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THE COUNTRY'S CHOPS, i 9 | August Reports Received by the Agricultural Department. Disastrous Result of the Prolonged Drought in the West. The following crop reports have been re- j ceived by tho Agricultural Department at j Washington: The prospect a month a^o was for a very | heavy crop of corn and a rate of yield about tho average. Its condition in all the Statesof tho Atlantic coast is now unimpaired and of very high promise In Texas and Tennessee tho condition has declined materially. In the central corn region, however, in the valleys of the Ohio and Missouri, where two thirds of the crop is grown and the commercial supply is i procured, a very heavy reduction has taken I place, which has made the national average | 80.7 instead of i?7.7 last month. The cause j is the long-continued drought, which has ] been severest in Kansas, Illinois, Indiaua, Ohio and Michigan. Nebraska has been scorched on the southern border, and Iowa and Missouri have escaped with comparatively lisht loss, as have the more northern States. The seven corn surplus States stand as follows: Ohio, SJ; Indiana, '14: Illinois, 05; Iowa, 'JO; Missouri, SO; Kansas, W; Nebraska, 75. The condition of spring wheat, refioi ted very low last month from the ravages of chinch bugs, is not improved, but has follon r%fF vnrir clirrliflv tJi<> flVOrflTH beill<T 78.8, two points less than the August returns of last year. Dakota has made a slight gain | and stands highest in condition. The average for Wisconsin is 73, Minnesota 74, Iowa Nebraska 77, Dakota 88. In the extreme East and on the Pacific coast the condition of spring wheat is high. There is no report of winter wheat this month, as it is too early to obtain results of threshing. In the oats crop there is no change. A part of the breadth was harvested at the last re}?rt. The condition averages 85.0, which indicates a crop slightly under average. The barley crop promises to yield rather better than was feared last month. The Eastern product averages higher condition, but is reduced slightly since the last report. The average is 80.S, indicating nearly an average yield. The buckwheat area appears to be practically the same as last year and averages about 93 in condition. There is a great reduction since July in the condition of potatoes, almost entirely the result of drought There is no material di".*lino on the Atlantic or Gulf coast, but the injury is severe in the West. The loss during the month is fully 20 per cent, of the prospective crop. Tne fruit crop is very poor. There will be few apples outside of New England and New York. There will be a partial crop in Michigan. In the Ohio River .States the harvest will be nearly a failure. The hay crop is also greatly reduced in the West. The general average is &J. The past month has been favorable to cotton. In the Eastern belt excess of moisture predominates as a factor of depreciation. The weed is therefore large and sappy, and fruitfall appears in some fields seriously, and in some lases rust appears. In Louisiana similar conditions have prevailed, anil only very partially in Mississippi. Texas liais been too dry, though drought has not as yet been disastrous or severe. The prevalent status of the crop is very good for the 1st of August, while reporters recognize this as a critical time and fear the effect of subsequent drought upon the green and succulent condition of the plant. In a com parison of ten years the August condition is only exceeded by that of and 1885, one producing a large crop, the other an under-medium yield. The general average of condition is 93.3, which is lower by over three points than that of July. The State averages are: Virginia, 94; North Carolina, 98; South Carolina, 95; Georgia, 94: Florida, 90; Alabama, 1KJ; Mississippi, 90: Louisiana, 94; Texas, 87; "Arkansas, 97; Tennessee, 95. The tobacco crop is in In'gh condition in the seed-leaf States, averaging nearly 100, I except in Wisconsin. The shipping and I cutting districts of the \VYst make an I unprecedented report of low condition: Ten- ! nessoo, 70; Kentucky, 79; Ohio, (io; Indiana, J 50; Illinois, ">2; Missouri, 0). In view of the heavy reduction in acreage, only a small fragment of the usual crop may be expected. The official investigation of area, now in progress, will determine authoritatively the breadth cultivated the present year. LATER NEWS. Three firemen were killed, ten fatally injured and another badly hurt by falling walls at a fire in St. Louis. John M. Clay, the only living son of the statesman Henry Clay, fell dead of heart disease a few day's sine? at his home near Lexington, Ky. He was sixty-five years old> The Virginia Republicans, under the lead of General Mahone, have decided to hold no State Convention, but to issue an address to the people. Heavy freshets have almost totally destroyed over 15,000 acres of rice on the Sarannah ri Vfr A heavy rain storm has prevailed pretty generally throughout the Northwest, and tho drought-afflicted region has been greatly relieved. Francis La Flesche, a full-blooded Omaha Indian, employed in the Bureau of Indian Affairs, has been promoted from a $1,000 clerkship to a clerkship of the $1,200 class. La Flesche was educated at the mission school of an Indian agency in Nebraska, and was appointed by Secretary Kirk wood to a $900 place in the Indian Bureau. In response to its recent circular the Treasury Department has received applications for the payment of interest on bonds amounting to many millions, and its offers to purchase bonds in advance of their falling due has been met by numerous proposals fromholdera to sell. MPWQV (1T P A "WT'MfiQ 11 JJ I I U ? XJJ-1XJLJ 'lilUU. Experiments have Jfreen made to light the British busses with electricity. At the present rate of decrease the national debt will disappear in twelve years. The Youn^ Men's Christian association of Chicago now numbers 4,'-i00 members. There are over 1,600 inmates in the insane asylum on Ward's Island, New York Gey. St. Louis says she can point out nineteen millionaires on one thoroughfare, Locust street Is the last twelve years the United States has received 4.000,000 emigrant from the Old World. Colorado potato beetles are making havoc among the potato patches of New Jersey. Martin Dexheimer, of Hillsdale, N. Y., has a pig two years old that weighs OCX) pounds. The 4-months old child of H. H. Dollaway of Middletown, died from the effects of a spider's bite. A Hewburgh horse dealer has recently imported a drove of Mexican donkeys. They are^meeting with a ready sale. Elwood Cooper is the largest olive raiser in the United States. His olive farm in Southern California comprises GOO acres. Leavenworth County, Kansas, claims the largest orchard of fruit-bearing trees in the United States. It contains 50,0!W trees. The monkeys in Forepaugh's Circus had thft maasl^?