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, 1890-08-02

a novel telephone has been placed in
the New Haven house. 1t cannot be used
unless a Zee is paid. There are only two
instruments of the kind in existence, the
other being in Hartford. There are five
slots in the machine for the reception of
n nickel, ten cent piece, quarter, half
dollar and dollar respectively. These
amounts cover the rates charged for tele-
phoning to various places in and out of
the state. To use the telephone it is first
necessary to call up the central, as on an
ordinary telephone. The objective point
is then asked for, and when this is reach
ed the party who rings up is told to put
the necessary fee in the slot. If a dime
is dropped a bell of high tone rings. For
twenty-five cents the tone becomes lower,
and for half a dollar the sound is like
that of the average door bell. The dol
lar sound is similar to that of a fire alarm
gong. The sound of the bell is the sig
nal to go ahead and talk. The contriv-
ance is the invention of William Gray,
of Hartford. Accompany has been formed
for the manufacture of the instruments.
Cor. New York Sun.
, 1890-08-02

A special from Springfield, o., says:
A few evenings ago the family of Chris
topher Mcneil. a German truck gar
dener near here, We're awakened by the
sound of a heavy fall and a subsequent
violent trembling of the earth. Rushing
out of the house they found that a large
outbuilding had disappeared, and in the
spot where it had stood was a cavity
fully fifty feet in length and nearly that
in breadth. A sound Of water tumbling
and rushing " rocks and down a pre-
cipice was distinctly to be heard, and in
approaching the brink of the hole ice
cold spray vas to be felt. The outbuild-
ing, which had evidently been sub
merged, had contained besides a large
quantity of garden seed twenty or thirty
sacks of oats and millet, i've grown pigs
and fourteen young ones, a buggy and a
truck cart, all of which had disappeared
before Mr.. Menzel reached the spot.
When morning dawned one Of the pigs
could be seen standing on a rock, the flat
top of which rose above the dark, rush
ing current, and after some difficulty it
was rescued. The stream, as nearly as
can be measured, is at least 100 feet
wide, although only about twenty feet
of its width is visible and only thirty of
its length.
, 1890-08-02

For the G.. A. r. encampment which
meets in Boston, Mass, August 10 to l6,
the Union Pacific has made a rate of one
first class fare for the round trip. Tick
cts will be on sale from August G to 10
inclusive, good for going passage from
August 6 to ID inclusive, and for return
passage on trains leaving Boston August
II to 20 inclusive, allowing until August
25 for return to destination.
For those who do not care to return as
soon as August IS a joint agency for the
extension of tickets Las been established
in Boston, and those applying To this
joint agent may have their tickets ex-
tended until September 30, 1890.
The Union Pacific is in every way the
most desirable route for comrades to take
who are going to the encampment. 1t not
only operates the finest vestibuled trains,
consisting Of n-guifcent Pullman palace
sleepers. free = , lining chair car. Pullman
palace dining car and Pullman ~colonist
sleepers, but runs on fast time and makes
close connections in union depots with
all eastern lines.
Another feature to be considered is the
fact that baggage can be checked through
from starting point to destination, thus
avoiding the annoyance OF rechecklng At
the Missouri river.
Agents Of this company will upon APP
plieaiion furnish more detailed informa
ton relative to rates, tickets, time OF
trains, etc. b. l.. LoMAx;
General Passenger Agent, Omaha.
, 1890-08-02

Vinalhaven, Me-, claims to have pro-
duced the largest stone ever brought to
light. The Bodwell Granite company
recently quarried a shaft of granite
which is the largest piece of stone ever
quarried anywhere, and if erected will
be the highest, largest and heaviest sin
gle piece of solid stone standing, or that
ever stood, SO far as any record can be
found. In height it considerably ex-
ceeds any Of the Egyptian obelisks. The
tallest Of these, which was brought from
Heliopolis to Alexandria by Emperor
Constantine, and afterward taken to
Rome, where it is still standing, is 105
feet Z inches high, while the Vinalhaven
shaft is 115 feet long, 10 feet square at
the base and weighs $50 tons. 1t is
understood that the company quarried
this immense monolith of their own &C
count, not having IN order for anything
Of the kind.-New York Ledger.
, 1890-08-02

