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THE NATIONAL GAME.

PROTESTED games are becoming very hu-
merous in the Southern league.
The Buffalo league team now is but MEL
ancholy reminder Of its former greatness
TIE Southern league has established Its
claim to bo considered one OF the great base
ball bodies
JONES, of Cincinnati, and Gore OF Chicago,
ara the boss run -getters the one IN the amer
ican and the other III the league.
GOVERNOR HILL. of New York, witnessed
a recent Chicago New York game in the
metropolis from the directors box.
BASEBALL. is now played in Siberia, the
game having been introduced by the military
outhorities as recreative reward for merit
orious convlcts off duty.
The Providence League team have been
fortunate in winning fifteen games by only
ore run majority, while seven have been lost
by the same narrow margin.
LOUISVILLE claims to have the largest
average attendance of ladies at the games III
that CITY, and that they are better posted in
the intricacies of the game than all the other
ladies in the country put together
THIRTY thousand people saw the last four
games played in New York between that
eitys league nine and the Chicagoes, the two
leading uspirants for tho championship. In
the last of the four games the Western nine
sustained the worst defeat they have received
this season, the scoro being II to in favor OF
Now York.
JUNE was the unlucky month for New
York. In that month they won but Il games
and lost ), while Chicago Won q and lost :
Prior to that-in May-Ncw York won Il
and lost 4; Chicago won IA and lost 9. Since
that bad June, however, Ne" YORK mas
nicked up again, as i'll July IS games were
won ard 4 lost against Chicago's Is won and
Z lost.
THE official fielding averages Of the South
ern League show the following players to DO
leading in tue respective positions: Tray, Bir-
minsham club, catcher: Clark; Columbus
pitcher; O'Brcn. Memphis, first base: Heard,
Augusta, second. base: McSorlcy, Memphis.
third. base: Hager, Columbus, left.flcld; Dies
tel, Nashville, centre-tield, and Hillery, Nash
Vile. right.tield.
The championship records up to recent date
ES1I1
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ever becoming cxhausted.-Neo York
A Summer Resort on the Roof.

Many a child in New York who never
eniovs the luxury Of 4 "buckct and pail'
on the sand of the beach. and never goes
into the country, yet has summer re-
sort. 1t is Oh the roof of tenement
hovsc. So soon rs the sun has fairly
gone down, the children run in from the
street and climb up six, seven, or eight
flights of stairs for merry hour or two
where they feel the breezes that cannot
enter the rooms and are never felt in the
streets. 1t is an interesting sight to see
a roof which co:crs whole block, and
is two acres in extent. turned into the
play ground or the rcsting-place of the
hundreds of men, women and children
who live under it. The men leave their
coats and hats, and many OF them their
shoes, ut home, and the women take
their sewing or their knitting-nccdlcs
and 90 abroad on the roof for it is Ger
many, or Italy, or England, for each one
according as the fresh air recalls his or
her native land. It. is not Newport nor
Long Branch, for they know nothing of
these. But it gives the essential bless
ings of the seaside resort GOODNESS,
chance for gossip, and magnificent views.
The men discuss "businrss" with even
more spirit than at the fashionable
resort, smoke their pipes with greater
freedom, and take even as great liberties
with propricty to get into comfortable at
ttudes. The women use what time the
care of their little charges allows them
to discuss with one ncighbor the iollIcs
of another in the presence of the whole
ncighborhood, and the children make
playground of what space is left them by
the groups of men and women. After
the lamps arc lighted, it is a fine view
that is commanded from the roof Of q
high tenement house long rows of street
lamps, the electric lights at Hell Gate,
on the bridge, and in the squares, and
the moving lights down the bay. When
q solid block of tenement houses affords
such q relief on the roof from the nee
essary disadvantages Of summer resi-.
dcncc in them, even their larScness and
height, which are the causes of dark
rooms and dangerous construction,
become their chief advantages as sum.
mcr resorts. The fashion of spending
the evening on the roof becomes more
general every year in New York, and
houses are now constructed with special
reference to such use. Good stairways
are built to the doors, which open on the
housetop, ratings arc put around to
make it safer playground, and seats
are put up which remain there all sum-
mcr. -lMrper's Weekly.
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LATER NEWS

