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The division of lubor and improved machinery are doing away with th< thorough learning of trades. When th< present generation of shoemakers anc blacksmiths are dead it will be hard worl to find a man who can make a completi boot or make a horseshoe and nails anc then shoe the horse properly. The annual death rates p r 1,000 ii the principal cities, according to the las weekly returns communicated to tli British Registrar (General, arc as follows Calcutta, 2-3; Bombay, 23; Madras, 2U Paris, 22; Geneva, 1G; Brussels, 21 Amsterdam, 22; Rotterdam, 10; Th Hague, 1!); Copenhagen, 20; Stockholm 17; Christiania, IK; St. Petersburg, 32 Berlin 27; Hamburg, 2S; Dresden, 22 Breslau, 30; Munich, CO; Vienna, 23 Prague, 32; Buda-Pesth, 35; Trieste,27 Borne, 24; Turin, 21; Venice, 37; Cairo 40; Alexandria, 50; New York, 23 Brooklyn, ID; Philadelphia, 17, and Bal timorc. 21. ?????? Tnomas Stevens, the bicyclist, r.n< correspondent of the American magazin Oxitlny, has at last struck a good road ii his trip round the world. At Lahore India, where he was at last accounts, be gins the greatest macadamized road ii the woild. It is 1,S00 miles long, am Stevens will use 1,330 m:lcs of it. "Such disturbances," says Profcsso Proctor, speaking of earthquakes, "as sure us that as yet the earth is not nea its death. She is still full of vitality Thousands?nay, tens, hundreds o thousands?of years will still pass be fore the beginning of the end is seen ii the steady disintegration and removal b' the action of subterranean forecs." The fire boys of Engine No. 2, Sacra mento, Cal., have a pcfe kid which thei claim discounts any previous editions o the goat sprcies. It is only five month old, but will already jump the rope climb a greasy pole, tarn so:nersaults ttand on his horns, go on errands, run t< fires, and is now turning hi> attention t< base balL Thus far his goatship has n< bad habits. ?? = Ad amusing illustration of Queen Vic toria's conservatism comes from over th< sea. She has ordered the elevator, "thai hideous thing," as she calls it, removed from Buckingham Palace. It was buil ? six years ago at a cost of $10,000 for thi accommodation of the Duke of Albany but the Queen is afraid of it, and declare: - - ' ^ - -3 J ...... xne oiu-iasnionea up auu uown smir; good enough for her. A French naval officer, 31. Alfred Do malain, has invented an aerial boat whicl he can guide through the air as easily a: ?ne does a boat through the water. I resembles in fact a boat, is sharp at tin prow and wider at the stern. The sails however, instead of being on deck ar tinder the keel, and worked like th* brings of a bird. This aerial boat is ex pccted to be of immense advantage dur . ing a war. In the counties of Jones and Stone ^rall, Texas, rain ha9 not fallen for fif teen months up to recent date. The ma jority of the settlers have left there, an< bout 400 families who are unable to g were in extreme destitution. The regioi has been transformed into a dese:t. Th sufferings occasioned by this terribl -a 1.4. i ii.A 0 vnr ?iruu??ui uuvu HAW v?uug ui u tvi weak condition, so much so that the cannot survive the coming winter. HrAdvices from China and Japan repoi that the total number of cholera case throughout Japan since its first appeal this year, according to the Japan Gazette is 59,000, of which 37,003 resulted fatal ]y. The epidemic is now abating. In telligence from Seoul, Core.i, sayscholen is still raging in that city. The fata cases of July, this year, were 38,GOO ou of a population of 250,000. Outside o the capital the epidemic i* equally fatal AtShinshu, Province of ICeishado, .^OOO and at Torai 0,000 deaths occurred ii one month. Sarah Winnemucca, the Indian prin CCS3, who, as ''Bright Eyes," wrote fron tier stories for St. NicJwla^ a'.teudci "Wellcslcy colloge, and is now teachinj an Indian school of her own, has bee jp attending the Indian festivities in Ne vada. To a reporter of the Reno Ga zcttc she said that she was getting alon: nicely with her school; that fifteen o sixteen pupils are in attendance. The lad sent out from Boston to visit the schoc did not remain long, but contiuu d 01 lisr journey to Australia, whither sh was bound. No wonder the Apaches become in tired to hardship?. Among the trib with Chief Geronimo at the time of hi surrender was an exceedingly youth ful brave who was born while the Indi ans were upon the warpath. The chili was born in the night and the next morn ing, clasped in its mother's arms, wa flying over the trail on a wild Texa pony. Yet it throve, and unless th . enervating life of a captivc plays th mischief with its stomach, will make lusty brave. Captain Lawton, who cap tured Geronimo, is obtaining great crcdi in the South and "West. The San Fran cis.o Chronicle says that he is the firs officer who knows how to deal with th Indian scouts. In previous campaigns it has been charged, and often wit ) abundance of proof to substantiate it, th s-outs have furnished the renegades wit i ammunition. In this campaign, whic has erjdsd in the surrender of the ho> tiles, Lawton adopted precautions -whiff made it impossible for the renegades t get ammunition. The cartridges give out to the scouts were countcd and eac] man was required to account for th shcils under penalty of death. It i needless to say that this plan was mon effective than General General Crook'j ?cnCdence in the honor of the scou's. 1 An interest'ng calculation has been made by the New York Times*, showing 2 how the steady and rapid payment of the 1 public debt incurred in the Civil "War, ^ combined with the reduction of the in3 terest rate and the increase of the popu1 lation of the country, has affected the debt burden borne by our people per capita. In 1803 the debt amounted to 3 $7S,2> per capita Last year it amounted * to only $24,14. In 18G-3 the per capita e portion of the a inual interest charge : was $4.2.i. Last year it was but eighty i three cents. The ratio of the principal ; is now but two-thirds what it then was; c that of the annual interest is but a little , more than one-fifth. A gentleman who was for a long time ; a resident of Lima, Peru, said, while I speaking on the subject of earthquakes: > "In Lima there is a constant shaking of ; the ground. The houses are uniformly three stories in height. The first story is of brick or stone, th-j walls