- atki <swa<w1 r? i ?-~T? - t" *w wuu aiiiuuj? Luc iuimer's children of Cattaraugus county, N. V. Byron Hasbrouck was nearly stung to death by bees at Clintondale, N. Y. Forty stings were removed from his face and neck. Dr. Carver has broken tho record at pigeon shooting in a match at Lynchburg, Va., killing fifty pigeons, making a clean score. The sweetest and best flavored pork in the world is produced on the island of Madeira. The hogs there subsist mainly on fruits, nuta, grass and roots. Captain* Gilbert Knapp, a veteran of the war of 1812, died at Racine, Wis., re- ! cently, at the age of ninety-four. He was the founder of Racine. { Pine City, Washington Territory, claims to have the smallest living woman. She 1a twenty-seven years old. twenty-nine inches tall, and weiehs thirty-three pound*. NEWS SUMMARY Eastern and Middle States The Boston yacht Volunteer has proven herself the fastest of all American yachts by easily defeating the Mayflower, Puritan, and other fast vessels in a forty-live-mile race at Newport. The Volunteer,"it is expected, will win the trial races, and thus be chosen tc compete with the fast British yacht Thistle in the international race for the America's cup at New York this autumn. Five acres of land over a coal mine near Pittston, Penn., caved in suddenly a few days since, wrecking three houses. The expulsion of the Socialists from the United Labor party. in New York city has raised a big row. The Socialists declare they will ruin the new party. George Drummo.nd, Earl of Perth and possessed of other titles of nobility, died a few days since in a New York hospital, leaving a wife and child in extreme destitution. When fifteen years old he eloped to America with his grandmother's maid, and ever siuce had tried to support himself by various employments. His family refused to rwarmif. Ill's return unless lie left his wife. The Massachusetts Commissioners on Contagious Diseases among Domestic Animals have established a quarantine against cattle from New York State. Grand Master Workman Powdkrly has issued another circular to the Knights of Labor, denouncing produce and other exchanges and the speculators in food products. E. T. Baldwin leaped from a balloon a thousand feet high in the air at Rockaway, N. Y., and with the aid of f>n open parachute descended safely to the earth. The American Association for the Advancement of Science has been in session at New York. Scientists fiora all sections of the Union attended, and many scientific topics were discussed. South ancl West. A small excursion steamer was suhk in the middle of Lake Manawa, near Council Bluffs, Iowa. Three or more of the thirty passengers thrown into the water were drowned. Two Creoles fought a duel with swords in the suburbs of New Orleans, one of them receiving a painful wound in the left breast. Later returns indicate the defeat of the Prohibitionists in Texas by over 12.5,000 votes. A good corn crop is probable in Kansas, Missouri and Iowa, but small yields in Illinois and Indiana. At the launch of a largo steamer in Milwaukee, the wave caused by her plunge into the water washed away the supports of a coal shed, the roof of which was crowded with people. Three persons were instantly killed, four or five were fatally injured, and about ten more were badly hurt. The great drought in the Northwest has caused numerous damaging prairie and forest fires. Sandusky, the county seat of Sanilac County, Mich., has been wiped out by the flames. Washington, Secretary Bayard wants a new fishing treaty with Great Britain on account of the Canadian troubles,and is negotiating for that purpose. Tiie Siamese Prince and the four young sons ot the King of Siam called at the White House on Friday and were presented to the President. Secretary Exdicott will allow a regiment of regulars, two squads of cavalry, and two battalions of artillery to take part in the national drill at Chicago in October. Engineer George W. Melville, of Arctic fame, has been promoted to the position of engineer-in-chief by the President. It takes the entire time of one clerk at the White House to keep track of the invitations received by the President since he indicated his intention to take a Southern and Western trip this fall. He has been iuvited to visit almost every city in the A Vest and South. Foreign. Another American vessel ? the North Haven schooner J. H. Perkins?has been seized by the Canadian officials at Souris, Prince Edwards Island. The charge is violation of the Canadian customs law by shipping men, and the punishment is a tine of f-lOU for each oifense. Violent shocks of earthquake have been felt at Laghouat, Algeria. A number of houses were destroyed. Three Canadian sealers have been seized by a United States cruiser in the Behring Sea. A fire in London destroved Whiteley's 1 enormous drapery and general stores n'nd | warehouses, causing a loss of $1,390,000. | Three employees and two firemen were killed j by falling fifty feet, and many other men I were injured. A severe earthquake shock has been felt throughout the island of Cyprus. A ? i Am vonrittnr ir? a rrtvtnf. fftrwt. OTl" XX ?noi Iimio !%" (, ? h'v?v the Gernian-Bilgian frontier. The cholera is spreading in Italian towns. The wheat crops of France and Russia are reported in good condition, Madame Elluini, a former queen of operetta, while traveling in a coach in France, was robbed of a valise containing valuables worth 169,000. How James G. Blaine has been visiting various points of interest in Ireland: Sigxor Bove, a noted Arctic explorer, committed suicide at Verona, Italy. CSICAGO "BOODLEBS," Eleven Officials and Ex-Officials Con victed in Ono Batch. Justice dealt the Chicago boodlers a blow between the eyes Friday evening, not as hard a blow as was expected, but still a substantial blow. The great case, in which an ex-warden of the County Insane Asylum, four ex-members of the Board of County Commissioners, and seven members of the present board were chafed with conspiring to defraud Cook County by false pretenses, and second, conspiring to obtain money from Cook County bv false nretenses. came to an end with aeon vietion of the entire twelve and a verdict fixing the punishment of four at a fine of $1,000 and of seven of the others at two year's imprisonment in the penitentiary. Commissioner George G. Klehm, president of the present board and the twelfth member of the gang, pleaded guilty a week before and his punishment will be fixed by the court. Several of the men sentenced are noted corruptionists. About eight o'clock, p. m., information was received that the jury hod reached a verdict. Instantly the court room was in commotion, while the jieople along the corridors and on the sidewalks were on tiptoe of expectation. The eleven defendants?some pale and nervous, others swaggeringly defiant?stepped to their row of black chairs just as the jurors entered. The loud buzz of excited conversation ceased with startling suddenness. All of the jury studiously avoided looking in the ' direction of the accused. The faces of the | talesmen were ominously grave. When tho verdict was handed in and the clerk with trembling voice aimounced one after another of the entire eleven guilty, the defendants seemed rooted to their chairs, the very em- , bodiments of despair. Then began tho list of penalties. "Commissioner McClaughry, two years." There was a start of surprise among the spectators. The extreme penalty of the law was three | vears, and " a fine of ? 