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The citizens of Rapid City, Dak., hav< just learneJ that water won't run up hill The engineer of that city iu surveying fo: the waterworks located the reservoir sev eral feet above the fountain head of thi water supply, and now the water won' run into the tank, and therefore the city'i $50,000 water system is of no use. A chirar*ey statistician writes that a' the Mechernich lead works in Germany the tallest chimney in the world has re cently been completed. It is 440 fee high, six feet more than the famoui chimney of the St. Rollox chemica "works, near Glasgow, Scotland, which until the German one was built, wai without a rival. The flue of the Mecher nich chimney is eleven and a half feet ii diameter at the bottom and ten feet a the top. Most smokers are proud to own a rea amber mouthpiece. "What would the} say to a room, seventy-five or one hun dred feet square, lined on all sides wit! amber clear to the lofty ceiling ? Thai is what some American tourists saw th( other day at Tsarskoe Lelo, an imperial 6ummer palace near St. Petersburg. Th< precious fossil gum was cut and dove^ tailed so as t"> make beautiful figures o] cupids, fruits aud flowers. The whol< is in the highest state of polish. Aberdeen, Ohio, claims to be the mosl popular Gretna Green in the United States. The cause of its wonderful at tractivencss to anxious lovers is that the usual restrictions imposed by law are ig nored and no license is required noi questions asked. Squire Beasley, in the fifteen years that he has held the most lucrative office in Aberdeen, has married 3,7G0 couples. During the opening ol the Mayville fair a few years ago he mar tied sixteen people one morning before the raccs began. The New York Commercial observes 4lIt aim >st seems a pity now that we did not get into war with Mexico. An offi cer of our army, sent by General Mac kenzie to investigate the army of Mexico, reports a standing force of 40,000 men, divided between four great districts. Ten new batteries of field guns have ol late years been imported from France. There is a factory for small arms neai the capital. The officers come from the National Military School at Chnpultepec, and the rank and file are the lowest ol the peons. ???????? Ignorance, violation of all sanitary principles, miserable poverty, the extreme rigor of winter, and neglect by Irunken parents are said to be some of the principal reasons why out of 1,000 children born in Russia scarcely 423 will ___ reach their twentieth birthday. Statistics show that 343 out of each 1,000 die in the first five years. The Russian Gov' ernment is seeking means to diminish this frightful iufant mortality, but with little hope of speedy success, since the main causes can only be eradicated by the progressive education and reformation of successive generations of the peo aHMaHBHaaaaalBMaaHi Paper is used for the manufacture of go many articles that one is not surprised to hear of tbe new u>es to which this material is put, Still a Californian is rather ahead in p:o\ing its adaptability. George Phlilips, of Binghamton, Solano county, has just completed an organ containing 400 pipes, the largest being sixteen feet. All the pipes arc made of old newspapers rolled and fastened with a paste made of glue and alum. The woodwork was made entirely of old fence boards, posts, dry goods boxes and the like. He was two years in building this instrument, which i3 said to have an excellent tone. An Italian in New York is a whole band to himself. This is the way the Trllune de.-ciibes the novelty: His head is adorned with a sort of compound helmet, composed of three stories, around the edge of which are little bells which sound whenever the wearer nods or jerks his head. Strapped to his back Is n drum through which passe j a strap which is fastened at the lower end to the heel of the musician; the other end connects with a pair of drum-sticks n*V* I /-.V? nwA 1 nci/lft 4 Vl rt /lotim An f ft vtuiiiA aio iiioiuv; lug uiurn. vu iujj of tbe drum- is a pair of cymbals connecting through tho side of the drum with the machinery inside to which the heel strap is fastened. The musician is further armed with an accordcon. When he i9 in working order the accordcon gives forth sounds more or less musical, the bells begin a tintinnabulation, the strap sets ol drum beats, the cymbals clash together?and the small boys rapidly gather and the pennies for soup and maccaroni begin to flow in. Steven?, the indomible correspondent of an American magazine, has been obliged to give up his trip through Afghanistan, but he is still determined tc get around the world on his wheel. Finding that the Russians would not allow him to carry out h;s original plan oi proceeding by Merv to the Oxus, he np plied to Sir AVe?t Ridgeway for permission to join the camp of the bjundar^ commission, with the view of findinj his way thence to India. Sir West Ridge way replied that the plan was impracticable. Thereupon Stevens went frorr Meshed southward to Birgan, where hi Buccceded in crossiug the Afgan froiitie ft and ieaching Farrah. Th<?nce he hope;] to go to Buetta by way of C;ind iliar, bu the Governor detained him and eve-ntu ally sent him to Herat. lie was kep some days outside Herat, and wa< thci Kfint. under pscort to the Persian frontier The attempt to ride across Afghanistai was thus baffled. Stevens now propose to wheel himself to Lahore and to Cal cutta, and then go by sea to Canton, t< ride to Northern China on his bicycle and finally to take ship for Japan atu " anerica. j So rapid is the progress of events ii . this country that it is hard to believe tht r first anti-slavery man sent to the United . States Senate ou that issue is still living. ? but such is the fact. Joseph Cilley i? t the man, says the Philadelphia Call, and 3 he remains on his old family homestead at Nottingham, New Hampshire. He is 96 years old, and talks of the old-time t political struggles with remarkable ea> ergy and clearness. t