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A LONG JOURNEY. Details of the Trip Made Ilj the Presidential Party. A Succession of Parades, Recep< tions and (Speeches. After breakfast on Thursday, Prcsidoni Cleveland was driven to the National Eu campment in Chicago. The drive included r visit to the spot where the historic Hay mar ket riot of May 4, 1SSG occurre 1. The street! were lined with people. From the Encamp raent the President was taken to the special train, where Mrs. Cleveland was awaiting him, and the party were run speedily on theii journey to the Northwest. At Milwaukee there was a large militarj parade. The streets through which the pro cession passed were profusely decorated, am the surging crowds repeatedly cheered tlu President and Mrs. Cleveland. At the re viewing stand the President was welcomed by Mayor \\ aiioer, and maue a spleen in response. From the reviewing stand the pro cession proceeded to Schlitz Park, where the President went through anothei band-shaking ordeal. Mrs. Cleveland dine< with Manager Mitchell, of the Soldiers Home, and afterward gave a public recep tion at James Kleeck's residence. In tn< evening the Merchants' Association gave i banquet to Mr. Cleveland, who made anothei short address. Postmaster-General Vila* also spoke. The Presidential party visited the Soldiers Home at Milwaukee early Friday morning, and left for Madison, the State Capital, al 10:^0 a. m. A great crowd received the Presi dent at the Madison station, and a proees sion was at once formed, in which were man] of the leading men of the State. A welcorm arch stood at the east corner of Capital Park, with a Goddess of Liberty and pretty girls in costumes for the States. Th< whole town was decorated with flags,stream ers, Chinese lanterns and arches across the principal streets. The exercises took place on a platform in front of the capital. Judge Erasmus Cole, Chief Justice of Wisconsin, made an address of welcome, to which the President replied. Tho President held a reception in the State Capitol during the afternoon, while Mrs. Cleveland went t< Postmaster General Vilas's home for a rest After the reception the President, accom panied by Governor Rusk and Colonel Vilas visited the Fair Grounds. In the evening Colonel and Mrs. Vilas gave a dinner to the President President Cleveland and party went fish' ing in Lake Mendota Saturday morning. A steam launch conveyed them from Madison to an island in the lake, where they took small boats for the fish in tr trrounds. Cor nelius Vanderbilt, and Chauncey M. Depew and Marvin Hughitt arrived in a special train at noon and at once repaired to th< Vilas mansion to pay thoir respects to the President. He had not returned, however, and the railroad excursionists went on to Duluth. Mrs. Cleveland did not join the fishing party, but rested quietly in- the Vilas house. Sunday was spent quietly by th? President and Mrs. Cleveland at the residence of the Postmaster-General. Monday morning the Presidential party took their special train for St. Paul. At vari ous stations along the route the train mad( short stops to enable the crowds that had gathered to get a loo!: at the President and his wife. A salute of twenty-one guns was fired at La Crosse, an'l the visitors alighteJ from the train and were escorted through the principal streets in carriages by the Gov ernor's Guard. All the principal streets wer< /lecorated, and many people from the sur rounding country were in the citv. The special train reached St. Paul at 5:3( Monday afternoon, and the part}' were al once driven to the Ryan Hotel. The Presi dent's carriage was drawn by lour whim horses, and the streets to the hotel wer< decorated. In response to Mayor Smith': speech of welcome the President mad< an address in which he referred t< his wife having once dwelt in St, Paul, and said that the people oi St. Paul were related to that in his life which was "better than all earthly honors and distinction.'' At 7:30 p. M. the President re viewed a long procession of toboganningand snowshoe clubs, and later held a public reception at the hotel. The city was brilliantly illuminate!, a-.id many public buildings were covered with bunting. The President and Mrs. Cleveland, accomginied by Governor McGill and Mayor mith, were driven through the handsomest part of St. Paul on Tuesday morning. Th( party took refreshments at Mayor Smith'; residence, after which Mrs. Cleveland was driven to the railroal station, while the President was taken to the Minnesota Club and presented to its members. Soon after h< joined his wife, and the special train sooi bore the party to Minneapolis. Upon tneir arrival at Minneapolis the part] were conveyed to the West Hotel througl streets thronged with people, many of whon had come hundreds of miles. After lunel the Presidential party were driven througl the fine business and residence portion of thcity, and upon their return Mayor Ames mad an address of welcome from the hote balcony. The President respondei in a short address, and then the party wen to the Exposition in carriages, escorted b< military companies and a band of music. A the Exposition grounds the President madi another short address. Aft r supper atth hotel the party at 8 p. m., under military es cort. returned to the depot and took the trair for Omaha. During the long ride south from Minneapc lis to Omaha the President was frequentl; summoned to ttio platform of lsis snecia train to receive the greetings of the countvj people who had gathered at the various depots. The train reached Sioux City, la., al G:3J Wednesday morning. The party, accompanied by the military and brass bands, were driven to the Corn Palace, when almost everything, inside and outside, was made of corn in some sbapa or another. After a short stop the travelers continued their journey. The village stations from Sioux City to Council Bluffs were crowded with the solid fanners of the surrounding country. At Omaha a committee took the party in charge, and they were driven through the streets, which were crowded with people and adorned with streamers ana oanners. Civil and military organizations took part in the demonstrations of welcome. After leaving Omaha the next stopping place was St. Joseph, Mo. Here 00,000 residents and 25,(XX) strangers gave the party an enthusiastic welcome. Brass bands and various organizations helped in making matters lively. The train reached Kansas City at 8:15 p.m. Wednesday. At the depot and for blocks around an immense crowd had gathered, and a roar of cheers went up as the train arrived. The President and Mrs. Cleveland