being fully three feet thick. The upper two stories are made of bamboo lashed together. It 6 takes a pretty severe earthquake to dc1 stroy one of the^e buildings. The pc> cular thing about a shake is that the first " time you get one you are apt to take it 1 coolly. The next timcyou ate afraid,and 1 ever after that you arc demoralized. Earthquakes are something that no man can become accustomed to. In countries r rvliprp flinv nrf? nrfivalcnfc the DCOnle rush at once into the middle of the street, r which is always the safest pla.e." f A woman tells the St. Louia Globe' - Democrat that no one who has not tried 1 j the experiment knows how delightful it J is to live constantly on the river. Having sold her boat, she lias for some months endured the miseries incidental to life 0:1 shore. She has to pay rent and f j taxes, and is bothered about water. She f ( is having a new boat buiit, and her plan 31 is to tie the boat near some waste land > , and let her cow and chickens graze on > j it. They cost next to nothing, and no 5 man can claim either rent or taxes. I J I "When I want a chauge," she says, '*1 engage u little help and go down the river, and I have worked up a little trade at every town on the route, ending at New Orleans. (Jive me river life, with ^ all its freedom and ease, and when I die ^ there is no burial place I should like bett ter than what the dear old Mississippi s can afford/' Such is one view of life. ' ! A New York letter to the Troy Timet has this to say concerning railway tics: | "This subject is now being felt in Wall stnet, and a very dear-headed man | made the remark to me, we have yet to ( learn the full cost of railway repair, foi the past is really only experimental. , Heucc, such men as Jay Gould and e j Russell Sage are now considering the j importance of the new method of in| ! creasing durability. It is said that the j present annual consumption of railroad j ties is SO,0 JO,000, and as the trees cut for this purpose must be between thirty and forty years old, it is making fearful havoc among the best part of our forests. The American Forestry Congress is urging the planting of trees and the j better care of the forests, but it will ^ ' re pure twenty-five years to make the ? ' present planting available, and during u - ! such an interval what a vast destruction j is inevitable. Rail^y tics, indeed,only e j last at best one-fourth the time required j i to grow them, and for this reason the j newly-invented method of treating them for increased durability is of great importance. The cost of replacing decayed ties in this country last year was $:{{), 000,000, and the agents (in this city) ol Southern and Western lumbermen will soon expect a large advance. Hence the ' subject is becoming one of great importance in railway circles." 1 The Brica-Brac Craze. ' One of the men who made a fortune t out of the era e that developed a few f years ago for old china bric-a brae generally of age and ugliness tells ine that trade in his line has been sadly dull all > this year. This man at one time cm3 ployed an army of ag< nts, whom he sent broadcast into New England, th ough the State of Pennsylvania and down South . to gather up everything of the relic sort and ship it here. He also, I believe, , started a factory up in Connecticut to manufacture ancient furniture, chairs 3 that George "Washington sat in and the d like. There was lots of money in the trade. It was imp:;ssib'e to olfer anything o'.d and decrepid that was not '* quickly grabbed up by the craze's apos= tics. Not much capital was needed at 1 the start. It was easy to buy the con^ teats of old Yankee and Southern gar. rets for a trifle. .But all that is changed 1 now. Old andirons that four years ago 0 coild have been bought up in Massat chusetts at any farmhons3 for fifty cents can't bo had now for t.n times that .<-um. The owners of the ancient rikcty stuff have learned of the speculation aud have i. gona in for a bigger slice of the profits. e The change in this regard, my authority says, lias p actually brought business to s a standstill, forth' re is no longer much ' profit obtainable ab >ve the first pricc that i- the owner fixes.?New j'urk Times. j ? i- The New Madrid Earth qnake. s The similarity between the earthquake^ n of the Mississippi Valley in 1811 and 1813. and that which prostrated Charlcse ton will be remarked, also the fact that e the New Madrid convulsions, if they had a happened in Europe, wou'd have destroyed a nation, 'l hej' took place iu the . midst of an enormous wilderness, where there were bat few people and little " property. From first to last the New it Madrid shakes were exner'enced for two e years, f-'oinc of the disturbances were awful beyond estimation. Great forests !' disappeared and still exist under sheets of water many miles iu extent and more c than one hundred feet deep. Immense h lakes were formed in a n:ght. Some j, have vanished, others remain. The course of the mighty Mississippi was stayed, and in many places changed, islands " were lost and others form;:d. The area o airected was larger than the whole state i) of South Carolina, The continent trem. bled. The shaking in Cincinnati was severe, and the tradition lingers of the e stopping of clocks, the banging of doors, s the falling of dishes, and that guns hangc ing on buck-horn supports were thrown 8 to the floors.? Cincinnati Commercial ' Gazette. GONE TO CANADA. NI Heavy Defalcation of an Insurance Company's President. unite for C Eleve Causing the Concern's Failure, and hai Then Disappearing. i?ghoi parad George M. Bartholomew, President of tbe the or Charter Oak Life Iusuranco Company, of five fc j Hartford, Conn., is a defaulter in a large tower j sum, and has fled to Canada. A Hartford Wii dispatch gives the following particulars: Since the disappearance of Thomas F. and h: Plunuett, the Treasurer of the Union Manu- tub. facturing Company and President of the while HartfortSi.k Company, and the dis.overy -nr., that he was a defaulter, the most serious ru- p;rst i mors concerning the stability of George M. ' Bartholomew, President of the Char- (W I ter Oak Lifo Insurance Company p?'