A Nevada newspaper calmly alleges 3 that some months ago W. J. Marsh, ol I Fort Churchill, built a fence around one , of his meadows along the bank of the * a- J s river, ana ior posts u*eu jrvuug wnuu wood and willow trees. A gate was made i in the fence and an extra heavy post was t put in the ground for the gate to swing on. It was noticed that a number of the j green posts were sending out branches, but no attention was paid to this 7 fact. After cutting the first crop of alfalta in this field some cattle were turned 1 into the inclosure through another gate, away from the river. They were soon J found outside of the fencc and a man was sent to find out where the fence was broken. He had found the fencc all right, but upon coming to the lower ^ gate found it raised about five feet in the 5 air?high enough for cattle to go under. The post to which the gate was hinged had grown that much and carried the , gate with it. I 3 . David Lindley is an old Irishman who 5 lives in Louisville, Ky. He is possessed ' of a singular affliction. About four r years ago he was standing under a tree 5 at Winter's Gap. East Tennessee, when a k violent storm came up. The tree was 1 struck by iigntmng ana ienea to 1113 ^ ground. Lindley was rendered uncon" seious by the shock, but otherwise was 5 uninjured. During every electrical storm since he has experienced a peculiar tingling all over his body similar to that pro: duced by an electrical battery. When f the storm ccascs the sensation leaves ' him, and is not again felt until another storm. Any person can reccivc a slight 1 shock by catching hold of his hands dur' ing a storm. It is frequently tried by his neighbors, by whom he is considered a magnetic wonder. Mr. Lindley's health is in no wise impaired by the electricity, and he is of the opinion that : it benefits him. lie has a constant fear I of the lightning, and dreads the ap proach of a storm. The United States letter sheet envelope, a unique device for correspondence through the mail, is a combination in , one of a letter sheet, envelope and the oew postage stamp of the denomination of two cents, bearing the military portrait of General Grant. These letter envelopes will be sold at the rate of twenty1 three dollars per thousand, in any derired quantities, separately or in packages or pads of twenty-five, fifty or one hundred each, or folded in incased packages of twenty-five each, especially adapted for use when traveling. The letter sheet is of unruled paper, siDgle, with a space nine and a quarter by two and ave eighths for writing. It has gummed ;ides and flap, and perforated lines to | serve as guides in folding and opening. On the face is an ornamental design, a shield and wreath, and the words "United States letter sheet envelope," ilso a two-cent stamp bearing a portrait )f General U. S. Grant, all engraved in steel, and printed in green ink. In the left hand corner are the words, "If not lulled for in ten days, postmaster wil! olease return to," and on the flaps, outside of the perforations at both ends, the directions are given, "To open tear off the ends." These new letter sheet envelopes arc to be furnished only for the present to a few of the larger postoffices. A Bell's Five Hundred Years. The city of Breslau has just celebrated the five hundredth anniversary of an occurrence which was memorable in the history of the town and is known whereevcr German poetry finds a home. The bell which haugs in the southern tower of St. Mary Magdalen's Church and is named "the poor sinner's bell," rang out morning and evening to remind all who heard it that it was cast 500 years ago. i Next day (Sunday) the preacher re, minded his congregation of the pathetic s'.ory which has made it singular among bells, how, when all was ready for cast1 ing, the founder withdrew for a fewmo1 ments, leaving a boy in charge of the furnace, warning him not a meddle with l the catch which secured the sceth'ng metal in the cildron. But the boy dis: regarded the caution, and then, terrified 1 on seeing the molten metal beginning to i flow into the mold, called to the bell i founder for help. Hushing in aud seeing what he had intended to be his mas tcrpiecc ruined, he slew the boy on the 1 spot. "When the metal had cooled and > the mold was opened, the bell was found to be an exquisite work, perfect [ in finish, and of marvelous sweetne s of tone. CJominir to his senses, be recognized his bloody work and straightway gave himse f up to the magistrates. ; "Blood for blood" was the law; he w.;s condemned to die, and he went to his doom while his beautiful bell pealed an invitation to all to pray for "the poor ' sinner," whence its name.?London 1 (/'ICO. Children in Mexico. A correspondent, writing from Mexico, ray-; the laud is flocd-'d with children, aud a small family is a thing unknown. j They greet you, he says, at every win, djw, at every corner, on every woman's ' ba k. Theyjfill the carriages on the plaza, they arc like a swarm of beis around a honeysuckle?one on every tiuy t (lower and hundreds waiting for their j chance. A man died the: other day who was followed to the grave by eightvseven sons and daughters, and had buried ' I thirteen, so that he was the father to the t grand total of 100 chi dren. There i? . another man living in Mexico who l a: ^ had two wives, and who has. living fortyfive children. Allow'ng the sma 1 1 average of five to the family, one < an .see . how numerous the grandchildren would i be. I am acquainted, he adds, with a 3 gentleman whose mother is but thirteen find a half years older than lie and she * had eighteen more of a family. It is a 3 ble:-9cd thing that the natives are able to live in a cane hut and exist on beans and j rice, el c the list of deaths by starvation would be something dreadful," EXPLOSION ON A FAR! The lJoilcr Attached to a Tlires Bursts With Terrific Effect .Bodies of Victims Hurled Two H dred Feet Through the Air, A terrible boiler explosion occurred other morning on the farm of Rutger