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A Maine man who says that he is a leading physician of Portland announces that he has located the Captain Kidd treasure, and proposes shortly to unearth |7,000,000 of it. The vilue of his discovery is somewhat damaged, however, by the fact, as he asserts, that whenever he begins to dig for it the treasure is surreptitiously shifted by the malign influence of the spirit of the defunct pirate. Fleures, which proverbially cannot lie, ihow that the cornfields of the United States cover a teiritory as large as England, Scotland and Belgium united, while the grain fields surpass Spain in territorial extent. The acreage of oui farm lands under cultivation is equal in extent to all of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, France, Bel, guim, Portugal, Germany and AustroHungary. The agricultural statistics of Ireland for 1885 show that the total acreage under crop was 4,957,127 acres; of which ? * /4AA ?Aw /lA?*n VvOQ r* Q J,oy4,yv<J acres v>eie uuu? wiu, and peas; 796,290 acres of potatoes: 296,984 acres of turnips; 108,847 acres of flax: 2,034,708 acres under meadow and clover grass. The total produce raised was 1,407,423 bushels of wheat; 80,222,695 bushels of corn; potatoes, 3,175,738 tons; turnips, 3,551,783 tons; beetroots, 499,700 tons; cabbages, 397,703 tons; meadow and clover grass, 4,150,095 tons. They even gossip about the Queen :n conservative England. Iler dislike for Gladstone is said by the St. Stephm; ~s Gazette to date back to the passage of the Irish church disestablishment bill in 1868. The Queen expressed to Gladstone her aversion to the essential priii^Vktll nrt/3 V?n ranlio/1 UpiC UJL tUV Ulll) OI1U 14W <V|#iiVV4. madame, you must sign." The Queen Bushed and rejoined with indignation: "Sir, do you know who I am?" "Yes, madame, the Queen of England. But does your Majestry know who I am? I am the people of England." Everything is done on a large scale on the Pacific coast, according to the dwellers thereon. But the biggest load of tawlogs ever hauled over a road in Washington territory recently arrived at Seattle. There were eighteen logs, ranging From twenty-fcur to 120 feet in length, fho lnnnrocf nnpq jirft intended for ves ~ b - ? els' masts, and one has a diameter of thirty-six inches, and another forty-eight . inches in the middle. The latter contains 13,000 feet of lumber, and the total measurement is about 100,000 feet, rheir gro9s weight is about 650,000 pounds, and they are to be shipped to the Atlantic coast. Twenty-five years ago there was probably not a woman in Philadelphia worth $500,000, and even a man millionaire was a curiosity. Nowadays estates footing $1 ,000,000 and more are being settled up almost every week or two, and the list of women who own millions is by no means insignificant. A gentleman pretty thoroughly acquainted with the financial standing of Philadelphians whose forJft/ioVkl r? 1 a rrro en*/! * *T tliinlf VUU^O U1V/ uuuwavij AW*I {5 A %*****?? that I am pretty safe in saying that there re not less than fifty women in the city worth fortunes of $500,000, and I can count my fingers full of women who are worth $1,000,000." China claims a lark that outdoes oui own bird of this name. One of them was twought home by the French army from their eastern expedition. He is a largci jbird than his European congener, hit notes are more brilliant and his repertory is more extensive. But the most noticeable feature is his wonderful promptness and skill of mimicry, deserving indeed v in this respect the title of a genuine mocking bird, imitating most natural Bounds which he hears, the notes and Bongs of other birds, the cawing of crows, the crowing of cocks,braying of the donkey, even the barking of dogs. Tht Chinese turn this facultv to account, and train the lark to sing many airs. A French physician, having tested hii theory, advocates sleeping with the head lower than the feet. He slept that waj for four years, and finds that his neck is nearly two inches larger, owing to the swelling of the thyroid gland. He says in [this way the brain receives a more .' plentiful blood supply, and is conse quently better nourished, while there is no danger of so much blood passing to the cerebral structure as to cause con. gestion. This danger is obviated by the enlargement of the thyroid gland, which holds back a certain portion of the blood in its dilated vessels, and which also acts as a regulator of the cerebral circulation by exerting pressure upon the carotids, and thus diminishing their calibre. A German publication gives statistics of the railroads of the world, prepared for the most part from official sources, making the aggregate length, at the end of 1884, 290,750 miles, of which no less than 62,788 miles have been opened sine ; 1879. Of this there were in the several grand divisions of the world : 1884. 1880. Inc. Per ct Europe. 117,694 104,60J 13,038 12.5 Asia 12,757 8,905 2,852 28.5 Africa 4,075 2 ,?42 1,233 43.4 Amarica.... 148,738 105,767 42,972 40. f Australia... 7,486 4,844 2,612 54.5 Of the 290,750 miles of railroad in the world, no less than 174,016, or 60 per cent, are in English speaking countries. The countries which have the greatest mileage in proportion to population, or emnllAQf. nnmhnp nf inhabitants ner I mile, are Australia (364 people per inile), the United States (400), and Canada (48G). Even the Argentine Kcpublic has a smaller population per mile than wiy European country, namely, 1,000; irhile in Europe, Sweden, -which has lewest, has 1,113; Great Britain and Ireland, 1,870; Germany, 1,983; France, 1,943;Belgium, 2,100; Austria-Hungary, 1.788. (< - \ At Valcartier, Canada, recently, ablaz ing meteor, probably ten feet in circum ference, descended from the sky. Afte touching the earth it assumed a Strang appearance, creating terror to the mini of the country pecple, many of then conjuring up the worst fears and look ing forward to the speedy disolution o the universe. Just previous to this oc currence the sky lowered and the beast of the field sent up distressing crief bringing credulous persons readily t their knees in a supplicating posture. Barbed wire for fcnccs has for som time been smuggled into Canada froi Detroit, Mich., and the loophole of tl smugglers has just been found out. The would load a wagon with b.irbed wii carefully tucked away in barrels, an drive north beyond the city limits an down into the river as if to fill the ba rela with water for the neighboring ga den patches. But the barrels wei quickly sunk out of sight in the rive "When night came, two schooners woul sail out from the Canadian shore an beat down by where the barrels wei sunk. They were then loaded on boar and the boats would Ihen put back 1 some neglected spot on the Dominic shore to unload. Team after team loade with the wire in barrels had been dail driven down to the shore in this waj and the wire afterward fished up an taken to the other shore under the nos< of the custom officers. 