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RESCUED FROM A WELL. John Anderson, of Nebraska, Entombed Ten Days. Thrilling Experiences in the Depths of the Excavation. John Anderson, of Johnstown, Neb., was at the bottom of a seventy-five foot well I making some repairs ten days ago, when the j sides of the orifice caved in and imprisoned i him. An alarm was immediately sent throughout the neighborhood, and people as- i 6embled from far and near to assist in liber- i ating him For eight clays over on? hun- I dred sturdy neighbors labored to acc omplish this end,but it was only on the ninth that the excavators got within sound of the imprisoned man's voice. A dispatch dated on the day of his rescue gives the following particulars: Over one hundred feet of lumber were used in the construction of the framework by means of which he wai> to be rescued. He was perfectly cheerful throughout, in spite of his terrible situation, a-ui directed the work of the other men. It was hoped that he would bo rescued the day before, but when the sun went down it was found impossible to get light to him so that he could see to work. It was accordingly decided to wait for daylight. At daylight the work was resumed with renewed courage and determination. A box, eighteen inches long and ten by eleven inches square, open at both ends and thoroughly soaped inside, was lowered to the boards that were protecting him In this covering a hole was cut ana the box was slipped through. At ten o'clock Anderson, after pulling off his clothes, tied a rope under his arms,and holding his hands straight above his head, was pulled through the box and finally released from his prison. Before raising him to the open air hi3 clothes were put on and stimulants were administered. After reaching the top of the ground he shook hands with his rescuers and j tried to thank them, but could only say: "God bless you, boys!" when his voice was choked. There were two hundred people present, and there were very few dry eyes among them. He was at once carried to the farmhouse and placed under the care of two physicians. After he was taken into the house the crowd gave three cheers for Henry Archer and George Campbell, the men who took him from the well. They were so overcome with fatigue and joy that when the crowd began congratulating them they were like children. There is as much rejoicing as if Anderson had been a brother to every person in the community. So intense was the excitement and anxiety that farmers left their fields and merchants their stores and flocked to the scene of the accident Every day supplies were sent to the workers from private residences and stores, and the women were unceasing in their kindly offices. But, although the rescuing party did all in ^ their power, Anderson would never have Bfe been saved but for his own efforts. He f planned and directed the work during the r last two days. f The rescued man in relating his experience says that when the boards and sand closed in over him, he was crowded into a box about 2 feet BiJU&re and with not room for him to stand erect He could not get on his knees nor sit down. D "About the first three days," says Andermr\r\ "T orftf. olnnor wrv waII Inf. flftflr that I began to want water badly. The fourth day when it rained I heard what I thought was water slowly dropping. Feeling around I found it and holding my mouth open managed in this way to get about a dozen drops of water which gave me much, relief. I had no difficulty in breathing until the well below me came so near being filled by 6and occasionally coming in,caused by the diggers above. "Having a supply of chewing tobacco I did not suffer so much for food as might have been expected. From the beginning I could hear considerable that was said and done above. I heard the wagon when it started to town for lumber and heard some one say the man is dead and the order given to try to pull my box out. When they began to pull I knew there was great danger of the boards giving way and crushing me, and for my own safety and to give evidence of being alive, I cut the ropes and heard the exciting talk that prevailed when it was discovered that I was alive. It was music to me, and from that time on I was hopeful of being rescued. "About the sixth day I felt something crawling on my hand and found it to bo a flv. I thought by this that an opening had been made from above. I was correct, for soon a wet rag was passed to me. It was covered with 6and, but no honey ever tasted better than the moisture in that raj. Soon a bottle of water and a piece of bread were given me." COMING FAIRS. Leading Fairs To Be Held in the United States This Fall. * The American Agriculturist publishes the following; list of prominent fairs that will be held throughout the United States this fall. The cities in which the fairs are to be held and the time of holding them are given below: j Am. Institute....New York Oct 3-8 Arkansas Pine Bluff Oct. 9-13 Buffalo New York Sept. 4-14 i California Sacramento.... oept. ;>-i3 i Colorado Pueblo Oct. 2-0 : Connecticut Meriden Sept 11-14 : Dakota Huron Sept 24-30 i Del & Md. Peninsula, 1st Horti- i cultural Ex Wilmington...Sept. 18-21 Delaware Dover Sept. 24-29 Georgia Macon Oct 10-10 Illinois Olney Sept 24-28 Illinois Fat Stock.Chicago Nov. 13-21 Indiana Indianapolis.. .Sept. 17-22 Iowa Des Moines. Aug. 3l-Sep. 7 Kansas... Topeka Sept 17-22 Kentucky Lexington.. Aug. 28-Sep. 1 Louisiana Rhreveport Nov. &-10 Maryland Higerstown Oct 16-19 Maine Lewiston Sept 11-14 I Mass. Bay State. .Springfield Oct 4-9 I Mass. Horticult'l..Boston Sept. 18-21 | Michigan Jackson Sept 10-14 i Minnesota. St Paul Sept 10-15 I Mississippi Jackson Oct. 8-13 ' Missouri St. Louis Oct 1-6 I Montana. Helena Aug. 20-25 ( Nebraska Lincoln Sept. 7-14 i N.England,Mass. .Worcester Sept 4-7 j N.Hamp. Grange. Tiltoa Sept. 12-14 i New Jersey Waverly Sept 17-21 1 New York. Elmira Sept 17-22 North Carolina. ..Ra'eigh Oct 16-20 Ohio Columbus Sept. 4-19 Ohio CenteimiaL .Cincinnati. .July 4-Oct 27 Ontario, Provin'l. .Kiimston Sept 10-15 Oregon Salem Sept. 17-21 Pennsylvania Philadelphia....Sept. 3-15 Knoae jsiana rro vmence oepu. South Carolina...Columbia Nov. 13-16 Tennessee Nashville Sept. 23-29 , Texas Dallas Oct. 11-31 1 Vermont. Burlington.... Sept. 11-14 Virginia Richmond..Oct.3-Nov. 21 t West Virginia Wheeling Aug. 27-31 Wisconsin Madison Sept. 17-21 i Wisconsin Indus.. Racine Sept. 4-7 Wyoming (Jhoyene Sept. 25-28 r A $50,000 TEOTTEE. A