derburgh, in North Greenbu-h, about miles south of Troy, N. Y., by which men were kilted and three others serio injured, one fatally. The following are naniesof the victims: David A. Phillips,di Archie Hankie, dead; Newton De Frc fatally injured; William H. Livingston jured; Rutger Vanderburgh, injured. The boiler was a portable one, attache a thresher, and was purchased, n three years ago. The other al noon the thresher was placed Vanderburgh's barn and the boiler engine on the outside. Fire was kindled der the boiler at six o'clock next morn Shortly bo fore seven o'clock David Phillips, of North Greenbush, the ov of the thresher: Archie Hankie, of B the engineer; Newton De Freest, the of a neighboring farmer; Nelson dell, a farm hand for Vanderbui William H. Livingston, of Sandlake, Rutger Vanderburgh were about thctres the two last named being in the barn. ] lips stood by the side of the boiler; Hai and Do Freest by the firebox. Wandell just started away to get a hayfork, but he not proceeded ten steps when the boilei ploded with terrific force, crashing thrc the large barn, tearing out the rear wall part of tin roof. The largest portion, we ing about fifteen hundred pounds, sti the ground two hundred feet from the of the barn, and then bounded about tw< feet further aud fell into a small br Smaller piases were carried still greater tances. The coals from the firebox set barn in flame.', and the structure and its touts?the entire croptof the farm?wen stroyed. Phillips's dead body, with the ba^k of head crushed iu, was found thirty feet' of the spot where the boiler stood, leaves a wife and two children. Hankie Do Freest wore hurled over a earriago In and fell about five feet apart in an a orchard, two hundred feet from the b Hankie was dead, his body being shockir mangled and all his clothing, shoos excef was striped from the body. De Freest iu a semi-comatose condition and mort hurt. His clothing from above the k was also torn off. He was fourteen y old and a son of Laeas J. Do Fre3st, a pre nent man in the count}'. A piece of the burst boiler struck broad rim of Livingston's straw hat, cut it off clean. Splinters of iron broke right arm and cut a deep gash in his n Vanderburgh's right leg was severely cu a timber. H inkle, who was a single man. belor to a pecul arly unfortunate farmily. father was killed by the cars at Greenl in issi; his brother Charles, a brakemui the Central and Hudson River Railroad, his death in a railroad accident in 1*84, another (Jesse) was killed by the burstin a gun on July 4tli last. LATER NEWS, Twenty thousand people attended inter-Stats grangers' picnic, at Williai Grove, Penn. During the several days w! it lasted the people were addressed by rious candidates for political honors. YELLOW*fever has broken out at Bil Miss., and has terminated fatally in t cases. The Cincinnati (Ohio) Exposition wasfi ally opened on the 1st. The event i marked with great popular demonstrat and a procession of military and civic sc ties which was witnessed by 200,000 pec Mr. Van Pelt, Democratic candidate State Senator in West Virginia, while gaged in a political discussion was i twice and fatally wounded by "Jake" Isl a brother of the candidate of the Li Party for the same office. Isbell was rested. THE hirst uenerai uonierenceui dian Methodists since the union of all branches of that denomination in 1884 c mepced on the 1st at Toronto. Beach, the Australian, easily defei Teenier, the American, in the internatii rowing match on the Thames. Quarantine against Biloxi, Miss., wi fatal cases of yellow fever have occuri has been established at New Orleans,Mol Pensacola and other Southern cities. Republicans of Indiana and Miss< and Democrats of California have just 1 State conventions and nominated cai dates. Charleston, S. C., was visited by ano slight earthquake shojk on the mornin the 3d. Offers of relief were sent to stricken city from all parts of the land, population passed two days aud nights in open air before many of the people venti back to their houses Up to the !3d the 1 ies of thirty-five victims?ten whites twenty-five colored?had been recov< from the ruins. Secretary Bayard has telegraphed Sedgwick his disbelief of the publis charges regarding his acts in Mexico, and dcred him to continue his investigatioi the Cutting case. During August the national debt reduced $l,!?10,0i?9, leaving the principa tho 1st inst at $1,378,17(5,5S0. The acting Secretary of the Treasury issuod a circular calling the attention of nmnlnvfls nf t.hrt TrA?*siirv -?1- -J? ? J partment to the President's order of Jul] ISSi), warning Fe<leral officers against k ferenco in politics. Czar Alexander, of Russia, has cu repulsed the friendly advances of Pr Alexander upon his return to Bulgaria, predicts that dire disaster will follow Bulgarian ruler's return to hi; throaa. A MINE DISASTER Five Miners Instantly Killed t One Badly Injured. There was a terrific explosion of fire-<lr in the Fairlawn mines, near Scranton, Pe at 8 o'clock the other morning, a little \v after Edward Pierce, the (ire boss, and other men had gone down the slope. T had gone into the mino to t?lo*v out tho toin rock, preparatory to putting propi the chambers. A rescuing party immediately went search of the men. They hail great ditlic in getting t> tin bottom of the slops, 100 from the surface, on a -count of the esea] gas and the debris. Six of th3 men \ lyhi? behind the door to a chain mice or who 111 were <iva<i. i were Edward Vaughm, 4.r> years who leavo3 a wife anl five small < drt'ti; Hugh Connors, 45 years, wife und children, and Mil hael Pryle, 45 years. 1 rii'd, but 110 children. Tlie latter's skull nearly Mown o!F. John Kerrigan, .*?5 y and n arried, died while he wasboiug car up the slop*.