'Tr'1-- J:?~f 4-Vi? Vom Vnrlr Hftst X lie uircutuio vi iuv xivn ? v? ball Club are getting rich out of tt enthusiasm in that city with regard t the national game. A New Yorkco: respondent writes: "Burnet Forbes tol me the other day how a friend of his i Wall street offered to let him in on tl ground floor at the time the baseball clu was started. The capital to be raue was $25,090. Four men had alread volunteered to take a piece of it i $5,000. The remaining share was place at the disposal of Mr. Forbes as a spccii mark of friendliness. He took a nigl to consider the advisability of makin the investment and in the meantime coi suited Sheridan Shook, the theatric) manager, bon vivant, politician and mat about-town. Mr. Shook said the ente: prise could be nothing but a failure i New York, where the people wei wedded to horse racing and yachtinj There was not a cent in it, he said on h reputation as a man who had dealt wit the public as an entertainer for year Mr. Forbes let the golden opportunit lin fir-cf v??p of the club a nrot of $30,000 was divided. Last year $80 000 was cut up into three slices amon the backers who bought out the other This year heaven only knows what tl earnings of the club will be with it in hi company for the pennant and the deck ing games to be played at home. It nothing for $10,000 to go into the tun stiles at a single game on the po! grounds." Some time ago Acting Secretary Fai child, of the Treasury Department, ii structed Mr. Krites, Chief of the Divi ion of Abandoned Property, to carry im effect the provisions of the act of Coi grcss authorizing the Secretary of tl Treusury to deliver to the rightful owi ers certain articles of jewelry, &c., ca] tured by the United States army in tl course of the civil war and deposited i the Treasury Departmeut. Mr. Kr!t has prepared rules which will govern tl restoration of all such articles, and hi just concluded an examination of the a tides on deposit. They are contained i two boxes, and consist of silverware jewelry, portraits, watches, 4c. One < the boxes contained nearly five huudre watches, gold, silver and brass, nnd number of jack-knives, pocket-books,le ters, &c. These were mainly taken froi prisoners of war who died in hoso'ta around Washington, Cape Lookout- au Elmira, and were deposited in the Trea ufj by Gen. Ketcham. Some of then however, belonged to Union soldie who died near the places designate! The other box contained a lot of a tides captured by Gen. Sherman troops in Camden, S. C., in the ear part of 1865. They consist of famii plate, jewelry, etc., which had been d posited in a bank at Camden by M McRae and other wealthy residents < that region. When the Union army a proache.l the town an effort was raa< to transfer the articles to a place < safety, but it did not succeed, as tl trr>nna nnnn the scene while tl -I transfer was boing made. Many of tl principal articles belonging to Mr. M Rae were restore! to him by special a of Congress in 1882. An iuventory h been made, and it is thought the articl can easily be identified by their owner They will be restored upon applic&ti< accompanied by satisfactory cviden< of ownership. The two boxes r ferred to contain all the property the chaiacter described now in tl United States Treasury, except, possibl the presentation swords belonging General Twigg3 and captured by Ge eral Butler in New Orleans. It is an u settled question as yet whether the swords can be restored under the pr eicinna nf the nrt. rpfj'rrpd to above. A the other articles mentioned which ha1 not been restored by April next will 1 advertised, and such as shall still rema in the Treasury for one year from th time will be sold by public auction. A Mushroom Which Grows on Tree A New Zealand mushroom, whi< grows on the trunks of trees, is likely bccorae an article of exportation to In; land. It is exported in large quantiti to China, where it is used in the prep ration of soups. When dry, the inusl room becomes shriveled up, and is i ^ if ?n nAff A ? milu as iiuiu, niicu net, n 13 wit ul clastic, almost pub-gelatinous. It g ot in compact gregarious masses. The e ports average over a hundred tons a yea worth probably not less than $250 a t( at the place of shipment, and much mo in China.?London Court Journal. HERE AND THERE. r ? Some Newsy Happenings From Various Localities. n r Narrow Escape of United States j- Senator Evarts. 8 I, Senator William M. Evarts narrowly es o caoed being killed a few days since at W indBor, Vt., where he owns a country seat. He was driving with Charles C. Ferkins, a well known resident of Boston, anfi Miss Jen? nie Matthews, daughter of Judge Stan B ley Matthews, of Cincinnati, when tne ic horses took fright, the carriage was up;y set and Mr. Perkins was instantly ,e killed. Mr. Evarts fortunately escaped with ^ a serious scalp wound and Miss Mattl.ewi some severe bruises. Mr. Perkins was the d father-in-law of Senator Evarts's daughter, _ and was widely known in Boston art and musical circles. The accident is described as r- follows: It was just 6:30 when the party started from the farm on their return to the house to r. dinner. They had reached the dike and were j about half way across when one of the horses became frightened and tried to run away, d Roberts, the coachman, reined him up smartly, when the bit parted and the bridle came off. . Instantly both horses started into d a gallop. The coachman made a leap iQ for the head of one of the horses, but missed and was hurled down the embankment in a >n heap. Madly the horses