were driven through the crowded streets in a barouche driven by six gray horses. At the Coates House the President and Mrs. Cleveland, assisted by Postmaster-General Vilaa and his wife, held a reception, and later reviewed the grand parade of the Prksts of Pallas. NEWSY GLEANINGS. A new military post is to be established a ^Denver, CoL A fifty-acre ostrich farm is to be locate* at San Rafael, Cal. tne Pittsburg (Penn.) Iron Mills are over crowded with orders. Manitoba's wheat crop is in excess of th< most liberal estimates. Tirs country's corn crop for 1880 is esti mated at 1,^10,000,000 bushels. Anoonia, Kansas, is jubilant over the fac thit Mrs. Salter, Mayor of that city, ha given birth to a son. Peekskill, N. Y., is importing colorec girls from Charlestown, y. C., to meet th< demand for domestics. The epidemic of scarlet fever in Loncioi is still spreading. There were, in one week l,m cases in the hospitals. One of the attractions of Sacramento, CaL is a mummy show?the remains of people o the Aztec race, it is supposed. W. A. Strong, ex-Secretary of State o Ixmi-iana, was sentenced recently to twi years' imprisonment and to pay a fine o $4 ,500 for emblezzement. Two recent steamers from San Francisc for China took over 40,000 barrels of liourfo Yokohoma and Hong Kong. These an probably the largest cargoes of flour tha ever left the port by steamer. From twenty-five to forty car loads o grapes and pears have each week for som time been leaving California for the East Chicago is thy best market for Caiiformi lru>t, and Denver ranks next. | NEWS SUMMARY Eastern and Middle State*. The Gloucester (Mass.) fishing schooner 1 Peregrine White has picked up at sea a floating mass of ambergris weighing 125 pounds, and estimated to be worth about $00,000. AmlH'rgris is a secretion which comes from a whale's intestines, and is highly valued for - perfumery purposes. Aloxzo Whylaxd, seventy years old, was gored to death by a bull ou a farm near Alliou, N. Y. t Colonel. A. W. Quint, of tho Quartermaster's Department, United Staves Army, commit tod suicide by hanging at Manchester, L N. H. He had been suffering from nervous prostration. 5 OiittEN, Caldeu & Co., bankers and brokers of Troy, N. Y., have failed. The I liabilities are stated at $500,000. , Nine New York and Brooklyn chandelier manufactories shut down, owing to the men's insistanc-e upon the Half Holiday law. Between y.OilO and 4.000 brass workers were ! thrown out of employment. 1 I A cheat public reception was given by 5 ' the citizens of Boston in Faneuil Hall to . ; General Paine and Mr. Burgess, the owner [ and the designer of the yacht Volunteer, winner of the recent international race. A body of about loo New York policemen , mistook an order, and with drawn clubs disr persed a mass meeting of the Progressive I Labor Party in Union Square. The police i' struck right and left, and the 3,0!K) i?eople present iled in dismay. Indignation meetings 3 have been held, and the punishment of the i police demanded. The principal sugar refiners of the coun' try are reported to be forming a combination, with a united capital of $50,0J0,0iH). , The great bulk of the business is centered in . New York. Thomas C. Manning, United States Minister to Mexico, died a few days since in New j York, where he had gone to attend a meeting , of the Peabody Educational Fund. Judge Manning was about fifty-one years old, and was a native of North Carolina. Ho moved in 1855 to Louisiana and served in the Confederate army. He was for some years Supreme Court Justice of Louisiana. > Sonth and West. ' The Mexican war veterans of the United States will meet in Fort Worth, Texas, No\ vembc.r 8-10, and it is expected that there will | be delegates from most of the States. San Francisco is excited over revelations 1 showing that well-known citizens have frequently bought up jurors. ; The tug Orient foundered in Lake Erie dur3 ing the recentstorms and her crew of six men were lost. The first snow of the season in the Upper Missouri Valley fell on Thursday. The mountain peal;s of Montana are white with : snow. r A feud between the Turner and Sanders [ families in Kentucky has already resulted in , the killing of five men. i The corpses of seven men who had evidently been murdered were found among the ruins of a disr putable resort at Hurley, Wis. > Seaborn Green* and Silas Hamplin?the 1 latter an Indian?were hanged together at Fort Smith, Ark., for murder. Yellow fever exists in an epidemic form at lampa, na. jsiany innaoitants nave ieit j the city. [ A train containing Governor Foraker, of [ Ohio, was derailed near Zanesville. The ; Governor escaped by crawling through a I window. s In the United States Circuit Court at Rich mond, Ya., Judge Bond fined Attornoy-GenJ eral Ayres $500 for bringing suit under the law known as the "Coupon crusher," in disobedience of his injunction order, and com> roitted him to jail for refusing to pay the ' fine. He also fined the CommonwealtVs At torneysof Fauquier and Louion counties for disobeying the same order, and rommitted > them until the fines are paid and the suits s brought are dismissed. ' A celebration was had in Cincinnati a few days since by upward of 200 employes of ; Procter & Gamble on the occasion of the firm paying its first semi-aunual share of profits to the workmen. The shares paid the men, 13jij per cent, on their wages for six months, i aggregated $93,000. Some workmen got as much as *40. This is the first dividend under the share plan since its adoption. John Owens, a trusted messenger of the Pacific Express Company, residing in St. Louis, has robbed his employers of between $30,003 and ?00,000. ; The Knights of Labor General Assembly s at Minneapolis voted down a resolution of 5 sympathy with the condemned Chicago An3 archists by 151 nays to 52 yeas. i The banking hou-^e of Morton E. Post & i Co., Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, has 5 failed, owing depositors, many of them worki ing people, about $500,000. The opening ceremonies of the Piedmont 7 Exposition at Atlanta, Ga., included ad1 dresses by Governor Gordon and Hon. Sam1 uel J. Randall. j Forest flres in the slope counties of Cali 3 fornia have burned over many farms and de0 stroyed numerous bridges. 