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South and wost

MAXWELL, the companion of Preller. the
wealthy young Engllshman who was found
foully murdered in a prominent st. Louis
hotel some months ago, arrived in San Fran
cisco n few days since, from New Zealand,
in charge of officers. lie was taken to st.
Louis. He denies all knowledge of the crime.
Two brothers named Pond were leading a
Holstein bull to their farm, near st. Paul,
Mimi, when the animal became unmanagea-
bic and attacked the men, killing both.
AN association to raise funds to erect a
monument TO General Grant in st. Louis has
been formed in that city.
A COLLISION letween striker and sherif's
officers at Bay City, Mich, resulted in blood
shed. TIL sheriff was wounded with a pistol
bullet and nine of the strikers were arrested
after several had been wounded.
WIDESPREAD damage has been done to
crops in the Northwest by recent heavy
storms. The entire spring wheat yield has
been reduced one-third.
Mrs. HELEN HUNT JACKSON, the we'll
known American authoress, died a few lays
ago in San Francisco.
A MAN entered a savings bank at San Jose,
Cal. obtained a bill of exchange for a small
sum, and while the cashiers back was turned
walked off with a tray containing $4,000 in
gold $50 pieces.
HENRY FREEZE was hanged at Catletsburg,
KY, for the murder of Chester HOnaker.
THE farmers of Georgia have asked the
governor of that Stale to appoint a day of
thanksgiving for ''thc good crops and the
prospect of a bountiful harvest"
A BAND of twenty marauding Piegan In
dians have had "A fight with cattle men i'm
Montana, which resulted in the killing of the
entire party of Indians.
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"Have you noticed the growing use Of
quinine!" a druggist in the vicinity of
the Fifth Avenue hotel asked. At the
same moment he bowed and smiled to a
tall, red WHISPERED man who strolled in.
Just watch this customer" he said.
The man was very thin and cadaver-
Gus looking. Without saying a word he
walked up to the soda fountain, and the
boy drew out a pill box, poured three
pills into the palm of the customers
hand, set a glass of mineral water in
front of him, and turned to the next
pills, drank the water, turned OF his
heel, and stalked away with another
pleasant nod to the proprietor.
THAT costs him a dollar and forty
cents a week" said the proprietor, "and
before long it will Kill him. He started
to take one tive-grain pill every night
about six months ago; he 10Y takes tif-
teen grains a night before he goes home,
SO that it will brace him up for his din
ner. Within a month he will be taking
twenty grainsa night. OF course he
takes it at home beside what he gets
here. I've gone out o fmy way three or
-four times to warn him but his answers
a simple one; he says q%uinine makes him
feel cheerful and strong, and it has no
ill effects. He tried stopping it once,
and caved in; hence he wants to know
why he should stop. You can't combat
such reasoning as that"
Have you many such regular Gus
tomers?"
"Well, to be accurate, we have only
three men who come in every day and
pay at the end OF the week, but there
are many Others who take their q~uinine
as regularly as most drinking folks take
whisky. 1t is certainly a great tempta-
ton to weakly organized and frail people.
All they have to do is to swallow a pill
or two, and they feel robust. wide
awake and cheerful. The practice grows
on them continually, and it seems to be
spreading, for our sales of q~uinine are
constantly growing. A good proportion
of the custom comes from women who
grow fatigued or weary while shopping,
and who, instead of buying nutritious
luncheon resort to the insidious q~uinine
Dill,n-NeD Y0yk Sun.
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before they are gathered up at night for a
hurried and unceremonius burial in n com
mon trench. The people attribute the vista
ton TO Divine wrath, and wear amulets to
preserve them from the disease.
A FIRE at Philippopolis, Turkey, destroyed
forty-iive houses. Two persons were killed
and immense damage was done.
CoToPAXI, the celebrated volcano in Ecua-
dor, has been in n state of eruption. About
100 houses in the city of Chimboto, Guaya-
quill, situated near the foot of the gigantic
volcano, were destroyed.
BRIGANDs are ravaging Epirus, Greece.
They nave carried or several ladies and de-
mand heavy ransoms for their release.
SMALLPOX is epidemic at Montreal, Can
ada, and the City hospital is crowded with
p a tients.
ADvICES from st. Paul de Loanda, West
Africa, report that n petty king, Coanhama
HULA, died recently, and the natives, attrib-
uting his death to the witchcraft of the
whites, massacred twenty Europeans, includ-
ing three French missionaries.
THE sessions of the British parliament have
closed.
SHOCKS of earthquake have again been
felt in the Vale of cashmere.
AN excursion boat was upset at the town
of Royan, France, and eight of the passen
gers were drowned.
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NEWS SUMMARY
En.tern md Middle stnt...