Chauncey NJ. Depew's speech at Chi
cage marked a new era in the use of the
phOnograph. For the first time on an
occasion of this kind in this country a
speech has been taken down without the
aid of stenographers. By the use of the
monograph the entire speech was given
to the press two hours after it was deliv-
cred. 1t was a feat unparalleled in the
history of newspapers.
The method used was that of placing
an operator with the instrument in the
flies. The operator repeated into the in
strument the utterances of the speaker.
These were recorded by the instrument
upon a cylinder, which, when filed, was
withdrawn and replaced by a fresh one.
The withdrawn cylinder was then car
ried from the stage and placed in another
instrument.
The second instrument ground it out
through rubber tubes placed in the ears
of swift operators On typewriters. Thus
it was that the opening sentences of Mr..
Depew's speech were in the hands of the
various newspapers, and in some instan,
ces actually in type, before the closing
sentences were uttered by the speaker
New York Journal.
, 1890-08-02

It may be hoped that the nonsensical
scheme to spend 81, 500 in purchasing
Wordsworth's cottage at Grasmere will
fail. Is there any use in setting up an
other of these melancholy show houses?
A fee of sixpence is to be charged to
very visitor, but 1 should think that
rational admirers of Wordsworth would
prefer to visit his grave in Grasmere
churchyard, which can be viewed with
out any payment; and, after all, Rydal
Mount is the place which is principally
associated with the memory of Words
worth, who would have preferred that
his admirers should expend their spare
money in helping to support the local
association which is e~ndeavoring to pre-
serve public rights of way in the Lake
oountry.-London Truth.
, 1890-08-02
A Tried Remedy for B,r,ouspe,s.

Those who suffer from disorder or in
action OF the liver will never get the
upper hand of the unruly organ so long
as they use such irrational remedies as
blue pills, calomel and podophyllin. But
from the tried and popular medicine,
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, they may
expect relief with a certainty of obtain
ing it. The influence OF the Bitters upon
the great hillary gland is direct, powerful
and speedily felt. The relief afforded is
not s~pasnodic, but complete and per-
lament. The sallowness of the skin.
furred appearance OF the tongue, indipes.
ton, costiyeness, headache, nausea, pains
through the right side aud shoulder, in
fact every accompaniment of the obstinate
complaint are entirely and promptly re-
moved by a course of this inestimabIe
medicine, in behalf of which testimony is
constantly emanatine from every quarter,
and from all classes of society.
, 1890-08-02
A Creature froln Arizona.

The following remarkable story ONE
from Arizona, via u Cincinnati paper: A
winged monster with an extremely elon-
gated tail and an immense pair of wings
was found on the alkali desert recently
by two ranchers. The creature was evil
IDENTIFY greatly exhausted by a long
flight and when discovered was able to
c but a short distance without resting.
After the first shock of amazement had
passed the two men, who were on horse
back and armed with Winchester rifles,
regained sufficient courage to pursue the
monster and after an exciting chase sue
ceeded in getting near enough to open
fire with their rifles. The creature then
turned on the men, but owing to its ex-
hausted condition they were able to keep
out of its wal and after a few well di-
rected shots the monster rolled oven
dead.
The men then proceeded to make an
examination, and found that their VIC
tim measured about 92 feet in length
and the greatest diameter vas so inches.
The monster had only two feet, which
were situated a short distance in front
of where the wings were Joined to tie
pouy. Inc nedu, rs near as tney coulu
judge, was about s feet long, the jaws
being thickly set with strong, sharp
teeth. Its eyes were as large as a dinner
plate and protruded about half way from
the head. They had some difficulty in
measuring the wings, as they were partly
folded under the body, but they finally
got ne Strengthened out sufficiently to
get a measurement of 70 feet, making
the total measurement from tip to tip
about 100 feet. The men intend to skin
the creature and send the hide east for
examination by eminent scientists.
, 1890-08-02

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-The opinion
OF Assistant Attorney General Tyner of
the postofice department, upon which
was based the order excluding from the
mails Count Lijof Tolstoi's book Kreutzer
Sonata. addressed to Third Assistant
Postmaster Hazen, consists of two SEN
fences 1t is as follows: Il return here
with the publication entitled 'Kreutzer
Sonata, offered tor mailing at the post
Office at Chicago, Ill, as matter of the
second class. After careful examination
of this publication l am of the opinion
that it is of an indecent character, hence
it is forbidden circulation in the mails by
the act approved Sept. 26, 1888" Upon
receipt of this opinion an order was
printed in the usual form and sent to the
postmasters at Chicago and New York d.
rectiDg that the book be excluded from
the mails. 1t is believed an appeal will
be taken to the postmaster general.
, 1890-08-02
. Year. Old and Almost 81, Feet.