1 Newmax & Farr, heavy cattle dealers of i St. Louis, have failed, carrying down also t the Niobrara Land and Cattle Company. i The liabilities are heavy. t ? Washington. Washington* is the best shaded city in the i world. At present there are 63,000 shade trees in its streets. > General Rochester thinks the army y salary list will call for $318,000 extra next I year. ' General Berden has prepared drafts of seven pension bills, which he proposes to have * offered in Congress at the coming session. The last report of the Department of Agri' culture shows the average condition of crops to be as follows: Corn. 72.8: oats. '.15: barlev ' 80; buckwheat, 77; potatoes, 01.5; cotton, , 76.5; tobacco, 75.5. The yielil of ccrn will be about 450,000,000 bushels; oats, 000,000,1 000; barley, 34,000,000. The percentage of funds which depository | banks may be aSowed to hold upon bond securities has been increased, in order to allow the banks to make profitable use of the funds. The Treasury surplus is now being used in this way. Foreign. Germany has paid $12,500 as indemnity to the family of the French gamekeeper recently killed on the frontier of the two countries by a German soldier. Muley el Hassan, Sultan of Morocco, is dead. Owing to an alarming increase in brigandage, several counties in Hungary have been placed under martial law. Severe earthquake shocks have occurred within a few days in Greece and Cuba, i The Austrian steamer Hapsburg collided with and sunk a Bavarian steamer on Lake ! Constance. Many passengers in the cabin were drowned. A YACHTcapsized in Lough Neugh, Ireland, and out of a pleasure party of a dozen five were drowned. A French steamer was wrecked in the cay oi oormes, anu twenty-two passengers DcMNG'an election riot at Plevna, Bulgaria, twenty-four persons were killed and 1 thirty wounded. A largk Spanish force has been ordered - to the Caroline Islands to punish the natives for their rebellious acts. The American cor3 vette Essex has been ordered to protect the missionaries on the islands. Ayoub Kuan, the leader of the revolt against the Ameer of Afghanistan, has been ^ killed in battle. A MURDEROUS INDIAN. i > He Cuts Off the Heads of His Three Guards and Kscapes. 3 Deputy United States Marshall Phillips, ? with three assistants as posse and guards, a few days ago arrested Henry M. Kizoit, a full i blooded Chickasaw, eighteen years of age, near Eufaula, Indian Territory. Not being , able to make the town during the evening the * party camped on the prairie, with the excep? tion of Phillips, who rode on ahead. After waiting until noon next day for the arrival of the guards with the prisoner Philo bps rode back and found the entire posse killed, r their heads having been cut off while they 0 slept. The logs and branches from the t camp fire were piled on top of them, and the greater part of their bodies was conf sumed. A pool of blood indicated that they a had all been killed by an axe while sleeping, . as the three heads, severed from their bodies, i 1 were lying as they re:-t.-d. The prisoner who | did the det-d, escapjd. " RAILROAD SLAUGHTER. Collision Between Freight an< Express Trains in Indiana. Many Persons Instantly Killed oi Burned Alive. Many persons killed or burned alive, anc numerous maimed, is the result of the latest railroad horror in the West. It took plac< the other night at Kouts Station, Ind., a little I place mty miies ease or unicago, on tne uni cago and Atlantic Railroad. A heavy fresh meat freight train telescoped the evening train, the New York express, which leaves Chicago at 7:45 p. m. The express, with one baggage car, twe coaches and one sleeper, had stopped at th< water tank for water about one mile west ol Routs. There the engineer discovered a pari of the engine out of gear, and a stop was made to fix it. A signal is said to havt been sent back to stop the next train, should it come along while the ;'passenger" was still at the water tank; but for some reason this signal was ignored, if sent, and the meat train, which runs at a high rate of speed, crashed into the passenger express. The entire passenger train, consisting of five cars, was completely wrecked. Amid the pandemonium of crashing timbers and human shrinks and toppling fragments of the wreck came the cry of fire. Ths confused mass of splintered and broken wood was in flames. The engine of the freight plunged so far into the rear Pullman that its upper works dropped ofE in the centre of the coach. The concussion drove the second heavy sleeper into the day coach, which was reduced to splinters. The platforms of every car were torn away. The ends of each coach were broken like egg shells. The cars of the freight train were hurled in every direction. The upper works of the engine were torn away, the tender thrown across the track and piled up for twenty rods. About the prairie were hundreds of pounds of meat There were improved heaters on the express train, but notwithstanding this supposed improvement over the deadly stove the coals in the heater quickly set fire to the u pholstery of the rear Pullman, and in five minutes a flame which at first was scarcely larger than a ribbon spread into a brisk blaze and soon enveloped the shattered coaches and their screaming occupants. The light from the fire illuminated the sky for miles around and startled the farmers, who had not yet gone to bed. Through the rail) and mud the rescuers came. The crews of both trains who had escaped with but slight injuries were already hard at work dragging the helpless passengers from their blazing prisons. Nearly all were found to have been hurled to the front end of the coaches, where they were Binned and crushed by the heavy timers and irons of the platforms. One man, the head of a Bohemian family, lay between the baggage car and the day coach. A brake rod had been driven through his neck and thus impaled lie perished, while his -r - !? i- l lamuy lily wribuiug ill mguuui aguujr uc.imc him. The Are burned with the appalling rapidity of all railroad fires. Reinforced by the farmers and their sturdy boys, the trainmen set about thoir work with a will. There was water close at hand, and pailful after pailful was dashed into the crackling mass. The railroad officials claim that there were only twenty passengers on the train, but the men who stood about the wreck declared that the screams and appeals of mercy came from double that number of human boings. The Pullmans, although the first to receive the shock, did not leave the track, but burned where they stoo:l. So far as known not a life was lost in these coaches. There were few persons in the berths, and though they were nurL'd one upon the other, all escaped through the windows before th'j flames burst through the floor. It was in the day coach that the slaughter occurred. This frail box was smashed to atoms. Tho sides flew out and the heavy roof sprang into the air and ther came "down upon the score or more ol