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A FIGHT WITH THE UTES. f Five White Men Killed and Four Wounded in Colorado. Chief Colorow's Band Loses Seven Braves and Two Squaws. A Denver Dispatch says that the latest news from the seat of the Indian war shows the condition to be more critical, and increases the list of dead and wounded in the batttle near Ilangely, Col. From oOO to COD Indians are reported camped on the ground of the recent battle, and Major Leslie, Sheriff Kendall's p sse and Pritchard's scouts, reinforoad by Sheriff Hooper, of Pitkin County, on/1 r'arwt.niri Dnn.Iv nf MYv>k-Ar HIV fnrtifvincr Rangely. ltifle-pits are being made, houses strongly fortified, and every precaution taken for & regular Indian war. The State trocps at Rangely are estimated at from two hundred to two hundred and fifty. Ranchmen,with their families,are still hurrying to Loth Rangely and Meeker. Four companies of colored regulars, numbering lt>5 men each, are reported near the State troops. The last courier brings what appears to be reliable information of the killing of five whites, four wounded ; and seven Indians and two squaws killed and five wounded in the recent battle. Here is the total list of the whites killed: Lieut. Frank Folsom, of Aspen; Jack War;!, Deputy Sheriff, with Kendall's party; Wild Bill, or'"Curly," a long-haired railway laborer, who was picke.l up at Orleuwood ancl furnished with arms; two ranchmen, or cowboys, who joined the troops, but whose names UTC YCC uiiauv? u . Dr. W. G. Dumond, a dentist and member of Kendall's posse, was shot twice, it is thought seriously. Foutz, a member of the Aspen Companyj was shot in the face, but will recover. Kichard McCaffery, a member of the Leadville Company, was shot in the face, but will recover. Wild Bill, the second member of the troops to be killed, was a very little man about thirty-five 3-ears of age, with long, black hair. He had l>een employed on one of the railroads at Glenwood, and said, when attacked about his unique personality, that ha had joined the troops for $2 a day. He disclaimed any desire to fight the Utes, and did not believe he would have to do so. The boy b bad given him the soubriquet of "Wild Bill," and he was recognized as such by two ranchmm ?nrt n cnlHior \vhn found his horlv in a clump of willows, his hands clutching an old magazine rifle which he had picked up. Some of the boys had niado a great deal of fun of him aud had called him a coward, as he refused to do guard dnty, but Bill did not d. serve the title, as his bravery ic the battle demonstrated. During the fight in the morning he was in the front rank, and told one of his companions that he had downed an Indian. In the afternoon the Indian ponies stampeded and got between the troops and the Utes. Bill was attracted by a pretty buckskin horse, and, dashing down from his position on the hill, esssayed to capture some of the herd. The dash was so sudden that the soldier approached within thirty feet of the Utes before he was stopped, me Indians mougm ne was trying to draw them up a little ravine a hundred yards away and fell back, but when they divinel his intention, the figure oa the roan horse, his long hair flying in the breeze and his gun raised above his head to frighten the horses, was pierced by half of the dozen bullets fired at him. The other white men were killed by Indian pickets while attempting to stampede the horses. There are few men who can give a complete description of the battle. Every man who was there has great respect for the fighting abilities of the Indians, and that the troops gained a victory jB-as due to the good judgment of Capt. % Pray. Half an hour after the battle began a man was seen to dash from the cliffs opposite the willows. He had been a member of the flanking T?rtv which Leslie had sent to drive the Utes and had been surrounded. He beat an Indian to death and threw away his gun as he ran, and leaped from rock to rock with the agility of a mountain goat. Once in the open space between tne rocKs ana the willows and where the Indians had arranged an ambush, and which was strewn with guns and bodies and pistols and dead or dying horses, he dashed between the lines of the opposing sides and sped in the direction of the river. A score of bullets whistled after him, but he did not heed them, and on reaching the bank of the river he plunged in and swam to the opposite shore, where he took to the brush and hid. This was the only case of desortion which occurred during the battle. As near as can be determined from the conflicting statements, there were from 90 to 125 Indians on the field. The WW gathered there now came after the battle in response to the runners who were sent to the reservation. An Uncompabgre Indian known as "Gus " had a squaw and pappoose when the battle began, and in the first rush they became sepin Violf on hsittr wojy> mnpfl n mile from him down the ravine. The poor creature with the little Indian babe i.-lasped her in arms, was screaming and running wildly about. The Indian put spurs to his pony and dashed down the ravine in the face of a storm of bullets. At least three hundred shots were fired at him, but he was not hit apparently, and reaching the squaw he pulled her to the horse and galloped a half mile further on with his burden, and after placing her on the ground out of danger rode back the top of the bluff. When he reached the summit he was seen to reel and a moment lator fell dead. During the excitement that characterized the opening of the fight, the squaws, about twenty of whom were with the party, dashed over th 3 field from point to point, amid the ceaseless firing of ~iX) guns. Two of them were shot. On the day of the battle the whites were without food and fagged out. On Wednesday, the day preceding the battle, there was a violent hailstorm, and in some places the hail was almost knee deep and the wind blew a gale. The horses were punished terribly and the men suffered much. The Indians had a great advantage in that their horses were fresh and that they had got out of the storm and wore dry. Capt. Pray came into Meeker Sunday with his command to report He said that White River Colorow, for whom the warrant was issued, and Uncompahgre Colorow were both present at the