1,000. Nothing less had been expected by the great majority of those present. "Commissioner Uchs, two years," read the Clerk, and the defendants began to look up. Commissioners Leyden, Van Pelt, Wren and Wasserman, and Warden Varnell all got two years, and every one looked measurably I relieved except Wren. He turned ashen and seemed utterly dazed. The crowd I was now prepared for nny surprise, and it came speedily in the following statement: "Commissioners McCarthy, Oliver, Cosselman and Cells, a fine of ?1,000." A look of unmistakable exultation took possession of the countenance of McCarthy, the burly commissioner, who had throughout the trial, and for months previous, been the most conspicuously attacked of all the crowd. Immediately those of the defendants who had escaped with a fine were released on bail. The others were remanded to jail. A motion for a new trial for every one was entered by me ueienaanus attorney. An aged colored blacksmith, who still does good work at the forge in Ozan, Ark., and who is known as Governor Pickens, is probably th_' oldest working blacksmith living. He was born in South Carolina, March 7, 1787, and was sold on the block in New Orleans and taken to Arkansas in 1840. t &BEAT DROUGHT. A targe Area in the Northwest Almost Without Water. Streams Drying, Vegetation Dying, and Disease Imminent, In cramming up a detailed report of the great drought in the Northwest, a Chicago paper says: "The first intimation of severe drought came from Michigan. In no part of the State, however, did the complaint come from any single area covering more than one county. Farmers and villagers reported that their vegetables were suffering, hut ten miles distant there would be reports of abundant rains. Ahout three weeks ago serious damage was reported from certain parts in Michigan, and in some counties potatoes were declared to be a failure. Next came reports of distress - ' ?i in Indiana, ttien irom >v i?,-umiu, ?nu a? present time there is scarcely a county between the lakes and the Mississippi in which rain is not prayed for." Another paper says: "There is an area of perhaps 75.00U square miles in the Northwest where the dust lies deep upon the earth. The district is bounded by Madison on the north, Bloomington on the south. Lake Michigan on the east and the Mississippi River on the west. It is within these boundaries that vegetation has lost its normal color and the earth its moisture. Leaves are falling irom the trees, the grass in the meadows has grown yellow and white, and the streatiis in which the cattle used to slake their thirst are as dry as powder-horns. It has been nearly ten weeks since a soaking rain fell in this district The big bull thistle?the past of nearly every farm?has at last succumbed to the fate of all other vegetation. In southern Wisconsin there are thousands of acres where corn will not yield a peck to the acre. " Wells have run dry, and in some towns famines are imminent. The drinking water at hand is often polluted and filled with poisonous germs. Typhoid fever is becoming prevalent, and dysentery and other Btomach disturbances are so common in some places as to be almost epidemic. Unless rain falls b3foremany days the suffering will be greatly augmented. The intense heat has been a terrific strain upon man, but its effect upon cattle has been simply apalling. Without pasturage to browse upon or pools in which to stand during the hot hours of the day, the poor beasts have become so emaciated as to be wholly unmarketable. Hundreds of cows are killed and shipped to market for a mere pittance. "Added to all the miseries attending the great drought is the constant fear of fires. The tall gra$g of the prairies is dead, the fields are ready to burst into flames and leaves lie in heaps in the forests. A spark utai ts a fire and the blistering wind fans the same. In some towns the people are often called out three and four times a day to fight the flames. Destructive fires have been raging for many days in Kenosha, Racine and Walworth Counties in Wisconsin. Thousands of acres have been swept by the flames, aud the loss to farmers in hay, grain, fencing and build:?? ,v a hiovfl Madison the bocrs are IO^ivwv, w burning fiercely, and the pungent smoke hangs over theconntry for miles arouud. The Northern Illinois fires are so numerous that the farmers have ploughed the ground about their buildings in order to check the spread of the flames. HILLED BY HER FATHER. A Beautiful Girl Slabbed to Death in New York. Rachel Pittman, aged nineteen years, a pretty little brunette, was stabbed to the heart by lier father, Frank Pittman, a New York laborer, at their home, on Thursday niahfc Rhfi rlifirl in n. short time. The family consisted of Pittman, his wife, three daughters, and two sons, and Mrs. Rachel Ccxlgill, the widowed mother of Mrs. Pittman. Rachel was the oldest daughter and the beauty of the family. She was a girl of intelligence as well as of independent spirit. Her father often quarreled with her on account of her attempts to rai9e herself, as he said, above the level of the family. The three girls worked in a paper bag factory. Three months ago Rachel made the acquaintance of Franklin Lewis, a young man employed as a driver for a manufacturing concern. Since that time Lewis has been paying attention to the girl, and tho\T were betrothed. Pittman was opposed to the union, not that he objected to Lewis, but on general principles. Ho said that none of his girls should get married while he lived. On the morning of July 22, when Rachel left home to go to work, her father asked her where she was going. She told him, and he retorted by telling her she lied and said she was going to meet Lewis. She said she was not, though she would go there if she