THE $4,000 required to finish the pedestal
for Bartholdi's statue of Liberty at New
York have been subscribed.
MANY persons who lost relatives during the
recent typhoid fever epidemic at Plymouth,
Penn, announce their intention to sue the
water company of that place for damages in
each case of death.
REV. w. r.. COVERT, pastor OF a Pitts
burg penn church, has CONF to New York
to establish a claim to Harlem a
tract of about 10000 acres, including the
site Of General Grants tomb. OF the Covert
family there are about a hundred, and if the
claim is proved $500, 900, 900 will he divided
among them.
A ECENT law prohibiting the employ
ment of boys under the age of fourteen years
inside the coal mines in Pennsylvania has
turned 10000 lads out of employment.
THE State convention of the PENNSYLVANIA
Greenbackers and National Labor party was
held a few days since at Erie. DR.. y. c..
Whitney was nominated for State treasurer
and a platform in accordance with the princi-
pies of the party was adopted.
THE Baptists, Congregationalists, Disci-
pies, Methodist Episcopalians, Protestant
Episcopalians, the Reformed E~piscopaliaus,
Presbyterians, the United Brethren, the Cum
berland Presbyterians and English Luther
ans each held a Sunday school congress the
other day at Chatauqua, n. Y.
LEADERS of the New York PEOPLES party
met at Saratoga in conference, adopted a
declaration Of principles and called a con-
vcntion for the nomination of governor and
other State officers, to be held in New York
city September 9.
A FIRE which broke out in Jersey City, N.
j., a few days since, spread quickly and soon
covered two acres of houses. Numerous
small tenements and busines buildings were
destroyed or badly injured, and the total
loss is about 100000.
JAMES HORACE JONES was hanged at the
Jail in Troy, n. y, for wife murder.
GREAT damage has been done in New
Hampshire towns along the femigewasset
valley by heavy storms.
THE Massachusetts, Prohibitionists will hold
their State convention at Worcester Septem-
Der 10, and will place a complete ticket in the
field.
FARMERS in the fertile Mohawk Valley, n.
Y, have lost $2O0,O0 by damage to land and
crops during the recent heavy storm. The
storm belt was five miles long and three
miles wide. Acres upon acres of the most
fertile fiat lands of the Mohawk Valley are
ruined. These bottom lands are valued at
$500 an acre. They are buried in many
places under three and four feet of gravel,
sand and rocks. The New York Central and
Hudson River railroad loses more than $780,.
900 i'll damage by washouts.
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Washington,

The White House is now closed to visitor
and will not he reopened until the Presidents
return in September. In the meantime the
building will be overhauled and made as
clean and comfortable as possible.
CROP returns to the department of acricu
ture show an Improvement in the conditio 4
of cotton and corn; sorne damage to sprinL
wheat in the Northwest and an increase in
New England; a decline in the average for
oats; continued improvement in rye; an
average barley crop; an increase in the buck
wheat area; a medium hay crop; a decrease
over last month in potatoes, and a general
average of nlnety-one in tobacco.
IT is estimated that more than 10, 900. 900
acres of the public domain have been il
legally fenced in by cattle owners and 9TH
ers. Hence the Presidents proclamation
ordering the removal of these fences.
ACCORDING to the report of General New
ton, chief OF engineers, there will be an eX-
plosion of extraordinary magnitude in the
East river at He'll Gate, New York, about
October |, when Flood rock, a large reel
which has been drilled for months past, will
be blown up with 10000 pounds of dynamite.
TRADES organizations throughout the
United States have issued a petition request
ing President Cleveland to call an extra ses.
sion of Congress to he devoted exclusively to
the consideration of measures for the relief Of
the industrial classes of the country and the
revival of business.
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TRAIN, in full speed, plunged through a
partially opened swing bridge into the Wei
land canal at Merrittun. Ontario. Engineer
Cox was instantly killed, and William Jen-
nings probably fatally injured.
STRENUOUS efforts are being made by the
French Canadians to save Riel, the rebel
leader, from the gallows.
WARM weather has greatly increased the
number OF deaths from cholera in France and
Spain.
FIVE missionaries and many Christians
have been massacred by the Black Flags in
Tonquin.
KINAcHINA, a town near Warsaw, in
Poland, has been destroyed by fire.
LORD HOUGHToN, a noted English author,
is dead in his s~eventy-sixth year.
.ADvIcEs from Tonquin say that the bishop
OF 'Qulnhon reports that over ten thousand
Christians have been massacred by Black
tlags. Murders and incendiary fires are of
daily occurrence.
THE London Society for the Suppression of
Vice has employed detectives to shadow every
member OF the British house of commons and
report the houses visited by them. The mem
bers are furious, but are afraid to complain
for fear of making it appear that they have
something to b. ashamed of.
A FEARFUL state of anarchy prevails in
kordofan. There is a famine also existing.
SEVERAL cases of Asiatic cholera are re-
ported to have occurred in English towns.
THE Afghans have destroyed all the gar
dens and villages round about Herat, likely
to afford food or shelter to a Russian attack
ing force. The owners of the destroyed prop
erty have been assured that England will
compensate them for their losses.
THE ravages Of the cholera in Granada,
Spain, are horrible. Scores of the victims of
the disease drop and die in the streets,
where in many cases they remain for hours
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LATER NEWS