peace talk, and the Captain conversed with White River Colorow. The latter is nearly seventy years old, wrinkled and fat. He is deaf and his sight is impaired. In conversation with Captain Pray he denied his desire to fight, but said that if the white men aid not go Dack there would t>e a big fight and that he could get a heap White River braves, heap Uncompahgres and heap Navajos who were young and wanted to fight. NEWSY GLEANINGS. The Abyssinian army numbers 80,000 well drilled soldiers. Mining is commencing to revive in every section of Arizona. Daniel Emmett, the author of "Dixie," is still divine in Chicago. Sam Caso.n, of Dooley County, Georgia, is seven feet two inches high. The balloon for the Paris exhibition of 1889 will carry up 100 persons. In 18G5 the debt of the Government was $78.25 per capita. Now it is less than *1!?.84 The great tower of Babel, which is to distinguish the French Exhibition of 1881) is h' gradually rising. Thil eight pin factories in New England produce 0,720,000,000 pins a year. In England the production of pins Is set at 4,(5115,000,000. I A doc; bitten by a rattlesnake in Nebraska, instead of dying developed hydrophobia, and bit foul "teen head of cattle, all of which died. The largest orchard of fruit-bearing trees in this country is claimed by Ijaavenwortlt, Kan., which has one that contains 50.000 rees. A MAN at Columbus, Ohio, stood on the track to see how near he dared let the engine come to liim. He hasn't got any heel on one foot now. A new amusement is provided at the Ix>nj don fairs known as "topsy turvey." Passen gers are sturdy strapped m a barrel and rolled about. The amount annually expended for benevolent purposes in Neiv York is estimated at about $7,500,iX)0. There are 320 charitale societies and institutions. Everybody found smoking on the streets | of Saugatuck, Mich., during the recent dry i epell, wbb liable to Le arrrfftW under the I orders of tbe village council. j \Ti?iiro amfHf A T3vl vy O 0U1V11I1AAI | Eastern and Middle State*. There were 912 delegates in attendance at the New York State Prohibition Convention, hekl in Syracuse. A ticket was nominated, headed by 1). W. C. Huntington for Secretary of State, and a platform adopted in conformity with the principles of the party. This makes the third ticket already m tho field in New York. Sylvan us H. Sweet, nominated by the United Labor party at Syracuse for State Engineer and Surveyor of New York, has declined. A boiler explosion in a corn-canning establishment at G or ham, Me, killed John Hamliu and fatally injured Frederick Hamblen. A third man was severely hurt All branches of trade in Philadelphia are reporting greatly increased business. Among the arrivals at New York on a steamer from England a few days ago was the Duke of Marlborough. He comes to America on a pleasure trip. Rev. I)r. Parker, the noted London preacher, who has been talked of as successor to the late Henry Word Beecher in Plymouth Church, arrived in New York from England, a few days ago. He will deliver a eulogy on Mr. Bee;:her at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, October 4. A widespread epizootic disease is killing hundreds of horses in New Jersey. Two miners were killed and three others injured by an explosion of dualin in a colliery near .Shenandoah, Penn. A great Inter-State Picnic and Agricultural Exhibition has been held in Cumberland County, Penn. New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Massachusetts, Ohio, Avis rnnsin Indiana Miohicnn. Maryland. Vir einia. West Virginia, $few Jersey, Delaware, Tennessee, Kentucky and Connecticut were represented. The agricultural machinery on the ground was valued at $1,000,000. Immense crowds attended. The New York Democratic State Convention will be held at Saratoga on September 27. The large coal and iron firms of Robert Hare Powel & Co. and Robert Hare Powel, Sons & Co., of Philadelphia, have made an assignment. Their mining business will be continued. The liabilities are $1,500,000; assets estimated at $4,000,000. South and "West. Axey Cherry, the twelve-year-old colored girl sentenced to death in South Carolina for murdering a two-year-old white child in her charge, has had her punishment commuted by the Governor to imprisonment for five j ctll 3. Chief Colorow and his Ute Indians have had a fight with the Sheriff s posse near Kangley. Col. Deputy Sheriff Ward was killed and three other whites were wounded, onejmortallv. Eight Indians were reported killed. Heavy rains have caused many rivers in Texas to overflow their banks with disastrous result?. At Cleburne eleven persons, seven of them belonging to one family, were drowned. Washington. Recent Consuls appointed by the President are: Henry C. Borst, of Maine, at Pernambuco, ana John C. Bridges, of New York, at Brockville, Canada. A special agent of the Interior Department has closed seven saw mills in 'Washing ton Territory that were cutting Government timber from unsurveyed lands. The pension payments during August amounted to $16,300,000. Professor G. Brown Goode has been appointed by the President United States Commissioner to succeed the late Professor Baird. Judge McCue, first appointed, declined the honor. Foreign, The wholesale discharge of Custom House employes at Havana caused a riot, in which seven persons were badly wounded by the police and troops. A fresh attempt to kill the Czar is said to have been made recently by a Nihilist, who fired twice at the imperial carriage, containing the Russian ruler and his wife. The first shot, missed the Czar, but the second Der forated his coat. China's new war sbips, five in number, were reviewed in Portsmouth Harbor, England, by the Chinese Minister to Germany. Havana, Cuba, is on the verge of a revolution, occasioned by the recent acts of Captain-General Marin in taking possession of the Custom House and placing the officials under arrest. The city is in charge of regular troops. Several fatal conflicts between citizens and soldiers have occurred. Houses were shaken and people made dizzv by an earthquake shock in the City of Mexico. A very heavy gale is reported from the Newfoundland fishing banks. Several schooners lost their dories, and it is feared that many lives were lost. Wiggins, the Canadian weather