tore on, until, while j turning a sharp corner, the carriage capsiz?a and the occupants were thrown violently to ly the ground. Mr. Perkins's head struck against a stone wall and he died instantly. Mr. '? Evarts and Miss Matthews were stunned d by their fall, but they were soon picked up and carried into the house. The -B utmost consternation prevailed for some time, as it was not known whether Mr. Perkins was the only victim. Later, however, bcth Mr. Evarts and Mrs. Matthews I- recovered consciousness and, it was thought, ie were out of danger.' ;o Governor Hill Removes Squire. r- Recently Mayor Grace, of New York, pre1 ferred charges against Commissioner of Pubd lie Works Rollin M. Squire. This position, n controlling as it does thousands of workmen and the annual handling of millions ie of dollars, is one of the most powerful 5 in the United States. The principal charge against Squire was that at d the time of his appointment in y 1884 he had written a letter practically putting his office in the power of Contractor Maurice B. Flynn. The letter was produced a at Sauire's trial. Mayor Grace removed . Squire, the removal being subject to Gov- ! ernor Hill's approval The Governor has it denied the motion of Squire's counsel to reopen tbe case for further evidence S and approves the Mayor's order re!_ moving Squire from the office of (Commissioner of Public Works. The Governor ? does not at this time promulgate any formal a. ODinion trivine the grounds of his decision, because,"as it Is understood, of lack of time, r- although he may hereafter do so. He conn curs in the result, without indicating whether It is placed solely upon the Flynn "C letter or upon the violation of the civil-serr< vice law, although it is believed to be upon 1' the former grounds. is The Mayor of New York has appoints an h Suire's successor General John Newton, Chief of Engineers of the United States 3. Army, well known in connection with his v successful removal of the obstructions at Hell Gate. it Snicide of Rev. J. B. Beecher. .The Rev. James B. Beecher, of Cascob, ? Conn., brother of Rev. Henry Ward Bejcber 8. and Kev. Thomas K Beecher, committed Buicide at the Water Cure, Elmira, N. Y., a few days since, by shooting him | 3t self through the head with a small rifle. I Ho had been suffering under a?ver<? l" mental trouble* for "a number of! is years, and for a time was,under treatment at the Middloiown (N. Y.) Asylum. He came a" to Elmira recently in the care of a special lo att ndant. At the cure he appeared to be in pretty fair health, and on the day of hh death enjoyed himself with others in shooting at a target in Dr. Gleason's range. Durr_ ing the evening, while conversing on the piazra, he suddenly went to his room, and taking a rifle, placed the muzzle in his mouth g. and fired, killing himself instantly. Mr. Beecher was about fifty-nine years old, to and was the youngest son of Dr. Lyman a. Beecher. He was graduated from Dartmouth College and Andover Seminary. 10 He was chaplain of the Seamen's Bethel a. in China; chaplain of a Brooklyn reg:ment during the civil war; became a colonel, p- and was mustered out as a brevet brigiidierie general; was pastor of Congregational churches at Oswego aud Poughkeepsio, and id also had charge of the Bethel Miss'on in M Brooklyn. Of late years he has lived on a farm in Ulster County, N. Y. is Condition of Workmen in Belgium. _ At the International Trades-Union Con, * press, held in Paris, Mr. Auseele gave the in following particulars as to the condition of workingmen in Belgium. He declare! that ' in no country was the workman so poo:r. Tbe )f miners worked for thirty-eight cents n day. ,j Some had even worked 5<i0 yards below the surface of the earth for twena ty a day. A few miles over the i. frontier the French miners earned fil!ty to seventy-five cents a day. Near Charleroi he m had known some young women descend ii)tc jg the pit at 4 in the morning, remain thfire till 11 at night and only receive thirty-eight d cents. In the quarries, in spite of the wau3_ ous nature of the labors, fifty cento was the ordinary pay. In the weaving industries full-grown men gained but $3 a rs week, though at Ghent by organization and , strikes, costing some $15,000, they had sueJ ceeded in getting the salaries raised to S3 a r_ week. Tbe last strike was that of some young girls who protested ajainst the discharge of S a married woman be?ause she had nDt rely turned to the factory six days after her conJ finement. The truck system also pre vailed 'J throughout Belgium and the government in ?- ?"-A Ikaf fKfl amnl g. 4U1I J vvOilU IAJ piUTO uuav vuo VIU|/I wj ? ? sometimes bought back the flour they gave r. out as wages to their men. As the :repre0f sentative of the Belgian workmen, he spoke in the name of 12<i,000 men and 170 soc ieties. P" ic A Stage Coach Robbed. 0f A dispatch from Winnipeg, British America, tells of the second stage robbery :iu the *e Northweit Territory in one month. The j ae Edmonton stage was stopped by two masked men, eighteen miles from Calgary. There were in the stage Pete Campbell, c. the driver, J. Burns, a commercial traveler of Winnipeg, a traveling agent and ct an unknown Frenchman. The masked men as I wore stripes from a Union Jack over their | faces and carrried a carbine and two Colt es , revolvers. Tbey were on foot and jumped s out of the loug grass ten feet in front of the | stage, which stopped. They ordered )a the party to descend. They then rvC marched the prisoners into a coulee, where they went through their pockets. ! C- The robbers then returned to the stage, went 0f through the baggagj an I op.ned thu mail bags. A mail bag contaiKlng register,id letlie ters was overlooked. The stage horsaJ. were y then taken out aud driven away, and the highwaymen disappeared. The footpads rn . ?.??? i kn 1'iiemAsc onrl npr- I WCIC C> IUCUWJ UU *? IUO uuoiuw.v n. vous. They took none of the passengers watches. Twenty-flve mounted police were n- sent out in search for them. * MANDALAY INUNDATED. ,11 Estimated Loss of 1,000 Lives in *e the Capital of Bunnah. be One of the etnlnnkments of the Irrawaddy in River hur.