desired. He swore that he would follow her, and then the girl, instead of going to work, went back to the house. Her father J-U3nf. hor miflllr thnk dnv nnri Rn/?hpl narkod up her clothing and left thj house, telling her parents that she would never return home. Rachel went to Miss Rebecca Fream, who had been Rachel's Sunday-school teacher at the Rivington Street Methodist Church and had known the girl from childhood. She gladly gave the young woman shelter, and Rachel lived there until Thuralny night. Her sister Sadie was making a dress for her, and Rachel went to her o!d home to try it on. She was accompanied by Lewis. They entered about nine o'clock and met Pittman, who appeared to have been drinking and was in a bad tem[>e:\ He greeted the couple roughly, and asked Rachel if she intended to coine home to live. The girl replied Hrmly that she would not. Then turning to Lejris. Pittman said: "What do you think of a girl who leaves her father and mother to go with strangers:" Lewis said that he did not want to interfere in their family difficulties. To avoid further talk with her father Rachel walked into the back room, where her mother, grandmother and sister Sadie were. Pittman remained in the front room for UWIll It'11 IIMIJkUICS WFilvoi sing n?u ajwfio, and then ha, too, went into the back room. Rachel had taken off her waist and was about to try on the dress when her futher entered. Ho told his wife to get him some ice water, and while she wa^, doing it he renewed tl?e quarrel witli the daughter. Suddenly he sprang upon and struck at her with something he hold in his right hand. The girl threw up her left arm to ward off the Wows, and received two wounds on her left arm. Her grandmother ran in between the father and daughter, and received one of the blows on her left wrist, which was cut severely. Then the father struck again, and this time the weapon jH-netratod the girl's breast just over the h wit. Lewis had heard the girl scream and ran to her assistance. As he reached the hallway dividing the rooms Kachcl ran out of the back room. Her father was following her and Lewis caught and held him. "Don't kill the girl," he said. "Oh, I won't hurt," Pittman replied. Then Mrs. l*ittman screamed: "Kachol is deal!" Lewis released Pittman, and the lat I ter walked to the window ana mrew something out. Lewis ran into the hallway and found Rachel lying unconscious on the floor, He raised her in his arms aud carried her intc the back room. Meanwhile the screams of the women ha<] attracted a policeman's attention. At the door the oSicer met Pittman, who was going out. "What have you done?'' queried the police man. "Something that I am sorry for," answered Pittman. The ofticer put him under arrest and tool | him to the station house at Delancey and Attorney streets. On the way there Pittman j admitted that he had stabbed his daughter, but said he was so beside himself with angei that he didn't know what lie was about. Al ! the station he denied that ho ha/1 made anj I such admission, and refused to make a statement. Au ambulance was sent from Gouverneui Hospital. The pirl was still alive whe/i it ar rived, but died s >on after. The houa was searched for the weapon but non< coulil be found. An hour aftjr thi murder a lad found in the rtree in front of the hous? the stesl shank of a pail of compasses about four iac!hes long and wit! a sharp point. This is .supposed to have beer the weapon Pittman usad. It had been used iu tii3 house for breakine ico. M. Le Mieux, a young French-Canadian, has recently, in partnership with some American capitalists, purchased a vast tract of land on the St. Lawrence, and intends to develop the fishery into an enormous business. A SHOCKING CEIME. | Nine Persons Murdered in a Georgia . Farmhouse. Nina persons were murdered a few days since in a farm house thirteen miles from Ma- i con, Ga. Particulars of the terrible crime are given in a dispatch from Macon, Ga., as I follows: The structure in which the crime was committed is a one-story building, with a long veranda in front, and a hallway running through the centre, into which "open four rooms. The house was the property of Richard ?. Woolfolk, a respectable and well-to-do white planter. On the right on entering is I I parlor," in tlio rear of which is a sleeping room, which was occupied last night by the following persons: Mrs. West, an aged Bister of Mrs. Wool folk; Pearl. Annie, and Rosebud Woolfolk, daughters of Mrs. Woolfolk. The sleeping room on the left of the entrance was occupied by Thomas, Richard and CliarTes Woolfolk, soils of Mr. and Mrs. Woolfolk. The rear room on the left was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Woolfolk aud their youngest child, aged 18 mouths. A ghastly sight confronted those who first entered the house after the discovery of the crime. In the last room the father, mother, and infant lay dead on the same bed. Across the three corpses was slung that of the eldest daughter, Pearl, a recent graduate of Wesleyan Female College, with, her head beaten to a jelly, and her neck and body mutilated i by blows from the sharp blade of the axe. I On the floor, in the same mangled state lay i the body of tho eldest brother. Jt was evident that Pearl and her brother I had been awakened by cries during the butchering of their parents, and had rushed into the room to learn the cause only to share their late. On the bed in the opposite room lay the body of Mrs. West, soaked in her own blood. On the same bed lay the body of Annie Woolfolk, with, her head cloven in twain. By the window on the floor, in an attitude of supplication, lay the body of Rosalind Woolfolk, with the left side of the head so mangled as to make recognition almost impossible. In the fourth room slept Thos. G. Woolfolk and his brothers, Richard and Charles. Richard was found dead in the room of his parents, as already described. Charles was found dead in his own room, killed in the same manner as the other members of the family, and presenting the same horrible spectacle* I rn\ ? jlllc m^ut mauu tnu olj undent; iicai oi^rv. Even the ceilings and walls were bespattered with blood ana brains, and hero and there pieces of flesh which had been flung from the uplifted axe clung to the walls and wainscoting. The crowd stood aghast, apparently dumbfounded by the unparalleled horrors of the scene. As soon as the officials could collect their senses steps to investigate the crime were begun. T. (_t. Woolfolk, the only survivor of the family, was questioned closely, and his replies were of such a nature that suspicion quickly pointed to him as the murderer. He was immediately placed I under arrest. Nothing was proved as to Woolfolk's guilt, but a great