Renowned Younjj Stallion Sold ' in Kentucky. c Th? renowned young trotting stallion Bell Boy has been sold at Maple Ridge Farm,near c Lexington, Ky., at auction for $50,000. The tale was made to close a partnership in the 0 horse which was owned by Mr. C. C. Seaman, of San Diego, Cal, and Taomas Jefferson, of Kentucky. A large crowd of horsemen from all parts of the country was pres- 1 ent, but only two men engaged in the bidding. Mr. John S. dark, of Elmira, N. Y.. ; started the horse at $^0,000, Mr. Seaman I raised him $10,001 From that on $1000 bids came fast and furious until Seaman bid $40,000. Then Mr. Clark bid $500 better, and ' bids of the latter amount were the order till * Mr. Seaman bid $4'J,O0J, when Mr. Clark only raised it $ 100. Mr. Seaman's next bid c was $50,000, and there being no advance, j Captain Phil C. Kidd, the auctioneer, knocked the horse down to Mr. Seaman at t the highest price ever paid for a horse at c auction in America. Bell Boy is three years old, by Electioneer, p dam Beautiful Bills, by The Moor. He has a 1; two-year-old record of 2:26. J Mr. Seaman will place Bell Boy in the hands of Mike Bowermm,of Lexington,Ky., 1 to be trained for the fall's campaign. 0 SUMMARY OF CONGRESS. Senate Proceedings. 139th Day.?Mr. Saulsbury made a lengthy address in favor of ratifyine the Fishery Treaty....The Sundry Civil Service bill was taken up for consideration. The proviso that there shall not lie an iucrease in the number of steam plate printing machines in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing was agreed to. 140th Da v.?An amendment to the Sundry Civil bill providing for the widow of Spencer F. Baird was passed, after debate .... The Committee on Education and Labor reported favorably the bill to create Boards of Arbitration tor settling controversies and differences between railroad corporations and their employes. 141st Day.?The Senate spent the greater part of the day discussing an amendment to the Sundry Civil bill which looks to the reclamation of lands in the arid regions of the | West, for agricultural purposes, by means of j a system of reservoirs and irrigating ditches. | The amendment was finally passed appropriating ?250,000 for preliminary work in reclamation A bill introduced by Sonator Blair, at the request of the Federation of Labor,amends the law prohibiting the importation of foreigners under contract, so that the importation of any alien or foreign laborer, mechanic, artist or artisan,under agreement to perform labor, is unlawful. 142d Day.?The resolution to appoint a committee to investigate the commercial relations between the United States and Canada was agreed to The Select Committee on the Pacific Railroads, reported the Union Pacific Funding bill providing for a settlement of claims growing oat of the issue of bonds and to secure a payment of all indebtedness The Senate then considered the Sundry Civil bill, the question being on the amendment of Mr. Spooner appropriating $75,030 for a public building at Atchison, Kan. The amendment was rejected?yeas, 21; nays, 23. Mr. Spooner offered as an amendment the bill to refund the direct tax. Mr. Harris j made the point of order, that the amendment was general legislation, and not in order j on a general appropriation bill, and Presi- | ripnf-. Trio-nils nromDtlv ruled the point of j order as well taksn. 143d Day.?The bill appropriating $3,000,- i 000 for the purchase of a site or sites lor a I new Custom House and Appraiser's Stores in the city of New York was passed. It is the | same bill which passed the House some time ago....The Committee on Agriculture re- | ported back the bill to enlarge the powers of the Department of Agriculture and to create an executive department to be known as the Department of Agriculture.... A joint resolution empowering the President to employ such means as may be necessary to promptly obtain indemnity from the Venezuelan Gov* ernment for damages suffered by the Venezuelan Steam Transportation Company of New York through tne seizure of its steamers Hero, San Fernando, and Nutrias in 1S71 by Venezuelan beligerents was adopted The Senate passed the following bills: The House bill for the erection of an appraiser's warehouse in the city of New York, the House bill to provide for the disposal of the Fort Wallace Military Reservation in Kansas, the Senate bill appropriating $30,000 for a monumental column to commemorate the battle of Princeton, N. J....The Sundry Civil bill was again brought up for discussion. Mr. Call's amendment appropriating $10,030 for the recovery of property of the IttlO VUlUDU0iai,0 ?JU*uoo uu?? uwiu iu u^tvjow possesion to the government waS considered. Mr. Allison moved to lay the resolution on the table, and the motion was agreed to without division. The Sundry Civil bill was then passed. Honse Proceedings. 173d Day.?The war claim section of th? Army Appropriation bill was discussed. A request by ex-Confedorates for return ol money paid out by them on November 25, 1862, was passed. 174tii Day.?Mr. Conger, from the Com in it tee on Agriculture, reported to the Hous< the substitute for the Butter worth bill tc regulate the manufacture of compound lard .... Mr. Payson spoke on the subject of land grants....Mr. Voorhees delivered a speech urging the admission of Washington Territory into the Union?The bills favorable re ported to the House from the comraitteei were the following: The Senate bill tcf amend the Interstate Commerce act; the Senat? bills for the erection of a monument to th< memorv of General Henry Knox, of Thornaston, Me., and for the completion of a monument to Mary, the mother of Washington, at Fredericksburg, Va.; to incorporate tb? * ?:.._i A AlJUCliUlii msbviivai noowiawvu. 