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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED.
Eastern and Middle States.

Two business blocks W ere burned in Lynn,
Mass. with loss Of about 100000.
Hop SING, a Chinese laundryman in New
York City, was discovered to bs in the ad-
vanced stages of leprosy and still working at
his trade.
J. q. BoNNELL s. Co., New York, manu-.
facturers of printing inks, failed and the
business was placed in the hands Of Herman
Ritter as temporary receiver.
BENJAMIN R. SPELMAN, JR., recently
cashier of the Twenty-siXth Ward Bank,
Brooklyn, has disappeared. On leaving the
bank he was short $1,000
Two eminent specialists in mental diseases,
Horatio c. Wood and G. Mill, have found q
plausible explanation for the crimes of "Hon-
est" John Bardsley ex-Treasurer of Philadel-
phia. now beginning fifteen years term in
prison. They say he has paresis.
Opera House block, Farrs dwelling house.
Pearson's hardware and grocery, with Post
Office and harness shop Brewsters printing
Office and Opera House, Cushing's drug store
and grocery, Warren's hardware, grocery,
tin shop, dwelling, and storehouss, The
buildings, which were Of brick, excepting
Warren's store and Farr's dwelling, are a
total wreck.
JOSEPH VANCE, a resident of Moorestown,
n. j., met q terrible death as result Of be-
ing bitten on the arm some days before by an
insect supposed to be spider.
The Bagley hat factory at Newburyport,
Mass, has assigned. The company has been
in existence for the past eighteen years and
employed about $50 hands. The estimated
Liabilities are S170 900 and the assets $50, 900.
DURING game Of baseball at Somerville,
Mass, Daniel Harrington and another play
er collided, humping each others heads.
Harrington sustained fracture Of the skull
Of which he died next day. During a game
between the Brooklyn and New York League
clubs in Brooklyn, Second Basemau Collins
and Right Fielder Burns collided while run
ming for high fly. Both were seriously
injured
THE Naval Reserve and the Squadron Of
Evolution united in drill on the water in
New York Harbor.
A SPECIAL session Of the General Assem-
bly, of Rhode Island was convened at Provi-
dence, the primal object being action upon
the bill recommended by the commission on
the revision of the judiciary system of the
State.
MRS E. L. DAVENPORT, the widow Of the
tragedian, E. L. Davenport, and herself an
actress of deserved repute, died at her home
in Canton, Penn.
Two men engaged in conversation the
clerks Of the Easton PENN National Bank
while confederate stole $4,000. He might
have carried away Sl10 600.
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South and West.

DURING severe electric storm at Clinton
vile, Wis, the house of Henry Panizlot
was struck by lightning, and both he and
his wife were killed
THERE was bad wreck at Hepburn,
Ohio. Swifts refrigerator meat train East,
ran into the work train, pulling into sid
ing, killing nine laborers and injurlng many
others. Both locomotives and ten or twelve
cars are in ruins
FRANK REssIMUs, who murdered a police
man at Middleborough, KY, was taken from
Jail and lynched by posse Of armed citi.
zens.
Mrs. JIM CARUso, aged thirty-two, wife
Of one Of the victims OF the New Orleans,
La.) mob. rendered desperate by grieving
over the untimely end of her husband, took
fatal dose of laudanum.
THE Florence (Ala.) Wagon Manufactur-
ing Company failed. Assets $780, ,0OO; ia-
bilUsS $4,000.
JOHN FARMER, colored, the assassin Of DR..
Buckner, was taken from Jail at Dermott,
Ark, by mob and lynched. He confessed
his guilt
FIRST LIEUTENANT GEORGE Il. EVANS, Of
the Tenth Calvary, Company G, stationed
at Fort Grant, Arizona, has been found
guilty by court marshal at San Francisco,
Cal, of being drunk while on duty.
The village of Sawyerville Mich, was
totally destroyed by fire. Loss, 100000.
SARAH DAVIS, a colored woman, was
buried in indianapolis, Ind. She was prob
ably the oldest woman in the United States.
Her death return shows her 20 have reached
the age OF 1873 years. 1t is authoritatively
known that she was lis.
THE Central Bank of Kansas OF Kansas
City, Kan. and the Merchants National
Bank of Fort Wor..h, Texas, have closed
their doors.
THE granite monument to the dead of the
Washington Light Infantry Of Charleston,
8. C. was unveiled in that city.
The Cherokee Nation is in mourning for
the death Of her leading statesman, Senator
w. q. Ross, who died suddenly OF heart
disease at his home in Fort Gibson, Indian
Territory. Senator Ross was q haf-breed,
about sixty-three years Of age, and was edu-
Gated at Princeton College.
Ex-Governor DAVID 8. WALKER died at
Tallahassee, Fla, aged seventy-six years.
He was born IN Logan County, KY.
A COMMITTEES Of the striking miners at
Bricevllle, Tenn, decided to confer with
Governor Buchanan and try to settle the
troubles over working convicts in the mines
by arbitration. The miners pledged them.
selves to commit NO violence.
JUDGE MCKAY, Of Topeka, Kan, is backed
by the Farmers Alliance, and refused to
obey the order Of the State Supreme Court,
which proceeded to compel him.
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JACKSON IN BRONZE.
A Statue Of the Confederate General
Unveiled at Lexington, Va.

