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Washington.

: THE Acknowledgement has rendered a
opinion in which he holds that a national
bank cannot be established anywhere in the
territory of the five civilized Nations in the
Indian Territory.
THE Secretary of the Navy has notified
Rear Admiral Greer Of his appointment as
president Of board organized for the pur-
pose of considering improved drill and tao
tics, rendered necessary by the advance In
modern naval appliances.
SECRETARY TRACY has issued general
order reorganizing the Navy Department
and assigning new duties to the different
bureaus.
TIE President appointed John G. Watts,
Of Virginia, United States Marshal for the
Western District of Virginia, and James A.
Connolly, of Illinois, United States Attorney
for the Southern District Of Illinois.
DANIEL NJ. RANsDELL, of Indiana, has
been nominated to be United States Marshal
for the District Of Columbia, and Frederick
Douglass, of the District Of Columbia, to be
Minister Resident and Consul General of the
United States to Hayti. Mr.. Douglass is
perhaps the best known colored man in the
United States. He was born a slave, in
Maryland, in 1917.
TIE reduction in the public debt for June
amounted to $15, 100000
THE President has made the following Con-
sular appointments: William T. Sorsby, Of
Mississippi, at Guayaquil, Mexico; Edward
G. Goodenow, Of Maine, at st. Stephens, New
Brunswick; Daniel B. Hubbard, of Massa-
chusetts, at Annaberg, Germany; Hugo NJ.
Starkloff, of Missouri, at Bremen; W. F.
Grinnell, of New York, at Manchester, Eng
land; John A. Tibbits Of Connecticut, at
Bradford, England; Robt. W. Turner, of
Kansas, at Cadiz; NJ. D. Sampson of Kansas,
ct st. John, New Brunswick.
SIR JULIAN PAUNcEFoTE, the British Min
lister, has purchased several acres of fine
farming land just outside of Washington.
This is the first instance on record of
soreign ambassador investing in District Of
Columbia real estate.
The President has appointed Robert 81.
Hunter to be Collector of Revenue for the
Fourteenth District of New York. Mr.. Hun
ter is lawyer by profession, and at present
holds the Office Of Deputy Clerk of the State
Senate. He is q resident of Poughkeepsie, and
was formerly Postmaster Of that city.
MRS. CATTRYNA F. TEMPLE, wife Of Ad-
miral Temple, United States Navy, died Of
paralysis in Washington. She was daughter
Of General Totten, United States Army.
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Foreign.

TEE immense warehouses in Hamburg,
Germany, of Tiegen & Robertson, stored with
oil have been destroyed by fire with all their
contents. The loss amounts to $4,000
THE Princess Maud, youngest daughter of
the Prince Of Wales, has been betrothed to the
Earl of Fife, her fathers bosom friend. The
Princess is not yet out Of her teens while the
Earl is past forty.
THREE bandits were garroted at Clenfue-
gos, Cuba, for kidnapping planter.
PRINCE ALBERT VICTOR, Oldest son of the
Prince of Wales, has been affianced to Prin-
cess Victoria of Prussia, sister OF the En-
peror of Germany.
The French Chamber Of Deputies passed
the Panama Canal Relief Bill.
WHILE the Bersagliers Regiment was
marching at Naples, Italy, a private named
Borrelli in f1t of madness fred upon his
comrades, killing the Major Of his regiment
and wounding Captain and others. The
madman was finally killed with revolver.
WILLIAM O'BR1EN, member of the British
Parliament, has been arrested for the eleventh
time under the Crimes act for agitation In
Ireland.
THIRTY-s1x buildings, with much ma
chinery, were destroyed by fire at Luneburg,
Prussia. The roof Of the st. Nicholas Church
was also destroyed. The loss is So, 600, 900.
Six hundred workmen are thrown out Of
employment
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THE NEWS EPIT0MIzED.
Eastern and Middle States

