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DEATH IN GREAT STORMS. "Wind and ltain Unite to Destroy Life and Property. The Little Town of Utica, 111,, Almost Demolished, A cloudburst at Leech burg, Armstrong County, thirty miles from Pittsburg, Pean., on the "Weet Penn Railway, destroye I much property ana iaLauy injured one man. ai o ,,y o'clock, ?. M., the hoavana grew black, the : flashes of lightning fiercely sharp, and the I peals of thunder shook the houses j to their foundations. Just outside of Leechburg is a deep ravine, through which Anderson's Run flows. Down Anderson's Run the torrent poured, carrying everything before it. Fifteen dwellings and many outbuildings, stables, fences, etc., were carried away and jammed against the % railroad bridge at the foot of the run, which, unable to stand the terrific pressure, also gave way. The occupants of the houses fled to the hills. John Frank fell from the bridge as it went down and was ? fatally injured. The daoiago to property will be very heavy. Tha traflc on the West Penn Railway was temporarily suspended. The marks on the hillside show tnat the water in the ravine reached a depth of thirty feet. The heaviest rain storm in years struck Nelich, Neb. The drains and ravines were , flooded and an immense amount of damage . done. While crossing a flooded ravine a farmer named Loreusen was swept from his wagon and drowned. In Emerick Township, near Tilden, Neb., three childron were drowned. They were crossing a ravina when it suddenly filled and they were swept way. A terrific storm struck the village of TJtica. 111., about noon, and for four honrs a solid sheet of rain fell without ceasing. At six o'clock the heaw rains all along the 111- j Inoia River and in the bills in tbe rear added their waters to those already inundating the village. The flood at eight o'clock was still rising, and at that hour communication both by telegraph and telephone wa3 cut off. j A courier who arrived from Utica shortly after S o'clock reported several children missing ani one drowned. The Rock Island tracks are washed away for a mile or more and ail traf ilc was at a standstill. The water reached a depth of Ave feet on the main streets at 8 o'clock, and the river was , still rising. The principal damage to prop erty was iione in tbe business portion of the town. The losses were estimated at from #150.000 to i200,000. The damage done by the storm in the neighborhood of Peoria, 111., is almost incalculable. Thousands of acres of fins crops jj-V, ~ were under water, buildings were badly j damaged and the poor people lost nearly j all they had. For about four hours ! such a rain as has never before visited 1 that section poured down. It was ! ? accompanied by a tcrriSc electrical display, j Telephone and telegraphic connections were ; almost entirely destroyed. At midnight the j operator at the Lake Erie and Western j Junction telegraphed to Peoria to start j out no trains; that his office was then lull of half clothed people who ! had fled from their hones to avoid the rush ( of the flood, which had reached almost to the second story of the building. Many citi- ! zona passed the night on the hillsides, dressed j only in their night clothes. The roads most seriousiy damaged are the j Toledo, Peoria and W estem ana L,ai;e urie and Western. There are exteixsive wash- j outs on both lines. Carcasses of cattle, > 1 sheep and hogs could be seen floating in { every direction. At Breeds, 111., a sad triple drownng oc- | curred. A family named Gray lived in a log house in the Coppora3 Creek Valley. { When the flood swepc down the valley drift- ; wood battered against the house, and the j father, Taking his three sous, aged twelve, eight and five years, trie! to reach a hill, ' but was knocked down by a floating log, and , the boys were drowned. He swam to the bill an I was saved. His wife, who got out i on too o:' the house and into a tree, also es- | } cape. I. Bp-' PROMINENT PEOPLE. Electuiciax Ediso.v is worth $3,000,000. General Hancock's gravj is unmarked, j Gladstone has recovered his usual state ' of heaith. | Major-Gkvkra:. SC3ofiki-d'3 salary is ; $13,'XX) a year. j Thk Duke of Vifo is one of the richest v* peers of PfiEaiDKNT W aostaff, o? the Brooklyn > Bridge, is six r ?et six. P. T. Baknum'S estate has be<>u appraised I ail ! t!w value is set at $4,279,532. < . Ex-.Sk.va.tor E art's lee for saying j *'ye?'' in :: recent cas; was $;50,000. The ii: :e of Portland pays out $3000 a year in . .iscriptions to newspapers. Thk ,i */ Canadian Premier is seventy r ( years of age and has spent half of his life iu public work. Kaiszr Wilhelv, of Germany, has un' derta.ieu to erect a status to Wagner out of his own purse. Rcdyard Kipling's real name is John Trader, and his father was a regimeutal contractor and sutler in India. Thb Czar has presented Senator Leland Stanford with a collection of Russian and j Siberian minerals worth $35,000. Governor Russell, of Massachusetts, at the recent State encampment, proved himself to be a great shot with the ritie. ! The total costs to Sir William GordonCumming of his baccarat suit against Mr. j and Mrs. Arthur Wilson and others amount fir to $12,500. Nina Van Zandt, who married, by proxy, ! August Spies, the Chicago Anarchist, is go- ' log to wed Salvator iitefano Malato, an I Italian newspaper man. The marriage of Miss Elaine Goodale to Dr. East/nan, the well-known Sioux ludiau j who was graduated from D irtmout 1 College i in 1887 and the Boston University School of | Medicine, recently took place in New York i City. Alexander H. McGufkev, the author of the famous spelling book Iliac has brought i knowledge and woe to millions of childrou, : Is yet living, iu Cincinnati, Ohio, and declares that the work brought him but $500 wheu published fifty-four years ago. * The O'Gorman Mahon, Member of Parlia- ! meat, is dead. He was born in 1Si>3, and was | known as "the Grand Old Man" of the Irish j party. He entered the British Parliament j in 1830, and was a follower of Daniel O'Con- j nell. His full name was Captain James j Patrick