*. Tlio body of Edward Pierce, the fire I was not foun 1 until the afternoon. Pi was a single man, about twenty-live y old. The only survivors of the sc wo.e Patrick Comer and John Nafin. latter was badly burned on the face arms. He is thirty-five and man Comer re eive I two severe scalp woi and a wound on the km e. He ablo to tell how the explosion occur Pierce was several feet ahead of the part; they were going up the slope in the lo vein. His lamp lighted th3 lire damp, a mendous explosion followed, aud the i were hurled with great violence against side of the passageway. Miners have loug looked upon the F lawn mine as a dangerous one on accoun the rapidity witfc 'which gas accumul there and the inade juacy of the mear ventilate. | NEWS SUMMARY Eastern and Middle States. liei ^r,E strike of New York horse-car employes lasted only a few days, aid ended in . defeat for the strikers. A KiiiE at Montrose, Penn., dstroyed thirteen business houses and two residences, inAiding a loss of about $75,000. Av Albany (N. Y.) dispatch of the 28th stated that President Cleveland had appointed Deputy State Comptroller Thomas E. BeneI diet to the office of Public Printer. This the position as head of the Government Printing ."an- | Oflice at Washington has been much sought two airer?W() Captain Wiixiam Cook, a vBteran of the late war, and siuoethe war profossor at Harusly Vard Univei-sity, accidentally shot himself at the Chatham, Mass., with fatal effect, ead; A sealed package containing nearly sest &W.000 was stolen from the Adams Express . ' Company's safe in Philadelphia a few day# ? m* since. Ralph Pratt, a clerk in the office, was arrested on suspicion, i to Lawrence M. Donovan, a New York ew, printer, has jumped from the Brooklyn rter. bridge, for dime-museum glory. He was flshel out ol! the East River uninjured, arin rested aud fined $10. aU(l Edward Redsongton was instantly killed . -m" and four companions fatally injured, by the lu5- upsetting of an express wagon in which they A- were riding from Dedham, Mass., to Boston, rner atjj Dr. Older Wendell Holmes has reS01'j turn>3d to Boston from his European trip, ran- Three truckmen working on a railroad rgh; near Summer Hill, Tean., were struck by a aud passing engine aud killed. ?er, a fire in South Royal ton, Vfc, destroyed Phil- nine business stores and fourteen residences. nk,? Loss $1(J0,0.K). J?J Brevet Major-General George H. Gor. don, a veteran of the Mexican and Civil wars, h h died suddenly at Framiugham, Mass., a few and ^a3's since iu his sixty-second year. igh -uck South and West,. rear A sttock of earthquake lasting several seconty onds has been felt at Summerville, S. C., and ook. vicinity. ('js' A skiff containing six young men upset ? in the Ohio River at Cincinnati, and four of COI1* Art/iiirnntfl wora HrnwnpH ) le- ? The California Republicans have nomine nated John T. Swift for Governor. ivest The fourth Southern Exposition has been He successfully opened at Louisville, Ky. and * jN the twinkling of an eye Lafllin & ouse Rand's powder magazine, in the outskirts of PP'? Chicago, was the other morning swept urn. from the face of the earth by a bolt of light'Kv ning and a consequent explosion of powder ?ted, aU(j dynamite. One person was killed /".'J1? outright, four were fatally in " "y jured, a large number were more uees or iegg seriously bruised and cut, and a ears great amount of damage was done in the mil- vicinity and in Chicago. Nearly 120,000 , pounds of powder and dynamite were ex. ? ploded, and the concussion was so great that i everything in the neighborhood was either "*s leveled to the ground or riddled with flying ? . stones and timbers. People twenty to thirty t "y mile> away felt the shock and thought it was jrr(? j an earthquake. j?,s Mrs. Flizabkth Rodgkrs, of Chicago, Jus|1 has been appointed Master Workman of Disj ou trict No. 24, Knights of Labor, met Three negroes were lync hed :o?ar McNutt aud Lake, Miss , the other night, for an at tempted g of assault on some young ladies. Three lodges of modern Know Nothings are in existence near Chicago. Washington. the The aggregate rereiptsfrom Internal Rev, enue during July last were $'.*,735,488, an in crease of as compared with the rehich ceipts during the corresponding month in the va- preceding year. Mr. A. G. Sedgwick, the special envoy tc oxj Mexico in the Cutting matter, has sent u , f ' telegram to Secretary Bayard denying the two charge that he had "gone on a tear'' with some of the "young bloods" of the Mexican arm capital. vas ions Foreign. >cie- -A- dispatch from the City of Mexico states . that Mr. A. S. Sedgwick,the New York law>ple. yer sent as a special envoy of the Ameri an > for Government to inquire into the arrest ol en- Cutting, has been having a "hilarious time' shot some of Mexico's young bloods,and thai he has not conducted himself ai: all in keepbell, iUg with his high mission. kbor Prince Alexander again srtepped upon i ar- Bulgarian soil at Rustchuk on l;he 29th, and was received by an immeuse concourse. M, Stambuloff formally welcomed Alexandei in the name of Bulgaria and restored to him the the reins of power. A body of otiicen om crowned the Prince and carried him on theii shoulders to the palace, followed by cheering . crowds. From Rustchuk the re-erownec itoa ruier proceeded to Sofia, the Bulgarian ana capital. A hurricane has swupt over the island oi [i?re New Providence in the West Indies, doing great damage to houses and shipping at Nasf ' sau. In a railway collision near V iennu, seven IrillaH ft r?H t iVflnl V-t Wfl rCHll aH >uri A special cable dispatch says that "the held greatest war of the century" is close at hand, 1(jj. The contesting parties will b-3 Russia on one side and Austria, Turkey and Bulgaria, backed by Germany and England, on the ther other. Russian intriguos for an extension ol ? of its power are given as tbe i ause of the coming ?tho c?l?ssal struggle. A fishing schooner which has just arrived at St Johns, N. F., during a gale lost six 1 tlja dories containing twelve men. ;rei company of English capitalists propose bod- to build a railroad from Tuxpan to the city aU(j of Mexico at an estimated costot' #25,000,000. !red FATAL EARTHQUAKES. Hundreds of People Killed in Greecc ?Six Towns Destroyed. ^ or* Advices from Athens state that Greece has 1 ia again b?en visited by an earthquake, which has been inoit disastrous to life and property. wa; The village of Pyrgo and the town of Philia ' on tra, both situated on the western coast of th? Morea, were tho chief suffered. In has Pyrgo not a house is left standing;, while ! all Pbiliatra is almost swept from the face of Ue_ the globe, swallowed up in the convulsions of ., the earth. The shocks were experienced ' ' throughout tho entire o f Greece in a greater iter- or less degree. Iu the town of Zanl e every house was damaged and the inhabitants fled rt]y in terror to the open country. . 