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NEWSY GLEANINGS.

Mrs. SUBLErT, of Chetopa, Kas., is %l9
years old.
CALIFORNIA has earthquake insurance
companies.
THE Denver (Col) Ncws has gold mine
in the cellar.
New YORK CITY received 81, ,9iG, $40 quarts
of milk in August.
OVER $lS,OOO,0JO has been expended on
monuments in Massachusetts, since 1851.
Ten thousand public schools receive tinan-
cial support from the government OF Mex
leo.
THE snow is SO deep among the mountains
in eastern Oregon that teams cannot trarel
with safety.
If Daniel Pine, of Paw Paw, ILL.,, lives I'M
til December he will be 100 years old Me'sn-
while he amuses himself by hoeing and saw
ing wood.
FIFTEEN thousand dollars will be paid by
the navy department for each accepted de-
ign for the proposed two-armo:e1 o,O09ton
Jar cruiSerS
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An interesting calculation has been
made by the New York Times, showing
how the steady and rapid payment of the
public debt incurred in the Civil War,
combined with the reduction of the In
terest rate and the increase Of the popu-
lation of the country, has affected the
debt burden borne by our people per
capita. In 1865 the debt amounted to
SIS, 25 per capita Last year it amounted
to only s24,14. In 1865 the per capita
portion of the annual interest charge
was s4.s9. Last year it was but eighty
three cents. The ratio of the principal
is now but two-thirds what it then was;
that of the annual interest is but little
more than onc-ffth.
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No wonder the Apaches become in.
ured to hardships. Among the tribe
with Chief Geronimo at the time OF his
surrender was al exceedingly youth
full brave who was born while the Indi-
ans were upon the warpath. The child
was born in the night and the next morn
ing, clasped in its mothers arms, was
flying over the trail on a wild Texan
pony. Yet it throve, and unless the
enervating life of q captive plays the
mischief with its stomach, will make q
lusty brave. Captain Lawton, who cap
tured Geronimo, is obtaining great credit
in the South and West The San Fran
cisco Chronicle says that he is the first
officer who knows how to deal with the
Indian scouts. In previous campaigns,
it has been charged, and often with
abundance of proof to substantiate it, the
scouts have furnished the rcncgades with
ammunition. In this campaign, which
has ended in the surrender of the hos
tiles, Lawton adopted precautions which
made it impossible for the rcnegadcs to
get ammunition. The cartridges given
out to the scouts were counted and each
man was required to account for the
shells under penalty of death. 1t is
needless to soy that this plan was more
effective than General General Crooks
.conE Edence in the honor of the scouts.
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CONSTITUTION DAY.