human beings who lay pinned beneath the seats. W. A. Duncan, of Syracuse, N. Y., Secre tary OI UlC l^UUUUllKJUa, nsocuiuij', aaiu " Our train got into Kouts at 7 o'clock this morning, and then wc were told of the wreck which occurred two miles west of the town. I, with several oth.'r gentle men visited the scene of th< | disaster. There were hundreis of people around, but every one seemed to be so dazed and excited that little had been done tc assist the wounded. When wo got there a mo>t sickening sight met our eyes. Strewn all along the track amid the wreckage were ten or twelve charred boiies. "I saw a little Bohemian boy who was hurl propped up against the fence dying,and th$r< in front of hiin lay bis dead mother, fathei and two sisters. It was impossible to securc names, as every one was half out of theii wits, and it was a long time after the accident occurred that any assistance was rendered. " I hunted up the night operator at Kouts, and ho gave me the following account of the disaster, which is about correct: 'Tha train wrecked was No. 12, which left Chicago al 7:45. The train was made up of five cars, the two rear ones being Pullman sleepers Just before the train arrived at Kouts, the eccentric of the engine broke and the en gineer slowed up for repairs. The brake man hung out a danger signal light. Th< train had stopped but a short time when the train behind, which proved to be the fast Chicago "meat"' train, rushed on al cne race or thirty-live miles an hour. She struck the rear coach, telescoped it and the two m front, and left nothing but the front baggage-car standing. The three coaches were swept completely away, nothing but the trucks being left standing.' "The wreckage immediately caught fire, and the wounded and dead lay in the flames and were burned beyond recognition. The people around there said that about ten people were burned, but I think there were at least fifteen, as I saw a dozen bodies laid out." The house in Washington in which Payne attempted to murder Secretary Seward at the time of Lincoln's assassination is now offered for sale. It has long bosn used as the haalnuarters of the Commissary-General. THE MARKETS. new yoiik. 41 Beef, good to prime. 6 7J4 Calves, common to prime,... s Sheep Lambs ^ Hocrs?Live 5 @ Dressed 7 Flour?Ex, St, good to fancy 3 50 @ 4 00 West, good to choice 3 50 @ 4 85 Wheat?No. 2 Red ? @ 82 Rye?State 56 @ 53 Barley?State ? <d) 83 Com?Ungraded Mixed.... 51)^@ 53 Oats?White State 3434% Mixed Western 3> @ 34 Hay?Med. to prime 75 @ 80 Straw?No. 1, Rye 70 @ 75 Lard?City Steam 0 70 @ 7 40 Butter?State Creamery.... 25)?@ 27 Dairy 18 @ 24,^ West Im. Creamery 10 @ 20 Factory 13 @ 15)^ Cheese?State Factory 12>jJ Skims 0 @ Western 0)a(65 11)^ Eggs?State and Penn 21 @ 22 BUFFALO. Steers?Western 2 25 @ 3 80 Sheep?Good to Choice 4 25- @ 4 (iO Lambs?Western 5 70 (<5 5 85 Hogs?Good to Choice Yorks 4 80 @ 4 SK) Flour. Family 4 75 @ 5 15 Wheat?No. 1 ? @ S'.i Corn-No. 2, Mixed 43^(4) 4S>$ e L~ V. .i 1 /A l?1 WULfc?^U. -i, iUlXtJU ? VLV Barley?State <W (?) 65 BOSTON. Beef?Good to choi<:e 7 @ 14 Hogs?Live 5)^(3f *' Northern Dressed.... 6%($ "14 Pork?Ex. Prime,per bbl...17 00 (#!7 50 Flour?Spring Wheat pat's.. 4 70 @4 95 Corn?High Mixed ? @ SGJtf Oats?Extra White Sfi 0! W>XA Rye?State CO @ 65 WATERTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET. 3eel - Dressed weight <3 @ 7 Sheep?Live weight '<}%&) 4}^ Lamln 5%(8/ 5J% Hogs?Northern ? PHILADELPHIA. Flour?Penn.extra family... 3 50 @3 75 Whout?No. 2, Red 8031^ Corn-State Yellow 5:J>?@ 54 Oata Mixo.l ? (dj 32 Rye-i;tate 52 53 Butt, r Creamery Extra... 25 @ 26 Cbew?3?N. Y". Fiill Cream.. ? (jj 12^ LATER NEWS, R. S. Hicks, Cashier of the Stafforc | (Conn.) National Bank, has been arrestee charged with embezzling ?80,000. Ilicks ii also Treasurer of the Stafford Savings Bank which is a heavy sufferer by his downfall j, The defaulter is a young man, and has lost much mouev in cotton speculation. The American Bankers' Association ha* been in session at Pittsburg. I Robert Garrett has resigned as President 5 of tlio Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Willian > F. Burns is acting as President. j A fire destroyed a portion of the Northeri - Ohio Insane Asylum, near Cleveland, unio . Six maniacs perished. r Five of the bandits who recently abducted ; Senor Berrera from the Texan side of th< Rio Grande , have been summarily executec > by the Mexican rancheros who pursued them j Quelito, Mexico, a town of 8.000 people f has been totally destroyed by a storm. Mam t lives have been lost. ; The coroner's jury at Mitchellstown, Ire s land, have brought in a verdict of murdei i against the police accused of killing severa i people during the recent disturbances. KNIGHTS Of LABOR. Mr. Powdcrly's Annual Report at the General Assembly. The annual report of Grand Master Workman Powderly at the General Assembly of ihe Knights of Labor in Minneapolis was read in presence of 225 delegates from all ' parts of the country. Mr. Powderly said: "The members of the Central Assembly, the highest tribunal known to the laws and regulations, as well as to the true and loyal members of the Order of the Knights , of Labor, is convened for the eleventh time in regular session. I [ am to make to the representatives as, [ Bumbled the annual report for the eighth time. I ask that it will receive that con, sideration at your hands which its merits deserve, and that such recommendations as I may make will be received and acted on according to their importance and necessity. ''When the last session of the General Assembly closed, it dissolved amid the clamor of disappointed men. It was a large and unweidly body. This body is smaller than its predecessor, and I expect better things at its hands. We adjourned a year ago with dissension in our ranks; that dissension was enlarged upon and scattered to the world by enemies from within and without. Employers of labor in many instances took advantage of what they mistook for our weakness and rushed into conflict with our members in various parts of the country." Mr. Powderly then gave a detailed account of the relations of the Knights to the big strike in Chicago. With regard to the Anarchists, he said: " I have never confounded Socialism with Anarchy. I draw a wide line of distinction between I thn two. I have never Dubliclv uttered a sentiment regarding tbo course of the seven men who are condemned to death in Chicago. I will now give my opinion. If those men did not have a fair trial, such as is guaranteed every man in the United States, then they should be granted ; a new trial. If they have