The statue erected to "Stonewall"
jackson, by the jackson Memorial
Association Of Confederate Veterans
who served under the General, was
unveiled at Lexington, Va, on the thirtieth
Ten thousand strangers gathered to attend
the ceremonies and the quiet little village in
which General jackson spent the greater
part Of his life was unable to accommodate
them all, though every house was thrown
open to them and every hospitable building
was filed
The public buildings, business blocks and
private residences were handsomely decor
ated with National, State and Confederate
flags. No less than $4,000 ex-Confederates
were in town, and probably not less than
1G, 900 of the boys who wore the blue were
also there.
Upon the speakers stand were, among
others, General Wade Hampton, General
Fitz Lee, General Custis Lee, General Eppa
Hunton, General Ransom, General Bradley
T. johnson and Governor Fleming, of West
Virginia, and staff All these were seated
in a group surrounding General Early
the orator Of the day, and neat
them sat Miss Mary Lee. dressed in whits
badges: Miss Daisy Hampton, daughter of
General Wade Hampton, and Miss Lucy
Hill, daughter Of General A. P. Hill.
General Wade Hampton presided and by
his side sat Mrs. Jackson dressed in black. In
her arms was her little granddaughter, Julia
jackson Christian, attired in white and hold
ing her little brother, Thomas Jackson
Christian, by the hand. Mr.. Christian, the
father, sat in the same group.
Chaplain of the Stonewau Brigade, offered
prayer.
Colonel T. NJ. Semmes, Of the Virginia
Military Institute, recited three poems.
.'Stonewall Jackson's Way" lover the
River" and "Slain in Battle"
General Wade Hampton introduced Cen
eral Jubal A. Early, who spoke on the life,
character and military achievements OF Jack
son. From the college the spectators
marched to Jackson's tomb, when Jai.s iha
Jackson Christian, granddaughter or The
General, unveiled the bronze figure.
The sculptor is Virginian, Edward v.
Valentine. who designed the Lee monument.
The statute is Of bronza, heroic in size and
portrays Jackson with uncovered head,
leaning on his sword and left leg
and looking out upon field OF battle. In
his right hand at his side IS field glass
The figure is clad in the full uniform OF
Confederate Lieutenant General, with the
cold lace on the sleeves distinctly visible
and with heavy military boots and spurs.
The scabbard Of the sword upon which
the eauntletted left hand rests, bears the
letters, "United States" a historical fact,
! as it was modelled from Jacksons
own sword. The statue proper measures
eight feet and surmounts granite pedestal
ten and half feet high, consisting of a
base course, die and capital: On one
face the die bears the inscription. !:
Jackson, 1s24-1s63. On the other is
] the single word ''Stonewall," the
sobriquet given Jackson by his CHIEF,
General Lee. Beneath the pedestal Is
vault containing six sepulchre chambers,
surrounded by circular grass plot, around
which Is a driveway with four approaches.
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PETITION OF THE W. q. T. o.

Among the things evolved by the W. @. T.
U. must be reckoned the petition sent out by
Mrs. Frances J. Barnes, National Superin-
tendent Of "Y" work. and indorsed by over
three hundred thousand young women rep.
resenting unions throughout the United
States. Printed in carmine and black, ON
fine paper, it is geographically the most
beautiful petition ever sent out; its words
are worthy their setting: Recognizing the
manliness and intelligence which has caused
the studentsi in several Of the most influential
and widely known institutions Of learning In
the United States to exclude wine from their
class suppers the members Of the Young
Women's Christian Temperance Union,
whose desire 1t Is to raise an equal standard
OF purity and total abstinence. most heartily
commend such action, and do earnestly
petition all students, teachers, professors
ministers and laymen to Danish. alcoholic
beverages from class supper, alumni dinners
and all school and college festivals. We ask
this for the great moral Influence it will e1-
art, and also because we celieve example AZ;
we'll rs precept Is needed to promote scie1-
tif1c temperance instruction"
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LATER NEWS.