-t in Mandalay, Burmah, a few at days since. The break was i)00 ytxds in length, and so rapid was the flow of water that in a few moments the whole district was flooded from four to twenty feet 9* deep. Engineers at onie cut the ;ll dam south of the city in order to allow the to water to Bubside. But the result of this | ir_ manoeuvre is as yet unknown. The damage done bv the flood amounts to over &r>.flOO.(WU. cS Fifty thousand persons were rendered homea less in the city, their houses and possessions li- having besn either submerged or destroyed. as The flooded district had within its territory i many of the food supply stores, and all these were swept away. 1 h? re ult will be an approach to famine auioug the homeless popu- ! X- lation. The river will not fall sufficiently to r permit any attempt at reconstruction of the ' broken embankment until November. The British military operations are seriously inre terferei with by tlie overflow. It is estimated that one thousand jarsons < lost their lives in the flood. NEWS SUMMARY Eastern and Middle State*. Dr. C. C. Beers and Mrs. Sarah Robinson have b:en held without bail in the Somervilla (Ma?.) Police Court to answer a charge of poisoning the latter's daughter. Both pleaded not guilty. A fire at Earlville, N. Y., destroyed nearly the entire business section, causing an aggregate loss of $125,000. The first Sunday that the President and Mrs. Cleveland spent in the Adirondacks they worshipped m a quaint log church in the forest near their hotel. Rev. Mr. Throop, a Chicago clergyman camping out in the great North Woods, conducted the services. Mrs. Cleveland opened the Exposition at Minneapolis, Minn., a few days since, setting the machinery in motion by telegraph frora her stopping place in the Adirondacks. The President, it is stated, has been quite successful in his frequent fishing excursions. Boyd C. Caldwell, late cashier of the suspended City National Bank, of W illiamsport, Penn., is charged with embezzling 120,000 of the institution's funds. He denies the charge. A new submarine torpedo boat, grimly named the Peacemaker, has just been successfully propelled eight miles an hour, thirty feet beneath the surface of the Hudson River at New York. Hon. Jambs G. Blaine's first speech in the M line State campaign was delivered a few ds.ys since at Lake Sebago. to an audience numbering about 7,000 people. The speech was mainly devoted to national affairs and an attack upon Secretary Bayard for his attitude toward Canada and Mexico. Several of the New York horse-car lints have stopped running, owing to a strike among the employes. Many of the clothing cutters have also struck. South and West. A heavy storm at Galveston, Texa*, h?S done great damage The streets were overflown in every direction, many bsing covered with three feet of water. Huidreis of ftimiliAa wArn nmHo tamromrilv homeless. Find small boats took tbe place of street cars. Th3 total damage is 'Estimated, at $500,000. Six lives were repoi-ted lost A prolonged drought and onsequent failure of the crops in tne counties of Western Texas has caused much suffering, and many people have been :!orced to abandon their ibomes and seek elsewhere for subsistence. An appeal for reliof has been issued. Thic same storm which proved so destructive at Galveston, Texas, caused great damage and Bome loss of life along the coast of that State. At Victoria, Indianola, Rockport und other places hundreds of houais were either complete'y destroyed or party demolished. San Francisco has just been visited by one o:f the largest fires on -ecord in that city, the buildings burned including numerous large factories, and the total losses being estimated at $2,000, (XX). Frank Wood, of Mill^dgeville, 111., shot his wife dead and then killed himself. He was crazy. Dr. 8. A Richmond hi?s been acquitted of the charge of murdering Colonel J. W. Strong, managing editor of the St Joseph (Mo.) Herald, the jury finding the defendant insane at tne time of the killing and at the present time. A foreign lady who lost 160,000 at the Monte Carlo gaming tables has committed suicide. This makes the seventy-sixth case of suicide owing to losses at Monte Carlo since the beginning of the season. Numerous small vessels were destroy*! during the recent storm off the coast of Texas. Foreign. Elbert B. Cook and a daughter were shot and killed at Bntmos Ayres, South Ameri a, by an insane man. Cook was President of the Cook & Sackettr.' bank, of Havana, N.Y., and some time ago embezzled all the institution1* available funcs and fled to Canada. The British steamer Aljerdecn, from Hankow for London, with a large cajgo of tea, foundered while leaving the Chine, Sea. Asiatic cholera is still spreading in Italy. A Paris dispatch says that 1L Grevy's probable resignation of the Presidency of the French Republic is generally discussed in that city. M. de Freycinet is said to be the strongest candidate In the field. The city of Mandalay, the capital of Burmah, has been inundate! The loss of life I and property was very large. Through the efforts of the Russian Government Prince Alexander of Bulgaria has been compelled to abdicate and has l>een escorted to the frontier. After depos; ng the Prince tha people of Sofia adopted a resolution praying the Czar to re-extend his sympathy to the Bulgarian people. The assemblage proceeded to the palace of the Russian Agent and submitted to him the resolution, all kneeling. The Agent assured them of the Czar's friendship. A Provisional Government has been formed. The revolution in Honduras, Central America, has been quelled. The leaders have all been killed. A mob at Belfast, Ireland, visited the police and wrecked their barracks. Soldiers restored order. The unquiet feeling {.roused in Bulgaria by the forced abdication and expulsion of its ruler, Prince Alexander, has resulted in the Provisional Government's declaring Sofia, the capital, in a state of siege. Gladstone and Pari-.ell both delivered speeches for Ireland's ce use the other night in the House of Commons. