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SEVERE HAIL-STORMS.
Crops Almost Totally Destroyed
Killed by Lightning.

Crops Almost Totally Destroyed
Killed by Lightning.
Ruin and desolaton mark the course Of
hail-storm through the section ten miles
southwest of Kankakee, Ill. The storm moved
in path thres 10 four miles wide, destroying
every species of vegetation in its path. Lux
uriant fields Of corn, six feet high, were cut
close t, the. ground. Timothy and cats were
moved down a. though the harvester had
passed through them and scores of farmers
are raking up these crops which have never
felt the touch of sickle. Not only are
these crops cut to pieces by hail, but they are
in many cases fairly pounded into the ground
On many farms 81 would be a big price
for the remnants of last seasons laborS.
Every window on the north side of the
buildings on the tIa;k Of the storm is riddled
Houses and barns were unroofed and stock
killed. Adam Fritz, in Pilot Township. was
struck by lightning and killed. In Essex
Miss Kate Shannon was Frustrated by a bolt
which passed down the chimney Of the house
and seriously injured.
An electric storm, accompanied by hail
and rain, passed through Dixon, ILL.,, and vi
cinity, doing great damaSs to crops of all
kinds, especially fruit. Buildings have been
blown down in various places throughout
the county.
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district urging legislation In the interest Of
labor, which was referred. The Joint reso-
luton directing the payment Of the surplus
in the Treasury on the public debt came up.
Mr.. Morrison Qll.) said that all the money
in the country amounted to 81, ,556, ,000, ,00O;
Of this S525, ,000, ,0)0, ,or moe than one-third
of all the money in the country, was in the
Treasury at the time the joint resolution
was introduced Mr.. His,ock. IN. Y.)'
a declaration that United States bonds
should be paid in silver dollars. and that the.
world would so understand it. What had
induced the Democratic party here, he asked
to antagonize the Administration which
it had placed in powera Mr.. Morrison
suggested that it was none OF
Mr.. Hiscock's business. Mr. Warner (OhioJY
offered an amendment providing that when
ever the circulating notes Of national banks
the Treasury shall eau Q to be issued in the,
place of such notes United States notes as
hear as may be in denominations Of those
cancelled Mr.. Weaver Qowg offered an
10 $5O,0OO,0O0. Z
166TH DAY.-The House went into Com
mittee Of the Whole for the consideration Of
the surplus resolution. Mr.. Morrison GIL Of
fered the following amendment: "The sur
pluS VI Oh W oudll D0 tu0s
available surplus ascertained according to-
the form Of the statement of the United
States Treasury Of the assets and liabilities
of the Treasury Of the United States, em-
ployed June 80, 1885, Mr.. Hewitt IN. W
opposed the resolution. Mr.. =. Randall
spoke in its favor. Mr. Mckinley
moved to recommit the resolution with
instructions to the Committee or,
Ways and Means to report it back with the
amendment previously offered by him. Lost
yeas, 118; nays, 153. The joint resolution
was then passed-yeas, 2O7; nays, 81. Thir.
teen Democrats voted in the negative and
si1ty-one Republicans in the affirmative.
167TH DAY.-Mr. Holman Qnd.) submitted
q conference report on the Legislative Ap-:
preparation bill. Without, action, however,
the Htuse at o'clock took q recess
until o'clock. AT the night ses-
sion the House passed the following
bills reported from the committee on labor:
To prevent the employment OF convict
labor and alien labor upon public build
ings and other public works: amending the
act to prohibit importation AMI immi-
grafton Of foreigners and aliens under
contract or agreement to perform labor
in the United States; to protect me-
chanics, laborers and tradesmen Of
the District Of Columbia in their
wages; the Senate bill providing for the pay
ment Of per diem wages to government en.
ployes on Decoration day and the Fourth OF
July; directing the Commissioners of Labor.
to make investigation in regard to convict;
labor in the United States.
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NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.