The Government Of Venezuela appointed
DR.. Jose Alfonso Ortega acting Consul
General at New York, vice DR.. Rafael
Villaviencio.
THE Rapid Transit Commission of New
York City decided upon route for four
track underground railway for the East
Side.
THERE was an interesting spectacle at
Hough's Neck, Quincy, Mass, where the old
United States warship Brooklyn was burned.
The Brooklyn was g wel-scarred veteran.
She was built in 1858.
SAMUEL ALEXANDER, an insane weaver in
the Dwight Mills at Chicopee, Mass, killed
James Nesbitt in the street. and shot MI
cbael Markley twice.
CONTROLLER STAUs, OF Connecticut, re-
fused to honor Quartermaster-General
Rudd's requisition for $1,000 for military
expenses.
Mrs. EATON the Presidents sister, arrived
at the cottage at Cape May, N. j., for pro-
tracted visit.
GILBERT PARxEs, Of the real estate firm of
Blair. Parkes s. Co., shot out his brains in
the Nashville (Tenn.) American Office. BI-
nancial troubles were the cause.
The Citizens Bank of Jefferson, Texas,
assigned, owing to the embarrassment OF a
number Of its largest customers.
A DESTRUCTIVE hail storm which passed
over the western part of Minnesota laid low
all crops. The loss to grain is estimated at
500, 900. None of the losers was insured.
GOVERNOR BUCHANAN conferred with the
miners Of East Tennessee and proposed TO
them to call an extra session Of the Leglsla-
ture to act on the convict lease system.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has ap'
pointed Dewitt G.. Wheeler Superintendent
of the New York Custom House, vice Joseph
A. Murray resigned.
TIE first lot Of continued ~ per cent.
bonds, aggregaating 81, 500, DON, was mailed
from the Treasury Department.
A STATEMENT prepared at the Postof1cs
Department shows that the number OF post
offices in the country on June 80, 1891, was
g. 3a1. as follows: First class, 116; second
class $50; third class. 22T; fourth class,
81, 40. This is an increase OF 1000 offices
during the year
AAUT1NY occurred in battalion OF the
Coldstream Guards at London. They re-
fused to parade until the prospect of exile
was held before them, then they behaved
badly and gave their officers trouble.
The Supply Committee of the British
House Of Commons has voted $500. Ooo as
salaries and expenses for theralief Of the suf'
teriug poor of Ireland.
AT Rsitenhau, Morava, lightning struck
a house in which large wedding party was
assembled, killing two persons outright and
more or less seriously injuring eighty Others.
The house caught fire and was destroyed
ANOTHER little revolt was suppressed in
Corrientes Argentine Republic, at tae cost
Of four lives.
RICH deposits of petroleum have been dis
covered in Zante, Greece.
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Washington.

ORDERS were sent by Secretary Foster to
the Collector Of Customs at New York for q
readjustment OF the force Of employees at
his Office so as to secure an annual reduction
Of ss845 The plan contemplases the dis
missal Of seventy five clerks and laborerS,
a reduction Of the salaries OF seven en-
ployes and the abolition altogether Of seven
offices now vacant
The semi-annual report of ths Superin-
tendent Of the Census just submit
ted to the Secretary OF the Interior shows
that funds are in hand to continue the work
until next year and that compare lively
small amount will be needed to complete it
by the end OF 1892.
SECRETARY FOSTER and Attorney General
Miller went down the Potomac from WASH
inCton on q revenue cutter on q few days
outing.
THE Director OF the Mint, Mr.. Leach has
given instructions to the Mint engraverS to
get up new designs for the dime, quarter
and half dollar.
AS a result of the war made on the "green
goods swindlers by the retiring Chief In
spector, Mr.. Rathbone, those men have aban-
done1 the use of the mails for the conduct Of
their business.
LoR1NG B. LooMIs, at one time member OF
large Ian claim firm in Chicago, was cap
miles for embezzling $4,000 of the firm
money.
The Secretary of the Treasury has di
rected that the public building at Newburg
N. Y, be.located at Second and Montgom
cry streets,
THE Postmaster-General issued an orde,
reorganizing his Department.
A STATEMENT prepared at the Treasur,
Department shows that the receipts from
customs at the Port of New York during tht
first twenty days Of July were 26, 795, 4s7, o.
8, 265, 55l less than the receipts at the sam,
port during the corresponding period of last
year.
THIRD ASSISTANT RosTMAsTER- GENERAL
HAzEN has prepared statement showing
the number and value OF postage stamps
sta ::pa: en: slopeS, newspaper wrapper and
| postal carls issued by MS office, and the cost
| ~ procuring the same during tine fiscal yeal
which ended on June 30. The total number
| of articles furnished was 3,400, 406 273, of o
total face value OF Sti4, l0l, 493.
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ENORMOUS WASTE.