prophet, prophesied in 1885 that the most tremendous storm of the century would strike America on September 19, 1887. Henri Pranzini, the murderer of three persons in Paris, has been guillotined. Turkey has acceded to Russia's proposal to send a provisional Governor to Bulgaria and Eastern Roumelia. Editor O'Brien made a very defiant speech at a large National League meeting in Dublin. Hon. James G. Blaine and the Prince of Wales have met a number of times at Homburg, the noted German watering-place. THE G. A. R. Programme of ths National Encampment at St. Louis. The official programme for the business and entertainment of the Grand Army encampment which is to be held at St Louis, bcginnine on SeDtember 2<>. has been decided uoon. Its chief features are as follows : First day, Monday?Reception of visiting comrades at depots and steamboat landings. Tuesday?Grand parade and review; evening, formal reception and welcome by Mayor Francis; grand illumination of the streets by lOO gas jets and electric lights. Wednesday ? opening of encampment and National Convention of the Women's Relief Corps; reunion of States and regiments in Forest Park; excursions on the river to Jefferson Barracks and National Cemetery. Evening?Street illuminations, musical entertainments, and fireworks. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Mr. Lester Wallack has retired from the stage for good. Johann Strauss has completed his new opera "Simplicius." Sardou has written a five-act drama for Bernhardt, entitled Mesaline. A real cotton gin oosting $1,500 is to figure in a new comedy of Southern life. The summer night concerts at Madison Square Garden, New York, are very popular. Miss Emma Abbott is to give a three weeks'season of opera in New lork in January. Ax international congress is to consider at Paris the best means of preventing the burning of theatres. Clara Morris opens her reason, probably in her new play, "Renee," at the Gtiind Opera House, New York, October 17. A movement is on foot to organize in New York a \Vag*.ier Society, having for its aim j the promotion of progressive ideas in music. Mrs. D. P. Bowers intends to produce i three new plays during 1887-88, two being | adaptations from the French. John F. Ritchie will manage her tour. Madam Janauschek's injuries from a fall being of a more serious nuture than at first supposed, bv the advice of her doctors she uoo ?k/aiiuvucvi tuc iuwi vi awbiu^ iiuu t'liaum^ season. Frank W. Sanger ba? brought from England anew opera by the authors of "Kr- | minie," entitled 'Dick," and a comedy played I by "Willie Edouin in London, entitled "A j "Tragedy." Robert Louis Stevenson, author of the I famous tale, "Dr. Jek^ll aud Mr. Hyde.'" is j wining u\ or irom iMigiana 10 ue present. wufii Mr. Mansfield produces the drama of that name in New \ ork. Mrs. Potter's latest plav "Loyal Love,'' ! seems to be the flimsiest tra-h. Her acting, in it seems t<? have Leon surprisingly good. I Tte tone of the London papers is entirely ! changch They have discovered not ouly ! great promise, b;?fw>any actual merit? in her work. | A YOUNG CLERK'S CRIME. A Maine Savings Bank Robbed of $280,000. | The Defaulter an Employe Only Nineteen Years Old, i The biggest sensation the town of Saco. I Me., has ever experienced developed the other | morning, when it was learned that tho Saco and Biddeford Savings Institution had seriously suffered financially through a young olerk who had absconded. Frank C. McNoilly, nineteen years old, who had been employed in the bank about one year, had mysteriously j disappeared, taking with him $3,500 in cash, I United states registered i per cenu oonu?. | | payable in 1907, amounting to $185,000, and ! railroad, municipal and other bonds, amountj ing to about $91,000. Though he left town on Monday afternoon, yet the bank officers kept the matter so quiet that the j news did not leak out until Wednesday morning. Great excitement prevailed, as McNeilly was considered one of the most trustworthy young men in the city. The president, trustees and cashier placed the greatest confidence in him. He was acquainted with the combination of every lock in the bank vaults. Cashier Melville H. Kelly, of the bank, is also Treasurer of the Mutual Fire Insurance j Company. On Monday afternoon a loss ! I was reported by a fire at Kennebunk. Mr. 1 " > -?* ....... I A.eiiy went >jc?? uno luuu, iwnut , Frank McNeilly to finish up the day's ! accounts. When Kelly opened the bank on Tuesday morning, he found j Monday's accounts were not comj pleted. Prcs dent Goodale was notified, and j the entire afternoon was spent in examining : the contents of the safe. Considerable time had been consumed before the theft was dei tected. A lar_re amount of gold and curi rency. which McNeilly could easily have ! stolen, was unmolested. President Goodale was interviewed by a j reporter. He says the loss is so much less I than the surplus that the ba:ik will be per- I fectlj* safe, even if the amount taken by tho j absconding clerk is never recovered. Tho I ! $185,000 in United States registered bonds i cannot possibly bo used by the thief. The bank's statement last May plaCea the I l surplus at a little over $<53,000. Treasurer Kelly posted a notice outside of ! the bank stating tuat the bank is safe, and 1 I that depositors need feel no alarm. Detectives | were engaged and sent in all directions. A | i dozen of McNeilly's photographs were found i i in a bank drawer and were placed in the j hands of the detectives. MeXeilly is five feet eleven inches tall, weighs 14-r> pounds, has dark hair, a smooth face, fair complexion, and stands very erect when walking. He has a good figure, and would be called handsome. When he left ho had on a light mixed coat, dark woi sted trousers and congress shoes. McNeilly was regarded by all who knew him as a model young man. He was less than nineteen years old, but for two years had held a position of great trust and responsibility. How great was the trust ! reposed in this boy few knew until | to-day. He is very handsome, and was a I great pet in society. It is said lie never was ] known to associate with any one not entitled j to say that he or sue Deiongeu vo me uest society. Young as he was he had paid marked I attention to a young lady of