deal of circumstantial evidence fastened the chain around him tighter and tighter. As the inquest proceeded the frenzy of the crowd increased, and it was with great difficulty that Sheriff Wescott appeased their fury and induced theLi to allow the law to take its course. By an artful manoeuvre he got the jury to withhold the verdict until he could at a convenient moment get his prisoner away, which he did quietly before the crowd was aware of it. While the Sheriff, his aids, and the prisoner were speeding tow ard Macon, the jury brou lit a verdict of murder, with Woolfolk as the prepetrator. Subsequently Woolfolk's shirt, covered with blood, was found in the well, it having risen to the surface. T. G. Woolfolk for the past twenty or twenty-three years has been engaged in business at Macon. He ran a barroom and grocery store, and cheated and swindled everybody he came in contact with until he failed, when he disappeared for a time. Not long ago he opened a grocery and commission business in Macon. Dursued the same nolicv. and soon failed the second time." In" both instances, his father, who it was considered had considerable property, set him up in business. After his second failure, his father refused to longer kick him, and told him he had squandered his portion of tho estate. Woolfolk grew desperate, and married in a romantic way Miss Bird, in the hope that his father would give him money. His wife soon left him, because he was unable to support her, and Woolfolk, after driving a street car in Macon for a few days, went to his father and engaged to work in tl;v field for him by the month. It is said that the other day his father told him that he had done everything he could for him and he intended to provide for his other children in his will. Woolfolk, who has been a crank on the subject of inheriting his father's wealth, made threats, it is said, that he he would get possession of the property. +lio<w\r iu f.lmt. lir? L-inrvl his then the elder brother, Richard, in the doorway, who ran to sco what was the matter; then his mother, and Mattie, the baby; then his sister Pearl, who also rail in, and his brother Charley, all of whom were found in the same room. Then, to complete the work of killing the heirs, he slaughtered his aunt and the other two sisters in the third room. As the accused man was in great danger of lynching, he was removed on the day follow in.g his arrest from Macon to Atlanta, and there lodged in jail. The nine victims of the awful crime were buried in Rose Hill Cemetry, Macon. THE NATIONAL GAME, > The^ Pittsburg Club still leads the League in neiumg. One of the best finds of the season has been Pitcher Smith of Cincinnati. Hamilton leads the International League In fielding and is second in batting. It is computed the National League will pay out $250,000 in salaries this season. O'Brien, of "Washington, has made three douhles, seven triples and seven homo runs this season. There are only three clubs remaining in the Eastern League?Hartford, Waterbury and Danbury. Ewing, now Captain of the New Yorks, made four triples in a recent game. This is a noteworthy feat. Catcher Jack Grady, of Charleston, had his collar bone broken in a game against New 1 Orleans a week ago. i It is thought that Boyle, the St. Louis catcher, will soon be the greatest man behind i the bat in the country. Keefe, of New York, and Clarkson. of Chicago, are the champion winning pitcners i of the League up to date. During a recent nine-inning game Orr. first baseman of the Metropolitans, had seventeen put outs and one assist. Lipman Pike, a fine player twenty years . ago, has been given a trial by the Metropolitans. He fielded well, but batted poorly. Of the League pitchers who have officiated i in ten games or over, Madden, of the Bostons has had the least percentage of earned funs i ; made off him. The most have been earned off Shaw, of Washington. HIE i^ew x urtv ii oim 6aj3 n in puuuuiu that the following team would defeat any other in a majority of games: Radbourn, 1 p.; Ewing, c.; Connor, 1st b.; D. Richardson, 2d b.; Glasscock, s. s.; Williamson, 3d b.; Hornung, 1. f.; Gore, c. f.; Thompson, r. f. The greatest earned-run getters in a game j in their respective associations thus far this season areas follows: Eau Claire, Northi western League, 27; Lowell, New England I/eague, 25; Leavenworth, Western League, , 20; Memphis, Southern League, 20 (twice); ' Chicago, National League, 18; Springfield, Eastern League, IS; St. Louis, American Association; Zanesville, Ohio League; Hamil ton and Syracuse, International League, and Altoona, Pennsylvania League, 10 each. c the national league. [ iron. Lout. Won. Lost. i Detroit 4*.? 23 Boston 43 33 Pittsburgh 2JI 4'i New York....44 !>i I Philadelphia..40 3S Indianapolis...23 53 ' 1 ?-! -J1 H'., ! MO 41 6 | wmcu;jo w ui | .b~ r the american association. Won. Lout. Won. Lout. St. Louis 00 23 | Baltimore 48 SO f | Brooklyn 41 42 I Cincinnati....51 38 - I Louisville 50 38 Athletic 41 43 5 , Metropolitan..27 54 j Cleveland 21 03 the international league. >. | Won. Lout. Won. Lout. , ! Newark 40 24 Syracuse 38 26 ' I Rochester 38 29 Bingham ton. .24 39 I Toronto 3S 20 Hamilton 36 32 l i Buffalo 46 27 Jersey City...30 83 I Scranton. 12 31 > Wilkesbarre.,17 51 A severe storm occurred about thirty miles from the city of Panama a few days ago. It blew over some thirty ranches, destroyed crops, and carried chickens away in the air. WORKMEN BADLY BEATEN. A Torrific Onslausrht at a Penn- j sylvania Coal Mine. Women Aiding in the Fight? Fifteen Non-Strikers Injured, There was great excitement in the mining 1 town of Alden, Penn., Monday evening. Ten ! j months ago the Alden Coal Company had i difficulty with some of their men who said i the docking boss was too officious and had I docked the men more than was just. The removal of the docking boss was demanded 1 but the company refused to let him go. The men then struck and warnea outsiders to Keep 1 away from the mine. Two weeks ago a party ! of Polanders and Hungarians fresh from Cas- 1 I tie Garden arrived at Nanticoke, and they , j were at once taken to Alden, where they took the places of the strikers. The latter held ' an indignation meeting and resolved to get ; i the newcomers out of town if it was pos- ! j | sible. j | At first they tried to persuade the new ar- , rivals to quit work. Some of them did, but , most of them remained. On Sunday night J the houses of two of the foreigners were I broken into and the men were attacked. The | women and children ran out of doors crying j for help, but the neighbors, who were in en- ' . tire sympathy with the strikers, refused to j render any assistance, saying: | I "They are scab women and