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It is claimed that Franklin and others have captured the lightning and har- } ?,1 cmrvir>n Knt f\ rrnnd dp?l nf it I UCdaUU ill IU cv? ?4W, v%*v?? ? seems to to be wandering around still in a wild state, doing a great deal of damage. It is estimated that the amount of money expended on new buildings this year throughout the Union will be more than $700,000,000. But for the labor troubles in the spring much more could have been invested in building operations. The Railroad Gazette states that it is a well-known fact among railroad men that on railroads running north and south the west rails wear out the faster; that five rails will wear out on the w otside of the tract while three are doing service on the ?ast side. The cotton crop now maturing in the South promises to be the largest ever grown in the United States. It is estimated at 7,500,000 bales?500,000 bales more man were evur uciuis givn:i ? single year. Cotton may no longer be king, but it is still in the royal family. A dangerous counterfeit of the silver dollar occasionally passed is made of ground glass combined with tin, lead and other metals. Experienced bank tellers say they cannot easily detect this counterfeit. These glass dollars are brittle. If held in the palm of the hand and nipped vigorously with a knife-handle, the dollar is easily split. They have the mctalic ring of a genuine dollar, arc of the correct size and nearly of the exact weiirht. The Shoe and Leather Jtejiortcr says that the strikes in the shoe trade during the last year have cost in wages from $5,000,000 to $fi,000,000. Nearly half this sum is said to have been lost in the five months' strike in Worcester county, Mass. The Wilmington strike of morocco workers lasted seven months and cost $225,000. The strikes at Salem and Peabody, Mass., entail u loss of $3,000,000 in wages. Lesser strikes bring up the total. The monument over the grave of Israel Putnam, the Revolutionary hero, at Brookline, Conn., for which the State appropriated $10,000, will be dedicated June 17, 1888, the anuiversary of the battle of Bunker Hill. The remains of General Putnam, in remarkable preservition, were lately removed from the Brookline cemetery to the new site, and the old tombstone, with the inscription prepared by President Timothy Dwight, of Yale College, was deposited in the - oiw. ? l rooms 01 me oiaie umunui aunnj ?k Hartford. A careful estimate has been made by j officials connected with State Attorney Grinneirs office in Chicago as to the amount of money stolen by the Cook county thieves in the two years from September 1884, to September, 1886. Not less than $480,000 was stolen in 1884-'8o, and fully $520,000 in 1886-'87. The total is estimated at $1,000,000 for the two years. The tax levy for county purip' ' poses for the same period was $2,500," J?00 ? $1,200,000 for 188i-'85 and $1,300,000 for 1885-186. The stealing, according to the estimate, amount to it- forty per cent, of the levy in both years. Cnder the Constitution adopted by V Holland in 1814 women were allowed to vote, the requisite qualifications, ho^ ever, being that they should pay taxes on property and be able to read and write; but few of them have cared to exercise their privilege. Now that peril threatens the nation in the extinction of the royal house of Orange by the death of the present king, the women have become aroused, and regularly attend the poll?, and by their presence and their ballots uphold the leaders who are arranging to defend their country. But more is to come. Of the 17,000 persons just enfranchised great numbers are women; and so Holland, which Las led the world in many things, will t lead it again in this. The Electrical World presents soipe re markable figures as to the use of the telephone in four European countries?Belgium, Holland, Italy, and Russia. The tables give a list of the exchange sub* scribers in each country. The total of such is, allowing for a few untabulated exchanges, about 10,000. In other words, in these countries, with a total population of 136,000,000, there a: e only 19,000 subscribers, all told, or one in every 7,158; while in the United States there are 147, 00 subscribers in a population of 50,000,000, or one in every 340. The disparity is remarkable. There are as many telephone subscribers in New York and Brooklyn as in all Italy with its twentyeight millions of people; as many in Boston as in Holland with its four millions; - r\ 4>V?n?-k \y\ oil flio /lr\m?n_ more in tuiuugu iumt m u** ions of the Czar. An eminent English statesman, Mr. Giffen, has compiled tables which show in part the enormous sums sent back to the United Kingdom to the relatives and friends of emigrants who have gained Jb. homes in the United States. From 1848 to 1885, both years inclusive, there was forwarded from Amcrica through certain banks and mercantile houses $105,092,935, a large part of which eventually passed into the pockets of Irish landlords. In the last six years covered by tuc tauics me comnuuuous vrcia -fcatiy increased, the annual average being $7,427,474. Of course the statement is incomplete, for certain bankers declined to furnish the required information, und a great deal of money has reached Ireland from America without going through the hands of bankers, j The average annual amount remitted from Australian colonies Mu-e 3 875 b [ been only $289,000- * ~ ? L THROWING A BOMB. Attempt to Destroy a British Steamship at New York, Her Would-Be Destroyer Pursued and Captured. Thomas J. Mooney, who says he is an ex ; A e t* 1 ? 1 . r convict i rum raigusu prisons miu it menu ci O'Donovan Rossa, attempted to burn the British ocean steamship Queen, of the National line, on Wednesday at the foot of West Houston street, New York, by means of a glass bottle containing explosives, which he threw upon her deck. The bottle hit the deck just aft of amidships, exploded, and in a twinkling the after deck was alive with flames and smoke. The fire was quickly extinguished without having done much damage. Mooney, who threw the bomb from the skiff was pursued and captured 10 minutes later and locked up in Jefferson market prison. The Queen was about to sail for London, and besides having about 300 passengers, crew and 'longshoremen aboard the time, was loaded with a cargo of general merchandise, mainly cotton, valued at $500 000. Upon Mooney's person was found a proclamation denouncing the English Government for seizing American vessels, hauling down the American flag, etc.. and concluding by notifying "all good citizens not to go down to the