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that General Gordon was murdered Dy MS SOL
diers and Ell Mahdi has occupied Khartoum.
In January of the present year General Cor
don, at the request Of the English government
abandoned projected mission to the Congo, and
undertook the pacifcation of the Soudan, then
rapidly passing under the sway Of the False
Prophet He started from Cairo on his danger
GUS mission with one companion and a native
guide, and reached Khartoum in safety. His
arrival was hailed with wild delight by the peo-
pie, among whom he had formerly ruled, and the
homage paid him was of the most extravagant
nature Well supplied with money, his policy
seems to have been to substitute bribery for
force, and to compass by peaceful means an end
which could not be accomplished with arms. At
first there seemed some chance Of success, but
day by day the forces Of the victorious Mahdi
closed more relentlessly about the devoted city,
until communication with the outside world
was ended save when some fortunate messenger
CHANGED to escape the fury Of the Arabs and
make his way down the Nile or to the coast OF
the scores of couriers dispatched to Gordon none
have ever returned to give an account of his des-
perate Journey It would now seem that after five
months gallant fighting against the hordes of
the desert, the noted adyenturer has fallen into
the hands of a fanatical enemy whose caprice it
may be to treat him well today and tomorrow
send his head, a CHASTITY gage of hate and def
ance, to the penurious English and the pusillani-
NOUS Egyptians General Gordon was born in
$780, and received military education. He
served in the Crlmean war with courage and
credit, and then entered on the career as sol
der of fortune which has made him famous For
suppressing the Tai-Ping rebels (1860-63, the
highest military honors were bestowed upon
him by the Chinese Emperor, but the rather in
adequate reward of his own government was
only commission as colonel. After filing the
post of commanding royal engineer at
Gravesend 1861, and Of British vlce-consul at
the Danube delta, his presence in Egypt was
earnestly requested by the late Khediye, Is
mail Pasha The condition Of Egyptian affairs
was In some points even worse then than it is
to-day. The aim of the Khedive was, through
Gordon, to put down the infamous slave trade
and to re-establish his own waning power. For
five years, at Khartoum, on the White Nile,
around the lakes, and in Darfour and Kordofan,
he worked with the most indefatigable zeal dis
regarding personal exposure, fatigue and dam
ger. The slave trade was in part suppressed,
and the country became far more quiet and
orderly than it has been since or was for years
before. The reputation for justice and humanity
soon gained by Gordon among the natives was
the real source of his strength. and the belief of
the British government in his popularity with
the natives was the principal reason Of his pres
emit mission.
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Revenue Agents Discharged.

WASHINGTON, July Tn pursuance to the
provision Of the legislative judicial and execu-
tive appropriation bill reducing the number Of
internal revenue agents from thirty-ive to
twenty, the Commissioner of Internal Revenue
to-day ordered the discharge Of the following
named agents: a. J. McCusic, Of California;
Kentucky; j. B. Mccoy, Of Wisconsin; James A
Ray of Kentucky; G. B. Harrison, of Tennessee;
John NJ. Raum, Of Illinois, Jasper Packard of
Indiana; w. L. HOLSTER of Minnesota A. M
Crane, Of California, and J. L. Trumbull, Of In
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upon the subject A visit to their constituencies
viii be beneficial to these members, as well as to
the country generally.
Mr.. Collins, Of Massachusetts, feels confident
that the next session will not expire without ac-
ton on the bankruptcy bill, of which majority
of members, but not two-thirds, are in favor,
Mr.. Potter believes thathe can induce the
ways and means committee to act upon the
Potter billf early in the next session, and that
before March next refunding bill Of the char
acter proposed will have been enacted into law.
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OAfcial Confirmations.

WASHINGTON, July 7.--Confrmations Geo.
II Sharpe of New York, Thomas G. Reynolds,
of Missouri, and Scion 0. Thatcher, Of Kansas,
commissioners to ascertain the best modes of Sc
curing more intimate international and CONNER
cial relations between the United States and the
several countries of Central and South America;
H. L. Thomas of the District of Columbia, sec
rotary to the commissioners; Garland c. Broad
head, of Missouri VIM j. Broatch, of Nebraska
and Majors Chas. R Suter, Alexander McKen-
zie and Oswald H. Ernest Of the corps Of engin-
GERS, u S. A., members of the Missouri river
commission; Jarvis. Patton, of Maine commits
sioner of navigation; Major Vim H. Johnston,
paymaster, deputy paymaster- general of the
United States army. with the rank of lieutenant
colonel; VIM NJ Ridpath, Indian agent at the
Quapaw agency, Indian Territory.
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Choctav Troubles Increasine.

