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THE STORM-SWEPT AREA. An Estimate of the Damage Wronght by the Late Delnge. The Injury to Crops in New York, Connecticut and New Jersey. Dispatches from many points in the fann ing district within a radius of one hundred miles of New York city show general dam age to crops by unusually heavy rains. The total losses in New York, Connecticut and New Jersey will mount up between $300,- 000 and $400,000, and perhaps more. The hay, potato and small fruit crops suffered most. Much grass that had been cut and stacked is a total loss from mould. Potatoes in many cases are ruined by rot. Grapes along tno Hudson have been" badly injured. The situation is peculiarly discouraging to farmers, because, owing to the forward spring and unusually good weather until within a fortnight, they were confident of exceptionally large crops of nearly all kinds. Farmers in New York State are the heaviest losers. In the great dairy district of Central Now York their losses in hay and small grain are particularly severe. In Connecticut the potatoes suffered most, although considerable hay on the salt marshes and on the bottom lands along the rivers is destroyed. Truck gardeners are the main losers in New Jersey, although along the Walkill River and the Paulins Kill considerable dam age was done to hay and grain. In Orange, Sullivan and Delaware Coun ties in New York, thousands of acres of the grass and grain already cut arc entirely spoiled. Extensive onion fields near Grey- court and along the low lands of the Walkill River are flooded and the crop is practically ruined. The same may be said of the potato and turnip crops in all the low land fields. It is estimated that one-fourth of the bay crop of the great dairy region in question has been lost or damaged so as to be practically worthless. In Southern Ulster County, Eastern Orange and Southern Dutchess County in New York it is estimated that the damage to the hay, grain and oat crops and to fruit trees will reacii $15,000 to $20,000. Standing grass and grain on hundreds of acres was beaten down by the rain and wind and has l>ecome mouldy. Much hay and grain'eut and left on the ground to cure is spoiled. The fruit crop of tho lower part of Ulster County canuot now exceed one-quarter of on ordinary yield. Some vineyards are entirely ruined. Concord grape vines near Kingston, N. Y., are in bad shape. The grapes are shelling like snow flakes. Dispatches from fifty points along tho Hudson valley report hoa' damage. At least half the crop is ruim and that means a loss of fully $75,000. The fruit crop in the vicinity of Pough keepsie, N. Y., is almost entirely destroyed, especially grapes. Garden products also are badly hurt—over seventy-fl vo per cent.—and eftrn and hay have suffered severely. All the low lands in Dutchess County are partly flooded. Pears and apples will do fairly well. There had never been a bettor out look in tho early season, but the prolonged rain ruined many crops. The oat crop near Chatham has been seri ously damaged. (Standing oats are black ened and those in swath are rotting. Fully one-third tho value of the crop, which was unusually heavy, is lost. Tho heavy hay crop is half gathered. One-Quarter of the re maining crop is ruined. Fields of potatoes are rotting and small fruits are also damaged, especially peaches and grapes. Around Highland, Ulster County, the losses by the farmers have been so heavy that the townsi>eoplo held a meeting at tho office of Edgar Elmendorf, town clerk, to take relief measures. Dispatches from various points in Con necticut say that Connecticut crops gener ally have suffered. Tho seed growers at Wethersfield are among tho heavy losers. It is feared that the potato crop will prove an entire failure, as already potatoes are rotting. Countrv roads are badly washed out. In Wins ted and vicinity the damage more. washout on the Valley of the em- way, delaying Tho damage was about avv led, amounts to $2000 or There was a laad road near. Che several hot 9 $3000. Fully $20,000 damage was reported to crops in New Haven County. Hay cut and stand ing suffered particularly. Some meadows along the Housatonic and Naugatuck Rivers have been ruined for this year by the over flowed much hay already cut floated away. Corn and oat fields also were badly washed. Hundreds of acres of gross and oats near Litchfield were flooded out, and the loss from this source alone is $5000. Tho potato crop is said to bo a total loss. Altogether the storm will cost tho farmers in that section more than $10,000. Corn is not hurt. Com in fields of low ground at Green’s Farms, Fairfield, Stratford and their vicin ity lies flat in most instances and in some is submerged. Fields of potatoes are much in jured, and rot is feared. Much grass cut before the rain is ruiued. Fields of oats are totally destroyed. Tho loss to farmers from these sources will approximate $20,000. The damage to crops near Middletown will reach $5000. Potatoes, corn, oats and tobacco near New Milford are tho principal crops to suffer. Many potatoes have been washed up or are rotting on the vines. Grass and hay crops are spoiled in many places. In West Cornwall gardens are covered and the crops heavily damaged. The loss there is about 18000. Dispatches were received making the fol lowing estimates of the damage done in New Jersey: Close estimates place the damage to crops in the vicinity of Trenton, N. J., at $50,000. The rainfall during July was phenomenal—0.85 inches. The average monthly fall is four inches. The fruit crop suffers most. The yield will lie forty per cent, below the average. The grain yield will lx? at least ten per cent. off. Corn also was badly damaged. In Passaic and Bergen Counties, of New Jersey, the main damage is to the potato fields. These two counties produce large quantities of ix>tatoes. It is thought that not more than twenty-five per cent, of the usual crop will be gathcrod. Little damage has been done to other crops, except in the Pompton Valley, where the land lies low. In Livingston and Caldwell crops have been much damaged, particularly hay and grain. The total loss to crops in the Oranges is from $8000 to $10,000. The loss to crops caused by the breaking of the series of dams in and near Plainfield is comparatively light. Probably $10,000 will cover it. Hay and