MIGUEL CHAcoN, q young Cuban negro,
was hanged on the eth in the New York
Tolnbs for the murder of Mrs. Maria VIII
liains.
4 GREAT fire has been raging in the White
Mountains. Eight houses and large amount
Of cordwoo1 have been burned. The loss is
estimated at $4,000.
A vENTUREsoME Philadelphia has been
taking q ride through the whirlpools OF
Niagara Falls in a barrel. He made the dan
gerous trip safely.
r. PORTER LEE, serving since 1882 in the
Buffalo Penitentiary on ten years sentence
for emhezzling funds of the First National
Bank of Buffalo, of which he was President,
has been pardoned by President Cleveland,
who was one Of the witnesses for the prose
cution.
REAR ADMIRAL REED WERDEN, who re-
tired from active service in the United Staten
Navy in 1877, died the other day at Newport
R. l., in his sixty ei shth year.
ADRIAN CRUcY and his sister Lucie, the
last of devoted French family that had
lived for many years in one house on Lex
ington avenue, New York, were found dead
in their home few days since, having com.
mitted suicide by shooting themselves.
Adrian was commission merchant, fifty
one years old; his sister was fifty nine. No
reason was assigned for the act.
J. DE RIVERA g. Co.. large New York
sugar house, have failed for a heavy
amount.
[. SOME fifty tanneries at Salem and Pea
body, Mass, closed on the 18th in conse-
quence of an attempt to reduce hours Of
labor. About 5000 men were idle.
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TIE NATIONAL GAME.

THERE is boom in baseball in the South.
JERSEY CITY's colored pitcher is doing fns
work.
THE Detroits have lost few games on their
own grounds. ~
THERE are 1O2 players under contract IN,
tue Southern League. $
YOUNG HANDIBoE, the Pittsburg pitcher,
| is making fine record.
THE Virginia Baseball Association has been;
admitted to the National agreement.
PITrsBURa is the first Association club tos
be whitewashed twice in succession. this sea-
son. -
ORouRKE, Anson and Connor are running
great race to lead the League In the bat.
ting.
SMITH and Decker, the new battery Of the.
Detroits, were purchased from the Macon
| (Ga.) Club. .. Sc
The Association pitchers still hold their
own in batting. Or the first ten batters nyes
are pitchers.
IN the League It Is q close race between
Detroit Chicago and New York for the
championship.
BROWNING, tho leading batsman OF the
American Association, has been suspended
indefinitely for bad playing -
RADBoURN, of Boston, Is rapidly gaining
! his old form. In the last II games only sS-
hits have been made of his delivery.
THERE is growing demand for National
| League Of umpires. Until this Is brought
about umpires will always be in hot water. z
The Atlantas have to their credit nearly
| 225 stolen bases for the present season. TINS
is more than any other club In the country
! has
THE two youngest League clubs, the Wash
| ingtnnS and Kansas Citys, have played Two
, Of the longest and best games OF the League,
series. :l
LATHAM has made more runs for the ST. q
| Louis Club this season from base hits eban
any other player in the American Assocla', !,
ton. ~.
Or the leading Southern teams threat
| lanta, Nashville and Memphis-have the ad-
vantage of finishing at home with sixteent
straight games.
HINES, OF Washington, and Rowe and
Richardson, of Detroit, are the only men ~
the League who have batted for total OK
ten in one game.
TaE New Yorks won nine Of the twelve
games which they playei on their last west
eru tour, their defeats being one in Chicago /;
and two in Detroit 80
PITCHER SroGG, of the Yale Club, struck
out ninety. y.three in uine games, an average
OF over ten to game. he Is 10 reHain IL
college two years longer.
JUST think of it, left fielder to put oui
ten men in ons game. That's what Jones, OF
he Cincinnatis, did in ST. Louis recently.
We are under the impression, says Sporting
Life, that this has never been equa!ed In
professional base ball ..
THE Boston Courier strongly insists that :.
"there is no second baseman who can COM
nare with Burdock in all-round play. There
are PLAYERS who make less errors, but for
accuracy and plays that require auicknesss
especially double plays, he has no Superior"
IT may be noticed that the pitching Is be-.
coming more effective and the batting lighter.
This is due to the fact that the pitchers gen.
orally have found their gauge and know ex'
actly the stuff their supporters are made OF.
They have learned the weakn ,ss and strength.
of opposing teams have discovered just where.
to insert the wedge of science and skill anG
arc therefore more effective.
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The Chicago Tribune remarks tn

