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TIE PRIZE CUP.

The big, ewer-shapcd, solid-silver trophy
known as the Americas cup, emblematic OF
the yachting supremacy Of the world, was
originally offered by the Royal Yacht
squadron of England as prize to be sailed
for by yachts of all nations over the squad
rons course around the Isle of Wight. 1t ha
been frequently, but enormously, called the
Queens Cup Thirty-four years ago the
American yacht America crossed the ocean,
and in contest against the best yachts of
Great Britain easily won the prize. Twice
English yachts have come to this country for
the purpose of reganing the trophy, but on
each occasion have been beaten by she
American contestants.
Since 1871 the Americans have not had
to defend the cup against ''crackn English
yacht. The Canadians sent down the Count
ess of Dulferin in 1876 and the sloop ATLANTA
in 1881. Both were easily defeated. Now,
however, the yachtsmen of America have had
n matter of quite another sort on their hands.
The cutter Genesta, in the full flush of Ter
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has telegraphed to King Alfonso that he has
no intention of trenching upon Spanish
rights, and that Germany will abandon all
designs upon the Caroline Islands.
ADvICEs from South Africa state that
Congo cannibals have attacked several sta
tions of the African association and roasted
and devoured number of whites.
RIEL's appeal from his sentence of death
has been dismissed, and the belief IS general
in Winnipeg that the half-breed rebel leader
will be hanged
THE fishing schooner Guardian Angel cap
sized off the coast of Newfoundland dur
ing a squat, and all on board except one man
were drowned.
THE expulsion of foreigners from Ger
many and Austria continues Hundreds Of
destitute Poles, expelled from Silesia, are
focking into Warsaw and Cracow. Accord
ing to the Austrian papers over thirty five
thousand more Poles will shortly be elected
by the Prussian authorities, among them 20
600 Austrian subjects and 200 of French
origin.
THE Spanish government has dispatched a
special messenger to Berlin with a note to
Germany. The note requests Germany to
renounce all intention of establishing SUI
erainty over the Carolnes and Peew islands.
Without such guarantee, Spain must decline
to give salts faction for the recent insults to
the German embassy at Malrid
COUNT PAUL FEsTETICS, of Hungary. has
killed NJ. Pechy, son of the president of the
Hungarian delegation in q duel
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THE PURITAN UNDER FULL SAIL.

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for cancellations and manned nv a crew Of the
as. nf Enl,iieh sn,io,i coI,a ocroso tho
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cbamnionsIin NM 'e''-i- '''' . ''''e
1nrias df trial roces amorg An,ericap
,,onbtS ras,Itod IL, tho selection Of tba Pnrii
ion hiit IN BOstnn snociaiIv for. tbis Contest
as n,a,icnis ,o,,,,nse,totirss TO 400 onoinst
H. r.anasta " ''O0 %
ny 0yyina, =" 1i,ht wind tho +ryo Yachts ,voro
unotIa to AMIR tho '' firet Of thar sarios of
threo roces '', and il had 70 he nostnoned Rut
as tho occasion hron%bt ont tbe nnast naonifi0
Vnr harhorp e'e' dcrto ~ nf tha
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W ashingtOn.

REPORTS received from various quarters
show that the recent withdrawal of one and
two dollar bills from circulation by the treas
ury has resulted in notes of those denomi-
nations reaching a slight premium
REPORTS received at the war department
from the Indian Territory indicate that tho
terms of the Presidents recent proclamation
in regard to the removal of cattle are being
fully complied with, and that the cattle men
are moving their cattle as rapidly as possible.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has returned to
the White House from his trip to the Adj
rondacks.
THE President has appointed Mrs Marion
a. Mulligan, of Chicago, ILL.,, widow of a
colonel in the Union army, to be pension
agent at Chicago, vice Miss Ada c. Sweet,
resigned.
CAPTAIN DAVIS, of the Fourth United
States cavalry, under date of Huachana,
Mexico, reports to the war department that
on the 9TH ult. Lieutenant Day surprised
Geronimo's camp in the Sierra adre noun
tains, killed five Indians and captured fifteen
squaws and papooSes. Mana, the old Apache
chief, was one of the killed Geronimo,
though wounded, escaped.
THE President has appointed Rensselaer,
Stone to be collector of internal revenue foI
the first district of Illinois, in place of Joe
ID. Harvey, suspended.
SEPTEMBER returns to the department OF
agriculture indicate large yield in the corr
and cotton crops, general average for al
spring wheat of 500 against 95 in August
and general average in winter wheat oil
G5.S against 65 in July
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PROMINENT PEOPLE,