oats are leveled near Dover, and the fruit crop has suffered. Around Dockertown farmers in the valleys lose heavily on cut grass and oats, and those in the vicinity of the so-called “drowned lands,” principally along the Walkill River, also suffer considerably. The most extensive farmers are ex-Senator Thomas Lawrence, of Hamburg, and John Loomis, of Deckertown. Al>out one-third of their crops are destroyed. Whole stacks of hay floated down the Wal- Itill River. What hay and oats were housed along tho Paulins Kills, near Blairstown, are almost a total loss. Large quantities of hay, all nicely cured and cut up in cocks, were car ried off by tho swollen kill. Buckwheat fields also suffer. Farmers in Northern Warren County are greatly discouraged. The total damage to the growing crops near Blairstown will aggregate $10,000. BOULANGER'S FALL. France’s V.'hilom Idol Meets a Crush ing Defeat at the Polls. Returns from tho elections in France for Councils-General had been received from 1195 cantons on the day after the election. The Republicans have been successful in 746, the Conservaiives in 419 aud the Eouiacgists In 12. There will have to be second ballots in 149 cantons. The defeat of Boulanger was more crush ing and complete than even the most san guine followers of the Government had antici pated. The most rabid adherents of the General admit that ho has ceased to be a power in French politics. They are endeavoring to discover the cause for the revulsion of public feeling. It is agreed on all sides that had Bou langer stood his ground and submitted to trial the result would have been far different. There is no doubt that the flight of Boulanger was looked upon by the masses as little short of coward- tee, especially so in the case of one whose whole political capital consisted of his sup- bravery and disregard for personal THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. turned to New York gunboat from a cruise at sea. undertaken to test the ship’s strength and stability and the effectiveness of her main battery. The results were highly satis factory. A cyclone, followed almost immediately by a terrific rain storm, visited North Wil bra- ham, Massachusetts, doing considerable dam age to property. The earth was tom up, plowing a furrow fifteen feet wide for a long distance. It threw water fifty feet high. Public thoroughfares were badly damaged in many sections of western Massachu setts. Laurel, Del., and the surrounding coun try have been visited by a disastrous storm, which continued with uninterrupted fury for two days. Small wooden bridges across the streams and fences have been washed away, and fields and orchards ruined. John Ireland, a well-known New Yorker, who for years has kept a popular restaurant on Lispenard street, was robbed of $43,000 in securities while a patient in Chambers Street Hospital. E. & A. H. Batcheller, of Boston, Mass., one of the largest boot and shoe firms in the country, have assigned. Their liabilities are $1,250,000. Edward Styles, son of Dr. D. W. Styles, and Captain Philip H. Wagner, both of Buf falo, N. Y., were drowned while boating. McKean & Appleton, shoe manufac turers, of Salem, Mass., have failed, their es timated liabilities being between $65,000 and $75,000. In Ulster County, N. Y., a tornado de stroyed several houses, and three persons were badly hurt, one of them fatally. The bill to move the State capital of New Hampshire from Concord to Manchester was killed in the Legislature by a big majority. Ex-United States Senator E. H. Rol lins, of New Hampshire, is dead, in his sixty-fifth year. He had been twice Speaker of the New’ Hampshire House of Representa tives; was elected to Congress thrice, and in 1877 was chosen to the United States Senate. Fred Fap.r, aged twenty-five, an engineer on the Carthage and Adirondack Railroad, killed his wife at Clayton, N. Y., and then committed suicide. John L. Sullivan, the prize fighter, was arrested in New York city by Inspector Byrnes at the request of Governor Lowry, of Mississippi, and was held at Police Head quarters while awaiting the action of Governor Hill. W. F. Johnson & Co., leather dealers of Boston, have failed with liabilities of $250,- 000. Six thousand cokers of the Connellsyilla district of Pennsylvania have gone on strike. Four thousand ovens are idle. Horace D. Phillips, manager of the Pittsburg (Penn.) Baseball Club, has been de clared insane. A riot occurred amoug 500 Italian railroad hands at Beaver, Penn., during which Anto nio Costinello was killed, two Italians fatally injured, another shot in the leg and several others badly beaten. The License bill was passed by the Rhode Island Legislature, after which the special session adjourned. South and West. The Cannon Fruit Commission and the Wichita Wholesale Grocery Company were burned out in Wichita, K&n. Loss, $170,- 000. The five men accused of complicity in the murder of Dr. Cronin—Coughlin, Beggs, Woodruff, Kuenze and O’Sullivan—were ar raigned in Judge Horton’s court in Chicago. All pleaded not guilty. The steamboat Tolchester on her way from Baltimore, Md., to Deals Island, ran down a sail boat There were five persons in the boat, three of whom, Mary Kalb, Mary Wiener and John Bitz, were drowned. Texas fever is playing havoc among the cattle in the Indian Territory. Hundreds of cattle were dying in Oklahoma. J. W. Griffin, an old farmer and citizen of Clairborne County, Miss., was mistaken for a burglar and shot and instantly killed by his son Edward, aged eighteen. William Schiek and JIrs- HannrJ^eckgr. were -kilted in LrrGisvilte, Ky., wEITe crossing a railroad in a wagon. Henry Pfistner was fatally injured. Andrew C. Drumm, General Manager of the cattle film of A. Drumm & Co., of Kansas City, Mo., one of the largest in the West, has fled with $40,000. The signature of White Cloud, the leading Chippewa Chief, has been appended to an agreement by which 3,000,000 acres of his tribe’s r servation will be thrown open to settlement. His signing ends the labors of the Commissioners. Field fires have burned twelve dwellings and killed numerous cattle and horses in Santa Barbara County, Cal. Loss, $50,000. Forest fires have just destroyed a vast amount of property along the Missouri River in Montana. An area of over four miles was laid waste near Chico, Cal. Sev eral mining camps and a quantity