WALTER HAMP, butcher from Lancas
ter, Penn, murdered his wife at Springfield,
ILL.,, and then committed suicide by shooting
himself
TUN1s LABEE expiated the crime of kill
ing his wife on the gallows at Paterson, N:
j. Labee was but thirty years old, and
leaves wife and child Of six years in Hol-
land. The woman he murdered by stabbln1g
fifty-two times was but nineteen years old
and beautiful woman.
JOHN T. ROBBINS and Henry F. Hall,
trading under the firm name of S. Robbins
& Son, iron and steel manufacturers, Phila-
delphia, have failed. The liabilities are
said to he S120, 1000.
DR.. JOHN G. BROWN, member of the
Pennsylvania Legislature, died few days
ago at atGettysburg.
EUGENE THAYER, Doctor of Music the
eminent New York organist, committed sui
eide at Burlington, VT, by shooting himself
in the mouth.
EDWARD J. PHELPS, late our Minister at
the Court of st. James, delivered the annual
Phi Beta Kappa grafton at Harvard Uniyer-
sity. Mr.. PhelpSs general subject was "ln-
ternational Relations"
The Harvard freshmen beat Yale in the
boat race at New London, Conn. Cornell
was victor in the triangular college contest,
beating Columbia and the University of
Pennsylvania.
YALE easily defeated Harvard In the
four-mile race or the Thames at New Lon
don, Conn.,, winning by from six to seven
boatlengths. Time, twenty-one minutes
thirty seconds.
GEORGE W. WRIGHT, well known busi-
ness man of Philadelphia and the supreme
treasurer Of the Order Of Tonti, was re-
ported to be $40,0 900 short in his account with
that order. He has fed.
The largest deal ever made in the history
of the petroleum trade was consummated re-
Gently in New York city, when the Standard
Oil Company purchased $500, 600 barrels OF
pool oil at 9l11 cents per barrel.
THE Boston limited express wos wrecked at
Ouinripiac, Conn, and Miss Mary A. Brig
ham of Brooklyn, a drawng-room car CON
ductor, and travelling agent were killed.
Seven passengers were seriously hurt.
ISAAC n. WATERBURY died few days ago
in Glenbrook, Conn, tho town Of his birth,
in the seventy-third year Of his age. With
the death of MIR. Waterbury there has passed
away nearly the last Of the number who
made American ships famous all over the
world.
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WORDS OF W1sD0M.
Mockery never degrades the Just.
Onefib is oft the cause of ten more.

Mockery never degrades the Just.
Onefb is oft the cause of ten more. IS -s;
The poorest are the most charitable.
A lie is black even If it is called white,
Let none wish for unearned gold or
honor.
Let nothing be undone which ought tor
be done. ~
Small profits, little risk; large profits,
great risk.
Do not be benevolent with other peo-'
ple's money.
Better to die at the post Of duty than
to live elsewhere. !.
Employ no one to do what you can
easily do yourself.
Whatever power there may be superior.
to nature it is safe to say if man would
prosper he had better be obedient to her.
laws. ..r Il
We often hear the phrase: "Put not
your trust in princes!" quoted from the.
Bible, but the rest of the verse, stfor they;
are men, Is overlooked. 80. u
To be the friend of sovereign you
must be without passion, without ambi-::
ton, without egotism, clear sighted and
far sighted; in short, not o man. 5sr9
A person who is satisfied to appear great
can accomplish it by initiating another
who is really great, from the courage to
act independent and enjoy q conscious
self respect. 80. ,sssE-s,, AZ
INFORMATION IS but the pretence OF
knowledge, for it may convey deception
and untruth, while to know is only posi-
bic by the sense of experience. which Is
never untruthful. 81
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PERILS OF THE RAIL.
Fatal Wreck Caused by a Wash.
out in Virginia.
Other Accidents in Various Parts
Of the Country.