175th Day.?The House Committee on Manufactures submitted a l-eport on the trusts investigation and mapp:ng out a plan of procedure against them.... A joint resolution calling for information from our Consuls in foreign countries relative to emigration to the United States was passed....Mr.Sowden reported favorably to the House his bill appropriating $70,000 for a public building at Allen town, Penn... .The following bills were introduced: Directing the Superintendent of the Eleventh Census to ascertain and 1 publish the birth and death rate among pure whites and among colored people, Chinamen, Indians, half breeds or hybrids of any de- . scription or character of the human race who are found in the United States, as well < as of mulattoes, quadroons, and octoroons; , to set apart a tract of land in New Mexico, adjoining the Cochiti Indian reservation, aa a public reservation, on account of its archaeological remains; to amend the Inter-State Commerce act, so as to prevent discrimina- 1 tions in favor of the owners of tank cars,and J to allow fines imposed to ba paid over to the | koAnAniiillK/K Al'ftlAMB Tka fll/Ii/tt QltTT 1 i he annual consujicion 01 cuu.ee is wu,uw j ons throughout the world. The Egyptian Government expended $i50,- i KHJ boring for oil and got none. Delaware has this year the largest peach rop ever grown in its history. New York City real estate is increasing it the rate of $ 1,000,08J a week. j The Florida orange crop is expected to each 3,000,000 boxes this season. The deficit in the Postoffke Department his vear will bo onlv about ?5,000,0j0. Two counterfeiters were recently arrested n Pittsburg with $45,000 in spurious green>acks. Large numbers of cattle are being shipped rom the Sandwich Islands to the United J States. j Greece has had such hot weather that the j urrant crop has been damaged twenty-five ; >er cent. j Fish-salt, which is sure death to sheep, ia | >eing put out on their ranges by Montana j tattle men. , The amount necessary for maintaining the 5an Francisco school "department for next | ear is placed at ?970,000. There are thirty.seven tunnels of more than 000 yards in England, the longest being that if the Severn, yards. ' ' A GREAT CORN CROP. in Estimated Yield This Year of 2,000,000,000 Bushels. An Increase of 540,000,000 Bushels Over Last Year. The importance of the corn crop in its affect upon the prosperity of the country is often lost sight of in considering the value of our wheat crop. The fact is, says a New York paper, that the latter cuts but a small fieure as compared with the former. The relative value of corn or wheat per bushel i? now about 50 to 90 cents. The wheat yield this year may be roughly estimated at 420,000,000 bushels, worth, say, $378,000,000. Thfr yield of corn will probably approximate 2,000.000.000 bushels, worth, sav, $1,000,000,000. These figures show the relative importance of the two crops. Again, it should be remembered that the average yield of corn per acre is from twenty-two to twenty-five bushels, while wheat averages about twelve bushels. At the prices which have been ruling recently the value of corn per acre will average about $12, while wheat will barely average $11 per acre. Corn is therefore by far a moro important crop than wheat, and the excellent prospect of a big corn crop this year is one of the most favorable features of tho crop situation. Dur- | ing the past week there h is been the same ! favorable conditions affecting corn that have j been noticed for several weeks. The Cincin- I nati Price Current says: :'With sufficiency of moisture and seasonab!e conditions otherwise for a few weeks. I the crop may.be confidently expected to equal j the production in 1885,or to exceed it; in that ; year the area was about 2,300,000 acres less j than planted this season, according to indi- I cation of official estimates, and yielded an ! average of 2CJ4 bushels per acre for the en- I tire country. This season's gain in area, j compared with 1885, is greater in the South Mion in fVio Western erouD of corn-raisine: ! States?the latter representing about 700,OuO acres, or about IX per cent, and the former 1,600,0JO acres, or 7% per cent. The present outlook appears to be for a crop of about 1,950,000.000 bushels, on continuance of favorable conditions. "Taking the area of the corn crop harvested in 188?,an application of the estimates of the different States as reported by the | Department of Agriculture in July, 1887, re- 1 suited in about 77,985,000 acres, as representing last year s planting. The returns of area harvested are stated as 72,392,720 acres, or 5,592,000 acres less than were planted. Applying the estimates of this year's planting to harvested area in 1887, the indicated planting this season is 75,430,000 acres, again of 3,037,COO acres compared with last year's 1 crop harvested, but a decrease of 2,555,000 acres compared with last year's planting." With a view of showing the indicated area of corn planted and harvested last year, compared with this year's estimated planting, in leading States and for other portions of the country, the Price Current submits the following compilation: Planted. Harvested. Planted. 1887. 1887. 1888. Dhio 3,017,160 2,805,961 2,974,320 Indiana 3,757,830 3,569,994 3,831,290 Illinois. 8,644,625 7,347,915 7,715,310 Iowa 8,085,560 7,191,148 7,483,990 ? ** tyao nur c ai\u ro" r coo fWi Missouri U, lfO)VO& UjIW/jIW \j)'j*/yjy0inj Kansas 6,393,875 5,242/J79 5,609,985 Nebraska 4,111,870 3,865,158 4,097,055 Minnesota.... 681,750 606,756 624,960 Dakota 795,150 636,120 737,900 Wisconsin.... 1,131,975 1,018,778 1,059,530 Michigan 967,0*0 841,310 900,210 I Kentucky.... 3,.551,310 3,1(M),668 3,255,490 Tennessee... 3,569,230 3,497,848 3,637,760 Total 51,451,410 46,196,426 49,586,500 Southern States, 12...23,270,390 22,995,75S 23,638,175 Middle States, 4 2,725,520 2,667,428 2,672,180 New England States 2G4,310 263,917 263,243 Others 269,170 209,191 270,000 Aggregate, acres 77,986,800 72,392,720 75,430,406 The area planted this year is about 2,300,000 acres greater than tbe acreage harvested in lb85, and the present outlook indicates that the acreage harvested this year will be in excess of that of 1835. In that year the yield was 1,93(5,176,000 bushels, and, barring unforeseen mishaps, there is little doubt that i the yield this year will be larger than that of 1885, and we will not be surprised should ' the crop turn out a round 2,000,000,000 ! bushels. This will furnish big business for the railroads, for it will mean an increase of more than 540,000,000 bushels over last year IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. prU9Uv;uviU? Ubiwiis. . . . auo uuuivtai j vwjumittee asked unanimous consent that the International Copyright bill be made a special order for Wednesday, December 5. 176Tn Day.?In the absence of Speaker Carlisle, Mr. McMillin, of Tennessee, was called to preside over the House.... The conference report on the Omaha Public Building bill was rejected, and the measure has again been sent to conference The House Committee on Naval Affairs reported favorably a joint resolution granting permission to the City of New York to improve and beautify Governor's Island, in conjunction with a public park to be laid out on said island The Army Appropriation bill, with Senate amendments, was discussed in Com- j mittee of the Whole.anrt all the amendments were non concurred in with the exception of those relative to fortifications and ordnance. These amendments were considered in order, but no action was taken. 