AT meeting of the Grant National Monu.
ment committee in New York, it was resolved
TO raise s1,0J0,0J0 for a monument over
General Grants remains. It was stated that
the committee had taken steps to obtain sub.
scriptions in every city, town and village in
the United States. Thus far about $4,000
have been subscribed.
COURTNEY and Conley defeated Hosmer
and Gaudaur in tllres.mile, double-sculi
boat race at Albany, N. Y.
JOHN OSBORN and jerome Auck, two ven
cradle farmers, were driving in separate We
hicles near Westfeld, Penn. when their
horses took fright and ran away. Both men
were thrown from their wagons and killed.
THE Ohio Democrats, at their State con-
vention in Columbus, renominated Governor
Hoadly and Lieutenant-Governor Warwick
by acclanation and put the entire old ticket
again in the field. The platform indorses
tho Cleveland administration, demands
license of the liquor traffic. and affirms the
tariff plank of the last National Democratic
convention. After his denomination Cover
nor Hoadly appeared DeIore tne conVentlon
and made speech strongly opposing prohi-
bit;on.
THE British bark Haddingtonshire has been
lost on the Oregon coast. Eighteen out of
her crew Of twenty persisted.
CASES OF Asiatic chole a are increasing
daily at Marseilles and Toulon, France.
NEWS comes from Calcutta, India, that
the ship British Statesman has foundered.
The captain and twenty-five Of the crew were
lost.
QUEEN VICTORIA and the Prince of Wales
have gone to Norway on one Of the royal
yachts.
KAssALA. the town in the Soudan so long
besieged by the rebel Arabs, has at last fallen
into their hands by an amicable arrangement
made with its defenders
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"The Stirrup Cup"

A "stirrup.cup was that offered to
give impetus to the mornings ride in
the oldcn days. TO the brave knight al
ready mounted, and about pranclng
away on his chivalrous travels, was sent
a bowl, full and strong, from the gcner-
Gus host, whcrewith to speed the part
ing guest.
\ cup in the morning.
just brewed in the dawning,
All mortal touch s"orninS,
bring with a Will.
'Tis favored with flcetncSs,
\ ct rich with sweetness
OF Heavens completeness,
Oh, drink. drink thy fill,
Taste with thine eyes of its beauty and light,
Sip with thine ears all its sounds OF delight,
Qmaff with thy heart every fine sense that
thrills
Feast with thy soul on the strength of tho
hills.
Let all powers of thy being close bend to tho
cup.
oh, drink. drink it up.
--I'or'iind transcript.
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STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
Thirteen Persons Killed and Many
Hurt In an Italian Farm HOusc.

Thirteen Persons Killed and Many
Hurt In an Italian Farm Housc.
Ter Ca;etani is little commune OF the
Frosinone Jurisdiction, near Rome, Italy.
One day recently party Of farmers, men
and women, were threshing corn on the
threshing floor in front Of the farm of Mr..
Ascani at that place. This spot was on the
top of high hill, surrounded by rocks and
precipiccs. There is no house on the premises,
only /, little hut, looking like sentry box at
a distance ABOUT sunset furious storm
burst upon the company Of threshers. Inc
small building could hardly hold five persons
comfortably in the upper room, and nve OF
six more in the lower one. which Is sort OF
rrotto. The laborers, both men and women,
hurried 10 obtain what shelter there was, and
those who got in the building were packed
like sardines in q box. A board was neio
over the door to keep out the wind ana ram
by the shoulders Of the men. Many VINO
could not find room inside stood with tneir
backs against the walls outside, under tne
cutters of the little roof.
Suddenly a bolt of lightning struck the
little house, tearing the roof and smashing
the door. The thrty-eight persons who had
squeezed inside were all prostrated. Thirteen
were killed and twenty-five badly wounded.
People who had witnessed the disaster from
n distance ran to the spot They found the
bodies Of the. dead scattered around. while
the wounded were moaning and crying for
help The sight was so terrifying that many
ran back again, and the mayor OF tne com,
mune could not find any one VINO would
watch the corpses. So he had to do it him
self. The neighpors were wild with terror.
Doctors had to be summoned from distant
places to take care of the injured. Many OF
the survivors became crazy, laughing and
crying alternately. .
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ASIATIC CHOLERA,
Its Terrible Ravages Abroad-Whole
Families Die in Spain.