sea m an English ship or patronize them any, as all English ships entering or leaving any port of these United States are hereby liable to seizure, attack or destruction from the 1st day of August, 1S87, until the English Government shall make ample apology to the United States." i ne story of the attempt to destroy the vessel, and of Mooney's capture, is told by the , World as follows: It was just after 12 o'clock when the bomb struck the Queen's deck and ignited- Immediately there was the greatest excitement on board. There were only about 100 passenger* on the ship, but the crew, numbering forty, Captain Herly and the officers were on board, while sixty 'longshoremen were eneaeed in putting in the cargo and baggage. George L. "Andrew, Superintendent or the Jine, was on the forward deck, when a sailor ran up to him and excitedly said the ship was atire. He rushed aft and found the flames encompassing the deck and the crew working valiantly to check them. A dark, thick fluid, smellingly strongly of phosphorus, covered the deck over a surface about twenty feet long by ten feet broad, and was sizzling fiercely as the flames raged above and along the deck. Big clouds of dense smoke rolled skyward, and ^Auro*>fnl <v1np The fpnompntc; nffl eilllLLCU u |/unvi * u> wv. . ? w.Q ? green glass bottle were found amid the flames. The crew worked the pumps and poured a flood of water over the flaming deck, and before long the fire was out. Meantime some one said that a man in a skiff w as seen rowing away from under the Queen's side. Mr. Andrews looked over and saw him as he was turning out into the river. Calling Robert J. Vail, who was on the pier, Mr. Andrews jumped aboard a tug and the two headed out after the rowboat, which was now well up toward Leroy street. The man in the boat was pulling desperately and was close in to the Leroy street wharf when Detective Vail, from the bow of the tug, called out to a boatman on the shore: A-i- T It TVin man "l/'&rcil l/Ilttt IIUMI, X nauu IUIU, *t.w.. . in the boat had just stepped on a float, when the boatman, James Dougherty, who lets out I boats at the foot of that street, held the oarsman until the pursuing tug arrived. Detective Vail leaped ashore, arrested the stranger and took nim before Captain Gastlin, of the Steamboat Squad. No questions were asked him there and he was at once escorted to P slice Headquarters, and thence taken to Jefferson Market Police Court. There Mooney was asked the usual questions, and said he was a native of County Clare, Ireland; that he was single, had been fifteen years in the country, and had been a manufacturer of clothing, but was out of business now. "Have jpu anything to say about the charge for which you are arrested i" asked Judge Duffy. The prisoner's small blue eyes surveyed the - *- * " "* ovtrl fkan UOUn (JUliZIUlll^ 1UI All iiuuanv uiiu vuvi* holding his head erect, he replied in low, smooth tones: "I should like to know if it is lawful to haul down the American flag in Canada; if it is lawful, then it is not unlawful to haul down the British flag here." Judge, court officers, reporters and the court lawyers looked on Mooney with interest as he uttered this strange statement. Mooney was the calmest person in the court. As the Judge suggested that serious results might have followed his rash ebullition of patriotism, Mooney said: "I don't see that there was the slightest danger of anybody suffering. You know. Judge, that the American flag was hauled down by Quigley. The United States flag is - J J - *. Li 1 11 not respected, anu luuugut w uo. Mooney was then searched by the officers. He is an intelligent looking man about forty years old, tall, slimly built and with a long ?ace and head and a bronzed, fresh complexion. He has small blue eyes that nothing escapes, and his whole demeanor is careful, thoughtful, and, it might be said, dignified. He talks fluently, and with excellent command of language. His manners are by " ? TKo nt Hfe no means lUUSC UJL LUC" &C1 KJCU XliV vr*. long head is bald front and back, and he wears a sandy mustache and goatee. In court all agree that ha is perfectly sane, except for his hatre-1 of England. LIGHTNING FREAKS. Lightning not only burned the houss of Joseph Wilcox, of Lake Clear, Fla., but struck his barn and killed all his stock. John Lam pert and his dog were killed by lightning while tending sheep on the lanchof Dr. Welch, at Greeley, Col. Lightning struck the powder mill at Streator, 111., and blew it up promptly, smashing things for half a mile around. A pitchfork carried over the shoulder of William Casselman, ef Gloversville, N. Y., during a thunder storm, drew the lightning and cost him his life. William Bowen and his sister-in-law. Miss Eunice McKenzie, were instantly killed by lightning at Palestine, Texas, while taking refuge under a large pine tree. Heavy rain put out the fire caused by lightning that struck Thomas Powell's barn at Rocky Mount, N. C., but the lightning had aireauy Kiueu uvu uurwAanu un u.\. The entire family of Meredith Measell, of Pickens County, S. C., was killed by lightning while dining. The family consisted of Mr. Mensell, his wife, and four children. llghtm.no stunned the stallion Red Jacket, belonging to James Price, of Farmington, Ga., and he has 1 >oen as docile as a lamb ever since. Jioone was known to ride him before. Lightning tore out the casing and blinds of a window of a house in Little Ro k, Ark., and threw two bird cages upon the lloor, but neither of the birds in the cages was injured. An oak standing in a cemetery at Mount jrieasunb, lenn., uuunieu miviivi hi a, siuuu to nine negroes who had just buried a friend. Lightning struck the tree and killed them alL While Charley Spencer, of Milwaukee, was fishing, lightning struck him, and tore the clothes completely from one side of his body, cutting them as neatly in two as if the job had been done with a knife. Lk;fitnin"0 tor\; out the whole side of the widow Jones's house at South Solon, Ohio, and revealed the widow with her tlireo chilchildren huddled together in the most abject terror. Xone of them was injured, however. lUrrrv li/rlifnin/r cfriinL* tlio V?oim r\P Torrioc Smith, of Clarion, Ind., he was standing tietwee a his two horses with three pigs nosing around their feet. At the flash all the animals dropped dead, while Smith was entirely unharmed. Lightning tore a large oak tree on the premises of John Brathis, at Cuthbert, Ga., into kindling wood and sent a mule tied to it on to its knees, but the mule soon recovered, kicked a wagon into bits, and was otherwise very lively. Mil | By direction of the Secretary of "War Brigadier-General Greelv, Chief Signal Oi'icer, will proceed, on or U-fore September Id, to Toulouse, Franc?, for the purpose of attending the meetings of the meteorological branch of the French Association for the Advancement of the Sciences, to be held at that place from September 2-t to&t, and of obtaining information in mattere relating to met?