THE schedules in the assignment of john
Roach, the ship builder, have been filed.
They state his liabilities to be 81. 095, 222. 0G
and his actual assets $4.631 ,47s.25.
FoUE out of six small boys in a skiif on the
Monongahela river near Tittsburg. Penn.
were drowned by the upsetting Of their frail
craft.
IL a sham battle at the Veterans reunion
in Troy, Ala, w. j. Blan, publisher of the
Troy Messenger, had both hands blown Off
and one arm broken above the elbow while
loading a cannon.
Two men jointly owning a large water
melon patch in Columbia county, Ga, have
been robbed heavily by nocturnal thieves
during the summer, and TO punish the ma
raulers one of them the other night poisoned
several melons in the field, but failed to in
form his partner. The next morning the
wife, two children and sister-in-law of the
latter partook of one of the poisoned melons.
and all died.
THE Irish National League of America has
had a convention in Chicago, nearly every
State in the Union being represented. An
address to Irish citizens of America, in which
Parnell was congratulated and an appeal
made for new member and subscriptions,
was promulgated. In the evening Senator
Riddleberger, of Virginia, made an address.
Mr.. HEAP, the United States consul, has
sent to Turkey strong protests against the
expulsion of Americans from Jerusalem on
the ground of their being Jews.
THE continued drought in England is caus-
ing serious damage to crops, and the average
yield of wheat, corn, oats, and other crops
vii lfall much below the estimated average.
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Middlebury Register
FRIDAY, AUGUST 81, 1885
SELECT SIFTINGS.

Thirty six persons died in London last
year from starvation.
The Emperor Domitian occupied his
leisure in catching flies.
The temples in Dahomey are almost
entirely built of human skulls.
The principle of the stereoscope was
known to Euclid, described by Galen
1900 years ago., and more fully in 1899
A. d., in the works of Baptist Porta.
Columbus found the cotton plant wild
in Hispaniola, in other West India islands
and on the continent of South America,
where natives used it for dressing and
fishing nets.
In days gone by neither sowing, plant
ing nor grating was ever undertaken
without q %scrupulous attention to the in
crease or waning OF the moor 1t was
thought that the increase of the moon
made plants fruitful, and that under the
full moon they were In their best
strength.
General Washington was very proud
of his coach horses, and had them care
fully groomed. Before using them on
special occasions he had their teeth
picked and washed and their hoofs
polished and vanished. The shoes were
solid silver.
Before the reign of King Alfred,
slaves could own nothing in England
under his legislation they were permitted
to dispose by will Of what what was
given them, or what they could earn in
their free hours. lie forbade, also, any
masters who had incurred a fine or
amend from buying off by the sale of
man as we'll as beast.
Much mystery was in bygone days
thought to hang over the origin of
pearls, and, according to the poetic
orientals, every year on the sixteenth
day of the month of Nissan, the pearl
oysters rise to the surface of the sea and
open their shells, in order to receive the
rain which fall at that time, and the
drops thus become pearls"
During the reign of Catherine II. of
Russia, Palatin, II peasant, made q musi-
cal repeating watch, about the size Of
an egg, which had within it a representa-
ton of Christ's tomb, with sentinels IN
guard, On pressing a spring the stone
would be rolled from the tomb, the
angel appear, the holy women enter the
sepulchre and the same chant which is
sung in the Greek church at Easter eve
accurately performed.
a queer way of employing ants is re-
ported by an English gentleman who
has been travelling through one of the
provinces of China. 1t appears that, in
many parts OF the province Of Canton,
the orange trees are infested by worms;
and to rid themselves Of these pests the
natives bring ants into the orangeries
from neiGhboring hills. The ants are
trapped by holding the mouth of a lard
bladder to their nests. They are then
placed among the branches of the orange
trees, where they form colonies, and
bamboo rods are laid from tree to tree to
enable the ants to move throughout the
Oranpery.
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THE NATIONAL Gal