not been found guilty of murder they should not be hanged. If they are to be hanged for the actions of others, it is not just. The man 1 who threw the bomb in Chicago should be hanged, and his accomplices should receive the punishment allotted to such offences by the laws of the State of Illinois." "I believe the day has come for the Knights of Labor to ask, at the hands of Congress, the passage of a law creating a department , of labor at Washington. The prosperity ot , the wnoie country rests on me snouiaers 01 ' labor, and there is nothing now so promi; nently before the nation and the world as ; the question of labor. I "I recommend that steps be taken to have I the next Congress act on a bill of Governr mental telegraphy to be run in connection ; with the postal servico. We should go before the next Congress asking for the passage ol but ono or two measures. They should be important ones, and the full strength of the ; organization should be behind those who | make the demand." I Mr. Powderly said a newspaper should be published under control of the order which j should reach every member. He advised that distressed members receive in the order the relief they get from other organizations. With regard to his con1 nection with socialism he said: " In 1880 Philip Van Patten, the National 1 Secretary of the Socialistic Labor Party, waf a member of the General Executive Board ol the Knights of Labor. I became very inti' mate with him, and we discussed the variou; \ measures of reform which all men in tin ' movement regarded as of importance. H< ! sent mo a red card of membership in August 18S0. "The card was paid up by him for thre< ' months. I regard it as a complimentary act on the part of Van Patten. I saw, however ' that the declaration of principles o: 1 the Knights of Labor contained al [ of socialism that I cared to advocate ' and I never took any action on th< ' card except to keep it as a memento of th< days when we were associated as officers ol 1 this association. I never cast a vote for thi ' candidates of that party, was never a mem ber of any of its sections, and had no con ! nection with it except in the manner related ; auuve. THE NATIONAL GAME. Mike Kelly is to be one of Boston's regular catchers next season. Indianapolis and Pittsburg haven't woe a game at Detroit this s9ason. Chicago has won the series from all League clubs but Pittsburg and Boston. The Philadelphias attribute the lo3s of the pennant to the want of a competent second baseman. The players made all the money in the In ternation League this season and grumbled because they aid not get more. Baldwin, of the Cincinnatis, was recently fined $85 on the ball field by Umpire Connelly for using vile and abusive language. President Stearns, of the Champior ! Detroit Club, acknowledges that without Bennett the club would not have been where it is now.. Eighteen men have officiated as umpires ' in the American Association this season, and - only one (McQuade) has lasted the seasoc 1 through. In the world's championship series, anj anil all fines imposed on players are to oe sustained, and devoted to some charitable institution in St. Louis and Detroit. Manager Wright, of the Detroits, says he should like to open the season next yeai with precisely the same team that he has , now. It is a good enough team for a i starter. Siiort-Stop Ward is credited with a hit in every game the New Yorks played with the Pittsburghs. This is quite a rare per formanee, and fow players can boast of the same record. In the series between the Eastern and Western Clubs of the League, the former won 14D games to 130 for the latter, the Philadelphia Club leading the Eastern division with forty-three victories Little Paul Radford, of the Metropolitans, has made over one hundred runs. He is looked upon as one of the best run getters in the American Association. He takes desperate ch/inces when on the bases. the national league. The League season ended with only the Inrlinnoivillo fluK nluvinrr ita full number oi games!" The Detroits are the champions foi the coming year. IKon. Loot. Tfon. //>*' Detroit 79 45 Boston (51 G( Pittsburgh. ...55 (59 New York....(>$ 5.' Philadelphia..75 48 Indianapolis...' Y! 81 Chicago 71 50 Washington...40 7( the american association. The American Association practically ended its season as follows, the St. Louis Glut easily retaining the championship: K'on. IjOst. iron I.Mt St. Louis 95 40 J Athletic G4 (lis Cincinnati....81 54 ; Brooklyn 5'.' 74 Louisville 70 CO f Metroj)olitan..44 8t Baltimore 70 5S 1 Cleveland 39 9". A child Just born to Mr. and Mrs. Bobn, of East Dubuque, la, is without eyes. A surgical operation failed to reveal the slightest trace in any form of optics. In other respects the child is perfect and unusually strong aqd well shaped. -c " TEE COUNTRY'S CROPS. j i Latest Returns Received By the s Agricultural Department. I 6 Condition of Corn, Wheat, Oats, j Cotton and Tobacco. t The latest statistical report of the Depart1 ment of Agricultural makes an increase of only one-half of 1 per cent, in the condition 1 of corn. The past month has been generally favorable,but the status of a large part of the crop was fixed at the date of the previous rel port. The general average of condition is J 72.8 instead of 72.3. The average of the seven I surplus States is G4.9 instead of 04.2 in Sep, temher. This is a lower condition than has ever been reported, except in 1881, when ' the average was nearly seven points T lower, and the average yield 18.0 bushels. The indication is now . for a yield of a small fraction over twenty bushels per acre. The exact area, exclusive of that cut for fodder as not worth harvest1 ing, is not yet determined. Slight uncertainty regarding it may cause a variation in the final record of 1 or 2 per ceut. Irom 1,500,000,00J bushels. The test of threshing has not materially enlarged the average rate of the wheat yield, which appears to be about 11.8 bushels, or ; four-tentns of a bushel less than last year. The increase of acreage, which is large in Dakota, will make partial compensation and bring the product nearly or quite to 450,000,000 bushels. The rate of yield in New York is 16.7 bushels, Pennsylvania 10.5, Ohio 12.4, Michigan 13.3, Indiana 15.5, Illinois 15.2, Wisconsin 10.3, Minnesota 0.5, Iowa 10, Missouri 17, Kansas 0.0, Nebraska 10.7, Dakota 10.5, Cal norma la.?. The yield of oats is slighly below an average, about 25 bushels per acre. The product is fully 000,000,00.) bushels. In the principal States of the central valley region the State averages range from 25 to 30 bushels. The