The people of this city succeed in disposing
Of 47,6OO.0 900 gallons Of intoxicants every
year, that is, 1904, 600, 900 drinks. II the big
Croton reservoir at Forty second street were;
filed wi.n such beverages New Yorkers.
w'uld empty it nearly two and oue-haf times
duri1s q year. If the big Central Park re-
servoir, having capacity Of 200, 900, 900 gall
Ions, should be filed with liquor, beer, and
wine, the consumers in the cities Of New
York and Brooklyn and the State Of New
Jersey would empty it In two years. New
Workers. spend over $40. .000, 900 every year
for liquor, beer, and wine. There are In ths
city 1857 places licensed to sell ALCOHOLIC
drinks In order to exist the smallest one OF
drinks day. Many Of the best bars take In
S125 to $3.50 q day. At the Hoffman House,
where one has to pay fancy prices to bask in
the smiles OF classic art. the receipts are fully
$500 day. Averaging all the bars in town,
they take in about s25 day, or S70,-
OO0, COO year. r.-Ne,o York Morning Jour
nal.
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A MOTHER TO AN INrEMPERATE SON.

"My Dearest-It is only by Gods mercy
and help that we have gotten through this
dreadful time, and you are given, once again,
a grand chance for q new beginning. KneeE
down, dear, night and morning, and pray;
even II you don't believe God hears you. As
will hear you, and will increase your faith
every time you kreel down, and use the
words %. God, keep me from falling. O.:
God, enveiop me with Thy care. o, Cod
teach me by Thy Spirit; for come to Thea.
because, through Christ, our Lord, Thy Son,
Thou biddest me come
Snow, are you determined that the hrss
drop shall never. never, never again pasS
your lfpss In that alone is safety under
God. Not one drop! We are all impoverr
ished, and nearly ruined, and only by tho
merciful help Of friends moved BY God, %
do sin His name" have we got through-so
mercifuily. II you Lift now the first drop 20
your lips, wife, children, mother and your
self will suffer frlghtfully, perhaps beyond
recovery. Here is your new chance. Doing
your nobIest and best with such friends
ready to help you) prosperity will begin 70
creep into your little home: the children can
be taught and all will recover, mother ana
all Grant us this consolation, my son, after
all that we have suffered together.
II want you to make this new beginning
with mighty determination in God. Hold
His hand tight and you cannon Iaii, ASA LIZ
development and temptation cannot Pene-
trate it: open your soul wide to Him and BE
viii fil it, and there will be no room for the
drink demon.
$50, uplifted IN God, have dignity IN
your contact with the new men IN tins way.
II occasion comes, il any Of them ask you TO
drink, even only beer, say quietly, nrmiy,
and with that dignity which commands toe
respect that let's one alone-T do not drink
Give no other answer. Let no one guess
II have great faith in you, in your new de-
termination. But neither you nor any one
u give YOU motto: God! My darlingsI
And no first DROP
WOur future depends now on you. If You
rise, we rise. If you go down again, this
world is over for us.
stNow to the battle! Conquerl Forever,
mother."-New York Observer.
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TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.

Twenty-si1 per cent. of the insanity OF the
United States is caused by use OF intox-
cants.
A temperance scholarship has been foe1ded
in the Magee College, Londonderry, ireland,
for stimulating interest In temperance work
among the students
Ten cents each day for a drink is over
thirty ydollars year. Thirty dollars year
for twenty years is house. A home in
twenty years is comfort and plenty for Old
age.
From the town Of Hilo in the Hawaiian
Islands comes the good news that the native
women ara becoming greatly interested In
The work Of the W. G. T. U. and are attend
ing the meetings in large numbers.
Thomas Moon, an Iowa drunkard, recent
" saturated himself and his daughter with
Kerosene, while he was under the influence,
and then lighted up. Then the police came,
put both Of them out and arrested the full
Moon.
A convention of Catholic churches was
held in Winona. Mimi, recently for the pur-
pose OF organizing a diocesan total absti-
nencs union. The union of Winona diocese
embraces twenty counties With an e1-
alderman as President and an attorney as
Secretary it is hoped that the new union will
popularize total abstinence among business
men and politicians.
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TEMPERANCE.