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. . JIN a Paris theatre the ushers are all ladies. Remenyi is playing his violin in Hindustan. William W. Astor is reported to be writing a play. A granddaughter of Charles Dickens has gone on the stage. Mrs. Scott-Siddons will make a professional tour in this country during the coming season. Mr. Dion Boucicault, dramatist and actor, will return to America in the latter part of October. Herr Richini, one of the actors of the Vienna Opera House, still appears in pantomime at tne age of eighty. "Will" Carlkton, the author of "Betsy and I Out," is going to lecture and read to English audiences this auturaa. Miss Hblen M Levitt is the richest unmarried girl in the Quaker City. She is worth $5,0(i0,00i) and is young and attractive. Mue. Minnie Hauk is going to return to th-'s country next month, ana during the coming season will be heard in concerts aud opera. It is claimed that Mr. Gillette's new play, "Held by the Enemy," is the strongest ploy with an American motive that has ever been written. Jenny Lixd's daughter, who is said to possess a fine voice, though not as marvelous as that of her mother, is going to visit this country. Mr. Joseph Wheelock is to be the Napoleon aud Mrs. D. P. Bowers the Josephine ior a drama to be presented this season, dealing with a chapter in the life of the gieat Etnperor of the French. Miss Margaret Mather has made the greatest success of her career in San Francisco. Her Juliet is called "Shakespeare's Ilia nrnnnnnt'A her th0 legitimete successor of Miss Neilson. Miss Locis Parkkk, a young American singer and a pupil of Mme.de la Grange of Paris, has been engaged by Colonel Mc C.iull for his opera troupe. She was educated for the Italian stage, and is said to possess an exquisite voice. Thr three greatest tenors in the world, Gayarro, Masini and Tamag io, are generally to be found in Spain. An engagement at the Royal Opera of Madrid is regarded cs a higher honor than one at any of the great Italian ineaires. Owing to the Tautinic ta>te for raw bur. every Ge-imau town has an official micros* copist whose duty it is to eramine all the hams placed in the market. At Schebitz, recently, seventy persons died of trichinosis, and the court, having found a verdict against the mirroscopist for carelcss performance of his duty, cor.demned him to two years' imprisonment Ransom Reddy, of Wakulla, Flo., haj | ra:sed a vine of genuine black peppir, from | which he ha:; already gathered one crop of j berries. He got the root of the vini from a | friend in California, who had sent to the Island of Coylon for it in order to experiment. "A HURRICANE'S HA70C. A A Mac Great Destruction of Life and Au oc Property in Texas. uincoi says the , , . pletcd? The Pecuniary Damage Estimated surf at < at More Than $5,000,000. tricycle over the The storm which has ravaged the coast of Texas was much more destructive of life and an(j g0 property than at first reported. At Indian- of few I ola the storm, which was the severest patent t ever known there, did its work of destruction in about five hours. Dar- p]y tor ing the height of the storm a lamp less prel exploded in the Signal Service office, and the j? j? P building was set on fire. Capt Isaac A. Reed, the signal officer and Dr. a Rosencrans, perished in the names. The fire extended for blocks on both sides of the street, , destroying thirteen houses, among which Jt were D. H. Regan's large drygoods store Bnd . Dr. Lewis's extensive drug establishment. Dr. aS??l Lewis was in this building when it took fire. i,? * He escaped being burned to death, but was subsequently drowned. So far as can be ??.P* learned, the following is a complete list cf the "I white people lost- Captain I. A. Reed, signal J??? officer; Dr. Crooker, Dr. H. Rosencrans, of Elgin. Ill, formerly a resident of Indianola; t ? Mrs. Hodges aad two children of Dr. Hodges's family, of Cuero;Mrs. L. M. Crooker of Austin, visiting at Indianola with the Hodges; Mrs. Henry Sheppard, two children of Mrs. Max Luther of Corpus Christi, Dr. Davis Lewis, and a German, name unknown. Be- u , a vessels 01U<33 IUC ttWVO, tUO UUUIW5 UL MJU W1UICU i, persons have been found. *, Four m iles of track were washed away, ren- ?j_ *,v.^J dering it Impossible for trains to approach Indianoia. There is great destitution there among the poorer people, who have lost everything they possessed. The depths of the water was reported as great as it was during the great storm of 1875, when Indianoia lost nearly two hundred of her citizens, they being swept away. The * flood of water over the doomed town was so rapid that within two hours after the first apprehension was felt every street was submerged many feet . At San Antonio the loss to property is I $50J,000. At Floresville the loss is $101000. Never before was the lower Texas coast Mexio visited by so terrible and destructive a storm. It extended for 200 miles inland, destroying ? ? thousands of houses and involving a pecuni- 4t ary loss of many millions. 1 he entire crop At 11: of the present year is practically gone, and a Americ vast deal of suffering must ensue, especially wa8 tali among the negroes, most of whom are with- u out means of any kind. ' The lower end of the paninsula at Indianoia huahua is completely washed away. The storm came rived, i in tne snape or a numcane. me waters or recited the gulf rose up, and in three hours the whole further peninsula, on which Indianoia is situated, the eo was under ten feet of water. An appeal for >, aid has been issued in behalf of the people of waived Indianoia. . ? Pas engers on the Aransas Pass Railway in(r8 from Beeville and Floresville report great court C ravages by the storm at both points. At further Beeville many houses in the course of con- liberty struction were demolished and old ones were cree unroofed or otherwise injured. Two churches mv fa*, at Foresville ware completely ruined, vhiq while several ttares and dwellings Jndee ( were damaged seriously. An aged couple In to Mr attempting to cross a swollen stream in a L, wagon, a quarter of a mile from Floresville, tin- ui were swept down the stream and the woman was drowned. Toa The total loss, as far as known, to Texaa from the storm is $1,000,000 on crops, $3,400,- JLj 000 to city and town property, and $900,000 to shipping and harbor improvements. wag v^j Thirty-eight human lives were known to be ma<j? , lost leaaa" It is t the Mc LATER NEWS. against Ex-Governor St. Johit, the last Presidential standard bearer of the Prohibition party, spoke a few days since at a temperance encampment in Monseys, N. Y., his rj speech being mainly devoted to a reply to Mr. Blaine's views upon Prohibition as expressed in his Sebago Lake address. The yacht Mayflower, of Boston, won the ??