Pine Grove, a hamletnea Douglasyille,
Tex, boasts of a girl not quite 10 years
old who is 8 feet 10 inches tall. She is
the daughter of an engineer, who is him
self a giant in size, while his wife is Ct
feet in height. The girl, her parents
say, was an unusually small and sickly
saby, and didn't show any remarkable
growth until she was about 6 years old.
She is stout and has the strength of a
man. but her mind is feeble, or else has
been so outstripped by her body as to
give it no chance to develop. The young
giantess presents a most remarkable
spectacle with her childish face and
dress, seated playing in the sand or
amusing herself with a doll.-Philadel-
phia Ledger.
, 1890-08-02
KEMMLER WEAKENING.
The Doomed Man IN a Pitiable
Condition
Sounds of Preparation Com
pletely OnnerYe Him.
Loss by Fire Of a Large Cattle
Feeding Plant.

AUBURN, N. Y, Aug. Recent de-
v%elopments have more than confirmed the
truth of the statement that Kemmler the
condemned man is weakening daily. The
utter abandonment Of all hope and tie
consequent realization of his utterly lost
condition never came to him with such
terrible force as last night. All night
long, as he tossed aud tumbled on his
narrow cot, he cried aloud in his DESPAIR.
Il wish 1t were over" he moaned
time and again, and his utter lack of
power to control his fears was pitable to
behold. The cause of this sudden and
uncomfortable despair was the noise of
preparation in the adjacent room of exe-
cution, which the prisoner could not help
hearing through the doorway which con-
meets his cell with the chamber of death.
, 1890-08-02
SAFE OF u BONDs.

The commissioners of Crook county.
Wyoming, will issue bonds for the coun-
ty s floating Indebtedness as provided for
by an act of the legislative assembly OF
the territory of Wyoming, approved
March 3, 1888, and an act to amend and
re-enact section one of an act authorizing
the redemption of county indebtedness,
approved March 5, 1890.
Sealed bids will be received by said
board of county commissioners until II
clock loon on the 18th day of August,
1890. at their office in the city OF Sun
dance, county OF Crook. Wyoming, and
then opened in the presence of bidders
or their representatives.
Bonds will be for the entire indebted
ness OF Crook county, Wyoming, amount,
ing TO about $65. 900. Ten per cent of
the total amount OF said bonds will be
paid in ten years from the date of issue,
and ten per cent of the total amount an
nually thereafter until all of said bonds
are paid.
Security will be required Of the success
full bidder for compliance to the terms of
his bid.
Bonds delivered about September LIST,
1890.
The county commissioners reserve the
right to reject any aud all bids.
By order Of the board of county com
missloners of Crook county.
- THOS. II. MOORE.
Seal Chairman.
Attest: A. c. SETTLE. County Clerk.
FoR SALH-0ldp papers. LEADER ofics.
, 1890-08-02

LA LIBERTAD, SALVADOR. Aug. L.
Communication with the interior has been
restored. Advices from the capital state
that Gen. Ezeta was ordered fiom the
frontier with about ., 600 men Immediate
ly upon the outbreak of the revolt headed
by Gen. Rivas. Ezeta fastened with all
speed to the capital. Rivas' forces had
captured the artillery barracks, but the
few troops in charge had fought desper-
ately before they surrendered. The In
dams then pillaged several houses and a
panic ensued. Rivas' forces were finally
defeated and peace restored. 1t is stated
that Guatemala has Withdrawn her forces
from the frontier and that all is quiet.
, 1890-08-02

Henry Clay Turner, city solicitor of
Wilmington, Del, owes his life to a dog,
and a very small dog at that. Turner is
troubled with defective vision and in
somnia, and frequently walks the streets
late at night. At 4 o'clock in the morn
ing he fell off the wharf into the Chris
tiana river, and only for the incessant
barking of a little dog on the deck of a
schooner he certainly would have drown
ed. The barking of the dog aroused the
captain, and his peering and whining
over the edge of the boat enabled the
captain and a sailor to locate the man in
the water, and in this way Turner was
rescued just in time to save his life
Exchange.
, 1890-08-02