An accident, by which many lives were lost
and q large number of people injured, oc-
CURED on the Norfolk and Western Railroad
at2:30 o'clock in the morning, one mile above
Flaxton's switch and thirty-one miles above
Lynchburg, Va. Rain had been falling almost
continuously and at times very heavily for
twenty -four hours, swelling the mountain
streams greatly.
Several trains had passed over the road
during the night, and it was thought that
the line was safe for traffic. At the place OF
the accident, however, the water had under
mined the roadbed and caused washout
about eight feet long and fifty feet wide. The
water at this point was from eight to ten
feet deep.
Into this watery gulch the engine of pas
senger train made frightful leap while rum
ming at the rate of thirty miles an hour, carry
ing with it the tender and eight cars. AS the
engine struck bottom the rushing Of the water
into the locomotive exploded the boiler. The
force of the explosion threw wrockage in
every direction, injuring some of the persons
on the train and scattering firebrands which
ignited the woodwork of the coaches.
The flames spread and destroyed a large
amount of mail and express matter, besides
spreading panic among the already frightened
passengers 1twas supposed that some OF the
passengers were unable to cXtricatc them
selves from the wreck and were consumed
in the flames.
It was impossible, on the day after the
wreck, to say how many persons were killed,
but the most reliable estimate placed the
number between twenty-five and thirty: Tho
number of wounded was far ia excess of the
number killed. Thirty of the wounded We're
taken to Roanoke, thirteen to Bufordsvile,
and fifty to Liberty.
The adopted daughter of Mrs. Judge
Thompson, Of Augusta County, Va, was
killed Mrs Thompson herself was very
badly hurt. Pat Donovan, the engineer, and
his fireman, q man named Bruce, were
scalded to death by escaping steam. Train
Dispatcher Lipsey was also burned to death.
Among the others who lost their lives were
J. J. Rose, postal clerk of Abingdon, Va;
John Kirkpatrick of Lynchburg, w.; W. e.
Stead, of Cleveland, Tenn, and the husband
and two children of a woman passenger
whose pame could not be learned.
A relief train was made up at Lynchburg
late in the afternoon to 60 to the scene OF tho
wreck, and q number Of physicians went
down on it to do what they could to aid the
wounded
A special despatch, which was received soon
after the accident from the scene of the
wreck, by way of Liberty, says:
s'Six dead bodies have been recovered. The
bodies of P Donovan, engineer, and Postal
Clerk Rose were recognized. The Others are
not known. Superintendent Cassel, although
badly hurt is on the ground and doing every
thing possible for the wounded. The rail
road company has taken largo corps of
physicinns to the scene of the wreck from
Roanoke Liberty, and other points. 1t is
thought q large number OF bodies were
burned in the confagraton."
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DURANGO IN FLAMES.
Half of Colorado City Destroyed by
Fire

Half of Colorado City Destroyed by
Fire.
Fire started in the southern part Of Du-
range, COL, at 8 o'clock in the afternoon,
and, driven by strong wind, spread rapidly
until half the town was laid waste. Every
business house and public building in the
city, with the exception Of Stroeters Hotel
and the postofce. was destroyed.
It is said the loss aggregates half million
dollars.
The wind was blowing and the fire for
time was entirely beyond control:
The Fire Department responded nobly, but
was completely powerless. The origin Of the
confagration has not been learned.
Tho fire ragged in the residence part Of the
town. Two churches, the courthouse. the
Idea newspaper Office and the Grand Central
Hotel, the Clipper Theatre and City Hall, be-
sides dozen saloons and several large whole
sale mercantile houses are totally destroyed.
Two blocks of residences on the Boulevard,
the handsomest street in the city are gone.
The fire was extinguished after total de-
struction Of eight business blocks.
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South and West.