\. j and the Union Manufacturing Com- n rany, have been in circulation. j{?. ' | He was known to have been a large borrower _ g | for years, but was supposed to be worth a clean million aud not likely to suffer for his Lowe! 1 endorsements of Plunkett's facer for about the ch | $40,().'K). Small creditors attached stocks and the (,o i bouds in the banks, but it was thought OrF he would come out all right, for G Two years ago Cyrus W. Field, of Edna New York, Bartholomew's brother- jHE in-law, came here, and this was supposed to gover indicate that Bartholomew would have all ^ r the tomporary aid ho needed to carry him t t through. Uu Monday Bartholomew left ^ a j town, going to Canada, and it is now i0(jces | learned that he is a defaulter to the amount roVpn, j of over SU.5,000. Of this sum ?105,ooo is 2, I cash, ani there are notes for $12,<;0J The i and #10,000. To-day the Charter Oak Life te ! Insurance Comi auy applied for the appoiut- Maj-oi j ment of a receiver, and Isaac Brook, ot' Tor- nunist ' rington, and Edmund A. Steadman.of Hart- Thf fonl were appointed. The Charter Oak has ing of I for years been weak, hut the immediate N. Y. I cause for this application was the sum owed Tee j the company by Mr. Bartholomew. featod The Charter Oak Company is probably to- patta I tally wrecked. Jt has property valued at I $1,850,474, but much of it is not productive. . j and a great deal is considered not worth near n0'P11! I the amount paid for it. Its fine building here ana 01 is heavily mortgage L TfiK Since Fluukett left, the investigation of tee, at i his accounts i< said to have s-howed that to liol< [ paper on which he and Bartholomew had John ( j raised money is out to the amount of $1,000.- of the I 0U0. Bartholomew & Co., brokers, the lead- succee . ; 1 W ti_ . j lug Iliemut-I s ui Hit? m in US1UA ?>. r KA Bai tholo i:ew, a son of G. Al. Bartholo- eight* mew, have been unable to meet place, I their obligations for the past few days, and eata'c are expected to make an assignment Their withlc liabilities are rumored to be nearly $100,000. There is alarge amountof G. M. Bartholomew's paper in local baaks, but it is believed that j all will be able to stand the loss. The Schuyler Electric Company, it is believed, will be Bai: obliged to suspend. It has been carried for Franc; j some time by Bartholomew in putting Mai ' theexpensive plants at Norfolk, Conn., and issued i Richmond, Va. It is thought, however, that forth* it can make a showing that will enable it to the re c:n inue. The Connecticut River Banking g Company h is a large amount of both Bar- ecuvr( tholomew's and Schuyler Electric Light ^ Company's paper, and will be forced to sac* rifice to tide over, but it is believed to have ,1 anipb resources to carry it through . hr Mr. Bartholomew was a most secretive *n , man in all his business mitter<, and none of and tv all his associates e ver had any knowledge of Thk his a lairs. It has been a matter of bank the Ai talk for the past twenty yeai-s that nobody held i knew whether he was worth a million or within nothing, but his credit has always stood ventio high. Ho lived very plainly, and made pEY no pretentions of any sort. He has been hanire' in business here for fifty years, wjf0 n was one of the city's most respected citizens, _ aud was conae.ted with its most important 0j business enternrises. Ho was President of ~ ' a"' the Holyoke Water Power Company aud of the Union Manufacturing Compauv, and was interested in other local corporations, orotne He managed the Hartford, Providence & wenCt Vishkill Railroad for years very success- A s fully as its trustee before its consolidation Some* with the New York ani New England Pail- ton w< road. The city is completely upset by tha vious < revelations, and there are rumors of other on the suspensions or failures. PlE Previous to leaving town Bartholomew cago,a turned over $200,000 to the funds of the to the Hartford Orphau Asylnn, of which his wife tine, was President. The funds had been left in <pjjE his hands for safe 1 eoping. i . It ha; been ascertained that Bartholomew Vein's is in Montreal. Besides being connected count, with the corporation already named he was a d rector in the American National Bank, the J-*? * Hartford i- team Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company, and the Orient Fire Insurance - j ^ Company. He was alio a dire :tir in the In- ?* La' sane Retreat aud in the Hartford Hospital, .ac* and Treasurer of the Watkinsou Library, of City a which he was one of the trustees. He was compl Vice-President of the State Savings Bank wires and a member of the Corporation of reside) Trinity College. He is indebted to the Dui Holyoke Water Power Company, but aud 3t insiders say that the company is sots, I fully protected Among some of the tornac Silk Company's paper with his endorsement pjR] is $3( 0,000, and of the Union Company $150,- town < 000, already kuown. His own individual njated trso nor id Allt. fi-k Oil Avfonf. nrth lmAWtl ATI/1 Alcn the paper of his son, endorsed by himself. . J~/ Tne Treasurer of the Florida Construction J Company,with which Bartholomew was con- Bow nected, ascertained several days ago that Malde there had been slight misappropriations McGu of its funds. He was in the city was ta to-day, and ascertained that the loss tree b will not exceed $10,000.' H<j says that J. S Bartholomew's services to tin company have coal b beon worth to it more than the amount of f.ed. tneir loss. Whether certain trusts which Bartholomew held suffer, and if so to what extent, is not yet clear. t The total anount of Bartholomew's in* itatein ' iebteines i< put as high as $1,000,(JOJ. Qi?g H ?? Miuisli MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. 'x'.S ?f case Mme. Bernhardt will play but fourteen 2ourt. weeks in this country. The A comedy written by Lord Beaconsfie'.d is "eady ! to be produced soon at a Loudon theatre. :ertitii Miss Violet Cameron brings over a Rec chorus of lorty people for her opera com- past fi pany. lures i tnere are 150,000 persons engaged in one capacity or auother iu London theatres and music balls. The Mr. Irving and Miss Ellen Terry reap- iiplon reared in the London Lyceum Theatre last Emp night in "Faust." jevere Mue. Minnie Hauk has sung leading * very parts in over forty opera; and in three dii- Ano ferent languages. two di Minnie Palmer, having completed her to tour of Ireland, has sailed lor Austr.a for a wound nine months' engagement. Fre Miss Mary Anderson is going to play plorin, four night-* in Dublin fir tho benefit of the an(l hi fund for the Charleston sufferers. tliecoi Mrs. Langtry's costumes that she will bring to this country were made after draw- r, ings furnished by ' Thj Lily " herself. above Mademoiselle Eroodv, who was considsred the best soubrette on the Berlin stage, f J ,~i has committed suicide with a revolver. of ^/7 Mme. Tkeijelli, the contralto singer, will come t > this country soon with Ler daughter Rumi, Antoinette and commence a tour of sixty ? -ns oucerts. ? (tEE Rubinstein will personally conduct the .