rare accomplishi ments, and of great personal beauty, to j whom he was engaged to be married. He was not only a society young man, but was a deeply religious young man also. He was found at church early and late, it is said, I and all who know the parties fully believe that his ostentatious piety helped him more than anything else to the place occupied in the confidence of the officers of the bank he has victimized thiTcotton crop. The Largest Ever Raised in the Country?Interesting Facts. The crep of cotton of the present year will, ? - -1- 4- iUn lnnnmof AtTAI* | n WIUIOUL UUUUI'I UC luu c?c? laiovu .u the United States, remarks a daily contemporary. It will probably reach 7,.500,030 bales, which would be 550,000 bales and more in excess of any previous year. The crop of 1885 reached 5,500,000 bales, and the largest yet produced, the famous crop of 1883, aggregated 6,992,234 bales. The history of cotton raising in the United States is an interesting one. In 1791, almost a full century ago, the United States sent sixty-four bags of cotton to England, and fifteen years later the export had increased to 100,000 bags. But in " ' --- 1? tl 1.1 U am4-: i mat eariy uay mere cuum uuvc uwh uu auuI cipation of the large place that cotton was to | fill in the productions of the country. In i 1H4!? the crop reached 870,415 bales, and in I 1853 it had prown to upward of 1,000,000, below which it has never since fallen, unless during the civil war, of which there is no record. Great as the production now is, it seems likely that it may reach even larger figures in the future. There is still much good cotton land in the South that is not utilized, and much that is farmed can be made to give a heavier yield by better cultivation. For sevj eral years money and enterprise have been seeking investment in cotton growing, and this tendency will continue as long as satisfactory returns are obtained. At an average I OI Dine ceiiu> U UUUUU IU(9 MlcaCMV JW?4 o U.V(/ I will be worth in the neighborhood of $300,000,000.? l>r?- Goods Chronicle. THE~NATI0NAL~QAME. Soquel, Cal., has a females baseball nine. The Bostons failed to draw well anywhere the last trip except at Chicago. J Tate, of the Bostons, has made more assists than any other League catcher. Nearly 250 home runs have been made by League players so far this season. After catching forty-four consecutive n# Sf. T.rm ic ninK wnq lair) up. No less than half a dozen of the New York I players ana expected to pass the century mark in batting this season. Lawyer Ward, the New York shortstop, still leads the League in.base-stealing aa well as holding his position. The Mets make a remarkable appearance in their different-colored shirts. Lach one i is different, and they form all the colors of ! the rainbow. 1 Tv frvnwt Viofrfinor Waw VArlr etfll Ipfl/lfJ fnl lowed by Detroit. Chicago, Boston, Pittsburg, Philadelphia, Indianapolis and Washington, iu the order named. Thk Southern League is now composed of four clubs. The Nashvilles could not stand the jumps, and disbanded. The League will be continued with four clubs. Boston paid $10,000 for Kelly, and sold Bullinton and Gunning to Philadelphia for $000, and in the light of present developments Boston got the worst of it in both deals. Clarksox lias earned the title of king of I L?a:;ue pitchers, He pulled the Chicagos inrougu m jnvj-so ana n mau-iuu icuuw the pennant this year it will be largely owing to Clarkson's efforts. Jefferson, Iowa, claims the proud distinction of being the only city in tne world that has a baseball club composed exclusively of printers. They have a neat uniform of old gold and black and white, and play an average of at least one game a week. Richard Lyman, a prominent young business man, was playing in an exhibition game of ball at Loekport, N. Y., Aug. 18, when his right arm broke jnst abo7? the elbow. Lyman was catching aad was in the act of throwing the ball to a baseman when his arm snapped like a pistol explosion. A physician, who examined it pronounced it a complete fracture ?f tlie bone, produced bv a peculiar twist. the nath5nal leaoue. Won, Lo*L Won. Lo*t. Detroit.......5C S5 | Boston 4'J 40 Pittsburgh :<7 Hi i New York....51 41 Philadelphia..51 411 Indianapolis...29 64 Chicago 52 371 Washington...30 53 THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. Won. Lout. Won, l/ut. St. Louis. 76 26 I Baltimore 54 46 Brooklyn 49 51 | Cincinnati....5S 47 Louisville.....5'J 44 I Athletic 4'J 53 Metropolitan..31 CO \ Cleveland 2S 74 THE 1NTEKXATIONAL LEAGUE. Woiu Lost, Won. Lost, Newark 41.' 2S | Hyracusc 47 30 Rochester 44 MO Hamilton 45 37 Toronto 40 31 Jersey City...37 39 Buffalo 50 .'>4 j Wilkesban-c.?~l 58 Bcranton 13 43 | SOUTHERN LKAGUB. H'on. Loft. IVon. TjOtt. Bingham ton.. 9 30 I Memphis 47 36 Charleston....45 30 | New Orleans...53 25 LATER NEWS. The Pennsylvania Democratic State Convention at Allentown nominated J. Ros8 Thompson for Judge of the Supreme Court, and R. J. McGann for State Treasurer. The A* _t?i__s a it., i l \u^.vMA1 piatiorm auopieu cnuurscs ujo itvst nuuunai and Stato platforms, demands that the large surplus in the United States Treasury be used to pay the public debt, favors "a wise and prudent reduction of internal taxation and of duties on imports," and "fully endorses the administration of President Cleveland." A scaffold inside a church tower at "VVilliamsport, Penn., gave way, precipitating four workmen sixty-five feet. All foui were killed. Thk Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has sold its express system to the United States Express Company. The terms of sale are said to bo $1,000,000 cash and $1,500,000 in new a# fka TTm'fft/l fifflfAC T?.t-YMWCC Pftm. pany. The B. and 0. Express covers a territory of 3,000 miles. The biggest elevator in the world is about to be erected by Armour & Co., of Chicago. Its grain-holding capacity is to be 2,000,000 bushels. The Iowa Greenback State Convention at Des Moines ratified the platform adopted by the Union Labor party at Cincinnati and advised the industrial classes of the State to put an independent ticket in the Held. Albert A. Meade, a mine owner at Good J Hone. New Mexico, shot and killed three men, and was then himself shot dead by another man whom he was trying to kill. The