Governors and Representatives Of
Colonial States at Philadelphia.
Asa result of the movement upon the part
of the Chief Magistrates of the thirteen orig.
inal States, seven Governors met in Philadsl-
phia on the 18th to arrange for fitting OBJ.
servauco Of the centennial anniversary Of
the PRONUNCIATION of the Constitution Of the
United States, on September II, 1887. The
following Governors were present: Patti
son. of Pennsylvania; Lee, Of Virginia;
Lloyd, of Maryland: Stockley, of Delaware;
Wetmore, of Rhode Island; Mcdaniel, Of
Georgia, and Sheppard, Of South Carolina.
New York was represented by Lieut. Gov.
Jones, New Jersey by Committee of the State
Legislature, and connecticut by ex-Gov. Bige-
low, New Hampshire, Massachusetts,, and
North Carolina were not represented. At the
Continental Hotel Gov. Pattiscn delivered a
brief address of welcome The party then
divided into pairs and marched down Chest
nut street to the old State House. In tho
room where the Declaration of Independence
red, white and blue, and listened to an ad-
dress Of welcome by Mayor Smith.
During the session in Carpenters Hall,
where the first Colonial Congress met, reso-
lutions were adopted that each State and
Territory b, invited to unite in preparation
for a national celebration 10 be held in
Philadelphia in September Of next year,
and that tho President be invited
to formally communicate to Con.
gress, at their next m ,eting, the fact that his
administration closes the first cen tury OF
Constitutional Government, and to urge
upon that body the prop-iety of taking meas
ures to render thu celebration worthy of an
occasion of such dignity and Importance.
A resolution was passed. requesting that
delegates from the States and Territories bs
sent to Philadelphia on December ID next. to
organize a permanent organization, with
power IT, devise plans t. secure te ebrat.on.
The business mes ting Of til, Governors
was called to order by Governor Patti on
and Governor Lee. of Virginia was invited
to take the chair. Letters We're read from
the Governors OF North Carolina, New
Hampshire, and Massachusetts, regrett.ng
their inability to be present, and assuring
the Governors that they were i'll sympathy
with the movement.
A permanent organization was affected,
and the Governors OF Pennsylvania, Della
ware, Rhode Island, Maryland. au Georgia
were appointed q committee to draft plan
for the celebration.
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A New York letter to the Troy Times
has this to say concerning railway tics
"This subject is now being felt in Wall
str ct, and q very clear headed man
made the remark to me, We have yet to
learn the full cost of railway repair, fol
the past is really only experimental.
Hence, such men as Jay Gould and
Russell Sage are now considering the
importance of the new method of in.
creasing durability. 1t is said that the
present annual consumption of railroad
ties is 5000, 900, and as the trees cut
for this purpose must be between thirty
and forty years old, it is making fearful
havoc among the best part of our forests.
The American Forestry Congress is
urging the planting of trees and the
better care Of the forests, but it will
require twenty-five years to make the
present planting available, and during
such an interval what q vast destruction
is inevitable. Rail-. = ties, indeed, only
last at best one fourth the time required
to grow them, and for this reason the
newly-invcnted method of treating them
for increased durability is of great i'm.
portance. The cost of replacing decayed
tics in this country last year was $780,
100000, and the agents (n this city, OF
Southern ard Western lumbermcn will
soon expect large advance. Hence the
subject is becoming one of great import
ance in railway circles"
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LATER NEWS.

REPRESENTATIVE KELLEY has been nomi-
mated to Congress for the fourteenth time in
Philadelphia
ABOUT Is, 900 men participated in the grand
parade of Odd Fellows at Boston. The crush
and jam of crowds causel tho death of three
people-a Ch:namau, an old lady and visi-
tor from Newburyport.
AN explosion in the Moosic Powder Mil
at Je:myn, Penn, instantly killed two work
! men.
STILL another long and heavy earthquake
visitel Charleston on the ed, causing many
of the afrighted residents to fee from their
houses and take to the tents.
TEE prize drill and the monster concert
features in the Knight; Temp!ar display at
st. Louis-were attended by 10000 people.
THE Taylor Broth RS. rival candidates Of
the leading rarties for Governor of Tennes-
see, are canvassing tbs State in company,
speaking from the same platform and room
ing to ;cther at the various stopping places.
THE collections of Internal Revenue for
July and August last amounte to sl9,342a, :
27G, being an increase OF Sl,5jO,Gl7 over the
cole .tions in the corresponding period last
year.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND AMI his wife,
Private Secretary Lamont and his wife and
Mrs Folsom, the Presidents mother-in'law,
have returned to Washington from their va
cation in the Ad:rondacSs All lookel
tanned and well.
A FIRE in the town of Kalusz, Austria, has
destroyed 80 houses, causing great privatlon
among the destitute people.
ADv1cEs from Mandalay, the capital OF
Burmah, state that at the opening of re-
lief house there the crush to obtain fool was
SO great that twelve persons were trampled
to death. Six thousand persons who were
ruined by the recent :ood were supplied with
food.
A NEW italian exploring expedition has
Just started from Rome for Africa.
The British schooner Little Gem capsized
and sank off the Newfoundland coast during
a heavy squall. Two lady passengers were
drowned.
THE New York State Fair opencl Mt Utica
with the largest array of eXh DTS ever en-
terrell
HENRY GEORGE, the well-known writer
and lecturer on labor and land topics, has
BEEN nominated for Mayor of New York al
a conference of trade and labor organizations
in the metropolis. This is the most import
ant movem mt toward in dependent politl al
action yet tikcn 10y the worSingmen Of that
city.
CENTRAL CHARLES RooNE, of New Io:k.
was elected Grand Master of the knights
Templar of the United States OF st. Louis.
Two Cinnamon were killed by an ex-
| plosion of gun cotton and nitro-glycerine at
| West Berkeley, La.
THE King of Uganda, Africa, has CAUSED
| all Ito converts to Christianity in his terri
tory TO be ma Ssa rel, aud tho Missionaries
are in great danger of similar fate.
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L!GHTNING'S FREAKS.
Remarkable and Damaging Elec-
trio Bolts in Ohio.
Oil Tanks Struck and 10000 Bar
rels Of Oil Destroyed.