147th Day.?The Senate amendmenta to the Army Appropriation bill were under consideration in the House during the greater part of the day,the pending motion being that af non-concur in the amendment appropriating $2500 for repairs to the sea wall and tvharf ac WiHet's Point, N. Y. After debate the amendment was non concurred in without division, as was also the amendment appropriating $(i'J0,00J for the manufacture or purchase of cannon and carriages. Mr. Buries opposed the establishment of a gun facjory at Watervliet Arsenal. ??.? NEWSY GLEANINGS. ; Califor.ma has 5,000,OOO sheep. f Gold is discovered at Ishpeming, Mich. Cholera is epidemic at Hong Kong, . .hina. j Six Kentucky counties are without lnrches. j The shad-fly plague in Chicago is becom- f ng unendurable;. Buenos Ayres is shipping wheat to the : lorth of Scotland. , There are 800 men engaged in hunting for liamocds in Australia. j m i i.: .a an CfA AAA i Report of the Bureau of Statistics on Our Foreign Commerce. The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics for the United States reports that for the year ended June 30, 1888, our foreign commerce shows in increase of $11,336,786 in the total values if the imports and exports of merchandise aver the previous year. There was a decrease of $20,203,51*2 in exports, but an increase of $31,545,378 in imports. Imports exceeded exports by $25,S'J0,527; the former being $723,fc(i},148, and the latter JC95,974,619. A comparison of the domestic sxports of the last fiscal year with those of the fiscal year 18S&-'87 shows that the decline was principally in exports of wheat, corn, refined sugar, ana leaf tobacco; but there was an increase in exports of cotton, wheat flour, beef products and animals. The imported articles which j axhibit the largest increase during the last | fiscal year are coffee,vegetables, tin (in bars, blocks and pigs), wool manufactures, hemp, I barley, silk manufactures, wool and railway | baxs of steeL THE LABOR WORLD, Electricians are everywhere overcrowded. There are now nearly 15,000,000 organized wage workers in the land. In Philadelphia 4310 houses were built, xgainst 3670 last year to this date. The telegraph operators are preparing to torm another national organization. Amos J. Cummings is talked of as a Labor candidate for Mayor of Now York. An immense car factory to employ 3500 men is to be built at Duluth, Mich. Over SG500 has been contributed to the Knight of Labor Educational Fund. A convention of journeymen type foundsrs was recently held in Philadelphia. Three new blast furnaces to cost $700,000 ire to be erected at Birmingham, Ala. Brooklyn labor unions will carry only American flags in their Labor Day profession. A co-operative broom factory has been itarted at Harrisburg, Oregon, by the Knights of Labor. Tens of thousands of laborer! in the New England and Middle States are paid one dol- I lar a day and less. I There is a heavy demand for machinery, soilers, engines, tools, electrical appliances, md builders' materials in all centers. There are 673 rules necessary for trainmen's guidance under the new system of tho Did Colony Railroad in Massachusetts. An order has been received at a saw works n Beaver Fal's, Penn., for large planer;oothed circular saws for Burmah, India. A machine has just been eonpleted that I svill revolutionize the cooper trade. With it | ;hree men will be ablo to make 600 barrels a j lay. Canadian cigar-makers average four dolars per week. They are required to pay for ;as out of that sum, whether they use it or lot. The Knights of Troy, N. Y., purchased ;he State Armory in 1SS3. but have had to et it drop through because of lack of funds io pay for the structure. The capacity of a locomotive is seldom ated by the horse-power, but rather by the lumber of pounds or tons load it will haul at i given speed on a level or on a given grade. A manual training school at Cleveland, 3hio, has 121 pupils who are taught in carxmtry. turning, pattern makiug and forgng. There are about twenty such schools in ;he country. The steam engine is at last to have a comjetitor in the petroleum engine now in quite general use in England, where it is giving ! general satisfaction, even with cheap coal to I iompeto with. Michigan lumbermen have just made a j mrchase of 45,000 trees, each over two feet 1 it the stump, in North Carolina, nearly all vhite wood. It will be rafted to Chattanooga, j Conn., and cut up, 75,000 feet a day. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED, Eastern and Middle States. Governor Hill has commuted the sentence of thfl Italian woman, Chiara Cienarale, who was to have been hung in New York on August 17th, to imprisonment for life. cnief Engineer k. J. Kenton, of the United States Navy, has died at Oswego, N. Y., of heart disoaso. A disease of the bowels prevails in a virulent form among the farmers in a large section of Southern Ohio. The indication is drowsiness, preceding the fatal attack several days. It prevails on farms almost exclusively. Reports from New B>dford, Mass., of late date, were to the effect that General Sheridan was steadily improving. Charles Cummings,second steward of the Brighton Hotel, at Atlantic City, N. J., and Henry Boyd, an employe of the hotel, got beyond their depth while bathing and were drowned. Bartley Campbell, the actor and plav wright, has died at the State Homceopathia j Asylum for the Insano in Middletown, N. Y. He was admitted to the asylum November 30, I860. Catharine Gaffney, who is one of tha three heirs to a fortune of about $150,000'left by her brother, Patrick H. Gaffney, has been found in the almshouse on Blackwell's Island, New York. The New Jersey Court of Errors and appeals has sustained in a recent test caw, the constitutionality of the High License County Option law. Christopher Meyer, the New York millionaire manufacturer and railway magnate, died suddenly at his Fifth avenue home. The six thousand river miners who have been at work near Pittsburgh since January 1, and have mined over 50,u03,00j bushels of coal, have begun a strike against a reduction in wages from three cents per bushel to two