tragedy grew out of a dispute over mining property. The President has appointed S. S. Carlisle, of Louisiana, Minister Resident and Consul-General to Bolivia, and James C. Quiggle, of Pennsylvania, to be Consul of the United States at Port Stanley and St. Thomas, Ontario. Judge Zcbia, a Mexican magistrate at Paso del Norte, Mexico, struck United States Consul Brigham a stunning blow over the head. The Consul was trying to recover some stolen horses. Details of the attack fnlArrM/tnUo/1 f/\ Sfofn Flanoi^mAtif nf W u^ucu MV mv www i/vj/ui umtuw ?v ^ Washington. JESSE POMEROY, A Notorious Boy Murderer Attempt! to Escape. A Boston dispatch says that Jesse Pomeroy. the most notorions prisoner in the Stat* prison, has made another attempt to escape, Pomeroy is the boy fiend who tortured to death two or three children about a dozen years ago, and who at the age of sixteen years, was sentenced to be hanged. Governor Gaston commuted the sentence to life imprisonment in a solitary cell. Pomeroy has been detected in half a dozen plans for escaping, and he has always required the closest watching. He is abnormally cunning?a model convict in outward behavior, but keenly observant and tireless in plotting to gain his liberty. Before the reconstruction of the prison and its extension Pomeroy occupied a cell in the upper arch. The wing was extended and six new cells added in the arch. Adjoining this new wing are several specially strong cells. On either side of these cells are grated bars, allowing a full view of the narrow quarters from both sides, and the guard as he makes the rounds can be continually in sight of the inmates. Directly over the arch is the hospital, and it is thought that from this place came the assistance which so nearly gave the murderer his liberty. In his regular round the guard while leaning against the window felt two of the iron bars give way to tho pressure of his hand, ana a moment iau;r mey len 10 me grounu. The guard discovered that two other bars had been worked upon, and that a few minutes' labor would have rendered them as useless as the broken ones. Hastily summoning the officials, another inspection was made, the broken and damaged bars were replaced with new ones, and a tour of the cells was begun. By instinct ihey made for Poineroy's celL At a glance the two massive iron gratings s;?cmed impregnable, but a closer scrutiny showed that enough bars in the side nearest the window to admit the body of a man had been cut through, but so fastened by means of cement that even the heavy clanging of the door did not shake them. Where the cement was concealed has not yet been ascertained. Pomeroy was taken to safer quarters and searched, but nothing was round on his person save two slender saws. He refused to disclose who furnished them, where tbe cement had been obtained, or how long the work had been going on- It is said, however, that he said enough to leave the inference that the time for escape had been definitely fixed, and that a conveyance would be in wuiting to take him to a place of safety. Since romeroy s sentence n j nas oeen in solitary confinement, save for an occasional hour's outing with the Warden. When not otherwise employed he lias been busy with pouring over books, aud has the reputation of being a close student. Indeed, he has already mastered Latin and Greek, and can converse with some fluency in French and German. His first attempt to escape was made soms nine years ago. Then Pomeroy spent his leisure moments in loosening a rock that formed a part of the centre wall of the prison and the wall of his cell. For years evidently he bad been at work on that rock, and had tiually succeeded in separating it from the surrounding wall. To get it out of the way was the next questirvn o rwl f.hftiKrhrldcc ftf til A PnnQAnilAll^ h#? forced it outward slowly, until one day the guard, looking down the massive wall, saw the projecting rock and made an investigation. romeroy was then taken to a stronger celL The signal service now embraces 183 stations, from which reports are maae aauy, and employs about 400 men, exclusive of a couple hundred clerks in Washington. THE MARKETS. 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Prime,per bbl...17 00 (#17 50 Flour?Snrine Wheat pat's.. 4 75 Gu 4 !M) Corn?High Nlixed ~>4 (it !i~i Oats?Kxtra White *>?>? Kye?Stato GO @ 0.1 WATERTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET. Boef? Dressed weight 5 @ 5}{ Bhecp?Live weight 4 @ 5 J^ambi G Hogs?Northern ? @ < PHILADELPHIA. Flour?Penu.extra family... 3 50 @3 75 Wheat-No. 2. Red 78}.; ! Corn?State Yellow........ ? @ 54 OatsMixel 31 @ 31 %\ Rye?State 53 Butter Creamery Extra... 21 @ 23 Cheese-N. Y. Full Cream.. J2 @ 12,V' TURNING OUT TENANTS. A Small Army Engages in Evicting Irish Cottagers. Defending Their Homes with Stones and Scalding Water. I 1UD Cf itblVUO VI* tuu v v?uv.j ? Herbertstown, Ireland, began a few days ago. The bailiffs were enforced by 100 soldiers and 300 policcmen. All the houses occupied by the tenants were barricaded and guarded for defence. The house of Mrs. Crimmins, a widow, was the first advanced upon by the bailiffs. The widow and her friends were well armed with paving stones and boiling water, and l>oth were showered upon the bailiffs with such telling effect that they were repulsed no less than four times. Tho Sheriffs men in their attacks attempted to crowbar their way through the walls and roof, and Mrs. Crimmins had the scalding water poured over their heads, faces and necks. After the fourth repulse of the baliffs the police at- | I tempted to storm the house. Thny also were driven back. Finally a joint rush was made by the bailiffs and police and the house was broken into and captured. It was found that the defenders of the widow's habitation numj bered but nine persons?five men and four | women. All were taken prisoners, j A large crowd collected about the house to Witness the contcst. They sympathized with Mrs. Crinimins and did all in their power to cheer her up in her battle and to aimoy and exasperate the officers. When the widow's party were at last overpowered the crowd became frantic, and pressed closely up toward the house. The prisoners, when they were I led out, sang "Goa Save Ireland!" The crowd joined in the singing, and