< a m first performances of his new fciith Sym- nrUon ^hony in Leipsic, which will take place noxt gtorcl Thhek live lions and two leopards are among the actors in Sardou's mast rpieco. "Theodora," nowb.iujj performed at I>'i bio's Garden, New York. John T. Raymond is ill. Ho fell in a faint the other day when atout to begin a i ehear. al for the tc ison, and it is thought he Mr* will not be able to a:t tor some time to come, years A'-bekt Niemann, the German tenor, will Cai. receive $li>,OKi, beside having his traveling compt expenses and hotel bills paid, lor his three ^jtii mouths' engagement in this country for next jn ^ season. . In Mis? Annie Tixley's new play next 0f mil season, "Tho Dearon's Daughter," she imper- ? sonate* the will.ul daughter of st.-ru J\e\v u England parent--, who goes on the stage mo ngaitist their wishes, and shocks thjin very Ten hard. cial si As "Uncle Tom's Cabin" company ap- 'C0, pcare l at Winnamao, In 1., under canvas, _ The and played so badly that the large audi-nee in easl broke up the performance, ami some oven with s went so far as to throw brickbats at the per- If L formers. til l)c< Pattt, who is the finest sinjrer in the world, while is a lyric soprano, and in addition to her ing w wonderful voice she is au admirable a'-tress, Fif: which gives a captivating efoc:t to her the nn melodious utterance?. She has received ign f( {5,000 a night, aud is of course rich. jar a 3WS SUMMARY Eastern and Middle States. f. Charles R. Buckalew, Iformi d States Senator, has been nominal Congress by the Democrat!! of tl ath Pennsylvania district rtford, Conn., has just been dedica handsome brown-stone memorial art lor of its dead soldiers. There was e of 10,000 soliiiers, and 30,030 upect rere present. General Hawleyde.iveri ation. The arc h cost $60,000, is fort set above the roadv/ay, and has tv s 100 feet high. ixiam.H. Hubbell, of Brooklyn, car the other evening only to find his wi hanging from a hook'in the bath-roor is little daughter drowned in the bat Mrs. Hubbell had committed the a suffering from emot'.onal insanity. jliam E. Gould, the cashier of tl National Bank, Portland, Ma, is a ed to be a defaulter to the extent < 0. Mr. Gould was a leading citizen i Lnd, Me., and is a son-iu-law of Ne the noted temperance advocate. Hij is on'vAii aq tfiA pnnsp of his downfall. iuel G. Spelling, ex-Treasurer of t! 1 (Mass.) Bleachery, pleads guilty arge of baring eaibezzled $100,000 < mpany's funds. icial figures give the following vo iovernnr in Maine: Bodwell, 08,83 rds, 55,937; Clark (Prohibitionist), 3,87 : sixty-eighth annual convention of tl eign Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows h )eeu held in Boston. A report stat< ;he Order numbered 517,310 member nd lodges,44 grandenrampments, 7,91 iand 1,947 en a npments, with a tot iq in ISNj of $5,30J,(>8S.77. i Philadelphia Common Council, by of 49 yeas to 38 nays, has im peach ( r Smitli "for misdemeauor ancl mala iration in office/' .ee men were drowned by the enpsi a rowboat ou the lake at Casenovi ! American ytrht Mayflower again d the B'it'sh yacht Galatea, in the r at Newport, R I. New York city Prohibitionists ban ated candidates for the Mayora.lt ,ber loal offices. i New York Democratic State Corami a meeting in Saratoga, finally decidc i no convention this fall. Chairma D'Brien resigned his place at the hea committee, and Charles C. B. Wallet ds him. xk Raff, of Coatesville, Penn., age en, died in the village store at thi of apoplexy, caused by his efforts 1 juantity of ice cream and ginger caki i a given time on a wager. Snnth and West. M & Co., wholesale clothiers of Sfl Lsco, have failed for e.bout $1,000,000. *or Cochteray, of Charleston, hi a proclamation requesting more ai 5 sufferers in that city. Up to the 181 ief fund amounted to $330,000. GLARS broko into the house of Joh Dck, near Olney, 111., killed and robbe id then set fire to ths dwelling, whi.e tally destroyed. ee carpeuters at work on a buildin rmosa, 111., were struck by lightnin ro fatally injure!. National Executive Committee < ati-saloon Republicans at a meetin n Chicago decided to work stricll i party lino3, as directed by the Coi li. . Jesse Cook, a colored preacher, vri 1, a few days since, at Butler, Ga., i!< lurder. ee brothers named Morgan, aged 2 1 18, were drow ned while bathing not itiojga, Tenn. Tbe youngest one wi with cram;s and sank. His tn rs tried to res.ue him, when all thr< town. severe shock of earthquake visile 't/illo S n on t.hfl Kith Clhflrln is also somewhat shaken on the pn :lay. Open-air worship was conducU l'Jth among the ruins of Charleston. cro-pneumoxia is raging near Ch nd 2,00J cattl? which have been expoiu disease have been placed under quaru Grand Encampment of Knights Ten f the country has been in session at 15 Commanderits from all parts of 1;1 y attended, and there was a week < utry, festivitioi and business disci itiv Irons, tha leader o( the Kniglu bor strike on tlia Missouri Pacific K(.i ist spring, has been arrested in Kama nd taken to St. Ixjuis on the change < ioitv in tapping the priv ate telegra p running into Vice-President Hoxie ace. ling t&o past. live nnntuis oetween 0 persons have been killed in Minn Dakota,and Montana by olectricity ac loos. E bas destroyed a large portion of 1,1 )C Council Grove, Kaunas. Tha eit tot.al damage is ll'O.lO). :h damage to shipping bas been den leavy gale on Lake Michi jan. rman Payton, a prominent druggisl n, Mo., charged with tha killing of lveiy, a neighbor, during a quarn iken from the Sheriff and hanged t: y a masked mob. . Cooper shot and killed throe ch s urners near Key "West, Pla., and tin He had quarreled with Us victims. Washington. -eadixo.Washinston paper prints ent to the effect that So;retarjr Mau ill go to Austria as L1 nite 1 Stat a er, instead of returning to tha Tre.w apartment. re is a large in rea^ein the numtf is before the United States Supra c new