A Woodward avenue grocer yesterday
displayed a dozen watermelons-the first
of the season-with n sign bearing the
figures ''75c." surmounting the pile. A
colored man came along and stopped to
gaze lovingly at the luscious fruit, and
directly he asked of a clerk:
Lands alivel but watermelyons heah
already How much does 1t say on dat
signg'
"Seventy-fve dollars apiece"
"H'mi Pears rather high at the first
send off, but l reckon it amt. Regular
old red cores, 1 reckon, an cherry one of
'em worth de money or no sale"
Twill you take oneY'
Mot jist dis mint. I'll be comm
long back In bout an hour, an den, if
de price has drapped to circumolate de
attitude Of my integrity, I'll tote one
home."-Detroit Free Press.
, 1890-08-02
Lower Rates on Food Products.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-The interstate
commerce commission has issued and will
send out tomorrow an order to take effect
Sept. !, for a reduction OF the rates on
food products, based on the report sent to
the senate June 7. The order is accom-.
panied by a COPY Of that report; also the
opinion of the commission overriding the
protest and motions of the roads to dis.
miss for want of jurisdiction.
This opinion reviews the powers and
duties OF the commission in the matter of
beginning and conducting the investiga-
tons and the commission holds that its
proceedings are legally sufficient and the
reductions are necessary to make rates
reasonable.
, 1890-08-02

LONDON, Aug. IA dispatch to the
Times from Buenos Ayres states that
President Celman has issued a manifesto.
After speaking of the demand for his res.
ignation made by the leaders of the revo-
lutiouary movement, he refers to the
prosperity and liberty the country enjoys
under his rule. He ignores the gravity
and what his own journal terms the
horrors of recent events in Buenos
Ayres. The manifesto attributes the sole
cause of the instruction to the inseusate
ambition of the local party in Buenos
Ayres, which it says wished to impose it.
self upon the entire republic, while pros
perty, peace and security were repre-
sented by the Celman government. Even
Celman's own party, the dispatch says, is
aghast at the presidents c~allousness and
his incomprehensible and vain Ignorance
OF the real gravity Of the situation. The
manifesto concludes with an expression Of
eternal gratitude 20 the supporters of the
presidents authority and adds that the
patriotic people bless them as the saviors
Of the government.
, 1890-08-02

Hamilton, o., has mysterious visitor.
He is a man of about 45, and during the
several weeks he has spent about the
town no n has been able to get a single
word from him. He carries a bundle to
which he clings all the time, using it at
night for a pillow. What it contains no
n knows. He sleeps in an open wheat
field. He has never entered a door,
never asked for food or been given a
mouthful of food and puts in the day
walking up and down the pike. He visits
a spring, where he drinks c~opiously, but
what he lives on outside of water, where
he came from, or what his name is no
one has been able to ascertain.-Phila.
delphia Ledger.
, 1890-08-02

Besides the rabbit pest New South
Wales is troubled by another called the
flying fox pest" This creature is a
species of hat, the largest of the bat
tribe, sometimes measuring nearly five
feet in expause of wings, and is popular
" termed the flying fox on account of
the red, foxlike color of the fur and 1.-The
very vulpine aspect of the head" The
attacks of these destructive animals are
mainly aimed against fruits and other
vegetable substances.
, 1890-08-02

might be arrested. He had no
idea that what he might
say was going to affect the vote of the SEN
ate. He could conceive and he could see
that the cohorts of protection were SO or
ganized hat the bill was to 20 through
substantially as it came from the finance
committee. He believed In distributing
the duties necessary for the purpose of
raising revenne for the support of the
government in such a way as to equalize
the conditions existing between the manu-
facturers of this country and those abroad.
If he were in doubt he would solve the
doubt in favor OF the American manufac-
turers. but II he knew the exact conditions
he would put home and foreign manufac-
turers on TIE same footing precisely. The
senate. he continued. owed some duty
to the American people as well as to the
manufacturers. The Democratic party
had its full share of the responsibility for
the iniquities OF the present tariff law.
The Democrats in the house had had an
opportunity of correcting the errors and
wickedness OF the Mckinley hill, hut they
had sought to evade the responsibility Of
their votes when, by joining with Repub-
licans opposed to that bill, they might
have eliminated many OF its errors. He
could see the game at battledoor and
shutrlecock between free trade and
protection constantly going on for political
advantaf G on the one side and personal
advantage oil the other. and between the
two extremes the great body OF the Amer
lean people was being crushed and ground.
He would apply the rule that whoever de.
manded a tax for his own benefit should
be ready to show co~nclusively that his in
terest was also public interest.
Sherman replied to Plumb. He con
CURED with the senator in the statement
that no proposition made to tax the
people should. be supported unless there
was rood ground for it. He went on to
speak of the growth of the crockery in
dustry in the United States, and said that
such an industry was not to be ignored
and to be refused any reasonable demand.
The prices OF chinaware were less now
than the duties were ten years ago.
Vest modified the amendment by max
ing the two rates on decorated china so
and 40 per cent, respectively. The bill
went over and the senate adjourned.
, 1890-08-02