An idea of the advance of cholera abroad
will be obtained in the following record OF
one days ravages, as given by cable dis.
patches:
Returns for the past twenty-four hours
make the number Of new cases in Spain $500
and the number of deaths $50.
In Madrid thcro were nineteen new cases
and eleven deaths, and in the province
soventy-two new cases and twenty.elght
deaths IN Saragossa the epidemic is de-
is terrible. Many doctors are dying. Whole
streets are infected with tho scourge, by
which entire families have been carried away.
The total number of deaths in the infected
Spanish provinces since the outbreak of the
epidemic is $1,000, and it is estimated that
60, 900 persons have fed from the kingdom.
The epidemic has appeared in the founding
hospital and other public institutions, and i'll
the best quarters of Madrid.
The Marseiles (France) municipal authori-
ties have decided to establish cholera am
bulance at every fire station. The epidemic
IS spreading to the environs OF Marsellles.
The English government has prohibited the
importation OF rags from France.
At the Pharo hospital, Marseilles, there are
sixty cases under treatment and there were
eight deaths to-day. Among the victims of
last night was young lady twenty-six years
old Her husband, who is a public official,
in a sudden fit of desperation, and while
embracing the dead body of his wife,
killed himself by two shots from a
revolver.
United States Consul Mason, at Marssilles,
in cablegram to the secretary of state at
Washington, says that the cholera in that
place is Asiatic, and very fatal. The deaths
humber forty daily. The disease is spreading
TO the interior.
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A TRIPLE TRAGEDY.
Two Men and n Girl Hun Over WHO
Returning from q Picnic.

Two Men and n Girl Hun over WHO
Returning from q Picnic.
The details Of all accident on the Housa'
tonic river railroad bridge, below flttsl'ela'
Mass, are peculiarly distressing. james
Carney, Mary and Bridget Granger, and
John Norton were returning home
from a freman's picnic, end had just
passed on to the bridge as the engineer OF the
last up traiu had started 10 run his engine
across to the engine house beyond. The engi,,
neer felt tho jar as he struck the quarte1 an anu
returned to the spot as soon as possible. Inc
two men wero dead, bnt Mary Granger, WIN
both legs cut off above the knees and her letS
arm severed at the elbow, was alive and
conscious. She was taken to the Burbank
house She was even then perfectly clear III
her mind, and told the story of the accident
She said:
ia until it had struck the end OF
tho bridge. Carney was about
in the centre, and Mr.. Norton and
Just ahead of him, while Bridget was
a few feet ahead Of us. When we heard tne
engine we ran as fast as we could. heard
Carney scream, and knew he had gone under
the wheels. Ben had in the meantime got
behind me, and was pushing me along on the
narrow plank walk as fast as he could;
Another moment and his hand fell
away from me, and I knew that nc,
too, had been crushed. by tnls
time was within foot of the END OF tile
bridge. but Just as I went to jump from TO-
tween the rails the engine wheels caught my
,lress and felt q numbness IN my iess ana
arm. l did not know that 1 had been so
The young woman fingered in agony
for ten minutes and then expired
No attempt at surgery was made;
ns it was known that it wou!d
only hasten her death. Norton and
Mary Granger were engaged to be married
Bridget Granger barely escaped by jumping
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4 Gond0la Race in Venice.