one-dollar silver certificates et for public distribution; the two-doll 8 ates will be ready in a short time. eipts of the Patent Office during tb : al year we.e $1,2J6,1G7, and expend Foreign. Due Decaze3, a prominent Frend tat, is dead. erop. William, of Germany, lirvl chill on the Nth, and was reported i feeble condition. ther riot, started by a brawl betwee unkon men, has resulted in bloodsbe fa^t The police fired into the crovi lin2 about twenty persona nvorcif R-'irwATtA. of tin Times ei g expedition to Alaska, writes that I s party have explored Icy Bay a:i in try about its shores: have discovert imed one large river, three glacier ke, and a range of lofty hills, and ha \ k1 Mt. St Elias to a pnint 7,200 f<< the lovel of perpetual snow. Parnell's lanl bill has beau di in the House of Commons by a vo to 2.1*2. ety thousand cotton spinners i jy, Englaud, have resolved to stril it a reduction in wages. l, the Socialist, ha? been condemrK isterilani, Holland, to eijjht years' Ic men t for shooting Police Cocatnissiou , of Che oTIcers impli^a'Dd in the f. at revolution in Madrid have bee nned to death. NEWSY GLEANINGS. :. Sublett, of Chetopa, Kias., is I old. n-riRxiA. has earthquake insuran luies. Denver (Col.) News has a gold mil cellar. v York City received21,'JlC,520quar k in August. ;n $IS,000,0'J0 has been expended < ments in Massachusetts sinco 1SG1. thousand public schools receive fir?; lpport from the government of Mi; : snow is so deep among the niounta Mil u uiu^uu iuau i/vt* its vuuuwb uicl afety. >aniel Pino, of Paw Paw, III., lives 11 rauber lio will bo 100 years old. Men In amuses himself by hoeing and sa' ood. rEicx thousand dollars will be paid I vy department for ea-h accepted >1 ji"tho proposed two-armo:ei tf,003-11 uiseri I MEN AGAIN. I Sections of the South Distui ?r, by an Earthquake. be .t- Two Distinct Shocks Felt at Brii , port, Conn, a vj _ Charleston was awakened from a sen: to security and returning hope and confici by a shock on the 21st, which was the a* ' violent certainly since the commenceraei . her troubles. Tho shock occurred at 5: Q. | h' M., an hour at whic h very few people ct I out of their beds, and it was followed | stampede into the streets by many frighi tw rmrenna 3;j The shock was very distinct and com] of tively violent. Opinions differ as to wh it was accompanied by the usual detonal ^ but of its violence there can be no doub ^ large brick structure in which a newsj to correspondent was sleeping first quh 0f for three or four seconds: then came a lent shaking which lasted five or six sec . and during which the house appeared to ~ I to and fro. No damage appears to have y' j done beyond the shaking down of what I plastering is left iu the interior of the he 2? The shock aroused nearly everybody ii as city, and the streets were consequently id at a much earlier hour than usual. "Sj Within the past week considerable ] rrss had beeu made in removing the r al tons of debris that had blocked up the walks, and pedestrian? had very gene a resumed the use of the sidewalks, which ! boon discarded after the fatal sho.-k 01 d- 31st. One of the efforts of this latter turbance was to drive people again t z_ middlo of the roadways, and very were seen walking on the sidewaiks. ' effect was very depressing, and the gloomy anticipations prevaile.1. P 0 had been gradually induced to abandon 8' teuts an:l to return to their houses. 1 was everywhere a growiug feeling ot < r? j dence add hopo that the worst was y I Fears are expressed that the worst is 11c | over. fc. 'J here were also thres shocks at Somer )d | R. C. The shoi'k at 5:15 was felt gene j thouglioutthe Stat;. l(j A Columbia |S. C.) dispatch of the ;I says: The first shock of ea-thquake ot consequence that has teen felt in Colu . for sixteen days aroused the sleeping ii itants at 5:17 a. m. Thesho k lasted t rj twenty seconds, and was accompanied 5: loud rumbling sound. Many persons, licularly ladies, were considerably ala; and started to run from their houses in night clothes. A heavy wind and thi storm passed over the city shortly befor shock. Despatches from Somerville id that the shock was very severe there morning, being fully as heavy as any the 31st of August A gentleman came J | to-day from Charleston to rent a hous :? his family. He says that the women greatly alarmed by the shock this mor and that he cannot keep his family hen 'O longer. Ho predicts that if the comm 'J in the earth continues much longer the n of many women will be wrecked. No age was done in Somerville except tc ig finished or cracked buildings. Some of ig who had returned to their homes are t leaving. Savannah, Ga., also experienced an* o very distinct earthquake sho:k at 4:55 y Tlio vibration lasted several seconds, cai J. slato roofs, windows, etc., to rattle, j dreds of people were awakened, and r were badly frightened, though there w; u general alarm. 51 Two distinct shocks of earthquake felt, about 0:20 on tife same mornii 4, | Bridgeport, Conn. Residents of J ir "Washington avenue, on the outskirts c is city, heard the jarring sound, and their deuce is corroborated by many others -0 saw pictures and gas chandeliers swi and fro at the same hour. It was so < xj ] in too day inai iew people were usir s- and consequently there was not a ge e- knowledge of the tremor. The sensatii >d described as precisely that of two years when the tremor was much greater. 1 ; wa3 an interval of ono minute betweer 5J two shocks. LATER NEWS. i fc, Representative Kelley has been i 3? nated to Congress for the fourteenth tin Philadelphia About 15,'JOO men participated in the g ts parade of Odd Fellows at Boston. The< 1- and jam of crowds causo I the death of I " people?a Chinaman, an old lady and a ^ tor from Newburyport. 's Ax explo ion in the Moosic Powder at Je.