became so demonstrative that the police had to cut their way out with batons. Three tenants on the O'Grady estate were evicted the first day. Capt&'n Flunkett wasm command of the evictors. Tne police made repeated charges against the crowd of spectators and used their batons freely, injuring Mr. Condon, M. P., and several English visitors. Numerous tenant farmers in County Limerick have instructed their solicitors to apply for a revision of rents under the new Land act mm FATAL_TO^FISH. Millions of the Finny Tribe in 1111tlAlc Qf PPDTT1U r>Vln 0*. Within the past two or three days the fish | in many of the stream* about Galena, III, have died by the million, and the few that are . left are rapidly following suit The banks of the Galena River branches are lined with dead fish of all sizes and varieties, from the feny minnow to the mammoth cat and sturgeon. At Buncombe, Wis., a few miles from Galena, dead fish are so numerous on the banks that the stench arising from them is almost unbearable. At Lancaster, I Wis., the scene on the river bank beggars deI scription, over fifty wagon loads of i dead F.sh being in sight. There are nu| merous theories afloat as to the cause, i One is that the recent rains have filled the | water with mud, so that the fish have been | unable to breathe, and, struggling to the sur! face for air, have died. Another is that, duri ing the dry hot summer, the valleys and j marshes above were filled with some poisoni ous growth that with the recent floods were i earned into the streams and poisoned the J water. FREAKS OF LIGHTNING. Ose stroke of lightning killed the five i n ,)!,,,? Afnnct-.rm Prairie. UUI SCn UJL X OkCI UWUUUV, W4. MMMWV/M - - , . Dak., and ruined his barn. Lightning struck a flock of sheep belongi ing to W. A. Falson, of Wilmington, N. C., and killed twelve of them. Lightning at Gabriella, Fla., struck a tall pine, which it split from top to bottom. Then it jumped twenty feet to a barbed wire fence, cutting out the posts and ruining the fence for a hundred yards. W. H. Barnes, of Taylor, Ga., had just ; driven under an oak and was dismounting | when he was knocked senseless by lightning. When he recovered consciousness the n\ule ne had driven was dead and the oak was in a blaze. Oscar Brown, of Fergus Falls, Minn., sa^ in his house with his wife and children, while lightning knocked the plaster from tne walls, burned all the picture frames, set fire to the doors, and raised hob generally, yet none of the family was injured. Two men in the section house at Dawson, Ga., occupied abed, the bedboard of which was cut into kindling wood by lightning. Other furniture of the room was also knocked into fragments, ana aisnes were nunea in every direction, yet neither man was even j stunned. While Doyle Brown, of Talking Rock,Ga., was shoveling up chip i, lightning struck the handle of the shovel and split it in two. The bplt then divided and ran through both of Brown's hands and arms and passed out at the back of his neck, killing him. An old man twenty feat away was knocked senseless. ? THE LABOR WORLD. ; About 110 natural gas companies have ! been oganized in Kansas. I It is estimated that over 100,000 children under fourteen years of age are employed in ! the workshops of New York State, contrary to law. General Master Workman T. V. Pow derly says he is confident that the opposij tion to the general officers will not predom J inate at the Minneapolis Convention. The anti-administration faction has a ma! jority of the delegates thus far elected to the General Assembly of the Knights of Labor to be held at Minneapolis in October. Of cottonseed oil mills there wore in 1879 only forty in the South. In 18i*> there were 146, and the capital employed in them had increased from $3,504,500 to $10,702,450. Of the 3,000,000 tons of seed annually grown only 400,000 tons are yet made into oil. The Miners' State Federation and Subdivision 7 of the Miners' Assembly, Knights of Labor, embracing the organizeu miners of Indiana, demand semi monthly pay, in accordance with a recent law. The operators refuse, claiming the law is unconstiu tional, and are preparing a test case. Of the 3,500,000 bushels of peanuts raised in 188?>, worth about $3,000,000, Virginia raised in about half a dozen counties in the south western corner of the fetate, y,;>UU,UU<J bushels, or five sevenths. It is claimed by J. W. Johnson, of Richmond, Va., that for fodder the vines are nearly equal to clover hay. Hogs will fatten on the nuts left in the ground. Peanuts are raised on land which will not grow corn, tobacco or wheat profitably. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Moody will probubly go to India to do ! evangelistic work. Mne f'r rvrtjivn rvm lmrnpss lipr hril'SP. and she is not ashamed to do it. The King of Spain is something over a year old. His annual income is $1,500,000. Kaiser William's sanguine doctor forej tells five more years of life for the old gentleman. General Black, the Pension Commissioner, draws the largest pension enjoyed by any soldier?$25 a week. Secretary and Mrs. Wiiitxev and Seci retary and Mrs. Fairehiid attended the Eastj ern Maine State Fair at Bangor, Me. i Tiie richest man in Philadelphia is said to be Isaiah V. Williamson, who is worth ?20,| 000,000, al! of which he made himself. Miss Edmunds is a trre.it aid to her father. i the Senator. She arts as his private secre- 1 ; tary a good portion of the time, and looks ! j closely after his law business. I i Sir John I'ulestox, who was recently I l knighte 1 by Queen Victoria, is an American, ( I and was nn agent for the State of l'ennsyl vanin at Washington .luring the war. Miss Elaine CJoodale is delivering a number of addresses in Connecticut on the Indian question. She has devoted many years to . missionary work, and is held in high regard j by tlie Sioux. ' Ok the :5f?5 colleges and universities in the United States, 27ti are church schools, aver aging 1:5 teacher* and 1H8 students to a school; t>7 are non-sectarian schools, averag- ' ing 15 teachers and WO students. \ THE RED RIBBON. 