The Chicago Tribune remarks that
''there are plenty of men who know
good thing when they see it, but few,
very few, can tell good cigar when
they see one, or even when they smoke
it. This fact is not generally known,
and numbers Of smokers will be loath to
believe it, but it is nevertheless true. No.
expert dealer will dare to bet on cigar
as to whether it is a Havana or q domes-
tic one. The imagination works exteu-
sively in the smoking of a cigar, and a
person used to reveling in a fve-center
enjoys himself quite as much as the two
for-a-quarter individual, and if the
former were given the latter's cigar he
would turn his nose up in disgust at the
aroma. The popularity of certain cigar
depends upon the smokers liking for
that flavor. To obtain various favo-s
manufacturers have secret combinations
of tobaccos, and these are as numerous
as the Combinations of colors. A sam
pie combination is Pennsylvania filler,
and Havana seed or Sumatra wrapper.
The ten-cent cigar by an honest manu-.
facturer is made up of Connecticut,
Pennsylvania, or Wiscontin binder, q
Havana filler, and Sumatra or Havana
seed wrapper. Havana seed is the seed
OF Havana tobacco brought to, this coun-
cry and grown here. A great many
.igars, however, are sold as Havana
filler when the filler is mixed with do
mestic tobacco. The manufacture Of
these cigars costs much less, but they
suit as well, and buyers seldom know
the difference. The taste in cigars is
most deceptive, and dozen men would
have as many different opinions Of the
same cigar. If the friend to whom you
hand five,ce cigar says, as he always
does, "By jinso, this is fine cigar" do
not think him connoisseur, but base
deceiver. The finest imported cigars
when placed in box labeled ''6ve cents
would be called rank by the smoker OF
fve-centers. Thus cigars cannot sell on
their merits from the manufacturer S
standpoint, and many are sold simply on
the amount of advertising done for them
and these cigars, consumers can rely upon
it, are generally poor, the difference pay
ing for the Advertising"
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

EX-SENATOR WINDOW is lecturinly in the
West on the "Relations of Capital and
Labor"
The president will probably 60 to New
England in the fall His wife wants to see
the Berkshire Hills.
TO one who saw her recently the Empress
Eugene had q cheerful look, though clad
in raiments Of the deepest black.
MONTGOMERY BLAIR, son Of Montgomery,
and G. B. Mcclellan, son of Little Mac"
/ are Princeton graduates this year.
PROFESSOR PROCTOR, the astronomer, is
back in the country. He thinks he will now
take up his permanent abode in st. Joseph,
No
REPRESENTATIVE SYMEs, of Colorado,
has such heavy voice that he is known
among the Indians of his district as Talking
Thunder.
ALTHOUGH DR.. Alonzo Clark, Of New
York, is eighty years of age he is still strong
and active and is the consulting physician
for four hospitals.
SINCE Oscar Wilde's' marriage his dress has
stesdily become les striking, while his vile
has taken to wearing robes of an outlandiSh
If not ridiculous kind.
For singing three songs and joining in q
duet in a recent entertainment given at Lord
potESculllS LouuOu palaCe, hhe' |o'oA ~
ceived fee of 81, 500.
IN single British regiment assigned to
the Soudan LOG men have died within the
last month Pc thence and not the bullets
of the enemy decimate the ranks.
THE oldest man in Congress is John I.
Wait, of Illinois He is seventy-seven years
old, and after filling Ave full terms he IS
again candidate for reelection.
The Barring Brothers, London bankers,
ere nearly as rich and as powerful as the
Rothschiids 1t is half American house
and keeps $50, ,Oo0 600 "ready for instantane-
Gus use."
MRS EZEKIEL WEBSTER, the widow OF
while making on argument in the Concord
Court House in 1929 is still alive and quite
vigorous both in mind and body. She was
present at the recent dedication ceremonies
Of the Webster statue at Concord.
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.

AueUsrrN DALY's New York Company
Is meeting with great success in London.
Mr.. EDWARD SOUTHERN will support Miss
Helen Dauvray in "One of Our Girls" next
season.
RUBINsTE1N, the pianist, made S25, 600 dur.
ing bis recent visit in London. He gave only
eight concerts * ~.
AUDRAN has composed new operetta en-.
titled Indiana" which will shortly be pro-
duced in London.
The Kiralfy brothers are the owners OF
several new comic operas, which they may
produce next season
The leading men for Mr.. Booth and Mr.:
Barrett next season are Charles Barron and
Newton Gotthod respectively.
Miss MABEL JORDAN. an American ac-
t,ess, is creating some stir in London, where
She appeared in Dagenets play, "The Mem
ber for Slocum."
Miss FANNY DAVENPORT opens her next
tour, October 11th, at the Union Square
Theatre, New York, where she will be seen in
q varied rerert,ire.
M. CoouELIN, thu great French comedian,
who is to visit this country next season, has
rendered his resignation to the manager OF
the Comedie Franchise, Paris.
The American Opera Company, which
has just returned to New York after sue
cessful tour, is already making elaborate
preparations for next season.
A REPORT that George Gould, the eldest
SOD of Jay Gould, has gone to Lcudon to
marry Miss Edith Kingdom, Of Daly's Com
pany, excites much interest in New York.
SARAsArE, the Spanish violiuist, refused
500, which was offered him to accompany
Patti in single song at her last concert be-
fore her marriage He demanded $1,000.
THE new opera. lbretto by Charles H:
Ho It, music by Edward Solomon, entitled
1.-THE Maid and Moonshiners," will be pro.
luced in New York early in the autumn.
The marriage of Nine. Nilsson to tho
Count Casa Miranda will take place in Lon
don. Nine Nilsson has already received
many valuable presents from her arIsto-
cratic admirers
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Washington.