Maaou. TWO CONVICTS ESCAPED, j I But the Lives of Five Meu Were Lost in ihe Attempt. Fuller details from Coal City, the Georgia convict camp where the uprising occurred j. on a recent morninjr, record one of the most daring breaks for liberty ever attempted in i Georgia. At six o'clock Captaiu J. M. j Moreiand, Assistant Warden at Slope Camp. | and Jesse Rankin went into the stockade, 1 where two hundred coivicts were conflued. Seven asked to remain behind in order to j be furnished with overalls, saying that they I had been working iu a wet plac9 in the j mines. The seven were J. M. Lansdowne, ] 8. H. Lansc'owne, father and son; Sam ! Green, Wilson Palmer, Johu Ruth-iriorJ, ( Abe Wayman and George Ward. As 1 he"Assistant Warden start? I for the ! gate. VVil?oa Palmer, a bur.y wi.ic? convict, serving his term tor otfr-blowiiig, drew a ; revolver and ordered the jai.er's hauds up. i After relieving the warden of his pistol, I Palmer fired his pistol within a foot of his : face, inflicting a fatal wound. Rankin, in the meantime, had been overpowered, but, j struggling to his feet, managed to escape by i knocking down a convict. The seven desperate men made a rush for ' Captain Morelana's oB'.c-*, where they know ( > arms were kept. They secured a double- bar- i ^^^jeUed shotgun and barricaded the door. time tne guards were arou-t* and raHKK^^h^fusill&de tn-u-ji, resulting in the and Jack Rankin, Green, Wilson Pa!Sa^999^^^HH9EPB^^k|fhite the firing Joiin i THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Kastern And Middle States. A plague of caterpillars is infecting the northern part of the town of Burke, Franklin County, N. Y., devouring everything green in their path. The insects are traveling eastward, cutting a swath nearly a mile in width. A tornado swept over Aroostook County, Me. One house and eight barns were demolished and miles of fences destroyed. Baccalaureate sermons were delivered at Bowdoin College, by President Hyde; at Wiliiatns, by President Carter; at Smith, by j President See!ye; at Dartmouth, by President Bartlett; at the Uuiversity of Ver, mont by President Bucham, and at Yale by President Dwight. Ox their first Sun lay at Cap? May, N. J., the President and Mrs. General \Villia:n3 and Miss Ella Warfield attended th? opening services at Beadle Memorial Church, while Mrs. Harrison and Mrs. Dimick remained at tbe cottage. The family are to remain fare m ine ia.ii. it is understood. Professor George M. Mow bra v, widely known as the inventor of nitroglycerin.?, died at North Adams, Mass., after a protracted illness, aged sixty-six. The fleet of Gloucester (Mass.) fishing vessels report that the fishing alou^ the Grand Banks and at the Flemish Cape was never so bad as at present. While bathing in the artificial lake at Poak's Park, Washington, Penn., Walter Jones, John McKeowu and Harry Shanlis, aged fourteen, nine and seven years respectively, were drowned. Alley Brothers & Place, leather dealers at Boston, Mass., have assigned. The liabilities are estimated at $500,000. Commencement exercises were held iu many colleges, including Yale, Harvard, Welltsley, Amherst and Dartmouth. South and West. Sxst Johnson, colored, was hanged at Charlestown, W ,^ra., lor assaulting a white gir'. Opposite Golconua, III.. William H. Hockwisher and William Kreipke, both un uci imii/j, auu uitu drowned by the overturning of their skiff in a sudden windstorm. Alice Jones ani May Davis, of Union Springs, Ala., tried to cross a high trestle and were overtaken by a train and killed. The jury at Walla Walla, Washington, which has been trying a number of Uncle Sam's soldiers for the lynching o? Gambler Hunt, who killed one of their number in a brawl, brought in a verdict of "not guilty." A cyclone in Cairo. 111., did much damege, unroofing many hous?s, ani blowing cars from the railroad track. The Nashville (Tenn.) tanking firm of Sax Brothers, generally known as Sax's bank, made an assignment. The liabilities are $600,000. Secretary Rusk inaugurated the first i official miscrosconic inspection of pork at j the Union Stock Yards, Chicago, 111. Mrs. John- Larson, of Hudson, Wis., in a fit of insanity, drowned her three children in a lake. The Florence National Bank of Florence, Ala., closed its doors. The immediate cause is attr buted to the spread of falsa reports, which caused a run on the bank Prince George, of Greec?, who accompanied the Czarewitch of Ru.-sia on his tour, arrived at San Francisco, Cal., from Yofcohema, Japan. Hs was to proceed direct to New York, sail for London, and go thenca to St. Petersburg. Four men were killed by the wrecking of a construction tram near Richmond, Ky. Six others were injured. Washington. The United States Treasurer's statement just issued shows an apparent deficiency of )t7o7.)0S. This, however, does not includa $23,827,412 on deposit with Natioual banks and ?2<;,230,930 of fractional silver. The following is a list of gentlemen who are to serve as special representatives of the Treasury Department iu Europe, in connection with t ho admission of foroigu exhibits for the World's Columbian Exposition: Tbo Hon. Charles H. Grosvenor, o'i Ohio; John Jl. Butler, of Philadelphia, and Professor j John M. Ellis, of Oberliu, Ohio. The Department of State is now actively pursuing its policy of opening the markets of Europe to American catt.e. The latest step in tbis direction has been taken in conjunction with the Department of Agriculture. Assistant SecretarySpauldincs has informed the Surveyor oi' Customs at St. Joseph, Mo., that lottery tickets aro properly dutiable at the rate of tweuty-fiva per cent, advaloreni as printed matter; that they are cot liable to soizure when imported by mail Anton Karl, an olu and trusted disbursing officer of the United States ideological Survey, was arrested charged with etubezz.ing I3C00 of Government funds. Karl has made a confession of his guilt. The resignation of Ferdinand C. Kelly as postmaster at Centreville, Barnstable County, Mass., has been received at the Postoffice Department. Mr. Kelly has been postmaster at Centreville