FT.SarITH, Ark, July THE Choctaw troubles
are reported to be increasing. Two brothers of
Gov. McCurtain and company of Choctaws from
McAllster have joined the militia. Gov.
McCurtain is determined to suppress outlawry
at whatever cost Milo Hoyt. the head of the
outlaws. VOWS that he will kill Gov. McCurtain
and both his brothers, and he is endeayoring to
get the Cherokees to join his standard He has
raised flag and is organizing forces ready for
action. 20.
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n1ariue Intelllgence.

LONDON, July 7.--Arrived: Pennsylvania,
from Philadelphia.
NEW York, July 4 Arrived: Clement, from
Liverpool; Gellert Hamburg.
LONDON, July THE steamer Sarnia, Capt.
Gibson, which left Quebec June %, for Liver
pool, is ashore on Rathline island
HALIFAX, July THE steamship Lincoln
City of the Furness line, from Stockholm for
New York, with large number Of passengers,
is ashore near Isaac Harbor. Captain Harrison
telegraphs that the vessel is tight, but is work
ing badly. Assistance was sent from here This
is the first passage of the Lincoln City.
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Sc Persons Drowned.

LITTLE Rock, July The Gazette's Fay
etteyile, Ark, special SAYS Yesterday morn
ing heavy water-spout fell near the head wa
tiers of brakes creek, in Madison county, cover
ing radius Of fifteen or twenty miles Brush
creek, Richland. brakes creek and White river
soon overfowed their banks The current swept
everything before it, dealing destruction every
where and leaving ruin behind. Three women
and three children were drowned on Richland
creek. several honses were swept away near
Huntsville. and crops in many places ruined
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Labouchere's Resolution.

LONDON, July Tin the Commons, Labou-
declaring necessity for reform in the House of
Lords to prevent the rejection Of measures
passed by the Commons Mr.. Gladstone said
nothing had occurred to justify the government
in answering Labouchere's question whether
Gladstone intended to create a number of Radi-
cal and Liberal peers to overcome the adverse
majority in the Lords to the franchise bill
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FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

Heavy Indemnity Demanded from China
An Arsenal To Be Seized.
PARIS, July - Ferry instructed the French
minister ct Pekin to demand from China war
indemnity Of $50 100000 francs. He also tele-
graphed to Admiral Courbet to seize the Foo
Chow arsenal, as a guarantee Of payment Of the
indemnity
Captain Fourier who negotiated the Ten
Tsin treaty, blames General Milot for not send
ing enough troops to expel the Chinese from
Lang Son
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The Waeon was saved.

FARGO D. r.. July I. --Sheriff Moore received
word from Lisbon this morning that a horse
sent an officer and small boy to bring the pris,
oner here in wagon During the return the
hcrse-thief snatched the officers pistol and com
PEELED him to take the key and unlock his hand
cuffs. He then stole the horse attached to the
wagon and escaped The officer saved the
wagon.
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New York TrIbune-
We notice faintness, as the Democratic con-
vention draws near, in those cries for revenue
only which used to fill the air. A whole week
has passed and Mr.. Morrison has not denounced
Mr. Randall as "a traitor, nor has Mr.. Waiter
son announced that s'the devil is loose When
Mr. Carlisle was elected. it was announced that
the Southern Confederacy was in the saddle
again. as it was But it has been thought best,
apparently, to dismount, and crawl in the grass
a while
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Improving Commercial Relations.

WAsHINGToN, July 7.-Among the nomina-
tions today were four commissioners to ascer-
tain the best modes Of securing more intimate
international and commercial relations between
the United States and the several countries of
Central and South America: George H. Sharpe,
of New FORK; Thomas G. Reynolds, of Missouri;
Scion O. Thatcher, Of Kansas; secretary, Henry
L. Thomas, of the district of Columbia.
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cable Notes.