COLONEL CHAILLE LONG, who was with
General Gordon during the Soudan CAM
paign, has made written appli. alton for
the Persian mission. Two appointees to this
position since Cleveland's election have re-
signed.
The Senate has rejected the nomination of
John Goode, of Virginia, to be Solicitor-Gen-
eral of the United States, by a vote of %
Republicans to p Democrats. 1t has been
the most important case before the Senate in
executive session, has occupied more time
than any other, and has been more bitterly
contested.
TaE President has vetoed the Senate bill
to provide for the erection Of a public build
ing in the city of Dayton, Ohio, on the
ground that the public business does not re-
quire the Sl50,0C0 asked for.
FURTHER nominations by the President:
Edwin D. Steele, of North Carolina, to be
Register of the Land Office at Evanston, w.
T.; S. e. Boom, of California, to be Register
at Humboldt, CAL; David w. Hutchinson,
Of Pennsylvania, to be Receiver at Bismarck,
Dal-; S. S. Smith, of Dakota. to be Receiver
ct Devils Lake, Dak.: L. Foster Spencer, Of
New York, to be Indian Agent for Rosebud
Agency, Oak.
Asteville, N. c., has been vetoed by the
President
THE Postmaster General has added 453
post offices to the list Of money order offices.
TIE President on the 18th withdrew the
nomination of. John E. Lamb, who has
been nominated for Congress, to be
District Attorney for Indians, and
sent in tho name of OK. United
States Senator David Turpie instead.
Other nominations made by the President
were George c. Munson, to be AS aver Of
the United States at Denver, Col. Postmas-
ters-Augustus r. Griffin, at Hampstead, N.
Y; James Curran, at Hoboken, N. j.. Ed
m,rad Mckinney, at Keyport, N. J.
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The most extravagant method Of COM
hitting suicide yet heard of has just been
invented by French artilleryman sta
toned at the Fontainehleau barracks.
He charged big gun with mitraille
box containing no less than one hundred
and twenty-three large bullets; then he
elevated the gun so that it should be on
q level with his chest, and then, by a
mechanical arrangement, he discharged
it. The experiment was perfectly satis-
factory from scientific point of view,
although probably rather costly to the
state
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Sir John Lubbock, at arecent meeting
of natural science association in Lon
don, exhibited very strange pet. 1t
was tame wasp which had been in his
possession for about three months. 1t
ate sugar from his hand and allowed him
to stroke it. The wasp had every ap-
pearance of health and happiness; and,
although it enjoyed an ''out'ng' occa'
sionaly, it readily returned to its bottle
which it seemed to regard as home.
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South and West.