for the last fifty-two years. Colonel John B. Webkr,Superintendent oi immigration new iuik, uaa uwu a^pointed Chairman of the immigration Commission that is going to Europe. The President returned to Washington from Cape May Point, N. J., much refreshed by his vacation. He was accompanied by Mrs. Dimmick. Foreign. Sixty earthquake shocks were felt during one day in the province of Bengal, India, and many buildings were destroyed. Two children named Lochande, and another whose name 13 unknown, were drowned by tbe upsetting of a canoe in the St. Lawrence River at Port Neuf, Canada. The latest advices of the agricultural condition of Franca are decidedly alarming. The recent storms which have b*en so prevalent have not only saturated the ground | to a remarkable extent, but they have chilled I the atmosphere to such a low temperature that the growing crops have been greatly injured, and a large deficiency in the yiel 1 ot corn is expected. When the steamer Li Bretague, which arrived a few days ago at Now York, ha I been two days out lrom Havre, Joseph Tourier, a steerage passenger, forty-five years old, su idenly, without warning or provocation, seizi.f his five-year-old son Felix: and threw him overboard. All attempts to save the child were in vain. The Austrian naval workshop at Pola ou the Adriatic has be^n destroyed by fi r A dkkicit of ?81,000 is shown in the nub-" lie accouuta of Prince Edward Isiaud for last year At Eatonya, Hungary, a crowd of field laborers, incited by Socialist agitators, made an attack upon tn9 Town Hall, Officers kiiled four ot. the mob and wouudod seven others. a large balloon was being inflated with gas, at St. Petersburg, Russia, when it escaped and carried upward tour workmen 111 the car. It rose rapidly to a great height and thtn burst. The bodies of the workmen fell tothegrouud an i were smashed almost beyoud recognition. A Famine js feared in Morocco, owin^ to the ravages of the locusts, the worst in the history of the Moorish Empire. SEVEN PICKERS DEOWNEO. One ot Them was Drnnk: and Upset a Howboat by Stepping on Its Edge. A party of colore 1 pickers went from the ! Chair* farm to Baltimore, Md., in the bug- j eye Thomas B. Bow?n. Upon their return, while tho bu;eye was j boiting up Curtis Cive'c, Samuel Barnjs anJ i Waiter Cms ton, colore 1, met it in midstream j in a rowboat an I callei tue pickers to \ jump into the latter. Nine of the party di I si. Tho tenth, who attempted to leave the bugeye, was s > drunk that be slipped upon tlio side of the row boat, which upset. The strong breeze hid meantime carried the bugeye quitJ a distance. The tug Mohawk, which happened to be near by, rescued Is'vac and Richard Titus and Samuel Barnes. Georziana Titus, A1 R.?ostor, Lulu Ma3on, John Houston, Walter Castor, a man nicknamed "Gidney" and an unknown man were drowned. - of Iowa. No road9 are running trains from this city east. The towns of Merrill, Hinton and Jamas aro completely submerged. At Merrill the I Floyd River rose over fifteen feet in threa houra, and at eight o'clock the flood swept through the Floyd River valley, devastating hundreds of acres of crops. The manufacturing towns of Leeds. Lynn and Lewiaton are in its course, and wore submerged. Great damage along the lines of the railroads is reported. Four persons were drowned at Cherokee, Iowa, and four at Correctionville. Much damage to town property is reported. Sutherland, O'Brien County, on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, is reported to have been wiped out. Twelve inches of water are reported to have fallen in tho Cherokee Valley. Seventy-five houses hive been carried out of sight in a Niagara-like torrent. The flood carried off apparently without an effort the big truss bridge on which the Illinois Central Railroad crossed the river. Harvard anil Vale Graduates. Commencement exercises were held at Yale and Harvard colleges. At Harvard the Governor and Lieutenant Governor, with their staff, were escorteu from Boston to Massachusetts Hall by the National Lanciers. Thiy reached the hall at 10 o'clock, and were received by President Eliot. Chief Justice Fuller, of the United States Supremo Court, was among the invited guests. A procession of the Seniors to Sander.-.' Theater, headed by a brass baud, was one of the featur*s of the day's ceremonies. After the seniors came President Eliot, the Overseers, J the Governor, the Lieutenant-Governor and i staff and the invited guest.s. Within the theater was a brilliant a;s?mblage. At Yale the 19lst commencement was observed at Centre Church. Degree honorary and in course were conferred upon over 400 men. The following t re the degrees in course: B. A., 1870; M. A., nine Bachelors of Philosophy, eighty-nine; C. E., three; Ph. D., twenty-three; bachelors of Divinity, forty-four; M. D., sixtaea; Bachelors of Law, fifty-sis; Masters of Law. two; Doctor of Civil Law, one; Bachelor of Fine Art3, one. This latter degree was conferred upon Miss Josephine M. Lewis,of New Haven, the first woman to have that degree conferred in that deportment. A Famous Athelete Drowned. Frederick Brokaw, son of I. B. Brokaw, of New York, the popular young catcher of < the Princeton College baseball team, met j with a sad death by drowning at Elberon, xr t 1.1. u. A Mrs. Birch aui Annia Doyla were in the j surf bathing when thoy wore caught by a : ground swell and carried beyond their , depth. Their cries attracted the attention : of Brokaw, Dr. Ferris and a man, who sub- i soquently gave his name as John Bradley. ! The latter- sprang into the surf and went to | the assistance of Mrs. Birch, while Brokaw started to rescue Miss Doyle. Whether the undertow was too strong or he was seizad with cramps is not known, but as he reached the girl both of them sank and j neither of them were seen to come to the i surface again. The body of the girl was recover ad a fow hours after the accident, but that of Brokaw j bad not been found at a late hour that evening. Fishermen were engaged with their nets in dragging the shore in the hopss of securing his body. Fisherman Bradley succeeded