- , orological science ami work in Europe. NEWS SUMMARY Eastern and Middle States. Robert J. Alexander, a veteran of the Seminole and Mexican wars, was found dead in his bed in Brooklyn a few days since. He was seventy-eight years old, and had been in the United States .Naval Service nearly fifty years. Joseph W. Drexel, the Philadelphia banker, has presented the cottage at Mount Gregor, N. Y., in which General Grant died, to the Grand Army of the Republic. John Emmerso.v, a porter in the Astor House, New York, stabbed and killed Edward Greer, a young Irishman, who had just obtained a situation as porter in the Bancroft House. After killing Greer the murderer committed suicide. Jealousy of a chambermaid's attentions to Greer prompted the crime. Heavy rains in portions of Georgia and South Carolina have done immense damage to crops. The injury to the corn crop alone ' is estimated at $1,000,000. One-third of Augusta. Ga., was flooded, and many j families nad to be rescued in boats. The Cunard steamship Umbria on her last trip from England to New York was struck by a tidal wave fifty feet high. This huge mass of water swept the great vessel from bow to stern, and flooded everything below. The passengers made a wild rush for life preservers; but the steamship withstood the terrific blow and proceeded on her way. Prince Devanbocrgese, half brother of the King of Siam, and four young sons of that potentate arrived in New York a few days ago. rheir programme included a trip to Washington for the purpose of presenting letters from the King of Siam to the President, and then a journey across the Continent to take the steamer for home, via Japan. The royal jiarty have been on a tour around the world. "William Willshire, of Camden. N. J., fifty-two years old, shot his wife, Ella, agea forty-seven, deliberately murdered Justice of the Peace William S. Darr (colored), and then sent a bullet through his own brain, dying almost instantly. The tragedy occurred in the office of the Justice, who was listening to a complaint made by Mrs. "Willshire against her husband's brutality. Charles H. Reed, the Chicago lawyer wno gained consmeraDie nocorny oy aeienuing Guiteau, the assassin of Garfield, has been going down hill ever since, and shortly after a recent attempt to steal from a Jersey City restaurant he tried to drown himself, but was fished out alive from the Hudson river. He has been declared insane by New York doctors. A stroke of lightning killed thirty-two head of valuable blooded cattle on George Woodruffs farm at New Britain, Conn. Sonth and West. A cyclone at David City, Neb., killed one man and demolished over half the buildings ir? fntiTi ocfimohv) rlnmafrn i? JttW) 000 Klehm, one of the leading spirits of the Chicago officials - under indictment for fleecing the city in various ways, has turned informer. An elevator containing seven girls and one man fell forty feet at the Bremen Tanning Works, St. Louis. Alexander M. Ferris, President of the Company, and one girl were fatal]}' Injured; tha other girls were badly hurt. A kibe at Cincinnati destroyed the quarter known as "Sloptown." Six acres, containing twenty-five shanties and many stables, were burned over. Fifty cows were burned to death. The loss is $100,000. William Cooper (colored) was hanged at Key West, Fla., for the murder of two colored neighbors, Ed. McDonald, a Chicago "boodler," has been sentenced to three years in State Prison. The Kentucky election has resulted in a victory for General Buckner, the Democratic candidate for Governor, together with the rest of the Democratic State ticket, by a plurality ranging from 25,000 to 30,000. The Republicans made gains in several counties. In some of the cities, notably Covington, Newport, Bellair and Dayton, the Labor party polled a large vote, carrying the first-named. Prohibition was defeated in Louisville by a iiiuji'i iuj . x lie ivc^i^iaiui r, ? iin.u cicv.w , a successor to United States Senator Beck, is heavily Democratic. Earthquake shocks have occurred within ; a few days at St. Louis and Nashville. At the former place high buildings were shaken. Five Prohibitionists and two Labor men have Leen elected to the Kentucky Legislature. In Clay county, Ky., on election day there was a fierce fight at the polls, during which six men were killed outright, and a number badly wounded Washington. For the first time in the history of the Regular Army details will be made this year from the various regimental posts of companies to attend Grand Army reunions and the various militia encampments in the several States. The Treasury surplus has been increasing very heavily of late. The public debt was reduced $4,844,894.83 during July. The total debt, principal and interest, now stands at $1,(>81,420,129.48. j Deducting "available cash item6," $261,149,603, and net cash in the Treasury, $45,688,594, the net indebtedness is $1,274,583,842.19. During July the total receipts of the United States Treasury were $30,814,872, against *29,036,971 in the same timp !*st rear, and the expenditures were $35,136,924, against $29,403,011 in July, 1886. The Pension Office has just allowed the claim of Mrs. Mary Casey, widow of a soldier of the Revolution who died in 1845. Mrs. Casey's application for a pension was ruea ten years ago, anu is pruuamj mc ia*>v Revolutionary War pension-claim that will ever be presented at the Pension Office. Foreign. Ten persoas were drowned by the capsizing of two pleasure yachts off Yarmouth, England. Signor Depretis, the Italian Prime Minister, is dead. Seven men have been arrested at Limerick, ireiann. ior participating in a numi ?u mn.s dockmen against imported Waterford laborers. Four policemen and many cinliana were injured during the riot. Fifty thousand people are starving at Adana, Asiatic Turkey, on account of a drought which has turned a usually fertile region into an absolutely barren country. Thk Liberals (Gliidstone's party^ have elected another of their number to the British House of Commons in an election to fill a vacancy, and have made large gains. Cholera is causing from fifteen to twenty deaths daily in Catania, Italy, and the epidemic is spreading in the provinces. In the city of Peshawur, India, there