PROTESTED games are becoming vel
merous III the Southern league.
The Buffalo league team now is but
ancholy reminder of its former greatne
The Southern league has establish
claim TO be- considered ono of tbo grea
bali bodies.
JONES. Of Cincinnati, and Gore. of CT
are the boss ru~n-retters. the one in the
lean and the other in the LEAGUE.
covrnxop u,r of NJ vi. 49,,
rooont Chiddmn I or Ne" torh, WI
a,a,rohni;s - ~ Siroo.oUi ih 5anle
'N0 i9OUOi oo
BASEBALL Is now played IN Slbe1
sutiio nar M Deen py .ne II
au'ioi iV'uS . u ~ ioaU''o LUZ
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A TRIPLE TRAGEDY.
Two Men and "a Girl Hun Over W
Returning from a Picnic.

hetttFUtNlR hEOtf ~ tNtttttfs
The details of an accident on the II
tonic river railroad bridge, below Pitt
Mass, are peculiarly distressing. j
Carney, Mary and Bridget Granger
John Norton were returning
from a fireman's picnic, and had
passed on to the bridge as the engineer Q
last up train had started 10 run his e
across to the engine house beyond. The
neer felt the iar as he struck the quartz
returned to the spot as soon as possible.
two men were dead, bnt Mary Granger.
both legs cut off above the knees and hid
arm severed at the elbow, was alive
conscious. She vas taken to the Bur
house. She was wen hen perfectly CID
her mind, and told the story of the acci
She said:
1--WE did not see the engine backing
us until it had struck the END
the bridge. Carney was
in the centre, and Mr.. Norton
! just ahead of him, while Bridget
a few feet ahead of us. When we hear
engine we ran as fast as we could. / D
Carney scream, and knew he had gone |
the wheels. Ben had in the meantin|
behind me, and was pushing me along d
narrow plank walk as fast as he 4
Another moment and his hand
away from me, and l knew thai
too, had been crushed. By
time | vas within n foot of the end d
bridge, but Just as | went to jump fro
tween the rails the engine wheels caugl|
Gress, and | felt n numbness in my led
arm. | did not know that | had I'D
badly hurt
The young woman fingered in
for ten minutes and then ed
No attempt at surgery was
as it was known that it
only hasten her death. Nortonl
Mary Granger were engaged to be md
Bridget Granger barely escaped by junl
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AT KHAR T0U
Murder Of the False Prophets NJ
sOr by His o

Information has been received at
Egypt, that a civil war has broken
Nhartoum, hat the treasury has been
and that the Mahdi's successor and otl
Gals have been killed.
Osman Digna, the late Mahli's chief
has forsaken his followers ana fled to
fan. 1h9 result is that many sheikl
-oing into Suakim and Offering subj
to the British commander.
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''Pnpa's gentleman.
fsRlacs n,arna'c man

G Lijah and carry the news, another
soul is gone home. He beats his little drum
in harmony with the music of Heaven, and
runs his little train through the streets OF
the New Jerusalem.
"BilIy's dog 'Chap'"-Mo5He Register.
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A Curious Epitaph.

Some curious things occasionally turn
up on tomb stones, and when they do
turn up are generally very funny.
Among the most humorous specimens Of
this sacred sentiment is the following in
scription copied from a tombstone made
in this city and shipped to Montgomery :
"Our Darling Billy Sugar"
"To the memory Of, son Of
To our Darling Billy.
'In our thoughts of love we seek thee ever.
In our dreams thy bright form still we see
Nor can time nor thy absence Ger ran sever,
That fond memory that binds IL to thee.
Papa,
Mama,
Binion,
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-13

up NIL,
JO' L. a. "it'o" VI inc ifon'oh neg
lister, makes some good suggestions as to
,h. n,;I;z;,r ot tho scI;nS. ot tho . TO-,
" '"'
about | o clock a. m, next Monday, 10th
in the public schools.
iahe cauu,e anu several DIS of window
giass 70 scnooi- lie. tne Pnphs assist IN
snohiug the eiass' at tne same ume expla'n-
ing lne process ana ~hy the glass is smoked.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-13
The Actress.