in rescuing Mrs. Birch and placing ber on shore in an exhausted condition. To Protect Our Missionaries. The Navy Department has received a few short cablegrams from Admiral Belknap, commanding the United States Squadron in ^nnftrminrr f-.ho naws rA c?sired by way of San Francisco of the persecution of foreign missionaries by tha Chinese. The Admiral ha3 seat all of his available ships to Shanghai, the point most threat- j oned. The Alliance, Monocacy anl P&I03 constitute theso forces. These are three vessels of antiquated build, only one of which would dare go to sea, but from their light draft they are v?ry useful in the Chinese rivers. The squadron will bo strengthened in course of time by the Lancaster, now at New York, which is expected to sail for China in a few days under command of Admiral Har- i raony. The vessel is a slow craft and is to go ! by way of Cape of Good Hope, so that it will take some months for her to roach her destination. A Cloud-Burst in Michigan. A cioud-burst occurred near Deotaur, Mich., the other day, particulars of which have just been learned. While Peter Westverr and famiiv wt-ra . . ? ac noaie vii vuun mi m t> wu of four feet of water fell on them, destroying furniture, drowning fifty chiclcens and domestic' ant u:aU. Mr. Wostvarr saved his horse by wading to the barn and putting the animal on higher ground. Hailstones four iuche? around fell with great force. The cloudburst cover 3d about twelve acres. Tha greatest loss is that of 300,000 celery plants. The Lake Front Abandoned. No part of the World's Fair, Chicago, I!!., will be held on the lake front. By a vote of fifteen to twelve the Directors of the Exposition decided tile fine arts exhibition should ba held at Jackson Park. It is now beliavod that the last fight for the lake front has been made, and that no further ustempts will be made to get even the fiu<j arts display down town. Immigration Increasing. During May $5,941 immigrants arrived in the United Statas from foreign countries other than Canala aud Mexico. This is nearly 3000 in excess of the number arriving during May, lS'.i'J. During the eleveu | months ending May .11, 1801, the number which landed was 4>57, IT'.t; during tue oievou mouths ending May 31, 1WJ. -101,<500. A liobber Sen'cnciMl (or Lifs. William Jacksjm was tried under an indictment for robberv in Ju lie Biker's Court in Chicago, 111. TU>? State askad for a penalty uuder the habitual criminals act. Tne jury found the prisoner guilty and sentence ot imprisonment for life was pronounce'!. The prisoner has served several terms for robbery. Struck. Blind Jumping Hope. Mrs. Elias Robbins, of Wyoming, Penn., was struck blind while jumping rope with her little daughter. DROWNED IN ICY BAT. Death ot'W.C. Moore, a Lieutenant and Four Seamen of tho Bear. The steamer Qujeu, at Victoria, from Alaska, brings news that Lieutenant Robinson and four of a boat's crew from the United States steamer Bear and W. C. Moore,of tho Mount St. Elias Exploring Expedition, were drowned ?it Icy Bay, Alaska, while a number of the explorers were making a landing. The Bear was bound for Behring Sea, and left Icy Bav Junj 14 The Geological Survey at Washington also received information from J. C. Russell, of that bureau, who left a month ago to explore tho glac'ers of Mount St, Elias. The telegram was very brief, and to the effect t!iat the party had landed at Icy Bay on Juno 3, and in landing Mr. W. C. Moore, a lieutenant and four seamen were drowne4 The census of England and Wales shows a population of 29,000,000, being an increase of 3.000,000 in the last decade. / AT HOME AND ABROAD. ' The Latest News by Telegraph j and Cable. Great Damage Done by Storms in Northern Iowa, A dispatch from Lemars, Iowa, says: One of the most fearful rainstorms in the history of Northwestern Iowa visited this region. Next morn.'ng Floyd River was a mile wide. There was a great loss to stock in the country. Bridges are out on the railroads. All trains were abandoned. At Sutherland fifteen houses are swept away. A dispatch from Sioux City, Iowa, says: The terrible rains olmnof lAvrQcfrttf.ml f.hia nortion - v..--. V ' . J7V%: LATER NEWS. The statue to Henry Ward Boechor la ! Brooklyn, N. Y., and that of Archbishop Hughes at Fordham College, New York | City, were unveiled. The jury of the Court of Oyer and Ter- ! miner, New York City, found a verdict of "not guilty" in the trial of President Clark, ! Chauncey M. Depew and ten other directors ! of the New Haven road who were charge! with responsibility for the fatal tunnel accident on February 20 last. Columbia won the triangular freshman race from Yale and Harvard at New Lon don, Conn., in the record-breaking time of nine minutes and forty-one seconds. Governor Horace Boies, of Iowa, was renominated by the Democratic State Convention at Ottumwa. John and Frank Maxwell, of Franklin County, Iowa, caught rabies from skinning a steer that had died from the bite of a mad dog. The former ia dea 1 and the latter is chained in bis cellar, a raving maniac. Willi am H. Cook, recently Polica Clerk of Toledo, Ohio, pleaded guilty to the embezzlement of $5000 of the city funds, and was sentenced to five years in tho penitentiary and to pay a fine of $10,000. The President respited until July 23 Ed ward Belden, of Kansas, who was sentenced to be hanged on June 28. Secretary Tract directed that Captain William A. Kirkland, the Supervisor of the Harbor of New York, be detachei and sent to the command of the League Island Navy Yard. Captain H. B. Robeson was ordered to succeed Captain Kirkland at New York. The Chief Quartermaster of tho Depart ment of tho Platte has been ordered to cut down the civilian force of employes in his department twenty-five per cent. There are about one hundred and sixty employes in the department, and forty of them will be obliged to seek other employment. The Hon. Charles Emory Smith, United States Minister to Russia, was the President's guest at luncheon. LtOHTNiNO struck a shed near Oldenburg, Germany, in which sixteen haymakers had taken refuge from th3 storm and two were killed. A Briti3H force of police has been d3feated by natives near Siorra Leone, Africa. It is raportod that tho vintages of tha Rhine, Moselle and tho Palatinate, in Germany, are completo failures, owing to tho and long frosts which prevailed during tho earliar part of the season. THE LABOR WORLD. 