Crop prospects in the Bombay presidency are
bad A drought prevails
The appointment of Mr. Kasson as minister to
Germany has created an excellent impression at
Berlin.
Archbishop Croze, in dedicating a church at
Ballyneely near Limerick, on Sunday exhorted
the Fenians to pray that Ireland be a nation
again, and insisted upon energetic action for the
attainment of civil and religious rights.
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Attachment Against ! CIotI,ine rlrm.

RocHEsTER, July Attachments were is
sued tonight against the Arm of Hays & Thai
heimer. wholesale clothiers, 10 suit by Ignatz
Thalheimer Yette Thalheimer and Sale
Frankel The claims are for borrowed money,
and aggregate upwards Of $4,000.
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MINOR MENTION.
A Nomination Made BY Mistake Causes NIuci

Nomination Made by Mistake Causes Much
Amusement.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
+ WASHINGTON, July 7.-On Friday great deal
Of amusement was created in Washington, and
wherever Mr.. Frank Sperry was known, by the
announcement that he had been appointed AS
sociate Justice of the Supreme Court of Dakota
Tverv one who knows SperrT likas HIM He has
that pan+lar,o,, a..,..,.., 4 =, folio.
Frank has ALWAYS been an attentive, courteous
little gentleman, but in spite of his association
with the able jurist, Judge Folger, he never
gave evidence of having absorbed any of the
judicial abilities for which his chief is famoas.
Frank has always been regarded as a boy He
has the first growth of hair on the side of his
face, and is extremely diminutive in stature In
fact he is the very opposite of the ideal Judge
and is not more than twenty five years of age.
On Saturday night while the President
was at the Capitol, Frank Sperry's
nomination as associate justice was withdrawn,
and he was at once nominated for receiver of
public moneys at Bismarck, D. 7. Within an
hour he had been confirmed by the Senate, in
executive session. Frank Sperry can fill the
latter office with credit to himself and justice to
tne government He is ''as honest as the day is
long, and as faithful as Damon to Pythias. 1t
Is said that the first nomination was a mistake,
made by the President in the hurry of business.
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Reported Defeat Of FL Mahdi,s Forces.

LONDON, July IA dispatch to the Times
from Dongola, Saturday, says: The Mudlr of
Dongola has achieved brilliant victory over
the rebels at Debbeh. The enemy was routed
with a loss of q 900 killed We now consider
(,llrSa1v4s saved - ar
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IT will well repay you to call and see the Bust
ness Exchange room that runs in connection
with III. B. Bryants Chicago Business College.
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No mirror ever yet threw back
A more repulsiye sight.
Than teeth that are decayed and black;
Or one more pure and bright
Than rows of pearls that all may vaunt
Who put their faith in Sozodont
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s.RouGH on PAIN Quick cure for collie,
cramps, diarrhea, aches, pains, sprains, head
ache
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why He Was Selected for So Hopeless a Mis-
sion as the Pacifcation Of the Desert
Tribes Of the SOudan.
The Cholera Epidemic at the French
Mediterranean Ports Increasing.
Fears that 1t Will Spread Throughout Eu-
rope Mr.. Labouchere Wants Reform
in the British House Of Lords.
GoRDoN REPORTED DEAD.

Murdered by HIS Own SOIdierB-His MISSION
and Its Ending.
PARIS July 7.-Advices from Suakim report
that General Gordon was murdered by his sol
diers and Ell Mahdi has occupied Khartoum.
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NJ ADCAP;
OR
THE STORY OF A SIN.
OR