and a half cents. A coal train engine exploded at Scran; ton, Penn., and the engineer, Irwin Stern, and the fireman, Oscar Kriedler, were killed. I South and West. John Moore killed his sister-in-law in Detroit because she asked him to pay his board. He then fatally shot her daughter and himself. Near Bentonia, Miss., the young daughter of Dolph Miles (colored) poisoned her father and three brothers, all of whom died in her presence in great agony. Eugene Zvnxir, of Indianapolis, committed suicide at a prayer meeting in church by drinking a bottle of carbolic acid. His aged father and mother killed themselves two weeks ago. deptty Sheriff L. S. Elmer, of Wahpeton, Dakota, murdered pretty Miss Mollie Kerbell under circumstances of peculiar atrocity. On the following day a masked mob of one hundred determined men overpowered Sheriff Miller, who had him under arrest,and took the murderer out, and hanged > him to a bridge over the Boisde Sioux River. Ex-Governor Carney,the war Governor of Kausas, died a few days ago of apoplexy at Leavenworth. A. Kleshar cut his wife's throat at Ferndale, CaL, aud took poison himself. Both died. The Indians who have been in council at Standing Rock Agency, deliberating the proposition of the Government to throw open their reservation to settlers, finally, atter much speech making, decided unanimously not to sign any treaty to that effect A daybreak duel occurred at Norfolk, Va., on Saturday between John F. Evans, a prominent saloon keeper, and Peter McLean, a popular sporting man. McLean was instantly killed, and was carried home with four bullets in his body. William St. Clair and Bob Ashley crossed the river on a ferryboat at Alton, I1L, and after landing on Missouri Point auarreled. Ashley ran at St Clair with a bowie knife and drove him into the river. St. Clair could not swim. Ashley preventad him from regaining the shore and he was drowned. Senator Palmer, of Michigan, has publicly notified his Michigan constituents that he would not be a candidate for re-election. His term expires March 4th, 1889, and he intends to retire to private life. At a Scandinavian gathering at Lake Vadnais, Minn., Ole Oleson was struck on the back of the neck with a club by one of a gang of "fakirs" and instantly killed. Another of tbe gang disemboweled a carpenter named Johnson with a dirk and fatally stabbed two other Scandinavians. a party oi Doys oi oomersec, were playing Indian and engaged in a fight Virgie Hamilton, whose side was getting worsted, seized his father's gun and fired, killing Willie Haines instantly and fatally wounding his brother Lee. Fremont Emmons, who murdered Bertha Schultz because she refused to marry him, was taken from jail at Pawnee City, Neb., and lynched. He was led through the public square in broad day light with the rope around his neck and made to haug himself by jumping off a high rail way trestle. Dr. Robert Morris, a Presbyterian minister, the Poet Laureate of Masonry, and recognized as the most distinguished Mason in America, has died at his home in Lagrange, Ky. The first State Convention of the Prohibi- i tion party of West Virginia has been held in Parkersburg. A full State ticket, an electoral ticket and a Congressman for the First district were placed in nomination. Thomas It. Carskadon for Governor heads the ticket. While indorsing the national ticket the platform does not indorse the nation U platform, with its women's rights and tariff reform clauses. Cable dispatches received from Rome I announce the appointment of the Rev. Dr. John S. Folev. for the last twentv vears pas ior of St. Martin's Church. Baltimore, to be Bishop of the diocese of Detroit, and the Rev. J. J. Hennessy, of St. John's Church, St. Louis, to be Bishop of Wichita, Kan. V. J. Shipman, a wealthy resident of Pensacoift, has been nominated for Governor by the Republicans of Florida. Washington. During the first six months of the present year 316,211 immigrants arrived at the ports of the United States from the principal foreign countries, except the Dominion of Canada and Mexico. In th9 same period last year the arrivals numbered 28j,45'J. Ex-Speaker Samuel J. Randall has bo far recovered from his recent illne-s that he has been removed to Wayne Station, near j Philadelphia, where he will pass the period of his convalescence. The first certificate of election to the Fiftyfirst Congress has just been received by General C!ark, Clerk of the House. It certified that Binger Hermann, of Oregon, had been elected to the House of Representatives by a j vote of 3"J,820, over John M. Gearin, who received -5,413. The certificate is handsomely engrossed upon sheepskin. The President returned to Washington from his fishing jaunt off the coast of Fire < Island, and had an interview with Chief I J UMiL'D A" UUOi Foreign. A volcanic eruption at Bandaisan, fll'ty leagues from Yokohama, Japan, has d&i stroved several villages and killed one thou-j sand persons, including one hundred visitors at the thermal springs. Th ? Empress of Germany was safely de-? livered of a son at 1:80 o'clock Friday morning in the royal palace at Potsdam. Em-, peror William, who was at Stockholm, has asked King Oscar, of Sweden, to be godfather of his last born. The coroner's jury in the casa of Mandeville, the Irish agitator who died in prison,, dec !n red his death to be due to treatment received at Tullamore Jail Eight thousand laborers have gone on j strike at Paris, France. Jules Boucher, an official in the Quebec (Canada) City Government, tied his wife's thumbs together and hung her to hooks in a closet. Then he flogged her terribly. Next day she committed suicide. Mil Jxmieson, the naturalist, writes from Kasongo, Africa, on the Congo River, that he is making preparations to 'eave with Major Barttelot, Tippu Tib, and 'J00 men to search for Henry M. Stanley. During the celebration in Munich of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig I., of Bavaria, frichtened elephants rushed n-'ong the spectators and killed twenty persona. john Haggert has been appointed Paymaster-General of Canada, and the Hon. Edgar Demdney, Minister of the Interior and Superintendent - General of Indian / J / ASTT Koach, aged fifty, his only son and a nephew were drowned while sailing at Halifax, Nova Scotia, their boat having been capsized in a saualL LATER NEWS. Thx boiler of a locomotive on the Reading Railroad exploded in the suburbs of Philadelphia, killing the engineer and fireman,and injuring