3 Several towns in Italy were also vinited by ince the earthquake, but not to any Rerious exand t.'Ut, Naples Brindisi, Foggia, Case:rta and tha Taraato being of the number. Among other towns in Italy where the earthquake was felt are Syracuse, Reggio, Calabria, I'otenza, Poz/.uoli, Bari and Avcllino. The people were panic-stricken and took refug* in the fields and churches. . A dispatch from Naples says that a second 1 earthquake shock occurred tiere. The population were crowding the streets and many imp families wt-ra fleeing from the city. There uu havo been two eruptions of Vesuvius tnd the .volcano is still vory active. Au earthquake sho.k was also experienced six at Athens. 'hov Violent shocks of earthquake hare also J ' 1 "* A lava ni^ v-ia nfV>?r ^?.t" jiarts of Egypt, causin? terror among the 3 In natives, but so far as known doing no serious damage. ' l ater advices state that tha area of the "" y etrth disturbance >n Greece was phenomen. c ally wide. At least six towns were entitoly 1>,u? destroyed, nud a score of others were partially destroyed. On the mainland much ,, 1' damage was done, but there was little loss , Y of life. On the islands it is estimated " ,i' that six hundred persons were killed and one r thousand seriously injured. The undulations "ve were curioi>ly regular. Tub atual shocks ,,ar" a\evaged twelve Ee.-ond!: induration. Feowas p]e ex C|-y whero are camping oat i:? tha fields. The breaking of the telegraph lines delays tlie lweption of details. Tho Greek Cabinet has been sitting at Athens almost >oss, continuously, considering relief measures. A erco transport with tents, food,doctors, medicines. ea:3 and a company of pompiers was sent to tho !??n stricken districts. * , The latest roturns show that 100 persons and wer0 killed fit Filiatra a id twenty at Garga'iey* liano. Both towns are iu ruins. mds was red. <JF correspondent who have written v as about fairs to the Amcricttn Agriculturist, wer nearly five hundred state that no fairs will trc- bo held iu their counties this year. These men co,mtios which have no fairs are main'y lo. the catod in the Southern States. 'air- A nothershock of earthquake has been felt t of in Malta. The Captain of a steamer reports ates that -00 miles east of Malta, ho witnessed the is to upheaval of a column of water thirty feet in diameter tc a distance of feet. AN EXCITING EVICTION. Novel Defence of Besieged Tenants * in Galway, Ireland. Exciting scenes were witnessed during the recent evictions in Woodford, county Gal- ' way, Ireland A force of 550 policeman, j strengthened by a large number of "emergency men" and extra bailiffs, went to the 6 house of the tenant named Saunders, ? which has for some days been 1 defended from within by a number of armed ' men, and has been actually in a state of siego. The roof of the dwelling has bsen pierced with ] loopholes, through which the inmates threw 1 boiling water upon the officers. Several \ policemen and bailiffs were severely scalded. 1 A more novel form of defence was the let- < ting loose of a swarm of angry bees, which < clustered among the attacking party and i proved quite efficient in demoralizing the o Si cere of the law. Scaling ladders 1 were procured, and finally, after a despefate hand-to-band struggle, the ] house was carried by storm and its twenty 1 defenders were made prisoners. The officers, ] on entering, found large caldrons of water 1 boiling over a huge fire, a bag of lime to be 1 used with the water,amd a quantity of stones i ind other missiles. < MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Six hundred American girls are studying music in Milan. Hue. Patti is to begin her American tour on November ]6, in New York. There are nearly 700 musicians in Phila- ] delphia aucl not one first-class band. i Alice Rees, tho new prima donna of Mr. ' Duff's opera company, is a young Australian girl. ( Margaret Mather has made a hit in j San Francisco. Tho Call says that she is the ; Ideal Juliet Lester Wallace will open his New York theatre October 11 with Hamilton's new play, J "Harvest." ( Katie Putnam, the actress, has an an- i nual income of $[U,QUO from her fruit farm ia Michigan. 1 Mn. Louis James, the tragedian, is one 1 of the original members of tho old Ellsworth Zouaves. 1 The Anglo-Italian opera company has completed its bookings for a tour from New , York to San Francisco. Mrs. Thomas Jefferson, the wife of ; Joseph Jefferson's youngest son, has written < a comedy entitled Class." Mrs. Cleveland loves "the music of the future," and is one of the most appreciative of listeners to the works of Wagner. J Maud Banks, daughter of General N. P. Banks, made her theatrical debut as Parthe- ' ilia at Portsmouth, N. H., the other night The American Opera company will produce live new plays this season, besides reviving those which met with the greatest favor last ytar. Lady Archibald Campbell, formerly Miss Blood, in addition to being a handsome youug woman and a clever writer, is also a skilful musical composer. Her sougs are i very popular in England. i Janauscilek, great actress and brave ] woman, suffering under a mortal disease and not appreciated by a dull and trivial public, 1 returns to the stage this year, undaunted by the disfavor of fortune and fate. 1 Mr. Lewis Morriso.v, who is to play j ' Mephistophelos in the new version