were 300 deaths from cholera during July. Many houses have been destroyed or badly damaged in Ecuador by the recent earthquake. The election of George Otto Trevelyan to the British House of Commons from Glasgow j by an increased Liberal majority is another j great Gladstone triumph. From January to June of this year there i were 10,'i'i0 deaths from cholera in Chili. CUT OFF BY FLAMES, Fatal Results of a Tenement. Fire in Chicago. Two people, mother anil child, were killed, | four children were fatally injured, and five or six other uersons were badly hurt in a firo at Chicago early the other morning. About 2:25 o'clock Officer O'Conner saw flames coming out of the basement. He ran to the nearest firebox, turned in an alarm, and then hastened hack to arouse the inmates. By this | time the flames had increased with fearful rapidity, and before the arrival of th-j first engine the front stairways were enveloped, thus cutting off all means of escape for the three families occupying the front portion of the building. The following were killed: Adele Trudeau, aged thirty-five years; Mary Trudeau, aged t.wri vpnrs. These were fatally injured: Joseph Trudeau, aged ten years: l)e!ia Trudeau, aged eleven years; Nelson Trudeau,Jr.,aged twelve years, Eliza Trudeau, aged fifteen years; Mrs. B011neau. The following were injured severely but not fatally: Nelson Trudeau, Philip Bonneau, Eliza Blake, Annie Brew, and Captain Cowan, of Truck 8. The fire started in Essen's bukeshop, in the basement. His assistant, Charles Ansboeher, fell asleep, and a pot of grease, which was boiling on the stove, oyortlowed and set fire to the building. 1 ANOTHER EARTHQUAKE. Shocks Felt in Tennessee, Missouri and Other States. The Vibrations Severe Enough to Create Considerable Alarm. Another earthquake of considerable proportions has visited a large area of the South and West. At St. Louis the earth trembled at 12:40 o'clock in the morning, and so violent was the movement that thousand of families were awakened in the city and vicinity. There j was no noise, no warning, and the moon I was shining brightly at the time the shock came. It seems to have come up from the south, and the evidence regarding the number of shocks is conflicting. The maiority say there was only one shock that lasted a hnIf minnta whilA nf.hprs assprfc that there were two distinct shocks. I Those who were at home, and particularly those who were in bed, felt the shock most severely. They were awakened, if asleep, by the rattling of the windows in their casings. A number of incidents marked the passage of the earthquake. Several persons were thrown from chairs or beds, and when they attempted to rise from the floor they found it impossible to retain their equilibrium At the Lafayette Park Police Station the officer on duty was thrown from his chair to the ground. A great many persons were so far disturbed that they ran out on the street in their night clothes. At the hospitals the patients were awakened by the rattling of the windows and the rocking of the beds on which they lay. Many of them sprang out of bed, but the thocK sunsiuea so quicKiy none 01 mera was seriously disturbed by it. Reports from many points in Middle and West Tennessee state that the earthquake was distinctly felt and that much excitement was created by the quivering of the earth. At C'larksville the vibrations were from southwest to northeast and the duration from forty to sixty seconds. Many people hastily vacated their houses, and numerous women ran screaming into the streets. Glassware was thrown from shelves and broken. Entire families were awakened at Columbia by the severity of the shock and much alarm was felt. Several shocks were felt at Gallatin, the first being at 12:40 and the others at short intervals. The people of Jackson experienced two shocks, the first at midnight and the second at 12:50. The doors and windows of residences in Gallatin, Tullahoma and Clarksville were shaken so violently that the inmates armed themselves, under the impression that burglars were attempting to gain an entrance, and searched the buildings from top to bottom. The shock in Nashville was most severe on the east side, but few persons in the southern, northern, and western portions of the city were roused from their slumber. Many people, some of them only partially dressed, rusned into the streets for safety, some women screaming at the top of their voices. At residences three miles from the city windows rattled and vases and other ornaments were shaken from mantels The Rev. W. P. Harrison, D. D., editor of the Methodist Quarterly Heview, who has written much concerning earthquakes, was writing in his studv at the time of the auake. He said his attention was first attracted by a rushing sonnd as if made by some railroad train. The next moment he was conscious of a shaking such as would be caused by two men wrestling in the adjoining room. The sound and disturbance diminished as in the case of the train passing into the distance. Dr. H trrison said he was satisfied that it was not an earthquake. He thinks the disturbance was caused by the passage of an aerolite within a few miles of the earth, and that the disturbance was purely atmospheric. He is of the opinion that the aerolite probably went into the Atlantic Ocean. Dr. Harrison is a believer in the theory which attributes earthquakes to chemical "action in the interior of the earth. Dispatches from Jacksonville, Centralia, and Jonesborough, 111., indicate that the early earthquake shocks noted at Nashville, Tenn., St. Louis, and Evansville, Ind., were general throughout Southern and Central Illinois. At Jacksonville the vibrations seemed to be from east to west, but at Jones- I borough from northwest to south. In the latter place a rumbling noise was heard, and the shocks were of sufficient force to cause picture frames to fall from the walls. At Evansville, Ind., there were three distinct tremors, lasting about eight seconds, with undulations from southeast to northwest. Some excitement was created, though the shock was over before it was fully realized. Near Golden Pond, in Trigg County, Ky., the earthquake caused 300 acres of land on Z. 0. Hayden's farm to sink to a depth of four or five' feet. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Elwood Cooper is the largest olive raiser in the United States. His olive farm in Southern California comprises ODD acres. King Humbert, of Italy, is an exceedingly' small eater on all occasions, and, as to. dMnk, his guests may have it in plenty, but his favorite tipple is water. Herr Krupp's greatest achievement in cannon-making was the 125-ton gun he turned out for Italy. His works average 1,000 tons of steel a (lay. Queen Victoria wore glasses in public for the first time last week. The lenses were no larger than a quarter-dollar piece, and set in n nlni'n hit r>f tortoise shell. Mrs. Grant i6 at Long Branch. She is expecting a visit from her daughter, Mrs. Sartoris, this month. Mrs. Sartoris is now at Southampton. England, at the home of her husband's father. Sitting Bull is living a life of laziness at Standing Rock agency. "Work he considers degrading, and believes that his victory over Custer has entitled him to an existence of ease and indolence. M De Lesseps is of the opinion that only $120,000,000 will be required to complete the Panama CanaL If he can raise two-thirds of the sura in France, he believes the remainder I will come from American sources. F. A. Sawyer, who was once a United I States Senator from South Carolina, is now J a clerk in the Quartermaster-General's ofHce, Washington, on a salary of $1,400 a year. He at one time held the position of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood, the Wash ington lawyer, retains ner position as uniei of the Female Suffragist's movement She is at Hemlock Lake, NT Y., for a few days discussing the woman question and the moral and political aspect of the temperance movement. Daniel R. Wolff, of Chambersburg, Penn., lays claim to being the first commercial traveler or 'drummer" in the United ! States. He went "on the road" in 1844 for the dry goods and notion house of Dunton. Gemmill & Co.j of Philadelphia. Until 1S49 | lie traveled wiwuut siuujjuj, Mrs. Gladstone is described as a very amiable, gracious looking lady, with irongrey hair, thick and abundant, brushed down over her ears. She has good color, regular features, and clear blue-gray eyes, in which any one may read her sincere admiration for ber husband, if she is watching him on any public occasion or conversing about bim in private. TEE PBESIDENT'S TRIP. The Cities He Will Visit While Soul h and "West. The President said a few daj*s ago that he ! felt it to bo an absolute necessity that ho I should in every ease request uiose ciuw | I which proposed to send delegations to Washington conveying invitations to visit them on his Western trip to forego that formality and forward their communications by mail. It is probable that he will leave Washington the last days of Septeml>er antl fro directlv to St. Louis anil from there to Kansas City, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Chicago, Nashville and Atlanta. The St. Louis and Atlanta dates being fixed, it will not be practicable to deviate much from this programme. The journey will be made by the ordinary route of travel between the cities named, and the disposition of the President will be to see as much of the country and the people on his route as will be consistent with limited time and positive engagements. I ? Brook County, Georgia, shipped north this season 200 car loads of watermelons at an average of more than ? 100 for each car. A local paper says the county will reccive nnward of $65,000 for her watermelon crop tWsyear. . v it\ trvinrrt LATM JNJiWS, George William Curtis was reflected President of the National Civil Service Reform League at its annual meeting in Newport, R. I. Mrs. Cleveland has been spending a few days at Marion, Mass., where she has been a guest of General Greely. a fire in Evansville, Ind., destroyed two lumber yards containing 7.000,000 feet of lumber, fifteen cars of grain, a large warehouse, sawmill, stables and two dwellings. The loss is $250,000. Six workmen were killed and one injured by the falling of a wall at the ruins of a burned elevator in Minnesota. The Soprftfcarv of the Treasurv has issued a circular stating that "the interest due September 1 and December 1, 1887, on the 4% per cent, bonds of the United States, October 1,18S7, and January 1, 1888, on the 4 per cent, bonds, and January 1, 1888, on the bonds issued in aid of Pacific railroads, will be prepaid on and after August 15,1887, with a rebate at the rate of 2 per centum per annum on the amounts prepaid." Proposals are also invited for the sale to the Government of United States 4% per cent, bonds of 1891, acts of July 14, 1870, and January 20, 1871. This action has been taken to relieve the expected stringency in the money market by reducing the Treasury's heavy surplus, THE EAT DROP. A Serious Shortage and a Predicted Increase in Prices. New York livery stable men and others interested in the feed business are watching the hay crop with a great deal of solicitude. The present indications are that there will be a serious shortage in the usual supply for this year, with consequent hi^h prices prevailing next winter and spring. In addition to this the quality promises to be decidedly inferior. A feed merchant said to a Tribune reporter: Hay is selling now for $10 and $13 a ton according to quality. Unless all signs fail it will be hard to get at $20 and $25 a ton next spring. In the first place, the drought in May in the Middle and New England States, which are the chief-source of supply of the hay used in this and neighboring city markets, damaged the crop seriously. Rains in June somewhat revived it, but they came too late to give us the full crop. Now on top of the drought comes the terrific storms, just in haymaking time. These storms have done incalculable damage. The hay from thousands of acres of bottom land was caught in the cock. The farmers had not time to put it in the stack. Before every storm there nave been unusually fierce winus, which blew the loose cocks down or just opened them wide enough to take water. Then the floods descended and the hay was soon soaked- In most lowlands, in addition, the water stood for hours from several inches to a foot in depth. Why, travelers on the railroads with whom I have talked all tell the same stories of seeing Hooded bottom hay fields with quantities of hay floating about in the water. It is the same story from the hay fields of Maine and New Hampshire to the great asjicultural valleys of Pennsylvania and New York State." _____ . nnirmtr ITtTTI TTTTTT A itliMAltiiAJQJjij JUL.I. The Past Month One of the Hottest Known in This Country. The month of July, 1887, will be known in many parts of the United States as the hottest July ever experienced. In New York city and vicinity the heat was terrific almost without cessation during the entire month. In an article reviewing the past month's heat, the New York Times says: The July which has just ended was in some points the most remarkable of the sixteen July mouths since 1872. Its high hnmidity was one of these points. Its number of days when the temperature ran and stayed above 90 degrees was another distinguishing fact. There were 18 of these scorchers as against 16 in 187(5, 15 in 1872, 14 in 1882.13 in 1870, 12 in 1885,10 in 1873, 9 in 1S78, 8 in 1883, 0 in 1886, 5 in 1874, 4 in 1877 and 1884, 2 in 1875 and 1880, and 1 in 1881. There were few days last month when the afternoon temperature was at any comfort allowing point. Here are the registrations for the thirty-one days, taken each day at 3:30 p. M.: 95, 95, 05, 92, 77, 80, 92, 93, S2, 84, ^ /v-v en* iu i q/i rw rrQ Qa rrK ft-i TK &4, I'Uj UU, Ow, ?