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An interesting and somewhat startling
assertion is made by a writer in French
agricultural paper. lie has made a COM
parison of animal and steam power, and
asserts that the former is the cheaper
power in France, whatever may be the
case in other countries. In the conver-
sion of chemical to mechanical energy,
ninety per cent. is lost in the machine,
against sixty-eight in the animal. NJ.
Samson, the writer above referred to,
finds that the steam horsepower, con-
trary to what is generally believed, is
often materially exceeded by the horse,
and he believes that for moderate powers
the conversion Of chemical into mechani-
cal energy is more economically effected
through animals than through steam en-
engines.
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NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.

A. CIRCULAR issued on the 1st by Grand
Master Workman Powderly, of the knlSnts
of Labor, and directed to the coal operators
in the Hazelton PENN district, demanded
an increase in the price Of wages or the coal
operatives.
THE fishing schooner Stockbridge, Captain
Olsen, of Gloucester, Mass, with O crew OF
sixteen men, is missing, and 1t is 1eareo mas
been lost, with NIL hands.
OrTo BAUMANN, receiving teller OF the New!
York Dime Savings Bank, has disappeared
with 500, 900 Of shat institutions funds
FIVE more convicts were legally whipped
at Wilmington, Del.
The body of John FL Heine, Knight Of
Labor, was burned the other day in the But
falo (N.Y.) furnace. This makes the ninth
cremation at this crematory.
GOVERNOR PATTIsoN, of Pennsylvania, in
letter to Attorney General Cassidy, calls
attention to the alleged illegal action of the
Anthracite and Trunk Line pools in raising
the price Of coal, and requests that legal az
ton be taken against the various railroads
forming the pool
MERRILL s. HoLwAY, City Treasurer of
Chelsea, Mass, while temporarily insane
committed suicide.
A LARGE crowd of workingmen gathered
at the Cooper Institute in New York, few
nights ago, to ratify the nomination of Henry
George for Mayor. There was much enthuo
siasm, and rolls of paper containing 81, 900
signatures pledged for George were e1hib-
tied.
THE New jersey Republican State Con-
vention, held il Trenton, nominated BenJa-
min Franklin Howey for Governor, and
adopted platform which arraigns the Ma
tional Administration and favors the sub.
mission of the liquor question to the votes OF
the people.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

CHARLESTON, S. c., is daily crowded with
eXcursionists.
THERE are six thousand bee-keepers in the
State Of Iowa.
MIGRATORY birds are going South month
earlier than usua, land an early winter Is pre-
dicted.
CHURCHES in this country are estimated
to 81, 700 gallous of wine every year tor
sacramental purposes.
OK the ancestral farm of Secretary Endt-
colt at Danvers, Mass, is pear tree U.s.
years cid. It still bears fruit every year.
LIGHTNING started conaagration in the
forest of the Yellowstone National farK,
which destroyed immense ira is of timber.
REV. MIR. HARVEY telegraphs Montreal
paper that the reports OF dejtisution IN New
foundland have been greatly exaggerated.
A WELL digger in CISCO, ILL.,, found hollow
log twcnty-elsht feet below the surlace u
the ground, and in the log vigorous frog.
A FLOCK of sheep got on the tracks Of the
Grand Trunk ka lway near Fergus, Canaaa,
and train daShel through them, klllEg SIX
ty-two.
If Daniel Pine, of Paw Paw, IL. lives un-
til December be will be one hundred years
old. Meantime be amuses himself by hoeing
and saving wood.
A. the recent State fair in Iowa, Mrs. G.
E. Barron and her daughter, Of Des Moines,
Won over hundred premiums and prizes for
needle and fancy work.
The Peruvian Government has issued
decI ee that Chinese residents III that coun-
try shall enjoy all the rights and privileges
conce Tel to other colonists.
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as an organization, is not in any way respon-
sible for such conduct He is the true Knight
Of Labor who, with one hand clutches an
archy by the throat, and with the other
strangles monopoly.
ut is tie duty Of every Knight Of Labor to
assist in creating healthy public opinion on
the subject of labor, and the justice Of its
receiving full and just share of the values
or capital it has helped to create. In this
work we seek the cooperation Of all right
minded, honest men,"
After reading his address, Mr.. Powderly
explained that he had asked Delegate Farrell,
Of Assembly 40, to introduce him, because he
wanted it to 60 forth to the world that the
organization would not discriminate in color,
or creed, or nationality, and that he honored
Assembly 49 for going with the colored dele
gate after they had been refused entertain
ment at hotel in Richmond because one Of
their number was colored. This announce
ment was received with applause.
At II o'clock the chair requested the hall
cleared Of all save delegates, and the Assem-.
bly, was closed to the outsiders. After ap-
pointing a committee on credentials and
committees for other purposes the Assembly
adjourned till o'clock the next morning.
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LATER NEWS.