9 Girls are railway clerks in Ireland. Nsw York bas K. of L. letter-carriers. New England woavers average $1.42 a day. New York housesmiths lo3t the strike for eight hours. Tanners formed a National Union in Milwaukee, Wis. Brooklyn, N. Y., has a workmen's fire insurance company. California, vineyardists are substituting white for Chinese labor. Sax Francisco stevedore engineers get $5.o0 for ten hours work. In Dublin alone 6000 persons have joined the Irish Industrial League. Seattle (Washington) Chinese laundrymen were fined ?I0 for wording after tea p. M. Thousands of Italians are straggling through the Southern States in search of work. A committee from the British House of Commons will regulate the hours of railway hauds. In British India the railroad companies maintain schools for the children of employes. Forty-three Welsh tin-piate works will shut down for a month, depriving 20,000 meu of work. Typesetting is the latest trade branch which has been added to the public schools in France. The Pacific Coast Laborers' Union warns intending immigrants that the market is overcrowded already. The hours in the cabinetmaking ti*ade in Engiand have, since 1*50, fallen from sixty ana seventy a week to Ufty-six. Thk Order of Railway Conductors recently in session at St. Louis, Mo., decided to join the Federation of Railway Employes. Tow boys, as the lads who take charge of the extra horses which are hooked on to help street-carj up bills in Brooklyn are called, get $3 s week. The! average earnings of the mine workers in Pennsylvania in 1890 were ninety-three cents per day. They live, as a rule, in houses owned by the company. They buy their groceries, provisions and dry-goods at ths company's store. EX-SENATOR McDONALD. "r?" If I ,wl ii tiifiit tlioa nt Cancer at Indianapolis. Ex-'?enator Joseph E. McDonald, diod at Indianapolis, Ind., of cancer of the stomach, after a long illness. All hope of the recovary of ex-Senator McDonald was abandoned early that morni?g and Dr. Runnels determined not to attempt further to prolong lit'o by inj.jctions o'f foo l. It was found that nourishment taken into the stomach produced irritation and hiccoughing, and as none of the food had been assimilated by the system, tho talcing of food ouIy reduced his strength witho.it retuiting m benefit. Dr. Hunnels told tin patient candidly of his condition. The dying man r'plied that he recognized the fact that everything possible had been done for him. and that it now looked as if nothing remained but to wait calmly for death. He expressed a wi9h to take the -aeranient, and tlie Elders of tho Second Presbyterian aud Pastor Haiues of the Kirst Church administered it. Joseph Ewing McDonald was born in Butler County, Ohio, on August "2H, HI'.). In liis thirteenth year lie was apprenticed to a saddler. When he was eighteen years old he ent^rwi Wabash College at Crawfordsville, supporting himself in jollego by working at his trade. Ai'tertvar I he stti lie! law and was admitted to the bar iu WW and settled in < raw.ordsville. He wus elected Attorney-General of Indiaua in Ht was sen.- to Congress in 1S4S, but wIS defeated for rc-electiou. In 1801 lie was defeated lor Governor by Oliver LJ Morton. In 1S?> he was elected United auitea Senator and served one term. >: - >" " <*" !-*- j> . .. ' / " -v ' . .'t^'v; : 1 AGRICULTURAL TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE TO FARM AND GARDEN. RAPID COOLING OP MIXK. A prominent dairy authority says that the rapid cooling of milk will prevent the formation of a delicate mesh of lactofibria in the milk, which would hinder the globules from rising freely. Consequently, he says, that if the milk is put into the cooler at a temperature above ninety degrees and reduced immediately to forty-eight or forty-live degrees, the upward movement of the globules of fat will be much more rapid and thorough. ?American Dairyman. vuuamiiu VP AUUJV3* The easiest way to clear land of rocks is to dig close to them and turn them over into the holes and bury them. Care is tc be taken not to dig too near them in loose ground. If the stone ia worth the cost for any use the rocks may be broken up with dynamite cartridgca exploded under them, by punching holes with a steel bar so as to bring the explosive as near to the centre as possible. The dynamite is procured in rolls one and one-quarter inches thick and ten inches long, and be cut like cheeso with a knife. A picce three inches long will break a rock of half a ton or more if skillfully used. It is best to employ some person who understands it and who will well save his wages in the more effective work done. The dynamite is exploded by means of a fulminating cap and common fuse attached co it and fired in the usual manner.?New York Time$. A SUBSTITUTE FOR IIAT. A crop which will grow in a dry season is what farmers want to heln out __ ?~tr a light hay crop. Hungarian grass, German or golden millet will crow well in quite dry soil and yield a good erop. Do not expect, though, to get something /or nothing, for while millet will grow in a dry season, it will not do well on a poor soil. It requires a light, dry, warm soil, but mint have pleuty of fertility. If the land is not iu good heart give it a good dressing of stable manure or commercial fertilizer. Millet will do on either sod or plowed land, and may be sowed quite late. Sod should be plowed now and well cultivated and harrowed. From the middle to the last of June 30w a bushel of the seed to the acre, or a little less if drilled in. Do not cover too deeply. In six or seven weeks it will be fit to cut. If the seed is sowed too thinly the stalks will be large and coarse and stock will not relish it so well. When the heads begin to appear pretty thickly over the field it is time to cut it. If left to get