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WEST AND SOUTH.

JONI ZACHAR. the Racine Wis., faster.
on the 4th entered upon the forty
day Of total abstinence from food. He
drank water and took a little medicine. II
was the opinion Of his physician that his
brain was diseased and that he was COM
hitting suicide by starvation.
A STATE convention Of farmers, laborers
and stock raisers Of Texas met at Fort
Worth on the Sd and nominated a State
ticket, with Evan Jones for Governor.
The platform denOunces the Mills bill for
placing wool on the free list, demands the
abolition Of the National Bank system and
the election Of the President and Vice
President by popular vote.
FIRE destroyed the business portion of
Maumee. O. on the 4th.
The business portion of Lake City, Mich,
was burned on the 5th
STORM visited Youngstown. O., on the
5th, washing out culverts and damaging
streets. The little son Of James Davey
was drowned
THOMAS BRODERICK, J. A. Bowles and
John @ Wilson were arrested on train
when near Chicago on the 9Th on the
charge Of being engaged in a plot to blow
up with dynamite the Chicago, Burlington.
< Quincy Office buildings in that city. Tie
mon were said 10 belong 20 the Brother
hood Of Locomotive Engineers.
THE Republicans nominated Frank Fin
ley. Of the Eleventh Kentucky district,
for Congress on the 5th.
On the 5th {. II. Waters. ". H. Stone and
". Stone. his son, engaged in a quarrel
with pistols al HOLSTER, Col, during which
Walters was killed and the two Stones
were mortally wounded
NEARLY four thousand delegates from all
parts Of the United States were in attend
ance at the opening session in Chicago on
the 5th OF the National convention Of the
Societies OF Christian Endeavor
TIE city directory for lSSS, issued on the
5th, gives Chicago a population Of S70,ooo,
an increase Of 1900 over the previous
Ian
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Horse-Elesh in Corea.

Corean ponies are very diminuttve,
not averaging larger than the Shetland
pony, but now and then a larger one is
seen. The foreigners Of Seoul. how
ever, use Chinese horses almest exclu-
sively. At Tientsin and other places in
China are held what are called spring
races, and hundreds of horses are
brought in from all of Northern China
TO be tried, and of course the vast ma
jority of them do not come up to the re-
quired standard and are Immediately
sold off for what they will bring. One
can then pick up a fine horse for $2Oor
$50. Large numbers have been brought
from there into Corea. They are large
compared with the Corean ponies. but
on the foreign farm which the King
has started here there are two or three
American horses, and they seem gigan-
tic compared with the Chinese horses
even. The roads about Seoul arc not
proper for carriage riding, and so that
has not been generally INTRODUCED, but
one foreign trap has been brought
here and it was first used on the street
about week ago, and in certain parts
of the city and suburbs it can be used
very successfully. II was novel sight
for the Coreans, and on all sides the
queerest explanations were made. One
man thought the harness was a con-
trivance for strapping the horse to-
gether so that he would not fall to
pieces. Not very complimentary
Cor. San Francisco Chronicle.
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FROM WASHINGTON.

ADvICEs of the 5th from General Sheri-
dams along shore sea voyage, en- route for
the Massachusetts coast, represented his
condition Of health as improving and en-
cOuraging.
THE President on the 9th vetoed the bills
granting pensions to Nathaniel ID. Chase
Harriet Cooper. William NJ. Campbell. Jr,
and Julia Welsh. and the bill for the relief
Of Van Buren, Brown.
THERE were l49 business failures in the
United States during the seven days ended
on the 9th, against 20i the previous seven
days. The total Of failures in the United
States from January ] to date is 5,40l
against 5,243 in 1854
AT the General Land Office patents to
agricultural lands were issued during the
last fiscal year as follows: Cash entries,
-. 692; homestead, 15.593; timber culture,
1,343; desert land, 80; scrip, 523; total,
47,1S0 There were also issued 1,024 patents
10 mineral lands, ia TO coal lands and 50 to
private lands under grants.
The exchanges at twenty-six leading
clearing houses in the United States dur
ing the week ended on the 9Th aggregated
$S5p 123 574. against SS26, 414, 057 the previous
week As compared with the correspond
ing week Of 1857 the increase amounted to
IL per cent.
The number Of post-on1ces established in
the United States during the last fiscal
year was 3, 364; number discontinued, l,642;
number of fourth class postIaasters ap-
pointed during the year, II ,S52; number of
Presidential pOstmasters appointed during
the year, 496 Total number of Presiden-
tial post-offices, 2,5O3, an increase during
the wear of ltR
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The News Condensed.
Important Intelligence From All Parts
FIFTIETH CONGRESS.