~ ml two trial races of American yachts, and was ^ pj^ designated to compete with the British ^Hr] vacht Galatea for the international chal* third to ^enge cup, won last year by the Puritan in The i the series of memorable races with the Ge- will be nesta. ?*T?E J A fibe at Saratoga, N. Y., destroyed a Vr?u freight depot and a number of railroad cars, involvinz a loss of $100,000. error, t viviaw W. Bell was attacked by num. ' ber of New York horse-car employes out on strike. He drew a pistol and shot Hugh ^ pC0; Prior, a striking conductor, inflicting a games, probably fatal wound. Bell had refused to Nlw join the strikers. place ii Two negroes charged with murder were taken from the jail at Magnolia, La., by -H lynchers and hanged from a bridge outside their la the town. They w The Iowa Republican State ticket, nomi- ^ s sated at Des Moines, is headed by F. D. Jackson for Secretary of State. The plat- r form declares the Democratic administration done?< a failure, demand? protection for American for but labor, and asserts the State temperance laws The should be enforced. poUtan Major Levi Lylrajjd, a citizen^of Edge- ^,n m field county, S. C., died the other day in and Wi great agony from hydrophobia resulting -joe from the bite of a dog received last May. ^ The North Carolina Democratic State cH^fe, Convention at Raleigh nominated the present the Haj Supreme Court Justices and adopted no A le political platform or resolutions. taking Ohio Republicans in State Convention at Barnes Columbus nominated a ticket headed by and tw< General James S. Robinson for Secretary of Clai State. The platform declared that ' 'the. -record Democratic administration of Prewdefit peg be Cleveland has failed to keep .the pledges upon which it came into pow?Sr;" denounces gjj. the President's vetoes oLpri vate pension bills, a pr and favors a tariff "not only for revenue, the pit< but also for the protection and development tbe ^ of American labor." froin p Thk Pennsylvania Prohibition convention, second, held at Hurrisburg, put a ticket in the field The with Charles S. Wolfo for Governor at the (Washi head. A platform in conformity with the troits 1 party's principles was adopted. delphia Cyhus B. Luce has been nominated for Washii Governor of Michigan by the Republicans in ,^E convention at Gran 1 Rapids. ? The Illinois Democratic convention at jjrooKi; bpringficld nominated H. J. F. Ricker for torJes' _ ? , . and tv State Treasurer an i adopted resolutions ap * Brookl proviug Cleveland's administration and fa * Her dt voring tariff reduction anl gold and silver worst i; as a basis for the currency. or* 0 A. M. Cochran has been nominated for Governor by the Texas Republicans. The platform adopted favors tlu submission of a pi\ hibitory amendment tk> the constitution chicag< to the vote of the people. New Y Nathaniel Bates was hanged at Rich- St. Lou inon 1, Ind., for wife murder. * Willie Sells, the Kansas boy murderer ^ convic ted of killing his entire family, has been Brookl] sentenved to be hanged This sentence Athletii under the laws of Kausas meaus imprison- Baltim< went for life. in The New England coast is to Lave six new life siviug stations. Utiea.^. The posto.'Iice receipts for the first quarter H-tx.-htisl of this yvar were $11,583,631, or an increase Byracm of fo"?4,!>82 over the reseipts for the corresponding quarter of the prccwling year, while the expenditures were $1:?,76!>,43$, le Shades ing $1,:?J0,S07 in excess of tha receipts aud i^eUmh more than the expenditures for the corresponding quarter of 18H5. Later reports put the number of lives lost Bridge] by the flood iu Mandalay, Burmuh, at only Harttoi twenty-live, Prince Alexander, the deposed ruler of Bulgaria, was invited to return to that country, a vast majority of his subjects being ^ ^ enthusiastically in his favor. It was stated control the European powers would not interfere cities, with his rein tateinent. ?- tUMCfi' lN ocean tbicycle. hine Twenty-seven Feet High to Aid Wrecked People. eau tricycle, twenty-seven feet high, Tl irse of building in Camden, N. J. Philadelphia News, and will be cora3 that the inventor may test it in tha Ocean City within two weeks. A Bl on which to ride through and ) breakers which beat on the Atlant may have been dreamed of, but rould ever be thought of when awake . bcr has entered into the minds jesides E. B. Lake, who has secured a at 'or his invention, and expects to find w i in it The object of this, probably ^ ;est tricycle ever built, is not simexercise and amusement, as are the tentious three-wheeled vehicles, but ' posed to utilize it as a means for ha 'iug of life from vessels wrecked h? e dangerous beaches This one wi used by the life-saving station at po 3ity, ana if it proves a success, as all pr ;ve examined it believe it will, others pr built for the life-saving stations all bu le coast. t* nachine may be run by two men th nd yet is so strong and so constructed na ss through the roughest water with- to ury, and without "ever wetting the 10 mav ride upon it, except such wet- 1 may 6e due to spray. I < in be run out to a wreck at any time," mi b man who was superintending the 1 and it will, beyond question revolu- mi the present system of saving life on to it. There need be no trouble hereafter af :hing the surf-boats, and the motor of >r shooting a line across stranded tn may be laid aside forever, once an tchine is In working trim, instead tri liring an hour or two to reach a cl< 1 vessel, it may be done on the 'so* on in ten minutes, and without ths least inj The imperilled crew could be taken K? >nthe machine if desired; in fa?ta ca communication between the land and th ck will be established, and absolutely sic danger, when this ma?hine is put ra leral use." br stf bij of CUTTING RELEASED. ? . 