The curtain rises slowly, and before eSpeetahe
An old Italian city lies:
In fair Neronas streets $50 says the poeV 'he
scene is laid.
with Montague MS hero, and the Capuiets
sweet maid.
Meanwhile my eager glasses quickly rove from
box to stall.
Careless Of curtains rise or fall, :,
Careless of lovers zeal. of ball ana Dance anu
Or 7hether any prince. or subject, walks upon
the stage.
For in my heart there lives note. written by
In which she says: "For you is planned
A great surprise-youll II see me ut the play
be there at eight
After one year of absence you will surely not
be late.
Yes, the dreary months of exile at length have
As soon, as in the past. may
Look in her tender eyes, so full of truth, and
hear her speak,
iBut yeti think to find her here is a decided
freak.
81 know" she wrote. THAT when we meet,
difference you'll see,
The change pcrchanCc from twig to tree,
Some girls grow old % quickly. and perhaps
her constant aim.
"To step outside the old rut, " may have made
her do the same.
Still she's not here. It's so like her. to be lit
tie slow,
Twas eight that struck an hour ago,
might as well look on the stage, and see IL
Juliet
Forgive me sweet has any grace. like my shy
violet.
indeed she has-how like her hair-and as she
slowly turns
Ny Godl 'Tis she! How my heart burns
Aud how crave for air-Ah me! is this her
pretty plan,
To the false worlds homage to the eyes of one
true man?
But then, why should ! murmur il her tender
hearts the same.
Although she cares just now for fame?
So when we meet II try to feel as did awhile
ago.
Before her lips and hands were touched by
handsome Romeo.
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Round And Square MalIets.

The reason why carpenters use
square wooden mallets and stone
masons round wooden mallets is no,
generally known. even by the work.
men them elves" said a mechanical
engineer. 1.-The handles of carpenters
chisels are made of wood. and if they
should strike them with metal ham
mer the handles would crack. This
necessitates the use of wooden mallets,
and they must be large in order to have
the proper weight. They are made
square, so that they may be used in
corners where round nlallet would
not go.
''Stone-masons use wooden mallets
because they are less likely than iron
hammers to injure hands by missing
the chisel Their chisels are of iron
throughout, and the mallet is made
round so that a different part may
strike on the chisel at each blow. The
mason turns his hammer as he works,
otherwise the iron tool would soon bore
q hole in it. ."-NeW York San.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-13

topics. Exhibit pictures of diagrams
illustrating the truths set forth.
Discuss the best methods Of ac-
complishing any given problem. Write
plain, practical essays to be read before the
Society, aud then, if cons Tered suitable,
let them be published in the papers. Let
organized effort be brought to bear on City
Council, on Superintendents Of Public
Buildings, on municipal authorities, and
on house-holders and house-owners, to the
end that nuisances may be abated, that
sources OF disease may be investigated and
diminished and that the necessity for pare
air. good water and healthul food may be
inculcated on the whole community"
This is an important suggestion (made
in view Of the possible prevalence Of cholera
this summer) and We would be glad to
have the suggestions made promptly car
ried out in Springfield
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-03-13

Messrs. E. I. Nelson, Phi. d., Delaware;
D. r. Silver, NJ. D., Sidney; G. S. Frank
lin, M. D., Chillicothe, VIM. J. Scott, NJ.
D., Cleveland, and VIM. Owens, NJ. D., of
Cincinnati, constitute a committee ap-
pointed at the late netting of the "Ohio
State Sanitary Association" (held Feb. 6,
1885, to urge upon the counties towns,
and villages of our State the great desira-
bility of the organization of local Sanitary
Societies, auxiliary to the State Society,
and they urge that some interested person
in each community proceed at once to "call
q meeting of all those who are known to
be in sympathy with this movement for
sanitary reform, writing special invitations
IT necessary. Organize a society with
proper officers, and hold regul,r meetings
for the purpose of mutual instruction in
everything pertaining to sanitary sci
ence. Read selections on Appropriate