IHURsDAY, July Sin the Senate the
conference report on the Agricultural
Appropriation bill was concurred in. A
bill to make the manufacture. preparation
or sale Of adulterated articles of food,
drink or medicine misdemeanOr punish
able by fine and Imprisonment was intro
duced. Messages were received from the
President yetoing three private pension
bills. Adjourned to the 9th. In the House
bills were reported TO authorize the APP
p0intment Of an assistant Secretary of the
Navy and to perfect the quarantine serv-
ice Of the United States. The Senate
Land Forfeiture bill was discussed.
FRIDAY, July 6-The Senate was not in
session In the House the Land Grant
Forfeiture bill was passed. If it becomes
law il will forfeit fifty-four million
ares The debate on the Tariff bin was
resumed, and the only changes made were
TO restore the present duty on wood
screws, pen knives and razors, and fixing
the duty on new printing type at fifteen
per cent. adj valorem.
SATURDAY. July There was no ses-
sion Of the Senate. In the House the SEN
ate bill providing for the sale Of the site of
Fort Omaha. Neb., and apprOpriating 500
600 for a new site and the construction of
new buildings thereon was passed. The
Tariff bill was further discussed, and the
Offering of an amendment placing sugar on
the free list and proposing 10 pay bounty
for its production provoked an animated
debate but no action was taken
MONDAY, July 9.-In the Senate the
bill 10 amend the Interstate Commerce
act was passed, and a motion to refer to
the Committee on Pensions several vetoed
pension bills was adopted. The PROPOSE
ton TO submit to the people of the several
States a constitutional am sndment q pro
hibit the liquor traffic in the Unitei States
was favOrably reported from the Commit
tee on Education. In the House the
amendment to the Tariff bill placing sugar
on the free list was rejected by a vote of
81 TO los. Another amendment was offered,
which was defeated, placing all sugar and
molasses on the free list
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LATEST MOVE OF The or
George }. Godding Arrested-SiN Men
Now Held for Completely in the Dyna-
mite PIot-The Latest Prisoner "a Mem
Ter of The Brotherhood.

George J. Godding Arrested-SiN Men
Now Held for Completely in the Dyna-
mite PIot-The Latest Prisoner Mem
her of the Brotherhood.
CHICAGO, July 10-George J. Godding,
one of the striking engineers ON the ''Q''
road, has been arrested at Aurora on a
warrant similar to that on which Brod-
erick, Wilson, Bowles, Bauereisen and
Smith were laken last week The
arrest was made by United States
Marshal Marsh, Deputy Burchard and
Assistant Superintendent McGinn, of
the Pinkerton agency. Godding's name
appeared in the warrant on which
Bauereisen was arrested, but he
could not then be found about
Aurora. Godding was brought here
and taken before United States Commits
sioner Hoyne, who, after a statement
from Mr.. Dawes, held the prisoner under
bonds of 5000 to appear next Friday.
Godding made no application to the Broth
erhoOd here for succOr. On that subject
Chairman Hoge said: THE Brotherhood
will take no steps to secure either bail
or attorneys for these men 1t is
none of its business. The order would not
sanction such acts as these men are
charged with, but if it learns that any Of
its members are being prosecuted Il has
money in plenty to spend in their defense"
Godding refused TO make any statement
10 the press, but il is understood that in
the presence of his inquisitors he stead
tasty declared his innocence of any
knowledge OF a dynamite conspiracy,
or completely with any persons
having such an object in view. He is
member of the Brotherhood, belonging TO
Post 81 at Aurora. He has been in the en-
ploy of the Burlington road for seventeen
years.
The arrest of Godding was about the only
thing of interest that transpired in con-
nection with the case. He is the sixth man
arrested. Broderick, Wilson and Bowles
are still IN Jail and their prospects for find
ing bail appear hopeless at present. Chair
man Hoge appears to be making no exer-
ii ons in their behalf. Bauereisen is out on
hail
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Feeding Cows in Finland.