five passengers. * James Rath, a farmer who had placed Paris green in a neighbor's well at Virgil, N. Y., hanged himself through remorse. jjorinb a quarrel over a trivial matter at Lafayette, Ind., "Bert" White, a youth seventeen years old, shot and killed William Ellsworth, aged nineteen. R B. Van Valkenburo, Associate Justice of the Florida Supreme Court, died suddenly at Suwanee Springs. He was about seventy years old. He was Minister to Japan under Lincoln. George Harris,"fourteen years old, was target firing with a rifle at East Norwood, Ohio, when his eleven-year-old sister seized the muzzle of the gun. In the struggle it was discharged,the bullet entering her heart, killing her instantly. At Pittsboro, Miss., Bob Reagan had an altercation about business with Charles Cochran, E N. Enochs and James Enochs. They assaulted him, when he drew his pocket knife and with it instantly killed Cochran and fatally cut the two Enochs, receiving himself a blow which broke three of his ribs. Suffolk, Va., has been visited by a fire which consumed over one hundred houses in the heart of the business saction, well nigh destroying the city and inflicting damage to the amount of $400,000. T. J. Goodwin, Treasurar of Rawlins County, Kan., has fled, leaving a shortage of about $100,000. Fifty armed men broke op an the jail at Carthage, Tenn., and lynched W. H. Handley, who recently murdered Deputy Sheriff Worman. President Cleveland has approved the act making Decoration Day a legal holiday in the District of Columbia and the act to extend the leave of absence of employes of the Government printing office to thirty days each year. Governor Loch has formally opened the Australian Centenary Exhibition at Melbourne. The Turkish Government has sent a protest to all the European powers against the occupation of Massowah, Africa, by Italy. Eddy's steam lumbar mills at Ottawa, Canada, with 8,000,000 feet of lumber and fifty tenement houses occupied by mill hands, V?a no Viaati T .noa t'AVi OOO THE NATIONAL GAME, f The Indiana Ler~ue is a thing of the past In Texas the games are not called until fire o'clock. Anson and Comiskey are both sacriflc# hitters; Detroit has a fortunate faculty for bunching hits. Pitcher Staley is proving a jewel for Pittsburg. Winona, Mich., has a team composed of school teachers. Burdock is a great acquisition 10 the Brooklyn team. Pitcher Gilmore has at last been released j by "Washington. Indianafolis has been doing the heaviest j batting in the League. Pitcher Ciarkson is said to be a disappointment to Boston. Thepe have been thirty-eight shut-outs in the League and none of them was for the Giant*. StaGG, the Yala praying pitcher, has re- | fused several tempting oifers from profes- j sional clubs. Secretary Bcandrett, of the Pittsburg j Club estimates tho loss to the club by rain j this season at $10,000. Fiiist Bareman Faatz has made only j seven errors out of 504 chances offered to him ; on the Cleveland team. The Newark 'N. J.) is the onl^ club in the j country tbat Has noc jose a cuauipiuuauip game on its own grounds. PiTrsBuno is assured that Buckly is a E-eat player. He has made only one fieldg error in twenty games. The attendance at the Detroit games is very smalL On some fine days scarcely 500 people go out to the grounds. In the Detroit Club the Captain has nothing ' to say as to the practice of the men and nothing whatever about the batting order. Little Niohol, of the Cincinnati team, leads the association in base stealing. He i has stolen fifty-three bases so far this ; season. Louisville's ex manager, Kelly, says: "In Collins, Louisville has the best fielder in the Association?or League, too, for that matter." Umpire McQuade says that Blair, of the Athletics, has a more mysterious drop ball than any pitcher in the Association, not barring Ramsoy, of Louisville. With the "only" Kelly demoralized, Clarkson in a huff and lam?, and Nash and Day injured, the present outlook for the Boston Club is not very encouraging. Buck Ewtng's eyes are bright, his hands are in splendid condition, and, barring an acrident, the New York captain is good for twenty-five more games behind the bat. General Harrison, the Republican candidate for President, is very fond of the national game and attends nearly every series of League games played in Indianapolis. When the deaf-mute Hoy, of Washington, wants to question an umpire's decision on balls and strikes, he makes his complaint known by holding out his bat where he thinks the ball went. Gentleman (to boy outside the Chicago grounds)?"Game going on to day, Johnny*" Johnny?"Yessir." Gentleman?"Who are the contestants, Johnny?" Johnny?"Baby Anson and de empire." Whenever a juvenile spectator catches a foul knocked into the stands at Buffalo, N. Y., the audience at once shouts: "Sign him, Chapman, sign him," much to the genial manager's chagrin, who is trying hard to strengthen the club, but without avail, it seems. Tokio, Japan, has a regularly organized baseball club, gathared and instructed by H. Hiraata, a young Jap who studied engineering in this country five years. Spalding makes the club a small and special ball. The regulation ball is too hard and large for Japanese hands. When Doescher made a decision thatfailed to meet the views of the crowd at Cincinnati & few days since, he walked over to third base and shouted: "Carpenter, did you touch McKeon with the ball?" When the baseman acknowledged ?hat he had not the hisses of the mob were drowned with applause. Whit v n crnmn of hflsehftll was in Drocress in Dallas, Texas, a few days ago, a player, in attempting to steal second base, disappeared from sight as suddenly and as completely as if the earth had swallowed him up. He had broken through the ground into an old well, the existence of which had been foreo(t?n, and was rescued standing up to his nec k in icy water. NATIONAL LKAQUB RECOIf). S'amco' Club. Won. Ijo*l New York 49 28 Detroit 47 .'