WAGES Of the miners in the Lehigh PENN
coal region have been advanced two per
cent.
Four men were instantly killed and fifth
| fatally injured by an explosion of giant
powder near Deadwood, OAK.
LATER reports put the number of dead by
the destruction of the Mississippi steamer La
Mascotte, near Cape Girardeau, No., at
TWENTY-FIVE, with about fifteen persons mis-
sing.
GENERAL JOHN B. GORDON has been
elected Governor of Georgia. There was no
opposition to the State ticket headed by
General Gordon.
Mrs. CLEVELAND returned to the White
House on the 9Th after few days visit to
Buffalo.
TIE White House is again besieged daily
by host of visitors.
A COLUMN of British troops sent to relieve
the surrounded garrison at Myotheit in Bur
nah discovered on the march the bodies OF
several British messengers who had been
crucified
PRINCE MoLIsTANI, member OF we'll
known Neapolitan family, committed suicide
in Paris after seeing his name posted as de-
faulter at his club because Of his failure TO
pay his losses at gambling.
FOUR more of the New York Doodle Al.
dcrmen of 1851 charged with accepting
brides for granting charter to the Broad
way Horse-car Company are about to be
tried. Alderman Jaehne is serving out his
sentenc, in Sing Sing and several others OF
the indicted City Fathers have fled to Cana
da or Europe.
COLORADO Democrats have nominated
Rev. Myron W. Reed, Congregational
preacher, for Congress
The motion for u new trial in the case Of
the eight Anarchists condemned to death at
Chicago has been denied.
ROBBERS broIe into Catholic Church at
Notre Dame, Ind, and stole from the altar
two golden crowns Of great ralue-one the
votive iering of the ex-Empress Eugene,
the other the devotional gift of Mrs. General
Sherman.
PRAIRIE fires have done immense damage
in Northern Dakota.
TIE fifty-sixth semi annual conference of
the NJ ,rmon Church, held at Coalville, Utah,
was attended by 40J delegates. The policy
of the priesthood in favor of polygamy was
vigorously upheld in letter from First Presi-
dent John Taylor, issued from his hiding
place.
GENERAL JACKSON, United States Minis
ter to Mexico, having been recalled, has re-
turned with his wife to Savannah.
THE Queen Regent of Spain has signed
decree freeing the slaves in Cuba from the
remainder of their term of servitude.
GREAT prairie fires have been raging in
Manitoba. Around Morden scores of set
tiers have lost all they possessed, including
barns and live stock.
FRIENDLY natives assaulted aud carried
Tamai, Osman Dignla's old stronghold in the
Soudau. Two hundred rebels were killed
and many prisoners were taken.
SENATORS LAFAYETTE and General Grevy,
the French Presidents brother, will repre-.
sent the French Senate at the ceremonies at
tending the unveiling of the Statue Of Lib.
erty at New York.
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A well-known married lady in Grant
County, Oregon, according to a paper
from that neighborhood, has during the
past spring and summer done good job
of farming. When plowing time came
this enterprising mother constructed a
box on the plow in which to carry her
baby, and thus she plowcd the ground.
She then proceeded to harrow, plant and
cultivate, carrying her child on her back,
and in this way has produced fine crop,
and is now engaged in carting the truck
to neighboring town and disposing of
it. What can beat this2
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II was down in South Carolina during
all of the earthquake troubles" said a
commercial traveller, land never again
want to be a witness of such scenes as /
saw there. I'll not attempt to describe
the incidents to you-thcy have already
heen sufficiently touched upon in the
papers. But there is one little phase of
the thing which the newspapers have not
even mentioned. You know business was
suspended in Charleston. All Of the stores
excepting grocery and provision stores
were closed The banks were not open.
The theaters closed their doors. Even
the newspapers suspended publication
for an issue or two. But the day after
the first terrible quake happened out by
the baseball grounds, and I'll be blamed
ifthere wasn't two clubs in there a-play.
ing and quite crowd sitting on the
benches cheering the players. looked
through crack in the fence and just
then another earthquake shock came.
The umpire motioned to the players to
go right along, bat the pitcher who was
then in the box asked to have the game
called for a few moments because the
home plate was wobbling so he couldn't
put the ball in straight. The umpire ac-
cedcd to this reasonable request, and af-
ter delay of ten minutes heard the
umpire call out: 'Play ball-batter up"
Then left, satisfied that baseball is the
one American institution which even an
earthquake can't knock out"
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AMERICAN SILK CULTURE.
Commissioner Colman'S Expert
mcnts with Native Cocoons.