-niyn, Penn., instautly killed two v W men. e." ! Still another Ion? and heavv earthi 1(1 , . visit? I Charleston on the 22d, causing i ie of the aTrighted residents to floe from ii- houses and take to the tents. The pri ;e drill and the monster conc 3e features in the Knight; Templar d'spl: St. Louis?were attended by 150,00:) pe j. The Taylor Broth ;rs, rival caudidat il, the leading parties for Governor of Te 'a see, are canvassing ths State in co;nj speaking from the tame platform and r SQ ing together at the various stopping pi . Tub collections of Iuternal Revenu July and August la-t amouute I to $11) a 2T(i, being an increase of $l,.V>0,(il7 ovei l- colle.tions in the corresponding period s year. Presidext Cleveland an I his >r Private Pocretary Lamont and his wife l0 Mrs. Folsom, the President's mother-in ? * 1 tlmi nave ruiumuu lu naouiugbvu uvm uuv< o cation in the Adirondacks. All lo Lr tanned and well. A fike in the town of Kalusr, Austria j. destroyed 3 X) houses, causing great priv among the destitute people. Advices from Maudalay, the capit Burniah, state that at the opening of lief house there the crush to obtain fco so great that twelve persons were trai a to death. Six thousand persons who Q ruined by the re;eut -lood wore supplied n food. >d A new Italian exploring expedition just started from llonis for Africa. The British schooner Little Gem cap ["q and sank off the Newfoundland coast di d a heavy squall. Two lady passengers xl drowned. 3, re The New York State Fair opened at 1 with the largest array of exh bits eve tereJ. Henry Georoe, the well-known v and lecturer on labor and land topics [n be mi nominated for M xvor of New Yo co a conference of trade and labor or^anizn in the metropolis. Tin's is the most im onfc niovem ;nt t)ward in lependent poli ar action yet t ikon by the workiujjmen of city. t- (lENrRAX C IA11LE? Rooms, of New "5 in was elected Grand Master of the ICn Templar of the United States at St. Loi Two Chinamen were killed by ac plosion of Ban cotton and nitro-glyceri jg West Berkeley, Ln. Thk Tvitifr of Uganda. Africa, has ci ce all t!.'0 converrs to Christianity iu his torj- to be nia?i,T? 1, and tlio misdon io are iu great dunger of a similar fate. t3 Thf. Mississippi River has not been 1 in years than it has been this season. A in days ago a niau on horseback forded it Galena, II!., where usually the river is t n_ ! quarters of a inile wide, lho deepest v he found was in the channel, and the was but a trifle over two feet deep. ns ' ~~ ej The Baldwin Locomotive Work*, I dolphin, have completed and shipped eight thousandth locomotive. From D< n" tier, IN-".!, to November, ISVJ, th.-y buill and in the next eight years 5U0 more. A YKARago box-wood fouudareadymi at a ton. Now the market is di t .venty dollars. Tie deoliue of the sk: riuk d.d the business. CONSTITUTION DAY. Governors and Representatives of Colonial States at Philadelphia. bed As a result of the movement upon the part of the Chief Magistrates of the thirteen original States, sevo:i Govenors met in Philadalphia on the 17th to arrange for a fitting ob* 3ge- servauca of the centonuial anniversary of the promulgation of the Constitution of the United States, on September 17, 1887. Tha following Governors were present: Patti50 ?' son. of Pennsylvania; Lee, of Virginia; lence Lloyd, 0f Maryland: Stockley, of Delaware; most yvetmore, of Rhode Island; McDaniel, of nt of Georgia, and Sheppard, of South Carolina. 15 A. New i'ork was represented by Lieut.-Gov. wera Jones, New Jersey by a Committee of the State Legislature,and Connecticut by ex-Gov. Bigeby a low, New Hatnj>shire, Massachusetts, and tened North Carolina were not represented. At the Continental Hotel Gov. Pattison delivered a brief address of welcome. The party than mra- divided mto pairs and marched down Chestether nut street to the old State House. In the tinrw room where the Declaration of Independence [. a was signed, they stood, under a canopy of red, white and blue, and listened to an adjaper dress of welcome by Mayor Smith. rero;l During the session in Carpenter's Hall, vio- where the lirst Colonial Congress met, resounds, lutions were adopted that oath State aud rock Territory bj invited to unite in preparation been for a national celebration to be held in little Philadelphia in September of next year, mses. and that tho President be invited a the to formally communicate to Couastir gress, at their next meeting, the fact that his administration closes the first century of prog- Constitutional Government, and to urge nany upon that body the propriety of taking measside ures to render tho celebration worthy of an. rally occasion of su?h dignity and importance, i had A resolution was pas;e J requesting that 1 the delegates from the States and Territories ba dis- sent to Philadelphia on December 2d next, to 0 tho organize a permanent organization, with few power t > devise plans t > secure a i c eb-ation. The The business meeting of thj Governors most was called to order by Governor Patti on eople and Governor Leo.of Virginia was invited their to take the chair.' Letters wore read from ["here the Governors of North Carolina, New ronfi- Hampshire, and Massachusetts rejrett'ng over, thoir inability to be present, and assuriug >t yet the Governors that they were in sympathy with the movement. ville, A permanent organization was affected, (rally and the Governors of Pennsylvania, Delaware, Rhode Island, Maryland, an 1 Georgia 1 21st were appoiut da committee to draft a plan ' any for the celebration. mum 3hab- the NATIONAL GAME. IDOllt __ rini^ Or the Boston team, "old man" Sutton rmed was to ma^e b*30 kits. their Anson, of the Chicagos, is still at the head mder of the League batting list. e the The Pittsburgh are playing a verv strong state game, both at the bat and in the field. i this the championship pennant of the Eastern Hero ^eaSue's made of satin and is valued at $100. ;e for To call Umpire Pratt a robber cost CaruthWPr? ers, of the St Louis American Association Club, $20. 3 any It is stated on good authority that Atlanta otion will be ruled out of the Southern League ninds next season. dam- The attendance at the games at Detroit > un- hag shown a great falling otf since the club those took second place igain jtow that Start is out, Sutton, of the Bos,il tons, and Nelson, of the Metropolitans, are A jj the oldest players in active service. is'ing Umpire Phil Powers is suffering from a [jun. fractured rib which a foul tip presented nany him in the last Detroit-Chicago game at Deas no troit. During the six seasons Brouthers, of tho were Detroits, has been a League player, his rejig at ord as batsman has been unsurpassed. His ?orth record to date from 1881, is .346. During >f the that time he has played 562 games and made ' evi- 620 hits. who The International League, with six clubs, *y representing cities in tne upper pare 01 Piew York State and two from Canadian towns, rinn; has been remarkably successful this season, eral Qn the other hand, the Southern and Eastan is ern Leagues have been-failures. "here As a ^>ase stea'eri Andrews, of the "Phil. tu? lies," has a remarkably fine record, having taken twelve bags in as many games. When it is taken in consideration that a player reaches first base on an averago of once in a game this work may be appreciated. FATIONAL LEAGUE RECORD. iomi- jron Lost. Won Lottie in Detroit 77 30 I Philadelphia..58 40 Chicago 82 26 | Boston 46 55 . New York...Go 39 I Washington..18 80 rand St. Louis 30 67 [ Kansas City..28 <6 rush AMERICAN ASSOCIATION RECORD. three TFb>i Lost. Won Lost. vLsi- St. Louis ...82 40 | Pittsburg 69 51 Brooklyn. ...6 > 56 ) Cincinnati...54 63 Athletic 57 67 Louisville.... 