MINISTER PENDLETON is studying German
four hours day at Berlin.
SAM JONES, the evangelist has lost his
voice by lncessant loud talking.
Mrs. HATTIE GREEN, the New York stock
speculator is worth $40, 900, CO.,
EDWARD EVERETT HALE eats five meals a
day, and says everybody else should
GENERAL MILES AMI his wife are said to
be the handsomest couple in the army
THE three candidates for governor in Ohio
vote in the same precinct in Cincinnati
Miss ST. PIERRE, a Tennessee heiress, is
devoting her fortune to the elevation of the
poor whites of the South.
Roscoe Combines easy life at Carlsbad
Germany, has brought his weight up to two
hundred pounds, less two
JOHN G.. WHITTIER'S schoolmates at the
Haverhill Mass academy, of whom about a
score are living, at a recent reunion lionized
the poet.
GENERAL LOGAN now has in press, in New
York, a book dealing with the political move
ments that led to the great war Mrs. Logan
has gone to her Western home, to remain I'M
til December.
THE North Carolina senators have distin-
guished themselves in the hunting field this
summer. Senator Vance has killed bear
and Senator Ransom has exterminated q
hve-foot rattlesnake.
CADET KUHN, who graduated at the head
OF his class at West Point this year, is the
son OF poor blacksmith at Leavenworth.
he got his appointment to a cadetship by
winning competitive examination.
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THE NATIONAL GAME.

THE Southern league has a surplus of 81 900
in the league treasury.
New YORK has male the fewest changes
in the team and the least experiments of any
league club.
New YORK leads the batting and the field
ing of the league. Six of their batsmen
are among the first dozen in the country.
THE salaries of all the league players will
be reduced twenty five per cent. next season.
Quite number now get more than $4,000
SAMUEL WILSON, while umpiring game
Of baseball at Danville, Ga, recently, was
run into by player and probably fatally in
jured internally.
Two circuit suggested for the Eastern league
next year comprises Trenton, Newark, Pater-
son, Jersey City, Bridgeport, New Haven,
Meriden and Hartford.
FROM the facility with which minor league
clubs beat the big clubs of the Nation al
league and American association it is evident
that all the best players have not yet been
| gobbled up.
THE New York club has Chcagoed every
| league team at least once They have Chs
| GAGGED Buffalo and Providence three times
each, and Chicago and st Louis twice each;
| total, thirteen. Chicago has Chicagoed
| league clubs twelve times, viz, Philadelphia
| four times. Providence three times, Detroit
and Buffalo twice each, and Boston once.
The remarkable games of fourteen innings
each were played recently in GAINESVILLE, Ohio,
| between the home team and the visiting
Henley club, of Richmond Ind. The Zanes-
| viles won the first game by TO 7, the score
| standing tied from the seventh to the four
/ teenth inning. In the second game the Zanes-
| vlles led oil in the first inning with four runs
and failed to score afterward. The Henleys
| tied the score in the fourth inning and made
! the winning run in the last half of the four
tenth
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but many excursion steamers that were
strangers in New York waters were
piloted through Hell Gate about daybreal and
steamed down the bay without stopping, hav-
ing on boards crowds of men and women for
whom the vessels had been specially char
tered
Every train that rolled into the Grand
Central depot for forty eight hours before the
race added its tribute to the living stream
that flowed from New England's crock bound
COAST Boston, Lowell, Portland Worcester,
Lawrence, Fail River, Providence, Newport,
and the big and little Ecities all sent their
representatives. The eight cars of the Boston
express were iammed full when that train
rolled into the Grand Central depot at 6:25
A. NJ They were nearly all solid substantial
citizens, merch ants, business men, etc.
At 2:35 p. NJ both yachts started on their
forty mile ocean race The excursion
boats sighted the tug that was lowering
near the hag-topped turning. float at
4:30 o'clock and Immediately headed for
it. The Yankee was then fully mile to
the windward of the Genesta, difference
equal to lead of nearly a mile and a third.
The time for making the race was limited
to seven hours, and the turning mark was at
that time nearly four miles away from the
yachts. 1t was plain to everybody that the re-
mainder of the course could not be covered in
the light wind until long after S:37 o'clock.
So the regatta committee announced to the
surrounding boats that there would be no
race,
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South and West.

