas given el seat from thesseaDnd,
District Of Mississippi, resolution to declare
the election void Being voted down by So TO
lBt. "A bill was 'pasSedbt0 aaithoFi2a tiieD es.
t@SblishmeRt t. of s'btansh soldierss home in the,
II the Senate IN the Sstth the glalatiiIy,eg,
Appropriation bill was passed, with an amend.
ment that all REPORTS III the Record Shall be Sn
accurate Transcript of the 'proceedfngs and
debates; The Riyer ahd Earbor A Apptopfia'
ton bill lS1a, 1882 0OO was reported. lid the
House bills were reported to pension the spri
viving officers and men Of The Tippecafioe
campaign, and for dispoSiug Of the Cherokee
reservation in Kansas, rar,f, 3'8ua5 bio 81
A BILL was passed In the Senate on the 27th
granting right of way though the Indian Tery
ritory to the Southern Kansas Road, Mr..
Mitchell introduced bill to incorporate the
National Encampmept of the Grand Army Of
the Republic. Mr.. Hawley called attention to
feds false statement tss in speech printed In Et re
thousand acres of land +: In the House, by o
vote of l24 to 1l4 the bill to forfeit the "back-
bone" railroad land grant was tabled. The
subject OF printing, undeliyered speeches in
the official report of proceedings led to d long
debate. At the evening session the Pension
bill was discussed, -.,.
In the Senate on the 2Sth ult. a favorable re-
port was made on the bill to pension the
widow of General J. D, Steedman. The Cen
eral Deficiency bill was passed, with an item
authorizing the payment of $1,000 to Charles
H. Reed for defending Charles J. Guiteau.
The River and Harbor bill was further con-
sidered.. In the House the day was spent in
considering the bill to adjust the wages of
workingmen, laborers and mechanics urder
| the Elghthour law, ... sir XII &