4U o Drops the Case Against the 21 Imprisoned Editor. t| spateh from ?1 Paso, Texas, says: ar 30 o'clock this morning Catting, the th an editor in custody across the river, J*1 :eu once more before Judge Castenaen the official minutes of the Chi- T1 Supreme Court, which had ar- th were read to him. The document " the decree releasing him from ^ custody. The decision of ^ art is based entirely upon the at Medina, the offendei party, had M his right to a civil suit for damages, re rtholdingthat this ended the proceed- je the State. When released by the M totting replied: "As long as I am not ^ detained as a prisoner, I accent my q, and I request that a copy of the de- ^ the Supreme Court be given me for ^ are use." ftI the court consented to do in Spanish. Uastonadaa sent a copy of the decree ? Proviacio, the Joze Politic, who sent ^ ord that he iu person would give Cut- dj is liberty, accompanied with some jj >me advice. 8, reporter Cutting said: "I can't ion- je d what all this has to do with my w! tha El Paso Herald, for which I was ^ i, for four weeks' incarceration, and er ng trie! at the time my Government a demand for my immediate re- ^ said on the other side of the river that ixican Constitution, prohibiting th? ce of agitators and other dangerou9 icrs in the! Republic, will be enforced Catting. ??? & BE NATIONAL GAME. tc ci bspik, of the New Yorks, used to be a 0j ncr. likr pigeons are used at every game . burg. w re gets $3,500 a reason for guarding 61 ise for Detroit. CI iew grounds of the Philadelphia Club ti the finest in the country. Pitteburgs have shut out the famous fr lis Browns in two successive games. H ecent record of Temney, of Syracuse, P* ; Held, fourteen chances without an Ej L&> not been beaten this season. ? m bingtok is a good base ball city for a g club, at present Notwithstanding ^ r showing, J ,500 spectators attend the e3 A Orleans is very anxious to secure a tr l the Southern League next year, and ai ssible that it may obtain the place re- 2, made vacant by the Augustas. ai Washingtons played a strong game in st series with the New York giants. | on tbe cm garue, were ueuveu w w u | , econd and played a tie in the last. i ? joubn, Stemmeyerand Buffinton, the ioston pitchers, have accomplished ^ 10 other club's trio of pitchers have aj >ach has disposed of an opposing nine n one hit p, St. Louis Browns have won more di than the Baltimores and the Metro- o' s combined, while the Detroits have ti ore than the Sit. Louis, Kausas Citys Ji ishingtons combined. .w Start, the veteran of the diamond a: as settled down in Hart:ord, after re- w a handsome offer from tli& Kansas am. He will cover the first base for S rtford nine occasionally; ^ iague is to be^formed next season t in the towns-of isteubenville, Ohio, j ville, QKo, Zanesville, Ohio, McKei'senm.'Erie, Penn , Wneeling, W. Va., srother towns yet to be decided upon. ^ ikson now has the League strike-out ti for the season so far, Le ng but one low Kainsey, tbe Association pitcher, t] iter struck out seventeen Mets, while si >n cau-.ed sixteen Cowboys to fan the hi ti ? ?1?- ii'minnr b [TSBCKU man WUU UU3 uocu Uimu6 :hers says tbat Terry is the swiftest in tl ociatiou. He held the watch on Gal- tl I Hecker aud found the ball traveled T itchor to catcher in seven-eights of a ^ largest number of runs made by the s in a game this season has been 15 gj ngtons); C'hicagos 20 (bt Louis): De17 (St. Louis); Kansas Citys 15 (Phila- g s); New Yorks, Is (Washington*); ^ lgtons, 12 (Bostons. tl Athletics left the West their last trip b ine defeats and three victories, the t< ith nine defeats and two victories, the p yi:s with e ght defeats and four vio It and the iiaitimores with ten defeats e ro victories. As on the first trip, n yn agam makes the best showing, o jfeats, however, this time were the u her history, and indeed in the his- r the game?l'J to 0,18 to 0 aad 10 to 0. L r NATIONAL LEAGUE RECORD. JVbrt L'?(. Won Lout. 65 30 | Philadelphia..52 33 ) 6 5 24 j Boston 40 4S tl ork...6l 2* I Washington. .It 71 rj is 31 59 I Kansas City..22 62 ^ MKRICAN ASSOCIATION RECORD. ^ Won Lout. Won , lis ...71 34 I Pittsburg 61 44 ** rn....54 47 j Cincinnati...52 56 fii f 41 55 Louisvilla. ..60 46 lie irn ..31 66 I MetroDolitan.31 62 I ai TERNATIOXAL LEAGUE RECORD. a' Wwi wt. Won !/?*'. tb 47 27 I Hamilton 4'2 35 d, ) 44 33 Buffalo 40 3:> ra !er...43 33 j Biughamton .3D 40 5, so... 40 35 j Oswego Si 55 n SOUTIIERX LEAGUE RECORD. b( Win Lost. Won Lost. re l GO 27 I Macon 32 57 * ton...37 50 ! Savannah... 54 -ti is 4'i 48 | Nashville. ...44 40 st EASTERN LEAGUE RECORD. Won Lost. Won Lost. x>rt...2o 45 Waterbury. ..4*2 27 ~ "d 35 :53 Newark 53 13 _i City...38 31 J th azil the libarated slave, show an tin- g lable disposition to flock to tha coast w Immigration is looked ou a; the o-ly X irf supply for agricultural laborers. 'V :'U i'~ : -1?<* \)t I wdfc' . ' - ' A THRILLING EXPLOIT he Feat Which Cost C*pt Webb ' His life Accomplished. , dimming Through the Eapids at Niagara Falls. f . . ? c , . , . , William J. Kendall, a Boston ex-policeman, a successfully swam th? Whirlpool Rapids Niagara Falls, where the intrepid Cfptain ebb, and recently the fisherman, Scott, lost air lives. A Niagara Falls dispatch gives b following account of the thrilling exploit: The heroes of the Niagara whirlpool' who . ,i \ ve cone through the rapids with their ads m and oat or barrel* had their laurels rested from them this afternoon by a Boston lice officer who swam through the Rapids otected by nothing bat a small cork life eserver. William J. Kendall, a tall, wellJit muscular man, etmAinp over sax tiiiit" o inches in height, came here from Boston is morning and quietly told a hurkman, . med William Walker,- that he war going swim the rapids on a wager. > "You're joking about it," said Walker. "JTo, I am not,' responded Kendall, "and loot want any talk about it I am a Boston in and know what I am doing!'