w. ?. MITCHELL, n streetcar driver of
Chattanooga, Tenn, elected Charles Will
lams, a colored man, from his car for disor-
derby conduct Williams procured re-
vover. followed Mitchell and shot him dead
The murderer was captured and lodged in
Jail. AT night an immense crowd forced its
way into the Jail. While the crowd was in
side two companies of colored men, armed
with muskets, appeared before the Jail to pro
tect Williams. Shots were fired and one white
man was killed and a colored man fatally
wounded Williams was finally taken from
his cell by the maddened crowd and hanged.
The affair created tremendous excitement
throughout the city.
The Rev. Charles w. Price, a Presbyter-
ian clergyman Of Cherokee, Kansas, hanged
himself the other morning. His mind is
thought to have been unsettled by the death of
a brother and sister
THE safe in the county treasurer's office at
Linn Creek, Mo, was blown open by burglars
and robbed of $1,000.
PERRY WHITLoCK, twenty-eight years old,
went to the house of his father in-aw, Il. G..
Coe, near Danville, H., and shot his wife
Emily and her sisters Maggie and Tnchiel,
and then killed himself The three sisters
were mortally wounded.
THE commissioners of emigration Of the
State of New York have reported to the
secretary Of the treasury that during lSs4
unere arrived at une port OF New OrK % =
600 emigrants, all of whom were examined
by the board, and of such examinations ! IA
persons were found to be either convicts,
lunatics, idiots or persons unable to take care
of themselves without becoming public
charges, and We're returned to the countries
whence they came.
A HEAVY gale has prevailed on the great
lakes, and many marine disasters are report
ed. The schooner Advance, of Chicago, wa!
capsized on Lake Michigan, and all on boarl
except sailor We're drowned.
MISS IDA MAXWELL, a beautiful youn!
lady of Atlanta, Ga, eloped with John Shel
ton and the two were married Miss Max
wells father and brother, armed with pistols
presented Themselves at Skeletons house, an,
in the ARRAY which ensued all three men wer
fatally wounded.
The Lee brothers, two of the most note,
desperadoeS in Texas, have been hunted dow
and killed by three detectives. Rewards az
gregating $1,000 had been offered for thei
capture dead or alive
THE Mississippi Republican State commi
tee at meeting in jackson City adopted
resolution which says: :" In view of the fac
that an organized opposition to the Demo
cratic party in this State this fall is useless
because of the well known impossibility O
securing at the polls an honest election, it
the sense of the Republican State committe
that no convention be called looking to tn
nomination of a State ticket by the Republ
| can party"
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Tho Second Failure.

An attempt was made to have the race
take place on the following day, and large
number of craft again gathered in the lower
hay to witness the contest. At about II 80
70 boats were less than fifty yards apart
nd in the manouvering for place they came
together, the Puritan striking the bowsprit
of the English cutter and completely tearing
it away The mainsail of the American
was badly damaged. The excitement
was now greater than ever, and
the scene of the accident soon became a veri
table pandemonium. AS the Puritan was to
blame for the accident the judges decided to
rule the American sloop out of the race,
which was equivalent to awarding the victory
to the British cutter; but the owner of the
Genesta said he wanted a race, not a walk
over. 1t was then decided that the damage
done to the Genesta should be repaired at the
expense of the Puritan, and that the race
should take place on later day.
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The Third Failure.