}0 Chicago 45 32 Philadelphia 37 39 Boston 37 42 Pittsburg 31 41 Indianapolis 31 45 Washington 29 48 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION )HO. Fame of Club. />>v. St. Louis 51 27 Brooklyn 52 29 Cincinnati 48 30 Athletic 40 30 Baltimore 34 45 Louisville 30 48 Cleveland 2b 48 Kansas Citv 22 54 MINERAL PBQDUCTS. v Statistics Concerning a Year's Oatpnt of Onr Mines. The United States Leading the> World in Mineral Eesouroes. Dr. David T. Day, Chief of the Division of the Mining Statistics, has submitted to thi Director of the United States Geological Survey a statement of the mineral product oi the United States in 1887, in advance of tin official report, "Mineral Resources of the United States, 1887." The total value o 1 the mineral products is $538,056,345; it shows a wonderful gain over 1886, and is $100,000,000 greater than the output ol 1835. The United States leads the world in + tiAfi"An Af minarnla 'I'hft HUC vi uuuuaia xuo y* gains in 1887 were in metallic ores and th? fuels for smelting them. Pig iron alone increased more than $26,000,090, and the higb price of copper caused notable expansion in that industry. The product of coal is the largest ever recorded. Taken as a whole, the report shows a year of great prosperity for the mining industry. The fjreat total value of more than ball a billion dollars, the report says, resulted not only from an increase in the quantity oE minerals mined, but also from a general advance in the prices of metals. It may be several years before this total is exceeded, and the year 1888 will fall considerably below it. j Among many reasons for the decrease thil year is the decline in railroad building. The principal items are: Iron?Domestic ore consumed about II,- j 300,0C0 long tons: value at mines, $33,900,000; an increase over 1888 of 1,300,0,'0 tons in 1 quantity and $5,900,000 in value. Imported i iron ore consumed, 1,194,301 long tons; total iron ore consumed in 1&87 about 12,494,301 long tons, or 1,454,868 tons more than in 1886. | Pig iron made, 6,417,148 long tons; value at ] furnace, $121,925,800. This is an increase over 1886 of 733,819 tons in quantity and $20,730,040 in value. Steel of all kinds produced, 3,339,071 long tons, an increase of 776,569 tons over 1886; value at works, $103,811,000. Gold and Silver?Total value of gold 'produced in 1887, $33,000,0090, a decrease of $1,900,000 from 18t'0. Silver increased from $51,000,000 in 1886 to $?$,441,300 (coinage . value) in 1687. Copper?Production, 184,670,524 pounds,of i WHICH 3,7oU,UUO pounds were made irom im- i ported pyrites. Total value. #21,052,4-10. Lead?Production, lft0,700 short tons, valued at $1-1,468,000. The heavy increase of "desilverized" lead from 114,82;) short tons in 1886 to 185,552 in 18S7 was probably due to the importation of Mexican lead silver ores. Coal?Total output, including colliery consumption, was: Pennsylvania anthracite, 37.578,747 long tons; an increase over 1S86 of 2,725,670 long tons, or 42,088,197 short tons; ! an increase of 3,052,751 short tons. All other | coals, 87,837,3o0 short tons; an increase of [ 14,129,403 tons, making the total output of i all coals from mines in the United States, exclusive of slack coal thrown on the dumps, . 129,925,557 short tons; an increase of 17,182,154 tons, valued as follows: Anthracite, I $84,552,181; an increase of* $3,433,031. Bituminous, $97,939,656; an increase of $19,45S.600. Total value, $182,491,837; an increase f $27,891,661. All this shows a notable increase over 1886. Coke?Total production, 7,857,487 short tons, valued at $15,723,574, being 1,022,419 tons greater than in 1886. Natural Gas?Production equivalent to 9,055,000 short tons of coal displaced: value, $13,582,500, as against 6,356,000 tons, worth $9,847,150 in 1886. ! Building Stone?Total value, $25,000,000. This marked increase of $6,000,000 showa that the statement for 1886 was too small. Brick and Tile?Value, $40,000,000, an in* crease of about 13 per cent, in the production of brick and a decrease in tile. Lime?46,750,000 barrels, average value of 50 cents a barrel; increase for the year of 10 . per cent Cement?6,692,744 barrels, valued at $5,186,877; increase, $1,196,877. Precious Stonffe-The value of American gems in the rough state amounted to 188,600, beside gold quartz for specimens and gems valued at $75,000. Salt?7,831,962 barrels (of 280 pounds;, value $1,033,846. Tbe annual production baa increasad each year-since 1883, but the total value nas declined, being less in 1887 than 1884, although only 6,514,937 barrels were made in that year. Borax?Production 11,000,000 pounds, all from California and Nevada. Total value $550,000, at five cents a pound for the average grade. Mineral Waters?The product^which was old amounted to 8,259,600 gallons, worth $1,261,473. A slight decrease. A MURDERER AT EIGHT, He Fatally Wounds H!s Younger Brother and Commits Suicide. The mother of Alphonse and Louis Siautade, aged respectively ei^ht and six years, residing in Paris. France, was awakened on Monday morning by screams in the bedroom of the children. Hastening thither she found Louis lying in * * - J ? ? ? J t ? 1 in kia ofy\m. oea wna a ueep cuiu law *u owu.ach. She called for assistance, but before her neighbors had arrived Alphonse had cat his own throat from ear to ear with a razor, dyin? soon afterward. Alphonse hated his brother, and had on two previous occasions tried to kill him; once by driving a nail into his head with a hammer. He had stolen the razor from a shop, sharpened it before going to bed on the previous evening, and took it to bed with nim. The Bee Journal figures that the annual honey product of North America is about 100,000,003 pounds, and its value is nearly $15,000,000. The annual wax product is about .r0J,000 pounds, and its value is more than $100,0J0. There are about 300,000 persons keecine bees in North America. There were produced in the United States during the first six months of this year 3,020,!K)3 gross Ions of pig-iron, being 29,203 tons loco than in fchfi first half of 1887. The de crease was wholly in Bessemer pig, other kinds being slightly in excess ot la*t year. THE JIAKKETS. 31 NSW TORK. Beef. City Dressed 8% Calves, common to prime.... 5 @ 6% Bheep 5 Lambs 5 (?j 6% Hogs?Live 6 60 $ 6 75 Dressed 88% Flour?City Mill Extra. 4 45 <?) 4 65 Patents 4 i'O @ 5 10 Wheat?No. 2 Red fMX@ 9i}4 Rye?State 66 @ 58 Barley?State 82 @ 85 Corn?Ungraded Mixed.... 5>14? 55^ Oats?No. 1 White 44 @ 44% / Mixed Western 8J @ 39 Hay?Choice Timothy 95 @ 1 00 Straw?Long Rye -.. 80 @ 85 Lard?City Steam ? @ 8% Butter?State Creamery.... 20 @ 21 Dairy 14 @ 14% West Im. Creamery H @ 16 I Factory 12 @ 15 Cheese- State Factory. 8 @ 9% Skims 3 @ 7 Western 7 @ Eggs?State and Penn 18_@ 18j? BUFFALO. Steers?Western 4 03 @ 4 75 Sheep?Me 11 urn to Good.... 4 20 @4 50 Lambs? Kairt>'?ooil 5 50 (& G 00 Hogs?Good to Choice "iorks 5 !i0 @ (i 05 Flour?Fnmily 4 85 (g 5 25 Wheat-No. Ked 02 Com?Na 2. Yellow 5(^(9 51 Oats?No. 2, Mixed ? ($ 3i Barley?State. 