There was such complete block that
YOU could easily have walked across the
Grand canal over the bridge Of boats
thus formed, while the noise was so great
YOU could not hear yourself speak. For
the people in sandolas and canoes, so
light that they were in momcntary dan
ger of being overturned, screamed and
shouted to the gondoliers to make room
for them. while the latter in return babe
them get out of the way. And all the
time those behind cried, "Forward!' " and
those before cried, "Backm for they had
now reached the rope stretched from one
side of the canal to the other to keep the
course clear, and beyond which the fore
most gondolas, though their godoliers
put down their oars, were soon carried by
the crowd behind, pushing and struggling
for better places. Policemen, stationed
every here and there. did their best to
force back the boats. "Avanti a die
tro, Giovani! Va presto" they
cried. "a dietro" cried the gondolicrs
in chorus, but not one would move.
Then the chief of policc stood up in his
gondola and spoke to the people, none
of whom, however, listened to what he
said. All were too busy pushing and
screaming. 1t was almost time for the
racers to rcappcar, and every minute
more boats were being pressed beyond
the bridge. "a dietro! A dictro!"
cried the policeman, with renewed vigor.
ga dictro! A dietro." repeated the gon-
dolicrs. But still no one moved. Then
the chief Of police stood up again and
called out an order to fireman in rear
gcndola. The latter at once turned o
great hose on the crowd and began
pumping away at his small engine. a
stream Of water fell upon the boats.
There were loud screams of indignation
and then rush. Men, women and chill.
dren scrambled over the gondolas and
escaped through the narrow streets.
Gondolicrs rowcd again in good earnest,
and went swiftly down the canal, di-
rcctly in front OF the returning boats.
Through this confusion the racers made
their way as best they could. The bridge
was reached, though when, and who
came first, none could see but the
Judges, and, perhaps, the royal party
from the Palazzo Toscani. Outing.
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Wheat In the Northwest.

A St Paul (Minn.) dispatch says:
The harvest is completed in the southern
part of this State and Dakota, and is in full
swing in the north The weather has been
cool and pleasant, for tho most part, but
heavy rain was reported in the Red River
valley yesterday. On low ground in that
section water is standing in the fields, and
in some places machines cannot be taken into
them. The wheat crop Of this State Is now
conceded to be light and of very poor quality.
The latest estimates place the total yield at
81. 00O, 900 bushels and many believe 1t will
fall below that figure. Dakota wiilnot have
over &c, 900, QUO bushels, and it is doubtful II
she has that much. The crop so far harvested
does not turn out any better than expected, and
in many places in Southern Minnesota the
yield will be astonishingly light. The best
wheat will come from the Northern Pacific
roads and its branches and from the DEVILS
Lake region in Northwestern Dakota South
ern milers and others who have been ex-
pecting to get their supplies from Southern
Minnesota will find it difficult to get as good
wheat as tney want
The movement of spring wheat has not
fairly begun here yet, although few car
loads have been. received. It Is not ex-
pected that the movement OF the new crop
will be very heavy at the start un-
less prices improve very much, as
the farmers Of the Northwest are get
ting in better condition to hold their
wheat every year, and experience last
year taught them that they made the carry
ing charges and a little more by holding on
Large wheat handlers are credited with the
intention OF letting the bulk Of early receipts
90 by here to Chicago, in order to keep that
market glutted and help bears to keep the
prices down until they are we'll into the
crop.
Stocks in store at Minneapolis and st. Paul
have shown little change during the week,
having decreased only $1,000 bushels at both
points Receipts for the week were only
$4,000 bushels, against, 3452l0 bushels the
week before Country elevators are pretty
we'll cleaned out to receive the new crop. and
all the old wheat yet back is in farmers
hands. The elevator men and the great
crowd of grain buyers throughout the North
west are doing all ,h'y can to help the down
ward movement, as they want to start In on
the new crop at the bottom.
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