*?j ou, iw, ?^v#j i iv, uuj i uj 83,90, 91, 90, f?J. 9a, as, 93 decrees. The figures which have just been presented are the records of the heat as it has been experienced by the millions of New York, Brooklyn, Jersey City, Newark, and the surrounding towns. They are from observations on the street where men move and stand, and are affected by reflected ?un rays. But even the half dozen official weather men who wortc on the lofty roof of the Equitable Building, where there is little influence from reflected sunbeams and where play the cheerful breezes of bay and river, even those cool observers conceded that this July had been hotter than the average. PLEUROPNEUMONIA. The Efforts to Suppress the Disease in Some States. - n -# a Tn/ltis l ue unici oi ine Durottu 01 nmuiu iuuujtry has just made a preliminary report to the Commissioner of Agriculture in reference to the progress of the work for the suppression of pleuro-pneumonia for the six months ended June -'JO, 1887. Pennsylvania is the only State believed to be infected with pluero-pneumonia, the authorities of which have declined both to accept the new rules and regulations or to give the National inspectors auy recognition in this work. The work of inspection in New Jersey by the Bureau has only recently begun. Four hundred and fiftv-three herds, containing 3,815 animals, have been inspected. Twenty herds have been found infect**!, containing 284 head, of which thirty-five were reported diseased. Twenty-eight animals were slaughtered, of which fifteen were found to have been affected with pleuro-pneumonia. In New York 79 herds, containing 2,201 animals, were inspected. Of these 45 herds were infected and coatained 9;17 animals, of which 125 were reported diseased. The number slaughtered was 117, of which 25 showed the lesions of pleuro-pneumonia. In New York the following counties are now in quarantine: 'Westchester, New York, Richmond, Kings, Queens and Suffolk. The total numl>er of herds inspected during the six months is 5,851, containing 45,094 animals; 298 herds and 11,028 animals have been placed in quarantine, among which were found I'Ol diseased animals. Post mortem examinations were made on the carcasses of 4,851 animals and showed that 1,104 of these have been affected with pleuro-pneumonia. VERY OLD PEOPLE, William Williamson died recently at Bethel, Me., aged 101 years. When John Downey died recently in East Toledo, Ohio, ha was 103 years of age. At a New York City Police Court a woman was recently bi ought up for drunkenness who is 102 years of age. Mrs. Noah Raby, of Plainfield, N. J., still supports herself by work, although she is believed to be 115 years of age. Probably the oldest man in the State of Tennessee is Henry Cleggv, of Meigs county, who is 105 years of age, and still in the besfi of health. I One of the most interesting ladies of Cambridge, Mas-;., is Mrs. Charles Bradford, who | is 04 years old. She is a great lover of music and perforins beautifully on the piano. John* J. Whipplk, of Rockland. Mo., is 100 vonro n)/i Anrl Attributes his trood health and great longevity to always eating and drinking according to inclination. Aunt Rachel Rutherford, of Summit, Mo., is ninety-one years of age, and has fiftyseven grandchildren and 1-0 great-grnndchildren. She is an inveterate smoker, and a wreathe of smoke always encircles her head. Mrs. Betsy Fairfield, of Haydenville, Mass., is 102 years of age, her mother lived to be ninety-eight, a sister ninety-two, a brother eighty-eight, and another brother living is eighty-seven. She was a regular I correspondent with friends of her early days until sne was ninety-five. ; r - r * ' -V FLOOD AND LI&HTNING. Many Lives lost, and Heavy Damage to Property. i The Sufferers Spread Over a Wide . P.fln era nf flmmtrv. i The recent storms have been followed by floods which have done an immense amount of damage, principally in the Southern, Middle and Eastern States. The fatalities from lightning have also been quite numerous. The following dispatches from many point* ?all dated the 1st inst?give a vivid idea of the injury to person and property done by , floods and lightning flashes: ! Augusta, Ga.: When the people of Augusta 1 arose this morning and found the riyer receding and sinking back in its bed there wa* general rejoicing. The highest mark registered was 35 feet. All night the rainfall continued, and at 10 o'clock this morning the register at the bridge marked 3*2 feet 9 inches, i All of the northern part of the city above Cumming and north of Broad streets is yet j under water. Great holes are washed in the street and houses are undermine! At the upper end of Greene street water is still flowing in through a great break in the canal bank, which occurred yesterday, but no utuiiugc JUUIC sciiuua IUOU waaLLUiK an aj u, few small houses and fences. At Lombard, where the break occurred in the canal, the water is ten feet deep, and factories are flooded. All houses in the neighborhood are flooded. The water is still over South Commons. The losses will amount to a million dollars. At a meeting of the Council this afternoon $1,000 was appropriated for the sufferers. Business was partially resumed to-dav. Wilkesbarre, Penn.: The Vallev of Wyoming was visited by a great wind and rainstorm this afternoon which caused a great deal of damage to property and resulted in the loss of one life. There was a cloud-burst at Parsons, three miles from here, and a creeK passing inrougn me vmage I overflowed and flooded the houses. N. M. Rhoades, whose house stood near the bridge, seized two of his youngest children and waded arross the stream which surrounded his home. Returning to tha house, he removed his wife and other children. The Nanticoke division of the New Jersey Central Railroad, which runs from the Baltimore to the Boston mine, a distance of one mile and a half, was washed away. The iron