Merely a low price is not an evidence OF
~cheapness in merchandise, and quotations
of clothing prices are Of all things most
deceptive. We do not keep what is called
cheap" clothing. We always have some
garments for men and boys at low prices;
but we get them by marking down the
broken lots and slow selling lots of good
quality. These bargain garments adver.
tise themselves, If you want a serviceable
Overcoat, Suit or odd Coat, Vest or pair
of Trousers for very little money, We can
usually supply much better value than
the price asked would buy in the regular
way. Most people. however, want the
best clothes they can afford to wear, and
our rightly-made garments are intended
to supplant the custom work. Therefore
you cannot Judge of the prices without
seeing the clothes.
, 1890-08-02

A sensation has been created in Eng
Iall by the 4 'overy that an active
slave tral5 i1f.IW being carried on in
Madras, India, under the eyes Of the
government. 1t appears that in that
British province a traffic in girls has been
carriedo on as outrageous as in CONSTANT
nople and with just about the same
amount of secrecy. 1t is said that high
English officials are implicated in the
nefarious trade.
, 1890-08-02

CHICAGO, Aug. Members of the
Boss Carpenters and Builders Association
commenced a war this morning on their
old allies, the union men of the csrpen-
ters' council. The bosses began the lock-
out, which, by tomorrow night, it is
thought, will be complete. The cause
given Is the alleged failure of the carpen-
ters council to fulfill their agreement not
to work for the old master builders as
s~ociation
, 1890-08-02
Brewers Will Fight.

CHICAGO. Aug. Under the recent
decision of the supreme court of the
United States the big brewers of Chicago,
St. Louis aud Milwaukee have combined
to fight the license law as applied to
them. and which compels them to pay a
tax in the city where the beer is made
and wherever it is sold. They will make
a test case to settle the question.
, 1890-08-02

An unusually large number of American
actors and actresses are in London,
namely, Fanny Davenport and husband,
Sadie Martinez, Margaret Mather, Cora
Tanner. Minnie Palmer. Carrie Turner,
Lillian Lewis, Helen Bancroft, Kate For
sythe, Evans and Hoey, Donnelly and
Girard, Harry Lee, Otis Skinner, Ralph
Delmore, Mary Anderson and Grace
Hawthorne, besides all of Augustin
Days company.
, 1890-08-02
An ..Gmericnn TragedY.,,

LONDON, Aug. LIN a barroom on
Kings lane road, a DISCHARGED soldier
named Harper, quarrelled with two men
and drew a revolver and killed both. He
claims the men robbed him. He has Just
returned from New York. where he I'm
successfully looked for work. The papers
call il an American tragedy.
, 1890-08-02

The total number of Congregationalists
in Connecticut is So, 3O5. The number of
churches is 209, and the expenses for the
gear were S61S, 1858 ) The charities for
1889 amounted to S346, 5s3. 90, Oh 1896
per member. The values of the churches
and the and upon which they rest range
from $500 to $175, 900, the total being
SOL ,151, and the average being $l7, 231.
TIE aggregate of salaries paid by 300
churches is 1906, GAG.
, 1890-08-02

A venerable trout was recently found
dead of old age at its home in a well at
Cairnmount, near Kelso, Scotland. The
fish was taken from the Tweed thirty
tive years ago and placed in the well,
where the remainder Of its life was
passed. It was eleven inches long and
had become very emaciated, weighing
only six ounces at the time Of its death.
, 1890-08-02

Prince Georges involuntary cruise on
board the Thrush has been satisfactorily
explained. The prince fell in love with
a maiden whom it was not deemed wise
for him to wed and he was sent away in
the hope that time and distance may
cure his infatuation.
, 1890-08-02

ROME. Aug. l.-Desertions by the
wholesale have occurred of late from sew
eral Italian regiments stationed along the
French frontiers. This fact has induced
the war office to order that these regi
ments be removed from their present
stations to the interior.
, 1890-08-02

CLEVELAND, Aug. Philadelphia
(Brotherhood) won today. Attendance
1000.
Cleveland ...........2 100000 O. 3
Philadelphia no 0 0 0 l 3 o. A
Base hits-Cleveland 6. Philadelphia I.
Errors-Cleveland O. PHILADELPHIA /.
Batteries-Bakeley and SutchGe, Buff
ington and Mailman. Umpires-Fer-
guson and Holbert.
, 1890-08-02
ST

For household goods or
merchandise OF any de-
scriptiOn. Terms reason
able and Insurance effected
lUhen desired. Warehouses
on Cheyenne y Northern
track. CaH and get esti-
mates. Cheyenne CONNER
ciUI rOlnDHnn.