quite an idyl SAID the Duchess,
entering just as Frank. fed by Madcap,
swallowed liberal mouthful, but could
not even be made to look ridiculous by
the absurdity of the situation.
quite" said Madcap indifferently;
would you like some morepn she add
ed, looking at the young man with
smile. d.
$40 be sure,' said Frank, who hated
eurds and whey, but would have eaten
any denomination she might please to
offer him.
"Madcap," said Mr.. Eyre's stern
voice at distance, ''you will fall off
your pattens-what madness"
frank is looking after me-" said
Madcap, waving her empty spoon airily;
''go and look after the Duchess. Don't
let her wear pattens; she's too tall and
too-plump," she added, looking at her
hostess gravely from head to foot; but
[ think you may take off mine now,
Frank" and Mr.. Eyre's last gliinps of
his wife as he turned away, was with
Frank kneeling before her, carefully
christening their straps.
you are jealous" said the Duchess
to Mr. Eyre. as he walked beside her
over the velvet turf to the house.
mot I;but / was thinking'-he paus-
ed and looked at her with a glance be-
meath which she trembled-"what a
pity you and did not marry after all,
and leave that young pair yonder to be
as happy as two children together; and
perhaps now you understand better
why she is called Madcap."
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leap, CULVER that well may startle the
bee-moth that has fallen asleep in her
breast.
"Hushl" said Madcap, feeling, rather
than knowing, that Frank stood beside
her; "if YOU speak loud they will not
unfold. have been watching them,
and thinking of Keats's lines"
They stood fer while without speak
ing by the opening flowers that seemed
TO bring with them their own light,
while the night wind blew TO them, now
and again, little intense Whit from the
distant stocks; then she said
do they miss mey Were they in the
nursery, or picking nosegay, thinking
1 should come back tomorrow"
III found them in the copse, he said,
with little pause before he spoke;
''they were quite happy. But when
they saw me they ran up, clamoring to
know il you had come back"
''And what did you say" said Mad
cap, STOPPING overa cluster OF stars fast
fading in their masses OF heavy foliage.
''That you would not be long now;
but that did not satisfy Dody-he chung
round her neck and asked il soon meant
to-day?"
Round whose neckg" said Madcap,
jealousy; she never cared for Joseph
Inc"
1T was not Josephine said Frank,
his voice sounding as though he were
moving away and had left her all alone.
For the garden was almost in dark
ness now-the night had taken its re-
venge and eXtinguished those colors
that famed most wildly by day-scar-
let's, blues, and pinks were now but
black shadows, and only the ghosts of
the evening primr0Ses gave Il vague
suspicion of their presence.
''Was twas it Hester?" said Madcap
in a whisper, that barely expected re-
spouse.
YES" replied voice but little
way off; ''her heart is bound up in him
she lives but in his life, and she
watches over him in your absence rs
only you could debut she does not
usurp your place"
For awhile there was silence, and his
whole soul yearned to her, knowing
that she was weeping; then she said
There are things that even God does
not NEEDLE with: like the growing seed,
or hindering human soul to become
good in its own way; and she is good"
ness, and so i'm mute accord they moved
toward the light. consecrased TO each
other, he by his sacrifice for her, she by
her old love for him, and nav passion
ate desire for his repentance.
'They have the faces Of angels" said
Mrs. Transome in low voice to the
Duke, as the two entered; but even
angels may trip and fall sometimes, and
nobody ought to know that better than
Satan.
She nodded toward Mr.. Eyre as she
spoke, who looked singularly old and
haggard i'll contrast with the two beau
had reached him, Mr.. Eyre suddenly
looked at himself in mirror opposite,
then at the two-and a curious idea
took possession Of his mind.
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rightful heir had come.

rightful heir had come.
For one yearning moment Hester
looked at Madcap, then slowly, without
a glance at Dody or at Frank. turned
away; and so the opportunity that both
had so long desired, passed, and the
moment that might have made faithful
to each other these two gradually
estranged, noble hearts, went by for
ever.
why did you not speak to her." said
Frank, reproachfully. as the door closed
on Hester.
But Madcap, overworn, untrue To her
own self, as much, perhaps, through
weakness as from ignoble jealousy. had
fallen forward in dead faint, with her
arms round Dody's neck.
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Detroit, Grand Haven
g. milwaukee, ny.
GOING EAST.