bridge at the foot of the mountain was carried away, as were the wooden bridges crossing the creek in the town. The loss of the Delaware and Hudson Company will reach $75,000. Property in Parsons will suffer to the extent of WO,000. In this city the spire of the Puritan Congregational church was struck by lightning. Annie Quinn was picking huckleberries on the mountain and was drowned. Binghamton, N. Y.: Miss Bauchem, a daughter of George Bauchem, residing near j Great Bend, Penn., was struck by lightning and killed this afternoon. In company with a girl friend she was playing under a large . tree when she was suddenly stricken. Her ' friend received a severe shock, but it recov- i CI lug. Lancaster, Penn.: Another terrible storm visited this section last night. Two large barns?one belonging to Elias Reisland, the other to Henry Haller?were destroyed by ] lightning. A dozen other buildings were struck, Dut not destroyed. The fields and ' roads in some sections were covered with ] water two to three feet deep. Jeremiah 1 Reitzel and his wife, of this city, were knocked insensible by the lightning and Mrs. Reitzel still suffers from the shock. At the residence of Zachariah Minnich. in Landii Valley, lightning entered the chimney, broke the dishes on the tabie and killed a dog under the table, but injured none of the family. The loss in corn and tobacco will reach manythousands of dollars. Albany, N. Y.: After a brief thunder shower yesterday a bolt of lightning descended from the almost cloudless sky, near Alt 1. :il~ Milnn /.Am V.sv~> isit&ntaviiie, DWCIVC UUIW uuiu ucic. xuv subsequent clap of thunder startled Albany. The bolt struck a tree, into the adjacent doorway of Elias Mathias, where Emma Mathias was standing, and struck ner on the right side of the head, burning off the hair. It then coursed down the body. Her . clothing was torn and loosened so that it j hung simply from the shoulders and her shoes were torn in shreds. The fluid also burned I both her legs from the knees to the foot The shock threw the young woman to the floor. Mrs. Mathias was ako prostrated and one of her shoes was torn off. Other members of the family suffered temporary insensibility. Miss Mathias, when picked up. was like a piece of marble statuary, so white and rigid. To-day she is recovering. South Norwalk, Conn.: Lightning struck James Dillon's house yesterday and tore off siding, demolishing the wall, and also struck a young lady on the road to Darien, killing her instantly. Starr Koeler, while lowering the soil on his boat, was also struck and was I rendered permanently blind. Willimantic, Conn.?A terrific thunder and hail storm swept over the town of Ash ford, sixteen miles north of here, early yesterday afternoon. Lightning struck the house of Nelson Hammond,a mile west of Ashford Centre. Mrs. Hammond was killed, though there were no signs of the liehining having entered the room. Albert Hammond, aged twentyfour years, was shocked in both arms and still suffers terrible pain. Nelson Hammond sustained a shock from the effects of which he is now temporarily insane. Waterbury, Conn.: At Perryville, Sunday afternoon, lightning struck James Preston's barn, burning it to the ground The Catholic Church was also damaged to the extent of *500. Wheeling, W. Va.: The heaviest rain ever experienced here fell this afternoon, over two inches of water falling in three-quarters of an hour. Many cellars and some first floors were flooded. Easton, Penn.: About twenty houses in Northampton County and eight in Warren County, N. J., were damaged by lightning yesterday. The damage in Easton and South Easton is estimated at $12,000. Lancaster, Penn.: During the heavy storm last night the barn of Eliza Keist, in Penn township, was struck by lightning and destroyed, with the crop6of sixty acres and several animals; loss, *5,000. Mrs. Abram Wit* mer, of Safe Harbor, while looking at the fire, dropped dead from excitement. The bridge across the Port Deposit Railroad at Octorara was washed away. Reading. Penn.: During last night's storm lightning struck the barns of Aaron Yeager, in Pike township, this county, and raniel TVensitler, near Hoppenville, Montgomery county, half a mile away, and both houses were burned, together with the contents, causing a loss of 110,000. Yates Centre, Kan.: During the storm last night Miss Sheehan, eighteen years of age, who was standing in the yard, was struck by lightning and killed LIFE IN CHINA. Some Interest!iijj Items Prom a FarOffLand. S. S. Popoff, Chinese Secretary to the Russian Legation in Peking, has just; published a pamphlet on the Chinese population, in which he says it is 3S2,000,000, as against 413,000,000 in 1842. His statistics are derived from Chinese official sources. A plague of sudden death is raging at Nanking. People are dying in every quarter. They are ap;wirently weli in the morning and de id in the afternoon. " "4 * ' K KAlAn/viiifT 1 n thfl Over i,uuu le.egriijiu |jsijv3 v..v Munanan Mingtaz District and Kweichow Lane line have been pulled down by the peoEle, who say the telegraph is a diabolical uropean artifice. Troops to the number of have been ordered to the spot. No less than eighty-eight persons were executed near Shanghai in one week for belonging to secret societies. - " " ?ii-oc tho mn<st harrowingac- | lilt1 O'K H i count of floods at Cliu Cliou Fu. up the N enchow River. Over a thousau<l human beings have been swept away and the destruction of growing crops is immense. Is the historic parish of Byfleld, near Newburyport, Mass., are tne representatives of six living generations descended from James Kent. The baity hasn't vet been named. The great-great-great grandmother is ninety-five. The mother of the baby helps out this phenomenal aggregation of generations by being but fifteen years. Mrs. Na.ycv Edgerly, a resident of Wolfi boro, N. H.. has just completed her 103d year. | She is feeble in health, but quite vigorous as l i regards intellect. She can relate many inci dents in her early life. :?' ?.? - v H THE NATIONAL GAME. / ?? Bbouthxbs, of the Detroit*, still lead*' th? Bfl Leamie in home runs. ' : H In the International League only one man [? allowed on the coaching line. Estkrquxst is the name of a phenomenal twirler unearthed by Birmingham. Ward, of the New Yorks, was the second League player to make the 100th actual hit of the season. . In a recent twelve-inning game at Waterbury, Conn., Bradv put out 22, assisted 3^ without an error at first base. "Al" McKinxon, first baseman of th* Pittsburg League Club, died recently at Boaton, and was buried in Lowell. When