MRS LANGTRY is going to Australia this
fall.
HENRY IRVING is preparing to visit Ger
many.
NINE. NILSSON is soon to make q tour
through Sweden and Norway.
SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN, of musical Gel.
ebrity, fingers at Los Angeles, Cal.
No less than eighty-nine so.callcd farcical
comedians are to 30 on the road this season.
S1GNoR SGAMBATI, the Italian composer,
is said to be composing al opera for produc'
tion in Rome.
SIGNon PERUGINI, the well-known tenor,
has been engaged by Mr.. Rudolph Aronson,
OF the New York Casino.
THE foreign newspapers announce the
death Of Merly, once celebrated baritone
bass, gifted with q voice of extraordinary
range and beauty.
THE kiralfy Brothers are to produce at
Niblo's New York, next season genuine
English pantomlme. harequinale, transfor-
nation scene and all.
Miss AGNES HUNTINGTON, the contralto of
the Boston Ideal opera company, is pursuing
her operatic studies under her former macs
tro, &. B. Lamperti, in Dresden.
Mr.. w. ". COLE has purchased from Mr..
~ i'ahSJ hA' AI'NSi ~ : 80
Gus. The price paid is said to bc S5OO, ,WJ.
Mr.. Bailey is to retire from the business.
THE London critics conclude that Minnie
Iiauk makes the part of Carmen too COM
mon; Trcbeli too high toned and Marie Roze
too frivolous, and that Patti is the only ideal
OF Bizet's flirting cigar girl
ONE of the principal features of the ap.
preaching birmingham lEngland festival
will be Antonio Dvoraks cantanta called
The Spoctcr's Bride which has been COM
posed expressly for that soleninty.
Miss EMMA ABBoT1'S operatic season be-
glns in New York in September. Miss Alb
bo,t includes in her present repertoire "The
Star of the NORTH "Lakme," and the grand
romantic opera, LA ConteSse TAmalf."
ON Miss Mary AnderSon's return to Eng
land from hcr coming American tour she
will produce tho new play being written for
her hy Mr. W. &. Wills. 1t will he called
''Irenia, and its scenes will be laid in tho
first century.
THE organ in the Salt Lake City temple
has ,iO4 pipes and fty-seven stops Some
of the pipes are thirty feet long and large
enough to admit tho bodies of three men.
The towers thai rise OH either side are forty
eight feet high: with a richc left between
them fer tthhe cdtless of Music. This immense
instrument of music, Hhich is nearly as large
as cottage, Is elaborateiy carved by hand.
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A NOTED STAGE-ROBBER.
How He Captured Thirtocn Mcn
Single Handed.

One of the most notorious stage robbers ON
the Pacific slope is again on trial at San
Francisco for one of his characteristic ot'
fences, after having been less than week out
side of the penitcntiary. His nalneis William
Smith alias e. P. Weibussh. Smith was con-
victed of riling Wells, Fargo & Co.'S treasure
box on a stage from Milton to Sonora, Cal,
Dec. ~, 1851, and sentenced to San Quenune,
but was released the other day, having COM
pIeted his sentence, less the allowance for
GOOD behavior He was quickly rearrested
by tn, United States marshal on warrant
charging him with having robbed the malis
on the same stag. On being arraigned IN
tho United States District court he pleaded
not guilty. :,
Snith's greatest exploit was the single
hautl,,l ..obhery of Wells, Fargo O. Co.'S ex-
PISS on til. stage from Sierra valley 70
jrucleo on June %, ISL. While he was
waiting III ambush for the stage, light
wagon containing seven men appeared. Inc
ro5ber captured the conveyance and $1,000
the occupants up for an hour and hall
until III, Sierra Valley sage arrived lhis
contained four pas as'cngors, al! OF whom were
compeled to get down, except the driver,
who was Obliged to Lreak open Wells, Fargo
x Co.'S lox and hand out the contents.
While this was going on two other vehicles
aporua he'd and the driver III each was COM
pri!cl to 20. down and m:ngle with the other
pri ,oucY.. At the clo'o OF the afternoon :
performance Smith hal thirteen men, sixteen
hors IS. and four vehicles under control or ms
,lolI,,e blrreed shotgun.
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Ramoyinr SDOtS on PaOcr.

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carbonate of rotassa lone part to thirty
parts of watcr), ohloroform, ether or ben
zine renders good service. Wss disap.
pears if. after satu:atiug with bcnzine or
turpen:lnc, it is covered with folded
blotting paper and Il hot tatiron put
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ing yields to weak ccid Fresh spots
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thrashed after q five hours battle by force
of l,SOO rebels under Caceres, the leader OF
the rebellion. Both sides lost heavily.
SIR FRANCIS HYNcKs, one Of Canada's
leading statesmen, is dead.
YELLOW fever prevails in many districts
in Mexico, especially in Vera Cruz, where it
has become epidemic.
SPAIN is much incensed at Germany be-
cause the latter country has claimed posses
sion of the Caroline islands. The Spanish
government had been making arrangements
to gobble up these islands, when Germany
stepped in and took possession.