64 58 Baltimore.. .41 75 j Metropolitan.43 69 ' O'-k- EASTERN LEAGUE RECORD. , TFbii Lost. Won Lost. uako Bridgeport.. .30 51 "Waterbury... 51 83 r.auy Hartford 30 40 Newark 00 21 their Jersey Ci.'y...43 37 INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE RECORD. orf _ Hon Lost.. W. Lost . Utica. 69 31 I Hamilton 50 40 ly at Toronto 51 8'J Buffalo 49 45 op!e. Rochester...54 36 Binghamton..35 53 2s of Byracase ... 46 47 Oswego. 23 71 ,auy,' PUBLIC LANDS. oomHow They Were Disposed of During aces the Past Fiscal Year. Bo ?r Commissioner Sparks, of the General Land ' Office, has prepared a statement showing the 1 t'ie disposals of public lands for the fiscal year Iast ended Jane 30, 188(5, from which it appears that the total number of entries were e? 227,474, embracing an area of 20,91)1,0:57 ) aucl acre3 nje amount of money received for law, this land was $7,412,767. The cash sales agr va- gregated 3,773,498acres, ami the amount re?: 1 CW U || nrtVln'il iOk0J tcivcu i-uoiyLui ? uo f?/| v/ti^.um homestead entries were made to the number of 6l,?:{8, covering i, has an area of 9,145,135 acres. The lists of seleo ation tions mado by railroad companies under the different grants aggregate 2,:<l I,">:t7 acres. The number of timber culture al ?L entries made was 34,O'.fcJ, comprising a re- 5,339,803 acres. Tho remaining area (lis1 was posed of consisted of military biunty land, , . . warrant locations, scrip locations, State sei?piea iections, wagon road selections and agriwere cultural college selections. Final proof with was made upon 10,35'i homostead entries, embracing an ana of 2,(Ki3,532 acres, and timber culture entries numbering 10,S3f? and i has covering an area of 141,G!4 acres. The above totals do not include the disposals of Indian ,sized lands, amounting to 15,562 entries, comprising an area of 1,132,5% acres, on account of unug wgjch $](i;o7,729 were received. were Under the head of (ash sale: are included 15,713 pre-emption entries, with an area of 2,279,218 acres, and 2,51-3 desert land entries, Jtiea with an area of 753.0SS acres. The minr on- Bral entries numbered 1,323, covering 22,'.NJ acres. There veto ">,8i7 homestead entries commuted to rash entries, covering an area rriter |,oi)<;,487 a'-res. This last area is not in* , has i eluded in the t-italarva shown to have been rk at disposed of, as it was accounted for when the tior.s original homestead entries were made. A HORNET'S STING. that A Farmer Fatally Injured IVhilo foik. Raking Buckwheat. ights Hiram Gocding was raking buckwheat relis.. oently in a field 011 his farm at Potter s Hill, 1 ex- Fenu. Suddenly his son, who was at work na near by, saw him fall to the ground as ttinmrl-i lin hn l Vm.'n struck with au m.v.C. ius\l Young Gooding harried to tbe spot and torri- f?"Qd bis father black iu the face and frotharies ' at "10 u;outh- lie carried him to a spring near l>y, and su reeded in restoring him to consciousness, but tho farmer was bJiuil and unable to be)p himself. Tho son found a rwvcr lump at tho base of his lather's skull as large l few a> his fist. He then remembered tfyat there near was a hornet's nest ou a tree a few feet from hreo- where liis father had been working, arid rater noticc 1 that the hornets were flying about iro it the nest in an unusual maimer. Goodiugwas carr.'ed home and a physician called. Tiio j)hysician said tho farmer had been stung by shila- R hornet, and the sting ha l struck a nerve at their ^ie *)aso tho brain. In a few days Good? ing became entirely paralyied, and died in t -M' great ajony. A similar (ase is remembered ' as haviug occunel in lhat vicinity some years ago, when a young man Earned Vantine was the victim. He be* ama bind, and arket was paralyzed for a longtime, but eventually ill at recovered. Mr. Goouiug was sixty years iting old. and ouo of tha richest men in tbe neighborhood. _ LIGHTNINGS FREAKS. Remarkable and Damaging Electric Bolts in Ohio. Oil Tanks Struck and 10,000 Bar* - | rels of Oil Destroyed . ' c'< - The other night a terrific thunder storm, accompanied by rain and severo stroke3 of lightning, broke over tho country surrounding Lima, Ohio, and continued without abatement until the fol'owing evening. During all that time the lightning played almost incessantly, doing thousands of dollars worth of damage and injuring two persons fatally* Oil tanks were especial targets and at thfr least calculation 1-1,000 barrels of oil, b> side six derricks, were burned. The 8to- ' gle derrick, No. 2, about three miles south of Lima, was struck and partially destroyed About 7 o'clock a. m.( Coulden, Mattison & Co.'s well on South Pine street wa? atroefet * The derrick and two tanks coutaininiug 250 barrels ea.h were consume.!, and Mrs. James llendei-sou, who was standing in the doerway of her home near the well, was knocked senseless by the lightning, which passed , : within a few feet of where sh3 stood T. . 