The other night terrific thunder Storm
accompanied by rain and severe strokes OF
lightning, broke over the country surrounds
ing Lima, Ohio, and continued without
abatement until the following evening. DUR
ing all that time the lightning played almost
incessantly, doing thousands of dollars worth
of damage and iujuring two persons fatally.
Oil tanks were especial targets and at the
least calculation 1900 barrels Of oil, be-
side six derricks, were burned. The Sto-
gle derrick, No. 9, about three miles south
of Lima, was struck and partially destroyed
About o'clock A. NJ, Coulden, Mattison &
Co. s well OH South Pine street was struckt
The derrick and two tanks containing $50
barrels eacn were consumed, and Mrs James
Henderson, who was standing in the door
way Of her home near the we'll, was knocked
senseless by the lightning, which passed
within few feet of where shs stood
1t resembled large ball Of fire and made q
deafening roar as it passed through the cir.
Mrs Henderson is raralyzed and helpless
No sooner had the Lima fire department.
responded to the alarm sent in than another
bolt descended from the heavens aud set fire
to Thomas Ni.holson's tank-house, contain
ing 1,20J barrels OF oil. The house is di-
roctly across tQe SIIecG lIOlu eliS LII iSp well
struck. The flames and smoke reached
high into tho dir, and attracted
peor le from the country for miles around.
Soon after Nicholsons caught, the Bowman
G. Shockey derricks and oil tanks, about two
miles in the country, were struck and de-
stroyed. Near the Nicholson tank-houss the
tank at the we'll at the gas works was struck,
and the sec ond alarm, which brought out ther
entire fire department., was sounded.
The widest confusion en>ued. 1t was about
noon and people rushed pell-mell from their
homes nearly frantic with fear. For several
hours the situation was appalling ana it
looked as though the entire city would be de-
srroyed. The Cincinnati. Hamilton and Day.
ton Railroad bridge was struck just before.
the arrival of the Cincinnati express, but the
firemen succeeded in srbduing the flames
before they had gained much headway. The
fire department., with the aid If the heavy.
rain, finally held the fires at the various
wells throughout the city in check.
Agustus Miller, nozzleman. had his left.
side paraly ei with lightning while holding
the hose. The storm was the severest one
that ever visited that part Of the State, and
the damage is very heavy. The loss to the
oil wells alone is many thousands.
The storm was also very severe in the Ohio
counties of Wyaudot. Seneca. Champaign
and Allen. The railroad station at Bluffton,
and at least dozen barns in different sections
of the counties named were struck by Light
ming and destroyed by fire.
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Advices from China and Japan repor,

Advices from China and japan report
that the total number of cholera cases
throughout japan since its first appear.
this year, according to the Japan Gazette,
is $4,000, of which $1,000 resulted fatal
ly. The epidemic is now abating. In
telligence from Seoul, Corea, says cholera
is still raging in that city. The fatal
cases of July, this year, were 3S, 600 out
of a population of 100000. Outside of
the capital the epidemic is equally fatal.
At Shinshu, Province of Keishado, 5000,
and at Torai G,000 deaths occurred in
one month.
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Sarah Winnemucca, the Indian prin

cess, who, as 'Bright Eyes" wrote from.
tier stories for ST. Nicholas, attended
Wellesley college, and is now teaching
an indian school of her own, has been
attending the Indian festivities in Ne.
yada. To reporter of the Reno Ga.
zettc she said that she was getting along
nicely with her school; that fifteen OF
sixteen pupils are in attendance. The lady
sent out from Boston to visit the school
did not remain long, but continu d on
hsr journey to Australia, whittier she
was bound.
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NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.