88 Q 91 BOSTON. Beef?Good to choice. 9;^ Hogs?Live 6 Northern Dressed.... OJvS 7 Flour?Spring Wheat pat's.. 410 5 -5 Corn?Steamer Yellow. < 0 (ft 60}^ Oats?No. 2 White 4t'4@ 4t>* Ryo?State GO 05 Go^ WATIBTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MAItKKT Beef- Dressed weight {>14@ 8,'-i Sheep?Live weight 4)^@ 5 Lamb! 4%@ 63^ Hogs?Northern ? @ ls/\ PHILADELPHIA. Flour?Penn. family 3 75 @ 400 Wheat?No. 2, Red 90% @ 91 Corn?No. 2, Mixed 53)^\a} 53% Oats? Ungraded Wnite 40>$@ 41 Rye?Na 2 ? 78 Butter?Creamery Extra... ? ? 20 Choese?N. Y. Full ^rearo^. 9. @ 9)^ THAT LAST, LAST NIGHT* The moon bong gloriooa in the ukf, As heart to h?art, and eye to ?f6, Unheeding all the hours flew by That last, last night . ' .. The trees were brilliant red and gold; How passing sweet the story told? Ah! Dever long and never old? That last, last night We pledged each other to attain To Pisgah hights of heart and brain, And each to each should true remaia, That last, last night Your hand, electric to my own. Your lips more precious than a throne,. "Were mine, ah, joy I and mine alooe, That last, last night I wonder, if in years to be, You will remember glade and tree, ' And whisnered vows of constancy. That last, last night? ?Sarah K. Bolton, in Detroit Free Fresa. PITH AND POINT. Light minded?The gas man. >; " 'X Still life?In a whisky factory. Drawers of water?Marine artist*. - . A little shaver?A barber's apprentice*. Teh girl who won't be won, remains >ne. Deaf old age is, after all, the "hey" lay of youth. Do the pages at Washington constitute American history? Musical dicky birds no doubt prefer ;he "Song of the Shirt." Men are inclined to accept a pretty svoman at her face value. ; Tie fortune teller is apt to find in her did age some of her palmiest days. Among the fresh novelists is Mr.'SaitoV 3f New York.? Washington Critic. ' Opportunities are like vacant lota, rhey must be improved to be profitable. The King of the Dudes has been married about six months aud is now subiude. Now is the time to conciliate the girl1 father or make friends with the doge? Merchant Trawler. Why is a doctor like a broken windlass? Bee .use he can draw nothing from thdwell.?Washington Critic. Fond Mother?"Do you like babie^ Mr. Crusty?" Ciusty?"Er?yes, when they're grown up." Judg\ "Will the coming man perspire!*" queries a scientist. He will if he comet on a run.?Binghamton Republican. The reason that birds clean out a fnjjt tree so quickly is that they take the {rati away a peck at a time.?Boston Bulletin If we could see ourselves as others' see us, some of us would see ourselves a great deal better than we really are.?, Detroit Prce Pre is. ; A She?"Oh, ain't that pitcher josttoa sweet for anything? He?"Well^ I notice they ain't getting no flies off him. ?New Hat en News. Sheridan, the wit, bribed a man by nrnmininrr him & c.n.nd I fi-snuffer's nlace. which Canning said was a "flagrant delictum"?burning shame. "I will now disguise myself so that even my most intimate acquaintance would not recognize me," said the tramp as he entered the free bath.?Hotel-Matt, The roses smell sweet / And the groceries cheesy < The ladies look neat And the butter spreads easy. ' I ?Oil City B izzard. A phrenologist Bays that "fullness under the eyes denotes language." When the fullness is caused by another mairii fist it denotes very bad language, gen* erally. Miss Highborn?"I tell you, Mr. .Wildwest, there is nothing like blood here in the East." Wildwest?"It's the same iq the West. We always keep it on tap.'J ?Barlivgton Frt-t Press* A camping enthusiast loudly declares Hin kind of vacation immense. For the man who a cool can rat dvrelli&e place shares, .. " ^ Finos living a pleasure in tents. ?Boston Budget. Now it is announced that the troupe of Russian musicians who play twentyfour pianos simultaneously is coming to this country next season, and we are still without a navy and coast defences. ?Boston Post. ' "Oh, Mrs. Smith, do please introduce Mr. Jones over there to me." 4<Ifa fi< good, dear, he won't dance." ""No, i know, but I want to sit out with him; he goes with my dress so beautifully.w? London Judy. "What's that awful racket in the tool room?" inquired a customer of one oi the clerks; "somebody trying to yell % roof off?" "It's the silent partner, sit* the firm is after him for more money."? New York Sun. She (looking at the seaN~"Howgrand, how glorious, George, it is to watch the angry waves as they laah themselvei against the shore." He (with equal ecstacy, but less fluency)?"Yes, and how damp it seems." An Allentown tailoring firm employs a young woman to collect from sweil customers who are inclined to shirk paying honest debts. This seems to explode th< old saying that woman's work is nevei dun." ?Norriitown Herald. Oh, the skeeter possesses an airy wing, Ank it helps him to hustlearound, While he's somewhat, alas! inclined to dn| And his voice has a doleful sound As he bores away with his little sting Till we wish we were under the ground. ?Boston Budget. Woman (to tramp)?Why don't jt buy your food 'stead o' beggin' itt* Tramp?''Madam, I'm too poor to bu; even toothpicks." Womau?"That so What d'ye do fer tooth picks?" Tram] ?"I have to use barbed wire fences. Neto Turk Sun. "I don't see," said Mr. McGuire, as hi sat in the stern of the vessel, "how thi * - ? ~ k5o ttt.i rr o r> rnco fK/ captain can uuu mo nnj ocean. If he was going the other way! all he'd have to do would be to folloifl that white stteak behind there, but ifl front there's nothing to point the way.* ?Harper's Bazar. 9 The bridegroom keepj his secrets, for hifl secrets are his own; H Few people know how large a crop of w1m| oats he bos sown. H The bride, less fortunate than he, upon tbfl wedding day E Finds, by some fr.end or relative, that s'oe ifl given away. 9 ?Boston Courier. H Some carpenlcrs were putting a fencfl around the yard where little M. lived! Night coming on before they finishedl they roughly nailed some long strips ol timber across the posts to protect thl shrubs. M., looking at it, sa.d : "Thai fence is just basted! And, my! whifl long stitches, niaaima!"?Cfu-ittian ifofl It is stated on reliable authority thai Miss Mathilda Sheckels will marrH the Duke of Bangkrupsie,in the autumifl Mr. Shcckels came to this country fortfl years ago and is worth $10,000,000 t<fl day. He has given an order to a florid to make a grand floral emblem for wedding, bearing the words: "Frofl the steerage to the peerage."?New YoiM