Commissioner Colman'S Expert
mcnts with Native Cocoons.
At its last session Congress made an appro-
priation to enable the Commissioner Of Agri-
culture to test the most improved machinery
for converting silk cocoons into raw silk.
The Commissioner is now setting up in one
Of the department buildings Of Washington
six Scrrcll automatic silk reels, which he pro-
poses to operate during the coming year.
The Commissioner some time ago issued
circular +, cocoon raisers, informing them or
his readiness TO purchase their products.
These cocoons are now being receive gener-
ally in small lots. Some of them are pro-
nounccd by tho expert Italian employed by
the Agricultural Department to be better
than the European average Last year we
imported. duty free. nearly SD, ,O0). .0u0 worth
of eeled silk. IL the cocoons which entered
into t;lis silk had been pro iuced in this coun-
try it would have added $4,000, 0Ol to the
income of our farmers, and would have
required nearly 12,O0l persons to operate
the machinery ne esSary to convert than
into raw silk. The department officials hope
for tho ultimate success Of their efforts to
demonstrate the practicabi!ity Of reeling the
six econolni ally in tho United States.
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More and more japanese arc coming to
this country every year, and they are
usually OF an excellent order. They are
mostly between fifteen and twenty-five
years old, and of the middle class, such
as farmers, shopkeepers. etc. All of
them are to an extent educated when
they arrive, in consequence of the com.
pulsory law of education in the empire.
Their chief object in coming is to gain a
complete education and to study the
manners and customs of the Republic,
which they rightly regard as very prac.
tical. A large part of them, on their re-
turn, obtain rcmunerativc employment; !;
the fact that they have scrvel an ap-
premiership in the United States putting
q premium on their services. According
to the New York Commercial Adoertissr,
"the bulk of japanese on our soil will
compare most favorably with the native
inhabitants of the same grade. They
are, as rule, far moro gentle, consider
ate, polite and wonderfully apt in &C.
quiring new ideas. They have made
more progress in the last half century
than any people under the SUM-"
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A A vel. digger in CISCO, ILL.,, found a

A well-digger in CISCO, ILL.,, found a
hollow log twcnty-eight feet below the
surface of the ground and in the log a
vigorous frog. 1t has been scarcely a
week since that frog was blasted out of a
solid rock in Nevada and little more
than a fortnight since some philanthro-
pist released him from q cake of ice in
Vermont. And yet we recognize him as
the same old frog that has been turning
up for twenty years or more in similar
predicaments in all parts of the coun-
try. The only thing about him that has
struck US as peculiar is how he manages
to get over so much territory at such
short intervals.
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THE NATIONAL GAME.

TIE Washington Club has had thirty-fys
players under contract this season.
TIE baseball season of 1887 will probably
be still more interesting than the preseat one.
IT is understood that the New Yorks will.
,ave duplicate team next year from which,
10 draw in case Of sickness or injury to l.
regular men.
IT Is said that the Southern League next
yeason will be composed Of Nashville, Menu
phis, New Orleans Atlanta, Charleston, Mo-
bile, or possibly Birmingham.
THERE is some talk of league next sea.
son that will include Hartford, Meriden,
Waterbury, Bridgeport, Danbury, Pough-
keepsie, Newburg and Kingston
THE st. Louis Browns have won the series
from every Association club except the
Louisvilles The Chicagos have won the
series from every League club.
TIE salaries to be paid to Washingtonis
'tBig Five" next year, according to the Hart
Gilmore Sl,750, Schock Sl,750 and Henry
sl,SOO Hayes is receiving s4OO per month.
THE Newark Eastern League Club has this
season met and defeated the Detroit, Boston,
Philadelphia, st. Louis and Washington.
League clubs, and the st. Louis, Cincinnati,
PittSburg, Louisville and Athletic American
Association clubs
DETROIT now leads the League in batting,
and New York in fielding. Chicago is sec
ond in batting and fourth in fielding, yet IS.
first in the League rare. Fine base-running
and good work in tho pit, hers box have
placed Chicago in the lead.
THE married and single ladies Of Gilmore
Penn, recently played game of ball in aid
Of church fund Se;en innings were
played, the married defesting the single
ladies by score of 25 to II. The decisions
of the lady umpire were not seriously dis
puted.
In game at Dallas Texas, between Dal.
las and Abilene Clubs Harry Reed, first
baseman Of the Dallas Climb. had both bones
of his left leg broken between the knee and
ankle. He had batted swift grounder to"
third base, whence it was felded to first to
cut him off. Berry, tbs first basenan Of the
Abilenes, stood on the base line and tripped
Reed
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Foreign.