Hon. CHARLES R. BUcKALEw, former
United States Senator, has been nominated
for Congress by the Democrats OF tne
Eleventh Pennsylvania district
HARTFORD, CONN.,, has just been dedicat-
ing handsome brown-stone memorial arch
in honor of its dead soldiers There was
parade of 10000 soldiers, and $4,000 specta.
tors were present. General Hawley delivered
the oration. The arch cost S6O, 600, is forty.
five feet above the roadway, and has two
towers 100 feet high.
WILLIAM II. HUBBELL, of Brooklyn, came
home the other evening only to find his wife
dead, hanging from hook in the bathroom,
and his little daughter drowned in the bath
tub. Mrs. Hubbell had committed the act
while suffering from emotional insanity.
WILLIAM E. GOULD, the cashier Of the
First National Bank, Portland, Ne, is an.
nounced to be a defaulter to the extent OF
sS7,0O0. Mr.. Gould was leading citizen OF
Portland. Me-, and is sop-in-law of Neal
Dow, tho noted temperance advocate. High
living is given as the cause Of his downfall.
SAMUEL g. SMELLING, ex-Treasurer of the
Lowell (Mass.) Bleachery, pleads guilty to
the charge of having e.nbezzled $l0O,00O OF
the company's funds.
OFFICIAL figures give the following vote
for Governor in Maine: Bodwell, 6S,S37;
Edwards, 55,9s7; Clark (Prohibitionist!, 3,S72.
THE sixty eighth annual convention of the
Sovereign Grand Lodge Of Odd Fellows has
Just been held in Boston. A report stated
that the Order numbered 517, ,310 members,
81 grand lodges, "A grand en-: ampments 1856
lodges and 1,947 en- anpments, with total
revenue in 1885 of s5,3 ,30J, ,GSS.T.
THE Philadelphia Common Council, by q
vote of ~ yeas to IS nays, has impeached
Mayor Smith ''for misdemeauor anCl malad-
ministration in office"
THREE men were drowned by the capslz-
ing of rowboat on the lake at Cazenovia,
n Y.
TEE American yncht Mayhower again de.
feated the British yacht Galatea, in the re-
gatta at Newport, R. I.
THE New York city Prohibitionists have
nominated candidates for the Mayoralty
and other 10 al Offices
The New York Democratic State Commit
tee, at meeting in Saratoga, finally decided
to hold no convention this fall. Chairman
John O'Brien resigned his place at the head
of the committee, and Charles e. B. Walker
succeeds him.
FRANK RAFF, of Coatesville. Penn, aged
eighteen, died in the village store at that
place, of apoplexy, caused by his efforts to
eat quantity of ice cream and ginger cakes
within given time on wager
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A HORNETS STING.
\ Farmer Fatally Injured While
Raking Buckwheat.