of tim ber were burned at Lost Gulch and Gunni son, in Colorado. Mrs: Snodgrass and her two children were drowned at Rockford, Ark., while fording the White River. A sawmill boiler exploded at Golden Gate, 111., instantly killing Frank Peters, a son of the proprietor, and fatally injuring Joe Wallace and William Fox. Tom Talbot, a white man, was lynched at Meridian, Miss., by about sixty men, for an outrageous assault upon a /ourteen-year- old white girl. Misses Flanagan. McCabe and Farrell were drowned at. Iskpeming, Mich., while trying to cross the Menominee River in a boat. The Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton ex press. due in Cincinnati at 11 r. m., was wrecked near Oxford, Ohio, and twelve per sons were reported killed. Negotiations were completed at Omaha, Neb., for the sale of all the breweries to a European syndicate for $1,500,000. William L. Ross, a note-teller of the Ne vada Bank of San Francisco, Cal., robbed the institution of $95,000 and fled to Victoria, British Columbia, where he was arrested. Fire in the village of Fennvillo, Mich., destroyed the postoftice, opera-house, express office, Forest Hotel and eight stores. Harry Seybold, teller in the Bank of Wheeling, W. Va., and George Hennig, another employe in the institution, have been arrested, charged with embezzling $30,000. Five large companies engaged in the manufacture of artificial ice in the South have formed a trust to control the entir? business in that section. John L. Sullivan, the pugilist, who was wanted in Mississippi on a charge of havluc committed a felony in having engaged in a prize fight in that State, was taken to Jack- son from New York city on a requisition from.Governor Lowry. William Gaskins, colored, has been hanged at Leland, Fla., for the murder of his wife a year ago. He made a speech on the scaffold, and then gave the signal for the drop to fall. Washington. The Civil Service Commission has de cided to exempt from examination clerks on steamboats who also act in the capacity of postal clerks. The President designated General MacFeely as Acting Secretary of "War in Secretary Proctors absence. The Postoffice Department has received the resignation of Postmaster Paul, of Mil waukee, whose administration of the office was recently severely criticised by the Civil Service Commission. Ex-Senator Albert Daggett, of, Brook lyn, N. Y., has received the contract for sup plying the Government with postal cards dur ing the next four years. The contract in volves between $700,000 and $800,000. Secretary Tracy has ordered a Govern ment vessel to go to Arenas Key, Yucatan, to rescue three American sailors who were left there to care for the property of the company working the guano beds as their limited supply of provisions is by this time exhausted. Treasurer Huston has given a receipt to ex-Treasurer Hyatt for $771,500,000, repre senting the amount of money and securities in the United States Treasury turned over by the latter to the former. Of the above sum $237,208,402 is actual cash, the remainder including United States bonds and the re serve fund. The public debt statement shows an in crease of the public debt during the month of Jnly of $1,017,311.51. Total cadi in the Treasury, $634,723,023.44. Postmaster-General Wanamaker has directed that an additional allowance of $78,000 be granted Postmaster Van Cott, of New York city. His present allowance is $1,034,000. An additional force of clerks, to the number of 102, is also allowed, which with his present force will make an aggre gate of 1296 employes. President Harrison left Deer Park,Md., and arrived in Washington. A DESPEBATE BATTLE. Tlic Egypto-British Forces Slaughter 1500 Soudanese Dervishes. General Grenfell, in command of the com bined British and Egyptian forces, engaged the Soudanese near Toski, Soudan, and com pletely routed them. Wad-el-Jumi, the Sou danese leader, was killed. The Arab loss was 1500 killed and wounded. The Egyptian loss was slight. Besides Wad-el-Jumi, the slain on the Arab side include twelve emirs and nearly all tho Igypt "General Grenfell marched out of Toski at 5 o’clock in the morning with a strong recon noitring force of cavalry and camels and ad vanced close to the Arab camp. Making a feint of retreating he drew the whole of Wad-el-Jumi’s force to a point within four miles of Toski. Here the Egyptian infantry were held in readiness for an attack, and a general action was at once begun. The Soudanese made a gallant defence, but were driven from hill to hill. The Egyptian cavalry made a suc cession of effective charges, in which Wad- el-Jumi and the emirs were killed. After seven hours of hard fighting the der vishes were completely routed. Gunboats followed the scattered remnants of the Arab force along the river. General Grenfell, in his official report of the battle, says that the dervishes made re peated and desperate charges upon his men. They were met by the infantry, in line of battle, supported by the Twentieth Hussars and the Egyptian cavalry. The Egyptian horse artillery did excellent service. The dervishes numbered three thousand fighting men. The British troops will now return to Cairo. The latest advices give the Egyptian loss as seventeen killed and 13L wounded. Ono thousand dervishes were made prisoners. THE WHIPPING POST. A Man Whipped In Maryland Uudcr the Law for Wife Beating. A special from Hagerstown, Md., says: The first whipping administered in this coun ty since the passage of the act of 1882for wife beati occurred here this afternoon. The pris oner was David C. Herbert, a resident of the Carfoss district, this county. Herbert is a tali well-proportioned white man, while his wife, who made tho complaint is a fragile, delicate- looking woman. At tho trial before Justice Bitner it was proved that Herbert, while intoxicated last Friday, beat and chofeed his wife into unconsciousness. While she was in that condition ho grabbed a chair, swear ing that he intended to kill her. He was pre vented from cari yii^ his threat into execu tion by bis son wresting the chair from him. Herbert has been guilty of tho same offence several times before, and the Justice deter mined to impose a salutary restraint up >a his future conduct by sentencing him to re ceive fifteen lashes and an imprisonment of five davs in jail. The Sheriff was notified and at onro, made