To any one who could be satisfied
with an unvarying diet of fish and
black bread, accompanied by the best
cream and butter that cs.n be found
anywhere. il would be easy 20 satisfy
his wants in any part Of the country.
How the cream and butter come 10 be
so good is a mystery to me, for as
suredly the Finnish cows are the worst
and most scantily fed Of their kind.
What other COW that respected herself
would be satisfied with hay soup in
which the water formed so unfair a
proportion 10 the hay? The most
meager-loOking hay, mixed with the
dried branches Of alder, SINNERS in a
huge iron pot, and one sees the poor
beasts dipping their noses into the I'M
savory broth and fishing cat its sod
dened contents with the evident relish
of hunger. II was complained to me
by resident Of the country that cows
could not be induced TO look upon saw
dust as the staple of their food. How
far he had seriously made the trial
do not know, bat should he ever sue
coed, there viii be a rich prospect for
Finland in dairy farming. -MuyTays
MAGAZINE.
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EQUAL to the Emergency.

Brunswick. Me, is getting ready 20
celebrate its 10th anniversary, and
already stories OF the early days OF the
town are being set aioat. Here's one:
Mr.. William Walker, Of Falmouth,
and Miss Sibyl Staples, Of Topsham,
were to be married. They were on the
Topsham side of the river. and on the
Brunswick side was Rev. John
Miller, the minister who was to per-
form the ceremony, and between them
rolled the raging waters swollen by the
sudden spring thaw. The minister
couldn't get to the anxious couple and
they couldn't get to him. But he was
equal to the emergency. Standing on
the edge of the bank. ne sent his pow
erful voice across the stream, and
William and Sibyl joined hands and
made the proper responses, and were
duly pronounced man and wife.-N 7,
Sun.
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HEWITT FOR PRESIDENT.
The American Party Disposed to Honor
New Worries MAYOR. WHO DeclInes.

The American Party Disposed to Honor
New Yorks Mayor, who Declines.
SAN Francisco, July 9.-At the session
Friday of the American party delegates
at-large to the National convention were
elected as follows: p. d. Wigginton, Frank
NJ Pixley, Victor j. Robertson and Alfred
Doggett. A resolution was adopted pledg
ing the support OF the convention to May
or Hewitt, of New York, if he will accept
the nomination of the party for President
of the United States.
NEW YORK, July 9.-Mayor Hewitt on
Friday had shown to him the dispatch from
San Francisco stating that the American
party convention of California had in
dorsed him as its candidate for the Presi-
dency of the United States In answer to
a question as TO what reply he had to make
he said:
~ am prepared to say I would not accept
any nomination for the Presidency undcr any
circumstances. l am 65 years OF age and have
made a fool of myself great many times dur
ing that long period, but l am not going to
make such a fool of myself as to accept a
nomination for the Pres dency. l have
bad manners and a bad temper, and am apt
TO speak quickly, but l am often misrepre-
seuted that l think have some excuse aIn
only anxious TO discharge my duties here and
then be allowed the peace of a private citizen
am not after any omination Tam after do
ing my duty, as the bishman said, 80 Car 80
understand 1t, and after nothing eiss.S
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE,

A FIRE destroyed tho ~Iterde Bouffes
at Bordeaux, France, "a the Sd. Loss
sos, 900.
The Government of France on the 5tf
gave its assent to a lottery loan of 81, 200, O0C
TO aid the sufferers from the locust plague
in Algiers.
ALONG the line Of the Canada & Atlantic
road between Montreal q Ottawa forest
fires wero raging on the 9Th Eighteen
miles of track had been destroyed, and
many cars, houses and mills had beer
burned.
AT Glasgow an Irish demonstration was
held on the 9Th TO protest against the i'm.
prisonment of John Dillon
In the markct-place in Athens many
shops were burned on the sth, involving {
loss of $50, 900
OK the 9TH the steamer Vile de Brest
collided with and sank the steamer Charles
Quint at Havrc, and four of her crew wer,
drowned.
THE town OF Berbera, on the Gulf o.
Alden, was recently burned, and forty per
sons persisted.
The public debt of Canada June 80 wa'
SlSI. 32l, SIS, compared with s273, 1S7, 60
June 80, lSSs-an increase of IS, 1874, 321 fol
the fiscal year just ended.
FROM Belleville to Kingston, Ont, al
earthquake shock was felt on the 9th
Houses were rocked and the people were
greatly frightened.
IL the East river of China the heavies
rains known in one hundred years pre-
vailed recently. The town of Shikhung
the chief sugar mart of the province, hat
several times been flooded and many per
sons drowned.
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pITH AND PoIrIT.