Hiram Gooding was raking buckwheat re-
Gently in field OH his farm at Potters Hill,
Penn. Suddenly his son, who was at work
near by, saw him fail to tho ground as
though he had been struck with all axe.
Young Gooding hurried to the spot and
found his father black in the face and frotll-
ing at the mouth. He carried him to spring
near by, and su 'ceeded in restoring him to
consciousness, but the farmer was blind and
unable to help himself. The son found q
lump at the base of his fathers skull rs large
as his fist. He then remembered that there
was hornets nest on a tree few feet from
where his father had been working, and
noticed that the hornets were flying about
the nest in an unusual manner. Cooling was
carried home and physician called. the
physician said the farmer had been stung by
a hornet and the sting hal struck nerve at
the base of the brain. In few days Good
ing became entirely paraly1ed, and died in
great agony. A similar use is remembered
as having occurred in that vicinity some
years ago, when n young man named Van.
tine was the victim. He bct anne blind, and
was raralyzed for long time, but eventually
recovered MIR. Gooding was sixty years
old. and ONO Of the richest men in the neigh
borhood.
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In the counties of Jones and Stone.
wall, Texas, rain has not fallen for fif.
teen months up to recent date. The ma
jority of the settlers have left there, and
about 400 families who are unable to sc
were in extreme dcstitution. The region
has been transformed into desert. The
sufferings occasioned by this terrible
drought have left the cattle in very
weak condition, so much so that they
cannot survive the coming winter.
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The fire boys of Engine No. 2, sacra.
mento, Cal, have pet kid which they
claim discounts any previous editions of
the goat SPECIES. It is only FIVE months
old, but will already jump the rope,
climb a greasy pole, turn somersaults,
stand on his horns, go on crrands, run to
fires, and is now turning his attention to
base ball Thus far his goatship has no
bad habits.
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A French naval officer, NJ. Alfred Do.
malain, has invented an aerial boat which
he can guide through the air as easily as
one does boat through the water. 1t
resembles in fact boat, is sharp at the
prov and wider at the stern. The sails,
however, instead of being on deck are
under the keel, and worked like the
wings OF bird. This aerial boat is ex.
pccted to be of immense advantage dur.
ing q war.
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"Such disturbances. SAYS Professo

"Such disturbances" says Professor
Proctor, speaking of earthquakes, ''as'
sure us that as yet the earth is not near
its death. She is still full of vitality.
Thousands-nay, tens, hundreds of
thousands-of years will still pass be-
fore the beginning of the end is seen in
the steady disintegration and removal by
the action of subterraneau forces"
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An amusing illustration of Queen Y:

Ap amusing illustration of Queen Vic
toria's conservatism comes from over the
sea. She has ordered the elevator, "that
hideous thing" as she calls it, removed
from Buckingham Palace. 1t was built
six years ago at a cost of $4,000 for the
accommodation of the Duke of Albany,
but the Queen is afraid of it, and declares
the old-fashioned up aad down stairs
good enough for her.
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Washington
Foreign.


THE Due Decazes prominent French
diplomat, is dead.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, of Germany, hat
severe chill on the 18th, and was reported In
! very feeble condition.
ANOTHER riot started by q brawl between
two drunken men, has resulted in bloods6 ed
in Belfast The police fired into the crowd,
wounding about twenty persons.
FREDERICK Sc1IwATKA, Of tho Times er-
ploring expedition to Alaska, writes that ae
and his party have explored Icy Bay AID
the country about its shores: have discover ed
and named one large river, three glaciers,
one lake, and range Of lofty hills, and nave
climbed Mt. St Elias to a point 7,2Oo feet
above the level Of perpetual snow.
Mr.. PARNELLs lanl bill has been de-
fcated in the House of Commons by vote
of :..y7 to 2R.
NINETY THOUSAND cotton spinners In
Burnley, England, have resolved to Strike
against reduction in wages.
GEEL, the Socialist, has been condemned
1t Amsterdam, Holland, to eight years I'm
orisonment for shooting Police Commissioner
Storck.
ALL OF che officers implicated in the at
tenn at revolution in Madrid have oeen
condemned to death.
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Thomas Stevens, the bicyclist, anc
correspondent of the American magazine
Outing, has at last struck good road in
his trip round the world. At Lahore,
India, where he was at last accounts, be-
gins the greatest macadamized road In
the world. 1t is 1,S00 miles long, and
Stevens will use 1850 miles of it.
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The division of labor and improved
machinery are doing away with the
thorough learning of trades. When the
present generation of shoemakers and
blacksmiths are dead it will be hard work
to find man who can make complete
boot or make horseshoe and nails and
then shoe the horse properly.
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THE Mississippi River has not been lower
in years than it has been this season. A few
days ago a HAN on horseback fordei it near
Galena, H., where usually the river is three
he found was in the channel and there it
was but triie over two feet deep.
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The Baldwin Locomotive Works, Phila'
delphia, have completed and shipped their
eight thousandth locomotive. From Decem'
Der, 1S}22, to November. 1853, they built $40,
and in the next eight years $40 more.