ripe the seeds are said to cause kidney trouble with horses, and it gets tough and wiry. Millet may be cut and handled the same as hay. When cut it pirts with its moisture slowly and doe3 not make hay rapidly. un goou son muiec grows irom uvo 10 four feet tall and will yield from three la six tons of fodder per acre. Millet is worth about as much as clover hay to feed, but is fat-forming aud should be fed with linseed or cottonseed meal to make a good ration.?New England Homeztead. FEEDING HORSES. A f,reat many farm horses are injured, and some of them are utterly spoiled, by improper feeding. In many cases the material used is not especially adapted to the needs of the animals, while in others it is actually injurious. Many cases of the uheavcs" are caused by feeding musty hay, and even more serious ailments may be traced to the use of damaged grain. There are also raanv cases of disease re suiting from the improper use of good materials. While a few farmers feed too little hay, there are many who give their horsc9 altogether too large a quantity. They fill the mangers or racks and when the animals have disposed of what they received a new supply is given. In this way, when the horses are in the barn most of the time they are, as far as quantity is concerned, greatly overfed. When these horses are required for work and really need food more than when they arc comparatively idle they leceive a much smaller quantity. The safe way to do in the matter is to feed the horse regularly, giving him an abundant quantity, net overfeeding him. When work is required, grain should be added to the hay in proportion to the work required. Even when the horse is idle, small quantities of grain fed with his hay A DESPONDENT MOTHER. She Drowns Her Two Little Chirdren ami lier.se!!. Tim bodies oi! Jlrs. David Clarka an 1 hsr two children, a boy an I a gir!, both unier four years of a^e, were foua i alongside tha Ron leau dock at Bioahaiai, L'nnvia. on a recent afternoon. Tho following words wvrj writteu ou tue p-er: "Do not blame Ujriiey, i am ir. Maggie. Goruey is the name of Mrs. Clarke's oldest sou. ti10 woman's husband deserted her and their fire cKilJrsn last fall. This is su;>| posed to havo causei ber to oo:a:Dit tne | double uiui der and suicide. The Dwarf, a London weakly paper, says that it has positive evidence that Sir William Gorion-Cumming la innoceut of the charge of cheating at baccarat. Phoenicia, was at tLe pinnacle of power between the veara 2000 and 750 B. 0., and, in fact, its people were the batrnotors and oivilizers of the whole western world, _. _ _ __ 1 s sc$f j sk& / will be better for him and will he more profitable for the owner than the use of hay alone. But, even if the grain ia omitted, regular feeding with proper limitations as to quantity of hay supplied will be a great deal better than the constant stuffing to which so many farm horses are subjected.?Colman'a Rural Worl'i. CORK FERTILIZERS. Bulletin No. 33, from the Kentucky Station, gives a continuation of experiments begun two ycar3 ago with fertilizers on corn with the results that in those plots where potash was one of the ingredients of the fertilizer used, thcro was a marked increased yield ia both corn and fodder. Where a fertilizer was used without potash, there was 6carcc'y any increase over those containing no fertilizer. The greatest increased yield was made by a combination of potash and nitrogen. There was a profit in the use of fertilizers in every instance when potash was one of the ingredieuts. There was a loss wheu potash was not one of the ingredients. So far potash fertilizers have shown their effect the third .season after their application. The soil of the Kentucky Experiment eti-'i.:? T? * ? i,|?? otiiuoa j: arm is huui 1.1 icnutu a uiuc grass soil, and U derived from the lower Silurian limestone, rich ia phosphoric acid, and so far as known, uo stable manure or other fertilizers were applied before the farm was purchased by the station. The same results, therefore, might not be fouud in other geological formations in the State. A.i has been heretofore stated in thecc columns, on account of the difference in soils, no rule can be given by which to tell what fertilizer is best for any particular crop, and this ipieslion mtistbc decided by actual trial. Ilcnce it is not strange to find different results as to the use of commercial fertilizers on corn and other crops, especially when financially considered, reported from different St3le stations.?New York "World. HOW TO RUN A SMALL FARM. If the farm is at all tillable, writes a thoughtful agriculturist, I should divide the sixteen acres into J 'four section* o. four acres each; but it is not necessary to fence it, except the four acre9 where the hou3e and barn stand. This plat I should I divide up in the following way: Two acres for house, smail '.awn, kitchen garden, barnyard, etc. This is rather large, I think, and less would do if the house and barn are in the right position; but call it two acres. Then one acre for i ftuit?blackberries, raspberries, currants, and strawberries. One acre for poultry; this acre should be set to pear, quince and peach trees, and plum can be added if thought best; this affords good shade fA. . T ik. i. .1. lyi iuc x uuu uuau tua trees uu much better where the poultry run thaa those where they do not. Oa this acre I would have fcur poultry houses, with yards for ruus of one-fourth aero each, and should keep twenty-five in cach yard ?one yard of either buff, white or partridge Cochins for sitters, one yard of Plymouth rocks or Wyandotte3 and two of Leghorns?the Cochins for sitters, the Plymouth rocks for early broilers and the Leghorns for eg?s. The remaining twelve acres I should use as follows: Four acres for clover, four acres for soiling crops and the remaining four acres for corn and potatoes. On so small a place wheat and oats do not pay. The twelve acres should be rotated with clover, roots, millet, fodder corn and anything that will do for feed. On the place four cows (and they must be good ones, not necessarily of long