s'SAMn Archer was hanged at Shoals, Ind,
for participating in the murder of Samuel
Burch Four months ago Archer's father
and two brothers were lynched for the same
crime.
A LoNG-coNTINUED drought has seriously
injured crops in the West.
EIGHTY convicts at work in brick yard
uear Pine Bluff, Ark, made sudden break
for freedom The guards fired upon the
fleeing prisoners, killing three and mortally
wounding fourth. None escaped.
FIFTY people in a population OK 500, COM
prising the village Of Waterford, Wis, are
sick or dying from an epidemic of typhoid
fever. All save the sick and the doctors
have fled from the place.
ONE man was Instantly killed, two fatally
injured and fourth badly hurt by an e1-
plosion in coal mine at Buchtel, Ohio.
CRoP reports from the Northwest continue
unfavorable. Extreme heat and drought
have caused much damage to wheat in many
sections.
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The Rev. ]. H. Munro, of Philadel-
phia, says that the reason why so many
clergymen 60 to Europe every summer
Is that the expenses of the trip are but
little if any more than those covering
summer jaunt in this country; and that
the great advantage is that when once
across the water they are not likely to
be reached on ''any little emergency"
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The strongest intoxicating liquor in
the world is probably the Sham-sho,
used by the natives of Burmah and said
to be made of rice and lime. It is so
powerful that it will dissolve Martini
Henry bullet in thirty minutes. Tenn
pcrance societies are endeavoring to in
duce the government to suppress the
deadly poison.
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1t is not often that a carpet becomes
more valuable with use, but.one that had
been used on the floor OF the assaying-
room of the branch mint in San Fran
cisco proved bonanza on being burned.
A brick of gold and silver weighing be-
tween nineteen and twenty pounds, and
worth $3,223, was obtained from the
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Sheep are being sold at sixpence per
headsin many parts of New South Wales,
Australia. The depression has been
caused by the unprecedented dryness of
the season, and only by the ruinously
low value of wool The prospect in the
colony is considered to be exceedingly
gloomy, but Australian mutton will be
very cheap in Europe.
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The big steamer Great Eastern has
BEEN hired for 100000 for six months
by great English firm of retail traders,
and is anchored in the river Mersey at
Liverpool during the Exhibition. 1t is
used for hotel purposes and for mon.
ster bazaar and entertainment.
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A REMARKABLE RAFT.
3,6OO,OOO, Feet of Logs to be Toweo

$500. 900, Feet Of Logs to be Towed
from St. John to New York.
The most remarkable raft of logs ever put
together is announced to leave st. John,
N. B., for New York. 1t is cigarshaped
cylinder four hundred feet long, with tne
beam and draught of sea-goiug vessel, aud
contains $500, 900 feet Of logs. Its value at
St, John is s35 900. It will be hauled by
regular ocean steamer, which will follow the
coast pretty closely. The success OF the enter
prise will depend on the weather, "A storm
would doubtless cause total loss The obJect
is to save $1,000 duty, sawed timber beng
taxed, while logs enter free
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THE amount of emery stone annually
shipped from Smyrna to Great Britain, the
United States, France, Germany and Bal
GUM averages 1000 tons, the relative guam
tity consumed in each country being in the
order named.
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In London, captive balloons, floating
above business houses, bear announce
nents that they wish to make in big
letters. -.
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HENRY IRVING, who sails for new ..t;ons tors
shortly, has already sem psrsfGGs fsndi to meet
him at dinner at Delnonico's on August ~, w.
He He viii vi be accompanied from EnglanEd1, E1,,os oy
EIGHT or ten friends, among them MISS E.ien
Terry, who will be the guest OF MIS- henf'
Ward Beecher.
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MRS. MARK HOPKINS, the millionaire
widow, has for her factotum young, col
ored man, who manages much of her busI-
Ness and conducts part Of her correspond
ence.
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CAPITALISTS of Los Angeles, CAL, have
established a factory for the manufacture or
rope from the yucca plant, better known as
the Spanish bayonet.
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HOUSEKEEPING GOODS.

Ten pieces (25O yards) Turkey Red Dam
asks. marked down to 29c per yard from
3718c. Cannot be purchased again at this
price.
76 dozen Linen Loom Damask Towels,
24x42 inches, at 1870 each.
Few surplus dozens of Turkish Tidy
Towels at 3Oc each, reduced from 38c.
Small lot 1874 White Blankets at 81 per
pair, reduced from 81 so.
Five pieces (277 yards) of extra heavy Blue
Mixed Flannel at 16c per yard, reduced
from 20c Great value.
Ten pieces (450 yards) White Shaker Flan-
mol at &c per yard.
Atwood Plain Scarlet Flannels at 1870,
19c and 24c per yard, that cannot be match
cd.
Closing out surplus stock of Boys sWhite
Merino Shirts and Drawers at one-half cost
of manufacture They are the celebrated
New Britain full regular made and fashion
ed goods. We shall sell thirty dozen OF
Shirts and Drawers, in sizes 16 and 18 Vests,
16, 1S and 20 in Drawers, at 25c per article,
one-third of actual value.
% Shirts and "a and 26 Drawers-at 371&c
per article.
10 dozen Shirts in % and 80 sizes, and
Drawers in 90, 80 and 49, at Soc per article.
A large line of Children's School Hose
spliced knees, long tops, heavy ribs, white
foot, from 6116 to inches, at 100, reduced
from Csc.