"A work prospers through endeav-
ors, not through Vows.
Be brief, for it IS with words as
with sunbeams, the more they are
condensed, the deeper they burn
SoHthey.
Success secures the appreciation of
the world, for, as the wise man says,
MEN will praise thee when thou doest
well for myself"
If you would find great many
faults, be on the lookout. If you would
find them in still greater abundance.
be on the look-in,
Laughter and tears are meant to
turn the wheels of the same machinery
of sensibility; ono is wind-power the
other water-power.
Be pleasant and kind to those
around you. The man who stirs his
cup with an icicle spoils the tea and
chills his own fingers.
Women do a good deal of talking
in lifetime, that's fact. but we have
observed that the men generally seem
10 be willing to listen to what they
say OmcrUilic journal.
He is brave man who dares to
ask wOman's age. but he is Drawer
who, on being told it, informs her that
she is not so old as she looxs.-B Boston
Courier.
john Ruskin, in n recent lecture at
Oxford, declared that 1.-The whole
meaning and power of true courtship
is probation, and it ought not to be
shorter than three years at least,
seven being the more orthodox time
They are most fortunate who soon
est learn to expect nothing for which
they have not worked hard, and who
never acquired the habit OF pitying
themselves overmuch, il ever in after
life they happened to work in vain
MaeaUlay.
Psychologists have established the
fact that the masculine heart weighs
more and is larger than that possessed
by the fair sex. but it has been equally
well-established that injury to the lat
ter commands the highest damages in
the courts Boston Budget.
The happiness of life depends on
the regular prosecution OF some lauda-
/ BILE purpose or laudable calling, which
4 engages, helps and enlivens all our
/ powers; let those bear witness who,
after spending years in active useful
/ ness. retire to enjoy themselves
Kingsley wrote: MEN must work
and women must weep" But it doesn't
necessarily follow. II some men
would work more. many women would
weep less. 1t is the thinly-clad, half
I starved wife of the man who won't
work that does the most weeping
/ brakes Magazine.
Mr.. Timothy Sead (taking his first
/ meal in a New York dime restaurant)
Give me mutton chop" Waiter
/ (top of his voice) -''Bahl BAH" Mr..
/ Timothy Sead-"And some fresh eggs
and - Waiter "Cluck! Cluckw
I (AIr. Timothy Sead grasps his UNI
brella and fees. PUCK.
1t is very comforting 10 j man who
is just recovering from a lingering ILL
ness, and has just managed to crawl
out to the gate on warm, sunshiny
day to get air, TO have neighbour
come along and shout chcerily,
"Hellol Been away, haven't your
II ad a good time? You are looking
| we'll
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ABOUT EATING GROW.
An Amusing Account of the Origin OF the
Popular Expression.

An Amusing Account of the Origin OF the
Popular Expression.
Having received an inquiry concern
ing the origin of the expression | would
say that the crow has long been the
emblem of contention-as HudibraS
says:
II not-resolve before we go
That you and 1 must pull crow.
The same idea is suggested in Cons
edy of Errors, act third:
Wen pluck a crow together.
In common parlance, eating crow, as
an expression of humiliation, is much
the same as eating humble pie, but evil
IDENTIFY is more expressive. Its origin
is too obscure to be definitely reached.
but it came into use during the late re-
beliion and evidently was born in tho
camp. Many years ago | heard the
late G. p. Disosway. who vas a con
firmed humorist, tell the following
story, which he had received from a
soldier, and also heard il
from Captain Ballou, of the One
Hundred and Fifteenth Regiment:
A private in one of the Pennsylvania
regiments got leave TO go hunting, and
unfortunately shot a tame crow belong
ing TO planter, who happened to come
up just as the bird was killed. The
unlucky hunter had rested his musket
against a tree, and the planter seized
it and. pointing it at the former. eX-
claimed: You can cat that crow or
die There being no escape the hunter
got through with part OF his distasteful
meal, when the planter, relenting, said:
You've done pretty well; here, take
your gun and get of right smart"
The soldier, as soon as he got the piece
in his hands. Immediately turned the
tables by levcling it at the planter, cx-
claiming: Now you eat the rest Of
that crow or I'll shoot you on the spot
There being no escape the thing was
done. In few days the planter had
occasion 10 visit the camp, and as the
soldier recognized him one OF the
officers inquired do you know that
man ?" 20, ye4," replied the planter,
1--WE dined together last week. ~ !.
Cor. TROY Times.
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LATER.