preparations to carry the senteuro into exe cution. A thick piece of leather two feet in length, tapering to tho end, and joined to a wooden handle, was selected for the lash. The prisoner after being stripped to the waist, was mode to stand handcuffed to the bars of a door in the jaiL One of *>■* deputies counted the strokes wh^i tho Sheriff laid them on w ith force and in quick succession. During tho whipping the prisoner writhed repeatedly, and several moans escaped him. After the last stroke had fallen it was found that a por tion of tho prisoner’s back was covered with welts, and his right side, which the end of the strap had lashed, was badly discolored, and in several places ridges had been raised. TWO MURDEBERS HANGED. Dramatic Scenes On a Scaffold in the Lonisville (Ky.) Jail. Charles Dilger and Harry Smart, murderers, were hanged at 6:04 o’clock in the morning in the jail yard at Louisville, Ky. At the conclusion of the religious service Smart aud Dilger bade goodby to all the turn keys. They then took positions on the trap. Smart inugbod as he stepped upon the fatal door. Deputy Sheriff Hikes pinioned them with leather bands at 6:04 o’clock exactly, and both men shot down through the trap. Smart turned round and probably died in stantly, but Dilger slipped through the noose, the rope catching him over the chin at the lower teeth. He was seemingly unhurt and was drawn up by the rope until his shoulders came through the trap, when the deputies took him by the arms and"pulled him upon the scaffold. Anew rope was brought into service, and when the noose was adjusted Dilger asked: “What’s the matter?’ When he was told, he said: “This shows I should not die.” He FILM FATHERS. Foreign. Mr. Sexton, member of Parliament and Lord Mayor of Dublin, Ireland, complains to the State Department at Washington, that President Harrison’s letter, thanking Dublin for the sympathy expressed with the Johns town sufferers, had been opened in transit and the official seal defaced. The United States revenue cruiser Rush recently seized the British schooner Black Diamond, while sealing in the Behring Sea. Dr. Tanner, member of the British Par liament for Cork, Ireland, was sentenced at Tipperary to one month’s imprisonment for assaulting Police Inspector Stephens in May last. When judgment was pronounced he cried out in the dock: “I defy you. The mag istracy are the real criminals.” For this out break three months was added to his sen tence. The Japanese town of Kumamoto on the island of Kiou Siou has been destroyed by an earthquake. A great number of people per ished. Sixty more dervishes have been killed in a skirmish with the British forces in the Soudan. The Shah of Persia arrived in Paris from England. He was received by President Carnot. San Luis, a village near Sautiago, Cuba, has been visited by a disastrous fire. Sixty houses were destroyed and two children were burned to death. Later election returns from Paris show that General Boulanger was elected in twen ty-three cantons. A Boulangist organ, ac cuses the Government of falsifying 3,000,000 voting appers. Sir John Thompson, Canadian Minister of Justice, signed the warrant for the extra dition of Burke, the alleged murderer of Dr. Cronin. He was taken to Chicago for trial. Two deserters from the Mexican army ! were captured by mounted soldiers fifty miles from Ensenado, Mexico. The prison ers were compelled to follow their captors on foot at a rapid pace to Ensenado, where on their arrival both fell dead from exhaustion. A machine gun exploded on board the French training frigate Couronne at Hyeres, France. Eight persons were killed and seventeen injured. Thirty persons were killed and eighty in jured by the recent earthquake on the island of Kiu-Siu, Japan. The German squadron, escorting the Em peror William to England, sailed from Wil- helmsh&ven. The steamer Rapel, from Valparaiso to Montevideo, was totally wrecked at Hannib- lin Island, and the chief engineer, purser and eight of the crew wore lost. Snow storms and icy rains prevailed throughout Switzerland. The mountain passes were partly blocked. Extensive floods were reported in Silesia. Colonel Evaristo Carazo, President of Nicaragua, is dead. Dr. Sacasa has succeeded to the Presidency, in conformity with the constitution of Nicaragua. Hon. Mr. Davie, Premier of British Columbia and Attorney General, died a few days ago at Victoria. Laced himself upon tha_trap the second tim« r o hops. and at 6:09 he was strans pla by making two SKE? The drop was Tlie National Monament in Thei* JRenor Dedicated. Unveiled Aidd Impressive Cere monies at Plymouth, Mass. THE NATIONAL MONUMENT. The grand national monument in honor of the Pilgrims h^f been dedicated at Ply mouth, Mass. 'The sons and daughters of Plymouth were ihere in great numbers, with from far and near, of the early morning many visitors The weather was unpropitii to review umbrellas. The with a salute by bells. The morni bers of strange [ec< beneat] ’at sunrise .ttery A abd the ringing of trains brought vast num- and a gre^t throng sur- eat th rounded the new .monument at 9^ when the dedicatory servi<|^s were carried out- by the Masonic Grand Hfisc. according to the ritual of their order ' fiese exercises were very in teresting. The ifnd rendered a choral by John K. Paine, fallowing which the song of praise, written fr? ^ r - Thomas Power, was sung by the Temi' )le Quartette. Following the song came the red'*®^ the President of the PUgrim Society, ex-Gov. Long; the response of the Grand Mister, Henry Endicott; pro clamation by th* 5 Grand Marshal, George H. Rhodes- reading of Scriptural selections by the Grand Chart ain t. 1110 Rov - Cflmries a. Skinner, and pr^ er “F the Grand Chaplain. The report on t“ e examination of the monu ment and libat’oJ 8 o£ 00X11 and wine by the Junior and Sen 101, Grand Wardens respect ively, and the libations of oil by Deputy- Grand Master, ^Samuel Wells, were fol lowed by the ^vocation by the Grand ~ ^ Master Endicott then Chaplain. delivered sang an appre the Rev. R. W:' of “America.” I a proclamation ediction by the “Pilgrim Chorui Meantime the* ing, and at 11 0*01! sive route in sever pie oers of the Pilg poet and invited l great dining tent, the occasion was <’ The dinner was address. The assemblage opriate closing hymn by Thomas Power to the time fhe exercises concluded