of Goethe's ( "Faust," by Dr. Gustavus Haas, of New York, will represent the character with a j "cloven hoof" from which electric sparks will ( issue, as well as from the sword he uses. German musical papers place the number of Liszt's known compositions at 047. Of i 1 these 03 are orchestral works, 33 being tran- I scriptions for the orchestra of other compoi sitions; 517 arc for the pianoforte, 300 being i transcriptions; 20 are compositions for the > organ, and 30 vocaL : NEWSY GLEANINGS. The Louisiana rice crop promises to be i heavy. Muskrats damage the Erie canal $50,000 i worth every year. * ; Lynchburg, Va., is getting ready to eelbrate its centennial ( It cost Chicago about $4,000 apiece to convict eight anarchists. Sod schoolhouses are still used in Cheyj enne county, Nebraska. The Czar of Russia has donated $20,000 to the Pasteur institute fund, which now i amounts to $320,0J0. > Thrones are cheap in France. Two made ' for the last Napoleon are now valued at $10U > each, and find no takers. Nathan B. Moore, a Maine hunter, aged sixty-eight, enjoys the distinction of having , killed 275 moose since his youth. ; President Cleveland's house in the sub; urbs of "Washington will not be refitted and ready for occupancy till October. The new mail route to Cuba, going tc Tampa, Fla., by rail, thence to Havana by steamer, shortens the time two days. A deacon of a Greenville (Penn.) church , has a string of buttons half a yard long which has been taken out of his Sunday col, ; lections. ! I An inspection of the 500 mail bags that ; : were sunk in the Oregon, and have since been recovered, shows that ladies smuggle a great ' many French gloves, with laces, ribbons etc., in newspapers sent by mail. An archaeological discovery just n-ade at ( I Athens, Greece, is exciting much interest. A number of columns in a state of perfect preservation have been uneai thed on the acropolis. They belong to a period before the Persian wars. MASSACKE OF CHRISTIANS. i Fifty Killed in CochinChlna-Whole Villages Destroyed. Advices from Ching-Too-Foo.tbe chief city : of th2 province of Sechuen, state that the na* ( ! tives of the eastern part of that Drovince and those of Northern C:>chinChina, have i risen against the Christians aud are massa| ' creing them and destroying their property. , This active parsecution is attributed to the ' ; imprudence of the Engl sh and Ameri au . missionaries. In Cocbii China above fifty Christians have been killed, their houses burned and their farms destroyed. In b'echuen a general massacre cf Christians U reported to bo in progress, and they are killed wherever foun J. It is said that i whole villages o.-cupied by Christians have liren destroyed and that all land occupied oy tbe profe sors of that faith are being devastated. The aposto'.io vicar's residence in Sfichuen has been burned to the ground. Not i a pieee of furniture, nor a book, nor a paper was saved. The foreign cousuls barely escaped from Sechuen with their lives. Dr. E. C. Adams, of St. Joseph, Mo., has brought suit against the proprietors of Tootle's Opera House, oi j j that city, claiming $25,000 damages for slander because a minstrel company held him up to ridicule in its local gags, j This is rather a novel suit, but the , | Doctor will have many sympathizers ! among those wlio have long been dis| gusted with the growing tendency | among the lesser lights of the tli9atei 1 to court favor with their audiences at I ; the expense of prominent local charac! ters by supplying low and vulgar gags in place; of their legitimate lines. Dr. J J Adams is a man of means, and promises ; to push the case for all it is worth. | Success to his efforts at ridding the : atnco ol this cheap nasu. a Cincinnati plckpocuet, seeing a young man with a young woman on each arm, deftly relieved him of his watch. TIio young man saw the deed and tried to grab tko thief, but the girla clnng to his arms and cried, "Don't go; he'll kill yon," and more to that effect, until the thief got well away. Thoy were not confederates of the pickpocket, eithor, but nice average Ohio girls, who were bound the young . taw shouldn't get liurty IEISH HOME RULE. Sladstone Issues a Pamphlet Up the Subject. Ex-Premier Gladstone has just issued Dauipblet upon the queotiou of Irish Ho Rule which has attracted great attenti< rhe brochure is under two heads. The 13 i a history of an idea, in which Mr. Gli ;tone summarizes the following conditio mder which alone, in his view, home rule :ame possible: First?The abandonment of the hope tl Parliament could serve as a passable Iegis tive instrument for Ireland. Second?1 inequivocal and constitutional demand the Irish members. Third?The possibil )f dealing with Scotland in a similar way circumstances of equal and equally clear sire. Mr. Gladstone then passes on to def< tiimself from the charge of haviDg sprung Home Rule measure upon his friends. ] plying to me cnarge 01 naninguon t Chamberlain that he had conceived the ii precipitately, aud to the charge of Bri| that he had concealed it unduly, denies that it is the duty of a M Ister to make known, even to hiaLcolleagi Bvery idea forming in his mind, which wo tend to confuse and retard instead of business. He continues: "What is true is that I had not publi &nd in principle condemned it, and also tl [ had montally considered it; but I 1 neither adopted nor rejected it, and for very ample reason that it was not ripe eit for adoption or for rejection." In the second portion of the pamphlet, lessons of the elections, Mr. Gladstone beg irawing certain lessons from the elections they affect the Liberal party. ' Look at the question," he cOntiuu "which way we will, the cause of Irish s government lives and moves and can bar fail to receive more life, more propuls from the hands of those who have been successful opponents in one of its particu forms. It will arise as a wounded wan sometimes arises on the field of battle t stabs to the heart some soldier of the viott ous army who had been exulting