pedigrees, but l'or individual merit) can be kept for the first two or three years; after that more can be added. The ma nure from the four cows, on? horse and 100 hens will go far toward enriching the land. Apply the hen manure, well saved, to the hill, as the best results are obtained in this way; utilize every corner with something that will either sell, make fodder for the cows or food for the hens, and my word for it the young man with sixteen acres will have profitable business enough at home; with "hislittlo farm well filled and his little wife well willed," he will be as contented as those who roam their hundred acres over. One thing I will mention, and that is this. Put in a patch of early potatoes. I found that nearly every season half an acre or more of early potatoes are as profitable as any patch of ground on the place. Study the wants of your nearest village and town, and supply the people with the choiccst and earliest of fruits and vegetables.? Ohio Farmer. FARM AND OARDEN NOTES. Fowls neod a good shade during the summer. The demand for good poultry is on the increase. Use gravel on all the walks and keep out of the mud. Poultry must have plenty of green ! food if they thrive well. l!1/a afnla frtAlcfonftd | wmutoo imo obaio ui uau UAVMVVUWU with sweet skim milk and curd. Geese should be picked regularly three or four times during the summer. Small hens may be active layers, but deliver us from small egg3 by the dozea. The value of poultry man are, like all other animal manure, depends oa the feed. The sooner you begin war on weeds and insects, the easier it is to overcomo them. Ducks are enormous eatera. They not only eat all day, but often feed by moonlight. Old pastures give the greatest variety, and are best where they can be mainItained. Don't get the hens too fat, and, on the other hand, do not starve them in summer. Intellectualize farm labor and the Doys and girls will like it. Routinism is reI pulsive. | Be 8U?ie to apply the bags to your grapes as' soon as they are as big aa squir- I rel shot. Aim at good quality rather than a large crop. Then you are surer of a good price. A hem with a brood of turkeys should be housed every night until they are a month old. Whey and bran is an excellent mess I for hogs in summer as an adjunct to the | clovcr ration. Cows in milk need plenty of sweet | I water, as they put eighty-soven per cent. I into their milk. Sulphur in the poultry food is a good j remedy for lice because it tends to make 1 t'ac skin moist and oily. | Fleas do not hatch out on the animals j but ia filth. Keap the quarters clean ' i and the Seas will become scarce. i Stir tho 3oil about young trees. It should not bake nor should weeds and grass grow ia it. Don't work it too deeply. If you have no other litter throw dry earth on the door of tho pig pen. The pigs should always have a dry, clean place at night. If you have not a field of carots you will deprive your stock of one of the best articles of food that can be given them in winter. Cultivate the vineyard very often dur- j i ing the early part of the season, and cut out any weeds that grow out after cultivation has ceased. If the beets are too thick in some places and too thin in others, tho extra plants may be transplanted to the vacant places in the rows. Do not allow the nutritious weeds to be wasted. Rake them up and throw them in the ho^-pen. All that are not | eaten can be converted into manure, j Such plants as okra, salsify, ondive, ! koh!-rabt and dandelion are seldom culi tivated in Ihe garden, yet they aro ; among the best of the list of vegetables. Strawberry plants which have over fruited heavily should not bo used for propagation either for home beds or for market, as their vitality is decreased and [ speedy degeneracy will result. I When the ground is full of sod and is j j very rough after bjing plowed tho ; ' pulverizer should be kept at worii j I until the soil is made fiae, and > j corn should ther ^e the first crop grown j ; on it. Where rats are numerous the cat is i , best remedy, but cats intended to do I 1 service must be kept at the bam, and : | not allowed to come into tho house. Cats : that are housepets are seldom service! able. The plum curculio can be kept in check by sprajing with Paris green or j London purple in a water solution, but: k this cannot be safely applied to peaches, ! > because the foliage of the latter is easily ' I injured by the .poison, ^ ^ ' 1 TEMPERANCE. ^ THE AKGZLS OF KVIL AND 07 GOOD. The Angel of Evil stood and said? "Tate, Mortal, take this cup; U will cheer your heart an l clear yotu head; Take, take, and driuk it up! "When your feeling low, 'twill give yoa tone; When weak, 'twill make you strong; It will comfort you when aii alona, And wheu the world goes wrong. "You need not indulge to vile excess, But use your self-control; Yet wine lightens care, subduos distress And stays ths fainting soul." So the Angel of Evil stood and spate, as on tde cup * mu onoit. The red wine gleaineJ, and ho whispered-^ "Take, O Mortal! take, an.I drink!" But before the tempted one could drinlc, The Guardian An^el rose, And cried? "Nay, Mortal, beware, and think, Nor taste the cup of woes! "Beneath its light lies a fatal spell, Its pleasures turn to pains; And its countless victims groaning toil Of its scorching, fiery chains. "Upon the wine wheu1 it sendee look not. Nor court the joy it bring*; For saintly souls it can foully blot; And plant a thousand stings. "Abstain, and seek for the grace Diving Which gives you strength, to stand. And labor to save from treacherou* iriM Your home and native landl" The Angel ceased, and the listener blest The kind and warning voice;. And whosoever heeds tne wise behest. Will surely well rejoice. For Wisdom's ways are tho ways- of peao% And pleasant everywhere;. And the joys of those will nev<?r cease^ Who join good work to prayer. k)/n/t<tnn Rilidq D n. HAVOC IN THE riitMBRLAJSD. An article on Intemperance iu Germany, translated by A. F. Hofor, gives these statistics as brought out in the debate in th? P-eichstag and substantiated by ELerr