children, let i them suffer." | , The two men were choked, and to save their lives pledged themselves to leave town the 1 next clay, but on Monday the men went to ' work as usual, aud this exasperated the strik- i ers all the more. j Monday evening the strikers marched down J the roadj near the mines, and waited until j the men who had taken their places came out I of the slope. As soon as they made their i appearance a wuu nowi went up uuw ma : strikers, and they made a dash for them. ( The helpless workmen were completely at the | mercy of the crowd, and being unarmed were J unable to defend themselves. The rioteis ' clubbed and stoned the newcomers in a terrible j manner. When the fight was at the hottest several pistol shots were fired. Michael Shiel | was shot in the head and fatally injured. I John Carlon and Edward Bertrino received | | pistol wounds. The latter's head was mashed, with a big club in the hands of one of the I strikers. A great many of the men attacked ran 1 ! across the neighboring fielJs and made their j j escape. Those who could not escaps were left : bleeding by the roadside. Several women took part in the fight, and on a banner carried by one of the women were the words: "Kill the men who took oar bread," ' After the fight, which lasted twenty minI utes, the strikers hurried to their homes. 'I he J man who shot Shiel was identified and arrest- j ed. Squire rowen issueci warntuui tor me arrest of all the strikers who took part in the riot. Two of the injured men lav by the roadside until Thursday morning. The coal company say they will run their works and Erovide protection for their workmen if they ave to swear in 10) policemen. The women fiercely assaulted the new arrivals with fence rails. Fifteen men in all were badly beaten. THE LABOR WORLD. The plush industry is prospering in this country. The State of New Jersey has five factorj inspectors. Of the thirty-eight States in the Union, fifteen have labor bureaus. The American Federation of Labor is said i to have 50,000 membershipThe Illinois State Knights of Labor have | I Hm Renpor? Hiwirr of land. There is complaint in all parts of CaliI fornia of a scarcity of harvest hands. The miners of Swansea, "Wales, have presented Mr. Gladstone an address engraved on a silver-set lump of coal. j The labor of :J00 convicts in tho South Carolina penitentiary is offered at 40 cents a day for women and boys and 50 for men. I Foreign* silk manufacturers report an im; proving demand in all markets. Silks and Batins are being contracted for far ahead. I All tho indications in tho boot and shoe trade of this country show that the aggregate traffic will be of unprecedented magnitude. I Canals are to bo built in England to enable interior manufacturers to reach the seaport at less cost than is now possible by rail, j There are 10,000 to 14,000 men employed ; at the Woolwich Arsenal, England, which covers 3o0 acres, exclusive of the dock yards. I George Baer, a Pittsburg mill hand, has j : invented a ucvice lorurawmg iik uuivc uvcm which Is expected to perform the work of . twenty men. The eight pin factories in New England produce 6,720,000,000 pins a year. In England the yearly production of pins is set at . 4,(Wo,000,000. ] The Amalgamated Society of Engineers now numbers 52,000 members, and during the i a-it year has paid out $200,000 for out-ofwork benefits, principally in Great Britain. Companies are daily filing charters and investing large amounts of money to op?n up and develop gold, silver, lead, iron, graphite, granite, and marble mines in the mineral districts of Texas. j During the coming winter labor, both skilled nnrl nt.horu'icn if. i? Qflirl will be more ?TOn erally employed than it was last winter, on I account of the large amount of railroad cou- j ! stmr-tion to be completed in the South and i I Southwest. The business of glove making in Fnlton I County, N. Y., amounts to about $8,0(10,(WO I yearly. The wages of the most skillful work- 1 ers?the table-cutters, as they an; railed?run | from $CiO to $80 a month; block-cutters get , from $55 to $05 monthly, and machine girls earn, according to their skill, from $0 to $12 and even $14 a week. A colored man named Cook near nut , Swamp. N. J., was killed by a vicious Dur* f I ham bull. Cook was leading the animal by a i rntw whpn t.hn bull ierked it away, throwing the man to the ground. Before he could arise the enraged bull trampled him to deatlL J .?????????i? i THE MARKETS. NEW YORK. 32 . Beef, good to prime 7>? 7% I Calves, com'n to prime 5 @ 7 , Sheep 4 @ Ijunbs 7>j Hogs?Live o% Dressed 8 ,'?'(5 Flour?Ex. St, goo<i to fancy 4 25 @ 4 35 West, good to choice 3 15 <<? 3 t?0 Wheat?No. 2, lied 71) ^ 7!)}f Tfvn-Stfltn 00 @ 18 j Bailey?State <50 ($ 75 i Com?Ungraded Mixed.... 4-S @ 48}$ ! Oats?White State Mixed Western S2 (<? 34 Hay?Med. to prime &5 @ '.?0 Straw?No. 1. Rye 00 <# 85 Lard?City Steam C 00 @ 7 50 Butter?State Creamery.... 25 (<$ 20 Dairy IS @ 22 West Im. Creamery 10 @ 19 Factory 11 (<j) 15 Cheese?State factory 10J^@ ll1/ | Skims 7 (<$ 9# j Western 7 @ !S)4 Eggs?State aud Penn 17 ($ 17j^ BUFFALO. Steers?Western 3 75 @ 4 25 Sheep?Good to Choice 4 25 @4 50 Lambs?Western (5 5'J ((5 7 0'J Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 5 25 (g 5 85 Flour 4 75 (g 5 15 Wheat?No. 1 78 (i$ 78% Corn?No. 2, Mi ved 45 01 4C>}{ Oats?No. 2, Mixed ? di I | Barley?State <J4 (si 05 BOSTON. Beef?Good to choi-e 7% @ 13 I TJ? r> I"Uii3?AJI>*7 Northern Dressed.... <?%(<? 7)? Pork?Ex. Frimo,per bbL..12 00 ??I3 50 Flour?Spring Wheat pat's.. 4 75 (<4 4 !K) Corn?High Mixed. 52 54 Oats?Kxtra White 41J.<(.i 42 Rye?State GO 65 WATERTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET. Beef? Dressed weight <> (i? ! Sheep?Live weight 44}? ! Lambj <$ 7 Hogs?Northern 7 PHILADELPHIA. I Flour? Penn.extra family... 3 00 ? 3 25 | Wheat-No. 2, Red 78 @ 79# Corn?Stat? Yellow 50 52 Oats Mixe.l 31%@ 32 Rye?!?tate ? & 53 , Butter Creamery Extra... 24 @ 2.") Cheese?N. Y. Full Cream.. 11 @ 11J? A FIREMAN'S LIFK ! IVORK OF THE MEV WHO FIGHT 1 FIRES IN CITIES. ] I The Daily Routine?A Day Drill and , a Night Drill ? Mechanical , Appliances?Quick Time ] Made?The IIorsc&. i The Washington Star, in an article on : the tire department of the National Cap- 1 ital, says: The fireman's life, when he is < not actually engaged in putting out fires, < is not one entirely of indolence. He has | to be on duty six days out seven, and ( when on duty must remain in the engine 1 bouse night and day, except during the ] brief time allowed him to go home for i bis meuls. At the engine-house he has I something to do besides sitting down. 1 There are regular watches, in charge of i Vio /liffnront nf thr? enmnnnv J1S i ""v 1 J1 ? on shipboard. Beside each man has < i regular routine of duties. The appar- t itus is kept clean and bright, horses have 1 to be cared for, hose has to be swung in the hose-tower, drained, dried, and kept in good condition, and everything must be kept spick and span clean. Then there arc drills to go through and dis- < cipline to be maintained. The drills are < intended to make every man and every . horse so familiar with his duties that i fin alarm sounding for fire, the company i can get out of house to the fire ground i and into action, with the least possible < confusion and waste of time. Each fire- 1 man has a day off during the week, and I is allowed on other days sufficient time ] to go home to get his meals. 