VIOLENT earthquake shocks have occurred
throughout Thuringia and other parts Of
Central Germany.
The state Of siege which has been main
taiuei in Russia since the assassination Of
Car Alexander II. has, by an imperial de-
cree, been continued in ten provinces, includ-
ing St. Petersburg and Moscow.
A FRIGHTFUL explosion has occurred at a
colliery, near Wakefield, England. Seven
men have been found dead, eight have been
rescued and seventeen are missing. In all
probability the missing seventeen lost their
lives
PIRATES alta ked tile escort of the
French Tonquin Frontier Commission, kill
ing two officers and eleven men.
Two MEN convicted of murder were gull
lotined the other day in Paris.
GENERAL VILLACAMPA and five other
officers convicted Of taking part in the recent
military uprising at Madrid were condemned
to death.
ALL Of the Spanish revolutionists who
were sentenced to death have been pardoned.
A volcanic eruption has occurred on the
island of Niapu, one of the Tonga group in
the Pacific Ocean. The whole island is now
covered with volcanic dust to depth Of
twenty ieet Every village on the island,
which has a population Of 500, has besu de-
stroyed. The iuhabit ints csca-ed
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Washington.

THE total coinage for September was
5000, ,S55, of which S2, 010,S16 was gold and
$2,92T, 1S5 silver; balance minor coins.
PosTMAsTERs appointed by the President:
Walstne P. Eddy, at Columbus. Kan; Noble
P. Howard, Jr., at Greenfield, Ind. John
W. Hingeley, at Barnesville, Ohio.
The President has directed the suspension
of Bel thold Greenebaum, United States Con-
sui at Apia, Samoa.
THE distribution Of the new 81 silver GER
tifcates has begun.
MF- BENEDICT, the newly appointed Pub
lie Printer, has been making large reductions
in the force of the Public Printing Office.
ADDITIONAL appointments by the Presi-
dent: James A. Hanlon, Of New York, to
be Collector of Internal Revenue for the 2Sth
District of New York. Postmasters: Con-
rad Durkes, Franklin Grove, ILL.,; Edward
Fay. Moorehead, MIMI; S. S, Harvey, Cen
treville, Ark; John Hornestein, Boone,
Iowa; G. G. Dodman, Washington, Iowa;
D. W. Neagley. Millersburg, Penn.
THERE are now outstanding SEQ, 139, ,952 in
standard silver dollars, being the largest
amount of that CON in circulation since their
issue began.
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PARDONED BY MISTAKE.
Spanish Rebels Owe Their Lives
an Official Blnndcr.