7 ORDER OP THE' LEGION OF HONOR. a amnf inrontirpfnFrpnrh Braverv in Battle ?How It Was Founded by Napoleon I? . A Stirring Recital. A Paris letter to the San Francisco Chronicle Bays: There are a good many men and a few women who wear the red ribbon of the Legion d'Honneur, and every year, at the 14th of July, a num- 1 ber of persons are thus decorated; nevertheless the list is not increased, for the new members are not more than enough to fill the death vacancies. Since the \ German war the order has grown in point of members from about 28,000 to over ~ ~ ~ T?._! ?11?J eu,uuu. Alter me siege, runs whs ijiivu with heroes who had "performed acts al self devotion," or had rendered military 6erVices. A clubite who had proposedto instal convex mirrors on the ramparts of Paris, with which to collect the rays of an autumn sun and roast the Prussians, successfully claimed the reward, and was 1 thus decorated, as were a great many other persons who had no better claim i than he to the red ribbon. Presently the distribution of crosses grew so scanda lous thut a law was passed "putting an end to the profusion of decorations , which tended to bring discredit on the j order," and decreeing that there should be only one appointment or promotion for eveiy two vacancies. That was in 18*4, and there was then 39,793 members of the Legion of Honor who belonged to the army, and more than 15,000 civilians, without counting the 51,450 military medals, which, however, are really not a part of the order. The legion was instituted bv the First i Consul, Ronaparte, in 1802, and as be ] himself h is informed us, "if it were not . the recompense of civil as well as mili? tary services it would cease to be the Legion of Honor." It would be a strange piece of presumption, indeed, in the military of any country, to pretend that honors should be paid to them only; and here in Europe soldiers are proud of bearing, in recompense for heroic deeds, the same decorat'oa that is given to men who have become distinguished in the sciences, literature, arts and mechanics, while these latter attach greater value to this reward of their labors because it is the decoration of the brave. Napoleon was a wise man, who builded well and for all time A ~ T? AwW/lPTOOfl OAW. 10 come. ill ills uay me uiuti ??oo I posed of a grand eomeil of sixty grand ' eagles?now called grand crosses?and of sixteen cohorts, each with seven grand officers and 350 chevaliers; and there was not then any military medals or palms of officers of the Academy and of public Instruction. But he was creating barons, counts, dukes, princes and kings also, and with these titles and the 6,500. and odd crosses he rewarded about all who deserved to be rewarded. I was down at Boulogne last week and 6trulled over the immense natural amphitheater which spreads out on the right of the fort facing the English channel, where, | in 1804, the troops of France tothenum ber of over 100,000 were looking towara London. One particular day in August Napoleon Bonaparte drew up his army before the stones that mark the tower that Cwsar built. The sky was a cloudless blue, the a:r so dry and pure that across the waters the outlines of a foreign coast stood sharply defined against the horizon, and the frowning fortifications of Dover, with the English ships of war riding at anchor, ^ould be seen easily. The Grande Arm'e was there, victors of Arcole, of the Pyramids, all of them, every mother's son of them ; and vivandiers, too, burnt by the sun of every clime, proud with glory conquered on many soils ; helmets, bayonets, sworda and cuirasses flooded with the golden rays of a summer's sun, and all waiting for their Emperor. In the center of this mighty plain standards and flags and eagles richly gilded covered the green that stretched out before the throne where the Little Corporal was to take his stand, and which was shaded by an ar- | rangement of the many flags that had been captured from enemies. "VVarhorscs neighed and stamped their feet, arms sparkled, standards shone out brightly, and tho murmur of the soldiers rolled in waves to the foot of this imperial throne, like unto the mighty waves that beat in foaming breakers against the rocks where shore and sea were wedded. One hundred thousand heroes were there to see their ?l Kio nwn hnnd to the breast of comrades the red and burning flower of battlefields; red, not like the rose that dudes wear as boutonnieres, nor such a red as women daub on their faces, but red like the flame which is belched from the car.iion's mouth in the heat of combat, red like the crimson blood thnt gushes from the open wound of a saber's stroke, red like the living hearts of heroes. He made the ribbon red so as to perpetuate on the breast of those to whom he gave the cross the sublime wounds received for their native land. Bugles sounded, the beat of 2,000 drums was heard, and oOO cannon thundered also in the salute thus given an Emperor. The earth shook as if with an earthquake, the smoke of gunpowder clouded the sky, and across the shim inering sea England, behind her wooden Bhips, heard the army thus proclaim the presence of one who had already con<|Ucrcd nearly the whole of Kurope. Accompanied by his brother, his Marshals and many Genera's, Napoleon mounted the steps of this throne, and the grand army gave forth a great checr that went over the waves aud was echoed back by the ^h:te cliffs of Albion. Then a deep silence fell on all. The mighty commander, as grave and solemn ns any god that ever graced Olympus stood up and glanced over his faithful soldiers. Two Marshals came to his side, one carrying the helmet of Bayard, the other li.ot Tiiirmncolin. and both helmets were filled with crosses of the new order. On an ancient shield two generals supported more crosses, and private soldiers carried golden envies that had come from Homo. The m'litary virtues and glories of all the past centuries of French history were thus united to the glorious rccords of the present that he was writing on the face of the Old World. The names of those who were to be members of the 1 now Lemon of Honor were then called j ' out. mid as they formed in line those ] trembled now who had never trembled in the midst of fiercest earn aire. All the ! legionaries repeated the vow after their ! Emperor, and as each gloi ions name wns 1 called it was acclaimed by enthusiastic shouts, the roll of drums, and the cannon's sound. Thus was the order of the famous Legion