After two days had been given the yachts
in which to repair the damage done by the
collision a third attempt was made to sail the
race Again many vessels of all kinds APP
peared in the bay to view the contest, al
though the number was not 50 great as on the
first day. Wind and wave in the early morn
ing gave great promise of lively
contest but the breeze gradually subsidized as
the vessels got under way, though a heavy
swell prevailed on the sea. The two boats
started well, the Puritan crossing the starting
line at ! 30 Al A. NJ. and the Genesta seven
seconds later. At first the Genesta led. At
5:52 p NJ, it being evident that neither craft
could go over the course of forty miles
in the seven hours prescribed, the
Judges declared the race Off
until the next day. The Puritan fifteen min
utes before had rounded the stake twenty
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MARINE DISASTERS.
A British and an Italian Steamer
with Thirty one Persons Lost

Information comes from Genoa, Italy to
the effect that the steamer Villa de Malaga,
with sixty passengers and crew Of
twenty-eight, foundered near Savona.
When the vessel, which was supposed
to have struck upon a rock, was
found to be sinking, a terrible panic ensued
among the passengers, and the crew, it is
said awaited themselves of the confusion thus
created to lower three boats with which the
vessel was provided, and made good their es-
cape from the sinking ship. Fortyfour pas
sengers, however, managed to save them
selves, the remaining sixteen being drowned.
The cowardly action of the crew has aroused
much Indignation here
Dispatches from Copenhag VI bring news
of disastrous collision between the German
gunboat Blitz and the British steamer Auck-
land. The Auckland was sunk and fifteen Of
her crew of seventeen were drowned.
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NEWSY GLEANINGS.

THE Tonquin war cost S2il DOC, 600.
ARTIFICIAL human ears made of celluloid
are new
CHINA has 3, 800 miles of telegraph line, and
only seven miles of railroad
BUFFALoES are now bred at Goodnight,
Kan, and buffalo calves sell at $50 a head.
ELIZABETH HICKMAN, OF Xenia. H., has
son seventy-four years Old, who is great
grandfather.
THREE-QUARTERs of the imported gin
ger ale used in this country is manufactured
in Rochester, n.
IT is estimated that at least 10000 victims
of gas generated by sewers alone are slain
every year in this country
CENSUS returns from various parts OF
Massachusetts, show a considerable reduc-
tion in population as compared with the CEN
sus Of 1919.
MINERS in Idaho are slaughtering fish by
the thousands, through mere wantonnesS'
using dynamite cartridges There is no fish
law IN the Territory.
IT is said that there are 10, 10000 OF acres
of land ON the Pacific coast of the United
States especially adapted to the culture OF
wheat, which is practically untouched.
A NUMBER of Russians are to settle in
valley north of Sitka, Alaska, an agent OF
theirs who is now journeying across the con-
tinent having recently selected the slta'
THE first Grant monument completed is on
the State Fair grounds, Peabody, Kansas,
1t consists of a shaft forty feet high, built OF
ears of corn, wrought into elaborate mo-
safes.
By a singular error OF the engraver and
oversight of the proof reader, new iive-do!lar
bills OF the Old Colony National bank, of
Plymouth, Mass, have the word "of' twice
in the title
A New HAMPSHIRE farmer has in a
corner of his barn a load of hay
which was placed there thirty four years ago,
The hay is yellow from age, but its quality
is said TO be unimpaired.
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NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle states.