JUDGE GILFILLAN, of the Minnesota Su-
preme Court, on the 10th granted a stay of
execution in the case of the Barrett brother
who were to have been hung at Minneapolis
on the 18th.
In the House on the 10th, i'm committee
of the whole on the Mills bill, amendments
were adopted fixing the duty on rice -four
and rice meal at IS per cent ad valorem,
and fixing the rate of duty ON fax, hacked,
known as dressed lene, at $40 per ton.
THE ninth annual convention of the Pho
tographers' Association OF America met at
Minneapolis on the 10th.
DISPATCHES from New Bedford, Mass, on
the 10th, say that Gen. Sheridan had sew
eral periods of nervousness and restleSSness
during the day. His neral muscular sys-
tenn exh bited fair degree of strength,
but his voice was weak. He was able to
partake of fair amount of food.
THE division and statehood convention OF
Dakota met at Huron on the 10th.
The July crop report issued by the De-
partment of Agriculture gives the general
averages of crops as follows: Winter wheat,
$50; spring wheat, % 9; corn, 90; oats, %. ,;
barley, 81; winter rye, 95.1; spring rye.
e5.S. The European report for July say the
wheat crcp is late and unpromising except
in Russia.
CHAIRMAN HoGE. of the grievance COM
mittee of the Brotherhood Of Locomotive
Engineers, and Chairman Murphy, of the
grievance committee of the Brotherho cd Of
Locomotive Fireman, were arrested at
Chicago on the 10th on warrants sworn ont
by the Burlington officials charging them
with conspiracy in issuing a circular to
Brotherhood engineers advising them to
seek employment on the Burlington road
and to supply themselves with sal soda and
emery for the purpose Of disabling ''Q''
engines. The arrests were made under the
Merritt conspiracy law passed by the last
Illinois legislature, and il convicted the pen
atty i a term of hard labor in the peni.en-
tiary. The hearing was postponed until
the l4th. and they were admitted TO bail in
the sum of 81, 500 each.
A NAPTHA tank in the paint and oil works
of d. E. Armstrong & Co, at Chicago, ex-
ploded on the 10th, instantly killing Alex
ander johnson.
AT Fan Claire, Wis, on the 10th. Mrs.
Margaret Lenfesby stepped in front of a
moving train and was killed.
Mas ELIzABETH SINoSs shot and killed
William Bowling near Douglas, Wyo.. the
other day, having caught him in the act Of
criminaily asSaulting her eight-year-old
daughter. Mrs, Simmons was Immediately
given hssring and discharged from
custody,
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Four Millions Behind.

CHICAGO, July 9.-The Burlington is hav-
ing hard time to make both ends meet.
Its statement of net earnings for the month
Of May, which came to light yesterday,
showed decrease of Ss03,00O, and for
the first five months of 1888 the loss
compared with the corresponding period
last year reaches the astounding total of
a, 1914, III Never in the history of Western
railroads has such a disastrous record been
made by big railway corporation in so
short time The causes of the Burling-
toms unfortunate condition are short crops
last year, reduced rates, and the great en-
gineers' strike, which cost the company
enormously and is not entirely settled yet
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A COINCIDENCE occurs in the ages of
the Presidential and Nice-Presidcntial
nominees in that both Ths-man and
Morton arc older than Cleveland and
Harrison. or the four. Cleveland Is
the youngest. The President was born
in New Jersey in March, 1887. and he
j. consequently tifty-one yeas old.
Harrison comes next. He j. fift--five.
Morton was fun OF nine-year-
old boys tricks when Harrison
was born, and Is now sixty-four
them all He was born in the year
1919
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
A CURIOUS ACCIDENT.
Load of Rags Takes Fire and Gives /.
Ri 0lt

a Load of Rags Takes Fire and Gives.s~
Driver a Fright. Hui
William klovoske, rag dealer, -, even
a curious accident at Appleton. kata2n
driving along in a covered wagon with
load Of rags and miscellaneous waste when
suddenly twas noticed that the outfit was
on fire The proprietor rushed into
neighboring store and got some water, and
after some trouble the incipient confiagra-
tion was put down During the morning
Mr.. Klovoske had made trade by virtue
of which he had become the possessor of
small second hand stove The same was
thrown into the wagon and rags and other
materials as purchased were cast on top of
it. In future Mr. Klovoske will carry his
stoves ON the front seat, where they must
needs be on their good behavior