with »y the Grand Marshal, ben- ■ Grand Chaplain, and the it ■ to on bad been form- moved over the exten- visions. At the cora- the officers and mem- lety, with the orator, took their places in the the feast provided for ‘ for an hour. © ,big event of the day. Long, President of ]> Ex-Governor Jo! _ the Pilgrim Society, presided, and the oration of the day was delivered by William C. B. Breckinridge, i~ 1 off by a poem by Yhe oration and by speeches fro; George F. Hoar, Hi ick Greenhalge, Dr! Justice Durfee, Wi! P. BankSH^sA- Mo: gentlemen. Mr. Myror sang during “The Bn ’ llentucky, followed ohn Boyle O’Reilly, were followed J. Q. A. Brackett, Cabot Lodge, Freder- George E. Ellis, Chief ,m Cogswell, Nathaniel and other distinguished highest hills ini rock on sWiich 1 of the anchorage ^ The monument ? when the Pilgrim J iect. In that yeai Hammatt Billir the present site wq is oi solid granit nal pedestal, five feet high, is northwest of tne landed and west the Mayflower, first thought of in 1853, ciety agitated the sub- a design was made by a famous architect, and selected. The monument d consists of an octago- ich, standing forty- figure _ _ ^ lounted by a of Faith, who, standing on Plymouth Rock, holds in her left 1 hand an open Bible, and points heavenward with her right hand. This figure is th|irty-six feet high. The pedestal bears foi “ ‘ irty-six tablets, upon which are 3 of the foundors of the facts connected with the inscribed the nai colony and historic first settlement. ! Below these tablets project four wing ped estals, upon which are placed—one on each— figures of Moralityl Education, Freedom and Law, and at their feet are alt-relief tablets, representing the Embarkation at Delfthaven, the signing of th^social compact, the landing at Plymouth, aul the first treaty with the Indians. The monument cost in the neighborhood of $200,000, t le major portion of which was presented by citizens. Massa chusetts gave J 10,000, Connecticut gave $8000 and the United States Government gavi i $15,000. The cornerstone was laid with imj iressive ceremonies August 2, 1859, but it was not until last fall that the work was fin* lly rompleted. news! gleanings. abundant. 90,000 paupers, ies are prospering, miles of railroad, stj the rage in Europe. York city is $88,000,000. instructing fifty-two war ople a day go up the Eiffel and gas $8 a thousand in l dogs licen tew York The corn crop London contai Canadian indul There are 342, The Shah is The debt of England ships. About 30, Tower. Coal is $18 Venezuela. c ; t _ ’geographical societies in " low: debt—| A “sweet at Baltimore. Yellow fev( mus of Panama/ A mountain of pure manganese has just been found in Cobrado. Human saeriftas are still quite common on the East AfjMm coast. In Chicago l.^LoOO hogs were packed this year against 1,5^000 in 1886. The Georgia Legislature has passed a bill prohibiting the sale of cigarettes to minors. Crop indicatiors throughout the country point to the largest yield of oats ever re ported. to have paid Iff her last dollar of State Ito trust” has been formed las broken out on the Isth- A Bi $5,000,1 busbie Mr. after Comr The age of years to: Monta^ jected wor three to tl NinetseI tion in waters that til through them| Philadei scold corapla ble termagan j to keep the ] Refined i half to ten < finers 1 away in Br Horse : tent in! the old ? i said stent medicine surplus expenses cf $100,000 before the rmy law extends the ’service from forty-five itution makers have re- frage by a vote of thirty- aeries are in opera- are so thick in the often cannot crowd caught the common [recently two unbeara- placed under $500 bonds gone from six and a i pound at retail, and the re- 1,000 barrels of it stored i Nebr has increased to such anex- that it is proposed to revive committee, which ceased to exist over twenty yean ago. Since Buffalo Bill has Been she Paris he has had often of marriage twenty-nine were of allt h women- The women aid conditions, three or four of them being ano monsbr rich. LATER HEWR George D, PknROBE, one of the Auditors at the Philadelphia office of the Reading Rail road Company, was drowned while bathing at Atlantic City, N, J. While Horatio Proser and his wife and two children were boating on the Pawtuxet Hirer at Providence, R. I., the boat capsized and the children, aged two and one-half and four years, were drowned. Charles Kemmer and Henry Arnett ware drowned in Braxton County, W. Va., while attempting to cross a flooded stream. The low grounds around Galena, 111., were visited by a frost, which did considerable damage to growing vegetables. Com suf fered in most exposed places. The Ripley (Ohio) Mill and Lumber Com pany’s buildings, with a large amount, of lumber, were almost entirely destroyed by fire. The residence of J. P. Parker and the house of William Rode were also burned. The loss is about $200,000. In the Republic mine at Marquette, Mich., two cases of giant powder exploded, killing two men and three boys. All the victims were tom to shreds. C. M. Hull,editor of the Bolivar Democrat, was killed at Rosedale, Miss., by S. A. Weissenger, editor of the Review. A news paper war was the cause. A terrific wiq4 storm visited a portion of Prince GeorgG County, Va., leaving de struction au^-'havoc in its track. Many bridges bdve been washed away. In the upper counties of Virginia the crops have Titer ally ruined by constant rains. Assistant Secretary Tichenor was taken suddenly ill in his office in the Treasury Department at Washington, and had to be taken homo. For some time he has been in ill health and has been overworked. His prin cipal trouble is rheumatism in an acute form. Postmaster-General Wanamaker has issued an order extending the age limit of appointment of letter-carriers in non-civil service postoffices, from thirty-five to forty years. This age-limitation does not apply to persons honorably discharged from the military or naval service. Venezuela and the United States of Co* lombia have notified the Department of State at Washington of their acceptance of tho invitation to take part in the three Ameri cas’ Commercial Congress to be held in Washington next October. All the nations interested have now signified their intention to be represented in the Congress, except Paraguay, Hayti and San Domingo. The Shah of Persia attended Cody’s Wild West show in