TIE plant Of the Denver (Col) Brewing
Company has been purchased by an Eng
ish syndicate for $3.50, 600.
ALICE BROWN, Postmistress at Benoitvllle,
Wis, struck John Rose on the head WIN
club, inflicting injuries Of which ne ned;
Rose was intoxicated and Mrs. Brown acted
in self-defense.
THREE BOYS from Kansas City, their ages
ranging from twelve to fourteen years were
drowned while bathing at Shemelo, MO.
Their names were Edward Comp, Fred. d.
Brice and Frank Oviatt
WHILE playing in a wheat bin, which was
being drawn Of into chr, at Lima, Oho,
Ben Marks and Judson Horton, two young
boys, were drawn into the cnute anu
smothered to death.
GEORGE and Fred Sanisky, aged respect
ively twelve and twenty years, were drowned
in the Des Moines River, near Des Moines,
lowe. George was bathing and got beyond
his depth. Fred went to his brothers rescue
and both lost their lives.
THE Burton Block in Chicago was burned,
inflicting loss Of $500, 900.
AN area of over 100 miles in Cascade Coun-
tv, Montana, has been devastated by forest
fires.
r The Commencement Of the Michigan UNI
4SS graduates. Yeijero Ono, a japanese, car
ried off the highest honors.
THOMAS LINoU1sT, John Winter and Otto
Albach were smothered to death by sewer
gas at Kansas City, Mo.
MRS. HARRISON and her daughter, Mrs.
Mckee, left Cape May, N. j., after a two
weeks sojourn for Deer Park, Md.
THE greatest storm that ever visited South
ern Minnesota gathered over Rushford and
belt two miles wide in the pathway OF the
storm for thirty miles was absolutely iald
waste. Immense trees, two feet or Itore
thick, have been torn up and twisted or.
The loss to crops, fences, timber and pnnd-
ings is estimated at $1,000 Peter Bolivar
and Andrew Fizico were drowned.
The funeral of Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes
was held at Spiegel Grove, in Fremont ONO,
the Generals home. Congressman Haynes
DR.. McCabe, of Delaware College, preached
the funeral sermon. The four sons and four
nephews of Mrs Hayes were the pail bearers,
and as they carried the casket from the hall
they were preceded by General Hayes, his
daughter Fanny and other near relatives.
THE schooner Maggie Avery foundered in
Traverse Bay, Mich, and her crew of four
perished.
DR.. McDow has been acquitted at Charles
ton, S. c., of the murder Of Captain Dawson,
editor Of the Nc,cs and Courier. The jury
returned verdict of '.not guilty" after two
hours deliberatiou. The verdict was q sur
prise to the audience and the community.
The jury was composed of seven colored
men and five whites
EENRY BRoEN, Herman Karnstz and Will
lam Narnatz were drowned at St. Louis
while GNt boating.
THE Grand Jury at Chicago has found in
dictments against seven men for alleged par
ticipation in the murder Of DR.. Cronin.
A HEAVY rain fell throughout Virginia.
All the low lands were submerged and the
crops on them entirely ruined. The rain was
especially heavy in the upper counties, and
large number Of bridges were swept away.
MARTIN HoDGEREs, the Town Marshal Of
Uniontown, KY, cut his throat causing
death Immediately in the public street, in the
presence of several friends.
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STORM AT HONG KONG.
Not a House in Thirty-two Square
Miles Escaped Some Injury.

Not q House in Thirty-two Square
Miles Escaped Some Injury.
One of the most destructive rain storms in
the history of Hong Kong occurred there re-
Gently. The total rainfall for thirty three
hours was twenty-nine and one-half inches.
Hong Kong papers do not venture to estimate
theloss to private property, such as residences,
stores, ETC., but place an estimate loss to the
public property at about 100000 Scarcely
q house within an area of thirty-t square
miles escaped some injury. All thercads and
streets in the colony were turned into mud
heaps and innumerable shapes, and dwell
ingS were flooded.
Eight men were killed by the lightning in
mat shed. One Chinaman was killed by the
falling in of q mat shed. On one street man
and boy were drowned in flooded house. In
one district house collapsed, burying several
people, four Of whom were seriously or IA
tally injured. One man was drowned in the
street, and another drowned in house while
twas being borne by the current through
the street. Fifteen lives in all were known to
have beon lost when the steamer which
brought the news sailed for America.
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THE EARTH TREMBLING.
Evidences That q Dead Volcano i
Coming to Life in California.

News from Susanville, CAL, in the Sierra
Nevadas says slight earthquake shocks con-
tinuo, and that the people have become so &c
customed to the constant trembling of the
earth that they pay no attention to it. These
shocks, however, have revived recollections
of old settlers, who predict volcanic disturb
ances like those Of 1850.
Susanville lies on high mountain-walled
valley directly cast of Lassen lutte. an cx-
tinct volcano 10, 500 feet high. From its sum-
NIT no less than forty craters can be seen.
Cinder Cone, which rises GOO feet above the
level of the plateau, was in eruption in 1850:
Two prospectors visited it, and they found
Lako Salfatara, eight miles south Of Cinder
Cone, centre of volcanic forces. Tho lake
was a mass of boiling water and mud, and
from it vast columns Of flame shot up at In
tervals Timber was on fire. Within two
years there has been renewed activity in
the internal fires, and the present shocks
point to the possibility of another great vol
canic outburst, which will find vent through
some of the old craterS.
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A Master Mechanic Instantly Killed.