8panish Rebels Owe Their Lives t
an Official Blnndcr.
The true story of the pardoning OF the
Spanish insurgent leaders has just leaked out,
says London dispatch. At meeting of
the Cabinet in Madrid it was resolved that
the dea:h sentence of the court martial
should be confirmed. An under sec
retary to whoE, Premier Sagasta
whispered the decision misunderstood the
hurried remark, and going out announced
to the crowd which hal assembled to await
the verdict that the prisoners had been par
doned. The newspaper men rushed off and
telegraphed the news to al parts of the
country.
Senior Sagasta, as soon as he learned OF the
mistake OF the Under Secretary, deSpalred OF
stopping the kilograms, but tsent correction
to al! the newspapers The press, however.
did not believe in the correction, thinking that
the Cabinet wished to keep the pardon secret
until after the convening OF the Queens
Council. and published the pardon as authen-
tic. The Sccretary's blander has saved the
insurgents lives.
At Spanish Cabinet Council Quean
Christina signed Il decree committing the
sentences Of the condemned insurgents. They
are the military officers who took part in the
recent uprising ut Madrid.
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The slow but sure processes of the
last few years looking to the extinction
of the American buffalo have been a
source of regret. The National Museum
at VS., y .sniny;vG, reelizrSG relizS that the mattel
of extinction was merely question OF
time, recently sent the chief taxidermist,
Mr.. William T. Homaday, to obtain
specimens for preservation before it was
too late. 1t is believed by the best author
tiles that there arc not more than 100
buffalocs in the whole of Montana out
side of the National Park, where there
are probably 200 or 800. The party
started from Fort Keogh, crossed to Big
Dry River, and then followed Big Tim
Der Creek and Mussel Shell River. It
was believed that by so doing all of the
buffalo feeding-ground would be trav-
ersed. A small herd of dozen or more
is known to be in Southwestern Dakota.
That the buffalo has practically disap-
peared from our praries may be inferred
from the above. Skins of buffalo heads
are now held by Dakota taxidermists
at $50 each, and it is safe to assume
that they have given up hopes
of obtaining more. Mr.. Homaday has
been quite successful in his trip and has
secured some specimens for the museum.
1t is wonder that some steps are not
taken by private or public enterprise to
preserve from utter extinction an animal
80 useful. 1t is said that the quality of
the hair can be greatly improved by cul-
tivation and proper breeding, and it
would seem that some steps taken in time
might prove most advantageous ulti-
mately. In this connection Science notes
that Mr.. S. L. Bedson of Manitoba be-
came possessed Of young buffalo bull
and four heifer calves, which have so in
creased that he now has eighteen
bulls, twenty-five cows, and eighteen
calves, which are all thoroughbreds. On
crossing with ordinary cattle the half
breed possesses the characteristics of the
thoroughbred, save color. On crossing
q thoroughbred bull with half-brced
COWS he has grown three-quarter breeds
closely resembling the buffalo, the head
and robes being the equal if not superior.
Experiments to improve the flesh are
now in course, and it is expected to full
ly develop in the new animal the strong
noints of noble head, pelt, and flesh. -
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The Xenia {ohio) Gazette proudly an

The Xenia tohio) Gazette proudly an
nounces that in that neighborhood twen-
ty adjoining farms arc the property OF as
many widows. A person could begin at
sunrise, and, by steady walking from one
farm to another keep going till late in
the day, and not in all that time place
his foot upon an acre of soil absolutely
owned by any man. These farms, in the
aggegate, comprise somewhere in the
neighborhood of 1900 acres. With but
three exceptions the premises are occu-
pied by their respective owners.
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CriDpling Owls.

A farmer tells us that he has for years
saved his chickens from the depreciation
of hawks and owls by sharpening a
scythc blade and setting it on the end of
o pole, standing off at an angle of about
forty-five degrees. The birds of prey
will light on the blade, that trims off
their toes 30 that they cannot carry off
fowls. Cne of these blades will also rid
a field of crows.-Athens (Ga.) Banner.
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A statistic gatherer volunteers this in
formation: Baltimore has fewer colored
people than New Orleans, and 5000
more than Washington. Baltimore and
Washington together have 102, 200 col
ored people, and Philadelphia has 32,-
600; Richmond, Virginia, $4,000; the
little city of Petersburg, $4,000; Charles
ton, $4,000; Louisville, $1,000; New
York city, not 10000.
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1t is suggested that reunion of the
dethroned-or uncrowned--royal per-
sonages of Europe would be an interest
ing event. The group would include
Isabella and Don Carlos, of Spain; Eu-
genie, "Plon-Plon." and the Count de
Paris, of France; the Duke of Cumber-
land (King of Hanover), and Alexander
of Bulgaria.
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Oregon has hale old men. One of
them, the Hon. r. c. Geer, Of Waldo,
aged seventy gears, recently "mowed,"
the account says, one acre of wheat and
oats in two hours and twenty minutes.
Fast work for even young man.
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Statistics, more or less accurate, show
that John Bull is by no means the beef
eater that he is cracked up to be. Eng
ishmen eat but an average of foIty-fve
pounds year, while the Australians
average $50 pounds, and citizens of the
United States 130 pounds.