Paris, and at its close ex pressed a desire to meet Buffalo Bill, whom he thanked for the admirable performance he had witnessed. All Europe is alarmed because 80,000 Turkish reserves have been called out. The Porte is buying uniforms and stores, and work is proceeding at’the dockyards with fev erish activity. Sir William Ewart, member of Parlia ment for the north division of Belf- ^ Ire land, is dead. He was a Conservati e in politics. The dervishes charged the Egyptian cav alry at Toski, Soudan, and killed twenty- seven men. Lieutenant Daguilar dislodged tho dervishes at Masmas village and killed fifteen of them. Miss Jessie Croucher and Miss Ella Parr, of Boston, were < l in Horn IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. Merchandise Passing Through Our Custom Houses Last Fiscal Year. The value of imports of merchandise dur ing the last fiscal year amounted to $745,127,- 476 and of exports to $742,401,799, an excess of imports over exports of $2,725,677. Of our exports the value of domestic merchandise was $730,282,606 and the value of foreign mer chandise $12,119,193. The total value of imports and exports ol merchandise was $1,487,529,275, as against $1,419,911,621 during the fiscal year 1888, an increase of $67,617,654. The value of imports of merchandise amounted to $745,127,476, as against $723,- 957,114 during the fiscal year 1888, an in crease of $21,170,362. The exports of merchandise amounted to $742,401,799, as against $695,954,507 during the fiscal year 1883, an increase of $46,447,292. The value of exports of merchandise during the last fiscal year was larger than during any other year since 1883, aud was only ex ceeded by the exports of 1881, 1882 and 1883. The value of imports of merchandise during the last fiscal year was the largest in the his tory of our commerce, being larger than in the year 1882, when it amounted to $724,639.- 574. In Sitka, Alaska, a town of 1000 inhabi tants, not a foot of land is owned in fee sim ple, but buildings and improvements pass from one to another by simply a bill of sale, and this practice is universally regarded as in every respect a complete and perfect title. FLOODS IN WI JERSEY. Commodore William E^FFttzhugh, United States Navy, died a days ago in the Naval Hospital at Philadelphia. He was sixty-three years old. A sailboat containing five persons was capsized on Silver Lake, near Pembroke, Mass. Fred. Allen, ol Brockton, and Marcus Howe, of East Bridgewater, were drowned. In the trial of the United States cruiser Boston for. speed in Narragansett Bay, off Rhode, Island, the vessel made 15.6 knots with seventy revolutions under unfavorable conditions. In Columbia, S. C., William B. Moetze, a livery stable keeper,shot and killed James S. Clark, an ex-trial Justice of Lexington County. They had quarreled about a wo man. Hal Harris, an old resident of Monte- vallo, Shelby County, Ala., was killed dur ing a quarrel by his son-in-law, Will Mc Call. John C. Coates, New York; Thomas G. Stoddard, Massachusetts, and R. J. Elliott, Kansas, were appointed Postoffice Inspectors on mail depredations by Postmaster-General Wanamaker. The President appointed John R. C. Pit kin, of Louisiana, to be Envoy Extraordi nary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Argentine Republic and tendered tho appointment of Collector of the Port of New Orleans to ex-Governor War- mouth, of Louisiana. When the train for Quebec on the Grand Trunk Railway had passed St. Lambert’s 1 Canada, after going through tho Victoria Bridge, an explosion occurred in tho express car by which a messenger named Rogers was killed, the car completely wrecked and tho express matter destroyed. Second ballots for members of the Coun cils General were taken in tho cantons in France at tho recent election. The returns show the election of twelve Republicans and thirty Conservatives. M. Laguorre, tho Boulangist leader, was elected at La Rochelle. In a fight at Atchin, Sumatra, precipita ted by the Netherland troops, ninetoen Dutchmen were killed and twenty-two wounded. The natives havo grown embold ened, and matters begin to assume a serious aspect. Many Cities and Tillages Dam aged by Raging Waters. Seven Dams Burst and Sweep Away Houses and Bridges. The flood gates were lifted during the late | heavy rain in New Jersey, and, since the j Johnstown disaster was fresh in the minds of all, it would be hard to gauge the amount of terror that existed in some parts of that ( State for a few hours. The streams were i already running full, and a succession of deluging showers in the afternoon and evenmg caused them to overflow. The rain- 1 fall was especially heavy on the Orange Mountains, and the result was that cities like Newark, Plainfield and Elizabeth on the j low land which received the mountain's i streams suffered from floods. Bridges, dams and houses were washed away, trains stalled, and other damage done. I The greatest flood Plainfield, N. J., has | ever known followed this heavy downpour of rain, and wash-outs and broken dams were the result.’ At 4 o’clock Codington’s dam. on Stony Brook, gave way, and tho large body of water thus freed carried I away Codington’s icehouse and threatened the Green Wiley Mills with destruction. The damage along the course of this stream itos heavy, foi many barns and other build ings were washed away. At 4:30 o’clock the great dam at Feltvillo gave way, and the rush of the water down the valley proved too much for tho little Green Brook, so that the torrent divided and part of it made its way to Cedar Brook. This I brook flows through the choicest resident j portion of Plainfield, and tho elegant houses there were badly damaged. An fh fia in the town covering three square miles was entire ly submerged. At 5:40 Tier’s dam in Green Brook gave way, precipitating a great body of water through the center of the town, This brook divides the two counties of Somerset and Union, aud where it rims through tho town is built entirely over. When tho water, in a great torrent, rushed down the stream and found its way blocked by buildings it turned into the street. Somerset street became a raging fiood, and where the brook was bridged the street was washed out badly. Many small wood on buildings were washed away and demolished. Several houses situated along the brook were flooded and the inhabitants compelled to