1 On his "day off" the fireman is expect- 1 ed to respond to all alarms of fire and I report for duty on the lire ground, in j case of fire, so that he cannot leave the < city. Every year each man has ten days 1 leave of absence or furlough during i which he is excused from duty of every 1 kind. The men in each company take 1 their turns iu furlough, beginning in 1 July and ending about the 12th of Oc- j tobcr. ] When the chief's wagon arrived in i front of truck A house, on North Capi- ] tol street, near C, and the chief and the i reporter alighted, asmall gong was heard i ringing in the house. As the visitors i entered the door the members of the t company were drawn up in line along- i side the truck, the foreman standing in ] front. This was, according to the 1 manual, the proper attitude to assume in i receiving the chief. The chief, as he en- i tered, saluted the foreman and men and i then, conducting the reporter to the rear 1 of the house, gave a simple direction, < ' Foreman, put your men and horses j through the drill." for the horses had i qi&e as much to do do with it a9 the ? men. The foreman gave no verbal orders. ] All he did was to pull a bell rope that i rang a little gong. First two strokes, ! then three, four and five. j At the first stroke the horses were freed from their stalls in the rear of the house and bounded forward with a rush aud clatter to their places at the pole, i where the men were already posted, ready to clasp on the harness. Another stroke and the men are in their, places on the truck, the lines gathered up in the i hostler's hands and everything ready to make a plunge out into the street. The horses are champing and trembling, and it is all that the hostler can do to restrain them. The gong rings again and the men quickly dismount and resume their nlaccs in line. This was the "day" drill and the whole performance occupied only eight or nine seconds. The first tap of the gong or the first stroke of the firealarm bell releases the horses from their stalls. A mechanical contrivance, worked by the same power that strikes the gong, unbolts the door of the stall and snaps the halter. The stalls arc so arranged that the horses stand fronting the street and the gate or door which is thus automatically nnbolted is in front of the horse. As soon as the gate flics open the horse springs out upon the paved floor and bounds to his place. Over each horse's place at the pole the harness is suspended by an arrangement of cords, straps acd pulleys, so adjusted that the harness cac be let down into place and clasped in a second. The brecching is net lowered to its place by the men. It is so ...fi.of ivlien linrscB startawav UIUIU?V.? I.A..V .w.v... .. their movement pulls it into place. There are other automatic devices to save time. After the drill the chic7' aad the reporter inspected the house, a;td then started off, making a round of the other engine houses. At No. !) online house the men were put through tno "night drill." That is, they were sent to the'r ; sleeping room upstairs, and had to descend from that before ''Looking up." ; This sudden desccnt is star!ling to one ] who observes it for the first ti:)i<^. The J men do not take the stair3 to come down, i as they have net the time to spare. Tiicy ' have rapid irausit. Two brazen poles ex tend from tbe floor oi tne engiueroum up through the floor of the sleeping room. Around the poles in the floor of the sleeping room io an aperaturc of ample diameter to admit the passage of a man's body. When the gong strikes one can see several bodies slide in quick succession down these poles and dart across the floor, shooting down the pole and moving away fivint it co swiftly that one can hardly distinguish that the forms arc the forms of men until they come to a standstill beside the engine or the hose carriage. Beside the engine-room and stalls for : the horses, some of the engine-houses I have a sitting-room on the ground floor. I There is a court, and probably a store- j room, a fuel-room and a forage-room. In a ; cellar below is a small furnace and steam boiler, used to keep up steam in the , engine when it is stuuding in the house. I A low pressure of steam is always kept I on, so that nil engine can be ready for ! work at a moment's notice. The hose j tower runs from the ground floor up to j the level of the roof, and sometime* i higher. There are pulleys to hoist I lengths of hose up to the top, where a I row of large pegs is placed in the wall. I Over these .pegs the lengths of hose are] hung, so that they drain out and dry. | A foreman tries to have always on hand j at least one cylinder of clean and dry : hose. Ife lm?. however, as a rule, only I one change of hose, so if he has to go I to several large fires within a short time he has to take his bose out wet. In the upper floor are the sleepingroom and sitting-room. The sleeping room is generally a large ana airy apartment, occupying more than half of the whole space upstaira. Passing through the sleeping-rooms one will see occasionally,standing on the floor beside a cot, a pair of boots and a pair of trousers, the boots beintr thrust into the trouscr legs, which are turned down so that a man by pulling on the boots at the same time pulls on his trousers. This, one of the foremen explained to a Star reporter, was the ''night rig." Every man has at his cot side boots and trousers thus arranged. In the dormitory is a large firealarm gong, and before the first stroke has ceased echoing, at nifrht over? man is out of bed, and into his boots. He pulls his trousers on as he sends along to the pole. His coat and hat he leaves on the engine at ni^ht, and y / . J n ic finishes his hasty toilet as the horses^f 3ash out of the house. The speed which a company gets out upon the streetfl| it night, when all the men except the^H watchman are abed and asleep, is almost^H tire bells is rung the company is ready to 3tart. The usual time is nine or ten seconds. The horses are selected with al* most as much care as the men. Strength, soundness and intelligence are required. The horsas have to drag heavy load*-? from 5,000 to 6,000 pounds?at a goo<J rate of speed. When a new horse is pur:hased he is generally put into a stall beside an old and well-trained horse. At Srst, on the sounding of an alarm, a man, detailed for the purpose, takes the horse by the halter and rushes down to hi? place. The animal soon ltarns his place ind becomes as eager as his mate to got to it. The men become verv much atf-nsiVtsi/1 fA ViAjrno nn/3 +V? Q ll/MKlM L?WU?