barley yield is nearly 20 per cent, less than at medium yield, " or about 20 bushels per acre. New York 20.3, Michigan 19.5, Wisconsin 18.5, Minnesota 19, Iowa 19, California 20.5 The yield of rye is 11.5 bushels per acre, and the product about 24,000,000 bushsls. There has been a drop in condition of buckwheat from 89 to nearly 77. The condition of potatoes has declined from 67.3 to (51.5, partly from appearance of rot in the Atlantic States. The condition of cotton has further declined. The effect of drought in reducing vitality and arresting growth U more apparent than on the first of September. The general average has been reduced from 83.8 to 70.5. It is still several points higher than in 1883 and 1884, and ten points higher than in 1881. The average of condition by States is as follows: North Carolina 78, South Carolina 79, Georgia 77, Florida 79, Alabama 76, Mississippi 77, Louisiana 78, Texas 75, Arkansas 75, Tennessee 74. The condition of tobacco averages 75.5, against vu.o. me ngures ior ine ?sates producing, shipping and catting leaf are: Maryland 92, Virginia 90, North Carolina 91, Kentucky 62, Ohio 56, Indiana 45, Illinois 58, Missouri 50, Tennessee 57. THE CORN CROP. An Estimate of the Yield?Compart, son With Last Year. 1 The Chicago daily Trade Bulletin has received the averages of the condition of the corn crop by States from the Department of i Agriculture at "Washington and makes the following calculations: Area planted in J 1887, reported at 77,9S6,392 acres, an increas3 of 2,292,184, or 3 per cent, compared with the returns of 1880. The average condition by i States is 72.0 and the average yield 19.95 bushels. The Department of Agriculture rei ports tho condition at 72.8, and the yield at 20.02 bushels. Tho aggregate yield is cali culated at 1,553,COS,000 bushels. The yield in i the seven States which produce the commer! cial surplus is 880,000,00J bushels, or 117,000,i 000 bushels less than last year. Of the area i planted this year in these States a full crop i representing 100 per cent, would be about 1,375.000,00J bushels. The average yield in the corn belt is 21.80 bushels, against 25.40 bush. els last year. 1 PROMINENT PEOPLE. Boston" Corbett, who shot John Wilkea 1 Booth, is hopelessly insane in Kansas. ! The health of tho poet Swinburne is failing, and he is living a quiet and uneventful j life. 3 Caul Schurz is said to be permanently 3 crippled by the result ot the fall on the ice t last winter. The continued ill-health of Lord Salisbury, 5 the British Premier, causes much uneasiness t among his friends. i Interstate Commissioner Morrison has [ been granted a pension of $12 per month as a soldier in the Mexican war. The Empress of Austria is no longer able to enjoy her favorite pastime of horseback riding. Her physicians forbid it. Mr. Chevreul in the French Institute of Sciences occupies a chair next to that of M. Poincarre. I he former is 102 and the latter ?u ^1,1 luu ij-iui cw jvuio viu. Major-Grneral Baird, United States Army, who has been attending the French mobilization manoeuvres on behalf ef our War Department, has been decorated with the Cross of Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. Prince Bismarck possesses some of the i largest and finest forests in Northern Germany, and with the exception of Prince ? Furstenberg, who is Lord of Schwarzwald. he is probably the largest timber merchant in the Empire. Sam Small, the revivalist, has pledged his word that he will convert a member of Congress before next summer's adjournment I He intends to hold a determined revival at Washington in December and then make that city his permanent residence. Mrs. Hetty Green, of New York, is credited with being the largest capitalist of her eex in the United States. Her wealth 1 would possibly foot up from $35,000,000 to ' $40,000,000. She inherited $13,000,000, mar1 ried $1,000,000, and has made the rest by -i ~..i I5IU CWIL ??? ' MUSICAL MP DRAMATIC. Muldoon, the wrestler, is having a play 1 written to display his muscle. Marie E.vgle is to have $20,000 for singing in American cities this winter. ! They are talking of establishing a theatre , in Chicago exclusively for colored people. A good many native dramas dealing with American subjects have been brought out ; this season. i The Edwin Booth-Lawrence Barrett company drew $7,500 in two performances in i Minneapolis. Bronson Howard's new play, Henrietta, [ has made an undoubted success at the Union Square Theatre, New York. > John Sleeper Clarke's American tour? his first in twenty years?opened in Pittsburg recently. He revived "Widow Hunt." The Wild West show concludes its London 1 season October 81. There is some talk of tak1 ing it to Paris, but it will probably return to America. Lilian Olcott announces that she has purchased the American rights to produce Sardou's new play which he has written for ' Sarah Bernhardt. A novel feature of "Little Puck," in which Mr. Frank Daniels is starring, is a ballet of infants. Twenty children are used, the oldest ) not over ten years of age. slgnorina Teresina Tua., the Italian ; child of genius, who has developed into an > exquisitely beautiful young woman, will soon give her lirst violin concert in this country at Chickering Hull, New York. , Sardou's new play, in which Sarah Bernhardt will appear at the Porto Saint-Martin, is not to be called "Deborah,'" as was first re5 ported, but "La'fosca," the name of a famous ( Italian cantatrice who flourished early in j this century. The action passes at Rome, in I 1500, just after the battle of Marengo. The oldest ex-United States Senators now are Sitnon Cameron, of Pennsylvania, born in ITiW; James Bradbury, of Maine, born in | 1835: Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, born in i 18 JS. oil J Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine, born | in WJ. , AFTER NINE YEAES. Arrest of two Men Charged Wltl a Bank. Officer's Murder. Nine years ago J. "W. Barron, President c a Saving? Bank at Dexter, Me., was found ii the bank's vault bound and gagged and suf fering from several wounds. He died in a fev hours afterward without giving any clue t< his assailants. Two men have just been ar rested charged as principals in the crime The story of their capture is told by the Nev I orn tt uriu,, OUU l cuus a luuiuuvc Their capture was accomplish? through tho influence of a younj man named Charles F. Stain, who declare that his father was the leader in the attemp to rob the bank. The young man furthe: declares that he was present at th< assault upon Barron, hut that fea; of his father has prevented him unti