move in short order. Freucho’s mill aud carriage factory were threatened with des truction. All the cellars and first floors of the stores in Somerset street were flooded and the damage to property was great. Most of tho houses were occupied when tho water came rnshing down, and the greatest alarm prevailed among tlie occupants, who felt sure that the fate of the people of Johns- to.vn was about to overtake them. The screams of the women could bo heard above the noise of the torrents, and scenes such as have never been witnessed in that part of tho country before were enacted. So far as known, at least seven dams were carried away. The last one to go was that near Cadmus’s mill below Plainfield. The mill was reported to be wrecked. Bloomfield, N. J., especially its business centre, is a wreck from tho great flood. The second river dam at Fritz Mill, near the Dela ware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Depot, has given way aud the land for two miles around was submerged. Stores and residences were flooded and thousands of dol lars’worth of property destroyed. JohnP. Scherff, druggist, lost $3000 worth of drugs and other articles; Robert M. Stiles, feed merchant, is also a heavy loser, while nearly all on the north side of Glen wood avenue have lost from $500 upward each. One or two lives were reported lost. The breaking of Fritz’s Dam on Parrow Brook, near Orange, flooded aud entirely de stroyed Eppley’s Park, v/hich was recently laid out at a cost of $40,000. The damage in Essex Comity will amount to over $100/000. Reports from Morris County intimated that even greater damage has been done there, v The worst effects of the storm were felt in ho THE INTERNAL REVENUE. A Total of 9180,890,432 Collected Daring the Last Fiscal Year. , Commissioner of Internal Revenue Mason has made the following preliminary rerort of the operations of tho internal revenue ser vice for the fiscal year ended June 30 last: The total collections for the fiscal year just ended were $130,895,432, against $124,- 826,475 the previous year, an increase of $6,- 568,957. The cost of collection for the fiscal year just ended will aggregate about $4,185,- 000, exclusive of the amount expended for the printing of internal revenue stamps, which is paid from the appropriation made to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. The total receipts from the different ob jects of taxation during the last fiscal year: were as follows: From spirits, $74,- 313,206, an increase of $5,007,039 over the previous fiscal year; from to bacco, $31,866,860, an ir'Tease of $1,204,429; from fermented liquors, $23,723,835, an increase of $399,617; from oleomargarine. $894,248, an increase of $30,-. 108; from banks and bankers, $6214, an in crease of $2011, and from miscellaneous. $91,- 0C9, a decrease of $74,248. The following table shows the aggregate collections of internal revenue by States dur ing the last fiscal year: Alabama.... $93,762 Arkansas.... 120,719 California. ..2,097,013 Colorado.... 294,116 Connecticut. 785,714 Florida 424,082 Georgia 436,119 Illinois 81,007,419 Indiana.... 5,788,236 Iowa 393,576 Kansas 183,433 Kentucky. .16,910,814 Louisiana.. 632,009 Maryland... 3,986,928 Massachut’s 2,424,536 Michigan.... 1,962,397 Minnesota.. 1,377,796 Missouri... .$7,780,603 Montana.... 162,610 Nebraska... 2,248,624 N.Hampsh’e 469,351 New Jersey. 4,319.(118 New Mexico 59,062 New York..15,648,673 N.Carolina. 2,467,150 Ohio 11,506,726 Oregon 236,521 P’nsylvania. 8,520,796 S. Carolina. 81,723 Tennessee... 1,066,835 Texas 228,117 Virginia 3,303,026 W. Virginia 782,063 Wisconsin.. 3,090,495 All 5n thel mountains contained more water than usual at this time of the year be- : cause of the unprecedented rains ofj the past few weeks. This downpour overflowed thorn and atone time early in the evening disasters were feared in Milbura, Maplewood, Wyoming and South Orange, as the reservoir of the Orange Water Works was unusually foil, and it was feared it would burst. In this reservoir the waters of several mountain streams are dammed up for future use, as drink water in Orange, East Orange, West Orange and South Orange. It is 360 feet above high watermark, and about two miles and a half west of South Orange, the elevation of which is about 175 feet. In South Orange several buildings, includ ing the postofllce, were carried away, and 350 carrels of flour were washed out of one storehouse. In Orange Valley the water was up to tho second-story windows, and great damage has been done to tho stock iu tho numerous hat factories there. People were compelled to paddle around on planks and to swim in order to reach places of safety on high ground. Rutherford, N. J., was flooded badly and large portions of three of the prominent streets were washed out entirely. Several prominent streets "at Cailstait, N. J., were turned into mill-races and will bo Impassible until repaired. Largo portions of the sidewalks were carried away. Passaio also came iu lor her share of the cloiiuoiust. At Hackensack many of the prominent thoroughfares were entirely washed out and made impassable. The Hackensack River had risen considerably and many of the cel lars in the lower portion of the town were flooded. The pretty village of Ridgewood Park fared badly. The finest streets in the town were totally ruined by the torrents. Cellars were flooded and great holes and ditches made in several private gardens. The storm, on the whole, was the heaviest that has visited those points for twelve years. Landslides and washouts occurred on near ly all the main railroads in New Jersey and the movement of trains was stopped. TWO M0NAR0HS MEET. in THE LABOR WORLD. Brooklyn has the biggest bakery. Pittsburg has the biggest ax mill. Boot and shoe manufacturers are busy*! Window jflass factories will soon start up.i The bakers of Leipzig have gone out on- strike. Electricity is used to haul coal out of mines. Great Britain has 1500 co-operatir# 1 unions. England is complaining of the arrival of pauper labor. The European workingmen are opposed to- standing armies. One of the street car drivers in Dubuque,) Iowa, is a woman. Silk mannfacturing is growing very rap idly in the United States. The United Order of American Carpenter*! is said to be increasing rapidly. There is a wonderful increase in the num ber of foundry and machine shops. On