Kendall, at ono time the most intimate adviser of Bismarck. There are at present 11,000 persons in hospitals and insane asylums who are suffering with delirium tremens. There are 000 persons in jails and State Prisons^ 14,000 of whom are arrested for crimes committed under the influence of intoxicating,/ drink. That meaus forty-three per cent, of all prisoners. Crimes committed under influence of liquor iuuge as follows: Murder in the first degree, forty-three; in second degree, sixty-three; arson, forty-seven; larceny, tifty-one; highway and othar robbery, sixty-eight; bodily injuries, seventy-four per cent. If we add to the 1 i, 000 and 14,000^. S00 more annually who, under the influence of liquor, commit suicide, or ara accidently killed, we arrive at the suui of 25,800 persons. I^FKCT OF DRINKING OS WOItKMEK. A biz Cincinnati manufacturer thus seribes?the effect of the drinking; habit oo workingtnen: ' 'A drinking man will turn out tea to twenty por cent, less work than a non-drinker, ana in addition it is apt to be defective and require overhauling. This is especially truo ot heavy beer drinkers. A workingman may tamper with whisky to a very considerable extent and still bo capable of a bright idea or suggestion; but not so with baer drinkers: they become heavy, sodden, lack ambition and seldom vary the modo of doing their work. When one workman drinks too much it affects the work of others,' on the principle that 'a little leaven leavens the whole luuip.; The workmen of a shop are parts of a great machine, and the inability of a part to perform ite functions will derange the whole. The amount of tho derangement will be in exact proportion to the number of parts ? Tec tel. The employer pays for what ha gets. If drink decreases a man's output ten to twenty per cent, he will receive that much less, or tho omployer will retire from business, unless ho can command sufficient sober help to makeup the shortage of tho drinkers. Arbitration of labor difficulties would be an exceedingly easy roator.,1 Trtnff afrits would be unheard of. if saloons were closed. All tlie troublo wo ever had with our hnals could be traced directly to saloon influences." A. PBY3IOLOOICA,r. VIKW OV IXTKMPZIIASOT. It is claimo.l by high authority, says th* writer oC ail annual report of a houis for inebriates, that physiology has in no way settled the question between abstinence versus mo (oration, in regard to tin use of alcohol. But it is a mistime to suppose that nothing is settled on physiological ground about th?u>e of intoxicating liquors, within the last few years many iuquiries,researched and expjriuienfc? hiva bom made, with all the cjntrivances of mo lorn s aence, more intricate, perhaps, an I more important, certainly, in their bearings u;>on this inquiry thin" tho world has seen before, and the results, which are already incontestable, are not inconsiderable, an 11 baiievj it mu3t b.t admitted that thoy gi/i to the tamparance argument; a strength, on physiological gr jund, which it has nevrer been ablo to us* before. ? hav-d foun 1 it to bo true, from my own observation, that tu> immomgui ?vuu ^uwi quantities oi alcoho', or what is deemed a small quantity by ta) user, will degenerate the nerva and muscular tissues by hardening them, and interfere with the functions, developing di9oa3?, o.* rendering accidental or zymotic dieaseas less likeiy to be cured. 0f course, with such intjr.'erjnco wita nerve structure the mental manifestation* must be changed. The effect of this agent is always to strike at the higher faculties of the mind. It batter3 the keen edge of hidi sensibility, and the man is shorn oi those nigh qualities which make him sensible to the duties he owes to his family, his country and his God. Science has also revealed to us auother fact bearing upon this subject. If science is still iu doubt iu the matter of total abstinence, it is clear and positive in its affirmation that, beyond a certain degree?a degree as yet unknown, and yet a degree which science lias of lute years been steadily show ing to be less and less?what we call alcoholic stimulants do not stimulate at all, bub they paralyzs the structure iu which they work. The liquor which has intoxicated the man has simply paralyzed him, and overy step of intoxication is not merely a step towards, but a stage of increasing nervoui paralysis, a stage of what physiologists call devitalization of the nervous system. In other words, alcohol is au antithetic, au l its constant us?, iu its secondary action, produces the condition I have before described, ?paralysis in its various stages. 1 only mention these facts to show that we have to deal with a subtle disease, deep down in th > human structure, and with a condition which, in spite of law, will continue to reproduce and perpetate itself. TKMPKRANCa XEWS ANO J'OTES. l'h?? alcohol habit aud tho sunstroke go baud iu had. Mayor Hemphill, of Atlanta, Ga., has vetoed all the beer licenses in that city. Thu Indiana Grand Lo lge of tte Knights of Pythias has declared liquor dealers ineligible to membership. The Irish Temperance League has issued a pledge card in Arabic, which it is believed u ii,'? nladira card sant out in that language. Walter Besant formerly approve 1 of having liquor sold at the People's Palace, JSast London; now hi says it has bo in prove-i that uo one there wants it. That tho United States is a beer-lrinlung nation is evidenced hy the fact that for tho year ending April 30, lS'Jl, they coasunei iiC'.0(X),'>00 barrels o? tho amber fluid. Professor Uslor ? rites to tlia New York Mfdical Journal, tnat in all the large hospitals of Germany, cases oil diseases of the heart coming directly from excessive uso of beer are common. Mrs. Ciiai'iu, of South Carolina, writes that she has had a very prosperous campaign in Georgia and Alabam. At La Grange she pledged 135 ladies to total abstinence and to use their iuflmno^ to prevent social drinking. At Macon College she added thirty-five to tho "Ys" aud organized a union of sixty in the suburbs. Daring the three weeks' trip sho took over 300 pltjtfge*, ^ J