Emory Harriet, the master mechanic Of
the Sea Beach Railway, took the 11:12 train
from Coney Island the other night for Bay
Ridge, N. Y. While walking along the edge
of the car he fell of, struck on the back Of
his head, and was instantly killed. The do
ceased was the oldest omployo on the road,
and leaves wife and four children.
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NEARLY seven-eighths Of the population Of
Zanzibar, Africa, are slaves Some owners
have thousand slaves. A boy costs $50,
strong workman from 800 to S120, a pretty,
Young African from $50 to 500, Abyssinian
women from 5000 to $500. The women from
Jeddah, in Arabia, bring fancy prices, while
Surias come higher yet.
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FOR STARVING MINERS.

Prison-Madc Loavcs Sent to the Fam
ished Braidwood Qll.) Strikers.
The Warden of the Joliet Qll.) Penitcntiary
has forwarded to the starving families of tho
miners at Braidwood nearly three hundred
loaves of fresh bread, weighing four pounds
apiece. The bread was made in tho prison
bakery.
Once before in the history of the prison
Warden was called upon to furnish bread to
o starving people. The day after the great
Chicago fire carload Of bread was made ut
the prison and sent to Chicago, where it was
distributed to the famishing people along the
lake shore
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Wreck Of a Freight Train.

Piled up in confusion end over end, eleven
loaded freight cars blocked the Naugatuck
track at the turnout two miles below Sey-
mour, Conn.,, few days since. All day un-
til three p NJ transfers were made on oil tho
passenger trains, and every one Of them was
probably due to broken wheel or poor
frog.
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A YEARS VIOLENT DEATHS
How 1866 People Pcrished in New
York City.

From tables just prepared it appears that
1866 persons died from violence in New York
city in the year ending with June. They are
classified as follows: Burns and scalds, 1872;
suffocation, IS; poison, 1T3; ran down by
wagons, So; by street cars, II; railroads, 50;
by electric wires, S: exploding cartridges, 3;
self-inficted malpractice, 8; wounds" q;
fractures and contusions, 154; drowning, 163;
children who were smothered, 81 were over
laid in bed Eighteen persons were smothered
by gas and two were killed by the caving in
Of subways Thirty perished in fires ono by
tohogganning, and one from ether in den
lists chair.
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No Trains for Three DAYS.

Travel on the Baltimore and Potomac
Railroad to Washington was cut off for three
days. No train south passed Stoney Run
during this time. The track was washed
away for fifty yards. From the Patapsco to
;Stoney Run the country was under water.
Construction trains were kept busy repairing
the damage,
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LANTERNS of scraped horn, glass not
being much known, were, according to
rumor, invented by King Alfred of
England, and it is supposed that prior
to the introduction of glass scraped
horn was also used for window lights.
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THERE may be no color line in Chris
tianity, but there is large and dis
tinct one in certain theologies that call
themselves Christian.
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Fatal Railroad Accident in Texas.

A railroad accident occurred late Sunday
evening near Terrall, Texas, on the express
train in which one person was killed and sew
eral others injured. The engine, baggage
car and one coach went through defective
bridge. The officials of the road were in
their private car in the rear of the train, hut
were not injured.
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MASON COOPER, Yankee Admiral In Cen
eral Hippolyte's Haytian Navy, has resigned
because bis flagship, the Carondelet, nearly
sank from the effects Of firing salute.
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TIE number of old persons in Toxic, ia
pan, who received gift Of money from the
Emperor in celebration Of the declaration Of
the constitution was 5560-5S39 persons above
eighty years Of age 21s above ninety years
and three above 100years.
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THE "bucket shops" in Wall street, New
York city are very generally taking down
their sgns and closing out their business. !!