1.,... k.ll A,? a lb IC9C1UU1CU a iai^c uan ul iuu auu uiw? ? deafening roar as it passed through the air. Mrs. Henderson is paralyzed and helpless. No sooner had the Lima fire department responded to the alarm sent in than another bolt descended from the heavens and set fire to Thomas Ni.hoL-on's tank-house, containing 1,200 barrels of oil. The house is directly across the street from the first well struck. The flames and smoke reached high into tho air, and attracted peoj le from the country for mile3 around. Soon after Nicholson's caught, the Bowman C& ^hockey derricks and oil tanks, about two-. miles in the country, were struck and destroyed. Near the Nicholson tank-house the tank at the well at the gas works was struck, and the second alarm, which brought out the* entire tire department, was sounded. The wildest confusion en-ued. It was about noon and people rushed pell-mell from their homes nearly frantic with fear. For raveral hours the situation was appalling ami it looked as though the entire city would be destroyed. The Cincinnati. Hamilton and Dayton Railroad bridge was struck just before the arrival of the Cincinnati express, but thefiremen sue eeied in subduing the flames before they had gained much headway. The fire department, with the aid ^f the heavyrain, finally held the fires at the variouswells throughout the citv in check. i u:n AgUSCUS aimer, a no'.zieni-iu. uau ins iai? side paraly ei wit'a lightning while holding the hose. The storm was the severest on?tbat ever visited that part of the State, and the damage is very heavy. The lo3s to the oil wells alone is many thousand'. Tbe storm was also very severe in the Ohio count'e? of Wyandot, Saneca, Champaign and Allen. Tbe railroad station at Bluftton and at least a dozen barns in different sections of the counties namod were struck by lightning and destroyed by fire. REVOLT IN MADRID. A Body of Spanish Troops Attempta Revolution. A revolution was attempted at Madrid the other evening by a number of the regular troops quartered in the Spanish capital. Thekmiihlfl Haotm hr n rAO'tniAnf; nf infantrif - quartered in the Gil Bias barracks. The soldiers revolted, broke down the partition walls that separatel them from the quarters o -enpied by the cavalry, and intermingled with the men of the two cavalry regiments, a number of whom joined in th3 re volution. Tho officers of all three regiments did all in their power to dissuade the men from., revolting:, but 300 soldiers, after beating a number of officers and wounding , three. deserted the barracks and marched in two bxliei through the town. One body went to the Prado, the principal park and promenade of Madrid. Two thousand troops were scattere 1 in the Prado at. the tiin?, and the revolutionists expected tobe joi.el by them. The other body went hurrahing through the center of Madrid, calling on the people to join the revolution, crying: "Live th.? Republic!" and making ^ all kinds of throats against tha monarchy. At this time tha theatres and other places of amusement were crowded. The populace ? . were taken by surprise. In most of the public places the people flockel out in a panic,. In all the entertainments were abruptly terminated. The streets were soon filled with people, nearly all of whom were terror-stricken because of the exaggerated ideas of what was going on. The insurgents attempted among their first exploit? to secure possesion of the arsenals, docks, and barracks, which they attacked with open fire, but all these place i were successfully defended and the rebels were repulsad. Finally, their reverses drawing them together, the insurgents attacked ana got jo^ession of the Southern Railway. By this time the authorities had prepared to master the situation. The' loyal troops were marched to the railway, and after a short fight they completely dislodged the revolutionists, who dispersed into the country. General Pavia pursuing. In the course of the fighting in th? city one of the officers leading ths insurgents wa< shot and killed. The rebels shot General Velarde for refusing to join them. They also mortally wounded Count Mirasol,. and killed a Colonel of artillery. Martial law was proclaimed throughout the city as soon as the condition of a fairs was clearly perceived by the Government. The emeute was a complete surprise to Madrid. Quiet was soon restored after the revolutionists were driven from the Southern Railway. A number of the insurgents were taken prisoners. Subsequently the insurgents tried to return to Madri I, but in this effort they were foiled, the railroad having be.'ii cut by the loyal t-rnnn: A ?l:irmish took n!a;e at Vicalvaro, a village about t >ur mi'le; Iro n Madrid. The royalists wounded a number of the rebels aud tooic several prisoners. A BRIGAND'S FATE. El Coyote, (lie Mexican Outlaw, and Eiffht Followers Killed. A sps.-ial dispatch from Lampasas, Mexico, details the killing of "?1 Coyote,"the notorious Mexican bandit chief. Captain Jose Maria Hen-era and seventy men of the Tenth Mexican Cavalry surrounded the outlaw aud thirty of his band at 3 p. M., while thay were enjoying an afternoon nap at the Santo Domingo much. The horsos were staked out, guns stacked, and the bandits had their shoes off, when the soldiers ' t-~-l wi+k Hvaurn awnrHft quietly approut-ueu mm ...... aud begau the work of extermination. The bandits were taken completely by surprise, but they mado a desperate hand-tohan.l fight, aud twenty of them fought their way through the raaks of the troons. Eight were killed aud threa wounde.i. Among th? killed are Colonel Juan Rodriguez Martinez, better known as El Coyote. Captain Manuer Perez Vela and Lieutenant Paulino Chaverz. The tr. ops lost one killed and one wounded. They i aptured fifteen horses, seventeen saddlesand twenty carbines. Captain Hen-era was heartily congratulated from all quarters for tho spleudid results of his expedition. It is a matter of general surprise that the wily Coyote, who has so lor" been a terror on th? border, should have bc;n caught napping. When the troops close! iu on the slumbering bandits El Coyote was the first to awake. Ha fought like a demou and trie! to Ia'.ly his men, but his great power an I his her/ulean for.il went down p.e ctd by a do.-en sabei-s a-nid the exultant yells of the victorious troopers. Th " bodies of the eight bandits were buried where tliey fell. The death of El Coyote cause 1 intense excitement in New Laredo, his former home and the present home of his family. He had many friends at Lampasas, who claim that he possessed many goodqualit.es. However, there - ? i iyrr ,,f miifif. as it is believed U ^CllUiUl IVVUUg . J __ that hi< death and the recent defeat of Matirieio Can, will briug about a state of jwace 011 the border 1 hat will not be disturbed fo.* some time to come. A later dispatch, received at Piedras Negras, Mexico, civesa (li ferent accountof the manner in which El Coyote, the revolutionary leader, and a portion of his band met their deaths. The dispatch says that El Coyote and seven of his followers were captured at Monterey acd were shot by order of j General Reyes.