over hir Mr. Gladstone then looks at tne eleotii from a geographical point of view, shows that even in the case of England w we have is not really a refusal, but is onl; slower acknowledgment Tha effect of this in Ireland he describes as follows: "All the currents of the political att sphere as between the two islands has b cleansed and sweetened For Ireland n L-nn-vo what. nVin hns n?v*r known hflfr that even under her defeat a deep rift of vision runs all through the English natioi her favor; that there is not throughout land a parish or village where th are not hearts beating in unison w her heart, where there not mi; earnestly bent en the acknowledgment i permanent establishment of her claims national existence. Under these happier i cumstances, what is there in separation t that would, tend to make it advantageous Ireland^ As an island with many hundr of miles of coast, with a weak marine an people far more military than nautical its habits, of small populations i limited in her present resources, why sho she expose herself to the risks of invas bud to the certainty of an enormous cost the creation and maintenance of a in for defence rather than remain un the shield of the greatest mariti power in the world, bound by ev consideration of honor and ini est to gnard her? Why should be supposed desirous-to forego theadvanti of absolute community of trade with greatest of all commercial countries to come an alien to the market which consul lay nine-tenths of her produce and insteac using the broad and universal path of enf prise now open to her to carve out for h self new ana narrow ways as a third-r State-!" , RESTORED TO HIS THRONE Prince Alexander, Bulgaria's I posed Kuler, Again in Power. Prince Alexander, deposad from the I garian throne through Russian intrig has been restored to power. His subj< were clamorous for his return, and a rev< tion in his favor, led by M. Stambulo.T, < successful. Prince Alexander arrived Sfetova at 8 o'clock the other morning, entry into the town and his progress throi it were one continuous triumph. ' people lifted the Prince from carriage, and carried him on tl shoulders to the 'o eek Chui where a te deum was ring. The Pri afterward started for Hmova, and arri there in the evening. Thence he proceei to Sofia, the Bulgarian c apital, where an thusiastic reception await* d him. . A manifesto has been issued by Prince exander. It approves the measures tdop by the Stambuloff regency, confirms the isting Ministry, and the appointment Mutkourof? as Commander-in-Chief of army; thanks the people and the army orH vocnlnfa offifn^A in tfl of independence; implores God's blessi and urfr?*s all to unite in promoting the v fare of Bulgaria. Advices from Sofia ?ay that the city i excited, and that some disorders had currcd. M. Zankoff, the revolution; leader, was attacked by a mob and nea killed. It is expected that the military p ters will be executed, and that amnesty i be granted to the other conspirators. The Bulgarian Cabinet has be^n rem eled, and is now strongly anti-Bussi M. Na hevi&s, the Foreign Minister, was leading spirit in the movement to countei the Zankoff plot by which Prince Alexan was forced to abdicate. King Milan of Servia has telegraphec Prince A'e cander, congratulating him u his return to Bulgaria, and expressing fullest sympathy with him. The KaravelofT-Stambulcff regency has signed its powers to Prince Alexander. U.ve of the first plants to turn from gr to ?carlet is the poison ivy. Beware of Remember, the poison vine has three lea in a cluster; the leaves of the harmless wo bine are in clusters of five. Another ga bued plant of the earlv autumn is the ooi sumac or the poison oak. James W. Fitzgerald, the Presidenl the recent great Irish-American Convent at Chicago, was an original Fenian i marched into Canada with hostile inte He is now Judge of the Police Court in ( cinnati. THE MARKETS. new YORK. 35 Beef cattle, good to prime 1 w Calves, com'n to prime veals 6 @ Sheep Lambs Hogs?Live 5 @ Dressed, city 6 @ Flour?Ex. St., good to fancy 8 30 ? 3 ' West, good to choice 3 90 @41 Wheat?No. 2, Red S7*@ * Rye?State 57 @ 5 Barley?Four-rowed State... @ Corn?Ungrad. Mixed nO52J Oats?White State 3-5 @ j Mixed Western 82 @ J Hay?Med. to pr. Timothy.. SO @ ? Straw?No. 1, Itye 60 @ ' Lard?City Steam 7 60 @76 Butter?State Creamery.... 21>?@ 2 Dairy 18 @ 2 West. Im. Creamery 11 @ 1 Factory 10J^@ 1 Cheese?State Factory 7 @ Skims 6 (<$ Western Eggs?State aud Peun 16 @ 1 BUFFALO. Sheep?Good to Choice 3 25 @42 Lambs? Western 5 30 ($ 5 {J Steers?Western 4 60 @ 5 2 Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 4 95 (<i 5 2 Flour?C'y ground u. process 5 25 (<t 6 2 Wheat?^o. 1. Hard Duluth. 87 (<t S Corn?No. 2, Mixed New.... 39 (<?. 3 Oats?No. 2, Mixed Western 33 (<' 3 Barley?Two-rowed State... ? (sS ? BOSTON*. Beef?Ex plate and family. 10 50 @11 0 Hogs?Live 5,V?? Norchern Dressed... Pork?Er. Prime, per bbl... 10 5'j (<i ll 0 Flour?Winter AY heat pat's. 4 50 (it: 4 (> Dorn?High Mixed 53 (iii 5 Dats?Extra White 4'>J<; <r-' 4 Rye?State 7J of 7 WATERTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET. Beef?Extra quality 5 25 (<i 5 5 Sheep?Live weight 4^(3 Lambs (i (>% Sogs?Northern, d. w PHILADELPHIA. ^iour?Penn. ex family, good 3 75 (? 4 0 Wheat?No. 2, Red ? @ 8 Elye?State (t? 8 3orn?State Yellow (<5 51 Dats Mixed 37 @ 3i 3utter?Creamery Extra Pa 20 @ 2 Uw&e?N, Y. Full Cream,, ! r I -... . SITTING ON THE STILE. on She turned the music swiftly o'er, Her lovely color came and went, a She tossed her jaunty hat aside me And sat before the instrument. jns The ivory keys, her ivory hands ,rst Touched with a master touch, the while id- With sweetest voice she sang that sweet ns. Old song, '' I'm Sitting on the Stile." k?" He softly stole within the room To hear her sing; entranced he sat !j^ Upon the most convenient chair, Tje The chair that held her jaunty hat. of She turned and looked with anguished eyes, de, He turned and looked with sickly smile, Beheld the ruin ha had wrought ;nd And said, " I'm Sitting on the Style.