GOING EAST
Trains leave Owosso as follows: Detroit
Express. $50 a. M; Through Mail, LAO pm.
Steamboat Express, 6:55 p. M; Atlantic Ex-
press. 1850 am.
GOING WEST.
Morning Express, 1909 am; Through Mail
las D. M; Grand Rapids Express, .:3O pm. ;
Night Express, 1850 a. M; Mixed, COCA. IN.
Mixed from the West 7:10 p. m.
Refreshments at Detroit Owosso and Grand
Haven. Mail east and west has parlor day car
attached The Telegraph Line FOR the Public.
fY- Through Sleeping Cars on all night trains
between Grand Haven and Detroit
Nigrt Express east and west daily aud oil other
trains daily Sunday excepted.
CONNECTIONS.
ATDETROIT-Gr Western Railwayto points
east. Michigan Central Michigan Southernand
Grand Trunk Railroads.
AT MILwAUKEE-witht the Milwaukee and ST,
Paul, Western Union, Milwaukee and Northern,
and Chicago and Northwestern Railways to oil
points north and west.
sis-The Railway Company's Ferry Steamer
leaves d. G. II. & N. Dock, Detroit, on arrival OF
trains. Tickets are sold at the Detroit. Grand
Haven and Milwaukee Railway Ticket ONCE, to
all principal places in the United States.
T. TANDY, Gen'l Freight q Passenger Agt.
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Fruit Exaporators.

We manufacture the Williams Fruit and vege.
tabla Evaporators for factory use. We also make
the Bidwel Patent Fruit Fyaporators for mediu,,
size; We make two sizes of the latter. Thcss
Eyaporators have ne equal; they sell on tho,
merits. We are not obliged to cut on prices q
compete with worthless machines, parties are glas
TO get them st reasonable prices. Send for HIS
trated circular. Jons WILLIAMS A SoN,
nam . Pateniees and Manufscturers
Kalamazoo, Mica
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yHTANTED-Ladies or Young men TO take nice,
Wv pleasant work at their own home; 81 to
S5 a day easily made; work sent by mail; no
canvassing Address F. Ridd & Co., box 15i,
Dubuque, Iowa. March 81 3m
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All Trains Daily except Sunday.
w. A. VAUGHN. Il. @. BROWN,
Div Supt.. Bay City. Genl Supt., Detrois
o. w. RueoLEs, @. T. & T. A., Chicago.
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shores. and had to he abandoned. One
hundred and twenty were taken to CleVe-
land, Ohio, and put to work. They re-
manned a year, and then returned home,
saying they could do better there than
with US.
You see. therefore, when protective
tariff advocate says that it is necessary to
pay our manufacturers bounty to pro-
tcct them against the paupcr labor OF Eu-
rope. he is either very ignorant man or
re who counts on our ignorance.
The trouble about all this lies in the
fact that the labor in this country is. as
have said, agricultural, and, although it
comes directly in competition with the
worse form of paupcr labor in Europe, it
is not protected.
This labor makes, at a rough calcusa>
ton. eight-tenths of the labor of this
country. As against the protective class,
il is nine>tenths.
Now what happens to us9 Let us take
our great staplc-wheat. 1t costs to-day
dollar here on our farms to raise busb~
el The surplus that we have to sell we
are forced to cart, across halt continent,
sail it over wide seas and sell it in Europe.
This is the surplus that with the surplus
Of other farm products, such ss corn, pork,
tobacco, cotton, makes the underlying
prosperity 80 much talked aheut.
AT Liverpool our " heat comes in com =
petition with the wheat OF the Baltic,
where the lalorer works for eighteen dol
lars a year anil goat skin coat; with tue
whc OF of Egypt. that is to day the house
of bondage. having alavey in it's worst
form; with thcwheat of India, where la
bor is in as bad condition; and worse
yet, of Australia, where the shipper takes
manufactured articles back home in pay
ment an exchange denied us.
Thus we sell under free trade, and are
left to the mercy of the worst felm OF
pauper labor.
| What is our condition when we come
to purchases Why, we are met with pro-
lection. All that we buy, from horse
shoe to mower, all that we wear, all
that we build for shelter, all tn at we use
over and above cur products, from the
cradle We are rocked in to the coffin we
rot in-the clothes we wear, the shingles
that shuts off the storm the glass we look
through. the blanket we sleep under, to
the tombstone that records our supposed
virtues--arc augmented in price to. double
their value, So that We sell unbcr tree
trade aud buy ander protection. Now
do you wonder that We work at djsad-
vantage? 1t is the most barefaced, inn
padcnt swindle ever psrpetrated on an
Intelligent people. Wcare considered so
ignorant and stupid that we may be plum
drred with impunlty. y.-San franciscan.