-V4. LIS llltil UV/10C9) <IUU WAV/ UVIOVSHH :hemsolves become very much attached toH| 2ach other. When a horse is taken from an jngine-house his mate is often unconsol-^H ible, and shows his grief over the separa-.^B ion in many ways. ^8 Roof Life in Gotham. H From the editorial rooms of the Fork Mail and Express the roofs of hpn-^K ]rcds of houses may be seen spreading )n all sides, some high, others low. H* \rnid the wilderness of smoking chim' Ba aeys, flapping clothes hang out to dry ind interwoven teleerraph wires is enough rubbish to fill an acre of swamp land. Did kettles, broken botties, bricks, shoes, wots, tomato cans and garbage make up> -he conglomerate heap. The low-roofea Houses seem to be the dumping ground for the tenants of higher buildings. In he tenement-house districts the condl:ion of things is much worse, for the people habitually throw the ashes and garbage out of their high windows upon ;he roofs of the adjoining houses. The :endency so natural in simple country folk to toss their rubbish over a neighsor's fence has come to be a practice with the city ]>eople also. The country-; nan, however, has one advantage over iiis city brother; he can remedy the injury done him by tossing the rubbish jack, whereas thi? is hardly practicable in the city. The only recourse left ttoi injured citizen is to shovel it off into the street or upon the roof of a house lower* than his own. Roof life in New York i? ? -1 1 curious UUU lUBiruuiIYC SbUUJ. x-vn know how maDy thousands of people dotheir daily work on the housetops, unobserved by passers in the streets. From, the Mail and Express windows at least 10ft* men and women may be seen on neigh' boring houses, busy with their various occupations. On one roof several women' ire at their washing tubs, while other?; tire hanging up clothes to dry. On hundreds of roofs long lines of clothes ar*= flapping in the wind. The washing of this city is done upon the housetops. Besides the washerwomen, score of tele graphic linemen are mending their wires. At night time they swarm with human beings. On the east side, where there* are few or no public parks, the roofs serve* as playgrounds for the poor. Workingmen gather in groups to smoke their pipes, or play dominoes or checkers. Women sit together, chatting, while their children run about in play or sprawl at their mothers' knees. Every feature of park life may be seen excepting the green trees and the fountains. On some house-, tops little gardens have been carefully cultivated. Some of them have gravelea paths between the flower beds, where the people walk in the evening. An Immense Scroll Saw./ There is a man in the Sea Beach Palace exposition on Coney Island who worksout the most delicate articles with a band saw nineteen feet long and revolving at. the rate of over a mile a minute. Upon +Viic immnntP in.-irhim the skilled ODera-' tor in my presence sawed out four chairs,, all complete with legs and backs, but so small that the four were placed on theend of a lead pcncil at one time. The?a dozen knives and forks o? the most diminutive size were made and placed around the lead pencil. So small were they that although the entire dozen were: placed round the pencil not one of them touched the other. Then the operator; trimmed his finger nails on the huge saw as cleverly and as easily as one could doit with a penknife. Wettinghis thumb, be pressed the ball of it into some snw~ dust, and then sawed the sawdust on the thumb without scratching the skin, yet a; single nervous' twitch of the arm would have cost him a hand. All sorts of curious puzzles :>re turned out with astonishin/ sapidity frosi all sorts of misshapen bl.icks of wood. Even articles of clothing as thin and flexible i*s cloth are worked out by this in?gie."an from little pieces cf wood with l/s big s/iw. The cap he works in was sawed out of over 1,000 pieces of wood, no two of which' Vn enma ei\ya r\r RlVoMl/li HI 15 OUUiV W* How to Train a Canary. Set the cage on a table uear where yoofl wish to sit; after a little conference witb.H the bird, introduce a finger between theH wire near the favorite perch, yourself oc-H cupied with book or paper the while,.^H Presently, as it shows no disposition t(?H harm him, he cautiously goes up to ez<H amine it. Then he picks to ascertain its-H quality, maybe he tights it. That isH well; he no longer fears it. PayhimH with a little bird food and put him away^H Next day try him again. He may go-H further and light upon it, or he may beH several days getting thus familiar. BeH patient. Once this step is attained, vaiyM the programme by introducing the fingerH in other spots. He will soon light uposH it at any point or angle. lhen try theH door, at first the finger under it, nextH time fasten it open, blockading egressH with the rest 01 me u.-mu as unc >uievi_ extends within. When he perches on it,B draw him forth a little, next time temptB him to the perch outside a little, and soB on. In a short time you have but to^f open the cage door, uplift a finger, andB he is sure to fly for it; and he may thusB be called to any part of the room to rcstfl on the familiar porch. B Jlost birds learn this familiarity in aB few days, yet there are those who will beB two to four weeks about it.?Our JDi/m&B Animals. B Tiie \} oi k oi a iuansrnani roe. n In Los Andes, Chili, lived a man whoM hated a family that resided near hirn.H When smallpox appeared in the province? recently he secretly obtained a numbeiH of dried pustules, and thesj he piacedB inside a ping of tobacco, which lie thvewH^ away in a place where the people hchatedfl were likely to see it. One of the chil-H dren picked up the tobacco and yave it^| win nvuln ."iiT.irettcs froin^B iv iiui |micuicT 0 it and smoked them. A few days afterward smallpox broke out in the house, and with such virulence that no one of the family escaped. The criminal, however, was attacked with the disease a few days afterward, and died after confessing his crime. The olive is said, by the Sacremento Bee, to be the most profitable tree in California at present, and the orange probably next, with a prospect that th? litr will vet take the first place.