* >^ "I guess you must be crazy," said the back* in,but he arranged to drive Kendall down the "Maid of the Mist" landing. Soonter they started, together with Mr. Saalt, the Western Hotel It was a little before ro o'clock when the wharf was reached, d preparations were made for the ip. Kendall quickly stripped. off. hie jthing, and the life-preserver was buckled him by Walker and Sault Aftertak- ' 5 a long drink of whisky from a ftosk, ?ndall plunged into the current aad-waa rried by an eddy back in the direction of 9 falls. He swam toward the Canada Le and* quickly got into the feeder of the pids, which took him down to ; the eakers inside of five minutes. The ilwart swimmer paddled easily into the z wave and rode it handily. A couple hundred people on the bridge cheered and sndall steered to the second wave, which ndled him rooghly. The rapids are three* carters of a mile long and the passage copied only three minutes. During that ne Kendall was tossed about like a playing by the sort His arms were thrown / > ound and the people on the bank said that e man was dead. Finally the last breaker . - ? ssed him into the whirpool itself- and there i disappeared from view for a coupleminutes, arising near the centre.' - ;j ie swimmer lifted his ?r~m? up, ,and e folks at the Whirlpool Park cheered him. .x~ . 11#. m. ua aeoiuca WJ giTC uiui rnuru uxo, auuiu ?* oment he began swimming slowly toward. e Canadian shore. He was in tjxer outer rim of a suckhole and at first made little* adway. From the shore the cbaneee ot life id death seemed about equal. SCnadall ached the rock at last and ciungtoit , eperafcely. He did not have strength >; iough lert to pull himself upon. the ck. Thomas Riley, a back driver,, and sorge Toby, a New York Central Railroad igineer, ran down to the bank and pulled e swimmerout. He had little vitality left, id had to be carried up to Prank IawmoYace, where he was given braridr and robbed. 7 r willing hands. A crowd colle^ed before * e hackman Walker drove down with Ken-: ill's clothes. They went to the Waverly 0080 at Suspension Bridge, where therimmer was put to bed He became vioutlyseasick. Dr. Hunter, who sawthe trip, . as called No serious injuries were found a is evening Kendall came over to the Westr n HoteL He has a wife and baby at home, rs. Kendall knew nothing about the' trip* itil her husband sent her a t legram telling sr about it Kendall is not now on the reglar police force, but is working fora-priv ateitective agency. CONDEMNED TO DEATH, even of the Chicago AnarcbkU Found Guilty of Murder. After a long and exciting trial the jury In* ie case of the eight Chicago Anarchistr larged with cansing the death of a number ! policemen by a bomb thrown during the- - cent riote have rendered a verdict ooodeamg seven of the prisoners to death and the ghth to fifteen years1 imprisonment A tiicago dispatch describes the scene when, le jury's verdict was announced as follows: Anarchism has received its death blow in., ee America. The men who instigated the aymarket riot and threw the bombs at Hie >lice have been found guilty. All were romptly sentenced to death except Neebe. e was sentenced to fifteen years'Imprison- ' ent From the moment the jury retired uni Judge Gary took his seat upon the bench, lis morning the dty haa been in a state of ccitement Crowds surrounded the court. 11 sorts of rumors were in circulation. Exa editions of the newspapers were printed id sold like hot cakes. At 8 o'clock about 000 persons were in the street* in and, -ouna the court house. Extra policemen ^ ere on duty and they had all they could do1 keep the people in order. The prisonerr ere brought into the court room at 9:52 clock, and were seated at the north- rt\ omirt mom rm nomfii de benches. The court was called order at 9:45. The prisoners were obeervile to the eyes of but very few la the court>om. Tbej presented about the usual ap?arance, though Spies and Fiecber looked jathly paJa The jury arrived at 9:55..^ clock. There was imprM}j_vg^-*?i?if ~S& *%? ley filed in. JW?e?'tBe" jury appeared, u<foe tjtfry enjoined silence. There was a hispered consultation betwejn the judge ad tbe clerk, when the verdict, as follows, as read: "We, the jury, find the defendants, Augustpies, Michael S.hwab, Samuel Fielden, Al;rt R. Parsons, Adolph Fischer, Georgengel and Louis Lingg guilty of murder aslarged in the indictment, and fix the pen.ty at death. We find the defendant Oscar* T. Nee be guilty of murder in manner and >rm as charged in the indictment, and fix te penalty at imprisonmeat in the penitenary for fifteen years." Capt Black, of defendants' counsel, asked bat the jury be polled. The jurymen anvered with firm voices. Capt Black said a would desire to make a motion for a new iaL State Attorney Orinnellsaid it would, e impossible t j dispose of the motion during le present term, but by agreement the mo on could be argued at the September term, his was agreed to by the defence. The Durt ordere i the motion entered and conned until the next term and the defendants iken back to jail. Hardly had the jury left tbe room, when a iriek wag heard, followed by the heavy illing of tho wife of Schwab to the oor, to whom the result of the verict had been interpreted. She is also le sister of Schnaubelt, the allege J omb thrower. She was carried out > the air by tbe police and soon revived Mrs. arsons looked haggard as the started to ave the court room, but maintained a modrate degree of composure. The crowd retained outside for an hour alter tbe reading f the verdict. WO HUMRED LIVES LOST. rightful Disaster to a Passenger Steamer on the River Volga. A dispatch from St. Petarsburg sajs that 10 passenger steamer Vera, plying on the ver Volga, in Russia, was burned near siratov, and 200 lives were lo-st. The sioaner )louged to the Samolet Company, and was 3and fro:n Astrakhan up the river. The re was caused or me i&ii 01 a uau^ui^-iauiu i the saloon, "the woodwork was ignited, id all efforts to qu ;nch tlft flames were unfailing. The passengers, all of whom were in bed at le time the fire broke ojt, rushed to the jck as soon as the alarm was given, and riny of them, pauic stricken, sprang oversard. The Captain ordered the vessel to be in ashore. This was done, but while the jw became imbe Jded in the bank the stem mained in deep w ater, aud the passengers ere still obliged to swim ashore. Many persons lost their lives by being ruck by tables aud cbairs which were irown from the vess.l to aid the struggling rimmer.s in the water. Owing to a failure to stop the engines the ater was chu ned up by the vessel's heel-:, ren lering more difficult the task of e rescuers who put out from shore to save e drowning passengers. Some Chinese miners recently found a nuget of gold In 8ierra County, California, that eighad 158 ounces. They sold it for *3tf,003. his is the third in size oI the largest nuggets in tfee world, I