June 30 288 furnaces were in blast in the United States, and 293 ont of Mast. A. J. Drexel, the New York banker,: has founded an industrial college at Wayne,, Penn. Belfast flax weavers get $5 per week. I Other workers make from fifty cents perl week up. w English iron workers are agitating “no- Sunday work and five days per week with' Monday off.” , English mill men who are obliged to work on Sunday, are making an effort to- have it stopped. Spain allows children from nine to thir teen to work five hours daily. From thir teen to eighteen, eight hours. Electrical coal, mining machines are being introduced into English mines which can do as much work as four men. The Indianapolis stonecutters have suc ceeded in carrying the eight-hour ■chedulo [ter a struggle of fifteen months. ity of Atlanta, Ga., has has also. There is a great udling off in the i tion of laborers this year on account' enforcement of tha Contract Labor law/ The only woman barber in Boston is Je. L. Dodge. She is a New Hampshire girl has followed her trade with success 1883. Silk weaver’s wages have declined twent per cent, in ten years, but they are said to l earning nearly as much, because the ma chinery is better. Leading Paterson (N. J.) firms will estab lish an industrial school for the education of pupils in designing, dyeing and the weaving 1 of all textile work. The Manufacturers’ Gazette, of Boston,; says: “There is not another country on the. face of the globe where workingmen are so 1 well provided for as in America.” A wholesale vaccination contract was; entered into recently by the Amoskeag cor poration at the works, Manchester, Mass.,: ■aking -in the whole 8000 operatives at the- expense of the company. The Southern Pacific Railroad Company las discharged 339 of its employes at Sacra- nento, Cal., 100 being machinists. The ifficials say that this action is taken to lessen he expenses of the road. The Carpenters’ Brotherhood is growing ■it an exceedingly rapid rate. It was only founded four years ago,but there are already t50 local unions, with a membership of 65,- )00, scattered through 475 cities in the United States and Canada. Possibly the best organized painters* union in tho country is the New York Pro gressive Union, No. 1. It pays $6 a week to disabled members and furnishes free medical attendance. A member receives $25 on the death of his wife, while in the event of his own death his heirs receive $50. There were numerous casualties during the srection of the Paris Exposition buildings. It is estimated that 300 workmen hurt their ’egs, 260 received severe injuries in the eyes rom projecting timbers or bars of iron, 114 ,vere scalded or severely burned and fifty had fheir fingers cut off. Tho deaths from falls are put down at twenty-four. A Grand British Naval Review Honor of Jtlmperor William. The arrival of the Emperor William, of Germany, at Portsmouth, England, was made the occasion for one of the grandest, if not the grandest, naval parades the world has ever known. According to programme the Prince of Wales at neon went outside the Solent in his yacht, the Osborne, to await the arrival of the German monarch on board the imperial 1 yacht Kohenzollern. The weather was su perb. Outside tho German squadron was sighted, and the great English men-of-war took up their positions. As the Osborne approached the Hohsnzol- lern the Prince of W ales signaled his greetings to the Kaiser, to which the latter responded. The Osborne then accompanied the Hohenzol- lern with her escort through the lines of war vessels drawn up in parade to receive her. Every vessel, both German iw 1 English, was in holiday attire, and the spectacle, as tho German fleet steamed slowly through the narrow aisle left between the gayly-decked warships—the flower of the British navy— was imposing in the extreme. As the imperial yacht passed each ship she was saluted by loud huzzas from the tars spread out upon the yards or ranged upon the deck, followed by the booming of the ship’s guns, which shot out their tongues of flame again and again until the Hohenzollern was hidden by the smoke. Then other voices took up the welcoming huzzas and other cannon boomed forth thunderous greetings. Throngn this gantlet of fire and smoke the Kohenzollern passed with the iron- elads Deutschland, Kaiser, Prcusser and Friedrich dor Grosso and tha frigate Zieten in her wake. At Trinity Pier the Kaiser disembarked and proceeded to Osborne, where he was em braced by his grandmother, the Queen. The Emperor dined with the Queen at Osborne that evening. The spectacle attracted to the shore of the So- lent hundreds of thousands of people, while the water was literally covered with every conceivable form of craft bearing sight seers, most of which,as did all of the war ves sels and the transatlantic liners serving as ex cursion steamers, displayed the German flag. THE MARKETS. 31 NEW YORK. Beeves 3 57^® * Milch Cows, com. to good.. .30 00 @45 00 ; Calves, common to prime... 2 50 @ 5 50 j Sheep Lambs Hogs—Live ................. Dressed. 25 @ 5 37J4 37J^@ 7 00 60 @ 5 00 7 <3 S* Flour—City Mill Extra 4 40 4 60 i Patents 4 85 @ 6 15 Wheat—No. 2 Red 87KG5 8794 Rye—State 53 @ 54* Barley—Two-rowed State... 80 (<$ 87 Corn—Ungraded Mixed 42*® Oats—No. 1 White — <& 38 , Mixed Western 26 @ 29 j Hay—No. 1 85 @ 95 j Straw—Long Rye 65 ® 75 i Lard—Citv Steam — @ 6.10c: Butter—Elgin Creamery.... 17 % 17H Dairy, fair to good. 13 ® 16 West. Im. Creamery 10 &t 14 Factory 9 <SS 12* Cheese—State Factory 6tfC<$ 8* Skims—Light 7*® 9 Western — (20 7 j Eggs—State and Penn 15 ! Great alarm is caused in the City of Mexico, by the terrible ravages being made throughout the country, and especially in the low-lying districts, by the yellow fever. The mortality increases in number every day. BUFFALO. Steers—Western 3 25 Sheep—Medium to Good.... 4 25 Lambs—Fail’ to Good 4 50 Hogs—Good to Choice Yorks 4 70 Flour—Family 5 00 Wheat—No. 2 Northern — Corn—No. 3, Yellow — Oats—No. 2,White — Barley—No. 1 Canada — boston. Flour—Spring Wheat Pat’s.. 6 10 6 40 Corn—Steamer Yellow. 46 485 Gate—No. 2 White 30 <j§ 40 Rye-State 65 @ 70 WATERTOWN (MASS.) CATTLE MARKET. Beef—Dressed weight 5 <g 5} Sheep—Live weight 4J Lambs 7 Hogs—Northern — @ 55 PHILADELPHIA. Flour—Penn, family 400 (3 4 25 Wheat-No. % Red. July.... 86 @ Corn—No. ^ Mixed, July... 44 & Oats—Ui_ ' Rom. _ 16*2 x f