now from telling the story of theterribl crime. The World says of the crime ani the arrests which have followed after nim years: The murder of J. W. Barron. Treasurer o the National P mk and Stat3 Savings Bank of Dexter, Me., nine years ago, created a na tional sensation unequa'ed by any trag edy since except the assassinatioi of President Garfield. The brutal cir cumstanccs and the utter mystery of th crime, the mute and pathetic testimony o fidelity to trust given by th> speechies and dying man's wounds, the escape o the murderers, leaving not a trace of thci: presence in or escape from the little towi profoundly moved the whole country. Tele grams c f condolence and offers of assistanc from all parts of the land poured in upan thi widow, and the project of a memorial churcl in Dexter was at once suggested and succefc fully put in operation. Then, after some months had passed, th country was again startled by a theory o suicide, started in the first instance by detec tives and apparently given credence b the bank officers. Barron, it ap" peared, had made some unfortunate invest ments of the bank's reoney. He took ou forthwith a life iusurance policy coveriu) the amount, and it was the sapient idea of th. detectives, mortified perhaps by their failuri to detect the murderers, that the Treas urer, fearing the odium following th disdovery of his bad judgment, kil!e: himself in such manner as would indicate murder and so would not invalidate his in surance policy. Thus an act of \vbat seeme( scrupulous regard for personal and busines honor was converted into an indictment o the man. But the theory was accepted by the banl officers to the extent that they entered sui against the widow?a suit that was neve tried?and the act brought about i revulsion of feeling elsewhere. Cor tributions to the memorial stopped The poor woman and even her littlo chil were subjected to taunts and obloquy an the widow was compelled to endure a Jonel; and bitter ostracism. She never doubted he Vmelmiirl's innorenee stcadfastlv she h:i sought for means to set it clearly" before a men, and now, by the aid of the World, th murder of her husband by a banded gang c scoundrels is, to all appearances, about to b judicially proved. Some weeks ago the World was informe that a young man in Maine had made stati ments which, if verified, would convict tt murderers. There ap[>eared to be an ul ter lack of effort cither to verify his stab ment-; or to take any steps whatever to ai rest the alleged criminals. There was dail the chance that they would hear of the coi fession and makj off. The World s?nt trustworthy representative to inquire int the facts. He succeeded in bringing Charh Franklin Stain, a confessed accomplice wit his father, to New York, where his full stafc ment was taken. With it the Worl representative returned to Maine, consult* with tho officers, was made a Deputy Sherif and assisted at Franklin, Mass., lti the arre of David Stain?a criminal of such unspeal able record that its full, atrocious horror caj not bo given in these columns?and bis a leged accomplice (Oliver Cromwell) In tl murder of faithful John Barron. POPULAR SCIENCE. A prize of $10,000 will be awarde soon by the French Government for th most valuable discovery relating to th utilization of electricity. "Crushed bamboo" is coming into us as a pupcr-making material, and is state i 3_ * wUk mnt 10 oe aircuuy ciiijjiujr^u nuu u<v satisfactory results in the paper supplie to several London dailies. The Freshwater Alga; of the Unite States comprise about thirteen hundre species. The whole of these have n cently been described and beautifull illustrated in two volumes, by the Re\ Francis "Walle, of Bethlehem, Penn. Dr. Murray, of the Royal Society c Edinburgh, estimates the mean heigh of the land of the globe to be betwee 1,000 and 2,100 feet, the latter limit b( ing probably the more nearly correct Humboldt's estimate of the mean heigh of the continents was one thousand feel "Artificial precious stones have becom an important article of trade," says th Scientific American. "The products c some of the shops would almost deceiv an expert, but the test of hardness issti infallible. The beautiful "French paste, from which imitation diamonds are made is a kind of glass with a mixture of oxid of lead. The more of the latter th brighter the stone, but also the softei and this is a serious defect." The Sierra Nevada Range might b - - ~a I0,, called a continuation of the uascacie xuoui tains; but those are of volcanic origii and the Sierra Nevadas are granite, thoug traces of volcanic action are often fouu on the flanks and base. It commences a Mount Shasta, 14,400 feet high, andrur in a southerly direction to Tejon Pasj where it joins the Coast Range not fu from Mount Whitney, the highest raouc tain in the United States south of Alaska There arc but few passes over these moui tains, and the Pacific slope is very steej the Central Pacific road descending 6,31) feet in eighty jniles. The material for baskets used by tt Penobscot Indians, according to Mi Walter Deane, in the Botanical Gazette, I the holy grass, which they know : "sweet grass." Strange to say, the seem to have no name in their own tons^ for it. Mr. D. found the leaves, in tl fall of the year, were about three fe< long, and when dry twisted so as to aj pear like fine thread. These leaves pus mi from another part of the root stoc from that which bears the culm, an hence appear to have been overlooked L botaniits. A common name for the plai in seedstorcs and gardens is vanil grass, from its delightful fragrance j dying. Dr. Frantzel, of Berlin, reporting upc the effects of immoderate smoking upc the heart, says fliat smoking, as a rul agrees with persons for many year although by degrees cigars of a finer llavi arc choscn. But all at once, without ac assignable cause, troubles are experience with the heart, which compel the callin in of the doctor. Common cigars arc n< so liable to produce these effects as tl finer flavored ones. Xor can the char? be laid upon cigarettes, although the produce evils of their own. The trouble I seldom begin till after the smoker is ovc thirty years of age, aud most usual] attack him at between fifty and sixt^ While it has not been determined wh: it is that makes smoking injurious, it aj pears certain that the effect docs not d< pond upon the amount of nicotine. Keeping Her Chickens at Home,. A Maine woman, who takes pleasure i her poultry, has adopted a simple but e> : cellent method for keeping her chicker at home. She ties a small corn cob t one leg, allowing it to dangle at a