WHILE the Rev. Mr. Clark, of the East
Haven Conn Congregational church was
finishing the opening prayer on Sunday,
dove flew into the church and alighted on the
centre gallery. When the pastor read
from the first chapter of John the clause, II
saw the Spirit descending from heaven like n
dove and it abode upon him. 1.-THE dove perched
on the open Bible. At the close of the service,
Mr.. Clark said that this might be mathematical
of the presence of the Divine Spirit As he
said this the bird alighted upon his head The
clergyman took the winged visitor down
and held it against his breast. Many were
moved to tears, and the whole congregation
were visible affected.
LAWRENCE BRAINERD the defaulting ex-
president of the St Adams WI savings
bank, was kidnapped at Winnipeg Manitoba,
by detectives, who forcibly conveyed him
into the United States.
THE annual parade of the United Labor
organizations of New York city and vicinity
brought out from II, 600 to $1,000 working
men and women. Many banners were car
ried with inscriptions reciting the demands
and grievances Of the working people.
A WEEK after young Moran, a horse
jockey had been killed at the Brighton Beach
(Coney lsland) race-course by being thrown
in race and trampled upon, a similar acct
dent occurred at the adjacent Sheepshead
bay track. The victim this time was jockey
named Ford; after falling he was tramped
almost beyond recognition.
Two passenger trains colided near Mid
dleseX, Penn, and both locomotives and
several cars were smashed to pieces. An
engineer and iiremen were killed and seven
other men injured, one or two with probably
fatal result
AN explosion of sulphur gas at the Otto
colliery, ten miles from Pottsvle Penn. ,
instantly killed one boy, fatally injured three
men and severely burned ten others.
AT the New y orl1 Prohibition State CON
vention held in Syracuse, Governor st. John
was present and made an address A full
ticket headed by H. c. Bascom for governor
was nominated, and resolutions denouncing
the liquor traffic adopted.
GEORGE O. JONES has been nominated for
governor 10y the New y orli Greenbacll Labor
party at the convention in New York city.
There was also a convention in the same hall,
earlier in the day, of the National Anti
| Monopoly party, but no coalition was effected.
Beside the candidate for governor full
ticket was nominated, and platform in con-
formity with the principles of the party
adopted.
A BRONZE statue of Commodore Ferry was
unveiled at Newport, r. l., few days ago,
with appropriate military and civic ceremo-
MES.
EN- CONGRESSMAN SCOTT LORD, a noted
lawyer, and once partner of Ex-senator Ros-
coe Conkling mt Utica, n. Y, died a few
days since at Morris Plains, Nj, aged sixty
| five years
MASSACHUSETTS ProhibitiOnists at their
| State convention in Worcester nominated a
ticket headed by Thomas j. Lathrop for
| governor
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CREMATED ALIVE
A Jail Fired by a IOb-TwO Broth
ers Burned TO Death.

Dispatches from Washington, Ark, state
that great excitement prevailed at Murfrees-
boro over the burning of the Polk boys by
mob in the Pike county Jail at the latter
place on Sunday night. The mob, consist
ing of about seventy-fve men, broke into
the Jail, and as on n previous occasion,
tried to shoot the Polk brothers, who
are charged with murder, to death. Finding
that the location of their cell was such that
the two prisoners could keep out of the range
of the bullets the mob hauled a lot of wood
to the jail, piled it around the iron cell satu-
rated the wood with coal oil and literally
roasted both the prisoners alive.
The Polk brothers. Sylvester and Henry,
were in jail for killing psddler named VIII
liams, and three previous attempts had been
made to lynch them.
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Reindeer, all crowded with people, glided
past, gay with flVttering pennants.
The Old Dominion steamship Breakwater,
took down the bay 9O) passengers recruited
from Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington,
Norfolk aud Richmond The schooner {. +.
Schultz, n tow of tug, carried about 100
sightseers.
1t was estimated that fully 10000 men and
women went down the bay to see the race.
As tickets sold from 81 to So each, about
$l25, 900 was expended in this way.
The Sound steamers that reached the city
in the morning or the night before brought
hundreds of patriotic New Englahders ready
TO bet their last cent on the representative OF
Yankee shipcraft and Yankee seamanship.
Not only the regular steamboats, that ply
between this metropolis and Eastern cities,
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Foreign.

THE dispute between Germany and Spain
over the Caroline Islands is TO be amlcably
settled. Spain has responded to Germany's
demand for reparation for the insult to the
German embassy at Madrid by expressing
regret at the occurrence and declaring the Of
Tenders will be punished. Emperor William
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THE GENEsTA, CLOSE HAULED IN WHOLESALE
BREEZE, INDICATING HER KEELING.
miles to windward of the start, and was then
two miles ahead. The Genesta when the
judges decision was made was still long
way to the leewari of the mark When the
Puritan rounded the stake the English boat
was fully three-quarters of an hour behind
har
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A white Soudan camel, captured dur
ing the recent campaign by an English
officer, has been added to the London
GEOLOGICAL gardens.