d'Ifonneur instituted under the very eyes and within sound of ( is lotinoers' most impim-ium- ; A company in Kus?ia has equipped ind started for Centra! Asia an cxpedi- j ion which will establish cotton planta- i Jons. ? i Respect only those who respect them- j elves, and you will have less to regret , - ' only a weed. ./ "Only a weed; Ragged, forlorn, unkempt of branch aod leaf A common vagabond, a hunted tliief, No place it has on bill or plain <y lea, Its growth is waste; iis life a piracy. ? "urnya weea; Its pale discs spill 110 largesse of perfume;. The seeded fruitage of its haggard bloom ? Blow broadcast over field and fallow plaor In sullen increase of its hated race. "Only* weed; Yet its pale capsules may unfold a spell, A filtered dust, a pollened miracle, Secrets of price that science longs to win;. Occult and hidden rower of medicine. "Only a weed; Of this be sure; it was not made in vain; The wandering thistle as the bearded grain" Is of God's harvest; and His richest gold The gypsy brotherhood of weeds may hold." ~PITH AND POINT. H ""'"'-ja Jurymen, of necessity, often get in ? trying situation. A man who docs business on a larg* scale?A coal dealer. The Atlantic is crossed in love everr time a bridal party goea over.?Sifting*. .? <{ It cannot be truthtully said that the/;' ? fraudulent coffee dealer doesn't know beans. A wealthy grandfather always receive* the respect and veneration due to oHL age.?Life. A Connecticut woman has invented ft bustle which she says has never been won* before. Isn't that a peculiarity of most bustle* ? Librarian (recording the condition o< ^ a book): "Page 47 a hole (turns leaf), page 48 another hole."?FliegauU Blcutter. " Paper bottles have just been intro* & ducea. That will never do. What will -i* we have to throw at the midnight cat?? Boston Post. An experienced boy says he regardfhunger and the schtjolmaster's rattan at- about the same thing, as they both maki him holler. 'j , When the poet said the wind wasjjlow* VM ing free he probably referred to what in nautical parlance is known as "a deatf . head wincl."? Life. The pilot is the most friendly man. the world. He never meets a steamer * without asking the Captnin to drop him a line.?Pittsburg Chronicle. "I'm coming, my darling, through thi tall, waving corn," says a new love song. Been stealing her old man's pumpkins, "A. most likely.?Dantville Breeze. "My little cat" is a favorite term of' '*/ endearment with frenchmen. A Freoch' / man, however, who applied it to hil Yankee sweetheart found that he had cfrnlriwl flip fur th<> winner wav.?Boston Transcript. "Everything I am I owe to my wife,' said a pompous man in the course of hk 5 lecture. 4,WeH, you're doing a blame- '\tj poor business in your wife's namel" san| out a bootblack from the gallery.?Net* man Independent. .' ; >> Old Gentleman?" My ! what a nice lit tie boy you are, aren't you ?" Smal' Boy?"No, I ain't no nice littl(^. ^ boy, neither ; I'm Dutch Sickles, der terror, and I can lick anybody my si24 around here."?Life. It is a singular phase of human natui* that when a man gives his wife a dim? to buy a box of hairpins or a gum rinf.: - -/; for the baby it looks about seven times at f big as when he planks it down for bit tcrs.?Shoe and Leather Reporter. AN OLD TRUTH UPSET. A splendid lieutenant from Skye, Was as thin as the capital I ; He said : " It's too bad, But then I can pad," . A Which shows that figures do lie. ?Life. A Young Astronomer.?A little four ; u v : .,-1 yeur-uiu was uiuuu uupic;?cu nui ?wtlrst out-of-doors in the starlight. Oi her arrival home she skipped joyfully UJ J . to her mother with the glad tiding& "Oh, mamma! I've seen the moon anfl^ all her childrens."?Harper'* Magazine. It Is seriously proposed to provide eacl night policeman in England with a larg*-* dog. It has been a matter of surprise U us that this has not been done before. It' is difficult to comprehend how an office! can dog the steps of a criminal when h** has no dog. The dog supplies a long felt want.?Siftinqs. Only the sweet bouquet, Set with exquisite grace; Only a choice nosegay, And a passing pretty face; Only a dainty curl, And a murmuring lingering hum;. Only a Pittsburg girl, ^ Chewing a roll of gum. ?National Weekly.' A Cincinnati pastor, in announcing to his congregation that he was about to ' leave for his vacation, added: "During * my absence my brother will occupy the i pulpit and will take great pleasure id- ~ .? responding to calls, especially funeral calls, from the members of this church' while I'm away."?Troy Times. It is said that nature shudders When a woman throws a stone, And that when she sharpens pencils Then all nature gives a groan. ."2 But there's nothing that gives nature More keen anguish and distress Than to see a struggling father With a babe he tries to dress. ?Judge. Shoddy Boots and Shoes. The manufacture of shoddy boots and -< shoes lifts reached an enormous exrent in the Eastern States. The public hsis made comparatively little protost against this form of swindling, and so the dishonest industry has flourished to an enormous extent. It is nothing less than an outrage that the market should be flooded w.th such trash. It is especially hard on the poor, who are compelled to buy cheap goods, for no matter how reduced the price may be, it is very much too high * for the quality of article obtained. Most of the shoddy boots and shoes put upon the market are made by machinery, and the manufacturers use the offal of leather, paper, spilts, skivers and compositions that melt away at the first wetting. Paper anil pasteboard soles are quite common, but the finish is excellent, so that only experts can tell tUe (inference Between the genuine and the bogus ar icle. We have had crusades against adulter* itcd food, against shoddy clothing to ioine extent, why not inaugurate one igainst shoddy boots and shoes??Owu/ia Bee. When Apples arc Ripe. "I've just got my jacket full of the laintcst golden sweets you ever saw," >aid Jimmy TufTboy as he rushed into the house in a hurry. l iiiruilm vam t?iwm2^ "lYUUl'U Uiu JWU v?.vu?, inquired his mother. "Have you been in SmilTkin's orchard again?" "No, ma'am. That is, I didn't go in [he orchard, but I found a splendid place to sit on the wall and reach.? Hartford. Post.