di; tance of about six inches. The fowl ca scratch and get about with ease, but, i is said, will not attempt to fly ov? oaline's or saueeze through a crack. AUTUMN DAYS H A "wealth of beauty meets my eye? Mil lj Yellow and green, and brown and white, Hfl| In one vast blaze of glory fill HH f My happy sight. SH 11 , The rich-robod trees, the ripening corn, H Bright colored with September fire? v Fulfillment of the farmer's hope, BeB 3 And year's desire. Hi Sweet in the air are joyous sounds 9|H v Of bird and bee and running brook; ISB j And plenteous fruits hang ripening round, 9H r Where'er I look. HI 991 t The mellow splendor softly falls gflj vyu UUUllllIlg 1111313 auu ovciuu^ UO TTO, . * And colors trees and flowers and clouds igBj 1 With thousand hues. f -rflg | 0 dreaming clouds, with silver fringed f S^QR 0 I watch ye gathering side by side, Like armies in the solemn skies, jm ' In stately pride. ^Hj I love the woods, the charming woods, ! Fast deepening down to russet glow, HH When autumn, like a brunette queen, ? Rules all below. : 1 vjj^n s The soul of beauty haunts the heavens, ' Nor leaves for long the warm-faced earth, ! And, like a mother, the kind air OBH !- To life gives birth. HI e But Death rides past upon the gale, Hs And blows the rustling golden leaves; VH They whirl and fall, and rot and die,' e And my heart grieves. Hjl Farewell! 0 autumn days, farewell! - " I Ye go; but we shall meet again, r As old friends who are parted long OR t By the wild main. 'H| ? ?William Couan. fl 0 :sf :^H| 1 PITH AND POINT."::M B Ml To marry a coachman is not just aufait S i But some maiden marries a groom every day, s ?Tid-Biu, f The monarch of Greece has a fat situa- X,W| k tion, as a matter of course.?Pittsburgh ' BBj t Chronicle. r Most lawsuits have barbed wire con* JH * cealed about them for everybody but the I. lawyers.?Detroit Free Press. |H 4 The Duke of Connaught has investedy the Khedive with the Order of the Bath. . r If he is a good khediver he can now take 3 a header.?San Franch co Alta. B q A chemist announces that wood can be,f made very palatable. All right, ? Chemist, but please don't give it away to- H our landlady.? Washington Critic. j. A New York dentist thinks he has hit Hj ie the popular taste for good bargains. Her H t- displays a sign: "Come in and get youx-.jH ? tooth pulled for a qua.ter."?Si/tings. TVio nrvinnra i'o UnrKf o n r? era XT NH y lUCCLW.UIOUII6>IIU.,V.eu;| ^ i- Ana not without a reason, a For summer months have passed away, o And oysters are in season. *vj a ?Merchant Traveler. '^ h Jones (smoking)?"These are some^ thing like cigars, eh, old boy?" Brown, 2 l(j (dubiously) ? "Yes-er-something like . r, 'em. What are they?"? Ckarlatownst Enterprise. News comes from Paris that the bustle-1 j. is to be much reduced in size. Thue- | ie does Fashion's decree cast a stumbling* block in the path of female smugglers.? New York Worlf. A scientific exchange asks: "What is .& rotary motion?" Why, it is that ex? g ^ perienced by a drunken man when lying * fiat on his back and clutching the side- '* ' walk for fear he'll fall off. "Oh, mamma!"exclaimed little Edith, e running into the house nearly out of i j breatb, "there's going to be a marriage ;t deception over to Mrs. Uppum's thit ^ jj evening."?Boston Transcript. When a man conveys to you in a loud \3 (| tone of voicc and the language of slang, profanity and bad grammar the information that he is a geutlcman, it is a waste' y of time to doubt him.?Picayune. r Tassels and silk has the cornstalk tall, While the wheat a beard can claim: The broomstalk wears no clothes at all, if But it's business just the same, t ?Duluth Paragrapher. n Next to a red wagon with a spring seat there is nothing so pretty as a drum major who wears a hat made of a buffaloit robe and swings a lon? pole with a silver t. knob on the end of it.?Lincoln (Neb.) e Journal. p "Abisail" wants to know what is the if best way to rid a room of flies. Go into e the De.xt room and try to read, Abigail; 11 they'll follow you, every last buzzing, ? crawling, tickling beggar of'em.?Brook;, lyn Engle. e Michigan boasts of the tallest girl in e Americ?T It is Anna Mercer, who isr, twelve years old and six feet high. Just wait until she is twenty-four years old 10 and twelve feet high. Won't she knock i- down the peaches, though!? Detroit Free if Press. 11 No man can safely take a flying trip d to Canada nowadays without first calling it his friends about him, exhibiting a dials gram of his business, turning his pockets ?, inside out, and showing a return ticket ir good for only ten days.?Springfidd i- in ion. j. A Western paper says that Indians ali ways improve every chance they get to at tend the circus. We have always under'0 stood that the noble red man delighted in a circus, but we had an idea that he le always wanted to be chief performer.? r. Somerville Journal. 's When you see the item that an old ,s citizen of ancient Athens could call every J one of the 20,000 inhabitants by the ie name you can flatter yourself that those ie old-timers knew how to lie just as easily and smoothly as the generation of to-day. J* ?Bttro '.t Free Pre**. ? A gentleman engaged in the rubber overshoe business recently remarked that two qualities of goods are now manu- ' factured?"the bad and the very bad." . The manufacturers, we suspect, retain the former grade exclusively for their in nn-n nrivate wear.?Syracuse Herald. "Will you be miner" said the ardent youth; ?n "No, no." tbe maiden said, m As she looked at him with a mocking smile ? e And pertly tossed her head. He slipped on her finger a sparkling ring, or Ana drew her to his side; y "Two noes mean yes, you saucy minx," 1(j Exultingly he cried. 3 He held her fast; be watched ber frown? 3t Then pout?then blush and stammer, ie The dear girl couldn't sland a siege re Of love and English grammar. ?Chicaao Tribune, The l)ate Pal in. [y Id Fresno county the date palm is attrnrtinor irrpnt Attention, and is being ex r ?-? o" 1 # w# it tensively planted for its fruit. It is a )- beautiful tree, and in its native country will bear a full crop of dates in eight years from the seed?in this climate it may take longer. When grown the tree is eight feet high. It fruits in August, yielding from one hundred to _n four hundred pounds of dates to a tree. c" The cultivation of this tree for its fruit IS will doubtless become a great industry 0 in this State, especially on the hot, sandy 5" plains of San Joaquin. The seeds of n dates that may be bought at any groccy stare are used by the Frisno people in !r planting.?t-an Jo< qu n Herald.