the League leaders play among; themselves they play well, but when they play the tail-enders they forget how to play* Buffalo, so far, is the most whitewashed club in the International League, while Ham- . llton has applied the coating oftener than any other club. IF there is anybody the Washington* can whip it is New York and Chicago. They have won a majority of the games played with those clubs. v . vf&xA A marked feature of the Chicagos in ao- ' lion is that they always play as if tbey en- * joyed it No one ever sees them play a listless, don't-care game. A mathematician has estimated that when Chamberlain and Mullane, who are among the swiftest pitchers in the country,throw the ball with their utmost speed, it travels at th* rate of 180 feet per second. Vicksburg, Miss., will make an application for membership in the Southern League at the November meeting. Galveston and Houston. Texas. ar? also Anrions to enter. and will make an effort in that direction. President Voir Der Ahe, of the St. Louis Club, says he is tired of tqe American Association,and has asked that a meeting be called September 3 to act upon the withdrawal of his team. Should this club retire, it will seek ' to join the League. In that case Indianapolis, it is said, will be dropped from the latter organization. Fewer first-class men hare been developed this year in the minor Leagues than for two . years past. Good pitchers especially haysfailed to materialize. This is no doubt du? 3 to the new rules, which put a damper upon the wild hop-skip-and-jump style of pitchers, whose whole art consisted in firing a ball ilk with all the speed allowed by the former role. Strategy counts now. Van Haltren, of the Chicagos, was bom at St Louis, and is twenty-two years old,but he lived in Oakland,CaL, for seventeen year*. He started in as catcher, but by a fluke tried pitching in 1886,because the Greenhood & Morans were in a hole for a pitcher. He succeeded at once. In California he pitched- . plenty of games for five and six hits, once retired three men on nine pitched balls, and hasstruck out nineteen men. the national league. Won. Lost. Won. La*. % Detroit 45 20 1 Boston 40 SO* Pittsburgh iJS 4'J JNew York....41 jst :m Philadelphia..87 30 Indianapolis...23 50- fl Chicago 42 28 Washington. ..28 38 THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. I Won. Lost. Won. Lost. 3t. Louis 57 211 Baltimore 43 31 H Brooklyn. 37 40 | Cincinnati....47 86 Louisville 40 36 I Athletic 86 Metropolitan..26 50 \ Cleveland..... 19 NITRE international league. ~ v Won. Lost Won. Newark. 39 21 Syracuse 34 24 . Rochester.....35 27 Binghamton..22 85 Toronto 82 26 Hamilton 82 80* Buffalo 43 25 Jersey City...29 8<>Scranton. 10 27 ; Wilkesbarre..l7 45 southern league. Won Lost. Wtm. Lost. New Orleans...39 23 Charleston...88 24 " Nashville 32 25 Birmingham. 7 2ftMemphis 41 20 ' THE LABOR WORLD. During the past six months 861 saw ami planing mills have been started in the Sooth, which will work up 500,000,000 feet of lambar. The increase is going on. The European immigration agencies aretranslating descriptions of the conditions of American mechanics, laborers and farm am for the benefit of those they want to bring U> this side. .< Builders of late years hare been giving op lath and plastered ceilings in large Doildlngs as well as light floor timbers for heavy timbers and thick, closely laid three-inch floors. The decreased insurance makes it pay. The < labor holiday inaugurated by the * . New York Central Labor Union will be mnch more generally observed this year taao it warlast, and especially in the Western States, where there appears to be a more progressive spirit. \ -*?! Sixteen new glass factories will start upin September, having 206 pots, of which lw-* are for window glass, twenty for flint, eighty for table ware, and six for green glass. It tf like] v that several of the window glass fao* toriea in New Jersey will remain idle nexs year. A Movisre.vr has been quietly projected in labor circlef in Boston, independently of theKnights of Labor, for the organization of women and girls into trades unions similar to* the existing oganization of trades among men who have not affiliated with the Knights. The carpenters' strike in Chicago is notgeneral, only tho6e who have been working' more than eight hours for less than thirtyfive cents an hour, or with non-union men, being affected. Tnr rrroafor nnrtinn of th9 cokers have re * ft* !"" ? ? fumed work in the ConnelisviUe (Penn.) region. .4 There are 60,000 colored Enighte of Labor in the United States. >' "? Thirty-six thousand acres of mineral land have been purchased near Kansas City,. Mo., where iron and steel works will be built. The American Society for the Prevention of Adulteration of Food, etc, is about to issue a circular to bakers and confectioners, warning them against the use of (Certain coloring materials which are named and declared to be dangerous to health. Matthew Revel died at his reddenoe near Glen Alter, Ga., one day recently, aged 104 years. He had lived with his wife, who is over ninety, for more than seventy yean. THE MARKETS. new york. si Beef, good to prime 6J^ ' 7% Calves, com'n to prime 5 @ Sheep 4 @ 4* Ijimos iK? 1*5 * Hogs?Live o>$<gi --vx ^ Dressed Flour?Ex. St, good to fancy 4 35 @ 5 00 West, good to choice 3 60 @ 4 85 Wheat-No. 2, Red 79#? 80** Rye?State 60 @ 63 Barley?State 60 @ 75 Corn?Ungraded Mixed? 47 @ 49)? Oats?White State ? @38 Mixed Western 84 <g) 38 : Hay?Med. to prime 80 @ 85 Straw?No. 1, Rye 55 @ 60 . '< Lard?City Steam 7 40 @ 7 55 ' j Butter?State Cieamery.... 34 @ 25 j Dairy 17 @ 21 . .J West. Ira. Creamery 17 @ 24 Factory 11 @ 15 Cheese?State Factory 9%@ 10X I Skims 6>*@ 8% Western 7 @ 8W 1 Eggs?State and Penn 16 @ 16# BUFFALO. o* TVWnrn 3 75 ^ 4 25 Oiccia? v Sheep?Good to Choice 3 50 @ 4 00 Lambs?Western ? 01 6 00 Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 5 55 @ 5 65 Flour 4 75 @ 5 15 Wheat-No. 1 80 & 82 Corn?No. 2, Mixed 40^<g) 46% Oats?No. 3, Mixed ? @ 32 Barley?State 64 & 65 BOSTON. ~ - ~ - * * r-ZS /r* 1Q Beef?(iocKl to cfcoioe w Hogs?Live 5^6$ 0 Northern Dressed.... ?V Pork?Ex. Primo. per bbl...12 00 @12 50 Flour?Spring Wheat pat's.. 4 75 @4 90 Corn?High Mixed ? @ 5& Oats?Extra White 41}?@ 43 Rye?State 60 @ 65 WATERTOW.V (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET. Beef- Dressed weight C%@ ?f.ive weicht 4 (ft 4$? Lam?>? Hogs?Northern ? PHILADELPHIA. Flour?Penn.extra family... 3 00 @ 3 25 Wheat-No. 2. Red 78%@ 79 Corn?State Yellow 52 @ 52)? OatsMixei 36 @ 36^ Rye?Stats ? & 53 Butter Creamery Extra... 23 @ 24 Cheese?N. Y. Full Cream.. 10 I