THE MAN WITH 4 MUG. ~.
Come, what do you care for the girls and
You man with a mug?
Just needless brats full Of needless noise,
They must seem to you, or unlucky toys
Strewn ever 'twixt men and their baser joyH
Ehl Man with mug?
Or, what to you are the women who weep
You man with muSs
No 'sharbor bar" has disturbed the sleep
OF women who work like the bar you keep
To warp tender keels heaving in from tha
You man with mug' -
1t seems you have 'tgot 'em" as If by the
You man with mug; & y
The men who make baskets, and barrels and
boats;
The vendars Of onions, and the venders Of
oats; <E-
The drivers of cattle, of sheep, and Of shoak.
Mighty man Of the mugl
Now who helped you twist them' The mar
shal, did he? 80.
Some man with a mug2
Oh, you ''got the pull'" All, yes; 'hem-l
What kind of pull would it have to be
10 enable you, SIR. 10 rope In me
You man with q mugi
say, II you wish, you may write Us down.
You man with mug; y!
As opposed to accessions from out Of our
town,
OF mugs plug-ugies and thugs-clear down
To business men who aver they can't frown
On man with mug.
Didn't Babylon fall by the likes of you,
Oh, man Of the mug! 90
Don't the business magnates know 1t Is truef
Then Rome, then France-what! Columbia
too?
Whose blue eyed babies shall pull M
through?
Yourss Man with mugs
Shame! Who but "business man" would
dare, a~ asr;.&
Der the foam Of the mug lT5
Pit possible gain gain It the golden hair
OF child, who will race with q sick do
spair 9
Her husbands steps to -our damning stair
You man with a mug'
IT. C. Green, in the Auoldnohe. :
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SANTIAGO Chill, was swept 6y two mil.

SANTIAGO, Chill, was swept oy two mil
lion dollar fire.
The Secretary of the Canadian Depart
ment of the Interior was suspended for draw.
ing an extra salary under fictitious name.
ON the Newfoundland coast the schooner
Pubnico Belle was wrecked and two women
and five children lost.
THE German police arrested great num-
Der Of people In Hanover on charges Of
treason.
FORTY houses were destroyed by a fire
in Jadraque, Province Of Guadalajara,
Spain.
THE English bank of the River Platte
Qiuited failed, with large liabilities.
FIVE youths were drowned by the upset.
ting of boat off Donegal, Ireland.
Of party of seven six were drowned by
the capsizing of yacht at Victoria, British
Columbia
The French bill to remove the prohibition
against American pork has been shelved by
the Senate.
THE Chilean insurgent troops were COM
pletely defeated at Huasco by the vanguard
Of the first division Of the Government
army, under command Of Colonel Almarza.
The lnsurgent cavalry, commanded, by Col
onel Saavedia, fed, leaving 200 dead and a
great number prisoners with all their arms.
In the wreck of the steamer Gree, off An
ticosti Island, Canada, five men were
drowned.
GOLD at Buenos Ayres, Argentine Repub-
lie, is quoted at 281 per cent. premium.
ArroRyEY-GENERAL WEBSTER gave a
dinner to the Chicago Fair Commissioners
in the House Of Commons, London, England.
GEORGE E1sNER, aged ninety-three killed
himself with a revolver in Berlin, Germany.
He had lost further interest In life because
he had been Tilted by widow Of fifty years
in favor Of younger man
GAsToN ROBERT, an eleven-year-o son Of
A. Robert. wealthy merchant of Montreal,
Canada, fell into the river. A maid Of the
family jumped into the water to save the
boy, but both were drowned.
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ENTIRE FAMILY KILLED.
The Son or Father Killed the 9th"
and All Were Burned.

The Son or Father Killed the Oth"
and All Were Burned.
A terrible tragedy was enacted at Clay
City, ILL.,, by which whole family was de-
stroyed.
1t was the family of Robert James, con-
sisting of husband, wife. son and daughter
and erandchild. They lived three miles east
of Clay City. All that remained of them
was found burned to q crisp in the ruins Of
their house, which had been burned during
the night.
father murdered the family, set fire to the
house and committed suicide.
The son was addicted to drink and had
threatened to kill the family. while the faith
er was subject to fits OF insanity.
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LEAGUE RECORD.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION REcbR,
4 MOTHERS CRl-F e.
She Killed Her Three Children and
Herself.

Mrs. Pattie Lochridge, wife Of Thoma
Lochridge, shot her three children and her
self about one o'clock on recent afternoon
at her home three miles south Of Spring
Hill, Tenn. Mrs. Lochridge was thirty years
old, her eldest child four years old,
the second three years old, and the
third four months old. The weapon used
was shotgun. 1t is thought the woman
poisoned or chloroformed the children be-
fore she used the gun.
Mrs. Lochridge was sister OF Colonel j..
J. Odil, the we'll known produce merchant
of Nashville. Her husband was at church
when the tragedy. was enacted.