** ?Mrs. George Archibald, in Tid-Bits. md IS PITH AND POINT. he ;in Weather report?A clap of thunder.aid A question of moment.?What time is it? h?t The small boy s oouDie?a green ?pind pie. ?Si/tings. the Glass-put-in men are very panes-taking. her ?National Weekly. the When the scales fall from a man'* ins ejea ought to be ablo to see a long '88 weigh, i69, A man may read the signs of the" elf- limes on the roadside fences.?Burlingrjj ton Free Press. ion its The reason that tramps are so poverty- \V ' lar stricken and wretched is bccause they ^ don't advertise.?Puck. >ri- "I don't see the point, but I realize it? n." force," said a man when a bee sett ed oa the back of his neck.?Philadelphia Call hat The man who wants but little here be7 a low may feel tolerably confident that the ^ desire will be granted.?Detroit Frte __ Press. "J.'V DO- > ? y > sen We are sometime? a'most led to think ow that the busiest men in a community are those who never do anything.?PhiladeZ,in phia Call the When a man starts out to lecture he puts on a dress suit. . A woman before 1. itartincto le.ture puts on a night-gown. nas - o . . _ md Boston Courier. -40 The bravest boy will quiil when he ^ appears in public for the first time after i to be h&s had his hair cut by his mother.? eds New Haven Never. din "What can give such a finish to %roon? lnrl as a tender woman's face i" asks a writer, uld A tender woman's scrubbing rag.?Burion lington Fret Press. A musical composer writes: "Have der you noticed my 'March for the Piano V 'r me We have not. When we observe any one to march for the piano we invariably sllrJ march in another direction.?Sifting*. ige, During the fruit-preservation season, the the men are unable to work twenty-five ^ hours a day, but the women can. (A j of diagram will be sent on the receipt of ?> ?r- seven-cent po6tage stamp).?Norristoicn er? Herald. A young man who has a good deal ofc' spare time on his hands, wishes to learn , of something that will keep him occu-.. pied. We can think of two things right )e- off?getting married and tipping over a beehive.?Burlington Free Pro*. Ju*" In the "language of post ige stamps,'*" ,u?' the stamp placed on upside down meansj "I love you." The young man or the )lu" young woman who adopts such an idiotic was form of proposal must be upside down in the head.?Narrintoicn Herali. The Danville Breeze tells or a young: lhe woman riding with a young .man, ana- v his exclaiming at the sight of two calves: ch" "Oh.Jsee tno;e two little cowlets"' "YoonCg are mistaken," said the young man; ved "those are not cowlets, but bullets." ded If you would a rraiden woo, . - ; en- Always keep this rule in view: . Do not rush, or go too slow. Do not scare wheu she says no; ltea Do not fret, for caa't you guess, ei* When she says "no," she mtans "yes?" ^ ?St. Louis Chronicle. tor Tom Anjerry, of the university ot vor Texas, has trouble in meeting his bills. To a pressing creditor he said: "I can't / pay you anything this month." *'That'a what you told me la t month." "Well^ I kept my word, didn't Ij"?Texas Siftary ing. irly A row and a row, though spelled alike, lot* Have very different meaningful One's on the water with a girl you like, And the other is when you come home at 3' 10<** o'clock in the morning with your eyes a**- crossed, a dark brown taste in your lll? mouth, and you try to go to bed with act your hat on. der ?St. Louis Chronicle. J t "Tom, I gave you a very liberal ftllowpon ( ance when I sent you to college; neverthe theless, I hear that you have had some trouble in me?ting your bills." "Not. 're" the slightest in the world, lather. I as sure you. It has b.'en all I could do toeen keep out of their way.''?Merchant Trixtik tier. iod. The conductors of the Paris omniily buses are witty as well as polite. Theson other day a woman of immense size stood on ;the sidewalk and hailed a passing: ? 0f vehicle. "Is there room for me?" she ion asked. "Xo, madame," replied the and conductor ith great suavity, ''there i* only room for one.''?Tid-Bits. .in- J ? The Great Eastern. The lot of the Great Eastern hai not 1%^ as yet been marked by disaster, but she7 has had a peck of troubles, and has suf4X fered more losses than Dogberry ever ? heard of. Owing to the breakage of maY* chinery a couple of dock- laborers were '0 killed before she could be successfully i'O launched. The Queen is said to have objected as too Biblical to her original '8 designation of the Leviathan, and she y was fain to change her name to the W Great Eastern. Ill luck was her portion (4 as early as her trial trip; for, while she ? was on her way to Portland, a steamn ? J " ? jacket round one 01 ncr masis um?i, urn* thirteen poor creatures were scalded to !l death in the engine-room. Her first > commander, the gallant Captain llarrison, was drowned in a piuldle, 60 to 7 speak, while his ship was lying in tho 8 Southampton waters. Since that period S the history of the Great Eastern lias been i ?nn nlmnst tvmtinuouslv d:smal record of failure and mischance. She has bee 1 the ^ property cI several companies and the 15 subject of many law-suits. She has been 5 in pawn, and she has had, time and ~\4 again, the brokers in. Highly succassful in laying ocean cables, she has been on the whole a failure as an ocean passenger steamer. At or.e time it was 1 rumored th.it the big shin was to be V-g littcd up with lefrigerators and devoted 7 to the purpose of t! e frozen meat trade !: between the New Zealand ports and Plymouth. Then it wa< stated that this / white elephant of the waters would 5 steam to Gibraltar, have her engines taken out of her, and le thenceforth ? utilized as a coal bunker. That de^radatiou she has happily been spared, and 7 if she be sensibly used a* a show ship and kept in proper repair, she may really 0 in the end turn out to be not only a g?'ng but a paying concern.?New Tvrk ?,? i Hour. 1 | Vineyards of from 1.000 to 2,.'500 acres are aum ious iu Scutum California, i ?