The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1886-08-26

repairs were made, and then the wagon was
Tighted by the aid Of two elephants. THREE
sailors who We're on q fishing voyage TO Green
land in 1869 have Just returned TO Dunkirk.
They repor, that their vessel was wrecked, and
that they have since been held in captivity by
the natives. Their wives supposing them 10
be dead, have since remarried.-The Irish
National League IN session at Chicago, adopted
moderate resolutions, cablcd its Endorsement TO
Mr. Parnell, aud elected John Fitzgerald, Of
Nebraska, Prcsidcnt-A dispatch from Al
buquerque, N. NJ, Says that Geronimo aud his
baud Of hostile Apaches are in the vicinity of
FronteIas. Sonora County, Mexico. endeayoring
10 treat Cor peace with the Mexican authorities
The Indians say they are worn out and want
peace, and that Geronimo is badly crippled
Jonathan West, a farmer Of New Providence,
Clarke Co, Ind, left his wife and children 40
years AGO, and nothing was heard OF him. Last
week he returned, a bent and tottering old man,
with hair whtened by the frOsts Of SO Winters.
He refused 10 tell where he had been
The Garfield Monument nj Cleveland, which
was 10 have been 225 feet high. will be only
$50 feet, the change having been made on
the advice Of CnCineers.-lt is eStimated that
il viii require 500 head 10 support a large
number Of farmers in Wisconsin who have suf-
Tered losses Of their crops by CONGREGATIONS
which swept large sections Of territory, destroy
ing all vegetation. A Wisconsin farmer,
going down n hill with load OF hay, locked
one OF the wheels of the wagon. The friction
of the vince upon the ground struck spark,
which ignited the hay and started a fire
that required il men 10 extinguish.-
As Hon. james @. Blaine was driving at Bar
Harbor Me-. last Wednesday, under one Of the
arches erected for the tournament, the arch
fell and heavy bar struck across the carriage
just in front OF him. A man seized the horses
bride and held il till Mr.. Blaine could be res
nd II Oh
counsel FOR the condemned Anarchists, says
thai last resort the case will be taken 10 the
United States supreme Court on constitutional
Questons.-The Rev. George o. Barnes, the
Mountain Evangelist, after a tour around the
world, during which he has held revival meet
ings Ia England, India China and australia
has returned. Two hotels, Methodist Epis-
copal Church, the post-oilice, a tanDery, four
stores and IL dwellings at Utica, n. Y, were
burned Saturday. Loss, 100000; cause, boys
playing with mstches.-Asa Snyder, Of Cats
kill, n. ", owned hog which grew amazingly
fat. It's rapid increase Of adlp0se tissue at
tracted the attention Of the neighbors, among
them Dr. Bogardus, who told Asa that the hog
had drOpsy, and then tapped it, Sixty-three
gallons of water followed the tapping, and the
hog diminished in size quite rs fast as il had
ncrea5ed.--MichaelC arrissey died in Dover,
N. H., recently, ut the age of so years Years
ago he served transportation sentence Of Ia
years in Van Dieman's Land for taking part in
an Irish rebelion.-The news from the whal-
ing feet in the Arctic Ocean is discOuragng,
the catch at latest reports being very small.
This has had the effect TO advance the price Of
whalebOne rs cents a pound 10 S3.-James
Armstrong, of Loure, Can. Il well-to-do farmer,
aged 60 years, fell in love with maiden Of 76
Summers, who rejected his suit. Thereupon he
made his will, bequeathing her ali his property,
ana then hanged himself-The longest clock
pendulum in the world is at Avignon, France.
Ii is 81 feet long, and requires four and a half
seconds 10 swing through an arc of nine and a
half ieet.--ln an Indian mound near Oak
land, Ind. was unearthed recently a stone wall
10 feet square. Within were five or six skele-
tons, three copper vessels filled with 80 pounds
of rich silver ore, a copper AK weighing Is
pounds attached TO a stone handle, and num-
Der of stone hatchets.-A little elephant in a
travelling menagerie took great dislike TO the
lion, and the other night IN Vallejo Cal. got
loose, grabbed the king Of beasts by hind leg,
and tried 10 pull him through the bars of the
cage. The uproar that followed was tremen-
dous and IL required the whole Of the circus force
TO get the little fellow away and chain him
fast. The lions leg was badly wIenched.-
eli Whitney Blake, inventor Of the Blake
stoue-crusher, and a nephew of the late Eli
Whitney, inventor Of the cotton-gin, died last
week at New Haven, Conn, aged 9l.-A year
ago lockwood found ready market at 500 a
ton. Now the market is duh at 500. The
bursting up Of the skating-rin bubble did the
business. - Gen. Arthur NJ. Manigault, q
prominent ex-Confederate officer, Adjutanu and
] Inspector General Of South Carolina, died al
Georgetown, in that State, Saturday afternoon
after a short illness.--Mrs. Ann S. Stephens
the well-known novelist, died at Newport, X
J., on Thursday, aged %. She was married in
1863, her husband being printer, Of Plymouth
/ Mass